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Order! We hereby call this Patreon page to order! Gavel Gavel is the podcast that takes you inside the courtroom. We're starting with The People v Trump using actors to bring the transcripts to life, but there is so much room to grow beyond that one trial.

This podcast will be available on a public feed soon, but for now, the Trump Trial episodes that were on Opening Arguments are continuing behind the paywall until we can get the main show configured and get the full People v. Trump coverage repurposed for this podcast.

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Episodes

Lively v. Baldoni 46 - Hey Look, It's Textbook Retaliation By Baldoni Revealed In His Own Lawsuit

Wayfarer v. Lively 12 - Gavelheads and Chunkarinos, it's the end of the month and you know what that means! Chunks, chunks, chunks chunks chunks chunks, chunks! We begin this month's Chunkmas exactly where we left off last time. It's more Wayfarer v. Lively! But we're weirdly excited about it this time. There's a lot of stuff we haven't seen before and it's not good for WF parties at all.

Published: December 1, 2025

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Lively v. Baldoni 40 - No, You See, When He Said He Wanted Her to Collaborate, He Meant... Not That

Wayfarer v. Lively 6 - We're back! Apologies for the big delay in normi-sodes. This chunk was released on Patreon and then our horrendous October schedule prevented us from doing the released that we wanted to on here. So... you've got a TON of episodes coming your way in the next week! Probably like one a day, minimum. 

We continue on in the behemoth of garbage that is Wayfarer v. Lively!

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Published: November 3, 2025

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Lively v. Baldoni 39 - Hey Blake... [7 minutes of narcissistic man noises and vocal fry]

We are so, so sorry. We have to do this. It's time to listen to and break down Justin Baldoni's nearly 7-minute voice memo to Blake Lively. BUT! We have some great analysis, clock investigation, and commentary on some curious reactions from when this was released.

This episode is like the vegetables you need to eat before getting dessert... Well, if those vegetables had salmonella, e-coli and several other kinds of infectious bacteria. But then after your vegetables, and a long hospital stay, you can have the dessert of more Wayfarer v. Lively complaint!

Published: September 27, 2025

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Lively v. Baldoni 38 - Khaleesi and Her Dragons

Wayfarer v. Lively 4 - It's time to take on one of the most infamous messages of this entire saga. Khaleesi and her dragons. But also, Baldoni has no idea when someone is blowing smoke. It seems like he thinks everyone loves him all the time.

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Published: September 8, 2025

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Lively v. Baldoni 34 - A Hopelessly Attenuated Daisy Chain of Purported Causation

It's our final entry in the Jones v. Abel docket for a bit! This one solidifies Jones's lawyers as probably the best writers of all the lawyers we've dealt with in this. There are some absolute gems in this one.

But... NEXT EPISODE we finally take on the behemoth. The monstrosity that is Wayfarer v. Lively. It's something like 400 total pages. yayyyyyy funnnnn

 

Published: August 31, 2025

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