Hollywood - making your way through the world, 5% of someone else’s success at a time.

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Step 1, keep all the money you’re supposed to be lending out. Step 2, don’t tell anyone. Step 3, Profit!

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Like a G-5, baby.

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In this episode, we look at the challenges of progressive criminal justice reform from the standpoint of the prosecutor, by looking at how the District Attorney's office functions. The ideals of criminal justice reform are sound, but there are deficiencies in their execution. If people don't feel like their safety has improved and they don't feel good about their environment, what does that mean for the progressive D.A. movement's impact on the community? To make some sense of this, take a glimpse at how a District Attorney's office works. And, to do that, we talk with former Philadelphia District Attorney and former federally incarcerated citizen R. Seth Williams.

Published July 31, 2022

You probably don’t think about arbitration, but you’re bound to it in many aspects of your everyday life - probably without even realizing it. And arbitration agreements operate as a waiver of your rights. Worried yet? Well, be informed by listening to our experts on how this happened, how complicated it can get, and how to protect yourself.

Published June 26, 2022

We explore the story of noted internet crackpot Alex Jones and the bankruptcy cases he filed for three of his companies in an attempt to get out from under the looming damages award he will ultimately owe to those who have successfully sued him and his companies for defamation.

Aired May 2, 2022

Boy Scouts, Purdue Pharma, and now Johnson & Johnson - all are cases that are in bankruptcy because of thousands upon thousands of negligence cases; all are typical class actions; all are in bankruptcy against the wishes of the injured parties, and all are going to have to learn to adapt because they're all staying in bankruptcy. How did mass torts end up in the bankruptcy court instead of the class action courtroom?

Aired April 4, 2022

How does an actor become the world’s preeminent portrayer of the father of America? We talk with Dean Malissa, who did it at Mount Vernon for nearly twenty years, to find out just how complex a role that is to take.

Airdate February 21, 2022

The things we have to consider when trying to create a culture that fosters success for everyone. It’s a long list.

Airdate January 24, 2022

Totalitarian minority rule is bad for business.

Airdate January 17, 2022

They say that if you want to make a small fortune in auto racing, you have to start with a large fortune. Between politics, mechanical issues, human factors, and the unknown, it's tough for a person with the need for speed to make it in the fastest-paced sport there is. But what does it really take? Our guest broke into racing in the middle of a successful career as a bankruptcy lawyer - and what parallels might lurk in that combination? We'll talk with Peter Partee, Sr. of Partee Racing LLC as we strip down the mysteries of the amateur and professional racing circuits, find out how competitors monetize adrenalin, and discover how racing operates as a business. it's far more than just left turns.

With the stroke of a pen, a U.S. District Court Judge overturned the confirmed bankruptcy plan of Purdue Pharma, placing everything up in the air. What's at stake: $4.3 billion from Purdue's owners, the Sackler family, in exchange for the release of all claims against them from anyone, anywhere, for all time. Without those payments, no creditors other than the United States Government are likely to get anything at all - no opioid remediation and prevention programs; no payments to victims of the opioid epidemic; no states for having borne the costs of addiction; nothing. Plus, now bankruptcy courts don't have the authority they thought they had, so maybe we've broken the bankruptcy system. And what does this all have to do with Anna Nicole Smith??? We'll discuss this and more with one of the nation's foremost experts on bankruptcy.

Aired December 20, 2021

Companion Dogs, Assistance Dogs, Seeing-Eye Dogs, Emotional Support Dogs - they seem the same to the uninitiated, but they're very different. We talk with two of the most respected leaders in the Service Dogs field about the business of making incredibly skilled canine companions - what goes into the breeding, the training, and the mating with a person in need. We'll explore the risks to the system, from un- and under-trained service dogs to outright fakes, and how our legal framework has evolved as the need for service dogs has skyrocketed.

Aired November 15, 2021