Name: Episode 12: Lawyer Brain, Pt. 4 - A Different Kind of Epstein Brain by ALAB Series
Duration: 1 h 6 min
Description: Andy, Tarik, and Tim discuss NYU law professor Richard Epstein's one-man crusade to defeat COVID-19 using the powers of logic and debate, and the frightening things the resulting debacle says about the American legal academy.

I think we should be trusting Pol Pots solution instead. 

this arsehole has the rigidity of a fucking religious zealot

We take a look at Stars And Strife, a new Starz documentary by David Smick (“macroeconomic advisor to a select group of prominent global investment funds”). It’s a documentary cautioning against the dangers of populist extremism, featuring the sober, reasonable analysis of James Baker, Leon Panetta, Rahm Emanuel, Alan Greenspan and Larry Summers, among others, and is honestly just as wild and deranged as You Me Madness. This completes a kind of inadvertent trilogy of films exploring inside the dream world from the POV of the middle class (Can’t Get You Out of My Head), the wealthy cultural elites (You Me Madness) and now, economic-political elite (Stars and Strife)

Chapo Trap House

506 - John Smick (3/15/21)

Adam McKay stops by the pod to hear Felix’s pitch for a political rom-com, talk presidential animals, and discuss his new podcast Death at the Wing.  Death at the Wing uses a series of deaths among NBA players in the 80’s as a lens to discuss the Reagan revolution, the war on drugs, and America’s shifting social and political landscape during that era. We get into all those issues with Adam, plus raccoons, tapirs, and samurai swords.

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514 - Cocaine Nights feat. Adam McKay (4/13/21)

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Brendan and Noah return to the show to discuss BLOWBACK, SEASON 2. We talk about the history of the Cuban revolution and the American response, the involvement of the mafia and U.S. clandestine services, and ongoing tensions in U.S.-Cuban relations. Then, we have classic reading series wherein Thomas Friedman reflects on two decades of being wrong about Afghanistan. Get flat, folks!

The new season of Blowback is on Stitcher Premium, and you can get a month free if you go to stitcher.com/premium, select a monthly plan and use the promo code: BLOWBACK. Once you sign up you can listen on your browser, or you can download the Stitcher app on your phone.

516 - Time Cuba feat. Brendan James & Noah Kulwin (4/20/21)

More crisis talk

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Episode 257: Not Yet A Statistic

Theo, Andrew and Ben bring you: A short and sweet Poll Report (not including the theme), a new kind of viral car crime, a New Hampshire-based Doofwagon, and a Nick Skitz update.
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EPISODE 261: Steal A Kia Sorento Challenge 2022

Bonus Episodes

Raina Douris (@RahRahRaina) and Julian Feeld (@julianfeeld) join us as we delve into a memoir by the founder of Garfield Eats. Fortune Kit on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fortunekit

131 - Nathfield of Dreams (Part 1) (ft. Raina Douris & Julian Feeld)

YO! Our public episode this week got FUBAR'd due to some scheduling problems but that makes this a perfect opportunity to release something from our patreon feed by POPULAR demand. I (Jake) made this a while back after playing the video game Disco Elysium and people seemed to like it. If you hate this and want us to get back to calling Barack Obama "cheugy" or whatever don't worry, we'll be back to that next week. Here's the original description:

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That's right, we're youtube video essayists now. Not really, there's no video, you don't have to watch me dressed up like Evrart Claire or whatever for an hour during this, it's just a podcast. I (Jake) played Disco Elysium recently and decided I wanted to make something to process its rich marxist themes and whatnot so here we are. That said, MASSIVE SPOILER WARNING, if you have not played this video game and think you might want to at some point, you may not want to listen to this, as the whole plot is dissected. If you're a Disco E freak or you're just curious though, enjoy.

MUSIC:
British Sea Power - Disco Elysium OST

UNLOCKED: Dread Tube #1: Disco Elysium

Charles and Alex read Metalhead Zone recaps of Twitter beef between 60-year-old men and check in on Weezer's Autumn EP. Fortune Kit on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fortunekit

134 - Glazed Hog

Theo, Andrew, and Ben are joined by Tom from Explosions&Fire to talk: A butter disaster in Wisconsin, a blood mystery in South Carolina, ambient radiation in Iowa, and an unfortunate comms mix-up in England.
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EPISODE 280: Someone Gutshot Lightning McQueen (with Explosions&Fire)

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special guest Brendan James (of Blowback) discuss feverish, paranoid 1980s psychotherapy psychodramas with a double feature of William Peter Blatty's THE NINTH CONFIGURATION (1980) and Roger Christian's THE SENDER (1982). Next week's episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on THE PARALLEX VIEW (1974) and JFK (1991), you can get access to that episode (and all past + future bonus episodes) by subscribing to our $5 tier on patreon: www.patreon.com/sleazoidspodcast

Intro // 00:00-12:09
NINTH CONFIGURATION // 12:09-1:49:21
THE SENDER //1:49:21-2:52:15
Outro // 2:52:15-2:59:26

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263 - THE NINTH CONFIGURATION (1980) + THE SENDER (1982) ft. Brendan James

Andy, Tarik, and Tim discuss NYU law professor Richard Epstein's one-man crusade to defeat COVID-19 using the powers of logic and debate, and the frightening things the resulting debacle says about the American legal academy.

Lawyer Brain 3: A Different Kind of Epstein Brain

Episode 12: Lawyer Brain, Pt. 4 - A Different Kind of Epstein Brain

An infrequent podcast series about the American legal system, brought to you by Andy, Michael, Tarik, Tim and Charles.  ALAB aims to tell engaging stories about lawyers, legal cases, legal issues, or the legal profession more generally, with a focus on the outrageous, excessive, and/or absurd.

Episode 12: Lawyer Brain, Pt. 4 - A Different Kind of Epstein Brain

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