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  • Ep. 7 - Wesley Snipes and the No Good, Very Bad, Tax Evasion
    2024/10/03

    Join Eric and MPBG's international man of mystery, Phil Wilson, as they explore former A-List (debatable) movie star Wesley Snipes' attempts to tell the IRS "nah, we good" on paying taxes, ultimately ending in a three-year prison sentence and $23.5 million tax lien at the peak of his celebrity. Yes its a tax episode. No it won't put you to sleep.


    (Also, and I can't emphasize this enough, Phil had NO NOTES while doing this...just knows all that tax stuff off the top of his head...crazy).

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    1 時間 34 分
  • Shot No. 4 - Sony v. Marvel a.k.a. The Spider-Man Meme
    2024/06/05

    Join Eric as he explains why over the last 20 years there have been 17 Spider-Man related movies and how a bankrupt Marvel in 1996 (yes you read that correctly) sold the rights to one of its most valuable assets and then came crawling back for it 15 years later.

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    29 分
  • Ep. 6 - PGA Tour v. LIV Golf (Part 2)
    2024/04/05

    In the second of this multi-part episode, Eric, Taylor, and Seema discuss the famous Framework Agreement that brought the PGA Tour v. LIV litigation (see part 1) to a screeching halt, what "Recitals" actually mean, and talk about how a rich guy from New York sliding into the PIFs DMs might have been the catalyst for this still-to-be-completed deal.

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    1 時間 15 分
  • Shot No. 3 - DeLorean Gets Off of His Criminal Cocaine Charges
    2024/01/23

    Join Eric as he discusses the DeLorean and how its creator, John DeLorean, one of the prominent and well known car executives the U.S. has ever seen (yes you read that right), and how he was acquitted of all criminal charges for cocaine trafficking through one of the toughest criminal defenses, entrapment.

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    27 分
  • Ep. 5 - Osage Headrights and the Reign of Terror
    2023/10/27

    Join Eric, Julia, Kate, and Irania as they dive into the facts and law surrounding the Osage Tribe, the Reign of Terror (a period in the mid-1920's where dozens of members of the Osage Tribe were murdered by non-tribe members in order to gain access to the Osage members valuable Headrights), and the general historical mistreatment of Native Americans, all topics related to the newly released movie "Killers of the Flower Moon."

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    1 時間 12 分
  • Shot No. 2 - The Disappearance of Regional Sports Networks
    2023/10/10

    Join Eric in this short recap of the biggest sports story that nobody is talking about as he explains why the Department of Justice, ESPN, and a judge in Texas may be the reason you won't be able to find your favorite sports team playing on TV (or even the internet) in a few months' time.

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    31 分
  • Ep. 4 - The Manhattan Project and the Westlake Landfill
    2023/09/27

    Join Eric, Carla, and Danika as they discuss one of the environmental consequences of the creation of the atomic bomb that arose in, of all places, St. Louis, Missouri, how "Alphabet Soup Law" affects more of us than we could possibly know, and how Danika is the embodiment of a true Philadelphia sports fan.

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    1 時間 23 分
  • Shot No. 1 - The Ford Motor Company Shareholder Litigation
    2023/08/23

    In the first of (hopefully) many specialized shortened episodes, Eric takes you through the original case that birthed the idea for the podcast, the Ford Motor Company Shareholder Litigation that took place over 100 years ago. Learn why corporations are (sort of) legally required to be greedy, and how Henry Ford lost millions on a little white lie. And for those who listen until the end, there's a bit of a plot reveal payoff.

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    23 分