Shannon Bahrke talks about how she trained to become a world champion and Olympic medalist and how those training habits can be incorporated into your daily routine.

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Interview with Shannon Bahrke, 2 time Olympic Medalist, on how to incorporate winning training habits into your daily routine

The Big 10 reminds me of Biff from Back to the Future: A big bully and an idiot. What is the Big 10 doing? Trying to tell every recruit "yes football is a violent sport. But have you seen the briefcase of that attorney? We're scared!" If you are of the mind that the Big 10 rooted its decision in the findings of the medical and scientific communities, let me remind you - they cancelled football ... and track. Seriously Big 10, you can figure out how to gas your car safely but you can't figure out how to sanitize a shot-put?  But it's not enough that the Big 10 is scared of lawyers, the Big 10 is also the neighborhood bully. I might be able to excuse their decision as being protective of their NY (Rutgers) and Chicago (Northwestern) area universities. But the Big 10 also is comprised of rural areas such as Nebraska and Iowa. Why should the Big 10 cripple the economies of places like Lincoln and Iowa City because of the impact of the virus on huge metro areas? But, like Biff, the Big 10 bullied Nebraska and said if we cant play football as a conference, then you can't play either. Thanks Biff!So what did the Big 10's "I'm afraid of lawyers so let's just cancel all sports" and their "If we can't play no one can play" get them? A lawsuit. Somewhere, Alanis Morissette is smiling.

Bashing on the Big 10 - Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?

Robert Kraft’s solicitation charges are in doubt after the court throws out the videos. No word if Hoody has had them deleted yet. Trump’s personal twitter account is now before the US Supreme Court. Finally, we can get to the bottom of this Kafafee.  I hope I am using that made-up word correctly. And Steve Bannon is charged with fraud over the Go Fund the Wall account. Which does beg the question – who donated to that cause? Isn't that like, “Hey, I don’t pay enough in taxes. Why not pay more?”  Really folks, If you care that little about your money, send it to me. I’m building a wall around my landscaping.  All of this, plus I interview Steven Iwersen about his book Porcupine Principles, in this week's De-Briefing of the Law.

De-Briefing the Law - Kraft's nude videos

The Big 10’s lawyers bully the University of Nebraska’s football team into submission, I am guessing this battle didn’t occur physically on the football field, Kamala Harris is apparently already on the clock now trying to vet her possible VP candidates, yea, watch your back Biden, and the DOJ sends a letter to Yale saying they are discriminating against Asian Americans in their admission process. All in this week’s debriefing of the law.

De-Briefing the Law - Kamala Harris and the Bully Big 10

President Trump forgets he has a legal team before tweeting he wants to move the election, Johnny Dep admits to being an habitual drug user and all-around bad guy in his defamation trial, and Bar Examiners have given up and resorted to handing out participation trophies, all in this week’s debriefing of the law.     

De-Briefing the Law - Trump tries to move election and participation trophies at bar exams

Constanza sued Seinfeld in a case the court said “is about nothing,” a man in Ohio asks a court to undue his own death certificate, and A dad sues his wife after she gives birth to an ugly child, all in this week’s debriefing of the law.

Episode 28 - Wacky Case Countdown with Zak Oster and Mackenzie Smith

The Supreme Court’s 2019-2020 season is now over. It is time to go back to binge watching Stranger Things, Dr. Who, and re-runs of the Superbowl.  It might be the last sporting event of our lifetime.  But now the Supreme Court justices are taking off their work robes and putting on their leisure robes. Heck, who am I kidding? They have been working from home this entire time. I really doubt the Notorious RBG was putting on her doily every day while officing from home. But I am going to assume she did better than me, as usually I have to ask myself before I go to bed at night – did I even shower today? Have I contributed to the laundry basket at all this week? But now that the Nine are off binge-watching Better Call Saul, Billions and Goliath, it’s time to unpack their recent flurry of decisions. Trump’s tax records, abortion, what bathroom can I use at work? All matters of national importance, and all matters that the Supreme Court decided this past term. So without further rambling, let’s review the biggest cases and more in this week's De-Briefing of the Law. To learn more about about Mackenzie Smith, The Aviator Attorney, click here.If you are an attorney or in the legal profession and need to complete your annual CLE requirements, visit our site Comedian of Law.Today's episode is sponsored by Digital Directory Management. Be sure to grab your business' complimentary baseline report to see how you are showing up online. Visit http://www.digitaldirectory.management/ today! 

De-Briefing the Law with Guest Mackenzie Smith

Today, I have a special Guest as Dr. Jim Garlow joins me to talk about the benefits of humor. I think it is safe to say that currently, stress abounds. Can I light off fireworks without offending someone? If I go out and buy groceries without a mask, will I be killing more people than Hannibal Lecter? And most importantly, when will football be back on?! Oh yea, The Chiefs finally get a franchise Super Bowl winning quarterback, and then football ends.So with all of this stress, we need to pause to enjoy life. So in this episode, best selling author and confidante to kings, queens, and sometimes his grandkids, will join us today to unpack the benefits of humor in this weeks, debriefing of the law.For more about Dr. Jim Garlow and his books, click here.If you are an attorney or in the legal profession and need to complete your annual CLE requirements, visit our site Comedian of Law.Today's episode is sponsored by Digital Directory Management. Be sure to grab your business' complimentary baseline report to see how you are showing up online. Visit http://www.digitaldirectory.management/ today!  As always, if you enjoy our Podcast, please subscribe, leave a rating or review on your favorite streaming service and follow us on social media to help others find the show.

De-Briefing the Law with Guest Dr. Jim Garlow

Mackenzie Smith and I are reviewing last week's rulings on Bostock and DACA in this week's De-Briefing the Law. To learn more about about Mackenzie Smith, The Aviator Attorney, click here.If you are an attorney or in the legal profession and need to complete your annual CLE requirements, visit our site Comedian of Law.Today's episode is sponsored by Digital Directory Management. Be sure to grab your business' complimentary baseline report to see how you are showing up online. Visit http://www.digitaldirectory.management/ today! 

This week, we unpack the craziest cases in law. Michael Constanza sued Jerry Seinfeld claiming that the Character George Constanza was based on him. Yea, don’t put that on your Match.com profile. Michael Cohen pleads guilty to something that isn’t even a crime. And Pornhub is sued by a deaf man because under the Americans with Disabilities Act. These cases, plus Mackenzie Smith and I unpack the timeless classic – Legally Blonde, in this week’s Debriefing of The Law.Top 10 Wacky Cases is one of the continuing legal education courses we offer to lawyers, where I unpack the top ten craziest cases in law. If you are a lawyer and in need of CLE’s please check out this class.It is available on our website and is offered in on-demand and webinar formats. In this course, we unpack the actual law behind the craze headline cases. Because who knows, maybe one day a person will come to your office who just spilled hot chocolate in his tender areas, and if you took my class, you would know the relevant precedent. Recently, Mackenzie Smith and I talked about our favorite 2-3 craziest cases.To learn more about about Mackenzie Smith, The Aviator Attorney, click here.If you are an attorney or in the legal profession and need to complete your annual CLE requirements, visit our siteComedian of Law.Today's episode is sponsored by Digital Directory Management. Be sure to grab your business' complimentary baseline report to see how you are showing up online. Visit http://www.digitaldirectory.management/ today!  As always, if you enjoy our Podcast, please subscribe, leave a rating or review on your favorite streaming service and follow us on social media to help others find the show.

De-Briefing the Law Plus Reviewing Legally Blonde with Guest Mackenzie Smith

I am excited about this episode as I was able to interview a real comedian. Felipe Torres Medina is a comedy writer for Stephen Colbert on The Late Show. And I was able to talk to him about how to make something funny. Whether you are a professional comedian and looking to get to the next level, or you are an amateur and just trying to give your significant other new material to listen to after 20 years of listening to the same joke, Felipe will give you tips on how to write something funny. Trust me, I took notes.One of the classes I teach is Comedy in the Court: Using Humor to Persuade. Humor can break down barriers, make you think. If used effectively, humor makes you more persuasive. I recently read about the great Chief Justice John Marshall of the US Supreme Court using humor to get the other justices to side with him on big cases.Abe Lincoln. Clarence Darrow. Williams Jennings Bryan. All knew how to use humor to persuade. But more importantly, its just fun. We like to laugh, and we like to make others laugh. So if you want to learn more about using humor to make you more persuasive, check out our online classes at www.comedianoflaw.com.Today, we are going to get a glimpse on how to make something funny. We are going to get inside the mind of a funny man at the top of the comedic ladder, Felipe Torres Medina.​Felipe Torres Medina is a satirist from a country you misspell. He is a writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and his humor writing has been featured in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Points In Case, Bustle, BuzzFeed, CollegeHumor, and more. As always, if you enjoy our Podcast, please subscribe, leave a rating or review on your favorite streaming service and follow us on social media to help others find the show.

De-Briefing the Law Plus Special Guest Felipe Torres Medina

Flushgate comes to the Supreme Court, Chatty Clarence Thomas can’t be shut-up, and the Supreme Court finally deals with an issue near and dear to everyone’s hearts – nuisance robocalls.  Yes, let’s put the coronavirus to the side for a bit.  Let’s tackle another national menace. Plus Mackenzie Smith and I unpack the Movie Just Mercy in this week's De-Briefing of the Law. To learn more about about Mackenzie Smith, The Aviator Attorney, click here.We've transformed all of our continuing legal education courses so they are now available in both webinar and online formats. While we look forward to live events again in the future, we want to provide solutions for the current work environment. If you are an attorney or in the legal profession and need to complete your annual CLE requirements, visit our site Comedian of Law. Today's episode is sponsored by Digital Directory Management. Be sure to grab your business' complimentary baseline report to see how you are showing up online. Visit http://www.digitaldirectory.management/ today!  As always, if you enjoy our Podcast, please subscribe, leave a rating or review on your favorite streaming service and follow us on social media to help others find the show.

De-Briefing the Law Plus Reviewing Just Mercy with Guest Mackenzie Smith

Aunt Becky, aka Lori Laughlin, and her husband whoever, pled guilty in the college admissions scandal. Under terms of the agreement, Lori will spend 2 months in jail, pay a 150,000 fine, and agree that all future bribes to colleges will be done the normal way – paying the university directly to put their name on the side of a building.What? Do you really think George W. Bush got into Yale because of his SATs?Also, Michael Cohen has been released from prison and is allowed to spend the duration of his prison term in his NY apartment. No word yet if this should be viewed as punishment or reward. Being from the Midwest, being cooped up in a NY apartment is not my idea of a good time. But apparently, he was released because of the cornovirus. According to the news report, Cohen is 53, in great health, and so is in a high risk category. I am assuming sarcasm should be read into this report.It's time for … our Darwinian awards. I am assuming you all are familiar with the Darwinian Awards Concept. Charles Darwin devised this theory roughly called, "survival of the fittest." Natural selection. The idea is that over time, the strong will survive, the weak get eliminated. Apparently, Darwin would not be allowed into schools today as I am not sure "participation trophies" fit too well within this theory. The dodo bird can't re-emerge because it tried real hard.But if this theory were applied to the legal profession, we have some awards to give out to those who will soon be departing. Yes, the weakest among us. Consider it, your participation trophy. Those lawyers who have demonstrated by their utter lack of legal acumen and common sense, that their days in the legal profession will soon be coming to an end.So I accumulated well over 100 stories of lawyers deserving to be considered for these awards. And we cover many of these stories in my class.But today, I want us to cover the top 3. So I have come up with my top 3. And Mackenzie, has her top 3. We have not compared notes. So let's see how we compare. Plus we'll be reviewing the movie, The Firm in this week's De-Briefing the Law.To learn more about about Mackenzie Smith, The Aviator Attorney, click here.We've transformed all of our continuing legal education courses so they are now available in both webinar and online formats. While we look forward to live events again in the future, we want to provide solutions for the current work environment. If you are an attorney or in the legal profession and need to complete your annual CLE requirements, visit our site Comedian of Law. Today's episode is sponsored by Digital Directory Management. Be sure to grab your business' complimentary baseline report to see how you are showing up online. Visit http://www.digitaldirectory.management/ today!  As always, if you enjoy our Podcast, please subscribe, leave a rating or review on your favorite streaming service and follow us on social media to help others find the show.

De-Briefing the Law Plus Reviewing The Firm with Guest Mackenzie Smith

In today’s episode, we discuss the Perjury Trap and Michael Flynn, a Florida court that gave a show cause order why a lawyer should not be removed from a case after taking his clothes off to get through security, and we look at the Supreme Court as they hear arguments on political robocalls and the Little Sisters of the Poor. All this plus a review of the movie Pelican Brief in this week's De-Briefing the Law. The perjury trap is where law enforcement will trick a person into lying so they can be leveraged to rat someone else out. Trick a politician into lying? That’s like tricking me into eating a donut. The tricking is a step not needed."I think you don’t want to take your pants off in public in general." ~Mackenzie SmithTo learn more about about Mackenzie Smith, The Aviator Attorney, click here.We've transformed all of our continuing legal education courses so they are now available in both webinar and online formats. While we look forward to live events again in the future, we want to provide solutions for the current work environment. If you are an attorney or in the legal profession and need to complete your annual CLE requirements, visit our site Comedian of Law.Show Links:Proper attire in the age of ZoomLawyer who took off pants at security checkpoint fights bid to be ousted from representing clientshttps://www.abajournal.com/news/article/lawyer-who-took-off-pants-at-checkpoint-fights-bid-to-oust-him-from-representing-clientsAtlanta lawyer Robert Ward acknowledges that he took off his pants at a security checkpoint at a federal courthouse in Tampa, Florida.In an April 13 opposition, Wyndham noted that U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell ordered Ward Feb. 21 to show cause why she shouldn’t revoke his pro hac vice status for taking off his pants.Judge working from home appeared topless on Zoomhttps://www.legalcheek.com/2020/04/home-working-judge-appears-topless-on-zoom/Today's episode is sponsored by Digital Directory Management. Be sure to grab your business' complimentary baseline report to see how you are showing up online. Visit http://www.digitaldirectory.management/ today! As always, if you enjoy our Podcast, please subscribe, leave a rating or review on your favorite streaming service and follow us on social media to help others find the show.

De-Briefing the Law Plus Reviewing Pelican Brief with Returning Guest Mackenzie Smith

This week's episode is a little bit different than our norm.  Today I am visiting with intuitive soul, business strategist and inspirational speaker, Alysa Rushton.  We are covering everything from how to best manage your energy while we are all staying at home, to how other's energy can impact an entire room, to living your best life and how Alysa went from a near death experience to finding her true purpose - helping others!As I mentioned, Alysa is an intuitive soul and business strategist. She's also an inspirational speaker, manifesting expert and creator of popular programs, like Reality By Design, Get Lit From Within and Manifest More Money & Miracles and her book Get Lit From Within is due to hit bookshelves in March 2021.Alysa Rushton is one of the world’s most cutting edge thought leaders on conscious life creation and she’s on a mission to help 1 billion people tap into love, oneness and help them awaken to their true potential.Alysa’s driving principle is that when you lose your story, reconfigure your programming, and tap into your heart, you can and will create the life of your dreams! To learn more about or to connect with Alysa, click here.If you are an attorney or in the legal profession and need to complete your annual CLE requirements, visit our site, Comedian of Law.We are making every effort to accommodate attorneys seeking to fulfill their remaining CLE requirements as changes are being implemented from each states' bar association based on guidance as it is available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Accordingly, we are now offering our FULL DAY CLEs as LIVE WEBINAR and ON-DEMAND ONLINE classes, in addition to our existing online courses.As always, if you enjoy our Podcast, please subscribe, leave a rating or review on your favorite streaming service and follow us on social media to help others find the show.

This Week’s De-Briefing of the Law Plus Guest Alysa Rushton

Learn & Laugh with the Comedian of Law. Joel reviews legal happenings, Supreme Court cases and other legal news, all with a healthy dose of humor.