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Uses dramatic, deeply researched storytelling and archival footage to explore some of the worst disasters caused by man. Some are accidents sprouting from hubris, greed or incompetence, others a result of malice and a complete disregard for fellow human beings. Whether it’s collapses, fires, riots, stampedes, crashes, explosions, famines, massacres, war crimes or genocide, every manmade calamity has lessons we can learn from—both about the complex human follies that enabled them, as well as ...
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d.Construct is an affordable, one-day conference aimed at those building the latest generation of web-based applications. The event discusses how new technology is transforming the web from a document delivery system into an application platform. The music used in this podcast is Sychophantastic by Brighton band, Tailspin.
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No man is a failure who has friends – in the right places. Ten years after George Bailey’s life was saved by his guardian angel, things in Bedford Falls are in a tailspin of blood, booze and bad decisions: A serial killer has bodies piling up like so much bad debt at the building and loan, when Mary Bailey is found strangled in the family home. Will the town once again rally to bail out Bailey, or must George dig deeper into his prayer jar to save his business, solve his wife’s murder, and k ...
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He has never seen a baseball game, yet he has plenty to say about the Minnesota Twins and baseball. Join a blind man and his father as they talk Minnesota Twins and otherMLB topics with occasional interviews with guests.
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Cubs Talk Podcast

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The Cubs Talk Podcast breaks down all things baseball on the North Side. Host Leila Rahimi, James Neveau, and Nate Poppen bring insider perspectives, regular player interviews, and news updates during the team’s pursuit of another championship. New episodes release every Wednesday morning.
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Life crises can throw you into a tailspin, a lost job, a failed relationship, a struggling business, a financial mess. Where do you start? How do you pull it together? How do you begin again? Tom Holladay experienced a catastrophe first-hand when a sudden flood in California destroyed his home, his church, and the homes of many church members. Tom and his congregation had to rebuild, and they used the principles in the book of Nehemiah to get back on their feet. Now a teaching pastor at Sadd ...
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Hosted by MeidasTouch founder and civil rights lawyer, Ben Meiselas, national trial lawyer strategist, Michael Popok, and former Chief Assistant District Attorney of the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, Legal AF (Legal Analysis Friends) is a hard-hitting, thought-provoking look at this week’s most compelling developments at the intersection of law and politics. Executive Produced by Meidas Media Network. Enjoy new full-length episodes every Wednesday and Sunday ...
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Based on his latest social media posts, Trump’s head is about to pop off and roll down Pennsylvania Avenue in response to Judge Chutkan disclosing to the public the entirety of the Special Counsel’s stinging presentation of evidence —including witness testimony, & Trump’s own tweets and texts— to defend their latest Trump indictment against immunit…
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# The Minnesota Twins continue their inconsistant play as they try to make the playoffs. However, they are in danger of not making the playoffs. My Dad and I try to figure out who is to be blamed for the Twins inconsistant performance. We also take a look at the American League playoff races especialy the Wild Card races. We tell who is left on the…
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VP Harris knows how to fish—and she knows the independent voters she needs to nail this election shut are over watching Fox News. Michael Popok reports how smartly, Kamala has decided to go find independent voters where they live and enter the belly of the beast on Fox News this Wednesday with an interview, one of more than a dozen she’s given to r…
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MAGA and Trump have suffered a major setback in their plans to disrupt the voting in Georgia by delaying certification of the vote with an Atlanta area judge ruling that under all circumstances, a county board of election must certify its results by the dates required in Georgia law and cannot any circumstances refuse to certify the vote total. Mic…
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Trump just threatened at a campaign stop to suspend the constitution, and declare war, grant him self war powers to jail in secret prisons immigrants and his enemies under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. Michael Popok calls out this next step in totalitarian takeover, consistent with all of Trump‘s other efforts to stay in power in 2020, including t…
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Trump’s violent attacks on CBS for airing the Kamala Harris interview is another assault on freedom of the press and our First Amendment rights and the Biden Federal Communications Commission is fighting back. Michael Popok puts Trump’s “enemy of the people” attacks on the media and attacks on FEMA leading to death threats against meteorologists an…
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MAGA is trying to silence women in Florida from running ads to support the passage on Election Day of a new amendment to Florida’s constitution to give women bodily autonomy and a right to choose. Michael Popok reports on Florida’s governor sending illegal cease and desist letters to television stations that are airing pro-choice ads, and the Biden…
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Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok are back for the weekend edition of the top-rated Legal AF podcast. On tap? 1. An emboldened Trump backed by the Supreme Court threatens Americans with internment camps, suspension of the Constitution and crushing dissent with the Insurrectionist Act, and that's just at one recent campaign stop; 2. Trump is conducting…
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Don’t be fooled by the SCOTUS oral argument on the Biden Administration’s ban on unregistered homemade “ghost guns” without background checks. The right wing of the court remains in the gun lobby’s back pocket, as they occasionally throw a bone to sensible gun control to mislead the public into believing they are not MAGA far-right extremists. Mich…
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Trump just committed another set of crimes related to his conducting secret foreign policy and communications with Vladimir Putin, as revealed in a new bombshell investigative report by Bob Woodward. Rico Popok explains how Donald Trump just violated the constitution (again) and how these acts in which Ukraine and the Biden foreign policy were like…
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In an effort to prevent more secret evidence from being given to the public proving his guilt before the election, Trump and his lawyers just threatened Judge Chutkan in a new filing in the DC Election Interference case. Michael Popok puts it in context of the dozens of threats Trump has made against federal and state judges over the last 2 years. …
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Trump’s delay strategy in the DC Election Interference case just blew up in his face as Judge Chutkan denied his objection to prevent the 300+ pages of new evidence from being released to the public. Michael Popok reports on Trump’s contempt for the judge’s orders and the judge herself, and the Judge putting him in his place with a healthy dose of …
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Trump in a “Bro” podcast interview just gave Special Counsel Jack Smith new proof of his criminal intention and criminal mind in the criminal DC Election Interference case. Michael Popok explores Trump’s eye-popping admission that he wanted to push then VP Pence to “cross the line” between legality and illegality to throw the election to Trump, whi…
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What’s the biggest proof that Donald Trump has no intention to peacefully transfer power and is using the Project 2025 database to fill his government and is accepting dark money donations? He and his transition team have refused to sign 3 MANDATED agreements with the current administration allowing for a peaceful transfer of power, the vetting of …
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Michael Popok and Karen Friedman Agnifilo host the midweek edition of the top-rated Legal AF podcast. On tap? 1. The extent of Putin and Trump’s bro-mance and Trump violating yet another federal criminal law in conducting illegal foreign policy with our enemies; 2. New revelations that render Justice Brett Kavanaugh unfit to continue to serve on th…
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In a new interview on Tucker Carlson’s banished to X “show”, Musk and Carlson giggled and guffawed their way through imagining a world where both VP Harris and Pres Biden are assassinated—for a second time. Michael Popok demands that the government pull the plug on Tucker, and the Secret Service does its damn job for once and continues their invest…
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Fighting to avoid paying Georgia election workers the $150 million they are owed for being defamed by gun, Rudy Giuliani may have admitted that he lied to a federal bankruptcy judge that he was owed $2 million dollars from Trump for attorneys fees. Michael Popok reports that based on a new court filing by his lawyers, he cast doubt that he’s really…
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The Georgia Supreme Court has just forced women in Georgia to carry unwanted pregnancies to term—again. Michael Popok reports on a callous 1/2 page decision overturning last week’s lower court order allowing women to choose through 22 weeks under the state’s constitution right to privacy until MAGA —following the lead of SCOTUS— slammed the door on…
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Trump’s transition team is claiming that the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025 is so “radioactive” that they won’t use its 18,000-person MAGA database to fill Trump cabinet positions and other government jobs. But that’s not true, and just a smokescreen to give Trump’s campaign deniability as they have already begun using that database to make t…
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On it’s very first day of the new term, MAGA controlled Supreme Court in a 6-3 vote has ruled that women should die rather than obtain life-saving abortions. Michael Popok reports on the new decision upholding a Texas ban on abortions even to save a woman’s life even when a federal law says they must. Go to https://WashingtonPost.com/LEGALAF to sub…
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Elon Musk won’t be jumping for joy for this one: the MAGA Supreme Court has just rejected his appeal to allow X/Twitter in the future to tip off Donald Trump before they comply with a federal prosecutors search, warrant or subpoena seeking all of Trump’s social media postings, drafts, communications, and direct messages. Michael Popok puts it in pe…
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It was Bannon all along! MAGA podcaster and Trump coup adviser Steve Bannon —still in prison for contempt of Congress—has been revealed by the Special Counsel to be more involved in leading the attempt to overthrow democracy leading up to Jan6 than we ever thought. Michael Popok dives into the brand new evidence implicating Bannon based on cooperat…
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Trump has 0 chance of countering the 70+ witnesses who used to be on his payroll who are all now testifying against him in the DC Election Interference case to prove to the American voter that he is not guilty, so he’s not even going to try. Michael Popok explains that Trump’s obtaining an extension until after the election to file his opposition t…
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Trump and his lawyers are at it again blaming everybody for the crime scene that was Jan 6 except for himself. In a new filing with Judge Chutkan in the DC election interference case, Trump blames Nancy Pelosi, and General Mark Millie for the crimes, trying to divert attention from his own role as the criminal mastermind. Michael Popok breaks it al…
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It’s the DOJ 71 and Trump 0, based on the shear amount of witnesses for the prosecution who all worked for or around Trump now testifying against him in the DC election interference case Michael Popok examines closely one witness in particular (#9) a former White House lawyer for Trump Eric Hershmann who alone will rock Trump’s world and could lead…
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Michael Popok and Karen Friedman Agnifilo filling in for Ben Meiselas, host the weekend edition of the top-rated Legal AF podcast. On tap? 1. Trump’s depravity is on full display as he uses misinformation about FEMA’s response to the death and destruction of Hurricane Helene for political gain; 2 What was the real reason behind Trump asking for mor…
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An Arizona criminal court judge just embarrassed MAGA lawyer and indicted coup participant Rudy Giuliani (if that’s possible) on a new order rejecting Rudy’s hair-brained argument that the grand jury that indicted him was filled with Democrats on purpose! Michael Popok calmly explains that Rudy has lost more than just his fastball. Visit https://up…
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The dumpster fire that is Trump’s Truth Social is now raging out of control with the new revelation that 2 of its key executives responsible for revenue have been fired, as reported by ProPublica, in likely retaliation for a whistleblower investigation against its CEO and Trump confident Devin Nunes. Michael Popok explains that at the heart of the …
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In breaking news, Judge Chutkan just ruled in the Trump DC election interference criminal case that there will be no more briefs filed by either Trump or the DOJ on the immunity issue before the election. Michael Popok explains why this hurts not helps Trump, because over 300+ pages of evidence and witness testimony filed by the DOJ already will go…
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The DOJ has Trump’s phone (!) and are going to use the FBI experts to testify against him about just what he was looking st and whom he was communicating with on Jan6, in DC Election Interference criminal case. Michael Popok does another deep cut into the newly released Jack Smith 165 page presentation of evidence against Trump to find things that …
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Michael Popok and Karen Friedman Agnifilo host the midweek edition of the top-rated Legal AF podcast. On tap? 1. Trump’s biggest nightmare just happened: Judge Chutkan just disclosed to the public ALL of Special Counsel’s Jack Smith’s evidence against Trump in the DC Election Interference criminal case; 2. Whether the Special Counsel carried his bu…
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Judge Chutkan presiding over the DC election interference criminal case against Donald Trump, just ruled for the American people, and ultimately against Donald Trump‘s efforts to hide the overwhelming mountain of evidence against him. Michael Popok dives into the complete 180 page “mini-trial” of a brief filed by the Special Counsel’s office agains…
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Special Counsel Jack Smith velocity at fling against Trump is unmatched; he’s now filing papers in the DC Election Interference case in 1/3 of a news cycle! Michael Popok reports on the new filing against Trump that encourages the Judge to do exactly what Trump doesn’t want: To let ALL the new evidence be given to the public now. Get this exclusive…
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The DOJ strikes back again, in ins second filing against Trump just today to shove back against Trump’s transparent efforts to delay the public learning about his alleged crimes in the DC election interference case. Michael Popok explains how the DOJ calls out Trump’s smokescreen of alleging phony abuses by the DOJ, and explains why this is doomed …
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# The Twins finished the 2024 season with out making the playoffs. We break down what went wrong during the 12-27 stretch to finish the season Manager Rocco Baldelli and President Of Baseball Operations Derek Falvey will not be fired, at least not yet. We try to talk about some of the positives, but we continue to crcle back to the problems that le…
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Thought Trump was going to try to immediately appeal and try to stop Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 300 page+ opus from being disclosed to the public in the DC Election Interference criminal case? Think again. Michael Popok gets into the weeds of the new Trump court filing and discovers that all he really wants is to call the DOJ mean, and their fili…
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Trump is seething and scared of the new evidence we expect to be in the Special Counsel’s 180 page airing of never before scene evidence against Trump, including his closest aid for 20 years and Twitter ghostwriter Dan Scavino. Michael Popok walks through all the new evidence we expect to be in the filing including previously unknown testimony from…
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We have a cosmic collision involving Trump: on the same day Trump and Vance had criminal charges sworn out against them by the proud Ohio Haitian community for hate speech crimes, the criminal case against his would-be assassin is being prosecuted by the US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida—a member of the Haitian American community—and…
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A Georgia state court judge presiding over the Trump special purpose grand jury in his criminal case just struck down Georgia’s 6-week abortion ban as violative of a woman’s fundamental liberty right enshrined in the Georgia constitution. Michael Popok explains on what grounds the Judge, against the wishes of his own Georgia Supreme Court, reinstat…
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Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok are back for the weekend edition of the top-rated Legal AF podcast. On tap? 1. Trump is creating new evidence against him and committing more potential crimes on the campaign trail; 2. A startling series of new filings and orders in the DC Election Interference criminal case against Trump signals trouble for Trump, as…
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In a startling new filing the Special Counsel in Trump’s DC Election Interference criminal case just confirmed Trump’s worst nightmare: he has given the court previously undisclosed Grand Jury witness testimony, documents obtained by search warrant and subpoenas, and has a large group of cooperating witnesses against Trump. Michael Popok explains h…
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In attacking Nancy Pelosi and trying to cast blame on her for the riot he caused on Jan6 to lay siege to the Capitol and kill elected officials, Trump has admitted that Jan6 was criminal, giving Special Counsel Jack Smith new evidence to convict him for his role in using his MAGA mob to attack the Capitol. Michael Popok explains how a confused Trum…
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A new Trump financial and bribery scandal is brewing, this time with the Senate investigating Jared and Ivanka’s investment fund, 99 percent funded by the Arab government’s funding $150 million in fees to the Trumps/Kushners to gain illegal foreign access to Trump for $0 in return. Michael Popok looks under the hood of this new influence-peddling s…
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As MAGA uses blood libel against the proud Haitian community in Ohio about eating dogs and cats, there is new reporting that the director of the Heritage Foundation and architect of Project 2025 and all-around friend of JD Vance, killed a barking neighbor’s dog with a shovel while he was a college professor. Michael Popok puts this depraved hypocri…
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The Cubs Talk podcast takes a look at the 2024 season, evaluating the biggest successes, including the development of Michael Busch and the emergence of Shota Imanaga, and the biggest failures as the team once again misses the playoffs. The crew then evaluates the road ahead for 2025, with free agency and the trade market both serving as avenues fo…
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Two-time criminally indicted, election-denying MAGA Trump super lawyer, Rudy Giuliani has just lost his last remaining bar license and can no longer call himself a lawyer. Michael Popok reports on the DC Court of Appeal ruling unanimously to disbar Rudy permanently from the practice of law following on the heels of him losing his NY law license. He…
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In breaking news, a New York 5 Justice panel may be prepared to substantially lower Trump’s $465 million dollar fraud judgment before the election. Michael Popok who regularly practices before the court and reviewed the oral argument today, provides his detailed analysis and breakdown as to why the judgment may be reduced by one or $200 million. Up…
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Trump on the campaign trail sees women as inferior and as property who need him to be their “protector." He gives eye-popping confessions of a serial abuser and woman hater who’s policies have relegated women to second class citizenship with no rights over their own bodies. Michael Popok of Legal AF examines the testimony of the 26 women who have a…
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Michael Popok and Karen Friedman Agnifilo host the midweek edition of the top-rated Legal AF podcast. On tap? 1. Special Counsel Jack Smith is about to file his 180 opus of new evidence and arguments against Trump and to make sure his new indictment in the DC Election Interference Case avoids dismissal; 2. the proud Ohio Haitian community has sworn…
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In recent securities law mandatory disclosures, Trump’s company was forced to admit that it has no reasonable likelihood of surviving nor ability to cut ties with Trump and his dumpster fire if he is forced to cut ties with the company because of “death” or “incarceration”. Michael Popok explains that not only is the stock price crashing and about …
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