Every month three lawyers look into the fictional worlds of entertainment and try to access how the law works in those tales. It's informative and silly, much like the law itself.
Episodes (8)
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#8 -- We Dreamed a Dream (Inception)
#8 -- We Dreamed a Dream (Inception)
Published: 13 Nov 2017 Duration: 01:20:48The Pop Culture Legal Team is back as they discuss the strangest form of insider trading and corporate espionage: the kind that takes place in your dreams. Join Sarah and Meredith and their guest Sherwin Siy as they look at the legal ramifi... Read more →The Pop Culture Legal Team is back as they discuss the strangest form of insider trading and corporate espionage: the kind that takes place in your dreams. Join Sarah and Meredith and their guest Sherwin Siy as they look at the legal ramifi... Read more →
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#7 -- Murder Law for Murder Bots! (Westworld)
#7 -- Murder Law for Murder Bots! (Westworld)
Published: 2 Sep 2017 Duration: 01:20:45First, Sorry to everyone for the delay in posting! Unfortunately, the increased violence in Chicago has made my criminal defense job pretty stressful this summer, and I've been low on editing time. We will do our best to return to one episo... Read more →First, Sorry to everyone for the delay in posting! Unfortunately, the increased violence in Chicago has made my criminal defense job pretty stressful this summer, and I've been low on editing time. We will do our best to return to one episo... Read more →
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#6 -- Tic Tac D'Oh - I Blew Up the Planet (War Games)
#6 -- Tic Tac D'Oh - I Blew Up the Planet (War Games)
Published: 7 Jun 2017 Duration: 01:21:18Apologies for our 1-month hiatus: we're back! This month, Meredith and Sarah talk the 1983 nerd MASTERPIECE War Games. We think the trailer to this movie might be the sum total of what Donald Trump knows about cyber security, so we talk ... Read more →Apologies for our 1-month hiatus: we're back! This month, Meredith and Sarah talk the 1983 nerd MASTERPIECE War Games. We think the trailer to this movie might be the sum total of what Donald Trump knows about cyber security, so we talk ... Read more →
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#5 -- Monk is the Gene Genie (Gattaca)
#5 -- Monk is the Gene Genie (Gattaca)
Published: 11 Apr 2017 Duration: 01:27:23This month, Meredith, Sarah, and special guest privacy lawyer Carolina discuss Gattaca, everyone's favorite movie about genetic discrimination! Join us as we explain how GINA is not just the name of a pretty lady, how much Ron Paul friggin'... Read more →This month, Meredith, Sarah, and special guest privacy lawyer Carolina discuss Gattaca, everyone's favorite movie about genetic discrimination! Join us as we explain how GINA is not just the name of a pretty lady, how much Ron Paul friggin'... Read more →
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#4 -- I Have a Bat Feeling About This (The Dark Knight/Rises)
#4 -- I Have a Bat Feeling About This (The Dark Knight/Rises)
Published: 3 Mar 2017 Duration: 01:07:24In this episode, Meredith, Sarah, and special guest Pranks Paul discuss Batman, with a focus on the recent Christopher Nolan movies. Is Batman an agent of the state? How the hell does Lucius Fox get his hands on fighter jets and refined... Read more →In this episode, Meredith, Sarah, and special guest Pranks Paul discuss Batman, with a focus on the recent Christopher Nolan movies. Is Batman an agent of the state? How the hell does Lucius Fox get his hands on fighter jets and refined... Read more →
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#3 -- What Did You THINK Would Happen?!?!?! (Jurassic Park/World)
#3 -- What Did You THINK Would Happen?!?!?! (Jurassic Park/World)
Published: 3 Feb 2017 Duration: 01:15:51At first you don't succeed, build an even bigger and more dangerous theme park! If only they had lawyers around to tell the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World crew that all of this is a terrible idea. From simple negligence to BEAR LAW, from ... Read more →At first you don't succeed, build an even bigger and more dangerous theme park! If only they had lawyers around to tell the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World crew that all of this is a terrible idea. From simple negligence to BEAR LAW, from ... Read more →
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#2 -- Legally, You Can Only Be So Traumatized (The Truman Show)
#2 -- Legally, You Can Only Be So Traumatized (The Truman Show)
Published: 3 Jan 2017 Duration: 01:31:35The pop culture legal team returns to discuss the 1998 Jim Carey drama, The Truman Show. In this movie, a man lives his entire life unaware that he is on an elaborate reality show documenting his every move. Sarah, Meredith and their specia... Read more →The pop culture legal team returns to discuss the 1998 Jim Carey drama, The Truman Show. In this movie, a man lives his entire life unaware that he is on an elaborate reality show documenting his every move. Sarah, Meredith and their specia... Read more →
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#1 -- The Spiders Can't Have Tasers (Minority Report)
#1 -- The Spiders Can't Have Tasers (Minority Report)
Published: 2 Dec 2016 Duration: 01:14:43Real bone fide lawyers Meredith, Sarah and Charlie discuss Minority Report, Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise's 2002 assault on the very concept of the 4th Amendment. We pose questions such as: If creepy eye-scanning spiders can come into you... Read more →Real bone fide lawyers Meredith, Sarah and Charlie discuss Minority Report, Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise's 2002 assault on the very concept of the 4th Amendment. We pose questions such as: If creepy eye-scanning spiders can come into you... Read more →