Jason Hartman interviews best selling author Scott Turow. Jason and Scott discuss what changes to expect in the wake of coronavirus. They travel through a conversation of technology in legal settings and positive changes in the pharmaceutical industry. Will we see some constitutional changes? 

Scott Turow is a best-selling author, widely known for One L. He has recently published The Last Trial, a legal thriller about a criminal defense lawyer and a lifelong friend accused of murder. Now available everywhere.

Key Takeaways:

[2:45] Scott talks about The Last Trial, from where the characters came. 

[4:30] Speaking of coronavirus, everyone has an agenda. How can we tell heads from tails?

[7:00] Can we design a better system, one in which the government takes over the testing of pharmaceuticals?

[13:45] The law has always put tremendous weight on who is holding the records.

[18:45] Do you think that supreme court justices should still be lifelong appointments? 

[21:00] Has COVID-19 pushed the legal industry to use technology and stray away from primitive processes?

[26:45] What kind of constitutional challenges do you see coming from these changes?

Websites:

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Today we are joined by a Libertarian Presidential candidate and former felon who won his freedom representing himself. Mark Whitney joins Jason Hartman sharing his backstory from outlaw to free man. As well, he speaks on the suspension of the 'campaign trail' due to coronavirus. Mark talks to some of the challenges running for president. As well, he speaks to the ease of becoming a candidate. Jason asks Mark what he expects to see in our future, whether that's inflationary or not.

Key Takeaways:

[1:00] Backstory, from felon to free man.

[8:30] Politics has been suspended. The trail in 'campaign trail' is gone.

[9:30] What were the lessons learned by representing yourself in court?

[12:30] There are generally about 2,000 people running for President of the U.S.

[13:45] The presidential commission on debates is a privately owned organization. This arrangement is so we can't site the constitution to say that our political speech is censored.

[14:30] How can you run?

[16:30] Are we looking at an inflationary future?

Websites:

MarkWhitney.com

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Jason Hartman and Toby Unwin, creator of Lawyers By Win Rate & Chief Innovation Officer at Premonition Analytics, discuss the need for transparency in law. Toby and his company try to pair people with lawyers based on the type of case and the judge they'll be going to court under, thus giving you a better chance at a favorable outcome. There are so many intricacies to law that any advantage you can get is one you should take.

Key Takeaways:

[1:56] What is the problem that Toby is trying to solve?

[6:59] How you can go about picking a lawyer with Toby's system

[10:03] How you figure out what lawyer to get

[13:29] There's usually less than 5 insiders for every judge

[20:00] The US provides 95% of the legislation with 5% of the population

Website:

www.Premonition.ai

Jason Hartman talks with Gabriel Weinberg, founder of DuckDuckGo and author of Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Customer Growth and Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models, about how you can use some of the mental models to help you achieve the returns you desire. They also touch on the problem of achieving privacy in today's world and how DuckDuckGo helps in that.

Key Takeaways:

[2:31] What is Super Thinking?

[7:04] The Mental Model of Forcing Function

[10:55] The model fo Deliberate Practice

[15:45] Beware of Hindsight Bias

[19:32] To really get outsized returns you need to make a bet on the future

Website:

www.SuperThinking.com

www.Twitter.com/Yegg

Jason Hartman talks with Rich Dad Advisor Garrett Sutton about the issues of rent control, capital flow, and why the Florida court decision on the Olmstead case has had an impact on single member LLCs across the nation. They also discuss the importance of protecting yourself even when you hire a professional to do a job for you.

Key Takeaways:

[2:21] The state of California is out to commit economic suicide

[6:03] There are some exemptions from the state wide rent control for California

[10:31] States have the right to make the laws they want, but people have the right to put their assets where they want, and developers are going to put their assets elsewhere

[16:17] State wide rent controls will make the capital flow from the states where they're implemented, impacting other markets

[19:31] The importance of Florida's Olmstead decision on single member LLCs and charging orders

[26:55] When you hire a professional, you're still responsible for any mistakes they make

Website:

www.CorporateDirect.com

www.JasonHartman.com

Jason Hartman talks with Dr. David D Friedman, son of Milton Friedman, former professor at Santa Clara University in the Law School, and author of books such as The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism and Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters. The two dissect what role the government should have in society: what it's capable of and what it need to steer clear from, while also delving into the 4 problems that need to be addressed in a feud system.

Key Takeaways:

[2:02] How David's thinking is similar and different than his father's

[4:14] Can the government actually be out of everything?

[8:35] One of the mistakes that supporters of free markets make is implying that things won't ever go wrong

[12:05] Market failure is a mark for and against government

[17:57] What David learned about feud law when looking at various legal systems

[21:52] Making the tort claims transferable would make our legal system much better

Website:

www.DavidDFriedman.com

Jason Hartman talks with Stephen Davis, author of Truthteller: An Investigative Reporter’s Journey Through the World of Truth Prevention, Fake News and Conspiracy Theories, about the prevalence of fake news online and in every form of media. The two try to find ways to combat the issue head on and what the average person can do today (and in the future) to avoid being fooled.

Key Takeaways:

[1:54] It's easier now than ever before for governments to lie to you and get away with scandals

[3:58] Fake news travels faster than truth on Twitter

[7:02] If you want good, investigative journalism, you're going to have to pay for it

[13:07] We need to stop letting companies like Facebook and Google escape the responsibility that media outlets have

[19:21] How governments deceive you

[25:43] Dealing with fake reviews on sites

Website:

www.StephenDavisWriter.com

Jason Hartman talks with G Edward Griffin, author of The Creature from Jekyll Island, about corporate scams. Too many people hide behind the veil that corporations offer; ripping off consumers and shareholders and letting the company take the punishment. G Edward and Jason discuss this topic, as well as how we can actually change things to allow society to hold those responsible accountable.

Key Takeaways:

[3:20] It can perfectly legal to extract millions of dollars from a company while the shareholders value drops to 0

[6:26] Trying to punish "the corporation" just means that shareholders get hurt

[8:56] How do we hold someone accountable when a corporation does something bad?

[10:42] How to actually make change happen to fix this problem

[13:49] Governments have a perpetual lien on your property. There's no such thing as owning something "free and clear"

[19:47] What is reasoning behind people like Soros when they pump money into politics?

[22:24] The Fabian Socialist Society believed you took over society gradually

[26:03] At what point is it proper for the state to intervene?

Website:

www.RedPillExpo.org

www.FreedomForceInternational.org

www.RealityZone.com

Jason Hartman talks with David Dorsen, former Assistant US Attorney in New York, former Assistant Chief Counsel of the Senate Watergate Committee, author of The Unexpected Scalia and the new book Moses v Trump, about what on earth is going on in regards to President Donald Trump and the Mueller report. David discusses what disappoints him about Mueller's decision making process, and the incredible cultural shift between the Watergate investigation and the Mueller investigation.

David also gives some insight into the life of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, as the two were friends for many years and went to many functions together. While they may have differed greatly politically, the two had a friendship we should see more of in today's world.

Key Takeaways:

[1:53] David's involvement in the Watergate hearings

[5:22] David's history with the late Justice Scalia and some of Scalia's liberal leanings

[10:58] Has Trump been cleared yet? And where Mueller failed the American people

[16:39] Are some Trump supporters just unwilling to step up and admit it because of intolerance from the left?

Website:

Moses v Trump: A Contemporary Novel

The Unexpected Scalia: A Conservative Justice's Liberal Opinions

Jason Hartman talks with Justin Leto, co-founder of Level Insurance, about how his company is helping the legal profession by offering litigation insurance. This gives lawyers protection from lost expenses when working contingency cases. Their hope is that the insurance will allow consumers to take their pick of lawyers instead of being pidgeon holed into only going to big companies that can afford to take contingency cases.

Key Takeaways:

[1:23] Is litigation insurance a new thing?

[5:24] The cost of taking cases to trial has gotten higher and higher and something needs to be done

[8:27] How the claim process works for lawyers

[12:36] Why are business cases being done on contingency now too?

Website:

www.LevelInsurance.com