Lawyers, Guns & Money

[https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Jared_Goff_2022_cropped-scaled.jpg]https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Jared_Goff_2022_cropped-scaled.jpg Here’s the second half of our NFL preview podcast, where Scott, Erik, and I talk about the NFC. And for posterity, this is who we picked for the conference finalists: * Erik: Ravens over the Bills, Lions over the Eagles * Rob: Bills over the Broncos, Lions over the Buccaneers * Scott: Bills over the Ravens, Lions over the Buccaneers https://docs.google.com/document/d/12lSISZj6lQ5HRXstKdxxyqZuRa_fRhiHbztsM1PiRXs/edit?usp=sharingTranscript available here. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zHrr9Vx4-G7hp32Ro8iPICIBJfqCTAtO0_JhFZ_P-DU/edit?usp=sharing] * Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lawyers-guns-money/id1332780055] * Android [https://subscribeonandroid.com/www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/feed/podcast] * Youtube [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrVtqgIRZRPmkAlVStEZfPqRJBfpxiKIQ&si=n81CS_B5uRwKKh_Z] * Podchaser [https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/lawyers-guns-money-608162] * Podcast Index [https://podcastindex.org/podcast/961005] * Subscribe by E-mail [https://subscribebyemail.com/www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/feed/podcast] * Audible [https://www.audible.com/pd/Podcast/B08K57B3RH?qid=1633990345&sr=1-2&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_2&pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&pf_rd_r=VYY47BX10FABQ5ENAGMG] * Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/07plahOlbTxlOQP4clDRxK] * Amazon Music [https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/39a5de1e-be11-4b60-8ab4-23bbe6d52c54/lawyers-guns-money] Photo Credit: By All-Pro Reels – https://www.flickr.com/photos/joeglo/52379080723/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=123777148 The post LGM Podcast: 2025 NFC Preview [https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/lgm-podcast-2025-nfc-preview] appeared first on Lawyers, Guns & Money [https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com].

[https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Josh_Allen_SEPT2021_cropped2-744x1024.jpg]https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Josh_Allen_SEPT2021_cropped2.jpg Are you ready for some football? We are. As has become an annual tradition, Erik, Scott and myself previewed the NFL season. The first half of the podcast concerns the AFC. We’ll publish the second half on Thursday prior to the Cowboys-Eagles season opener. https://docs.google.com/document/d/12lSISZj6lQ5HRXstKdxxyqZuRa_fRhiHbztsM1PiRXs/edit?usp=sharingTranscript available here. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LpWGBShEnsx_zaEKI-5DSxoNtg_PWQVnObuEXWJeczg/edit?usp=sharing] * Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lawyers-guns-money/id1332780055] * Android [https://subscribeonandroid.com/www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/feed/podcast] * Youtube [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrVtqgIRZRPmkAlVStEZfPqRJBfpxiKIQ&si=n81CS_B5uRwKKh_Z] * Podchaser [https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/lawyers-guns-money-608162] * Podcast Index [https://podcastindex.org/podcast/961005] * Subscribe by E-mail [https://subscribebyemail.com/www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/feed/podcast] * Audible [https://www.audible.com/pd/Podcast/B08K57B3RH?qid=1633990345&sr=1-2&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_2&pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&pf_rd_r=VYY47BX10FABQ5ENAGMG] * Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/07plahOlbTxlOQP4clDRxK] * Amazon Music [https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/39a5de1e-be11-4b60-8ab4-23bbe6d52c54/lawyers-guns-money] Photo Credit: By All-Pro Reels – https://www.flickr.com/photos/joeglo/51529935401/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=111523310 The post LGM Podcast: 2025 AFC Preview [https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/lgm-podcast-2025-afc-preview] appeared first on Lawyers, Guns & Money [https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com].

[https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Tesla_Roadster_Sport_insignia_cropped-1024x957.jpg]https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Tesla_Roadster_Sport_insignia_cropped.jpg This last week (as consequence of the LGM Silent Auction) I had the opportunity to speak with Ed Niedermeyer, author of Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors [https://amzn.to/46Clg88], host of the Autonocast [https://www.autonocast.com/], and general thinker of large thoughts. We talked through the history of Tesla, its unique corporate culture, the role of Elon Musk, the complications of autopilot and autonomy, and finally the unsustainability of the stock price. Transcript available here. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/12lSISZj6lQ5HRXstKdxxyqZuRa_fRhiHbztsM1PiRXs/edit?usp=sharing] * Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lawyers-guns-money/id1332780055] * Android [https://subscribeonandroid.com/www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/feed/podcast] * Youtube [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrVtqgIRZRPmkAlVStEZfPqRJBfpxiKIQ&si=n81CS_B5uRwKKh_Z] * Podchaser [https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/lawyers-guns-money-608162] * Podcast Index [https://podcastindex.org/podcast/961005] * Subscribe by E-mail [https://subscribebyemail.com/www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/feed/podcast] * Audible [https://www.audible.com/pd/Podcast/B08K57B3RH?qid=1633990345&sr=1-2&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_2&pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&pf_rd_r=VYY47BX10FABQ5ENAGMG] * Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/07plahOlbTxlOQP4clDRxK] * Amazon Music [https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/39a5de1e-be11-4b60-8ab4-23bbe6d52c54/lawyers-guns-money] Photo Credit: By Norio Nakayama – https://www.flickr.com/photos/norio-nakayama/5240830220/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=107793270 The post LGM Podcast: The Past and Future of Tesla [https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/07/lgm-podcast-the-past-and-future-of-tesla] appeared first on Lawyers, Guns & Money [https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com].

[https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/B-2_Spirits_on_Deployment_to_Indo-Asia-Pacific-1.jpg]https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/B-2_Spirits_on_Deployment_to_Indo-Asia-Pacific-1.jpg Last week Dan, Cheryl and I talked through the implications of the US-Israeli strikes on Iran. Cheryl gave us a damage assessment, we worked out the domestic politics, and Dan gave some thoughts both on Trump and on the broader international implications. I talked the airpower angle, contrasting the Israeli performance with Russia’s air campaign in Ukraine. Some links of note: * Details of the strike. [https://www.twz.com/air/gbu-57-massive-ordnance-penetrator-strikes-on-iran-everything-we-just-learned] * Jeffrey Lewis on Iran’s trajectory towards a bomb [https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/27/iran-us-israel-strikes-dia-bomb-facilities/]. * Ankit Panda on the flagging non-proliferation regime. [https://www.ft.com/content/be6fd9c0-090b-4da9-9353-3387c7fe9495?shareType=nongift] * When the cards were down, Moscow and Beijing were nowhere to be found. [https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/06/iran-china-russia-axis-crumbles/683369/?utm_source=feed] * Speaking of cards, Tulsi folded like a house of them… [https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/tulsi-gabbard-trump-iran/683323/?utm_source=feed] * Israeli success has made the Saudis nervous. [https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israels-war-with-iran-has-reordered-the-middle-eastbut-not-as-expected-78f1c3f5?mod=hp_lead_pos3] > As a policy matter, I think Trump officials are smart to lie about the destruction of Iran's nuclear program to avoid being drawn further into this shit show. As a professional with a reputation to uphold, I have to point out that these statements are untrue. It's a weird time. > > — Jeffrey Lewis (@armscontrolwonk.bsky.social) [https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qu4xxcvwtudykd3mbchawpz6?ref_src=embed] 2025-06-29T19:03:38.299Z [https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qu4xxcvwtudykd3mbchawpz6/post/3lsrecttdns2i?ref_src=embed] Transcript is here. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XCJOqGcCOLVOf8pwEkq3YR1MWl-PK2ni0vuV4mlIcMg/edit?usp=sharing] * Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lawyers-guns-money/id1332780055] * Android [https://subscribeonandroid.com/www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/feed/podcast] * Youtube [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrVtqgIRZRPmkAlVStEZfPqRJBfpxiKIQ&si=n81CS_B5uRwKKh_Z] * Podchaser [https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/lawyers-guns-money-608162] * Podcast Index [https://podcastindex.org/podcast/961005] * Subscribe by E-mail [https://subscribebyemail.com/www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/feed/podcast] * Audible [https://www.audible.com/pd/Podcast/B08K57B3RH?qid=1633990345&sr=1-2&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_2&pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&pf_rd_r=VYY47BX10FABQ5ENAGMG] * Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/07plahOlbTxlOQP4clDRxK] * Amazon Music [https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/39a5de1e-be11-4b60-8ab4-23bbe6d52c54/lawyers-guns-money] The post LGM Podcast: In the Wake of the Iran Strikes [https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/06/lgm-podcast-in-the-wake-of-the-iran-strikes] appeared first on Lawyers, Guns & Money [https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com].

[https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Screen-Shot-2025-05-04-at-9.20.55-AM-696x1024.png]https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Screen-Shot-2025-05-04-at-9.20.55-AM.png On the latest LGM podcast I had the good fortune to speak with Dr. Ian Ona Johnson [https://history.nd.edu/people/ian-ona-johnson/] about his book Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War [https://amzn.to/4iJow3O]. The subject is interwar cooperation between the Red Army and the Reichswehr, a subject near and dear to my own academic interests. [https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=7ha0NOEAAAAJ&cstart=20&pagesize=80&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=7ha0NOEAAAAJ:UebtZRa9Y70C] Ian and I talk through the origins of the cooperation, the organizational dynamics at play in both the Reichswehr and the Red Army, the nature of the technical and intellectual collaboration, the German experience living in the Soviet Union, and finally the long-range outcomes of the cooperative projects. From the cold open: > They want to test this new mustard gas equivalent, and they have 800 young conscripts march down a road and then an aircraft flies over them and sprays them. I don’t know if they’re briefed. Only the front row are given protective equipment. And then doctors come and they take a look at them. Even the Germans, who are using, interestingly enough, graduate students in some instances to do smaller scale testing voluntarily, they comment. They said, “The Soviets, you require extraordinary discipline of your soldiers.” Transcript is here. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZxiOM9SJWUKO6jt-ORUU7_OrrDTm1GU12dgPoUIOIjY/edit?usp=sharing] The Vladimir Putin op-ed on the interwar period (referenced in the podcast) is available here. [https://nationalinterest.org/feature/vladimir-putin-real-lessons-75th-anniversary-world-war-ii-162982] * Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lawyers-guns-money/id1332780055] * Android [https://subscribeonandroid.com/www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/feed/podcast] * Youtube [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrVtqgIRZRPmkAlVStEZfPqRJBfpxiKIQ&si=n81CS_B5uRwKKh_Z] * Podchaser [https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/lawyers-guns-money-608162] * Podcast Index [https://podcastindex.org/podcast/961005] * Subscribe by E-mail [https://subscribebyemail.com/www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/feed/podcast] * Audible [https://www.audible.com/pd/Podcast/B08K57B3RH?qid=1633990345&sr=1-2&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_2&pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&pf_rd_r=VYY47BX10FABQ5ENAGMG] * Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/07plahOlbTxlOQP4clDRxK] * Amazon Music [https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/39a5de1e-be11-4b60-8ab4-23bbe6d52c54/lawyers-guns-money] The post LGM Podcast: Faustian Bargain [https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/05/lgm-podcast-faustian-bargain] appeared first on Lawyers, Guns & Money [https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com].