143: King Richard (Trial By Media Episode 4)

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4.2 • 34.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

THIS ONE IS ALL ABOUT THE PIZZAZZ FACTOR, YOU GUY! CUE. THOSE. JAZZ. HANDS.

Richard Scrushy (a name you can't say without sounding hammered) is a mediocre, yet very rich, white dude. He runs a huge company! AND GUESS WHAT? HE'S BEEN STEALING HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM IT! Or, so says the government.....and the 5 CFOs who worked for him. But who cares! Scrushy is rich and totally the victim here...or so says his attorney Donald Watkins. So what is a mediocre super rich white guy to do when he get's indicted? GRAB HIS WIFE AND START A RELIGIOUS TALK SHOW, OF COURSE! This one is bananas, you guys, Kirk Cameron makes an appearance and God(dess) makes herself known in Gillian's apartment during the recording. Let's get to it, shall we?

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0:32.8	we need a password. It's got to be like, Rootabega. Rootabega. That's a good one.
0:36.6	Because that's not obvious when like the murderer sees you being like, Rootabega!
0:40.4	Rootabega! It would be like, I want kids. You'll be like, what you do with it?
0:45.8	Where'd you take or what you do? You guys, before we get to the show, just a reminder
0:53.1	if you, oh wait, we didn't do our song. Oh my god. Oh god. Okay. Okay, ready? I'm going
0:57.8	to try to do it nicely this time. Jillian Pensavale. Patrick, I'm sorry. When you said
1:04.4	you were going to try to do it nicely, have you been actively trying to do a bad job
1:08.3	this whole time? No, I screamed some it last time and it really didn't come out nicely.
1:12.6	Last time, girl. Take a listen, weeks and weeks.
1:25.0	You guys, before we get to the show, just a reminder, look, we are having such a great
1:28.3	time in the Patreon. If you're looking for more content, some more like, fun, some laughs,
1:31.9	some good times. Yeah. Coming out with us, we are in the middle of doing, what's it called,
1:35.9	girl? I'll be gone in the dark on HBO. We'll get it together. It's the Michelle Mac
1:39.4	D'Amera documentary about the Golden State Killer. You guys like at 50, 30, we'll have
1:43.2	her many years later. They figured out who it was through genealogy. It's crazy. Yeah,
1:47.0	yeah. And we're having fun, which sounds weird because it's about some horrible rapists.
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