Flightless Bird: Bail Bonds

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This week on Flightless Bird David Farrier investigates bail bonds in America, and more specifically - the bail bondsman. With 15,000 bail bond agents in America, it seems to be a thriving private enterprise. In Oklahoma, he meets with Ron Eden, a bail bondsman who inherited the business from his mother. What’s it like to deal with people accused of crimes and the families desperate to get their loved ones out while they await trial? David then brushes up on how you get bail in New Zealand, by talking to criminal lawyer Emma Priest. He then talks to Allie Preston, a senior policy analyst at the Center for American Progress. Allie explains why having to pay for bail is a problem and who it discriminates against - and also points out that paying for bail doesn’t necessarily make you more likely to turn up for court! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:03.3	Now Monica, have you heard that thing where you go to bed?
0:05.6	I mean feeling great and then the lights go out
0:07.4	and you shut your eyes and the thoughts begin.
0:09.7	Rumination.
0:10.8	Yeah, you go into the past,
0:12.1	you go into every little intricate detail
0:14.2	of something annoying that's happened
0:15.4	and suddenly you're from a good place
0:17.0	and you're in a really annoying place.
0:19.2	Yeah, I used to have it so bad.
0:21.5	I do feel like since I've been in regular therapy,
0:24.4	I have it less because my brain knows to just file it away
0:28.2	until I can talk about it with her.
0:30.1	It helps you process things
0:31.9	and it's actually something I've learned recently
0:33.9	is that you are allowed to stop your thoughts
0:36.3	when they begin and you don't have to follow them down
0:38.6	that path like you feel you should.
0:40.3	I'm very proud of you for prioritizing therapy over work.
0:45.7	I've never done this before in my entire life.
0:47.9	Yeah, it should be totally normal
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