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🗓️ 13 September 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Subpoenas are all the rage. But what do they even mean if someone can just ignore it? Learn this and a lot more in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:05.2	Howdy, everybody.
0:06.4	I'm just staring at this subpoena on my desk that I'm going to ignore because I don't care
0:10.9	about the rule of law.
0:12.8	This is Chuck.
0:13.5	It's Saturday.
0:14.7	And from October 2019, we are replaying this episode about subpoenas.
0:19.9	It's called What's the Deal with Subpoenas?
0:22.1	Or as Jerry Seinfeld might say,
0:24.3	Eh, what's the deal with subpoenas?
0:26.9	That's my best Jerry Seinfeld.
0:28.4	I hope you enjoyed it.
0:33.7	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know,
0:35.9	a production of IHeart Radio.
0:43.2	Hey, and welcome to the podcast.
0:45.2	I'm Josh Clark, and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, and there's Jerry Jerome Rowland over there.
0:51.0	The Legal Eagles of podcasting.
0:53.9	Ooh, can I be Daryl Hannah? Yes, I call Barbara Hershey? I don't think so. Who was it? Oh, legal eagles. I know Deborah Winger. Yes. Was Daryl Hanna even in that now? Yeah, she was the client of Deborah Winger. Okay. And you're not Redford? No. I always have to be Redford. Everybody's always like, that guy's a regular Robert Redford. He'll play him in this scenario. Right. That's the street chatter. Yeah. Can I still be Barbara Hershey, even though she wasn't in the movie? Sure. I think I'm thinking of beaches. Oh.
1:27.9	Well, that means I get to be Bet Midler.
1:29.9	Right.
1:30.4	I wonder how many Pod Save America listeners we just lost, who just casually decided to give us a chance.
1:36.0	I want to learn about subpoenas.
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