Toxic and Problematic, 04.01.23
Church of Lazlo Podcasts
Audacy
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Today we welcome a very special guest, Jason Flom! Jason is one of the biggest names in the music industry. In the 90's he founded Lava Records where he signed huge artists like Lorde. But Jason is also a podcaster and philanthropist who's passionate about helping the wrongfully accused. He is a founding board member of The Innocence Project where he has worked tirelessly for years to raise awareness about the problems with our criminal justice system. Today, Jason tells us about junk forensic science and some of the cases he's currently passionate about. If you're not already familiar with Jason's work, we have a feeling you're going to want to check out some of his other podcasts, so we've provided links below. Thanks for listening and enjoy the show!
Wrongful Conviction (audacy.com)
Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom on Apple Podcasts
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I |
| 0:09.4 | Hello, is this Jason it is hey Jason good morning. How are you? I'm all right. How are you? I'm excellent |
| 0:16.4 | Ladies and gentlemen Jason Flum. Thank you so much for calling |
| 0:19.2 | We've been telling people from the last month where we're gonna talk we actually we thought we were gonna talk to you last week |
| 0:23.2 | We told everybody we're gonna be talking to him tomorrow and they come to work and our producers like he we don't talk to him till next week |
| 0:28.8 | So we were really excited about this interview clearly |
| 0:31.7 | Well, I'm excited that you're excited and I'm excited to be here with you guys because I've listened to you showing I think you guys do a great job |
| 0:37.3 | Well, thank you Jason. Jason. Um, it's lasso. I know you can't see me, but we've known each other for a long time |
| 0:43.9 | And for a long time it hadn't even spoken |
| 0:46.9 | But our careers had intertwined in past you know, I guess when you're in the you know music business of the radio business |
| 0:55.0 | You don't even know whose lives you affect as you move through it. Oh, that's certainly true |
| 1:00.4 | Yeah, it is not sort of a thing how that you're either there's a disembodied body on the other side of the |
| 1:07.9 | The airwaves, right? So it's it's a good point. You make a never thought of it that way, but you're not wrong |
| 1:13.8 | Right, and you know, one of the things that I've always just been interested about you is |
| 1:20.1 | The fact that you know if I'm correct and you can just stop me at any point, but you started out as a guy |
| 1:28.0 | hanging |
| 1:29.3 | posters at record stores and turn that into |
| 1:33.7 | Just an amazing career and an amazing life when you know a lot of people who start hanging |
| 1:41.4 | posters and record stores quit |
| 1:43.9 | Right like they think I'm not getting treated fairly. I'm not making enough money |
| 1:47.2 | I'll go be an accountant, but you're the kind of guy from what I understand from your story and we'll get into the other things |
| 1:53.5 | And why I think this leads to you doing great things for the world is this ability to not give up |
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