179. Linda Minor, Dan Luzadder, and Peter Grant. Corruption Oh My!

In this episode, Kris Millegan and Adam Finnegan speak with Linda Minor, Dan Luzadder, and Peter Grant about Corruption in American politics, the mob and the mafia, drug trafficking, and beyond, we discuss it all!

Peter Grant is a writer and independent researcher specializing in open source intelligence with a special focus on history and politics in Russia and the former Soviet Union, global kleptocracy and corruption, Eurasian organized crime and the activities of Russia’s intelligence services. In particular, I focus on the interplay between these issues and American politics.

Dan Luzadder is an American journalist and author whose lengthy newspaper career began as a teenaged police reporter in the last days of linotypes. He came of age amid hagiographic newsroom characters who believed shoe leather reporting, tight deadlines and well-placed sources were journalism’s divinity. He has written for the New York Daily News and the New York Times, shared a Pulitzer Prize (1983) for general local reporting, won a national public service award from the American Bar Association for exposing corruption in federal courts, and is a member of the Scripps Howard Journalism Hall of Fame. He resides with his wife, Nancy, in the Pacific Northwest. He is the author of The Manchurian Journalist: Lawrence Wright, the CIA and the Corruption of American Journalism. (Trine Day). He is currently at work on a book and investigative documentary series on a cold-case crime spree in Speedway, Indiana in 1978, and is completing a book exploring the American myth of Al Capone.

Linda Minor is a retired attorney, formerly licensed in Texas, whose legal specialty was real property law and land titles. She has a second career as a Blogger and researcher for Daniel Hopsicker and other published authors. She lives near Austin TX with her British born husband and two cats.

178. Jay Dyer. Looking Back and Ahead...

In this Episode, Publisher Kris Millegan and Adam Finnegan speak to Jay Dyer, author of the Esoteric Hollywood series, with Esoteric Hollywood 1 &2 already published and Esoteric Hollywood 3: Sex, Cults, and Apocalypse in Film is soon to be released. We look back at the series and we also highlight the importance of philosophy.

Jay Dyer is an author, comedian and TV presenter known for his analysis of Hollywood, geopolitics, and culture and co-writer for the Sam Hyde Show. His graduate work focused on psychological warfare and film and he is the author of two books, Esoteric Hollywood 1 & 2 and the co-creator and co-host of the television show Hollywood Decoded. He has been featured on numerous popular shows and podcasts and in debates with some of the world's top debaters and a fill-in host for some of the largest US radio shows.

In this episode, Kris and Adam talk to Dr. John C. Brady II, Ph. D., D. Crim., regarding the recent criminal case of Luigi Mangione, who is charged with the killing of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson. Dr. Brady also discusses comparison cases like Sirhan Sirhan. We discuss the factors behind full criminal responsibility, diminished capacities, and the insanity defense.

Dr. John C. Brady II, a California-licensed forensic psychologist, is the author of six true crime books in his Bad Actor Series. He is a psychologist and criminologist with a masters and doctorate in criminology from UC Berkeley. He has used both disciplines and his forty-plus years in private practice to discover why ordinary, law-abiding people suddenly begin to engage in criminal acts. In this seventh and most recent book, Psychological DNA, he explains the criminal-psychological drivers that led Sirhan Sirhan to assassinate Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Dr. Brady has diagnosed and treated dissociative, multiple personality cases like Sirhan’ s in inpatient hospital and outpatient settings, and served as an expert witness in court proceedings. In his forensic psychology practice, he has worked with various criminal populations having analyzed hundreds of “bad actor” cases, including celebrity offenders.