Episodes
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Episode 6: "I just totally reject that." (Kentucky Evictions in a Pandemic)
March 5th, 2021 | Season 1 | 15 mins 2 secs
evictions, housing, kentucky
Kentucky Courts Can and Must Help Kentuckians Facing Eviction (Not Just Landlords)
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Episode 5: Scaling Legal Aid Through Technology
November 11th, 2020 | Season 1 | 16 mins 37 secs
law, power, technology
I talk with Thomas Officer, co-founder of Community.Lawyer, about HomerenterDeclaration.org (an app we built to help people protect themselves from eviction), KEJC's work, and the potential to use these tools to build power.
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Episode 4: Healthy...At Home?
October 13th, 2020 | 11 mins 50 secs
Ben summarizes the eviction situation in Kentucky as of early October 2020: where we are, where we need to go. No elected official escapes the flames. Ben's 5-year-old makes a cameo just before the 10-minute mark. The interruption occurs precisely at the moment Ben is discussing the many things "home" now means to Americans, so he left it in the final edit. (Note: Ben's 5-year-old is not in the habit of calling Ben "Ben". 😆
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Episode 3: Just Print the Money: America Needs It. Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell Have It.
May 10th, 2020 | Season 1 | 26 mins 22 secs
coronavirus, covid-19, landlords, rent, vaccine
Paying everyone’s rent for the next year is an elegant, right-sized, fair, safe, and necessary response to a pandemic that’s here to stay.
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Episode 2: A Law School Commencement Address for Anyone Who Needs One
May 4th, 2020 | 13 mins 37 secs
Just because no one asked me to give a commencement address at a law school doesn't mean I didn't write one.
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Episode 1: Introductions: It's Good to Be Back
May 3rd, 2020 | Season 1 | 9 mins 32 secs
Hi. I'm Ben. I used to do some podcasts. Now I have one again.
I'm not quite sure why I have a podcast again, but that's not stopping me from being pretty excited about it.