Quick one today!  First, in next week's episode, Geoff, Mike, and special guest Alison Gill, the Director of Nominations and Democracy at the National Women's Law Center (and Geoff's former boss), discuss the 1995 film The American Preside...

Lincoln Lawyer is back... on the podcast.  In this episode, we discuss Season 2, Episodes 1 & 2 of the Lincoln Lawyer Netflix Series.  Among other things, we discuss the supposed "ethical dilemma" that Micky faces, his decision to...

The first sidebar of 2026!  So first thing's first, next week we will be coming back to the Netflix show Lincoln Lawyer.  We did Season 1 of the Lincoln Lawyer in Season 1 of our podcast, so it's only fair that we discuss Season 2 in ...

Happy New Year to our listeners!  In the first episode of Season 2, Geoff, Mike, and Derrick discuss Her, the 2013 Spike Jonze movie starting Joaquin Phoenix and the voice of Scarlett Johansson, which is set in the distant past of t...

Merry Christmas, Happy Festivus, and Happy Holidays to all of our listeners!  This sidebar is not only the last one of 2025, it's also the last sidebar of Season 1!  Season 2 starts next week.  (Having a new season does not reall...

Geoff, Mike, and Derrick discuss the latest installment of the Knives Out movies, Wake Up Dead Man, which was released for a brief theatre run on November 26, 2025 and started streaming exclusively on Netflix last Friday, December 12, 2025.&nbs...

As is normally the case when we invite on guest hosts, some of the conversation that we had with Will Kent in last week's Spy Game episode did not make it into the original edit.  So, we present it along with a little background on NDAs an...

In the episode, Geoff, Mike, Derrick, and special guest Will Kent discuss Spy Game with the late great Robert Redford playing veteran CIA operative Nathan Muir and an up-and-coming Brad Pitt playing Muir's protégé, Tom Bishop.  Our guest W...

Quick-ish sidebar this week to discuss a correction to our commentary in last week's Good Place episode and some separate listener feedback.  As discussed in our listener feedback:Here's the link to Kevin Goldberg's co-authored piec...

Welcome! Everything is fine. (Not really. At all.)In this episode, Geoff, Mike, and Derrick discuss Season 1 of The Good Place (2016-2017).  We discuss multiple scenes involving Eleanor and Jason's time on earth, including Eleanor's...

Welcome! Everything is fine.We brought back previous guest Wes Rist to discuss some interesting listener feedback on our Captain America: Civil War episode.Our next episode will be released in a week, when we will talk about the f...

In this episode, Geoff, Mike, and Derrick discuss Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022).  We discuss Benoit Blanc's role as a detective, hearsay, how a Court would look at the all-important napkin "agreement", comparative/contributory n...

Geoff gives a brief update on some episodes that are upcoming in year 2 of the Not So Grand Jury.  Our next episode will be released in a week, when we will talk about Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022).

It's the Not So Grand Jury's one-year special!  Believe it or not, our little podcast has made it a year.  Thank you to all of our listeners - we appreciate you tuning in on a regular basis to listen to us and here's to another year!<...

In this episode, Geoff, Mike, Derrick, and special guest Wes Rist discuss the Marvel movie Captain America: Civil War.  Wes is an international human rights lawyer who speciali...

In this Tuesday sidebar, Derrick encourages you all to reach out with questions, comments, complaints... any feedback!  We also give you a primer on international law in preparation for this Thursday's episode where we will discuss Captain...

More Suits!  We discuss Episode 11 of Suits Season 1, which mostly focuses on two parts:  The A plot involving a mentee/associate's responsibilities when his/her boss is clearly being unethical (not to mention some very weird subpoena...

You asked for Suits and you got it!  ("You" being multiple listeners who sent in comments via email and otherwise posted publicly, multiple guests on the show, a few family members, and maybe even some random strangers on the street.) ...

Mike is no longer at the police station, so we were able to get this recording done!  (If you don't understand this reference, listen to the first 3ish minutes of last week's episode.)  This week Geoff, Mike, and Derrick discuss Seaso...

This week we go back many years ago to Geoff and Mike's original version of the podcast and re-release an episode on Knives Out, the 2019 movie.  No Derrick this week other than at the beginning to explain with Geoff why we are pushing the...

That's right, another King of the Hill episode (new season comes out 8/4!).  Geoff, Mike, and Derrick discuss back-to-back episodes in the fourth season of King of the Hill (2000).  We discuss listener feedback from a good friend of t...

Geoff, Mike, and Derrick discuss Minority Report (2002), a science fiction thriller set in the year 2054, where the District of Columbia is trying out a specialized police department known as "PreCrime" using three "Precogs" to predict and prev...

Geoff, Mike, and Derrick discuss Erin Brockovich (2000), based on the true story of the ground water contamination of Hinkley, California by PG&E. We discuss the accuracy of the film to the real-life events, class action litigation and bind...

Colleen Moore's first ever arc on the Not So Grand Jury comes to an end with another sidebar discussion on the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA).  Derrick and Colleen briefly discuss the recent Supreme Court's decision invo...

Another SVU episode, another new title, this time the "Chef’s (Geoff's) Kiss" episode (check out 1:05:15 into the episode).  Geoff, Mike, Derrick, and returning guest Colleen Moore discuss Selfish, the nineteenth episode of the tenth seaso...