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Podcast: The Dirty Verdict
Episode: S3 Eps 27:The Dirty Verdict — Halloween Edition 2025 🎃
Description: The Dirty Verdict — Halloween Edition 2025 🎃 Costumes, bourbon, and big-law war stories collide. Peter Taaffe, Kyle Herbert, and Bill Ogden welcome fan-favorites Mark Thiessen and Mark Metzger for our annual Halloween bash. It's part comedy hour, part shop talk: mediation mind games, Stowers tactics, billboard math, PI client-poaching, charging trends in Harris & Galveston County, immigration cross-currents, and why this show is—ironically—a very visual medium. Watch for the costumes; stay for the legal gems. Chapters 00:00 Cold open: "This is a visual medium—watch on YouTube" 00:38 Halloween roll-call + where's Tally? 02:30 Mediation mindset: deadlines, snacks & "sweating ou...