{"podcast":{"title":"Pridham and Sheafe","slug":"pridham-and-sheafe-6228045","podcast_index_feed_id":6228045,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5796379/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/pridham-and-sheafe--5796379","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/48afe5d5752ae0bb11bec287a823f0d4.jpg","author":"David Pridham and Brad Sheafe","episode_count":159,"summary":"David Pridham and Brad Sheafe are big wheels in the world of Intellectual Property. Protecting IP… negotiating licenses on behalf of IP clients… buying up IP’s. Having built one of the world’s largest intellectual property licensing companies, the pair know a lot about business. They also have a keen sense for politics – and how politics can impact business. Where other political shows are exclusively about politics, Pridham and Sheafe connect the dots between government policies, headline politics and growing your business. The two get political…They talk social issues. They jump headfirst into today’s headlines. It’s like listening in on what two businessmen/entrepreneurs have to say about everything going on around them. And like any A-types, David and Brad pull no punches. But they do throw in a lot of humor. So, when you want to practice the best practices as they relate to growing your business…when you want to know how intellectual properties can benefit your company…and when you just want a good laugh – tune in to Pridham and Sheafe – you’re guaranteed to learn and laugh - they're two funny!","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pridham-and-sheafe-6228045"},"episode":{"title":"Ep. 326 - A Ballooning Problem","slug":"ep-326-a-ballooning-problem","published_at":"2026-04-07T00:00:17+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pridham-and-sheafe-6228045/ep-326-a-ballooning-problem","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pridham-and-sheafe-6228045","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep-326-a-ballooning-problem--71143254","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71143254/ep_326.mp3","summary":"Ep. 326 - A Ballooning Problem The trouble with keeping something big under wraps is that eventually, the bubble bursts. Case in point, Bryon Noem, husband of the former Secretary of Homeland Security, was quietly sending tens of thousands of dollars to fetish models and circulating photos of himself in fake balloon boobs across the internet until, inevitably, it all came out. When confronted, he simply said, \"I don't care.\" Congress, meanwhile, has run the national debt from $3.3 trillion in 1990 to $38.5 trillion today, left the Department of Homeland Security completely unfunded, and fled Washington. Just ask Lindsey Graham, who was photographed at Space Mountain with a bubble wand. David and Brad also check in on Tiger Woods, who is a billionaire, lives on a private island, and still cannot arrange a ride home.","meta_description":"Ep. 326 - A Ballooning Problem The trouble with keeping something big under wraps is that eventually, the bubble bursts. Case in point, Bryon Noem, husban…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2877,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/pridham-and-sheafe-6228045/episodes/ep-326-a-ballooning-problem/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pridham-and-sheafe-6228045/ep-326-a-ballooning-problem.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}