{"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. 332 - A Friend Request","slug":"ep-332-a-friend-request","published_at":"2026-05-27T00:29:31+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pridham-and-sheafe-6228045/ep-332-a-friend-request","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pridham-and-sheafe-6228045","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep-332-a-friend-request--72177749","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72177749/ep_332_a_friend_request.mp3","summary":"Ep. 332 - Friend Request from Tom Selleck The economy is in freefall. Democracy is crumbling. The president is an idiot and we're all going to die. That's the story in the news, anyway. Meanwhile, the Dow just hit 50,000. David and Brad take a moment to appreciate how markets, unlike the media, don't have a narrative to protect. Also on the docket: Joey Chestnut, 17-time Nathan's champion and reigning Bologna Showdown king, has been cleared to compete by Major League Eating after a regrettable but jurisdictionally convenient incident outside an Indiana bar. And in the state of California, a woman spent months sending cash and gift cards to a man she believed to be Tom Selleck, who had reached out via Facebook to help honor her late friend. The lesson, delivered with appropriate gravity: if Tom Selleck contacts you on social media asking for a Starbucks gift card, do not send it. Especially not in Seattle, where the mayor has made that parti","meta_description":"Ep. 332 - Friend Request from Tom Selleck The economy is in freefall. Democracy is crumbling. The president is an idiot and we're all going to die. That's…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2449,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/pridham-and-sheafe-6228045/episodes/ep-332-a-friend-request/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-332-a-friend-request.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}