Latest Mikemorse Podcast Episodes
90 - Who Is the Man You Seek to Become? This Mentorship Program Guides Teens on the Path to Manhood
Open Mike Podcast - February 02, 2021 15:14 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsMike McCormick is a dedicated father, husband, and community leader committed to teaching developing male minds the essence of authentic masculinity. Our antiquated, social norms often compel men to resist vulnerability, withdraw, and insist everything is within their control, while larger que...
89 - Attorney Targets New Trial on 40-Year-Old Murder Case — Can Recent Evidence Free Her Client?
Open Mike Podcast - January 26, 2021 15:52 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIn 1980, Iowan man William Beeman was accused of murdering a woman named Michiel Winkel. However, Winkel was seen by several witnesses for days after the alleged time of her murder. Despite this testimony, Beeman has remained in prison for the last forty years. Enter Erica Nichols Cook, the Di...
88- Attorney & Reporter From Infamous Staircase Murder Mystery Share Stories From the Case
Open Mike Podcast - January 19, 2021 16:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsDavid Rudolf and Sonya Pfeiffer are spouses, attorneys at Rudolf Widenhouse law firm, and co-hosts of the popular podcast Abuse of Power. However, they may both be best known for their work on North Carolina vs. Peterson, a bizarre, 15-year-long case that was documented on the Netflix smash-hit,...
87- Former Tonight Show Writer Has Given 5 TEDx Talks and Shares Tips on How to Get One of Your Own!
Open Mike Podcast - January 12, 2021 16:10 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsAs a former writer for The Tonight Show, humor columnist, and podcast personality, Frank King is a natural comedian. However, similar to many comedians, he has battled depression and suicidal ideation his entire life, conditions that run in his family. Frank realized that his comedic skills pr...
86 - Jeffrey Deskovic: From Murder, Rape Conviction to Exoneree to Lawyer Who Frees the Innocent
Open Mike Podcast - January 05, 2021 16:43 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsAt age seventeen, Jeffrey Deskovic was wrongfully sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a classmate. Authorities knew his DNA did not match that of the actual perpetrator – who would later murder another young woman and mother of two. Nevertheless, they colluded to convict and k...
85 - From G.E.D to Law Degree. How a Former State Representative Turned His Troubled Life Around
Open Mike Podcast - December 29, 2020 16:23 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsBrian Banks is a highly sought-after community educator, author, law school graduate, and former Michigan State Representative. But despite his tremendous career, he has experienced an equally tremendous degree of hardship along the way, from a dysfunctional childhood, to an adolescence marred b...
84 - At 12 He Dealt Drugs, At 16 He Was Charged With Murder. Now He Advocates for Prison Reform
Open Mike Podcast - December 22, 2020 15:57 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsAt the age of 16, Mario Bueno was convicted of second-degree murder and spent the next nineteen years in prison — three of which were in solitary confinement. Today, he is a reform expert, author, scholar, and co-founder of LUCK, Inc., an organization dedicated toward mentoring vulnerable popula...
83 - How the Bail Process Unfairly Puts the Poor in Prison
Open Mike Podcast - December 15, 2020 16:23 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsJohn S. Cooper is the executive director of Safe & Just Michigan, an organization that advances policies that end Michigan’s over-use of incarceration and promote community safety and healing. As currently constituted, Michigan’s criminal justice system prioritizes punishment, over public safety...
82 - These Top Legal Non-Profits Are Freeing the Innocent & Reforming the Criminal Justice System
Open Mike Podcast - December 08, 2020 15:26 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsTricia Rojo Bushnell is the Executive Director of the Midwest Innocence Project, which works to free innocent people convicted of crimes they did not commit. Megan Crane is Co-Director at MacArthur Justice Center, an organization that fights cases to right individual wrongs, and confront racial ...
81 - Exposing Wrongful Convictions: Why They Happen and How to Stop Them in the Future
Open Mike Podcast - December 01, 2020 15:28 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsDr. Jon Gould is an internationally known expert on justice policy, social change, and government reform. An accomplished author, his book The Innocence Commission: Preventing Wrongful Convictions and Restoring the Criminal Justice System was named an Outstanding Academic Title by the American L...
80 - Dirty Cop and Lousy Attorney Put Innocent Man Behind Bars for 23 Years. Lamonte McIntyre’s Story
Open Mike Podcast - November 24, 2020 15:16 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsOn April 15, 1994, two men in Kansas City, Kansas were shot dead in broad daylight. Lamonte McIntyre, an innocent seventeen-year-old, was falsely accused of the crime. Due to multiple, hideous perversions of justice, he would spend the next twenty-three years in prison. Today, he is a successful...
79 - Is a Mitigation Specialist the Key to Fair Punishment?
Open Mike Podcast - November 17, 2020 16:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsCrime affects all of our lives—anyone can be accused, know someone accused, or serve on a jury. Mitigation expert and author Victoria Rusk gets to the “whys” behind a crime, helping jurors, DAs, and attorneys to work for fair and appropriate punishments, in hopes of reducing the American mass in...
78 - Ex-Con Goes From Prison to Creating a Successful Business & Life. What Turned His Life Around?
Open Mike Podcast - November 10, 2020 15:52 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsSean Dustin has led a tumultuous life. After a troubled childhood, he found himself in and out of state and federal prisons as an adult, serving time for drug trafficking, and fraud. After his 2006 release, he suffered with a meth amphetamine addiction before finally kicking the habit and commit...
77 - Innocent Michigan Woman Sent to Prison for Abusing her Adopted Nephew- The Story of Julie Baumer
Open Mike Podcast - November 03, 2020 15:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIn 2003, Julie Baumer took her six-week-old nephew to the hospital after noticing he was fussy, lethargic, and refusing food. It kicked off a chain reaction that ended in Julie wrongfully serving four years behind bars after prosecutors erroneously claimed she violently shook her nephew, causing...
76 - Are Ghosts Real? Paranormal Investigators Visit Haunted Locations to Find Answers From Beyond
Open Mike Podcast - October 27, 2020 15:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsEveryone inevitably approaches mortality — why do some people seem to linger on in this world as spirits, while most don’t? We all know the well-established Hollywood trope of “unfinished business,” but paranormal investigator Kris Sumner thinks the answer is more complicated than that. Since th...
75 - Coming Out Coach Teaches Families How to Cope, Communicate & Connect During Difficult Transition
Open Mike Podcast - October 20, 2020 14:48 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsComing out as a member of the LGBTQ+ community can be a sensitive, complex process for someone to navigate. Enter Annie Henderson, Life coach, educator, consultant, and coming-out coach. After getting married at age nineteen, Annie embarked on her own journey of rejecting her people-pleasing way...
74 - Wayne County Candidate Nick Hathaway on Why He Wants Your Vote for Circuit Court Judge
Open Mike Podcast - October 15, 2020 18:03 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsFor the last eleven years, Nick Hathaway has been a Referee in Wayne County Circuit Court’s Family Division, dealing with cases of serious child abuse and neglect, as well as juvenile criminal matters. Currently, he’s running as a judicial candidate for the Wayne County Third Circuit Court, targ...
73-Head of Logan Intl Airport During 9/11 Attack Discusses the Tragic Day & How She Rebuilt Her Life
Open Mike Podcast - October 13, 2020 15:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsEveryone remembers where they were on of September 11, 2001, a day that forever changed the fabric of our country. On that fateful morning, Virginia Buckingham was working as the head of Boston Logan International Airport — the departure site for the airliners that slammed into the Twin Towers. ...
72 - Ex-Playboy Photographer Educates Parents on Protecting Kids from Sexual Abuse & Online Predators
Open Mike Podcast - October 06, 2020 14:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsEmily Gaudreau was on assignment shooting Playboy’s 2008 “Party School of the Year” showcase when she put her camera away, vowing to never use it again. Since then, she has aligned with her true purpose as a sexual abuse prevention advocate and parenting coach. In this episode of Open Mike, Emil...
71 - An Innocent Man on Death Row! Who’s to Blame for the Wrongful Conviction of Jimmy Dennis?
Open Mike Podcast - September 29, 2020 15:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIn 1992, singer-songwriter Jimmy Dennis was wrongfully convicted of murder. He was sent to death row for 25 years until his 2017 exoneration. Miraculously, he avoided execution. Who’s to blame for this atrocity? A corrupt Philadelphia police department. Prosecution that destroyed evidence. A fun...
70 - 60 Days In Star Tells All On Life as an Undercover Inmate, Exposes Corruption in Prison System
Open Mike Podcast - September 22, 2020 15:09 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWhat type of person would willingly allow themselves to be incarcerated for 60 days? As a former Corrections Officer and Military Intelligence Officer, Mark Din is no stranger to high-stakes situations. However, nothing could have prepared him for life on the inside when he agreed to be locked u...
69 - Former Wolf of Wall Street Millionaire On Losing His Fortune, Freedom and What He’s Doing Now
Open Mike Podcast - September 15, 2020 14:33 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsStacks of money. Excess of drugs. Sex with models. These are tropes found in most Martin Scorsese films. They were also staples of Richard Bronson’s actual life. Today, he is CEO of 70 Million Jobs, which does the honorable work of helping people with criminal records find employment. But, in t...
68 - This Team of Experts Can Be the Difference Between Freedom and Life Behind Bars for the Accused
Open Mike Podcast - September 08, 2020 14:39 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIn a nation where up to 10% of incarcerated people may be wrongfully convicted, how do you determine who’s innocent and who’s guilty? Dr. Burton Bentley is an emergency medicine physician who helmed a company called Elite Medical Experts. Its mission is to provide expert medical opinions in comp...
67 - Award Winning Reporter Shares Story of America’s Biggest Drug Bust That All Started in Detroit
Open Mike Podcast - September 01, 2020 17:44 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsJake Halpern is a prolific journalist, storyteller, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Ned Timmons is a former FBI agent who spearheaded investigations in the 1980s that led to the indictments of the world’s most dangerous drug smugglers. Together, they’ve collaborated on Deep Cover, a podcast d...
66 - Michigan QB Devin Gardner Talks Football and the Amazing Life Lessons it Has Taught Him
Open Mike Podcast - August 25, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsDevin Gardner was the starting quarterback for the University of Michigan from 2012 to 2014. He has since played for both the New England Patriots and Pittsburgh Steelers before leaving the NFL. He now works as a commentator for Fox Sports and runs the Young Go-Getters which works to develop asp...
65 - Candidate for State Rep Shares Allegations of Theft and Fraud at the Ballot Box
Open Mike Podcast - August 20, 2020 18:31 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsBrenda Hill is a candidate who ran to represent Michigan’s District 10 in the State House. She was on track to win until there was a sudden and suspicious surge in votes for her competitor, Mary Cavanagh. Brenda and her friend, City Charter Commissioner Nicole Small, suspect fraud. In this epi...
64 - Can this Detroit Dad Reduce Crime by Convincing Men to Start Helping Raise Their Children?
Open Mike Podcast - August 18, 2020 15:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsMichael Phillips Jr. and Romell Holmes run the Fathers First Movement in Detroit. Their organization works to encourage men to be active participants in their children’s lives. A relatively new group, Fathers First has made great strides very quickly in the Detroit community. In this uplifting...
63 - Detroit Crime Reporter Exposes Justice System for Imprisoning Innocent People
Open Mike Podcast - August 11, 2020 15:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsGeorge Hunter is a seasoned journalist at the Detroit News who has been covering crime stories for over 20 years. A Detroit Native, he is the author of many true crime novels as well as host of the popular podcast Sins of Detroit, a show that looks at wrongful convictions that started with inves...
62 - Fighting for Justice and Reform on the Front Lines in the Battle Against Wrongful Convictions
Open Mike Podcast - August 04, 2020 15:23 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsChantá Parker is the Managing Director of the Wayne County Neighborhood Defense Service (NDS). The NDS was hired this past fall to provide better legal defense for citizens who can’t afford a private lawyer. They have an excellent track record in Harlem and are working to help bring justice to D...
61 - Want Real Auto Insurance Reform? Candidate for State Rep Gives a Crash Course in What’s Needed
Open Mike Podcast - July 30, 2020 16:17 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWelcome to Open Mike, the podcast where Michigan’s leading attorney Mike Morse lays down the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth when it comes to your rights, current events, and so much more. Hear exclusive interviews with superstar authors, leaders, activists, experts, and entrepr...
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