Brief Recess: A Legal Podcast with Michael Foote & Mélissa Malebranche

Michael and Mélissa discuss Kelly Clarkson's online anger towards a small business, Ilhan Omar's home raided by federal agents, and sit down with award-winning civil rights attorney and campus sexual assault survivor Laura Dunn for an in-depth and nuanced discussion about the Cornell 7.
Brief Recess is a new weekly legal podcast from Exactly Right Media. Follow Brief Recess wherever you get your podcasts, and watch full video episodes every Thursday on the Brief Recess YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/@Briefrecess
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Links:
lauraldunn.com
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The interview in this episode discusses themes of sexual assault. Please skip ahead to Tales From the DMs if this topic is triggering to you. If you need confidential help, please visit rainn.org, call 800.656.HOPE, or text HOPE to 64673.
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Michael and Mélissa discuss Paranormal Activity on Broadway, the Cornell 7, Nolan Wells updates, and sit down with Professor Corinna Lain to discuss Tennessee's recent failed lethal injection of Death Row inmate Christa Pike.
Brief Recess is a new weekly legal podcast from Exactly Right Media. Follow Brief Recess wherever you get your podcasts, and watch full video episodes every Thursday on the Brief Recess YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/@Briefrecess
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Links:
corinnalain.com
Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection
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This episode originally aired on Ghosted on March 2, 2026.
This week, Ghosted! court is in session as Roz welcomes the terrifyingly brilliant Michael Foote, Esq. It’s time for ghosts, giggles, AND gavels as the two discuss lawsuits involving plaintiffs of a paranormal persuasion PLUS Michael shares his personal experiences with the paranormal.
Find Michael on Instagram @Michael_Foote__ or TikTok @Michael_Foote_. You can find Roz Hernandez on Instagram @GhostedByRoz and @RozHernandez.
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Michael and Mélissa discuss Mitch McConnell's last stand and Michael's drunk DMs to celebrities, before sitting down with Clay Aiken to discuss dad life, his new album, and what it was like coming out as gay in 2008.
Brief Recess is a weekly legal podcast from Exactly Right Media. Follow Brief Recess wherever you get your podcasts, and watch full video episodes every Thursday on the Brief Recess YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/@Briefrecess
Find Michael on Instagram @Michael_Foote__ or TikTok @Michael_Foote_ and Mélissa on both as @MelissaMalebranche.
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Links:
@clayaiken -IG
clayaiken.com
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Michael Foote is joining the cast of NBC’s The Traitors: New Blood! Michael and Mélissa discuss the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, Trump's lies about where he was on September 11th, and we sit down with the hilarious Liza Treyger to discuss her stand up comedy career and her podcast, TMU: an SVU Pod.
Brief Recess is a weekly legal podcast from Exactly Right Media. Follow Brief Recess wherever you get your podcasts, and watch full video episodes every Thursday on the Brief Recess YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/@Briefrecess
Find Michael on Instagram @Michael_Foote__ or TikTok @Michael_Foote_ and Mélissa on both as @MelissaMalebranche.
Got legal questions? Email briefrecess@exactlyrightmedia.com.

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