Name: Are You Garbage Goes to Court! (w/ Defense Attorney Todd Spodek)
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Are You Garbage Goes to Court! (w/ Defense Attorney Todd Spodek)

Welcome to another exciting edition of Are You Garbage?
The show where you find out if your favorite comedians are classy individuals
or absolute trash.
Now, here are your hosts, Kevin Ryan and H. Foley.
Hey, everybody out there, and welcome back to everybody's favorite podcast.
This is Are You Garbage?
Oh, yeah.
It's that little show we sit there with your favorite comedians, and we find
that they have to go to be classy.
Yeah.
But they're just a big old piece of trash.
Objection.
I'm your host, H. Foley, coming at you on a beautiful day.
We're out back here at Tootie's in a new edition.
She is in central booking right now.
I've heard.
Tootie's jammed up legally, and we were thinking it'd be a good idea to get
some legal expertise in here.
Yes.
And we're going to figure it out.
We're not naming the charges right now.
Sure.
We're not going public with anything.
I heard Rico.
My co-host is coming at you from right next to me.
Not affiliated with the H. Foley Corporation.
He is the CEO of Are You Garbage?
He is an international businessman and my best pal in the whole wide world.
And as I say, he's the guys that make all the decisions.
I'm just a patsy in this whole thing.
Give it up for KJ, Kevin James, Ryan, everybody.
What up, gang?
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You go over there, you get all your bonus content, gang.
Yes, sir.
And gang, like I said, very special episode today.
Yes.
Very special guest here with us today for the first time.
He is one of the premier criminal defense attorneys in these here United States.
He is the owner-operator of the Spodak Law Group.
Give it up for Mr. Todd Spodak.
Esquire.
Thank you very much.
You're an Esquire, right?
I'm an Esquire.
Nice.
Great.
Do you let people know that you're a lawyer in situations?
No.
You know that like-
I try to keep it mellow.
I'm not that kind of lawyer who's going out there being like, guess what I do.
Sure.
I will show up on a podcast.
But I will show up on a podcast, and I will tell people that I have the best
dinner stories.
Okay?
You're not going to beat me around the table.
Of course.
Yeah.
Of course.
Some guy talking about their kid's recital or something like that.
You got a triple homicide going.
Exactly.
So it's exciting.
So if there's a situation in a restaurant or something like that, and you're
sending back
the steak, they're giving you shit, you don't say, hey, I'm a lawyer.
No.
I would never say so.
I'll have the inspector in here in 10 minutes.
Yeah.
Definitely not.
Okay.
Give us your light professional backstory so we know what we're dealing with
here.
Sure.
Some of your credentials.
Yeah.
Sure.
How'd you get into law?
Where'd you go to law school?
So I was born and raised in Brooklyn.
Okay.
My law firm's based in downtown Manhattan.
Okay.
My father was a lawyer.
Okay.
Okay.
I've been in the game for a long time.
I grew up around a lot of criminals, so this is not new to me.
Welcome to the show.
I know this world.
Alleged criminals.
Alleged.
Yeah.
And I went to Pace Law School in White Plains, which is the Harvard of the East
Coast.
Everyone knows that.
Man, he's got this guy.
This guy's good.
And now I'm in the game.
And now we do state and federal criminal defense throughout the United States.
A lot of white collar cases.
A lot of really egregious criminal acts.
And, you know, this is what we do.
This is the life we live.
And we love it.
Did you, when you got out, did you work for another law firm?
This guy's good already.
He's all right.
I like him.
I'm feeling good about our chances here.
I'm walking scot-free, coppers.
Did you work for another law firm?
Or did you go work for your dad's law firm?
So, I came out of law school and I went straight to trial work.
And I started working with my dad and doing trial work throughout New York City.
Did they give you cases right away?
Or are you, like, getting coffees and shit like that at first?
I hit the ground running.
Obviously, it takes some time to get familiar.
But if you're a trial lawyer, you're a trial lawyer.
And you're comfortable in front of a jury and in a courtroom or in tutties.
You know what I mean?
You know the vibe.
Sure.
You know.
So, there's a little bit of balance of both of those things.
What was your first case?
My first, first case was a juvenile who was jumped in Brooklyn, where I'm from.
And it was a self-defense case, a justification case.
He kicked somebody's ass.
She.
She.
Yeah.
That's a tough broad.
Yeah.
Okay.
And I represented her at trial and we raised justification, which is self-defense.
And we prevailed.
And it was fucking awesome.
You know, you feel like a rock star and you really do help someone at the end
of the day.
And that's the rare case where you have someone who actually was in the right.
So, she got off.
She got off.
How many people were jumping her?
Five people jumped her.
And she won the fight, essentially.
Yeah.
No.
Yeah.
Get the fuck out of here.
Yeah.
I mean, this was a bunch of kids fighting.
So, it wasn't exactly Jake and Mike Tyson.
Which was a great fight, by the way.
You know, it was a little bit of a different vibe.
But yeah, she got off and it was, look, I don't want to sound cheesy and be
like, wow, I did
get good, blah, blah, blah, blah.
But it felt good to actually fight.
Yeah.
You positively affected the rest of that girl's life.
100%.
She got brought up on charges.
You got her off the charges.
100%.
Yeah.
What were the charges they were hitting her with?
So, they were assault with a deadly weapon.
They were-
What was a deadly weapon?
So, she wound up-
These hands, baby.
No, she wound up taking out an umbrella, like a long umbrella, and started to
just knock
people.
Hey, are we talking about an umbrella you get at the bodegas, the shitty ones,
or like a
golf umbrella?
No, we're talking about a full-fledged, like legit, reinforced umbrella, okay?
Those things are expensive.
Yeah.
Like, we're talking about the penguin from fucking Batman.
But that's like, this is how like my stupid law brain, like I've, a lot of my,
I've luckily
been unscathed with the legal system.
I find that hard to believe.
I know, but a lot of my friends have, you know, face charges over, you know-
That I could totally see happening.
Some deserves some time.
I knew when to toe the line and get the fuck out of there before she hit the
fan.
But that's one of those things, I'm like, in my head, immediately go, you got
jumped
by five people, you grabbed an umbrella, you had to do what you-
To me, that's kind of, you know-
Exactly.
But like, I guess it makes sense if they're like, no, that she started
attacking us
or whatever.
Did they go after the other people then, or was it just that's it?
No, so my client was ultimately charged because one of them was somewhat disfigured.
She hit someone in the face with the umbrella and it got the scam.
Oh, damn.
But the trick is, you got to be relatable.
If you're going to testify at a trial, you got to relate to the jury.
They got to respect your story.
They got to believe that you're being honest and you got to take the good and
the bad.
You can't be an angel.
Nobody's an angel.
Yeah, you can't be too polished.
You got to come across real and you got to be able to connect with people in a
real way.
People in New York City, especially minors, people go to high school, junior
high.
They've been in fights.
They've been in assaults.
They've been jumped.
They know what that experience is like.
And when you're picking that jury, you think about that stuff.
And a lot of this is psychology.
Absolutely.
If the jury doesn't like me as the defense lawyer, they're certainly not liking
my client.
So that's what you do.
If someone gets, but you feel the bad vibe, you're like, let's bounce this
fucking guy.
Yeah, absolutely.
And so when you win that first case, what's the celebration like?
Is it like in Goodfellas when you walk out like, hey!
Yeah, not exactly.
This was more like chopped cheese and like a soda.
Chopped cheese and a soda?
That's not bad.
You know, this was a long time ago.
But it was celebratory no matter what.
And I've had a number of homicides that I've won that I've had legit
celebrations.
And I've gone traveling with clients and things like that.
Really?
You go out with them afterwards?
Yeah, of course.
What do you mean?
Oh, that's fucking awesome.
Let's take this down to sandals for a couple of days.
I know who my one phone call is going to.
It's fucking P.S.
And is that one phone call?
Is that true?
You get one phone call?
It's not really true.
The most important thing is you want to evoke your right to counsel, right?
If you're jammed up, don't say shit.
He even used jammed up.
I respect that.
We sell shirts that say jammed up.
But, all right, let's just say, boom, we get in a bar fight or something.
You end up in the back of a cop car.
What is the series of events that you should do as a defendant?
When we're done crying, what do we say?
So, the immediate thing is to let the authorities, whether it be state, local,
federal, law enforcement,
whoever it is.
Federal?
What the fuck?
Jesus Christ.
You got the fucking alphabet boys coming in?
But you got to let them know that you're invoking your right to counsel.
You have a lawyer.
And once you do that, that at least puts a buffer from you.
They got to stop talking.
They got to stop asking you questions, right?
They got to stop asking you questions.
And the real problem is when people are excited and they're overwhelmed and
drunk and high and
jammed up, they talk.
Oh, you know me.
Yes, yes, and yes.
And a lot of times they'll say something that is a problem even though they don't
think it.
So, for example, they may commit that they were at the scene or they may
connect themselves
to someone else.
I was walking by.
I said, hello.
And it's like, now you're there.
Exactly.
It's much better for you to be like, you know what?
Call my lawyer.
I'm done.
I'm not here right now.
You didn't see me.
I didn't see you.
You don't know me.
I watch a lot of First 48 and they never get a lawyer.
And they always end up doing time.
They never go.
But that's why there's a story about them.
Exactly.
They say to you, if you just come clean now or whatever, they're all not entrapment
by
any stretch of the imagination.
Shout out to the law enforcement.
Of course.
Shout out to the law enforcement.
You just threw entrapment like you really know what that means.
No, I think there are instances where the police say, look, cooperate with us
and we
will present your case to the prosecutor and to the judge for leniency.
In a better light.
Yeah.
And there are cases where that does work, but that should be done pursuant to
some sort
of proffer agreement or immunity or cooperation deal, not just you coked up at
a fucking nightclub
being like, oh, cool.
I'll work it out with the police now.
Sure.
Sure.
Sure.
You say coked up at a nightclub?
Yeah.
I mean, that's when these things happen.
New York City.
Yeah.
That's when these things happen.
I know your audience.
Come on.
There's a bunch of guys listening coked up at a nightclub right now.
They're like, shit, he knows me.
He's looking, they're like, fuck, they're all over us.
This guy's been following me.
I don't like that.
All right.
And you were mentioned before, you had a huge case recently.
So I did represent Anna Delvey, the German heiress, and they did make a Netflix
show about
it.
I've seen the movie.
Okay.
Damn, you were her lawyer?
Yes.
I was her trial lawyer and I represented her and I was a character in the show.
I loved it.
Me and my wife loved that fucking show.
Who played you?
Did they screw you?
No, it's the gentleman from Succession, Arian Moyet.
I may be pronouncing the name wrong.
Get out of here.
But Stewie from Succession.
Look it up.
Let's see this.
Oh, right.
That's you.
Holy shit.
Yeah, that's me.
Holy shit.
Damn.
That's a good lookin