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Nasir and Matt discuss the rise of telecommuting in the workforce and relay some pros and cons for both employees and employers. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to Legally Sound Smart Business. My name is Nasir Pasha, where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist. Welcome to our midnight episode. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub. That was an old school introduction by you. NASIR: Well, yeah, I mean, I feel like I’m going back in time with how late we’re recording this. MATT: Yeah. NASIR: I’m actually half-asleep right now. MATT: Which half? NASIR: Well, my legs are in my bed in pajamas right now and I’m just yawning like crazy. MATT: That would be pretty sad if you were actually recording a podcast like that. NASIR: Practically. I went home, had dinner, changed, and then came back to the office in shorts and a t-shirt. Well, that’s what I do for you guys, just to produce quality episodes. MATT: Yeah. NASIR: Today, we’re talking about telecommuting, telecommuting… what are w

The guys go with deuces wild in an episode discussing whySoulCycle is being accused of "robbing customers" by selling certificates that are used to purchase classes. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist. My name is Nasir Pasha. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub. NASIR: And welcome to our Wednesday episode, my second favorite next to Monday’s episode. MATT: Deuces wild today – 222. NASIR: Wow! 222nd episode, that’s amazing. MATT: I wonder if we can make this episode 2:22 or 22:22. NASIR: Or can we somehow come up with an excuse to make it another clip show, the 222. MATT: Probably, it makes the most sense. NASIR: Probably. Let’s do 22:02 or 22.2 minutes, that is difficult. MATT: Yeah. Still, even if we tried, it probably wouldn’t work out, but we’ll see what happens after we’re done recording and see where it’s at. We’re going to talk about this company, SoulCycle. I guess it’s in the process of an IPO or registering, rig

The guys discuss the lawsuit filed by PhantomAlert against Waze concerning accusations of data scraping a database. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist. My name is Nasir Pasha. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub. NASIR: And here we are today on another episode. Today’s Monday – my favorite episode day, second to Wednesday. MATT: In the top two. NASIR: Yeah, top two of the week. MATT: Well, that’s good. You’re the one that kind of discovered this. NASIR: Yeah. MATT: Were you familiar with it beforehand? NASIR: Actually, it’s funny enough, how I found out about this, I happened to look at Google Maps and I was navigating somewhere and it said that there was a traffic incident reported by Waze and Waze is kind of like a navigating app but it’s really cool on road trips because what it’ll do is it’ll tell you if there is an accident in front of you or if there is a cop, a speed trap, and how it works is that you can actually

Nasir and Matt talk about the difference between a delivery fee and a tip and why a New York Pizza Hut may owe its drivers some money. They also discuss how the minimum wage increase has affected tipping. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist to that business news. My name is Nasir Pasha. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub. NASIR: Welcome to our annual pizza episode which we celebrate every month. MATT: Annual. What’s the word for…? NASIR: Monthly? MATT: Yeah, I mean, like, bimonthly two, trimonthly… NASIR: Biannually? MATT: I don’t know. What’s twelve? NASIR: Twelvely? N, that’s not right at all. MATT: Sure there’s a word for it. We’ll figure it out before the end of the episode. I’ll look it up when you’re saying something or vice versa. Yeah, you’ve been wanting to talk about… we’ve been scouring the interwebs for a pizza-related legal story for a month now because you really want to talk about it and then we had some t

Nasir and Matt revisit the Ashley Madison scandal for a third time to discuss data breaches, class action lawsuits, and fraudulent accounts. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist. My name is Nasir Pasha. MATT: Did you say Nasir Pasha? NASIR: No, I said Nasir Pasha. MATT: Well, I’m Matt Staub, but it sounded like you said Sir Pasha. NASIR: Yes, Nasir Sir Pasha. MATT: You’ve reached another level of royalty, I guess. NASIR: I was at one level of royalty but I got to the next level of royalty. MATT: Yeah, you were at one then you went to two. NASIR: Oh, very good. Well, life is short, Matt. You should have an affair and then get caught with it. MATT: Yeah. NASIR: That’s my advice. MATT: They cancel each other out so then you’re at square one. NASIR: Yeah, exactly. MATT: Well, I think that’s what a lot of men were trying to do. Well, let me step back. I don’t think any men were trying to get caught but a lot of m

Nasir and Matt close out the week by discussing the fallout of Jared the Subway guy and how his sponsorship will impactthe company. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist to that business news. My name’s Nasir Pasha. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub. NASIR: Eat fresh. Subway. MATT: You got it. NASIR: Sad story but we have to cover it. MATT: Yeah. Well, probably not too much will happen between when we record and when this episode gets released. I think most of it has kind of fallen out. For those of you that don’t know, Jared Fogle, he’s definitely one of, probably the biggest spokesman. They have athletes all the time. NASIR: They do, yeah. MATT: But I think everybody knows who he is – the guy who lost over 200 pounds or something like that, you know. Basically, he was obese and would walk to Subway every day. Unfortunately, at my alma mater but that’s fine. He would walk back and forth every day, get whatever, I forget wh

Nasir and Matt discuss a variety of topics the legalities of filming people for a reality TV show to releases to Shark Tank. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist. My name is Nasir Pasha, and you are listening to the best episode ever. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub, and I hope that’s correct or it turns out to be correct. NASIR: Actually, I’m nervous about this episode because it’s about reality TV and it’s your favorite genre so I just don’t want to mess it up. MATT: My favorite genre? Uh, I don’t know about genre. I mean, if sports is a TV genre, that’d definitely be favorite. NASIR: Oh, yeah, sports. MATT: I mean, after that, I like comedy more than… I think that’s very well-documented on it podcast. NASIR: Do you know what the best show on television is right now? By the way, if my family’s listening, they already know the answer to this question because I say it all the time – best show on television, do you have a

The guys close out the week by talking about the Houston based restaurant that failed to make a donation to a local food bank and latertried to rectify the situation by running an unapproved fundraiser. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist to the business news. My name is Nasir Pasha and also joining us… MATT: Is Matt Staub. NASIR: Very good. We just got done with Restaurant Week a couple of weeks ago in Houston. When’s Restaurant Week in San Diego? I can’t remember. MATT: There’s a full-blown restaurant week and then there is some sort of half restaurant week or something or a pre-restaurant week but it’s not really… I don’t know. But I never participated because I don’t eat desserts. NASIR: Oh, yeah, it’s always like a three-course. I’m sure everyone’s aware. I usually go to restaurants during Restaurant Week but never order the fixed menu. MATT: The prefixed? Yeah. NASIR: It’s usually at least a three-course mea

Nasir and Matt discuss how racism led to employees getting fired and another instance where a judge overturned a decision to terminate a racist employee. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: Okay. Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist to that business news. My name is Nasir Pasha. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub. NASIR: And welcome to our program. I’m excited today because we get to talk about racism – my favorite topic. MATT: Your favorite topic? NASIR: Well, every podcast topic is my favorite topic. MATT: Yeah. NASIR: That’s how I justify that comment. MATT: So, right off the bat, I’m a little curious about this story that we’re going to start with. I guess there was a manager at a Lowe’s in Virginia and they had an African American delivery truck driver and I guess assuming a white customer was not happy with the fact that the black driver was the one making the deliveries so that person requested that they have a white driver do the deliveries. My first question is

Nasir and Matt close out the week by talking about the Indian restaurant in New York City that was fined for trying to hire an Indian waiter or waitress. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist. My name is Nasir Pasha and I’m hungry. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub and I was actually going to comment; I could tell that you were because you, you know, it was straight business when you ran through that intro. It’s not going to get any easier for you because we’re talking about a restaurant. NASIR: And all these articles have nice pictures of Indian food on it. MATT: What are they called? Above the fold? NASIR: Yeah, like header image. I’m literally staring at that right now, by the way. MATT: What is that dish? NASIR: It looks like it’s a standard chicken tikka or masala or a buttered chicken masala. I’m not sure which. MATT: I was thinking masala but I wasn’t sure. I don’t know. It’s not pizza so I don’t know. NASIR: I’m no

Nasir and Matt discuss the National Labor Review Board's challenge of an employer's social media policy andthe reason why the employer was able to prevail. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist. My name is Nasir Pasha. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub. NASIR: And that is all. I’m going to stop talking now because I tend to just… you pause and then I get nervous and then I don’t know what to say. MATT: You come in so excited and then it’s just stage fright. You’ve only memorized that first line. NASIR: Exactly. No, I might as well just end the podcast. I don’t know what I’m doing. I need a script. MATT: I don’t think it’d be as exciting if we read straight off a script. It’d probably be more factually accurate but… NASIR: Probably, instead of like, “Okay, what are we covering today?” Well, what are we covering today? Social media policies, right? MATT: Yeah, social media policies and I guess employer policies in general. It

Nasir and Matt discuss the settlement from a class action lawsuit involving Nike and Apple for an underperforming product. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and our legal twist. My name is Nasir Pasha. MATT: And I am Matt Staub. NASIR: Right on cue. Did you see how I pointed to you? I was going to do the “three, two…” with the silent one and then for you to go. MATT: Always helpful. NASIR: No problem. That’s why I’m here – to make sure you’re on-time. MATT: Who do we talk about today? Cecil, the Lion? NASIR: No, poor Cecil. MATT: Oh. NASIR: They still can’t find the dentist. I guess the authorities went to his door and knocked on the door and then he didn’t come out. Like, literally that was the article I read. Like, they don’t know where he is. But, if you’re just going to his house and knock on the door, that’s probably not the best way to find him. MATT: “We saw his car. We saw somebody walk in five minutes earlier but, when we k

Nasir and Matt discuss the staffing agency that is being accused of negligent retention of an employee who embezzled funds with the company she was placed with. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist. My name is Nasir Pasha, here in Houston, Texas. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub, in an undisclosed location, not in Houston, Texas. NASIR: Undisclosed, in the middle of the desert of San Diego which is a desert, by the way. MATT: You know, it has been pretty warm. Today was pretty warm. Rumors are there’s going to be some more rain which it rained a couple of weekends ago. It’s pretty rare but, yeah, it never really happens. NASIR: By the way, I think we should start a tradition. Every Monday episode, let’s talk about the weather for five minutes before we start. MATT: It always is you mention something and I’m just staring at the window as I’m talking and usually noticing what the weather is like as I’m recording. It’s just ki

The guys close out the week but talking about the data breach on the second largest dating website and why we may not see the lawsuit you would expect. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist. My name is Nasir Pasha, the host and co-host of Legally Smart Sound Business dotcom – not dotcom, the podcast. MATT: Host and co-host. NASIR: And also joining me is Matthew Staub. MATT: Exactly. Don’t even have to say it. NASIR: And who are you? MATT: You already said it. NASIR: Well, I mean, I said someone’s joining me. No one knows who you are though. MATT: Oh, Matt Staub. You said my name, too. NASIR: Yeah, but what are you doing here? MATT: I’m co-host, not host. NASIR: Co-host of the podcast. MATT: Exactly. NASIR: By the way, how did you do research for today’s topic? Did you do it on your computer while you were next to your significant other? MATT: No. Actually, I think you had sent me a link about this earlier in

Nasir and Matt discuss the EEOC decision that may prohibit gender discrimination before Congress passes its own law. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist. My name is Nasir Pasha. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub. NASIR: What’s going on, Matt? MATT: Uh, doing pretty well. We’re in the weird phase of San Diego weather where it’s either gloomy or humid or both so it’s unenjoyable… I mean, it’s probably way worse for you. NASIR: I know it rained last week and the only reason I knew it rained is because I got all these pictures as if it was some kind of miracle in San Diego which it practically was, I suppose. MATT: I mean, the rain, that’s pretty rare bit there was lightning and thunder which is extremely rare for San Diego. NASIR: Pretty commonplace here in Houston except I don’t think we’ve had rain in the last thirty days which is… I don’t know if it’s unusual for the time but unusual in general. MATT: Well, I’d still prob

Nasir and Matt talk about the lawsuitalleging Zillow of copyright infringement even though it has a licensing agreement to use certain photographs. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist. My name is Nasir Pasha. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub. NASIR: And we are here to tell you about business and the law. MATT: And, for some reason, it got a lot hotter where I’m recording from the last episode to this one, and I don’t know what exactly happened but I don’t really like it. NASIR: I think it’s the excitement in the air. Actually, I think everyone’s feeling it right now. I mean, I think, as soon as people started playing this, people are feeling the heat – just the excitement of this episode. MATT: It must be. NASIR: I’m pretty sure. MATT: We’ve definitely talked about Zillow before – I had to have think, right? NASIR: Yes, it’s “wolliz” backwards. MATT: “Willoz” – I’m very aware of Zillow but I was not aware of Zillow Dig

Nasir and Matt discuss when businesses can display a customer's social security number and what to do if your social security number is shown on a letter or credit card receipt. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to our business podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist to those business news items. My name is Nasir Pasha. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub. NASIR: And welcome to the best episode ever of Legally Sound Smart Business. Matt and I were just discussing prior that this is probably going to be our best so congratulations everyone, you’ve made it. MATT: That’s also what we discuss before every episode though. NASIR: That is true. I’m hoping this time we’ll make it. Or is every episode better than the next? So, the latest episode is always the best episode, is that what’s been going on? MATT: It’s possible. I’d have to go back and listen. NASIR: Okay. Let’s just do that now. MATT: I’ll pause. NASIR: And we’re back! So, what did we decide? MATT: It was true.

Nasir and Matt discuss the recently firing of a popular Reddit employee that causedan uproar and questioned the status of Reddit's unpaid volunteers. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist to that news. My name’s Nasir Pasha. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub. I thought, for this episode, I would let you ask me anything. NASIR: Oh, okay, AMA for Matthew Staub. MATT: Yeah, AMA. NASIR: When was your first pizza job? Oh, wait, we’ve heard that story fifty times. MATT: Those of you not familiar with reddit, the reason I said the Ask Me Anything is there was some news – another thing people are going crazy about – last week… NASIR: End of last week so, when this episode comes out, two weeks ago, I suppose. MATT: Yeah. Basically, one of the employees who I believe was in-charge of the Ask Me Anything sub-reddit which is a forum – people go on there and they ask, “Ask me anything,” and then the people on reddit can ask them questio

Nasir and Matt discuss howmany companies maintain privacy policies which allow for the sale of personal data. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to Legally Sound Smart Business. This is our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist. My name is Nasir Pasha. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub. NASIR: And thank you for joining us once again for a series of information and events which you can take in your consideration. MATT: A series of letters that form into words which form into sentences and who knows what will happen from there… NASIR: Which eventually forms a podcast episode. MATT: Yeah, hopefully. We’ll see. NASIR: At least that’s the objective. MATT: If we have our personal data after this episode then we’ll have a podcast episode. NASIR: Well, this personal data thing is crazy. I know you’re just leading into your transition but we’re talking about this because it’s somewhat dated. Everyone remembers the whole RadioShack bankruptcy and then basically sold everyt

Nasir and Matt talk about theincident involving two driverless cars almost colliding and employer liability in using driverless cars. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: All right. Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist to those business items. My nes—my—m—How did I get a stutter all of a sudden? My name is Nasir Pasha. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub. You know, I was actually thinking, right before that happened, I was like, “Wow. This is the first time you did two intros that were normal and you didn’t screw up on.” NASIR: I know, Monday’s episode did come out a little too normal so I had to twist it up a little bit. MATT: Yeah, you went all Porky Pig on us. Is that who that is? NASIR: Yeah, pretty much. Porky Pig represents the stuttering community which, apparently, I’m ready to join. MATT: So, we have a pretty interesting thing to talk about. Well, I don’t know. You were way more interested in this than I was. I’m not really sure why but I’ll give my summary and the