Absolute
Absolute, Season 1: Taser Incorporated is at once a tale as old as time - a true believer learns the hard way that the costs of lofty ambition and hubris just might outweigh even the most optimistic upside - and a thoroughly modern story of technology overtaking the very people it is meant to serve. In this case: the ubiquitous electric gun carried by cops everywhere and inspiring comedic shenanigans in movies like The Hangover. Host and documentarian Nick Berardini has been obsessed with this story for his entire adult life. With Absolute, Season 1: Taser Incorporated , he left no stone unturned. Taser, Inc., now known as Axon, the 800-pound gorilla in the paramilitary police equipment industry, is led by its charismatic CEO and co-founder, Rick Smith. Fueled by a self-described religious dedication, Smith’s Star Trek obsession, and an ambitious vision of a world without gun violence, Rick leads Taser, Inc. to be the key tech supplier to virtually every police force in America. But as stories of alleged misuse, deaths, and serious injuries from Tasers begin to emerge, Taser, Inc. and Rick arrive at a crossroads between Rick’s vision and reality, with cops and the citizens they are sworn to serve and protect paying the price. Absolute, Season 1: Taser Incorporated is a production of Lava for Good Podcasts in association with Signal Co. No1
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Absolute, Season 1: Taser Incorporated is at once a tale as old as time - a true believer learns the hard way that the costs of lofty ambition and hubris just might outweigh even the most optimistic upside - and a thoroughly modern story of technology overtaking the very people it is meant to serve. In this case: the ubiquitous electric gun carried by cops everywhere and inspiring comedic shenanigans in movies like...
Rick Smith wants to make violence obsolete via technology - he has a vision of this ideal world and he is working to build it, one taser at a time. Meanwhile, police departments have been searching for a non-lethal weapon they can rely on for years. At the LAPD, Greg Meyer is in charge of finding the right tool, but nothing works well until Rick Smith helps invent the Taser X26 – a weapon that can take down even the strongest...
Shooting a 15 year old boy just makes Matt Masters want to be a better cop. So he joins Kansas City’s most elite Swat team unit, the first unit in the department to be trained on the taser. Matt has no idea that the taser will change his life.
Absolute, Season 1: Taser Incorporated is a production of Lava for Good™ in association with Signal Co. No1.
We have worked hard to ensure that all facts reported in this s...
Bryce Masters is in a deep coma. Why? The doctor is sure he knows the reason, but Matt Masters doesn’t know what to believe. Years earlier in Oakland, Officer Mike Leonisio is also hearing news that is hard to believe. When he is invited to a behind the scenes pig testing at Taser international he learns something cops everywhere should know, but don’t.
Absolute, Season 1: Taser Incorporated is a production of...
Matt Masters investigates - what happened to his son? Who is to blame here? The answers lead him down a rabbit hole that will change everything.
Absolute, Season 1: Taser Incorporated is a production of Lava for Good™ in association with Signal Co. No1.
We have worked hard to ensure that all facts reported in this show are accurate. The views and opinions expressed by the individuals featured in this show are their own and do...
A couple of lawyers seek to prove that CEO Rick Smith hid the truth from cops for years. And when lawsuits threaten to destroy the company, Rick has one way out – sell out the very customers who made him a fortune.
Absolute, Season 1: Taser Incorporated is a production of Lava for Good™ in association with Signal Co. No1.
We have worked hard to ensure that all facts reported in this show are accurate. The views and opin...
CEO Rick Smith started with a mission, but what if this mission was a lie? We go back to the beginning because now the blueprint of the past will impact everyone. Whatever Rick Smith learned back then is helping him build a bigger, bolder and broader future than anyone might imagine.
Absolute, Season 1: Taser Incorporated is a production of Lava for Good™ in association with Signal Co. No1.
We have worked hard to ensure that ...
In Season 1 of Bone Valley, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gilbert King tells a story of a man, Leo Schofield, fighting to prove his innocence in the case of his wife Michelle’s murder.
In Season 2, “JEREMY” Gilbert King brings us a story about her actual killer, Jeremy Scott, fighting to prove his guilt. The State of Florida does not believe either man.
Bone Valley Season 3 | GRAVES COUNTY is a new story about a n...
In Bone Valley Season 3 | GRAVES COUNTY, Maggie Freleng takes us to a small town in Graves County, Kentucky, where a terrible discovery on the front lawn of a middle school invites a string of amateur and professional investigators to try to solve a murder. Maggie is the latest investigator to get pulled in. And she’ll take all of us along as she teases out this complicated web of rumors and lies, and perhaps even the t...
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