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Everything you need to report on, promote or book Tales from the Brown Desk — the biweekly Indianapolis criminal-law podcast — in one place. Grab a file, quote a host, skip the follow-up emails.
When in doubt, use the one-sentence description. Two longer options follow — short and long — for back-cols, listings, and booking copy. All three are cleared for use; credit as Tales from the Brown Desk.
One-sentence show description
“Tales from the Brown Desk is a biweekly criminal-law podcast in which two foul-mouthed Indianapolis defense attorneys trade in real legal answers, zero polish, and the best Florida Man segment on the internet.”
“Tales from the Brown Desk” is a biweekly criminal-law podcast hosted by Indianapolis criminal-defense attorneys Jacob “Jake” Rigney and Kassi Rigney, with producer and co-host Teri Muehlhausen. Real legal answers, zero polish — every other week the two cover Indiana criminal law, the week’s cases, and the latest Florida Man dispatches.
Every other week, criminal-defense attorneys Jake and Kassi Rigney lock the office door, unlock the vocabulary, and walk you through the criminal justice system — from your first traffic stop to the Court of Appeals. With producer and co-host Teri Muehlhausen, the duo turns actual Indiana law into a free-flowing conversation: OWI, drug charges, expungements, bond reviews, plea deals, trials, rights, and the quirks of the system — wrapped in the kind of banter you didn’t know you needed. A full series walks the whole process step by step, listener questions get read on air, and every episode ends with the latest Florida Man crime-map dispatch. New episodes biweekly; the full archive and every transcript live on the site. MATURE: foul language, 18+.
“Tales from the Brown Desk is a free flowing conversation involving two foul-mouthed attorneys.” — from the site, for the record.
Short bios ready to drop into an intro, a written card, or a booking email. High-resolution headshots download under each name (the original, full-size files — use them as-is).
Co-Host · Criminal Defense Attorney
Jake Rigney is an Indianapolis criminal-defense attorney and co-host of Tales from the Brown Desk. The louder of the two, he introduces the show, keeps score on every hot take, and delivers the comebacks — while making sure listeners never forget that a lawyer doesn’t have superpowers. He owns part of Rigney Law LLC, which handles his criminal-defense and OWI work. The firm and the show share a live line for listener questions, and some of them make the air — as his own comebacks may not.
Co-Host · Criminal Defense Attorney
Kassi Rigney is a former prosecutor turned Indianapolis criminal-defense attorney and co-host of Tales from the Brown Desk. She does a lot of the talking on the show — explaining concepts like constructive possession “like a surgeon” — and is famous for blunt legal advice that is exactly what you wanted to hear. Her time on the prosecution side means the two of them can talk any case from both corners of the courtroom.
Producer & Co-Host
Teri Muehlhausen produced the original run of Tales from the Brown Desk and returned with the 2026 relaunch as producer and co-host. She handles the day-to-day work that keeps the show on the clock — coordinating sessions, organizing research, editing episodes, and getting each one ready to ship — and she reads the biweekly Florida Man dispatches with gravity. Her professional background is the big one: U.S. Army sergeant and drill instructor, paralegal, and IT specialist. She currently works for Cirkuit Networks — the team that designed and hosts this very site.
“I was part of the original show, so coming back to it felt a little like reopening a room we had locked up for years. The difference is that now we have years of additional legal stories, technology, current events and questionable Florida Man decisions to talk about.”— Teri Muehlhausen
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The show’s home — www.talesfromthebrowndesk.com — plus every platform it currently distributes on (as listed on the site), and the full episode archive with transcripts at rigneylawindy.com/category/podcast.
Four representative episodes — the 2026 relaunch and the Season 1 standards. The relaunch episode has an audio player on its own page; the archive posts each carry the full transcript.
A recent Indiana Court of Appeals decision on a traffic stop and search, the questions circling an effort to prosecute Anthony Fauci in Indiana, self-defense under the “Dollar Tree Gooner” phenomenon, and a Florida Man machete-and-hatchet story in a Publix parking lot.
Listen on the site → Transcript (Rigney Law) →Why prosecutors stack the indictment, how double jeopardy actually works in Indiana, and a night that made the Wadle decision real.
Listen & transcript →What a drug test actually shows in Indiana, your rights when you record a police encounter — and the record meth seizure out of the field.
Listen & transcript →The bench-versus-jury walkthrough: why most cases never see a courtroom, what a judge trial looks like, and what a jury hears that the file doesn’t say.
Listen & transcript →Want another cut? The complete archive — all 26 Season 1 episodes plus the relaunch — is at rigneylawindy.com/category/podcast, with full written transcripts on every post.
Where the show has been, what it covers, and how a guest gets on the desk.
Notable guests & set piece: the desk itself is the guest — two attorneys, one desk, no script — and the 26-episode run of 2020 is its signature body of work (later re-cut as a full walkthrough of the Indiana system). For third-party voices on criminal-justice stories, producer Teri Muehlhausen keeps the guest book open: “What kind of people do you want to bring to the desk?” is the right first question to ask. Mature & on the record: foul language expected, 18+ — disclaimers apply on every page of the site.
These are suggestions — starting points, not a mandate. Use, alter, or ignore them; the show works best when the questions come from a reporter’s own story. Angles below have produced the strongest results on radio, in print, and on tape.
No scripts, biweekly release. How does an episode come together — who picks the topic, and how does the record get from office argument to a publishable hour?
Both sides of the bar. Kassi came over from the prosecution. What are the two topics you refuse to take on air — and why?
Florida Man. Where’s the line between a dispatch that’s genuinely funny and one you have to walk through the legal mechanics of the “joke”?
Relaunch, 2026. The show came back after nearly six years. What made you reopen the desk — and what was the first topic you wanted to take up when you got back?
Case law. Which recent Indiana Court of Appeals decision made the two of you go “wait, really?” — and why did it end up on the show?
The archive. 26 episodes in 2020 — what’s the one from that run you’d re-record today, and what’s the listener question that got the most calls back?
Expert guests. What kind of people do you want to bring to the desk, and what would a good guest bring that the show can’t explain itself?
One number. If listeners take one thing away from the show — a right, a clock, a do-this-first — what should it be?
For interviews, follow-ups, fact-checks, and booking. Questions sent for the show get loaded into the next episode’s call-in queue.
Official site
www.talesfromthebrowndesk.com