HeyJaredThe Unscripted Order Podcast
Two brothers, B. James Smalls and D. Lamont Bugg, from the 757, discussing life, the law, and everything in between.
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Never Picked, But Chosen | A Conversation with BK Fulton (Lawyer, Engineer, Media CEO) | The Unscripted Order Ep. 22 (opens the original)
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Episode 22: We sit down with BK Fulton — attorney, engineer, and media CEO — for a conversation that spans faith, failure, mentorship, and building an empire that includes twenty feature films, four #1 Broadway shows, four Tony Awards, a Smithsonian Laureate Medal winner, a Sloan Fellow, a National Book Award, and an Oscar Micheaux Award. BK shares the story of how a chance encounter with a book at Virginia Tech changed the trajectory of his life, his 60-year plan to retire at 50, the near-fatal
The Trailblazer: Chief Justice Cleo Powell Makes History | The Unscripted Order Podcast | Episode 21 (opens the original)
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Chief Justice Cleo Powell has sat on every level of the Virginia court system — and made history at every stop. Raised in rural Brunswick County in a four-room house with no indoor plumbing, she became the first African American woman to serve on the Supreme Court of Virginia, and in 2026 was sworn in as its Chief Justice — only the second woman and first African American to hold that role.In this episode of The Unscripted Order Podcast, hosts Judge Smalls and Judge Bugg sit down with Chief Just
Then & Now: One Year, Unscripted | The Unscripted Order Podcast | Episode 20 (opens the original)
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Twenty episodes. One year. Zero scripts.In this special anniversary episode, Judge Brian Smalls and Judge Bugg look back at everything that got The Unscripted Order Podcast here — from a nervous, fumbling Episode 1 recorded in a loft with a laptop camera, to sit-downs with Chief Justice Bernard Goodwyn, Dean A. Benjamin Spencer, the Honorable Gerald Bruce Lee, and even their own mothers. They talk about why they started the podcast, what's changed, what they've learned, and where the show is hea
Nash Vegas: Two Conferences, One Order | The Unscripted Order Podcast | Episode 19 (opens the original)
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Episode 19 of The Unscripted Order Podcast is a little different — we recorded this one on the road, live from Nashville, where B. Smalls and D. Bugg ended up at two completely different conferences at the same time without even planning it.B. Smalls was in town for the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges Conference, and D. Bugg was at All Rise — the national conference for drug court, veterans treatment docket, and mental health docket courts. In this abbreviated episode, they
"Hey Judge": What That Title Really Means | The Unscripted Order Podcast Episode 18 (opens the original)
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Five+ years on the bench, and hearing someone call you "Judge" outside the courtroom can still stop you in your tracks. In this episode, Judge Smalls and Judge Bugg get personal about what that title means — in the hallway, in line at Chicken Salad Chick, and even at the U.S. Supreme Court.We dig into judicial temperament, "black robe disease," procedural justice, and how you keep the job from going to your head — plus the judges who've done it right, the ones who haven't, and how you "derobe" a
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