
57: The Forgotten Battle of Ni'ihau, Hawaii
18/12/2025 | 43 min
(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) On December 7, 1941, pilots from the Imperial Japanese Navy bombed Pearl Harbor in a surprise attack on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. After strafing Pearl Harbor in the second wave of the attack, Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service pilot Shigenori Nishikaichi was in dire straits—his plane was too damaged to make it back to his aircraft carrier. If necessary, all Imperial Japanese pilots were instructed to crash land on Ni'ihau, a small Hawaiian island they were certain was "uninhabited." They were wrong. This is the story of the Battle of Ni'ihau—One pilot, one remote island, 136 Ni'ihauans, and a declaration of war only the enemy pilot knew about. *** MERCH STORE IS LIVE! Shop Reb Masel and Rebuttal Pod merch: https://rebmasel.shop/ *** CLICK HERE to PREORDER Reb's book: The Book They Throw At You—A Sarcastic Lawyer's Guide* To The Unholy Chaos of Our Legal System, *God No, Not Actual Legal Advice *** Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

56: The First Crime Ever Committed In Space Was...A Lie?
12/12/2025 | 1 h 4 min
(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Before 2019, no crimes had been committed in space (that we know of). After poring over records, the New York Times could only come up with three things: (1) damage to a Russian satellite that was allegedly China’s fault; (2) a lawsuit seeking to recover a deposit somebody put down for a space-tourism trip; and (3) a U.S.-government sting operation aimed at recovering a moon rock. Only one of those happened in space, though, and none of them are crimes. That is, until an ex-wife of a NASA astronaut decided to play petty. Reb launches us into two cases: (1) a bad break up and (2) a horrific moon-rock-related detention by federal agents of a Granny in a diner parking lot. This is Summer Heather Worden v. Anne McClain (2019) (2025) and Joann Davis v. United States (2017). *** MERCH STORE IS LIVE! Shop Reb Masel and Rebuttal Pod merch: https://rebmasel.shop/ *** CLICK HERE to PREORDER Reb's book: The Book They Throw At You—A Sarcastic Lawyer's Guide* To The Unholy Chaos of Our Legal System, *God No, Not Actual Legal Advice *** Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! *** 0:00 - Intro / MERCH IS LIVE 3:37 - Cases begin / Antarctica is our best comparison to Space 14:20 - CASE 1 (A Colonel and a Liar) 30:43 - CASE 2 (A Widow and the Worst Federal Agents Ever) 58:20 - Reb's Rebuttal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

55: The Lawyers Who Raised Killer Dogs For The Aryan Brotherhood
04/12/2025 | 54 min
(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) ***CONTENT WARNING: GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS OF VIOLENT DEATH*** By the time police arrived, there was little that could be done for her. A medical examiner testified that the only parts of her body that were spared were the "top of her head" and the "soles of her feet." ... This is the story of two lawyers. But more importantly, this is Diane Whipple's story. *** REBUTTAL POD MERCH WILL BE LIVE ON 12/4/25 AT THIS LINK!!!!!!!!! *** CLICK HERE to PREORDER Reb's book: The Book They Throw At You—A Sarcastic Lawyer's Guide* To The Unholy Chaos of Our Legal System, *God No, Not Actual Legal Advice *** Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! *** 0:00 - Intro / Content Warning 0:21 - Case Begins 1:35 - Somehow it gets more horrific 3:13 - Witness accounts 13:03 - Diane Whipple is everything and more 19:06 - Autopsy report 20:30 - Bane, Hera, and the worst people imaginable 24:32 - NOEL MILLER AND MARJORIE KNOLLER 32:36 - Murder and manslaughter trials & (kind of confusing) appeals 38:23 - Where are they now? 38:37 - Sharon Smith, the angel to carry Diane's memory 48:46 - Reb's Rebuttal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

54: Helicopter Prison Escapes—WAY More Common Than You Think?!
27/11/2025 | 44 min
(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) The record for most helicopter escapes goes to convicted murderer Pascal Payet, who has used helicopters to escape from prisons in 2001, 2003, and most recently 2007.... Reb goes down a Wikipedia rabbit hole for this Thanksgiving episode. Happy holidays! See you next week!!!! REBUTTAL POD MERCH IS LIVE!: https://rebmasel.shop/ *** CLICK HERE to PREORDER Reb's book: The Book They Throw At You—A Sarcastic Lawyer's Guide* To The Unholy Chaos of Our Legal System, *God No, Not Actual Legal Advice *** Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! *** 0:00 - Intro / MERCH IS COMING ! 4:41 - HELICOPTER ESCAPE CASES BEGIN 40:26 - Reb's Rebuttal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

53: Inmate Uses Piece of Paper to Escape From Prison
20/11/2025 | 51 min
(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) “We walked straight into (Arizona Department of Corrections). We handed it to them. [S]he was kind of confused at first ... Two days later, instead of serving 22 more years, David Cramer walked out of Lewis Prison..." This is State of Arizona v. Cramer (2015), but mostly every bizarre twist that came after it. REBUTTAL POD MERCH IS LIVE!: https://rebmasel.shop/ *** CLICK HERE to PREORDER Reb's book: The Book They Throw At You—A Sarcastic Lawyer's Guide* To The Unholy Chaos of Our Legal System, *God No, Not Actual Legal Advice Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! *** 0:00 - Intro 0:48 - CASE SUMMARY (bruh) 7:58 - Doing the most 14:21 - Find a border and cross it 19:04 - New MLM just dropped 20:17 - ALL THE KIDNAPPING DETAILS 30:57 - AZ State Bar clocks in...kind of 33:50 - What are sovereign citizens again...? (Reb tells you) 39:39 - THE INFAMOUS SIT-DOWN INTERVIEW 42:48 - THE INFAMOUS WEBSITE 47:25 - Reb's Rebuttal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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