Hosted by Nick Collado, Me and the Gov features in-depth, first-person conversations with former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman — one of the most consequential and controversial figures in modern American political history.
Professor Bennett Gershman, and What Prosecutorial Misconduct Looks Like | Me & The Gov Episode 11
Most people picture prosecutorial misconduct as one rogue lawyer hiding one document. Professor Bennett Gershman, a former New York prosecutor and author of the treatise Prosecutorial Misconduct, says that when it’s deliberate and coordinated, it looks like what happened to Governor Don Siegelman. In 2014 he called it “one of the most egregiously bad faith prosecutions by the Justice Department ever.” In this episode, Professor Gershman, Governor Siegelman, and host Nick Collado go through ho...
29 Sept 2026
Governor Jim Doyle on the Woman Who Went to Prison Instead of Him | Me and The Gov Episode 10
Governor Jim Doyle on the Woman Who Went to Prison Instead of Him | Me and The Gov Episode 10 In 2006, Georgia Thompson — a career Wisconsin civil servant Governor Jim Doyle had never even met — was convicted and sent to federal prison over a $1 million travel contract. No bribe. No kickback. No money ever changed hands. She served four months before a federal appeals court took the almost unheard-of step of ordering her released the same day, live from the bench, calling the case against her...
25 Sept 2026
I Was Working for the Sith Lords: A Fired U.S. Attorney Tells His Story
"I Was Working for the Sith Lords": A Fired U.S. Attorney Tells His Story | Me and The Gov Episode 9 In 2001, David Iglesias was everything the Republican Party said it wanted in a future leader — a Navy JAG officer, an evangelical, a combat veteran, personally sponsored by his own senator. By 2006, he was fired by phone, on a script, the same week as six other U.S. Attorneys across the country. In this episode, Captain David Iglesias joins Governor Don Siegelman and host Nick Collado to go t...
23 Sept 2026
Devil In Disguise
Devil in Disguise | Me and The Gov Episode 8 For the first time in this series, we bring on a guest who isn't Governor Siegelman himself. Tommy Gallion is a lifelong Republican, a senior Montgomery attorney, and one of the most connected political figures in Alabama history — with no track record of helping Siegelman, until now. Gallion reveals, in his own words, that he was personally invited to a meeting where Karl Rove was expected to attend to discuss indicting Governor Siegelman during t...
20 Sept 2026
Alabama Executed Jeffery Lee
Alabama Executed Jeffery Lee. His Own Jury Voted for Life. | Me and The Gov Episode 7 On September 17, 2026, Alabama executed Jeffery Lee — known to guards and fellow inmates as "J-Love" for the calm he brought to death row. His jury voted for life without parole. A judge, running for reelection, overrode that verdict and sentenced him to death anyway. In this episode, Governor Don Siegelman and host Nick Collado go through exactly how that's still legal in one state in the country. Of the 15...
20 Sept 2026
Just Christmas Cards
Karl Rove Said They Just Exchanged Christmas Cards. The Record Says Otherwise. | Me and The Gov Episode 6 This entire episode lives inside one exchange from Karl Rove's actual July 30, 2009 congressional interview. Governor Don Siegelman and host Nick Collado read the exchange almost word for word — because paraphrasing it undersells just how small Rove makes the relationship sound. Asked about Bill Canary, the man at the center of the phone call that first connected Rove to Siegelman's prose...
17 Sept 2026
No Oath. No Cameras. No Consequences. — The Karl Rove Deal
Eight months after his release on appeal, Governor Don Siegelman watched Karl Rove spend two years fighting a congressional subpoena — until Rove finally cut a deal. In this episode, Siegelman and host Nick Collado break down what actually happened, using transcripts Siegelman tracked down himself. Nancy Pelosi announced in March 2009 that Rove would testify "under penalty of perjury." The actual transcripts tell a different story: no oath was ever administered, no cameras were allowed, and R...
14 Sept 2026
60 Minutes Comes to Prison
Eight months into an 88-month federal sentence, Governor Don Siegelman got word that CBS's 60 Minutes had built a national segment around his case. In this episode, Siegelman and host Nick Collado watch it together — pausing throughout to break down what's actually being said, moment by moment. The segment, "Did Ex-Alabama Governor Get a Raw Deal?", reported that 52 former state attorneys general — Republicans and Democrats alike — had asked Congress to investigate whether Siegelman's prosecu...
9 Sept 2026
You Don't Have a Right Not to Be Framed
Episode 3: "You Don't Have a Right Not to Be Framed" | Me and the Gov How does a rising Democratic star with national ambitions end up in federal prison? In this episode, Governor Don Siegelman connects the dots — from a first indictment so weak the federal judge who dismissed it called it "the most unfounded criminal case" in his 29 years on the bench, to a second indictment built on the testimony of a government witness interviewed more than 70 times until his story finally matched what pro...
8 Sept 2026
Stolen Election
In 2002, Governor Don Siegelman won re-election. Every major network called it. He went to bed a winner — and by four the next morning, he was told they were trying to steal the election. Over 6,000 of his votes had vanished overnight. In this episode, Siegelman plays his own concession speech from 17 days after the election and walks through, point by point, the evidence behind one of the most brazen instances of election manipulation in modern American history. The ballots and voting equipm...
8 Sept 2026
The Stolen Election & Trial of Governor Don Siegelman
The Stolen Election & Trial of Governor Don Siegelman. He was the only person in Alabama history elected to all four top statewide offices — Secretary of State, Attorney General, Lieutenant Governor, and Governor. A progressive Democrat in the Deep South, once called a dark horse for the Democratic presidential nomination. Then came the 2002 election. Governor Don Siegelman sits down with Nick Collado for the full, first-person account of what happened: winning on election night, wa...
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