The hosts trace the NASW Code of Ethics from its 1960 version — fourteen first-person proclamations on a single sheet of paper — to today’s document of more than 170 standards. They begin with why professions write codes at all, working through the three systemic problems Reamer identifies: moral hazard, where a practitioner’s self-interest can collide with a client’s welfare; relationships between colleagues; and the duty to serve the public interest. The conversation then follows the pressures that forced the code to grow — the bioethics movement and the Karen Ann Quinlan case, the welfare and patients’ rights movements, Watergate’s damage to public trust, and rising malpractice litigation — through the 1996 overhaul Reamer chaired, the 2017 technology revisions, and the 2021 additions of professional self-care and cultural humility. It closes on the code’s anatomy: six core values the code openly admits will conflict, the difference between aspirational principles and enforceable standards, and Reamer’s three categories of ethical issues — honest mistakes, genuinely difficult decisions, and outright misconduct.