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Episode 4 of Season 2 of the World's Greatest Audit Podcast features a discussion with State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick and Audit Director Kelly Davis about the audit of the City of Kennett. The audit report revealed how a taxpayer-funded shopping spree perpetrated by the former Deputy City Clerk of the City of Kennett resulted in thousands of dollars in inappropriate purchases such as a couples intimacy game, an ovulation kit, pregnancy tests, and a bottle of rum. The report, which gave the City of Kennett a rating of "poor," also found the city had lacking oversight and controls that allowed former Deputy Clerk Leslie Osorio to misappropriate at least $79,821.

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Episode 3 of Season 2 features a discussion of the audit of the City of Arnold and the two Transportation Development Districts run by the city. The audit, which was prompted by numerous whistleblower complaints, confirmed citizens' fears that the city had operated in the shadows and the grey areas of the law to generate millions of dollars in tax revenue without voter approval, and then used the money to inappropriately fund city developments. The report gave the the city and the two TDDs a "poor" rating while finding the city had numerous conflicts of interest in the creation and administration of the TDDs and had operated with a lack of transparency as it intentionally misled the public.

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Episode 2 of Season 2 discusses the audit of Missouri's Marijuana Program, which concludes Missouri's multi-billion dollar marijuana industry was launched using a flawed application and evaluation process that ultimately cost the state millions of dollars in litigation expenses. The report, which gave a "fair" rating to the program, points out how there were significant flaws in the application scoring design that undermined the "blind scoring" goals of the process, and notes how inconsistent scoring and evaluation decisions created significant uncertainty in the licensing results.