143: Ruth Bader Ginsburg & Identity Theft
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🗓️ 7 October 2020
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Summary
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a trailblazer. When she entered Harvard Law School, she was one of just 9 women in a class of nearly 500 men. Later, in her legal career, she faced incredible discrimination. But Ruth didn’t let the douchebags get her down. She was whip smart, and a tireless worker. Her children remember her staying up until the wee hours in the morning, poring over law books, with a stale cup of coffee on one side of her desk and a box of prunes on the other. She kept working, and working, and working. She argued before the Supreme Court multiple times -- and won. She became a judge. And then, in 1993, she became the second woman appointed to the Supreme Court.
Then, with Brandi recovering from COVID-19, Kristin’s sister Kyla fills in with all the energy of an eager understudy! Kyla tells us about a family in Portland, Indiana, who had a hell of a time in the 90s. It all started with their mail being stolen. They got a PO box, but their mail kept going missing. Their credit scores plummeted. Someone was after them. Someone was stealing from them. This went on for years. When Axton Betz-Hamilton went off to college, she thought she’d get a break from the paranoia that had taken over her family. She was wrong.
And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.
In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
The Documentary, “RBG”
“Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” entry on oyez.org
“Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” entry on Wikipedia
“At Harvard Business School, Ruth Bader Ginsburg displayed the steel she’d be famous for,” by Asher Klein for nbcboston.com
“Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” entry on History.com
“A conversation with Ruth Bader Ginsburg at HLS,” video by Harvard Law School on YouTube
In this episode, Kyla pulled from:
Eh… she’ll fill this in soon!
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| 0:26.8 | nationalrail.co.uk forward slash May. One semester of law school. One semester of criminal justice. |
| 0:34.9 | Two experts. I'm Kristen Caruso. I'm Brandy Egan. Let's go to court. On this episode, |
| 0:43.2 | I'll talk about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. And I'll be talking about an identity theft mystery. |
| 0:50.2 | I think I've got a case of identity theft right here before me because you look nothing like |
| 0:55.7 | Brandy. Yes. And that is something that needs to be mentioned because I was telling you right |
| 1:01.5 | before we recorded that Alexandra before I left said, Mom, don't worry about trying to be Brandy. |
| 1:09.2 | You just be you. So guys, here I am. Kyla Pitt-Zevane. No identity theft mystery. |
| 1:17.4 | You know what? It was a really good thing she said that because you were going to do this entire |
| 1:22.2 | episode in a Brandy impression. That's right. And I think people would have caught on. I was going to |
| 1:27.6 | give people, oh God, can you imagine I was going to give people really bad hair and fight. And then |
| 1:31.6 | Brandy just would have died. I'm like, cut your bangs yourself. You're going to do a great job. |
| 1:37.4 | Your bangs look like shit because COVID, you haven't gotten your hair cut. This is what you need to do. |
| 1:42.3 | Get your scotch tape and just hack out at girl. Brandy would murder you. I think she would. If you gave |
| 1:47.6 | that advice to people, it would be the end. It would be the end. Which is an odd transition to where |
| 1:54.8 | Brandy is this week. God bless. Okay, guys. So if you didn't listen to the intro for our last episode |
| 2:02.1 | where we rebroadcast, you should know that Brandy tested positive for COVID, which just sucks. |
| 2:09.8 | It does. Her dad, stepmom, sister and brother-in-law all contracted it. |
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