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The Skepticrat

171: Skepticrat171 - Ketanji Brown Jackson Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

News, Government, Politics

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed to the Supreme Court ... Donald Trump Jr all but texts “let’s criminally crime crimes” to Mark Meadows ... And being a Republican means arguing that Fig Newtons are moist and wonderful and better than Oreos.

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Headline Sources:

KBJ confirmed, Republicans walk out during ovation, SCOTUS still terrible overall: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/06/supreme-court-shadow-docket-clean-water-act/ https://www.businessinsider.com/ketanji-brown-jackson-republicans-walk-out-senate-confirmation-video-2022-4

Donald Trump Jr.’s texts to Mark Meadows even worse than Ginni Thomas’s: https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/08/politics/donald-trump-jr-meadows-text/index.html

2 Men Posing as Federal Agents Duped Secret Service, U.S. Says: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/07/us/impersonators-secret-service.html?smid=url-share

Conservatives failing at more boycotts including Disney and Oreo: https://www.salon.com/2022/04/05/i-do-not-like-gay-cookies-conservatives-vow-to-boycott-oreo-over-new-ad/

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's Monday. It's April 11th. And the word the day is komorebi, which is a Japanese word

0:18.4

that means sunlight filtering through the trees. Using a sentence, if you do the right

0:24.2

drugs, you can taste the komorebi. Well, and if you take enough of them, you can be the

0:29.9

komorebi. Okay, is this a concept we needed a single word for? Absolutely. Absolutely.

0:35.1

So, all right. No illusions. I'm Eli Bosnick. He's then right and broadcasting delayed

0:41.5

from America's Far Center. We are the skeptic rats. Oh, this week's episode, Katangi Brown

0:46.8

Jackson is confirmed to the Supreme Court. Ah, normally we do jokes. Donald Trump Jr.

0:52.5

all but texts. Let's criminally prime prime just to mark meadows. He does. And being

0:58.9

a Republican means arguing that fig newtons are moist and wonderful and better than

1:03.9

Oreos. But first, the rest of the intro music. Joining me for headlines tonight on my

1:18.8

fellow skeptic rats, no illusions in Eli Bosnick. Gentlemen, we're all going to see each

1:22.6

other in person soon. Oh, yeah. Excited about the ATL. We're going to hotlanta. Oh, yeah.

1:28.7

If bar trivia doesn't end in bloodshed, I will be sorely disappointed. You're going to

1:33.6

play board games with me and you're worried about the bloodshed from trivia. Fair point.

1:38.0

Fair point. There's going to be blood just flying everywhere, both sides of the arena or

1:42.8

wherever we are in our lead story tonight. Supreme court justice, Katangi Brown Jackson.

1:51.9

Oh, sounds good. The whole sense KBJ is in. I love it. We have an amazing new member of

1:57.7

the nation's highest court starting this summer. Just a quick review. She's really good

2:03.0

at everything she's ever done, ever, ever, ever from scholar to clerking for prominent

2:09.6

judges, including Stephen Breyer, who she's placing to private legal practice, to public

2:14.3

defender, to federal judge, amazing and everything. And she's the first black woman on the Supreme

2:19.7

court in all of American history. Can we get a few more oo oo's please? Just a whole

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