171: Skepticrat171 - Ketanji Brown Jackson Edition
The Skepticrat
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🗓️ 11 April 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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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/
Truth Social hemorrhaging executives: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/05/donald-trump-truth-social-senior-executives-resign
Major Cheese Heist Puts Dutch Dairy Farmers on Alert: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/08/world/europe/cheese-theft-netherlands.html?smid=url-share
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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