Behind the Scenes Minis: Bad Laws, Bad Cats
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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4.2 • 24.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Tracy shares why Bhagat Singh Thind rocketed to the top of her topics list. Holly shares a story of bad cat behavior.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.3 | Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:15.9 | Happy Friday, I'm Tracy B. Wilson, and I'm Holly Fry. |
| 0:19.9 | We returned to the world of Supreme Court cases. |
| 0:24.7 | Again, I try to space out the Supreme Court cases. But as soon as the random algorithm showed me this clip, it was an audio clip with, you know, a picture in the background of Sotomayor and Sauer having this conversation about Thind. |
| 0:42.2 | I was like, oh, yeah, I want to talk about Thind right now. |
| 0:46.4 | Because a lot of people had seen that clip, and I was not sure how many people had any idea what was being discussed in terms of thinned. |
| 0:56.5 | Right. |
| 0:57.5 | So, yeah. |
| 0:58.5 | Also, I know the last time we had a Supreme Court episode, I said I was going to do one on Elk v. Wilkins, and I haven't done that yet. |
| 1:07.2 | How dare? |
| 1:07.9 | How dare? |
| 1:08.6 | I still might at some time. |
| 1:12.6 | The first time I ever heard about this case was back in 2017 on a series from the podcast seen on radio, and it was their seeing white series, |
| 1:21.7 | which was on the sort of development of whiteness as a concept, and the impact that concept has on life in the U.S. |
| 1:31.0 | today. |
| 1:32.1 | And I had since that time, almost a decade now, would periodically return to the idea of talking |
| 1:40.2 | about this case in the show and then never made it up until now. |
| 1:44.7 | I re-listened to that one episode |
| 1:47.6 | of seeing White, just because I was like, I want to refresh |
| 1:50.0 | my memory on what exactly they said |
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