Welcome to the story-worthy podcast.

Here are your hosts, Christine Blackburn and Hannah Svinney.

Welcome to Storyworthy.

I am Christine Blackburn, and I'm here with Hanna Sennie, and we're coming to you from the Milwaukee County Municipal Courthouse.

What happens there? What's going on? What's going on? Well, various, various crimes and misdemeanors are as decided in the courthouse.

I see. And since our topic is disorderly conduct, we've decided to put a legal sort of a tinge on our work here.

A legal spin. So in other words, if you live in Milwaukee and perhaps you do something petty that is a criminal offense, well, it doesn't have to be petty. It could be, it could be murder. Whatever. The point is, they take you there here. They do. You would get the municipal courthouse. It's a big, beautiful building. I don't know why courthouses where basically almost everyone in them is miserable are like beautiful edifices. You know what I mean? Well, first of all,

I like the word edifice. I'm just going to say that. I don't think that they're all miserable. I just think that they don't get a lot of daylight. In a courtroom, long hallways, boring rooms. I mean, I'm telling you, it's like if you, if there was a window, they think you'd be distracted and you couldn't concentrate on the case, could you? And as people may or may not know, you know, these courtrooms that you see on television every week are nothing like actual courtroom. No, they're always so much more beautiful. Do not have mahogany. They are not beautifully burnished dark wood.

Well, some of them are beautiful edifices, as you said, like almost like a church or something, like with big, tall ceilings.

I have never personally seen one.

You've never been in a church.

No, I've been in church.

I have been in a few courtrooms in my time, and they are all as boring and functional as less interesting than an

IKEA showroom. Oh, wow. They are. Those are big words. Those are big words. I like IKEA.

You don't like IKEA. No, I actually like, no, what I'm saying is IKEA is functional.

Here's the thing with IKEA. You go in the back entrance and you first go to the as is section because there is stuff

there that will blow your mind.

Stuff you maybe didn't even think about you might buy. And the next thing you know, you see a $15 table. Let me just say this. I've been, I always, when I go to IKEA, I never go in the back entrance because I don't play that way. Thank you. You fucking walk through their maze for 20 fucking minutes and you make them

show you what to buy.

I'm trying to make a sex joke

and you are.

Oh, I see.

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