Hello, majority 54 audience. This is Robbie Gupta and just a disclaimer on the front end,

there was a problem with the local audio today. It got corrupted on my side, which means that my

audio is going to sound blippy for you. I apologize. Hopefully you will never hear this blippy audio again.

I'm going to be changing. It seems like there's some kind of hardware problem on my end. So I apologize,

but awesome conversation. So hopefully you can endure that and hear us out on a bunch of really

important issues with that. Let's get to the show. Just as Clarence Thomas is in hot water

after revelations, he's been secretly accepting expensive trips from a Republican mega donor. We'll

try to answer the question everyone is still asking. Does it matter? We'll also discuss a federal court

ruling that invalidated the FDA's approval of an abortion pill. Then we'll examine a growing

GOP chorus calling for war with Mexico. You heard that right. Finally, we'll unpack the evolution of

the term Soros backed and how it has come to mean anyone the extreme right doesn't like. This

is majority 54. Robbie, how you doing? Hey Jason, let me tell you a story. When I was a young

buck about to enter my first year in law school, I went to the Supreme Court for the first and only

time of my life. Clarence Thomas of all people sat down with me and the group I was with.

At the time, I was like, you know what? I don't agree with a lot of what this guy has to say, but he's

sure is a nice guy. One of the things I remember at the time was he was telling the story about he

and his wife. He was like, I'm just a regular guy. We just go around the country and we just like to

mix it up with regular folk. We have an RV and people don't know who I am. I get to basically go

incognito and learn about the real America. I was like, you know what? Maybe I have this Clarence

Thomas guy all wrong. Turns out, no, I had him right. You know what it is, Robbie, his search for

the real America is just expanded. He was so inquisitive and curious. He had to take it outside of

America. I know he's, he's, honestly, he's making me look like I'm, you know, like a displaced person

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