Hey, everybody. Welcome back. Happy Skews Day to you. It's May 2nd, 2023. I'm T. That's Mark. How you doing? Mark? We're both a little under the weather, I think, today, and producer Matt. The whole skew's crew has a got little sniffles and stuff going on, but that's okay.

Yeah, luckily we don't have to call in sick to work because we're on fucking strike. So we're talking about that a little bit. I hate talking about showbiz stuff, but it, uh, this is, what's going to air industry is sort of like relevant to what's going on in a lot of industries. And it's sort of like the inshittific to borrow a line from, uh, Corey Dr. Rose or writer, I read a lot, the inshittification of everything, uh, downstream from tech and finance.

It's a lot of fun.

Before we get to that, let's talk about, do you watch any of the White House correspondents at dinner, Jerry?

I saw some clips online, you know.

I saw Biden doing dark branding stuff like that.

Roy hosted it, which is great.

But I didn't watch the whole thing, though. Yeah, I helped Roy out with his speech when he did the congressional correspondent's dinner a couple years ago. And he hit my manager up to see if I was available to work on this. And I was like, oh, we should hope to get to work on the White House correspondent dinner. And then I saw that it happen. And I was like, oh, I guess that's how I find out you didn't get any of everything in this business.

You see it happen.

But it was a Roy, right down the park. I was hoping, to get it so I could go and burn the building down because I find the whole thing gross. But the people who did it were funny. Biden's speech was pretty good. So this news dropped.

The Supreme Court just fucking keeps getting grosser and grosser.

So... So this news dropped. The Supreme Court just fucking keeps getting grosser and grosser.

So John Roberts' wife, Jane, she apparently has made over $10 million the last few years as a sort of a headhunter for high-priced law firms.

Now, the order of events here is fucking crazy because she was, she was a big time

lawyer, but she pivoted to this role because she said, she told a friend that the change was

motivated but a desire to avoid the appearance of conflicts of interest, given their husband

was now the highest ranking judge in the country. So instead, what she did is got a job

placing lawyers at these half-price law firms who all have business before the court.

And so if you're in charge in one of these white shoe law firms and the chief justice, the Supreme Court's wife comes to you and says, you should pay me to do its job for you, I'd cost a million dollars a year.

Would you interpret that as extortion?

Right. Yeah, I mean, it's definitely, there's definitely the appearance of some impropriety there,

but turns out that's like chapter one of the Supreme Court's playbook, evidently. It's like,

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