SCOTUS Edition: Muppets V. Supreme Court Justices
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2017
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In her seminal work on 'Muppet Theory,' Slate reporter Dahlia Lithwick once wrote that "every living human" can be categorized as either a Chaos Muppet or an Order Muppet. On this super-special Supreme Court edition of Nerdette, lifelong SCOTUS-nerd and Nerdette host Tricia Bobeda asks Lithwick to apply her Unified Theory of Muppet Types to each Supreme Court Justice. The results are pure madness! Then Greta talks with Bryant Johnson, who is Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's personal fitness trainer. He recently wrote a book about RBG's hardcore conditioning routine.
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| 0:00.0 | This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events. |
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| 0:14.0 | From W be easy Chicago this is Nurdett. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Greta Johnson. |
| 0:20.0 | And I'm Tricia Bobita and a little while ago we dove into one of Greta's long time |
| 0:25.4 | obsessions on the show which is not in fact the oboe it is the bassoon though they |
| 0:30.9 | are both double-read instruments. |
| 0:32.8 | And I, for the life of me, cannot keep track of which is which. |
| 0:35.9 | I have now given up, I have some form of aphasia |
| 0:38.0 | when it comes to these two instruments. |
| 0:40.2 | I'm sorry. |
| 0:40.8 | It's a thing that happens. |
| 0:42.3 | In any case, this week, we're going to dive into one of Tricia's |
| 0:44.9 | obsessions which is the Supreme Court of the United States. And Tricia, I thought to start with this segment, |
| 0:51.5 | we could begin with a fun fact fact which is that you took the law |
| 0:54.7 | school entrance exams for fun right? Yes. Tell us more. I was 19. I at the time thought that I wanted to grow up to cover the |
| 1:06.9 | Supreme Court so I thought maybe I would need to go to journalism school and |
| 1:09.8 | then law school. But I didn't prepare for them. They were just like happening on |
| 1:13.6 | campus and I signed up like the day before and then I went and I took them. How did |
| 1:16.9 | it go? I mean that feels a little impolite to talk about. Okay. I did just fine. |
| 1:23.4 | If this doesn't work out, I can go to law school. |
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