I've been so lucky. I've enjoyed a couple of great careers, you know, as a prosecutor and then as a judge in the family court, and then here.

There are folks that think that I'm too harsh. They watch, but this is the television business, so if you, as long as you're watching, that's a good thing.

Welcome to Kurt Affairs. My name is Nathan Robinson. I'm the editor in chief of Curd Affairs Magazine. I am here today with Kurt Affairs Editor at Large. Yasmin Nyer. Hello,

Yasmin. Hi, Nathan.

So great to be back.

And today we're discussing Judge Judy.

We are discussing Judge Judy because Yasmin has written an article on Judge Judy for In These

Times magazine that is not out at the time of recording, but should be out soon.

We love In These Times magazine. love it at these Times Magazine.

And it's a fantastic article. And I want to start by asking you what interested you before you

investigated Judge Judy, what piqued your interest about Judge Judy sufficiently to

examine her at an article for In These Times magazine?

So I think the editor at ITT, Jessica Stites, had some sort of a gut instinct that I would be

interested in Judge Judy. And she was not unsurprised entirely to find, you know, she wrote to me and she said,

would you be interested in this because she's got this new show out?

And I said, yes, actually, because I spent years watching her when I lived in Indiana.

Oh, did you?

I didn't know this.

Yes, yes.

I watched a lot of court TV actually. And it was like watching, you know, there are things that you have to do

in Indiana to survive. One of them is, you know, you buy a lot of stuff off QVC, for instance,

and you take lots of long walks. But one of them is you watch court TV and it was like watching

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