0:00

And because both cars

0:02

were made by GM, were

0:04

both cars available in

0:07

metallic mint green paint?

0:09

They were. Thank you, Ms.

0:11

Vito. No more questions.

0:14

Thank you very, very much. You've

0:16

been a lovely, lovely

0:20

witness.

0:24

Hey, everyone. This is Leon from Fiasco

0:27

and Prologue Projects. On this episode

0:29

of 5 to 4, Peter, Rhiannon,

0:32

and Michael are reflecting on the past year's

0:34

term at the Supreme Court. It's

0:36

been a year of big wins for the right, with

0:38

the court rejecting President Biden's student

0:40

loan forgiveness program and creating

0:42

a new legal way to discriminate against LGBTQ

0:45

people. But the spotlight has

0:47

also been on the court in a way it hasn't been

0:50

before, with reporters turning up

0:52

unethical and illegal activities by the justices.

0:55

Meanwhile, Congress has shown little to no

0:57

appetite for restraining the court, meaning

1:00

this podcast will continue to have a reason to

1:02

exist at least into the next term. This

1:05

is 5 to 4, a podcast about how

1:07

much the Supreme Court sucks.

1:12

Welcome to 5 to 4, where we dissect

1:15

and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have

1:17

tanked our nation's brand, like Elon Musk

1:19

tanking Twitter's

1:20

when he turned it into X.com.

1:24

When he turned it into something else.

1:27

I'm Peter, I'm here with Rhiannon. Hey,

1:30

hello. And Michael. Hey everybody.

1:33

Did you see that the logo is literally

1:35

just like a basic publicly available

1:38

font? Yeah. Incredible. Genius,

1:40

this is genius at work. It's like the papyrus

1:43

SNL skit, but like for real. Right,

1:45

right. The things that he thinks are cool are

1:48

things that teenage boys think are cool.

1:50

And it's like, that's it.

1:51

Like the letter X. Like, you know, he

1:53

designs cars that look like the dumbest shit

1:56

ever. Cybertruck. Yeah, like when I

1:58

was in fourth grade, I would try to like design cars. and

2:00

like say with my friends, right? You just like draw the dumbest

2:03

fucking thing that looked like a rocket ship. And

2:05

I was like, whoa, yes, this

2:07

is sick. And that's what Elon's doing,

2:09

except he has enough money to make it a reality and

2:12

actual teenage boys are looking at it like, that

2:14

is cool. Anyway, we're back.

2:17

We're back after a short break.

2:19

And we're gonna take this opportunity

2:22

to reflect on the term,

2:25

reflect on what is going on at the

2:27

Supreme Court. We've done

2:29

a few cases from this term already.

2:32

We will do a few more in the

2:34

future. But for now,

2:37

we wanna talk big picture. What

2:39

sort of themes are we seeing? How

2:41

did this term make us feel? Let's

2:44

hop on the therapist couch and get

2:47

it out. Yeah, yeah,

2:49

I'm gonna kick things off with a rant

2:51

that probably fits better at the end of an episode,

2:53

but. But go off. Yeah, let's

2:56

do it. So the legal

2:58

media is in a constant cycle of trying

3:00

to characterize and recharacterize

3:03

the Supreme Court

3:04

based on whatever has happened most

3:07

recently. Couple of years ago, the

3:09

court had a slightly more moderated

3:11

term. The narrative was that they

3:13

were divided three, three, three between

3:16

liberal, moderate and conservative

3:18

blocs. And the next year we had Dobbs

3:20

and Bruin.

3:22

And suddenly the narrative was a conservative

3:24

court. Roberts has lost control.

3:27

And this is the output of a media

3:29

apparatus that lacks object

3:32

permanence. And it's

3:34

sort of continuing now. You see the same

3:36

pitter patter. The legal media is trying

3:38

to extrapolate from what happened this term

3:41

to pull out some

3:42

overarching narrative about what's happening

3:44

at the court. The conservative bloc didn't

3:46

get everything they wanted on voting rights. They

3:48

hedged in some cases, but they

3:51

limited environmental regulations. They struck down

3:53

affirmative action, struck down student loan forgiveness,

3:55

damaged LGBT rights.

3:57

So how far do the rights

3:59

go? Are Kavanaugh and

4:02

Barrett moderating? Is John

4:04

Roberts in control? My

4:07

response to all of this is,

4:10

calm the fuck down, you know? Hey folks, if you want to

4:13

hear the rest of this episode, you're going to

4:15

have to subscribe. Membership starts at

4:17

just five bucks a month, so if you want to hear the rest,

4:20

you can go to fivefourpod.com

4:23

slash support

4:24

to find out the various methods

4:26

for subscribing to our podcast to get

4:29

premium and ad-free episodes,

4:32

access to special events, access

4:34

to our Slack, all sorts of shit.

4:37

Become

4:37

a member

4:38

today.