My Girl Is A Lawyer: Unpacking Kim Kardashian's Criminal Justice Work with Blakely Thornton

This week we welcome our pop culture king Blakely Thornton to the pod to talk about Kimberly Noel's Criminal Justice Era. We discuss how the Kardashians have evolved, Kim's journey from Paris Hilton's closet to the White House, and of course a few moments with Kris. Together we unpack how celebrities impact social issues and the nearly impossible task of fixing deep problems in the justice system. 

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Meredith Lynch (00:01) Hi everyone and welcome back to another episode of Oddly Specific. I'm your host, Meredith Lynch. And this is like kind of a groundbreaking episode y'all because I have billed this podcast as the only podcast that covers everything from private equity to Pete Davidson. And a lot of you have reached out and said, Meredith, you've never had an episode where you have ever mentioned Pete Davidson. And they would be right. But today I think we're gonna get Pete Davidson adjacent.

I am so excited for this guest. Y'all are going to freak out. Y'all are going to say, Meredith, what if Oddly Specific was just hosted by this person and you just went away? And I would say, listen, I'm open to it. Blakely Thornton, welcome. Thank you. Thank you for being here. How are you doing?

Blakely Thornton (00:41) Hello, thank you. Thank you. Welcome.

Doing well, just got over the flu. We're good, but I feel human today. My body temperature is regulating as previously discussed and I'm ready to talk P.E. and Kimberly Noel, you know?

Meredith Lynch (00:59) I love it, I'm so excited.

Isn't it wild when you get sick as an adult too? Because you kind of forget, like when I was a kid, I would just throw up all the time.

Blakely Thornton (01:09) Yeah. I just think you forget when like it sucks. Like I think because the primary directive as a child when you miss when you when you get sick is missing school or like getting to watch some TV. But it's like when you're an adult and you work for yourself and there's actually also like no one taking care of you specifically like I have to like go get the medicine feeling like this. There's just no purpose and also like sick days if we're just skipping work and like going to basketball games or like

Meredith Lynch (01:20) RAID!

Thanks.

Blakely Thornton (01:38) They're like taking your vacation, you know, they're not for actually being ill.

Meredith Lynch (01:42) Yes, exactly. When you were a little Blakely and you are homesick from school, what was the show of choice, the daytime show of choice?

Blakely Thornton (01:51) I think it was a little Matlock. We'd have like a Matlock pizza party like the old school like I don't even know what that man's name was. But like that old white haired KFC like Colonel Sanders looking white man that Matlock and like a Domino's pizza, even though like I don't know why I think Domino's was better in the in 90s before now. But I remember Domino's pizza tasting really good. So Domino's, Matlock, Sally, Jesse Raphael on occasion. Yes, daytime smut.

Meredith Lynch (02:17) Well, yes.

Daytime smart. used to really like Lisa. There was a show called Lisa. Yeah, that was my girl. And I also really, you know, I was that was how I got into Jerry Springer originally was I think a lot of us via sick days.

Blakely Thornton (02:23) Yeah, Lisa Gibbons.

Right?

I was actually thinking of like, I was actually talking to my friend the other day about like, need to bring back those shows to like rehabilitate like maga men. Like remember how you should like take kids away to those camps? Just like needs to be that but for like straight men with podcasts, like, oh, you have a podcast? You've never read a book? Oh no, you're going, you're going, know, we take them like to libraries.

Meredith Lynch (02:56) my god, like the intros would be like, I don't care what my job says, I'm never getting vaccinated.

Blakely Thornton (03:00) Yeah.

I'm an alpha. I don't deal with we need more alphas. And it's like you don't have a job, Rob. You have a high school diploma and unemployment like like that. Like get go to library, read a book.

Meredith Lynch (03:08) Right? my God, I love this.

How do we pitch this? Anyway, I love this.

I love what you do. And I would love if you could just sort of explain, you know, how you got to where you are because you are this sought after creator, speaker. You're an incredible host. You call yourself a pop