![]() ![]() ( After the sounds of a banjo tuning, twangy hoedown music starts to play. Longoria: That’s Martha Griffiths, congresswoman.įarias: When you think about the history of the Fourteenth Amendment … Representative Martha Griffiths: They never applied the Fourteenth Amendment to women. ) That’s legal editor Cristian Farias.įarias: We had a Fourteenth Amendment that told people that we’re equal under the law-that everyone has equal protection of the laws.Ībumrad: But doesn’t that say? I mean that’s kinda? Eh? No? So where do you get it from?Ībumrad: There was nothing that said that? I mean, not-not those words explicitly-but there was nothing that says you can’t discriminate?Ĭristian Farias: Uh, not on the basis of sex. Longoria: That’s the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Justice Antonin Scalia: Certainly the Constitution does not require sexual discrimination on the basis of sex. So when it comes to discriminating against women, some people have argued that there’s nothing in the Constitution that says you can’t do it. Constitutionally, women have a problem, which is that basically we’re not in the Constitution except, like, in this one little spot. Longoria: ( As if to stop Abumrad from asking. Which is crazy, because we already have …Ībumrad: What is it, like, a non…? Is there a sex word that’s not sex, like gender or something-something?Ībumrad: Is there, like, ladies in the Constitution? Longoria: It’s one! One time, in the Nineteenth Amendment, which grants people the right to vote based on sex.Ībumrad: ( Incredulous. Longoria: If you were to do a Control-F in the Constitution, like, how many times do you think the word sex comes up?Ībumrad: Oh. Longoria: And I’m gonna put it to you as a question. So let me outline the basic dilemma that’s at the heart of the story here. I’m going to ask you an utterly false question, which is “Where would you like to start?” As if we haven’t been doing this for so damn long. ( Supreme Court recordings play, overlaid with legal-drama music. Before she got on the Supreme Court, she was a lawyer trying to convince an all-male Supreme Court to make gender equality a reality. This is a story about a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But, really, it’s about the same things we explore on The Experiment -the ideals of our country that we strive for and the messy, imperfect pursuit of those ideals. It’s hosted by Jad Abumrad from Radiolab, and it’s all about the Supreme Court. ![]() Īnd this week, we’re going to revisit a story I reported a little while back for a different show, called More Perfect. ‘Notorious’.Julia Longoria: I’m Julia Longoria. Molly rang Michael Hutchence, Hutchence put Nile and Duran Duran and the rest is …. Molly told them Nile Rodgers produced the song. Duran Duran were knocked out by the sound. Duran Duran were at a party at Countdown host Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum’s house in Melbourne when INXS ‘The Original Sin’ was played. Rodgers told Noise11 that he was introduced to Duran Duran via Michael Hutchence. It was a scary trick but somehow it worked”. We measured the tape from one beat to the next and by having that exact length we cut the tape down the centreline and we flipped the tape backwards and the other half forwards. We were still in the days of making analogue two-tracks. “We started the song that went “no, no, notorious”. “One of my favourite things is to do something at the top of a song to grab the listener’s ear so that you are hooked right away,” he said in a video posted to Facebook. Nile Rodgers, who produced the song, has revealed for the first time some of his production techniques. Duran Duran’s ‘Notorious’ recently clocked up its 30th anniversary. ![]()
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