Atkins pitch man and occasional actor Rob Lowe told Conan O’Brien last week that he’s friends with Justice Clarence Thomas which… sure, why not?
Lowe explained that he’d be interviewing the justice on his show, which sounds like a celebration of the sort of neutered both-sides political fantasy befitting a West Wing alum. Where are his kids to troll this move?
If you’re wondering how Lowe met Clarence Thomas, he said that he met the justice at his own induction to the Horatio Alger Society where he described Thomas as “studly” which is lit-rally a ridiculous descriptor for a member of the Supreme Court. The justices may be a lot of things, but “studly” isn’t one of them. Thomas is a nerd lawyer, Long Dong Silver is studly. Get it right.
Lowe dropped the revelation of his friendship with Thomas on Conan’s podcast where he was promoting his own upcoming podcast because podcasts are the sourdough starters of the rich and famous. Let’s take a break at this point to remind everyone to subscribe to the various Above the Law podcasts.
Justice Thomas also gave Lowe his cell phone number:
“And you’re like, ‘Jeez, shouldn’t there be, like, a vetting process?” Lowe joked about getting through to a U.S. Supreme Court judge so easily on the phone.
We don’t really have a real vetting process to put him on the Court in the first place so why should a cell be any different?
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