i took the letter, went to kinko's and had it turned into a huge poster in the multimedia room of juvenile hall. eliminated the letters and handed them out for kids. so when they got back home, no matter how desperate the circumstances, they could say somebody cares. it showed them respect. >> i went to the inauguration, but i didn't have a chance to get a letter like that or dance with michelle. [ laughter ] we didn't talk about the beginning of the queens bench. when did it start? >> 1921. >> i can't remember specifically , bue patricia can highlight why we started. >> there was a group of local e eensnch bar association in reonse the fact that the men in town resisted letting women into the worker bar associations. this was set up as the first national bar association. >> one year after you got the right to vote. >> you have probably had a number of projects over the years, but the juvenile delinquent project is only from 1980? >> 1986. baxter, who is retired as the acting judge and she noticed the boys units had so many different projects and programs while there was nothing for girls.

kennedy: people will go to king kinko's. they said we'll sue you and we'll win.s is a first amendment issue. we have every right to put this out. >> the instructions to make an actually competent gun are already out there. i think even "reason" magazine ran an article on how to make your own gun. it was in their last issue. they used readily available materials off the internet. kennedy: your book is fantastic. monologue from "the five." there were parts of the monologues you didn't like and you left them in there and you aided some notes. >> there is more commentary in this book than monologues. i look at some of the writings i do, i say that was cliche'ed or stupid. that was wrong. i go in there and i also kind of trace how times have changed since i wrote something. did i turn out right or did i turn out wrong. it's like a reese's peanut buttercup. you have the chocolate in the peanut butter. you have got to have both. peanut butter and jelly was like that. kennedy: the pope tried to ban reese's peanut buttercups. >> that didn't work either. i work for you and

but they were still bit players in the floor that was dominated by kinko's and psych cats. in fact, the sudden rise of the flowering plant in the record has always been something of a mystery suddenly, they are everywhere. charles darwin, thought of it of a abominable mystery. the sudden appearance of flowering plants. but rarely noted is that in the same letter to a friend of his where he made that famous mystery comment. he also noted the work of a french naturalist that they did indeed evolve rapidly. darwin didn't buy it. he preferred to think that the flowering plants must have evolved slowly and elsewhere. darwin have the bigger reputation. in his idea has prevailed for decades until people finally realize. that the coat evolution. in insects particularly these have led to the great diversification. to the nearest flower market. but what is less well known is how the rapid diversification flowering plants led in turn to incredible diversity of bees. it ranges from the familiar to the fantastic. like this iridescent threat bait. they can be minuscule like this tiny cuc

and spread across the landscape, but they were still big players in a time that was dominated by kinko's and other flowering plants. it's always been something of a mystery. no flowering plants whatsoever and then suddenly they're everywhere. charles darwin thought of it, in fact he called it an abominable mystery and he considered it a serious challenge to his concept of evolution as a slow, incremental process, the sudden appearance of flowering plants. but rarely noted is that in the same letter to a friend of his he made that famous mystery comment, he also noted the work of the french naturalist, a lesser-known naturalist named jeff stone who theorized that flowering plants did evolve rapidly as a result of their interaction with these. darwin didn't buy it. he preferred to think that the flowering plants must have evolved slowly and incrementally elsewhere and then dispersed rapidly to the places where they became fossilized. well, darwin had the bigger recitation as well as a bigger beard and his ideas prevailed, for decades until people finally realized that he had been right all

thing that seems really cruel to me is they make him wear a panda suit and then they just like go to kinkose production value. >> seth: yeah, he could have been like, can't i have one that goes around my neck so i don't have to hold it all day. >> the -- the point of all it though is how insane the system is. right? i mean the fact that, like, i had to go all over the country raising money for a senate race in missouri, because you have to raise so much money. t in these meetings,, yould and i was afraid that they were going to be, like, what's my name? and one day this dude says to me -- this very nice man who helped the campaign. he says to me, he says, do you know john smith? and i'm in my head, like, i really thought this was john smith. and i'm like, oh, my god, it's happening. and so i didn't know what to do. so i just bit the bullet, and i'm like, aren't you john smith and he acted like that's the dumbest thing he ever heard. and he's like, i'm talking about the other john smith. [ light laughter ] and i'm like so relieved when he said that. i start just laughing like the joker, just