Marsha and Saga here welcome back to the Realignment.

If you listen to the right and the left and what they're unhappy about, they all have different complaints that are the same complaint just coming from different directions, which is the game is rigged, ordinary people like me no longer have a chance.

The system no longer works for ordinary people and I can work hard and play by the rules, but I'm not playing on a level playing field anymore.

There are people in charge of the system who don't like me or people like me and everyone has a different idea who that is and who people like me are.

But they all seem to agree the system doesn't work. That institutions don't do what they're supposed to do. They don't work the way that they work on paper.

There's a set of rules that we publish and then the real set of rules of what's actually happening. So I would run around that. I would run around a message of restoring the American dream and the American dream of social problems.

Hello there everybody. It's rising free, Saga and Jettie. A long time listener, first time caller.

And look, it's a whole new me. I'm free. I'm free, baby. Welcome to all of the brand new rising formal rising breaking points listeners to the show. As you guys heard, I have left rising program and breaking points of Crystal Saga is my new home along with the realignment.

A lot of interesting stuff went down. If you want to know why you can listen to our crossover episode, Marshall and Kyle did an excellent job of interviewing both Crystal and I. But for those who are new here, what are we all about? We're about the realignment literally. It's in the name. It's about the massive changes that are happening in American society in politics and more and how that influences everything that we see around us.

So we invited the guy who literally wrote the book on the realignment and happens to be one of the best realignment guests that's ever occurred. Marshall, what do we know about him?

Yeah, quick thing on Frank. I booked Frank because you wrote a book called the next realignment. Why America's parties are convoying and what happens next?

Kind of a lot. Saga was gone. Thought we do it. This is the first time this has ever happened. I get a call from Saga the day the episode came was saying, dude.

Who's Frank? That was amazing. He then went. Oh, he's a who is this guy? Yeah, he then went and bins Frank's YouTube channel, which is in the show notes as well. Please go follow me. Does these amazing videos explaining American political history through the idea of the realignment. So once again, there's so much there.

And since there are so many new listeners here today and other people who are working to get reengaged now that Saga is free, we thought bringing Frank back for a conversation with Saga as well. We have the best way to get into what we are trying to do here.

And what questions and friends should really work on. I think the best part about this conversation is that because Frank Saga and I aren't exactly policy people.

It's not that we're telling you all what to think we're not saying, hey, democratic socialist, Medicare for all sucks. So we're not saying, hey, right, Winger immigration restrictions, a bad idea. We're saying, hey, what questions you asking, what frameworks, how are you thinking, how are you thinking about how you're going to solve the problems that the country's facing in American society because Frank had a great tweet on this that straight up said, look, every single institution in American life needs to be fundamentally reimagined because the all exists in the 20th century. If there was every quote that would sell up what this show is trying to do.

I think it's that if there's a quote unquote, saga whisperer, it's Frank, this guy, he articulates everything I believe so, so incredibly well. I love Frank. I love his YouTube channel. I hope you guys go and subscribe. I hope you guys buy his book. He needs more eyeballs, no matter what he is doing.

Hey, so you all know we have cut down on the long intros of our different categories, but once again, because there are new listeners here, we're just going to go down the complete realignment stack. So we have a sub stack, which goes out Thursday afternoon evening, eastern time, you could sign up. It's in the show notes.

We also have released the legendary mugs. They are available at our website. We know that there's a bunch of you who've reached out, but as you've been promised free mugs. Now note, this is for people who are promised free mugs back in September.

You cannot just email us asking for a free mug now. If you would like a mug, please just go to our store and purchase it there. We're excited to get those out to people as soon as those are ordered most importantly for this conversation. We have a book shop where you could support a local independent bookseller and also support the show. We get a tiny cut and most importantly authors and bookstores who survive COVID get support there as well to saga. Is there anything else I am missing?

Yeah, obviously what you're missing is that people should go and rate and subscribe. It really helps other people find the show. Leave us a five star rating on Apple podcasts. It's incredibly helpful. And you get to ask us a question inside of those reviews, which leads us to the question and answer period.

What do we got today, Marshall? Today's question comes from Jackson Jackson quote shot his shot asking for a free mug and he was denied because he was not promised one back in September. Once again, Jackson huge respect for just asking for things. It's actually pretty funny. We have people just DM random things saying, hey, is this cruising?

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