#207 Vigilantes
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Bob & Ben catch up to talk about the state of political and social unrest in the US and where they see current events within recent history. They cover the recent turn to vigilantism in the US by both anti-mask protestors and the state of Texas, as well as their concern over a tyrannical minority shaping American institutions to maintain power. They also speculate about where all this might lead us…..
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| 0:55.1 | It's been a while since we've gotten to do this. Kristen Jorgensen asks, is there any big |
| 0:58.8 | mass debates in Tennessee? Kristen, yeah, so she says, you can all read this, I'm sure, any big |
| 1:05.5 | mass debates out there are school board meeting Tuesday night, ended up in adjournment because |
| 1:10.4 | anti-maskers showed up |
| 1:11.9 | in protest and refused to leave. Ben, this is something I wanted to, I really wanted to talk about |
| 1:17.1 | today. And it's not just the anti-masking issue with the aggressiveness. Like, really, it's not the |
| 1:26.3 | issue that people, that some people are against |
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