This month, dearest listeners, we have been sharing a special treat with you.

A techno-dispopian journey from military experiments to the Unabomber to now Silicon Valley.

Finally, we've arrived at part three.

If you haven't heard parts one and two, press pause and go do that.

Otherwise, keep listening.

In this episode, Skinner and the Vist. I'm Kai Wright and these are the stakes.

In this episode, Skinner in the Valley.

So, Kai.

Amanda.

I'm going to tell you a little story.

Okay.

Last September, I was riding the subway.

I was heading uptown.

And I was sitting across from this older couple.

And they were holding a smartphone between them, and they were listening really intently to the Brett Kavana hearings.

And you took a photo of this.

I remember this photo, right?

It was an intense image of these people just like on the edge of their seats.

Yeah, he's got like this beautiful white mustache and she's clutching his arm. Both have these like expressions on their face where you can just tell they're really thinking about what they're hearing.

I am an independent person and I am no one's pawn. So I took the photo and I added this caption that said,

a couple listening to the Kavanaugh hearings on the Uptown One train, and then I tweeted it.

And then I got off the train and I was outside and I checked my phone again.

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