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Welcome back to the home front. I'm your host, Reid Galen.

Well, guys, second one coming to you solo, as I told them, I'm going to do one of these a week.

First, an apology to any of you who are paid subscribers to my substack, the home front, who were expecting to hear episodes on the private ad free app. I'm sorry, guys, you will start hearing those again this week. That's my fault. I just had a bit of a brain phase

as I forgot to upload them there. But if you want an ad-free version of this, you can go on over

to substack the home front and subscribe there. And you will not have to listen to the six or seven

minutes worth of ads. But before we go any further in the crass capitalism and

commercialism, we'll get to what's going on. So guys, it's not really been a happy new year so

far. It has been one full of violence and death. Things that we thought were dead like imperialism, things we thought

really couldn't and shouldn't happen here at home, like the gunning down of innocent people

in the streets. But violence in America has been endemic and it's been endemic for a very,

very long time. Going back, most of our history, and this isn't going to be a history lesson about

Wyatt Earp and the OK Corral or anything like that.

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