Hello friends, it is I. D. Trussell and thou art listening to the Duncan Trussell Family

Hour Podcast. And if you're like me, you have but one question you want to ask. And that

question is, what the fuck is happening now?

We live in an age of rapidly accelerating strangers, my friends. This is an age of weird

firsts. The first insult tweet in president, the first super bowl to go into overtime. The

first New York snowstorm following a 65 degree day. The first time that I've gone for more

than a week without eating marijuana in over a decade. What will happen? None of us know.

We are lost in a sea of abstraction and confusion. We are like ponds trapped in a warring game

of symbols between invisible wizards vying for the control of the paradigm. And here to

help us get our footing, our grounding, and to understand just what this insane shit

storm that is kicked up around us truly is is one of my favorite people award winning journalist

Abby Martin. We're going to jump right into this episode. But first, some quick business.

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