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This is the podcast for July 22nd, 2025.

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Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance, where today we note the 100th anniversary of a Dayton, Tennessee jury, returning a guilty verdict against John Scopes for teaching evolution in the classroom.

And that was the end of that.

No one ever

heard another word about that again. It's the professional left with Drift Class and Blue Gal.

This is from the movie Inherit the Wind, which was a lightly fictionalized version of the Scopes trial,

starring Spencer Tracy as the Clarence Darrow stand-in, Henry Drummond, Frederick March, as the William Jennings Bryan stand-in, Matthew Harrison Brady,

and Gene Kelly as the H.L. Menckenin stand in, E.K. Hornbeck.

That if you take a law like evolution and you make it a crime to teach it in the public schools,

tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools,

and tomorrow you may make it a crime to read about it,

and soon you may ban books and newspapers,

and then you may turn Catholic against Protestant,

and Protestant against Protestant, and try to force your own religion upon the mind of man.

If you can do one, you can do the other, because fanatism,

unigurance is forever busy and needs feeding.

And soon, Your Honor, with banners flying and with drums beating, we'll be marching

backward, backward through the glorious ages of that 16th century, when bigots burned

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