Lock the gate!

Okay, let's do this. How are you, what the fuckers?

What the fuck, Nick's? What the fucksters?

What's happening? I'm Mark Marin. This is my podcast WTF.

I am doing it. I'm in it. I'm here. I'm present.

And accounted for, the world is kind of pressing, pressing on all of us, right?

Like a fucking knee to the back of the neck.

I mean, it's hard enough, right? It's hard enough dealing with what we're all dealing with.

And with pandemic wise, and now this horrendous act of murderous violence,

which demands a response and a protest and a reaction and justice.

It's hard for me to fucking wrap my brain around all of it because I am consumed with my personal grief.

So I have to stay in the present, man. I have to stay so in the present.

Because if I get even ten minutes ahead of where I'm at right now, you know, the darkness can envelop me.

So I've been doing what I can.

And I'm not trying to diminish anything that's going on in the world.

I can't, can you?

It seems correct to me.

There can be power there.

This reaction in the streets was coming a long time, and that is the power of people.

Up against what keeps looking more and more like a fascistic government evolving.

But like I said, it's very hard for me to sort of see past my selfish pain.

And even as somebody who doesn't believe in God, I have been known to hit my knees occasionally,

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