Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.

My name is Jody Abergen.

This day, January 6th, well it is January 6th, January 6th,

well it is January 6th,

and we are going to do an episode on the Mob Violence

at the Capitol just last year in 2021.

Of course, there is a lot of coverage and thinking and smart analysis on this first anniversary.

The story of that day is still not fully written so this is a little different for us because

we often talk about kind of how history has seen a moment, how it's been sort of preserved in time.

This is a very much a story that is still being written, but you know I think one thing we can do on this show,

something we try and do for all of our episodes is offer a little

bit of that historical perspective so here to do that are as always Nicole

Hammer of Columbia and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley. Hello there.

Hey there.

You know, we mentioned in the last episode

that we did this taping in Boston

and we don't have that audio.

But one of the things we discussed there

because it was kind of looking back at the year of

twenty one and the shows that we've done you know we did talk a little bit about the

sort of themes that have emerged for each of us in doing this show and some of the sort of

through lines that we've seen as we've done all these different stories throughout all the eras that actually feels like good fodder for this moment and what we want to do here is you know I'm I'm curious to just

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