Hello everyone. Welcome to Pod.

I'm Jake Flores. This is the show this week. I wanted to explain up top a little bit about what's going to happen in the next couple weeks of the show. Basically, I started reading a book about John Brown and biography.

And it's really long and it's really good. And if you don't know who John Brown is biography and it's really long and it's really good and if you don't know

who John Brown is he was basically an abolitionist who existed in the antebellum era

wink wink remember that band he that's before war right i don't fuck it so john brown's

guy existed before the civil war who was an abolitionist who was a white guy who was really

very woke and tried to end slavery personally by getting a bunch of guys together with guns and swords and storming

a plantation and his plan was to, you know, ripple from there and essentially just like

start a nationwide slave rebellion. It's very fucking cool. They don't teach you it in school.

It's one of the cooler things in that category, you know?

And I wanted to do an episode about it because, you know, obviously in the context of

police abolition, this makes sense to talk about because there are dynamics and arguments

about whether what he did was too far, whether abolition

itself was too far, and those probably are pretty relevant to what people are talking about today.

I also wanted to do it because, you know, the reason I do this podcast is that I am from the

south where they don't teach you anything and I am

poor and let's you know and you know grew up trying to understand the world surrounded by like,

you know, Nicaraguan's and Cubans and shit

that had very complex pro-capitalist ideas,

other people that had anti-capitalist ideas,

and then everyone else who pretty much lives apolitically.

And then I moved to New York,

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