Up top, I do want to say a few words if you'll allow me my soapbox for just a moment.

The other day, we lost Jonathan Joss.

Joss is a Native American actor who has quietly been a part of my life for years.

I watched every episode of King of the Hill when it first aired.

He was the voice of John Redcorn.

I was a huge fan of his recurring character on Parks and Rec, Ken Huttate.

And on my birthday in 2016, I saw the Magnificent Seven remake alone in a theater, loved it dearly,

and through repeat viewings, it has become one of my all-time favorite movies.

And it was on a very recent revisit, which I think was already somewhere in the high teens of repeats,

that it finally dawned on me that the sinister native assassin Denali in that movie is in fact

the same actor who played Ken Hotate and voiced John Redcorn. Now I say we lost Jonathan Joss,

but that spineless newspaper passiveness. Jonathan Joss was murdered in a hate crime

by the same cowardly bigots who had earlier burned down his house

all because he was gay.

This happened just over an hour down the road from me in San Antonio,

a city that means so much to me,

and it happened at the beginning of Pride Month.

So let me take this brief opportunity to say only this.

If you harbor hate in your heart because of the way someone looks, the place they come

from, the way they worship, or who they love, unsubscribe from this fucking podcast.

Stop listening now, unfollow us on social media, and disappear from our lives.

There is no place for that evil on this show or on this planet.

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