Hey everybody it's your buddy Cory Ryan Forster the show and here is a preview of my new

podcast through the screen door that comes out July 21st. This is a segment called

This Week in Southern History and is one of many recurring bits and segments that you will hear every week. Hope you enjoy. This week in Southern History, actually today in Southern History, if you're listening to this when it first aired on July 21st.

The Scopes trial, aka the State of Tennessee versus John Thomas Scopes, or what it was affectionately

referred to by folks who, let's just say, weren't all that excited

about the word evolution, the Scopes Monkey Trial finally came to a decision.

The year was 1925, which of course we all look back on finally as an age of

Enlightenment in America.

Benito Mussolini had just dissolved Italian Parliament proclaiming himself

the dictator of Italy.

Adolf Hitler publishes Mind Comp and the first issue of the New Yorker

is published which many Southerners, including my Papal, considered to be the worst of the three events.

John Scopes had been accused of violating the Butler Act,

which made it illegal in Tennessee

to teach evolution in a school if it was funded by the state.

This was passed to prohibit teachers from denying the Bible as the end-all-be-all to man's creation.

Ah yes, a state religion. Surely that's nothing to literally get up in arms about and leave to start your own country.

Wait, I feel like I heard that somewhere.

Anyways, the trial brought a national frenzy to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee

as famed attorney and three-time presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan

argued for the prosecution and the sophisticated country lawyer himself, Clarence Darrow, argued in favor of Mr. Scopes and by proxy the goddamn truth.

Clarence Darrow being the 1925 equivalent of what we now refer to as a goddamn G.

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