Hey everybody, this is Robert Evans. Welcome to It Could Happen Here, a podcast about things

falling apart and occasionally about how to stop things from falling apart. Today we're

doing one of those latter episodes. I'm happy to say we've actually got kind of something

that's that's overall uplifting to talk about. If you are someone who pays much attention

to the right wing and particularly to the current right wing campaign against LGBT and most

particularly transgender people, you are aware of a guy named Matt Walsh. He is a, you

might call him a pundit at the daily wire who has taken it upon himself to become kind

of the one of the central figures and the present campaign against trans people to limit

their rights to transition to, you know, push laws that criminalize their existing in public

spaces. He's a real piece of shit, one of the one of the worst people in the country

presently. And like all terrible people, he has been going around in a series of speeches

invited generally by local student body Republican organizations at universities. It's not the

only people who invited him to speak, but that's what we're talking about today. Oliver

Wyline is a local community activist who showed up at one of these events and who recorded

what was happening, the reaction to Matt Walsh being invited to speak at a college in

Iowa City. And yeah, Oliver, welcome to the program first off.

Yeah, thank you so much for having me on. And yeah, I just kind of wanted you to start

with how did you become aware of what was happening and decide, you know, to show up and do

what you did? Because I became aware of you just reading your thread, which was a mix

of, you know, Twitter posts on what was happening and some videos of what had been happening

on the ground. Yeah, so I am a townie here in Iowa City. I'm not a student, but

I have, you know, I'm very close both physically and, you know, just personally with lots of

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