Welcome to Roasting the Brologarchy, a special spinoff of the high and low podcast.

This is where we recap the most horrifying and cringeworthy news of the week while subjecting

the idiots responsible to vicious comedic rhetoric. And for each topic we talk about here,

I cite articles from news sources like AP News, Reuters. I go to Politifact to try to fact-check anything that could be spin or bias. I look into history. I listen to historians. So at the end of the pods, I compile a long list with hyperlinks to all of those articles or speeches, whatever it may be. And I post that on my Patreon, and you do not have to be a member.

It's a public post because I want everyone to read that information.

It has been one hell of a week.

It's been exactly what I thought it was, but worse, and I think that's just going to be what

I'm going to say about every week from now on.

It's been so out of control that I'm doing something I've never done before, and that is a

two-part broligarchy episode. So much is happening and so much of it is complex that I feel like I've done 10 deep dives. So we're doing half now, half in part two. So part one is going to be talking about the most important thing in America, free speech, our First Amendment, what happened with that, including a deep dive into the relationship between Disney, ABC, FCC, Sinclair, Next Star.

Also, updates on the Epstein files? What's happening with that? We're going to talk about it.

And a possible government shutdown again. Then why an inflammatory speech from Stephen Manease-Rat

Miller has historians a little alarmed. Plus a bunch of other random events that are going on, including

an alleged sabotage at the UN. Part two is going to be an FBI investigation into Tom Holman,

as well as understanding why the Eastern District of Virginia is so very important. It has to do

with Comey being indicted. And then a section I'm calling Pete Hegset, drunk on power. There's a bunch of other

stuff in both. Let's get going. We are sliding into authoritarianism pretty quickly. Oh, she's so

dramatic. Really? Authoritarianism? Give me a minute. Wait till the end of the pods, then judge.

I'm going to make a point of every single time we talk about something that they are doing, that it's on the list of the pods, then, Judge. I'm going to make a point of every single time we talk about

something that they are doing that it's on the list of the 10 steps of authoritarian regimes.

I'm going to point them out from now on. And yeah, things aren't going great. In fact,

they're going so bad, I'm finding it hard not to take every possible opportunity at a joke

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