And you really saw, I mean, you saw the effects of that.

Yes, they because the inability to picture, frankly, a group of white people overrunning

the Capitol is a lack of acquaintance with American history in and of itself.

Hello, and welcome to Why is this happening with me, your host, Chris Ais.

You know, here on WithPod, we like, I like having this podcast as a kind of a place that

is apart in some ways from the news cycle.

Sometimes we're sort of closer to it.

Sometimes we're very far from it.

We're doing, you know, like last week's discussion of bourbon, which I love because obviously

my other job, one of my other jobs, which is posting all in with Chris Hayes, APM Weeknets

and MSMEC, it's extremely tied to the news cycle.

And yet, I think as you'll see in this podcast, there are times

when what's happening feels so overwhelming that it's weird to talk about anything else.

So, you know, that happened, I think, during, there was a period during the initial COVID

lockdown where, you know, we were just living and breathing COVID and COVID stories all the

time, we were doing them on the podcast.

And you know, right now I'm talking to you on January 7th, it is one day after a armed

violent insurrectionist mob overran the Capitol after being incited quite directly by the

President of the United States in order to achieve the purpose of blocking the certification

of the democratic election of the next president and to try to interrupt or for stall the peaceful

transfer of power from a government that had lost an election and had been rejected by

the people.

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