I'm back.

First thing I want to say is a thank you to Jack Posobic and James Coglin for guest hosting Timcast, IRL while I was out.

I wasn't not, in fact, dead.

I just lost my voice, and that really sucked.

I think on Sunday I was kind of sick and it sucked, so I

just hung out and I was playing video games all day. But then Monday, I was talking like this. And then

I figured I'd be fine by Tuesday and then come Wednesday morning when I still couldn't talk,

we were like, we need to call on the big gun. So we reached out to some people to see if they

would guest host for us. And we got some people. We got Jack and Seamus. So thank you all for that. This is the first

the Culture War podcast we're doing live as we're now getting into the purpose for what this show is.

When we do shows on Timcast, IRL at 8 or so PM, we'll often have people come in who are

either disagree with us on certain issues, or that's primarily it.

When they do, the show transforms from topical news into political and cultural debate.

And so we decided we need to make a specific show that just handles those conversations and expands upon them so that we can actually get to the core of what people think, feel,

why they want certain policies and why they don't.

And a topical news show doesn't really work for that.

So Friday mornings, you know, here's what we're going to do.

And we were posting this at 1 p.m. before, but now we'll probably end up doing it live just because.

So without further ado, without wasting any of your time, we've got two awesome guests. Sean, do you want to introduce yourself first? I'm Sean Fitzgerald. I do YouTube at the

actual justice warrior. I cover primarily criminal justice related issues. And I'm happy to be here

for your maiden live voyage of the culture war. And Emma, would you like to introduce yourself?

Yeah, I'm Emma Vigland. I'm the co-host of the

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