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On October 22nd, 2025, two men suddenly found themselves almost entirely unemployable.

They didn't have the same job.

They weren't even in the same state.

But the bad day they were both having on October 22nd

was a consequence of a long and complicated series of events that started at the same time

and at the same place for both of them. The evening of August 11, 2017, in an empty field

behind the tennis courts at the University of Virginia.

Eight years after they marched with tiki torches on the eve of that deadly Nazi rally

in Charlottesville, both men are now convicted felons. One of them just had his law license

suspended.

The other is running for Congress.

I'm Molly Conger, and, more than a year ago.

That episode is back at the top of your feed today, in case you missed it the first time,

or if you just want to revisit it alongside this one. That's an unusual choice, especially considering every episode of this show is kind of part of the

same long story, told out of order.

Every episode connects back to some other storyline, and they almost always feature some names

I've mentioned before.

It's a small world, and theirs is even smaller.

You really can't talk about the lives of these weird little guys without seeing all the places

where their lives intersect. So if I reran every old episode that helps add context to the current one,

...