Hey everybody, welcome to the Muck Rink podcast, The Weekender Edition. I'm Jared Yates

Sexton, flying solo once more with a muck of coffee. My partner, Nick Hausman, is out for this

episode. He is out and about in the American space,

leaving me here all by my lonesome on a chilly Thursday morning to talk to you.

And I wanted to use this opportunity to get into the weeds a little bit,

which is something I kind of enjoy doing when I fly solo on

the weekend or addition. So first and foremost, thank you to everybody for your support. If you

are listening to this full podcast, you are one of our patrons and you are what keeps this show

editorially independent, keeps us ad-free, and basically the backbone of this

entire venture. So thank you for that. For those of you listening to the preview, I urge you to

come along. This is going to be a little bit different of an episode. I'm going to basically

go through the history of politics,

society, if you will, and get into the weeds quite a bit into a crisis that we're facing and

sort of the ramifications of what we're dealing with. So if you want to listen to the whole episode, go over to

patreon.com slash monkwreck podcast. That way you can hear this episode and all the weekenders and all of

the additional content. And again, support this show. So today I wanted to talk, like I was saying,

a little bit about this history. And the reason that I wanted to talk, like I was saying, a little bit about this history.

And the reason that I wanted to do that was because of something that's sort of been happening

sort of in the background in recent years.

It's something that, like so many other aspects of our political discourse,

it doesn't get put into full context.

Like we have all this sort of floating elements out there that all interconnect and create when you actually start

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