Things Are Bad

Endless Thread

WBUR

Reddit, Technology

4.1 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

With increasing political divide and heightened civil unrest in the United States, many fear that it will culminate in a second civil war. We explore the likelihood of that scenario and hear from someone who thinks America is already in the midst of collapse.

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0:00.0	Produced by the iLab at WBUR Boston.
0:07.0	What's up, homie?
0:11.0	What up, dog?
0:14.3	What is up as I try to look for the little sparkly moments of joy in this time of darkness?
0:19.4	Oh man, me too, we need them.
0:22.2	Boy do I have a sparkle of joy right now.
0:25.1	Are you ready?
0:26.1	Please, bring it on.
0:28.2	Cover me in sparkles.
0:31.1	You know my favorite thing to talk about with history guests, right?
0:34.3	Do you remember this?
0:35.6	How you're like a medieval history nerd.
0:38.4	Mm-hmm.
0:39.4	Well, I hit the jackpot.
0:41.8	I've found a perfect example of my kind of person on Reddit.
0:45.1	All right, and I am now recording on Voice Recorder.
0:48.2	Is this your long lost twin brother?
0:50.7	This is Anarchy Squid, and I love him, and you will understand why in a second.
0:57.8	My name is Nick, I'm 33.
0:59.5	I currently live in a small town in the southern Illinois, and I have a history degree from San Jose
1:05.5	State, and some of my interests include obviously history, of course.
1:11.2	I'm a member of the Society for Creative and Aquanism, which is a medieval recreation
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