Hello and welcome to Mind of Myka. Today is Thursday January 7th, 2021.

A day after the events of Wednesday, January 6th, 2021, a day that will not be forgotten.

I'll start with a disclaimer. I'm going to talk about what happened yesterday. It's not pleasant. It's not fun. I'm not going to make any jokes.

If you don't want to hear about it, check back later on this feed. Next week we'll be back with some additional jokey fun stuff and maybe you'll learn something.

Under normal circumstances, I went feel compelled to speak on this.

And I'm also not naive enough to think that people really care about my opinion on this. That's why you didn't see me go on a long

Twitter rant. But that being said, if you're listening and you're a subscriber of

mind of MicICA, it can be assumed that you at least care a little bit about what I think.

In general, And yesterday was obviously a day where there's a lot to say about the

things that happened yesterday. And so I want to share some of my thoughts just because I do have them and I don't want to I don't want to keep them to myself.

One I enjoy I think I'm going to enjoy saying these things and two, I don't know,

maybe somebody out there cares what I think. I'll sort of start with where I normally

start. If you followed me or my writing or anything, including Micah's Read of the Week, the newsletter.

There's your promotional post, the subscription link

in the description of this podcast. You'll know that I have a strong disdain for

conspiracy theories, conspiracy theorists, people that traffic in that space,

people that show any respect or put any worth in the words of

conspiracy theories or theorist. I've long, some of this is manifested in the things that I've said and written about the

Joe Rogan experience and how problematic I find it to be for our society.

I've spoken about Alex Jones who's lived in Austin and been an

Austin person for you know my entire life basically went to Austin, went to high school in Austin.

He spent most of my childhood yelling on cable access television,

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