Hey there patrons, this is Allison, I'm here with Brett and we are recording our episode for

Patreon for this month. Obviously, as you all know, different months we do different things,

Q&As have been one of our big ones, but a lot has happened this month in terms of the news,

and this is one of those months where we are doing a theory episode. So we figured a discussion

of current events would be really, really necessary for patrons because some big things are happening

right now that are definitely worth talking about. And we hope that we can start a bit of a conversation

with you all about this. So as always, thank you so much for your continued support of our project.

It really means the world to us and it really does help us be able to devote the amount of time

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is really, really valuable to us. So thank you so much for that. And yeah, with that,

we're going to go ahead and just hop right into what some of the things that we're talking about today.

So kind of the first thing that I wanted to talk about, which is probably not a surprise to anyone

because it's one of the biggest things in the news is the trial and conviction of Derek Chauvin

on three counts, all of the counts that were brought in the prosecution. And so this has generated

a lot of news. There's been a lot of buzz about whether or not this is justice, whether or not this

is something else. And what conditions brought about finally convicting a cop who murdered someone

in this case? So we can go ahead and dive into that a little bit. I have some thoughts about it,

but Brett, do you want to kind of start us out with some of your thoughts? Sure. Yeah. So I'm of,

like I kind of have about two minds on this. There's a, there's like strong feelings in both

directions, but at the, you know, at the, like the core of my sort of back and forth on this is like,

you don't want to erase the progress made as tiny and insignificant as it is. So

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