Howdy, everybody.

Thanks for being here.

Today's Tuesday, April 20th, 2021.

Happy weed day to all the stoners out there.

I'm Trey Crowder, and that's Mark Aegee.

What's up, Mark?

Uh, it's up, Trey.

I'm feeling a little feeling relieved with something that happened that was supposed to happen for once. I know, isn't that weird? Did you make a wish? Like, a thing that happened that was, you know, a thing that was supposed to happen actually happened in America. It's odd. It's a call. It's like seeing a shooting star, right? it's been, I mean, it's been like, like human brains

shape things in a narrative arcs, right? This is where we tell stories and stuff. Like, we look at a cloud

and see a turtle, you know, so we want, we think things should happen a certain way. And when

things don't happen that way, it gets really frustrating, right? And we've had a bunch of reality

go like that on no happy endings for a long time now. Like we're never going to, a lot of wishful film, we're never going to get Trump in cuffs, right? You're never going to, nobody from, the architects of Iraq war, we're going to be free the rest of their lives. Same with 2008 financial collapse. Over and over and over, you pick the thing the thing like we haven't had a happy ending

in politics in a long time and then finally the right thing happens it feels like the system

relented a little bit and I'm glad for it it's almost hard to process for that reason we will

of course spend more time talking about this subject later in the show but first let's get

started we've got with us, as always,

producer Matt doing his thing. This is weekly skews tonight, as I just alluded to. We will

be discussing the verdict the entire country was waiting for. And also, it's going to be a little bit

of a cop-centric episode, because as time allows, we're going to talk about the oathkeepers

and their treasonous ilk, the reality of

far-right nationalism and white supremacy in American law enforcement. Additionally, we'll be

joined for a conversation on the political culture in our nation's capital and other things

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