Welcome back to the home front. I am your host, Reid Galen. Today, I am joined by the one and only

Alexis Coe, presidential historian extraordinaire, columnist, I believe now for the New York Times. Is that right?

Yes, it is. And author of You Never Forget Your First, an absolutely brilliant biography of

George Washington, which you absolutely

should go out and get, and working on a book about the young John F. Kennedy prior to his presidency.

So Alexis, welcome.

Thank you. Thank you for having me back.

Okay. So this is what I've just called What the Fuck Friday.

I made that up.

It's not particularly novel or original, but here we are.

So it has been one hell of a week.

It works, you know, if the shoe fits.

And so the reason why I actually asked you to come on this Friday was the beginning of the week that you'd

been doing a little bit of writing about the sort of plight of the young American man.

And that has brought home to its worst, I think, possible conclusion here this week in not one but two places in evergreen Colorado where a young man

was apparently radicalized online shot two of his classmates and then took his own life and

then here in Utah where I am down in Orum which is about I don't know an hour and change

southwest of where I am at Utah Valley University.

Charlie Kirk was shot and killed by a sniper's bullet. That young man has subsequently been

apprehended, sounds like by his father, of all people, who was, I think, either current or

former law enforcement. But let's start at the beginning.

So tell us what you were thinking about when you started writing about what's going on.

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