Good afternoon everyone and welcome to the Monday edition back from hiatus of the

Dark to Light Podcast with Beans. Today's show is going to be very important.

Why? Because there's a lot of important stuff going on and we're going to talk about all of it.

And I already made a pledge before the show started today that if we go over, we go over.

Because I need to get all this out. It's been a week of really running around like a fact checker and

I have to we're gonna start here guys we can't continue if we don't have a baseline for factual information.

Like if we don't care about facts and all we want to do is feel good about things.

We're done for. We're done zos. It's finished.

I personally can't exist like that.

My left brain does not allow me to exist in a world where all we have is propaganda

from both innocent and maybe not so innocent folks who just don't understand how things work. I gave an

example on my pre-show if somebody comes and starts talk, oh sorry if somebody

comes I got this as a gift isn't beautiful? If somebody comes and starts talking to me about

foreign policy and China and Taiwan, I'm going to respectfully say,

I'm really not well versed on that topic.

I think it's not the proper conversation for me to have.

Because, first of all, why would I share my opinion on things that don't have anything to do with me

and I don't know anything about? And second of all, I personally feel a responsibility to get it right for all of you because we need

foundational solid truth to be able to make proper decisions as we move forward.

And this week, there are three stories in particular

where that didn't happen.

One we're going to go through is the Young Thug RICO trial going on and down in Georgia and a lot of people are taking a keen interest into this because

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