We started out this episode with the intention of talking about a recent story in which someone tried to catfish a civilian by pretending to be a senior general in the U.S. Army. But then we went down the rabbit hole of trying to reconcile they ways in which the military is portrayed versus how we experienced it, and we wound up spending a lot of time talking about the utterly bizarre donations we used to receive while deployed. Here's the original story we found on Task and Purpose: https://taskandpurpose.com/news/fake-us-army-general-catfish-gmail

This week, Francis speaks with friend of the show Brock Wilbur (@brockwilbur) on the topic of the junior senator from Missouri, a right-wing freak who's smarter than Trump and represents the kind of fascist future trajectory of the Republican Party. It's bad, folks! You can get the episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/37221570

Check out Brock's work at the independent Kansas City paper The Pitch: https://www.thepitchkc.com/

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