Tim Miller

I'm so excited to bring our guest for today to you here in a minute.

Wright Thompson is a guy I've been reading about for a long time.

And one of my favorite books the past couple of years is his book, The Barn, about basically the 30-ish square miles around the barn where Emmett Till was murdered.

It's an area that he grew up in and still lives in Mississippi.

And I thought that would be

Just a really interesting conversation for the Martin Luther King holiday weekend.

And also, as you'll see, there's just a ton of echoes and lessons from that period that I think are resonating right now.

He also just tells a wonderful story about his mother that I think is going to give a lot of you.

some laughter and comfort and steal you to keep getting in those facebook comment section wars so stick around for all that right is great i wanted to do a quick news thing at the top because there's just so much happening and so here's like a little brief news potpourri and tim's hot takes and uh and then we'll get you to write um the first thing is uh maria carina machado

went to the White House yesterday to give Donald Trump the medal, her Nobel Peace Prize medal.

Got to say, it feels like this is a little too, little too late for Maria Machado.

I mean, Donald Trump likes trophies, but things are already moving down the tracks as far as him garnishing, confiscating, stealing the oil from Venezuela and putting it in a bank account in Qatar.

and letting the communist Chivista still run the country.

So Donald Trump doesn't really seem to care a lot about freedom and the other things that Machado was talking about.

I think maybe she was hoping that he would care about the trophy so much.

But I think Donald Trump's kind of the person that says, hey, great, thank you.

I appreciate the trophy.

I'm going to keep it.

I'm going to put it in my trophy room and then not do anything for you.

That would be kind of my assessment of Donald Trump's character.