Tom Simon

And the way he did it mostly was he, he wrote zines.

You know what a zine is?

No.

It's short for magazine, but it's like a, like a, like if I was going to like do my left wing screed, I would like write up the magazine like this and fold it in half and then try to sell it on the streets for like a buck a piece.

So people can like see what I'm all about, you know, see what, I hate this fighting the man.

I know.

Yeah.

These people are the most annoying liberals in the world.

Um,

Anyway, so he used to write these Marxist screeds and try to sell them on the streets.

But he was so fed up with doing this.

And what he really wanted to do was spark a student revolution where he would get these college kids to kind of rise up in mass against the man and fight the power once and for all.

Right?

Yeah.

But the problem with college kids today, I don't know if you have much interaction with kids that age, is that they're not super motivated.

to do lots of stuff like that.

They like a sit-in, they like a protest, they may like a concert, they may like a drum circle, but the idea of standing up and fighting to defeat the man, for most of them, is a hard pill to swallow, because they're very filled with anxiety, right?

They can't even go out and rent a car without taking a pile of Lexapro.

And Zoloft.

But Casey had an idea, Casey Goonan, on how to inspire them.