27: The History of Hate

Six people. That's all it took. Six young men sitting in a law office in Pulaski, Tennessee, in December of 1865 - just eight months after the Civil War ended - decided to start a secret club. One that, 150 years later, still impacts our country today. 

To combat the recent erasure of history and ensure these stories remain not only alive but top of mind, this summer we are re-releasing some of our most important historical episodes from the last seven years. 

We hope you listen, share, like, and all those things, but most importantly, learn from them, and translate that into action, even if it’s just telling one other person about this. 

Change doesn’t have to be big. 

But these episodes show us how we got to where we are currently - and now, it’s time to do something about it.

What to listen for: 

• Reflecting on what you’d do if you got together with six friends. What kind of club, movement, or difference would you choose to make? 

• The KKK’s trajectory over generations, and how it’s grown, contracted, and operated. And how understanding this history helps us better understand where we are as a country today.

• The one segment in all our 7 years of recording close to 300 episodes, when we simply could not pronounce a word and ended up cry-laughing so hard… we left it in for you to hear.

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