Hey everyone, Jody Avergan here coming to you with some Sunday context. So on Sundays,

we're trying to have conversations and bring you stuff from the archives that provide a little

historical context for the very rocky history that we are living through right now. There is no

shortage of big news that merits some context today. We are, of course, dealing with the aftermath

of Trump's severe tariff proposals.

We've done lots of episodes about the 19-teens and 1920s

and other tariff-heavy eras in this country.

It didn't turn out so high in those cases.

And just as I'm recording this,

there are images coming in from around the country

of these massive anti-Trump pro-government protests that took

place on Saturday. And not just in places like D.C. and L.A. and Chicago, New York, but there's

images of tens of thousands of thousands of thousands in small towns in Idaho, in Indiana,

Alabama, Alaska. I was at the protest at Bryant Park here in New York City. My 80-year-old

parents were there, my seven-year-old daughter, three generations trying to stand up for government,

social services, and sanity. And in those protests, there was true energy. The signs were funny,

the drums were out, the chants were righteous and fun. And when it comes to energy,

I want to highlight another thing that happened earlier this week. Cast your mind back,

all the way back to Monday and Tuesday. It feels like forever ago, but that was when New Jersey

Senator Cory Booker mounted a 24-hour-plus speech on the Senate floor. There's this small question a few listeners

have chimed in to ask about whether it was technically a filibuster. It's funny, I've kind of seen

convincing arguments in both directions, but since it wasn't actually intended to block a vote

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