Snapshot · Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
Lemaire Lee visited Charlottesville (site of the 2017 Unite the Right rally) and was told by locals that tiki torches are still banned there, nearly a decade later.
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Lemaire Lee reports back from a recent trip to Charlottesville, Virginia, which he expected to retain some of its aggressive Southern energy given its association with the 2017 Unite the Right rally. Instead, he found a mellow, bookstore-filled college town, so devoid of GameStops and guy stores that he got genuinely annoyed. A local told him tiki torches are still banned in the city — almost a decade after the rally. Shane and Matt riff on this as an appropriate penalty, though they question whether you can legally ban the sale of a garden accessory. Lemaire notes that the march's whole premise was about being 'replaced,' and gestures at the bookstores as evidence that, in some narrow retail sense, they were.
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