THE CURIOUS CROW • CIRCLE PINES, MN

It was one of those nights. The kind where the beer hits different because the conversation keeps going deeper and the clock stops mattering.

Brad and Tristan had covered an awful lot of ground at The Curious Crow Company — RPGs, music, the state of everything, the systems behind the systems. The kind of talk where two minds stop performing and start actually thinking out loud.

And then Tristan said it.

“Every negative event — everything bad that’s happened in this country since 1981 — is within seven degrees of Reagan.”

Not a joke. A theory. And the more they pulled on the thread, the more it held. Every thread led back to the same place. Every time.

So Brad went home and built the evidence wall.