🐒 The Glitched Gavel S01E02: The State vs. The Syllabus (The Scopes Trial)

Gavel (The Narrator/Prosecutor): "Dayton, Tennessee, 1925. The air is thick with humidity and the fever of belief. A young high school teacher, John Scopes, stands accused not of murder, but of treason against the Divine Word. He dared to teach Darwin, violating the Butler Act, setting the stage for a trial that was less about law and more about the soul of America. This episode, we open the dusty, distorted files on a case that pitted the urban modern against the rural fundamentalist." (A blast of static briefly drowns out Gavel's voice, followed by the faint sound of an old-time radio announcer.)

Static (The Analyst/Defense): "The legal case was a sham, orchestrated by the ACLU and Dayton's own civi ...