Welcome to today's episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast.

What I have for you today is a rerun with the exception of this introduction.

Now what happened is I just got back from vacation.

It was a urgently needed mental break.

Of course, I didn't go anywhere for a vacation.

I just didn't read the news.

So, you know, I would look at some screens or I would go to a park and I would look at

some nature and alternate back and forth between those.

But I did a good job of not looking at the news or listening to the news.

And I felt a bit like the rafters who came out of the Grand Canyon a few weeks after the

pandemic had begun to only then learn because they had had no service for the duration of

their trip to come out of the canyon and realize that everything in the world had changed.

The way I came to understand the size and scope of the current events regarding police

abuse and the protests and so forth is that Amanda told me that it's a bigger news story

than the coronavirus.

That no one is really talking about the virus anymore because they're talking about this

instead and that's the first time that's happened since the pandemic began.

So I understood that it was a big story to try to come back into having stayed away from

the news for my own mental health for a solid week.

So I have an episode that is in the works for that topic naturally.

That's not going to be this week.

I already have another topic in the works and so logistically that's what's going to

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