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0:15.6	Now welcome to the third annual look back episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast.
0:21.6	I had this idea a couple of years ago to do something that I'm not sure anyone else really has the ability to do.
0:29.5	The way I, I mean, without a lot more work anyway, that I have this interesting archive that is,
0:38.0	it's not so dense that one person can't go through it given enough time.
0:44.4	So what I came up with a couple of years ago is, you know, while everyone else is looking back
0:49.0	and sort of recapping the year that just happened, what I do is look back and recapt the year that happened
0:56.4	10 years ago. So as we are on the brink of entering the year 2018, now is the time to look back to the year that was
1:05.5	2008. It was a big one. You might actually remember that year. A lot of things happened.
1:11.2	And so we're going to take a look at that, get some context, use the benefits of 2020 hindsight,
1:17.6	see what sort of insights we can go in from it and just generally take in the greater context that is
1:25.0	the political era we are in rather than wallowing constantly in the day to day or even the week to
1:32.6	week or month to month that, you know, in this particular day and age, it is so condensed that
1:40.0	we all feel like time is running more slowly than normal. So 2008 didn't take long to kick off
1:48.4	with a real start. It was just January 3rd when the very first democratic primary, not
1:55.7	not primary election, but they had a caucus. Iowa always caucuses first and then New Hampshire has
2:02.7	the first primary. They both like to brag about being first. But January 3rd, 2008 was the very first
2:09.3	time people got to express their opinion about the primary election that ended up being between
2:16.1	Brappobama and Hillary Clinton. So let's have a listen to the young Turks as they are calling that
2:22.4	election as it happens. I'm prepared not to know. I'm going to call it. Wow, we have a call. Yeah,
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