Welcome to this episode of the award winning best of left podcast.

Today's episode is going to be completely different from our normal episodes.

The absolute truth is that I was originally intending for this to be a rerun.

I had first one issue and then another and then a third and fourth got added on and each

one of them was like a little bit of a good reason why maybe I should take the show off

and then as they began to pile up I thought okay I basically don't have a choice.

I need to take today's show off.

And so I thought well I'll just put out a rerun episode as I normally would but today

I have something different because it turns out that Bernie Sanders decided to give a

major speech about saving democracy and I thought well okay I guess that's what today's

show is going to be about.

And then in addition whether you've heard the speech or not you should definitely not

miss what comes after it because I have brand new voice mails continuing conversations

that we have been having and then one of those voice mails spurred me to add a totally

new bonus clip which I normally wouldn't have had time for except for today's episode

is so strange that it turns out I have time for it.

So all of that is coming first Bernie Sanders speech if you haven't heard it please check

it out.

If you've heard it then you can skip past and check out our brand new voice mails and

a brand new bonus clip available to everyone not just for the members where I thought it

was going to end up being stuck but no everyone gets it because it's Bernie Sanders'

day.

...