Hello progressives, right wing stealth listeners, and the merely curious.

This is Howard coming to you from a beautiful downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.

For those of you who don't know me, and that would be most of you, I'm a storyteller,

performance artist, and board member of Patrick's Cabaret, the twin cities most dynamic performance

venue.

Since the mid-80s, Patrick's has been welcoming performers of all ages and levels of

experience, and in particular has been home to artists of color, GLBT queer identified

artists, and artists with disabilities, and is the twin cities only performance venue

that returns 100% of ticket sales directly to the artist.

For more information, go to Patrick's Cabaret.org.

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Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast.

With clicks today from the Tom Harman program, The Young Turks, the David Pac-Man Show,

and Moir's in company, and a quick programming note.

Today's topic, Money and Politics, sounds like a rather depressing topic.

I mean, really, in this greed is good and billionaires are God's country in which I live

and many of you live.

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