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0:15.9	Now welcome to the award winning best of the left podcast with clips today from last week
0:19.9	tonight, La Show, Democracy Now, the Tom Hartman program, redacted tonight with Lee
0:24.7	Camp, CBS Sunday morning, and the Young Turks.
0:30.6	And now last week tonight asks, how is this still a thing?
0:35.2	This week Columbus Day, how is this still a thing?
0:40.4	America has a lot of solemn holiday traditions, from saluting the quiet dignity of the Irish
0:46.3	to proudly celebrating our birth as a nation, to just spending quality time with family at
0:51.6	fanskidding.
0:54.6	But next week brings perhaps the strangest of American holidays.
0:58.8	Columbus Day, which brings with it the beloved annual traditions of cheesy local commercials.
1:04.3	In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue to celebrate mattress depot.
1:10.0	And Americans turning up to an unexpectedly closed post office and going, oh yeah, it's
1:15.4	Columbus Day.
1:16.4	Shit.
1:18.4	This proud holiday commemorates the landing of Christopher Columbus in the Bahamas in 1492.
1:24.1	Beginning a long tradition of obnoxious white people visiting Caribbean islands and acting
1:28.8	like they own the place.
1:30.8	In school, American children learn about Christopher Columbus' life.
1:35.1	I will discover a shortcut to India.
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