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Now welcome to a brand new year of the award-winning bestiplef podcast. I know we are all thankful to be done with 2016

I'm right there with you, but keeping in mind that 2017 is essentially promising to be worse

Personally, I'm not quite ready for it, which is why I'm so glad that

months ago I decided that the first episode of 2017 would be a little something different so 2016 was a big year for the show

I hit episode number 1000 and

Hit the 10-year anniversary of the show within just a couple of months of each other and so for episode 1000

I had the idea like okay, how do we mark this occasion? I thought well, we just passed the 10-year mark

Why don't I do a review show of 2006?

looking back 10 years and

At least one listener wrote in saying

Really interesting show good idea

Maybe this should be an annual thing and I thought perfect the first show of each year going forward will be a look back at

10 years previous so today's episode is another one of those special episodes. We are looking back today at

2007

So I spent a good chunk of my the last bit of my holiday here

scouring through my own archives

Listening to my own shows from 2007. It was a bizarre year and we're gonna hear clips from shows that no longer exist

And people who are no longer living but also from shows that are still going strong

So today we're gonna hear from countdown with Keith Olderman the young Turks ring a fire radio the daily show the Al Franken show

Democracy now the Associated Press Senator Ted Kennedy the Colbert rapport some

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