Hey everybody. I plan to do a new one today. You know, as usual, but I got COVID during my

West Coast tour. So today a best up. Not just a good one, but a great one. Also as usual,

because the best ofs are great.

This is one that folks really reacted to because we learned a lot about what we are really up against.

My guest is journalist Ann Nelson, author of Shadow Network, Media Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right.

It's a scary one.

These people have been added for 40 plus years. This is the marriage of the Christian right, fossil fuel interests and your garden variety, homophobic

racist and fascists, and how they operate under the radar, at least under our radar.

This midterm, we dodged a bullet, but we are by no means out of the woods, folks.

And this one will give you some chilling historical perspective and a real idea of what we are up

against.

And I know you will get a lot out of this one.

So my COVID, I picked it up on my tour somewhere

between Portland and San Luis Obispo. I had planned to record a podcast today with Joyce Vance,

Joyce in Birmingham, Alabama, and me in a studio in Hollywood, where I had been scheduled to do a show on Wednesday night.

But I started to cough in San Luis Obispo and I went back to my hotel after the show and tested myself and it was positive.

And it's a real pisser.

I feel okay.

But I have to isolate, of course, because one of my goals in life has been not to kill anyone,

which is why I avoided Vietnam.

So I had to reschedule the Hollywood show to Friday, February 10th.

My apologies to all your ticket holders.

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