Hello and welcome to the political orphanage. When other people want to form political street gangs to fight each other, we're

talking about how to form a flash mob. This week, Bernie Sanders endorsed Joe

Biden for the presidency slightly before Barack Obama and a week

after he dropped out and I thought, man Bernie was a thing.

He was a big thing.

And so I am going to rope in two esteemed colleagues today to talk

about him Justin Robert Young he is the host of the Politics Politics

Politics Podcast and Brian Brushwood who is the master of Scam School and

the Modern Rogue and night attack along with just I mean just you

Just you do a bunch of things my goodness. It's just like here's here's Albert Einstein

also his friend Gary Here's Albert Einstein.

Also his friend Gary.

Gary does a really cool party trick.

Do your party trick Gary.

So with Bernie my opening question for you is what is the impact of Bernie is he is he I have said for a while I think he is the the Ron Paul of socialism or the

Ron Poll of progressives that you said that because here is why I believe the

endorsement rings hollow.

Here's why whatever momentum Bernie had

is now completely evaporated.

As somebody, in fact, when Justin and I

met each other 12 years ago, he saw the Ron Paul sticker I had on my desktop computer and made some joke about it.

The Ron Paul moment was a moment uniquely about the anti-establishment, you know, this weird fusion of stop the war, stop spending all our money, doing these things like there was something that brought

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