Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft Radio.

So we have been on the air for five years. It's been a whirlwind.

It's been absolutely fascinating. I've learned so much from my guests.

I've been so humbled by our audience. We never expected RevLeft to even break the bounds of our local community

when we started doing this show as a basically a media and education arm of our community organizing efforts

here in Omaha, but very quickly it became a national and then an international show

much to our surprise and it's just been a fascinating ride.

And we thought that it'd be really cool to mark our five years, to kind of look back through our catalog and pull out some of the best ever, if you will,

RevLeft episodes and and re-put them up here on the feed for the entire month of April.

Every episode brings in new listeners.

Lots of listeners have just come on board in the last year.

So, you know, episodes deeper in our catalog might get overlooked or never even seen by some listeners, especially newer listeners.

And so we thought this would be a really cool way to rectify that.

You know, throw back up some of our best of all time episodes and allow me and David have a little bit of a break.

We haven't taken any time off of RevLeft since we started five years ago and while we'll still be doing guerilla history and

Red Menace and RevLeft Patreon episodes this month, I'm going to be working on some other stuff focusing on my family,

trying to deepen actually my meditation practice and just see if I can, you know, use this month to kind of get off line,

focus on mental health, focus on family and in the meantime,

relive and re-give some of these best ever episodes.

So these episodes span the sort of gamut over the five years.

I think it's worth saying that, you know, some of these episodes may have lower sound quality than others.

Obviously we've sort of gotten better and better at keeping the quality of sound as, you know, higher and higher as the years have gone on.

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