Hello, everyone and welcome back to this free episode of TF.

Sorry it's late. Sorry, I have been in Germany.

Yeah, it's late, but it is free. So, you know, can you really complain? Exactly.

Get what you pay for. That's what they say. Yeah, that's right. Yes, I was in Germany. And my

understudy as a replacement host when I am in primarily Germany is feeling unwell.

So it is a day late.

You can't get mad at me, not allowed.

So the other thing, you may notice that this is a featuring episode where we're going to

have another conversation in the back half, a conversation that I've wanted to have for

a while.

I've been sort of trailing for a bit.

I've been finally managed to set up with Alvaro Lopez and Grace Mouser, who are the,

uh, respectively, uh, the electoral politics coordinator for Democratic Socialists of America,

New York and the co-chair of New York City Democratic Socialists of America talking all about

the, what I call like the iceberg of the Zoran Mammani

campaign, the many actual years of organizing that went into it. So we can once and for all

dismiss this idea that because he's personable and good at making short form video content,

that that is what you need to do politics. So I've already had that conversation and I promise

he was an interesting one. So do stay tuned for that. Also, another little bit of housekeeping.

I have made the executive decision to talk about everything to do with Israel, the Samud

flotilla, the crackdowns on rights of free expression and the aftermath of the attacks on the synagogue and on the mosque

in next episode where we'll be talking to Eleanor Penny about that.

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