He served four terms as mayor of Burlington, Vermont, eight terms in the U.S. House, and was elected to the Senate in 2006.

This photo of a young Bernie Sanders being arrested in 1963 on the south side of Chicago in the midst of the civil rights movement.

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I'm being totally disheveled. Yeah, that's funny. I want to be half as good looking as Trevor. I don't want to dominate the whole thing. They account for age. It's like golf. We have a handicap. How long have you been in town? Oh, about a half hour. Oh, wow. Okay. How long are you staying in town? Oh, about a day. Okay. We're doing an event with Mamdani tomorrow night. Oh, that's exciting. Oh, that's really exciting. And presumably we're doing a parade in the morning if it doesn't rain, so we'll see. It said it was going to rain today and then it didn't, so I hope that's a good sign. Good. Like every day it's switching around, you know? So you do these things, what, five days a week? I try and do as many as I can when we can, you know? So it depends on when people are around, when we can, you know.

So you kind of enjoy this stuff?

I love it because I love that we get to spend time, you know?

Well, that's the revolution.

And it's people are tired of seeing seven seconds sound bites.

Exactly.

And I'm amazed.

I mean, podcasts have exploded, haven't we? Yeah, yeah.

So I think it's nice for a book, for a conversation, for politics, for enough.

Yeah, for anything. How do you understand anything in a few minutes ago?

All good, all settled, all everything.

Then we jump into it. Senator Bernie Sanders, welcome to the show. Great to be with you.

Do you take requests that are going to be in New York just so you can get back to New York?

Not really. No, we have some important engagements tomorrow. We're going to be working to see that Mr. Mamdani becomes the next mayor of this great city,

and we'll be working with him tomorrow.

That's exciting. That's actually really exciting, and I feel like it ties into everything that you're here to talk about today,

because, you know, I was reading through your new book that's coming out and I was reading about your life. And I was just thinking to myself, you know, there's one part of the book where you make your dedications and you dedicate the book to your grandchildren. And there's another part of the book where you talk about the teachers that you've spoken to and the struggles that they face in America today, you know, just the cost of living, the cost of teaching, the cost of being. And as I was reading through my notes

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