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Where do I start? About 100 years ago, I worked for the Democratic National Committee, stationed in Utah. One of the things I did for the Utah Party was run the party’s blog (on Blogger).

I was fired from that job (it’s in the book) and never got a chance to save the work I’d done that the next guy threw in the trash before he quit blogging for the party all together. It was silly (it’s in the book) of me not to get backups, and him to stop communicating. From what I heard, he hand delivered all the press releases he couldn’t deliver by fax. Email existed and was quite widely used.

About ten minutes after I got fired, I started up www.jmbell.org – a blog (it was 2007, okay?) that was meant to get out from under the restrictions I’d had, and really cut loose. By which I mean swearing. A lot.

I got a gig on the radio, which led to The LEFT Show and I kept complaining on the internet. I still do both, but more on a schedule now.

After 30 years of writing for other people, I decided to start writing for myself. This is the culmination of the last couple of years of those writings. I am quite happy with how this has all turned out, and I hope you’ll like it too!

You know us as The LEFT Show and the World’s Greatest Comic Book Podcast, but did you know we’ve done other shows? Over the last 12 years, we’ve hosted a myriad of shows featuring voices and topics you really can’t get anywhere else.

Once a year, mostly, we open up a GoFundMe to help pay our static bills for the year. Usually, we ask for help with hosting, domain renewals, SSL certificates, bandwidth usage and equipment repair, just to name a few things.

This year is different. THIS YEAR, we’re kicking it up a notch. We’re building a studio, but not just a podcast studio … a broadcast studio!

That’s right, we’re evolving. We’re shopping office space to build the next step in our Network’s adventure. A lot of you have been asking when we’re going to start doing Video with the podcasts, and this is your time to shine!

HOW? Easy. Two paths to success: Fundraising and Sponsorships. We’re working hard on pulling in a few sponsors for the year, and we’re asking folks to help us bridge the gap!

This is not only a way for the World’s Greatest Podcast Network to record the shows you already know and love, but to expand the lineup with new shows, and to help people and non-profits to record their own shows. We’ve committed, over the years, to helping launch new voices and evolving the pod-space for important messages.