Hello, guys. I got on a very special guest today, Brett O'Shea, host of Rev Left, host of Gorilla History, host of Shulis in South Dakota.

Do you want to introduce yourself?

Yeah, sure. I'm Brett O'Shea, like you were saying, the host of Revolutionary Left Radio, the former host of Gorilla History, co-host of the Red Menace podcast as well, and all of those three shows past and present kind of come together to formulate my overall output publicly, which is based around political education for the Marxist left, but also anybody else I can reach.

Yeah, and I think I should introduce myself too.

I'm a Marxist content creator.

I started out on TikTok, and I started this podcast because a lot of people are just asking

me questions, wanted me to expand on a lot of things, and there's a time limit on TikTok,

like 10 minutes.

So I just thought, you know, this would be a wonderful way to just teach people about Marxism and Marxist concepts.

Sweet. So jumping right into it, how did you first become involved into revolutionary politics? And how did you evolve from anarchism to your specific, to Marxism?

Yeah, sure.

You know, I think it starts for maybe a lot of us in childhood experiences, born and raised as a member of the working class, living through the lower end, perhaps, of the working class here in South Omaha, you know, growing up with things just like, you know,

your car getting repossessed, your electricity being turned out when you come home from school,

seeing your parents struggle even though they work every day. And although I couldn't articulate

that into a political ideology at the time, it clearly left an impact on me. And as I grew older, my dad actually, who's passed now,

but who, you know, when I would spend time with as a child, he was obsessed with right-wing talk

radio in the car. And he often lived in places like Montana or in Kentucky, and we often find

ourselves in the car for several hours for various reasons, driving across

parts of the country, listening to Right Wing Talk Radio and, you know, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity

back in the late 90s, early 2000s. And even when I started working at the age of 15, I worked as

a maintenance guy on a golf course to try to bring in some extra money. This is before the era of iPhones and even iPods.

And I just had like an old kind of a radio antenna set of headphones that I'd wear

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