The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Sorry Jon Stewart, both siderist nonsense when it Mango Mussolini versus Grandpa Joe just doesn't cut it in 2024.  We also celebrate an anniversary and a milestone.  This week marks when Driftglass and Blue Gal met face-to-face for the first time sixteen years ago (thanks, Shakespeare's Sister!) and this week will also bring our seven millionth download for this podcast.  Fran studies Dietrich Bonhoeffer for Lent, and Driftglass is SURE that David Brooks is trolling him.  (Twitter definitely is.)  Thanks so much to our listeners!  More at proleftpod.com. Our podcast YouTube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessionalLeftSupport the show:PayPal |  https://paypal.me/proleftpodcastPatreon | https://patreon.com/proleftpodSupport the show

In this thought-provoking episode, join us as we, two admittedly white midwesterners who were Pre-K at the time of the event, nevertheless take a look back at a significant event in American history – the 1965 Watts Uprising.  This leads us to think about how technology, particularly cell phones, and demographic change have significantly changed how police brutality is experienced and confronted.  And we talk about how white anger and "law and order" voting is echoed in the MAGA backlash against the first Black President.  More at proleftpod.com.Link for this episode:  CBS report on the Watts Riots, 1965https://youtu.be/Xg6HYwZ_ePQ?si=xlzvcaf5PnFtOox_Support the show:PayPal |  https://paypal.me/proleftpodcastPatreon | https://patreon.com/proleftpodOur YouTube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessionalLeft/videosOpening and Closing Music:Jumpin Boogie Woogie by Audionautix | http://audionautix.com/|Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/jumpin-boogie-woogieMusic promoted by Audio Library | https://youtu.be/S2wYQlC0UswCreative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.comSupport the show

It's all lawyers all the time on the cable news networks.  So Driftglass dreams of...breath mints and Batman?  How are never Trumpers like the Whig Party?  And The GOP House is in a State of Fail.  More at proleftpod.com.Our podcast YouTube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessionalLeftSupport the show:PayPal |  https://paypal.me/proleftpodcastPatreon | https://patreon.com/proleftpodSupport the show

Everything old is new again, as we ask, why did Hillary sugarcoat it in 2016?  And why does the truth make pundits flip out?   More at proleftpod.com.  Support the show:PayPal |  https://paypal.me/proleftpodcastPatreon | https://patreon.com/proleftpodOur YouTube ChannelOpening and Closing Music:Jumpin Boogie Woogie by Audionautix | http://audionautix.com/|Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/jumpin-boogie-woogieMusic promoted by Audio Library | https://youtu.be/S2wYQlC0UswCreative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.comSupport the show

Nikki Haley has to run against Trump, against Biden, and somehow be just as racist as the Trump cult without turning off the donor base?  And we have a long talk about literature and the stories we tell ourselves and each other.  More at proleftpod.com. Our podcast YouTube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessionalLeftSupport the show:PayPal |  https://paypal.me/proleftpodcastPatreon | https://patreon.com/proleftpodSupport the show

Driftglass and Blue Gal share their stories of falling in love with science fiction.   More at sciencefictionuniversity.com.  Our podcast YouTube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessionalLeftSupport the show:PayPal |  https://paypal.me/proleftpodcastPatreon | https://patreon.com/proleftpodSupport the show

We talk about the campaign ahead, including a quote from Ingrid Bergman in Hitchcock's "Notorious": "Don't be silly, the important drinking hasn't started yet." AND we remember what Rachel Maddow said post-election 2012.  Sweet summer child! More at proleftpod.com.Link for this episode:  Rachel Maddow Transcript, November 7, 2012:  https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna49745053Our podcast YouTube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessionalLeftSupport the show:PayPal |  https://paypal.me/proleftpodcastPatreon | https://patreon.com/proleftpodSupport the show

The White Party in Iowa chooses the guy found liable for sexual assault.  Special!  Driftglass whips the NYT editorial board, and Blue Gal reads a letter from a looong time listener.  More at proleftpod.com.Link for this episode:  Rick Perlstein, "Metaphors Journalists Live By" in The American Prospect.  (Email required to read but no paywall).  https://prospect.org/politics/2024-01-17-metaphors-journalists-live-by-part-i/ Our podcast YouTube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessionalLeftSupport the show:PayPal |  https://paypal.me/proleftpodcastPatreon | https://patreon.com/proleftpodSupport the show

In this episode of "No Fair Remembering Stuff," we embark on a fascinating journey into the complex and evolving history of acceptance and resistance towards Martin Luther King Day as a state and national holiday.We remember the declaration of Martin Luther King Day as a state holiday in South Carolina and unravel the factors (really only one factor, ahem) that led it to become the last state to recognize the occasion as a paid holiday for all state employees.We also talk about Jesse Helms and his claims that Martin Luther King Jr's opposition to the Vietnam War and insistence on equal rights for Black people made him a  communist. We also confront the legacy of the Confederacy and the southern states which, and we are not making this up, posed an alternative choice to celebrate a Confederate holiday instead of MLK Day.  Again, we are not making that up. And then we discuss Arizona's resistance to an MLK day and what finally got them to relent (hint: the NFL sure is WOKE). And if you think we're past all of this nonsense wait until you hear what Charlie Kirk is up to in 2024. Tune in to "No Fair Remembering Stuff" for this captivating exploration of the history of acceptance and resistance to Martin Luther King Day.Support the show:PayPal |  https://paypal.me/proleftpodcastPatreon | https://patreon.com/proleftpodOur YouTube ChannelOpening and Closing Music:Jumpin Boogie Woogie by Audionautix | http://audionautix.com/|Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/jumpin-boogie-woogieMusic promoted by Audio Library | https://youtu.be/S2wYQlC0UswCreative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.comSupport the show

Our podcast is fourteen years old this week!  And Dems are organized and motivated to take Republicans to task for their lying.  Some of those takings are hilarious.  More at proleftpod.com. Our podcast YouTube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessionalLeftSupport the show:PayPal |  https://paypal.me/proleftpodcastPatreon | https://patreon.com/proleftpodSupport the show