The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

We start off this episode with good news about Joe Biden and JB Pritzker.  And SOMEBODY at another podcast decided to wave a big red cape in front of Driftglass.  Uh oh.  More at proleftpod.com.  Our podcast YouTube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessionalLeft Support the show: PayPal |  https://paypal.me/proleftpodcast Patreon | https://patreon.com/proleftpod Support the show

Alternate title:  'Mother Nature, USMC'.  A subgenre of science fiction in which humans try to bend nature to their will, sometimes with disastrous results.   Also, an ocean creature theme.  Movies discussed include  1973's 'The Day of the Dolphin' Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and  The Incredible Mr. Limpet (Yes, The Incredible Mr. Limpet).   More at sciencefictionunivers...

Reporters dine out with Jason Miller and other team Trump monsters, nothing to see here!  We review the first GOP debate and how media fail is once again a feature, not a bug.  More at proleftpod.com Our podcast YouTube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessionalLeft Support the show: PayPal |  https://paypal.me/proleftpodcast Patreon | https://patreon.com/proleftpod Support the show

We remember the Brooks Brothers Riot of November 22, 2000.  More at proleftpod.com.  Support the show: PayPal |  https://paypal.me/proleftpodcast Patreon | https://patreon.com/proleftpod Our YouTube Channel Opening and Closing Music: Jumpin Boogie Woogie by Audionautix | http://audionautix.com/ | Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/jumpin-...

One indictment, two indictments, three indictments, four!  And more on the week's news.  Fran is a little surprised that no one in Trump World is proclaiming "But he's innocent!"  More at proleftpod.com. Our podcast YouTube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessionalLeft Support the show: PayPal |  https://paypal.me/proleftpodcast Patreon | https://patreon.com/proleftpod Su...

We were going to do a No Fair Remembering Stuff today but Fani Willis took all the minutes out of our clocks.  Full podcast next week and for now a mini rant from Driftglass.  More at proleftpod.com.   Support the show: PayPal |  https://paypal.me/proleftpodcast Patreon | https://patreon.com/proleftpod Our YouTube Channel Opening and Closing Music: Jumpin Boogie Woogie by Audionautix | http://audi...

Put him in JAIL already.  Proof positive we do not use artificial intelligence to produce our shows.  DG remembers Bari Weiss University and Fran talks about her own health care and everyone else's improved by the work of Jan Schakowsky.  More at proleftpod.com.  Our podcast YouTube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessionalLeft Support the show: PayPal |  https://paypal.me/proleftpodcas...

Driftglass hesitated to do this one until the subject appeared on another podcast.  Ahem.  More at proleftpod.com.   Support the show: PayPal |  https://paypal.me/proleftpodcast Patreon | https://patreon.com/proleftpod Our YouTube Channel Opening and Closing Music: Jumpin Boogie Woogie by Audionautix | http://audionautix.com/ | Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download...

Hoo Boy, it's indictment/arraignment week.  But we haven't forgotten that Ron DeSantis and Rudy Guiliani are garbage. More at proleftpod.com.  Our podcast YouTube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessionalLeft Support the show: PayPal |  https://paypal.me/proleftpodcast Patreon | https://patreon.com/proleftpod Support the show

We remember the "autopsy" that Republican leadership fed to the donor class in 2013.  A full text (pdf) of the report is here.  Support the show: PayPal |  https://paypal.me/proleftpodcast Patreon | https://patreon.com/proleftpod Our YouTube Channel Opening and Closing Music: Jumpin Boogie Woogie by Audionautix | http://audionautix.com/ | Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC...

We have no Trump indictment today, but there's other news and thoughts to share.  Fran saw the Barbie movie, and Driftglass stayed home and did laundry (really).  Driftglass remembers attending Netroots Nation 2011 and some uninvited guests also were there.  More at proleftpod.com.   Listen on YouTube (Chromecast) Support the show: PayPal |  https://paypal.me/proleftpodcast Patreon | https://...

Welp, there goes Driftglass's last chance to work for Fox!  We remember LOTS of things about Fox so-called News.  More at proleftpod.com.   Support the show: PayPal |  https://paypal.me/proleftpodcast Patreon | https://patreon.com/proleftpod Our YouTube Channel Opening and Closing Music: Jumpin Boogie Woogie by Audionautix | http://audionautix.com/ | Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unporte...

In the trenches opposite the "Hunter Biden Laptop Freakout Army."  Why does Marjorie Taylor Greene keep recording ads for Joe Biden?   More at proleftpod.com.  PLEASE NOTE: The clips of Trump are missing from this episode.  They are available here:  Trump on CO2 Traps in Iowa, 2023:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMM3Hk8DwqY Trump on "easy" Obamacare replacement: https://croo...

Driftglass took Blue Gal to see Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 for her birthday. During the movie, Driftglass noticed many plot points that connect this blockbuster to William Gibson's 1984 novel, "Neuromancer." So we did a podcast about it.  (No Fair Remembering Stuff returns next week.) More at proleftpod.com.  Support the show

It's Blue Gal's Birthday this weekend!  We discuss the House Oversight Committee's latest fail (a Chinese spy on the lam, really?), No Labels and their Magic Pixie Dream Party, and Driftglass can't guess the author of a national newspaper editorial that actually mentioned "the heartland."  More at proleftpod.com. Support the show: https://paypal.me/proleftpodcast http...

Multiversal success and failure.  Success?   Star Trek TOS episode "Mirror, Mirror," and the 2017 Starz series, "Counterpart."  Failure?  It pains Driftglass to say it, but Robert Heinlein's "The Number of the Beast" is well-known as a massive fail in the multiverse and just plain science fiction novel genre.  (The Heinlein novel has some sexual situations that a...

We're back!  After a huge storm and subsequent six-day power outage.  We discuss the ordeal and then cuss out the so-called Supreme Court.   And Driftglass likens the motivations of Hulu's "The Bear" to... the New York Times editorial page?  More at proleftpod.com. Link for this episode:  Blue Gal writes about WinRed. Listen on YouTube (Chromecast) Support the show: PayPal |  h...

We remember our childhoods, which are not the weaponized nostalgia Nikki Haley would have us remember.  More at proleftpod.com.  Support the show: PayPal |  https://paypal.me/proleftpodcast Patreon | https://patreon.com/proleftpod Our YouTube Channel Opening and Closing Music: Jumpin Boogie Woogie by Audionautix | http://audionautix.com/ | Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Fr...

What a week for Republicans! Durham can't provide content for Hannity AND be under oath, Trump poops his own bed with Bret Baier (on Fox, no less), and the GOP House considers censuring Adam Schiff as a "win"? Nancy Pelosi said it best:  they look miserable. More at proleftpod.com. Listen on YouTube (Chromecast)  Support the show: PayPal |  https://paypal.me/proleftpodcast Patreon |...

06-20-2023 | Justice "DeLay'd"!  Think Trump's crimes are "unprecedented"?  Think again! More at https://proleftpod.com . Link for this episode:  CREW's Report 'The FBI's Case Against Tom DeLay'. Support the show: PayPal |  https://paypal.me/proleftpodcast Patreon | https://patreon.com/proleftpod Our YouTube Channel   Opening and Closing Music: Jum...

06-16-2023 | We are sick of Donald Trump. But indicted Donald Trump? We'll manage. This, and we're proud of our Illinois Governor and our state's ban on book bans. Take that, Pudding Fingers! More at http://proleftpod.com . Patreon Ep 723: https://www.patreon.com/posts/84694424/ YouTube Ep 723: https://youtu.be/0rmimyPWnv8 Support the show: PayPal |  https://paypal.me/proleftpodcast...

06-07-2023 | We're having a visit with family this week, so this is a Professional Left Podcast saying BUH BYE to Chuck Todd and Chris Licht, and a No Fair Remembering Stuff about us! ----  sharing the first time we appeared on another media outlet in 2011. More at http://proleftpod.com . Patreon Ep 722: https://www.patreon.com/posts/84262895 YouTube Ep 722: https://youtu.be/JOspwe4ODFk Suppo...

06-02-2023 | How much of what happened this week will be down the memory hole by next week? Do not despair! Memory is the LIBERAL SUPERPOWER! And a very special addition to the Freshly Poured Pet Food  experience ! More at http://proleftpod.com .  Additional music is provided by the Bayfield (Colorado) High School Choir and Music Theory Class . Patreon Ep 721: https://www.patreon.com/posts/8393323...

05-30-2023 | The last Tuesday of every month The Professional Left Podcast presents Science Fiction University -- enjoy! Ep 15: When Genres Collide   Science Fiction "versus"  Fantasy... Robert Heinlein’s “Glory Road” Babylon 5: The Technomages Star Wars John Varley’s Wizard/Demon Trilogy The Dragonriders of Pern   Arthur Clarke’s Third Law YouTube SciFiU Ep 15: https://youtu.be/5xxwNbrJ...

05-26-2023 | Matt Walsh, Matt Gaetz, Matt Dornic, and Matt Schlapp. And a "debate" over what Biden "should" do about the Debt Ceiling hostage-taking by Republicans. More at:  https:// proleftpod.com YouTube Ep 720: https://youtu.be/PKbmmhoGZ34 Support the show: PayPal |  https://paypal.me/proleftpodcast Patreon | https://patreon.com/proleftpod Support the show