Kevin McCarthy's very illegal impeachment (not really) inquiry (also not really) thingie is not going well. And because this is our only episode this week (Driftglass is traveling) we do a little No Fair Remembering Stuff about the 1968 Democratic National Convention that you will not have heard before. 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 ...
Sep 13, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 743
The New York Times has a headline problem. We discuss using the 14th Amendment to remove you-know-who from the 2024 ballots. Also, Illinois has become a haven for political refugees from red states, particularly educators and women. 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...
Sep 07, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 742
A certain podcaster is calling for consequences for right-wing extremists and agitators, including Trump. You'll never guess who (or maybe you will). 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-boogie-woogi...
Sep 04, 2023•40 min•Ep. 741
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...
Aug 31, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 740
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 sciencefictionuniversity.com. (No Fair Remembering Stuff returns next week.) Support the show: PayPal | https://paypal.me/proleftpodcast Patreon | https://...
Aug 29, 2023•46 min
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...
Aug 24, 2023•55 min•Ep. 739
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-boogie-woogie Music promoted by Audio Library | https://youtu.be/S2wYQlC0Usw Creative Commons Music by ...
Aug 22, 2023•29 min•Ep. 738
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 Support the show...
Aug 17, 2023•56 min•Ep. 737
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://audionautix.com/ | Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bi...
Aug 15, 2023•12 min•Ep. 736
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/proleftpodcast Patreon | https://patreon.com/proleftpod Support the show...
Aug 10, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 735
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 / Stream: https://bit.ly/jumpin-boogie-woogie Music promoted by Audio Library | https://youtu.be/S2wYQlC0...
Aug 08, 2023•46 min•Ep. 734
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...
Aug 03, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 733
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 BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/jumpin-boogie-woogie Music promoted by Audio Library | https://yout...
Aug 02, 2023•57 min•Ep. 732
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://patreon.com/proleftpod Support the show...
Jul 27, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 731
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 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/jumpin-boogie-woogie Music promoted by Audio Library | ht...
Jul 26, 2023•48 min•Ep. 730
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://crooksandliars.com/2018/08/throwback-thursday-trump-promises Support the show...
Jul 20, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 729
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
Jul 18, 2023•33 min
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 https://patreon.com/proleftpod Support the show...
Jul 14, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 728
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 are discussed in this episode.) And you can hear Patton Oswalt's magnificent Parks and Rec filibuster concerning "multiverses" here. More at s...
Jul 10, 2023•50 min
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 | https://paypal.me/proleftpodcast Patreon | https://patreon.com/proleftpod Support the show...
Jul 06, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 727
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 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/jumpin-boogie-woogie Music promoted by Audio Library | https://you...
Jun 27, 2023•32 min•Ep. 726
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 | https://patreon.com/proleftpod Support the show...
Jun 22, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 725
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: Jumpin Boogie Woogie by Audionautix | http://audionautix.com/ | Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/...
Jun 20, 2023•43 min•Ep. 724
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 Patreon | https://patreon.com/proleftpod Keywords: No Labels, Trump indictment, he did it, politics, progressive, m...
Jun 15, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 723
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 Support the show: PayPal | https://paypal.me/proleftpodcast Patreon | https://patreon.com/proleftpod Keywords: ...
Jun 07, 2023•45 min•Ep. 722
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/83933237 YouTube Ep 721: https://youtu.be/NBvp3mP1gvI Support the show: PayPal | https://paypal.me/proleftpod...
Jun 01, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 721
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-gE More at: http://sciencefictionuniversity.com Support the show...
May 29, 2023•36 min
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...
May 25, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 720
05-23-2023 | We remember the relentless Republican war against the Clintons, and how that set the stage for the Bush years and beyond to Trump. More at http://proleftpod.com . Support the show: PayPal | https://paypal.me/proleftpodcast Patreon | https://patreon.com/proleftpod Ep 719 YouTube: https://youtu.be/BNc04o1okTw 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:/...
May 23, 2023•43 min•Ep. 719
05-19-2023 | Jim Jordan tries to make up his own rules about whistleblowers. Sean Hannity interprets the Durham Nothingburger Report for the reprogrammable meatbags: "In other words..." And Christiane Amanpour has advice for the graduates of the Columbia School of Journalism that sounds... familiar. More at: http://proleftpod.com YouTube Ep 718: https://youtu.be/2KX0jJhk2v8 Support the show: PayPal | https://paypal.me/proleftpodcast Patreon | https://patreon.com/proleftpod Keywords: politics, Ch...
May 18, 2023•58 min•Ep. 718
