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Ep 985: 'The Cheaper The Crook...'
Episode 985
"The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter." -- The Maltese Falcon
Episode 985 of The Professional Left takes a deep dive into the word "normaliz…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Ep 984: War On Hiatus Due To Bad Ratings
Episode 984
In this episode of The Professional Left, Driftglass and Blue Gal take a hard look at how America ended up in yet another Middle East war — and why t…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Ep 983 "How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb"
Episode 983
In this episode of The Professional Left, Driftglass and Blue Gal dig into the decades-long project that brought American politics to its current bre…
3 months ago
Ep 982: Failure to Launch
Episode 982
Episode 982 asks: Did Trump magically bamboozle 70 million voters overnight, or did the GOP spend 40 years deliberately breeding an army of angry, pa…
3 months ago
Ep 981: Build Back Better
Episode 981
Episode 981 traces the Republican descent from the 1990 New York Times editorial warning about Gingrich's "slash and burn" politics through Limbaugh,…
3 months, 1 week ago
Ep 980: Zombie Apocalypse
Episode 980
Episode 980 uses The Walking Dead's central question—"The world we knew is gone, but keeping our humanity? That's a choice"—to examine whether we acc…
3 months, 1 week ago
Ep 979: Legacy
Episode 979
Episode 979 begins with Project Hail Mary and science fiction nerds auditing movies on street corners, then pivots to Ozymandias and what lasts versu…
3 months, 1 week ago
Ep 978: WMD
Episode 978
Driftglass and Blue Gal compare Bush's Iraq debacle with Trump's Iran war—the lying, the cover-ups, the profiteering, the attacks on critics—revealin…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Ep 977: An Apple Made of Razors
Episode 977
(And we talk about the Illinois Democratic Primaries! They were counting votes as we recorded.)
Episode 977 examines the 2026 Illinois Democratic pr…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Ep 976: Signs and Portents
Episode 976
Episode 976 examines the signs and portents showing Trump's base starting to fracture as broken promises about Epstein files and "no foreign wars" co…
3 months, 3 weeks ago