The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Ep 1020: Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word

Episode 1020 opens with a deep dive into the Snoopy vs. the Red Baron novelty songs — where continuity gets rewritten and enemies become "friends" who never have to answe

Ep 1019: Where's The Beef?

Episode 1019 asks the question rarely posed — "Is our Republicans learning?" — and finds them relearning the exact same 2006 playbook: distance yourself from an unpopular

Ep 1018 Meet Dem Candidate Dr. Cinde Wirth (IN-06)

Episode 1018 features Driftglass in conversation with Dr. Cinde Wirth, the Democrat running to flip Indiana's 6th Congressional District. A seventh-generation Bartho

Ep 1017: Judgment Day

Episode 1017 puts a decade of Never Trump confessions on trial, dissecting this unusual week where Tim Miller, Stuart Stevens, Rick Wilson, and Joe Scarborough all admitt

Ep 1016: F**k Civility

Episode 1016 puts Tone Policing on trial, tracing the long history of the powerful lecturing the powerless about civility while dodging the actual substance of their prot

Ep 1015: James and the Giant Screech

Episode 1015 takes apart James Carville, the "rusted-out antique device" who trashes progressives on Fox News over a single deleted Thanksgiving tweet and then pivots to

Ep 1014: The New Red Scare

Episode 1014 dismantles the "Democrats in Disarray" panic after Dr. Abdul El-Sayed's progressive primary win in Michigan, tracing Third Way's $15 million war ch

Ep 1013 Talking Dem Politics with a Dem Politician

Driftglass sits down with Blue Rep in a Red State!   Democratic State Representative Gregg Bush of Missouri is in the superminority in the Missouri State Legislature.   W

Ep 1012: A Convo With Matthew Sheffield

In a special crossover episode, Driftglass sits down with Matthew Sheffield of Flux and the Theory of Change podcast — a journalist with a genuinely unusual vantage point

Ep 1011: Not Sending Their Best

Episode 1011 argues that the Fauci witch hunt and the White House Correspondents' Dinner were the same show: theater staged to give a cult desperate for a villain so

Ep 1010: WHCD WTF?

Episode 1010 dissects the White House Correspondents' Dinner disaster, where Trump used his own celebration of press freedom to attack the journalists in the room wi

Ep 1009 The Wall

Episode 1009 asks what happens when you're 20 miles into the political marathon and there's no cavalry coming over the hill to save the day. Driftglass and Blue

Ep 1008: Reality Remains Undefeated

Episode 1008 continues the "No Fair Remembering Stuff" retrospective:  Driftglass and Blue Gal trace the throughline from Biden's early economic wins and Republican

Ep 1007: Happy Birthday Blue Gal Retrospective, Part I

Episode 1007 celebrates Blue Gal's birthday with a nostalgic trip through 16 years of podcast archives, revisiting what was happening in politics on or around her bi

Ep 1006: Pump Up The Venom

Episode 1006 uses the beloved 1990 teen rebellion movie "Pump Up the Volume" to ask a deeper question: what happens when you take "Truth is a virus" and unrestricted free

Ep 1005: Meanwhile, In Local News...

Episode 1005 of The Professional Left makes the case that if you really want to understand America — not a focus group of twelve Trump voters in Florida, not three congre

Ep 1004: The MAGA Merry-Go-Round

It goes in circles but never gets anywhere It’s all horses’ asses And there is no brass ring. Driftglass on the Bob Cesca Show : https://www.bobcesca.com/the-bob-cesca

Ep 1003: Science Fiction University - Trust

Science Fiction University returns at long last, with an extended deep dive into one of the oldest and most unsettling questions in the genre — who can you trust when the

Ep 1002: It’s Still the Republican Party

No rebranding!  They cashed all those checks with the Tea Party.  Episode 1002 of The Professional Left opens with a pop quiz, and the reveal says everything you need to

Ep 1001: 119 Billion Kilometers and Counting

Episode 1001 of The Professional Left kicks off the post-1000 era with a reading from Octavia Butler — written in 1993, about a fictional America that looks uncomfortably