Tuesday, March 5
Thursday, February 29
Tuesday, February 27
Thursday, February 22
Tuesday, February 20
Thursday, February 15
Ep 779 The Professional Left Podcast: The Jon Stewart Blowback
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.
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Tuesday, February 13
Ep 778 No Fair Remembering Stuff: Watts
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, 1965
https://youtu.be/Xg6HYwZ_ePQ?si=xlzvcaf5PnFtOox_
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Thursday, February 8
Tuesday, February 6
Thursday, February 1
Tuesday, January 30
Wednesday, January 24
Thursday, January 18
Tuesday, January 16
Ep 772 No Fair Remembering MLK Jr Day
🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️ pic.twitter.com/ehubBOuqha
— Kiyong Tai (@Kiyongtai) January 16, 2024
Thursday, January 11
Tuesday, January 9
Thursday, January 4
Tuesday, January 2
Ep 768 The Professional Left Podcast
Links for this episode: Episode 149, Biden'd! from October 11, 2012.
Thursday, December 28
Ep 767 The Professional Left Podcast - What We Watched in 2023
NOTABLE TV Watched in 2023
Silo – works because of Rebecca Ferguson who plays a cynical, suspicious engineer-turned-marshal Juliette Nichols.
Pale Blue Eye. released in late 2022. We liked it. Critics were “meh”. But DG is a big Edgar Allan Poe head so…
Speaking of Poe…The Fall of the House of Usher. All the actors were great. The pillars were:
Bruce Greenwood as Roderick Usher.
Mary McDonnell as Madeline Usher.
Carl Lumbly as C. August Dupin
And Mark Hammill as Arthur Pym.
Carla Gugino as Verna.
Michael Trucco as Rufus Griswold.
Speaking of Blue Eyes… Blue Eye Samurai. Yowza! Talked to our paterfamilias about it just this morning.
Fargo – Juno Temple and John Hamm
Slow Horses – Checks every box! Solid source material. Excellent acting. And Gark Oldman says he’ll keep doing ‘em as long as they keep writing ‘em. Great balance of the season-long story…and the ongoing lives and tribulations of the main characters.
Murder at the End of the World – Emma Corrin in a role very different from Princess Diana in “The Crown.” And for THIS she should win an Emmy but there are so many…
The Bear, Season 2 –
Ebon Moss-Bachrach
Jeremy Allen White
Ayo Edebiri
AND THEN, suddenly
Bob Odenkirk
John Mulaney
Jamie Lee Curtis
Sarah Paulson
Olivia Colman
And Liza Colón-Zayas, who plays veteran chef Tina Marrero, sings “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” at a karaoke bar and blows us away
Poker Face – Is all about a “crime of the week” solved by Natasha Leon, AND the guest stars, AND a season-long plot that keeps her on the run.
The Gold –
Jack Lowden, on his down time from Slow Horses.
Hugh Bonneville, retired now from Downton Abbey.
Bodies. We did a whole podcast at Science Fiction University on this one.
Only Murders in the Building
Perry Mason season 2
Picard season 3 – Finally figured out what fans wanted, and gave it to us.
The Mandalorian Season 3
Ted Lasso season 3 - another Juno Temple triumph also Hannah Waddingham can sing.
Hijack - Idris Elba is not the snake on the plane.
Loki season 3 Probably need to do a podcast on Loki.
The Continental: From the World of John Wick
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds -- Season 2 – [QUOTE] Season two Episode 5 is awesome. Spock becomes human. The last few shows have been hilarious! I love the comedy and real messages..... I am laughing like crazy on season 2 Episode 5... Now Episode 9 Subspace Rhapsody - THE BEST[UNQUOTE] They bring a Broadway level type musical into the show... How awesome is that! I cannot believe how different these shows are. Also -- cartoons!
Gilded Age – FRAN hate-watched it.
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off – Will get to it.
For All Mankind – Started it but taking a break.
Justified: City Primeval – Started but it just didn’t work.
Beacon 23 – Started but it just didn’t work.
White House Plumbers – Started but it just didn’t work.
Foundation Season 2 – Season 1 was so disappointing that we never got back to it.
House of the Dragon – Nope.
TV -- THAT EVERYONE WATCHED BUT US:
Succession
Barry
Yellowjackets
The Boys
Ahsoka
Jury Duty
The Wheel of Time
Daisy Jone & The Six
The Boys, Season 3
MOVIES: We Watched
Godzilla Minus One
The Holdovers
Spider Man --Across the Spiderverse
Asteroid City
Dream Scenario
MOVIE/TV: Barbie.
MOVIE/TV: The Flash
MOVIE/TV: The Burial
MOVIE/TV: The Killer
MOVIE/TV: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
LATE TO THE PARTY: Coherence (2013)
MOVIES -- HAVEN'T WATCHED: (** = definitely on our to-watch list)
John Wick: Chapter 4
The Marvels (2023)
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
Blue Beetle.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Indiana Jones and Medicare Part “D”.
Saltburn
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer **
Poor Things. **
Wonka
Dumb Money
A Haunting in Venice
American Fiction **
Thursday, December 21
Thursday, December 14
Ep 764 The Professional Left Podcast
And here's a gallery of old skool Paul Ryan photoshops from back in the day (it's good to have archives).
Tuesday, December 12
Thursday, December 7
Tuesday, December 5
Thursday, November 30
Ep 760 The Professional Left Podcast
Boebert: The Inflation Reduction Act is a ‘massive failure’
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) November 30, 2023
President Biden: Tell that to the 850 Coloradans in her district who get new jobs thanks to this law… You all know you’re part of a ‘massive failure’? pic.twitter.com/dFxqu03gn6
Tuesday, November 28
Wednesday, November 22
Thursday, November 16
Tuesday, November 14
Thursday, November 9
Ep 756 The Professional Left Podcast
LIVE FOOTAGE: Backstage at the @GOP debate last night https://t.co/fqiLpWxapj
— Hal Sparks (@HalSparks) November 9, 2023
Tuesday, November 7
Thursday, November 2
It's my 19th Blogiversary
I usually forget, but this year I finally added it to Google Calendar.
Nineteen years is a long time! I'm so grateful for the friendships this blog has brought to my life, the best of which by far is my wonderful husband.Thank you, readers and listeners, for your friendship and support of our podcast work.
This week we learned that our health insurance premium will increase by $400 a month and will for the first time be more than our mortgage payment.
Turns out your early 60's are spent scrimping to avoid spending retirement savings on current health care? When did that happen?
We live in a small house and drive a twelve-year-old car. We definitely know how to scrimp.
And we'll be using "Go Fund Me Supplemental Insurance" next year -- watch this space!
Tuesday, October 31
Thursday, October 26
Ep 753 The Professional Left Podcast and Happy Birthday Driftglass
Everyone go wish Driftglass a happy birthday in comments at his blog, or via Twitter at @mr_electrico.Fixed it.#ThoughtsAndPrayers pic.twitter.com/L4ytQzqBy4
— Paul Ahticks (@PaulAhticks) October 26, 2023
Tuesday, October 24
Wednesday, October 18
Thursday, October 12
Tuesday, October 10
Thursday, October 5
Tuesday, October 3
Thursday, September 28
Tuesday, September 26
Thursday, September 21
Tuesday, September 19
Wednesday, September 13
Thursday, September 7
Monday, September 4
Thursday, August 31
Tuesday, August 29
Thursday, August 24
Tuesday, August 22
Thursday, August 17
Tuesday, August 15
Thursday, August 10
Tuesday, August 8
Thursday, August 3
Thursday, July 27
Ep 731 The Professional Left Podcast
OH MY GOD WHO DID THIS (via https://t.co/odtic04NGT) pic.twitter.com/Zp0vu2fSEv
— Frances Langum (@bluegal) July 27, 2023
Tuesday, July 25
Thursday, July 20
Ep 729 The Professional Left Podcast
And this is why we're in political trench warfare for the rest of our lives? Worrying every year if we'll have health insurance? https://t.co/4OcbQwkut4
— Frances Langum (@bluegal) July 20, 2023
Thursday, July 13
Monday, July 10
Thursday, July 6
Tuesday, June 27
Thursday, June 22
Ep 725 The Professional Left Podcast
“You look miserable.” Nancy Pelosi rips House Republicans as puppets of Donald Trump. (Video: C-SPAN) pic.twitter.com/XIxwMr5sfA
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) June 21, 2023
Tuesday, June 20
Thursday, June 15
Wednesday, June 7
Thursday, June 1
Thursday, May 25
Thursday, May 18
Thursday, May 11
Thursday, May 4
Ep 714 The Professional Left Podcast
How white men fight by Tucker Carlson pic.twitter.com/93Ed6kcsZQ
— Frances Langum (@bluegal) May 4, 2023
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