Blind Trust and Teabagger Faith.

The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Driftglass and Blue Gal

News Commentary, Progressive, Liberal, Midterms, Resistance, Indivisible, Government, Democrat, Presidential, Debate, News, Election, Campaign, Politics

4.8 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2010

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Driftglass and Blue Gal talk about music; can a song be too old to be cool? In our main event, can Driftglass trust a Chicago Democratic politician who changed her position, and now says Cook County is too broke to allow for a tax cut?Faith and trust in politicians is often an anathma to good government. The Tea Party has more faith in Sarah Palin than in their own eyesight. But what if you can't judge whether someone is lying or not? Finally, DG/BG remind themselves that The Tea Party Mov...

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0:00.0	This is the podcast for May 21st, 2010. It's not safe for work.
0:04.6	It's a Giff Glass and Blue Girl podcast.
0:20.3	I had something really bad happened to me in the car today.
0:24.3	I pushed the scan button on my radio, and all of a sudden, one of the stations comes up,
0:30.2	and it's burning down the house by Talking Heads.
0:33.2	Great song, right?
0:35.5	And the song's over, and they say, and that was Talking Heads Burning Down the House on the Retro Drive at Five here on Light Rock.
0:49.3	Wow.
0:50.1	Yeah, and I thought, you know?
0:52.6	That's Light Rock, huh?
0:54.0	I remember a Dunesbury cartoon just like that, which dates me even further.
1:01.7	Where, you know, the guy with the beard, I don't remember.
1:04.1	I think that's Dunesbury.
1:05.3	I think that's actually Dunesbury, who's, you know, he's sitting there listening to all these great songs on the radio,
1:15.6	and all of a sudden the DJ interrupts just say, we'll be right back with more light rock.
1:16.4	And he says, no.
1:19.3	That's the Eagles, man.
1:20.2	Are you kidding me?
1:24.6	Yeah, this is, this is supposed to be revolutionary.
1:25.1	No. No, no.
1:26.2	Crosby, Stilton, Nash, man. They were. Now it's elevator revolutionary. No. No. Crosby, Stilton Nash, man.
1:28.1	They were...
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