Does the BP disaster mean we might actually reform the world?

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

🗓️ 18 June 2010

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Driftglass and Blue Gal discuss whether the latest explosion of GOP outrageous behavior, apologizing to BP, means we muckrakers might actually have a chance to reform a thing or two. And we give a couple of big name media types some advice on blogging and audio. Finally, we talk about the buzz surrounding that book that says the internet makes you stupid, which we had already read about in The Atlantic Monthly dead-tree edition, so there's your answer. Stick around after the credits "Iron...

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0:00.0	This is the podcast for June 18, 2010. It's not safe for work.
0:04.8	It's a GIFGlass and Blue Girl podcast.
0:20.4	So we tell them, go ahead. So we tell them?
0:21.7	Go ahead.
0:22.0	We tell the people that we recorded a really wonderful podcast, probably the best we've ever done, never to be surpassed.
0:31.0	Like two and a half hours of the most scintillating wisdom you've ever seen.
0:34.0	Yes, it was.
0:34.7	Oh, it's awesome.
0:36.4	Dorothy Parker having dinner with Franklin Roosevelt and Benjamin Franklin, while Tom Jefferson serves drinks.
0:44.3	At one in the morning.
0:45.5	At one in the morning. Yeah.
0:46.6	And I was just, I screwed up the sound.
0:50.2	No, you didn't. I did. I screwed up the sound.
0:53.0	You're taking full responsibility for screwing up the sound?
0:55.9	Yes, I am.
0:56.9	All my fart jokes, all my screaming, all my controlled swearing, destroyed what was a really lively and wonderful podcast.
1:04.2	So here we are again.
1:05.1	We are again, yes.
1:07.2	We're getting a do-over.
1:08.5	We're going to try again and get the sound right, yes.
1:12.3	And you were telling me last night or this morning about a new radio hostess on the air.
1:22.8	Oh, my gosh.
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