Ep 104 Ancient Rome and Your Conservative Relatives, also Zappa

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4.8 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2011

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Why the US is like Ancient Rome (corrupt from top to bottom) and a letter from a listener about dealing with his fact-averse conservative dad. More at ProfessionalLeft dot Blogspot dot Com. PS December 4-21 is Zappadan, an annual blog celebration of Frank Zappa. Support the show

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0:00.0	This is the podcast for December 2, 2011.
0:03.3	It's not safe for work.
0:05.1	Recorded live from just outside, St. Alfonso's pancake breakfast.
0:09.0	It's the professional left with drift glass and blue gal.
0:20.8	Happy Zapadan, everybody. Happy Zappadan, everybody.
0:23.7	Happy Zappadam, Tuesday.
0:25.5	I guess for new listeners who don't know about Zappadan, we should let you know.
0:29.4	Zappadan is, we're on our fifth year.
0:31.8	We started this in 2006.
0:34.4	And it's a celebration of Frank Zappa that goes around the blogosphere.
0:39.3	It took me a while to appreciate Frank Zappa.
0:45.4	Yes.
0:46.9	He's a little before my time.
0:49.6	You DriftGlass are kind of my older brother music source in that regard.
0:54.7	You know, you're the older brother I never had in terms of music.
0:58.0	I was going to say, you might want to qualify that thing, now.
1:00.5	Yeah, given that we're married.
1:03.8	We don't live in Alabama.
1:06.1	Frank Zappa died December 4th and was born on December 21st.
1:13.1	And there was a discussion back in 2006 among the bloggers then known as the aristocrats,
1:20.1	which has now, we broke up that band, by the way.
1:23.9	But we're all very good friends still, you know.
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