Ep 142 Spastic Tubes and Netflix Queues

The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Driftglass and Blue Gal

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

4.8 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2012

⏱️ 50 minutes

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We discuss the Akin Abortion A-hole-ery and recommend three old movies that help explain the current political extremeism, even though they’re from the sixties. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.comSupport the show

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0:00.0	This is the podcast for August 24th, 2012. It's not safe for work. Recorded live from inside the
0:06.7	mosh pit at the Spastic Tubes concert, it's the professional left with drip glass and blue gal.
0:19.1	It's been quite a week, blue gal. Spastic tubes.
0:21.8	Ow!
0:22.4	They're all spastic.
0:23.6	You know, we could make a billion jokes about this.
0:26.8	We could.
0:27.4	We really could.
0:28.0	Let me start by thanking the amazing Joan Walsh for allowing me to interview her about her terrific book.
0:35.4	Oh, you're taking the high road, I see.
0:36.6	I'm taking the high road because she was making jokes about it this week too and then
0:41.9	was on a panel discussion with a sexual abuse survivor and all of a sudden it's not funny
0:49.1	anymore.
0:49.7	Exactly.
0:50.0	And I think we could sit her and do an hour of jokes as we've done in the past.
0:54.5	You know, we were making jokes about guns the week that Gabby Giffords was shot and we had to change gears.
1:01.1	And it's just, it's hard sometimes to strike a balance between trying to be lively and fun and realizing that this is a really serious issue.
1:11.1	Well, and the way human beings cope a lot with pain is by humor.
1:16.8	Yeah.
1:17.5	You know, it is not funny that 40-some-odd percent of the electorate are crazy idiots.
1:24.4	It isn't funny at all.
1:25.4	They're wrecking our country.
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