Ep 152 Hurricane Sandy, David Brooks, and Octavia Butler [walk into a podcast]
The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal
Driftglass and Blue Gal
4.8 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2012
⏱️ 66 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You can listen to the Professional Left on iTunes or at our website, professional left. |
| 0:04.1 | Dot blogspot.com, where you can also support this podcast. |
| 0:07.7 | This is the podcast for November 2, 2012. |
| 0:11.0 | It's not safe for work. |
| 0:12.6 | Recorded live from just behind Nate Silver's BFG. |
| 0:16.0 | It's the Professional Left with Drift Glass and Blue Gal. |
| 0:25.6 | Thank you. left with Drift Glass and Blue Gal. So what's a BFG? |
| 0:28.6 | A BFG? |
| 0:29.5 | Well, that's a gaming term from my days when I used to stay up until two in the morning |
| 0:33.8 | playing video games with my people. |
| 0:36.6 | Back at the school where I ran the |
| 0:39.3 | technical side of things and had access to their networks and all their computers and we |
| 0:43.3 | work very very very hard all day long the the gun you always went for or wanted on your |
| 0:48.0 | side was the big fucking gun the BFG the one that would take out everything else that was |
| 0:53.4 | the invincible weapon of choice. |
| 0:56.7 | Well, the invincible weapon of choice would be the sniper rifle up on the third level in the cave. |
| 1:02.3 | Oh, okay. |
| 1:03.0 | Or the rail gun where you just keep renewing your ammunition because you can stay up there forever and kill anything comes at you. |
| 1:11.6 | But other than that, the bfg is the generic term for the big gun that kills everything cool and Nate |
| 1:18.7 | Silver is in possession of something called statistics he is isn't he and he's also he's also |
| 1:25.3 | didn't you say something about about Wolfram on Twitter this morning |
| 1:29.6 | talking about Nate Silver? |
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