You can listen to the Professional Left on iTunes or at our website, professional left.blogspot.com, where you can also contribute to this podcast. There's a PayPal button at our website, or you can mail us a letter and or a contribution at our PO box, 911, Springfield, Illinois, 62791. This is the podcast for December 14th, 2012. It's not safe for work. Recorded live from just

outside the restaurant at the end of the fiscal cliff. It's the professional left with drift

glass and blue gal.

Republican Party of Two.

Republican Party of Two.

Restaurant at the end of the fiscal cliff.

Your table is ready.

Mr. Boehner, Mr. McConnell.

All you have to do is put a penny away at compound interest thousands of years ago. And your table will be ready for you at the restaurant

at the end of the fiscal cliff. Everybody take a drink, by the way, because hitchhiker's guide of the

galaxy is in fact goddamn science fiction. You bet it is. Uh-huh. It's funny, which sets it apart

from most other science fiction, frankly, but it's certainly a science fiction. And hey, speaking

of Chris Hayes. And and speak i was going to say

speaking of uh off the cuff radio shows because that's how it started yeah it did it started the

hikers thing started as you know we're going to do live radio and douglas adams never had

the script ready time always, always last minute.

I seem to remember him being interviewed on The Tonight Show.

I might have got that wrong.

He told two very funny stories.

He told lots of funny stories, but the inspiration for this was essentially, yeah, like most great ideas, this one came to me, passed out drunk in a ditch outside of Biggles Wade or something.

And it was the Hitchhiker's Guide to Europe, I guess.

Oh.

...