Ep 710: No Fair Remembering Stuff | "The Dream Shall Never Die"

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 April 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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04-18-2023 | Ted Kennedy at the 1980 Democratic National Convention. More at http://proleftpod.com. Links for this episode: The economy, 1980 https://home.csulb.edu/~astevens/posc420/files/hibbs.htmlFull Text of Ted Kennedy's Speech to the 1980 Democratic Convention https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/tedkennedy1980dnc.htmVideo of Ted Kennedy's Speech to the 1980 Democratic Convention https://www.c-span.org/video/?3439-1/senator-edward-kennedy-1980-convention-speechTed Kenne...

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0:00.0	You are listening to another no fair remembering stuff,
0:03.1	the tuned to the edition of the Professional Left Podcast,
0:06.2	and available wherever you get your podcasts,
0:08.6	and at our website, pro-leftpod.com,
0:11.7	where you can also contribute to this podcast.
0:14.0	There is a Patreon button at our website,
0:16.3	or you can mail as a letter and or contribution
0:18.3	at the Professional Left Podcast, P.O. Box 9133, Springfield, Illinois, 62791.
0:25.9	And it's not safe for work.
0:46.0	And it's not safe for work. So let's talk about the goddamn 80s, little gal.
0:48.6	All right, the 1980s?
0:49.6	In the 80s.
0:51.9	Not the 1880s, the 1980s. The 1980s. The great American decade, the one that turned everything around.
0:56.1	Big 80s, yeah.
0:58.6	So we're going to talk a little bit about the 80s because a major event in both of our lives and the American political life of this country happened during the 1980s.
1:09.5	But let me tell you what I was doing, because it's all about me.
1:15.0	In Illinois, where I live, the drinking age in 1979 was 19 years old.
1:22.9	Pretty cool, right?
1:24.3	Yeah.
1:24.8	I was 19 years old in 1979.
1:27.4	Also pretty cool.
1:29.0	In October. You turned 19 in the end of October, right? At the end of October. And that's around the time Illinois decided to raise the age to 21, starting in January 1st, 1980. Oh, my goodness. So you had three months. Two months, two months,
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