Ep 752 No Fair Remembering Stuff: 'Team B'

The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Driftglass and Blue Gal

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4.8 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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How a right-wing takeover of "military intelligence" in 1976 leads directly to kew-anan nonsense today. More at proleftpod.com. Your support of the show really matters! Thanks so much. Support the show: PayPal | https://paypal.me/proleftpodcast Patreon | https://patreon.com/proleftpod Our YouTube Channel Opening and Closing Music: Jumpin Boogie Woogie by Audionautix | http://audionautix.com/| Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream...

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0:00.0	You are listening to another no fair remembering stuff, the Tuesday edition of the Professional
0:04.8	Left Podcast, and available wherever you get your podcasts, and at our website, proleftpod.com,
0:11.0	where you can also contribute to this podcast. There is a Patreon button at our website,
0:15.4	or you can mail us a letter and or contribution at the Professional Left podcast,
0:22.4	P.O. Box 9133,
0:25.6	Springfield, Illinois, 62791.
0:51.9	And it's not safe for work. And we're opening today's show with a quote from the economist John Kenneth Galbraith,
0:53.4	which you're probably all familiar with.
0:54.2	Then we're going to run with it. But first, a heads up that I had blood drawn today for lots of labs and both
1:00.5	my wife and I got shots for RSV. Yep. And so if I'm a little lightheaded or thick of tongue,
1:08.4	please excuse me for my... You'll be fine.
1:11.4	I know, but I want an excuse out there in advance.
1:14.8	Should I...
1:15.2	Oh, okay.
1:15.7	You are pre-excusing yourself for any flaws in this episode.
1:20.1	Blame it on the terrible pain I'm in and the terrible terrible reaction I'm having to comment
1:24.9	every day vaccine.
1:26.7	He's going to be fine. I'll be fine. I'll be fine.
1:29.4	All right. So John Kenneth Galbraith, the quote is,
1:33.6	The Modern Conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy.
1:40.1	That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness, which was cut down from this original quote, which I just love.
1:50.1	Quote, the modern conservative is not even especially modern.
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