You can listen to the professional left wherever you get your podcasts on Networks Radio or at our website, proleftpod.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 contribution at P.O. Box 9133, Springfield, Illinois, 62791.

This is the podcast for October 29, 2024.

It's not safe for work.

Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance,

where it's been a minute since we did any straight-up

no-fair remembering stuff.

So here's a little blast from the past.

Hey, that's a neat rifle.

Let me see it.

Ken, all the firearms are locked up. Locked up. Yeah,

and all the ammunition's locked away. And dad says no one touches those firearms unless he's here.

Oh, that's dumb. It is not. The only thing dumb about firearms safety is people who don't play it safe.

Yeah, who said? My dad and the National Rifle Association.

It's the Professional Left podcast with Drift Glass and Blue Gail,

and that was a CBS public service announcement from November of 1976.

That was 12 presidential elections ago.

A different world.

We hope you're doing okay, Jimmy Carter. This was post-Nixon

and soon to be post-Gerald Ford, but pre-Ragan, pre-Falwell, pre-Gingrich, pre-Limbaud.

And now here we are with precious few days before this incredibly consequential election.

I know lots of people are stressed out about it.

But we assume that all of you good people are doing all that you can productively to elect Kamala Harris and Tim Walls.

...