Shakespeare, Sex, Obama, and the Press
The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal
Driftglass and Blue Gal
4.8 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2010
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the podcast for April 30th, 2010. It's not safe for work. |
| 0:04.6 | It's a Jeff Glass and Blue Girl podcast. |
| 0:20.3 | There's a quote about, about, I don't know who wrote it. |
| 0:24.7 | I always describe unknown quotes to Anatol, France. |
| 0:27.4 | So I'll just say, you know, it was probably Anatole France who said. |
| 0:30.5 | It was one of Shakespeare's unpublished manuscripts that I read up in the Folger Library. |
| 0:35.0 | Yes. |
| 0:35.9 | Few know of this. |
| 0:37.8 | You know, that's the big central focus of the Harvard Lamboon's big book of college life on faking it at a college cocktail party is make-up stuff about Shakespeare. |
| 0:49.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:49.7 | If you're ever caught, say, well, I just read some of his mistranslated yeah yeah unpublished manuscripts at the |
| 0:57.1 | folder library i'm sorry you're unfamiliar with them yes the interlidial notes of two gentlemen of |
| 1:03.8 | verona of time and of athens no that was his working title for the merry wives windsor did you know |
| 1:10.6 | just never admit you're wrong go full snob and just that was his working title for the Merry Wives of Windsor. Didn't you know? |
| 1:13.6 | Just never admit you're wrong. |
| 1:14.4 | Go full snob. |
| 1:17.6 | And look at people over your spectacles. Yes, and make sure you develop an intense hatred for some romantic poet. |
| 1:22.7 | Yes. |
| 1:23.5 | Byron? |
| 1:24.9 | Let's reread some of his so-called poems. |
| 1:29.5 | And if you smash your glass against the fireplace. |
| 1:32.8 | And the girl, the cute girl down at the end of the cocktail party thing. |
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