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The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Shakespeare, Sex, Obama, and the Press

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

4.8920 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2010

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Driftglass and Blue Gal laugh about how to impress women in graduate school with your (fake) knowledge of literature (h/t Harvard Lampoon's Big Book of College Life). Driftglass (over) shares his experience as a white guy in a classroom full of angry man-haters, and we end with discussion of how the White House press corps has earned ill treatment from the Obama White House.Support the show

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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It was one of Shakespeare's unpublished manuscripts that I read up in the Folger Library.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If you're ever caught, say, well, I just read some of his mistranslated yeah yeah unpublished manuscripts at the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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