The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal
by Driftglass and Blue Gal
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Ep 989: 'Velveeta'
May 6, 2026
55m 51s
Ep 988: Schrödinger's Alliances
Apr 24, 2026
1h 01m 14s
Ep 987: The Vice of the People
Apr 22, 2026
56m 19s
Ep 986: 'AmeriKKKan Gothic'
Apr 17, 2026
1h 04m 45s
Ep 985: 'The Cheaper The Crook...'
Apr 15, 2026
1h 01m 26s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 5/6/26 |  Ep 989: 'Velveeta' | Episode 989 of The Professional Left takes on one of the most overused words in modern politics — "authenticity" — and asks whether anyone in American political media is actually serving the real thing, or just a smooth, processed, cheese-like substitute that melts consistently and tastes like what people want to hear. Driftglass and Blue Gal trace the long, strange history of politicians and pundits who have made a very comfortable living telling their audiences exactly the lies those audien... | 55m 51s | ||||||
| 4/24/26 |  Ep 988: Schrödinger's Alliances✨ | political strategyvoter outreach+3 | — | — | — | politicsvoters+3 | — | 1h 01m 14s | |
| 4/22/26 |  Ep 987: The Vice of the People✨ | authoritypolitics+4 | — | Bush500-year-old German philosopher | — | authoritypolitics+4 | — | 56m 19s | |
| 4/17/26 |  Ep 986: 'AmeriKKKan Gothic'✨ | political loyaltydark money+3 | — | New Yorker | — | AmeriKKKan GothicReagan+5 | — | 1h 04m 45s | |
| 4/15/26 |  Ep 985: 'The Cheaper The Crook...'✨ | normalizationpolitical coverage+4 | — | The Maltese Falcon | — | normalizingpolitics+5 | — | 1h 01m 26s | |
| 4/10/26 |  Ep 984: War On Hiatus Due To Bad Ratings✨ | Middle East conflictIraq War+3 | — | — | AmericaMiddle East | Middle EastIraq War+5 | — | 51m 24s | |
| 4/8/26 |  Ep 983 "How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb"✨ | American politicssocial media+3 | — | Twitch | — | politicssocial media feud+3 | — | 1h 13m 21s | |
| 4/3/26 |  Ep 982: Failure to Launch✨ | TrumpGOP+4 | — | Fox NewsIran | — | TrumpGOP+5 | — | 52m 05s | |
| 4/1/26 |  Ep 981: Build Back Better✨ | Republican politicsdemocracy+3 | — | New York TimesFox News | — | Build Back BetterGingrich+7 | — | 1h 00m 48s | |
| 3/27/26 |  Ep 980: Zombie Apocalypse✨ | political commentarycultural analysis+4 | — | The Walking Dead | — | zombie apocalypseThe Walking Dead+7 | — | 55m 17s | |
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| 3/24/26 |  Ep 979: Legacy✨ | science fictionpolitical commentary+5 | — | Republican partyProject Hail Mary+1 | Roman Empire | Project Hail MaryOzymandias+6 | — | 1h 02m 00s | |
| 3/20/26 |  Ep 978: WMD | Driftglass and Blue Gal compare Bush's Iraq debacle with Trump's Iran war—the lying, the cover-ups, the profiteering, the attacks on critics—revealing Trump isn't a break from the Republican past but a continuation of it, just bigger, dumber, and louder. The episode also discusses how the New York (effin') Times deliberately cleans up Trump's incoherent rambling while adding "uhs" and "ums" to try to make AOC look stupid. All this plus Illinois primary results and the national media's despera... | 1h 11m 47s | ||||||
| 3/18/26 |  Ep 977: An Apple Made of Razors | (And we talk about the Illinois Democratic Primaries! They were counting votes as we recorded.) Episode 977 examines the 2026 Illinois Democratic primary while dissecting David Axelrod's fantasy that Democrats should rerun the Obama 2008 campaign in 2028, as if the berserk Republican backlash to Obama never happened. Driftglass and Blue Gal discuss how legacy media pundits use lazy abstractions about "the people" and "the voters" while pretending the Republican party didn't become... | 52m 35s | ||||||
| 3/13/26 |  Ep 976: Signs and Portents | Episode 976 examines the signs and portents showing Trump's base starting to fracture as broken promises about Epstein files and "no foreign wars" collide with reality. Driftglass and Blue Gal track special election upsets across the country, from New Hampshire to Georgia's R+19 district where even Trump's handpicked candidate couldn't avoid a runoff after 22% of MAGA voters disobeyed orders. The episode explores why Joe Rogan claims Trump supporters feel "betrayed" while refusing to admit hi... | 1h 06m 24s | ||||||
| 3/11/26 |  Ep 975: The 'C' Word | Episode 975 takes a trip back to Chicago to explore how big cities weather economic shocks that would destroy smaller towns—a lesson that matters as Trump's oil crisis, job losses, and ACA cuts hit rural Trump voters hardest. Driftglass and Blue Gal examine the fragile interconnectedness of small-town economies and why cascade failures are coming to red America, where MAGA voters are about to learn the hard way that Obamacare and the ACA are the same thing. The episode explores how scale matt... | 1h 04m 28s | ||||||
| 3/6/26 |  Ep 974: 'But He Promised!' | Episode 974 examines why Trump's illegal war with Iran is splintering the MAGA base and fueling Democratic victories in special elections across the country. Driftglass and Blue Gal trace how Trump won in 2016 by offering Republican voters absolution for the Iraq War disaster—then broke his sacred "No Foreign Wars" promise just like he's covering up the Epstein files. The episode dissects who gets forgiveness in American politics and who doesn't, exposing how Never Trumpers demand we forget L... | 1h 04m 49s | ||||||
| 3/4/26 |  Ep 973: Miracles? | Episode 973 explores biblical healing miracles to reveal what they teach about choice, cruelty, and the difference between victims who deserve compassion and abusers who don't. Driftglass and Blue Gal revisit the story of the Gerasene man possessed by "Legion" to examine the long-term trauma inflicted when military forces terrorize civilian populations—then and now. The episode lays out why there can be no forgiveness without repentance, no redemption without atonement, and why "cheap grace" ... | 1h 01m 58s | ||||||
| 2/27/26 |  Ep 972: 'Little Note Nor Long Remember' | Trump's State of the Union was a two-hour Willie Horton ad designed to keep his shrinking base loyal through blood-soaked imagery borrowed from imperial Rome. Proleftpod traces how Michele Bachmann's 2011 Tea Party response prefigured today's MAGA lies by pretending the Great Recession never happened, just as Trump pretends away ICE murders, the Epstein files, and economic chaos. It's about memory, manipulation, and why the anomalies we remember from the past tell us exactly where we're heade... | 49m 34s | ||||||
| 2/20/26 |  Ep 971: The Resistance Comes To Suburbia | Episode 971 examines why fact-checkers keep losing to Republican lies in America's ongoing culture war, and why better stories—not more facts—are the only way to win. Driftglass and Blue Gal break down Will McGrath's powerful essay "In the Resistance, We Drive Minivans" to show how real stories about real people cut through propaganda in ways statistics never can. The episode also tackles why centrist pundits are tying themselves in knots now that "resistance liberals" turned out to be right ... | 1h 04m 19s | ||||||
| 2/18/26 |  Ep 970: Lifeboats And How To Burn Them | Episode 970 asks why Democrats are always expected to play by rules that Republicans openly mock and destroy, and whether apologies from Trump voters mean anything without actual accountability. Drawing on one writer's (Jamil Smith) refusal to accept an apology from a Trump voter, the show tackles the question of what comes after "I'm sorry" in American politics. Stay in Touch! Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.comWebsite: proleftpod.comSupport via Patreon: patreon.com/proleftpodor Donate in ... | 1h 06m 14s | ||||||
| 2/13/26 |  Ep 969: Whatever Happened To 'The American People'? | Episode 969 explores how politicians and media use vague phrases like "the American people," "the voters," and "the public" without anyone agreeing on what these terms actually mean. Driftglass and Blue Gal trace these polyfunctional words through American history, from Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth to Nixon's "silent majority" and today's political battles over who gets to speak for the nation. They examine how these phrases do political work rather than descriptive work, often excl... | 1h 10m 16s | ||||||
| 2/11/26 |  Ep 968: Their Loyalty Test Never Ends | Probably no need to play catch-up on this, except for future reference when we hit episode 2000 and are trying to convince the Neo-Republi-tarian Constitutional Independents who will come to dominate the media in 2045 after the Great Forgetting of 2032, that all of this actually happened... More at proleftpod.com. Link for this episode: Chelsey Gods with that song about Kristi Noem. Stay in Touch! Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.comWebsite: proleftpod.comSupport via Patreon: pa... | 59m 37s | ||||||
| 2/6/26 |  Ep 967: The Death of Nixon('s Maxim) | Average voters stay permanently undecided because they get their information from toxic media sources that have been poisoning them against Democrats for decades, making "running to the center" mathematically impossible and politically useless. Links for this episode: Volts ϟ 1.30.2026 – Michael Hobbes (All About "Reactionary Centrism") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5cFRQtPbcM Ian McKellen (on Colbert) 'using Shakespeare to tear off the false moral mask that xenophobes wear acr... | 1h 09m 46s | ||||||
| 2/4/26 |  Ep 966: The Persistence of Memory | The legacy media's "Both Sides Do It" conventional wisdom is a rotting corpse they've been sleeping with for decades while pretending they couldn't see Trump's fascism coming. David Brooks gets rewarded with cushy jobs at The Atlantic and Yale after being spectacularly wrong for 22 years, while PBS replaces him with a right-wing nobody who praises Trump as "the voice of reason" because of course they did. It's past time to destroy the media's claim that "nobody saw this coming" by point... | 1h 00m 43s | ||||||
| 1/30/26 |  Ep 965: The Amnesia Machine Warms Up | The amnesia machine is already warming up as Republicans rehearse their "I was never really MAGA" speeches while Trump falsely claims Ilhan Omar staged her own chemical attack by a convicted felon Trump supporter. The episode tears apart the advice that Democrats should run against their own party to win over "average voters" who get their information from toxic sources that have been poisoning them against Democrats for decades with the Both Sides lie. As the Washington Post collapses and Da... | 1h 11m 06s | ||||||
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