The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal
by Driftglass and Blue Gal
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Ep 1031: The Pain In Your Brain Is Mainly? Trump's Insane
Oct 16, 2026
1h 18m 02s
Ep 1030: Rolling Out The Trump-Off Machine
Oct 14, 2026
1h 00m 59s
Ep 1029: Elois And Morlocks and MAGAs, Oh My!
Oct 9, 2026
1h 04m 58s
Ep 1028: Here Come The Bribes!
Oct 7, 2026
45m 37s
Ep 1027: Fair Weather Fiends
Oct 2, 2026
1h 00m 20s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 10/16/26 |  Ep 1031: The Pain In Your Brain Is Mainly? Trump's Insane | Episode 1031 coins “the Tribe That Rubs Shit In Their Hair” to explain why Republican candidates thrive inside their media cave but collapse the moment they face real questions, from Andy Harris illegally threatening a journalist for recording him to Ken Paxton dodging every debate invitation. Driftglass and Blue Gal praise the “Ossoff-El-Sayed School of Excellent Elocution,” showing how Democratic candidates win by going straight at opponents with facts and refusing to let them change the su... | 1h 18m 02s | ||||||
| 10/14/26 |  Ep 1030: Rolling Out The Trump-Off Machine | Episode 1030 catches Marjorie Taylor Greene mid-rehabilitation tour, exposing how her media-friendly break with Trump is laying the groundwork for a “Trump Off Machine” that lets unrepentant election deniers stay angry at Trump while still believing their original lies. Driftglass and Blue Gal then dig deep into what Build Back Better actually promised versus what survived Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema’s gutting, tracing the bill from its original $2,100-page scope down to the much smaller I... | 1h 00m 59s | ||||||
| 10/9/26 |  Ep 1029: Elois And Morlocks and MAGAs, Oh My! | Episode 1029 uses H.G. Wells’ Eloi and Morlocks from “The Time Machine” to explain how the Republican intellectual class spent decades designing policy in comfortable think tanks while ignoring the ugly, racist work being done below them to actually win elections. Driftglass and Blue Gal trace how Heritage Foundation types like Sarah Longwell claim total surprise at today’s GOP, despite living through Rush Limbaugh’s reign, the Tea Party’s open racism, and three Trump elections in a row. The ... | 1h 04m 58s | ||||||
| 10/7/26 |  Ep 1028: Here Come The Bribes! | Episode 1028: We open with a surprising local story: former Illinois House GOP leader Jim Durkin endorsing Democrat JB Pritzker over Republican Darren Bailey, exposing deep cracks in the state party even as MAGA loyalists like Mary Miller double down. Then we trace Trump's escalating bribery strategy as the midterms approach, from $5,000 promises at a half-empty Dallas rally to $500 Obamacare rebate checks mysteriously concentrated in battleground states to surprise $90 Medicare payments raid... | 45m 37s | ||||||
| 10/2/26 |  Ep 1027: Fair Weather Fiends | Episode 1027 tracks the widening cracks in MAGA's coalition as elite Conservatives and Republican officeholders begin quietly distancing themselves from Trump while his approval craters to 31%, proving the mob was never really following him — he was following the mob, and now the mob is splitting. Driftglass and Blue Gal pull a bizarre, rambling Time Magazine interview in which Trump complains about unfair press coverage paragraph after paragraph, then compare it word-for-word to his identica... | 1h 00m 20s | ||||||
| 9/30/26 |  They Won't Say The 'R' Word? (Republican) | Episode 1026 marks the 18th anniversary of the 2008 financial crash by pointing out MAGA voters' selective amnesia about who was president when, then pivots to a Springfield civic meeting on election security that carefully documented every safeguard in Illinois elections while never once naming why the "controversy" exists in the first place. Driftglass and Blue Gal unpack Midwestern code phrases like "this isn't about Republicans and Democrats," showing how the same words mean belligerent d... | 1h 04m 20s | ||||||
| 9/25/26 |  Ep 1025: Panic At The Grift Shop | Episode 1025 opens with a longer off-the-cuff discussion of Mehmet Oz stripping people from Obamacare and the GLP-1 "bridge" program from Medicare, both moves that seem designed to serve Trump's ego and pocketbook more than public health. Driftglass and Blue Gal then turn to the MAGA voters now performing shocked-pikachu-face on TikTok after ICE came for their own employees and girlfriends, revealing they never cared about anyone else's suffering, only their own. The episode traces how Never ... | 1h 06m 06s | ||||||
| 9/23/26 |  Ep 1024: The Magic Word | Republicans are betting the midterms on rewriting recent history. Driftglass and Blue Gal compare Trump's 32% approval to Bush's nearly identical 34% on his way out the door, then trace how "independent" has become the magic word MAGA grifters use to dodge accountability without changing a single belief. The episode also digs into Christian Nationalism's real numbers and history, from Falwell blaming 9/11 on gays and feminists to a Methodist church group just now discovering that 30% of the c... | 1h 00m 46s | ||||||
| 9/18/26 |  Ep 1023: Life During Wartime? | Episode 1023 tracks how Republicans keep telling us who they are, from Darren Bailey embracing young-earth creationism to Trump calling Democrats "the enemy from within" over and over again. Driftglass and Blue Gal line up years of Trump's own words describing political opponents as existential enemies, then ask a hard question: if the Right sees this as a real war, shouldn't we believe them and plan accordingly? The episode also catches Erick Erickson, a longtime Trump critic turned supporte... | 1h 02m 29s | ||||||
| 9/16/26 |  Ep 1022: The Hearts of Men | Episode 1022 asks what history's hardest lessons — Reconstruction's collapse, the Allies' insistence on unconditional German surrender — have to teach about defeating a movement built on grievance and racial resentment rather than "economic anxiety." Driftglass and Blue Gal make the case for treating the whole GOP as an enemy of democracy, not a rival to reconcile with, and for why repetition of hard truths may be the only weapon the Left has left. Stay in Touch! Email: proleftpodcast@g... | 55m 22s | ||||||
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| 9/11/26 |  Ep 1021: The Coal Ash Of Politics | Episode 1021 exposes a $6 million Republican ad campaign that manipulated grieving parents of murder victims into unknowingly slandering North Carolina Senate candidate Roy Cooper with lies their own children's killers had nothing to do with. Driftglass and Blue Gal trace how this fits a decades-old pattern — Fox News and Hate Radio building a toxic "coal ash pond" of propaganda so complete that facts bounce off true believers, illustrated by journalist Barton Gellman's failed attempt to fact... | 1h 01m 41s | ||||||
| 9/4/26 | political commentaryhistorical revisionism+3 | — | Snoopy vs. the Red Baron | — | SnoopyRed Baron+5 | — | 50m 54s | ||
| 9/2/26 | Republicanspolitical commentary+4 | — | beefRepublicans+2 | — | RepublicansTrump+5 | — | 49m 58s | ||
| 8/28/26 | politicselections+3 | Dr. Cinde Wirth | Congress | IndianaBartholomew County | Cinde WirthIndiana 6th District+3 | — | 1h 05m 26s | ||
| 8/26/26 | Never TrumpRepublican base+3 | — | — | — | Never TrumpRepublican Party+3 | — | 55m 25s | ||
| 8/21/26 | tone policingcivility+3 | — | CNNMLK | — | tone policingcivility+5 | — | 1h 01m 26s | ||
| 8/14/26 | politicsmedia criticism+3 | — | Fox NewsDSA | — | James CarvilleFox News+5 | — | 55m 53s | ||
| 8/12/26 | Democrats in Disarrayprogressive politics+3 | — | Third WayDemocrats+1 | — | DemocratsRed Scare+5 | — | 1h 01m 35s | ||
| 8/7/26 | Democratic politicsMissouri ballot initiative+3 | Gregg Bush | Missouri State Legislature | Missouri | Democratic PartyMissouri politics+3 | — | 1h 14m 13s | ||
| 8/5/26 | American radicalizationfundamentalism+3 | Matthew Sheffield | FluxTheory of Change podcast | — | radicalizationfundamentalist Mormon+3 | — | 1h 03m 13s | ||
| 7/31/26 | Fauci witch huntWhite House Correspondents' Dinner+4 | — | The Masque of the Red Death | White HouseRepublican | FauciWhite House Correspondents' Dinner+4 | — | 44m 32s | ||
| 7/29/26 |  Ep 1010: WHCD WTF? | Episode 1010 dissects the White House Correspondents' Dinner disaster, where Trump used his own celebration of press freedom to attack the journalists in the room with vile personal insults. Driftglass and Blue Gal replay a decade-old clip from their own archives—recorded the week Trump effectively won the 2016 nomination—to prove that Liberals saw this coming while the legacy media obsessed over Hillary's emails. The episode argues the real scandal isn't Trump's cruelty, which was never a my... | 1h 00m 48s | ||||||
| 7/24/26 |  Ep 1009 The Wall | Episode 1009 asks what happens when you're 20 miles into the political marathon and there's no cavalry coming over the hill to save the day. Driftglass and Blue Gal explore the difference between American "hero arrives just in time" storytelling and the harder truth found in movies like Spotlight and Lincoln—where victory comes from grinding, patient work, not a last-minute miracle. The episode confronts what it feels like to hit The Wall after decades of activism that moved the needle but no... | 1h 11m 36s | ||||||
| 7/22/26 | Biden's economic winsRepublican obstruction+4 | — | Republican | — | BidenRepublican+4 | — | 56m 22s | ||
| 7/17/26 | Blue Gal's birthdaypodcast archives+5 | — | — | — | Blue GalDriftglass+7 | — | 1h 16m 39s | ||
| 7/10/26 | free speechpolitical commentary+5 | — | Pump Up the Volume | — | Truth is a virusGingrich's language wars+6 | — | 1h 05m 13s | ||
| 7/8/26 | local newspolitics+3 | — | — | Illinois | Illinoislocal news+3 | — | 1h 04m 15s | ||
| 7/3/26 | MAGApolitics+3 | — | Bob Cesca Showproleftpod.com+1 | Springfield, Illinois | MAGApolitics+5 | — | 1h 07m 08s | ||
| 7/1/26 | science fictiontrust+3 | — | Who Goes There?The Thing from Another World+1 | — | science fictiontrust+3 | — | 1h 04m 06s | ||
| 6/26/26 | Republican Partypolitical history+3 | — | Republican PartyTea Party | — | Republican PartyTrump+3 | — | 1h 02m 20s | ||
| 6/24/26 | fictional Americapolitical commentary+3 | — | Obama Presidential Center | — | Octavia ButlerObama Presidential Center+3 | — | 1h 14m 15s | ||
| 6/18/26 | political commentaryhistorical context+3 | — | — | — | politicscommentary+3 | — | 1h 22m 10s | ||
| 6/12/26 | Chicago machine politicspatronage systems+3 | — | The Professional Left Podcast | — | corruptionpolitics+5 | — | 54m 06s | ||
| 6/10/26 | media biasBoth Sides Do It+3 | — | NPR | — | mediapolitics+5 | — | 1h 11m 59s | ||
| 6/5/26 | Democratic Partypolitical commentary+3 | — | 60 Minutes | — | DemocratsScott Pelley+4 | — | 49m 11s | ||
| 6/3/26 | Maine Democratic Senate primarymedia circus+3 | — | — | Maine | MaineDemocratic primary+3 | — | 1h 11m 06s | ||
| 5/29/26 | politicspronouns+4 | — | RepublicanTrump+1 | — | politicspronouns+5 | — | 59m 22s | ||
| 5/22/26 | war on memorypolitical myths+3 | — | — | — | recycled liesmemory+5 | — | 1h 03m 17s | ||
| 5/20/26 | Republican party2008 election+4 | — | Republican party | — | Republican party2008+4 | — | 1h 07m 45s | ||
| 5/15/26 | budget surplusfinancial collapse+4 | — | Republican Party | — | budget surplusfinancial collapse+6 | — | 1h 15m 08s | ||
| 5/13/26 | family planningRepublican policy+3 | — | Reagan | — | underbabiedfamily+5 | — | 1h 02m 10s | ||
| 5/8/26 | media analysispolitical propaganda+3 | — | mainstream mediapolitical smear campaigns+1 | — | political smearmainstream media+3 | — | 1h 04m 02s | ||
| 5/6/26 | authenticitypolitical media+4 | — | Velveeta | — | authenticitypolitical media+5 | — | 55m 51s | ||
| 4/24/26 | political strategyvoter outreach+3 | — | — | — | politicsvoters+3 | — | 1h 01m 14s | ||
| 4/22/26 | authoritypolitics+4 | — | Bush500-year-old German philosopher | — | authoritypolitics+4 | — | 56m 19s | ||
| 4/17/26 | political loyaltydark money+3 | — | New Yorker | — | AmeriKKKan GothicReagan+5 | — | 1h 04m 45s | ||
| 4/15/26 | normalizationpolitical coverage+4 | — | The Maltese Falcon | — | normalizingpolitics+5 | — | 1h 01m 26s | ||
| 4/10/26 | Middle East conflictIraq War+3 | — | — | AmericaMiddle East | Middle EastIraq War+5 | — | 51m 24s | ||
| 4/8/26 | American politicssocial media+3 | — | Twitch | — | politicssocial media feud+3 | — | 1h 13m 21s | ||
| 4/3/26 | TrumpGOP+4 | — | Fox NewsIran | — | TrumpGOP+5 | — | 52m 05s | ||
| 4/1/26 | Republican politicsdemocracy+3 | — | New York TimesFox News | — | Build Back BetterGingrich+7 | — | 1h 00m 48s | ||
| 3/27/26 | political commentarycultural analysis+4 | — | The Walking Dead | — | zombie apocalypseThe Walking Dead+7 | — | 55m 17s | ||
| 3/24/26 | science fictionpolitical commentary+5 | — | Republican partyProject Hail Mary+1 | Roman Empire | Project Hail MaryOzymandias+6 | — | 1h 02m 00s | ||
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Chart history for The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal
Peaked at #134 in Japan, currently #134 in Japan.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | — | #134 | #134 | — |
| CO | — | #178 | #178 | — |
| United States | — | #184 | #184 | — |
Chart Positions
3 placements across 3 markets.
Chart Positions
3 placements across 3 markets.