Like Pigs Around A Melon

We set out to talk about the DLC, but actually end up a little all over the place. We are joined by Murphy's friend Jason and in the intro we talk a little Trump; move into the DLC and many related topics (2:25); and finish out talking about the DNC email leaks, DWS, and transparency (56:10). Thanks for listening!

This is a gloomy episode and a little later in going up than I intended! We open with some talk about ryes and Scotland. From there we jump into discusing the 2016 RNC Cleveland convention (4:00) and we close out talking about Trump's nonsensical NATO commentary (44:18). Our next episode will be Thursday or Friday and discussing the 2016 DNC Philadephia convention. Music is Gloomy Sunday by Paul Whiteman with Johnny Hauser.

Hello! Today we talk briefly about air conditioning in our introduction and then dive straight into (01:05) vice presidental picks Pence (R) and Kaine (D). We reference Pence's anti-otter agenda, which can be found here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/mike-pence-railed-against-adultery-otters-and-paula-jones-in?utm_term=.lakJPW1Wl#.liMvgKpKdWe close out discussing a Worst Case Scenario electoral map. This map supposes that the Republicans win all the swing states, but for Virginia, and the election goes 270-268 to the Democratic Party. Find it here: http://i.imgur.com/jF5UqJR.png

On our inaugural podcast about politics of the day, we start with a basic intro and then jump right into discussing the RNC convention in general and day 1 in particular (01:51). and close out discussing the New Yorker piece on Trump's ghostwriter for The Art of the Deal (26:00). You can find the Art of the Deal story by Jane Mayer at http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all Music is 'I want to go back to Michigan' (1914) by Billy Murray and within public domain. This and more can be found at https://archive.org/details/BillyMurray_part3