The following podcast contains explicit language.

It's the morning of July 29th, 2016.

On the last day of the DNC, it's a quick and dirty dissection and AM spiel.

For two straight weeks, we were treated to telepromp did testimony,

lusty booze at the mention of disfavored policy,

treated to chance of USA, like a high pressure hose washing away the graffiti of descent

or sprinkled over the voices of protesters, like sawdust on vomit in my old elementary school.

We were living in a place where the mention of any state was automatically almost

Pavlonianly greeted with a cheer and we're warnings of the dire consequences of

airing in this exercise and democracy were punctuated not with heads hung low, but by a balloon drop.

These are the conventions of conventions.

The cumulative effect is to wonder if this is the best we could do at convincing our fellow man.

The visions presented between Republicans and Democrats diametrically opposed.

The Republicans were gloomy, maybe in keeping with the national mood.

The Democrats were sunny, certainly in keeping with the truism

that Americans want positivity in their leaders.

Here was Andrew Cuomo, New York governor last night.

We're not going back. We're going forward.

They say they say they want to make America greater than ever before.

We say you haven't seen anything yet.

You watch what we're going to do with America.

Okay, uplift beats downcast, right?

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