Welcome to the Writers Room podcast. I'm Trevon Free, back with my buddy Kathy Liu and

co-worker and co-writer at AGW. We're going to kick the show off talking about the summer's

biggest winners and losers and after that Pat Barker and Joel Solomon are going to give

you another edition of Get Off My Lawn, get cranky and old for you guys and then Kathy's

going to come back and wrap it up with Brendan. What are you guys doing?

We're giving some hot recommendations. Recommendations?

Yeah.

Alright, I like recommendations. I like things. So, the second for you.

It works for me. I'm definitely tuned into that. But we're going to start off with the

biggest winners and losers of summer 2016. It's winding down. It's been a very weird

summer. Who's your winner for the summer 2016?

I can already tell that you're going to be mad at who my winner is. I will qualify it by

saying not the only winner of summer 2016, but a winner, I would give it to Rob Thomas.

Rob Thomas, you guys hear that in 2016? I think that's the first time I've heard his name

in the summer.

See, that's why he's winning because he's quietly sneaking in there in a way that like,

you know, it'd be easy for me to give it to Arthur, like Shout out to Arthur.

Shout out to him.

Can I win the game?

Yeah, exactly. But I was thinking about this a lot because I was watching all of the

Olympics coverage and seeing the way that someone had matched up the song Smooth with Katie

Lydeky's swim. And then also with a question in someone was prancing, well, a horse, not

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