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This is the podcast for August 21st, 2020. It's not safe for work. Coming to you live from the Cornfield Resistance, where hearing from people who care about real issues and speaking complete sentences for four straight days was a breath of fresh air. It's the professional left with drift glass and Blue Gal.

Hey, Drick Glass.

Happy anniversary, Blue Gal.

Hey, thank you very much.

We celebrated our ninth wedding anniversary on Wednesday.

We did.

And it is the pottery anniversary.

So I put a fifth of scotch in a clay pot and Drift Glass put a beautiful writing pen and some yarn in a virtual clay pot.

And we celebrated.

And so thank you so much. It was a very lovely day.

It's like, it's like the story of how you cook a duck. You know, you put a brick in the

stomach and you bake it in the oven for four hours at 400 degrees and throw the duck away and eat

the brick. So you just throw the pottery away and save what's inside of it. And save what's inside inside of it and it's a good gift. Yeah. And your gift was lovely to me. Thank you so much. And it was it was nice to have an anniversary on the week of the Democratic National Convention. Yeah. Well, you know, my wife's a writer and there's a lovely local artist collective that sells handmade stuff.

And a handmade pen seemed appropriate, especially since this week there was so much to write about.

There was so much to write about.

And, I mean, we're not going to go through day one through day four for you.

Okay.

No.

As far as I know.

I mean, I think there's some highlights we should talk about, but let's talk over all.

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