Tonight on the readout.

What kind of country do we want to live in?

A country of chaos, fear, and hate,

or a country of freedom, compassion, and rule of law.

A tale of two campaigns, excitement and engagement from Vice President

Tom La Harris versus a lazy low energy Trump campaign filled with

conspiracy theories including one really delusional and

embarrassing new one.

Also tonight, Trump once reveled in the foreign hacking

of a rival's presidential campaign,

but he doesn't think it's quite so funny now that it's happened to him.

Plus Isaac Hayes the third joins me as he fights to stop Trump

from stealing a song written by his legendary father,

the late great Isaac Hayes.

But we begin tonight with this scene from The Whiz.

Now anybody who knows me knows that it is my favorite musical, theater musical, musical, musical, musical, musical period.

Including the movie with Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsi, Russell, and Lena Horn,

or the OG musical starring Stephanie Mills,

or the Broadway version I recently got to see

with the great Deborah Cox,

my Guyanese sister, as Glinda the Good Witch.

This final scene from the 1978 movie shows the Yellow Brick Road crew

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