Hey, everybody, it's Glenn Thrush with Politico's off message podcast. And I want to give you, first of all, a physical description of where we are sitting. I want to introduce you to the glamorous world of big time political podcasting. We're sitting in a conference room in a holiday inn in downtown Baltimore that has not seen a shaft

of daylight this room.

This room actually, it's like the situation room, but without any power.

And we're on a deeply scratched fake mahogany table.

And my guest this week, Jill Stein, actually had to stop talking for about two minutes

because she claimed that the chemicals that were covering the carpet were giving her an asthma

attack. So this is kind of what it's like. It's been a week that is really focused on the

candidate's health, the Hillary Clinton health scare, the doctor's notes released by both campaigns.

I want to tell you a little funny story.

I have very little interaction with the Trump campaign in terms of them complaining about stories.

But the biggest complaint I ever got I got this week because I decided to call the candidate chubby in a story that I was writing about the relative health of

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. And it was followed up. I initially got a note from one

staffer and then it was followed up by a whole raft of other complaints from really high level

officials in the Trump campaign. So one has to conclude, uh, as one should that perhaps the big

guy, no pun intended, uh, himself may have taken issue with the description chubby, but I'm just

going to let it linger there in the air. Speaking of health, our guest, uh, this week, Jill Stein,

uh, the Green Party candidate for president, a potential spoiler, especially

for Hillary Clinton, is exceptionally competitive about her health. She told us she walked six

miles a day. She is a health food person. She is an exercise person. She's an internist.

And there was a pretty funny moment in this where I asked her what her blood pressure was because the campaign's, Hillary

Clinton's campaign had released her blood pressure. And Jill Stein said I could beat her in

her, essentially I could beat her in anything. And it turned out that Hillary Clinton's blood

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