Aloha and mamaste everyone and welcome to In Politics and Culture for Odyssey and Puck.

Coming at you every Wednesday and Friday with fresh topical

candy conversations with the people who roam the quarters of power and influence in America

and entertainment, tech, business, sports, and of course, our anchor tenant around here,

politics, which this week has taken this show on the road to, where else, the windy city,

second city, mud city, the City that works, City in a garden,

City by the lake, City of Big Shoulders, the Heart of America, Hog Butcher of the World,

Paris on the Prairie, Shai Town, Shiberia, Shrach, the setting for the

shy, shameless, ER the Bob New Hart Show, the Good Wife, married with Children, Punky Brewster, and of course, The Bear.

As Frank Sinatra put it, my kind of town.

And as Juliet Jake and his brother Elwood put it even better.

Sweet Home Chicago.

Where the Democratic National Convention has just wrapped its second night,

and what a night it was.

Barack Obama, Michelle Obama.

The first ever second gentleman, an aspiring first ever first gentleman,

Doug Emhoff.

Plus, Kamala Harris and Tim Walls beaming in from a standing room only rally 90 miles away at the

Fyser Forum in Milwaukee where you may well recall Donald Trump and his

Republican Party held a jamboree of their own in what seems like a galaxy and a timeline far

far away but was in fact just one month ago all of that all of it coming on the heels

of a long first night of the DNCC on Monday which featured Hillary

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