Gary Trauner, three-time Democratic candidate for federal office in Wyoming, joins us again to discuss current politics. Today’s topics include Janet Mills dropping out of the Maine Senate race, Gary’s take on Jon Ossoff, who he thinks gets the message right, SCOTUS’ repeal of the Voting Rights Act, and Gary’s belief that parsing Trump’s nonsense is a fools’ game.

Because John Cole was under the weather, DougJ (NYT Pitchbot) and mistermix interview Gary.

Episode 11 of Personality Crisis is a little different than our usual political fare. This one has John Cole interviewing Dylan Ris, who is a creative writer and composer living in LA. Dylan and John have a wide-ranging discussion about what’s keeping Hollywood from green-lighting anything but derivative copies of already successful franchises. John also expresses his opinions about who should be in the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame, other than Oasis.

Dylan’s latest project is a movie about what happens when a 70’s glam rock star becomes the host of a British television show:

https://wefunder.com/rogerwodehouse

Mark Jacob is the former metro editor at the Chicago Tribune, and former Sunday editor at the Chicago Sun-Times. He’s the co-author of 11 books, mostly on history.

In our second episode with Mark, he and John Cole talk about the future of journalism. Topics include Mark’s advice to someone just starting out, the disparity in financing between left and right “influencers” and Mark’s current projects.

Mark’s Substack Stop the Presses: https://www.stopthepresses.news/

Courier is a journalism initiative that supports Mark’s Substack and other journalism: https://couriernewsroom.com/

Mark’s recommended links:

Jennifer Schulze’s Substack Indistinct Chatter: https://jenniferschulze.substack.com/

Greg Sargent at The New Republic: https://newrepublic.com/authors/greg-sargent

Pro Publica: https://www.propublica.org/