It's the Democracy, Stupid Full Episodes
Oct 5, 2026 · 2 hr 40 min · 11 segments
On this week's show – Mark Jacob, author of the Stop the Presses newsletter on Substack, former metro editor at the Chicago Tribune and Sunday editor at the…
Edwin EisendrathHost
Mark JacobGuestWill CraftGuest
Nora BenavidezGuest
Scott WaguespackGuestWelcome back to Edwin Eisendrath's It's the Democracy, Stupid on WCPT 820.
Hi, Edwin.
First of all, let's start at the Sachs Winter opener down in Ohio.
They're blowing through expectations to I'd never seen before.
I mean, this team is just blowing through experts' expectations.
But this midterm reminds me of a game I learned as an eight-year-old kid with the Navy veteran state.
It was a game called Changeable.
It was seven-card stud, and you threw a ca- the last card be thrown in the middle, that was the wild card.
Well, if you cleared the board, you changed the card.
So in other words, you would ...
Let's say you were going for a straight or you had two, you had a pair, you might, you know, you're hoping w- that would turn into that wild card.
So you're never really out of the game, so you had a say in the game really till the bitter end.
But that's, that's what this, uh, election reminds me of.
And there was a cute, there was a woman who called, a lovely woman, who called Joan's show, and she repeated what, uh, Sheldon Whitehouse said about Trump.
He said, "He's half gangster and half gong show host." I thought that was the, that was the tapper.
You know, that's about it.
A gangster and, and, and gong show host.
That's, that's about what he is.
And think about, you know, he's getting these monuments because he can get this national security, supposedly.
The ballroom's gonna have, you know, its underground submarines, whatever.
Welcome back to Edwin Eisendrath's It's the Democracy, Stupid on WCPT 820.
Hi, Edwin.
First of all, let's start at the Sachs Winter opener down in Ohio.
They're blowing through expectations to I'd never seen before.
I mean, this team is just blowing through experts' expectations.
But this midterm reminds me of a game I learned as an eight-year-old kid with the Navy veteran state.
It was a game called Changeable.
It was seven-card stud, and you threw a ca- the last card be thrown in the middle, that was the wild card.
Well, if you cleared the board, you changed the card.
So in other words, you would ...
Let's say you were going for a straight or you had two, you had a pair, you might, you know, you're hoping w- that would turn into that wild card.
So you're never really out of the game, so you had a say in the game really till the bitter end.
But that's, that's what this, uh, election reminds me of.
And there was a cute, there was a woman who called, a lovely woman, who called Joan's show, and she repeated what, uh, Sheldon Whitehouse said about Trump.
He said, "He's half gangster and half gong show host." I thought that was the, that was the tapper.
You know, that's about it.
A gangster and, and, and gong show host.
That's, that's about what he is.
And think about, you know, he's getting these monuments because he can get this national security, supposedly.
The ballroom's gonna have, you know, its underground submarines, whatever.
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