Nick is going to see the Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum and Dad has a story to tell about the hang glider on display there. Dad's visit to Grandma's house left him impressed with Retirement home marketing. During follow-up Dad pushes back on Nick's assertions about minimum wage and they both enumerate the five functions of government according to the constitution. And 7-11 makes it back into the discussion.

This week they try to define the US's role in the world and Dad wonders if we want to follow Goethe's advice or if we want to engage with the world. Dad runs down a brief historic timeline of US adventurism and ends with a few questions about secrets and spies and an informed electorate. Can any democracy have a coherent foreign policy?

Finally they rundown the events of the past week. Dad thinks Mitch McConnel was hinting that the President caved in his Friday tweet. They review new additions, and departures, for the Democratic Presidential nomination including Kamala Harris