Defiantly avoiding the Melbourne Cup, Crabb and Sales hide themselves away to discuss recent developments in the US Election. Sales is proud to announce that she has had great success growing sweetpeas. New podcasts plus a couple of recent books written by colleagues are discussed. Crabb is horrified to learn Sales' theory that contacts who stick around for many years may well be undercover operatives.

• Leigh Sales interviews Michelle and Stevie Payne on 7.30 - via ABC
• Leigh Sales interviews Richie McCaw on 7.30 - via ABC
• Who is Johnny Eales!? - via Wikipedia
• A handy explainer on the Clinton emails and Anthony Weiner - via New York Times
• Weiner - the film
• Who's Up, Who's Down (Leigh Sales review of 'Weiner') - The Monthly
• Even though Crabb later discovers that Kaz Cooke does not specifically know about research on gardens and satisfaction, she does have a good book with lots of other stuff about what makes women satisfied! Women's Stuff - Kaz Cooke
• The Smug Bundt (photo)
• Leigh's Sweetpea photos:
• - Sweetpeas growing: First, Second, Third
• - The First Flower
• - Sweetpea Victory
• - The First Bunch
• Phoebe's Fall - podcast
• Patton Oswalt: 'I'll Never Be at 100 Percent Again' by Jason Zimoman - via New York Times
• The Berlin Patient - podcast
• Victoria - by Julia Baird
• Light and Shadow - by Mark Colvin

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