Roughly Speaking

1:22: John Fritze, the Sun's Washington correspondent, reports on the first day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, and Mileah Kromer, director of the Goucher Poll, comments on the anticipated nomination of Donald Trump for president.17:57: Stan Haynes, a Baltimore attorney and historian, talks about the good old days, when conventions were rough and tumble, frequently held in Baltimore, and full of surprises. Haynes tells the story of the 1880 Republican convention in Chicago, when James Garfield, a man drafted to nominate another for president, ended up as the party's nominee. Haynes is with the law firm Semmes, Bowen ---- Semmes and the author of two books, "The First American Political Conventions: Transforming Presidential Nominations (1832-1872)," and, "President-Making in the Gilded Age: The Nominating Conventions of 1876-1900."Links:http://www.baltimoresun.com/bal-john-fritze-20141007-staff.htmlhttp://www.goucher.edu/academics/political-science-and-international-relations/the-sarah-t-hughes-field-politics-center/about-the-directorhttp://www.semmes.com/attorneys/stan-haynes.asp

3:22: Presidential historian Richard Striner says the 2016 election could be a catastrophe for the nation and the Republican Party or a breakthrough for progressive politics. He talks about the course of the GOP over the last century and the rise of Donald J. Trump. Steiner is professor of history at Washington College and the author of several books, including "Father Abraham: Lincoln's Relentless Struggle to End Slavery." and, more recently, "Woodrow Wilson and World War I."26:39: Amie Parnes, senior White House correspondent for The Hill and co-author of a book about Hillary Clinton, assesses the damage done to the presumptive Democratic nominee’s presidential aspirations by the FBI director’s recent report on her use of a private email server. Parnes and Jonathan Allen of Bloomberg News are co-authors of"HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton."45:14: Henry Hong of the Thames Street Oyster House and John Shields of Gertrude’s restaurant talk to Dan about his evolving recipe for a better meatloaf, one stuffed with eggs, sausage and cheese. You can find photos and notes about Dan’s experiments — and recipes from Henry and John — on Dan's Facebook page.1:02:42: Brendan Dorr, bartender at the B----O American Brasserie and president of the Baltimore Bartenders Guild, offers recipes for fruit-based summer cocktails, including banana daiquiris, peach mint juleps and a classic called the Clover Club.Links:https://www.washcoll.edu/live/profiles/1790-richard-strinerhttp://thehill.com/author/amie-parneshttp://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/227921/hrc-by-jonathan-allen-and-amie-parnes/9780804136778/http://www.thamesstreetoysterhouse.com/http://www.gertrudesbaltimore.com/https://www.facebook.com/dan.rodricks/http://www.monaco-baltimore.com/inner-harbor-baltimore-restaurants/http://www.bmorebarguild.com/

1:57: Why you should see “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” on the big screen: After “Finding Dory,” the pickings are slim among new releases this summer. So film critic Linda DeLibero noticed in coming attractions a revival screening of “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” at the Charles Theatre in Baltimore on July 23 and 25. Until the new Jason Bourne movie gets here, she says, this might be your best summer ticket. "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" was directed by John Huston, and it starred his father, Walter Huston, who won an Oscar as an old gold prospector who meets up in Mexico with two guys down on their luck, one played by Humphrey Bogart, the other by cowboy actor Tim Holt. They set out to seek a fortune in the hills, and what follows is a classic cinematic drama about gold fever, grit and greed. Linda DeLibero is director of film and media studies at the Johns Hopkins University and she co-directs the Hopkins/MICA film center.25:39: Bonus: On this 14th of July, Bastille Day, we could not resist an indulgence — the scene in "Casablanca," starring Bogart in an iconic role, when the Nazis are in Rick’s Cafe American singing a patriotic German military song, prompting the exiled French to rise up and counter with their national anthem.Links:http://thecharles.com/movie/the-treasure-of-the-sierra-madre/http://krieger.jhu.edu/film-media/directory/linda-delibero/

In this podcast: Six questions about the Hillary Clinton email scandal for Sean Gallagher, the Baltimore-based IT editor of Ars Technica. A Navy veteran, Gallagher once served as a computer security officer.

2:53: After the killings of five police officers in Dallas in apparent retaliation for the fatal shootings of black men by police in Minnesota and Louisiana, Dan speaks with Carl Reuben, a rapper known as VeganG. The conversation covers Reuben's experiences with police in Maryland, his angry song and video about stop-and-frisk practices, his reaction to Orioles manager Buck Showalter's call for understanding across the racial divide, and Reuben's positive message about "living a virtuous life."25:29: Baltimore Sun media critic David Zurawik comments on the sexual harassment lawsuit filed by former FOX News host Gretchen Carlson against the cable channel's CEO Roger Ailes.Links:http://www.carlreuben.com/#visionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvd2d-SdWnwhttp://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/bal-kendall-hilton-recalls-his-poignant-exchange-with-buck-showalter-after-orioles-no-fans-game-20160428-story.html

Ironman competitor Rick Armiger, a 45-year-old vice-president at Morgan Stanley in Baltimore, just returned from Germany after completing his 25th long-distance triathlon. He plans to enter two more Iron Man competitions this summer. In today's podcast, Dan speaks with Armiger about how he trains for the endurance challenges — surprisingly, he says his daily diet includes ice cream — and what got him into the Ironman culture. It was a family tragedy 20 years ago that alerted Armiger to the critical importance of cardiac health and led him to establish the Ironheart Foundation, a support network for athletic-minded cardiac patients, their doctors and nurses, relatives and friends. The Ironheart Foundation just produced a movie that will have a screening on July 21 in Baltimore.

In this Independence Day episode of Roughly Speaking, some fresh perspectives on Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, with two leading Jefferson scholars — Annette Gordon-Reed, who won the Pulitzer Prize for history for her research on Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings, and Pete Onuf, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia and senior researcher at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies. Gordon-Reed and Onuf have collaborated on a book, “Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination.”

Is it really elitist for the news media to fact-check everything Donald J. Trump says? Dan speaks with David Zurawik, the Sun’s media critic, about the claim by a Trump supporter on CNN that Trump’s political opponents, not the media, should point out any misstatements by the verbose Republican presidential candidate. David also talks about the too-cozy relationship between political operatives and the cable news channels. Plus, a preview of a new Viceland series, “Black Market,” featuring actor Michael K. Williams, who played Omar on HBO’s “The Wire.”Baltimore County librarian and Roughly Speaking book critic Paula Gallagher offers her 13 best choices for summer reading, including “Vinegar Girl,” a new novel, set in Baltimore, by Anne Tyler.

A Johns Hopkins expert on the Affordable Care Act provides an objective assessment of the implementation of the health insurance law after the third year of enrollment. Jonathan Weiner, professor in health policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, talks about the good and not-so-good aspects of the nation’s historic health insurance expansion, including the refusal of several states with Republican governors to accept federal funds to cover the poorest of their uninsured. Weiner calls that “the biggest political malpractice I’ve seen in my life.” A 30-minute look at the status of the law nationally and in Maryland with one of the country’s go-to experts on the law.

Penguin Random House made publishing news when it agreed to pay a reported $2 million for the rights to a series of novels by a new writer, Emma Cline. The first in that series, “The Girls,” based on the Manson family murders of the late 1960s, is out. Paula Gallagher reviews Cline’s debut novel.Is there such a thing as a “hot hand” in basketball? What’s going on when we see baseball players having a hot streak or a slump? Johns Hopkins’ researcher Jonathan Flombaum takes us to the intersection of sports, brain science and philosophy for a talk about LeBron James and the NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers, the Baltimore Orioles, and what studies tell us about athletes who get “hot.” Flombaum is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Science at Johns Hopkins University, and he’s affiliated with the Visual Thinking Lab at Hopkins.