This week: Storms a brewing, Donny Jr goes behind closed doors, Webby Topics, we rave Vanessa Grigoriadis new book, and Ian Frazier's New Yorker article; and guest Terry McDermott whose new book "Off Speed" is part memoir, part history of pitching, and a description of a perfect game thrown by King Felix.

This week we devote the podcast to a conversation with Deborah Treisman, who is a fiction and non-fiction editor at the New Yorker magazine and who is the co-author of "The Dream Colony" (Bloomsbury) a bio of maverick art curator Walter Hopps.

This week is summer vacation time. The Prez takes a vacay (but not from twitter); we wonder what would Hunter Thompson say? And we have an amazing, awesome, energizing and inspiring talk with Symone Sanders, Democratic Party Strategist, CNN Political Commentator and the former National Communications Director for the Bernie Sanders Presidential Campaign

This week #Politicon2017 The Prez does some ghostwriting, Scaramucci Out!, Olympics 2028 in LA, and our guest Hasan Piker of The Young Turks, talks about authoritarian governments, understanding Muslims and making news on new platforms like Facebook

In this week's episode: McCain, The Mooch, Hot mics and we sign the praises of the LA Times. Guest Tim Appelo, AARP The Magazine's Entertainment Editor enlightens about the robust growth and success of the Magazine.

This week's program highlights scoops from the New York Times, Buzzfeed and the McClatchy Newspapers -- We single out the New York Times as our week's winner for breaking the story of Donald Trump, Jr.s meeting with a Russian attorney and the emails documenting that meeting, while also expressing our disappointment that Amelia Earhart is till missing. And we welcome our guest Johanna Schneller who writes the "What I'm Watching" column for the Toronto Star to talk about peak TV.

CNN Memes, The Picture that ate Chris Christie's 4th of July. Jersey Boys and the Dumont Television Network, and our guest Sydney Blumenthal, journalist for The New Republic, Washington Post, The New Yorker, Salon.com and The Guardian, Clinton White House staffer and author several books, including a four volume political biography of Abraham Lincoln, the second volume of which, "Wrestling with his Angel" has just been published covering Lincoln from 1849-1856 -- we discuss why this time was so critical in Lincoln's life and the relevance to today's politics and journalism.

Who's up and who;s down? Trump has a "Time" with Mika and Joe, CNN asks 3 journalists to leave, Playboy stands up for CNN and we talk to investigative Jason Leopold of Buzzfeed about their multi-part series "From Russia with Blood"

Georgia on our minds, Kellyanne's back, Spicy fails up, Jared goes abroad, Qatar and Saudi Arabia go their own way. Our guest this week is Zennie Abraham whose YouTube Channel Zennie62 where he covers the NFL draft, ComicCon, among other events and topics and has demonstrated his mastery of the SEO and attracting followers -- which history and whose secrets he shares with us.

Fred Schruers and Tom Teicholz discuss the week's coverage including a Congressman shot, a London building burns down, Shakespeare in the Park sparks controversy, Sessions defends his honor, Megyn Kelly/ Alex Jones, The Deeps State and Oliver Stone gives us a view on Putin -- and just when we need a hero, here comes Wonder Woman and Patty Jenkins, as discussed with Indie Wire's Anne Thompson.