This week - and for the foreseeable future anyway - residential real estate agents & REALTORS will be altering the way they do business. CNBC's Diana Click explained why earlier this year, and a Chicago TV sit-down with a closing attorney and broker/agent sort of gives you a proper sense where (and why) the industry's changing.

Did I mention I'm a residential REALTOR? Well I am, and I'm only too eager to share my audible eye-rolling over all of this.

Then, the opinions abound in the aftermath of Georgia school superintendent Richard Woods' stumbling, fumbling and bumbling through defunding AP African American studies before being called out by those in his own party and eventually set straight by Attorney General Chris Carr. Well, Woods relented, but in the aftermath of that, the AJC offered up opinions from a former Jasper County Republican leader who opines "Racism is not dead," Maureen Downey weighing in on how the same party's 'divisive concepts' law is at the heart of the attempt to defund the curriculum, and historian Clennon L. King on black society's role in teaching their history to their children. I don't disagree, but I also do, sort of.

'Atlanta Voice' editor-in-chief Donnell Suggs joined me Friday to give us a sense where black voters' minds seem to be from his vantage point after a break-neck month of change. In particular, we discuss Donald Trump's disastrous sit-down at the National Association of Black Journalists' (NABJ) conference in Chicago.

We share our thoughts on Donald's just-as-breathtaking press conference, and Donnell also let us behind the scenes, of sorts, with some insights into his one-on-one with Senator Jon Ossoff from inside the 'Atlanta Voice' offices.

The Georgia Election Board - now with election denialists - wants to (again) look into Fulton County's 2020 "curiosities." Ya know what? I say go for it. As my (returning) guest today - Marilyn Marks (VP and executive director of the Coalition for Good Governance) believes, I don't think there'll be a change in Georgia's outcome (and we know it wouldn't alter the Presidential outcome either), but the margin may change (obviously). Hell, it could pad Biden's advantage. But yeah, I say "go for it."

I "math" the math to spell that belief out, but I also had Marilyn return today to explain why it's Democrats who have it "all wrong" and Republicans who have "some if it right" but gets that lost among their haul of nonsense, too.

More importantly, though, she (and I agree with her, fully now) believes Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is solely to blame for doubts about 2020 lingering and for not moving us away from Dominion touch screens and back to landmarked paper ballots.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz indeed was the choice VP Kamala Harris made (as I asserted should be the case back on July 29th) to be her running mate, and his first test - accepting and giving his first stump speech - didn't disappoint. [Transcript here] Well, the New York Times editorial board mostly approved, anyway, but a raucous crowd of 12,000-plus in Philadelphia sopped it up.

Near-immediate right wing attacks on his Congressional record, his time as governor, and even his 24-year National Guard service came, and are mostly eviscerated by historical context and facts as we now know them, but we'll give them their time and fact-checking, here, too. George Chidi from 'The Atlanta Objective' joined me to provide context.

Oh I forgot the 'antisemitism' swipes; Mehdi Hassan quickly wiped those out last night on CNN. Also, it turns out Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro 'wrestled' with even wanting the job. '

Chitra Ragavan, C-suite tech executive, strategic advisor, executive coach and award-winning journalist, authored "Why Kamala Harris needs a 'competent' white man to win" for The Hill recently, and the headline drew me in. Naturally, I asked if she'd join me shortly before Kamala Harris chose a (more than) 'competent white man' in Tim Walz to be the VP nominee for the Democratic Party, which I'll get to late in the show (though I essentially endorsed him eight days ago), but first ...

I wanted Chitra to explain to me what the "warmth-competence matrix" is and if Kamala Harris is walking a tightrope (or is it a Venn diagram?) between the two well enough.

Nancy Pelosi appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" to react to the news that Tim Walz had been tabbed, by the way, and rebuffed notions that Walz is "too progressive."

I won't filter my exuberance in watching as Donald Trump remains consistently "Trumpy," just as he was Saturday afternoon in the same - albeit less full - venue Kamala Harris held a raucous rally just days ago.

Trump spent more time attacking Governor Brian Kemp - and Kemp's wife, Marty - than he did his ballot opposition, and local Republicans are anything from perplexed to flat-out livid.

Hear the juiciest tidbits from that, along with me bringing new Pro Public reporting that Georgia's "voter cancellation portal" is already inviting foul play - with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green each seeing their voter registration targeted for removal. Good job, Raffy!

Nate Silver's giving a slight edge to Kamala Harris in his latest forecasting and - bear with me - this RFK Jr. story has me questioning if there's a glitch in the matrix we're all obviously living inside of.

Kinda ... "curious" ... that Georgia's school superintendent Richard Woods took more than a week to reveal why he pulled state funding for AP African Americans studies. Turns out its the state's two-year old "divisive concepts" law. What's funny about that is governor Brian Kemp - who signed the law - wasn't aware that was Woods' rationale. We know that because, remember, Kemp made a big public spectacle by sending a letter asking for Woods' reasoning.

Gwinnett County Schools - the state's largest - is already abandoning AP African American studies curriculum. The root of the problem? Questioning 'intersectionality' - which, like "critical race theory" - is a relatively new term and one hastily demonized by conservatives eager to see to it future generations of Americans are less and less aware of the nation's awful history on race, racism and bias.

When CNN's conservative stalwart says "He (Donate Trump) crapped the bed today," you know the former President managed to embarrass himself (if he had self-awareness, anyway) ... and that's definitively what happened at his sit-down with three black female panelists at the National Association of Black Journalists' (NABJ) gathering in Chicago Wednesday.

Hear the blow-by-blow - with Trump immediately cranky over a delay and microphone issues (and being quoted so precisely apparently) with some input from yours truly and the likes of Steven A. Smith, plus Roland Martin & Dr. Walter Kimbrough, as well.

The Georgia Secretary of State's "timely" rollout of a "voter cancellation portal" isn't garnering many headlines (yet) but it should send alarm bells to anyone concerned about voter disenfranchisement and hackery. Hell, it feels like a "dinner bell" to people and organizations constantly challenging voters' rights. My guest - Marilyn Marks with the Coalition for Good Governance - explains what's so concerning about this.

Oh, and Kamala Harris came to Atlanta to deliver remarks to a packed arena in downtown Atlanta. No big deal. Hear her speech and some "in the audience" audio, too, thanks to my buddy Calvin.

What Donald Trump and JD Vance are saying on the campaign trail or in TV interviews doesn't match what Vance, at least, is telling donors about the state of the race now that Kamala Harris is atop the Democratic Party ticket. The Washington Post obtained audio of JD telling donors they got sucker punched. Trump's complained on Truth Social the Republican Party should get reimbursed - get this - for "fraud." The gall.

Prior to Kamala Harris' Atlanta rally, polls were already tightening (more on that on Wednesday's show) but we'll go over a bit more of that and wander slightly into the Georgia Voter Cancellation Portal quandary, too.

Oh and the hyperventilating on the right over the Opening Ceremonies! Listen as I hone in on one right-wing radio show host's Facebook screed - and his audience's chiming in, too.