Roughly Speaking

2:00: A day after the day after Donald Trump's shocking victory in the presidential election, Dan reads from David Remnick's essay, "An American Tragedy," in The New Yorker. Dan's latest column was written Tuesday night as votes from battleground states indicated a Trump defeat of Hillary Clinton.9:41: Republican analyst Richard J. Cross III, a former Capitol Hill and Annapolis press secretary and political speechwriter, talks about what Trump's triumph means for the GOP and the country. Cross's recent op-ed in The Sun was about Trump and his leading surrogates, now likely to be part of a Trump administration.Links:http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/an-american-tragedy-donald-trumphttp://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/dan-rodricks-blog/bs-md-rodricks-1109-20161108-column.htmlhttp://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-four-horsemen-20161105-story.html

1:53: Invoking a line from "Game of Thrones," political analyst Herb Smith talks about where the polls and pundits went wrong in forecasting Tuesday's election results. Smith is a longtime political science professor at McDaniel College and a GOT fan.13:17: Kimberly Moffitt talks about the Obama backlash as represented in the vote for Donald Trump. Moffitt is associate professor of American Studies and affiliate assistant professor in the Departments of Africana Studies and Language, Literacy and Culture at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. She is co-editor of the 2009 book, "The Obama Effect."27:11: Why white women went for Trump over Hillary Clinton despite his shabby record of behavior toward women, with Melissa Deckman, chair in political science at Washington College and author of “Tea Party Women: Mama Grizzlies, Grassroots Leaders, and the Changing Face of the American Right," and Mileah Kromer, director of the Goucher Poll at the Sarah T. Hughes Field Politics Center at Goucher College.

3:04: Baltimore Sun media critic David Zurawik talks about baseball and the World Series and the final week of the presidential campaign.24:51: Film critics Linda DeLibero and Christopher Llewellyn Reed review two news films, "Moonlight," and "Certain Women," and then, with Election Day approaching, offer a short list of our favorite films about American politics.1:11:42: Ahead of his Friday night birthday bash at Baltimore Sound Stage, reggae vocalist Scott Paynter, known on stage as Scotty P, recounts his Ugandan adventure with one of his musical idols, British reggae and pop singer Maxi Priest.Links: http://scottpayntermusic.com/bio

In this podcast:2:46: Sean Gallagher, IT editor of Ars Technica, walks us through the flap caused by FBI director James Comey’s letter to Congress about Hillary Clinton’s emails as well as a Slate report about the Trump campaign’s possible connections to Russian hackers.38:35: Dr. James Burdick, professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, talks about the prospects of a single-payer health insurance system — to replace Obamacare — and the critical role doctors would have to play in it. Burdock is the author of “Talking About Single Payer: Health Care Equality for America,” published by New Horizons.Coming Wednesday: At 12:30 p.m., a Facebook Live concert from the Baltimore Sun lobby, featuring Symphony Number One. Twenty seats available. If you want to attend, drop Dan a line at drodricks@baltsun.com.Links:http://arstechnica.com/author/sean-gallagher/https://www.amazon.com/Talking-About-SINGLE-PAYER-Equality-ebook/dp/B01D5HMQAQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8----qid=1458658042----sr=8-1----keywords=james

5:32: Should Howard County establish a special fund to provide public financing of local political campaigns? It’s Question A on the general election ballot. Two proponents talk about the issue — Howard County Councilman Jon Weinstein and Maryland PIRG director Emily Scarr — while Dan offers opposition from a recent Sun op-ed by Howard County executive Alan Kittleman. The Sun has endorsed Question A while the Howard County Times published an editorial in opposition.24:20: Paula Gallagher, Baltimore County librarian and Roughly Speaking book critic, shares one book she really likes, one she likes, one that she two-thirds likes and one she likes not at all.39:50: Bob Hieronimus, Baltimore artist and champion of Negro baseball league history, talks about pitcher Leon Day, born 100 years ago this weekend. Day was a stellar pitcher for Negro league teams, including the Baltimore Elite Giants. Hieronimus describes Day’s long road to Cooperstown and the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. Day will be remembered Satu

From “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” to “Stranger Things,” an appreciation of music from horror movies, television and the web with Terence Hannum, an assistant professor of art at Stevenson University, visual artist and musician who loves horror films and the music that gives them an extra layer of creepiness. Once a year, as Halloween approaches, Hannum compiles the best of horror music for his podcast, “Dead Air.” Today he shares some of his favorite soundtracks with us.Links:http://stevensonu.podbean.com/e/dead-air-2014-horror-film-soundtrackshttp://www.stevenson.edu/deadair

Maryland’s moratorium on fracking for natural gas ends in October 2017, and, putting forth rules last month, the Hogan administration said its regulation of the industry will be the most stringent in the nation. But environmentalists and some residents of Western Maryland, where the drilling will take place, believe the rules do not go far enough — and that too much is still unknown about fracking’s effect on the environment and on human health. There will likely be a call for a complete ban on hydraulic fracturing in the Maryland General Assembly when it convenes in January. On today’s show, the first of a series on fracking, Dan speaks with a leading opponent of the process: Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food ---- Water Watch and author of “Frackopoly: The Battle for the Future of Energy and the Environment.” Links:http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/green/blog/bal-gr-state-introduces-anticipated-fracking-regulations-20160927-story.htmlhttp://www.times-news.com/news/local_news/friendsville-bans-fra

3:29: Beer aficionado Barry Hansen, Mid-Atlantic regional manager for City Brew Tours, talks about his tours of the craft breweries that have taken root in Baltimore.7:53: Coming attractions: Film critics Linda DeLibero and Christopher Llewellyn Reed have some notes to share about films to be looking for this fall.12:32: It’s one of the most delicious and comforting dishes in the world, and while there are plenty of Greek-American restaurants and carry-outs that sell them, today we discuss the do-it-yourself gyro. (Yes, you can make one at home.) John Shields from Gertrude’s Restaurant, where they’ve had gyros on the lunch menu, compares notes with Dan, and provides a recipe for all-important tzatziki sauce. For additional information, check out this DIY video from Alton Brown on the Food Network. And if you like the Gyro parody song by So Tiri that accompanies today’s episode, here’s the YouTube video.

Sun columnist Dan Rodricks and American culture commentator Sheri Parks comment on the third and final presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is one of the busiest places on the planet. It has been in operation, educating public health officials and doctors, conducting research and saving millions of lives, for 100 years. As part of its centennial commemorations, the staff at Bloomberg compiled a list of 100 objects that shaped public health over the last century. We go over some of them — from the obvious to the obscure — with our health contributor, Dr. John Cmar of Sinai Hospital.Links:http://www.globalhealthnow.org/100-objectshttp://www.lifebridgehealth.org/Main/LifeBridgeHealthPhysicianDirectory/Cmar-John-MD-651.aspx

Brendan Dorr, who tends bar at the B----O American Brasserie and serves as president of the Baltimore Bartenders Guild, showed up at The Baltimore Sun with five brands of rye for a tasting. On today's show: The results of that memorable recording session — plus the recipe for Brendan’s featured cocktail of the month, The Scofflaw.

In 1984, Pamela Rigby and her mother, Vivian Rigby, were winning bidders of a 19th-century photo album at an auction on Baltimore's Antiques Row. They soon discovered that the woman who had started and maintained the album, Fannie Keene, was a former slave who had lived most of her life in Missouri. The Rigbys went about trying to identify the dozens of men, women and children whose formal portraits appear in the album, and they had some success. But many of the people are still unidentified.By taking her project public, Pam Rigby hopes to continue her late mother's work, connecting African-Americans with the ancestors they likely never knew. Rigby has published a book about the album and her efforts to identify the people pictured in it. The book is, "Waiting To Be Found: The Lost Treasure of Fannie Keene." Pam Rigby has a website devoted to her project, and she hopes to reach people whose family roots were in Missouri and Illinois. She is scheduled to speak in the Writers Live series at the Enoch Pratt Free

Reactions to last night’s debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump — with Barry Rascovar of Political Maryland (1:20), plus mild-mannered Maryland Republican Richard Cross, and political analysts Melissa Deckman from Washington College and Kimberly Moffitt of the University of Maryland Baltimore County (16:20). We also talk about the 2005 videotape in which Trump bragged about sexually assaulting women, something that has caused numerous Republican officials to distance themselves from their party’s candidate for president.

4:05: Will Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation” be a box-office success or suffer from a boycott promised by the director’s critics? The movie, which tells the story of Nat Turner and the bloody slave rebellion he led in 1831, generated great buzz and garnered a lucrative Hollywood deal after its debut at the Sundance Film Festival. While many feel compelled or obligated to see the movie, especially in this time of Black Lives Matter and heightened tensions about race relations, others have vowed boycott because of Parker’s history with a sexual assault case. As his star rose this summer, details emerged about the rape charge Parker faced — and was acquitted of — while a student-athlete at Penn State in the late 1990s. Film critics Linda DeLibero and Christopher Llewellyn Reed discuss the film and the controversy.23:17: The Sun’s media critic, David Zurawik, talks about television coverage of the baseball playoffs, the format for Sunday night’s Clinton-Trump debate and the growing role of social media as a s

A conversation with Joshua Harris, the Green Party candidate for mayor of Baltimore in November’s general election. In his campaign, Harris has pushed a plan to create a public bank to provide capital to finance local projects. He also wants to attract clean-energy manufacturing jobs and “transform a blue-collar town into a green-collar town.” Harris, a Chicago native, sits on the boards of Southwest Partnership, Charles Village Urban Renewal Plan Community Review Board and Paul’s Place Community Advisory Board. He co-founded Hollins Creative Placemaking, which aims to revitalize the historic Hollins Market community.Links:http://www.harrisforbaltimore.com/

1:46: Baltimore Sun sports columnist Peter Schmuck talks about last night’s American League wild-card game, won with a walk-off home run by the Blue Jays’s Edwin Encarnacion off the Orioles’ Ubaldo Jimenez. With the Orioles eliminated from postseason play, there are two big questions today, one about the immediate past, the other about next season: Why did manager Buck Showalter leave ace closer Zach Britton in the bullpen, and where do the Orioles go from here?20:24: Sun reporter Justin George gives some background on his in-depth look at gun crimes in American cities, including Baltimore, and the growing lethality of gunfire. George’s series, “Shoot To Kill,” shows Baltimore to be one of the most lethal of America's largest cities while Washington and New Orleans shared the brutal distinction of one in three shootings ending in a homicide in 2015.Links:http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/bal-orioles-blue-jays-wild-card-game-20161004-story.htmlhttp://data.baltimoresun.com/news/shoot-to-kill/

Saul Zaentz was a Hollywood producer who won three Academy Awards for Best Picture: "The English Patient," "Amadeus," and "One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest." He died in 2014, leaving behind a foundation that, among other things, established a new film incubator at Johns Hopkins University. Launched in March with a $1 million grant, the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund in Film and Media supports prospective filmmakers and audio/visual artists who submit ideas for projects and get some mentoring before going into production. We hear about some of the fellows and their unique projects from Roberto Bus\u243\u-Garc\u237\ua, director of the fund and the Hopkins Master of Arts in Film ---- Media program.Links:http://articles.latimes.com/2014/jan/04/entertainment/la-et-mn-saul-zaentz-oscar-winning-producer-dead-at-92-20140104http://zaentzfund.com/http://krieger.jhu.edu/film-media/directory/roberto-buso-garcia/

Today on the show, Dan catches up with the Sun’s media critic David Zurawik to talk about last Monday’s televised debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. With Clinton widely seen as the winner of that debate -- well prepared, with attacks on Trump’s record that seemed to stick and keep him on the defensive for the rest of the week — what will the next debate might bring? The second debate, with CNN’s Anderson Cooper as host, is scheduled for a week from Sunday.Baltimore County librarian Paula Gallagher is back with three books recommendations, including a new novel by Emma Donoghue, author of “Room,” another by Carolyn Pankhurst, and a superb nonfiction book about lobotomy and the disturbing history of psychosurgery.

At 39, Wheelie Wayne is the godfather of Baltimore’s 12 o'clock guys, the dirt bikers who have been a source of irritation and fascination for years. DeWayne Davis has gained international notoriety — and a friendship with rapper Fetty Wap — for his skills on city streets. Videos of Davis balancing his bike on its rear tire have won millions of views on YouTube. He has 208,000 followers on Instagram. Fetty Wap has come to Baltimore to hang out, ride with Davis and pick up some pointers. In today’s episode, Wheelie Wayne talks about dirt bike culture, the current crackdown by Baltimore police and the prospects of creating a dirt bike park to get riders off city streets. Also joining us is M. Holden Warren, Baltimore-based filmmaker, photographer and community activist who sees business potential in a dirt bike venue along Baltimore’s infamous “highway to nowhere."Links:http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/dan-rodricks/bs-md-rodricks-0814-20160812-column.htmlhttp://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/music/

2:26: David Zurawik, The Baltimore Sun's media critic, shares his thoughts about Monday night's televised presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, an event that could draw as many viewers as a Super Bowl telecast.16:08: Kevin Shird, a one-time drug dealer turned youth advocate, talks about the latest shootings of African-American men by police — in Oklahoma and North Carolina — and how police body cameras could make a difference in reducing the use of deadly force in the future. Shird is the author of two books, "Lessons of Redemption," about his tough early life and his 12 years in prison, and "Uprising in the City," about the death of Freddie Gray and the civil unrest that hit Baltimore in April 2015.45:46: Zurawik talks about two television programs — a Frontline look at presidential candidates Clinton and Trump, and the fourth season of "Drunk History" on Comedy Central.Links: https://www.amazon.com/Uprising-city-KEVIN-SHIRD/dp/1684195047/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8----qid=1474642314----sr=8-2