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On this happy hour, Michael, Anna and Anthony discuss some of the new playlist “graduates” now looking at shiny new Cabinet roles.

Feelings? We have a few. Thoughts? We have even more. On this morning after episode, the gang unpacks this wild rollercoaster election ride we’ve been on as a nation and what we think it all means, and where we think we head to next.

Whether your thrilled or still wanting more, we close out this election season with one final happy hour before the polls close, this time to highlight a few key congressional races in New York, Florida, and Washington.

Okay, let’s all admit it…we’re stress eating (and drinking) and frankly, ready for this election to be over. Except we still have 21 more days.

Not only is there a second life threatening storm approaching our southern states, but it does seem as the election nears that our politics have become darker and, well, stormier, too.

Well, gang, there sure was a whole lotta agreement at Tuesday’s VP Debate and we’re here to say…WE AGREE WITH IT!

On this episode of the Happy Hour, the gang discuss the latest military escalations in the middle east, the crazy political manueverings going on in Nebraska, the importance of youth sports, but first–we welcome two new Under 45ers to the Playlist, both from none other than New Jersey.

On this episode of the Happy Hour, Michael, Anna and Anthony discuss the latest pager attacks in Lebanon before covering a wide range of congressional issues like manufacturing, election certification and a very interesting race shaping up in central California.

That’s a wrap on Anna’s wedding as well as the DNC, and the gang is here to hash it all out this happy hour. Most striking, besides Anna’s shoes, where the amount of young leaders on our platform who spoke at the DNC.

On this episode of the Happy Hour, Michael and Anthony welcome William He, the founder of Dream For America, a progressive organization dedicated towards activating young Gen Z voters.

As Anna prepares to say “I Do,” Michael and Anthony prepare to say “I’ll have another” as the latest political hits keep coming.

This week, Anna and Anthony are making do without the smoothest-talking member of the Political Playlist trio, but nonetheless they’ve got a lot to discuss. From Trump’s problematic remarks about Kamala Harris’s race to the release of US prisoners from Russian jail.

Let’s face it folks, when things are in disarray, sometimes you just need Mom–err Momala, that is.

The Republican National Convention is on, and Michael, Anna and Anthony are here to break down who of our young Congress is speaking at this grand old party.

On this episode of the Happy Hour, the gang rejoice at the news that Anna has found wedding shoes for her beautifully oversized feet!

Happy Juneteenth! On this happy hour, Michael, Anna, and Anthony dive into the Supreme Court’s latest overturning of the Trump-era policy as well as wade into the new immigration marriage policy for undocumented immigrants.

We couldn’t NOT begin this happy hour by talking about the viral spat heard round the beltway. We’re referring of course to the House Oversight Committee hearing that went off the rails.

Wouldn’t it be cool if we could have playoffs between the young Congresspeople under the age of 45?

The craziness in the world ain’t slowing down, so neither are Michael, Anna and Anthony. On this happy hour, the gang continues to cover the escalating campus protests.

Protest, Protest, Hear All About it!. With campus protests engulfing the news cycle, Michael, Anna and Anthony devote the entire Happy Hour to this topic.

On this episode of the Happy Hour, Michael, Anna and Anthony dive right in to all the latest in the Congressional Circus, including a failed cabinet impeachment and Ukraine aid.

If you didn’t think Michael, Anna, Anthony, and Anna again were going to talk about the new confounding Arizona Abortion Ban, then you don’t know this Gang.

In this episode of the Happy Hour, Michael, Anna and Anthony push the limits on how many times they can say “it’s been a busy news week.”

On this episode of the Happy Hour, Michael, Anna and Anthony dive deep into the recent case heard by the Supreme Court revolving around Mifepristone and the FDA’s 20-year-old approval of the widely-used abortion drug.

On this episode of the Happy Hour, the gang talks about the latest supreme court ruling allowing Trump to stay ON the ballot and what this means for the young Congressional Republicans vying to be his VP.

Buckle up kids, because we’re charging head first at the new Alabama Supreme Court ruling on embryos now legally constituting as…children?!?! Yep, it’s a newsy, boozy, ranty episode you won’t want to miss!

On this episode of the Happy Hour, Michael and Anna literally silence Anthony by accidentally keeping him in the Zoom waiting room, while they gab and gab some more about all the news of the day.

On this Happy Hour, the gang dive into the bipartisan immigration deal that looked to defy the odds in the Senate only to see its hopes and dreams squashed by the House. Also covered in this episode is Congressman Dan Crenshaw, Guy Reschenthaler, and of course, the Grammys.

We could not, simply could not, begin this happy hour without addressing the conspiracy plot heard round the cable news cycle–that being the insanely hilarious and frankly asinine theory circulating right-wing media that Taylor Swift and Jason Kelce are part of the government deep state.

Oscar Noms are out and alas, this Political Happy Hour also went the way of the Barbie snubbery. But fear not, Michael, Anna and Anthony still have their acceptance speeches ready to go.

In this action packed episode of the Happy Hour, the gang discuss the latest Iowa Caucus results and what it all means.

Welcome back to the first Political Happy Hour of 2024, where the gang dives back into the chaos in Washington that didn’t seem to take a holiday refresh.

On this episode of the Happy Hour, the Gang discusses the war in Ukraine, how Republicans in the House are holding Ukrainian aid hostage in exchange for demands on immigration, the alarming rate at which opioids are becoming more accessible and the push to make all drugs prescriptions electronic nation-wide, proposed by an unlikely figure in the Senate.

The most important takeaway from this episode, and reason enough to listen, is because there’s a man in Florida nicknamed Mr. Tomato.

On this episode of the Happy Hour, Michael, Anna and Anthony catch us up on the last three weeks of goings-on in the young Congress, including the ALMOST brawl in a Senate hearing.

You may have noticed the asterisk in the title of this episode and that’s not a typo… it was put their by our legal department because on this Happy Hour*–there it is again– we welcome the founder of the progressive organization Dream For America who is…wait for it…only 16 years old!

From fake Facebook accounts sowing division about Israel and Palestine to threats on Jewish-American journalists, this episode takes us deep into the work of Forbes Technology Reporter Alexandra Levine.

On this episode of the Happy Hour, Michael and Anna discuss the House’s latest move to censure their only member of Palestinian descent.

On this episode of the happy Hour, Michael, Anna and Anthony cover a lot of heavy stuff because, well, the world is sort of in chaos right now.

Most importantly, YES we discuss Taylor Swift on this episode of the Happy Hour, but we also discuss a lot of other important things too.