Kick off the morning with Jeff Chidester as he takes a long-overdue sanity check on the absolute deluge of political ads—and breaks down just what clueless candidates keep missing about basic marketing. The Morning Update takes calls from listeners on morning topics.

Plus, Jeff dives into the chaos bubbling over in France and calls out the corporate media’s signature misreporting, before wrapping up with the ultimate existential question in modern politics: Where on earth is the “middle of the road” anymore?