“Dangerous Heat Dome” Is Just July

We open with Shannon Burke sitting in for Kayal and Company with Greg Stocker and Phil Almquist, and the hour begins with the controversial Armie Hammer movie Citizen Vigilante. The crew talks through the movie’s vigilante plot, its anti-migrant themes, Germany’s rating fight, Elon Musk posting the film, Armie Hammer’s attempt at a comeback, and the broader panic over whether movies, music, and video games actually cause violent behavior. The conversation then shifts from movie violence to real immigration policy as Shannon brings up the Supreme Court allowing Trump to strip Temporary Protected Status from Haitians. The crew ties that into a Fort Myers murder case involving a Haitian illegal immigrant, then moves into local headlines: Philly’s “dangerous heat dome,” the Bensalem freight train derailment and hazmat worries, and the search for two teen suspects in the fatal shooting of Penn State student Billy Schmidt. The hour closes with major national political and court stories. We cover the Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship ruling, JD Vance’s coming reaction, the false NPR report that Justice Samuel Alito was retiring, the Supreme Court ruling on transgender athletes in women’s sports, Tom Kean Jr.’s return to Congress after a depression diagnosis, and a sports update featuring the Phillies shutout win, Jeffrey Lurie’s ESPYS honor, the Flyers, Ben Simmons rumors, and soccer.