Hour two begins with Tim Cook’s final day as Apple CEO. We debate what Cook builds on top of Steve Jobs’ legacy, whether Apple’s biggest post-Jobs contribution is the Apple Watch, what happened to the old Apple Store experience and why people line up to spend huge money replacing phones that still work. Tony sticks with Samsung, Dawn’s family stays with Apple, and Steve Wozniak gets his due as we look back at how much the original iPhone changed everyday life.
From there we head to West London for the 60th Notting Hill Carnival, where more than 7,000 officers are deployed and police report 169 arrests during the first full day. We compare the festival to the Mummers, watch the street scenes and eventually get completely sidetracked by Barry White, karaoke and old Tony Bruno footage from a Burbank karaoke bar. The crew digs up Tony working a pole while performing, remembers the celebrities who used to visit the place and turns an international festival story into vintage radio-show archaeology.
The second half of the hour belongs to Josh Shapiro and Pennsylvania’s measles controversy. We work through the Atlantic report about an Amish mother who contracts measles while pregnant, her newborn son’s death, the Lancaster County coroner’s finding of a splenic laceration and the dispute over why the state counts the death as measles-associated. Dawn also raises Pennsylvania’s proposed communicable-disease regulation and the public-comment process, while the crew compares the debate with government powers used during COVID. Lindsay Clancy verdict watch returns, caller Ed from Delran argues for a first-degree murder conviction.
