We’re back together after Labor Day, and the morning opens with LG smart-TV privacy concerns before Philadelphia takes over the conversation. We dig into two nights of teen chaos near City Hall, John Dougherty’s sentence commutation, Coatesville water restrictions, a youth-football coaches’ brawl and the investigation involving New Jersey Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell. Then Nick’s Big Take turns to the midterms with Pete Hegseth, record Labor Day gas prices, the Trump administration’s postwar Iran plan, Republican polling scenarios and the question of whether eight more weeks can still move voters.
We look ahead to Friday’s 25th anniversary 9/11 broadcast and talk about first-hand stories, the Garden of Reflection and how a younger generation understands the attacks. School calendars, religious holidays and summer schedules give way to the Trump administration’s draft plan to pay some married stay-at-home parents with existing childcare funds. The Cut Sheet takes us from Socialism 2026 and Seattle’s “trigger pullers” wording to a Florida Stand Your Ground shooting, a wild American Airlines flight, Rooney Tuesday, Virginia Tech’s penalty for high-fiving VMI cadets, an In-N-Out spatula rescue, Disney adults and a Missouri vanity-plate fight.
We keep Rooney in the mix for Fight Club, Ryan Reynolds’ attack on rosy 1980s nostalgia, Rula Jebreal’s “AIPAC monkey” remark about Hakeem Jeffries, Joy Reid’s defense and Gavin Newsom’s presidential-podcast question. Gas prices, Iran and Republican midterm messaging get one more round before Today in Music History. Dawn’s Big Three then takes over with the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, Corie Walsh’s murder charge and the police shooting of HeeHaw the miniature donkey, followed by a childhood cat study and an Eagles boardwalk pep rally in Ocean City.
