Shawn Farash joins us, Kenny Chesney and Tennessee football enter the mix, and the cut sheet starts with a grim Missouri case before shifting into President Trump’s planned attendance at the Texas-Tennessee game. Shawn stays with us as the cut sheet rolls through Steve Sarkisian discussing what happens to team communications when the president moves around a football stadium. That turns into a long run of jokes about presidential bathroom breaks before we play Kamala Harris trying to explain recommendation algorithms through yellow and pink flowers. The crew reacts to the explanation and turns the exchange into a wider conversation about confidence, knowledge and public figures trying to explain technical subjects.
The cut sheet keeps moving through a lesbian bar’s mask dispute, public masking, young men, military technology, college sociology and a clip from a woman declaring that she does not want to work while government assistance is available. We debate how much these clips reflect larger political attitudes and return to the morning’s socialism discussion, including Greg’s long-running expectation that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will become a major presidential contender.
Then we spend substantial time on the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells after a July Fourth trip to Horn Island. A Mississippi grand jury finds no basis for criminal charges, while Wells’ family continues asking about bruising and the circumstances surrounding his death. We go through the unanswered questions, his belongings, the witness accounts and possible explanations for how he ended up in the water. The hour closes as Farash Friday Fight Club gets its new one-day-a-week setup.
