We start with the crew testing a three-minute sprint study against 90 minutes of moderate activity, which immediately puts Nick’s five-mile walk under attack and sends us back into Dawn’s Ben to the Shore bike stories. Dawn then brings us a North Philadelphia shooting inside a vehicle that leaves a husband and wife critically hurt, with a stray bullet shattering another vehicle’s rear window and injuring a child with flying glass. We also cover an 18-year-old killed in Lansdowne and a World War II-era T-6 trainer that crashes while landing at Heritage Field Airport in Limerick.
The GOP’s first midterm convention in Dallas takes over next, with John Fetterman making a surprise video appearance to introduce Dave McCormick and Trump promising a $5,000 dividend to every adult citizen if Republicans retain both chambers of Congress. We question the cost, the tariff-revenue pitch and the wisdom of putting the convention opposite the NFL, then revisit Jacob Coxon’s warning about self-improving computer systems. Sports brings Kyle Schwarber’s grand slam in an 11-7 Phillies win, LSU’s court fight with the SEC and John Kennedy’s “hobo on a ham sandwich” line, plus Seattle’s 13-10 win over New England.
Our Big Take asks who politicians and media outlets are really serving. We argue for consistency on free speech and against canceling speakers, use Curtis Sliwa’s talk-radio comments and Adam Carolla’s defense of comedians as truth tellers, then challenge the rush to celebrate reports that Jimmy Kimmel is finished when ABC disputes them. Maria Bartiromo’s Fox exit becomes the final case study as we debate partisan incentives, the alleged internal-memo dispute, access to Trump and whether Fox is preparing for life after the Trump era.
