Amazon discovered the perfect product: one that bricks itself. Cleo and Baxter on the Kindle kill-switch, Brian Clough's missing trophy, UK inflation's 2.8% headline hiding 7.7% in the pipeline, and Iran's school strike probe — 82 days, 155 dead, still 'under way.'

• (00:00) - Cold Open: Old Kindles losing store access — digital ownershi
• (01:00) - Host Intro
• (01:33) - Topic 1: Old Kindles losing store access — digital ownershi
• (07:49) - Topic 2: Brian Clough omission: how 'best manager' lists ar
• (14:12) - Topic 3: UK inflation 2.8% vs. 7.7% producer prices — and t
• (19:47) - Deep Dive: Iran school strike: 82 days, 155 dead, 'probe stil
• (27:11) - Closing

Trump's former lawyer just signed a $1.776B settlement — paid from a fund built for court judgments, not deals. A jury then tossed Musk's OpenAI suit on a technicality. And Nigel Farage's £1.4M house has a 36-day arithmetic problem. Three stories, same shape.

• (00:00) - Cold Open: $1.776 Billion Anti-Weaponization Fund / Judgment
• (01:12) - Host Intro
• (01:44) - Topic 1: $1.776 Billion Anti-Weaponization Fund / Judgment
• (10:03) - Topic 2: Musk v. OpenAI: jury dismissal on statute of limit
• (16:48) - Deep Dive: Fiduciary mission drift — the mechanism that faile
• (20:35) - Topic 3: Farage's £1.4M house and the 36-day gap
• (25:28) - Closing

Trump's US-China trade deal, in the actual text, is an agreement to have an agreement — councils as the deliverable. Five countries walked out of Eurovision over Israel. Seth Rogen calls AI scripts 'stupid dog shit.' And the hantavirus cruise's 21-day window may have closed too early.

• (00:00) - Cold Open: US-China tariff deal: 'in principle' language
• (00:54) - Host Intro
• (01:29) - Topic 1: US-China tariff deal: 'in principle' language
• (11:18) - Topic 2: Eurovision boycott: EBU consistency problem
• (18:16) - Topic 3: Seth Rogen on AI and writing craft
• (23:26) - Deep Dive: Hantavirus cruise ship: 21-day vs. 42-day isolatio
• (29:35) - Closing

Australia spent $717M building ferries with no berths to dock at. Three passengers died on the Hondius; 38 Filipino crew are still aboard. Morgan Freeman "boards" a film C.J. Obasi already made. And the Supreme Court vacated a voting-rights case without signing it.

A $600,000 fine for losing on purpose — about 0.04% of the owner's net worth. The NBA isn't fixing tanking; it's filing it. Then Reform UK's flyer misspells the candidate's own name. Then HHS routing patients to crisis pregnancy centers via a .gov seal.

• (00:00) - Cold Open: NBA Draft Lottery & The $600k Tanking Fine
• (01:05) - Host Intro
• (01:43) - Topic 1: NBA Draft Lottery & The $600k Tanking Fine
• (08:44) - Topic 3: Reform UK's Councillor Suspension Contradiction
• (14:06) - Topic 2: Moms.gov and the Federal Health Infrastructure Pro
• (21:56) - Deep Dive: Moms.gov and the Federal Health Infrastructure Pro
• (26:43) - Closing

Three dead, 29 passengers walked off at St. Helena, and the ship sails on to Tenerife. Big Freedia finished a record SOPHIE left behind in 2016. Eight states have redrawn 13 House seats since last year. And Greece quietly excused itself from the EU's new biometric border.

• (00:00) - Cold Open: Hantavirus cruise ship: Andes strain and the 29 pa
• (01:13) - Host Intro
• (01:48) - Topic 1: Hantavirus cruise ship: Andes strain and the 29 pa
• (10:17) - Topic 2: SOPHIE / Big Freedia posthumous EP and the meaning
• (16:35) - Deep Dive: Tennessee redistricting and the coverage gap
• (22:10) - Topic 3: EU Entry/Exit System (EES): biometric border check
• (27:40) - Closing

Pablo Cruz hit #1 in four countries with Vengeance. He's not allowed to see the numbers. Howard Lutnick threatens a 25% EU car tariff that already exists. 100 drones hit Ukrainian cities hours after a ceasefire. And Costa Rica's La Nación loses three visas — no charges, no appeal.

• (00:00) - Cold Open: Pablo Cruz and the Streaming Black Box
• (01:03) - Host Intro
• (01:33) - Topic 1: Pablo Cruz and the Streaming Black Box
• (10:07) - Topic 2: The Tariff That Already Exists
• (13:18) - Topic 3: Russia's post-ceasefire drone strikes on Ukraine
• (17:42) - Deep Dive: US visa cancellations targeting Costa Rica newspap
• (23:45) - Closing

Dropout is selling a rulebook for a game whose whole bit is no rules. Sabalenka and the top ten threaten to walk on Wimbledon. Tennessee redraws Memphis after candidates already filed. Denver gets a May blizzard. The institutions keep changing the rules mid-game.

• (00:00) - Cold Open: Dropout's Game Changer home edition and the rulele
• (00:48) - Host Intro
• (01:53) - Topic 1: Dropout's Game Changer home edition and the rulele
• (07:57) - Topic 2: Tennis players vs. the Grand Slams: labor vs. inst
• (20:25) - Deep Dive: Tennessee redistricting and the Memphis majority-B
• (27:41) - Topic 3: May snowstorm hitting cities that skipped winter
• (34:43) - Closing