A Bad Look For Usher, Another Great Week For Josh Kerr

Discussed in this episode:

– Standing desk philosophical debate: Aisha is 50/50 sitting and standing. Eric has his at the lowest setting and sits.

– Women's Professional Baseball League launches: Boston Hunters, New York Heights, Los Angeles Queens, San Francisco Fireballs — all playing in Springfield, Illinois.

– The national anthem at the WPBL opening game: Potentially the worst national anthem performance ever captured on video.

– Shoutout to Kari Cotone-Chavez, whose a cappella group (The High Notes) sang the national anthem at USAs.

– Usher concert, Gabrielle Cheyenne, and the Facebook clap back: Usher's team pre-screens fans to bring on stage. Gabrielle was selected, froze completely when the lights came on, Usher visibly realized and had her removed, the video went everywhere.

– Nicolas Cage WWII film stolen from Netflix: An unencrypted master copy of a film called Fortitude — seven years to make, $45 million to produce — was stolen from the Hollywood studio.

– The Odyssey: Eric saw it, not in IMAX (technically only saw one third of the film), the AC was broken, he was fully dehydrated and fidgeting while the stranger next to him complained.

– Jimothy update: Eric is warming up. Not fully on board, but open to the journey.

– Commonwealth Games recap

– The Josh Kerr weight discourse: Hobbes Kessler raised it at USAs. Aisha addresses it carefully

– The return of Jakob Ingebrigtsen at European Championships

Voicemails include: Jimmy's Eric Jenkins redemption arc; rules for pacers contracted for races; live from a port-a-potty caller; MLB hat survey from a recent Europe trip by a Rail Rider; Amy's cross country team cemetery laps.

Coming up: European Championships. Eric is racing the Guardian Mile. Shoutout to the Alexander family.

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