We open this week’s episode with a report from the far-flung nation of the United States. Then the gang talks about the conspiracy theories around cops and those fireworks that are keeping you awake. Cuomo is trying to kill your grandparents, especially if you live in Troy. The dictatorship of the teen outsmarts the cheetoh-in-chief and for wildflowers we learn about a tortoise who has been a very busy boy.

Unrest in former British colony: https://www.thaienquirer.com/13861/foreign-affairs-unrest-continues-for-a-seventh-day-in-former-british-colony/

Cuomo forces nursing homes to take in Covid patients: https://www.propublica.org/article/fire-through-dry-grass-andrew-cuomo-saw-covid-19-threat-to-nursing-homes-then-he-risked-adding-to-it?token=XgFT9qOh9SrXdoACbzMzWe_PuorElToO

Nursing homes evicting residents to make room for more profitable Covid patients: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/business/nursing-homes-evictions-discharges-coronavirus.html

Diego the tortoise, father to hundreds and saviour of his species, finally retires: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/16/diego-the-tortoise-father-to-hundreds-and-saviour-of-his-species-finally-retires