Brett and Brad follow up on confusion from last week with a discussion of what heat is and why phase changes matter for efficiency. We then talk Flock cameras, those ubiquitous automated license plate readers that have spread like wildfire across the country in the last few years. After the break, we talk the 19th Amendment: women's suffrage. Brett relates Danny DeVito's narration of the Matilda movie at Severance Hall.

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Brett and Brad go deep on data centers. What are they? Why are people concerned about them? What resources do they use? Who pays for them? Are they good or bad? After the break, we continue our series on constitutional amendments with the 18th: Prohibition. Plus, some movie recommendations worked in.

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Brett and Brad are back together again this week, and we talk the federal government's out of court Settlement with Trump & co. primarily tied to his lawsuit against the IRS. We play some Sonny Rollins in honor of his passing this past week. After the break we talk the 17th Amendment which changed how Senators are elected.

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Brad and Eric (not Brett?!) discuss the 16th Amendment, why it exists, and some of the common misinterpretations of what it means. We briefly touch on the Supreme Court's Mifepristone access ruling, voiding a stay by the 5th Circuit Federal Court. After the break, we discuss a new article detailing dental surgery performed by Neanderthals ~59,000 years ago. Finally, Eric shares his perspective on being a new(ish) father, and we collectively groan over the Cavs while praising the Guardians (and Monsters).

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Brett and Brad dive into the short and meaty 15th Amendment in the first half of the show, examining how Supreme Court interpretations have changed over time. In the 2nd half of the show we discuss some new promising drugs for treating pancreatic cancer: Daraxonrasib and Elraglusib, and Brett explains how they work. Listen back to S4E6 from February 4th to learn about a different approach to treating pancreatic cancers.

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Brett and Brad continue our series on Constitutional Amendments with the 14th Amendment. Brad details the new Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope set to launch in September. Brad admonishes Brett for missing dinner at Sushi by Bou, and we talk the Michelin Guide's expansion to the Great Lakes, including Cleveland, along with the origin of the Michelin Man, "Bibendum".

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Brett and Brad discuss the attempted assassination at the White House Correspondent's Dinner and how it relates to political violence in the US before discussing the merits of the new indictment against former FBI Director James Comey. Brad talks the history of Boogie Woogie music before the break, and after we continue our series on Constitutional Amendments with the first of the reconstruction amendments: the 13th: Abolition of Slavery. We end with a short discussion of Travis Bazzana's debut with the Cleveland Guardians.

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Brett and Brad discuss a few instances of crashing out (you decide if they're valid or not) including an usher from the Pittsburgh Pirates who's being sued for assaulting a fan and Kash Patel suing the Atlantic for an article. Afterward, we discuss the unexpected shutdown of one of the few remaining instruments on Voyager 1. After the break, we discuss the origin and purpose of the 12th Amendment before ending with a story about the life found in the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" and why it's unexpected.

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Brett and Brad discuss the Artemis II splashdown, the new exhibits at the Cleveland Museum of Art (primarily Manet & Morisot, but Martin Puryear's exhibit is also very good!), and complain(?) a bit about Tax Day and RITA. After the break, we discuss a court case (Hobby Distillers Association v. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax & Trade Bureau) on the road the make distilling liquor at home legal and the reasons it's making waves. We end with the beginning of a new series where we will visit the origin of the US Constitutions Amendments, starting this week with the ever popular 11th Amendment.

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Brett and Brad discuss the Artemis II flyby of the moon before diving into the Supreme Court decision in Chiles v. Salazar on "conversion therapy". We talk Dyngus Day and Brett explains why yesterday was National Beer Day and a bit of history on prohibition. We extol the virtues of the Cleveland Guardians before touching on the THC beverage ban in Ohio.

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