It's Memorial Day Weekend! Like other summer holidays, people are hitting the roads and the skies to enjoy the three-day weekend away from home. Other people, like Meredith, are afraid to travel and staying home.  This week, the gang discusses their traveling fears, including money, stressful itineraries, and dying. Air traffic controllers getting DOGEed isn't helping.

 

(0:00:00) - Intro (news update, Meredith totally doesn't have COVID, in memoriam car window decals, Tesla is the new BMW)

(0:26:29) - Sounds of the Week:

• Land of Hope and Dreams
• Graduates boo Columbia University head over protester's detention 

(0:41:09) - Traveling

 

Songs:

"The Passenger" by Iggy Pop

"I've Been Everywhere" by Johnny Cash

"Highway to Hell" by AC/DC

 

Notes:

• Tufts University doctoral student out of ICE custody after judge orders her release (0:05:35)
• Georgetown academic released from immigration detention after judge's ruling (0:05:53)
• 2-year-old girl reunites with her mother in Venezuela after US deportation (0:06:22)
• Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to resume quick deportations of Venezuelans under 18th-century law (0:07:24)
• Trump admin deports Asian immigrants to South Sudan in violation of court order, lawyers say (0:08:03)
• ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing, Threatening Deportation (0:8:55)
• Dozens of white South Africans arrive in US under Trump refugee plan (0:09:50)
• Afrikaner Granted Refugee Status by Trump Is Linked to Antisemitic Posts (0:10:03) 
• Grok Pivots From ‘White Genocide’ to Being ‘Skeptical’ About the Holocaust (0:11:00)
• Share of Total AI Chatbots Visits chart (0:11:15) 
• ICE still plans to deport Georgia college student arrested after wrongful traffic stop (0:12:24)
• Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling foreign students (0:12:55)
• Trump’s attacks on Springsteen and Oprah aren't legally sound. That’s not the point. (030:15)
• Ben Stiller "Legends of Springsteen" (0:33:01)
• Overview of Motor Vehicle Traffic Crashes In 2023 (0: 47:56)
• Airplane Crashes (0:48:33)
• How safe are hot air balloons? What to know before taking to the clouds (0:50:25)
• Risk and Recreation: What we know about mountain lion attacks in North America (0:51:42)
• Are plane close calls and crashes actually increasing? (1:08:45)