Sports injury analyst Will Carroll of Injury Territory joins Dave Weekley to break down several notable baseball injuries. Carroll diagnoses Reds reliever Emilio Pagan's hamstring injury as a grade two strain — explaining the three-grade muscle tear scale and why the 15-day IL designation reflects roster management rather than an expected return timeline. The conversation moves to Jackson Holliday, whose hamate bone recovery has stalled due to lingering wrist complications, with Carroll noting the wrist's complex anatomy and limited blood flow make it one of the most difficult areas to fully rehabilitate. Carroll closes with an update on Detroit Tigers ace Tarik Skubal, who faces loose body removal surgery on his elbow — a procedure Carroll frames as treating a symptom rather than the underlying cause — and argues the timing, while unfortunate ahead of free agency, is unlikely to significantly damage Skubal's earning potential.

Tech reporter Abrar Al-Heeti joins Dave Weekley for their latest tech news segment, opening with Apple's $250 million settlement over unfulfilled Apple Intelligence promises made during the iPhone 16 launch — with eligible device owners able to claim between $25 and $95 per device. The conversation moves to a UK study finding that roughly half of children surveyed said age verification tools on social platforms are easy to bypass, including with something as simple as a drawn-on fake mustache, leading to a broader discussion on the privacy trade-offs of AI-based age detection tools like Meta's proposed bone structure analysis. The two close with the Academy's new rule barring AI actors and AI-written screenplays from Oscar consideration, debating what the decision says about the evolving definition of art, and touch on OpenAI's new ChatGPT platform designed specifically for clinical use by healthcare providers.