Coming up on today's show:

• Amanda Carpenter, columnist at The Bulwark, director of Republicans for Voting Rights, author of Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us (Broadside Books, 2018), and former communications director to Texas Senator Ted Cruz, talks about the Republicans seeking the presidential nomination in 2024.

• It's been one year since New Jersey has rolled out its legal recreational cannabis sales, with New York following suit. Alyson Martin, co-founder of Cannabis Wire and adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and Sophie Nieto-Muñoz, state house reporter for the New Jersey Monitor, compare and contrast how the rollout of legal shops has gone so far.
  
  
• Jon Campbell, Albany reporter for WNYC and Gothamist explains the budget deal that Gov. Hochul announced Thursday evening, after nearly a month of negotiation delays in Albany's budget process.
  
  
• With two pieces of momentous news in the world of television—Tucker Carlson's ouster from Fox News, and the death of spectacle talk show pioneer Jerry Springer—Robert Thompson, professor of television, radio, and film at Syracuse University and the founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture, traces the history of TV programming at the intersection of outrage and entertainment.
  
  
• New York State recently banned the use of Indigenous logos, mascots or names to represent schools, and many will now have to change the names of their sports teams. Listeners call in to suggest their favorite non-offensive (and inoffensive) team names.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.