From A 3,000-Foot Drone Scare To The Mets’ Little League Homer

Cut Sheet starts with the day’s most ridiculous rescue: a California camper falls into a vault toilet after dropping sunglasses. From there, we take on CNN’s Declaration discussion, French heat deaths, Rand Paul’s COVID-origin hearing, a Rush tour call-in, and Kenny Chesney’s stance that a concert crowd deserves an evening away from political speeches. We keep Cut Sheet moving with Supergirl star Milly Alcock’s comments about the character, Bill Maher’s alarm over socialist wins in New York, and reports that a JetBlue flight may have struck a drone near JFK. Matt Rooney then joins, bringing the crew into a sharp dispute over Madeleine Dean’s account of a phone call with Steve Witkoff during an Iran briefing. Rooney and the crew argue over manners, foreign-policy priorities, and how much outrage is real versus manufactured. We also revisit the vault-toilet sunglasses question, keep the 600-like challenge going, and put Sean Farash’s on-air retraction argument to a listener test. Sports and local oddities close the hour: the Mets hand George Springer a Little League homer after a defensive mess, then a Paramus middle school pulls yearbooks after a baby Hitler photo appears. The crew saves a string of stranger items for the final hour, including a naked bike ride arrest, an Alabama homicide case, grade inflation, and Fight Club.