Linda Kearns Joins The Handoff As The Crew Expands To Five Boxes

We carry the handoff into the 10 AM hour with Linda Kearns in for Dawn, Harry Mays still hanging around, an Elvis prop in the studio and Phil’s Today in Music History. The crew marks the anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death, runs through Soul Asylum, Eric Clapton and Santana history, and revisits the Justin Barber murder case in which prosecutors played a Guns N’ Roses track he had downloaded. That gives way to a trial run of Rock and Roll Jeopardy, with Linda, Greg, Harry and Phil testing who really knows the music they claim to know. Dawn’s Big Three begins with a Berkeley mathematics professor saying some calculus students arrive unable to handle fractions and basic algebra, sparking a debate over admissions standards and the academic damage left by pandemic-era schooling. A malfunctioning studio board briefly hijacks the conversation before we return to the math story. The next item updates Hayden Panettiere’s death: a friend finds her unresponsive at a South Carolina home, emergency crews respond to a cardiac-arrest call, and the crew revisits her roles, personal struggles and family circumstances. The final items center on young men and foreign policy. We discuss a report showing labor-force participation among men ages 16 to 24 has fallen sharply from 2000 and debate what workplace automation could mean for young workers. Then Trump’s foreign-policy moves take over: he orders the Pentagon to scale back military drills with South Korea while praising his ties with Kim Jong Un, then threatens Oman as U.S.-Iran negotiations over the Strait of Hormuz remain stuck. We close with AOC presidential speculation, the Iran war and a final round of studio banter before Anna celebrates the freedom of leaving her day job