Mid Morning Mike Check 8/4/2026

Having your boss accuse you of "choking" and "folding like an umbrella" is generally not a good thing. Jeanine Pirro is finding that out the hard way. The Cowboys' defense is still earning high praise at training camp in Oxnard. We go live to Bryan Broaddus for the latest. New numbers for a new movie = a new record. "Spiderman: Brand New Day" took in $360 milion this past weekend. Maybe movie theaters aren't dead after all. Arson charges coming for a man believed to have started one of the biggest wildfires currently burning in the Pacific Northwest. The war in Ukraine is now the war in Ukraine AND Russia. The latest? Ukraine bombs a warehouse belonging to the Russian equivalent of Amazon. Are the Dodgers bad for baseball? That one team could be why there's no baseball at all next year, but one expert says it's not ALL their fault. RFK Jr. has launched a new cooking show. Today: sauteed bear meat with a whale head reduction, served over picked raccoon penises. A break coming for thousands of people who took out student loans, but whether YOU'VE got money coming could depend on where you went to school.