The Left Hook - Who is Number One?

Grab your coffee, because Mark Bland and Jason Kull are back with a week's worth of things to be mad about. They start at the gas pump, where diesel is pushing $8 in California and the Iran war is taking the blame. Then it's on to Trump's rally joke about holding back FEMA money from flood-hit North Carolina ("I'm not sending it... just kidding"), which got the awkward silence it deserved. They play JD Vance warning of an economic crisis if we leave the war, and Marjorie Taylor Greene's viral rant about diesel prices, which is a sentence nobody expected to write. They also lay out why they think Netanyahu has had too much of Trump's ear, and give their take on the Ed Sheeran and Macklemore blowup: let the concerts just be concerts.

Then comes the question in the title. With Mark Carney in Brussels and Canada cozying up to the EU, have we lost our "number one" spot, starting with our own continent? Along the way they get into why Canada's health care makes our "best system in the world" line harder to sell, and some Missouri roasting of Rep. Ann Wagner and Secretary of State Denny Hoskins over their loyalty to Trump. In the middle there's a break for a very real story about Rutgers researchers who built a 3D-printed toilet for mosquitoes, and yes, it's for science. They wrap with a midterm pep talk and a reminder that every episode, old and new, lives at markbland.net.