On the first episode of the summer:

• We catch you up on where we've been for the last few weeks.


• Love Land, China's up and coming adult theme park, was demolished just two days after we covered the story. Could the Chinese government be listening?


• Find out why a listener is laughing at us, and nothing, at the same time.


• Dream Theater's latest album, "Dark Clouds & Silver Linings," was released yesterday.


• Death metal then meets your shower (or tries to).


• We briefly cover the latest in talking telephone news, including a brief plug for an IPhone 3GS demo that Brandon H broadcast earlier this afternoon.


• It's hot all over the U.S.


• How can strawberries be classified as evil villains?


• Our favorite brown dog has been sick, but is thankfully doing much better today.


• The original, and only good, musicians from Evanescence are back as We Are The Fallen, and they are recording an album. We play a single from the group's website.


• Jerry Clower helps us commemorate Monday's tragic metro crash in Washington, D.C.


• Our treadmill sounds like it's dying. To prove a point, I briefly run on it to demonstrate the clacking, clonking noise that greets anyone who dares to use it.


• John and I briefly discuss some of our old time radio favorites and recommend a few series to check out.


• We then take a trip back in time to one of the D.C. metro rides I recorded when I lived in our nation's capitol.


• Despite their social oddities, idiot savants have some truly remarkable abilities.


• One of our listeners consumed 34 8-OZ cups of coffee today. That's 272 ounces, or just over 2 gallons.


• What ever happened to Lonely Beer?


• Finally, Mr. Brown devours some fortune cookies on the air.

That does it for this episode. We will be back on the air at our usual time this Saturday night. See you then.