Podcast Segments:

* Iowa Coast to Coast (statewide news)

* https://www.kcci.com/article/iowa-restaurants-face-financial-challenges-amid-rising-costs/65951378?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot Restaurants are feeling the pain of Trump’s tariffs - From KCCI: The Iowa Restaurant Association reports that hundreds of Iowa restaurants are struggling financially, with an average of 300 closures each year, a number that could double due to increased costs and wages. "Vendors who sell us food, the large food providers, raise prices in anticipation of tariffs," said Jessica Dunker, of the Iowa Restaurant Association. Antonio Berber, owner of Fiesta in West Des Moines, also highlighted the impact on profits, stating, "We're actually making about half as much in profit as we were five years ago with much more sales now, and we are one of the lucky ones. I know that from talking to other restaurant owners, they're not necessarily doing more sales now than they were a few years ago." Berber has addressed these challenges by raising menu prices and reducing food portions. Over the last five years, Fiesta has increased menu prices by roughly 25%.

* Cauc Talk (political news)

* https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/3/trump-says-11-killed-in-strike-on-alleged-drug-carrying-boat-from-venezuela Trump bombs ‘supposed’ Venezuelan drug traffickers - From Al-Jazeera: President Donald Trump has announced that the United States military conducted a “kinetic” strike on a small boat he accused of smuggling drugs out of Venezuela for the Tren de Aragua gang. In a Tuesday post on his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump shared black-and-white aerial footage of the bombing, which reportedly killed 11 people. “The strike resulted in 11 terrorists killed in action. No U.S. Forces were harmed in this strike,” Trump wrote. “Please let this serve as notice to anybody even thinking about bringing drugs into the United States of America. BEWARE!” The bombing took place early on Tuesday morning, according to the president. It marks a significant escalation in tensions with the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, whom Trump has repeatedly accused — without evidence — of orchestrating transnational gang activity. The incident is the first known military strike the US has taken against alleged drug smugglers since the Trump administration began increasing military presence in the Caribbean last month.

* https://www.npr.org/2025/09/02/nx-s1-5521384/energy-report-scientists-climate-change?fbclid=IwY2xjawMkcfdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFUZW9tN3ZKNnVUbUMxRTJ0AR6Tj-6ndbUrO5-y_Ue136Wqyg0n8NLr9vdZIpWFooe0BEN9eLBzHnpakCLE6g_aem_Wp5o4bmBSbu17WPbLwHoOg Trump ‘scientists’ called out for their bullshit again - From NPR: A group of more than 85 scientists have issued a joint rebuttal to a recent U.S. Department of Energy report about climate change, finding it full of errors and misrepresenting climate science. This comes weeks after the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Environmental Defense Fund filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration that alleges that Energy Secretary Chris Wright "quietly arranged for five hand-picked skeptics of the effects of climate change" to compile the government's climate report and violated the law by creating the report in secret with authors "of only one point of view."

* Wider Scope

* https://www.fox6now.com/news/fall-heating-up-climate-maps?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=68b5b5096ee13e0001e6306b&fbclid=IwY2xjawMkcs9leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFUZW9tN3ZKNnVUbUMxRTJ0AR6-5u0g2JFKy43yuMcN8y0B-m7Bw0IhHSNisfbdSqNSy9wO8nJ4-8udPxP7Qw_aem_JhQ-hq7g_WbzPYTbX_zmQQ Yes, Fall has been getting warmer - From FoxLocal: New data reveals that the fall season has warmed in nearly every county across the U.S. since 1970 – and where it has warmed the most. The data found that average fall temperatures have increased since 1970 in 237 (98%) of the 243 locations analyzed. On average, cities that experienced an increase in temperatures have warmed by an average of 2.8°F. Since 1970, 103 (42%) of those locations have warmed by 3°F or more. The top five fall warming locations were:

* Reno, Nevada: 7.7°F

* El Paso, Texas: 6.5°F

* Las Vegas, Nevada: 6.2°F

* Tyler, Texas: 5.8°F

* Tucson, Arizona: 5.8°F

* For 16 U.S. cities, there was no equivalent in North America to how hot they'd be in 2100. Their future summers were more similar to current conditions in Pakistan (e.g., Houston), the Middle East (e.g., Phoenix, Austin, and Las Vegas) and North Africa (e.g., Bryan, Texas).

* A.Iowa

https://apnews.com/article/trump-white-house-window-ai-9dad119bb6de1519582db036dc0726d7 Trump claims real video is AI - From the AP: President Donald Trump said Tuesday that a video circulating online that showed items being tossed out of an upstairs window of the White House was created with artificial intelligence, despite his press team seeming to confirm the veracity of it hours earlier. Trump, who has boasted of being an expert in building design as he takes on remodeling projects at the White Houseand beyond, told reporters that the video has “got to be fake” because the windows, he said, are heavy and sealed shut. The video, which circulated Monday, appears to show a small black bag and a long white item being tossed out of a window on the building’s east side. Trump blamed the video on AI, saying the creation of fake videos was one of the downsides of the technology, but then said, “If something happens that’s really bad, maybe I’ll have to just blame AI.” “It’s the kind of thing they do,” he said. “And one of the problems we have with AI, it’s both good and bad. If something happens really bad, just blame AI. But also they create things, you know?”

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