Attention.

Oh, hang on.

Attention.

Rail travellers, platform paces, window gazers and armrest negotiators.

Have you heard?

The big railfare freeze is here.

Railfares have been frozen across England until March 2027 on standard class tickets,

including off-peak, anytime, and season tickets.

For more information, visit NationalRail.com.ukau.ukes slash fares freeze.

Tees and season exclusions apply. It's a beautiful. Ah, it's a beautiful day in Iowa City today. Sunshining, 70 degrees-ish. I just got back from a long walk and settling in here for another Hawkeye Nation mailbag podcast. It is, I believe, June 23rd. Days really aren't important right now. The dates are hard to

pin down. It is a Wednesday, and it's about 1.30 central time. I am Rob Howell, publisher of

Hawkeye Nation, and we'll be answering your questions today from our different platforms from

Facebook, Twitter, and the Hawkeye Nation message boards.

A lot of questions from Facebook today.

So I appreciate everybody asking questions, but particularly the folks on Facebook that jumped in.

I know I've written some things and said some things the last few weeks that have angered some people on that platform and others.

But I guess at the end of the day, it's nice to talk about Hawkeye Sports, although some of the questions today will, and I wrote about that on Monday in a column that was kind of directed at sticking to sports and how difficult that is and probably will be moving forward just because politics, social issues, et cetera, are coming into sports

pretty steadily right now, and I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing.

The discussion needs to be had as uncomfortable as it may be.

But we'll certainly talk about sports, too. I mean, that's kind of,

I'm not going to say it's as important as the, as where our country is right now, economically,

politically and socially, but we all love sports, and that's probably why you're listening

...