Hello! This is Carrie and Carmen, calling from Sergeant Bluff Iowa.

We're here with over 15,000 bicycling enthusiasts ready to start the

registers annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa or Rag Drive.

Yeah. A historic 400-plus mile ride from one side of the state to the other

over one week. This podcast was recorded at...

155 PM on Tuesday, July 26th. Things may have changed by the time you hear this,

but we will likely still be cycling across the state of Iowa and enjoying

Midwestern hospitality, craft beer, sweet corn, and pie along the way.

Okay, here's the show!

Oh, have a great ride, ladies. Say hi to Scott Horsley for us.

I'm so jealous. And Danielle, you've done it. You're a rag ride along yourself and a native

island. Yes, I have done it three times. But I... it's not a brag to everyone. But I do encourage

everyone to follow Scott Horsley on Twitter this week for some super wholesome Iowa content.

And some good pie content, if I remember the answers. Hey there, it's the

MBR Politics Podcast, I'm Susan Davis, I cover politics. I'm Kelsey Snelli,

cover Congress, and I'm Danielle Kurtzley, but I also cover politics.

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last month, Democrats said other

rights protecting personal freedoms could be next. Why? Because conservative Justice Clarence

Thomas said as much. In his concurring opinion, he wrote the same legal basis that overturned Roe

could be used to challenge court precedents protecting things like same-sex marriage

and access to contraceptives. Now, Republicans say there's no threat to those rights, but

Democrats aren't exactly in the mood to take their word for it. So last week House Democrats

...