Good afternoon, and welcome to The Cargo Club! I went to my first Atlanta Braves playoff game last night, and I can now confirm that regular-season baseball is basically a church service by comparison. Playoff baseball is three straight hours of yelling, standing, sitting, standing again, high-fiving complete strangers, and

Good morning, and welcome to The Cargo Club! Today is National Comic Book Day, which is convenient for me because I have spent a completely reasonable portion of my life thinking about fictional people in brightly colored outfits punching each other through buildings. I’ve always loved comics, which probably explains

Good morning, and welcome to The Cargo Club! Today is National Cheeseburger Day, one of the few made-up holidays that deserves to be taken seriously. It almost feels unnecessary because America has never needed encouragement to eat a cheeseburger. We didn’t become a global superpower by waiting for a designated

Good morning, and welcome to The Cargo Club! 25 years ago today, nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in the September 11 terrorist attacks. It’s difficult to comprehend that a quarter-century has passed since a day that changed so much about American life. I was five years old when it

Good morning, and welcome to The Cargo Club! The wait is finally over. After six long months wandering through the featureless desert of football purgatory, surviving on spring games, recruiting rumors, and whatever scraps the transfer portal coughed up, college football is officially back. It’s that special time of year when

Good morning, and welcome to The Cargo Club! Today is National Power Rangers Day, which feels like a good time to acknowledge that the Power Rangers had one of the least efficient workflows in television history. Every episode followed roughly the same process: A monster would show up. The Rangers would