Sunday, June 21, 2026

Happy Father's Day! On this day in 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth and last necessary state to ratify the Constitution of the United States, thereby making the document the law of the land.

You probably carried one to school or remember seeing them stacked in store aisles. Metal lunch boxes once turned TV shows, movies, and musicians into cafeteria status symbols before cheaper materials and changing tastes sent them into retirement. Find out what happened in today’s Whatever Happened To… section.

In case you missed it, this week on The Flyover Podcast, Ayla Brown broke down why dogs are suddenly showing up everywhere and what the law actually allows. More and more owners are bringing their pets along on daily errands. Ayla explained which dogs the law really recognizes as service animals and why so few people are willing to say no to the unregistered furry friends. Plus, join the discourse in our YouTube comment section, which has gotten the most comments we've ever had. Tune in here!

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US-Iran Talks Resume in Switzerland

U.S. and Iran are set to resume nuclear negotiations in Switzerland this weekend, with envoy Steve Witkoff and adviser Jared Kushner leading the delegation. The talks restart a day after a brief postponement.

The reset followed a fresh Israel-Hezbollah truce, brokered Friday by the U.S. and Qatar through talks with Israel and Iran. It took effect at 4 p.m. local time after Israeli strikes killed at least 18 people in southern Lebanon.

A ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah appeared increasingly fragile as Israel refused to withdraw from a buffer zone and Hezbollah launched about 50 projectiles, prompting fresh Israeli strikes.

The 14-point memorandum signed on Wednesday gives negotiators a 60-day deadline. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is expected on Sunday, as Vice President JD Vance says oil is again flowing through the Strait of Hormuz near prewar levels.

Judge Delays Release of Biden Tapes

A federal judge has blocked the release of audio and transcripts from former President Joe Biden's interviews with the ghostwriter of his 2017 memoir, ordering a three-week pause for an appeals court to weigh in. The Trump-appointed judge acted hours after first clearing the records.

The files stem from special counsel Robert Hur's classified-documents probe, which ended without charges but flagged Biden's faltering memory. A conservative think tank has pressed a FOIA lawsuit for two years, after the Justice Department reversed course and agreed to release redacted versions.

The D.C. Circuit will decide whether to extend the block. Biden, now a private citizen, calls the decade-old conversations private.

Father's Day Spending Hits New High

The Father's Day gift has come a long way from the pipes and neckties of generations past, and this year shoppers are pouring a record $27.9 billion into dad, up from $24 billion in 2025.

Tastes have shifted over the decades, from tobacco and grooming kits toward clothing, electronics, and experiences, but the classics endure: greeting cards and clothing top the list at 60% and 58%, ahead of a special outing and gift cards.

The average shopper now plans to spend $226.58, a record, with budgets rising across nearly every age group.

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Whatever happened to the metal lunch box?

For about 35 years, the most contested real estate in American pop culture measured roughly 8 inches by 7 inches: the side of a steel lunch box. From 1950 to 1985, whoever ruled the airwaves ruled the cafeteria, until plastic, economics, and worried parents brought the era clanging to a close.

The lunch box began as strictly blue-collar gear, a plain metal container for the working man. The revolution came in 1950, when Aladdin Industries stamped TV cowboy Hopalong Cassidy on a steel box, the first lunch box to bear a licensed image. Sales jumped from 50,000 units to 600,000 in a single year.

Rival American Thermos fired back in 1953 with a full-color lithographed Roy Rogers box, and the arms race was on. For three decades, the lunch box served as a kid's first public declaration of identity: Davy Crockett or Zorro, the Beatles or the Monkees, Star Trek or Star Wars.

Carrying last year's box was social suicide, which, of course, was the key to the whole business model. It was the Golden Age of illustrated metal lunch boxes.

By the late 1970s, though, the steel box had a target on its back. Schoolyard legend holds that mothers' groups, alarmed by kids swinging their boxes like medieval maces, lobbied to have metal lunch boxes banned as weapons, starting, the story goes, with Florida.

It was a perfect tale: the lunch box as both treasure and cudgel. It's also, apparently, a myth. No such Florida law was ever passed. The truth was duller and more decisive: plastic was simply cheaper, and by the early 1980s, the accountants had won the fight. The end came in 1985 with a Rambo box marking the final metal lunch box produced before safety worries and economics finished the switch to plastic.

Soft-sided nylon followed, and the steel pop-culture-branded lunch box retired to the collectibles market, where the very boxes Mom tossed out now fetch hundreds, sometimes thousands, at auction.

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Ten fathers and their children share heartfelt words of pride in this moving Father’s Day video, a powerful reminder to tell the people you love what matters most.