This week, after a roundup of the week's news, we talk through the controversial appointment of Sean Eichorst has the University of Wisconsin's next athletic director, which happened without interviewing a single Black candidate -- including the guy doing the job now. Then, in a special 608 Soccer Show crossover, we welcome Rally Madison technical director Liz Lawrence and assistant coach Tenzin Rampa to look back on the team's inaugural season and ahead to the future of women's soccer. Finally, we wrap up with the weekly roundtable question: what's the one conspiracy theory you want to believe? We consider World Cup fixes, haunted mountain ranges, Stevie Wonder's visual acuity, subterranean biomes, the realness of birds and more.

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Blacks for Political and Social Action of Dane County hosted a forum for Democratic candidates for governor on Tuesday, July 7, at The Hub on Madison's south side. The candidates present were:

• Lt. Gov. Sarah Rodriguez
• State Rep. Francesca Hong
• State Sen. Kelda Roys
• former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes
• former Dept. of Administration Secretary Joel Brennan
• Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley

This is the full audio of the forum.

Those swarms by the lake? Harmless, mostly. Miles gets the buzz on Madison's midge season from a UW entomologist, then Omar breaks down Meriter's nurses union facing pushback from hospital management after their historic vote. Beth shares an intimate conversation with a Madison mother fighting to get her autistic children the support — and the belief — they're entitled to. Plus: Barrio Dance scores three "yeses" on America's Got Talent, an Indigenous Cultural Celebration returns to Schumacher Farm Park, the Wisconsin governor's race narrows as David Crowley drops out, and Rob sits down with Focused Interruption's Anthony Cooper on 10 years of violence prevention work in Madison.