Good morning. It's May 8th. Yesterday was May 7th. I forgot to say that in the podcast, so I just want to make sure that we've corrected the record. Some heavy showers blew through New York earlier, soaking the front page of the New York Times, unprotected by a plastic bag despite the weather box saying an early shower. And this is your Indignity Morning Podcast. I'm your host, Tom Scocca, taking a look at the day and the news.

Before we get to the paper, the big online story of the morning also comes from the Times. R .F .K. Jr. says doctors found a dead worm in his brain. The presidential candidate has faced previously undisclosed health issues, including a parasite that he said ate part of his brain. According to the story, he also said he had mercury poisoning from eating too much fish. This stuff comes from a deposition from 2012 when he was arguing that he should pay less alimony in his divorce from his second wife because his diminished brain function reduced his ability to earn money. But it's a pretty bracing case study in the way that The Times is capable of writing a news story about a presidential candidate if it's not tied up in 77th dimensional chess against itself in pursuit of the most nonpartisan looking posture it can come up with. No critics say, no raises questions, just an account of the remarkable thing that this candidate said, and then some discussion with experts about what it might all mean. Several infectious disease experts and neurosurgeons said in separate interviews with the Times that, based on what Mr. Kennedy described, they believed it was likely it was a pork tapeworm larva. The lead photo on the front of the paper, four columns wide, is of a building in Rafa with its front blown off directly below it. The headline is, Biden denounces a ferocious surge of anti -Semitism in the US. Describing the president's Holocaust Remembrance Day speech in which he said, there is no place on any campus in America, any place in America for anti -Semitism or hate speech or threats of violence of any kind. Does sending riot police in to bust up nonviolent protests count as a threat of violence or not?

The lead news story is Stormy Daniels' testimony in Donald Trump's Manhattan criminal trial, in which she described a somewhat unwanted sexual encounter with Donald Trump with enough detail to make the judge uncomfortable. The Times writes, the jury also saw the judge, Juan M. Murchon, scold Ms. Daniels at least twice, instructing her to stick to the questions asked of her. At one point, he even issued his own objection, interrupting her testimony as she began to describe the sexual position she and Mr. Trump assumed. The Times does not tell us what position she was describing, although it does relay that the former president's choice of underwear was boxer shorts. And CNN's live blog of yesterday did report that the position was the missionary position. Below the jump on the trial story on page A18 of the Times is probably the more consequential legal story for Trump from yesterday, which was that Judge Aileen Cannon, the Trump -appointed and Trump -friendly judge who ended up in charge of Trump's classified documents mishandling case, indefinitely postponed the trial date, and the Times wrote, scheduling a series of hearings and filing deadlines that reached into late July. The calendar, she set, the Times continues, made it all but impossible that the case could go in front of a jury even by August, the timeframe to which Mr. Trump's lawyers had already agreed, always good when the judge takes an even more aggressive delaying strategy than the defendant. Down at the bottom of page one, there's a story about how tests of Beethoven's hair supposedly suggest that his deafness and other troubles could have been caused by lead poisoning. Unfortunately, it's a Gina Colada story, which means when the evidence gets re -examined, it's going to turn out that Beethoven wasn't even really deaf. Nevertheless, inasmuch as you trust either messenger, RFK Jr. and Beethoven both purportedly had heavy metals on the brain. Only one's got the brain worm, though. That is the news. Thank you for listening. Please subscribe to Indignity to keep us going. And if all goes well, we will talk again tomorrow.