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Radio news headlines about how six cows wandering on a farmer's land led to a radio-controlled drone to be circling overhead in North Dakota, plus a look ahead to "Future of Video" and an FCC oversight hearing in the U.S. House of Representatives. And stories about the third attempt to block putting a few large TV station's public paper files online including political donations, and holographic lawsuits, traveling transmissions, an emergency alert system coming to cell phones in the United States, and Lifehacker's Top 5 internet radio services. Also, we excerpt a Radio Ink interview with Gary Shapiro, Pres. of the Consumer Electronics Association, about FM radio in cell phones. Also, FCC news, and the Vatican cuts back on shortwave radio. And Free Press gives advice on how to look up information in a broadcaster's public file. The show tunes in two telephone calls: a "New York Telephone Conversation" from Lour Reed and an "International Telephone Conversation" from The Mad Scene. The show will consider one-hour of National Public Radio breathing, and if music is getting slower and more somber. The show looks at a Slate essary about "The Cigarette of This Century" and listens to "The Machine in Your Hand" by The Magnetic Fields, plus a little from a Merzbow June 6 show in Brooklyn. The show also tunes in the Museum of Endangered Sounds, and Yo La Tengo playing "Roadrunner" for WFMU, a New Jersey free-form station. Tune in also to a preview of Kid Koala's forthcoming album, which comes with its own working turntable. Plus, Gregory Whitehead, Bernard Parmegrani, and more. Also, we laugh along as "Car Talk" calls it quits, listen to a Mr. Rogers remix, and tune in "Freeform or Die," the WFMU documentary currently in a Kickstarter fundraising campaign. And we hear Flaming Fire's Gun Through a Razor" from WFMU's "Tunes on Toxic Terrain."