We start with Anna Hummel sitting in for Dawn Stensland and sharing the biggest personal news of the morning: she has quit her day job and no longer has to hide the radio side of her life from coworkers. Greg follows with the BRAT diet, the old bananas-rice-applesauce-toast standby, and a report arguing that its reputation as the automatic answer for stomach trouble is shaky. The conversation quickly becomes a referendum on all the questionable health advice parents handed down, from ginger ale to bland toast, before we preview the morning’s major political and local stories.
Anna’s news run begins with the death of Hayden Panettiere at 36 and expands into a discussion of child stars, addiction and the toll of growing up in Hollywood. We then get into Cape May’s new curfew for minors, an off-duty Philadelphia police officer killed outside an after-hours lounge, South Philadelphia fighter Jeremiah Wells winning at UFC 330, and a robbery involving a $25,000 Rolex in which an armed victim’s gun malfunctions. The hour also includes a Port Richmond father-and-daughter murder-suicide investigation, the Phillies erasing a five-run deficit to sweep Minnesota, UFC 330 results and the Eagles’ preseason loss to Baltimore.
The Monday Big Take begins after the break with FBI data showing a historic national drop in violent crime. Nick argues that the encouraging numbers sit beside a troubling appetite for political violence among some radical voices, moving through Luigi Mangione’s guilty plea, commentary from Michael Smerconish and Bill Maher, Hasan Piker’s rhetoric, a Texas imam clip, Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie and Tommy Lahren’s argument about people using violence to settle political grievances. Anna and the crew then widen the discussion into social feeds, political obsession, purpose, family life and why people who spend every waking hour inside ideological bubbles can come to see a country that looks very different from everyday life.
Aug 17, 2026
