We start with a full Rooney Tuesday as Matt Rooney takes Greg Stocker’s chair and gets immediate credit for showing up far earlier than usual. The joking quickly gives way to Dawn’s report on Glenn Pysher, the 22-year-old college student whose family says he mistakenly approaches the wrong Upper Pottsgrove house after drinking with friends. Homeowners call police about a possible break-in, officers arrive, Pysher is fatally shot, and the crew wrestles with the surveillance footage, the phone in his hand, the officer’s perspective and the terrible chain of events now under investigation.
Dawn then turns to Amico Island Park in Delran, where a woman enters the Delaware River to save a young girl, pushes the child toward shore and disappears beneath the water. We discuss the force of freshwater currents before moving to Amazon’s planned drone-delivery expansion around Mantua and West Deptford. The Eagles’ newly announced 32-member cheerleading squad sparks plenty of Rooney commentary, while the sports desk covers the Phillies’ 9-2 loss in Seattle, West Chester’s Little League World Series exit and the Eagles’ public practice.
The Rooney Tuesday Big Take is “ICE and Cash.” We run through the reported 1,328 ICE arrests in Virginia and Maryland, Tom Homan’s response to criticism and the political problem ICE poses for Democrats. The economic side moves from Scott Bessent’s pressure campaign against Iran to Trump’s temporary beef-import plan and Republican resistance from cattle states, then into Kayal’s disagreement with the continuing tariff battle against Canada. Dawn and Rooney join the conversation on sanctions, trade, border enforcement, USMCA and the administration’s need to explain the economic strategy more clearly to voters.
Aug 25, 2026
