We open the final Rooney Tuesday of the summer with Matt Rooney in studio early enough to shock the crew, then move straight into a tragic Upper Pottsgrove police shooting. Dawn details how 22-year-old Glenn Pysher winds up at the wrong house after a night with friends and is fatally shot after police respond to a reported break-in. We also follow the search for a woman who disappears in the Delaware River after pushing a struggling girl to safety, debate Amazon’s coming South Jersey drone deliveries, get into the new Eagles cheerleading roster and run through the Phillies’ loss in Seattle.
The Big Take puts ICE and economics front and center as we dig into a major Virginia and Maryland enforcement operation, deportations, new pressure on Iran, Trump’s temporary beef-import push and the escalating tariff fight with Canada. From there, the Supreme Court’s mail-voting order sets off a long debate over Josh Shapiro, Mikie Sherrill, voter eligibility and New Jersey’s registration problems. As the 25th anniversary of September 11 approaches, we share our own memories, explain WPHT’s special Doylestown broadcast and turn the discussion toward Flock cameras and the surveillance apparatus that expands after 9/11.
The Cut Sheet brings Target’s pulled Halloween clown costume, Charles Barkley blasting partisan cable-news shouting and a back-to-school fight over parental power, Linda McMahon and school choice. Fight Club gives us another sidewalk brawl before Rooney delivers the morning’s biggest personal news: another baby is coming, it’s a boy, and Thanksgiving is the target date. We close with two boys accused of throwing rocks and logs onto Route 30 traffic, a mustard-fueled Vince Neil disaster in Today in Music History and Dawn’s Big Three, featuring the Penn Station sewer mystery, record-setting humanoid robots, a $30-an-hour robot housekeeper and Maine meteorologist Patrick Osborn completely losing his composure during a forecast.
