We start Friday with Shawn Farash alongside Nick Kayal while Dawn Stensland and Greg Stocker are off. Trump’s move to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America” gives us immediate ammunition for Canada jokes, but the conversation turns serious when we get to CBC guidance telling its journalists not to describe the 9/11 attacks as terrorism without attribution. Then the mood flips completely with Candy Sydney-Browning, a Georgia teacher who creates a designated classroom “gas station” called the “Gusty Winds Area,” complete with sprays for students who need to pass gas without leaving class.
Our local news run starts in Philadelphia, where police seek a motorcycle rider accused of running over an officer’s foot while escaping a traffic stop on West Hunting Park Avenue. We move to Gloucester Township, where surveillance video shows young vandals smashing through a resident’s vinyl fence, and then Delaware, where Gov. Matt Meyer signs measures requiring large data-center developers to cover infrastructure costs and supply their own clean power. We debate whether nearby residents could face noise, water, wildlife or utility concerns and argue that local residents should not be stuck paying higher bills for those projects.
Phil Almquist brings sports with the Phillies opening a series against the Angels behind Andrew Painter, the Eagles facing Cincinnati in their preseason finale and roster cuts looming around the NFL. We also get into the returning Philadelphia Cycling Classic before the Big Take consumes the rest of the hour. We examine a report on a study claiming a correlation between transgender ideology and willingness to justify political violence, then turn to newly released Fauci-era text messages dealing with COVID vaccination during pregnancy, cloth masks and aerosol transmission. Shawn’s deliberately unscientific “fart test” brings the hour full circle before we discuss the newest COVID vaccine authorization.
