Code Purple

Code Purple

Dawn’s Big Three opens the supplied 10 AM material with Philadelphia’s Code Purple emergency. Dawn relays the city health commissioner’s warning that the air is unhealthy for everyone, not only people with existing conditions, and points listeners toward indoor time and N95 or KN95 masks. Nick finally agrees that a golf round is a poor trade for smoke exposure and another case of bronchitis. The second item brings surveillance video of a Delaware thief placing a seven-pound Hennessy bottle inside his shorts and walking out. We then watch the “I Play Rocky” trailer, praise Anthony Ippolito’s turn as a young Sylvester Stallone and revisit the refusal to sell the original script without the starring role. A Northeast Philadelphia sewer rescue adds one more mystery when the rescued man offers no clear reason for entering the system. The final Big Three item shows 63-year-old Jerry Rice chasing a golf heckler who yells during his backswing. We move into Greg Stocker’s Monday return, Nick’s canceled golf idea and the Ben to the Shore fundraiser for first-responder families. The supplied audio ends during a discussion of Canadian fires, controlled burns, brush removal and whether better forest care could reduce smoke reaching the United States.

Listen To This Intro For Fight Club Friday

The 9 AM hour opens with the Florida arrest, where police say a driver carries fake urine, a heating pad and a prosthetic device while facing a drug test. We then turn to Kai Trump’s ESPYS appearance, her college golf plans and Nick’s hope that his daughter takes up the sport. A smoke-soaked production stumble leads straight into Fight Club. Friday’s muddy fight joins the week’s stadium, gas-station, restaurant and Target entries. We debate why people post public fights, remove Monday’s clip because a man strikes a woman and cast votes between the remaining contenders. Nick and Shawn favor the Target fight, while Dawn backs Friday’s ground battle. The Cut Sheet closes with an Atlantis gay cruise refused entry by Turkey and Egypt, a viral celebration of Lindsey Graham’s death and our rejection of cheering a political rival’s passing. We also examine allegations that White House teleprompter operator Gabriel Perez profits from advance knowledge of Trump’s speeches. Samuel Henderson’s dozens of bird calls bring a warm finish before Shawn signs off

Rich Joins Us For The Friday Late Edition Of What's On The Cut Sheet

The 8 AM Cut Sheet starts with a Canadian woman accused of striking a teen on the Point Pleasant boardwalk after an argument over pro-Trump and pro-ICE clothing. That gives us the day’s choice: remove Canada, China or California. Rich calls China the gravest threat, while Dawn and the crew weigh trade, defense and the smoke pouring south from Canadian fires. Zohran Mamdani supplies the next run of clips, linking smoke, heat and flooding to global warming, planning a World Cup watch party at Rikers Island and appearing at a housing event where eviction is called violence. We push back with landlord rights, rent obligations and real stories from property owners. A brutal Baltimore attack on a 74-year-old then opens a dispute over the soft phrase “teen takeover” in crime coverage. Scott Bessent describes an assassination attempt shortly after he takes office, and Rich connects it with Marco Rubio’s warning about left-wing political violence. After Rich departs, Don Lemon’s possible 2028 presidential bid gets a hard review from Dawn and Shawn. Chuck Schumer’s alleged Senate fart, Tim Burchett’s Taco Bell theory and TMZ’s unanswered question carry the hour toward a Florida fake-urine arrest.

Networks Cut Trump As Schumer Cuts Something Else

Shawn opens the 7 AM hour by arguing that networks should air a presidential address, then scrutinize it rather than block viewers from hearing it. We separate corporate network decisions from local affiliate licenses and ask whether censorship reflects fear that the public may reject the media’s framing. An Ari Fleischer post helps narrow Trump’s case to alleged hacking, concealed intelligence and noncitizen registrations rather than a direct claim that he proves a 2020 victory. Dawn keeps pressing for the missing numbers: how many ineligible registrants actually vote, where they live and whether any total can affect a swing state. We compare national vote counts with Electoral College margins, discuss Venezuela-linked voting systems and return to citizenship checks and valid identification. The files may describe serious access attempts, but we keep the distinction between system weakness and a changed result in view. Rich Zeoli joins us after 7:30, gives a post-surgery update and calls the networks’ decision dystopian. Trump’s claim about 220 million voter files leads Shawn into a Winnie-the-Pooh impression, then the room debates forged identification, birth tourism, immigration, redistricting and the meaning of a constitutional republic. Rich stays for coffee-spill chatter, viewer remarks about his recovery and a preview of his Cape May broadcast.

Canada Smokes Out Philly

We begin the 6 AM hour with smoke thick enough to obscure Philadelphia’s skyline and drive the city into Code Purple. Dawn lays out the health warnings, closings and service pauses, while Nick tests every possible excuse for keeping a golf tee time. Shawn adds a hail-eating tale, and the crew turns a sealed-air analogy into the morning’s first round of bathroom humor. Local news brings the release of body-camera footage from the fatal Wilmington police shooting of 19-year-old Kadir Skinner and the family’s planned $25 million suit. We also cover vehicle thefts at Lower Merion parks, the canceled Harry Potter drone show and the parasite outbreak connected with iceberg lettuce served at Taco Bell locations. Sports brings a smoky Phillies loss, weak Home Run Derby viewership, early 2027 schedules and an argument over seasons that run too long. The Big Take turns to election confidence, the SAVE America Act and the press buildup before Trump’s address. We play Chuck Schumer, Brandon Gill, Thomas Massie, Karoline Leavitt and Trump while testing claims about noncitizen voting, China’s alleged access to voter data and declassified intelligence. Our central dispute becomes the decision by several major networks to skip the speech live, then cover it heavily once it ends.