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Latest Episode 047 • Thursday, November 5, 2026
THE WATER DOESN’T CARE WHO YOU VOTED FOR! St. Johns at Flood Stage, Astor Cut Off, and a Turtle Swimming Past the Mailbox — Plus Democrats Sweep Congress and a Caller Gets the Dump Button!
Dana opens Thursday on the one-in-a-thousand-year rain that drowned Brevard under twenty-two inches and pushed the St. Johns River to flood stage near DeLand, with fourteen counties under emergency orders, Astor cut off, two dead in Palm Bay, and the Volusia County Fair opening anyway. The lines pour in: Harper wants the fair to go on, Augustus has lived on the river forty-one years, Orlando the contractor says we keep paving over the wetlands, Elena’s mother has flooded three times in twelve years, Matthias learns about flood maps the hard way, and Sofia the nurse drives through water to work a double shift — until Atticus earns the dump button for turning suffering into a sermon, and Clara closes the show with a turtle past her mailbox and the line of the day. Plus: Democrats flip seven Senate seats for a 54-44 majority, Talarico takes Texas by about twelve points, and the Iran war’s offensive stage is declared over as oil prices fall.
Episode 046 • Wednesday, November 4, 2026
THE VOTES ARE COUNTED, THE RIVER IS STILL RISING! St. Johns in Minor Flood Stage, Sandbags in Osteen, and Florida Elects Its First Black Governor — Plus Democrats Sweep Congress and a Repeat Caller’s Double-Arm Wave!
Dana opens Wednesday the morning after the vote on the water that will not quit — the St. Johns River near DeLand sitting at four feet in minor flood stage, forecast to climb toward moderate flood stage late in the week, with a self-service sandbag site beside Fire Rescue Station 36 in Osteen and no-wake rules on the river. The lines pour in: Imani on her aunt’s third flooded garage, Farid voting in the morning and driving home through six inches of water, Lucia on Florida bucking the national blue wave, Siobhan finding democracy in a sandbag line, Tawanda demanding earlier warnings for Astor and Hontoon Island, Emeka on the affordability message, and Aloysius with a lifetime of river wisdom — until Viggo the repeat caller gets the dump button mid-wave. Plus: Democrats flip seven Senate seats for control of both chambers, Byron Donalds edges David Jolly to become Florida’s first Black governor, Amendment 3 passes, new faces on the Volusia County Council, and the Bulldogs finish 9-1.
Episode 045 • Tuesday, November 3, 2026
FIFTY MILLION TO WALK AWAY! Florida State Fires Norvell After the Clemson Loss, and DeLand Asks What a Coach Is Actually Worth — Plus Election Day, a Rising St. Johns, and a Grandson’s First Touchdown!
Dana opens Tuesday on the number that broke Tallahassee — Florida State fires head coach Mike Norvell after the loss to Clemson, with a buyout reported near fifty million dollars, and an emotional final message to players who signed up to play for him. The lines light up: Malik blames the boosters who wrote the contract, Simone says the locker room is real people, Devon the teacher asks what fifty million would do for leaky classrooms, Renee remembers her son’s high school coach getting a quiet meeting and a thank-you note, Carmen the cafeteria worker says save the tears for the teachers, and Delilah closes the show with her grandson’s first DeLand touchdown and the sideline hug that cost nothing — until Andre’s old-days filibuster earns the dump button. Plus: Election Day across America, all 435 House seats, 35 Senate seats and 36 governors on the ballot with more than 57 million early votes already cast and a record twelve billion dollars in spending, the St. Johns River flood warning near DeLand, the Bulldogs’ 44-13 rout of Spanish River behind Kaveon Jackson’s 188 yards, and the Fall Festival of the Arts returning November 21-22.
Episode 044 • Monday, November 2, 2026
A FOOT OF RAIN AND COUNTING! Brevard Drowns Under a Stalled Deluge, Schools Shut, and Dana Asks What We Do Differently When the Water Comes Back — Plus Health Premiums Up 13% and the Neighbor Who Restores Your Faith!
Dana opens Monday on the stalled disturbance that dumped nearly a foot of rain on West Melbourne in about a day — a flash flood emergency for Palm Bay and West Melbourne, Brevard schools and colleges closed, the sheriff begging drivers to stay home, and a flood watch for Volusia County running through seven tonight. The lines pour in: Tiana watches her Palm Bay street turn to a lake, Deshawn says we keep paving over where the water used to go, Marquis reframes flooded-highway driving as an hourly-wage math problem, Keira gives the fast, specific warnings their due, Dante pleads for builders to stand in his driveway and explain where they thought the water would go, Monique links a premium quote that made her laugh out loud to the same resilience sermon, Rashad brings the long view on a county that paved its drainage away, and Luz closes the show with an 84-year-old neighbor, three families checking in, and the line of the day: the water is scary, but the neighbors are not. Plus: open enrollment opens with benchmark premiums up 13 percent, Spain identifies 66 of 69 killed in the Urda train collision, and a Bahamas-bound Learjet crash in Palm Beach County kills all nine aboard.
Episode 043 • Sunday, November 1, 2026
FLORIDA'S ENFORCEMENT MACHINE MISSES ITS OWN GOAL! 27,898 Arrests, 249 in Operation 9, and 52 Million Ballots Already In Two Days Before the Midterms — Plus the Bulldogs' 9-1 Finish and a Dump-Button Last Call!
Dana opens Sunday on Florida's immigration enforcement machine — 249 arrests in three days in Operation 9, 325 local agreements statewide, 27,898 assisted arrests, yet deportations pacing about 660,000 against a one-million-a-year goal, with armed, masked agents reportedly stopping traffic outside a Key Largo early voting site. The lines light up: Thistle asks where a neighbor vanished to, Harbor defends the sheriffs, Cobalt's citizen friends carry passports to work in Volusia County, Emberly asks what the goal is even for, Quill calls it an occupation with better branding, and Sparrow gets the dump button after a rumor pyramid scheme. Plus: Trump campaigns in Iowa and Kansas, a record 52 million early midterm votes, the Bulldogs' 9-1 district title, and the Fall Festival of the Arts coming November 21-22.
Episode 042 • Saturday, October 31, 2026
TWENTY-ONE AND COUNTING! Florida's Execution Pace Hits a Record, 49 Million Ballots Already In, and DeLand's Bulldogs Cap a 9-1 Season — Plus a Hung Knesset and Monsters on MainStreet Tonight!
Dana opens Saturday on Florida's hardest number — Governor DeSantis's October 30 death warrant for Ricardo Gonzalez would make 21 executions in Florida this year, passing last year's record 19, with Florida behind 18 of 32 executions nationwide so far, and Jesse Guardado and Thomas Overton next on the calendar. The lines light up: Wulfric stands with the victims' families, Eglantine and Osbert press the pace-versus-caution question, Hannelore and Jago argue the ballot, Mordecai and Sigrid take on the hung Israeli parliament, and Roswitha brings it home to DeLand. Plus: a record 49 million early midterm ballots with Democrats needing just three seats for the House, Netanyahu's bloc short of a majority at 53 seats, the Bulldogs' 44-13 rout of Spanish River to finish 9-1, Stetson hosting Dayton today, and Monsters on MainStreet tonight.
Episode 041 • Friday, October 30, 2026
RALLY DAY, PROTEST DAY, HALLOWEEN EVE! Trump Packs the Ocean Center, Dalton Greets the Line, and JustUs Volusia Takes the Sidewalk — Plus Two Dan Sullivans, a Washed-Away Beach, and Rocky Horror in Fishnets!
Dana opens Friday on the biggest day in Volusia politics — the president’s rally at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, doors at 3:30 and the stage at 7, with Bale Dalton greeting supporters outside and JustUs Volusia protesting at 3:30, while storms and king tides just washed away an $80-million sand project. The lines ignite: Hermia praises Dalton’s guts for talking to a crowd that disagrees with him, Wexley calls the rally the most American feeling in the world, Marmaduke declares the beach rebuild “amnesia, not engineering,” Zephyrine brings water bottles, not a megaphone, to the protest, Auberon explains bipartisanship through Rocky Horror, Thurstan fumes over Alaska’s two Dan Sullivans, and Winola pleads for the river-weary along the St. Johns — until Callidora’s grand unified theory of everything earns the dump button. Plus: oil spiking after Strait of Hormuz attacks, Israel’s deadlocked election, and Monsters on MainStreet Saturday night.
Episode 040 • Thursday, October 29, 2026
THE OCEAN CAME TO VISIT — AND IT DID NOT KNOCK! King Tides Swamp DeLand’s Docks, Astor’s River Hits Moderate Flood, and Grove’s Dock Just Vanishes — Plus Spain’s Rail Disaster and the Bulldogs’ Fifth-Set Stunner!
Dana opens Thursday on the water that will not stay put — a High Surf Warning with six-to-eight-foot breaking waves, a coastal flood warning through two Friday morning, the St. Johns at minor flood near DeLand with docks submerged at Pier 44 Marina and moderate flood at Astor, and a self-service sandbag site on State Road 40 — and asks who pays when the tide keeps coming back. The lines pour in: Alder the contractor blames the blueprint, Sage the teacher explains king tides to eight-year-olds, Cove surfs the warning and lives to brag about it, Aderyn the nurse begs drivers to turn around and not drown, Grove fishes for his missing dock, Gwyneira refuses to move inland from inland DeLand, Heron calls beach renourishment a subscription, Dunlin cites the whole show in a term paper, and Tallow earns the dump button mid-rant. Plus: a catastrophic data breach exposing thousands of federal agents, health care costs as the election’s rallying cry, Spain mourning at least 68 dead in a high-speed rail collision, and DeLand volleyball stunning Oviedo behind Eden Knapp’s 28 kills while the 8-1 football Bulldogs host Spanish River Friday night.
Episode 039 • Wednesday, October 28, 2026
NOBODY SWEEPS US! The St. Johns Hits Flood Stage at 4.0 Feet, Astor Sandbags Again, and a Runaway Gnome Steals the Show — Plus the Rays Refuse to Die Before Game 5 Tonight!
Dana opens Wednesday on the water that will not stay put — the St. Johns at flood stage near DeLand with docks submerged at Pier 44 Marina and moderate flooding at Astor, plus a coastal flood warning through Friday with seven-to-eleven-foot surf — and asks when a freak event becomes the plan we never made. The lines pour in: Bexley wades ankle-deep to her car, Dresden says thirty years by the river taught him to adapt, Callisto asks who can afford to live near the water anymore, Liora wants voters to elect the insurance commissioner, Oberon says the ocean got ambitious, Veda worries for her daughter in Miami Beach, and Wynn turns the Rays’ 12-inning walk-off into a pep talk — until Fenna’s chart earns the dump button. Plus: Israel’s election deadlock with no bloc near a majority, New Mexico’s Four Corners flood damage, king tides swamping Miami Beach and Fort Lauderdale, and Tampa Bay’s Game 5 tonight with Milwaukee up 3-1.
Episode 038 • Tuesday, October 27, 2026
THE WATER IS NOT WAITING! King Tides and the St. Johns Swamp DeLand’s Docks, Trump Dangles a Million for Fraud Tips, and Israel Votes — Dana Asks What We Actually Do When the Water Keeps Coming Back!
Dana opens Tuesday on the water that will not wait — the coastal flood warning extended to Friday morning, seven-to-eleven-foot surf, and the St. Johns at minor flooding near DeLand with docks submerged at Pier 44 Marina, while callers Moxie, Kitto and Jory argue whether to build higher, buy out, or just keep rebuilding. Plus: Trump’s one-million-dollar election-fraud reward, payable after arrest and conviction, with no funding details; Washington’s ballot fight and a court ruling on California mail ballots; Israelis voting in their first parliamentary election since the October 7 attack; and the slow decline forecast for Astor late in the week.
Episode 037 • Monday, October 26, 2026
HOMECOMING HEARTBREAK! 11 Shot After FAMU’s Big Night as a 15-Year-Old Is Arrested — Winslet Cries for Every Parent, Calloway Says Reach the Kid, and the Banana Lady Saves the Day!
Dana opens the week on the shooting that shattered a celebration in Tallahassee — gunfire behind Bragg Memorial Stadium hours after Florida A&M’s homecoming game, 11 injured, a 15-year-old arrested, and police saying none of the victims appear to have been the intended targets. The lines pour out the grief and the fixes: Winslet says somebody failed that boy long before Saturday night, Calloway argues you have to reach the kid, not just the gun, Ember says be careful is not a plan, Sloan begs parents to answer the phone when the school calls, and Tierney writes Friday night’s safety plan — post adults at the edges and keep the lights on — before Anders earns the dump button for spreading rumors about a minor. Plus: Brazil’s Lula wins a fourth term and his opponent refuses to concede, childcare costs crushing young families, a swimming pool proposed for the White House press room, the 7-1 Bulldogs heading to Mainland for the district title, and Kinsley’s closing charge: be the banana lady, Volusia County!
Episode 036 • Sunday, October 25, 2026
STREETS OR BALLOTS? 800,000 March in France as the Price of Everything Explodes — Ynez Splits a Chicken, Delano Says a Chant Fades by Dinner, and Rhiannon Gets the Dump Button!
Dana goes wall-to-wall on Saturday’s cost-of-living uprising across Europe — up to 800,000 in the streets in France, thousands more in Italy, 25,000 in Madrid demanding pensions that keep up with prices — and asks Volusia the question of the weekend: streets, ballots, or both? The lines ignite: Ynez splits a warehouse chicken with her neighbor, Delano says a ballot is counted while a chant fades by dinner, Stacia negotiates with a cereal box, Oona says the movements that changed anything did both, Ivo marches to the early-voting site for tacos, Carys declares cheese a living cost, and Bevan asks only not to get poorer every year for being old — until Rhiannon’s filibuster earns the dump button. Plus: the SHIELD Our Elections Act fight, Brazil’s runoff and Serbia’s vote, Volusia resending 350 wrong-city ballots, and DeLand High volleyball, 24-3 and top-seeded, hosting Navarre.
Episode 035 • Saturday, October 24, 2026
TEN DAYS! 350 Volusia Ballots Went to the WRONG Voters — Beryl Says “I Trust My Vote, Not the Envelope,” Wickham Demands the Audit, and Thornley Calls Back Just to Praise a Running Back!
Dana goes wall-to-wall on the ballot bombshell ten days before Election Day — a vendor error mailed about 350 northern Volusia voters ballots with the wrong city’s contests, seven already counted, and replacement ballots only just in the mail. The lines detonate: Beryl of DeLand got one of the wrong ballots and delivers the line of the morning, Quince does the pump math on $4.29 gas, Yarrow becomes her friend group’s ballot explainer at brunch, Perrine says a wrong ballot is a bus-route story, Delmore warns the trusting voters who never noticed, Hobson stays home on Sundays in solidarity with his truck, Wickham demands sunlight not statements, and Thornley breaks the one-call rule to celebrate the Bulldogs’ 46-27 district-clinching win over Mainland. Plus: the racist terror attack outside Paris that Macron calls a turning point, Brent crude at a six-month high, Phantasmagoria’s Frankenstein tonight at the Athens Theatre, and the Harvest Fields Corn Maze’s final weekend.
Episode 034 • Friday, October 23, 2026
ELEVEN DAYS! President Rallies at FGCU TODAY — the 18-Item Banned List, a MAGA RV From Stuart, the Pentagon’s Heat-Ray, and Larkspur’s Kazoo Jurisprudence!
Dana goes wall-to-wall on today’s Trump rally at FGCU’s Alico Arena in Fort Myers — a midterm push eleven days before Election Day with the Donalds-vs-Jolly governor’s race on the line, a split campus, a Secret Service list banning eighteen items (balloons, noisemakers, drones, e-cigarettes), and Blake Montgomery’s flag-covered RV in the parking lot. The lines ignite: Tibault says the media treats a rally like a crisis, Odetta the Stetson mom cheers the students asking who decided to host it, Army veteran Renslow calls the Pentagon’s heat-ray test “not conservatism,” Tiernan fears the ray just becomes normal, Cormier worries about sunscreen for his pale cousin, Ailsa explains why four twenty-nine gas is a world-on-fire problem, Larkspur litigates her husband’s kazoo bet, and Sorcha merges three news stories into one until Dana hits the dump button. Plus: a judge orders Trump deposed in his own BBC suit by December eleventh, a hundred and fifty million for diesel refining, the Daytona 500’s infield-grass design vote, the Haunted Trail tonight at Earl Brown Park, and early voting daily through Halloween.
Episode 033 • Thursday, October 22, 2026
TWELVE DAYS! Amendment Three’s Own Authors Beg You to Vote NO — the $45.8 Billion Bomb, Quillen Gets the Button, and a Paramedic’s Call That Silences the Room!
Dana goes wall-to-wall on the flip-flop of the year — Senate President Ben Albritton and former Senate President Kathleen Passidomo both voting NO on Amendment Three, the property-tax amendment they put on the ballot, while Florida TaxWatch warns of $45.8 billion ripped from local budgets over five years and a judge already forced them to rewrite the misleading summary. The lines detonate: Benedict says his taxes jumped forty percent, Adeliza delivers a ninety-second commission-ready zinger, Denholm brings his HOA-flamingo energy to ballot suspicion, Haviland calls the amendment “a gift to people who already own the most,” Clarimond busts Dorothy’s Facebook misinformation, Halston actually read all three full amendments, Quillen runs his mouth until Sam hits the button, and Tanis the Port Orange paramedic closes the show with a call about who pays for your rescue. Plus: the Treasury’s proposed rule barring mega-investors from buying single-family homes, Zelensky’s freeze-the-front-lines offer followed by Russia’s missile blitz on Kyiv, Subtropical Storm Josephine’s rip-current warnings for Florida’s east coast, and DeLand volleyball — 25-3 and the No. 1 seed — hosting Buchholz Saturday.
Episode 032 • Wednesday, October 21, 2026
TWO POINTS! UNF Poll Says the Governor’s Race Is a Dead Heat 13 Days Out — Pryce Swears the Polls Are Fake, Mavis Grills Amendment Three, and Faron Gets the Dump Button at $4.29 a Gallon!
Dana goes wall-to-wall on the UNF poll that turned the Florida governor’s race into a coin flip — Donalds 49, Jolly 47, the lead shrinking from five points in July — plus the two plot twists nobody saw coming: Donalds polling just nine percent of the Black vote despite months of outreach, and Jolly chasing the first Democratic governor’s win since Lawton Chiles. The phones light up: Pryce calls polls a psyop and hasn’t voted since 2008, Mavis from Orange City demands a straight answer on Amendment Three’s homestead help, Renata reports her azaleas need scuba gear on Orange Camp Road, Quaid blames Steve’s boat payment for his rent, Faron rages at gas prices until Sam hits the red button, and first-time voter Sondra gets a pep talk — before Vernell of Pierson closes the show with tonight’s Orionid meteor shower peak. Plus: mega-investors pull back 70% as small landlords take over, Iran sets seven conditions on the Strait of Hormuz with oil over a hundred bucks, and the county commits a million to the Taylor Road flood fight.
Episode 031 • Tuesday, October 20, 2026
TONIGHT AT SIX! Florida Straps a 77-Year-Old Veteran to the Gurney — Aurelia Prays, Rourke Says No Coming Back, and Aldridge Calls the Wrong Show!
Dana wrestles Florida’s 18th execution of the year — William Reaves, 77, an Army Vietnam veteran the VA rated 100% disabled by PTSD, put to death tonight for the 1986 murder of Deputy Richard Raczkowski, 29. The lines split: Aurelia’s parish prays for Reaves by name, Rourke says a cop-killer forfeits his seat at the table, Dabney carries his deputy uncle’s forty years, Kelda does the 25-ballots-out-of-45-million math on the DOJ’s vote sweep, and Aldridge dials the Danner Line by mistake. Plus: the Rays head to the World Series against the Brewers, a DeLand felon leaves his beeping GPS ankle monitor at a burglary, and DeLand volleyball opens the playoffs as the No. 1 seed.
Episode 030 • Monday, October 19, 2026
SEVENTEEN PERCENT! Dana Detonates the Cost-of-Living Poll 15 Days Before the Midterms — Godfrey’s Calculator Loses, Leopold’s Emu Boycotts the Water, and Basil Conspires With a Typhoon!
Dana goes scorched-earth on the AP-NORC poll — just 17% approve of the president’s cost-of-living handling with gas up 34% on the year — as early voting opens in Volusia and Flagler with Election Day 15 days out. The lines light up: Godfrey shops with a list and a calculator and the calculator loses, Louisa defends the tariff garden, Amelia puts groceries back at the register through tears, and Leopold’s Pierson emu refuses to drink the ditch water anymore. Plus: the NIH hospital board unanimously rebukes RFK Jr. as measles tops 4,000 cases, Super Typhoon Champi knocks out half of Guam’s power, and Volusia’s data-center ban fight pits the aquifer against the jobs.
Episode 029 • Sunday, October 18, 2026
SANCTIONS, SHMANCTIONS! Trump Waives His Own Russia Law for 60 Days — “You’ll Figure It Out,” Says Mar-a-Lago; DeLand Smells a Gas-Price Game!
Dana goes nuclear on Friday’s executive order waiving the Graham Act sanctions on Russia — signed last month, poofed before they kicked in — while Marco Rubio begs 60 days to study the fallout and Ukraine warns the waiver emboldens Putin. The phones detonate: Gaston’s fixed-income gas fury, Marlowe’s warning that deterrence dies when you flinch, and Pomeline’s heartbreaker — two jobs, a Stetson student, and $200 a month just to drive to work. Plus: France’s worst unrest in years, Florida’s $4.20 gas and the November 3 homestead tax amendment, and Volusia County Schools earning statewide honors.
Episode 028 • Saturday, October 17, 2026
SIX TO ONE! Council Votes to Ban Giant AI Data Centers — Phaedra Cheers, Joss Fumes, and the Robots Must Drink Elsewhere!
Dana dives into the Volusia County Council’s 6-to-1 vote to move toward banning giant AI data centers — the humming concrete boxes that drink water and electricity around the clock. The phones explode: Phaedra cheers the aquifer’s win, Joss calls it economic suicide, Odelia asks why the robots need air conditioning, Tancred brings a whiteboard conspiracy, water-utility worker Pippa delivers the million-gallon-a-day math, Fintan’s tomatoes know something is wrong, Boudica speaks for the grandbabies’ garden, and Marvyn’s shed-based data center gets the dump button. Plus: Trump waives new Russia sanctions as 300-plus drones pound Ukraine, Hormuz shipping attacks rattle energy markets, the Bulldogs throttle Tavares 73-0 behind Londel Dumas’s four picks, and early voting opens Monday.
Episode 027 • Friday, October 16, 2026
NO KINGS EVE! Dana Preps Volusia for Protest Saturday — Signs, Sunscreen, and One Grandma’s Casserole!
It’s the eve of the “No Kings: Vote Early” rallies, and Dana counts down to Saturday morning’s four Volusia corners — while Georgia smashes a first-day early-voting record with 180,000 ballots and the FBI probes suspicious mailings to election offices. The lines light up: 69-year-old Tilman brings his furious 17-year-old granddaughter to the DeLand corner, Gwenda calls the rallies theater and gets the recruiting-office rebuttal, Garvey phones in from a Harley parking lot hunting protest hot dogs, and Zella brings a casserole instead of a sign. Plus: Hurricane Trudy strengthens to a Category 3 aimed at Mexico’s coast, 3,500 Floridians still sit in the dark after Isaias, DeLand volleyball grabs its seventh straight district title, and a cold front finally brings fall to the peninsula.
Episode 026 • Thursday, October 15, 2026
NO KINGS SATURDAY! Thousands Expected at Six Protest Sites Across Volusia and Flagler — and Dana Wants to Know: Are You Marching or Rolling Your Eyes?
Dana goes all in on Saturday’s “No Kings: Vote Early” rallies — six sites across Volusia and Flagler, organizers bracing for thousands, with Florida’s early voting starting exactly a week later on October 24. The lines light up: Pearline paints a glitter sign for her late mail-carrier husband, Wilmer arrives with a British accent he’s been practicing for the wrong monarchy, 78-year-old Barton marches for the first time, and Fleur learns Sam’s dump button was born to it. Plus: September inflation hits 3.7% with gasoline up 34% on the year, two cargo ships go down near the Strait of Hormuz, Biketoberfest rolls in with 125,000 expected, and the Bulldogs hang 57 on University to stay No. 1.
Episode 025 • Wednesday, October 14, 2026
NINETY SECONDS! Tallahassee’s 911 Drones Beat the Ambulance to Your Emergency — and Dana Demands to Know How You Feel About That!
Dana goes wall-to-wall on Tallahassee’s 911 drone fleet — five drones, ninety-second response times, fifteen flights a shift, and a $5.8 million federal grant to triple it — and asks DeLand whether the eyes in the sky are heroes or Big Brother. The lines light up: Claudia draws the car-crash-versus-noise-complaint line, Hugo backs the certified operators, Tara grills the twenty-minute battery, and Ronan warns “that phrase is what people say right before the rules get written for everybody.” Plus: a Trump-appointed judge blocks the White House press ban for CNN, MS NOW and Politico — Trump vows to appeal; Ethiopian troops edge toward the Eritrean border while diplomats scramble; and Volusia’s $13.1 million ECHO grant fight heats up over the Brown museum recusal question.
Episode 024 • Tuesday, October 13, 2026
THE APP SAID RESTORED! THE HOUSE SAID NO! Dana Torches FPL’s Lying App as 81,000 Sit in the Dark!
Dana goes scorched-earth on Hurricane Isaias’s recovery, five days after landfall: eighty-one thousand homes still dark in the Panhandle while FPL’s app told customers their power was restored — Odile sat in her car charging her phone and came home to a warm fridge, retired lineman Kirk defends the sixteen-hour-day crews, and a generator tragedy has Verity reading the manual twice. Plus: the pre-dawn search of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home, twenty-one days before the midterms, freaks out first-time voter Simeon; Riyadh’s airport stays shut under Houthi missiles; Daytona waitress Rosalie calls ten violations at the Shores Resort “not a bad day, a business model”; the Bulldogs crush University 57 to 7; and Frances gets the dump button for her port-crate conspiracy.
Episode 023 • Monday, October 12, 2026
HOAX? OR COVER-UP? Dana Goes Off on the Erased $10 Million Grand Jury Report!
Dana tears into the appeals court ruling that expunged the leaked Hope Florida grand jury report — the one that accused top DeSantis officials of steering $10M in Medicaid settlement money toward political causes — with the governor shouting “hoax” while fellow Republican Sen. Rick Scott insists it’s “still an issue” with twenty-two days to the election. Saffron of DeLand calls the erasure a magic trick, Beaumont of Orange City wants the book closed, and Tabitha of Deltona asks the smartest question of the morning: who are the good guys? Plus: a missile strike closes Riyadh’s airport with twelve dead and Quilla’s husband grounded, Volusia County rips the Flock cameras off county roads, and Ishmael of Lake Helen gets the dump button mid-rant.
Episode 022 • Sunday, October 11, 2026
JUSTICE DOESN’T NEED AN AUDIENCE! Dana Takes On the Pentagon’s Livestreamed Firing Squad!
Dana goes fierce on the Pentagon’s plan to livestream the December 3rd firing-squad execution of Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood — the first U.S. military execution since 1961, staged at the same hour and weekday as the 2009 shooting. Alden the veteran draws the line at the cameras, Calliope calls it “state-produced snuff,” Rosamund cries at her DeBary kitchen table with her brother listening, and Xanthe gets dumped mid-word for pitching charcuterie-board watch parties. Plus: the governor quietly erases the death warrant of a dementia-stricken seventy-four-year-old while keeping Tuesday’s execution date, Gaza’s grim ceasefire anniversary, and Volusia’s thirteen-point-one-million-dollar ECHO grant fight.
Episode 021 • Saturday, October 10, 2026
EIGHT NOBELS, ONE LAUREATE! Navi Pillay Wins the Peace Prize as Trump Demands Eight of His Own!
Dana goes wall-to-wall on the Nobel Peace Prize: Navi Pillay, eighty-five, joked she’d share it with the president — who called the pick “a disgrace” and wants eight of his own. Gannon is mad about the eight wars, Percival wants a seat at the five-Norwegians’ table, and Holt proposes an Ohio-based American Freedom Peace Prize — first laureate: his cousin Dale, for the Thanksgiving turkey-table incident. Plus: Fulton’s full-tank defense of the Putin diesel deal, Inez renames ECHO “Everybody Cashes, Honey, Obviously” over the $2.5M Brown grant, and Noella eats the dump button for anagramming Pillay.
Episode 020 • Friday, October 9, 2026
WHAT IS JUSTICE WHEN THE CONDEMNED MAN DOESN’T KNOW? DeSantis Quietly Pulls Tuesday’s Execution!
Dana goes careful and furious on the case of William Lee Thompson — seventy-four, severe dementia, believes Bush is still president, and four days from the gurney when the governor killed the warrant with a letter and no explanation. Tabor’s a lifelong death-penalty man now “unsettled,” Waverly demands Sally Ivester get her headline, and Lennox learns the hard way that a machine driving at a cliff isn’t “the system working.” Plus: the Supreme Court hands the FCC another campaign-ad win — Tamsin dubs it “the friends-and-family discount on democracy” — missiles slam Riyadh’s airport as Quade watches the gap between geopolitics and funerals, Sabine asks who audits the auditors as Volusia rips down the spy cameras, Stanton meets the dump button, and Mireille cries happy tears over Navi Pillay’s Peace Prize.
Episode 019 • Thursday, October 8, 2026
150 CAMPUSES WALK OUT! Cornell Lawsuit Sparks a Nationwide Day of Action!
Dana goes careful and fierce on the Cornell Chi Phi lawsuit — a Jane Doe federal filing, seven men denying, no charges, and more than a hundred and fifty walkouts and vigils from Ithaca to Los Angeles saying campuses keep choosing the institution over the student. The lines: Corinna the wrecked mom asking what to tell her sophomore, Merritt’s due-process circus, Sylvie’s dramatic lecture-hall walkout, Deacon asking what to tell his sons, Paloma furious at seventy-one, Nerissa’s bulldoze-the-frats plan, Quinlan’s generator starting on the first pull like a king, and Larkin’s Nobel meltdown preview. Plus: Hurricane Isaias takes aim at the Gulf as a possible Category Two, Volusia rips the spy cameras off the roads, a bitcoin scam lands a Georgia woman in jail, and Anne Carson takes the Literature prize.
Episode 018 • Wednesday, October 7, 2026
CAMP DAVID WITH THE LOGO ON THE PENCILS! Trump Offers His Own Golf Club as the Presidential Retreat!
Trump wants his West Palm Beach golf course to become a Camp David for future presidents — and Dana has questions, starting with who pays the greens fees! The lines ignite: Esme donates the couch and charges late fees, Judd walks in with a water pistol and gets outgunned, and Tilda is still looking for David and his whistle. Plus: Isaias spins up toward the Panhandle as a possible Category Two (Nadia’s buying water to prepare for the water), three years since October seventh, DeLand water bills rising to flush out forever chemicals, seventy-five percent of Gainesville votes and gets a suggestion, the Volusia law library’s million-dollar fight, and Stanley’s all in on the pencils.
Episode 017 • Tuesday, October 6, 2026
TWENTY WARRANTS! Florida's Record Execution Pace — Justice or Conveyor Belt?
Dana confronts the governor's twentieth death warrant of 2026 — Jesse Guardado, sixty-four, set for November fifth — as Florida barrels toward twenty executions in a year, the most since 1976, while Tennessee froze its own after a botched attempt. The lines blaze: Anton asks if it's “the system showing off,” Bianca's neighbor on grief versus headlines, Grady's one-appeal crusade, first-timer Rosalind's Dozier School gut-punch, and Dorothea's gift-card-and-prayer scam tale. Plus: minimum-wage hikes double the $7.25 floor, gas hits $4.37, a prison-phone Bitcoin scam bust in DeLand, and the Bulldogs crush Centennial 67 to nothing.
Episode 016 • Sunday, October 4, 2026
THE CAMERAS MOVED THREE FEET! Florida’s Plate-Reader Scandal and Tuesday’s Volusia Council Vote!
Sunday’s Loud & Clear lands a day late and twice as loud: the state kicked Flock license-plate readers off the highways — and the sheriffs just scooted them three feet onto county land, past a barbed wire fence at a nature preserve! A federal judge calls it “indiscriminate mass surveillance,” and Tuesday’s Volusia council votes on banning the cameras from county land. The lines erupt: Mirabelle counts cameras on US-92, Josie’s constitutional-law takedown (“Would the founders be cool with the king’s men writing down every carriage?!”), Casimir’s nothing-to-hide theory hits the three-feet wall, Parnell refuses to be “filed away like a library book,” Vonda dares the analysts to watch her 2009 Corolla, Dobbs reports an identity theft by a Tampa Dobbs with a pontoon, and Stig meets the dump button. Plus: the Caribbean boat-strike toll passes two hundred thirty-five, Brazil votes today, and DeLand’s water rates keep climbing.
Episode 015 • Monday, October 5, 2026
DeSANTIS CALLS HIS OWN PARTY’S AMENDMENT “FOOLISH”! The GOP Civil War Over Florida’s Rainy-Day Fund!
Dana dives into the ballot brawl scrambling Florida politics: the state GOP endorses Amendment One’s jump of the rainy-day cap from ten to twenty-five percent — and Republican Governor Ron DeSantis calls it “foolish,” demanding the seven-hundred-fifty-million-a-year surplus go back as tax cuts, while Democrat David Jolly lands on the GOP’s side! The lines explode: Celia’s “our rainy day is a Category Four,” Chet’s parking-ticket economics, Beatrix’s renter revolt (“The bus does not have tolls!”), Emil’s legacy-fight theory, Dahlia’s cookie-jar lockbox, Seth’s generator stimulus, Abner’s umbrella speech, and Fiona’s tree that’s trying to kill her. Plus: the governor’s race tightens, Trump taps his intel chief to run a new AI task force, Russia hits Kyiv’s bridges, and DeLand’s quarter-billion-dollar water bill.
Episode 014 • Saturday, October 3, 2026
THE INSURANCE REVOLT! 69% Say Tallahassee’s Reforms Helped … the Insurance Companies!
A brand-new UNF poll lands like a brick: fifty-five percent of Florida homeowners see NO improvement in the insurance market, twenty-six percent say it’s getting WORSE — and sixty-nine percent say Tallahassee’s big reforms only helped the insurance industry! Dana works the lines: thirty-one-year homeowner Roscoe gets a thousand-dollar “hurricane tax” homework assignment, Imelda cries at her Orange City kitchen table over a premium that doubled in two years, Baxter’s trial-lawyer theory runs headfirst into Citizens’ 50.4% no-payment claims stat, Petra’s tap water tastes like a tire store (and the eight percent rate hike is WHY), Caspian’s spreadsheet plots a mass exodus to Georgia, Tallulah’s brand-new fifteen-dollar minimum wage gets eaten alive by her renewal, Enoch’s Ukrainian neighbors lose their Medicaid, and Sabina builds to something before Sam’s fast finger finds the dump button. Plus: Amendment Three’s twelve-billion-dollar hole, Monday’s voter registration deadline, the Doggy Derby, and a hundred seventy-seven thousand Floridians losing health coverage.
Episode 013 • Friday, October 2, 2026
Ten Million Medicaid Bucks — And Now the IRS Wants the Receipts!
Ten million dollars of Florida Medicaid settlement money took a detour — through the Hope Florida Foundation, two nonprofits, and straight into a campaign committee that spent it killing Amendment Three. Seven-day rush delivery, eighteen days before the money moved again, and now an IRS whistleblower claim with a real claim number. Dana follows the trail with teacher Marlow, Orange City skeptic Quincy, confused-but-sharp Tessa, and a Lake Helen voter who says the fox built the henhouse. Plus: SCOTUS takes up no-bond immigration detention, a DeLand woman loses $15,825 to a Bitcoin-ATM phone scam, and Felix’s household goes full beagle.
Tallahassee just branded ninety-plus organizations as terrorists in thirty seconds flat — CAIR, antifa, the Muslim Brotherhood — with no debate and the ACLU’s lawyer talked over. Dana works the lines: teacher Miriam worries what she tells her Muslim students Monday, Calvin says “maybe the ending is right,” Wren asks if her Nazi-fighting grandpa was Antifa, Solomon fears his daughter can’t wear her hijab to school, Stetson junior Piper is scared her campus zine gets her expelled, Harold wants to vote yes on Amendment Three twice, and Jeb blames the rat insurgency at Parched Oak. Plus: Trump Accounts auto-enroll sixty million kids, Amendment Three’s twelve-billion-dollar hole, U.S. troops out of Iraq after twenty-three years, Brent crude past $103, and Dolly’s rat anti-terrorism training center.
Episode 011 • Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Fifteen Bucks an Hour — Florida’s Payday Arrives!
Six years after voters said make it so, Florida’s minimum wage hits fifteen dollars an hour TODAY — more than double the federal $7.25, untouched since 2009. Dana hits the phones: a DeLand landscaper panics over a fifty-cent raise, a nine-year drive-through veteran cries over her daughter’s break-room notice, and a warehouse worker learns a floor is not a raise. Plus: Hegseth’s “State of the Force” speech to cut twenty percent of the generals, a FlyDubai co-pilot’s stabbing at thirty-four thousand feet and the heroes who landed the plane, and a Lake Helen caller who thinks it’s all connected.
Episode 010 • Tuesday, September 29, 2026
The Welcome Ban — Tallahassee vs. Your City Hall!
A Florida bill banning local governments from spending a dime on DEI — banning even non-binding resolutions, with elected officials facing removal — is headed to the governor’s desk, and nobody can say what its ten-to-twelve carve-outs actually cover. Dana takes the chill to the lines: Thelma defends her traffic cones, Reggie wants his tax dollars left out of it, Constance wonders if DEI stands for “Dancing Elephants Incorporated,” and Bernard’s spirit guide sees the fog lifting in five weeks. Plus: Florida’s most selective universities stop admitting undocumented students, Starship reaches orbit with the check-engine light on, and 648 new homes approved by the DeLand SunRail station.
Episode 009 • Monday, September 28, 2026
The Dummymander
The governor’s hand-drawn congressional map was supposed to turn twenty-to-eight into twenty-four-to-four — but five weeks from the midterms, the Democrat leads forty-six to forty-four in the district Tallahassee drew for a Republican. Dana takes the map to the lines: Beatrice gloats inside the Sharpie lines, Morris calls the poll garbage, Josephine’s eighty-four-year-old neighbor thinks she can’t vote, and Ambrose sees shapes from space. Plus: the deadly nor’easter, EU sanctions on a North Korean kids’ camp, and Reggie’s weather machine.
Episode 008 • Sunday, September 27, 2026
Bankrupt but Still Rolling
Brightline’s parent companies just filed Chapter 11 on $5.5 BILLION in debt — and the trains keep running anyway. Dana digs into the tax-exempt muni bonds, the hedge-fund haircut, and Fortress’s wipeout to zero. Margot calls it “public money in a trench coat,” Thaddeus frets over ghost trains at the future DeLand station, and a psychic predicts the bankruptcy after it happens. Plus: Trump’s $810 million pocket rescission, and the sheriff’s $168 million budget day.
Episode 007 • Saturday, September 26, 2026
Bombing After the Election
Trump rejects Iran’s seven-day Hormuz reopening plan — and tells aides the bombing probably resumes AFTER the midterms. The war has a calendar date, and it’s penciled around the vote. Dana walks through it while Sam loses an argument with the coffee machine. Plus: pepper-spray school drones, Brightline’s $5 billion bankruptcy, and the rooster that started it all.
Episode 006 • Friday, September 25, 2026
The Governor vs. the Cameras
DeSantis declares war on Flock license-plate readers — and Sheriff Chitwood says “the governor put us out of business.” Dana sorts the surveillance panic from the spin, with Sam on the boards. Plus the fallout from the rollback-budget showdown.
Episode 005 • Thursday, September 24, 2026
Defunded?? Try $168 Million
The Volusia County Council votes the full rollback — your tax rate drops while Sheriff Chitwood banks every dollar he demanded. Two weeks after crying “defund,” the sheriff’s office walks off with $168 million. Plus: $56 million in post-ruling coordinated GOP spending, Xi Jinping in Washington, DeLand’s citizen survey, and the Marching Bulldogs in the D.C. rain.
Episode 004 • Wednesday, September 23, 2026
Is Direct Democracy Dead in Florida?
All 22 citizen-led ballot initiatives failed to qualify for the 2026 ballot after HB 1205 — open primaries, session reforms, all of it, dead. Is Tallahassee done letting you vote on anything? Plus Trump at the UN, the White House press ban goes to court, and Volusia approves 648 homes by the future DeLand SunRail station.
Episode 003 • Tuesday, September 22, 2026
Boris Johnson Takes the Mic at FSU Tonight
The former British PM’s “Saving the West” lecture, the student blowback, and the real question: who gets a podium at a Florida public university? Plus the networks suspend White House pool coverage in solidarity with banned outlets, UNGA high-level week opens, and 648 new homes get the green light near DeLand’s future SunRail stop.
Episode 002 • Monday, September 21, 2026
$200K of Your Money for Lawyers
The DeSantis administration spent nearly $200,000 in taxpayer money on criminal defense lawyers for a former top aide the Hope Florida grand jury called “not credible.” Plus Trump’s “inexpensive price to pay” for the Iran war as gas climbs, a Greenland deal, and the scramble to fill Jeff Hunter’s DeLand commission seat.
Episode 001 • Sunday, September 20, 2026
Your Property Taxes vs. Tallahassee
The debut. DeLand may raise the millage Monday night — while Tallahassee pushes Amendment 3 to gut property taxes entirely, a $5.2 million hole in the city budget. Plus Fishback vs. Donalds goes gutter, the Iran war hits your gas tank, and the Bulldogs pitch another shutout.