August 1, 2025 • 5 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
From West Palm Beach to Tallahassee.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
This is Florida's news that impacts you on the Brian Mudshow. Yeah,
Brian Mud and Joel Malkin with you. And this happened yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Police officers with Florida's Agriculture Department had been tracking a
suspect they say was stealing wildfire warning signs featuring the
image of Smoky the Bear from Florida State parks and
selling them on the black market for thousands of dollars.
When police, sorry about that.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I don't know why, I just cut off all the sun.
But nevertheless, you ended up having the Florida Department of
Agriculture move in. You had Wilton Simpson. They ended up
arresting the suspect and they smoking the bear costume.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Imagine spoking the bear walking up and coming to get you.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
And so why would somebody want to steal They're going
to a lot lot more money.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Obviously they're getting thousands of dollars on the black market.
People on one buying those signs.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
That's just weird. Not really.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I could see it like cabin or something and make
a nice addition to our cabin. I can see things
like that. But yeah, obviously highly illegal. All right, So
speaking of illegal things, something to watch here what is
being called potentially the biggest sports memorabilia heist in American
history in Miami at the arena where the Heat play.
(01:27):
Miami Police has confirmed the investigation and also the FBI's involvement.
FBI has not confirmed or denied the investigation at this point.
This ended up breaking a couple days ago on Dan
Lebotard Show. And there are allegations and that's all they
are at this point, but allegations. But over eighteen months,
we know the stuff is stolen, but the how it
(01:48):
happened over eighteen months, that you had potentially two insiders
involved in an inside job, one an NBA insider and
another potentially Miami p D. That is what what the
whistleblower ended up saying. And again just crazy that you
would have had millions upon millions of dollars worth of
(02:09):
stuff stolen from the stadium, Lebron James, Dwayne Wade, jerseys
from the finals, things like that without anybody noticing until now.
Lake Worth Beach near the pier briefly evacuated last night
after a military ordnance washed up on shore. The Palm
Beach County Sheriff's Office bomb squad arrived and removed the
military marker. The area reopened at around Eight's mentioned my
(02:33):
takeaways of course, brutal Tonight an eight day closure at
North Lake Boulevard at b Line Highway for CSX to
begin to make the major repairs to the railroad crossing.
They want to get this done before the start of
the new school year. It will include removing rails, panels,
and signals, and you know patients is going to be needed.
Today kicks off the month long back to school state
(02:55):
sales tax holiday. School supplies up to fifty dollars in value,
clothing under one hundred and personal computers and related accessories
up to fifteen hundred dollars included. Probably clotting hot again today,
Highs in the low nineties, warmer than usual for the state.
Dense plume of Saharan dust is on its way through
the Caribbean will be impacting Florida this weekend. Keeping hot
and dry conditions in place actually could be kind of
(03:15):
interesting because this system that created real severe weather in
the Northeast over the past day, it's actually pushing towards us.
It doesn't look like it's going to get to us.
But you could have that hitting when the dust is
coming in and probably just mean it's gonna be hot
and sunny again. But nevertheless, Hurricane Center the seventy eight
(03:37):
tropical outlook is still clear now. Activity expected gas price
has dropped another two cents per gallon yesterday average price
for regular unleaded two ninety nine and the Palm Beaches
three twelve, Martin two ninety eight, Indian River County three
to two per gallon.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Good morning, National headlines that will start with that. You
reference the weather system that's torrential rain. It has wreaking
havoc on the northeast, over five inches of rain in
New York City yesterday and flooding the roads and stalling subways.
Local reports say over one hundred passengers had to be
rescued from a train that got stuck in Queen's Flooding
was also reported in Philadelphia and the Washington, DC area,
(04:14):
where sadly, a person died after being trapped in a
storm drain. The Trump administration is nailing down its list
of reciprocal tariffs on dozens of countries. President Trump yesterday
signed an executive order increasing tariffs on products from around
seventy countries originally set to go into effect today Liberation Day,
as you call it, Brian two point zero. The new rates,
(04:36):
some of them will now kick in next week now.
Trade deals so far have been agreed to with the
European Union, UK, Japan, and South Korea, among others. Trump
has also announced tariffs on Canada will be increased from
twenty five to thirty five percent starting today. The DOJ
says it will keep going after DEI practices. According to
a DOJ memo issue this week, Attorney General Pambondi, it's
(04:58):
prepared to restrict funds to entities that use diversity, equity
and inclusion practices. The high price of pharmaceuticals has the
attention to the White House. Spokesperson Caroline Levitt yesterday said
the US past three times the price for drugs compared
to other countries, and President Trump is determined to tackle
the problem, sending letters to these drug companies asking for
(05:22):
immediate relief, including a sixty day deadline. And those are
your headlines.
From West Palm Beach to Tallahassee.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
This is Florida's news that impacts you on the Brian Mudshow. Yeah,
Brian Mud and Joel Malkin with you. And this happened yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Police officers with Florida's Agriculture Department had been tracking a
suspect they say was stealing wildfire warning signs featuring the
image of Smoky the Bear from Florida State parks and
selling them on the black market for thousands of dollars.
When police, sorry about that.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I don't know why, I just cut off all the sun.
But nevertheless, you ended up having the Florida Department of
Agriculture move in. You had Wilton Simpson. They ended up
arresting the suspect and they smoking the bear costume.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Imagine spoking the bear walking up and coming to get you.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
And so why would somebody want to steal They're going
to a lot lot more money.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Obviously they're getting thousands of dollars on the black market.
People on one buying those signs.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
That's just weird. Not really.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I could see it like cabin or something and make
a nice addition to our cabin. I can see things
like that. But yeah, obviously highly illegal. All right, So
speaking of illegal things, something to watch here what is
being called potentially the biggest sports memorabilia heist in American
history in Miami at the arena where the Heat play.
(01:27):
Miami Police has confirmed the investigation and also the FBI's involvement.
FBI has not confirmed or denied the investigation at this point.
This ended up breaking a couple days ago on Dan
Lebotard Show. And there are allegations and that's all they
are at this point, but allegations. But over eighteen months,
we know the stuff is stolen, but the how it
(01:48):
happened over eighteen months, that you had potentially two insiders
involved in an inside job, one an NBA insider and
another potentially Miami p D. That is what what the
whistleblower ended up saying. And again just crazy that you
would have had millions upon millions of dollars worth of
(02:09):
stuff stolen from the stadium, Lebron James, Dwayne Wade, jerseys
from the finals, things like that without anybody noticing until now.
Lake Worth Beach near the pier briefly evacuated last night
after a military ordnance washed up on shore. The Palm
Beach County Sheriff's Office bomb squad arrived and removed the
military marker. The area reopened at around Eight's mentioned my
(02:33):
takeaways of course, brutal Tonight an eight day closure at
North Lake Boulevard at b Line Highway for CSX to
begin to make the major repairs to the railroad crossing.
They want to get this done before the start of
the new school year. It will include removing rails, panels,
and signals, and you know patients is going to be needed.
Today kicks off the month long back to school state
(02:55):
sales tax holiday. School supplies up to fifty dollars in value,
clothing under one hundred and personal computers and related accessories
up to fifteen hundred dollars included. Probably clotting hot again today,
Highs in the low nineties, warmer than usual for the state.
Dense plume of Saharan dust is on its way through
the Caribbean will be impacting Florida this weekend. Keeping hot
and dry conditions in place actually could be kind of
(03:15):
interesting because this system that created real severe weather in
the Northeast over the past day, it's actually pushing towards us.
It doesn't look like it's going to get to us.
But you could have that hitting when the dust is
coming in and probably just mean it's gonna be hot
and sunny again. But nevertheless, Hurricane Center the seventy eight
(03:37):
tropical outlook is still clear now. Activity expected gas price
has dropped another two cents per gallon yesterday average price
for regular unleaded two ninety nine and the Palm Beaches
three twelve, Martin two ninety eight, Indian River County three
to two per gallon.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Good morning, National headlines that will start with that. You
reference the weather system that's torrential rain. It has wreaking
havoc on the northeast, over five inches of rain in
New York City yesterday and flooding the roads and stalling subways.
Local reports say over one hundred passengers had to be
rescued from a train that got stuck in Queen's Flooding
was also reported in Philadelphia and the Washington, DC area,
(04:14):
where sadly, a person died after being trapped in a
storm drain. The Trump administration is nailing down its list
of reciprocal tariffs on dozens of countries. President Trump yesterday
signed an executive order increasing tariffs on products from around
seventy countries originally set to go into effect today Liberation Day,
as you call it, Brian two point zero. The new rates,
(04:36):
some of them will now kick in next week now.
Trade deals so far have been agreed to with the
European Union, UK, Japan, and South Korea, among others. Trump
has also announced tariffs on Canada will be increased from
twenty five to thirty five percent starting today. The DOJ
says it will keep going after DEI practices. According to
a DOJ memo issue this week, Attorney General Pambondi, it's
(04:58):
prepared to restrict funds to entities that use diversity, equity
and inclusion practices. The high price of pharmaceuticals has the
attention to the White House. Spokesperson Caroline Levitt yesterday said
the US past three times the price for drugs compared
to other countries, and President Trump is determined to tackle
the problem, sending letters to these drug companies asking for
(05:22):
immediate relief, including a sixty day deadline. And those are
your headlines.
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