December 1, 2025 • 14 mins
TOP STORIES - The Bucs defeat the Cardinals, ending their three-game losing streak; Auburn taps USF’s Alex Golesh as its next coach; Parkgoers speak after DOJ announces investigation into Busch Gardens; Tampa International Airport sees busy travel weekend after Thanksgiving; the tumultuous 2025 hurricane season comes to a close.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Time now for today's top stories, brought to you by
my friends over at the Holland Group Retirement and wealth advisors.
You worked hard to save for your future. They can
help you make the most of it. Find them online
at Askthehollands dot com. Good morning, Chris, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have regained sole possession of first
place in the NFC South after a gritty performance at
Raymond James Stadium. They edged the Cardinals twenty to seventeen.
Quarterback Baker Mayfield had a shoulder injury but still through
for almost two hundred yards and had a touchdown as
he played through that injury. But the biggest star was
offensive lineman Tristan Wurf's He caught a decisive touchdown pass
(00:39):
as Tampa snapped a three game skid and added to
the troubles for Arizona, who lost their fourth in a row.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
It was a great play.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Didn't see that come, and he did a hell of
a job for a big guy, you know, the way
he turned around, caught the pass, kind of stumbled backwards
into the end zone. It was quite a touchdown.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
John Romano, a columnist in Tampa, had a great line
about that he said, how do you hide a three
hundred and forty five pounds man, Well, you just you
just stand them there and play in sight. Yeah, yeah,
And nobody stopped him and he caught the pass and
he said it was an exciting moment because obviously those
guys very rarely utilized in the offense like that.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
And then you had Chase McLoughlin fifty seven yard field
goal in the fourth quarter that ended up being the
difference in the game. So the Bucks moved to seven
to five on the season. They stay at top the
NFC South. They got a half game lead over the
Panthers Panthers on a bye week after a huge win
over what many people thought was the best team in
the NFL, the La Rams, So they're certainly going to
be a problem for the Bucks in the home stretch.
(01:46):
The Bucks, They've got a home game against the Saints
on Sunday, Hopefully they can win that take a full
one game lead in the South for the home stretch.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
And in that home.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Stretch left two games against the Carolina Panthers, won a
home one away, and that's probably going to decide the
NFC South.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Now, coaches hated when you bring up the margin of
victory because a win is a win, right, And in
the NFL, they'll always say it's tough to win and
you know, we got the job done, et cetera. But
this has really been a year of really close victories
for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I mean, a number of
these games could have gone either way, right, and they
wouldn't necessarily be in a playoff contention at all. No,
(02:22):
but once again they managed to get it done even
when things got tough towards.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
The end of the game. Yeah, the Cardinals is not
a very good team. They've got a backup quarterback in there.
But again, like you said, they got to win. Now,
the Dolphins, they've got three straight wins after beating New
Orleans twenty one to seventeen at hard Rock Stadium. That
was a game where they had a sixteen zip lead
at halftime, so it looked like they were going to
run away with that one, but then New Orleans made
(02:48):
it interesting. Miami improves to five and seven. They played
the Jets in New York.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Next.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Jets not a good team this year, although they did
beat the Falcons, and it in New York that cold weather.
If you've watched the Dolphins playing cold Weather before. I
don't think, even though they're playing better now, that's a
game you could just hand the Dolphins. And even if
they were to win that one and do well in
(03:16):
this home stretch, including the game against the Bucks coming
up in a few weeks, I just don't see the
Dolphins getting a wild card slot with seven losses, not
the way the AFC is stacking up this year. So
it's going to be I think, a season where maybe
they can make some progress towards the end and heading
to the offseason with some positive vibes, But I don't.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Think they're gonna be playing in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah, the Bucks of Leather Division all season long, but
the reality is they're gonna have to earn this.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Yeah, and they have to win the division because they
won't get in as a wildcard either.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
No, not with their record and the number of losses
they've already suffered. And you know, that three game losing
streak was tough because those were games where they were
against good teams, So it was really a test to
see if they could match up to the better teams.
And they didn't. No, but they did get job done
against a definitely inferior team of Arizona.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
All right, what else we have going on this morning?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
So when you turn around a program that was one
and eleven just a few years ago and you win
twenty three games over the next three seasons, you get
the attention of the big guys. And as such, Auburn
has hired Alex Golis from USF as its next head coach,
the forty one year old signing a six year contract
to replace Hugh Freese, who has fired in early November
(04:28):
after failing to fix Auburn's offensive issues in the last
three seasons. Now, the thing that's interesting about Auburn is
that the Tigers o freeze fifteen point eight million dollars
and then they had a deal to replace Brian Harrison,
which was a thirty nine million dollar deal. Overall, the
school has fifty two and a half million dollars in
(04:50):
buyout fees over the last few years, and now they've
just hired another head coach. So while it is an
SEC program and you have the Iron Bowl against Alabama
and it has all that prestige, it is definitely a
troubled program and they have themselves leveraged with a lot
of money going to coaches that aren't there anymore.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Auburn hasn't been very good since Cam Newton played for them,
so it's been a while. But this is the problem
with USAF not being in one of the big conferences.
You've got coaches that they see success at USF and
they're going to move on to something bigger and better.
(05:31):
And it's really frustrating because he certainly turned the program around. Now,
I will say USF they're nine to three on the season,
they're going to play in a bowl game, but they
didn't win the they didn't get to the conference championship,
let alone win it. And yet again, they had some
games in the middle of the season where they struggled
(05:52):
games they should have won. So there was that issue.
But there's no question he's turned the program around. But
this is what you see in college football. College football's
got a real problem. I think you've got the Tulane
head coach John Summrall, he's leaving that program to go
to Florida. You've got Lane Kiffin, head coach of Ole Miss.
(06:14):
He's leaving that program to go to LSU, bigger and
better situation. So you have these coaches where they get
to pick up and leave if they get a bigger,
better offer. Meanwhile, if you're like the Seminoles, you can't fire.
I mean they could, but they're not going to fire
(06:35):
their head coach, who should be fired because of the
amount of money that they would owe him.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
And we saw a lot of that.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
We saw LSU fire Brian Kelly I own fifty something
million dollars, Penn State firing James Franklin, oweing him tens
of millions of dollars. And really it's the college athletes
who suffer here. You know, they get recruited by these coaches,
they go to these programs, and then the.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Coaches up and leaves.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Now they have some options with the transfer portal and
all of that, but it just it seems like a
situation that that's not working. You've got Lane Kiffen now
leaving Ole Miss. He's not going to coach them in
the college football playoffs, a team with the chance to
win the national championship because he's going to LSU and
they couldn't work out a deal to let him continue.
(07:23):
It's just it seems like it's a big problem.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
At least the guy who's coming to Florida is going
to coach out his time at too late, right, right, right?
I mean Golish is not going to coach the Bulls
to the end of the season. He was flying into
Auburn and sending messages to the new team and saying
he's starting.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
To work there. So you're right, that's that's a big letdown.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I think for the players here, you know, dedicated their
futures to the hope that you know, their coach would
be there and help them, you know, guide them to
a potential career. So yeah, it's obviously a thing where
the universities. I don't know how the economics work, to
be honest with you, when you have to owe all
this money, coach, is that just up and leave and
go to some competing program.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
NCAA has a lot of problems, but that's certainly one
of them.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
So Bush Gardens, SeaWorld, and Aquatica are among the Florida
theme parks at the center of a disability discrimination investigation.
The Justice Departments trying to find out if United Parks
and Resorts Incorporated, the owner of these parks, violated the
American Disabilities Act. Now, the lawsuit is about roll laders,
(08:24):
so those are those devices that are on four wheels.
They usually have a seat in the middle, and people
use them as like a rolling walker. They have brakes
on them so that you don't you know, sort of
fall over, you know, forward on the wheels.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I was looking up these things, and I got to
tell you there's one home depens like two hundred and
fifty six bucks. It's luxurious, it's got ergonomic handles, it's
got a luxury seat, it's got a storage compartment for
all your stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
I want to get one of these things. It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Well, it's definitely an advance from what you think of
as a walker, where you have to lift it every
time you step.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yeah, this is like the Cadillac of walkers.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Well it's not.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
It's not an electric vehicle. Now, it's not like you
have to just sit there and roll around. You actually
have to stand up.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
It does have a seat if you get tired, and
underneath the seat has like a storage compartment.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yes, so you could roll to the line for the
ride and then you could sit down.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah right, you're right. Actually anybody could use something like that.
But the problem is that Bush Gardens and SeaWorld have
signs all over the place saying no roll laders in
the in the queues, and according to the you know,
the plaintiffs, this is a violation of the of the
eighty A the Federal Disabilities Act. So we're going to
(09:38):
see if this is a legitimate lawsuit. But you know,
they do have to provide under the laws certain accessibility
to people with disabilities. Now, usually that implies things like
wheelchairs and larger things. But the rollladers apparently have been
enough of a problem in the lines that they've decided
to ban them at these particular parks.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yeah. Yeah, the parks are saying there's been a lot
of misuse, which I think is exactly what I was describing.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
People like you who don't want to stand. Yeah, bring
one in line.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
They're also saying that they're like a safety hazard too,
but I don't quite see what's actually happened that's making
it a safety hazard.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I guess there are certain instances where if you're on
those things.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Going over certain terrain, yeah, in the park or whatever.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
That it can be dangerous, like the break fail or something.
I mean, did you possibly go with that thing? I
don't know, but I didn't really know much about these things.
Until I looked it up before we talked about this story,
and I got to tell you this drive nitrol role later.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
It's got my attention. Something to ask Santa.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
It's high end that might be on my Christmas list.
Chris Trankman with today's stop stories. Chris, thanks so much.
Now let's get to today's stop stories.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
So hundreds of flights, thousands of travelers flying out of
Tampa International Airport the weekend after Thanksgiving, and there were
some delays. According to Triple A, Tampa the most popular
domestic travel destination this year. Orlando of course is first,
but Florida in general one of the most popular places
to go during the holidays. So no surprise that there
(11:09):
were issues at the biggest airports. Fly to where said
twelve hundred delays in total at Miami for Lauderdale, Orlando, Jacksonville,
and of course Tampa one hundred flight cancelations combined. But
you know what, when you think about this weekend compared
to that whole fiasco with Southwest, Oh yeah, I remember
that a couple of years basic Cake, I mean, yeah,
(11:29):
there were storms, there were problems, and it may have
depended on where you were going in the country. Yeah,
how much time you had to spend traveling, But it
seems like it could have been a lot worse.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
And I saw the the average round trip ticket for
Thanksgiving travel, according tripa A, that's seven hundred bucks this year.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
That's why I don't travel. That's why I don't go
see my family for Thanksgiving because it's way too much money.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah, you're you're ponying up quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
And especially like if you're traveling, you know with a family,
that's expensive.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
A lot of zoom calls.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, Yeah, I think there's a lot of that going on,
and people just you know, maybe spending it with friends
or people who are close.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
By that they could drive to as opposed to flying.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah, I'm glad we're in Florida for that reason, and
we're in a destination place that was everywhere, you know,
the place everybody has to try and get you during
a winter storm.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
So the first storm season in a decade without a
hurricane making landfall in the US also featured some of
the most powerful storms.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
It was a weird hurricane season that's finally over.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah, because what happened was there was not a lot
of activity for most of the storm season, and then
at the end there was like this whirlwind of activity,
including of course Hurricane Melissa, a Category five, which made
landfall as the strongest storm in the Atlantic basin, you know,
one hundred and eighty mile per hour winds. It was
just unbelievable when it hit Jamaica. But the good news
(12:49):
is that, for whatever reason, every time it looked like
the storms were heading in our direction, they would veer
off to the northeast and miss us completely. But that's
not to say that this was completely out of the norm.
Been a number if you look at it, like historically,
there have been plenty of years where the US hasn't
been hit by any hurricanes. It's just that after last season,
everybody was bracing for the worst, and fortunately we got
the best.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I was trying to remember because I've been doing hurricane
coverage now for nine years, and I think just about
every single year I've covered a storm, whether it's a
tropical storm or even a hurricane hitting you know, South
Carolina or some other parts of the state. This was
(13:30):
the first year that I can't remember that I didn't
have to do any hurricane coverage.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Yeah, well, that was a great deal.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yep. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Overall, the twenty twenty five hurricanes season churned out thirteen
named storms five hurricanes, which is near the long term
historical average, but they formed especially strong and they were
long lived late in the season, which was unusual.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Four of the five hurricanes reach category four or five,
the highest share of high end storms ever recorded.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
So not a ton of storms.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Obviously, nothing hit the US this year, but some really
powerful ones out there. Chris Drankman with today's top stories. Chris,
thanks so much, Thank you so.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have regained sole possession of first
place in the NFC South after a gritty performance at
Raymond James Stadium. They edged the Cardinals twenty to seventeen.
Quarterback Baker Mayfield had a shoulder injury but still through
for almost two hundred yards and had a touchdown as
he played through that injury. But the biggest star was
offensive lineman Tristan Wurf's He caught a decisive touchdown pass
(00:39):
as Tampa snapped a three game skid and added to
the troubles for Arizona, who lost their fourth in a row.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
It was a great play.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Didn't see that come, and he did a hell of
a job for a big guy, you know, the way
he turned around, caught the pass, kind of stumbled backwards
into the end zone. It was quite a touchdown.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
John Romano, a columnist in Tampa, had a great line
about that he said, how do you hide a three
hundred and forty five pounds man, Well, you just you
just stand them there and play in sight. Yeah, yeah,
And nobody stopped him and he caught the pass and
he said it was an exciting moment because obviously those
guys very rarely utilized in the offense like that.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
And then you had Chase McLoughlin fifty seven yard field
goal in the fourth quarter that ended up being the
difference in the game. So the Bucks moved to seven
to five on the season. They stay at top the
NFC South. They got a half game lead over the
Panthers Panthers on a bye week after a huge win
over what many people thought was the best team in
the NFL, the La Rams, So they're certainly going to
be a problem for the Bucks in the home stretch.
(01:46):
The Bucks, They've got a home game against the Saints
on Sunday, Hopefully they can win that take a full
one game lead in the South for the home stretch.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
And in that home.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Stretch left two games against the Carolina Panthers, won a
home one away, and that's probably going to decide the
NFC South.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Now, coaches hated when you bring up the margin of
victory because a win is a win, right, And in
the NFL, they'll always say it's tough to win and
you know, we got the job done, et cetera. But
this has really been a year of really close victories
for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I mean, a number of
these games could have gone either way, right, and they
wouldn't necessarily be in a playoff contention at all. No,
(02:22):
but once again they managed to get it done even
when things got tough towards.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
The end of the game. Yeah, the Cardinals is not
a very good team. They've got a backup quarterback in there.
But again, like you said, they got to win. Now,
the Dolphins, they've got three straight wins after beating New
Orleans twenty one to seventeen at hard Rock Stadium. That
was a game where they had a sixteen zip lead
at halftime, so it looked like they were going to
run away with that one, but then New Orleans made
(02:48):
it interesting. Miami improves to five and seven. They played
the Jets in New York.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Next.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Jets not a good team this year, although they did
beat the Falcons, and it in New York that cold weather.
If you've watched the Dolphins playing cold Weather before. I
don't think, even though they're playing better now, that's a
game you could just hand the Dolphins. And even if
they were to win that one and do well in
(03:16):
this home stretch, including the game against the Bucks coming
up in a few weeks, I just don't see the
Dolphins getting a wild card slot with seven losses, not
the way the AFC is stacking up this year. So
it's going to be I think, a season where maybe
they can make some progress towards the end and heading
to the offseason with some positive vibes, But I don't.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Think they're gonna be playing in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah, the Bucks of Leather Division all season long, but
the reality is they're gonna have to earn this.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Yeah, and they have to win the division because they
won't get in as a wildcard either.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
No, not with their record and the number of losses
they've already suffered. And you know, that three game losing
streak was tough because those were games where they were
against good teams, So it was really a test to
see if they could match up to the better teams.
And they didn't. No, but they did get job done
against a definitely inferior team of Arizona.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
All right, what else we have going on this morning?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
So when you turn around a program that was one
and eleven just a few years ago and you win
twenty three games over the next three seasons, you get
the attention of the big guys. And as such, Auburn
has hired Alex Golis from USF as its next head coach,
the forty one year old signing a six year contract
to replace Hugh Freese, who has fired in early November
(04:28):
after failing to fix Auburn's offensive issues in the last
three seasons. Now, the thing that's interesting about Auburn is
that the Tigers o freeze fifteen point eight million dollars
and then they had a deal to replace Brian Harrison,
which was a thirty nine million dollar deal. Overall, the
school has fifty two and a half million dollars in
(04:50):
buyout fees over the last few years, and now they've
just hired another head coach. So while it is an
SEC program and you have the Iron Bowl against Alabama
and it has all that prestige, it is definitely a
troubled program and they have themselves leveraged with a lot
of money going to coaches that aren't there anymore.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Auburn hasn't been very good since Cam Newton played for them,
so it's been a while. But this is the problem
with USAF not being in one of the big conferences.
You've got coaches that they see success at USF and
they're going to move on to something bigger and better.
(05:31):
And it's really frustrating because he certainly turned the program around. Now,
I will say USF they're nine to three on the season,
they're going to play in a bowl game, but they
didn't win the they didn't get to the conference championship,
let alone win it. And yet again, they had some
games in the middle of the season where they struggled
(05:52):
games they should have won. So there was that issue.
But there's no question he's turned the program around. But
this is what you see in college football. College football's
got a real problem. I think you've got the Tulane
head coach John Summrall, he's leaving that program to go
to Florida. You've got Lane Kiffin, head coach of Ole Miss.
(06:14):
He's leaving that program to go to LSU, bigger and
better situation. So you have these coaches where they get
to pick up and leave if they get a bigger,
better offer. Meanwhile, if you're like the Seminoles, you can't fire.
I mean they could, but they're not going to fire
(06:35):
their head coach, who should be fired because of the
amount of money that they would owe him.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
And we saw a lot of that.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
We saw LSU fire Brian Kelly I own fifty something
million dollars, Penn State firing James Franklin, oweing him tens
of millions of dollars. And really it's the college athletes
who suffer here. You know, they get recruited by these coaches,
they go to these programs, and then the.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Coaches up and leaves.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Now they have some options with the transfer portal and
all of that, but it just it seems like a
situation that that's not working. You've got Lane Kiffen now
leaving Ole Miss. He's not going to coach them in
the college football playoffs, a team with the chance to
win the national championship because he's going to LSU and
they couldn't work out a deal to let him continue.
(07:23):
It's just it seems like it's a big problem.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
At least the guy who's coming to Florida is going
to coach out his time at too late, right, right, right?
I mean Golish is not going to coach the Bulls
to the end of the season. He was flying into
Auburn and sending messages to the new team and saying
he's starting.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
To work there. So you're right, that's that's a big letdown.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I think for the players here, you know, dedicated their
futures to the hope that you know, their coach would
be there and help them, you know, guide them to
a potential career. So yeah, it's obviously a thing where
the universities. I don't know how the economics work, to
be honest with you, when you have to owe all
this money, coach, is that just up and leave and
go to some competing program.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
NCAA has a lot of problems, but that's certainly one
of them.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
So Bush Gardens, SeaWorld, and Aquatica are among the Florida
theme parks at the center of a disability discrimination investigation.
The Justice Departments trying to find out if United Parks
and Resorts Incorporated, the owner of these parks, violated the
American Disabilities Act. Now, the lawsuit is about roll laders,
(08:24):
so those are those devices that are on four wheels.
They usually have a seat in the middle, and people
use them as like a rolling walker. They have brakes
on them so that you don't you know, sort of
fall over, you know, forward on the wheels.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I was looking up these things, and I got to
tell you there's one home depens like two hundred and
fifty six bucks. It's luxurious, it's got ergonomic handles, it's
got a luxury seat, it's got a storage compartment for
all your stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
I want to get one of these things. It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Well, it's definitely an advance from what you think of
as a walker, where you have to lift it every
time you step.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yeah, this is like the Cadillac of walkers.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Well it's not.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
It's not an electric vehicle. Now, it's not like you
have to just sit there and roll around. You actually
have to stand up.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
It does have a seat if you get tired, and
underneath the seat has like a storage compartment.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yes, so you could roll to the line for the
ride and then you could sit down.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah right, you're right. Actually anybody could use something like that.
But the problem is that Bush Gardens and SeaWorld have
signs all over the place saying no roll laders in
the in the queues, and according to the you know,
the plaintiffs, this is a violation of the of the
eighty A the Federal Disabilities Act. So we're going to
(09:38):
see if this is a legitimate lawsuit. But you know,
they do have to provide under the laws certain accessibility
to people with disabilities. Now, usually that implies things like
wheelchairs and larger things. But the rollladers apparently have been
enough of a problem in the lines that they've decided
to ban them at these particular parks.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yeah. Yeah, the parks are saying there's been a lot
of misuse, which I think is exactly what I was describing.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
People like you who don't want to stand. Yeah, bring
one in line.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
They're also saying that they're like a safety hazard too,
but I don't quite see what's actually happened that's making
it a safety hazard.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I guess there are certain instances where if you're on
those things.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Going over certain terrain, yeah, in the park or whatever.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
That it can be dangerous, like the break fail or something.
I mean, did you possibly go with that thing? I
don't know, but I didn't really know much about these things.
Until I looked it up before we talked about this story,
and I got to tell you this drive nitrol role later.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
It's got my attention. Something to ask Santa.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
It's high end that might be on my Christmas list.
Chris Trankman with today's stop stories. Chris, thanks so much.
Now let's get to today's stop stories.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
So hundreds of flights, thousands of travelers flying out of
Tampa International Airport the weekend after Thanksgiving, and there were
some delays. According to Triple A, Tampa the most popular
domestic travel destination this year. Orlando of course is first,
but Florida in general one of the most popular places
to go during the holidays. So no surprise that there
(11:09):
were issues at the biggest airports. Fly to where said
twelve hundred delays in total at Miami for Lauderdale, Orlando, Jacksonville,
and of course Tampa one hundred flight cancelations combined. But
you know what, when you think about this weekend compared
to that whole fiasco with Southwest, Oh yeah, I remember
that a couple of years basic Cake, I mean, yeah,
(11:29):
there were storms, there were problems, and it may have
depended on where you were going in the country. Yeah,
how much time you had to spend traveling, But it
seems like it could have been a lot worse.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
And I saw the the average round trip ticket for
Thanksgiving travel, according tripa A, that's seven hundred bucks this year.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
That's why I don't travel. That's why I don't go
see my family for Thanksgiving because it's way too much money.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah, you're you're ponying up quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
And especially like if you're traveling, you know with a family,
that's expensive.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
A lot of zoom calls.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, Yeah, I think there's a lot of that going on,
and people just you know, maybe spending it with friends
or people who are close.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
By that they could drive to as opposed to flying.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah, I'm glad we're in Florida for that reason, and
we're in a destination place that was everywhere, you know,
the place everybody has to try and get you during
a winter storm.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
So the first storm season in a decade without a
hurricane making landfall in the US also featured some of
the most powerful storms.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
It was a weird hurricane season that's finally over.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah, because what happened was there was not a lot
of activity for most of the storm season, and then
at the end there was like this whirlwind of activity,
including of course Hurricane Melissa, a Category five, which made
landfall as the strongest storm in the Atlantic basin, you know,
one hundred and eighty mile per hour winds. It was
just unbelievable when it hit Jamaica. But the good news
(12:49):
is that, for whatever reason, every time it looked like
the storms were heading in our direction, they would veer
off to the northeast and miss us completely. But that's
not to say that this was completely out of the norm.
Been a number if you look at it, like historically,
there have been plenty of years where the US hasn't
been hit by any hurricanes. It's just that after last season,
everybody was bracing for the worst, and fortunately we got
the best.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I was trying to remember because I've been doing hurricane
coverage now for nine years, and I think just about
every single year I've covered a storm, whether it's a
tropical storm or even a hurricane hitting you know, South
Carolina or some other parts of the state. This was
(13:30):
the first year that I can't remember that I didn't
have to do any hurricane coverage.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Yeah, well, that was a great deal.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yep. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Overall, the twenty twenty five hurricanes season churned out thirteen
named storms five hurricanes, which is near the long term
historical average, but they formed especially strong and they were
long lived late in the season, which was unusual.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Four of the five hurricanes reach category four or five,
the highest share of high end storms ever recorded.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
So not a ton of storms.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Obviously, nothing hit the US this year, but some really
powerful ones out there. Chris Drankman with today's top stories. Chris,
thanks so much, Thank you so.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
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