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December 9, 2025 14 mins
TOP STORIES - Kristi Noem presents Tampa TSA workers with $10,000 bonus checks, Juan Porras files bill to revamp HOA procedures, USF introduces their new head coach Brian Hartline, a father and son were rescued after getting stranded in the Everglades, and the Golden Globes 2026 nominees have been revealed.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Good morning, Chris, Good morning, So talk about hitting the jackpot.
Sixteen TSA officers at Tampa International Airport awarded ten thousand
dollars bonuses from the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Christy
Nome for their service during the government shutdown. Now, not
every officer received these awards, however, she said that these

(00:33):
were for individuals who continue to show up and fulfill
their shifts and do extra work to help keep things
running during the government shutdown, and some of them worked
extra hard during the very busy Thanksgiving travel season.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Now, I have no doubt these TSA workers probably earned,
you know, ten thousand dollars bonus check. I mean, that
must have been difficult government shutdown getting paid, and it's like,
you know, crazy time of the year. But I thought
we were giving these checks out to air traffic controllers.
I know.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
That's what's so strange to me is that the air
traffic controllers who I mean TSA is a tough job,
but yeah, the air traffic controllers are under an enormous
amount right, more stress. I mean they have people's lives
in their hands, and they had so many of their
coworkers not showing up to work that the people who
did work were working insane hours.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
So yeah, they haven't got where's Sean Duffy?

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Yeah checks? That was the promise from the president. Originally
it was gonna be air traffic controllers. But I will
tell you these TSA workers getting a ten thousand dollars bonus.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
Sweet.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah, But the TSA union is like, look, there's sixty
thousand people work for TSA, and she's handing out sixteen
checks at Tampa's airport, which wasn't the busiest in the country.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
And well she's been handing them out at other airports.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
In a bunch of different places.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
But I wonder what were what were the what are
the qualifications? Yeah, the criteria was it just based on
a supervisor's recommendation for their certain things they had to do.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
The supervisor.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, supervisors did the recommendations and then it went to
the top and then they made the determination who gets
the money. But that's a subjective thing, and it's a
tiny number compared to the number of employees who worked
during these difficult times.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah, just give it to all of them. Put it
on the tab, exact put it on the tab. What
was interesting about this appearance was that a hot mic
picked up some TSA agents privately venting about their workplace.
One agent said he used to be terrified of a
superior he worked with an HR. Here's some of it.

(02:34):
It's a little hard to hear, but listen closely.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
I used to be terrified that Pennesulta and HRC of
HER's are busy. She did like the discipline stuff in HR,
so like being an officer.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
She like didn't trust me.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Did they like hung around any of it?

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Because that was so great?

Speaker 4 (02:54):
It was you. I wonder if that's the supervisor who
for the money.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
But you know, you got a bunch of co workers.
They get together and they're kind of standing on stage
waiting yet so bsing about their coworkers and supervisors.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Yeah, the dreaded open mic. So relief may be coming
to those frustrated by the power of homeowners associations. Republican
Representative Juan Porus of Miami has filed legislation in the
House to help improve transparency, accountability, and fairness for Floridians
frustrated with irritating homeowners association procedures. It would erase pre

(03:33):
suit mediation requirements over disputes. It would mandate hoa's update
governing documents with up to date language because of course
it's impossible to understand a lot of that stuff. Establish
a community association court program, and allow qualified arbitrators to
look over inquiries to provide a smoother path to resolve complaints.

(03:53):
So I'm guessing that this lawmaker and probably many others
in the legislature have had direct sperience with hoas and
want something done about the power of these groups. And
unlike the insurance industry, which has like a whole lobbying team, yeah,
hoas don't. So it's going to look like they're the
hoa's are going to get hit with some some regulations,

(04:15):
but the lawmakers aren't going to do much about insurance, right.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
So he tried these kinds of reforms before, in fact
last year, but the bill died in committee. I don't
know why. I feel like it might have a little
bit more momentum this time. Around.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
I think so, yeah, because what we saw there were
people that went to Tallahassee to fight over this, and
then we did that story about the guy was it
in the villages who had a they had a cross
in their yard, a one foot cross, and it led
to like forty four thousand dollars in fines and then
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in court fees.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yeah, there's been a couple of those stories.

Speaker 4 (04:51):
Confense. Yeah, it's insane.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, there's a balance between trying to keep the neighborhood
nice because people are slobs, and then you know, going
overboard and making it like a not regime in the neighborhood.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
Well, in hoas are not very nice.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
When I moved into my new house, the yard hadn't
been taken care of by the previous owners, and so
I had a letter that was dated before I even
took ownership of the home saying that if I didn't
clean up the yard and get the there was like
dead grass in the flower beds and the mulch, so
it needed to be remulched.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
And I emailed and said, hey.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
I just moved in, I'm getting it taken care of. Yeah,
and the guy wrote back and says saying, oh, no problem,
welcome to the neighborhood. You know, we understand. He goes, well,
when will you have it done by?

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Exactly right. Yeah, so I.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
Had been five hundred bucks to have somebody come and
like remulch the whole yard.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, I'm not waiting around for you to.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
I don't get around like we don't get it, get
it done.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
I mean. The thing is, though, you can, if you
weaken hoas to the point where they're useless, then people
will just start doing ever they want.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
That's the problem. The problem is people can't be trusted
people again.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
And what also stinks is when there's a vacant home
in the commune and either the bank owns it or
it's in foreclosure or something, and so nobody's taken care
of it and they don't care about the fines or anything.

Speaker 4 (06:06):
So there will be like.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
A home that's completely overgrown in a disaster. But if
my mailbox is during.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
It, fine.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
You know what happened there during the Great Recession, there
were so many vacant homes because of foreclosures, and the
law used to require banks to maintain and the banks went.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
To the legislation s and so now you have all
these problems.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, you have empty, overgrown homes now when they go
into foreclosure, So thank your local bank.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
What else is going on, Chris?

Speaker 2 (06:33):
The University of South Florida has introduced Brian Hartline as
its new head football coach. They flew him up from Columbus,
Ohio yesterday and he appeared at the university to talk
about his plan as he replaces Alex Golish, who accepted
a head coaching job at Auburn.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
Now.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Heartline very enthusiastic. He says that there are great things
I had for the university, and he's you know, making
some big promises. He thinks that USF is like a
you know, bomb ready to go off, that the school
is ready to explode onto the college football scene, and
he's going to be there to lead that effort. Meanwhile,
he will go back to Ohio State for the playoff. Obviously,

(07:12):
the Buckeyes are in the college football National Championship picture,
and we'll call the offensive plays for them before taking
over officially at USO.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
Yeah, and unlike James Madison in Tulane, Ohio State has
a real chance at winning the whole thing.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
They don't play Indiana. Yeah, yeah, well they struggled in
that last game. But the pros I think for Brian Hardline,
he's an offensive coach.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
I think that's important. He has experienced in the premier
program in the country, but never done it before coordinator,
so you just you never quite know if they can
take over the whole operation. And the key for him
right now is keeping Byron Brown. You've got to keep
that quarterback who has so much potential. And then next season,
you know, time for us have to win the conference.

(07:56):
I mean, I think that should be the goal next year.
You keep that momentum going ahead of the on campus
stadium being built, all of that you would think would
help them get into a power for a conference, which
is the ultimate goal. There's no reason UCF should be
in one and not us F. It's just a matter
of sustained success and hopefully between what Goalesh built and
what Hardline can build on, that's what we'll see from

(08:19):
us F. All right, Chris Trankman with today's Stop Stories. Chris,
thanks so much, Thank you. Right now, let's get to today'
Stop Stories with Natalie Ronriguez. Good morning, Natalie. We'll check
this out branded in the Everglade. My four wheeler ran
out of gas. We got up in a mud hole.

Speaker 5 (08:35):
Yeah, imagine being out there at night in Big Cypress
National Preserves, arounded by god knows what alligators and swamp things. Well,
there was a daring rescue mission caught on camera. Father
and son that you heard there. That was the father.
Collier County Sheriff's Office says that their ATV ran out
of gas, they got stuck, and they basically were running

(08:56):
out of even drinking water. So they called nine to
one to one andation team came down tracking them down
because they at least knew their coordinates somewhat, so rescue
crews found them after spotting a fire that the guys
very intelligently started to kind of warm up because they
were wet in the dark swamp, but that actually assisted

(09:17):
the aviation team and spotting them, so they were hoisted
to safety with the assistance of fire rescue specialists. The
Sheriff's office says that no one was hurt and the
men were able to extinguish the fire upon their rescue.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
There is no way if that happened to me out
in the middle of the Everglades, I got stuck. I
just lay down a way for the Brumley's python that
come down. Yeah, yeah, there's no Well I don't.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
I can't necessarily see you, like going out in an
ATV in the middle of the Everglades.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
You're not going to diver your way in to see well.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
And then I was thinking, like, it's a good thing
their cell phone worked out there so they could call
nine one one, because when you drive through you know, Alligator,
you can't even use your cell phone in some areas there's.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
No service, right, And I don't know how they started that,
but if I didn't have a lighter on me, that
would have been an option either. So that's why I
don't venture out into those kinds way. You have to
watch those TikTok videos. Yeah, education right, all right, let's
get to one more story, Natalie.

Speaker 5 (10:13):
Golden Globe nods are out and with one battle after another,
picking up nine nominations in total, the film got a
big approval for Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio, Best Actress
for Chase Infinity, and Best Director for Paul Thomas Anderson.
Some new categories are being added this year to the
Golden Globes. The awards are said to be handed out

(10:33):
for Best Stand Up Comedy Special. Bill Maher, Sarah Silverman,
and Kevin Hart are among those nominated. The Best Podcast award
is also new. I think they're copying our iHeartRadio.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
Yeah, that's what sounds like. That's what it sounds like, right.

Speaker 5 (10:48):
Dax Shepherd's Armchair Expert and Amy Poehler's Good Hang getting
nods there. Another new category is honoring cinematic and box
office achievement. Among those nominees, You've got F one, Zoo
Topia two, and K Pop Demon Hunters. Over on the
television side, HBO's White Lotus is leading the field with
six nominations, followed by Great Show, followed by Adolescens with

(11:11):
five and Only Murders in the Building and Severance with
four each. The eighty third annual Golden Globe Awards are
January eleventh in Los Angeles, pending there's no wildfire.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
All right, So I've got to say about this now,
I'm going to skip right over the movie part because
I haven't seen any of the movies. You get right
to the TV part. So the TV categories, like you said,
White Lotus, adolescence. So for Best Drama, you had the Diplomat,
You had The Pit pluribis, which I've been watching on
Apple TV. It's a very unique show. It's pretty good.

(11:44):
The White Lotus, Severance and Slow Horses, and I gotta
tell you, you know, White Lotus was really good. Diplomat's good.
The Pit though, man, that was intense. That's the medical drama. Yeah,
that was intense. I think that should win it. No,
Wiley shouldn't get Best Actor. He was really he was
really good. Best Limited Series to me adolescents. If you

(12:05):
haven't seen.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
That, I won't watch it.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
Yeah. Yeah, if you're a parent, I could totally.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
Understand Teenage Boy.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
No. Best Actress Helen Mirren and Mobland. If you haven't
watched anything oh Man with Pierce Brosnan in that show
and Tom Hardy and some others. It's it's on Paramount Plus.
It's excellent. She is amazing in that show. I don't
understand for Best Comedy, how the Bear keeps getting nominated.
It's not a comedy. To me, it's not. And when I.

Speaker 4 (12:34):
Tried to watch the most recent season, I just couldn't.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
Get into it. It was like something weird happened with it.
I liked the first two seasons, not the third.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
And then this this best Podcast category? Uh so the
Joe Rogan Experience and Ben Shapiro they don't get nominated. Really,
how does Joe Rogan a caet nominate it for Best Podcast?

Speaker 3 (12:53):
I don't know, but it's but it's it's Dax Shephard
and Amy Poehler. So it's like actor actress like they're
the ones who got it.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
Calor Daddy got nominated. Mel Robbins don't you like Melvine?
I do like Mel Robins. Yes, The Ryan Gorman Show
another snub, completely left off And speaking of snubs, real quick,
last point, what the hell is with Landman? How did
that not get nominated for? Are you kidding me? Bully?
Bob Thornton, Ali Larder not nominated?

Speaker 4 (13:19):
Mill Show?

Speaker 3 (13:20):
And I canceled my Paramount Plus subscription as of December first,
but I know the new season it's so good a
right in November, so I'm like, all right, I'm gonna
binge watch the whole new season. And then I realized
they dripped the episodes out every yeah, episode two, and
now I can't watch anymore.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
Is it Taylor Shardan or Tyler?

Speaker 5 (13:37):
It's Taylor Taylor he's gonna have just a whole award
show just dedicated to him.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
I feel like he always gets snubbed. You know, a
Yellowstone didn't get anything.

Speaker 4 (13:46):
Stuff about how things ended with Yellows.

Speaker 5 (13:48):
Maybe give him the award, But boy, I think he's
just so talented that he's just in a league of this.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
Right. Maybe, Yeah, that's another one that didn't get nominated
for Best Comedy. You're right now pissed off, all right,
Natalie Rodriguez with today's top stories. Natalie, thanks so much.
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