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January 8, 2026 15 mins
TOP STORIES - HHS Secretary RFK, Jr. announces new dietary guidelines and reveals a new food pyramid, we run through some of the new foods coming to the Florida State Fair next month, Sheriff Grady Judd says a Florida Man broke into a Polk County home and heated up a meal because he was hungry, Marco Rubio lays out a 3-phase strategy for Venezuela, and a new "recyclopedia" explains how to recycle in South Florida.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Good morning, Chris, Good morning. The Trump administration released new
dietary guidelines and with them an inverted food pyramid that

(00:21):
has steak, cheese, and full fat milk near the top
and whole grains at the bottom. So it's the opposite
of an older version of the pyramid introduced in nineteen
ninety two, which was right side up, it had grains
as the largest section, and it is a symbol of
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior's plan to change America's

(00:42):
diet in what's called Maha, you know, make America healthy again.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
You wonder if he stood there and was like, you
know what, won't we just won't we just flip that
upside down?

Speaker 3 (00:51):
That's it? Give that a shot, sense.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yeah, It's kind of like George Costanza in Seinfeldt. You know,
if if the current pyramid is leading to all this obesity,
then if we just flip it and do the opposite,
the opposite must be right. If what we're doing is wrong,
the opposite must be right.

Speaker 5 (01:13):
I always think of like George sleeping in his desk.
Well he did that too, but yeah, yeah, here's the thing.
So what he's saying is that Americans do need to
do something that's probably very important, which is eat less
processed foods and eat things with less added sugar. Right now,
some of the questions, of course, or whether or not
it's safe to eat things like unpasteurized milk, and some

(01:35):
of the other controversial issues, but it's obviously as it's
like turning the whole dietary structure that the federal government
has been putting out for decades on its head.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, except for you know, vegetables is still up there
towards the top of things you should be eating that
didn't share.

Speaker 6 (01:52):
Yeah, and people still aren't going to eat them. Put
them at the top of the pyramid or the bottom.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
People don't like them.

Speaker 5 (01:57):
Yeah, But it also shows that you shouldn't eat as
many like highly sugar content fruits like you know, bananas.
Don't eat too many of those beause are full of
sugar even though it's natural sugar. And it does like
you said, emphasize, you know, the leafy, green vegetables that
that people generally avoid if they can't.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Essentially, it came down to eat more real foods, whether.

Speaker 6 (02:20):
It's meat, dairy, fruits.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
And vegetables, and less packaged food I wonder what Florida's
big sugar industry thought of this change.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
They probably couldn't be too happy about that.

Speaker 5 (02:32):
No, But if you consider the effects though, of the
g LP one drugs and how people's diets are dramatically changing,
that industry is going to have to wake up and
deal with it anyway, yep, because it doesn't take the
federal government to change how people are already you know,
affecting the marketplace with their new diets. People just aren't
eating as many of these you know, highly sugar and

(02:54):
processed foods as they used to, even though it's still
a big part of people's diets because it's so good, but.

Speaker 6 (03:00):
It's just so bad for you. I mean, I notice
a huge difference. When I eat salads and eat healthy
vegetables and fruits, I feel good and I lose weight.
When I eat ice cream twice in one day, like
I diggest today, I get fat and feel like great.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Well, but you feel good in the moment. Yeah, I do, yeah,
followed by s.

Speaker 6 (03:18):
And I'm putting it in that. I'm like, I'm going
to regret this in an hour, and I just ate
it anyway.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
It's so good.

Speaker 6 (03:23):
It's this some War's ice cream from Target Favorite day.
Oh my gosh, it's amazing.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
If broccoli tasted like that, we'd all eat a lot
of broccoli. I don't know what guy was thinking when
he made vegetables, Like he really didn't think that throw
very well, like, well, it's not good.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
And then doctor Roz said this. This stood out to me.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
If we're able to get the average American who today
retires on average at age sixty one, get them just
to work one year longer because they feel so vital,
so strong, so bullsh about their future, because they're feeding
their bodies nutrients that are essential to their high functioning productivity,
we will increase the overall GDP of our nation by

(04:02):
trillions of dollars.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
I mean, if I get healthy, it's not to work
an extra year, right, it's to retire and enjoy it
extra year.

Speaker 5 (04:11):
What the hell, man, No, get back in that factory
for another year? Come on, right, Yeah, it's an interesting thing.
He also mentioned alcohol consumption.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Social lubricant, yes, what he called it.

Speaker 5 (04:22):
Well, he said that he would prefer people don't drink
at all because alcohol generally is not good. But he
did say that it did provide, like, you know, a
social catalyst.

Speaker 6 (04:33):
Yeah, getting together with friends and family is really good
for you.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yes, let me tell you, if you stop drinking, the
birth rate's going to go down in this country field
whole other problem. All right, while we're on the topic
of eating the right foods. Yeah, speaking of highly nutritious
and all natural foods.

Speaker 5 (04:51):
The Florida State Fair has come out with some of
the things that you can get when it takes place.
So cookie butter, frozen cheesecake that doesn't sound in the pyramid,
so that doesn't sound processed or anything, a grilled campfire,
some more sandwich.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
And then so good.

Speaker 6 (05:07):
Yeah that one does look good.

Speaker 5 (05:08):
Hot honey, hellapen, penial popper, donuts, just a few of
the things that you can get. So this is February
fifth to February sixteenth the State Fair. It's themes celebrating
America's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary with special red, white,
and blue surprises. Nothing unnatural about those colors.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
And some of the options, I gotta be honest, they're
pretty gross. Uh some of them though, The deep fried
Cuban burrito, that sounded really good. The hot honey apple fries,
a little cinnamon and the ice cream. The PB and
J funnel cake sandwich, Yeah, that looks ridiculous, the twisted
italianum forget about it, Italian sausage, a little homemade dome

(05:50):
arin era, and then the Star Spangled cookie Sunday if
you want to get patriotic, that.

Speaker 6 (05:55):
Looks pretty good. So back to the grilled campfire Somemora sandwich,
mixing cheese with ntilla and marshmallows, and I just I
don't see how cheese tastes good with that.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
He's always tastes good. Yeah, it's going to be melted
in with all that stuff. I bet you that's going
to be pretty good. And again, that's that's something I
could see. RFK Junior recommend it.

Speaker 5 (06:14):
Yes, Ma Maha, Yeah, look at the Maha stamp of approval.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
All right, let's get to one more quick story, another
one involving food.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (06:24):
A man arrested after Pole County deputy say he broke
into a home to use somebody's microwave.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
Why because he was hungry. You know.

Speaker 5 (06:34):
Look, this is one of these stories where it's funny
but it's also terrifying at the same time. Yeah, and
Sheriff Grady Judd describes it in his own special way.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
Now, think about this tonight.

Speaker 7 (06:46):
You go to bed and you're sound asleep, and all
of a sudden you hear your microwave, you know sound
it makes, and you go in the kitchen and there's
John Crookham. The dude is microwaving something to eat that
he got out of your freezer after he already ate

(07:09):
a can of your Viina sausage or Viana sausage if
you're from Polk County. Now that in itself ought to
be like a first degree felon. You know what I'm saying,
If they take you sausage.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
I think it's Vienna.

Speaker 6 (07:24):
Yeah, he said in two different ways than.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
They were both wrong. I don't think he eats those
fancy sausages. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (07:30):
So this guy, you know, he obviously goes down as
Florida Man.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
Of the Day, but yeah, just for that. But then
there's this, But.

Speaker 5 (07:38):
Then he goes down as the stupid criminal of the
day as well, because he apparently left his wallet in
the house and they were able to track him down.
They found him down the street after he had left,
and that's when he explained that he just went in
there because he was hungry and went through the people's
cupboards and found the sausage, and then he did not
adhere to the new standards for the dietary guidelines going

(08:02):
for the sausages. That was his pick, all right. Chris
Trankman with today's Stop Stories. Chris, thanks so much.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Get to today's Stop Stories with Natalie Ronriguez. Good morning, Natalie,
good morning.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
Well.

Speaker 8 (08:13):
After briefing members of Congress, Secretary of St. Mark Rubio
spoke briefly to the press, and he said that the
US has already seen progress and its dealings with Venezuela.
Following the US military raid which captured and removed the
dictator in Nicolasmaduto and his wife in Venezuela.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
We are in the midst right now and in fact
about to execute on a deal to take all the oil.
They have oil that is stuck in Venezuela. They can't
move it because of our quarantine and because it's sanctioned.
We are going to take between thirty and fifty million
bottles of oil.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
We're going to sell it in the.

Speaker 4 (08:41):
Marketplace at market rates, not at the discounts Venezuela was getting.
That money will then be handled in such a way
that we will control how it is.

Speaker 8 (08:48):
Dispersed, and he does say that it's going to be
a step by step process.

Speaker 4 (08:52):
Step one is the stabilization of the country. We don't
want it descending into chaos. Part of that stabilization and
the reason why we understand and believe that we have
the strongest leverage possible is our quarantine. As you've seen
two more ships received.

Speaker 8 (09:04):
Step two, he says, will involve recovery, which entails getting
the country's economy going with full transparency, amnesty, prisoner releases,
the return of political exiles. And then step three is
kind of a combination of steps one and two, aiming
toward a new governing framework that is more democratic, more

(09:25):
free flowing, and has the economy. It's all focused on
the economy, getting that economy flowing, the oil and the
profit to the US, and having that profit being spilled
over to the residents of Venezuela who've been victim of
this regime for so many years.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah, anybody who thought that Marco Rubio didn't have a
long term plan for how to handle the situation of
Venezuela hadn't been paying attention to Marco Rubio. Now the
question is how will this plan be executed and how
do we handle speed bumps along the way which are

(10:00):
inevitably going to come up. But the idea that we're
going to continue to keep a stranglehold on Venezuela's exports
of oil in order to get them to do what
we need them to do, which is, you know, fix
that country and eventually holds free and fair elections. I mean,

(10:22):
it sounds like a pretty solid strategy to me. And
we're going to talk more about this in the eight
o'clock hour. Acxios White House reporter Marca Pudo is going
to join us. He's been doing fantastic reporting, especially on
this story and this angle in particular, So you want
to be here at eight thirty five for that, or
make sure you check the podcast after the show. Search

(10:44):
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you listen to podcasts.

Speaker 8 (10:49):
That's right, and as we move forward, the Trump administration
has unveiled a new inverted food pyramid and its dietary guidelines,
which they say puts real food back at the center
of health. So grains, which were once the foundation of
the suggested diet, they're now the smallest group and relegated

(11:11):
to the bottom of this pyramid. Protein, dairy, healthy fats, fruits, veggies.
They're the largest categories for the top Health Secretary Robert F.
Kennedy Junior's plan aims to completely cut out added sugars,
prioritizing protein, pushing the veggies and fruit, reducing the intake
of highly processed products, so salami, ham, all that good stuff,

(11:34):
the juicy and tasty stuff, no more, eating more whole foods,
and ending the war on saturated fats. What does this
mean to us? Not so much to the adults, but
it will impact definitely the food that is fed to
kids in schools. It's meant to combat chronic disease. Part
of the whole Make America Healthy Again or the MAHA push.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
This is going to be an uprising in schools all
across the comptry.

Speaker 6 (11:59):
I'm going to be happy and you can't get a
cinnamon roll for breakfast. Anymore.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
Right, Basically, if you want to sell them up this
whole approach, it's it's eat more like real foods and
eat less packaged food.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
The problem is the package food tastes really good sometimes
it really does. Yeah well, that stuff is cheaper. Yeah well.
And the one thing.

Speaker 6 (12:19):
About the whole grains like pastas and breads, that stuff
is so good, but it has very little nutritional value.
So I mean, this whole thing makes sense. And when
I eat a lot of pasta and bread, I feel
like huge, Like I feel like crap after.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
Yeah, there's a big difference in how you feel after
you have a meal. That's more based on what they're
talking about as opposed to you know, what we typically eat.
And then doctor Ozy also talked about alcohol.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
Let me play that real quick.

Speaker 9 (12:45):
So alcohol is a social lubricit that brings people.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
Together, damn right.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
In the best case scenario, I don't think you should
drink alcohol, but it does allow people an excuse to
bond and socialize and there's probably nothing healthier.

Speaker 9 (12:58):
They're having a good time with friends in a safe way.
If you look at the blue zones, for example, around
the world, whe people live the longest. Alcohol is sometimes
part of their diet. Again, small amounts taken very judiciously
and usually in a celebratory fashion. So there is alcohol
on these dietary guidelines, but the implication is don't have
it for breakfast.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
Yeah, well, I mean that, I guess, but drink.

Speaker 6 (13:20):
But the old guidelines were two drinks for a man
and one drink for a woman, and anything beyond that is.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
Bad per day go to any bar, and that rule
is being broken.

Speaker 6 (13:30):
Well, and now they've just changed it to drink and moderation,
but they're not being specific, and some people are taking.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
Issue with that. It's a social lubrication.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
It really is.

Speaker 6 (13:38):
It's just such an interesting take, not something I don't have.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
A for breakfast's at work? We should push for it.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
Yes, yes, let me tell you what this show we
would go to the next level.

Speaker 6 (13:50):
If we were having alcohol.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
Yeah, all right, let's get to one more quick story.

Speaker 8 (13:54):
Natalie Oh, there's a new website that's set to help
answer the ongoing questions of which bind does my trash
go in? Everybody does it if they've got the recycle
bins at home, Well now you can recycle right at
least in Miami Dade County. They've created this or they've
partnered up with recyclopedia, which allows residents to find what's

(14:15):
recyclable in their municipality. They can track drop off points
for special items, and they can actually find recycling resources
for their community. So in essence, the residents can actually
filter by municipality and search whether or not a particular
item does this cup? Can I recycle this cup? Can
I recycle you know, a wheel or a bottle, and

(14:36):
they can find out what to do, what steps to take.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
They're making this too confusing, it's too This country's got
to if we want to recycle and do all of that,
then we've got to get a comprehensive plan in place
and make it uniform. This way there's no confusion, like
people aren't going on a website to look this stuff up. Okay,
So basically any kind of product that you can recycle,
it needs like a little blue recycl symbol or something

(15:01):
like that on it. And this way we know, okay,
we can recycle that. You can't expect people to know
this box or this bottle or.

Speaker 6 (15:10):
It's just it's too much. And then we learned that
you know, a lot of times and stuff just all
goes to the same place it does.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah, only about thirty seven percent of Miami Dade's trash
is recycled, and then nearly forty percent of that is contaminated. Yeah,
so come on, I recycle my Amazon boxes. I know
that they have a dump at my place where you
can put the boxes, so I do that.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
Outside of that, it's confusing. Yeah, it is social lubrication
yea helps everything.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
Well, those cans, those social lubricant cans, I think you can.
And the bottles, the bottles. Natalie Rodriguez Today's top Stories. Natalie,
thanks so much.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
You got it.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
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