November 21, 2025 • 17 mins
BEST OF - A Republican effort is underway to expel Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick from Congress as legal and ethical questions about misuse of FEMA funds mount. The Trump administration proposes moving offshore oil drilling operations closer to Florida’s coastline, sparking new environmental and political debate. Plus, a Florida homeowner wins a $70,000 settlement after being sued by the CDD over a 12-inch cross displayed on their property. National Correspondent Rory O’Neill also recaps Dick Cheney’s funeral and shares the latest on Trump’s airline civility campaign, along with a bizarre Polk County story involving a naked TikTok challenge.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm Ryan Gorman with Dana McKay, Jason Barringer, Brianna Torrez,
and Reed Shepherd from our newsroom.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Coming up this hour.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Tons of feedback on a story we did the other
day involving how the state is selling your DMV information.
We're going to recap the story and run through your
reaction to it. Before seven twenty plus, President Trump set
to meet with New York City Mayor elect Zorn Mamdani
at the White House today. We'll get a preview of
that from our White House correspondent John Decker at seven
(00:26):
forty eight. Time now for today's top stories, brought to
you by my friends over at the Holland Group, retirement
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They can help you make the most of it. Find
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Speaker 2 (00:38):
Good morning, Read.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Good morning, Ryan, Good morning Daniel.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Well.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I suppose there's no use in letting the grass grow
under your feet. No sooner than we get an indictment
against Democrat Sheila Cheerfillus McCormick, then Republican Greg Stuby is
already coming out uh looking for a vote on expelling
her from Congress. She was indicted by a federal grand jury.
(01:02):
This was a five million dollar FEMA scam in which
the allegation is that she and her brother were overpaid
in FEMA money during the COVID nineteen pandemic.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, the invoice was for fifty thousand dollars and they
received five million. And instead of saying, you know what,
we better tell somebody about this, they rushed to funnel
the money into different places where it wouldn't be found.
And she rushed to go out and buy one hundred
nine thousand dollars three carrot vivid yellow diamond ring.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Yeah, I want to see a picture of this ring.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I can you must man what it looks like?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Oh, of course, I mean I don't think you go
buy one hundred nine thousand dollars ring to let its
sit in a drawer.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
So this was she was supposed to get fifty thousand
and she got five million.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
So yeah, somebody at the FEMA office obviously zeros on area.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yes, so she put some money towards her campaign and
then some money towards her finger.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Well.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
In any event, this move comes as the house is
kind of tired the increased use of expulsion and censure,
so there's really no guarantee how far Stuby's desired. Yeah,
to have her expelled from Congress might go. And of course,
don't forget she's she's been indicted at this point, so
(02:17):
she certainly has a chance to prove her innocence. She
has said the indictment is a sham.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
So the problem as a president was kind of set
when George Santos was expelled before he was convicted. So
that's you know what. You've got a number of members
of Congress bringing up. We'll see where the whole expulsion
things goes. My guess is I don't know it's going
to go anywhere anytime soon, but we do know. I
(02:43):
brought this up yesterday. Read that we've heard from the congresswoman.
She's denying all the allegations and she's using the Costanza defense.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
This is what she's saying about it. Should I not
have done that?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I tell you, I got to plead ignore and this thing,
because if anyone had said anything to me at.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
All when I first started here that that sort of
thing was frowned upon.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Just had no idea that if you put in for
fifty thousand dollars you can get five million that you
can't use it.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Hey, they made the type.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
And then I've got to mention this. So there is
a job opening in Congresswoman Sheila Cheerfullst McCormick's office. They're
hiring a communication strategist. Not making this up, and they
say the ideal candidate is a crisis manager who will
serve as the spokesperson and primary communications advisor to the
(03:37):
congress member. And they want someone who develops and implements
an aggressive and effective communication strategy for the member. Someone
who increases the congresswoman's profile.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I think that's already been done.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah, yeah, someone who works well under pressure and can
handle stress, and someone with strong crisis management skills.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
So if you're interested, there you go.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Night.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
You found the ring?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Oh you found it?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
I think so.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I mean it's a big yellow ring, right, it's got
to be huge.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I mean it was three terraces.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
I mean, I don't know for sure, but I just
found a picture of her and she's wearing a really
really nice, nice ring, and she's got on like a
navy coat and she's got her arms.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Crossings sewing it off. So we can see the ring. Yeah, yeah,
I can see it. From over here.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah, let me say, you got to turn your laptop around.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I got to see this ring. Oh yeah, that's probably it.
Probably that's worth every every cent of one hundred and.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Nine thousand dollars like a yellow ring.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Does it does? Hilarious? All right, what else we gonna
go on?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Right morning?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Administration has released some plans could push offshore oil drilling
somewhat closer to Florida's shores. A lot of environmental advocates
say this could be detrimental to the state's coastal economy,
and that would include the Tampa Bay area as well well.
Basically calls for opening a portion of the eastern Gulf
of Mexico that has traditionally been off limits to new drilling.
(05:07):
This is the first time that anybody who's really even
talked about this since I think the mid nineteen nineties. Yeah,
there are many things that are less popular across party
lines here in Florida then talking about drilling off the coastline.
And you saw Governor DeSantis, Senator Rick Scott, Senator Ashley Moody,
Jimmy Patrona, like everybody come out and.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Say whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
So fast I don't think so. I am telling you
right now, this is not going to happen. Okay, will
not happen. There's going to be way too much blowback,
especially again from Republican lawmakers here in the state, not
just Democrats who obviously are against it too.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I don't think this happens.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah, all right, So we have our Florida man story today.
This is a guy who was set claiming to be
taking part in a TikTok challenge, arrested after he was
walking down a broken arrow trail in Polk County and
Sheriff Grady Judd weighing in on it.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
And on broken arrow trail, it's thirty six degrees and
this dude is walking down the road bunknked. You know
what bucknked means, love, Grady Jed, He's not even wearing
his socks.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
You can be naked and wearing socks.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
But buck nicked means you don't have anything off.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I can't make this stuff up.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
So and anyway, the driver somebody kind of caught this
on a surveillance camera and the driver then called the
Sheriff's office.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
We responded, and there he is marching down the side
of the road, we ask him, are you cold? Not
a bit? What are you doing? Well, it's a TikTok challenge. Well,
you don't even have your cell phone. You're really naked
when you don't have your cell phone.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Well, what's your name?
Speaker 7 (07:03):
He told us his name, wrong name, wrong address, So
we arrested him.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
So for the record, the man's real name is Anthony Day.
But it's still unclear why he was walking bucknked down
the street because he didn't have a camera, he didn't
have a cell phone, he wasn't hooked into TikTok.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I don't know if it's a TikTok challenge, but I
know it's about to become one after this story goes viral.
See more of this around the country. All right, read
Shepherd with today's top stories. Read thanks so much. Right now,
let's bring in our national correspondent, Rory O'Neil, whose report
is brought to you by Mark Spain Real Estate.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
So, Rory, I didn't think there were very many.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Notable moments from former Vice President Dick Cheney's funeral yesterday.
I thought it was interesting to see who was there
and who wasn't. The Lamas were not there, the Clintons
were not there, of course, no surprise. President Trump, Vice
President Jade Vance, they weren't there, but Rachel Maddow.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Was in attendance.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
I thought that was so strange.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
I was wondering about that, and to pose the question,
maybe she is friends with Mary Trump, Mary Cheney.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Oh, okay, like a friend of the family, but boys.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
As opposed to being an MSNBC.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, thank you very much, that's right. Yeah. I saw
Jonathan Carl in the crowd too. Hmmm. Maybe he covered him. Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Anthony found the book to get a book about him
due or Yeah, it was a contributed to a book.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
But I think Madaw may be friendly with the Cheney daughter. Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
And then you had former President Jill Biden and former
First Lady Jill Biden.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
They were there.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
They were interacting with former Vice President Kamala Harris.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
That was interesting that because Harris has been a little bit,
you know with her book.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah, sort of Biden under the bus. A lot of
people were watching.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, you wonder if Joe Biden remembered who she was
to be honest with him, but Joe Biden in between
the two of them. I thought that was interesting because
she definitely not a fan of Kamala Harris. And then
you had former Vice President Mike Pence who was sitting
next to Kamala Harris, or at least he was next
to her for a little while, which was interesting because
I didn't think, you know, if his wife wasn't around,
(09:27):
he wasn't allowed to be around women. So it was
that going on. And then then it was who covered
it and who didn't. So CNN and ms now is
such a stupid name, they carried it.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Fox News only carried parts of it.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
Yeah, they played like George Bush, George W. Bush's you know,
eulogy for like ten minutes and that was it.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I mean back you know, fifteen years ago, Fox would
have carried all of it. Oh yeah, and yeah, MSNBC
at least that they wouldn't have carried any of it.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
It's crazy, right, No, that is a big turn and
it's remarkable to watch just you know, I mean the
fact that the Chinese were called rhinos at the end,
like how are they republican and name only?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Not for nothing, but yeah, when they they are.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
The President Trump has been a Republican, but yeah, certainly
not maga republican.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
No, exactly they're Republicans from a different era in the
Republican politics. Yeah, all right, let's get to and again
we're joined by our national correspondent Rory O'Neil. This push
for airline civility that we're seeing from Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
In fact, this is what he said about this new
civility campaign the other day. Oh, people out, be in
(10:41):
a good mood, dress up, bring civility back to travel,
and I think everyone's experience is going to be that
much better.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
I had to be so funny, like be in a
good mood to.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Dress up come to the airport.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
So I was watching News Nation talking about this last night,
and they were asking people what they thought of it,
and they said, yeah, people need to be friendly and
people need to help.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Each other out.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
And they said, but when it comes to him telling
us what to wear, keep the government open, jorm, tell
us how to dress like people find them found the
part where he because he also had said people dressed
like they're.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Going to bed when they fly.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Yeah, people were not happy about being told to not
dress comfortable.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Getting the rules of the road from the man from
road Rules.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Yeah, okay, fine, First of all, My only complaint with
this is why are we limiting it to the airport
or the airplane, Like, shouldn't these be the standard rules
everywhere all the time.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Taking one step at a time. Rory, youre getting a
little lad in yourself, baby.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Start telling me to dress up on a road dress
when I want to wear my sweatpants.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yeah, yeah, Rory, when I'm rolling out to public, so
I'm not getting dressed up.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Hopefully you just have it delivered. Now. If this repeat
Buddha Jedge saying this, could you imagine be allowed blowback?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yeah, you're right about that, But I don't necessarily think
what he's saying is wrong, including on the dress part.
I mean, you know, it used to be people would
they would want to present themselves in a respectful manner
when they went out in public. Now that is just
not the case. And Danny, you made a good point.
We were talking about this yesterday, the shoes thing. You
(12:22):
think that a lot of people started wearing sandals and
stuff like that, showing their feet because they'd have to
take them off.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Yeah, because it's a pain to have to untie your
sneakers and stuff like that and take shoes on and off.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
When you're at the airport.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
But also on News Nation last night, I thought it
was funny they had all these clips of people's bare
feet and what they do with them on airplanes, and
people putting their toes up over the screen and like
all kinds of discussing stuff. So, yeah, I always wear
socks when I travel, but I'll wear like socks with
my birkenstocks.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Okay, yeah, I just a cool look, you know, put
on some shoes, pull up your pants, put the pacifier
in your kid's mouth so they're not screaming on the plane.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Yourself, like cover your chest area body.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
What do you think about that? I think that I
think that depends on the circumstance. You can leave the
juicy sweatpants at home.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
And your own pillow that you know. They always show
up with the juicy sweatpants, the giant headphones in, they're
hugging the pillows.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Just messy there. Yeah, and now they're all at B
thirty two with the rest of us. It's trude.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Now do you help? Have you ever helped somebody with
their bags? Because he also made that point, like help somebody,
you know, help people with their bags?
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Have you ever done that? I'm six ft six.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
I do it all when everybody's bag away.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Because I'm I'm kind of small, but I'm perfectly capable
of getting my bag in and out of the overhead
been and somebody always tries. Some dude always tried to
help me, and I'm like, I got it.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
That's that's your chance.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Depends on the plane type, right, some of those bins
are higher than others. But yeah, I put luggage up,
I take items off the shelf at public's and I
put stars on top of Christmas Jo.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
That's what I did. That's your job.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
We'll see if people follow this this new civility campaign.
I was surprised during the shutdown that there weren't more
incidents on planes at airports, just because of the delays
and the frustration. I was a little surprised we didn't
see more of that recently.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Well, and I would also know it's also time for
airlines to start treating us better than cattle.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
That and that is a great point. Yeah, that definitely
doesn't help.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
There is that great Simpsons joke Air India, we treat
our passengers like cattle.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
That's a very.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Rory.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
O'Neil, our national correspondent with us Rory. I'll talk to
you in like a week, So have a great weekend,
have a great Thanksgiving holiday.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
We we'll talk to you soon and I'll be talking
with Dana quite a bit, I think, so great.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Letok forward to that next week, all right, So, guys, thanks.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Your fight between a homeowner in the villages and the
Community Development District over a twelve inch cross in the
front yard just ended with the homeowner receiving a seventy
thousand dollars settlement from the district.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
So it all started on April first.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Twenty nineteen, when Wayne and Bonnie Anderson received a notice
from the CDD stating they were in violation of community
standards regarding lawn ornaments. Someone had complained about a twelve
inch white cross in their front yard. We're talking twelve
feet yeah, yeah, no, a twelve inch, We're talking about
a foot yees a foot high.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
You can barely see it.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
So the homeowner said he thought it was an April
Fool's Day joke because he received the letter on April first,
he refused to remove it. Turns out this was a
real violation of the CDD rules, and they started issuing a.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Fine every day.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
The cross remained in the yard twenty five bucks a day,
and then he started getting late fees in all of that.
He said, the last time he checked, the fine was
up to forty.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Four thousand dollars over twelve.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
And they wouldn't pay.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
So the CDD filed a lawsuit against him, and when
all was said and done five years later, they had
racked up two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in legal fees,
and a judge ordered both sides to settle the matter
out of court. The village's CDD ended up having to
pay one hundred and seventy three thousand dollars in legal
(16:25):
and court fees, and they have to pay the couple
seventy thousand dollars for their legal fees.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
And the cross gets to stay in the yard.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
A lot of drama the villagers.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
It really is insteede.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
This one though.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
This is new and when we check in with Adam Walzer,
Tampa Bay twenty eight Investigative Report on the eight o'clock hour,
you're going to hear more crazy stories about hoa's and
how out of control it is.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
Ad can be similar to an HOA in some communities.
It really just depends on how they set it all up.
But yeah, cdd hoa, they all are very control rolling,
I'm Ryan Gorman with Dana McKay, Jason Barringer, Brianna Torrez,
and Reed Shepherd from our newsroom.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Coming up this hour.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Tons of feedback on a story we did the other
day involving how the state is selling your DMV information.
We're going to recap the story and run through your
reaction to it. Before seven twenty plus, President Trump set
to meet with New York City Mayor elect Zorn Mamdani
at the White House today. We'll get a preview of
that from our White House correspondent John Decker at seven
(00:26):
forty eight. 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 Askdehollands dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Good morning, Read.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Good morning, Ryan, Good morning Daniel.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Well.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I suppose there's no use in letting the grass grow
under your feet. No sooner than we get an indictment
against Democrat Sheila Cheerfillus McCormick, then Republican Greg Stuby is
already coming out uh looking for a vote on expelling
her from Congress. She was indicted by a federal grand jury.
(01:02):
This was a five million dollar FEMA scam in which
the allegation is that she and her brother were overpaid
in FEMA money during the COVID nineteen pandemic.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, the invoice was for fifty thousand dollars and they
received five million. And instead of saying, you know what,
we better tell somebody about this, they rushed to funnel
the money into different places where it wouldn't be found.
And she rushed to go out and buy one hundred
nine thousand dollars three carrot vivid yellow diamond ring.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Yeah, I want to see a picture of this ring.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I can you must man what it looks like?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Oh, of course, I mean I don't think you go
buy one hundred nine thousand dollars ring to let its
sit in a drawer.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
So this was she was supposed to get fifty thousand
and she got five million.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
So yeah, somebody at the FEMA office obviously zeros on area.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yes, so she put some money towards her campaign and
then some money towards her finger.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Well.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
In any event, this move comes as the house is
kind of tired the increased use of expulsion and censure,
so there's really no guarantee how far Stuby's desired. Yeah,
to have her expelled from Congress might go. And of course,
don't forget she's she's been indicted at this point, so
(02:17):
she certainly has a chance to prove her innocence. She
has said the indictment is a sham.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
So the problem as a president was kind of set
when George Santos was expelled before he was convicted. So
that's you know what. You've got a number of members
of Congress bringing up. We'll see where the whole expulsion
things goes. My guess is I don't know it's going
to go anywhere anytime soon, but we do know. I
(02:43):
brought this up yesterday. Read that we've heard from the congresswoman.
She's denying all the allegations and she's using the Costanza defense.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
This is what she's saying about it. Should I not
have done that?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I tell you, I got to plead ignore and this thing,
because if anyone had said anything to me at.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
All when I first started here that that sort of
thing was frowned upon.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Just had no idea that if you put in for
fifty thousand dollars you can get five million that you
can't use it.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Hey, they made the type.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
And then I've got to mention this. So there is
a job opening in Congresswoman Sheila Cheerfullst McCormick's office. They're
hiring a communication strategist. Not making this up, and they
say the ideal candidate is a crisis manager who will
serve as the spokesperson and primary communications advisor to the
(03:37):
congress member. And they want someone who develops and implements
an aggressive and effective communication strategy for the member. Someone
who increases the congresswoman's profile.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I think that's already been done.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah, yeah, someone who works well under pressure and can
handle stress, and someone with strong crisis management skills.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
So if you're interested, there you go.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Night.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
You found the ring?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Oh you found it?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
I think so.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I mean it's a big yellow ring, right, it's got
to be huge.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I mean it was three terraces.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
I mean, I don't know for sure, but I just
found a picture of her and she's wearing a really
really nice, nice ring, and she's got on like a
navy coat and she's got her arms.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Crossings sewing it off. So we can see the ring. Yeah, yeah,
I can see it. From over here.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah, let me say, you got to turn your laptop around.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I got to see this ring. Oh yeah, that's probably it.
Probably that's worth every every cent of one hundred and.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Nine thousand dollars like a yellow ring.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Does it does? Hilarious? All right, what else we gonna
go on?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Right morning?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Administration has released some plans could push offshore oil drilling
somewhat closer to Florida's shores. A lot of environmental advocates
say this could be detrimental to the state's coastal economy,
and that would include the Tampa Bay area as well well.
Basically calls for opening a portion of the eastern Gulf
of Mexico that has traditionally been off limits to new drilling.
(05:07):
This is the first time that anybody who's really even
talked about this since I think the mid nineteen nineties. Yeah,
there are many things that are less popular across party
lines here in Florida then talking about drilling off the coastline.
And you saw Governor DeSantis, Senator Rick Scott, Senator Ashley Moody,
Jimmy Patrona, like everybody come out and.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Say whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
So fast I don't think so. I am telling you
right now, this is not going to happen. Okay, will
not happen. There's going to be way too much blowback,
especially again from Republican lawmakers here in the state, not
just Democrats who obviously are against it too.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I don't think this happens.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah, all right, So we have our Florida man story today.
This is a guy who was set claiming to be
taking part in a TikTok challenge, arrested after he was
walking down a broken arrow trail in Polk County and
Sheriff Grady Judd weighing in on it.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
And on broken arrow trail, it's thirty six degrees and
this dude is walking down the road bunknked. You know
what bucknked means, love, Grady Jed, He's not even wearing
his socks.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
You can be naked and wearing socks.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
But buck nicked means you don't have anything off.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I can't make this stuff up.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
So and anyway, the driver somebody kind of caught this
on a surveillance camera and the driver then called the
Sheriff's office.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
We responded, and there he is marching down the side
of the road, we ask him, are you cold? Not
a bit? What are you doing? Well, it's a TikTok challenge. Well,
you don't even have your cell phone. You're really naked
when you don't have your cell phone.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Well, what's your name?
Speaker 7 (07:03):
He told us his name, wrong name, wrong address, So
we arrested him.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
So for the record, the man's real name is Anthony Day.
But it's still unclear why he was walking bucknked down
the street because he didn't have a camera, he didn't
have a cell phone, he wasn't hooked into TikTok.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I don't know if it's a TikTok challenge, but I
know it's about to become one after this story goes viral.
See more of this around the country. All right, read
Shepherd with today's top stories. Read thanks so much. Right now,
let's bring in our national correspondent, Rory O'Neil, whose report
is brought to you by Mark Spain Real Estate.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
So, Rory, I didn't think there were very many.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Notable moments from former Vice President Dick Cheney's funeral yesterday.
I thought it was interesting to see who was there
and who wasn't. The Lamas were not there, the Clintons
were not there, of course, no surprise. President Trump, Vice
President Jade Vance, they weren't there, but Rachel Maddow.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Was in attendance.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
I thought that was so strange.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
I was wondering about that, and to pose the question,
maybe she is friends with Mary Trump, Mary Cheney.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Oh, okay, like a friend of the family, but boys.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
As opposed to being an MSNBC.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, thank you very much, that's right. Yeah. I saw
Jonathan Carl in the crowd too. Hmmm. Maybe he covered him. Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Anthony found the book to get a book about him
due or Yeah, it was a contributed to a book.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
But I think Madaw may be friendly with the Cheney daughter. Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
And then you had former President Jill Biden and former
First Lady Jill Biden.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
They were there.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
They were interacting with former Vice President Kamala Harris.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
That was interesting that because Harris has been a little bit,
you know with her book.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah, sort of Biden under the bus. A lot of
people were watching.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, you wonder if Joe Biden remembered who she was
to be honest with him, but Joe Biden in between
the two of them. I thought that was interesting because
she definitely not a fan of Kamala Harris. And then
you had former Vice President Mike Pence who was sitting
next to Kamala Harris, or at least he was next
to her for a little while, which was interesting because
I didn't think, you know, if his wife wasn't around,
(09:27):
he wasn't allowed to be around women. So it was
that going on. And then then it was who covered
it and who didn't. So CNN and ms now is
such a stupid name, they carried it.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Fox News only carried parts of it.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
Yeah, they played like George Bush, George W. Bush's you know,
eulogy for like ten minutes and that was it.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I mean back you know, fifteen years ago, Fox would
have carried all of it. Oh yeah, and yeah, MSNBC
at least that they wouldn't have carried any of it.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
It's crazy, right, No, that is a big turn and
it's remarkable to watch just you know, I mean the
fact that the Chinese were called rhinos at the end,
like how are they republican and name only?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Not for nothing, but yeah, when they they are.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
The President Trump has been a Republican, but yeah, certainly
not maga republican.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
No, exactly they're Republicans from a different era in the
Republican politics. Yeah, all right, let's get to and again
we're joined by our national correspondent Rory O'Neil. This push
for airline civility that we're seeing from Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
In fact, this is what he said about this new
civility campaign the other day. Oh, people out, be in
(10:41):
a good mood, dress up, bring civility back to travel,
and I think everyone's experience is going to be that
much better.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
I had to be so funny, like be in a
good mood to.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Dress up come to the airport.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
So I was watching News Nation talking about this last night,
and they were asking people what they thought of it,
and they said, yeah, people need to be friendly and
people need to help.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Each other out.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
And they said, but when it comes to him telling
us what to wear, keep the government open, jorm, tell
us how to dress like people find them found the
part where he because he also had said people dressed
like they're.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Going to bed when they fly.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Yeah, people were not happy about being told to not
dress comfortable.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Getting the rules of the road from the man from
road Rules.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Yeah, okay, fine, First of all, My only complaint with
this is why are we limiting it to the airport
or the airplane, Like, shouldn't these be the standard rules
everywhere all the time.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Taking one step at a time. Rory, youre getting a
little lad in yourself, baby.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Start telling me to dress up on a road dress
when I want to wear my sweatpants.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yeah, yeah, Rory, when I'm rolling out to public, so
I'm not getting dressed up.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Hopefully you just have it delivered. Now. If this repeat
Buddha Jedge saying this, could you imagine be allowed blowback?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yeah, you're right about that, But I don't necessarily think
what he's saying is wrong, including on the dress part.
I mean, you know, it used to be people would
they would want to present themselves in a respectful manner
when they went out in public. Now that is just
not the case. And Danny, you made a good point.
We were talking about this yesterday, the shoes thing. You
(12:22):
think that a lot of people started wearing sandals and
stuff like that, showing their feet because they'd have to
take them off.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Yeah, because it's a pain to have to untie your
sneakers and stuff like that and take shoes on and off.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
When you're at the airport.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
But also on News Nation last night, I thought it
was funny they had all these clips of people's bare
feet and what they do with them on airplanes, and
people putting their toes up over the screen and like
all kinds of discussing stuff. So, yeah, I always wear
socks when I travel, but I'll wear like socks with
my birkenstocks.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Okay, yeah, I just a cool look, you know, put
on some shoes, pull up your pants, put the pacifier
in your kid's mouth so they're not screaming on the plane.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Yourself, like cover your chest area body.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
What do you think about that? I think that I
think that depends on the circumstance. You can leave the
juicy sweatpants at home.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
And your own pillow that you know. They always show
up with the juicy sweatpants, the giant headphones in, they're
hugging the pillows.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Just messy there. Yeah, and now they're all at B
thirty two with the rest of us. It's trude.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Now do you help? Have you ever helped somebody with
their bags? Because he also made that point, like help somebody,
you know, help people with their bags?
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Have you ever done that? I'm six ft six.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
I do it all when everybody's bag away.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Because I'm I'm kind of small, but I'm perfectly capable
of getting my bag in and out of the overhead
been and somebody always tries. Some dude always tried to
help me, and I'm like, I got it.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
That's that's your chance.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Depends on the plane type, right, some of those bins
are higher than others. But yeah, I put luggage up,
I take items off the shelf at public's and I
put stars on top of Christmas Jo.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
That's what I did. That's your job.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
We'll see if people follow this this new civility campaign.
I was surprised during the shutdown that there weren't more
incidents on planes at airports, just because of the delays
and the frustration. I was a little surprised we didn't
see more of that recently.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Well, and I would also know it's also time for
airlines to start treating us better than cattle.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
That and that is a great point. Yeah, that definitely
doesn't help.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
There is that great Simpsons joke Air India, we treat
our passengers like cattle.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
That's a very.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Rory.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
O'Neil, our national correspondent with us Rory. I'll talk to
you in like a week, So have a great weekend,
have a great Thanksgiving holiday.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
We we'll talk to you soon and I'll be talking
with Dana quite a bit, I think, so great.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Letok forward to that next week, all right, So, guys, thanks.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Your fight between a homeowner in the villages and the
Community Development District over a twelve inch cross in the
front yard just ended with the homeowner receiving a seventy
thousand dollars settlement from the district.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
So it all started on April first.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Twenty nineteen, when Wayne and Bonnie Anderson received a notice
from the CDD stating they were in violation of community
standards regarding lawn ornaments. Someone had complained about a twelve
inch white cross in their front yard. We're talking twelve
feet yeah, yeah, no, a twelve inch, We're talking about
a foot yees a foot high.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
You can barely see it.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
So the homeowner said he thought it was an April
Fool's Day joke because he received the letter on April first,
he refused to remove it. Turns out this was a
real violation of the CDD rules, and they started issuing a.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Fine every day.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
The cross remained in the yard twenty five bucks a day,
and then he started getting late fees in all of that.
He said, the last time he checked, the fine was
up to forty.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Four thousand dollars over twelve.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
And they wouldn't pay.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
So the CDD filed a lawsuit against him, and when
all was said and done five years later, they had
racked up two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in legal fees,
and a judge ordered both sides to settle the matter
out of court. The village's CDD ended up having to
pay one hundred and seventy three thousand dollars in legal
(16:25):
and court fees, and they have to pay the couple
seventy thousand dollars for their legal fees.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
And the cross gets to stay in the yard.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
A lot of drama the villagers.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
It really is insteede.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
This one though.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
This is new and when we check in with Adam Walzer,
Tampa Bay twenty eight Investigative Report on the eight o'clock hour,
you're going to hear more crazy stories about hoa's and
how out of control it is.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
Ad can be similar to an HOA in some communities.
It really just depends on how they set it all up.
But yeah, cdd hoa, they all are very control rolling,
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