Florida News That Impacts You – April 21st, 2025

Your daily recap of the biggest news from around the state that impacts you throughout the Palm Beaches and Treasure Coast.    

Episode Transcript

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The Brian Mud Joe podcast is driven by Brayman Motor Cars.
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news that impacts you on the Brian Mud Show. Sure
enough is and Brian Mud Joel Malkin with you. This

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happened over the weekend.

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Cocoa Beach was going to the dogs Brnon Ray, Florida
and ative. So we've been surfing since he was born.

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He's six years old and loves to get out in
the water with the boards.

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Chris Yellowshan's border aussee William Goodog has more than half
a million followers across Instagram and TikTok. And this dog
knows how to hang Paul.

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He surfs, he serfs backwards. Uh huh. So a lot
of his surfs at the Hang eight Surf and Flaggler
Beach every year.

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The Brevard County Humane Society host the event with Ron
John's Surf Shop is their main sponsor.

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Yeah, the thirteenth annual East Coast Dog Surfing Festival. As
Joel was out there bringing Paul baby hanging Paul with
the dogs in fact, he's still doing so in the studio,
he was so in to it. So yeah, that took place.
The governor he's signed four additional bills into law. The
bills that the governor signed heading into the weekend, the

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Peer Support for First Responders built. This expands the definition
of first responders to include correctional officers. The Electronic Transmittle
of Court Orders Law, which requires court records related risk
protection orders, the Baker Act the Marchmen Act to be
electronically communicated to law enforcement within six hours of being issued.

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The Pet Insurance a Wellness Programs Law. This requires greater
transparency from pet insurance companies about what he is and
he isn't covered, along with the ability for policyholders to
return insurance policies within a short time frame if they're
not happy with the coverage. And the Trust Funds Law,
which will reestablish the Resilient Florida Trust Fund within the

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Department of Environmental Protection. The Florida Highway Patrol has added
a twenty twenty three Corvette Sea steam Rate to its
traffic patrol fleet of vehicles. The Corvette was seized during
a drug enforcement action has been retrofitted for fhp's use
down the Palm Beach warning residents and visitors about fraudulent

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websites that are targeting users of the park Mobile payment system.
And to the point here is Palm Beach has flagged
this because they've received complaints, but this would apply anywhere
because park Mobile is used by most paid parking services locally.
The best practice to avoid the scam to download the
park Mobile app to a smartphone and to pay for
parking directly through the app rather than trying to search

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on your app for the website and end up on
the wrong one. Today it will be cloudy, warm and
breezy with highs in the low eighties typical for this date.
We can expect similar weather on Tuesday before Sunning your
weather arrives by midweek. Gas prices they fell through the
week and now out they're lows for the year, and
actually it looks like the lowest price in December of
twenty twenty three two ninety nine per gallon. The Palm

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Beaches average price this morning three thirteen martin two ninety
eight Indian River County, just above the state average at
three pho one per gallon, and our top story this morning,
Pope Francis has died at the age of eighty eighth,
Vatican announcing he passed away earlier today, about a month
after leaving a hospital in Rome. Treated there for various
respiratory elements. He made his final public appearance in his

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wheelchair on the balcony of Saint Peter's Basilica to celebrate
Easter services.