TOP STORIES - An employee of Highlands Christian Academy, Ronison Exavier, is arrested; Senator Rick Scott says he’ll oppose embattled Trump nominee Ingrassia; and a Miami man is charged with placing a tracking device on his ex’s car. Plus, USF’s board selects Moez Limayem as its next president, St. Petersburg hears another Tropicana Field redevelopment pitch, and a motorcyclist going 110 mph is arrested under Florida’s new “super speeder” law.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Start with today's top stories and Natalie Rodriguez, Good morning, Natalie,
good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, we've got disturbing news involving a coach, a Highland
Christian Academy assistant athletic director accused of sexual conduct with
a student, twenty four year old Ronissan Exavier. He worked
at the private school in Pompano Beach and actually faced
a judge.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
If and when you do bond out, sure you'll be
on pre trial GPS level too. I am ordering no
victim contact that applies to both the alleged victims in
this matter. No contact with miners. I am granting an
exception for family members, and you can't be on or
about any Broward County school properties.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Exavier's charge with, among other accounts, lude and lascivious molestation
of a victim between twelve and sixteen years of age
by an offender eighteen or older. Bond sat at seventy
five thousand dollars. And we also got word of a
professor at UCF who's facing criminal charges out in Seminole County.
He was arrested for battery and trespassing. Shuo Sean Pang,
(00:59):
an associate of the College of Optics, and photonics. He,
according to the arrest report, was involved in this incident
at Jackson Heights Middle There was a fight of some
sort between him and a student writing and e bike.
He told him to slow down, chased him down, then
grabbed his arm and smacked the helmet right off his head.
And he's also accused of pushing another kid who tried
(01:21):
to intervene and break the whole thing up.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Well, I'm not a professor of optics, but I would
say that's bad optics. Well, that's bad optics exact Diniversity.
Going back to the Highlands Christian Academy employee, so thirteen
year old students said she was inappropriately touched by him
in his office. Apparently he told the team that she
should modify her clothes to show off her buttocks and
(01:47):
then grabbed and squeezed. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
And then investigating, the police also found a second victim
reported two incidents dating back to last.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Year and sixteen year old. And then, just to add
on to all of this, Knows County man facing child
porn charges for accessing images of children that were between
eight and twelve years old.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Yeah, you know, I just can't believe how many of
these creeps are out there.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah, and if you take a look at like the
entire population and the amount of these pervs, you know,
it's it's a small number, but it certainly feels like
there's more and more of them. And I just I
have to believe that the Internet and social media and
all of that is playing a role in this, because
(02:35):
you know, pervs were isolated back in the day, you know,
they didn't they weren't able to connect with other perverts
and or find things online to kind of feed their sick,
twisted fantasies. And now they can, and it just seems
like that's why I think that's why we're seeing more
and more of this. It's crazy, but it's like every
day we have one of these.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Well it's crazy too that they think that they can
get away with it because they keep getting caught. You know,
Hopefully kids continue to speak and maybe at some point
they'll know they can't get away with it.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah, exactly. It's a sickness, for sure. It is. What
else is going on this morning?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Natalie paul Ingrassia, President Trump's nominee to oversee federal whistleblower protections.
He has now dropped out after racist text messages that
he sent surfaced in the last week or so. He's
currently a White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security.
Politico published this report on Monday. The featured text messages
(03:27):
where he allegedly described himself as having a quote Nazi streak,
suggesting that Martin Luther King Junior day should be tossed
in the seventh circle of Hell, and then in a
post on Truth's social last night, he said, quote, I
will be withdrawing myself from Thursday's HSGAC hearing to lead
(03:48):
the Office of Special Counsel because unfortunately I do not
have enough Republican votes at this time.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
You think, yeah, definitely doesn't have enough votes. You had
a Majority Leader John Dunne saying he's not going to
get confirmed. You had Senator Rick Scott saying he wasn't
even gonna have his back at all. Yeah, he was
going to oppose this nomination. And Rick Scott pretty deferential
to the President on his nominees. So I think, you know,
once you saw something like that that told you this
guy's not gonna make it, he should honestly be kicked
(04:15):
out of the administration. I mean, he has a Nazi streak.
He used racial slurs about black and Asian people. He
allegedly said the Founding Fathers were wrong that all men
are created equal. I mean you had other people in
the chat who were like, whoa dude, that's pretty racist.
And what is with these group chats and racist talk?
(04:37):
Like what has happened again?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
People think they can just say that stuff to get
away with it and that they're not going to get
called out.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah, the only group chat that I'm still stuck in,
it's it's like my fraternity brother's constantly trying to come
up with like events to go hang out and stuff.
I haven't seen anything racist yet. Now he tried to
blame AI. Of course that's the new thing. And get this,
his mom tried to meet with lawmakers who were criticizing
(05:03):
her son. So mommy tried to come to the rescue,
but it didn't work. And then you've got this democrat
real quick running for Senate in Maine. He's backed by
Bernie Sanders. Because this craziness isn't just on one side.
He's under fire for Reddit posts that included racist and
misogynistic remarks about black people and sexual assault victims. He
(05:26):
called all cops bastards, described himself as a communist. He
said rural white people are racist and stupid. Now he
blamed PTSD from his time serving in a rock and
Afghanistan on the Crazy Post. And now he's denying being
a Nazi after a video surface showing a skull tattoo
resembling a Nazi SS symbol on his chest. He said
(05:50):
he got it when he was drunk in Croatia. So
Bernie Sanders, No, no, he has, and he's stuck by
him up to this. So I just don't all this
Nazi stuff. What the hell is going on?
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Understanding?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah, all right, let's get to one more quick story, Natalie.
Oh yeah, well talking about nuts. A Miami man could
face years in prison thanks to a new law. Alfredo
Sadaniel He was in court accused of putting a tracking
device on his ex girlfriend's car, obviously without her consent.
Miami Pelice's Mike Vegas says that there is a law
that went into effect last year which upgrades the charge
(06:28):
from misdemeanor to felony.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
It's always been illegal without knowledge to put it in
someone's vehicle. If that device is discovered, you will be charged.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
With a felon and it comes with a possible five
year sentence, all because he suspected she was with someone else.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah, she checked her vehicle, found the GPS tracker. I
guess she saw him in several places that she had
gone to, almost like something's not right here. I'm glad
that that's one of the really good laws that was
passed by the state legislature. Uh. There there were two
of them. One went to effect last year and then
another law went into effect in October first of this year.
(07:05):
Really cracking down on this kind of stuff because that's dangerous. Man,
that's where they go. Yeah, that's where technology can get really,
really dangerous. So I'm glad that caught him and he'll
be going away for a while. Natalie Rodriguez with Today's
Top Stories. Natalie, thanks so much. You got it started
with today's Top Stories. And Chris Trenkman, Good morning, Chris.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Good morning. So just because the Tampa Bay Rays are
not going to build the facility over in Saint Petersburg
in the gas Plant District, at least not the one
that was proposed, doesn't mean that there aren't a lot
of interested parties. There are pitches to develop the gas
Plant neighborhood that are coming in, and the latest came
(07:44):
from Penelas County's Housing Authority. They submitted a proposal to
Saint Pete officials to build a seven story, eighty unit
affordable senior housing building at sixteen fifty nine Third Avenue.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I don't like that. Well it's not the sexiest proposal.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Well, it is the first one, yeah, sort of in
this post race, right right, yeah, I mean, no offense
to the seniors or those who could use the senior
living facility.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
But you know, we have those renderings have a new
ballpark and all kinds of gold stop venues. Yeah. Yeah,
the seven story eighty unit affordable senior housing building. They
quite do it for me.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
But maybe the idea is like the early bird gets
in the work, you get the.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Chance. Yeah maybe, but you may be right.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
This is obviously going to be a highly sought after
area and it had been, you know, even during the
time when the you know, the Rays were playing in
the trop I mean, everybody knew that that area was
going to be a hot location, yep. And so we're
going to see a lot more of that. But it
is indicative of what's going on in that area, despite
the fact that the Rays may not even play.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
There, right, And I think the proposals that are going
to come in are going to have to have have
a plan first for the Rays not being there, and
maybe then some kind of a plan B just in
case they end up staying in Penelas County, although I
don't think they're going to with this new ownership, But
I also wonder. I think you're probably gonna have a
(09:19):
lot of proposals come in that are going to feature
a full redevelopment plan for the you know, I think
it's like ninety five acres there. This is like a
proposal for one building, yeah, in that area. And I think,
you know, what you'll probably see is in these larger
(09:41):
redevelopment plans like we saw in the past, options for
affordable housing, senior living, stuff like that kind of built in.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Yeah, And I think that maybe what this is, this
isn't some sort of grand proposal. No, No, the entire one anchorage.
I think it's like one lot, yeah, one parking lot there.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yeah. They're just trying to.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Reserve their one spot. The other groups can build around them.
So the University of South Florida has announced that the
Board of Trustees has selected MoES Lemahem as president. Lamiam
served as the president at the University of North Florida.
He'd been there since August of twenty twenty two. But
he has roots with USF. He served as the USF
(10:21):
MoMA College of Business for ten years as the dean.
Now the selection subject to the confirmation by the Board
of Governors. They're going to have a meeting on November six,
where it's expected he will get approved.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Yeah, there's been some drama like at the University of
Florida with the selection of the university president. I don't
think there's going to be that kind of drama this
time around. I mean, he he was the president of
the University of North Florida, so that's right. He was
already in place at one university. This is obviously a
big step up for him.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
You know, he has a lot of charisma, this guy.
He's very animated and outgoing. They call it RIZ these days, Chris.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Oh, the charisma. Yeah, Yeah, it's the riz. He's got
the riz.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Well, you know, for gen Z going to college, that's
an important thing to have.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Yeah, And so we'll see how this works out as
far as leadership at the school and what gets accomplished.
But he does have a proven record at the University
of North Florida. He did accomplish a number of things
that are according to some of the reports that I've seen.
So you know, he brings new energy to the USF
and it looks like he's going to be the guy.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Like I said last time we talked about this, you know,
when it comes to these kinds of picks for these
kinds of jobs, it's kind of like, you know, when
people have hot takes on who's going to be selected
in the third round of the NFL Draft, Like nobody
knows the players, you know, nobody knows if they're going
to be good or not. I mean, it sounds like
he's got the qualifications. He has a history with USF,
(11:49):
and really what's important with these selections is the ability
to fundraise. Ye and you don't have those connections in
Tallahassee work well with the state legislature to secure money.
And then he's taking over at a really important time
in USF's history. We've seen the university skyrocket up the
academic rankings on a number of different lists, and you've
(12:12):
got the new football stadium coming. That's it's going to
be a huge deal, is really what all the students
care about? That way exactly. Yeah, although I will say
to these students at USF, be careful what you wish for,
because we all thought that having Greek housing on campus
was going to be fantastic, that when our fraternity got
(12:32):
our own house on campus, it was going to be great.
That's all we wanted. And then when it happens, Uh,
now the fraternity is no longer part of the USF.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
College I went.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
To too, We're like, no, but everybody lost their house.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, campus, it went downhill really really fast. So just
you know, a little warning to the students there, and
hopefully this new president he makes a concerted effort to
celebrate you know, notable important alumni people who went to
us AFF who could we be talking who have a
big impact in the community. Celebrating those individuals should be
(13:09):
a big part of his job.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
With that include like cash payments or things like that. Yeah,
can we do it the reverse way. It's always there
asking alumni for money, about hooking up alumni.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
So a motorcyclist who set a new lap time was
taken to jail after he was caught going sixty miles
per hour over the posted speed limit in Hernando County.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, of course that's what happened, just to do in
Hernando County, just like home super speeders. That's right, exactly right.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
The Hernando Sheriff's office said the deputy was conducting speed
enforcement on Cortes Boulevard near Olympia Road, when this motorcyclist
sped by. He used a laser device and it showed
that the biker was traveling at one hundred and ten
miles per hour in a posted fifty mile per hour zone.
Twenty one year old Corbyn Smith was later stopped and
(13:59):
arrested under the super speeder law, which carries much stiffer penalties,
including a five hundred dollars fine and some other You
can get put in jail for thirty days in some cases. Now,
the thing is one hundred and ten miles per hour.
That's nothing for a motorcycle, It's true.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
And those motorcycles when they're zipping past you at like
one hundred miles per hour, and you see it a lot,
especially in the highways, that is nerve freas you out.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Yeah, all of a sudden they come up behind you
with so loud and then you're.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Like, what just happened? Yeah, they zip by you and
you're just like, man, boy, lucky, I didn't make like
a sudden move or anything. You know, that person end
up dead. Usually if you go to Hernando County, though,
you're dealing with people going really slow. That's the main probably.
Oh yeah, you travel in Hernando County like on fifty
or nineteen. I mean you're going below the speed limit.
(14:46):
So this is more of a rare occurrence. But there
was an interesting report in the Tampa Bay Times. They
took a look at some of the arrest reports of
super speeders, people who have gotten pulled over with this
new and they took a look at what their excuse
was for going that fast. And you had a nineteen
year old who was clocked going one hundred and twelve
(15:09):
miles per hour late to a birthday party. Wow, you
know that explains it. Yeah, I mean you could be
fashionably late. I mean I'm late all the time and
I have no problem with it, but this person likes
to be on time. And so they won one hundred
and twelve miles per hour. There was a woman doing
one hundred and thirteen miles per hour. She was rushing
to pick up her dog. You had a Popkaman doing
(15:29):
one hundred and nineteen he blamed a broken spinometer. Yeah,
no idea. You know, some of these newer cars doesn't
feel like you're going one hundred miles an hour. You
had a thirty one year old man clocked at one
hundred eleven miles per hour. He said he was just
trying to get home after drinking a couple of tequila
and pineapple drinks at work at an outing at Disney Springs.
(15:52):
I think we talked about that when that story first happened,
and he had been walking around playing Pokemon. So lot
going on there. And then you're add a twenty five
year old driver on I four. He said that he
thought the troopers marked cruiser was trying to raise him,
so that's why he was going one hundred and twenty
miles per hour. Yeah, that happen, Yes, some interesting excuses.
(16:16):
And then we had the guy recently who was on
his way to get a haircut the barber. Yeah, oh
that's right. You can't be late for that, No, exactly.
So that's a little taste of what some of these
super speeders are up to and why they say they're
going so fast? Very important reason. Oh yeah. Chris Trankman
with today's top stories. Chris, thanks so much. Thank you.
The Ryan Gorman Show on news radio WFLA. Follow us
(16:39):
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us online at Ryan Gormanshow dot com
Start with today's top stories and Natalie Rodriguez, Good morning, Natalie,
good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, we've got disturbing news involving a coach, a Highland
Christian Academy assistant athletic director accused of sexual conduct with
a student, twenty four year old Ronissan Exavier. He worked
at the private school in Pompano Beach and actually faced
a judge.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
If and when you do bond out, sure you'll be
on pre trial GPS level too. I am ordering no
victim contact that applies to both the alleged victims in
this matter. No contact with miners. I am granting an
exception for family members, and you can't be on or
about any Broward County school properties.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Exavier's charge with, among other accounts, lude and lascivious molestation
of a victim between twelve and sixteen years of age
by an offender eighteen or older. Bond sat at seventy
five thousand dollars. And we also got word of a
professor at UCF who's facing criminal charges out in Seminole County.
He was arrested for battery and trespassing. Shuo Sean Pang,
(00:59):
an associate of the College of Optics, and photonics. He,
according to the arrest report, was involved in this incident
at Jackson Heights Middle There was a fight of some
sort between him and a student writing and e bike.
He told him to slow down, chased him down, then
grabbed his arm and smacked the helmet right off his head.
And he's also accused of pushing another kid who tried
(01:21):
to intervene and break the whole thing up.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Well, I'm not a professor of optics, but I would
say that's bad optics. Well, that's bad optics exact Diniversity.
Going back to the Highlands Christian Academy employee, so thirteen
year old students said she was inappropriately touched by him
in his office. Apparently he told the team that she
should modify her clothes to show off her buttocks and
(01:47):
then grabbed and squeezed. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
And then investigating, the police also found a second victim
reported two incidents dating back to last.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Year and sixteen year old. And then, just to add
on to all of this, Knows County man facing child
porn charges for accessing images of children that were between
eight and twelve years old.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Yeah, you know, I just can't believe how many of
these creeps are out there.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah, and if you take a look at like the
entire population and the amount of these pervs, you know,
it's it's a small number, but it certainly feels like
there's more and more of them. And I just I
have to believe that the Internet and social media and
all of that is playing a role in this, because
(02:35):
you know, pervs were isolated back in the day, you know,
they didn't they weren't able to connect with other perverts
and or find things online to kind of feed their sick,
twisted fantasies. And now they can, and it just seems
like that's why I think that's why we're seeing more
and more of this. It's crazy, but it's like every
day we have one of these.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Well it's crazy too that they think that they can
get away with it because they keep getting caught. You know,
Hopefully kids continue to speak and maybe at some point
they'll know they can't get away with it.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah, exactly. It's a sickness, for sure. It is. What
else is going on this morning?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Natalie paul Ingrassia, President Trump's nominee to oversee federal whistleblower protections.
He has now dropped out after racist text messages that
he sent surfaced in the last week or so. He's
currently a White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security.
Politico published this report on Monday. The featured text messages
(03:27):
where he allegedly described himself as having a quote Nazi streak,
suggesting that Martin Luther King Junior day should be tossed
in the seventh circle of Hell, and then in a
post on Truth's social last night, he said, quote, I
will be withdrawing myself from Thursday's HSGAC hearing to lead
(03:48):
the Office of Special Counsel because unfortunately I do not
have enough Republican votes at this time.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
You think, yeah, definitely doesn't have enough votes. You had
a Majority Leader John Dunne saying he's not going to
get confirmed. You had Senator Rick Scott saying he wasn't
even gonna have his back at all. Yeah, he was
going to oppose this nomination. And Rick Scott pretty deferential
to the President on his nominees. So I think, you know,
once you saw something like that that told you this
guy's not gonna make it, he should honestly be kicked
(04:15):
out of the administration. I mean, he has a Nazi streak.
He used racial slurs about black and Asian people. He
allegedly said the Founding Fathers were wrong that all men
are created equal. I mean you had other people in
the chat who were like, whoa dude, that's pretty racist.
And what is with these group chats and racist talk?
(04:37):
Like what has happened again?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
People think they can just say that stuff to get
away with it and that they're not going to get
called out.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah, the only group chat that I'm still stuck in,
it's it's like my fraternity brother's constantly trying to come
up with like events to go hang out and stuff.
I haven't seen anything racist yet. Now he tried to
blame AI. Of course that's the new thing. And get this,
his mom tried to meet with lawmakers who were criticizing
(05:03):
her son. So mommy tried to come to the rescue,
but it didn't work. And then you've got this democrat
real quick running for Senate in Maine. He's backed by
Bernie Sanders. Because this craziness isn't just on one side.
He's under fire for Reddit posts that included racist and
misogynistic remarks about black people and sexual assault victims. He
(05:26):
called all cops bastards, described himself as a communist. He
said rural white people are racist and stupid. Now he
blamed PTSD from his time serving in a rock and
Afghanistan on the Crazy Post. And now he's denying being
a Nazi after a video surface showing a skull tattoo
resembling a Nazi SS symbol on his chest. He said
(05:50):
he got it when he was drunk in Croatia. So
Bernie Sanders, No, no, he has, and he's stuck by
him up to this. So I just don't all this
Nazi stuff. What the hell is going on?
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Understanding?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah, all right, let's get to one more quick story, Natalie.
Oh yeah, well talking about nuts. A Miami man could
face years in prison thanks to a new law. Alfredo
Sadaniel He was in court accused of putting a tracking
device on his ex girlfriend's car, obviously without her consent.
Miami Pelice's Mike Vegas says that there is a law
that went into effect last year which upgrades the charge
(06:28):
from misdemeanor to felony.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
It's always been illegal without knowledge to put it in
someone's vehicle. If that device is discovered, you will be charged.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
With a felon and it comes with a possible five
year sentence, all because he suspected she was with someone else.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah, she checked her vehicle, found the GPS tracker. I
guess she saw him in several places that she had
gone to, almost like something's not right here. I'm glad
that that's one of the really good laws that was
passed by the state legislature. Uh. There there were two
of them. One went to effect last year and then
another law went into effect in October first of this year.
(07:05):
Really cracking down on this kind of stuff because that's dangerous. Man,
that's where they go. Yeah, that's where technology can get really,
really dangerous. So I'm glad that caught him and he'll
be going away for a while. Natalie Rodriguez with Today's
Top Stories. Natalie, thanks so much. You got it started
with today's Top Stories. And Chris Trenkman, Good morning, Chris.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Good morning. So just because the Tampa Bay Rays are
not going to build the facility over in Saint Petersburg
in the gas Plant District, at least not the one
that was proposed, doesn't mean that there aren't a lot
of interested parties. There are pitches to develop the gas
Plant neighborhood that are coming in, and the latest came
(07:44):
from Penelas County's Housing Authority. They submitted a proposal to
Saint Pete officials to build a seven story, eighty unit
affordable senior housing building at sixteen fifty nine Third Avenue.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I don't like that. Well it's not the sexiest proposal.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Well, it is the first one, yeah, sort of in
this post race, right right, yeah, I mean, no offense
to the seniors or those who could use the senior
living facility.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
But you know, we have those renderings have a new
ballpark and all kinds of gold stop venues. Yeah. Yeah,
the seven story eighty unit affordable senior housing building. They
quite do it for me.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
But maybe the idea is like the early bird gets
in the work, you get the.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Chance. Yeah maybe, but you may be right.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
This is obviously going to be a highly sought after
area and it had been, you know, even during the
time when the you know, the Rays were playing in
the trop I mean, everybody knew that that area was
going to be a hot location, yep. And so we're
going to see a lot more of that. But it
is indicative of what's going on in that area, despite
the fact that the Rays may not even play.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
There, right, And I think the proposals that are going
to come in are going to have to have have
a plan first for the Rays not being there, and
maybe then some kind of a plan B just in
case they end up staying in Penelas County, although I
don't think they're going to with this new ownership, But
I also wonder. I think you're probably gonna have a
(09:19):
lot of proposals come in that are going to feature
a full redevelopment plan for the you know, I think
it's like ninety five acres there. This is like a
proposal for one building, yeah, in that area. And I think,
you know, what you'll probably see is in these larger
(09:41):
redevelopment plans like we saw in the past, options for
affordable housing, senior living, stuff like that kind of built in.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Yeah, And I think that maybe what this is, this
isn't some sort of grand proposal. No, No, the entire one anchorage.
I think it's like one lot, yeah, one parking lot there.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yeah. They're just trying to.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Reserve their one spot. The other groups can build around them.
So the University of South Florida has announced that the
Board of Trustees has selected MoES Lemahem as president. Lamiam
served as the president at the University of North Florida.
He'd been there since August of twenty twenty two. But
he has roots with USF. He served as the USF
(10:21):
MoMA College of Business for ten years as the dean.
Now the selection subject to the confirmation by the Board
of Governors. They're going to have a meeting on November six,
where it's expected he will get approved.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Yeah, there's been some drama like at the University of
Florida with the selection of the university president. I don't
think there's going to be that kind of drama this
time around. I mean, he he was the president of
the University of North Florida, so that's right. He was
already in place at one university. This is obviously a
big step up for him.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
You know, he has a lot of charisma, this guy.
He's very animated and outgoing. They call it RIZ these days, Chris.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Oh, the charisma. Yeah, Yeah, it's the riz. He's got
the riz.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Well, you know, for gen Z going to college, that's
an important thing to have.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Yeah, And so we'll see how this works out as
far as leadership at the school and what gets accomplished.
But he does have a proven record at the University
of North Florida. He did accomplish a number of things
that are according to some of the reports that I've seen.
So you know, he brings new energy to the USF
and it looks like he's going to be the guy.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Like I said last time we talked about this, you know,
when it comes to these kinds of picks for these
kinds of jobs, it's kind of like, you know, when
people have hot takes on who's going to be selected
in the third round of the NFL Draft, Like nobody
knows the players, you know, nobody knows if they're going
to be good or not. I mean, it sounds like
he's got the qualifications. He has a history with USF,
(11:49):
and really what's important with these selections is the ability
to fundraise. Ye and you don't have those connections in
Tallahassee work well with the state legislature to secure money.
And then he's taking over at a really important time
in USF's history. We've seen the university skyrocket up the
academic rankings on a number of different lists, and you've
(12:12):
got the new football stadium coming. That's it's going to
be a huge deal, is really what all the students
care about? That way exactly. Yeah, although I will say
to these students at USF, be careful what you wish for,
because we all thought that having Greek housing on campus
was going to be fantastic, that when our fraternity got
(12:32):
our own house on campus, it was going to be great.
That's all we wanted. And then when it happens, Uh,
now the fraternity is no longer part of the USF.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
College I went.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
To too, We're like, no, but everybody lost their house.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, campus, it went downhill really really fast. So just
you know, a little warning to the students there, and
hopefully this new president he makes a concerted effort to
celebrate you know, notable important alumni people who went to
us AFF who could we be talking who have a
big impact in the community. Celebrating those individuals should be
(13:09):
a big part of his job.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
With that include like cash payments or things like that. Yeah,
can we do it the reverse way. It's always there
asking alumni for money, about hooking up alumni.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
So a motorcyclist who set a new lap time was
taken to jail after he was caught going sixty miles
per hour over the posted speed limit in Hernando County.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, of course that's what happened, just to do in
Hernando County, just like home super speeders. That's right, exactly right.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
The Hernando Sheriff's office said the deputy was conducting speed
enforcement on Cortes Boulevard near Olympia Road, when this motorcyclist
sped by. He used a laser device and it showed
that the biker was traveling at one hundred and ten
miles per hour in a posted fifty mile per hour zone.
Twenty one year old Corbyn Smith was later stopped and
(13:59):
arrested under the super speeder law, which carries much stiffer penalties,
including a five hundred dollars fine and some other You
can get put in jail for thirty days in some cases. Now,
the thing is one hundred and ten miles per hour.
That's nothing for a motorcycle, It's true.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
And those motorcycles when they're zipping past you at like
one hundred miles per hour, and you see it a lot,
especially in the highways, that is nerve freas you out.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Yeah, all of a sudden they come up behind you
with so loud and then you're.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Like, what just happened? Yeah, they zip by you and
you're just like, man, boy, lucky, I didn't make like
a sudden move or anything. You know, that person end
up dead. Usually if you go to Hernando County, though,
you're dealing with people going really slow. That's the main probably.
Oh yeah, you travel in Hernando County like on fifty
or nineteen. I mean you're going below the speed limit.
(14:46):
So this is more of a rare occurrence. But there
was an interesting report in the Tampa Bay Times. They
took a look at some of the arrest reports of
super speeders, people who have gotten pulled over with this
new and they took a look at what their excuse
was for going that fast. And you had a nineteen
year old who was clocked going one hundred and twelve
(15:09):
miles per hour late to a birthday party. Wow, you
know that explains it. Yeah, I mean you could be
fashionably late. I mean I'm late all the time and
I have no problem with it, but this person likes
to be on time. And so they won one hundred
and twelve miles per hour. There was a woman doing
one hundred and thirteen miles per hour. She was rushing
to pick up her dog. You had a Popkaman doing
(15:29):
one hundred and nineteen he blamed a broken spinometer. Yeah,
no idea. You know, some of these newer cars doesn't
feel like you're going one hundred miles an hour. You
had a thirty one year old man clocked at one
hundred eleven miles per hour. He said he was just
trying to get home after drinking a couple of tequila
and pineapple drinks at work at an outing at Disney Springs.
(15:52):
I think we talked about that when that story first happened,
and he had been walking around playing Pokemon. So lot
going on there. And then you're add a twenty five
year old driver on I four. He said that he
thought the troopers marked cruiser was trying to raise him,
so that's why he was going one hundred and twenty
miles per hour. Yeah, that happen, Yes, some interesting excuses.
(16:16):
And then we had the guy recently who was on
his way to get a haircut the barber. Yeah, oh
that's right. You can't be late for that, No, exactly.
So that's a little taste of what some of these
super speeders are up to and why they say they're
going so fast? Very important reason. Oh yeah. Chris Trankman
with today's top stories. Chris, thanks so much. Thank you.
The Ryan Gorman Show on news radio WFLA. Follow us
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