We start with a full Rooney Tuesday as Matt Rooney takes Greg Stocker’s chair and gets immediate credit for showing up far earlier than usual. The joking quickly gives way to Dawn’s report on Glenn Pysher, the 22-year-old college student whose family says he mistakenly approaches the wrong Upper Pottsgrove house after drinking with friends. Homeowners call police about a possible break-in, officers arrive, Pysher is fatally shot, and the crew wrestles with the surveillance footage, the phone in his hand, the officer’s perspective and the terrible chain of events now under investigation.

Dawn then turns to Amico Island Park in Delran, where a woman enters the Delaware River to save a young girl, pushes the child toward shore and disappears beneath the water. We discuss the force of freshwater currents before moving to Amazon’s planned drone-delivery expansion around Mantua and West Deptford. The Eagles’ newly announced 32-member cheerleading squad sparks plenty of Rooney commentary, while the sports desk covers the Phillies’ 9-2 loss in Seattle, West Chester’s Little League World Series exit and the Eagles’ public practice.

The Rooney Tuesday Big Take is “ICE and Cash.” We run through the reported 1,328 ICE arrests in Virginia and Maryland, Tom Homan’s response to criticism and the political problem ICE poses for Democrats. The economic side moves from Scott Bessent’s pressure campaign against Iran to Trump’s temporary beef-import plan and Republican resistance from cattle states, then into Kayal’s disagreement with the continuing tariff battle against Canada. Dawn and Rooney join the conversation on sanctions, trade, border enforcement, USMCA and the administration’s need to explain the economic strategy more clearly to voters.

We open the final Rooney Tuesday of the summer with Matt Rooney in studio early enough to shock the crew, then move straight into a tragic Upper Pottsgrove police shooting. Dawn details how 22-year-old Glenn Pysher winds up at the wrong house after a night with friends and is fatally shot after police respond to a reported break-in. We also follow the search for a woman who disappears in the Delaware River after pushing a struggling girl to safety, debate Amazon’s coming South Jersey drone deliveries, get into the new Eagles cheerleading roster and run through the Phillies’ loss in Seattle.

The Big Take puts ICE and economics front and center as we dig into a major Virginia and Maryland enforcement operation, deportations, new pressure on Iran, Trump’s temporary beef-import push and the escalating tariff fight with Canada. From there, the Supreme Court’s mail-voting order sets off a long debate over Josh Shapiro, Mikie Sherrill, voter eligibility and New Jersey’s registration problems. As the 25th anniversary of September 11 approaches, we share our own memories, explain WPHT’s special Doylestown broadcast and turn the discussion toward Flock cameras and the surveillance apparatus that expands after 9/11.

The Cut Sheet brings Target’s pulled Halloween clown costume, Charles Barkley blasting partisan cable-news shouting and a back-to-school fight over parental power, Linda McMahon and school choice. Fight Club gives us another sidewalk brawl before Rooney delivers the morning’s biggest personal news: another baby is coming, it’s a boy, and Thanksgiving is the target date. We close with two boys accused of throwing rocks and logs onto Route 30 traffic, a mustard-fueled Vince Neil disaster in Today in Music History and Dawn’s Big Three, featuring the Penn Station sewer mystery, record-setting humanoid robots, a $30-an-hour robot housekeeper and Maine meteorologist Patrick Osborn completely losing his composure during a forecast.

Dawn’s Big Three starts with Omaha school resource officers and electric shock gloves designed to gain compliance through a painful low-output charge. We watch the demonstration, compare the gloves with Tasers, discuss their cost and training, and predict the parent reaction when one is used on a student. Dawn’s second major story moves to Minnesota, where Christopher Crimmins faces a manslaughter charge after horseplay with a hydraulic grapple kills coworker Tyler Anthony Lynch.

Next comes an Allegheny County homicide case that ends in a mistrial after marijuana odor is detected in the jury room and nobody admits using it. Safon Gump’s case has to be tried again, giving the crew plenty to work with once the names in the courtroom start piling up. Dawn then shows bodycam footage of a Covington officer being dragged by a vehicle after a Walmart shoplifting call, with Destinee Riggins later arrested and the crew arguing the incident shows why police dislike the phrase “routine traffic stop.

We finish the Shapiro-Garrity discussion and then launch Fight Club, where a Waffle House kitchen brawl provides the morning’s first body slam. That somehow leads to Jimmy Kelly’s old DJ work, Greg Stocker hiring him for his wedding, Greg’s lengthy list of music he refuses to hear and the approaching Stocker wedding anniversary. The YouTube chat gets its time as the crew checks the like count and reads what the audience thinks with Greg away.

The next Cut Sheet block is all vehicles. We watch an SUV blast through La Catrachita in South Philadelphia before the taqueria manages to reopen within hours, complete with a temporary storefront built by the owner’s father-in-law. Then Houston Uber driver Anthony Baines suddenly becomes part of a police pursuit when officers jump into his vehicle and direct him after a fleeing suspect. Nick immediately decides that getting recruited into a real police chase would be a dream scenario.

The mood changes with Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown in Nashville, where a pharmacy error sends potassium phosphate instead of the intended anesthetic medication to four joint-replacement patients. We discuss the severe injuries, the investigation and how such a mix-up happens. Then it is off to New York, where headlamp-wearing people keep climbing out of manholes and sending us into theories about sewer scavenging, underground risks and what in the world they are doing down there.

The Cut Sheet takes us back home as the Market Street Bridge closure creates a long-term traffic problem around our 2400 Market studios. Nick maps out the new commute, demands remote broadcasting and predicts the project is going to test everybody’s patience. As the clock moves into 8 AM, that back-to-school theme carries directly into Philadelphia schools locking student phones in pouches or classroom storage during instructional time.

We dig into Philadelphia schools restricting student phones, including locking pouches at James Rhoads School and clear classroom storage at West Philadelphia High. We discuss medical exceptions, student discipline, Chromebooks, textbooks and how much screen access belongs in a classroom. From there, the Cut Sheet heads to Washington for the Freedom 250, Trump’s ceremonial lap in the presidential limousine and the green-flag clip Nick plans to use throughout football season.

The race conversation leads into Roger Penske’s Philadelphia roots before we get to Royal High football coach Adam Brubaker, who loses his job after angrily kicking a football that strikes a player in the groin. We watch the footage, debate intent, ask whether prior conduct matters and get into how much latitude coaches have with young players. The Sunday-show clips then begin with Byron Donalds and Margaret Brennan debating measles, immigration and vaccination policy.

Dr. Mehmet Oz’s appearance with Brennan keeps the vaccination discussion moving as we get into his response to Trump’s MMR comments, parental choice and herd-immunity claims. Caller Dr. Craig then joins us to challenge vaccine trial practices, placebo testing and mandates. The political portion closes with Tim Scott attacking progressive candidates, followed by our argument that Republicans need sharper messaging, a stronger paid ground operation and a clearer response to Shapiro’s attacks on Garrity over data centers.

We open hour two with Enes Kanter Freedom’s appearance at the Indiana Fever-Chicago Sky game and the confrontation that gets him removed. We look at his “Woman, noun, adult human female” shirt, Natasha Cloud approaching him from the court, the security response, Sophie Cunningham’s place in the larger debate and the footage showing exactly where Kanter is standing. Harry also raises the private-property question: Kanter clearly arrives ready to make a statement, but the venue still lets him through the door wearing the shirt.

From basketball we move to parenting, starting with a survey claiming parents spend 432 hours per year planning, shopping for and preparing food for picky kids. The numbers immediately get challenged as we compare grocery-store habits, meal prep, slow cookers, Aldi, BJ’s and what happens when kids refuse dinner. Then we turn to families using GLP-1 medications for children with obesity, the phrase “food noise,” Wegovy and why Dawn says these decisions belong under a doctor’s supervision.

We welcome Dawn back from vacation, get Harry Mayes settled into Greg Stocker’s chair and immediately find a debate worthy of a Monday morning: police in Albany, Georgia post a Walmart shopper’s picture after he picks up $30 from the floor. We argue whether loose cash is automatically finders keepers, whether anyone is really walking $30 to customer service and where the line changes when a wallet, card or identification is involved.

Dawn’s news moves from back-to-school conditions into three armed masked suspects robbing people on Locust Street, an Upper Pottsgrove police shooting following a reported break-in, the Carlisle collision between a small plane and a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter, and the continuing search for Zymire Hughes after the Chucky-mask incidents around Center City. We also get into Kai Spears’ $9.25 million verdict against The New York Times, an aggressive coyote warning in Wyncote and Philadelphia’s Naked Bike Ride before Phil Almquist brings us the Phillies’ stunning six-run ninth and Kyle Schwarber’s walk-off homer.

The Monday Big Take turns toward Democratic Socialists, Florida’s communism-history instruction and Bill Maher’s exchanges over DSA politics and Iran. From there, we spend the rest of the hour on data centers: Trump’s support, Republican resistance, electricity and water demands, union construction work, Shapiro’s shift, Garrity’s response and Upper Merion’s rejection of Brian O’Neill’s proposed campus. Harry questions how many permanent jobs remain once construction ends, while Dawn digs into the state and local fight surrounding the projects.

We open Monday with Dawn Stensland back from vacation and Harry Mayes in for Greg Stocker, then turn a Georgia Walmart shopper’s $30 find into a full crew argument over finders keepers. Dawn’s news takes us through the Center City armed robbery, the Upper Pottsgrove police shooting, the Carlisle plane-helicopter collision, the search for Zymire Hughes, Kai Spears’ $9.25 million defamation verdict, an aggressive Wyncote coyote and Philadelphia’s Naked Bike Ride. Sports delivers the finish we keep replaying: the Phillies score six in the ninth and Kyle Schwarber walks off St. Louis for a ninth straight win, while we also cover Ja’Quinden Jackson’s injury, the Freedom 250 and West Chester’s East Side Little League team.

We spend the Big Take on the rise of Democratic Socialists, Florida’s new communism-history instruction, Bill Maher’s exchanges on DSA politics and Iran, and the growing fight over data centers. Nick, Dawn and Harry sort through Trump’s support, voter pushback, utility and water concerns, construction jobs, Josh Shapiro’s shift, Stacey Garrity’s response and Upper Merion’s rejection of Brian O’Neill’s massive campus. Hour two then turns to Enes Kanter Freedom’s WNBA ejection and the Natasha Cloud confrontation before we get into picky kids, the 432-hours-a-year parent survey and families using GLP-1 drugs for youth obesity.

We roll through the Cut Sheet with the Market Street Bridge closure, school phone-lock rules, the Freedom 250, Royal High coach Adam Brubaker, Byron Donalds, Dr. Mehmet Oz, a caller challenging vaccine trial practices and Tim Scott’s attack on progressive candidates. Fight Club brings a Waffle House brawl, then we hit the South Philly taqueria crash, Houston cops commandeering an Uber, Nashville’s catastrophic pharmacy error and New York’s manhole “mole people.” Dawn’s Big Three caps the show with Omaha shock gloves, a fatal Minnesota grapple prank, an Allegheny County marijuana-jury mistrial and a Covington officer dragged by a suspect’s car before Dawn closes with Strathmere vacation stories and one more round on those shock gloves.

We open the final hour trying to beat the show’s recent YouTube like record before Shawn Farash joins our discussion of Florida’s governor race. Byron Donalds wins the Republican primary and David Jolly wins the Democratic primary, but Jolly’s argument that Donalds is running away from Trump gets a skeptical response from the crew after we compare the vote totals. We also check Donalds’ prior Democratic registration before finally rolling Kayal’s full handwashing tape and discovering just how much narration, dryer time and sanitizer he squeezes into four and a half minutes.

Fight Club follows with a Flock-heavy intro and a fresh subway brawl before we open voting for Fight of the Week. The contenders include a Yankees-Rangers fan fight, a restaurant scuffle, a snowy alley knockout, a kitchen fight and the subway entry. The crew knocks one contender out, casts its own votes and sends the remaining fights to the audience.

Ana Hummel then handles the Big Three while filling in for Dawn, beginning with the former car salesman legally recognized as Prince Laurent’s son in Belgium. We detour into Ana-versus-Anna pronunciation arguments, Tucker Carlson, JD Vance’s friendship with Tucker and a Darth Vader appearance at a San Diego hearing mocking Flock surveillance. We finish with Natalie Harp’s letters to Trump, Brie Bella passing out during a bathroom emergency, Today in Music History, weekend WPHT programming and Shawn Farash explaining where listeners can find his new national radio work.

Shawn Farash arrives with a Trump impression, gives us details on his new national radio work and then joins the Cut Sheet as we dig into Karmelo Anthony’s request for a new trial and evidence that never reaches the original jury. We continue with Karmelo Anthony as New Black Panther Party chair Krystal Muhammad backs him and celebrates the removal of the original judge from the retrial proceedings. We argue that a new trial may work against Anthony once previously excluded evidence becomes available, then hear James Talarico cite the absence of Black jurors while also saying he does not know the case in depth. That kicks off another argument over jury selection, race and whether politicians should make sweeping claims about a criminal case they have not closely followed.

The Lindsay Clancy trial takes over as hundreds of supporters dressed in pink gather outside the courthouse. We hear women say Clancy’s case could have happened to them, discuss the defense surrounding postpartum psychosis and strongly dispute the idea that mental illness automatically erases responsibility for killing three children. Candace Owens then argues that Clancy is not guilty and blames the pharmaceuticals she was prescribed, while we distinguish concern about overmedication from criminal responsibility. The hour also introduces Meliza Campos-Sanchez, the Florida mother accused of pouring hot wax on her young daughters and intentionally starting a kitchen fire.

Then the handwashing war gets serious. After admitting earlier in the week that he often uses sanitizer instead of soap at the station, Kayal agrees to prove how long a full bathroom trip takes, and Jimmy Kelly follows along with a camera. Kayal returns four minutes and 28 seconds later insisting that handwashing and the weak dryer consume most of the break. From there we hit the Washington IndyCar race, late-night UFC viewing, Trump’s interview with Michael Cohen, Mikie Sherrill’s comparison of AR-15 and abortion access and Michelle Wu’s plan to seek records connected to ICE’s search for Boston parking spaces.