Guests: Lumpy DeWeese, Tom Pace, Martha Holden, Gonzalo Galguera and Zach Robbins.

Tom Pace of Pensacola Yacht Club joins Rick's Blog Live to preview the Viper 640 North American Championship, Sept. 30 through Oct. 4. He explains why Pensacola Bay is a natural racetrack, how the regatta works and where you can watch the action.

Musician, poet, and author Zach Robbins joins Rick's Blog Live to talk about his upcoming Earth Day album, his collaboration with Colt Soul Records, and how his day job as a physical therapist assistant shapes his songwriting.

Impact 100 Pensacola Bay Area President Martha Holden joins Rick's Blog Live to announce a record membership year and a historic expansion from 15 to 20 finalists competing for 13 grants of $101,000 each at October's Million Dollar Sunday.

UWF senior Lumpy DeWeese joins Rick Outzen to talk about testifying in Washington for the Protect College Sports Act, the chaos he's watched the transfer portal create in college athletics, and Saturday's top-20 showdown with Austin Peay.

Ahead of Ballet Pensacola's October 2–4 production of Frankenstein, guest choreographer Gonzalo Galguera joins Rick Outzen to talk about his unconventional approach to Mary Shelley's story — starting the ballet with Elizabeth's death and working backward.

Galguera digs into the novel's central question of who the real monster is, how movement and dance can trace a character's arc from innocence to menace, and what he hopes audiences carry with them after the curtain falls.

Guests: Quint Studer, Walker Wilson, Jim Howe and John Peacock

Rick Outzen sits down with John Peacock — a driving force behind Pensacola's strong-mayor charter — to dig into why Escambia County still operates under state rule instead of home rule. They break down what a county charter would actually change: an elected "county mayor" citizens could hold accountable, real checks and balances, and a say-so voters don't currently have under the five-commissioner system.

Peacock argues the timing is finally right, pointing to the city's own strong-mayor track record and two years of runway before the next election to start a charter study process. #EscambiaCounty #CountyCharter #PensacolaPolitics #StrongMayor #RicksBlogLive #LocalGovernment #Accountability #FloridaPolitics #CivicEngagement

On the 20th anniversary of the referendum that made Blue Wahoo Stadium possible, Quint Studer joins Rick Outzen to relive the fight — Hurricane Ivan, a $5 million pledge backed by his own life insurance policy, losing Admiral Jack Fetterman before the vote, and the night Pensacola said yes.

#Pensacola #BlueWahoos #MaritimePark #LocalHistory #DowntownPensacola

Rick sits down with Jim Howe, Landrum's VP of Workforce Solutions, to talk about the region's skilled-labor crunch — why the pipeline has to start in middle school, how UWF's Catalyst Program is putting 20+ local companies in front of students, and how COVID flipped the labor market from employer-driven to employee-driven.