Rick's Podcasts

The full show for Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023 - Eric Stevenson, David Stafford, Clark Merritt, Megan Pratt, Sharon Gaubert

US Figure Skating selected Greater Pensacola Figure Skating Club as one of a few organizations to be spotlighted during January’s National Skating Month. They felt our addition of an Adaptive Skating program was a great fit for the 2023 theme “Join the Fun! Skating is for EVERYONE.”  Sharon Gaubert shares the details.

The Pensacola MESS Hall will host a free, adult-oriented reception on February 16 at 5 PM to celebrate the installation of twelve posters of women scientists on the outside of our facility. These posters highlight a diverse mix of women scientists, pursuing research in a variety of scientific fields.  Founder Megan Pratt has the details.

Port of Pensacola Director Clark Merritt talks about the port's record-breaking cargo activity for fiscal year 2022, reporting the highest level of cargo activity the port has experienced in more than 15 years. 

ABC White House correspondent Karen Travers is covering President Joe Biden's meeting with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on the debt ceiling.

Attorney Eric Stevenson speculates on why Donald Trump chose to file his lawsuit against Bob Woodward in Pensacola.

The Clotilda, the last known slave ship to bring captives from Africa to the United States, has long been a legend. The ship brought the slaves into Mobile Bay illegally in 1860 and was burned and scuttled in an attempt to destroy the evidence.Some 100 descendants of the survivors carried by the Clotilda still live in Africatown, outside of Mobile.Terrence Spivey was commissioned Clotilda Descendants Association to write and produce a play inspired by the Clotilda slave ship story. "An Ocean in My Bones" premiered at the 2022 Spirit of Our Ancestors festival in the Africatown. A reworked version of the play will make its debut this weekend at the Festival. "An Ocean in My Bones" will be presented 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4 and Sunday, Feb. 5, at the Festival to be held at the Mobile County Training School, 800 Whitley Street, Mobile, AL.Terrence Spivey talks about telling the story of the Clotilda.

The full show for Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023: Cameron Stephenson, Jim Ryan, Therese McKenzie, D.C. Reeves and Terrance Spivey. 

Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves covers the Miraflores Park project, Pensacola Police Department and his upcoming trip to Harvard.

Earlier this month, a small leopard escaped after someone cut a hole in her enclosure at the Dallas Zoo. “Nova” was later found unhurt on zoo property. Last week a rare vulture was found dead in “unusual” circumstances at the same zoo. Now police have been called back to the Dallas Zoo to investigate the disappearance of two emperor tamarin monkeys. Jim Ryan talks about the problem and also covers the latest developments in the Tyre Nichols murder