Rick's Podcasts

Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves talks about the poor condition of the old Baptist campus and the Strive to Thrive plan.

Fifty years ago tomorrow,  Karen Silkwood, a 28-year-old plutonium plant worker, died in a fatal crash in Oklahoma. She was reportedly on her way to meet an investigative reporter with The New York Times to hand over documents she’d secretly been collecting at her job. The details surrounding her death and made famous by the movie “Silkwood” starring Meryl Streep, continue to be a mystery that haunts Oklahomans and the nation. 

“Radioactive: The Karen Silkwood Mystery” is a gripping new podcast series from ABC Audio that reexamines her mysterious death with brand new reporting, hosted by veteran journalists Mike Boettcher and Bob Sands. It premieres today.

Dan McFaul praises Susie Wiles, President-elect Donald Trump's chief of staff. He believes Gov. DeSantis may appoint Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody to fill U.S. Senator Marco Rubio's seat if he's approved as Trump's Secretary of State.

Escambia County Public Safety Director Eric Gilmore says Florida may see a hurricane during the middle of next week. A cold front may protect us.

Rick talks with Sena Maddison, Stephanie Yelton, Charly Edsitty, David Bear, and Bruce Vredenburg.

Rick and Sena discuss the day's events and the radio station's long history of supporting veterans.

The University of West Florida women's basketball team starts the season 2-0. Coach Stephanie Yelton shares the details.

For the Navajo Nation, a battle for survival is underway - the struggle for access to water, the most basic human right. “Reclaimed: The Lifeblood of Navajo Nation,” is a four-part series from ABC Audio,  premiering Monday, November,  11 examining this urgent, life-threatening issue. At least one-third of residents in the Navajo Nation -- the largest indigenous tribe in the United States -- need  to travel miles to get water for drinking, bathing, cooking and cleaning. Hosted by Charly Edsitty, a Navajo nation citizen and journalist, this series chronicles the Navajo Nation’s generations-long fight for water rights—a battle that has reached a critical turning point with a landmark bill in front of Congress that, if passed, would create critical infrastructure that diverts water to Navajo communities.  

“Reclaimed: The Lifeblood of Navajo Nation” traces the roots of the Navajo struggle dating back to the 1800s, when the federal government began its legacy of control over tribal lands and resources. Through Edsitty’s personal lens, “Reclaimed” reveals the emotional and far-reaching impact of this ongoing battle for water equity.

The Business Alliance of Escambia and Santa Rosa counties has presented to the Escambia County Commission the idea of turning over the “commerce park” section of the OLF-8 Master Plan to the Pensacola Escambia Development Commission (PEDC). Bruce Vredenburg and David Bear discussed the proposal.  

Rick talks with Sena Maddison, Eric Gilmore, Ray Palmer, Fred LeBlanc, Jennifer Knisbell, Steven Portnoy, Walker Wilson, and Troy Rafferty.