Passover begins this weekend for Georgia Jews. And that opens the door to something you probably don't know about Georgia history. This week, Scott's speaking to Lance Toland, the executive producer of the Flames of Freedom Podcast project. Hear how Jewish refugees seeking liberty in the American South wound up changing the course of history. Dr. Samuel Nunez offers James Oglethorpe a way to save the new colony of Georgia from an epidemic of Yellow Fever. The Flames of Freedom Podcast has been nominated for an international Webby Award in the history category; voting continues through April 12.

Visiting with Georgia Tech grads Perry and Laura Solomon, Georgia's first commercial oyster farmers.

This week, Scott's speaking to Channel 2 Action News veteran reporter Mark Winne. His thoughts on the importance of real local news, his unparalleled access to sources, the stories he would still love to tell, and the important of his faith. Mark is among those being inducted into the 2025 Georgia Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame on March 28.

The WSB Legend discusses his health and how advanced medical research that he has helped champion for 30 years is improving his prognosis.

Paul Crawford of Buckhead celebrates his 101st birthday this week (March 19.) I wanted to bring back this remarkable story of how he celebrated number 100 last year, at the controls of a P-51 Mustang not unlike the one he flew for 29 missions in WWII before he was shot down over China. Planning ahead, Airbase Georgia Commemorative Air Force is planning two warbird exhibition and ride days at Dekalb Peachtree Airport May 24-25. Get details here https://airbasegeorgia.org/event/pdk-may-rides-day-atlanta-ga/

This week, Scott's speaking with Robert "Robby" Ainsworth, Lawrenceville, GA native and Collins Hill High School and Georgia Tech graduate about his role as an engineer on the Blue Ghost Lunar Lander project for Firefly Aerospace. On March 2, Firefly pulled off the first-ever fully successful moon landing for a commercial company as part of CLIPS, the Commercial Lunar Payload Services Program at NASA. The Blue Ghost lander is still working away, gathering data through ten different payloads to add to the body of knowledge for future landings and even further human exploration. There is some time pressure: the lander was designed to work for one lunar day, which is fourteen earth days, before darkness takes over in mid-March and the batteries drain. In this story, listen for the cool connection between the surface of the moon a quarter million miles away and the WSB Radio studios in midtown Atlanta.

This week, I'm speaking with University of Georgia Linguistics Professor Jon Forrest. At the least, he's finding evidence the Georgia accent is changing and, in some cases, disappearing. Several factors to cite, including a large number of people moving into Georgia from other parts of the country, language is constantly morphing, and younger speakers not picking up the dialect. We discuss the number of people who choose to sound southern and how making that choice is perfectly fine. (Look at the number of TV shows sporting Hollywood southern accents.) I was surprised to find that the accent we know best here is relatively recent historically, though some of the first roots can be traced back to colonial ties to England and Ireland.

Scott's speaking with Wall Street Journal restaurants reporter Heather Haddon about her in-depth piece, taking us inside Atlanta-based Chick-FIL-A's quest to reinvent how we get food to go. It's fascinating how small things like order-takers outside can shave time off the wait. And how borrowing technology from professional football can turn sandwich plays into touchdowns when you're in a hurry.

Speaking with DeKalb District Attorney Sherry Boston about her 10th year sponsoring the 5K Love Run benefitting the Women's Resource Center to End Domestic Violence. The race is February 22 in Decatur. The Women's Resource Center provides supportive and emergency services for victims and potential domestic violence victims through a family shelter, legal services, and more, even moving a young woman in fear away from harm. DA Boston describes the line that can lead to some of the worst domestic violence cases, those ending in homicide, and how that line can be broken to benefit not only a potential victim, but to protect police officers who know that "DV" calls are often the most dangerous for them, also.

The Construction Ready Career Expo and Skills USA State Championships will provide hands-on learning for nearly 10,000 Georgia K-12 and college students, connecting them with over 1,500 professionals in the skilled trades.  Projections show a shortage of 7,000 construction and skilled trades professionals in Georgia right now, and construction on everything from data centers to hospitals to repairing storm damage is showing no signs of slowing in our state.  Among the many benefits:  available training with no student debt in many cases and average pay of $85 an hour.  The Career Expo is Thursday, February 20, 9AM-4PM, and Friday, February 21, 9AM-2PM, in Hall A of the Georgia World Congress Center.