The Orlando Shine Show

Brendan is back in the studio to discuss Orlando Shine's Most Read stories with Scottie. This week's Most Read include: Orlando Science Center staying open late for Stellar Nights, kids in Sanford going duck hunting, how you can take a shelter dog to the beach, Pinhead "officially" at HHN 35, and Blue Bamboo not getting rent relief from Winter Park. If you listen intently, you might learn about Brendan's adventurous dating life. Featured Songs: Shining Light – Annie Lennox Ghost Run Free – The Lemon Twigs Learn to Fly – Surfaces and Elton John "The Rise and Shine Show" is a weekly radio show on WPRK 91.5 FM at 9 a.m. Monday morning, hosted by local notable Scottie Campbell, to discuss the Top 5 news stories shared by The Orlando Shine on OrlandoShine.com. Each week, those stories are shared in The Rise and Shine e-newsletter on Monday morning.

Episode 57 of "The Orlando Shine Show" was recorded at Marlow's Tavern (Website) in Waterford Lakes so we could check out their limited-edition American Classics Menu, on offer through July 12.

Topics this week include an AI-based strategy by Airbnb and Osceola County to shut down Fourth of July parties before they happen, Pinhead from Hellraiser making his Halloween Horror Nights debut, the debut of Orlando Magic guard Jalen Suggs' new YouTube show that highlights local restaurants, Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts getting some tough love from the Winter Park City Commission, a woman was killed by an alligator in the Econ River, and the Sanford Historical Society is hiding rubber duckies that kids can find and turn in for prizes.

Holler at this week's sponsors, Orlando Science Center's Stellar Nights, Enzian Theater, JustCallMoe.com, Legacy Life Project, and the Orange County Library System.

Tune in to "The Orlando Shine Show" every Friday at 8 p.m. on Real Radio 104.1 FM or catch the podcast to keep up with all of the top headlines in Central Florida each week. Want to invite us to your restaurant or business for a future episode? Email us at [email protected].

Comedian-turned-sculptor Jeff Jones is Scottie's guest to chat about Orlando Shine's Most Read stories. Most Read this week includes the City of Orlando's passing of the historic preservation moratorium, the return of Orlando Weekly's Best of party, a restaurant fire at Disney, Orlando apparently being a little less deadly, and the ongoing Saga of area Dunkin' Donuts closing. Lastly, the two discuss what can be done to increase signups for vote-by-mail ballots.

Featured Songs:

• I'm Shakin' – Jack White
• I'm Still Standing – Charming Liars
• I Need You – Jon Batiste

"The Rise and Shine Show" is a weekly radio show on WPRK 91.5 FM at 9 a.m. Monday morning, hosted by local notable Scottie Campbell, to discuss the Top 5 news stories shared by The Orlando Shine on OrlandoShine.com. Each week, those stories are shared in The Rise and Shine e-newsletter on Monday morning.

Episode 56 of "The Orlando Shine Show" was recorded at Papa Diesel BBQ (Website) in Apopka, which has officially joined our top five favorite BBQ places in Central Florida, in part because of the amazing food, but also because of the amazing family making it all happen.

Topics this week include the reopening of the Winter Park Nine golf course, the return of Orlando Weekly's Best of Orlando Awards Party after a seven-year hiatus, an update on the City of Orlando passing its controversial Historic Preservation moratorium, East End Market looking for a muralist, and a former juvenile probation officer arrested for leaking arrest warrants to drug traffickers.

Holler at this week's sponsors, Enzian Theater, JustCallMoe.com, Legacy Life Project, and the Orange County Library System.

Tune in to "The Orlando Shine Show" every Friday at 8 p.m. on Real Radio 104.1 FM or catch the podcast to keep up with all of the top headlines in Central Florida each week. Want to invite us to your restaurant or business for a future episode? Email us at [email protected]

Jon Busdeker, marketing guru and co-host of "The Orlando Shine Show" on Real Radio 104.1 FM, discusses the Orlando Shine's "most read" stories with Scottie. Those stories include: Terry Bradshaw signing bottles of booze this week in The City Beautiful, Mount Dora's first-ever Restaurant Week, where to watch the World Cup, Dunkin' Donuts closing multiple locations, and Tuni's being forced to relocate from Park Avenue. The two end the show while trying to solve I-4 congestion in the Disney area.

Featured Songs:

• I'll Do It - Eugene Snowden
• Don't You Ever Give Me Up! - Eisenach
• Love Is Letting Go - Ashe featuring Diane Keaton

"The Rise and Shine Show" is a weekly radio show on WPRK 91.5 FM at 9 a.m. Monday morning, hosted by local notable Scottie Campbell, to discuss the Top 5 news stories shared by The Orlando Shine on OrlandoShine.com. Each week, those stories are shared in The Rise and Shine e-newsletter on Monday morning.

Orlando Shine founder, Brendan O'Connor, is Scottie's first guest, appropriately enough. The two discuss the "Most Read" Orlando Shine stories from the past week, which include: an earthquake that was felt locally, a fresh start at the Garden Theatre, John Cusack coming to Plaza Live, Good Salt's concept for Hoods Up, and the City of Orlando's moratorium on Historic Preservation in downtown Orlando's Historic District.

Featured Songs:

• Bennie and the Jets - Elton John
• This Life - Vampire Weekend

"The Rise and Shine Show" is a weekly radio show on WPRK 91.5 FM at 9 a.m. Monday morning, hosted by local notable Scottie Campbell, to discuss the Top 5 news stories shared by The Orlando Shine on OrlandoShine.com. Each week, those stories are shared in The Rise and Shine e-newsletter on Monday morning.

Episode 55 of "The Orlando Shine Show" was recorded at CityArts (Website) in downtown Orlando, where they were celebrating their 20th anniversary with a special retrospective exhibition.

Topics this week include Mount Dora launching its first-ever restaurant week, Lady of the Lakes Ren Faire being canceled for 2026, Winter Park's new $2 million bubble machine, Tuni being forced to move out of its longtime Park Avenue storefront, and a new Colombian brewery now open in Oviedo Mall.

Holler at this week's sponsors, Enzian Theater, JustCallMoe.com, Legacy Life Project, and the Orange County Library System.

Tune in to "The Orlando Shine Show" every Friday at 8 p.m. on Real Radio 104.1 FM or catch the podcast to keep up with all of the top headlines in Central Florida each week. Want to invite us to your restaurant or business for a future episode? Email us at [email protected]

Episode 55 of "The Orlando Shine Show" was recorded at CityArts (Website) in downtown Orlando, where they were celebrating their 20th anniversary with a special retrospective exhibition.

Topics this week include Mount Dora launching its first-ever restaurant week, Lady of the Lakes Ren Faire beinc canceled for 2026, Winter Park's new $2 million bubble machine, Tuni being forced to move out of its longtime Park Avenue storefront, and a new Colombian brewery now open in Oviedo Mall.

Holler at this week's sponsors, Enzian Theater, JustCallMoe.com, Legacy Life Project, and the Orange County Library System.

Tune in to "The Orlando Shine Show" every Friday at 8 p.m. on Real Radio 104.1 FM or catch the podcast to keep up with all of the top headlines in Central Florida each week. Want to invite us to your restaurant or business for a future episode? Email us at [email protected]

Episode 54 of "The Orlando Shine Show" was recorded at The Dorothy Lumley Melrose Center for Technology, Innovation, and Creativity, at the Orlando Public Library (Website) in downtown Orlando - which is where we launched the show over 10 years ago!

Topics this week include an update on ths SwanGate stories and the estimated cost of keeping swans at Lake Eola if the City did everything FWC told them they should do, the Southern Baptist Convention came to Orlando to blame Liberalism on women pastors and leaders, a special interview with Historic Preservation Board Chair, Jeff Thompson, about the proposed moratorium, the evacuation of two local animal-based attractions due to bomb scares, a new season of programming at Winter Garden's Garden Theatre, and an update on what's moving into the former Hoods Up space in The Milk District.

Holler at this week's sponsors, Enzian Theater, JustCallMoe.com, Legacy Life Project, and the Orange County Library System.

Tune in to "The Orlando Shine Show" every Friday at 8 p.m. on Real Radio 104.1 FM or catch the podcast to keep up with all of the top headlines in Central Florida each week. Want to invite us to your restaurant or business for a future episode? Email us at [email protected]

Jeff Thompson is a native Orlandoan, an 18-year member of the Historic Preservation Board, and someone who helped renovate a bunch of Thornton Park homes before it was even a historic district. He spent 30 years as a senior landscape architect at Disney and built a house in Lake Eola Heights he jokingly calls "turn of the century" — even though it was finished in 1999. He knows this city, its buildings, and its history like the back of his hand.

So when he says the city is about to gut Orlando's oldest historic district, it's worth listening to. So we did!

Brendan sat down with Jeff at Eola General this week to talk about the proposed 36-month moratorium on historic preservation review for downtown projects — what it means, why he thinks the board only found out about it days before the first council vote, and what he thinks is really driving it. They get into the Plaza building, the Lubbe House, Church Street, land banking, Disney Springs, and why a city celebrating 150 years of its own history is moving to strip protections from the neighborhood where that history all started.

The second reading of the moratorium ordinance is June 22.