Podcasts about Hurricane Ivan

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is a veteran meteorologist at Bluewater Forecasting in Montgomery, Alabama.  He's got almost five decades of experience in the field, and formerly served as the Chief Meteorologist at WSFA-TV in Montgomery for 34 years, before transitioning to radio.  Rich Thomas, welcome to WeatherBrains!  Brooks Garner of FOX 35 TV in Orlando also stops by to discuss the tornado that made a direct hit on their studios on March 10th, where he covered the tornado live on air and warned his viewers, and in this case, his co-workers!  Brooks, thanks for hanging out with us.  Also, Bruce Jones joins us to discuss the importance of NOAA Weather Radio and its integration in order to save lives.  Welcome back, Bruce! Our email officer Jen is continuing to handle the incoming messages from our listeners. Reach us here: email@weatherbrains.com. Tornado hits FOX 35 TV studio in Orlando (06:30) Strong unexpected tornado hits Orlando in area that wasn't outlooked/forecasted for severe weather (12:00) Disc jockey/radio, and improving communication skills in order to transition to broadcast meteorology (25:45) Looking back at April 3-4, 1974 tornado outbreak (32:00) Major changes in broadcast television in the last 35 years (38:00) March 1st, 2007 Enterprise tornado analysis/When do we send children home from school during severe weather threats? (45:00) 4/27/2011 modeling analysis/Morning QLCS (47:00) Looking back at 2004 Hurricane Ivan's second landfall on Gulf Coast with same name (58:30) A day in the life of Rich Thomas (01:00:30)  NWS layoff rumors (01:35:30) The Astronomy Outlook with Tony Rice (01:15:40) This Week in Tornado History With Jen (01:18:20) E-Mail Segment (01:20:15) National Weather Round-Up and more! Web Sites from Episode 999: Midland Weather Radio Rich Thomas on X Rich Thomas Weather Network Picks of the Week: Bruce Jones - "The New Richmond tornado of 1899: A modern Herculaneum" by Anna P Medley and Michael G Corenthal James Aydelott - Where Have the EF5s Gone? A Closer Look at the “Drought” of the Most Violent Tornadoes in the United States" by Anthony W. Lyza, Harold E. Brooks, and Makenzie J. Krocak Jen Narramore - Tornado Hits Fox 35 Orlando on X Rick Smith - Out Troy Kimmel - Everything Weather App by Cory Mottice Kim Klockow-McClain - Super Tuesday Tornado Outbreak of February 5-6, 2008 Bill Murray - Foghorn James Spann - National Hurricane Center Products and Services/Update for 2025 Hurricane Season The WeatherBrains crew includes your host, James Spann, plus other notable geeks like Troy Kimmel, Bill Murray, Rick Smith, James Aydelott, Jen Narramore and Dr. Kim Klockow-McClain. They bring together a wealth of weather knowledge and experience for another fascinating podcast about weather.

It's not uncommon for hurricanes to spawn tornadoes. For instance, according to the National Hurricane Center, in 2022 Hurricane Ian produced 14 tornadoes in Florida, mostly with magnitudes of EF0 — that's the lowest — but one that was an EF2. Hurricane Ivan in 2004 holds the record for the most tornadoes spawned by a hurricane in the United States, with 118 confirmed twisters, but that was across nine states. When it comes to hurricanes spawning tornadoes just here in Florida, then Hurricane Milton on Oct. 9, 2024 is record breaking. We learn what about Milton led to both a record number of tornadoes, as well as more stronger ones than we typically see during strong tropical storms.

In September 2004, Florida Keys residents Carl “Charlie” Brandt and his wife Teri sought refuge from Hurricane Ivan in the Orlando home of Teri's niece, Michelle Jones. A few days after the Brandts' arrival, police discovered their bodies. Teri had been stabbed to death; Michelle had been brutally dismembered; and Charlie had hanged himself in the garage. Brandt's older sister Angela revealed to lead investigator Rob Hemmert what had happened. “48 Hours" correspondent Susan Spencer reports. This classic "48 Hours" episode last aired on 1/20/2007. Watch all-new episodes of “48 Hours” on Saturdays, and stream on demand on Paramount+. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On 11 September 2004, Hurricane Ivan hit the Cayman Islands with 155 mile per hour winds and gusts of over 200 miles per hour. In this Radio Cayman special feature, produced by News Editor Carsley Fuller, we hear from those who lived through the storm.. a testament to the resilience of the people of the Cayman Islands. #hurricaneivan #neverforgot #caymanprepared #rcnews #radiocayman #cayman islands

Plans for a moment of silence on the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Ivan. The Central Planning Authority meets tomorrow - we'll take a look at what's on tap and two young Caymanians show up in a big way at the 17th Caribbean, Americas and the Atlantic Youth Parliament in Guyana. #rcnews #radiocayman #caymanchoice

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Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is a highly respected figure in the world of meteorology.  He's known for his extensive experience and expertise in forecasting, broadcasting, and educating the public about weather.  He has multiple degrees in meteorology, including a Bachelor's Degree from Cornell University as well as a Master's Degree from Florida State University.  Over the years, he's been a trusted voice in weather reporting especially along the Gulf Coast.  He's won multiple regional Emmys for his work and is an active member of the AMS and NWA.  Alan Sealls, it's great to have you back on the show! Our email officer Jen is continuing to handle the incoming messages from our listeners. Reach us here: email@weatherbrains.com. Looking back at 2004's Hurricane Ivan (17:45)  History of African Americans in meteorology (25:00) "Weather Prophet" (35:00) Importance of the Jackson State and Howard University Meteorology Programs (45:20) STEM field statistical analysis (50:00) Dr. Charles Anderson - first African American to earn a PhD in Atmospheric Science (53:30) Current State of Broadcast Meteorology (01:07:00) Case Study of 2020's Hurricane Sally (01:16:00) The Astronomy Outlook with Tony Rice (01:21:19) This Week in Tornado History With Jen (01:23:34) National Weather Round-Up E-Mail Segment (01:25:20) and more! Web Sites from Episode 970: "A Career in TV Meteorology: From the Best Weatherman Ever" by Alan Sealls "Weather Things You Always Wanted to Know: The Inside Story on the Outside Story" by Alan Sealls "Weather Things In Photos: The Art and Science of the Atmosphere" by Alan Sealls Picks of the Week: Dr. Alan Sealls - Weather To Bounce House Incidents James Aydelott - Diversity and STEM: Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities 2023 -NSF Jen Narramore - Superyacht sinks latest: Daughter, 18, of British tycoon Mike Lynch missing; yacht 'in wrong place at wrong time' Rick Smith - 2024 Lightning Deaths - National Lighting Safety Council Neil Jacobs - Atmospheric Modeling, Data Assimilation and Predictability Troy Kimmel - Foghorn Kim Klockow-McClain - HooDoo Heritage: A Brief History of American Folk Religion Bill Murray - From Juneteenth to the Sky: African Americans in Meteorology by Alan Sealls James Spann - Severe Thunderstorm footage of damaging winds in Hillsboro, AL The WeatherBrains crew includes your host, James Spann, plus other notable geeks like Troy Kimmel, Bill Murray, Rick Smith, James Aydelott, Jen Narramore, Dr. Neil Jacobs, and Dr. Kim Klockow-McClain. They bring together a wealth of weather knowledge and experience for another fascinating podcast about weather.

In this episode, Steve Fretzin and Josh Branch discuss:Building trust with your network, clients, and prospective clients. Developing your relationships and reputation. The importance of preparedness to trust and likeability. Finding natural affinities for helping to build trust.  Key Takeaways:Building a relationship without trust will not lead to successful, healthy places. Sometimes the truth is painful, but trust is built on honesty with everyone you're talking to.Clients who have trust in their lawyer are more likely to have a great rapport and feel confident in their representation. People can tell when you're feeding them a line and are not going to follow through. The key to trust is reliability and following through on those things you promise.  "What you're demonstrating is that you committed to something and you executed on it. There's a connection that happens when people can really know they can count on you versus just hearing you talk about them counting on you." —  Josh BranchFind out more about the 10 Easy-to-Execute Hacks to Unlock Your Full Potential at: https://fretzin.com/events Thank you to our Sponsors!Lawmatics: https://www.lawmatics.com/bethatlawyer/Get Staffed Up: https://getstaffedup.com/bethatlawyer/Green Cardigan Marketing: https://greencardiganmarketing.com/ Episode References: Podcast: Smartless - https://www.smartless.com/ About Josh Branch: Josh's interest in law began at the early age of 16 when he began working in a law firm as a high school student. Attending depositions and being inundated with the legal profession at an early age and with an inherent ability to argue succinctly, it was known by many that Josh would become a lawyer from an early age. Growing up around medical doctors has also proved advantageous for Josh in his legal practice, in that he has learned and become familiar with a person's physiology, which is continually being applied to his practice of personal injury law in Athens. He attended undergraduate school at the University of Georgia and went to law school at Florida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville, Florida. Josh began his legal career in Pensacola, Florida working at an insurance defense firm, though his passion was always to help individuals rather than corporations. After enduring Hurricane Ivan, he was forced to move from Pensacola and eventually relocated to Athens, Georgia where he is devoted exclusively to pursuing justice for plaintiffs. Dedication to the injured individual's plight remains his devoted pursuit. Connect with Josh Branch:  Website: https://www.thegeorgiainjuryattorney.com/Phone: 706-850-4994LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-branch-a1127624/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-law-office-of-joshua-w-branch-llc/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheLawOfficeofJoshuaWBranch/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thelawofficeofjoshuawbranch/ Connect with Steve Fretzin:LinkedIn: Steve FretzinTwitter: @stevefretzinInstagram: @fretzinsteveFacebook: Fretzin, Inc.Website: Fretzin.comEmail: Steve@Fretzin.comBook: Legal Business Development Isn't Rocket Science and more!YouTube: Steve FretzinCall Steve directly at 847-602-6911  Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

Jeremy Cox, Captain of the Lolita fishing team and co-founder of the Mongo Offshore Challenge, shares his fishing journey and the success of their recent fishing trip. The conversation covers topics such as Jeremy's fishing background, the Mongo Offshore Challenge, and their recent catch of a 704-pound blue marlin. They discuss the tournament format, the significance of the catch, and the importance of preserving and studying these fish. Jeremy also talks about the excitement of lure fishing and the thrill of anticipation. The conversation highlights the joy of fishing and the special moments shared with family and friends. The conversation revolves around the experience of catching marlin in the Gulf of Mexico and the importance of sustainable fishing practices. The guests discuss their recent catch of a 700-pound marlin and the challenges they faced during the fishing trip. They also touch on the significance of donating the meat from the catch to charities and zoos. The conversation highlights the love and passion marlin fishermen have for the species and their efforts to protect and conserve them. The guests also discuss the science and research that can be conducted using these rare event species. Additionally, they talk about the process of catching live bait in the Gulf of Mexico and the strategies they use to keep the bait fresh and alive. In this conversation, Jeremy from the Lolita Fishing Team discusses the evolution of live baiting in offshore fishing. He explains how the use of live bait tubes has become a common practice and how it has improved the ability to keep bait alive for longer periods. Jeremy also talks about the importance of fresh and frisky bait in attracting fish and shares tips on handling and caring for bait to keep it in optimal condition. He emphasizes the significance of structure, such as oil rigs, in creating fish aggregating devices (FADs) and attracting a variety of fish species. Jeremy also mentions the potential for future expansion of the Mongo Offshore Tournament to the East Coast and internationally.   Mongo Offshore Challenge East Coast Registration https://www.reeltimeapps.com/live/tournaments/2024-mongo-offshore-east-coast/register   Mongo App: Iphone: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mongo-offshore-challenge/id1516755470 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.reeltimeapps.mongo&pcampaignid=web_share   Keywords   fishing, blue marlin, tournament, Mongo Offshore Challenge, Gulf of Mexico, Lolita fishing team, catch, celebration, preservation, marlin, Gulf of Mexico, sustainable fishing, catch and release, fishing tournaments, conservation, live bait, tuna tubes, live baiting, offshore fishing, bait tubes, fresh bait, frisky bait, handling bait, oil rigs, fish aggregating devices, FADs, structure, Mongo Offshore Tournament   Takeaways   Jeremy Cox shares his fishing journey and the success of their recent fishing trip The Mongo Offshore Challenge is a season-long tournament that awards the biggest fish caught in various categories The Lolita fishing team caught a 704-pound blue marlin during the Hurricane Open tournament The catch was celebrated with family and friends, and the fish was donated to science for research purposes Lure fishing provides a unique thrill and anticipation for anglers Preserving and studying these fish is important for understanding their reproduction and population Marlin fishermen are passionate about the species and work towards their conservation and sustainability. Donating the meat from caught marlin to charities and zoos is a way to reduce waste and benefit the community. Catching live bait in the Gulf of Mexico can be challenging, especially during the day when the bait goes deep. Tuna tubes are used to keep live bait fresh and alive during fishing trips. The conversation highlights the importance of responsible fishing practices and the role of fishermen in scientific research and data collection. Live baiting has evolved over the years, with the use of live bait tubes becoming a common practice in offshore fishing. Fresh and frisky bait is essential in attracting fish, and there are techniques to handle and care for bait to keep it in optimal condition. Oil rigs serve as fish aggregating devices (FADs) by providing structure and attracting a variety of fish species. The Mongo Offshore Tournament is a popular fishing tournament that focuses on the Gulf of Mexico, but there are plans to expand to the East Coast and potentially internationally. Transcript: Katie (00:00.206) In today's episode, I'm sitting down with Captain Jeremy Cox as we dive into the Gulf of Mexico blue marlin fishery with big fish stories, tips on how to handle and maximize the health of your bait and why the oil rigs play such a valuable role in the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem. Katie (00:27.886) Welcome to the KDC Sawyer podcast. I'm your host Katie. And today I'm sitting with the captain of the Lolita fishing team. He's also the co -founder of the Mongo Offshore Challenge. Jeremy Cox, thank you so much for taking the time to sit with me today. No problem. Thank you so much for having us. It's my pleasure. Well, we've been talking about doing this for a long time and I'm really glad it worked out the way it did because you guys just had a heck of a fishing trip out of Grand Isle, Louisiana last week, which I really want to get into you guys. Spoiler alert. They caught a 704 pound blue Marlin, but Jeremy, tell us a little bit about you. Where are you from? What's your fishing experience and how did you get to where you are today? so, let's see. I'm, I was born in Maryland. Actually, my, my family's from Maryland. move my. family moved us to Pensacola, Florida back in the early 80s. And so I grew up in Florida. I was raised in Florida. I think I was two years old when we moved to Florida, Pensacola. And man, first fishing memory is like four years old. My brother, JD, which is also co -founder of the Mongo, he's my older brother by seven years. He took me fishing in a lake behind, you know, in our neighborhood behind our lake. caught a bass like the first trip and I was hooked. I was like man this is the thing now I probably pestered him every day after that can we go fishing can we go fishing you know we're going fishing and so that progressed into an addiction of fishing and my mom took me on a fishing charter when I was 10 years old out of Ocean City Maryland and I saw the mate you know back there with us and you know this guy driving the boat which was you know I learned was a captain and and we caught some tuna and I was like, these guys do this for a living? And my mom's like, yeah, this is what they do, you know? And I was like, man, I want to do that when I grow up. So my brother had a baseball scholarship. He went off to college and played baseball and moved to Birmingham, Alabama. And me and him always talked about owning our charter boat. So I got into the fishing industry. Like my first job was first fishing related jobs working at a place called Boaters World. They're out of business now, but. Katie (02:50.766) very like West Marine, it was around for years and it was a big box store for marine supplies and marine sales. So I worked there and figured that'd be a good opportunity to meet other fishermen. So long story short, met other captains and landed a mate job and started mating and me and my brother, that's what we were gonna pursue is our own charter boat career. And you know, I'm skipping a lot of stuff, but Hurricane Ivan hit in 2004 and sort of... hit us back to reality. It's like, man, we saw all these charter boats lose their whole livelihood with their boats getting wrecked and the whole season sort of thrown out the door, at least in our little town. And we're like, maybe that's not the smartest idea for us. We didn't have a lot of money anyway. We wanted to get in those charter boat things. I mean, so I had a lot of friends in the private industry. And we were charter fishing. We were mating and captain. By that time, JD moved down to Pensacola. And we were both mating on different boats. And I did some captain work. started in the private sector. So I was like, man, that's probably the better route, more secure, you know, and then it's, you know, you got somebody else paying for everything and you get paid to go fishing, paid to kick, you know, a lot more waxing and toilet fixing than fishing, but yeah, it's all part of the, all part of it. Yeah. So, but it's awesome. So, you know, that's, that's how I got into the captain, you know, and in that whole time, you know, I was doing sales, you know, I worked for a Long time I worked for a distributor. We sold fish and tackle to tackle stores. And then I was a tackle sales rep for a while. We represented a dial and play Jake and other other brands. And I did that for collectively for about 12 years while I was doing captain work on the side in the private world. I had an orange beach, Alabama and Pensacola, Florida, Destin, Florida. But now currently I run the Lolita to 72 foot Viking out of Destin, Florida. and been working for this family for this is the ninth summer. Great family. They're awesome. Yeah, we're like fam. They treat me to treat us like family and just a great, great time. And yeah, this weekend. So we, we called the art person. Yeah. no, no, no. I haven't interrupted you. Sorry guys. We're not there yet. We're not there yet. No, that's so cool. So are you out of Orange Beach now? Are you based out of Orange Beach now? I'm. Katie (05:15.47) We keep the boat Lolita, we keep it behind Bo Shamps and Destin. That's where we keep the boat year round. That's right, you just said that. No, yeah, we come to Orange Beach a lot. We're sort of a traveling boat in the summertime, so we're rarely home during the summer, but the wintertime's fall through spring, we're parked behind Bo Shamps. We spend a good amount of time in Grand Isle, Louisiana. The owners have a camp there in Grand Isle. Nice. Yeah, so we get to spend, well now it's about two months a year out of Grand Isle. a month in the spring. What two months is that? So we're just getting off of this month. So it's a March, you know, late March to well, actually this year it was early April through early May. You know, we're home in Orange Beach now for some work. So about a month, you know, in the late spring and then a month in a late summer, we used to go there late July and stay through late August. Yeah, it's really good fishing over there that time of year. Yeah. Are you, out of Grand Isle, are you... doing a lot of tuna fishing as well as blue marlin fishing. Correct. Yes, they love to catch tuna and blue marlin, that's pretty much it. That's all they would like to get. We do very little bottom fishing. It's primarily tuna and marlin fishing, which is... I mean, the fishing up there in the northern Gulf for those two species is incredible. And the fact that you've, I mean, you essentially grew up for the most part fishing the northern Gulf of Mexico, right? That's right. That's cool because I'm from Texas, right? That's where I claim as my hometown. But I, my Gulf of Mexico fishing experience is extremely limited. So, I have so many questions for you and I'm really excited to have a Gulf guy on the podcast. we've had South Florida, we've had Kona and now here we go into the Gulf and we're right in that tournament season. Now, do you want to tell me a little bit about the Mongo Offshore Challenge? It's a 153 day. regional challenge, right? That's right. So yeah, so me and my brother was involved in this private world of fishing and tournament fishing. I think our first tournament we fished together was in 2007 on a boat called the Sunset. I fished several tournaments in like 2004, 2005, but JD was able to move down from Birmingham, get out of, he was in natural disaster work as well. And anyway, he, Katie (07:34.382) He was able to fish with me in 2007, our first tournament together on a boat called Sunset. We fished Biloxi and we won it. First tournament we fished together. my gosh. What'd you win it with? 531 Blue Marlin. Yeah, and it caught on the first morning of the first hour of the first morning. is like totally spoiled. Like JD's like, I like this tournament fishing stuff. This is pretty awesome. Yeah. It's always, it doesn't always work out like that, but that was really special. We did it with our best friend and mentor, Matt Dunn, which he's not really in the, in the sport fishing game anymore. He switched over to yacht world and he's doing, you know, he works for, you know, runs a big yachty yacht now, but, Man, so we made a lot of memories fishing. We had a really good run there with him for about six or seven years. Did really well in the golf circuit. And that was right when live baiting was sort of getting really, really popular. We were primarily trollers on that boat, but yeah, that was cool. So. What do you mean primarily trawlers like lures? Yeah, lures. We were, we were lure fishing. We still actually are passionate. I don't know that I would have fell in love with blue marlin fishing if I would have started out just sitting soaking live baits. it's something about the anticipation of rigging the night before the days before. And you got your lures out and you're re -skirting and putting new hook sets on. You're like, maybe that's going to be this color. You know, you got, you know, we need more trawlers. We need more spiked lures. Yeah, you know, going to the tackle store and like, man, we got to buy this one. This is the one. man, look at the head. You know, it's just, I don't know, something about that anticipation and like, you know, the what if they eat this one? yeah, they should eat this one. It's this color. look, it's a dolphin color. We got to match the hatch. I mean, all that stuff is just like fun, you know, rather than feeding them what they eat all day long. Of course they're going to eat a tuna. Of course they're going to eat it. Yeah. It's like, you know, we do it and it works. Katie (09:36.782) We have to do it in time efficient up here. You have to live bait to be consistent. But it's, you know, you're not really tricking them anymore. You know, when you're lure fishing, it feels like, man, it's like bass fishing. I'd much rather bass fish with a spinner bait or a plastic worm than throwing a live shiner out there. They're going to eat a live shiner, but it's just something special about it. And so yeah, it's definitely progressed. We came in when it was... And the northern golf is mainly lure and, you know, in natural baits, you know, you're pulling islander, you know, about who combos is, you know, everybody still pulls and then they work 100%. They work. And that's just, I don't know, something special about, about that. And if we were started out live baiting, I don't know that I would have had the same excitement about it. Now we sort of mix it up a little bit. We do some trolling and we do a lot of live baiting. it's the primarily way we fish up here. We're very, very spoiled. with this Northern Gulf fishery with these old rigs. I mean, you have giant fads everywhere. So they hold fish. We're going to go a little off topic for a minute because I have a lot of questions for you. No, this is great. I love it. You're giving me great content. So in that tournament, so we won that tournament. I'll go back to the Mongo. Obviously, it's why you have us on here. But us tournament fishing, we saw the progress and we're on fast boats. And then we started running the Lolita. I started running that in 2016, and it was a slow Hatteras, a 23 knot Hatteras. And we also, when we first started fishing, there's a lot of express boats. In the early 2000s, in these big weekend tournaments in golf, there's a lot of smaller express boats. There's a lot of slower, you know, Bartrams and Hatteras. And everybody's competing. But as the fleet, you know, got more technologically advanced and bigger horsepower engines. It's a speed race now, so whoever has the fastest boat has more fishing time. And it's a huge, huge deal. We're running 150 to 250 miles one way. So if you're doing that, you know, and you're getting there two, three hours before everybody else, or at least before the slow boats, the slow boats don't really have a chance, you know, unless you get lucky and run over one. So we were like, man, it'd be awesome if there was a tournament that had like a, that would level the playing field that would give them. Katie (11:54.83) Same amount of time for everybody. Doesn't matter how fast you are, how slow you are. If you have a big giant Viking or a little center console, everybody's on a level playing field. And so that's how that progressed, that birth, that idea of like, man, all right, let's just have a season long event and put the lines in. Whenever you leave the dock, you're in the tournament from May 1st to September 30th. So if you can, and we're all about the big fish, Mongo meaning huge. So if you catch a giant fish. between May 1st and September 30th, you can win it. And we count your weights in tournaments, and we count your weights on fun fishing trips. We set up these weigh stations all over the Gulf, and you can go in anywhere. We have 20 weigh stations in the Gulf of Mexico from all the way in South Texas all the way to Naples, Florida. So you go in and weigh your fish, and if you have the biggest fish at the end of the season, you win the pot. Blue Marlin, Swordfish, Tuna, Dolphin, and Wahoo. So yeah, it's really, really fun. We started it five years ago. It had 66 teams that first year and this year. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. And COVID year too, which is crazy. That's a whole nother story. But yeah, our first year we had 66 teams. We have a bit of a network. We've been around, we know a lot of guys. So we were able to call up a lot of captains like, what do you think about this format? Would you fish it? And they're like, yeah, that's awesome. Heck yeah, man. Because you always catch your biggest fish on your fun trips anyway. Yeah. Yeah, typically. I mean, you're going out there for a million dollar tournament and you catch the big one the day before practicing, you know, so now we can celebrate that fish and reward, you know, whoever catches the bigger ones, all kinds of cool things for that format that makes it neat. But yeah, so so that's where it came from. And then now this year is our fifth year we've had a we have 150 teams and over half a million dollars in the pot. That's crazy in the Gulf of Mexico because you guys have branched out to other fisheries now, right? That's right. So we started the East Coast three years ago. This is our third season in the East Coast. We're trying to grow that East Coast. We don't have the network that we have in the Gulf because we grew up in the Gulf. We know everybody. So we're working on growing that network over there, getting some key individuals, key captains on board. But there's already, and registration is still open for the East Coast until June 30th. So teams. Katie (14:12.782) fishing from Cape Cod all the way down to Florida can register for the Mongo up until June 30th and pick which category you want to get in. You don't have to get in swordfish if you don't, if you're not a sword fisherman, just get into mahi or whatever you're fishing for. What's the registration fee? So it's alacarte. So each, each one's different. So the mahi and the wahoo are 500 a piece for the season. That's nothing. You know, we burn in that much an hour out of some of these boats and fuel. So, and then a swordfish is 15, excuse me. Swordfish is a thousand for the season, for the season. yellowfin and big eye are a thousand a piece for the season. And then blue marlin is 2 ,500 for the season. So you'll, if you want to get in all categories, like 6 ,500 bucks for the board. Yeah. And you're in from every time your boat leaves the dock, whether you're fishing two times a year or a hundred times a year, you're, you're in there. And what did the winner of the Gulf of Mexico last year make and what did they weigh on blue marlin? I think their payday was like 130 ,000 last year and it was a 727 pound blue marlin caught in the bluxy tournament. So he won two tournaments with one fish. I love it. I love that. Yeah. A boat called the salt shaker with Captain Dennis Bennett. And I remember that. Believe it or not, they also won the mahi. They caught the mahi in the ECBC tournament and won like another 50 grand with the mahi. So they really cashed in last year. That's so sick. And their mahi was 60 pounds, 59 .9 pounds, 60 pound mahi in the Gulf of Mexico. It was totally unheard of. I haven't seen a 60 pounder. That is massive. I haven't seen a 50 pounder in the Gulf in years. The only fish I've seen that big was in like Costa Rica, Central Pacific. Panama. That's, that's where I've seen the mahi get that even close to that big. But again, my golf experience is pretty limited. Sure. One thing is different, you know, Mongo, golf on that a minute, but we have very big minimums. So there's not a whole lot of fish weighed in the Mongo throughout the season. One, it's a winner take all. So once something huge is on the board, you're not going to weigh in anything smaller anymore. And then our limits are high. Like mahi has got to be 40 pounds to even qualify. Katie (16:31.278) Wahoo's 60 pounds, Yellowfin's 140 pounds. Blue Marlin's 118 inches. Which is like the federal, you guys, the federal minimum is 99 inches. And a lot of tournaments go 112 inches. So it's definitely progressed over the years. Typically last year was 110 for all the tournaments and this last weekend was 112 for this last weekend. Yeah, because people are going in figuring them out and they're starting to weigh in more and more and more. So they're trying to inch those links up to not take so many of them. And that's one reason we wanted to just pay one place. You know, one, we just wanted to award the biggest fish of the season. And then two, we didn't want to kill a bunch of extra ones. And then typically the blue morn... Actually, I'm trying to think, other than the first year in the Mongo... Every other blue marlin has been caught, or the winner was caught in another tournament. So the first year, the first year was a state record fish caught the day after the, the world cup on July 5th. They were out there for the world cup. They stayed out another day, caught this giant fish. If they would have called in the world cup, they would have won a whole lot more money. Obviously fly usually has, I don't know, well over a million dollars in that, in that world cup pot. But they ended up winning, I think they won like 90 grand or something like that extra. Yeah, that they were. I mean, how cool that you guys are giving that opportunity, you know, like I Drake when we were in Madeira, we saw a real big fish on July 3rd and didn't see it again. But it's just, you know, it's funny how they dance around that date. I feel like those sightings really, really go around the 4th of July. If you guys are wondering what we're talking about, the World Cup is a tournament that's around the world based on your specific time zone on the 4th of July. and we'll have Fly Navarro on for a podcast coming into that. So stay posted. But Jeremy, I guess natural integration. Tell us about your fish this last week. So this last week in the Lolita, the boat I worked for, my owners are gracious enough to get in. They know we put the tournament on. They're totally supportive and supporting of it. It's me, my brother JD and my best friend, Brian Johnson. We were the founders of the Mongo and we also all three work on the Lolita. Katie (18:56.366) So my brother's a mate and Brian comes on for tournaments and it's been just a great team. We all get along so well. And so they're always gracious enough to, hey, we'll get into, you know, we never twist our arm or nothing. They like the idea, they like the format. And so they've got in every year and we've never weighed in on qualifying fish during that time for the Mongo. But this year, our first, actually it's our second trip of the season, but our first tournament of the year. fishing the hurricane open out of Grand Isle, Louisiana this past weekend. And we catch a 704 pounder, which is a nice one. It's 122 inches. It's our biggest one yet. And man, we are so ecstatic. Congratulations. It was money or no money. It's actually sort of special for my owners and my owner's family because they've had a camp on Grand Isle, Louisiana for they call it a camp. It's a beach house and it's nice beach house now, but. It was camp since the 50s, late 50s. This family has had many traditions of going down there and spending time together every summer. And it's been, you know, it's something where everybody can go and be around each other. And it's, they're a really close knit family anyway. And they fish the tarpaulios and fish some other things over the years, but they've never weighed anything huge there in Grand Isle. So this has always been like a dream of theirs. And to do it in Grand Isle just makes it that much more special. We didn't. Like I said, we want some money, but it wasn't about the money. It was about that memory that they got to make with their family members. And they brought their 90 year old grandfather down here to celebrate with us. And he's, you know, yeah, his wife was Lolita. She passed away, but that's had to name the boat after. So he was able to come down and celebrate. And it was just so special. It was really, really cool. And we're able to, you know, not only celebrate that fish and won some money with that fish and. Now we're on the board with the Mongo, which, you know, extra special for me, JD and Brian. I mean, it's really, really cool to be able to do that. But, but you reached out to us and now we were able to donate that fish to science, which is awesome. And we also flayed up a bunch of the meat. Everybody's sharing the meat. We actually, my brother's smoking some up, making some fish dip out of it. Yes. Smoked blue marlin. That's the way to do it. Yep. We got some, some art being made from it. you know, some, the bill and the tail and some prints. And so it's. Katie (21:19.758) It's not a wasted fish, it's a celebrated fish. And now we got, we had kids down there taking pictures with it. It's just inspiring kids. I mean kids, the thing is, is like what a lot of people don't realize is when these fish are brought back to the dock, like the kids that see it, it's such a lasting impression. Because I mean, even for the adults that have never seen anything like that, like to see a creature from the ocean, a fish from the ocean of that size and magnitude and what it takes. to bring something like that in and what type of possibilities there are out there. It just opens so many doors. And I'm really, I was really stoked when I reached out to you, you were all on board about the donating. And next, you guys, the next podcast is gonna be Jeremy Higgs over at the University of Southern Mississippi. And that's exactly who these samples are going to. So Jeremy, I had you like. what we cut the head and we kept some of the innards and we're going to get to age that fish and, and learn a lot about the reproduction and the phases of the fish. So it's blue marlin are females when they're of that size and they're going to get to do reproductive histology on there and we're going to learn a lot about it. And I just think it's so cool that you guys were on board and just sharing that on this podcast is so important because you know, when these fish are brought in, there's so much more that can be done with them than even just. you know, taking the tournament win. Like you said, I love that you're showcasing the celebration of that life. Tell us a story about catching the fish. Like what did it eat? And, yeah, so, we fished some, a very popular area called, we call it the ghetto. it's just, some shallow, well, it's not shallow. It's, it's close to land rigs. I guess you could say it's a, it's a rig that are the floating rigs that are closest to the Alabama line. We're fishing out of Louisiana, but everybody knows the ghetto. If you fish in the northern Gulf Coast, you know it's the ghetto. It's the Rampowl and Petronas and Marlin Rig and Horn Mountain. It's these rigs that's been there for years and years and years. Probably some of the early rigs that were floaters are the ghetto. And they've added on to them. And we got hundreds of rigs that we could choose from. So, ghetto's in the shallower waters. It's about 3 ,000 feet and it's working its way up the bank. And, Katie (23:37.07) I saw some good current in there, like a good eddy being built. We use Hilton's to do our research before we go to figure out exactly what the current's doing, the temperature's doing, and all that. We saw this eddy being formed in there, and I was like, man, it's got some good water pushing in there. Also, Bluefin was still open, so if we accidentally happened to catch one, it wasn't closed yet. It's like, all right, if we get one, we could probably take her home if she ends up. Accidentally, you know eating one of our live baits that we use for blue marlin which they do typically this time of year And then there's huge tune in that area this time of year had some reports today before Several boats catching actually one boat called a 200 pounder another boat called 185 pounder all in this area. Yep And then several boats have caught blue marlin over the last couple days. So I was like, all right, let's go in there most of the fleet's gonna go to greens Canyon another area south of Louisiana and Maybe it won't be as so many boats over there. Anyway, we made the call. Go over there. And the bait's a little hard to catch, a little concern. As we get there, the bait's really, really deep. Typically in the daytime, we're trolling around the rigs, try to catch live bait first to fill up our tubes. At nighttime, you're jigging, using butterfly jigs and whatnot around the oil rigs. They all come to the lights and usually up shallower. And you can jig them all night, fill up your tubes. But in the daytime, you've got to be a little creative and catch them on the troll. There was a lot of different techniques guys used, but they were really deep, really hard to catch. So we were like, all right, at least to the rigs that we stopped at. So we switched over to trolling. That first day we're trolling, nothing. We got to watch another boat that was live baiting catch a couple of fish. So we're like, all right, well, there's fish around. We'll load the tubes tonight and we'll start in the morning and do some live baiting. So we did that. We filled up our tubes at night at a rig and then pulled over to our first stop. It was a drill ship and first bait in the water. It was a porpoise. Porpoise came up and ate our bait and they just, they're so smart. Yeah. They hated this fisherman. They're beautiful, awesome creatures, but they came up. Yeah. You're fishing. Yeah. You don't want when they're eating your bait. They're amazing how they eat it too. They missed the hook. They know where the hook is. They bite it right behind and they just like suck out everything. You just, all you have left on your, on your hook is the head of your bait. And they did that like first, first bait in. Katie (25:57.678) Corpus and I'm marking someone's sonar and like these all look like porpoise to me. So let's let's just go. So we went three miles away to the next rig and there's nobody there. There was like four boats or five boats fishing with us at that first one. So there's multiple reasons why I wanted to leave. So we lit we left one over there and there's only other one ended up being one other boat fishing with us there and marked a couple in the sonar. We hooked one fish, jumped them off within like two minutes. It was a hindsight it was a male. It was a smaller fish. And we found that over the years that that'll happen a whole lot. You'll catch them. You'll catch a small one and you go back and catch the big one or you'll catch the big one and you go back and catch a small one. It seems like they run together this time of year. It's typical to find a big fish with a small fish or multiple. I'm so curious to find out if your fish was spawning. Multiple small fish. A lot of times. So anyway, I marked one, we hooked that one, lost it, put the baits back out, and I saw another mark going over to the rig. So we were using Omniso Nars. Actually, I'm using an MAQ. I love it. It's awesome. So we go over to the rig, put the baits out, drag it over top of it, and I lose the mark. I can't find it. And a lot of times that means they're coming up about to eat your bait. You know, you're in your prop watch or whatnot. Nothing. About five minutes goes by, I mark something else. up ahead of me so we pulled the boat up about maybe a football field's length and there she is. She eats the bait immediately, starts dumping it. What you have like a blackfin or bonita? Yep, that morning all we could call it was blackfin. A little football size maybe about that big. And yeah, Aida immediately dumped a bunch of line. We're using 130 class reels with 130 pound line on there. We do have backing and she... My angler gets in there, Jordan Womack, he fights it for two hours straight. A hot, hard fight. Not a whole lot of jumping, but just a ton of dogging, ton of left and right and down sea, up sea. The fish was crazy. Really, really strong fish. We got one look at it, like two jumps. There's a video we just put up there on Instagram yesterday. You can see the only two jumps. That's the only two times she came out of the water. And she doesn't really look that big in that video. She's pretty far away. And, Katie (28:17.134) We see it's a solid fish, but we get the measurement stick out, like, all right, it might be 112, we'll see. And then two hours into the fight after, he's like, all right, this fish is super strong. It's big. And then she sounds. Sounds all the way down to the bottom, way back into the backing. We're probably a thousand feet out of line in our angler's life. You guys, sounding is when, and correct me if I'm wrong, Jeremy, but sounding is when that fish goes essentially straight up and down and it's deep. Like it's just deep. A lot of times when they do that, we try to, captains call a lot of big blue marlin that try to tag and release them. You're trying to keep them up on top because the worst thing you want is from the sound because they'll die. Typically when they sound that deep, they're stroking out, they're giving out. That's all. If you keep them up top, you can usually tag them really quick and release them and be done. So she sounded and we're like, man, we're in for the long haul now. We're already two hours in, which is a long time. Yeah, usually tagging these fish. If we're tagging the fish, even the big ones, you can get them in 30 minutes, 45 minutes an hour. But anyway, sort of all like defeated after that point. my goodness, we're two hours in, we haven't really saw her again. She's sounded and way back into the backing, our angler is just like totally gassed. He's puking, he's puking all over himself. He's pale in the face. He's like a bodybuilder guy. His arms are shaking, his legs are shaking. So we've got to get him dehydrated, get him cooled down, pouring water all over him. And then the family's just totally around him. The team's just around, like, you're not quitting. You're staying in this. You're going to get this fish. Just totally positive talking, because he's like, I don't know if I can get this thing anymore. Yeah. I mean, he's done his thing. Yeah. So in that. When they do that, and she's done fighting, like she sounds and then it's done, done taking more line. We go to full drag and at that process you got to plane them up. You got to, you know, you're pulling forward, getting a little bit of scope in the line where the line starts coming up a little bit and you're backing down really hard, reeling that slack and then doing it again. So basically what your rod was doing before, the boat's doing now. So the boat's pulling up and then you're reeling down. You're pulling up, reeling down about 40, 50 feet at a time. So it takes another three hours to get that fish. Katie (30:32.782) Hold on, I want to pause you real quick. I really like that you brought up the planing and how it's done because a handful of times when we've been fishing, it's just a really important skill for captains, crews, and anglers to know. A lot of times it can even potentially save a fish. If you have a fish that gets tail wrapped early on in a fight and you're not going to be able to get its head turned. So tail wrapped is when the line's wrapped around the tail of the fish. And if you can't get its head turned, a lot of times that fish is just gonna be swimming down. But if you recognize it early on, if the angler and the captain recognize it early on, you guys can start planing that fish up and get it up to the boat before it dies. Because if it's tail wrapped and it gets pulled backwards for too long, it's gonna asphyxiate because it can't breathe. moving backwards. So planing is a really, really important skill in the field of ethical angling. And then of course, in situations like these where, where you have a deep fish that's just gone. And I mean, also when they're that big, it's really interesting, Jeremy, because when they're that big, it's almost like they can't fight as long as the smaller ones. Like, do you think that that plays a key, like a role in it? And what about the like, how, how warm was the water? I'm just curious. 77. That's pretty cool actually for Northern Gulf. Yeah. It'll warm up. I'm surprised. Yeah. It's, it's, it's been cut off from the loop current that area. So if you go down in greens, it's probably 79 now, somewhere around there. the loop current is probably 80, but you know, this current is down there in greens is probably that, but up, up where we're fishing is still a little cooler because it's sort of been cut off. it's getting most of its water from out in the canyon out to the east of it. And that water is all 76, 77. Is that pretty regular with the seasons? Sometimes that loop current, you look on Hilton's and watch it come up. It'll come up from the Yucatan, make a hard ride over towards Tampa and loop back down. And then off of that northern part, you'll get eddies that'll curl up into that Louisiana, Alabama area. And those eddies are bringing in that nice fresh nutrients that you want. You want that counterclockwise eddy that brings up fish, brings up all the nutrients from the bottom. And you got to... Katie (32:50.926) Clockwise, it's pushing everything down. Altimeter's down and it seems like everything's deeper. But yeah, this time of year, it'll be all sort of weird and squirrely. We always like to fish after a really big storm, like a big south pushing storm. A lot of south wind, southeast wind. Sort of like the pocket and people are familiar with Chubb and down there. Anytime you've got something pushing everything into the shallow water, it seems to get better in there. And that near that shallower water just sort of stacks everything up. So we like doing that. but it was, you know, the, anyway, there's fish in there. There's fish everywhere. People caught fish this weekend all over the place. We were just sort of right place, right time. And then we're capitalized once we did get that fish on, everybody worked together as a good team. And, you know, we didn't make any mistakes. If we would have made a mistake, we would have lost that fish. Cause once we got that fish in the hook was hooked outside end, which is. already hard, you know, you lose them right at the beginning. It's probably when he chased that circle hook, when he was, when he was chasing that blackfin, that blackfin probably swirled around his head weird, got him somehow. And then that hook was hooked to the outside end. So when he came in, you could grab the hook and it just went, doop, it like barely came out. And then we had like two wraps, we had like two wraps around the tail that probably saved us, you know, saved that fish, you know, saved us getting that fish. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, because if it would have been hooked outside in and he sounded and we'd just been pulling him up like this, it would eventually just work this pulled it out because it just and then she would have died in vain. Yeah. And then it starts with ater and nobody got to celebrate. Yeah. All that. So yeah, it was really special the way it worked out. So many so many things worked in its way. It was a blessing for sure. Were y 'all surprised when she came? when y 'all got her up and she was 122 inches long? Yes, well, actually she popped up way far away. So, you know, we're playing in and once you get them up, you're playing in a dead fish up from that deep. Once you get up to like 200 feet above that thermocline, they'll just pop up and she popped up. Interesting. Yeah, she popped up probably 200 feet away. And so when she popped up tail first, we probably we knew that she was probably tail wrapped, but we didn't know it popped up tail wrap. Our hearts sort of sank. man, I hope she ain't like a 400 pounder, you know. Katie (35:07.438) come up tail up tail up. And then we, you know, now this is all sort of sucks, you know, we don't, we don't win nothing. And you know, we just killed a smaller fish. So she popped up tail up and we saw the tail sticking out of the water and we're getting back and down, back and down to the fish that JD can grab the leader, pull her over and the tail gets bigger and she gets longer. And we're like, okay, all right. And then JD gets her boat side and we're like, holy moly. Nobody says anything to each other until we, until we get her, you can watch that video. We're getting her in a boat. Brian and Ryan, the owner, start pulling her to boat and they get her in and then everybody's like, whoa. You know, we didn't want to say anything. Exhale. Yeah, exhale. And then we measured her. Yeah, we knew she was big and then we measured her and now she's a mongo. You know, now she's over one eighteen. We're like, yeah, we're high five. And it was so awesome. It was very, very special. We've killed it. We've killed a fish with these owners a few years ago, but it wasn't a mongo. It was like a five forty or five. 30 or something like that we caught in Blocsie. Which length was approximately? It was like 112, 113 I think was the length. Yeah you guys 118 is a really damn big fish. Yeah. Like it's a big fish. A special fish. In 122. Yes. Exactly. Exactly. And I, in the video, I mean it looked like you guys didn't even have a flying gaff out. Like you all just had your tuna gaff. Yeah we did have a flyer out. We decided we didn't need it once we got boat sided and we just stick it. regular stick gaff in there, straight gaff. And we did that and then we'd just get a new surround her, around her bill and then we were able to sort of guide her in that way. But yeah, it worked out really, really good that way. It was cool. It was very, very special fish. And then now it's like the dilemma of, all right, did we stay out here? The fishing's good. We ain't got a tuna yet. We came out here for a big tuna too. And we made the decision of going on in. So we... because we're in the Mongo. Because now we're gonna lose, we didn't want to lose any weight. And we wanted to explain how you lose weight. So a lot of times on the deck, they'll just lose weight. They're losing fluids the whole time, blood and other things. And we didn't have that many holes in her, but we had a couple of holes in her. A lot of times they'll just lose weight sitting on the deck. And it kept on going through our minds like, man, if she is a Mongo, she's still got, we got all season for 88 teams to try to beat her. Katie (37:30.414) But if we lose by like two or three pounds, we're going to be hitting ourselves in the face for not taking it. It's only three hours away to the weigh station. So it's a fast boat. So we go. And our plans are to come out either later that evening or that night and try to get a tuna. And we get in. We have a couple of mechanical issues I'm a little nervous about. So we decide not to go out. We just hung her up. We're 700 pounds. We're all having a great time. to see if somebody else can beat her. So nobody else beat her and we won that weekend tournament, which we're super excited about. And then, congratulations. See what happens in the market. Now it gives us a little bit later. You know, it was the 118 everybody was shooting for now it's a 700 pounder set by shooting for. So what is that? I don't know. It could be a 118, a really fat one, but typically probably, you know, that probably is going to save a few fish of being killed is in our thoughts, unless it's in a weekend tournament, you know, if it's on a fun trip, they're going to think twice about killing if it's. you know, 600 pound or something like that. So, yeah, that's cool. Which is really cool. Yeah. Question, what are some like when you're bringing a fish back to the dock and you want to make sure that it's not losing weight, like what are, what are ways that you can help mitigate that? Like, do you have any techniques that you or tips that you want to share? Yeah. So, at least knowledge that I've learned from, from other captains is, we haven't done it yet on. on length, but to keep length you want to keep them wet. Not necessarily cold, but wet to keep their length. So a lot of weekend tournaments, it might be 110 and you have 112 sitting on the deck. Two days later, that thing could be 110, you know, or 109. They could lose an inch or two pretty easily. And there's plenty of stories of guys catching a legal fish and getting back to dock and it's not legal anymore. So that's a bummer. So a lot of captains... found that you keep them wet with towels and that'll keep their length. Not sure about the way that is. Yeah. Is like their skin will shrink up. That skin is so it's very similar to Wahoo skin. Right. And even though the scales are different, very different, but it'll like it'll shrink up as it dries. So keeping them wet will keep them. There's like a lot of like. Katie (39:54.99) ends and outs of it, right? Like I just, okay. So just to clear the air here, I haven't been a really around fisheries that kill fish. you know, my blue Marlin, my predominant blue Marlin experience was in the fat fishery of Costa Rica, which is all catch and release because they're small fish. And then, we were fishing in Madeira for the big one, but we never saw her. So I've heard a lot of stories and like, of fish like coming back to the dock and people saying they were stretched, fish coming back to the dock, people saying that they, you know, put water in their bellies or whatever. what, like there's, there's definitely things you can and cannot do to keep these fish the way they should be as well as like the word mutilation. Can you, can you expand on that for me? Yeah. So in our tournament, in the Mongo, we def on a weekend tournaments. So say you catch your fish in a weekend, we defer to that tournament. So if it's dequeued in that weekend tournament, it's dequeued in the Mongo. If it counts, it counts. In our rules, we do Spirit of IGFA. So mutilated fish are not counted. Mutilation is something that impairs its ability to fight, its ability to swim. So if you back over it a little too hard and chop its tail off or chop something up with your propellers, it's not going to count. It's part of the game. It's shark bit. It's not going to count. We accept cookie cutter sharks because that could have been done months or years ago. Cookie cutter sharks will take like a little round bite out. You'll catch a swordfish and it'll have several of them in there a lot of times as cookie cutter sharks. So we'll accept those, but yeah, if it's a five tiger or something on the way up, then we don't count that. We count that as a mutilated fish. Unless that tournament that you're fishing in accepts it. then we'll count it because we defer to them. But yeah, I mean, you know, people have, yeah, we hear those stories too. I mean, same thing in the freshwater world, people putting leads in their stomachs and, you know, all kinds of stuff to try to win. So we, in the Mongo, we have some checks and balances in there. Sometimes we have the ability to cut that fish open at the dock and check its innards. And we have to have two witnesses that weren't on the boat to witness you weigh that fish. And... Katie (42:19.758) lie detector test for the winners. So we have some things built in to try to keep the confidence high that somebody isn't going to cheat. And a lot of it's peer enforced. If you're in this private industry of sport fishing and you're caught cheating, you go find another career. Yeah, you're not going to get another job. After your black eye, bloody nose heals, go find another job. you don't want to, nobody's going to accept you if you get caught cheating. So it's a lot of it is peer enforced, at least that fear of, you know, so hoping, you know, somebody that didn't want to go on their morals, there's some fear involved as well of getting caught cheating. So, you know, not saying people don't try, but we, we, we try to build some safe, some safe holds in there to keep people from doing it, at least thinking twice. Yeah, that's great. But yeah, and we like to keep them cold. You know, if they're big, big enough fish to weigh, the weigh in, we want to, try to donate that meat. So we like to keep them cold, wrap them up in a fish bag, put as much meat, much ice in there as you can, keep them wet as well. If you keep them bad and cold, he's going to stay long and you're going to get some meat and you can donate out of it. And people eat them in Hawaii all the time. They eat them in all these other islands all the time. I mean, it's not like the best table fare. It's not like we're going to, I'm, you know, let's go catch them all in a day so we can feed the family. But if you do catch them all in a day, she dies. It is edible. We have some especially smoked. Like we really like it. I've smoked Marlin on a bagel. Yeah. Yeah. I've had some smoked taco or some fish taco, Marlin tacos or they're fine. Yeah. You can dress it up and it's totally edible meat. but, we have some, some charities that we sit that we work with and the golf, golf coast, feeding the golf coast and different charities like that. that if a fish does come in the mongo and wait in one of our waste stations, we have outlet to get rid of that meat. A lot of times you'll have to flay that meat up and bag it up, but that's not a big deal. And then you just put those bags in the freezer or wherever and we'll have those cherries come up and pick it up. And they'll donate it to, if it's edible for human consumption, they'll donate it to some homeless shelters and whatnot, but also some zoos and things like that will take it for their tigers and their different. Burning sanctuaries. Yep, yep. So there, you know. Katie (44:38.158) alligator farm. How cool that you guys have like have thought all that yeah alligator farms for sure thought all of that out at your way stations like okay when we bring this fish back like I just love that you're obviously so sustainably minded. Yeah yeah yeah future conservation minded you know it's making choices you know make make your choice because if you want your kids to do this you know try to take some responsibility you know. Nobody loves Marlin more than Marlin fishermen. There's a bunch of fish huggers out there. Why in the world are you killing a fish? my goodness, neanderthals. Well, nobody loves them more than we do. I feel like we've hugged more Marlin. Yeah, we've hugged way more Marlin than y 'all have. And nobody raises more. Nobody raises more money to protect them, to research for them. We buy fishing licenses. That money goes to help all of it. So I love it when people... And the money we put into the communities. Yeah, I love it when people in all the comment sections, they all have an opinion and you go look them up and they're living in Iowa somewhere and never even seen a blue marlin. They have no idea what they're talking about. So nobody loves marlin more than marlin fishermen. We want them around. And yes, we try to take efforts to promote. people want them around more. We kill a few extra fish a year, but all under that minimum. We're allowed 250 per year. National Marine fisheries, white and blue marlin, and if there's an extra three or four killed in the mongo, and they're all huge fish, and they're all celebrated and all that, I think it's good. I don't think it's hurting anything. If anything, it's helping the industry, all the money that's raised from marlin fishermen, bringing new little junior anglers into it. Like you said, with... Like you said, with kids taking photos and stuff like that at Grand Isle this past weekend, there was a line of people, like literally after we took our photos, our team photos, there was like a line, like a single line of probably 15, 20 people waiting to take their picture with this fish that they only know who we are. They don't, you know, they're gonna take a picture with this fish so they can send it to their family members. I mean, very, very cool. Look at this. Yeah, so cool. Yeah, very cool. Did you even know this animal existed out there? Right. Yeah, and also like this, you know, Katie (46:54.286) Another way giving back to the fishery and the communities is the science. The science we're getting from it. These fish are known as rare event species and you and I can both testify to that. And they're really hard to get. They're very expensive to go after. And the scientists, the schools that are studying them to make sure that they are sustainably managed, that they are cared for correctly, that they are going to be in the lives of our children and our children's children in the future. they don't have the funding to be able to catch them themselves. And the fact that we have fishing teams that want to bring them back and take integrity and donate responsibility and donate these specimens to the science labs. I mean, USM was so stoked on y 'all's fish. Like it was, they were just so excited. USM, the Bill Fish Foundation, they were just really excited. So like you said, no one loves marlin more than marlin fishermen. It's just, it's a fact. exactly. And really cool fish. Yeah. And I've, I've even heard of people like, you know, we don't catch them as big as they, you know, y 'all are killing the stock. Well, think of all the records has been set in the last couple of years. All right. So last year, the biggest fish that's ever been recorded in the Gulf of Mexico was called in October, 1145 pounds. I see three years ago. Yeah. And days after he's one of our boys, he's one of our boys. He's, he's like one of the original supporters of the Mongo. Captain Chris Moat, he's an amazing fisherman loves blue morn fishing is really really good at it and Man, that would have been so special if it was caught two weeks prior to that. But yeah, so Yeah, so that's a golf record. I mean biggest one in the golf And then what what was Duffy's fish like four years ago the you know, 1 ,100 pounds caught in Maryland? All right, and then two years before that, Big Rock had the biggest ones ever caught in Big Rock. I mean, we're, the fish are still here. They're good. You know, we need to continue to take care of them and grow them, but they're not, we're not, we still have those old man in the sea photos. That's what the Mongo logo is about is staying inside that amazing fish. Well, there's proof that they're still out there. I mean, that just proved it. So yeah. That's so cool. I want to get into the live baiting. Katie (49:19.534) I want to get into why it's challenging to catch live bait in the Gulf of Mexico. So when we were in Costa Rica, I keep bringing this up, but we were bait and switch fishing predominantly, which you guys, that's teaser fishing. And if a fish shows up behind the teaser, we take the teaser away and then we present them with a dead bait with a circle hook in it. Right? And then we generally get a really active aggressive bite. It's a good feed, good hook set. That's all she wrote. But we were catching our bait out there. It was Bonita and they're prolific. They're just prolific. And I've heard that catching bait in the Gulf of Mexico is a very different experience. You've already touched on how the bait was real deep on this last trip and y 'all were struggling on catching bait. A lot of times you guys will have a little bit of an easier time catching bait at night, but then you're catching bait at night and losing some very valuable sleep. as well as, you know, those bait, they go deep during, during the day because the water can get so warm. So let, can you, can you give us a little bit of Intel into how you keep your tuna tubes, what tuna tubes are and how you keep them full and what your, your best care and strategy tips are? Yeah. So that's definitely progressed over the years. I remember live baiting in like 2005 and six, somewhere around there was my first time. was fishing on a boat with a really experienced captain that was really, really good at it. And they didn't even have tubes yet, but he live baited a lot. So he basically catches bait, put it right back out. Might even get a little creative and catch a bait and keep them close on a little leash in the water. Literally, that's your live bait tube, just keep them in the water on like a little leash with a little hook through his or a clip through his nose. Whatever, get creative to keep at least one in the quiver, to put one back out. But there's... caught a lot of fish by catching them and then hooking them up, putting them right back out and then doing well that way. But obviously if you can have a quiver of baits so when you get sharks or a barracuda eats it or a porpoise eats it, now you got to go catch more bait again. So now became the tuna tube. So it started out with boats getting two or three on there and now you'll have boats with 20 on there. We have 16 on our, so obviously the more tubes you have. Katie (51:46.094) The more bait you can have, the longer you can go without having to go try to catch bait again. So 16 tubes, man, that's been a whole progression as well of how do you keep 16 fish alive? So you have to have a lot of water flow. So there's a lot of techs and all kinds of science and mechanics and figuring out how much flow and how to get the best flow. And do you want bubbles and not bubbles? And where do you put your through hole? I mean, there's so much that goes into it. And every boat's different and all that. So anyway, over the last five or six years, it's very common to buy your boat. If you're building a brand new boat, say Vikings building your boat, and you can get your tubes installed at factory or right, you know, maybe you'll refit it when you get it down to South Florida. And there's a couple of guys that specialize in that and they'll refit your boat before you even go pick it up. You go pick up your boat and you got your sonar and your tubes. And those are primarily golf boats. Golf boats, we have tubes. If you don't have tubes, you're probably not fishing in the Gulf. So not competitively. Yes. And there's a lot of guy dredging now doing phenomenal. The guys that are really good at dredging still catch tons of fish, but a lot of that's on standups. Are you going to kill that? Those are your tag release guys. So the guys that are trying to catch the big one are live baiting primarily. And then you want them on a circle hook rather than have them on a J hook. because man, all the things didn't go wrong with a J hook. So, circle hook is a really good way of catching a big fish and being able to fight it through and land it. So, yeah, so typical day is, you know, if we're showing up, you know, tournaments leaving in the Gulf, you're leaving at like 10 a 11 a you're running out to your oil rig that you've picked, or you might stop on the way, some guys stop on the way at some bottom spots and pick up some bonito. A lot of times the bonito will hold up over a natural reef. or a shallow water oil rig and picking up some bonitas first. Bonitas are usually shallower where we live and as you get out you'll start getting to the black fin and the yellow fin and there's some skipjack and things like that. Yellowtail, or not yellowtail but rainbow runners. Things like that you can catch out there too. But you're trying to catch them trolling. Some people fish on the surface for them. The guys are figured out the getting deep, getting creative. Katie (54:07.502) how to get down deep with planers or downriggers or whatnot to get down deep to where they're at. And then all kinds of different things you can catch them on, little squid imitations or minnow limitations or spoons and all kinds of different ways. You're making them on daisy chains and figuring out a way to get those fish to eat, those little baits, and then you're bringing them up, putting them in your tubes. Once you get your tubes full, you go fishing. And then some guys, while they're fishing, they got a guy on the bow with these sea keepers. That's a whole nother thing. You got a guy, these sea keepers, if it's relatively calm, they're up there casting the popper, casting little plugs, little jigs to try to catch. You got one guy who's just a bait fisherman on your bow while everybody's fishing in the back. Try to continue. That's how important the bait is. You got to have that fresh bait. So yeah, you load your baits and then you're fishing, looking with sonars. Before sonars, we just all... stayed up on the up current side of the rig. A lot of times that up current side is where the marlins will be because the school of tuna typically swims around in circles on the up current side. My theory is it's easier for them to get back to safety. If they got to swim down sea to get back to safety, it's a lot easier than having to swim up sea to get back to safety. It's like a bass or anything. Yeah, it's like a minnow or anything else. or a reef fish, they're gonna swim back. So the upcurrent side will be the busy side. That's where most of your tunas are. That's where most of your predators are is upcurrent of them. So now it's easier for them to catch fish if they're swimming down sea versus having to swim into the current. That's how I figured it. So yeah, so that's the way we used to do before sonar, but now sonar's changing the game. Now it used to be, all right, and I'm gonna sit there with baits on the water while I'm sonar fishing, looking for something to troll over at two knots, my live bait's over to that mark. But now a lot of guys aren't even putting a bait in the water until they mark a fish because they've gotten so confident in their sonar abilities to find that fish. Don't even put a bait out until they're right on top of that fish. All right, deploy. Put your baits in the water. There he is. A lot of guys are getting really good at doing that. You can tell who's good at doing that. Wow. Just watch three tournaments. And if a guy's winning or placing in each one of those three or two of those three, Katie (56:16.27) that guy is a really good sonar fisherman because that's what he's doing. He's not waiting on chance and you know, just maybe official swim by this current side. He's, he's literally feeding that fish. It's almost like teasing that fish, but you know, you don't have to tease them. Just drop a bait on it and he'll come up and eat it. Cause I think the prop wash and all that makes them think that the feeding friends of the year, whatever, at least they're paying attention to what's going on with that prop wash up there. Yeah. So it's definitely progressing. It's, it's changed. It's like every five years something different and people are getting really good at that and then five years have changed and it's something people get really good at that. But that's the thing now, the successful captains that are, especially with numbers of fish are doing is not even putting a bait in the water until. So now you don't have to bait fish near as much because you're not killing so many baits. You're not wasting them whether tiring them out or you're getting shark aid or we get a lot of sharks, a lot of barracus, a lot of porpoise around them. these rigs too. So yeah, so daytime you're trolling for them, playing in whatever you got to do. At nighttime you're jigging and jigging is pretty easy. Once you find them, at nighttime you can load your tubes and usually 30, 45 minutes you'll have some bite, you know, you'll have some eating by sharks and whatnot. Sometimes it's frustrating, if it's really rough it's sort of hard to hold up sometimes. But yeah, loading them up and then you're ready to go and definitely lose some sleep. Some guys are bringing an extra guy, just like a night driver. You know, that way he's fresh, doesn't at least not run into the rig in the middle of the night, 3 a trying to hold

Twenty years ago, the City of Pensacola struggled to find a viable business strategy for the financially struggling Port of Pensacola. Ideas such as transforming warehouses into a maritime museum and a cruise ship accommodation were considered but were abandoned after Hurricane Ivan.  Today, the port is thriving and has diversified its operations, according to Port Director Clark Merritt. “We have a nice balance of cargo activities that are very robust with our long-term tenants like CMEX and Martin Marietta and, of course, the GE Wind products. They really are our bedrock of support at the port on the maritime commerce side.” The diversity comes with the addition of American Magic, Portside Pickle, and the University of West Florida's mechanical engineering lab. Merritt shared that more is planned for the parcel between American Magic's headquarters and The Fish House, but the site has challenges.

In 2004, Charlie and Teri Brandt evacuated their home in the Florida Keys as Hurricane Ivan headed their way. They went to stay with their niece, Michelle Jones, but when the 3 stopped answering calls, family and friends quickly grew concerned. *Content warning: Gruesome crime scene details, sexual assault*48 Hours Episode "Deadly Obsession" TranscriptCold case of Osteen girl abducted from bus stop unsolved 40 years laterLisa Sanders Message Board PostBeheaded woman also had heart cut outFreedberg, Sydney P. “Murders in rural Keys spawn rumors of a cult.” The Miami Herald, 13 Aug. 1989, p.A1, A24. Newspapers.com.“Hospitalizing of Accused Slayer Urged.” The Indianapolis Star, 14 May 1971, p. 45. Newspapers.com.Harris, Kai. “Skull in rusty can near Deltona sets off check of missing persons.” The Orlando Sentinel, 04 Oct. 1978, p. 1A, 12A. Newspapers.com.Rothaus, Steve. “Police seek suspect in killing of Keys woman.” The Miami Herald, 23 Dec. 1988, p. 1D. Newspapers.com.Montane, Diana, and Sean Robbins. Invisible Killer: The Monster Behind the Mask. Title Town Publishing, 2013. Kindle.Support the show

Even veteran law enforcement were both shocked and disgusted by the gruesome sight of the three bodies discovered on September 13, 2004 in the home of Michelle Jones in Maitland, Florida. Despite the bloodiness of the scene, it was clear who the perpetrator was. What is unclear is whether the crime could have been prevented had different actions been taken years prior.Please consider supporting the pod by joining us over on our Patreon page! Are you up-to-date on all our regular content? Get access to monthly mini-episodes as well as one full solved case per month by joining today! Be a part of the C & C Fam by going to https://www.patreon.com/coffeeandcases to register!McEvoy Ranch: Go to www.mcevoyranch.com and use our promo code COFFEE15 for 15% off your order. We can't wait to hear how much you love the products!!BlendJet Offer: Use my special link (https://zen.ai/coffeeandcasesblendpromo) to save 12% at blendjet.com. The discount will be applied at checkout!Motley Fool Offer: Save $110* off the full list price of Stock Advisor for your first year, go to zen.ai/coffeefool and use promo code coffeeandcases and start your investing journey today!*$110 discount off of $199 per year list price.Membership will renew annually at the then current list price.Cure Hydration: Try Cure today and feel the difference for yourself! Use my special link (https://zen.ai/coffeeandcasespod20) for 20% off your order, coupon activated at checkout!Nom Nom: Try Nom Nom today; go to https://trynom.com/coffeeandcases and get 50% off your first order plus free shipping.

On this week's episode of The Professional Noticer, Andy hosts Paula White and Jordan Danflous from the place Animal Planet calls The Little Zoo That Could! Tune in to hear Paula and Jordan tell stories about  what it's like to work at a zoo. Watch as they educate  Andy about an Emperor Scorpion and a Three banded Armadillo. Listen as they describe what it was like to evacuate the entire zoo–giraffes, lions, tigers, and wolves–before Hurricane Ivan could make landfall.  Connect with the Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo Online: AlabamaGulfCoastZoo.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AlabamaGulfCoastZoo Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alabamagulfcoastzoo/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlGulfCoastZoo YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/user/ALGulfCoastZoo If you have questions or comments for THE PROFESSIONAL NOTICER, please contact us at: Email: TheProfessionalNoticer@AndyAndrews.com Facebook: https://facebook.com/AndyAndrews  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyandrews1/  YouTube: https://youtube.com/AndyAndrewsAuthor  Twitter: https://twitter.com/AndyAndrews Instagram: https://instagram.com/AndyAndrewsAuthor  

Al and Val do some magic tricks to get to the bottom of the magical mystery, Now You See It. Will they be the next great kid magician? Listen to find out.Now You See It… (January 4, 2005)IMDB WikipediaDirected by Duwayne Dunham (Little Giants, Halloweentown, The Thirteenth Year, Ready to Run, Double Teamed, Right on Track, Tiger Cruise, Clone Wars + Edited Return of the Jedi)Written by Bill Fritz (mostly a producer on Real Housewives) (and STU!)Starring: Aly Michalka as Allyson Miller (first movie, Aly & AJ, Cow Belles, Phil of the Future, iZombie, Easy A, Hellcats) Johnny Pacar as Danny Sinclair (Flight 29 Down, Make it or Break It)Frank Langella as Max (Dave, Junior, Eddie, Sweet November, Frost/Nixon, Robot & Frank, Muppets Most Wanted, Captain Fantastic, The Americans, Trial of the Chicago 7)Chris Olivero as Hunter (Double Teamed, Kyle XY)Gabriel Sunday as Brandon (Year One, Hanukkah, O Hanukkah (A Magical Time of Year), Passover.Gay)Amanda Shaw as Zoey Cunningham (Stuck in the Suburbs)Deneen Tyler as Ms. McAllister (Stuck in the Suburbs, Runaway Jury, Benjamin Button, Treme, 12 Years a Slave, Dallas Buyers Club, Logan Lucky, Billionaire Boys Club, Looking for Alaska)Spike Spencer as Paul (voice actor - mostly anime)Patricia French as Madame Susette (Army Wives, The Change Up, Wanderlust, Anchorman 2, Dumb & Dumber To, Squidbillies, The Thing About Pam) Devyn A. Tyler as Linking Rings Girl (Stuck in the Suburbs, Glory Road, Great Debaters, Benjamin Button, 12 Years a Slave, Underground, Watchmen, Antebellum, The Underground Railroad, Deep Water, Snowfall)Synopsis: An ambitious student producer uncovers a real wizard who is just learning the extent of his incredible powers during the filming of a reality TV show.Fun Facts: Aly Michalka's debutStu always calls this World Greatest Magician - I wonder if they changed the name at one pointA large portion of this movie was filmed in an abandoned bank in New Orleans, Louisiana. Crew had to evacuate the Louisiana set because of Hurricane Ivan.The only magic tricks that were not actually performed by the cast were the ones involving generated special effects, such as the floating card trick that Max uses to rate the first trick the students perform.Next Movie: Buffalo DreamsCreators & Guests Val Agnew - Host Allie Ring - Host ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

A Place Called Poarch - Interview with April SellsEverybody has the right to be respected. That's what today's guest EMA Director, April Sells believes. This belief is what has made Emergency Services so successful over the years.April has been at Poarch for 35 years -- as long as some people have been here on this Earth. Through those years she has been selfless with her time and has given so much of herself to The Tribe. Today, she discusses her family history, the Princess Contest, her various jobs through the years and how she has navigated life not looking like a "stereotypical Indian".Time Stamps:[2:00] - We're introduced to April Sell and learn how she came back to The Tribe.[5:00] - April explains the evolution of The Princess Contest.[7:00] - The Sugar Shack was where all the young couples lived until they migrated to different homes.[9:00] - We learn about April's family history.[10:45] - April doesn't meet many people's stereotypical expectations of what an Indian looks like, she discusses how that affects her interactions with people. [14:30] - Throughout history, April's family thought they were the only Indians in the world.[17:30] - April was never ashamed of who she is and where she came from.[19:23] - Genetics don't care what you're supposed to be or what you're supposed to classify yourself as.[21:26] - Playing the role she did in the Princess Contest, April was a role model to many.[24:34] - Through the years, April has had a lot of different jobs.[28:15] - During Hurricane Ivan the Emergency Management System was developed.[29:14] - At one point, the Fire Department was made up of all women volunteers. [31:24] - Hurricane Ivan was devastating for many Native American tribes.[33:30] - We hear about some of the services the Fire Department has been able to provide that weren't always available.[40:00] - The pandemic had a huge impact on the Tribe.[43:18] - The Gym has been an invaluable place for children.[46:30] - April discusses how she was able to raise money for various youth sporting events.[50:19] - Being selfless and giving herself to The Tribe is a lesson April learned from her grandmother.[54:40] - We learn the origin of April's name.Links:WebsiteFacebookInstagram

Most damage from Hurricane Ian appears to be from flooding, rather than wind, and thus won't be covered under most Florida homeowners insurance policies.  Insurance adjusters face a challenging job now determining whether it was wind or water or both that damaged a home, and in some cases in what order, for hundreds of thousands of properties across Florida.Former Florida Deputy Insurance Commissioner Lisa Miller talks with a seasoned insurance defense lawyer on how coverage is determined, who will pay, and the case law involved for those disputed claims that end up in court.Show NotesHurricane Ian made landfall in Lee County on Florida's Southwest coast on September 28, 2022 with winds of up to 115 mph, a storm surge of 10-15 feet, and rainfall amounts of up to 22 inches on its path across Florida before exiting in the Atlantic Ocean the next day.  The Category 4 storm was the 5th-strongest on record in the US and killed 114 people, making it the deadliest in Florida since the 1935 Labor Day hurricane.  While Ian was both a wind and a flood event, there was massive flooding in Lee County and throughout inland areas in Central and Northeast Florida.  While those residents who had mortgages and lived in a flood zone were required to have flood insurance, many of the rest of Ian's victims likely didn't.  In Lee County, only 31% of residential structures had National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) policies, and statewide only 15%.  Standard homeowners policies do not cover flooding.“It's pretty clear what's covered under a flood policy but it is a continued debate, particularly in the HO3 (homeowners policy) form as to which policy covers what,” said Tom Diana, attorney and co-founder of the Zinober Diana & Monteverde law firm in Tampa.  He handled a lot of claims cases for insurance companies during the series of eight hurricanes that struck Florida in 2004-2005 and since, including Hurricane Ivan, which like Ian he said, was more of a storm surge and flooding event than a wind event.  “The real difficulty with Ian now, and all storms for that matter, is going to be when there is evidence of flood damage and wind damage in the same room at the same property.  What is covered by the HO3 and what is not?New technology, such as before- and after- aerial pictures of individual properties taken right after the storm, will help adjusters and engineers make better damage evaluations, said Diana, who worked previously as a civil engineer.  Video and photographs taken by policyholders are also important “as the adjusters I know want to get everything right the first time, so they don't have to do it a second time.”Diana said ensuring open communication with the policyholder along the way is most helpful in settling the claim correctly without going to court.  “Adjusting an insurance loss is not a one-way street.  It's a conversation, a continued dialogue between the insurance company and the policyholder.  Just because an adjuster is out there on day 10 doesn't mean that the policyholder can't share with them what's happened to the property between day one and day nine.  It should not be an adversarial process,” he said, in this podcast geared for field and desk adjusters and for homeowners.  Diana and host Lisa Miller walked through the case law that has evolved since the 2004-2005 storms and Hurricanes Katrina and Irma, establishing legal precedents that will help decide Hurricane Ian cases.  Today's homeowners policies, as a result, include the specific language “whether driven by wind or not” in excluding flood damage.   Diana said the main case that will likely be cited in any Ian litigation will be Sebo v. American Home Assurance Company.  In it, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that where two or more causes of a loss combine and where at least one of the perils is covered in an insurance policy, then the “concurrent cause doctrine” applies.  That doctrine requires that when the sole or proximate cause of the loss cannot be attributed to the covered or the excluded peril, then the policy must cover all damages.“Ever since it was handed down in 2016, it has been litigated over and over and over again.  It has been expanded or attempted to be expanded by policyholder advocates.  We have tried to limit the application of it,” Diana said.  Some insurance companies have tried to limit the use of the doctrine by including “anti-concurrent causation” language in their homeowner policies.   Diana said the case of Security First Insurance Company v. Czelusniak “kind of put this issue to rest in terms of what the policy covers…and is really going to control the guiding principles associated with the flood versus wind debate.  That means that technically, if flood and wind or rain water, let's say, combined to cause a loss to a specific item of personal property, or a specific area of damage, technically that is covered by the flood policy, and not the wind policy.”  He cautioned that the facts of an individual loss are really going to guide the outcome of a lot of trial and appellate court decisions involving Ian claims.Host Miller and Diana discussed that while it would be ideal to have both the flood insurance adjuster and the homeowners insurance adjuster present at the same inspection, it's often not practical, due to the volume of claims.  “Common sense must be the overriding guide for adjusters, to be able to say ‘this is wind damage', ‘this is flood damage', or ‘I think this is both',” Diana said, adding that most property owners don't know the difference between flood and wind damage.  He said he is optimistic that wind and flood carriers can work together to resolve claim responsibility and coverage.  “I think 50% of court cases I see shouldn't be filed.  They could have been resolved earlier in the process.”“I often say that a delayed claim is a more expensive claim, and more inconvenient for a policyholder,” said host Miller.  “So I know that the hundreds of adjusters in the area are working as fast as they can to get the adjustments in from the field, get them into their respective insurance companies, and have the insurance companies deliberate with the policyholder in trying to bring these in for a landing.”Host Miller and Diana noted though that legal disputes are seemingly unavoidable in Florida's excessive litigation environment.  They discussed the bad actors involved, trying to insert themselves between the policyholder and their insurance company, often just for the sake of taking over the claim to inflate its cost and their personal profit.  Many are knocking on victims' doors under the auspices of wanting to help.“I have spoken with a lot of homeowners who have had no idea that a lawsuit was being brought in their name, or on their behalf, by companies who may have done a simple thing like put a tarp on top of the roof, or things of that nature,” Diana said.  “It's very alarming because that drives up the cost of everyone's premium.  It drives up the cost of everyone's insurance policy.  And I think most people on both sides of this debate that's about to ensue will agree to that.  The only people who won't agree are the people who are undertaking those predatory tactics.”Under Florida law, policyholders have up to two years to file initial property insurance claims.Links and Resources Mentioned in this EpisodeIan More a Flood Event (LMA Newsletter of October 10, 2022) Zinober Diana & Monteverde P.A.Florida Office of Insurance RegulationFEMA's National Flood Insurance ProgramFlorida Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company v. CoxCorban v. United Services Automobile AssociationLiberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company v. MartinezSebo v. American Home Assurance CompanySecurity First Insurance Company v. CzelusniakIan's Fraud Warnings Sounded Early (LMA Newsletter of October 10, 2022)Hurricane Ian Fraud (LMA Newsletter of October 24, 2022)The Animal Refuge Center ** The Listener Call-In Line for your recorded questions and comments to air in future episodes is 850-388-8002 or you may send email to LisaMiller@LisaMillerAssociates.com **The Florida Insurance Roundup from Lisa Miller & Associates, brings you the latest developments in Property & Casualty, Healthcare, Workers' Compensation, and Surplus Lines insurance from around the Sunshine State.  Based in the state capital of Tallahassee, Lisa Miller & Associates provides its clients with focused, intelligent, and cost conscious solutions to their business development, government consulting, and public relations needs.  On the web at www.LisaMillerAssociates.com or call 850-222-1041.  Your questions, comments, and suggestions are welcome!  Date of Recording 10/27/2022. Email via info@LisaMillerAssociates.com   Composer: www.TeleDirections.com  © Copyright 2017-2022 Lisa Miller & Associates, All Rights Reserved

Andy and Jody talk Reese's, Hurricane Ivan and Tik Tok.#fyp #podcast #viral  #entertainment #reeses #funny Merch:https://www.storefrontier.com/andysroomSorta Classy:https://www.sortaclassy.com/Midget Mafia:https://midgetmafia.us/Episode 33 Reese's, Hurricane and Tik Tok

Justine joins me to discuss the controversial new Netflix Series “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”. Why did the police fail over and over again to protect the victims? How much blame should Dahmer's parents take? Should they have studied Dahmer's brain? What causes a killer to do what they do? Justine narrowly escapes Hurricane Ivan, Julie boycotts horror movie trailers and much much more. Listen to Justine's Podcast: "The Shore Store" Follow "The Shore Store" on Instagram Follow me on Instagram If you love the show please Rate and Review it on Apple Podcasts #Dahmer #jeffreydahmer #evanpeters #monster #monsterthejeffreydahmerstory #niecynash #mollyringwald #richardjenkins #lioneldahmer#glendacleveland #truecrime #netflix #netflixseries #ryanmurphy #horror #podcast #news #popculture #womeninpodcasting #jerseyshore #popculturenews #serial #reality #realitytv #realityrecap #series #seriesrecap #netflixrecap #netflixdahmer #dahmerseries --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/restingbitchpod/message

The Return of Kathy's Fall Activities On this episode:News (00:00:00)Entertainment Report (00:08:20)Kathy's Fall Activities 2022 (00:43:05)Bizarre Files (01:12:50)Hurricane Ivan (01:22:02)"Lullaby" Stories (01:52:16)Bizarre Files (02:27:09)Hollywood Trash & Music News (02:38:30)Wrap Up (02:52:09) 

Romas rides out hurricane Ivan.Ducharme gives him shit for not evacuating. NFL weekly picks. Tua is out. https:/patreon.com/thetwodickshttps://www.instagram.com/thetalkingdickscomedypodcast/https://twitter.com/DicksTwohttps://www.facebook.com/thetwodickshttps://www.facebook.com/The-Talking-Dicks-Comedy-Podcast-107101331446404Support the show

We still have a portion of our community under water and dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Ivan and what exactly does that look like almost a week after?

We still have a portion of our community under water and dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Ivan and what exactly does that look like almost a week after?

Alison and Lulu are back in real time and even though they spend most of the episode discussing the aftermath of Hurricane Ivan, they do get in some feel good "Lulu News" in the last 10 seconds! Read more:https://abcnews.go.com/US/impacted-hurricane-ian/story?id=90692979https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/video/cast-broadways-1776-perform-sit-john-gma-90685166Send us your stories & support the show:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thedailyhappy FOLLOW US:FacebookInstagramYoutubeTwitterPinterestApple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsSpotifyStitcherSupport the show

It is a Wednesday to remember as we celebrate the one year anniversary of this podcast! We also talk about NADA's submission to the FTC that cited us, as well as covering the live situation in Florida as Hurricane Ivan closes in. One year ago TODAY, we just hit the record button and decided to start this podcast. Play a clip, tell the story266 episodesThe Automotive Troublemaker was cited in NADA's official submission to the FTC regarding proposed regulations surrounding pricing transparency. Our interview with Jamie Oldershaw from September 8th covered the overwhelming positive reviews that dealers received from over 8 million consumers on its siteHurricane Ian is closing in on the Florida coast and Dealers are in full execution of precautionary measures. Asbury and Carmax had already closed over 20 stores yesterday.Most other Auto Dealers are heeding evacuation warnings as they prepare for potential power outages and property damage.Clearing drains, moving inventory to high ground, preparing large backup generators to reopen stores in the event of power outagesFirst major hurricane since 1912. Then the population was 130k, today it's over 3.2MOver 2M people on evacuation ordersTampa Airport is fully closedDisney is closedBrian Kramer is at the RitzGet the Daily Push Back email at https://www.asotu.com/JOIN the conversation on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/asotu/Read our most recent email at: https://www.asotu.com/media/push-back-emailShare your positive dealer stories: https://www.asotu.com/positivityASOTU Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/automotivestateoftheunion

Growing up just outside of Happy Valley Pennsylvania, our guest today is Bruce Gamble, retired naval flight officer, military historian and long time Classic Mustang enthusiast. His ‘67 red convertible 289 he purchased in rough shape back in 1994. Fully restored in 2004, we will let him share the full story of the rebuild including how it was nearly lost completely. Excited to chat today. Welcome Bruce to Ford Mustang The Early Years podcast.Do you own an early year Mustang?: Yes, almost 28 yearsPlease upload a favorite pic of your Mustang or a classic car you drive now or have owned in the past.: https://cdn.filestackcontent.com/E15tpQMVQeinIhccfCKQ?Eden Gardens 1.jpg?image/jpegWhat do you do for a living?: Retired naval flight officer (1989), military historian and author.If you own a Mustang or classic car, have you named your car?Sweet Chariot. Named for my dad's B-29 Superfortress of the 315th Bomb Wing on Guam. A photo of the nose art is mounted in the front license plate bracket.If you've made improvements to your classic car or restored it, what work have you done?: Convertible was built in California with a 289 C-code and C4 transmission. Factory options include power top, air-conditioning, power steering, power brakes with front discs, and exterior decor group. Purchased (in very rough condition) in 1994, restored and driven, then fully restored again in 2004 after a tree crushed the back end during Hurricane Ivan. Mods include AOD transmission swap, dual exhaust with Hi-Po exhaust manifolds, Edelbrock 4bbl intake and 600cfm carb, finned valve covers, aluminum radiator, Dakota Digital instruments (and cruise control), reclining Fox-body front bucket seats, billet aluminum grille, bluetooth stereo with four speakers and subwoofer. What plans do you have for improvements/restoration/modification of your classic car?: I put a lot of miles on the car--more than 60,000 after the AOD swap. I've kept it in driving condition, but it needs a tune-up and minor cosmetic work to bring it back to what it was 10 years ago.If you are on social media, please share your social media names/handles so we can tag you when promoting your episode.: YouTube: Bruce GambleTwitter: @BruceGamble76Ford Mustang The Early Years Podcast (social media)The Facebook GroupTheMustangPodcast.com/facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/185146876036328Instagram@mustangpodcasthttps://www.instagram.com/mustangpodcast/An Expert's Guide to Maintaining Your Classic Mustangwww.TheMustangPodcast.com/repairHave an idea for a guest for the show? Reach out to me directly:doug@turnkeypodcast.comCover art Credit: Bruce GambleKeep it safe, keep it rollin' and keep it on the road. Until next time! ~Doug Sandler

Alternative dispute resolution – including appraisal – is playing an increasingly important role in settling homeowners property insurance claims.  Florida's 2019 Assignment of Benefits (AOB) law requires third party contractors to utilize these alternatives before filing a lawsuit against an insurance company, if required by the policy. Former Florida Deputy Insurance Commissioner Lisa Miller talks with a repair contractor and an insurance appraiser who share how today's technology and methods can not only reduce lawsuits, but herald the return of good customer service and improve the insurance claims process for everyone.Show NotesJohn Minor, President of Complete Inc. and Complete General Contractors of Florida said he's seen a lot of changes in his 30 years in the business.  His firm does a lot of work now in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) which includes insurance appraisal and arbitration of claims.  He said he laments the diminished trust and relationship between adjusters and contractors, who used to work together on repair projects from start to finish. “We very much feel like some of that is now being picked up through the appraisal process,” said Minor, whose firm does a majority of appraisals on behalf of insurance companies.  “The appraisal process is a place for reasonableness.  Fully outrageous demands are going to be washed away by the process.  A true umpire is going to be writing things in such a way that they can explain it to any person.”  What it comes down to, he said, is just being fair, looking at the damages, establishing their true value, and then backing it up with an understandable explanation.  “When an insured files a claim, they want to know three things.  That you saw me, that you know what my problem is, and you have a plan to fix it,” said Jason Evans, President of EIG Restoration of Texas and Florida.  The company provides emergency services, repair, and restoration contracting across the Southeast.  “Doing those three things absolutely can take out 40% of the claims that go into litigation,” he said.  EIG has developed an “Option to Repair” program for insurance companies that provides seamless service to policyholders, where the insurance company chooses the contractor to execute repairs. “Many do not want the option to repair and so we take it as a challenge really to wow them with customer service,” said Evans.  “And I say wow them, we just want to be very present and answer all their questions and no detail is left unturned in their repair.  So we do that by taking time and being very attention to detail and providing clear expectations of how the claims process is going to go.”  Evans said the option is in most insurance policies and exercised in Florida and other states.  “I think you'll get to see more and more of that in Florida and around the United States as time goes on,” he added.Both Evans and Minor also talked about the role that technology is playing in improved customer service and claim settlement.  Minor's team works with the Florida Coastal Monitoring Program in staging measurement equipment prior to a hurricane's landfall and afterward dispatches drones to the areas that had the highest winds.  “We document the worst conditions, identify what properties are obvious total losses early on, so that those people can get paid and get on down the road and get it off of our insurance company's books,” said Minor.  Evans' team uses artificial intelligence and chatbots to communicate with policyholders before and after the storm and receive real time updates from them to help quickly triage the response.  “Our intent is to get there within one day to that insured's house and look at it,” said Evans.  “Even if they have evacuated, we're going to go take pictures and provide those pictures to the customer and say ‘hey, your house looks pretty good' or ‘your house is really not in good shape, we've tarped it, we've got the debris out of here, and your claim has been filed,'” he said, adding that it's really a “concierge service, partnering with the insured.”“I think Jason's ahead of it, he's calling them first.  There's no reason this shouldn't be the model for every insurance company,” replied Minor, emphasizing that a more customer-oriented approach is a win-win.  “It's the method of applying old school values in a modern society.  If we can do that, then these armies of AOB roofing contractors and others that are going to triple the value of the claim so that they can somehow end up resolving it at a number that they're comfortable with, or that allows them to pay for their Rolls Royces and their sports cars will be diminished,” said Minor, who is also a certified contractor.   Doing so, Minor said, will also reduce the need for appraisals and alternative dispute resolution.  “I don't think that the contractor should be getting rich off of this job.  They should be making a good margin.  They shouldn't be having to say that a shingle roof is $1,000 a square so that they can end up at $550 or $450, that it's the actual value depending on your market.  And I think technology is absolutely the place to do it because everybody's got a cell phone camera and can help start the claim….before unscrupulous contractors, or on some occasions, public adjusters are going to be canvassing and knocking on doors and making a bunch of false promises,” Minor said. Host Miller also asked Minor and Evans how homeowners can be encouraged to invest in mitigation measures before the next storm hits to help make their homes more resilient.  Evans noted that “most homeowners unfortunately don't know what it takes to keep up a house” and that insurance companies could do a better job educating them in a collaborative way through home inspections.  Minor said underwriting is key.  “It's amazing to me that on some occasions, the experts that show up once it becomes an appraisal or a claim, all of a sudden can give me a list of things that are not sufficient or not correct, associated with that construction.  I don't know where that expert was the year before the storm came.”  Minor also discussed the success of the Rebuild Northwest Florida hazard grant mitigation program in the aftermath of Hurricane Ivan in 2004. Both Minor and Evans agreed the insurance industry as a whole can improve claim service and reduce litigation by putting an even greater focus on customer service.  “I think we're in an exciting time,” said Evans.  “It's scary in Florida, we see that with the carriers.  But there's going to be a pivot, I think, to more customer service and more partnership with the clients and the insurance company.”Links and Resources Mentioned in this EpisodeComplete, Inc. EIG RestorationFlorida's 2019 AOB Reform (HB 7065) (Lisa Miller & Associates)Resolving Claims of Assignees through Appraisal (LMA Newsletter of May 17, 2021)Rebuild Northwest FloridaHome Hardening Sales Tax ExemptionPrepareFL.com.Lisa's Lucky 7 Hurricane Season Prep (Lisa Miller Associates)** The Listener Call-In Line for your recorded questions and comments to air in future episodes is 850-388-8002 or you may send email to LisaMiller@LisaMillerAssociates.com **The Florida Insurance Roundup from Lisa Miller & Associates, brings you the latest developments in Property & Casualty, Healthcare, Workers' Compensation, and Surplus Lines insurance from around the Sunshine State.  Based in the state capital of Tallahassee, Lisa Miller & Associates provides its clients with focused, intelligent, and cost conscious solutions to their business development, government consulting, and public relations needs.  On the web at www.LisaMillerAssociates.com or call 850-222-1041.  Your questions, comments, and suggestions are welcome!  Date of Recording 8/30/2022. Email via info@LisaMillerAssociates.com   Composer: www.TeleDirections.com  © Copyright 2017-2022 Lisa Miller & Associates, All Rights Reserved

Michelle Jones contacted her aunt and uncle as Hurricane Ivan was bearing down on Florida in September 2004. Since they lived in the Florida Keys Michelle invited them to stay with her in Orlando until the danger passed. Little did she know that she had just summoned pure evil into her home. Listen to the story of her uncle Charlie Brandt who authorities would come to suspect was involved in a number of unsolved murders in the Florida area.  

Hurricane Ivan wiped out Beatrice, Alabama's Monroe Meats but a small team of investors brought it back. Their flagship product is Monroe Sausage and it is fantastic. Hear managing partner David Steele tell the story of the company and of today's surging growth. And, heck, go find some and try it for yourself - you'll be happy you did.  Thanks to Show Sponsors: E3 Termite & Pest Control Keith Air Conditioning Allison Horner State Farm Langus Real Estate Roy Lewis Construction Bud-Busch Distribution Sandifer Wealth Management Bryant Bank Alabame Center for Real Estate (ACRE) Persons Services Corp.

Reflection on Hurricane Ivan and the 2004 Hurricane Season, as Ivan prepared to make it's second gulf coast landfall with a course heading between Texas and Louisiana.

This week's episode Vic, Chris, Lana & Rashad discuss Hurricane Season and memories of 2004 Hurricane Ivan (1:50). Whose love language is ‘cheeks' (39:52)? Has social media impacted charity and good deeds (45:06)? Newly implemented Texas laws (55:23), twitter hype (1:07:27) and more!

Making (medical) decisions on your own because your partner is deployed - when school doesn’t see a problem or wants to provide the help your kid needs - working full time when having special needs kids - quality me-time - lockdown challenges. In this second episode of the military series my guest (and fellow redhead) Andrea Takash and I talk about daily life, the challenges we face being in the military while having special needs kids and how we stay sane. Andrea has been married for 19 years. She and her husband have two daughters, ages 12 and 8; and a dog. Besides being a special needs supermom and military spouse, she is also the Director of Regulatory Communications at FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products! Before joining FDA, Andrea served as a Public Affairs Specialist for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for more than 12 years where she led the communication efforts for highly sensitive environmental clean-up projects, and managed media relations/public outreach during several natural disaster events, including Hurricane Ivan. As if that was not enough, Andrea also served in several volunteer roles, including an Army FRG leader for two different units and Site Council president for her daughters’ elementary school. In her spare time, Andrea loves running, yoga and traveling. Need some help to find and recharge your superpowers? Want to conquer time and go from endless never finished to-do lists to tadaaa lists? Want to keep track of your kid’s health, get ideas for mini-breaks, but also find time for yourself? Check out the Special Needs Supermom Planner at: www.theorangetypewriter.nl/special-needs-supermom-planner/#militarylife #specialneedsfamily #militaryfamily #specialneedsmom #specialneedsmama #autismawareness #autismmom #dyslexia #mompodcast #momsofinstagram #specialneedssupermom #specialneeds #adhdawareness #adhdkid #adhdmom #armywife #fortleavenworth #leavenworth

Jess tried to convince the group that she's staying another week because of Mick, and not Dan. Tamara wonders why she and Dan aren't making more progress. Billy finally puts his foot down and says leave, only to have Susie drag him through another week. Then we move on to home visits with the brides. Cyrell throws Nic in the path of Hurricane Ivan and Jess forces Mick to apologize for her sister.

Bill Tibbo is a clinical social worker, psychotherapist, corporate clinical consultant, and disaster management specialist. In this episode, Bill Tibbo and I discuss how people navigate change in their lives - both small and big. Major crises happen to everyone and dealing with the aftermath can be daunting. Everyone deals with crisis differently; however, through crisis comes transformation. Our true strength as human beings (both personally and communally) emerges during a time of crisis. Through empathy and love it is possible to find a silver lining. In this episode we discuss some of Bill's work with individuals and organizations during the 9/11 attacks in NYC, the SARS epidemic, and the 1999 earthquake in Istanbul. Finally, we go into the current COVID crises and how people can come together, despite differences in belief and opinion, to do what is necessary to prevail together in the face of adversity.    Bill Tibbo is the President & CEO of Bill Tibbo & Associates ➤ Throughout the past 30 years Bill, President and CEO of Bill Tibbo & Associates, has provided consulting services to hundreds of business leaders in many of North America's Fortune 500 corporations, as well as a complete spectrum of public sector organizations. ➤ As a Corporate Clinical Consultant and Disaster Management Specialist, Bill has had the honour of leading Post Disaster Debriefing teams after the following events:   ➾1999; earthquake in Istanbul, Turkey   ➾September 11, 2001; World Trade Centre attack in New York City,   ➾2003; SARS Epidemic…serviced epicenter at North York General Hospital   ➾2004; Hurricane Ivan in the Cayman Islands   ➾2005; Air France Crash, Pearson International Airport, Toronto   ➾2014: RCMP Shootings In Moncton New Brunswick   ➾2016: Fort McMurray Alberta Forest Fires ➤ Best Selling Author of Leadership in the Eye of the Storm Released November 2016. ➤ Today Bill continues to consult regularly with international business leaders, insurance companies, entrepreneurs, professional athletes and government groups, including the United Nations, as they endeavor to stabilize their organizations both before and after crisis situations. ➤ He and his team serve as the Primary Clinical Consultants to the OPP, Hamilton Police Service, Halton Police Service and Peel Police Service as well as all of the Air Traffic Team for NAV CANADA.  ➤ Bill is a cofounder of Camp FACES, a summer camp for Family and Children of Emergency Service Workers.  ➤ Finally, Bill Tibbo & Associates work closely with Canada's Aboriginal communities as it pertains to the Indian Residential Schools and designed and led the Health Team for the First National Truth and Reconciliation Event in Winnipeg.   More of Bill: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-tibbo-762946/  Website: http://www.billtibbo.com     More of Shane:  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shane-pokroy/  Instagram: https://instagram.com/shanepokroy/  Facebook:

I've experience a significant amount of hurricane experience but these two is the most funny and memorable  Funny Hurricane matthew video: https://youtu.be/mdcsozmJ750 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cssb/support

Hurricane Ivan, the most powerful storm to hit Alabama, ravaged the state in September 2004. As the storm enveloped the state, Death Row inmate David Kevin Hocker prepared to die for a crime he readily admitted he committed. Writer and journalist Mark Randall was there. He will tell you all about it in the latest edition of Diamond State: Murder Board.

A look at some eerie coincidences that Ivan (2004) and Sally (2020) have in common. Plus, a look back at Hurricane Ivan's tornado outbreak that remains the largest ever recorded in Virginia. Read: National Weather Service, Blacksburg storm review from Hurricane Ivan

Craig Fugate, the former administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) under President Barack Obama and former Florida Director for the Emergency Management Division under Governor Jeb Bush, joins the Carolina Weather Group to provide his insight into the ongoing response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic - and to share stories from his career responding to weather and natural disasters. Craig was the first to to use the "Waffle House Index" and provides insight into how the informal FEMA tracker came to be. In his career, Craig coordinated the emergency response to storms such as Hurricane Charley, Hurricane Frances, Hurricane Ivan, Hurricane Jeanne, Hurricane Dennis, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Wilma, Hurricane Matthew, and Hurricane Sandy. Craig provides his insight into how we can prepare for a 2020 hurricane season simultaneously occurring during the coronavirus pandemic. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/carolinaweather/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/carolinaweather/support

This week, Andy recalls what it was like after Hurricane Ivan hit the Gulf—then to be followed up by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill—and the many ways it affected businesses and families. Remember, problems are solved by people who make themselves comfortable with confusion…until there is no more confusion. Whatever hand is dealt, we will deal with it, and become better because of it. Also, what’s something Dolphin Cruises, Bobbie Gentry, and Sugarcane Jane all have in common? …well, they’re all mentioned in this episode, BUT tune in for Andy’s musings on each. If you have a question you’d like Andy to answer on THE PROFESSIONAL NOTICER, please contact us at: Email: TheProfessionalNoticer@AndyAndrews.com Facebook.com/AndyAndrews Twitter.com/AndyAndrews Instagram.com/AndyAndrewsAuthor

We are excited to head to the panhandle of Florida today to speak with Listener Jennifer about her recent Walt Disney World vacation!  Hear about her family's stay at the Treehouse Villas at Disney's Saratoga Springs Resort, evacuating Hurricane Ivan and getting their Disney vacations started, attending Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party on Halloween night, plus much more!   Thank you so much for your support of our podcast! Also, please follow the show on Twitter @BeOurGuestMike and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/beourguestpodcast.   Thanks to our friends at www.TouringPlans.com and beourguestpodcast.com/amazon for sponsoring today's podcast!

Denise Ables, Vice Chair PACE Center for Girls Board of Directors Previous occupations include: Laboratory Director, Jefferson County Health Department, Birmingham, AL Laboratory Director, Planned Parenthood of Alabama Medical Sales, 1995–2015. Volunteering: United Way 2012-2014, Volunteer of the year 2012 and 2013 Pensacola Women’s Alliance, 2015–present, Immediate Past Board President Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast, 2016–present PACE Center for Girls, Board of Directors, 2014–present, Secretary, Executive Committee, Marketing and Media Chair, Co-Chair Men Who Cook. Denise enjoys travel, meditation, volunteering, being joyful, pursuing healthy lifestyle. https://www.pacecenter.org/locations/escambia-santa-rosa deniseables@bellsouth.net Betsy Smith is a powerful advocate, author, speaker and founder of E. L.Smith Consulting. After a 20 year career at PSC, Betsy started E. L. Smith Consulting which has two major areas of focus: Mentoring women to move from Powerless to Powerful and Patient Advocacy for family members and friends of patients in the healthcare system.She offers one to one mentoring, workshops and mastermind groups.She is co-author of “Second Blooming for Women: Growing a Life that Matters after Fifty” and is currently writing “The Patients Advocacy Handbook for Family and Friends:What to Do and How to Do It.”Betsy is a professional speaker and has spoken locally, nationally and internationally. Betsy and her husband, Jack Parkin, moved to North Carolina after Hurricane Ivan. She returned to Pensacola in 2019 after Jack’s death in 2018. betsysmithphd@gmail.com elsmithconsulting.com

Amy Newburn, associate director of the Haas Center at the University of West Florida, discusses the impacts of Hurricane Michael compared to those from Hurricane Ivan in 2004.

Dr. Edd Hind-Ozan joins me on the program today to kick off a new segment called "What's New In Marine Social Science." We discuss a great article in Popular Science that identifies the top Environmental Priority in every state going into the election. So read the article and go VOTE!!! Did you know that there has been a slow oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico that started after Hurricane Ivan destroyed a platform in 2004. The platform was owned and operated by Taylor Energy. Since 2004, the company has not had to pay anything in fines even though the leak was discovered in 2010 during aerial surveys during BP's Deepsea Horizon disaster.  Both the stories today highlight the importance to put elected officials in office that will do the right thing when managing natural resources and reducing climate change impacts.  Let me know your thoughts on this episode in the Facebook Group.  Enjoy the Podcast!!! Sponsor: I've teamed up with the Grove Collective to give you a chance to change the way you use cleaning products in your home that will benefit the Ocean. Click here for your free gift after purchase!

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Max Blumenthal, a journalist, the senior editor of Grayzone Project, co-host of the podcast “Moderate Rebels,” and bestselling author whose latest book is “The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza.”This month, Facebook and Twitter deleted the accounts of hundreds of users, including man alternative media sites. Most of those purged were popular sites that scrutinized police brutality and US interventionism, like The Free Thought Project and Cop Block. Max Blumenthal has written a major article exposing the neoconservative cadres, they are former government officials and now affiliated with DC think tanks, which are playing a dominant role in the new cenersoship of alternative media. Friday is Loud & Clear’s regular segment on the midterms, taking a look at political races around the country in the runup to midterm elections in November. Jacqueline Luqman, the co-editor-in-chief of Luqman Nation, which hosts a livestream every Thursday night at 9:00 p.m. on Facebook, joins the show. Cesar Sayoc was arrested in Florida today in connection with more than a dozen pipe bombs that have been mailed to prominent critics of Donald Trump. Two more bombs were intercepted today after being mailed to Democratic Senator Cory Booker and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Brian and John speak with Ted Rall, an award-winning editorial cartoonist and columnist whose work is at rall.com. Rep. Mark Meadows, a Republican from North Carolina, said following a seven-hour-long closed-door session with former Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos that the FBI’s Russia investigation was on weak footing from the beginning, and that the investigation of Papadopoulos in and of itself was unconstitutional. Papadopoulos told Fox & Friends this morning that the FBI had violated his constitutional rights and that he was considering withdrawing from his plea deal, even though he has already cooperated with the Mueller team and served two weeks in jail. Daniel Lazare, a journalist and author of three books—“The Frozen Republic,” “The Velvet Coup,” and “America's Undeclared War,” joins the show. Sixteen years ago today the US anti-war movement burst onto the scene with a massive protest in Washington DC. The focus of the protest was to stop George W. Bush and Dick Cheney from taking the country to war in Iraq. Within a few weeks, that movement became a global anti-war movement, drawing in more than 10 million people. The NYT in February 2003 called this unprecedented movement “the world’s second superpower.” John interviews co host Brian Becker, the national director of the Answer Coalition, the group that initiated these mass protests 16 years ago today. An oil spill that has been quietly leaking million of barrels into the Gulf of Mexico has gone unplugged for so long that it now verges on becoming one of the worst offshore disasters in American history. Between 300 and 700 barrels of oil per day have been leaking from a site off the coast of Louisiana for the past 14 years, since an offshore oil platform sank during Hurricane Ivan. It has never been capped. Scott Edwards, co-director of the Food & Water Justice project at Food & Water Watch, joins the show.It’s Friday! So it’s time for the week’s worst and most misleading headlines. Brian and John speak with Steve Patt, an independent journalist whose critiques of the mainstream media have been a feature of his blog Left I on the News and on twitter @leftiblog, and Sputnik producers Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek.

Charlie and Teri Brandt seemed to be a great couple, having been happily married for several years. with successful careers and a beautiful house. But in 2004 when Hurricane Ivan hit the Florida Keys, a dirty little secret came to light and changed everything.Follow us on Twitter: @murduppodcastFollow us on Instagram: @murduppodcastEmail: MurdUpPodcast@gmail.comThank you so much for the love!

Kolleen Edwards Chesley has 25 years of experience in the financial services industry and spent the majority of her career as a financial advisor. In that role, Kolleen was responsible for finding her own clients and quickly learned the value of networking, networking, and even more networking. It was in 2004 and during her sales career that she, along with two other professional business women met for lunch with the purpose of helping to motivate each other after Hurricane Ivan had blown through our area and changed not only the physical landscape of the area, but also impacted the business landscape as well. Out of that lunch was born what is now a thriving not-for-profit organization for business women. The post Pensacola Business Radio: Women In Leadership Series Ep 8. Brought to you by Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast appeared first on Business RadioX ®.

Michelle Jones invited her Aunt Teri & Uncle Charlie to stay at her home during the evacuation of Hurricane Ivan. She and her aunt were murdered. Her uncle killed himself. There was a dark secret in his past. And, maybe more bodies. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As the fury of Hurricane Irma churned toward Florida, Cristy Swink and Robert Suarez faced the task of not only protecting our network, but our people from a direct hit. Cristy Swink, VP and General Manager – Florida and Robert Suarez, Director of Network Services – South Florida, knew they had to act quickly to prepare. And given their history with hurricanes, both knew that preparing their people was their top priority. For Swink, hurricanes are deeply personal. The mention of the word takes her thoughts and emotions back to 2004, when her family’s home took a direct hit from Hurricane Ivan. Swink and Suarez paint a vivid picture of the Hurricane Irma – with the full force of fierce winds, torrential rain and incredible outpouring of compassion that came with it.

Julie Gonzalo - Julie has been a lead role in "Cinderella Story", "Dodge Ball", "Freaky Friday", "Must Love Dogs", "Christmas with the Kranks" and now she's starring in a Hallmark Channel movie called "Falling For Vermont" which airs 9/23/17 @ 9:00 PM (Eastern).   Natasha Owens - Natasha is a singer/songwriter who is currently aiding the hurricane relief effort by donating all proceeds from the retail sales of her new full length CD.  She watched as her home state of Texas got demolished by Hurricane Ivan and then Florida with the same fate from Irma and she wants to make a difference.

Julie Gonzalo - Julie has been a lead role in "Cinderella Story", "Dodge Ball", "Freaky Friday", "Must Love Dogs", "Christmas with the Kranks" and now she's starring in a Hallmark Channel movie called "Falling For Vermont" which airs 9/23/17 @ 9:00 PM (Eastern).   Natasha Owens - Natasha is a singer/songwriter who is currently aiding the hurricane relief effort by donating all proceeds from the retail sales of her new full length CD.  She watched as her home state of Texas got demolished by Hurricane Ivan and then Florida with the same fate from Irma and she wants to make a difference.

Mike Weaver from Big Daddy Weave shares how the band met at the University of Mobile, how the name was originally a joke, why the tragedies of 9/11 and Hurricane Ivan brought good to Mike's life, why the band almost broke up, what kept them together and has changed every concert, how Mike's brother and bassist, Jay, is recovering after losing his feet, and why many of the songs on "Beautiful Offerings: Deluxe Edition" have taken on a new meaning.  "More Than The Music" is a weekly podcast hosted by WAY-FM Evening On-Air Personality, Justin Paul. Each week, hear the stories behind the songs of your favorite Christian artists. Listen to Justin Paul weeknights at 8/7c with the WAY-FM App. iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/way-fm-radio/id1033367026?mt=8 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.commotion.wayfm

Hurricane Ivan would not die. After traveling across the Atlantic Ocean, it stewed for more than a week in the Caribbean, fluctuating between a Category 3 and 5 storm while battering Jamaica, Cuba, and other vulnerable islands. And as it approached the US Gulf Coast, it stirred up a massive mud slide on the sea floor. The mudslide created leaks in 25 undersea oil wells, snarled the pipelines leading from the wells to a nearby oil platform, and brought the platform down on top of all of it.

Kelly Hudson is an external affairs officers with FEMA, and is based in Region IX, Oakland, California. She’s worked for FEMA for 12 years, with ten of those in Region IX. In this episode (#21) she reflects on the many major disasters she’s worked and talks about the challenges of each and lessons learned. She was still a newbie when Hurricane Katrina hit and was dispatched to help with communications as on-scene public information officer. She and her team were escorted by armed guards due to the dangerous nature of angry and desperate locals. She also candidly discusses how, in her eagerness, she got ahead of the messaging curve and told the media too much too soon; that’s a lesson she urges anyone who deals with the media to remember. Kelly also shares her own ways of surviving the chaos of hectic disaster responses, and how it’s important to take care of “Number-1.”       Kelly’s list of major disaster responses are impressive: External Affairs Officer, Wildfires, Northern California (2015) External Affairs Officer, Pu'u 'O'O Lava Flow, Hawaii (2014) External Affairs Officer, Tropical Storm Iselle, Hawaii (2014) External Affairs Officer, Tropical Storm Halong, Guam (2014) External Affairs Officer, Severe Storms, American Samoa (2014) External Affairs Officer, Hurricane Irene (2011) Deputy External Affairs Officer, Joplin, Mo. tornado (2011) External Affairs Liaison, Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (2010) External Affairs Lead, Tsunami and flooding, American Samoa (2009) Assistant External Affairs Officer, North Dakota floods (2009) Deputy External Affairs Officer, Hurricane Ike (2008) External Affairs Officer, Southern California wildfires (2008) Executive Officer, Southern California wildfires (2007) News Desk Lead/Public Information Officer, Hurricane Katrina (2005) Researcher and Writer/Public Information Officer, New Jersey floods (2005) Researcher and Writer, Hurricane Ivan (2004)   Links FEMA Region IX FEMA Region IX Leadership Pu'u O'o Lava Flow Pahoa

On this episode, we begin a deep-dive on some of the most devastating hurricanes (officially-named storms only) of the last century. From Camille in '69 to Sandy in '12 (that's a weird way to write that), we look at the impacts these storms had on human life, our economy, governance, emergency response, and the culture. This one's less goofy than other one's we've done, but there's some damn-fine analysis and Wikipedia reading going on. Also, Becky explains why these storms behaved the way they did, and since she knows what she's talking about, you'll probably learn a lot! SHOW NOTES! Small topics, News, & Follow-up: Astrological vs Meteorological Seasons Joel thinks Astrological seasons are stupid and we should all just agree to follow Meteorological seasons. Jimmy thinks Joel is anti-galaxy.  Heavy Rain Event in D.C. Region Wednesday - Friday DC Metro area, and parts of the east coast are in a rain deficit over the last couple of months. This event has the potential to make up a lot of that rain shortfall Potential flooding if the event verifies on the larger side of what the models are estimating Tropical Storm Matthew The track of the storm has a lot of potential for strengthening. Should continue west until this weekend and then make a turn to the north. Question is: Will it turn sooner, and hit Haiti, or will it turn later, miss Jamaica and hit Cuba (and then Florida later on) Main Topic: Most “Impactful” Hurricanes in modern history Hurricane Camille Track of Camille Hurricane Hugo Track of Hugo Hurricane Raymond Hurricane Hazel Hurricane Andrew Track of Andrew Hurricane Isabel Track of Isabel The inlet at Cape Hatteras that Isabel cut across the island Hurricane Ivan  Track of Ivan Hurricane Katrina Radiolab - “Playing God” Track of Katrina Photo from a NOAA WP-3D Hurricane Hunter aircraft from inside Katrina’s eye Hurricane Rita Track of Rita Photo of Holly Beach Hurricane Wilma Track of Wilma Records Wilma set Wilma went from being a Tropical Storm to a Category 5 Hurricane in 16 hours Hurricane Sandy Track of Sandy The Bounty, which sank off Cape Hatteras “The Semi-Hospitable Beach House and You” by Jimmy Marks Closing music: "Hurricane" from the musical Hamilton

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When Kelvin Droegemeier watched the Wizard of Oz as a child, the tornado scenes scared him so much that he didn’t want to look. Today, the esteemed meteorologist watches storms for a living—with a particular interest in tornados. From his upbringing in central Kansas—where he grew up marveling at weather and storms—to his undergraduate internship with the National Severe Storms Lab, Droegemeier was primed for a brilliant career in meteorology. Droegemeier is currently the vice president for research at the University of Oklahoma, where he is also Regents Professor of meteorology; Weathernews Chair Emeritus; and Roger and Sherry Teigen Presidential Professor. He is also the vice-chairman of the national science board at the National Science Foundation. In 1989, he co-founded CAPS, the Center for the Analysis and Prediction of Storms. This center pioneered storm scale numerical weather prediction with data simulation, which ushered in a whole new science of studying the weather. Droegemeier talks with STEM-Talk Host Dawn Kernagis and co-host Tom Jones about the past, present and future of weather prediction, both in the U.S. and globally. For more information on Droegemeier, check out his home page at the University of Oklahoma: http://kkd.ou.edu as well as his biography at the National Science Board: http://tinyurl.com/zwwvav9. Here is also the report that came out of that, entitled “Hurricane Warning: The Critical Need for a National Hurricane Research Initiative: http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/publications/2007/hurricane/initiative.pdf 00:47: Ken Ford describes Droegemeier as a pioneer in understanding thunderstorm dynamics and predictability, computational fluid dynamics, aviation weather, modeling and predicting of extreme weather, among other areas. 1:13: Dawn says: “Kelvin has greatly shaped the scientific landscape in meteorology and storm prediction and tracking. His work has no doubt saved many lives.” 2:00: Ford was co-chairman on the National Science Board Task Force on Hurricanes, Science and Engineering in 2005-06. “Living in Pensacola and having just experienced Hurricane Ivan, and then Hurricane Katrina, I was highly motivated to work on this problem…. Around here we’ve come to fear hurricanes with Russian names like Ivan and Katrina.” 3:20: Ford reads iTunes review from “ARFO6C”: “Brilliant, just brilliant.” 4:37: “Growing up in central Kansas, I was exposed to interesting weather year-round. I remember as a child being fascinated by the power and the grandeur of the atmosphere, and how quickly the weather could change.” 7:00: Droegemeier is especially interested in spring storms and wind. “To me, the perfect day is 60 degrees, low clouds, winds at 40 mph…. [There is something] so wonderful and powerful about the wind.”. 11:06: As a child, Droegemeier was interested in science, but it wasn’t until his undergraduate work study job at the National Severe Storms Lab, where an advisor suggested graduate school, that his academic interest in weather was sparked. 12:35: He went to graduate school at the University of Illinois to work with a person who was a pioneer in using super computers to make 3D models of thunderstorms. They looked at storms’ rotation, or the pathways to understanding how tornados form. 13:50: He describes “seminal changes in the last 20-30 years in meteorology, driven by high-performance computing.” 15:04: Twenty years ago, the first national network of Doppler weather radar also emerged. This allowed sensing the directional movement of precipitation particles. 17:30: He says the data simulation models have “dramatically improved over the last two decades. We are able to predict up to 72 hours more precisely than what we were able to do twenty years ago [predicting] up to 36 hours.” 18:00: CAPS is one of the first 11 science/technology centers funded by the NSF. It was selected out of 323 applicants. The premise was the following question: ‘Could ...

This week on The Derek Diamond ExperienceWEAR Channel 3 meterologist Christian Garman chats with Derek about his career, Hurricane Ivan, his love of comedies, and his podcast Digital Downtime. Follow Digital Downtime on Twitter @DigitalDowntime Music: Twin Peaks by The Unicorn WranglersFollow them on Twitter @UWranglersFollow the show on Twitter @DDE_PodcastFollow Derek Diamond on Twitter @Derek_Diamond

For cook and author Nigel Slater, 'Nutmeg and citrus are the scents of Christmas' but Sheila Dillon needs convincing.Together they look at the versatility of nutmeg as a spice that can bring life to mulled wine, egg custards, meats and puddings.People take it for granted now but nutmeg was highly prized in the kitchens of 16th and 17th century Europe. Traders ventured to the ends of the earth to secure it because of its value. The Dutch and the English vied for nutmeg supremacy and, in December 1616, Nathaniel Courthope and his small army saw off all competitors to gain control of the valuable nut so it could be shipped back to Britain for the culinary elite to enjoy.Today in Grenada the spice is so important it features on the national flag. But when Hurricane Ivan struck in 2004 it devastated the entire crop and hit the economy with a vengeance. Almost ten years on the nutmeg crop seems to be well on its way to recovery and we find out how it is used on the island. Producer : Perminder Khatkar.

What is the Pittsburgh Protocol? Could it be helpful in cleaning up after Super Storm Sandy? Is it a one size fits all solution? Find the answers this week on IAQ Radio with the creator "The Z-Man" Cliff Zlotnik. This week on IAQ Radio the Creator of the Pittsburgh Protocol (who just happens to be our co-host on IAQ Radio) The Z-Man, Cliff Zlotnik will join us to discuss the Pittsburgh Protocol. The Pittsburgh protocol was developed following extensive flooding in the Pittsburgh area following Hurricane Ivan in 2004. A local client needed help cleaning up a large, badly contaminated basement. Previous efforts had been unsuccessful and may have even made things worse. It was time for some out-of-the-box thinking; someone had to come up with a cost effective, yet thorough alternative. Thus the Pittsburgh Protocol was born, LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!

What is the Pittsburgh Protocol? Could it be helpful in cleaning up after Super Storm Sandy? Is it a one size fits all solution? Find the answers this week on IAQ Radio with the creator "The Z-Man" Cliff Zlotnik. This week on IAQ Radio the Creator of the Pittsburgh Protocol (who just happens to be our co-host on IAQ Radio) The Z-Man, Cliff Zlotnik will join us to discuss the Pittsburgh Protocol. The Pittsburgh protocol was developed following extensive flooding in the Pittsburgh area following Hurricane Ivan in 2004. A local client needed help cleaning up a large, badly contaminated basement. Previous efforts had been unsuccessful and may have even made things worse. It was time for some out-of-the-box thinking; someone had to come up with a cost effective, yet thorough alternative. Thus the Pittsburgh Protocol was born, LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!

This week, AT shares some good news and asks Andy to answer the most difficult listener question they’ve ever received.   Andy and AT share some good news: You can get seven free letters from Andy’s previously unavailable Storms of Perfection book by signing up for the free e-mail list on AndyAndrews.com. AT shares what he calls the “toughest question ever asked on the podcast.” Rebecca writes: Andy, the area of parenting I have trouble with the most is making more quality time with my children. I’m a mother of two and since the first day my child was born I have wanted to quit my job and become the manager of my home. The problem is my student loans. I’m a lawyer, and my education cost a lot of money. It does not seem feasible to quit my job until the student loans are paid off. Even with aggressive payments, the loans won’t be paid off for another three and a half years. By then, my children will be in school, so there will be no point in staying at home. Right now, I struggle with how to make the most of the time I have with my children. It’s hard not to become bitter about the decision I made about my education 10 years ago. Any insight you could provide would be appreciated.  In a way, this is a problem Andy is struggling with right at this very minute, though he certainly isn’t comparing their situations. In two weeks, the summer is over and school will start for his two boys, who are 10 and 12. Unfortunately, Andy is past his deadline on the book he is writing. He’s getting up at 3:30 AM and going somewhere else away from his house to write so that he isn’t tempted to spend time with his family instead of writing. He’s coming home for dinner every night exhausted. He’s very aware that he’s going to be writing for the rest of Austin’s last summer before he becomes a teenager. Right now, he’s thinking things like: It’s never going to be like this again. I could have gotten this done earlier. I’ve screwed up with how I’ve spent my time. However, we live in the present and we have to deal with the choices we’ve made in the past. Andy’s not trying to compare what he’s going through to the seriousness of her situation, but he wants to give Rebecca some “straight talk,” what Jones would call “perspective.” We can’t do anything about the decisions we have already made. We just have to live with them. We’re not made with the ability to make right decisions all the time. We don’t know what the future consequences of our choices will be. Once we make choices, it’s part of our duty to go about making those choices right. The two things she’s not lacking are the money to pay the loans off and a time frame in which to pay them. All she is lacking is an idea. One idea changes everything. The perspective Andy wants her to have is the same kind of perspective that he and Polly had after Hurricane Ivan destroyed their home. It was going to take two years just to even get back inside the house. Two years just to get a certificate of occupancy. Three weeks after the hurricane, Polly had a miscarriage. They had a four-year-old and a two-year-old. They moved to three different rental houses during the time. It was a bad time.  During that time, they thought things like: I can’t believe we have to put our kids through this. I can’t believe they have to spend all this time moving and uprooting our family instead of doing “kid stuff.” But there was another way to look at this “bad” time: At least it happened while the kids were young, because everything was an adventure to them. Even the new bathtub in a rental house was amazing to them because they could race their cars in it. This would not be the case had they been teenagers. The point is that Rebecca’s situation is probably bothering her a lot more than it’s bothering the children. Since her real concern is with them and not with herself, she can afford to lighten up on herself a little bit. Understand that she can find quality experiences that will trump any amount of “regular” time a lot of parents spend with their kids. A lot of parents are home at 5 o’clock in the afternoon and they’re home all night long. But all they do is sit in their chair, tell everyone to be quiet, watch the news. Lots of families don’t even eat dinner together. There are things you can do to make ordinary experiences extraordinary, especially for little kids. Right now, Andy is writing in one of those houses they rented after the hurricane. So, last night, they came to visit him before they went to bed and the boys were running around and talking about all the memories from the old house. They had those good memories because, during the awful time when Andy and Polly were worried about everything, they didn’t let the kids see that. They still made sure to create extraordinary moments for the kids during that time. Andy asks Rebecca: What will your kids remember about this tough time in your life? Her kids are going to remember that they had a mom who worked hard when they were little so that when they were older she could really be there for them.   Questions for Listeners  What is an example of an extraordinary moment you created for a child or a parent created for you when you were a child? o   Phone: 1-800-726-ANDY o   E-Mail: InTheLoop@AndyAndrews.com o   Facebook.com/AndyAndrews o   Twitter.com/AndyAndrews