Blue Angels Low Flyover Stirs Up More Than Beach Umbrellas, Ignites Political War Of Words
Amy & T.J.
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🗓️ 16 July 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The U.S. Navy Blue Angels stunned a Pensacola Beach crowd with a lower than expected pass that sent beach umbrellas and tents flying, but gave beachgoers a show they won’t soon forget. The extra low flyover initially triggered a safety review, but Pete Hegseth, Eric Trump and the White House all chimed in, calling any outrage, manufactured, saying the flyovers would continue “until morale improves.” Moments before this recording, the navy announced there were “no reprimands” and “no problem” with the maneuver.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.0 | It is Thursday, July 16th, and it sure looked cool. |
| 0:12.3 | Turns out it was pretty unsafe. |
| 0:15.4 | Also, turns out the administration doesn't seem to give a damn about how close that Blue Angel came to that crowd over |
| 0:24.4 | Pensacola, Florida's Beach. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. We're fighting |
| 0:28.7 | over this. We're fighting. I mean, this has turned into a political back and forth over a flyover. |
| 0:34.3 | It's kind of remarkable. So when we see the pictures and we see the videos, |
| 0:40.2 | and look, the people who were there on the beach all said, whoa, I mean, it was a little too |
| 0:44.9 | close for comfort. We should mention, if you haven't seen the video, you should check it out. |
| 0:49.1 | Beach umbrellas went flying, beach tents went flying, people's hats flew off. No one was injured, no one was |
| 0:54.9 | hurt, but it felt like a little bit of a close call, a little too low for comfort. Yes. |
| 1:00.6 | And some folks even had some comments like, wow, I thought the blue angels were going to take |
| 1:05.2 | me out, but it was awesome. It was thrilling, babe. It was absolutely thrilling. Nobody was complaining, |
| 1:10.3 | but it was a little alarming. And I think that's a fair way to describe it. And nobody's complaining because nobody got hurt. Everybody was okay. And those people have a story for the rest of their lives. You get to see the Blue Angels. You can almost jump up and touch the wing. He got so damn, close. That's a cool story. Robs, I would have loved it. We talked about it this morning. Damn, that was awesome. |
| 1:28.2 | However. |
| 1:29.1 | However, was it safe? Was it appropriate? And should it be investigated? Well, initially, we were told they were looking into it. There was an investigation. They were looking to see whether or not this was too low. The incident was |
| 1:46.5 | yesterday, right? Yes. Okay. The investigation's over already here on Thursday. This has become |
| 1:52.2 | a hell of a story. I'm sure you all have seen this video by now. Pentecola, Florida, |
| 1:56.8 | Robes. I didn't know about this event down there, but it sounds really cool. It's called |
| 1:59.3 | Breakfast with the Blues. The Blue Angels are based down in that area. So they do some practice there. And for this week that they kick off a whole big air show this weekend, they practice in the morning and they invite the public out to the beach. Breakfast with the Blues. We should do this next year. Yes, we should. And they've been doing it for years and years. One of the women who was there on the beach |
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