The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (03/21/2023):

3:05pm- According to 6ABC, eight dolphins have been beached in Sea Isle City. The Marine Mammal Stranding Center has said that two of the dolphins have died. Many environmental experts believe the sudden, drastic uptick in whale deaths along the Atlantic coast is linked to offshore wind development’s usage of sonar to map the ocean’s floor. Could the beached dolphin pod have resulted from intrusive sonar usage as well?

3:15pm- On Saturday former President Donald Trump revealed that he expects to be arrested on Tuesday for hush money payments disturbed to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in 2016—though, no arrest has yet been made and The New York Post is now reporting that law enforcement is not expecting an arraignment until next week. National Review’s Andrew McCarthy writes, “[t]here seems little doubt that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s indictment of Donald Trump is imminent…All that said, though, reports that Trump will be arrested on Tuesday are premature and probably inaccurate. They appear to have been generated by the former president himself and apparently are not based on discussions between the Trump camp and the DA’s office.” You can read McCarthy’s full breakdown here: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/trumps-claim-of-tuesday-arrest-is-highly-unlikely/

3:30pm- Speaking with members of the press on Tuesday, Robert J. Costello, a former legal adviser for Michael Cohen, called his former client a “convicted perjurer” and exclaimed, “I told the grand jury that this guy couldn’t tell the truth if you put a gun to his head.” Why is Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg relying upon Cohen’s testimony for a potential indictment of former-President Donald Trump?

3:40pm- According to Johnny Diaz of The New York Times, the city of “Philadelphia has agreed to pay $9.25 million to more than 300 people who said they were injured in the police response to racial justice protests that erupted after the murder of George Floyd in 2020.” You can read more here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/20/us/philadelphia-protests-settlement.html

4:05pm- While speaking with the White House press, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs John Kirby insisted that the Biden Administration is not threatened by an alliance between Vladimir Putin’s Russia and Xi Jinping’s China. Kirby also explained that he still believes “there is room for cooperation with China.”

4:20pm- According to Erin Banco and Sarah Anne Aarup of Politico, “Chinese companies, including one connected to the government in Beijing, have sent Russian entities 1,000 assault rifles and other equipment that could be used for military purposes, including drone parts and body armor.” The Washington Post is reporting that the Biden Administration may sanction any Chinese businesses that militarily cooperate with Russia. Is it important to establish a “red line” and enforce it? Read more about here: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/16/chinese-rifles-body-armor-russia-ukraine-00087398and here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2023/03/21/xi-putin-china-sanctions/

4:40pm- According to an update from the Marine Mammal Stranding Center, all eight dolphins beached in Sea Isle City have now died.

4:50pm- Despite over a dozen dead whales, and now eight dolphins, being beached across the Atlantic coast, President Joe Biden pledges that his administration will continue to prioritize the development of offshore wind farms.

5:05pm- The Drive at 5: Patrick Hughes— President & Founder of the National Opportunity Project—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss the release of a report which shows that disadvantaged students didn’t receive $736 million in federal COVID-19 aid that had been earmarked for them by Congress. You can read more about the report here: https://www.nationalopportunity.org/eans-report/

5:20pm- Is TikTok about to be banned? According to Jimmy Quinn, ByteDance—the parent company of TikTok—may be using their popular social media application as a surveillance mechanism for the Chinese military.

5:40pm- While speaking with the press on Monday afternoon, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) says the Republican party is not exclusively focused on a possible indictment of former-President Donald Trump.

6:05pm- According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, a deadly fungus known as Candida Auris is spreading across the United States. Rich worries that this is the beginning of a scenario similar to the one depicted in HBO’s zombie series “The Last of Us.”

6:10pm- 2 Brother Pizza announced that due to inflation, they will have to raise the price of their iconic $1 pizza slices in New York City.

6:30pm- The Rich Zeoli Show hits 1 million podcast downloads since moving back to afternoons! WOOHOO!!

6:40pm- While appearing on a discussion panel webinar, White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo horrifically suggested “people of color need to get away from White people and have some community with each other.”