Oct 9, 2026 · 58 min · 29 segments
Thank you so much for listening to the Bob Harden Show, celebrating 15 years broadcasting on the internet. On Friday’s show, we visit with author and Professor Andrew Joppa about a variety of issues…
Well, U.S. stock markets closed mixed yesterday after Brent crude oil prices rose 4.1% to $104.3, uh, dollars per barrel.
Uh, President Trump said that the U.S. will not attack Iran again before the midterm elections on November the 3rd amid, quote-unquote, "Productive discussions with Tehran." I think, uh, productive discussions with Tehran is kind of an oxymoron.
Hurricane Isaias is expected to make landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast tonight or early tomorrow as a Category 2 or higher storm.
The storm, packing sustained winds of 100 miles an hour, is expected to strike between Mississippi and the Florida Panhandle, bringing storm surges of up to seven feet, heavy rainfall, and damaging winds.
Officials have issued evacuation orders, closed schools, and declared state of emergency in Florida and Alabama.
Heavy rainfall is expected to spread inland across the United States, uh, this weekend.
Isaias is the first Atlantic hurricane of the 2026 season, forming more than f- four months after the season began.
Its arrival is attributed partly to El Niño, a weather pattern that increases wind shear and disrupts hurricane formation.
[clears throat] The storm formed just one day shy of tying a 121-year-old record for the latest fir- , uh, first Atlantic hurricane, set in October the 8th, uh, 1905.
Well, while speaking at a press conference at Osceola County, uh, Sheriff's Office this week, Florida, uh, Attorney General James Guthmeyer announced the arrest of 21 child predators as part of Operation Cooked, an undercover child ex- exploitation, uh, sting.
"In Florida, there'll be no mercy for the merciless," Guthmeyer said in a statement.
If anyone tries to prey on kids in this state, we will find you, arrest you, and put you behind bars." According to Guthmeyer, the investigation began after undercover detectives posted a, a 13 and 14-year-old children as parents offering up their children to accused defendants who knew their ages.
The defendants, ranging from 22 to 64 years of age, then drove to meet those who they believed to be children before, uh, being arrested by police in Kissimmee.
20 were arrested on charges for traveling to meet a minor for sex, a second-degree felony.
Of the defendants, four were illegal aliens from Venezuela, Honduras, Mexico, and E- Ecuador, uh, with the Venezuelan national under a previous removal order.
In a statement, Microsoft said that most applications were for workers already legally in the United States, and they only comprised 1% of the U.S. workforce.
Supporters of the H-1B program argue it boosts competitiveness- and innovation by hiring workers in high skill roles that would otherwise be difficult to fill.
Well, U.S. stock markets closed mixed yesterday after Brent crude oil prices rose 4.1% to $104.3, uh, dollars per barrel.
Uh, President Trump said that the U.S. will not attack Iran again before the midterm elections on November the 3rd amid, quote-unquote, "Productive discussions with Tehran." I think, uh, productive discussions with Tehran is kind of an oxymoron.
Hurricane Isaias is expected to make landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast tonight or early tomorrow as a Category 2 or higher storm.
The storm, packing sustained winds of 100 miles an hour, is expected to strike between Mississippi and the Florida Panhandle, bringing storm surges of up to seven feet, heavy rainfall, and damaging winds.
Officials have issued evacuation orders, closed schools, and declared state of emergency in Florida and Alabama.
Heavy rainfall is expected to spread inland across the United States, uh, this weekend.
Isaias is the first Atlantic hurricane of the 2026 season, forming more than f- four months after the season began.
Its arrival is attributed partly to El Niño, a weather pattern that increases wind shear and disrupts hurricane formation.
[clears throat] The storm formed just one day shy of tying a 121-year-old record for the latest fir- , uh, first Atlantic hurricane, set in October the 8th, uh, 1905.
Well, while speaking at a press conference at Osceola County, uh, Sheriff's Office this week, Florida, uh, Attorney General James Guthmeyer announced the arrest of 21 child predators as part of Operation Cooked, an undercover child ex- exploitation, uh, sting.
"In Florida, there'll be no mercy for the merciless," Guthmeyer said in a statement.
If anyone tries to prey on kids in this state, we will find you, arrest you, and put you behind bars." According to Guthmeyer, the investigation began after undercover detectives posted a, a 13 and 14-year-old children as parents offering up their children to accused defendants who knew their ages.
The defendants, ranging from 22 to 64 years of age, then drove to meet those who they believed to be children before, uh, being arrested by police in Kissimmee.
20 were arrested on charges for traveling to meet a minor for sex, a second-degree felony.
Of the defendants, four were illegal aliens from Venezuela, Honduras, Mexico, and E- Ecuador, uh, with the Venezuelan national under a previous removal order.
In a statement, Microsoft said that most applications were for workers already legally in the United States, and they only comprised 1% of the U.S. workforce.
Supporters of the H-1B program argue it boosts competitiveness- and innovation by hiring workers in high skill roles that would otherwise be difficult to fill.
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