Full Show For Thursday July 9 2026

We open Thursday’s Kayal and Company with Graham Platner out of the Maine Senate race and Shawn Farash in for Greg Stocker, which gives the crew plenty of room for Platner jokes, Democrat primary chaos, and a loaded morning. Dawn Stensland brings the local news with a 19-year-old construction worker shot and killed in Roxborough, a Point Breeze shooting with 39 shell casings recovered, the funeral for fallen Pennsylvania State Trooper Michael Pahira, the unstable former Pfizer headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, and the $24,200 Pokémon card fraud case out of Evesham. Phil covers the Phillies’ loss to the Reds, Kyle Schwarber’s 32nd homer, Bryce Harper’s SEPTA-themed cleats, LIV Golf’s lawsuit problem, and the withdrawn charges against Mike Missanelli. Nick’s Big Take centers on illegal immigration and recent cases involving Americans killed or harmed by people who should not have been in the country or should not have been behind the wheel. We move from Trooper Pahira’s death in Pennsylvania to former Milwaukee judge Hannah Dugan avoiding prison, Tobias Forsythe’s death in Ohio, a Michigan meat plant stabbing, and the North Carolina crash that killed 6-year-old Calli Toler. Dawn and Shawn then dig into sanctuary cities, illegal CDL holders, the limits of Tom Homan’s deportation push, and why Republicans should make these cases a front-and-center midterm message. The rest of Kayal and Company stays locked on Platner’s campaign collapse and what it says about Democrat voters being overruled by party bosses. We play parts of Platner’s 11-minute video, debate whether Susan Collins is helped or hurt, react to Mark Halperin’s Bernie Sanders 2028 theory, and roll through the Cut Sheet with JD Vance on H-1B fraud, Social Security, birthright citizenship, Trump accounts, voter ID, and the SAVE Act. Rich Zeoli joins at 9 for more Platner talk, Fight Club, the Charlie Kirk case, Candace Owens conspiracy claims, Trump’s Iran and NATO comments, regime change arguments, squishy-toy danger, Today in Music History, and Dawn’s Big Three starting with the mystery of the Air Force One swap after the NATO summit. Dawn’s Big Three continues into the 10 AM hour with the Air Force One security story, Trump saying he is number one on Iran’s kill list, and the crew mixing serious Secret Service questions with movie jokes and Dan’s music mix-up. Dawn then turns to South Jersey, where a Salem County sheriff’s sergeant is charged after prosecutors say two K-9 partners died after being left in a hot vehicle for seven hours, which leads to a deeper comparison with the long-unresolved Gloucester County K-9 Ember case. The hour also covers Eric Trump landing first at the renamed President Donald J. Trump International Airport, Freedom Fuel stations offering $3.47 gas around the Philadelphia area, and Sergeant Mark Fusetti joining Dawn to discuss the eerie Olney investigation involving Eugene Horsch, missing-woman IDs, chemicals, alleged fake DEA credentials, and why the case may become much bigger.