Pilot Makes A Surprise Emergency Landing On Huntington Beach

The fourth hour begins with a remarkable emergency landing after a Piper PA-28 loses engine power shortly after leaving John Wayne Airport. Pilot Mike Bremner puts the plane down safely on Huntington Beach with his teenage nephew aboard, and we praise the calm landing with no injuries. The cut sheet then turns to Byron Donalds and Florida’s hyperscale data-center debate, including water use, power demand, utility costs, tax revenue and whether communities should decide where the facilities are built. Fight Club Friday takes over with a huge convenience-store melee involving cases of bottled water, a fire extinguisher and a security guard who wisely stays out of the pile. After the break, we replay the week’s field: Monday’s cheerleader clip, Tuesday’s pizza-shop brawl, Wednesday’s trained fighter, Thursday’s parking-garage chase with falling pants and Friday’s store-wide chaos. Dawn picks the parking-garage fight, the audience rejects her choice and Friday’s fight wins the vote by a landslide. The cut sheet closes with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joining Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson, followed by Ruby Rippey’s Vanity Fair account of her 2005 affair with Gavin Newsom and her claim that Kamala Harris urged her to wait before speaking. We discuss whether the two-decade-old scandal matters to Newsom’s national ambitions. Florida’s same-day executions of James Duckett and Dominick Occhicone produce a furious death-penalty debate, and we close Shawn Farash’s four-hour run by congratulating him on his new show while confirming he returns for Farish Fridays.