Behind the News with Joe Kelley Podcast

Behind the News with Joe Kelley

Joe Kelley
Award-winning journalists join the round table to discuss the selection, writing, recording and presentation of radio news every day in Orlando, Florida. This is not a daily newscast podcast, but a daily discussion about WHY news gets reported the way it gets reported.
Disney drops planned move to Florida
S1E013 - Disney pulls the plug on $1 billion development in Central Florida as part of an ongoing dispute with Governor Ron DeSantis; Disney also announces the pending closure of Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser experience by the end of September; California to give illegal immigrants unemployment benefits.
May 18, 2023
1 hr
Legal weed in Florida?
S1E012 - Florida school start times change; Sports Illustrated puts the first transgender woman on the cover of their swimsuit edition; Miller Lite seems to join Bud Light in NOT knowing their audience as their latest commercial hits; recreational marijuana may appear on FL ballot;
May 16, 2023
1 hr 2 min
Americans are driving their cars 'til the wheels fall off
S1E011 - Americans are driving their cars longer than ever before; electric vehicles cost more to fuel than gas cars; today's teens are too afraid to drive; microscopic bugs are having sex on your face.
May 15, 2023
1 hr 2 min
Disney to lose no-fly zone?
S1E010 - GOP members of Congress want to revoke Disney's no-fly-zone; Ohio wants to lower minimum age to be a cop from 25 to 18 and Friday night fun and games with the whole team.
May 12, 2023
1 hr 2 min
13YO cop shooter may be tried as adult
S1E009 - Most Americans say that life us worse today than 50 years ago (2023 v. 1973); 13-year-old shoots cop in the foot, sheriff wants teen charged as an adult; Ohio wants to lower the minimum age to be a cop from 25 to 18; and, if there's time, Donald Trump's appearance on CNN last night.
May 11, 2023
1 hr 3 min
Trump heads to CNN
Tens of thousands of migrants are huddling at the Mexican border with the U.S. in anticipation of Title 42 being repealed Thursday night at midnight; House Oversight committee outlines $10B scheme to pay the Biden family, including minor children who received wire transfers connected to foreign powers; Donald Trump slams CNN ahead of a town hall broadcast with them tonight.
May 10, 2023
1 hr
Trump's assault problem
S1E007 - Donald Trump found not liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll, but found liable for battery, defamation and ordered to pay her more than $5 million in damages, yet that may only further propel Trump back into the White House.
May 9, 2023
1 hr 2 min
FL outlaws the removal of any 'healthy' body parts from kids - what about circumcisions?
S1E006 - Why would masked, armed robbers try to break into a Winter Garden nursery in the middle of the night?; FL passes bill that would outlaw doctors from cutting off healthy body parts; Bud Light moves on from angering men and heterosexuals to angering the entire LGBTQ+ community; Subway's tuna sandwiches are in the news again.
May 8, 2023
1 hr 5 min
Debates! Limbaugh Way! Trust the CDC?
S1E005 - Should there/will there be presidential debates?; FL House votes to name a South Florida road in honor of late talk radio host Rush Limbaugh; you don't actually trust the US government, do you?
May 5, 2023
30 min
Let's eat bugs!
S1E004 - NASA digitally alters images from Mars; we're being encouraged to supplement our diets with insects; singer Ed Sheeran wins court case that claimed his song was ripped off from Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get it On," we'll have a comparison of the two songs.
May 4, 2023
28 min
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