You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for August 28, 2026. 

We open with Florida's move to ban welfare cash assistance from covering tattoos, video games, theme park tickets, vaping products, and even psychic services, and we dig into why Governor DeSantis's crackdown on TANF spending should spread nationwide. We run through our Top 3, covering a Boston judge blocking Trump's mail-in ballot security measures again, the clearing of Iranian mines from the Strait of Hormuz, and a military judge tossing out Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's 9/11 confession over coercion claims. We also can't resist poking fun at CNN's embarrassing mix-up using a Dolly Parton impersonator's photo to announce the real Dolly Parton's death.

Our American Mamas, Teri Netterville and Kimberly Burleson, join us to talk about Brian Guan, the atheist whose 30-day experiment cosplaying as a Christian led him to tears and a genuine conversion by day 20, and we draw the parallel to C.S. Lewis and Lee Strobel's own journeys from skepticism to faith. Digging Deep, we tackle Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass halting citations for unlicensed street vendors, the sinking marshlands of South Louisiana, and how SpaceX's new $100 billion spaceport might do more to protect the coastline than decades of lawsuits, plus a detour into why capitalism protects what people can profit from. We talk through President Trump's self-ranking as the greatest president in history and whether confidence like that is healthy or just bluster, before diving into Fake News Friday with our usual mix of real, fake, and really fake headlines. We close out with an update on birthright citizenship litigation and a story about Millie, the 31-year-old cat who may hold a world record.

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