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Tracking Venezuela, DeSant-O-Meter, To Dust Film & UM Football Coach

University of Miami's new football coach Manny Diaz stands in front of the football practices stadium.
Alejandra Martinez
University of Miami's new football coach Manny Diaz stands in front of the football practices stadium.

A nationwide blackout that has gone into its fifth day has Venezuelan people struggling for food and water. Two weeks after violent clashes on the border between Venezuela and Colombia, WLRN’s Digital Editor Teresa Frontado traveled to the area with a U.S. military flight to deliver medical supplies intended to be taken into Venezuela. Frontado joined Sundial to talk about her experience. 

Read more: 'Humanitarian Operation For Venezuela Continues,' Say U.S., Colombia And Guaidó Representative

Listen to today's full show.

Politifact Florida has launched itsDeSant-O-Meter, a tool that tracks whether the campaign promises made by Gov. Ron DeSantis are kept. Politifact Florida’s Amy Sherman joined Sundial to talk about some of the campaign promises made by the governor and how the tool will work and fact-check the state politicians.

University of Miami’s new football coach, Manny Diaz, has big plans for the team this year. He’s focused on reducing head injuries through special tackling techniques and recruiting some of the best talent locally. Sundial visited Coach Diaz at his offices at  the University of Miami and talked to him about his plans for the team.

The new film “To Dust” is a dark comedy that follows a Hasidic Jewisih man, played by actor Geza Rohrig, who loses his wife and is struggling with her return to the earth. He creates an unlikely partnership with a community college biology professor played by Matthew Broderick. The director is a South Florida native, Shawn Snyder, and the movie was made in dedication to his mother who passed away a few years ago. Snyder and Rohrig joined Sundial to talk about the movie's main themes: grief, faith, death and family. 

Watch the trailer of the film "To Dust."

 

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Chris Remington knew he wanted to work in public radio beginning in middle school, as WHYY played in his car rides to and from school in New Jersey. He’s freelanced for All Things Considered and was a desk associate for CBS Radio News in New York City. Most recently, he was producing for Capital Public Radio’s Insight booking guests, conducting research and leading special projects at Sacramento’s NPR affiliate.
Alejandra Martinez is the associate producer for WLRN&rsquo's Sundial. Her love for radio started at her mother’s beauty shop where she noticed that stories are all around her - important stories to tell.