S5E472 - Safety Wars 7-7-2026 Whale Flips Boat on Jim's Home Turf, Wild Headlines

Whale Rescue, Building Collapse & the "Missing Middle": Safety Wars Breaks Down This Week's Wildest Headlines

Jim kicks off with a wild story from his home turf in New Jersey — Carteret firefighters had to be rescued after their Marine Unit boat was struck and sunk by a surfacing whale near the Arthur Kill. He riffs on the irony that whales and even pods of them are now returning to waters he grew up swimming and crabbing in during the polluted 1970s-90s, crediting cleanup efforts spurred partly by former NJ Governor Jim McGreevey's fight to sh...