Ep. 5160: Illegals Are Voting in D.C.

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Episode Transcript

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Thursday. It is May sixteenth onthe Morning Show with Preston Scott Im Preston.
Good morning friends, ruminators, ladiesand gentlemen, boys and girls.
Thanks so much for making time.We appreciate it very very much. It
is show fifty one sixty and yesterdaytwelve twelve of America not just being held

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hostage, but being bleds from itswounds and left dying on the side of
a road. Great to be withyou this morning. We will set up
a busy show for you in justa little bit. Thursday just tends to
be a lot of guests and todayno exception. But we always start with
some scripture. It is our sixseventeen sixty three segment, like what are

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you calling it that? Look upthe date something, something will fire up
in your mind. I think that'llhelp you figure it out. Proverbs eleven
twenty four says one gives freely,yet grows all the richer. Another withholds

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what he should give, and onlysuffers want. Boy Jesus taught parable or
two. That definitely connects back tothat proverb being faithful with what you have
been given. And so often Isee people, especially younger people that are

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not they want everything. Now,we have raised an impatient set of generations
of late and we've probably spoiled them. And as a result, they don't

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respect, they don't appreciate, theydon't walk in the attitude of gratefulness that
they should, and so they robthemselves by their attitudes and their conduct of
future blessings that would otherwise be openclosed because their hearts are not right.

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Listen to that again, One whogives freely, we automatically take a verse
like that, and we think,let's clearly talking about cash money, yes
and no, certainly it's talking aboutour giving. But we give when with

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far more than just cash, don'twe? I mean, if I were
to ask you, what are yourresources? Would you literally just limit it
to what's in your bank account orin your wallet at the moment? See,
I think that we do. Backup, I think too many do

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resources, your time, your strength, your skills. One gives freely yet
grows all the richer. How closeis that to the parable where Jesus was

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talking about to the one who has, he will be given more, and
others who were given will have ittaken from them and given to the one
because others were not faithful. Touse what they've been blessed with, and

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so after a period of time itgets stripped, can it be recovered?
Absolutely a change of heart. Doesthat walk with the right perspective of gratitude,

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appreciation, Use your resources wisely,your time, your effort, your
skills, and you'll be given more. If not, you might find yourself
bumping around a little bit to youlearn the lesson. Ten minutes past the

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hour, It's the Morning Show withPreston Scott. Preston Scott sixty percent of
the time. It works every timeon News Radio one hundred point seven.
Doubufla Yeah, Steve Stewart, nexthour, Well have our pause for Thoughts

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segment with doctor Steve Steverson, RoadTrip Idea. Third hour, Jimmy Patronis
Florida State CFO. Some things toavoid if you are in the aftermath of
the storm and still doing some cleanupand you've got some issues ahead, and
just some tips in general as we'reheading into storm season. He wanted to

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come on the program and share someways to keep from getting defrauded of your
money. Animal Stories got an interestingpiece from Scott Beacon that I want to
share insights into Trump's vice presidential pick. He did some data crunching, which
is fascinating on the subject that wetalked about. Maybe it was last week,

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but let's take a peek. Maysixteenth, eighteen thirty six, the
first steamboat on the Pacific coast testedin Vancouver, Washington. I might have
named it something other than the Beaver, but that's what it is. So
we don't revise history around here.We can hope, but we don't do

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that. On May sixteenth, eighteenforty two, a little bit of a
deep dive here, one hundred pioneerswith eighteen wagons set out from Independence,
Missouri, one of the first wagontrains to the Northwest. Over the next
two decades, tens of thousands wouldfollow the Oregon Trail, one of the
longest of the great overland routes tothe western frontier. I'm trying to remember,

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is it the Oregon Trail the videogame that you can still see the
ruts across the Dakotas. I've heardthat. Yeah, I mean they're still
there, and it fascinates me tono end that they're still there. I
think it goes straight west across youknow, Montana and Wyoming and Idaho into

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the Northwest. I think I couldbe mistaken, but you've heard something like
that, and and that that tome, they've got to preserve somehow,
some way, some of that Idon't you know, I don't know if
you pour cement in the ruts topreserve it and form like molds of it.
Yeah, I was going to say, make like a cast mold,

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yeah something. Yeah, And butbut but like section it off. If
I if I'm a farmer and I'vegot that across my land, I'm thinking
Field of Dreams kind of stuff.You know, the farmers that owned the
land that uh they built that thatbaseball field on for the movie Field of

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Dreams. You know, it wasbitter and contested for a while, and
I think they eventually kind of workedout a way and and turned it into
a combined attraction that's just downright coolin Dyersville. My dad did actually actually
started a radio network in UH basedin Dyersville, Iowa, because of the

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Field of Dreams and had some incredibletalent working with him. Michelle Tafoya got
one of her first big breaks workingwith and for my dad, And so
anyway, just kind of interesting.Eighteen sixty eight, the Senate fails by
one vote to convict President Andrew Johnsonand his impeachment. You know, impeachment

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trials used to be held in theSenate until just this year. Yeah,
they've always held one until just thisyear with Joe Biden. They've always held
one except this year with Joe Biden. And in that interesting going all the
way back to eighteen sixty eight,they were old in trials, the giving
presidents a look and yeah, youknow, anyway, just eighteen eighty eight

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and Philadelphia, German immigrant Emil Berlinerdemonstrates the first modern phonograph record. I
had someone send me a video blamingthe technology of that. I have to
look at it. Nineteen twenty nine, Emil Jennings Best Actor, Janet Gaynor
Best Actress are are among the winnersof the first Oscars. Janet Gaynor I

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think she later did a song IWill Survive. That was a big disco
hit. I'm kidding. I knowit was Gloria Gaynor. I'm just And
then in nineteen ninety one, QueenElizabeth the second becomes the first British monarch
to address Congress. She was cool. I will admit Charles has even though

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he's not going to be long forthe job. Charles has acquitted himself a
little better than I expected. Soyeah, seventeen minutes past the hour,
I'm sure that all of Great Britainwas waiting for my judgment of their cana

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or people. Just too many fallinto the slow learner's class. Look at
this video of this woman in Mexicoand she decided to get cute with a
wild bull that was on the beach, and things didn't end very well for
It's like the people that take selfiestrying to get close to the buffalo in

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Yellowstone or wherever, and oftentimes doesn'tend well for them. Then there was
the group that decided they were goingto take some bear cubs that they came
across and pose. They picked themup and held them and posed with them,
and the cubs were eventually abandoned bytheir mom, as I understand the

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story, because they had the humansent all over them, so they had
to be rescued. It's like,come on now, people, look,
I get it. There's some outthere, many of you. I've I've
read your email. You are ofthe mindset that that is how within the

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herd, that's just what happens.You remove those people from the the pool
of potential donors to uh that thatparticular gene pool and uh yeah, anyway,
I don't know how many of youare embracing this chat GPT, and

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I don't know what any of thatstands for. I don't know what GPT
stands for you? Does it?Is it an acronym for something? I
have no idea. Open AI,the the startup behind the chat bot,
have rolled they they have rolled out, has rolled out a new, a
new version. It is the newGPT model. GPT stands for Generative pre

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Trained Transformer, just the style ofAI. I guess okay, uh it's
capabilities. One demonstration, the voiceassistant was able to read out a bedtime
story in different voices, emotions,tones, you know what's coming. Moms
and dads for you know, forfeitingthat responsibility and handing it over to AI,

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because they don't want to be troubledreading a bedtime story to their kids,
so they'll let the AI bot doit in their child's favorite voice,
Starry Vader. Yeah, that couldbe. That'd be a great one.
There were once three little pigs,I mean, never mind. Another used

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the capable abilities to walk through solvinga math equation written on a sheet of
paper. It used its vision capabilities. So you can hook these things up.
I guess to your camera and itcan look at a problem and then
walk through the solving of it.Now, he's listening to the commencement speech

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of Jerry Seinfeld at Duke, wherehe handled the jerks brilliantly when they walked
out. Some of them walked outthankfully. Most students booed and hissed at
them. That's good, he said, paraphrasing that AI technology is like they
should brand itself the opposite of whatNike did. You just can't do it.

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And so it's like we're going toturn to artificial intelligence because we can't
figure it out. I just wantto point something out to you. How
many phone numbers do you know?How many phone numbers have you memorized?

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And no? Fewer than ten?Oh yeah, fewer than five. There
was a time we knew hundreds becauseyou had to you had to know them.

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You had to know them, likeyou had to know your Social Security
number. As we quit solving problemsand turn to AI, we will quit
knowing things, remembering things. Ijust wanted to point out I hope,

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honest and truly this stuff. Idon't think. I don't think most people
fully understand the dangers of where we'regoing. But I just use the phone
number thing because there's enough of youout there that remember the days when you
had to know phone numbers. Wedon't know them anymore. And that's what's

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going to come of AI, andat some point AI and those that leverage
it will take advantage of that.Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point
seven Double UFLA thirty six Past theHour, Big Stories in the press Box,

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brought to you by Grove of CreativeMarketing and digital Expertise. I hope
people in America as a group arenot stupid enough to buy Joe Biden's now
sudden interest in limiting border access.You said he'll do something if it reaches
four thousand a day. Really that'sall it'll take. Huh, Sweet God

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Almighty. The fact that there arestill people wearing masks leaves me with little
hope. And if you're one who'swearing one, I'm sorry if that hurts

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your feelings, but I've now cometo the conclusion that by and large,
people that wear masks are like peoplethat don't put away shopping carts. They're
illiberals. And I can't help you. I can pray for you. I
love you now, I mean thatI do. You're a human being with

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a heart and a soul and bigstory is just some not going to go
deep into any of this stuff,very disappointing. In the wake of the
Supreme Court ruling on Roe v.Wade, abortions are up nationwide eighty six

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thousand per month, and Florida,California, and Illinois saw the largest increases.
Florida, Californian, Illinois. Yeah. I I don't know what's so

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difficult about. If you're going toengage in that lifestyle, just don't get
pregnant. I I mean, Ican explain how it happens, but I
don't think I need to of rightnow. On average, in the United

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States, it takes one hundred andseventy seven seven hundred and ninety eight dollars
for a family of four to livequote comfortably. Inflation right now is annualized
at about six percent. We've talkedabout the median wages, the average wages
in the country fifty nine to four, twenty eight to thirty four per hour

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is the average, and it justgets more and more expensive to live.
And so you're looking at this,there is no end in sight to the
inflationary problems that we're facing. Theonly end I can see is a total

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and complete change in Washington. Buteven then I have my doubts because I
don't trust Republicans. And then,lastly, Washington d C hosted a voter
registration training for illegal immigrants. Nowthis was openly done. It took a

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freedom of information request by Judicial Watchto get the information. Said some form
of government ID was required. Migrantsare not allowed to Illegal migrants are not
allowed to vote in federal elections,just city contests, according to a newly
approved law in Washington DC. Questionnumber one, do you really think that's

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going to stop them? Question numbertwo? This is literally Campbell knows tent.
And this is why Washington, dC. Can never be allowed to
become a state. Forty minutes pastthe hour, It's the Morning Show with

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Preston Scott. Doesn't always work out, But when I put a radio program
together, I will frequently have storieskind of laid out, think of sticky

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notes all over my desk, andI kind of look at him and I
try to build the radio program.And so as we went through the big
stories in the press box, you'llnotice we ended with a voting story in
Washington, d C. Highlighting theproblems with Washington d C. In a

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broad sense, but we were talkingabout voting. And we follow that with
an Ohio Secretary of State, FrankLeRose, asking for the Biden administration to
please help because they are purging fromstate voter rolls non citizens. Now they

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suspect there's a lot more than onehundred and thirty seven, but they're not
getting help from the Biden administration releasingwhat level of documentation they have on these
people. A lot of the dataneeded comes from federal sources. They're not

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helping. So what does that tellyou? It tells me that what we
have been discussing about this unprecedented invasionof our country and that the real reason
for this was to offset the numberof Democrats leaving the party to allow into

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this country another victim class in massivenumbers and hope that enough of them can
vote illegally and that the time itwould take to litigate it will seal the
deal for Biden or whoever to bere elected or to get installed. So

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here you've got Ohio attempting to purgefrom its voter roles those that shouldn't be
allowed to vote, who in factought to be thrown out of the country,
and the Biden administration's hindering that they'renot releasing that information. Now we

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segue to George Soros. He isspend eighty million dollars, according to the
Media Research Center, through his groupFree Press, to pressure big tech platforms
to juice up their censorship ops inadvance of the twenty four election. He

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is funding groups that are calling forthe censorship of information ahead of the election.
Let me read from the release fromMedia Research Center. One of the
wealthiest men in the world is usinghis vast wealth and power to silence regular
Americans ahead of the twenty twenty fourelection. At a time when defending free
speech is key, leftists are tryingtheir best to shut down the voices of

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half of America, if not more, especially those who disagree with the radical
agenda promoted by Biden, Sorrows,and most big tech executives. Last month,
the outlet Free Press boasted about aletter urging executives at discord Google,
Instagram, meta Pinterest, Reddit,rumble, snap, TikTok, Twitch,

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Twitter, and YouTube to keep onlineplatforms safe and healthy finger quotes through six
specific interventions, and it was signedby two hundred civil society organizations, researchers,
and journalists. At least forty fiveof the signatories have had their coffers

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packed with sorrow's cash to the tuneof eighty plus million dollars. This is
what we're fighting, and we cannotquit fighting. Bible says, do not

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grow weary of doing well. It'sThe Morning Show with Preston Scott. Okay,
that's kind of funny. High schoolprank time. I don't know if

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it was one or a group,but a bagpiper was hired to follow the
principal around all day at a school. That's funny. Literally everywhere he walked,
the bagpiper was behind him playing.Can you imagine having an upset stomach?
Oh, I really got to usethe restroom. And then you just
hear Scotland the Brave everywhere he goes. He's just followed walking to the buses,

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followed walking down the sidewalk in frontof the school, followed walking through
the hallways, followed everywhere. That'sbrilliant, all right, not so brilliant.
I remember those of you in theCapital City area remember Claren Country Club,
And I would expect it's going toreopen sometime this year. They've been

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working hard at it. A lotof rumors as to what it will become
in terms of its price point andso forth. We'll see. Ownership has
the right to do what it wantswith it. But I remember that some
of the lakes and not ponds,sorry, little ponds, had these massive
carp in them. Carp have massiveappetites. They they tend to keep ponds

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clear, but if they're in thewrong bodies of water, they can be
a problem. And so in Coloradothey have a problem with what are called
Asian big head carp so much sothey are they're getting anglers to help them
out and getting them out of bodiesof water. In one particular pond,

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every single one of them were atleast three feet long, and the heaviest
was forty six pounds. That's amassively large fish. They are not native
to Colorado. They negatively impact theoverall ecosystem. They are prolific eaters.

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They feed primarily on plankton, andtherefore compete with a lot of native and
sport fish species which depend on plankplankton as a food source. They are
considered a threat to the actual fishyou want in these ponds. And so
your mind immediately says, okay,what knuckle had released those things? I

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mean, how does that happen?And you dig deep into the story and
I I can't explain why my eyewas drawn to this. Maybe it was
because my interaction and seeing these massivecarp. I don't know if they were
big head Asian big head carp thatwere in these little ponds at the golf
course or not. I do notknow, but I looked a little deeper

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into the story. In nineteen ninetytwo, Asian big head carp were introduced
as part of a national study aboutreducing pond algae by Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
So they took an invasive, nonnative fish, introduced it, and

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now thirty years later they're wondering whysomething went wrong. I just it just
makes me laugh, because this stuffhappens all the time. Anthony Fauci thought

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it would be a good idea.Let's let's take a virus found in nature
and let's diddle it a little bit. Let's let's dottle over it a little
bit. Let's tweak it here andthere. Unless we didn't, we might
have, but we might not have. And and you wonder why things go

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wrong. They weren't ever supposed tobe in the waters of Colorado. They're
not supposed to be in a lotof bodies of water where they're probably located.
Because my hunch is if they triedthis in Colorado as part of a
federal program, they've They've done itelsewhere, maybe Colin Country Club. I

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don't know. I'm just saying.And so all of a sudden, Frankenstein's
monster gets loose, and these arethe results. An invasive species has to
be removed from the waters of Colorado. Good luck with that, Steve,
start next, all right, asecond hour of The Morning Show with Preston

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Scott, Thursday, May sixteenth,heyday plus one for many of you have
any paycheck left? That is great. Allen over there, Studio one A.
I'm here in Studio one B,and I am joined by the executive
editor of Tallahasse Reports again the websiteTallahassee Reports dot com. He is Steve
Stewart. Hello, good morning,are you I'm good. How are you

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good? Yeah yeah, busy papergoing out this week. Okay, good
stuff in it. But wanted tostart with sort of a storm update.
Yeah, boy, that was something. You know. It was Friday,
last Friday. I put my kids, and the kids left to go to
high school at six thirty. Andright after they got in the car to
leave, man, maybe ten minutes, I'm starting, you know, all

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of a sudden, the storm hitsMiss Inklarn and it gets intense. So
I'm starting looking track and find outwhere they are. So they do get
to school, which was good,but it was unlike hurricanes, this is
something that happened without notice tornadoes,and I've been here since nineteen eighty nine,
never I don't think a tornado hasreally ever, really caused major damage
here, and so I think onSunday, when the National Weather Service laid

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out the pass of these these tornadoes, it was it was obviously historic,
but the numbers are just mind boggling. I mean, when you look at
the city says eighty thousand people werewithout power right after the storm for over
four hundred utility polls destroyed, whichwas more than the last four hurricanes combined.

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That's just so hard to believe.Tuned into this County Commission meeting,
over fourteen hundred structures damaged, withover two hundred completely destroyed. The issue
here as they moved to get powerrestored with twenty seven mutual aid utilities coming
to town. I left town Saturdaymorning for something and could see the trucks
headed in. That's when I realizedhow bad it was. Is that there's

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gonna be at least two hundred homesthat are going to need additional work before
they can even turn power on.I think that's going to be so there's
gonna be some a lot of painfor a number of displaced people, yes,
exactly, which again rivals any hurricanewe've seen. And so anyway,
it's so interesting how focused the pathwas of the three tornadoes. That's what

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tornadoes do. Yeah, And likeI said, we're not used to that.
And you know, there's been someif you go on social media,
obviously in these situations, a lotof second guessing on different things. But
I don't know, I think mosteverybody probably gets a pass on this,
you know, from up front,but we'll probably learn more in the next
couple of weeks. The concern Ihad, Steve, and this is just

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you know, I voiced it onthe program. I was concerned that the
school system did not send releases outof any kind and don't anymore. Apparently
they rely on people to go toFacebook. And first, it's unprofessional because
it's the only elected government body,local, state or federal that doesn't send

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press releases. So we were flyingblind. The only information we got was
unofficial and from parents, and that'snot a good way to conduct business.
Now. I think if you lookat the communication to the schools, and
we noticed that, again this ispersonal experience, the kids got there and
then it wasn't long they were takingAP test, and it wasn't long after
that they were told to leave.And I got a couple of calls from

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parents who are like, what arewe doing sending kids? They actually told
them to get off a campus.I know I got the same notifications,
which you know, you again youhate to be critical during this crisis mode,
but that is sort of an interestingyou know, and because once I
was thinking, once my kids gotto school, they would be safe,
but then there were kids actually walkingoutside of school during the storm. Fortunately

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this was north of town, andI guess it wasn't as bad north as
it was central and south. Thequestion that I have is just one of
and again I agree with you toa certain extent that you get a pass,
But the part that doesn't get apass to me is to me,
you know, we knew whether wascoming when we started the program. That

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was plenty of time to ground thebuses and shut things down for you know,
for that morning and usually and usuallythat's what happens. And I think
if you listen to Superintendent Rocky hada I think he he indicated that they
got some bad information, that theyweren't completely informed, but I heard he
was out of town. Well,and that then there's a chain of command
issue. Who's who's making decisions?Right? And so this is when you

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start digging into electedly can say whateverthey want and that's what's going to get
published. Yeah, the question isdoes someone go and dig and find out
exactly what was happening, because youknow, in the past they've aired on
the side of caution. I mean, they've had people miss school and nothing
happen. Agree, So for thisto happen this way is a little bit
concerning. But the question is you'vegot this recovery effort. When are you

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gonna take that Some are going totake the time to figure out exactly what
happened. Yeah, and that tome, it's it's not you know,
I'm critical of the communications department becauseI think they don't do their job.
That said, I'm not overly criticalother than the fact that there didn't seem
to be a process if the superintendent'snot available to make a decision exactly.

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All right, More to come withSteve Stewart to Tell as he reports the
Morning Show with Preston Scott's on NewsRadio one hundred point seven WFLA. Steve

(37:04):
Stewart with me from tellass reports.I'm still just shaking my head over people
not doing their job. But movingon. Yes, So we're going to
get ahead of an issue here,and your listeners should be aware of pedestrian
safety. Commissioner Jackporter has started tobring up the issue of pedestrian safety.

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If you go back and look,there was a there's a weird story written
in local media with a tortured headlinethat tried to indicate that Leon County was
ranked horribly with regards to pedestrian safety. But if you read into the article.
The data they used was put outby a personal injury law firm,
and then it finally always a goodsource for creditbility, I mean, who
knows. But then it also saidthat, you know, the article concluded

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that, you know, Leon Countywas not in the top ten of the
most dangerous counties in Florida. Sowhy the headline. Well, the only
quote in the article came from CityCommissioner Jackport. This was back in January,
December January. Well, then recentlywe had that tragic accident over on
FSU campus where the student was killedmode over in the crosswalk by someone traveling

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seventy miles an hour. Not longafter that, commission Jack Porter had a
press conference. In between those twoevents media events, I noticed that the
city commission that she'd asked for thisprogram called Vision zero to be introduced into
Leon County. Vision zero is asafety program adopted in Europe in nineteen ninety

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seven and pushed by progressive groups tobasically redesign highway systems to fit pedestrians and
bicycles. So I did some researchon this, and you know, we've
talked about Commissioner Reporter going and getprogressive training at these three conferences. Guess
who advocates for Vision zero. Iwonder these conferences what commission report moves to.

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Yeah, she doesn't have an originalidea, so anyway she's pushing this.
She had a press conference after thistragic accident. Tragic accident, and
the media, as has been thenorm over the last couple of years,
they take tragic accidents or issues andthey write stories about it without looking at
the underlying well numbers, in facts, in fairness. That's how a lot

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of laws get passed in mid statelegislatures, including Florida emotion. So what
I decided to do is go lookat the pedestrian safety data that is cataloged.
And what I found was the amountof data that is kept nationally and
by the state is unbelievable. Youcan figure out how safe your community is.
We've got a story and actually haveit up at talis reports dot com

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that we looked at pedestrian fatalities perone hundred thousand population in Florida over the
last six years, and we comparedLeon County to not only Florida, but
to other counties that have similar populations, which was a Scambia, Saint John's
and Alachua, which is Gainesville,which has obviously a university, and we

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found out that the county fell farespretty well over the last six years.
You could see that we're blacked.It's improving, yes, it is improving
now. So when you look atthose those those numbers there, then you've
got to have that as the contextwhen you start talking about bringing in something
like Vision zero. Now, wehave an article in our newest Prent edition

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that is written by the Reason Foundation, which is a libertarian group which goes
and allizes things and it and ittakes a pretty good look at this Vision
zero program. It's been adopted byyour you know, by New York City,
San Francisco, La Chicago, beena failure in most places because how
is it judged a failure? Well, because well they look at stats like

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that. They haven't changed. Theidea is that progressives don't like cars.
Okay, they don't want you todrive your car, and yeah, of
course, but they don't want youdriving cars. And so this instead of
looking at specific accidents and trying tofigure out what to fix, they want
to redesign all. You know,they want to increase public transportation. They

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want to they want to redesign thetransportation system to make it more difficult for
drivers. In other words, ifyou're if you're having to wait in traffic
because you've got more bike lanes andyou've got you know, different things.
I mean, they've got a programto where you actually drop people off in
the middle of the street, andGainesville has adopted this, and I'm looking
into this. But so this,this is something we need to be aware

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of because what's happening. And thisis the same thing on parking minimums,
Progressives are pushing and getting rid ofrid of parking minimums. They don't want
parking places for people, okay,they want to leave it up to developers.
So on the one side, progressivessay developers are corrupt, but on
the other side, they want toleave it up to developers to decide up
to need parking places. And thisis another issue that we can talk about,

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but it has a lot of externalitiesand effects neighborhoods that are near economic
centers. So anyway, these aresome things you need to keep your eyes
on, your eyes on and we'rewe're providing the information. Elections matter,
and there are elections coming up thisfall that matter a lot more with Steve
Stewart Next twenty two Morning Show withPreston Scott twenty two minutes past the hour.

(42:16):
I just just told Steve Stewart,executive editor Tellassi Reports again the website
Tellasreports dot com, with what we'reseeing happening down at the airport. We
need a gateway. We need morethan one gateway. We need all the
people coming in. We need gatewaysin all four directions, north, southeast,
and west. We need gateways everywhere. So but the news is good,

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Well, I get yeah. Imean if you look at the numbers,
and that's sort of you know,we just went to what you do
you crunch the numbers and then youtry to look at what Why isn't this
narrative out there? You know,we've we've been following this every month.
There's a number of economic stats thatwe publish and look at and stupid data.
And so if you look at theairport passenger traffic the last I mean
year to date is up fifteen percent, where the annual rate is at eight

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hundred and ninety five thousand passengers tryingto get to that million first got to
get to nine hundred thousand. Butit's just over the last three or four
months that the traffic has just reallystarted to increase. David Pollard at the
airport says it had Jet Blue bringingin the discount carry has a lot to
do with that. Well, it'sinteresting because the session's over, right,

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So what are they coming in townfor, even on the cheap carriers?
Yeah, I mean well again,and we talked about this a little bit
last time, is that I've readfrom a national perspective that business traveling's picking
up. The zoom calls are goodfor internal meetings, but customer service,
you know, trying to do salesand still to sit across from people.
Yeah, you want to go shakethe hand and you know, look them

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in the eye. And so that'sstarting to pick back up. Okay,
so maybe that's part of it.But again, the numbers are just amazing
double digit growth I think year overyear the last three months, and so
you know, it's interesting to keepan eye and see exactly you know,
I'd love to be It's sort oflike people buying very expensive homes. You
just like to go interview a bunchof them, figure out what do they

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do for a living, where theycome from? You know, the same
thing with the airport. You'd liketo find out why all of a sudden
do we have fifteen percent, twentytwo percent, eleven percent growth year over
year in the last three months.I mean, it is you know again,
it's very interesting. And so anywaywe'll leave that, you know,
and that is airport is listen.That's been part of the sort of master

(44:27):
plan is to try to develop thatarea out there. How is that going
that? I think I think it'smoving slowly but deliberately. I don't know,
you know, there was the oneissue that they had some they had
a project that was that has fellthrough that they were going to rent some
space. There's a lot of roadrenovation going on around right, and so
they're trying to make it easy foryou know, we've become a logistics hub
with Amazon. The two different locations. A lot of people don't know about

(44:51):
the location on Capitol Circle Northwest,and so anyway, I think it's it's
good. I just it's funny tosee things like that that are doing well.
But you don't understand how much doesAmazon historically rely on an air hub.
You know, that's a that's agreat question. I don't think,
you know, I think that thethe Capital Circle Northwest one. I think

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probably it would be the one thatwould be relying on that because of the
direct link to the airport. Obviouslynot the one out off of Mayhem.
But you know, as we talkedabout with this recent report talking about the
local economy, Amazon picked this areafor a reason. There's not a lot
of these fulfillment centers that are distributed. I'm going to be an idiot.
I'll tell you why they picked it. They picked it for the same reason
why drug runners pick it. No, it's it's it's a crossroads to a

(45:38):
lot of large areas. It connectsAtlanta and that that whole hub to south
and central Florida. No. Imean if you look at where our location
is from Jacksonville, Pensacola, Atlanta, Orlando, I mean we are pretty
centrally located from that standpoint. Yeah. So anyway, again, these are
all good numbers. Now on somethingon another indicator that is going the other

(45:58):
direction is we publish single family permitdata and we've noticed it over the last
twelve months ending in about January,that this number was increasing. In other
words, there are more permits beingissued for single family construction. That has
started to trend down in the lastcouple of months, and those are trends
that they tend to get going onedirection and sort of head that direction for

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a while, and so that isI don't know if it again. So
they spiked after the prices of wooddropped the last twelve months, started recovering
to where you were at about sixtypermits a month, and then crested and
started now going. It's headed backdown now. Ironically, last in Tuesday
at the Uncunty Commission meeting, theyapproved a pretty large residential development out Appalachi

(46:44):
Parkway at April Road, which iseast of Capital Circle, out Appalachi Parkway,
which is within still the Urban ServicesArea. Five hundred and forty two
residential units that will be built outthere in size we know, no,
we do not know. Twenty percentof them think will be town homes,
eighty percent will be single family homes. And so interestingly enough, you know

(47:07):
Commission o'keeff, who is the progressiveon the Leoni County Commission, who had
called Canopy sort of urban sprawl whichis in the northeast Jack and Jeremy's bff.
This was in his district and hevoted for this and didn't say one
thing about it being urban sprawl.Not sure what to make of that.
I'll have to thought to him alittle bit more down the controversial fires burning
about him. Maybe maybe, butthis is out of ways, like I

(47:29):
said. But again, urban servicearea I got. I got a couple
of calls about it. They're excited. Maybe this will bring out more services,
more restaurants, things like that.So anyway, we'll keep an eye
on the you know, the newdevelopment area because interest rates are coming down
if you read the National Financial News, and so we're sort of stuck in
that area. So we'll see whatchange anytime. So yeah, see how

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that impacts residential home prices. Thanksfor the time they keep pressing them.
Steve Stewart tallhas Report Subscribe. It'scalled Tallahassee Reports dot com. That's where
you go to the website to subscribeand get that paper delivered to you.
Preston Scott, this is the wayon News Radio one hundred point seven Double
UFLA Florida CFO. Jimmy Patrona's halfhour from now. Some help for your

(48:21):
four legged friends in just a minutewith doctor Steve Steveson. But first,
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(50:01):
Not good out of control inflation.It continues it cannot keep up with
wages because as wages continue to goup, it then demands that inflation follow
you can't catch up. What Iwouldn't give for more young people to listen

(50:25):
to this program, and so wedo our best. But the best we
can do is to inform you sothat you can explain it to them.
Hence the repetition on certain topics.Right now, it takes one hundred and
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(50:49):
United States. Some states more,some states less, but that's the average.
And this is why Washington d C. The District of Columbia, cannot
ever be allowed to be a statebecause they are allowing illegal immigrants to vote
in local elections. You know,in my world, you'd somehow find all

(51:16):
of the real conservative illegals in thiscountry that just to their core are just
they just believe in conservative values,and you get them to run for office,
and you elected them, and thenyou kick all the liberals out of
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(51:43):
allowed to vote in local elections inWashington, d C. I'm telling you,
forty minutes after the hour, sometips for your four legged Friends next,
and welcome to the Morning Show withPreston Scott twenty one past the hour.

(52:10):
Remember if you want to share anythingwith me your thoughts, link Preston
at iHeartRadio dot com. Let's talkabout the kittens and the puppies, the
dogs and the cats. It's timefor Pause for Thought with doctor Steve Steverson
of the Bradfordville Animal Hospital. Goodmorning, sir, how are you hey,

(52:32):
Preston, I'm doing great. Howare you? I'm good. You
know, when I see the topicof dental care for pets and and consider
the the idea of trying to brushthe teeth of a dog, I just
laugh. Yeah. It takes alot of patience and a little bit of

(52:52):
effort and time to get to whereyou can brush your dog's seats very often.
But it can be done. Doyou have to? Is it one
of those things that you have?You just have to start early when they're
puppies to get them used to it. Preston, is much much easier if
you start when they're when they're youngand train them to allow their teeth to
be brushed. Some dogs any agedon't mind it. Others are are a

(53:13):
little more challenging. And it justtakes a little bit of time. You
know. You take the either thelittle finger cut with the bristles on it
on your fingertip or at dog caninetoothbrush, uh, and you start with
just the teeth that the dog willallow you or the cat will allow you
to brush. And you just justright over the canine teeth right in the
front and just brush that a littlebit and every day or a couple times

(53:37):
a week. And when you brush, start there and work your way around
and start going farther and farther around. As time goes by, you get
to where you can brush almost allof the dog's teeth or the cat's teeth.
How do you get how do youget to the backside of the teeth?
So that was about to say it'sfinishing in dogs and cats. It's
the outer surfaces of the teeth thatare the problem. Dogs and cats rarely

(53:59):
have any sort of significant target buildup on the inner surfaces of their teeth.
Okay, so it's the outside youwant to brush. If you just
brush the outside, that is wonderful. That is all you would need to
do. And cats allow you tobrush their teeth. You know, it's
funny some of them do, andthey're not as tolerant of it as dogs
are, but they certainly will letyou. There's pastes that are flavored.

(54:22):
Now you can get you know,a chicken or a beef flavored and all
these different flavors of toothpaste that youcan use for your dog or cat.
So they like the taste of it. Some of them will start chewing on
the brush just because they like thetaste of it. So then that you
can make this a fun game forthem, so you can start brushing their
teeth. So it's not an impossiblething to do if you are patient with
it. Okay, now I thinkit's we've got to make this abundantly clear.

(54:45):
Never ever use adult toothpaste, noteven children's toothpaste, right, That
is correct. Human toothpaste can containIt contains a lot of fluoride, which
can be a problem for dogs intheir digestive system cats as well well,
and also a lot of paste toothpastenowadays have xylotol in it, which is
an artificial sweetener that is a deadlyto dogs and cats. So don't use

(55:07):
human toothpaste. Use your canine specificor a pet specific toothpaste. There are
other products out there, Steve,I can see for a lot of owners
of pets they're going to go withthe path of least resistance. And there
are the dental chows, and thenthere are additives that people put in their
water. Are any of these useful? They can help for sure. You

(55:32):
know, some dogs and cats willnever allow you to brush their teeth,
and it's better to use the dentalchoes or dental treats in those dogs and
cats versus not doing anything. Now, you want a chew toy that they
will chew sufficiently, and they needto show it for at least two or
three minutes. If you give yourdog a raw hide and he tries to

(55:52):
wolf it down and eat it inthirty seconds, yep, it's not doing
his teeth any good. He needsto chew it for two or three minutes
to make it effective to brush andscrape their teeth as that they chew them.
There are many many types of dentalschoes and treats out there. You
certainly want to talk to your vetinarianabout what they recommend them. Which ones
are good and safe and effective.There are a lot of out that are
really good, Like the greenies aregreat there are these. There are a

(56:16):
couple of new types out nder.These rice bones you can get now that
are available. So there are alot of different types of shoes out there
that are are good. Talk toyour vetinarying about that other water additives.
Yeah, go ahead, those prestonthose prest and health. They reduce the
bacteria in the mouth. And it'sthe bacteria in the mouth, it's a
normal flora. That's what produces thetartar that creates all the problems in our

(56:39):
dog's mouth, just like it whata now is if we didn't brush our
teeth. Okay, and so thoseadditives do help with that for sure.
Okay, real quickly. Uh.Soft refrigerated pet foods are all the rage.
They're all over TV. They're directmarketed as well. What is better
for the dental health of pets?Dry food or soft foods? You know,

(57:01):
they had discovered at We used tothink dry food was better than soft
food. And there's a lot ofstatesmen done on that now and that's actually
a fictitious, it's actually a Itdoesn't matter whether dry food or soft food.
The more important thing is you dosomething to take care of their teeth
afterwards. Always good stuff, DoctorSteverson, thanks for the time this morning.
I appreciate it. Great. Thanks, Prestin, Thank you, sir,

(57:22):
doctor Steve Steverson. There you go, pet owners, see cat owners.
I'm looking out for you, helpingyou out. Still the idea of
brushing of the teeth of a pet, I know you should, but still
forty seven minutes after the hour,Preston Scott Hello, Hello, anybody by

(57:51):
my news radio one point seven doubleusla Ah. Just man, they got
it right when they came up withthis at not the be What a time

(58:12):
to be alive. I don't knowif you know about the Visual Art Portal
in New York City. Yeah,I know about it, folks. It
live streams continuously to connect New Yorkerswith their counterparts in Dublin, Ireland.

(58:32):
The art sculpture connects the two cities. Located on twenty third Street and Fifth
Avenue in Manhattan, allows people inDublin to see what's going on in New
York in real time and vice versa. People have connected by offering greetings,
messages and other salutation. The presidentof the Flat Iron Nomad Partnership, which

(58:58):
operates the portal, said, yeah, there's been a point one percent interaction
that includes some hateful messages, somenudity, and it ruins it for everybody.
So we're temporarily closing the portal.Dublin City Council said, well,

(59:21):
we cannot control all of these actions. We are implementing some technical solutions to
address this. I mean, whatcould possibly go wrong? Yeah? Right?
Who who greenlit this saying oh,this will be great? We trust
people to not Honestly, I thinkit's an awesome idea, I really do.

(59:47):
But it occurs to me that maybeyou put it inside the Visitors and
Convention bureau as a display monitored bypeople on both ends, not just in
the middle of the street. Yeah, sidewalk. I mean, and then
I'm thinking to myself, who whodrops his drawers lifts their shirt? I

(01:00:12):
mean, who does this? Whodecides this is a good idea? I
just just made me laugh. I'mnot suggesting you go to New York City
or Dublin. Yeah, I wasgonna say, is the road trip idea?

(01:00:32):
Go see the portal? Nope.I got something really good though.
Inside Unique America, my book thatI rely on frequently, not all the
time. I've got Herald Warps PioneerVillage in Minden, Nebraska. You go

(01:00:53):
to the website Pioneer Village dot com. This is a very cool place and
you very few of you have probablyever heard of it. It is.

(01:01:13):
It covers more than just a mockupof the Oregon Trail, which we talked
about earlier in the program. Itcovers a lot more than one time period.
He's covering the time from eighteen thirtyto nineteen sixty two. Twenty eight
separate buildings, more than one hundredthousand square feet of display, fifty thousand

(01:01:36):
artifacts, and you're going to findan eclectic hodgepodge, a frontier fort,
a general store, art collections,historic flying machines, antique tractors, automobiles,
atomic power displays, you name it. So make note Minden, Nebraska,

(01:01:57):
Harold Warps, just remember Village dotcom. I'm serious. Check it
out. Might be a great placeto stop for you. That's how we
do. We come back Florida.CFO Jimmy Patronis will join us. Storm
season's coming for many here, it'salready come. More. Next for the

(01:02:31):
five and sixtieth occasion, we turnthe page on the rundown and get to
our number three of the Morning Showwith Preston Scott. I'm Preston. He
is Grant Allen. It is Thursday, May sixteenth, and it's great to
be with you this morning. AndI am honored to have with us once
again Florida's Chief Financial Officer CFO.Jimmy patrons All are you, sir?

(01:02:57):
Heck, I'm honored to be withy'all. Thank you for having me.
I warmly received your email and offerto try to guide those listening through the
process of recovery, not get scammed, not get taken advantage of. Jimmy,
it strikes me that a tornado iskind of like a rifle versus a

(01:03:21):
hurricane, which is kind of likea shotgun. But the damage left behind,
regardless is always devastation. And whatare some things that you can advise
our listeners in this area impacted bythese storms that might be helpful to them.
The best thing I can tell inPresident is don't sign anything. A

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lot of your listeners have been approachedby very aggressive tactics by contractors and tree
tremors. With when it comes totree tremors, if you've got a tree
down in your yard, that isgoing to be your responsibility to get removed
now. If the trees on topof your house, that will be a
responsibility of your insurance carrier. Soyou know, when when you've got a

(01:04:08):
damage to your house created by thetree because of the storm, that's where
where your insurance company will come andtake care of it. The contracted tree
tremors by the insurance companies. Nowyou can say, hey, I've got
other trees here, can you takecare of them? The same time they
will treat that as a separate contract. But these guys that come fly by
night, that come and knock onyour door, that want to offer to

(01:04:30):
put a tarf on your roof ifyou'll sign something, those guys are now
going to take over your insurance claim. And unfortunately they will suck up the
resources that really should be going tothe repair of your house, that should
be going to use. They willtake it and use it for them.
So I just you know, ifit sounds too good to be true,
please don't take the baite. Whatwhat are the I guess the options.

(01:04:55):
Is it first call to the insurancecompany, is it somewhere else? So
what I tell people all the time, if your first phone call is either
to my office at one eight sevenseven, my fl CFO, your insurance
agent or your carrier. There's zerochance of you getting scammed. Okay,

(01:05:16):
you know what was what's great aboutthe tornadoes we saw it also idel Ya
because the size of the storm wasmanageable. The carriers have the ability so
that one of the carriers I wastalking to this earlier this week, when
a storm hits, they've got theability to physically pick up the phone and
talk to ten thousand people with atwenty four hour period where the carrier will

(01:05:40):
call, they will say you know, I'm x y Z insurance company you're
in and they track it via viastorm weather spikes. So you know,
if you live along blairstone and yourcarrier, you probably got outreach from carry
your carrier because along Blairstone there wassuch a devastated path. It'll either text
or email a phone call, soyou know, I know sometimes it sounds

(01:06:01):
a little unorthodox that your insurance companyis trying to call you. But with
the insurance company mentality as guided nowis be proactive, reach out touch to
the policyholder. Let the policy holderwe're here to file a claim. When
you file acclaim with that policitive,that carrier over the phone. It's not
costing anything, it's just getting theball started. You're not obligating yourself to

(01:06:24):
anything. But I would always erron the side of caution. If you've
got the ability to jump in lineas quick as you can and get a
claim started, take it. Iwant to get your money as soon as
possible. If if someone's already signedand now they're listening to you and they're
concerned, what recourses do they have? So it depends on what you signed.

(01:06:45):
You can call again, call ouroffice at one eight seven seven my
FLCFO, or you call your agent. One thing we did in this most
recent legislative session, but it doesn'tkick in till July one, is we
put a ten day right of recisionperiod in it. What we saw with
Hurricane Idelia, and I hate gettingin the middle of contract between adults,

(01:07:09):
but what we have with Idelia.I'll give you one example. We had
a man in Perry. He hadno damage to the roof. He was
ninety years old. He had signedup with four different roofing contractors because they
were so aggressive. So then ourdipths, our law enforcement officers, they
went out, they tracked down thosecontractors and go really is this what you

(01:07:31):
really really want to do? Andwe got all four of them torn up
voluntarily by the contractors. But youknow, I mean sometimes unless we know
about it, we can't help you. So we've got our guys. I
mean literally minutes after the storm,we put our defass team, that's our
our law enforcement officers. We hitthem out in the street. I told

(01:07:54):
them, the guys, cruise theneighborhoods with your lights on, no sirens,
just like them. I want peopleto see that you're there. But
the bad guys will keep on movingif they see law enforce there because they
know better. Good stuff. Hangon, Jimmy, Jimmy Patrona's state CFO
with US storm seasons about here.We already experienced some of it in the
Capital City region. Some advice comingup next the Morning Show with Preston Scott

(01:08:24):
making time in his very busy scheduleto share some helpful tips to those of
you impacted by the tornado outbreak nearlya week ago. The devastation. You've
heard the numbers more power lines snappedin half, poles snapped in half than
the last three to four hurricanes combined, which tells you something about the intensity

(01:08:48):
of the storm. Mister CFO,let's talk about storm season and some of
the best practices, not so muchfor battening down the hatch, but are
preparing for having to deal with theaftermath of a storm from paperwork and documents
and so forth. Yeah, let'ssay we're a smartphone society. Now preston

(01:09:11):
and tell people use your smartphone.And you know, unfortunately Tallahassee has been
devastated, but there's a lot ofparts Tallahassee in the northern part that didn't
have the type of storm activity.But take your phone. Take take a
walking talking video or the outside ofyour house. It'll take you two minutes
to walk around the outside of yourhouse and just say, hey, today's
date. You know, this iswhat time it is. And you can

(01:09:33):
and just show that your house hasno trees on it, okay, and
that all your eaves and your roofsand good and just good shape. Don't
climb up on the roof, justthe outer edge of your house and uh,
and some photos do the same thinginside and kind of take a little
bit of an inventory showing you know, your TVs, you're all covering your
furniture. Because when you have astorm and it's not if it's when it's

(01:09:55):
going to happen. Okay, you'regonna have to file a claim. Whatever
you have gon that's photographic evidence,I would email it to yourself. So
it's in a virtual place. It'sin the cloud, and it's always there.
So when and if you do havedamage, now an adjuster's going to
come to your house saying, hey, this was how my house looked on
May sixteenth of twenty twenty four.And so it makes it more black and

(01:10:18):
white, more cut and dry,because now you go back and you've got
a tree fall in your house,it becomes pretty obvious. Yeah, this
this tree didn't exist on May sixteenth, But here we are on August twelfth,
and the tree is there. Sothat's that's one thing that's really easy
to do. The others, youknow, take pictures of your insurance documents
and do the same thing, justemail them to yourself. But like said,

(01:10:41):
the beauty of technology now is likewe saw with Idellia, we saw
with the tornadoes, is the carriersare leveraging that technology to reach out to
those that, like I said,in this one carrier was talking to where
the winds spiked over one hundred milesper hour. I mean, those folks
got calls immediately. To the carrier'soutitude is I would rather get to you
first than the bad guys. Sothey want to start that claims process as

(01:11:04):
soon as possible. Yeah, becauseFlorida has unfortunately, because we have more
than more than most people believe thenumber of tornadoes that hit this state.
In fact, I saw somewhere Jimmythat Florida ranks number one and most tornadoes
every year annually. But that said, we've learned some painful lessons over the

(01:11:24):
years through hurricanes and all that abouthow just rotten some people can be.
Yeah, and that's why you know, we keep on every year that I've
been in office, We've kept onchipping away at the bad guys with walls.
So like some of there's there's goodpublic adjusters, and there's some that
are they're like locusts, they're sobad. And so like, we successfully

(01:11:45):
last year put a thirty day writerdecision on a public adjuster. But what
I also put in there is,you know, you got thirty days from
the time of the disaster, andmost people are going to file acclaim.
You would think within ten days theygot damage, they're going to contact their
carrier or their carrier's going to contactthem with them first ten days. So
my attitude was, Okay, carriers, here's thirty days for you to get

(01:12:09):
your act together. If you don'tget your actgether when that first thirty days,
then you know what, We're goingto cut the dogs loose, okay,
and they're going to go out andtake over these claims. So the
carriers is a way to get thecarriers attention, but it was also telling
the public adjusters, Look, ifyou're noble in what you're doing and your
good people, fine, but ifyou're one of these predators, we're going

(01:12:30):
to give that homeowner up to thirtydays to get their wherewithal and fire your
tail. Nice. Always appreciate yourtime, Jimmy, and I appreciate all
you're doing on behalf of the citizenryof this great state. Thank you well,
I tell you, radios, it'sthe gifts during disasters. Thank you
for what y'all do. You maynot hear it enough, but you're just
like a first responder because you're sittingthere behind the microphone during the worst weather

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of anybody. So God bless y'all. Preston, thanks for having me this
morning. I appreciate it. Sir. Jimmy Patrona's Florida CFO with us some
brilliant tips. Just walk around yourhouse, in and out with your phone,
narrate what you have, document itscondition, take some pictures, and
then email all of that to yourself. You will be so grateful. Do

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it sooner versus later seventeen minutes pastthe hour makes me happy when I can
say friend of the radio program.Obviously, having members of Florida's Cabinet,

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lawmakers, members of the House,the Senate, it benefits you having someone
like Jimmy Petronas take the time tosay hey, and I mean he hit

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me up immediately, he said,find some time I'm available. I'll make
it work in my schedule. Iknow there will be predatory practices, but
to have friends of the program likethat, I hope you understand how highly

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they think of you. It's notme they they think highly of you.
They're saying, let me help,let me give information, let me explain
whatever, let me hear from you. But those friendships extend beyond elected officials.

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I'm thrilled that Scott Beacon is nowa friend of this program because his
blog is exceptional? What makes itso unique? And why I know that?
You know a good friend and oneof the research supervisors here, Rob

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Rob, introduced me to Scott's work. He just said, check out this
link, look at this guy's material. And then he said, by the
way Scott listens to the show,you know, And then we became connected
and friends. What makes Scott's workunique from so many blogs out there?

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And that's fine. They're just givingyou their opinion on things, and that's
awesome because when it's all said anddone, inevitably, that's what I do.
I give you. I give youmy opinion on things. Scott offers
you data, he digs, heprobes, and then at times he allows

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that to inform a set of thoughts. Sometimes he just lets the data sit
out there and you ruminate on itand decide what you will. But he
weighed in on the vice presidential possibilitiesfor Donald Trump, and he broke it
down this way. The individual shouldbe ready to and able to serve the

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country. Because Trump's not a youngman. Trump would enter office older than
Ronald Reagan left office in his secondterm. Second, Trump should be selecting
someone who is young enough and capableenough to carry on the MAGA agenda.

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America First, I would call it. Instead of make America great again,
I would say America first. Ithink America first before buddles the MAGA crowd.
They can try to relabel it,but they've labeled MAGA. America first
plays very differently, and I personallythink that would be a branding thing that

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Trump ought to do. And theRepublican Party how to just jump all over
that. America first. Third,Trump needs to select someone who the establishment
fears almost as much as they abhorhim. He then breaks down why Biden
is boxed in. Kamala's got themtotally screwed because if they jettison him and

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they fall back on Kamala, Kamalais worse and they know it. So
he's taken the candidates that are mostlikely out there, and he's included now
Governor Round de Santas in this list. And he's taken the names Tim Scott,
Ben Carson, Christy Nome, TulseaGabber, Doug Bergham, vivek Ramaswami,

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Tucker Carlson, Marco rue jd VanceRon de Santis, and he's put
them all on a grid, readyand prepared, carry on the legacy,
is feared and fearless. Only twocandidates does he have ready and prepared carry
on the legacy and feared and fearless. Two he's got. Tim Scott is

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ready and prepared and carry on thelegacy, but not feared and fearless.
Ben Carson none of those. ChristyNome the first two, but not feared
and fearless. Tulsi Gabbard ready andprepared, but not carry on the legacy.
Doug Bergham not carry on the legacy, not feared and fearless. Same
with Tulsi Gabbard. Vivek carry onthe legacy, feared and fearless maybe,

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but not ready and prepared. Samewith Tucker Carlson, Marco Rubio not feared
and fearless. He's got JD.Vance and Ron De Santis as the only
two that are ready and prepared,prepared to carry on the legacy of make
America great again or America First,and feared and fearless. Breaking down their

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policy positions and media response to themboth. I just thought that was interesting.
JD. Vance is a name youmight hear more and more. Preston
Scott does mother, no, youwear eth her drapes on news radio one
hundred point SEVENBUFLA. Should a stateshould federalism extend so far that a state

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or even a community be allowed tomake it possible for illegal immigrants to vote.
No way, federal election law shouldtrump that should just not be allowed

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for the for the sake of thoughtexperiment, Like let's say you come to
the conclusion that the answer is yes, you know, like a a Washington,
d C. Or in New Yorksays, hey, uh, borders
don't matter, citizenship, proof ofbirth in a particular locale, none of
it matters. Love thought experiments,none of it matters. If you're here,

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you can participate in civic elections.You know, let's say they just
all categories and distinctions are blown outof the water and anyone in Washington,
DC can vote. See, yeah, you have no tie to the land

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anyway. See. Likewise, shouldn'tlocals, states, counties be able to
determine Yeah? No, I don'twant to participate in that anymore. That
political arrangement, Like if we're ifwe're forced to be quote unquote compatriots members

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of the same country. You know, logically, if the locale. If
we're thinking hyper federalism here, thelocal can do that, let anyone vote
logically, then another state or communitydoesn't have to put up with it.

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See see thanks for well, thanksfor playing the game. Yeah, I
mean we got a bunch of peoplehave no idea what we're talking about.
Yeah. Guy that was ordering atthe at the take out part of publics

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pointing at things because he didn't understanda blooming word. The guy was saying,
would you like would you like threechicken tenders or four? Yeah?
See what are we doing? Washington, DC? Big story in the press
box. Creative Grove, a creativemarketing and digital expertise, is going to

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allow illegals to vote in municipal electionsonly. Of course they would never be
allowed to vote in a federal election. Of course. No, they're gonna
be able to give them a ballotthat just has the local stuff. I'm
sure no chance of illegals voting there. Abortion is up across the country.
It's not gone down, it's goneup, and Florida one of the leaders

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of more abortions, not less,and as of right now, inflation out
of control. It takes at leastone hundred and seventy eight, roughly one
thousand dollars for a family four tolive comfortably in the US. Now,
obviously those are those are our definitionsof comfortably and so forth, that are
that are up for grabs and discussion. But I'm just making the point that

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the number crunching continues to show inflationis just pushing everything higher and higher and
higher, and there is no waywages will catch up. Not gonna happen.
Come back, Let's change gears.Let's do something fun. Animal Stories
next The Morning Show with Preston Scotton News Radio one hundred point seven w
FLA. In the wild or inour homes, we love them critters large

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and small. Time for another editionof Animal Stories on the Morning Show with
Preston Scott. I think through whatfirefighters do. I mean, they're they're
running into burning buildings to try torecover whatever they can to try to save

(01:24:01):
lives whenever they can, to savefacilities, save buildings. But then they
get other calls to rescue animals.Duluth Fire Department, Duluth, Minnesota,
We're talking way up there. Uh. They had to use a super sized
ladder truck known as the tower torescue Nina. Nina was an escaped cockatil.

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Cockatil think of a miniature cockatoo,kind of a combo between a parakeet
and a miniature cockatila. There thereare kackatoo. They're they're they're interesting birds.
I years and years and years agoI owned a cockatiel, but it
was located on the sixth story windowledge at Saint Luke's Hospital. Not quite

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sure how the bird was in thehospital, but you just you start to
play in your mind. I thinkan animated movie where this bird's like,
yeah, I'm getting out and thenrealizes he can't fly because his wings have
been clipped, not cut off,just clipped where he doesn't have any He

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doesn't he's got no aerodynamic lift.That's what they do to birds. They
keep him from flying away by doingthat. So he's out there, he's
on the sixth floor ledge looking around, going yeah, this doesn't look promising.
So the fire guys have to rescuethe bird. Oh they did it,
well done. But this this couldbe easily a worst of the Week.

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But barring a change, I've alreadygot my best and worst picked out.
So this is this is certainly ananimal story. Visitors at the Taiju
Zoo in the jang Soup province ofChina kind of went at an exhibit.

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The exhibit was the panda exhibit,and inside were these small little pandas,
except they weren't. They were chowswhose fur was cut and dyed to look

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identical to a panda, and sozoo officials marched these dogs out, allowing
people to believe that these were pandason display. But they got busted.
They said they put them on displaybecause they don't have any resident pandas.
They said that fur dying process wasnot dangerous or harmful to the canines.

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They told state run media outlet thatthe panda dogs aren't meant to be deceptive
whatever. That's shameful. I mean, that's just I bet the dogs were
cute, but that's just shameful.But that's what you get. That's what

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you have with animal stories tomorrow onthe program The Best and Worst. I've
got a few. I got acall out. I'm trying to get a
writer covering a story about Florida andm University that is doesn't reflect well on
the school. They received the donationthat wasn't apparently and they're looking a little
bad and thought they were gonna rollin with a three hundred million dollars plus

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donation, and we'll we're again we'retrying to get the writer of the story
on. But we'll talk about that. What's the Bee Friday Course? The
best and worst good News, theBee Dad joke. That's tomorrow here in
the Morning Show with Preston Scott opX. It's called Operator Experience. If

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you ever wondered what it would belike to be an operator. This is
not for everybody. I shared alittle bit of this earlier in the week.
It is an event coming up injust a couple of weeks in the
Montgomery area of Alabama. It's athree day course developed by former Seals,

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special ops, real world operators,and it's it's designed for people that a
want to experience what that's like,but more importantly, are willing to support
a mission called Legacy Relief Project.What these guys do. These are again

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our former special ops guy. Theyempower Christian organizations to advance God's truth into
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the knowledge to help people in difficultcircumstances. You can go on their website
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It's not for everybody, like Isaid, but it might be for
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Heating and Air It's the Morning Showon WFLA. We looked back at the

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radio program in one hundred and eightyseconds or less. We started today with
Proverbs eleven twenty four. That wasour verse of the day. The big
stories in the press box. Outof control. Inflation, it's continuing now.
Food prices have dropped back for thefirst time in forever, but modestly.

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But other things are picking up.And all you need to do is
look at the Fed's actions. TheFED, which desperately wanted to reduce interest
rates to try to help Biden,they just can't. Inflation's too bad.
Remember that bill, the Inflation ReductionAct. How's that working out. We're

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just here to remind you. Gotto do things differently, got to put
new people in charge. And that'severywhere all over the place. Eighteen months
following the Supreme Court's decision that endedthe protection for abortion, the number of

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abortions is up. Sadly. Floridaone of the leaders Washington DC voting registration
for illegal immigrants. They're teaching themhow to vote because legally, in Washington,
DC, they can vote in municipallocal elections. Now they say they
will not be allowed to vote infederal elections. Yeah. Right, And

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we just had an impromptu little discussionin the last half hour about how far
does federalism go. You know,this is absurd, This should not be
allowed period. Well, but weonly wanted municipal elections. So what they're
here illegally they can't vote Oregon purgingnon citizens from state voter roles. But

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they need to purge more, butthey can't because the FEDS aren't cooperating with
database helpum George Soros spent has spenteighty million to silence Americans. According to
the Media Research Center, they're alreadypriming the pump for censorship of information that's
not helpful to Joe and the leadup to the next election. Chat GPT
has the new GPT forty model.Yeah, I'm gonna ignore that too.

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I haven't looked at any of that. I haven't listened to any of it.
I haven't asked it a question,and I won't. But I will
be back tomorrow