Ep. 5174: D Day Anniversary & Surviving The Survivor Discussion

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- Karmela and Joel Waldman from the Surviving The Survivor podcast

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Episode Transcript

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He now friends. Good morning ruminators, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,
Males and females. That's it,males and females. Welcome Thursday on
the Morning Show with Preston Scott Showfifty one seventy four. Great to be
with you. It's June sixth,and we will talk more about that in

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mere moments. We have a justa loaded show today Thursday. Of course,
usually lots of guests, and todayno exception. Steve Stewart will join
us Doctor Steve steveson seven o'clock hourEastern sixth Central is the Hour of Steve.
I guess and we'll give you aroad trip idea and then in the

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final hour, a visit with JoelWaldman and Carmela Waldman his mom, better
known as the duo that hosts apodcast, YouTube channel, and now has
written a book, Surviving the SurvivorIt's a Remarkable Story. Carmela is a

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Holocaust survivor. Joel Waldman and EmmyAward winning journalists with Fox News and several
other outlets, now independent and primarilyworks in the world of true crime with
the podcast that I have been aguest of on several occasions, as they

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covered the Dan Markll murder trial,but will have Joel and Carmela in studio.
They will be signing books, thebook Surviving the Survivor Tonight at Heart
and Soul. We'll give you thedetails about that a little bit later,
but first, as we do,we start with a little verse of scripture,
and today it comes from Ephesians threeseventeen through nineteen. It says,

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so that Christ may dwell in yourhearts through faith, that you, being
rooted and grounded in love, mayhave strength to comprehend with all the saints,
what is the breadth and length,and height and depth, And to

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know the love of Christ that surpassesknowledge, that you may be filled with
all the fullness of God, rootedand grounded in love. I think it
was my pastor who said, Ithink one of the most profound statements I've

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heard in a long time. Hesaid, God is Love. But today's
generation has turned love into God,and any parent with any sense of understanding

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knows what love really is. Loveencompasses much much more than acceptance. Love
is about correction. Love is partencouragement, part discipline. You hear parents

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talk about having to engage in toughlove with their children. What they're referring
to is saying no putting up boundariesbeing consistent. We have so cheapened the
word and have allowed the gospel messageof Christ to be unrecognizable to what the

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Bible teaches us, to what Jesusspoke of. You know, as I
as I studied the Bible for yearsand years and years. Yes, it's
true that Jesus met needs and acceptedeverybody. He also said, stop sinning.

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Not everybody listened, and so theywalked away. Jesus himself said,
look, I've I've come to bringto even within families, because there will
be some that just ignore my wordsGod's commands, live their life their own

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way, and that will divide familiesfrom those who choose to love and follow
me. So when you think ofthis verse in Ephesians three seventeen through nineteen,
rooted and grounded in love, understandthe depth of that word. Ten

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minutes past the Hour back with theAmerican Patriots Almanac and a deep dive on
the Morning Show with Preston Scott.I am there, i am good,
I'm a happy example, Glenn Ison nine to Noon. I am stronger
every day on WSLA. If youmove ahead in time to what time it

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is right now in France, probablyabout five hours ahead, and so it
would have been hours ago on thisdate, eighty years ago, that men
would have heard General Dwight D.Eisenhower say these words, Soldiers, sailors,

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and airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force. You are about to embark upon
the great crusade toward which we havestriven these many months. The eyes of
the world are upon you. Thehopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere
march with you, in company withour brave allies and brothers in arms on

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other fronts. You will bring aboutthe destruction of the German war machine,
the eliminate of Nazi tyranny over theoppressed peoples of Europe, and security for
ourselves in a free world. Yourtask will not be an easy one.
Your enemy is well trained, wellequipped, and battle hardened. He will
fight savagely. But this is theyear nineteen forty four. Much has happened

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since the Nazi triumphs of nineteen fortyforty one. The United Nations have inflicted
upon the Germans great defeats in openbattle. Man demand our air offensive has
seriously reduced their strength in the airand their capacity to wage war on the
ground. Our home fronts have givenus an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions

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of war, and placed at ourdisposal great reserves of trained fighting men.
The tide has turned. The freemenof the world are marching together to victory.
I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty, and skill
in battle. He will accept nothingless than full victory. Good luck,

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and let us all be seek theblessing of Almighty. Got upon this great
and noble undertaking. The sky waspretty clear coming across the channel, so
since I was jumping aster, Icould lie in the door at the door
of the plane with my head outin the slipstream looking down, and I
saw the thousands of craft ships,everything from Elsie eyes to battleships down there

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in the channel, and I thinkthat's when I first realized how large the
invasion was. Tremendously large the invasionwas. We rode for about an hour
and a half, I guess,before we got it, went down off
the south end to England and thenacross the Jersey Islands and then across the
Sherbourg Peninsula and that's when the firework started. The first American recorded American

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casualty was a guy they named LieutenantRobert Matthias, and he was ahead of
a platoon that jumping out of oneof these craft on the ground leading.
He jumped out first and letting itlet's go, And as he jumped out,
he caught a bullet in the chestleaving the plane and he's He's the
first recorded casually of about forty fourhundred people that died in that one day.

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At the time, I had nofeeling whatsoever. And like I said,
my feeling was for my brother whowas killed. At that time.
That infuriated me to no end.And that's why when I jumped on D
Day, I swore, I swearI was going to kill every damn German
I came across. And that's whyI think they nicknamed me wild Bill,

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because I did a lot of killingD Day LA on your phone with the

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iHeart radio app and on hundreds ofdevices like Alexa, Google Home, Xbox
and so nos. This is Chrysleran Ihearts radio station one minutes past.
I absolutely understand why articles of significanthistory command high dollars. For example,

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a document signed by George Washington,a letter penned by George Washington or John
Adams or Abraham Lincoln, anything likethat, articles of what most of us
would call history. But did youever think that there would be things that

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like a Pokemon card ay never opened, original Action figure, teenage mutant Ninja
Turtle would command the sums of moneythat they commanded auction or yeah, I

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mean, it's even hard for meto get my brain around a baseball card
like the Mickey Mantle card that soldfor six million or something like that.
It's powerful millennial nostalgia that now millennialshave some money and they want to relive
their youth, so things they grewup with are in high value now.

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But Babe Ruth well was a doyou think a Babe Ruth rookie card was
extremely valuable in let's say nineteen fortyWell, I'm talking about you. We
did a story a few weeks agoof the Jersey Babe Ruth war when he
called his shot at Wrigley Field whenhe pointed out and actually hit the home

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run, and you know, washe pointing to that? Was he?
You know? That's the history ofit all. But they've now been able
to photo match this one jersey that'sgoing up for auction to that that game
that he wore, because all thejerseys were handstitched, and so the numbers
and the placement all that they canidentify. Okay, that was the one

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he wore. Stuff like that.But then then we go to this world.
Here a rare Star Wars Boba Fetaction figure three and three quarter inches
tall heritage auctions at the Star WarsSignature auction on May thirty, first Eclipse

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the record a Barbie bearing a onecarrot diamond that sold for three hundred and
two thousand dollars in twenty ten.This particular Boba Fet was one of only
two surviving examples made for the KennerStar Wars toys line in nineteen seventies.

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The Boba Fet figures were pulled fromthe production line before it made it went
to market. So these were likeprototypes. These like the mold essentially,
but they were the actual hand paintedaction figure, like here's what it'll look
like, guys, and they wentahead, they hold it from production.

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Only two of these are said toexist. This was one of them.
Five hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. Oh my, goodness. I get

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the auction mentality to a certain extent, but I can't for the life of
me find the value in an actionfigure that stands three and three quarter inches
tall and you're going to put thatup. Whoever bought this is going to
put that up somewhere and say lookat that. Well, you know,

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like any other collector's item, it'sthe value you ascribe to it, absolutely
and how much you enjoy. Somepeople like to enjoy knowing that they're one
of the only people in the worldto have it. Some people like to
flaun it. Joe Matdalina, thevice president for Heritage Auction, said,
we knew this when I had achance to enter the record books. It

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was thrilling to see it become themost valuable toy in the world. I
still, you know, I thinkthrough the eclectic combination of things that I
have. I have stuff, forexample that my dad handed out. I've
got a football that I need tofind a way to have it the bladder

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inside redone and there are places thatdo that type of thing. It's signed
by some of the great names inNFL history. It was at a charity
golf event that they signed this thingand my dad was m seeing the event,
and so has one of these footballsI have that. I have some,
you know, some FSU related gear. Of course. I have some

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historical stuff from the Revolutionary War.I have some stuff from the Apollo missions,
Apollo thirteen specifically some I have apiece of the actual spacecraft that that
I got at auction. I havean autograph and a drawing done by Peter

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Benchley of Jaws. Like I said, I gout this just this weird collection
of different things, and so butMan five twenty five, I guess,
spend it if you got it.Twenty seven minutes after the hour, back
with the big stories in the pressbox. Next, set off your mind,

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get it off your chest. Youhave a story you want to share,
write him at Preston at iHeartRadio dotcom. Welcome to the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. All Right,locals, if you are in and around
the Capital City area, interviews withlocal candidates and incumbents that I want to

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talk to. And that doesn't meanI necessarily, you know, favor them.
They're just the ones that are viable, they've raised a little bit of
money, they have reason to beinterviewed. Those interviews start next week and
will begin populating my blog page.As a podcast, they will be in

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the Conversations podcast video or audio vault. So if you want to get updates
on the local races, yeah,there you go. That'll be I won't
be putting them on the radio programbecause I think the podcast is a better

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format, more time, more depth, and look, Morning Drive, you're
just not going to get to tuneinto much of it. You're gonna be
moving around and all that, andI just found that it's a better format.
So that's what coming up starting nextweek. We'll get you ready for
the any votes that you're going tomake in August, and then of course

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the general election for some candidates willsettle it. But it's all local stuff,
nothing beyond local, all right,So the blog pages where that will
be. Big stories in the pressbox brought to you by Grove Creative marketing
and digital expertise. Thomas Massey,Kentucky asked Merrick Garland about his appointment of

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Jack Smith as special counsel. What'sinteresting in this story from town Hall is
he submitted into the record an amicusbrief by former Attorney General Ed Meese,
two law professors as well as anarticle from Hans von Spakowsky, our guest

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earlier this week on this very program, his thoughts on the subject were entered
into the congressional record. That's howhighly thought of. Hans is a friend
of the program. See that's wherewe roll. He asked Garland whether Jack

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Smith was appointed nominated by President Biden, are confirmed by the Senate? Merrick
Garland, No, he was not. When was the special council statute passed?
Garland, there is no special councilstatute. Seems like you've created an
office that would require an Act ofCongress, yet there is not an Act

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of Congress that authorizes that. Soguess what's happened as a result. Federal
Judge Eileen Cannon is going to heararguments later this month on whether or not

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Jack Smith has the authority to bringa case. I'll give you the short
answer, No, he does not. It's all going to be thrown out.
Jack Smith is not appointed legally.He wasn't nominated by the president,
he was not confirmed by the Senate. That is the only way it can
proceed. This entire thing was awaste of tax payer money and it will

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be thrown out. You Mark mywords. FDA has approved another mRNA JAB,
this time for something other than COVIDnineteen. It is for RSV.
Do you trust it if you arean older person. Testimony from a former
Japanese minister, Member of Congress,former Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications.

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I apologize to all of you.So many have died they shouldn't have.
When I travel around to different areas, I see those who can't stand,
can't walk, can't go to school, can't go to work. We could
have prevented these injuries from happening,but we did not. Kazuhiro Haraguchi,
present member of the House of Representatives, apologized because of the COVID shot that

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was pushed out by the government.He said it has destroyed people's lives.
His, by the way, wasone of them. Back with more of
The Morning Show with Preston Scott fortyminutes past Audio Magazine, A journey into
whatever is left of journalism and alwayspointing out and correcting what is not.

(21:48):
The Morning Show with Preston Scott.Imagine a government official saying the mandating of

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shots was wrong. We are sosorry. I don't know about you.
I immediately trust that guy. Medicalprofession Take note. That's how you're in
trust back. You apologize, Youapologize, and you vow to never ever

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allow mandates and pressures to cause youto violate your hippocratic oath. It's not
that complicated. And yes, Iwill continue to talk about COVID and the

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truth. It's I told you itwas going to come out. And always
remember in the back of your mindPfizer wanted seventy five years before they released
their records. Seventy five Now,why would that be some fyis? Greg

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Abbott welcome the first three hundred NationalGuard soldiers as they relocated to a new
forward operating base located on the borderwith Mexico just south of Eagle Pass.
Forward Operating Base Eagle was opened upon Friday. Eventually, it will have
a capacity of twenty two hundred TexasNational Guard soldiers. Here's what's interesting about

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this story to me and I understandwe're not allowed to put our military and
have them disperse domestically. I've beenarguing, literally for the entire length of
this show, going back twenty twoplus years, that the way you solve

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the problem on our borders is yourelocate some of our army bases to the
border, and you allow them asthey're serving in active duty, some are
reserves, and they roll in andthey roll out, but you have them
actively on duty protecting our southern border. That you no longer build new bases

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internally in our country. You leavethe ones you've got, but you establish
military bases at these points so thatall the technology and look, the men
and women serving stay actively ready.They are on guard all the time.
And think of the military. Thinkof an Apache helicopter rolling up when the

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cartels start bringing people to these spotswhere they're punching holes and digging tunnels,
and you just roll over one ofthose you know, one of those little
patches flies over and just hovers.Hello. You sure you want to do
this? You bring our military might. This is exactly what I've been calling

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for, just on a state level. Well done, Texas. That is
just brilliant. Texas is doing whatthe federal government refuses to do, which
is protect its communities. And soGreg Abbott's doing what he needs to do.

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Well done, sir. All right, We've got when we come back
a did you know this is acase of a news story written about on
Fox the website and it shows thedeterioration of reporting. I'll give you a
classic example from a story in thenews just days ago on how the reporting

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has degraded. We'll get to thatnext Here in the Morning Show with Preston
Scott him as your uncle, Preston, the relative you actually enjoy having around,
and not just at the holidays.This is the Morning Show with Preston
Scott, Steve Stewart just a fewminutes away, Doctor Steve steveson pause for

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thought. Next hour, a littleroad trip idea. We'll start you out
in Florida in a very cool roadtrip idea. We're going to keep you
in the southeast in the summer.Some roadies that you can take if you
live in the area, that arefairly easy drives in the area. And
so we'll cover the southeast, maybeget to maybe get to Mississippi and Louisiana,

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but certainly Alabama, Georgia, Florida, maybe touch South Carolina a little
bit. This is a story fromFox News's website, and in fairness,
I wrote the reporter Chris Eberhardt,and I asked him about his story,

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and I'll explain why in a moment. Here's the headline Massachusetts movie slasher said
nothing while stabbing four girls, laughedlike the joker. According to a victim,
actually multiple victims, it was astabbing spree in one day between two

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states at I think four different locationswhere this dude, Jared Revisa, just
walked into a movie theater and startedstabbing girls in the back, just and
laughing while doing it, and thenran off. Went to another city,

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did the same thing, went toanother city, did the same thing,
went to another city, did thesame thing. Four different stabbing incidents across
two states in one day. AndI'm looking through the story, and I

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read the story at least six timesjust to make sure that my question for
Chris was fair. Look, iam I'm the last person to ever say
I'm perfect, because I am not. I make mistakes. I try not

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to, but I do. AndI wanted to be abundantly fair to this
guy. And before I asked him, why did you leave this out?
He didn't, he replied to me, But he didn't really acknowledge my question.

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He just said, well, thestory's developing, but you're a reporter
and you've written a story that's ninepages, So what did he leave out?

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Jared Revisa as a transgender. JaredRevisa uses she her as his pronouns
huge supporter Barack Obama. That doesn'tmean anything, but it's just it's part
of his social media. He prominentlydisplays the photo photos all over of him

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attempting to present himself as a woman. And even though we're seeing more and
more what's being referred to as transterrorism, the stories are being suppressed.
It buttresses one of my main contentions, and that is that if you are

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biologically born a male or a female, and you're trying to present yourself in
the opposite, you are dealing.I don't believe that these people should be
enemies by any stretch of the imagination. Now, the militant ones, I
would treat them the way I wouldtreat any other militant organization that is attempting

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to force themselves upon others and forcepeople to accept their way of thinking.
But the fact of the matter isI have sympathy for these people. They
need help, they need doctoral help, they need mental health help, they
need help. But it just speaksto the dangers that this presents, and
they're acting out more and more andmore. But I asked Chris Why wasn't

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this included in the story. Youcan find it on the guy's social media
sites. It's all over, buthe didn't report it. Time for hour
two of the Morning Show, fiveminutes after the hour Thursday in the Morning

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Show, it is June sixth Weremember men who served at and D Day.
Yeah, it's the eightieth anniversary today, and so just a moment to
say thank you once again. Westill have a few members of that generation
among us, and I just wantto say a heartfelt thank you. Second

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hour of the radio program Jared runningThings in Studio one A, and I
am joined by Steve Stewart, Ladiesand gentlemen. He is the executive editor
of Talhaski Reports, the website Tallasireportsdot com. Hello, sir, good
morning, how are you doing well? You know, over the last well,
I mean, look the entire spanTallaskan Reports. You have covered in

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detailed stories using data, actual facts, and you just report and you let
things just wherever they sit, theysit, and whatever people do with it,
they do with it. But youget the sense that not everybody that's
listening to this program that follows Tellahas Reports, understands the depth and the

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importance of what's going on in thiscommunity, right, and that's part of
our job. I don't expect peoplethat are trying to bounce their checkbook every
month and go to work, atkids to school to be immersed in this.
But this. You know, there'selections every two years, and so
a lot of times people don't payattention to local elections and the elections that

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are coming up. Again, it'simportant that we understand what the issues are
at stake. But also I thinkit's important to understand that talent has he
for whatever reason, being the liberalone of the liberal bastions not many left
in Florida, has been able toseparate itself from the other progressive cities in

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the United States that have promoted thisnational there to adopted this that's over now
they have discovered tale ASEI when Isay they the progressive element, and you
know what, do you think it'sbecause it's the state capital. I think
that, and I think also againit's a liberal bashi. People are looking
at, you know, why isn'tthis more progressive city? And you know

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we saw this with Andrew Gillim hewas elected mayor. But if you look
at how they approached this, theydon't really want to expose it. You
know, Mayor Gillam had this relationshipwith a national progressive group but was very
caught off guard when we reported aboutit and didn't really want to promote that
here in Tallahassee because I think there'sa different type of voter or a different
type of demographic political demographic in Tallassee. Well, you hear so often that

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that there are people that are maybemore moderate or even a little more conservative,
but they're registered Democrat because that's theonly thing they've known, right,
But they're not really exactly And soI think what happens now was are facing
this where progressives are starting to tryto probably because of governments. Santus's national

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profiless and where can we go inFlorida and get a you know, a
foothold and tallassis it? And theyfound commission Mattlowe, who is a local
politician, someone here that's you know, was born and raised And then Commissioner
Reporter ironically he's a local businessman whoturned pologizes another story. And then Commissioner
Porter, who went to school hereis not you know, wasn't born or
raised here. And they've they've gotelected because of I would argue some of

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the way the city elects officials,and they are they are. It's amazing.
And this is what I want peopleto understand. I've seen a lot
since two thousand and nine, whenI was probably first on this show.
I have never seen a set ofindividuals who are so consumed with power just

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for the sake of having power.And this is the thing that I'm trying
to I want to make sure thatI alert to voters is, you know,
look at the issues, but we'restarting to see the ramifications of that.
There's a vacuum because of the wholenational media and local media landscape,
and we can address that. Butwhat's starting to happen is the mean spirit
in this the counseling, the cancelingstuff that we've seen nationally. There are

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operatives that are going around and takingpictures of people, videoing and public meetings,
posting them on social media. You'vegot this recent issue where a police
officer was accused of planning evidence whichturned into being nothing but really fake news,
which was promoted at nauseum by CommissionerJeremy Mattlow, and so people started

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I noticed that people are starting toretract back, business owners, concerned citizens.
They're not speaking in meetings, theydon't want to go on the record
about issues. And it's because ofthis little faction that I think is really
out of control. And so oneelection can change it. It can.
I mean we're only one there's onlyone vote away from them having control of

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the City Commission again because of theway the electoral process works here in the
city. And this is not aRepublican Democrat thing, all right, this
is this is a Democrat party issue. The local Leon Democrat Executive Committee has
been taken over and it is notmy words. You can find them,
you know, in other media reportsby progressives and their tactics again or something

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I've never seen before, and usit's something you've got to pay attention to
because it's starting. I'm concerned thatwe're starting to lose people that are interested
in having an impact. And Idon't know how far that's going to go,
but it's a real concern. Apathyis starting to seep in, and
I'm not sure how you stop itright now. Well, there's an old

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expression that all that is required forevil to succeed is for good men to
do nothing exactly and that's kind ofwhere we seem to be. We're moving
in that direction. I'm gonna askyou a specific question. We come back
on along this line eleven past thehour Steve Stewart Joe with Preston Scott,
Tomy Huckebert on News Radio one hundredpoint seven WUFLA, twelve past the hour.

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I have a microphone. I doa show five days a week and
have been doing it for now.I'm in my twenty third year, so
I don't post very often on thepages of Talazi Reports, but I did
because of some of the things thatI saw some readers push out, and
I got a little pushback, andit points me to my question. I
don't think a lot of the votershere locally understand this sounds like I'm I'm

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demeaning people's intelligence. What I'm pointingout is that a lot of people don't
spend the time and invest the timein understanding the tax issue and how it
broke down and what it really is. Well, yeah, and the ironic
thing about this is the hypocrisy ofthe as avelpment here because all they're looking

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to do is get more power,so they do whatever it takes Commissioner Jack
Porter a year ago brought up theissue of, hey, we might need
to increase taxes to have some thingsthat we need in this community. Well,
then when it was revealed that,yeah, you know, the majority
of the commission supports a tax increase, but it is to pay for law
enforcement, all of a sudden,the pivot went, we're against all tax

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increases because this is not the fiscallyresponsible thing to do, when actually this
is going to be the political anglethey take is they voted against a tax
increase. Well, they voted againstit because it funds law enforcement, and
they are so anti law enforcement thatthat's why they wouldn't even they would not

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even go on the record and say, you know, we are at a
high of violent crime and we needmore police officers on the street, but
we don't support a tax increase.They didn't say that. They're just against
a tax increase, and it's onlybecause it was allocated to law enforcement.
And it's important for people to understand. For example, you I know personally
though it's not an issue necessarily that'sin the articles because that's not where it

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belongs. But I didn't support thetax increase. There were other things the
city could have done. That said, if you vote strictly on who voted
for a tax increase and who didn't, you're taking a short sighted, low
altitude view. Well no, andlook if that is again, you're gonna
have to go back and look atthe nuances of why the taxes were increased.

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I totally agree, and this goesback to the other side of the
equation. We have the majority ofthe city Commission sometimes makes decisions that I
don't agree with, but you've gotto take the overall, you know,
the overall. Look at this andthe progressives are anti law enforcement, and
they will tell you they're not.But all you gotta do is look at
what they've done. You know,defund the police candidates to the Citizens Police

(40:51):
Review Board. Yep, you know, they accuse a police officer planning evidence,
which we're not done with that ofveedigation. We got some things that
will be coming out next week.That was a complete They've also accused cops
of being killers and they have beenacquitted of any wrongdoing. So don't you
know this again, is this iswhat happens in these local races. And
you know a lot of people say, you know, local races don't mean

(41:13):
a lot to me. I'm moreinterested in the state and national Well,
you know, you've got to getahead of this because things are starting to
happen here locally that you'll look upand you know there'll be a majority of
progressives on the city Commission and they'llbe passing these laws. You know they
want. Listen, it was lessthan six months ago Coachry Mattlow asked the
city manager when we were going tostart getting off a natural gas which which

(41:36):
basically is ninety six percent of whatwe use to generate electricity. It's not
It's not going to happen, okay, because that's that is a dream that
the national progressives have promoted, butit's here in tall Lassie. Yeah,
it's so anyway, Again, I'mconcerned of the apathy. I'm concerned that
people don't understand what's at stake here, and you know, they will try

(41:59):
anything. During our last race withDiane Williams Cox, who is a liberal
Democrat, the progressives tried to painther as someone who was against abortion,
against minimum wage. So they willgo at all these issues to try to
just get elected. They're not concernedabout TALHISI they're concerned more about their ideology

(42:19):
and the national view, the controlin the national view of this progressive movement
here in Leon County. Well.As I mentioned, folks, the interviews
start next week. I can't promisethat everybody's going to accept the invitation,
and I will not tell you thatI've invited everybody, but I've invited the
people that you probably want to hearfrom, and that does include Jack Porter.

(42:42):
I don't expect Jack to accept theinvitation, but she's been invited to
have a chat with me. I'llget to revisit things she said four years
ago and compare them to things she'sdone since seventeen past the hour with Steve
Stewart phone with the iHeartRadio app andon hundreds of devices like Alexa, Google

(43:04):
Home, Xbox, and Sonos.So here we go in Iheart's radio station
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it's the only real newspaper in town. Tallashi reports the website Tallasireports dot
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(43:25):
today and in the mailboxes this thisweekend, and is full of great information.
The lead story is the law enforcementunions have endorsed their candidates. And
we talked about this last week.It's broad, it's interesting, it's a
broad perspective, Republicans, Democrats,you know, I don't think it's wise,
but you know, yeah, it'swhat they do. And I know

(43:45):
and they the unions locally have notlearned from the Teachers' union statewide. They
don't pick you don't pick fights withthe people that set your salaries exactly,
and so, but the law enforcementhave. They're very aggressive in doing this.
And obviously law enforcement has been inthe news the last three or four
years and there's been a lot ofchallenges and staying in in law enforcement.
Tiger Bay had a form with somelaw enforcement officials, Chief revel Sheriff Walt

(44:08):
McNeil, State Attorney Jack Campbell,and public defender YEARI. I don't I
can't remember first name. But comingout of that, two of the things
that they agreed, well three ofthe four agreed was the the impact of
drugs on crime, Marijuana long termand then fentanyl is starting to be introduced

(44:28):
here. We see this in biggercities. Sure, they are warning people
that look, fentanyl is coming andit's still it's still an issue. That's
why I can't. I just can'tget my hands around. You know,
the move to legalize marijuana. Ifyou go look at Colorado and some of
these other states of what is actuallyhappening in the beginning of the end,
it is is really amazing. Sothey talked about that. But again staying

(44:50):
on law enforcement, we have updatedour crime stats where we look at the
crime incidents reports that are released dailyby the House of Police Department. We
categorized them and so this month issort of interesting. It goes to look
at being a numbers junkie, iswe were looking at overall crime is down.
I think it's seven and a half, seven point seven percent, I

(45:12):
believe violent crime, and we dividedup into violent property crime and violent crime
was down nearly ten percent, nearlyten percent. So then we started thinking,
well, so that tells you thatproperly crime had to be up to
because it's overall crimes only down sevenpoint seven percent. So we started digging
into the data in May, andsure enough, property crime was up in
May, and I started trying tofigure out why is this And so we

(45:36):
have the data, we have thedata on a daily now this is the
year to date stats that you're lookingat, right, Okay, So we
had to break it down to goanalyze why property crime didn't stay oh for
the month of May exactly. Youfound the answer. So we started,
we started drilling down and we lookedat the actual crimes per day, and
sure enough, five days after thetornadoes, when the power was out,

(46:00):
property crime spike by like fifty tosixty percent. Basically that's looters, basically
not a lot of publicity about that, but it was manifested in commercial burglaries,
which would make sense people are notgoing to work power off, and
also auto thefts and auto burglaries,and so that's that has skewed the stats.

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Without that, without those five days, overall crime would be down about
ten percent, which is again you'recomparing it to twenty twenty three, which
was a high, high crime yearanyway, So we would really like to
see that number get higher. We'llsee what happens. One of the things
back to the Tiger Bay Forum thatand I'll tell you behind the scenes,

(46:46):
Sheriff Walt McNeil and Chief Reveel aregiddy, and I used the word giddy
about the use of cameras in termsof law enforcement. Twenty twenty five years
ago, this wouldn't have been possibleacl you you know, liberty and all
the you know arguments like that.But now given the constraints that and the

(47:07):
narrative that law enforcement is facing,when it's difficult to even do a pullover,
sure right, you might get accusedof planning evidence. There's a thousand
cameras around Leon County and City ofTallahasseee that are aiding and basically finding people
without standing warrants, actually seeing crimesreal time. State Attorney Jack Campbell not

(47:27):
so happy about that development, gratefulto have the camera, is just sad
that people aren't coming forward, Sadthat he's seeing people are you know,
recording the crime, but then theywon't testify and you know, to what
they saw. So yeah, he'ssolving more crimes with the with the video.
And look that's going to continue.You know, We've got this thing
with the city where they're looking atvideo activated speed areas in front of the

(47:51):
school zones. And it's a responseto police officers who have a really tough
job and they're being criticized when they'reactually do their job. And there was
one thing, and one other thing, there was something interesting. TPD puts
on their Facebook videos sometimes of crimesthat are taking place that they're you know,
pursuing perpetrators. And there was aauto theft and I watched the video.

(48:15):
It was about two and a halfminutes long. So the camera shows
a police officer and a car chasingthis car that was stolen and they get
it corralled and stopped, and soI'm thinking, I'm watching this, Okay,
you know, this guy's going toget out and put his hands up.
Four people, four teenagers, exitthat car and run. Now this
is at five point thirty in theafternoon, and the first thing that I

(48:37):
think about is four people got togetherand thought this was a good idea.
Okay, they found three weapons inthe car, and this is the kind
of job that the police department hasto do every day. I don't think
people recognize that enough because I thinkthat we see the headlines and we read
the stats, but we don't actuallysee something like that. And it's I

(48:58):
think it brings to where and it'sof what they had, the day to
day job they have to do,which is not easy. It is not
easy at all. Thanks as always, Thank you Presley Steve Stewart and again
subscribe, Get Topapertellasseireports dot Com,Ink Show with Preston Scott Do you understand
the words that are coming out ofmy mouth? On News Radio one hundred

(49:20):
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(49:45):
going to listen to ninety minutes worthof arguments. Three outside experts will be
able to make their case for upto thirty minutes each, and it will
decide whether or not Special Counsel JackSmith can even present the case. If

(50:09):
this is if this is anything buta mirage, here's the problem facing Jack
Smith, and to a larger extent, the Department of Justice. Special prosecutors
must be nominated by the President andconfirmed by the United States Senate. Neither

(50:30):
of those things happened. There wasno legal basis for Jack Smith to have
the authority to operate nationwide and todo what he did. Now, that's
setting aside the reality that during theObama administration, due to a series of

(50:51):
factors, they put in a processwhere every single document that comes in front
of the President of the United Statesis copied and kept, and that then
leads to whether or not there's anycase at all because there were no documents
removed. The documents were always inthe possession of the server. But that's

(51:15):
a sidebar story. The bigger issuehere is that the entire case could just
literally disappear because Merrick Garland Department ofJustice did not follow the law. Isn't
that ironic? FDA, desperately needingto earn back trust lost during COVID,

(51:43):
has for the first time approved anmRNA vaccine for something other than COVID nineteen.
What's interesting is inside the FDA approvalof a new Maderna vaccine are the
words that we did not refer yourapplication to the Vaccines and Related Biological Products

(52:05):
Advisory Committee. Now, how isthat possible? How does something jump past
the committee whose sole job is tolook at trial results, clinical studies,
and so forth. And you tiethat together with another big story, which

(52:31):
is a member of the Japanese Congresswho was the former Minister of the Interior.
Back that up, Minister for InternalAffairs and Communications stood up and apologized
to the public for injuries and deathsresulting from the COVID shot rollout that was

(52:55):
forced upon people by the government.It all connects, and it's one of
the most significant problems facing our country, the eroded trust in the medical apparatus
of this nation. Those are yourbig stories. Forty minutes past the hour,
Come back, switch gears, talkabout your four legged buddies. Next

(53:19):
for you, maybe from Florida SunshineState to California. Hey, scratch that,
California is hopeless. For the rest, we're your Morning show, The
Morning Show with Preston Scott. Prettymoving stuff going on at Normandy right now,
the aviieth anniversary of the D Dayinvasion and men who served in World

(53:47):
War Two men who served at Normandy. Not a lot of dry eyes there
right now? All right, fortyone past the hour, let's talk about
our four legged friends. Time forlittle Paul for thought. Doctor Steve Steveson
with the Bradfordville Animal Hospital joins us, Hello, sir, how are you?
Hey, pret I'm doing great?How are you I am? I'm

(54:08):
doing well, but see I don'thave any pets anymore. So when we
are facing a what could be aturbulent hurricane season. I don't have to
worry about evacuating with a pet,but I know that that's not the case
for everybody. There are things toconsider, and I figured, since we're

(54:28):
in hurricane season now, but we'reahead of the worst of it, some
reminders would be useful for those thatwill be evacuating with their pets. Oh.
Absolutely, question. You know,it's not a question of if a
hurricane's going to strike Tallahasse, butthe question is when, and so whenever
that is, we definitely need tobe prepared. There's a handful of things

(54:49):
you can get together for your petto prepare you to have to leave and
find shelter elsewhere you know is ofcourse, obviously you need to have a
food bowl and a water bowl andfood water for your pet. I'd recommend
at least a week of food foryour pet, and make sure you have
wa are available maybe a day ortwo to travel with and then where you're
going, make sure you have somewater available there. Obviously, if you're

(55:13):
going to go and your pet's goingto stay in a boarding facility or an
animal hospital, you need to havea copy of your medical records, especially
your vaccine history. For your pet. A lot of places won't accept pets
unless they are up to date onall of their vaccine, so having those
medical records is extremely important. Youdon't want to get turned away at the
door and that and that matters aswell with evacuation shelters. We have learned

(55:36):
over time and experience that shelters somewill accept pets, some will not,
but those that do will require thoserecords absolutely, preston. That's another good
point is you may want to planahead and know if you're going to have
to evacuate kylahassee if you have afriends or family you're going to, if
they have other pets there, makesure they're where you're bringing pets with you

(55:57):
if you're going to a shelter somewhere, and make sure that shelter will accept
pets and what requirements they have foryou to bring those pets into the shelter.
So it's good to plan ahead soyou have a route and a plan
whenever that day comes. Your leashesand collars and make sure you've got leashes
and collars and harnesses put prefer theYSTM sort of ID tag on that collar
or harness to identify your pet.And then if you're taking a cat or

(56:21):
a small dog, a carrier ora crate is a very very good idea
so you can help keep them confined. This can be a very very stressful
experience for a dog or a catgoing into an unknown environment where there are
other animals around, and so havinga carry or crate to keep them safe
is really really important. Then taketreats and toys that you can for your

(56:43):
pet to make them more comfortable inthis stressful situation. They're betting, so
have someplace to lay that's comfortable,familiar to them to help make them more
comfortable. It's also a good idea. Then if you have if you have
a cat, taking a cat withyou, obviously you have a litter box
and litter to go with it,proof bags. If if you have dogs,
you're taken with you, anything tobe prepared for all of the daily

(57:06):
functions of that doctor cat you needto have with you. Now, when
it comes to medicines for our pats, will vets, will doctors like yourself
knowing a storm is coming, allowa little extra on a prescription. If
your dog or cats on meds,typically they will that's certainly a very good
question Preston, that's something you definitelywant to think about that if you're getting
low on your routine medication for yourpet, you definitely want to make sure

(57:30):
that during hurricane season you have asufficient quantity to go through an evacuation period.
Oftentimes, if you're in another city, you can call back if the
animal hospital's open, and if theycan say, yeah, we can get
you more medication and we can callit into a pharmacy near wherever you have
evacuated to. So having medication andbeing prepared for that is also very very

(57:51):
important, Doctor Steverson, thanks verymuch. Hopefully we won't have to face
that problem, but certainly listeners inthe Panama City area to the east and
west there as well as listening throughoutFloorida on iHeart, it's something that we
might face this year. And somegood reminders. Thanks for the time today.
Great thanks questions, doctor Steve stevesonwith us, we do that a

(58:12):
couple times each month. Some tips, some seasonal thoughts, some things to
remember, especially with storms. Andlook, you know your own dog and
cat. You know whether your dogand cat plays well with others or not,
and so plan accordingly. Just startwith the presumption that he's right.
Believe me, it works around here. This is the Morning Show with Preston

(58:37):
Scott, minutes away from sitting downwith Joel and Carmela Walden, mother and
son. The book Surviving the Survivoralso a podcast, also a YouTube channel,

(58:59):
and I got it got introduced tothem a few years ago as they
followed the trial of those that wereresponsible for the death of Dan Mark l
FSU law professor. And so we'llunpack the story. The book is Surviving
the Survivor, and we'll talk aboutthat with them in just a little bit.

(59:19):
Google is doing a lot of thatright now. Apparently their servers wiped
out one hundred and thirty five billiondollar pension fund a major Australian provider,

(59:43):
UNI Super, which serves about sixhundred and fifty thousand members. They call
it super anuation, and the cloudservice accidentally deleted all the primary data and
the backup. Thankfully, the companyhad all the data backed up with somebody
else just in case. Otherwise itwould have all been gone. And so

(01:00:10):
Google's out there saying we're really sorry. Once in a lifetime episode it won't
happen again. Okay, whatever yousay, it's why you back up everything.
Just if it's important, back itup. Time to give you a
road trip idea. We do itevery Thursday, especially now with the summertime

(01:00:32):
and the kiddo's out of school,give you some ideas on places to go,
things to do. This one isabsolutely perfect because obviously we're focused on
our primary area here in Florida.We definitely we have listeners obviously that listen
on broadcast radio in South Georgia andfrom the Big Bend to Destin, and

(01:00:53):
of course iHeartRadio. We've got listenersall over the country. But I'm going
to focus on roadies for the areahere, the southeastern part of the United
States. This one though, realclose and commemorating D Day. Did you
know Camp Gordon Johnston in carabell Iswhere they did the rehearsal for the D

(01:01:17):
Day Invasion. They have through Julytwentieth. It started this past Tuesday,
running through the twentieth a special exhibitcommemorating the D Day Invasion. The museum
has opened every day Tuesday through Saturdayfrom eleven to five no charge. They

(01:01:39):
will take donations, but the mainpurpose of Camp Gordon Johnston when it opened
in nineteen forty two was one purposeto prepare for the invasion at Normandy,
and so the training and testing wasall done in an area that's an hour

(01:02:04):
and a half from where I'm speakingright now, and it's pretty cool.
So you can you can find outmore at the Caravelle Chamber of Commerce or
visit Florida their website. But thespecial exhibit commemorating the eightieth anniversary of the
of the D Day Invasion is goingon through July the twentieth, and talk

(01:02:30):
about it. This is one ofthose trips you take to make sure your
kids understand the history of this country, understand the nature of evil in the
world, because World War II happenedbecause of evil, and so I just
I think it's so important to makesure our kids remember the sacrifices the price

(01:02:58):
paid, because in a way,it also helps illuminate what we talked about
a couple weeks ago, the differencebetween Memorial Day and Veterans Day. It
pains me that we don't have peoplethat understand the difference. We have elected
members of Congress talking about how MemorialDay, you know, brings us to
remember the benefits that these men deserveand these women deserve. And it's like

(01:03:20):
Memorial Day is about honoring people whodied, Veterans Day is kind of the
other day. And oh, bythe way, we ought to be honoring
our veterans every day for serving ournation. But anyway, that's your road
trip suggestion. We're going to startfrom the area and work our way out
and so there you go, wecome back, we're gonna have a conversation.

(01:03:42):
Joel Waldman, Carmelo Waldman. Survivingthe Survivor next to the Morning Show
with Preston Scott, Morning Friends,Third hour Morning Show with Preston Scott.

(01:04:05):
And in case you're keeping track,show five thousand, one and seventy four.
But who's counting. We give youthe number. So if I fall
short, which I will do,you can go to customer service and get
a refund. Just give them shownumber five one seven four and you will
get back everything you paid to listento the broadcast. Jared's over there in

(01:04:26):
Studio one A. I am herein Studio one B and Boyle boy I
have been I've had this on thecalendar for quite a while. Very excited
to have with me. Surviving theSurvivor is a podcast. It's a YouTube
channel It is also now a book, and the book chronicles the life and

(01:04:46):
the relationship. I would say ofJoel Waldman and his mother, Carmela.
Carmela, welcome to the show.How are you? Thank you? I'm
great. I appreciate you being here. What do you think of Tallahassee so
far? I just love it.I loved Nobody warned me or prepared me.
It's a beautiful place with a lotof greenery and tilly and just lovely.

(01:05:13):
Joel, your background is as anEmmy award winning news guy. How
did you end up where you aredoing what you're doing. That's a great
question with a very long, convolutedanswer. This show. By the way,
I apologize in advance for the derailmentof your show today potentially with my
mother and I on it. Ialways prepare people for that. But yeah,

(01:05:36):
I was most recently a Fox NewsChannel national correspondent based out of DC
covering politics. One of the problemsI had three kids, three young kids,
and I was traveling constantly, andthere was all kinds of issues going
on with the me too, theso called me too movement back then,
and things got just kind of crazy. At Fox News Channel. It was

(01:05:58):
just the right time for me tokind of slip out. I did it
totally of my own volition, andI always wanted to do something on my
own. I have a kind ofentrepreneurial bone in my body, and so
you know, I had a lotof contacts twenty five plus years in broadcast
media, and I wanted to startmy own show. The pandemic happened,

(01:06:18):
and instead of going to some kindof big names so i'd become friends with
in the business, I said,I know exactly who I need. That
that's got the it factor. AndI called karm my mom, and I
took her out of what she callsthe nursing home, which is her Miami
Beach condo, and the rest,as they say, is history. We
started the podcast. Carmela, youdid marriage therapy for forty years, correct.

(01:06:45):
But before that, before you werean Emmy Award winning news journalist,
you were a survivor. And Imean everything revolves around surviving the survivor.
You were the survivor. You arethe survivor. Tell us give us the
short version of the story. Well, I'm a survivor of a lot of
things, but the main survivor thingis World War two and I was born

(01:07:12):
in nineteen thirty nine, hence Iam in a month going to be eighty
five. And so during the Holocaust, I was living in a small town
on the border of Hungary and Yugoslavia. And I will try to bridge and

(01:07:33):
simplify this story. We were,like all Jews in town, put in
a ghetto and the morning they weretaking us to the cattle cars to my
certain death because children were immediately guessed. That same morning, my mother took

(01:07:56):
me out through a hole in defenseand started to work and walked away from
the people who were collecting us,who were Hungarian Nazis, and then some
nuns took me in, being helpedby a friend of my father. And

(01:08:21):
by the way, my father andgrandfather were taken to Auschwitz and guests killed
and then incinerated. I want tostop there, and I want to come
back, and I want to bringJoel into this story, because this is

(01:08:42):
about the two of you. Thisbook Surviving the Survivor and your relationship,
and it builds upon that hang ona second, Carmela is with me,
Joel is with me, and thebook is Surviving the Survivor, and you
can get it at Amazon and amongother places. I'm sure we'll talk more.
We've got them for the whole hourhere in the morning Share with Preston
Scott Show with Preston Scott Morning onNews Radio one hundred point seven double UFLA.

(01:09:15):
For those of you in and aroundthe Tallahassee area. Tonight Hearth and
Soul near Midtown, not Midtown,near Market Square, north side of town.
They will be doing a book signingand a live podcast tonight, live
podcasts. We're actually talking about DanMarkel and the upcoming Donna Adelson trial.

(01:09:35):
I know you've been following that veryclosely yourself, Preston, So yeah,
we're doing a live podcast, andI just want to give a very quick
shout out to herk here in Tallahassee. They honored my beautiful mother last night.
They're the Holocaust Education and Research Councildoing amazing work teaching educators about what
to teach about the Holocaust. Soshout out to them. Yeah, And

(01:09:58):
did you ever think the that wewould see a cycle back in this country
and even in the world, wherepeople are are once again turning their attention
and their vitriol against the Jews.It's it's really amazing, Uh, you
know, in the edit process ofthis book is when the war broke out,

(01:10:18):
and my mother and myself actually livedin Israel during the Six Day War,
so we were there. You don'tkeep for a war. I'm sorry,
she always corrects me. Thank you. I apologize. It's early,
but we did live in Israel,and my mother is very Zionistic, still
has her place there. So tothink that we would see what's going on

(01:10:40):
on these college campuses, and creditto Florida and FSU for not engaging in
that. Uh. But up inthe northeast corner of this country and out
west, what we've seen is ishorrific. Just there, there's a blatant
rise in anti Semitism. And inthe edit process of this book, this
war had broken out and these riotsstarted to happen. So there's some conversations

(01:11:04):
in surviving the survivor of the book. By the way, the entire book
is recorded conversations that I then tookand put into kind of story form,
and I kind of modeled it.I went to brand it's with Mitch Album,
who wrote Tuesdays with Maury, themost successful memoir in history, and
I also then chased him down,so he wrote a blurb for this book.

(01:11:27):
But to answer your question, Inever thought we would see the level
of anti semitism we're seeing right now. I know it's bothering my mom quite
a bit. My mama, asI said, as she said, is
turning eighty five, So go ahead. No, it's kind of it's a
two prong thing with me. Onone hand, I am sort of prepared

(01:11:49):
because I come from anti Semitism.On the other, I'm very saddened that
in the very end of my lifeit is has to be the same said
anti Semitic outburst as it was inthe beginning, because being an optimist,
I thought that those days were over, and it looks like they aren't.

(01:12:13):
And I feel that we are unjustlyaccused as we were historically in the past.
But it just by sheer coincidence.It happens just now. When we
had our book published about two weeksago, and everybody asked me of the

(01:12:33):
relationship of my story to what ishappening right now. And by the way,
we've been on this book tour doingquite a bit of media. So
one of the networks my mother talkedto was the Catholic Network and they asked
her some really unique questions. Butmy mother said to them and it stuck
out to me. It's the onlyinterview that we haven't done together. But

(01:12:54):
she said, look, they're comingafter the Jews today, but today tomorrow
they could be going after her Muslims, after the LGBTQ community. People need
to speak up. People need todo something, not just say something or
feel something, but they need toThey need to act out. And what's
been going on in this country rightnow is really frightening because you can see

(01:13:17):
how quickly things can escalate. So, you know, I tell everyone,
my mom's a living, breathing pieceof history, and actual piece of history
that you know, many people don'tunderstand are born far after this. Even
you were saying during the during abreak, you talked to some survivors,
but not people who've you know,to the extent that my mom has been

(01:13:39):
through things, and so she's youknow, there's only two hundred something thousand
survivors left in the entire world.By the way, my mother said before
coming on, don't use the Hword. She does not like to be
recognized as a Holocaust survivor age ofcourse, being for Holocaust. I like
to be defined by that event inmy early childhood. I've been living now

(01:14:00):
for eighty five years and went througha lot of different things which could also
call me a survive you know,name me a survivor. You named the
surviving. Joel is a survivor.That's a huge thing to survive. That's
probably the biggest one. But shedid survive the loss of a child also,
which I get into in the book. And during the writing of this

(01:14:23):
book, my father got really ill. She was married to him sixty three
years, and she admits, outof all these horrors, losing my father
was the toughest thing for her.Sixteen minutes past the hour, we're picking
up there, We're coming right back. Joe Waldman, Carmelo Waldman, the
book Surviving the Survivor, the podcast, the YouTube channel you'll you will have

(01:14:45):
the best time with all of it, and in fact, the website Surviving
thesurcviber dot com. It's the MorningShow with Preston Scott la on your phone
with the iHeartRadio app and on hundredsof devices like Alexa, Google, ho
Xbox and so no Chser and Iheart'sRadiosation, Hearth and soul Tonight five point

(01:15:06):
thirty to seven the live podcast,and I would imagine you'll sign a book
or two, I hope, SoI hope it's more than one or two.
Yeah, yeah, Joel Waldmen.By the way, by the way,
Prez didn't meant err up, butuh. The woman to my right
is the first person that I knowof in history who signs a book that
she's never written, but she signsthem all. I'm gonna get I'm getting

(01:15:30):
to that. Carmela Waldman is theI mean, the survivor of many things,
of many things. And Joel Waldmanher son chronicling that when did you
first learn, Joel, what agewere you when you first learned of your
mom's survival? So I was,you know, probably I want to say

(01:15:54):
ten twelve in that range. Iwas. I was young, but I
only had what I call kaleidoscopic images, very very you know, fuzzy and
faint images of what happened. Mymother never discussed it growing up, you
know, And I mentioned she losta son that I knew nothing about.
So as I got a little bitolder and into college, I started,

(01:16:16):
I think to question it. Butwe grew up. My mother was saved
by two righteous gentiles. One wasa doctor who was not Jewish, and
my mother was hidden in a Catholicschool for boys, and it was a
nun who took her in. Andgrowing up in a somewhat Jewish community in
suburban New Jersey, there was alwaysa picture of a nun hanging in our

(01:16:39):
house, and I thought, that'swhat you had hanging in a house because
it was always there. And itwas later on that I realized it was
the nun that who saved my mother. And I later found out that my
mom was actually contributing to the church. This woman lived into her well into
her nineties, and my mom was, you know, making sure financial that

(01:17:00):
she was helping this none out laterin life. So it's a really miraculous
story. Your decision to write thisbook was it in part to chronicle the
story and your relationship and not justthat part of the story, but the
rest of the story of your mom'sincredible life. What was the driving force
to make the decision to write it. So my father was a psychiatrist,

(01:17:24):
he just passed away. My motherwas a social worker. So obviously you
grew up in kind of in anutty world there where because it's you know,
you're growing up and through osmosis hearingeveryone's problems. But I was just
very curious. I was a journalist. I was always super curious. And
my dad wrote a book in nineteenseventy one and about psychiatry, and I

(01:17:45):
just always looked up to him likeI thought it was you know, your
dad obviously is a legendary broadcaster.My dad wrote this book that I think
three people read, But in mymind, he was a superhero that he
wrote this book. And I justdidn't want my life to pass by without
doing this. And I have totell you it's kind of an outer body
experience. I wrote this book.I've been a news nerd my whole life,

(01:18:06):
never really even listened to music orMTV during that whole generation. But
for some ungodly reason, I satand listened to country music like Johnny Cash
in a crowded cafe, and Ijust wrote and wrote and wrote and wrote.
What I did was we recorded conversationsand then again I put it onto
paper. My mother has a slighttendency, really just with me and maybe

(01:18:29):
fifty other people, to use someuh language that some people might not find
suitable. So the book has somesalty languages. Pressed. Look, she's
shaking. She's shaking her head indiscussed right. Now, here's a funny
here's all the things you just said. Here's a funny story. Though the
audible We have an audible version,and we were supposed to finish it in

(01:18:53):
like eight hours. Took thirty becauseevery time we came across the cursed word
that my mom said, she hadto think of a different word to replace
it with. I cleaned up thelook at you, look at you.
Okay, we got a bit abouta minute before we take another break.
Let me just ask you. Haveyou read the book? Of course?
I read the book. Yes,when you say of course, but not
everybody wants to read a book aboutthemselves. Unfortunately, I am narcissistic enough.

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Every time we do a podcast,send me the link. I want
to watch we do Preston, Sendme the link. I want to listen.
She loves loves it, loves it. I want to see what happened.
So what was your reaction after youread it? I think he's a
terrific writer, and this is objective. I'm his first critic. I would
imagine you are. By the way, this is unlike any Holocaust story you're
ever going to read. I sayit's not your mother's Holocaust story, because

(01:19:40):
it's mine. It is nothing likeanything else you've ever written. And I
apologize for that. Just the Holocauststory. The Holocaust left an imprint,
but it's all the rest of thelife experience. And we are discussing pretty
heavy topic. There's something there's somethingwrong with us because we may we have.

(01:20:00):
The podcast is all true crime,by the way, and the book
is Holocaust related, and both arekind of laugh out loud, so that
says something about us. And Idon't think it's particularly good. You are
You are right now, folks evesdroppingon what makes Surviving the Survivor podcast so
successful and popular. They just talkand they just go, We're gonna keep

(01:20:21):
going. More to come with CarmelaWaldman, Joel Waldman, the book Surviving
the Survivor again, Hearth and SoulTonight five point thirty. Get there for
the live podcast and make sure you'reready to buy some books because they'll be
there to sign them. It's ofdoing morning drive radio differently, doing it

(01:20:42):
his way like Old Blue Eyes,except he has a little more hair.
The Morning Show with Preston Scott.This is when the format of a podcast
just kicks the rear end of whatwe do here, because I could sit
and talk with Joel Waldman and CarmelaWaldman for hours on end, and my

(01:21:08):
curiosity would drive the conversation. AndI'm so grateful to have them here.
The book is Surviving the Survivor.It's a podcast, it's a website,
it's a thing. It's also onYouTube, and they will be at Heart
and Soul tonight for those of youin the Tallahassee area from five point thirty
to seven doing a live podcast.That ought to be a hoot, but

(01:21:29):
we're talking about the book with bothof them who are in studio, and
I'm curious mother and son become cohosts. Explain how that happened. Yeah,
so it was. It was theheight of the pandemic and I had
started a media strategy company and I'mone of these guys that loves the adrenaline

(01:21:50):
of a big story and being onair. Call me a narcissist, and
I wasn't enjoying the business side ofthings. So sure, I said,
Hey, like I said earlier on, I know the perfect person for this,
and reached out to my mom.My dad was still in fairly good
health at that point, but withthe pandemic, my mom joked she's in

(01:22:11):
a Miami beach condo. She said, I need to get out of the
nursing home. So once a weekwe just started a podcast. Everyone thinks
that they can be Joe Rogan,so we went and talked about nothing.
My first guest was my mom,and then we slowly kind of evolved.
We actually had a really interesting interviewwith Carol Baskin of Tiger King. My
mom was calling the show Lion Kingto her face. This was at the

(01:22:34):
height of it, and she actuallyloved it, because you know, everyone
was like fawning over at the timeor thought she was crazy. But she
said to me, she goes,your mom is like my beloved tiger.
She's an endangered species. She's knockingme around forever. So in a weird
way, she also kind of stokedthe flames for me to get writing on

(01:22:55):
this book. Carmen, when Joelcomes to you as mom, I've got
an idea and he explained it toyou the first time, what was your
reaction. My reaction was I likedthe idea because for forty odd years I
worked with people, and I'm avery people person and I love to interact,

(01:23:16):
okay, And during COVID we werevery very isolated, and I mean
it was a great experience to goto a recording studio to meet all the
young hippie kids who worked there,and it was a great experience. And
my husband was getting his health wasgetting worse. He encouraged us to do

(01:23:38):
it, okay, which was interesting. I'll tell you. We have so
the podcast. The tagline is bestGuests and true Crime, and we really
do. We've got the top lawenforcement, top kind of celebrity true crime.
People like Nancy Grace comes on theshow of Annie Pollitan of Core TV.
But Karm has such amazing insight asa former therapist, she really all

(01:24:00):
and lends a lot to the show, although she's taken too many days off
right now. Well, I personally, I gathered that because of the types
of questions she would ask when yourguests come on, I mean that your
your background causes that level of curiosity, right right, And it's focused more
in the area of psychology rather thancrime or legal. But I'm also curious

(01:24:24):
about the legal aspect of things.But I decided personally that at this age
of almost eighty five, I canbe semi retired, so right now I'm
semi is that you're shot back athim saying you're taking too many days off.
Yes, Arm, we got unpunisheddialog. Carm, We've got to

(01:24:44):
show to build. Get on it. By the way, in just seventeen
months, we're at one hundred andtwelve thousand subscribers shameless plug in two and
a half million of views just onYouTube. But Karm, you gotta work
a little harder. All right.We got more to come. One more
segment to go with Karm and Joel, and we're talking about having the Survivor
again tonight, Heart and soul folks, get there. Five point thirty.
It starts the live podcast news,weather, traffic and the big stories in

(01:25:11):
the press box. The fastest threehours in media. And don't be surprised
if you have a chuckle here andthere, just like that. Thanks for
listening. It's the Morning Show withPreston Scott. Final segment. Time.

(01:25:34):
I told you time was going tofly fast, didn't I tell you?
Carl? That surely does? Allright. We now have a book,
we have a podcast, we havea YouTube channel, we have a website.
You you didn't explain to me,how did we become surviving the survivor

(01:25:56):
that focuses on true crime? Whatled to that? Yeah, interesting,
that's why we are here in Tallahassee. We owe a big debt to Tallahassee.
Oftentimes in news it's horrible stories thatkind of put you on the map,
and this case was no different.So we were just talking about basically
nonsense talking to Carole baskin no offenseto her. We had doctor Avi Loban,
who's a famous Harvard astrophysicist, andthen Steve Cohen, our producer,

(01:26:20):
said hey, there's this really interestingstory. We're in Miami out of Tallahassee
about Dan Markel. Obviously, hewas a FSU law professor at gunn Down
in the prime of his career,and it turned out to be a murder
for hire plot. We've had youon the podcast quite a bit, which
we love to discuss it. Andso Charlie Aedelson was just convicted, the
ex brother in law, and DonnaAdelson, the matriarch of the family,

(01:26:42):
is going on trial. So whenwe started to cover this, you know,
everyone looks at their numbers and ournumbers and our views just started a
skyrocket and both my mom and Iwith our backgrounds, me as a journalist
and her as a therapist, wesaid we're onto something here with true crime,
and again, sadly but just sortof serendipitous in terms of timing,
was the Brian Koberger case out ofIdaho, and then our numbers exploded,

(01:27:06):
and like I said, in justthe last seventeen months, we've grown to
over one hundred and twelve thousand subscribersjust on YouTube. And we're both fascinated
by true crime. It's what weenjoy covering. But the Tallahassee story of
Dan Markel was our as they say, og story and what really kind of
put us on the map, andit's very close to my heart. Earlier

(01:27:28):
this week, I was talking aboutthis interview and having you on the program
and sort of discussing the true crimegenre Karm with your background and kind of
the view that you take of truecrime and your questions and your interest and
curiosity. What is it about thatgenre that makes it so popular? You
just Joel just talked about the popularitygrowing and then with iHeart, we have

(01:27:53):
podcasts, and true crime podcasts mightbe the number one segment why I think
is an escape in a certain way. It's an escape from politics. I
think people instead of watching news putbroadcasts on television, they will rather discuss

(01:28:15):
cases where they can have some input, where real things happen to real people,
and mysteries are solved and things areresolved. It's a more personally appealing
genre, I think, and Ithink all of us want justice definitely,

(01:28:36):
definitely, and we are all veryempathic towards the victims. We spend a
lot of time discussing the victims.We have relationships with families of victims.
Yeah, we were just up inToronto on the book tour, that's where
Dan Markel is from, and wehad dinner with Ruth and Phil Markel,
his parents. We've become very veryclose with them and it's horrific to see

(01:29:00):
what they go through. And nowwith each of these trials they have to
relive the pain and the side effectsthe events that create a crime. For
example, then Markell was killed,okay by a hired assassin, but the
grandparents cannot see their children because ofthe legal aspects of laws that give the

(01:29:30):
parent complete control over the children andcompletely excludes the grandparents. And not only
was the son of the Markels killed, but the grandchildren are deprived of contact
with the natural grandparents, and thegrandparents suffer and they're getting older and they

(01:29:50):
may never establish a relationship. Sothere are a lot of side stories from
crime. And I agree with youone hundred percent. Justice. Even in
Jewish scripts it says justice, justice, You will pursue the the in the
Bible. Well you two are pursuingit. I appreciate you coming in today,

(01:30:11):
Absolute pleasure. Thank you so muchfor having us. And we need
to get you back on surviving thesurvivor when there's something worth talking about and
you need that other guy, heycall him. Yeah, it's been a
delight getting to know you and Calm. Thank you so much. I appreciate
thank you so much for having us. Thank you, Joel, thank you,
Thank you. All right, folksAgain Tonight Hearth and Soul five point

(01:30:33):
thirty the podcast, Live podcast,and of course get ready to buy a
book and they'll be there to signit. I have a signed copy,
but what I don't know is didkarm really sign this. We'll see twenty
we're about doing now, twenty fifteenminutes away from the top of the hour.
Here in the morning show, youcan bet that entire interview will be

(01:31:09):
part of the Twelve Days of Prestonwhen we do the month of June during
my Christmas break. That was afun conversation, and I again, I
just I love what we do,I love how we do it, but
I loathe the fact that we can'tjust unplug everything and just talk. She

(01:31:32):
was a hoot. She's delightful.And again, as Joel mentioned, the
books has some, you know,very direct language in it. But the
book is full of stories that justneed to be told. And I'm grateful
that he's chronicling the story of hismom. I have shared that my effort

(01:31:56):
to chronicle my dad's life failed whenthe microphone didn't work. It's the biggest
regret of my life. No,it's not even there's nothing even close.
I sat down at a hotel withmy dad before he got sick and said,
tell me about your life, tellme about your mom, your dad.
Because I know very little about mygrandparents because most of my grandparents had

(01:32:16):
passed away before I was born,and there's not a lot of knowledge of
my dad's family tree. I knowa lot about my mom's but not much
about my dad's. Beyond my grandparentsand we talked for two hours on a
VC, an old video camera,and I had it on a tripod and
a mic and didn't pick up anysound. So he had the video but

(01:32:42):
just no sound. That's unfortunate.Yeah, it was. Yeah, So
anyway, grateful that the book's there, and you know, in a way,
I'm actually just happy for Joel andhis kids and his family and those
that will come after that that thisstory is documented. That's you know,

(01:33:04):
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(01:33:24):
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(01:34:38):
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(01:35:01):
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