Ep. 5330: ''The View,'' gets schooled by a democrat with some common sense.

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Thursday, March 6th.

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- Steve Stewart
- Dr. Steve Steverson
- January Littlejohn 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Good morning friends, Thursday. Right back with you on the
Morning Show with Preston Scott. I'm Preston. He is jose again,
you see, and it's a delight to share time with you.
Show fifty three thirty. It's a Thursday. It means we
got things to do, lots of guests in the program.
But we'll unpack that in just a little bit. It

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is March sixth and we'll tell you about that Dayton
history in a few minutes. But we're we're sharing some
verses at the start of the show this week from
two Timothy. It's a series that we are on in
our chort, in our church, and this weekend we'll be
going over two Timothy four. It says in verse one,

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and now remember this is Paul writing Timothy, and he
has some words of instruction. I charge you, in the
presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to
judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing

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and his kingdom, preach the word. Be ready in season
and out of season, reprove, rebuke, and exhort with complete
patience and teaching. Now we'll stop there and get the
rest of this part of chapter four tomorrow preach the

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word be ready in season and out.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Let's think about those words for just a second. Preach
the word I heard said once, and perhaps you've heard
this expression in one form or another. Preach the gospel
and every now and then use words. Think about that.

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I think what Paul's communicating, because he says be ready
at all times in season and out well, seasons. Beget
the idea of sowing seed. There's a season to sow
and a season to reap. He's saying, we sow seed,

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and we need to be prepared to sow seed in
season and out of season. Whether it's harvest season or
whether it's sowing season, or whether it's in between. We
need to be ready at all times to sew seed.
And so when you look at these two concepts brought together,
Paul's telling Timothy always be prepared to preach the gospel.

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I remember my former boss, Pastor Robert Shelley. Pastor Shelley
would go by the name he would just add, you
just called him Shelley. He would always tell me, Glad, you.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Need to be ready to preach any given Sunday or Wednesday.
And I looked at him and said, be ready in
season and out, and it's like, okay, And so I
never forgot that.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
I always had a message prepared just in case I
needed to fill in, and he would occasionally have me
feel in. I don't know why he would have me
occasionally feel in because we had a team of pastors
that were all exceptionally gifted, but I would.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
And yeah, it's also though, not just about speaking words.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Tell me something. When you display an act of kindness,
are you preaching the Gospel? When you display courtesies in
the face of are you not preaching the Gospel? When

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you go to work and you lead by example, are
you not preaching the Gospel? You see my point, preaching
is more than just speaking words. You speak, you preach.
You exemplify Christ by your actions, maybe even more importantly

(05:06):
than your words. Ten past the Hour inside the American
Patriots Almanac. We go next here on The Morning Show
with Preston Scott.

Speaker 5 (05:24):
WFLA Min's the sixth, eighteen thirty six Mexican army overwhelms
the defenders of the Alamo.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
I don't know if you've ever seen the movie The
Alamo with Belly Bob Thornton as Davy Crockett. You know,
Davy Crockett died at the Alamo. It is a fascinating

(06:07):
story story of Sam Houston Santa Anna, the over zealous
Mexican general who had an ego the size of the
Grand Canyon. It cost him. Good movie. It's a fascinating movie.

(06:27):
Eighteen fifty seven The Supreme Court. It takes some liberties
because they don't know certain things. They kind of hypothesized
how Davy Crockett might have died. Eighteen fifty seven, The
Supreme Court rules and its infamous dread Scott decision that

(06:48):
blacks are not citizens and the Congress cannot prohibit slavery.
Supreme Court proves it can be wrong, and so the
idea of well, you can't overturn precedent, Really, what if
they're just like stupid and wrong? Sure you can. Eighteen

(07:11):
ninety six King Charles Sorry, let me back up, you
move waiting Take two. Eighteen ninety six Charles King test
his horseless carriage in Detroit, becoming the first person to
drive a car in motor city. Bet you didn't know that.

(07:35):
I bet you didn't know that. The first person to
drive a horseless carriage in Destois was a dude named
Charles King nineteen thirty Clearance bird's Eye does that sound familiar?
Begins to sell prepackaged frozen food in Springfield, Massachusetts. Bird's Eye,

(07:58):
It's still a brand. Nineteen fifty one, Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg go on trial for spying the Soviet Union Union
during World War Two. Today is National Oreo Cookie Day.
That is a brilliant cookie. It's a brilliant cookie. In fact,

(08:22):
I'll tell you how you know it's so brilliant. It's
so brilliant that people don't really even try to make
one at home. Why bother you can't do it to
the and have as good a cookie as an Oreo is?
Into chocolate chip, peanut butter. I mean right, there's all

(08:44):
kinds of other cookies you can make, but you who
tries to make a homemade Oreo? Why bother? Just go
get a package? National White Chocolate Cheesecake Day. Makes sense
that it's there for National Dentist Day, National Frozen Food Day.

(09:05):
Speaking of Bird's Eye, probably because of Bird's Eye. I'll
bet you let me look here, I'll bet you that
is because of Clarence Bird's Eye. It is it is,
so it's National Frozen Food Day. It is National Dress Day.

(09:27):
So if you combine it all, put on a dress,
get an oreo, have a little white chocolate cheesecake, get
a frozen meal, and then go see your dentist. The
dress part only if you're a woman, though, you know
what I'm saying. Guys, that's yeah. Sixteen after the hour,

(09:53):
tell you about the show next January. Little John will
join me in the third hour. She was a guest

(10:15):
of President Donald Trump. Sat between the vice president's wife
and the first lady. She is a parent advocate with
an organization called Do No Harmmedicine dot com. She's been
on the program a couple of times previously. You may

(10:37):
remember her child was being transitioned by staff members at
a local middle school without any parental involvement, consent, not nothing,

(10:58):
and she caught wind of it and they intervened. Daughters
doing wonderful, got him out of this, got her out
of the school, and had to file a federal lawsuit.
We'll just sort of see what the disposition of it

(11:20):
all is after we find out about her experience, what
it was like to be in the room and to
watch all of the ridiculousness of democrats. Boy, they embarrassed themselves.
We'll talk more about that later. Steve Stewart joins us.
Next hour, doctor Steve Steveson, we will talk about bird flu.

(11:41):
This can be a problem for your dog or cat,
and we'll explain. And then in the third hour, I'm
going to share something that I've been telling you. I've
got something to share with you in the third hour today.
I've been sharing that this week that we've got something
coming up that I really hope you pay attention to,

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and I really want those of you that are employers
to pay attention to what I'm going to share. It's
a pretty important story. Air Force Chief of Staff General
David Alvin unveiled the YFQ forty two A and the

(12:29):
YFQ forty four A. These are unmanned fighter jets of
the United States Air Force. They're going through testing. These
things were on paper two years ago. He said, this

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is a big step forward in the world of military aviation.
Translation to plane English, it's the most bleep air force
in the world is about to get even more lethal.
Our number one job is putting warheads on foreheads. Now,

(13:18):
an unmanned fighter jet is interesting.

Speaker 4 (13:28):
You know.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
They they attempted to create something sort of like this.
In World War II, the Japanese to do their kamikaze
attacks on ships, what they ended up settling on was
a manned missile. I've seen some of the leftovers of

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these things, short little wings and a dude inside guiding it,
and his job was to kill himself. I mean, the
original suicide bombers were kamikaze pilots. These are unmanned fighter jets.
In my mind, these have to operate in a closed environment,

(14:21):
meaning these cannot be operated by someone sending signals like
a drone you know, is piloted by someone with a
joystick and flying that thing. I've shared the story how
a group of students and at a community college in
Texas told the Defense Department this was better than fifteen

(14:44):
years ago. They said, we can hack in and control
your drones, your military drones. Pentagon said, no, you cannot,
and they said, want to bet, And so they brought
the folks with the Pentagon went down to Texas, flying
one of their drones and with parts that cost them

(15:07):
less than fifteen hundred dollars from a radio shack, they
hacked into the drone and took control of it. Now
here's what's significant about that. I've never forgotten that. It
tells me you've got to have this controlled, meaning it's

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not being controlled outside the plane. It's programmed. These are
the parameters, and this is what it's gonna do. And
if it encounters this, that or the other, it's doing
it through artificial intelligence, et cetera, because otherwise it's it
can be hacked. Right, and that's the big fear of

(15:51):
pilotless airplanes. Think about a giant cargo plane of ups,
one of those massive seven four to sevens or whatever
model they're using now to fly cargos around the world.
Imagine one of those in the control of someone with
ISIS and they just flied into a building, fled into

(16:17):
a football stadium. You get my point. So this technology,
though cool, still a little nervous about this stuff. Come
back with the big stories in the press box. Next.
Other Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 6 (16:34):
This is The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 7 (16:47):
Thirty five past the hour, Good Morning Friends, The Morning
Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
I'm Preston. He is jose Steve Stewart in just a
little bit. Well, it was an interesting decision by the
United States Supreme Court yesterday. And you remember, earlier in
the program I talked about how the Court made The
Supreme Court made a ruling in the dread Scott case
that was egregious, and the Supreme Court ruled yesterday that

(17:27):
the United States government must continue to send money to
foreign countries and honor contracts signed before January twentieth. Now,
Justice Alito was among the four justices that said, no,

(17:53):
this is not appropriate. I think it's important to kind
of take a look at this decision. It was five
to four, with John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett siding
with the three progressive activist justices. Alito lost his mind

(18:17):
in his descent, He's like, you gotta be kidnming. Let
me read from it. Does a single district court judge,
who likely lacks jurisdiction, have the unchecked power to compel
the government of the United States to pay out and
probably lose forever two billion taxpayer dollars. The answer to

(18:38):
that question should be an emphatic no. But a majority
of this court apparently thinks otherwise. Alito further noted in
his dissent that was signed on by Gorsuch, Thomas and Kavanaugh,
the government must apparently pay the two billion post haste,

(19:02):
not because the law requires it, but simply because a
district judge so ordered. Today the court makes the most
unfortunate misstep that rewards an act of judicial hubris and
imposes two billion dollar penalty on American taxpayers. The district
Court had made plain its frustration with the government, and

(19:25):
respondents raise serious concerns about non payment for completed work,
but the relief ordered is quite simply to extreme a response.
Judicial hubris. What an appropriate term, you know? I think

(19:46):
as he as he correctly states contracts are signed prior
to Donald Trump coming into office, how wrong those contracts
may be become somewhat irrelevant. That said, allow doing a
single district court judge the authority to overrule the executive
branch of the government. It just speaks to how far

(20:14):
out of balance we've gotten in our country, It really does,
and the work required to bring it back into balance,
and it's going to be challenging. So the money's got
to go back out as of now. Here's the good news.

(20:40):
The district judge, by stating January twentieth, any contract signed
prior to signals that anything after that can be stopped.
So we'll see moving forward, how Doge and this administration,

(21:05):
how they start whittling things down. We're not going to
be saving all the money we'd hoped on the front end,
but over time we will. Forty minutes past the hour,
back with more of the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

(21:27):
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Another big story
that I think is worth mentioning, Atlanta based Reverend Jamal

(21:50):
Bryant is urging consumers to not spend money at Target
through the entirety of lent forty days forty day boycott.
I guess the previous boycott's not deriving a lot of results.

(22:12):
And I've told you last Friday when they were doing
this ridiculousness, Go buy stuff, go shop see Target is
rolling back some of its DEI stuff. I think it
ought to be rewarded. Go shop at Target. It's not
totally out of the woods yet, but it's moving in
the right direction. And that's how you send a signal.

(22:38):
He said, he's asking people to divest from Target because
they have turned their back on our community, referring to
I guess blacks, but there are minority business owners for example,
Beautiful Curly Me said they will cancel us from their
shelves and make us buy back the products they already
purchased from us if consumers don't buy the dolls. CEO

(23:06):
of lip Bar Melissa Butler said she doesn't want minority
businesses to suffer being impacted negatively by a boycott, so
they're just hurting themselves. But I'm just saying, I just anyway,

(23:27):
this is fun. Stephen A. Smith, who is a remarkably
outspoken gentlemen who I think is a trying to become
the modern day Howard Cosell, and even his cadence is
very much like Cosell. And many of you don't know

(23:49):
who Howard Cosell was. Many of you absolutely know who
Howard Cosell was. How Wod co Sell had a certain
tone about him that caused him to speak in a
certain type of way. And Stephen A. Smith is just
a black version of that, says outlandish things and is

(24:14):
allegedly toying with the idea of running for president in
twenty twenty eight. He's on the view, He's a Democrat.
He's not crazy like many in the party have gone.
Listen to what he had to say, this is Joy Bihar.

Speaker 8 (24:34):
First, it's only been in office for six weeks. Seems
like six years, doesn't it. And he's been going around
with his cronies touting his so called lan Landslaw. Did
blowout win, but he won the popular vote by one
point five percent, one of the smallest ever, and he
won the general election by less than fifty percent. So
what kind of mandate is this really?

Speaker 9 (24:54):
It is a mandate, and I'm going to explain why,
and I don't mind the question, but let me be
very clear. I'm no support of Trump. I'm a support
of truth in the facts. And here's the facts. The
man won every swing state. He increased in terms of
his vote to turn out in his favor. From the
standpoint of blacks, Latinos, and young voters, he increased his
numbers in that regard. From twenty twenty eighty nine percent

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of the county shifted to the right.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
That's a mandate.

Speaker 9 (25:22):
We can sit up there and play around all we
want to. In twenty twenty, they didn't. Trump didn't win
the popular vote, he didn't win the electoral college vote.
A matter of fact, the Republicans had won the popular vote.
If I remember ran to fIF two thousand and four.
But they did this year, so twenty years after they
last won the popular vote, they wanted the popular vote,

(25:43):
they won the electoral college vote. The man won every
swing state, and on top of all, eighty nine percent
of the counties shift against. I don't understand how people
can look at that and say there's no mandate. There's
a mandate.

Speaker 8 (25:53):
It's a different of a mandate, I guess.

Speaker 9 (25:55):
But the problem is that if you're a Democratic party
and you lost forty nine point eight percent to forty
eight three percent, you're looking at that one point five percent.
That's an excuse for you to say what we did
really wasn't that bad.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
By the way, he's only wrong in one thing. They
he won the electoral college, which is why he was
president in twenty twenty. But that aside, or rather yeah,
in twenty sixteen he won the electoral college. Uh anyway, Yeah,
there you go. So he's got a mandate and he's

(26:30):
one of the sober minded Democrats out there that gets it. Unfortunately,
as we'll discuss here in a moment, there aren't many
sober minded Democrats. Forty seven minutes past the hour This
Morning Show at Preston Scott. You know, I've been trying

(26:53):
since I started doing this program to get Democrats to
reconsider their membership been that ridiculous organization. I'm not at all.
I've never suggested you become a Republican. I don't like
a lot of the Republicans because they're not conservatives. They
don't believe in conservative limited government principles. The party, though,

(27:18):
is the better landing spot. And I will repeat what
I've said repeatedly. You cannot be a Christian and be
a member of the Democrat Party. You cannot reconcile those
two things. And again I'm not telling you to be
a member of the Republican Party. Though the platform of

(27:39):
the Republican Party does not present a problem for a Christian,
it presents a host of problems for Christians if you're
a Democrat. The platform of the party does not synchronize

(28:01):
with someone who's a professing Christian, and the party just
continues to get worse the conduct and behavior of Democrats
elected to office that were sitting in the room during
the president's address. Hey, if you don't like his policies

(28:23):
and so forth. For example, I couldn't stand all the
standing ovations. I'm over it. Stop let them talk. That's
part of the reason why the speech took an hour
and forty minutes. And again, if I'm giving the speech,
I'm asking people no ovations or applause, but to sit

(28:50):
down in defiance when you're honoring a thirteen year old
child with a ceremonial award of being a secret Service
agent who has survived thirteen brain surgeries and cancer. If

(29:14):
you're listening to me right now and you're a Democrat, seriously,
you need to think about this. What are you part of?
This would have been the same examination to give to
someone who claimed that they were a Christian and were
a member of the ku Klux Klan. What are you

(29:34):
part of? What are you thinking? You really want to
be affiliated with these heartless.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
Mean.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
People honoring the families who have lost loved ones to
illegal immigrants who were allowed into this country, who committed
heinous acts of rape and murder of their children. And

(30:07):
you couldn't You couldn't just give an ovation of decency.
You couldn't stand just sat there stonefaced holding up signs.

(30:32):
And what does it say about the leadership of the
party that the leadership asked them don't do this, and
they did it anyway in mass D for Democrat, D
for disgusting, and it's not going to get any better.
The Democrat Executive National Committee hired Roger Lowe as its

(30:56):
executive director. He worked for Elizabeth Warren. He's an extremist.
You just don't get it. And that's okay. Steve Stewart next,

(31:21):
by past the hour, second hour, already time, just moving
right on by Here Thursday, March sixth on The Morning
Show with Preston Scott. Great to be with you. And
it was just a week ago that we were in
the month of February, and so here we are now
in March, and we are joined by the executive editor
Tallahassee Report, Steve Stewart. Hello, good morning, how are you.

(31:43):
I'm good, How are you? Newspaper going out this weekend? Nice?
Just like just like clockwork. Look at that, Look at
you got the process down? Nice? All right. What's what's
the headline on this paper?

Speaker 7 (31:55):
Well, actually we're gonna talk about the next segment. It's
headline Midtown Detour.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
Okay, about that? All right.

Speaker 7 (32:00):
A couple of changes this is also in the paper,
but a couple of administrative changes that affect our community.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
You know.

Speaker 7 (32:07):
Uh, the City of Tallahassee long time assistant city manager
Cynthia Arbor retired, and so city Manager Risco took that
as an opportunity to sort of change some things. He
promoted as a deputy city manager Karen Jubinville, who's been
with the city for well over twenty six years and
I should say doctor Jubnville, and so she's being promoted.

(32:30):
But one of the things that I think is the
most noteworthy is that now the police, the chief of
Police and the head of Tahise Police Department Fire Department
are going to report directly to the city manager. There
was a layer, there was an assistant manager in between
rest code and the heads of those departments.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
Clearly a lot of.

Speaker 7 (32:49):
Well, first of all, public safety number one, you know,
task of local government. But also those are two unions
that you know often create you know a lot of
controversy in the political realm, and so that'll be interesting
to see the difference there.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
I know, there's.

Speaker 7 (33:07):
The two unions are viewed different within the city in
terms of are of the politics of it. The Talisi
Fire Department supported the progressive wing during this last selection cycle.
Which was the opposite with the police union, and so
I think maybe that is that move is to try
to tighten up their relationships a little bit because there
will be you know, there's gonna be a fire service

(33:28):
fee rate study this year which will again determine a
lot of things related to the Talisi Fire department.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
Steve. This appointment of doctor Jumanville to deputy city manager,
does this signal a total reorganization, because there was a
time and we've talked about it over the years where
you know, the city of Tallasse who was really top
heavy with assistant managers, they had four of them. You
had a manager and then four assistants, and communities five, six,

(34:00):
ten times the size of ours have won.

Speaker 7 (34:03):
Yeah, And so you know, it's funny that you should
mention that because every time this happens, I get a
couple of phone calls about, hey, you need to look
at how much.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
Money they're spending for the management.

Speaker 7 (34:10):
And I think we're going to do that and take
this opportunity. I mean, the salaries are very high in
these positions, and if you look at the city of
talle high sting, we've talked about this, it is different
in the sense that not many cities in Florida, if any,
have the responsibilities that the city manager does with the airport,
the electric utility.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
And then the other functions of.

Speaker 7 (34:32):
City guron police exactly, and so usually I mean, look
at if you look at Gainesville, there's a separate airport authority,
there's a separate you know, electric authority.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
Lakeland doesn't.

Speaker 7 (34:43):
I think Lakeland they do run their elected utility, but
there is a little bit of difference of how their
structure is set up. So there's some things there. But
again this comes up. It comes up every time in
terms of the salaries and how many managers you have,
and so I think it's worth looking at.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
I'm much more. I mean some in some.

Speaker 7 (35:02):
Cities the chief of policerec reports directly to elected officials,
so this gets it a step closer because they're.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
Always on the fire line.

Speaker 7 (35:10):
Another appointment that I wanted to highlights Children's Services Council,
which is a group that the governor, which is obviously
Republican Conservative, gets five appointments to. There's a ten member
ten member governing council, and so as I have watched
these meetings, this is a very good group to watch
because of the diversity and ideology and political background, and

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they get a lot done.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
They get some things done.

Speaker 7 (35:34):
You wouldn't if you wouldn't expect some of the decisions
coming out of a county like this that.

Speaker 1 (35:39):
Maybe getting a lot done is a little extreme because
we've yet to figure out what they're doing.

Speaker 7 (35:43):
But that's that probably is a bad choice of words.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
They have very.

Speaker 7 (35:48):
Diverse views when they're when they're voting on things, but
they have they governors. Santez appointed Ali Richards who is
Christian comband Leon County Commissioner. Christian Command's aide daughter of
Jimbo Jackson, who is an e SSE a former ESE teacher,
So she'll she'll move into that role and so it'll
be interesting to see what impact she has.

Speaker 1 (36:06):
Nice all right, when we come back, those of you
that drive downtown via Thomasville Road, you'll be interested in
what we're going to talk about next here on the
Morning Show with Preston Scott Dublan UFLA. Eleven past the hour,

(36:29):
fifty three thirty is the show numbers. So if you're
not happy with the program, go to customer service and
ask for a refund of what you paid for. Steve
Stewart with me of Tallahassee reports and yeah, Department of
Transportation in the state has got an idea this way.

Speaker 7 (36:48):
This is a really interesting issue. Yeah, and I had
to dig into.

Speaker 1 (36:51):
It a little bit.

Speaker 7 (36:52):
So look, you know, every since and this was ten
to fifteen years ago, the city started and actually the
community sense of place areas trying to create little Midtown's
been a success. Hey, you start looking at Market Square,
market District.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
I mean, I don't know if you've been. And what
happens when the private sector says, this is what we
need to do, and and the city says, what can
we do to help.

Speaker 7 (37:12):
And provides a little bit of entwer infrastructure. So Midtown,
if you remember back a couple of years ago, they
were looking at trying to put a parking garage in
the Midtown area. You know, progressives came out of the woodwork,
even though the neighborhoods were complaining that cars were parking
sort of you know, on their streets because they had
to had to nowhere to go parking garage.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
You don't know what to solve that, but you.

Speaker 7 (37:31):
Know that got that got pushed aside, and so these
uh so they've made some improvements in midtown. And if
you think of Thomasville Road heading into downtown, I mean
it's like five or six lanes and it comes into
Midtown and just comes down to two.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
Yep, everything slows down. It's a bottleneck, it is. And
you know.

Speaker 7 (37:50):
It's sort of designed to be that way because the
you know, the stores are there, the and you know
the water Burger, bookstores, coffee shops, restaurants and so I.
So the city season and Blueprint sees an opportunity here
to continue to make.

Speaker 1 (38:05):
This a destination, a place where people want to go.

Speaker 7 (38:08):
And so FDOT held a work held a hearing about
some of the work they want to do at midtown.
I think it was on Tuesday, one hundred and twenty
five people showed up. We had a reporter there and
they want to resurface the road FDOT, so hey, listen,
this is what.

Speaker 1 (38:26):
We want to do.

Speaker 7 (38:28):
However, the City of twise he wants to take the
opportunity to do some electrical work. They want to do
some traffic signal work and sidewalks.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
Well now that's Blueprint.

Speaker 7 (38:36):
Now Blueprint wants to come in and sidewalks, make wider sidewalks.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
So we got three parties. We got Blueprint, we got
the city, and we got FDOT.

Speaker 7 (38:43):
And one of the things I take away from this
hearing is the City and Blueprint weren't there. And FDOT
basically said, look, we got two options. We can just
pay the road, Okay, we can also do this what
the city and Blueprint want to do. The problem is this,
and you know, classic problem is that if you do
all three, they're looking at having a one way you know,

(39:04):
converting that into a one way traffic pattern for a
year and a half, if not two years, and providing
detours around midtown when you're heading north, one way when
you're heading south, and the businesses are just going crazy
over this. And you know the thing is when you
start looking at this, look, there's no doubt I first

(39:27):
saw think about the Northeast Business Association. They got started
when remember when they widened Northeast Capital Circle they started,
they started saying, we don't want traffic on this road,
you know, don't stay away from here. Well, all the
businesses are going, wait a minute, guys, you're gonna put
us out of business. So this is sort of and
so look if it was six months, three months, you know,
but a year and a half to two years to

(39:49):
two years, and so you sort of have some sympathy
for the businesses there. So I don't think this is
after this hearing that they had or where people came
and got information.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
Were the people there mostly citizens in the neighborhood or
were they business own.

Speaker 7 (40:04):
They were mostly they were mostly people from the neighborhood,
because there's always been this tension between Midtown and the
neighborhoods that surround it.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
Were people parking there.

Speaker 7 (40:13):
Obviously there's nightlife in Midtown, and so they were there,
I think for that also, But I think there's you know,
a couple of businesses have made their position known, and
again there's you've got to have some sympathy for someone
that's trying to make a living there. And then all
of a sudden, this is going to be a year
and a half two years. So fdot's taken comments till
March fourteenth. I expect that this elected officials are going

(40:37):
to get involved with this, because that's that's the timeline.
Just seems a little bit unfair for businesses in that area.

Speaker 1 (40:45):
It's almost like maybe they want to revisit the parking garage,
you know, the neighborhood might be saying, well, that might
be better than what this is going to be.

Speaker 7 (40:54):
Yeah, and you know the thing is, again, I think
what they're trying to do. I agree with them principle,
but do we really need six eight foot sidewalks in
midtown Me it would look nice, but is it really
that much foot traffic? And so anyway, we'll see where
it goes. But it is an interesting topic. Steve Stewart
with me from Tellassie Reports. Subscribe get that paper, Tellassireports
dot com twenty one past the hour. Steve Stewart with

(41:38):
me from Tallahassee Reports.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
This is sadly an underbelly of local politics, Steve, that
we've had to talk about in the last two election cycles,
in particular because and it gets old. I get tired
of talking about Jeremy Mattlowe and Ryan Ray and Max
Hurley and what these local extremists are doing to try

(42:06):
to gain power.

Speaker 7 (42:07):
Yeah, you know again, I've so we are only getting older,
and I've been involved with this process for fourteen fifteen years,
So now I can talk from experience of the things
that I've gone through, you know, and you know, as
they say, politics can be a dirty business and again
running for office three times.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
I've seen a lot of things.

Speaker 7 (42:27):
What we're starting to see here over the last couple
of years is really alarming to me. And I think,
you know, there was a recent article, well researched, written
by Jeff Burlew that highlighted something that is it should
really I think it should really raise concerns in the
community about where we're headed with this. And you know,
just a couple of the story really was about someone

(42:51):
whose personal life, who you know was very was upended
because of politics. He knew someone and he became im
a target and the people that were supporting Jeremy Mattlowe,
you know, found this information out and you know, you
can disagree or agree with the behavior. It wasn't illegal,

(43:12):
doesn't look like there was any city funds used or
anything like that.

Speaker 1 (43:16):
It's a city worker, though, city worker.

Speaker 7 (43:19):
But the progressors went after this city worker because he's
friends with a politician. That should scare you in terms
of the tactics that these people are using. Now if
you say this is a want off, but this is
actually becoming a trend. If you remember the planning, the
evidence going after a police officer okay, not waiting for

(43:40):
a jury to look at the evidence, or a grand
jury or a grand jury creating the evidence and promoting
this to the degree that it became a national story
and then all of a sudden, you know, when the
facts are shown, it's fake news. And so you're going
after again someone. What is worse than accusing a police

(44:01):
officer of planning evidence? I mean that gets right at
you know what public safety is about and trusting police officers.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
And so we see other threats of the media.

Speaker 7 (44:11):
I mean you saw what, uh, Commission Malow, did you
know when the election cycle was over blamed that call
the Talised Democrat?

Speaker 1 (44:19):
You know, our right wing conservative newspaper, which is just
so patently hilarious.

Speaker 7 (44:24):
You know, we've been attack Taalis reports have been called
racist on a number of different platforms by Ryan Ray
and Commissioner Mattlow. We've had our livelihood threatened by someone
by Commissioner Mattlow going and asking people to quit advertising
with us.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
This cross illegal.

Speaker 7 (44:43):
This well, if there's action, if if they act on
it is this is it's crossing a line to where
I don't know that you can ever get back across it.
I mean Commissioner Mattlow has really revealed who he is
with these actions, and I think people need to be
reminded of that. And you know what happens, and this

(45:03):
is a job for journalists and media is these things
happen over a couple of years, and you tend to
forget about them and you don't tie them together.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
It's a nature of the way the media cycle works, right.

Speaker 7 (45:13):
But if you tie these together and look at them,
it's extremely alarming. And I think that you know, this
is something that you've got to come You got the
people in the community, if you want to move forward,
have got to be reminded of this, because you know this,
this was their approach to try to take control. Now
they're going to try another approach. We see commission Mattlow

(45:34):
going around trying to make up with people that he's
that he's offended. They're after raw political power, and I
haven't seen any evidence that it's about making our community better.
It's about promoting a national narrative. They're getting money from California,
and so it's just important that we don't forget this
because there are people, there are people being hurt that

(45:56):
shouldn't have to put up with this stuff, but all
in the name of the progressives trying to gain a
foothold in local government.

Speaker 1 (46:06):
It seems as though they're not reading the room because
right now the progressive wing of the Democrat Party nationally
is killing the party.

Speaker 7 (46:14):
That and you know, that is a good point, and
I think that's why you're starting to see a little
bit of a pivot here locally in terms of what
they're doing that. You know, they're not on social media anymore,
they're not as you know, the rhetorica has been cut down.
But the question is is this change just to change
to try to you know, gain an electoral advantage or

(46:35):
is it you know or is it just or is
it sincere? And I think that you know before you
even can make that pivot, Commission Mattlow, well.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
You find I'm sorry, Steve, but if if it's sincere,
you admit that what you were doing was wrong and
you were inappropriate in how you handled this, that and
the other. It's a lot like what Diane Williams Cock
said at that city meeting.

Speaker 7 (46:56):
Start with an apology, right, start acknowledging these things that happened.
And so look, we'll see where it goes from here,
but I you know, again have been personally impacted by this,
and I'm going to make sure that everybody is well
aware of what has happened, and you've got to be
able to look.

Speaker 1 (47:12):
At it altogether.

Speaker 7 (47:13):
Story coming sounds like it done, then we got to
document everything it does, all right, Thank you, Steve, Thank you.
Twenty seven past the hour, We're to come on The
Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
Doubufla thirty five past the hour The Morning Show with
Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
Thanks to Steve Stewart, got a story to share in
a half hour. I hope you are tuned in, and
you know we were talking about local Democrats and how
they've just they've lost their mind and they have embraced

(48:06):
the leadership of the local party this ideology that has
just ruined the party we talked yesterday, I mean Democrats,
legacy Democrats are aligning with the Republicans now because the
Democrat Party is so lost and irretrievably broken. Could you

(48:30):
have ever imagined a Kennedy being aligned with the Republican
Party and Donald Trump? Trump was a Democrat, but he's
an old school Democrat. The DNC elects David Hogg as

(48:52):
its vice chair and now they have laced in charge
of the party as the executive director, Roger Lowe, who
worked for Elizabeth Warren, who is signed on with Black

(49:14):
Lives Matter. Our country was built on the foundation of racism,
ranging from the genocide of indigenous people, chattel slavery, racial
profiling of young men of color, and a criminal justice
system that tears families apart. He's in that nonsense. He's

(49:40):
in the reparations crowd, and man have at it. Keep
putting yourself out there as the rest of us, including
more and more minorities in this country, align with the
notion of Yeah, that was unfortunate those times, but that
was then and this is now, and I have all
the opportunity in the world to succeed, which, oh, by

(50:02):
the way, is why people come from all over the
world to this country. This is why people migrate out
of Africa, because they can make a living for themselves here,
a future. They've got opportunity here that they don't find
anywhere else in the world. So to the locals, you

(50:23):
stay at it, you keep making yourself, you keep doing
exactly what you're doing. Please continue be with that crowd
that was Tuesday night. They could not find it in
their heart to clap for a thirteen year old kid
who managed to survive cancer and thirteen brain surgeries. You

(50:45):
couldn't bring yourself to clap for that young man and
stand up and say we're happy for you, young man.
You keep aligning yourself with that. Please keep doing it.
Said in a lot of in a lot of different environments,
a lot of different platforms. Conservatives could not have scripted

(51:11):
the reaction to Trump any better than what happened. They
did exactly what we could have hoped. Millions of people
saw these cold heartless signholders that looked like they were
at an auction holding up their little paddles. Unbelievable, but

(51:35):
totally believable. Supreme Court rejects the effort to freeze foreign
aid going out, saying, uh, yeah, one district court can
determine what the government does. Not everybody on the Supreme
Court agree. But that's the ruling, and it's uh, it's unfortunate,
but it's a it's a it's a very minor setback

(52:00):
to the overall goal. Forty minutes past the hour, doctor
Steve Steverson, some help for your your dogs and cats
coming up forty one minutes past the hour. Don't forget
your home for FSU men's basketball and FSU baseball right here,

(52:26):
let's talk about our four legged friends joining us. Doctor
Steve Steverson with the Bradfordville Animal Hospital. Good morning, my friend.

Speaker 10 (52:32):
How are you, hey, Preston, I'm doing well.

Speaker 1 (52:34):
How are you? I'm doing terrific. We have chronicled on
this show, doctor Steverson, the epidemic hitting the chicken industry
across the country, bird flu and the like. I'm curious
is have you seen cases of bird flu in dogs
or cats or what do you know about its transmission
to dogs or cats? Is it an issue?

Speaker 10 (52:57):
Yeah, you know, Kristen, Thankfully we haven't seen a lot
of avian influenza or bird flu in dogs and cats
here in Leon County. You know, they had a little
outbreak up in South Georgia. They had a lot of
wild migratory birds ducks that came down with this up
in some of the plantations. It was quite a scare
for a little while, but kind of died down thankfully
before we had anything here. But yes, definitely your dogs

(53:19):
and cats pets can get avian influenza that you just
spread by contact with a diseased bird, a dead bird,
it can spread. There having a couple of cases where
they believe it was spread from one cat to another.
So it has spread between cats before. Almost almost always

(53:40):
it's as spread from a wild bird to a domestic
bird or to our pets, but there having some cases
where it was a little more than that. She had
to be very careful.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
What are those symptoms for this stuff?

Speaker 10 (53:54):
Yep, so it's a flu like symptoms, a fever, lethargy,
respiratory disease, resptory distress, even can have a neurologic signs
sometimes kind of how it presents in that pet. But
there's no prevention. So there's no vaccine or preventive for
this avian influenza. So it means keeping your pets. If
you have an outdoor cat, it let's go out and

(54:15):
hunt birds, which a lot of outdoor cats do. Be
very aware you have to keep your pet indoors more
so it doesn't get exposed it. Also, as you've probably
seen the news, avian influenza can be spread in raw milk,
and so that's hit the dairy industry pretty hard. That
milk can carry it to cats, so don't feed your
cat of your dog raw milk, make sure it's been pasteurized.

(54:38):
And then of course if you got outside you handle
your finding dead birds in your yard, anything like that,
make sure you clean thoroughly before you go handle your pet.
We don't want to transmit it from a bird that's
dropped in your yard into your household.

Speaker 1 (54:52):
What about human transmission? Have we found that this avian
flu is transmissible to humans?

Speaker 10 (55:00):
It is it iss and there have been people infective.
Avian influenza usually causes of mild through like symptoms in people,
and there have been cases now where it has been
transmitted in the dairy industry into dairy workers. And there
was a case back several years ago where it was
transmitted from a cat to an owner. And so they're

(55:22):
having cases of a person getting avian influenza from sources
other than a bird. So this this could be a
very big, big deal in the very near future. So far,
there's not been huge transmission outside of birds. But one
day it's going to pop over and it's going to
transmit from person to person. Then it'll be a big problem.

Speaker 1 (55:43):
Tell me this, I mean intuitively, I want to I
want to think that this is a greater issue for
the reasons you mentioned with cats versus dogs, is that
the case that definitely is the case.

Speaker 10 (55:55):
Yeah. Cats obviously way more exposed to birds than dogs
typically are. You know, if you read the literature and talk,
it says that birds that are that you uh, that
might be carriers that avian influenza because most birds don't
get die from it, they get mild symptoms and move on,
but they can then become a carrier, and so they
say those birds are safe for us to eat. I
don't know if I would, but you have a mildly

(56:18):
diseased bird out there that can't fly quite as well,
it's not feeling very good, and the cat goes out
in the yard and it catches that bird. Next year
you have a cat that has ad influenza.

Speaker 1 (56:27):
Good stuff, doctor Steverson, thanks so very much. I appreciate
the time this morning.

Speaker 10 (56:32):
Great thanks busting.

Speaker 1 (56:33):
Thank you doctor Steve Steverson with the Bradfordville Animal Hospital.
Just some things to be aware of for your four
leg good friends. Forty six minutes past the hour, teblt
u FLA. It's a road trip idea on the road

(57:04):
again here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott now
if you've been following the series, and it's so funny
because last week I gave a tip about a plantation
to visit in South Carolina. I get an email later
that morning someone was making the trip to Charleston, had
a day. They didn't know what to do, and they said,

(57:25):
you gave us a suggestion. So we're going to the plantation,
Magnolia Plantation I think it is, and garden. It was
like perfect, See, that's what happens here. We either get
pictures from people that have been there. This one though,
we're skipping the road trip for just a second. We've
been going through the fifty best road trips in each state.

(57:48):
I just came across this story. Booking dot com recently
announced the most welcoming US cities. According to the twenty
twenty five Traveler Review.

Speaker 11 (57:59):
Awards, three hundred and sixty million verified customer reviews went
into making up this list of the most welcoming cities.

Speaker 1 (58:10):
Now, one of them was familiar to me. It's Sedona, Arizona,
which is hilarious. Sedona, if you've never been, is absolutely beautiful.
If you're ever in the Grand Canyon State north of Phoenix,
South the flag Staff is Sedona. The hues of the
rocks there, the mountains are red. It's spectacular. It's just

(58:33):
it's drop dead gorgeous. However, people there a little weird.
It's a real New Age kind of place. Crystals and stuff, man,
for sure. But it's one of the most welcoming cities.
But you know what else is Saint Augustine, Florida. Saint Augustine,

(58:55):
Florida has made the list as one of the top
most welcoming city in America, And of course it is
the oldest city continuously habit inhabited since fifteen sixty five.
But if you've never been man, visit Old Saint Augustine.

(59:18):
The historic Saint Augustine is absolutely spectacular. My wife and
I've been there, and we stayed at a hotel across
the bridge that the Lion's Heads are on, and so
we literally we were at the hotel overlooking the little
bay there and then walked across into the old district
and they've got trolleys and little tours and cool little

(59:42):
restaurants and it's a really cool place. You of course
have Castillo de San Marcos, which is an old fort
right there. Old stone fort used to defend the city
from foreign invaders. But they've got some great tours on
the water, so I just I highly recommend it. So

(01:00:06):
there's your road trip idea. Just head over to Saint
Augustine if you've never been. It's absolutely worth it, no
doubt about it.

Speaker 10 (01:00:14):
All.

Speaker 1 (01:00:14):
Right, next hour, I'm going to relay a story from Florida,
and it's a story that has become all too familiar

(01:00:39):
to us all. But I think that some of the
storyline that we are missing. This particular story avails me
the opportunity to focus on and I will explain in

(01:01:04):
great detail. And so I've literally spent the week thinking
about whether I should share this, if so, how I
should share this, And after talking with one particular person

(01:01:32):
and kind of going through some of it, I've come
to a place of comfort in sharing and thinking that
maybe some good can come out of this. So just

(01:01:52):
know the next portion of the radio program is I
think really important for all of you to hear, So
I hope you will. You'll give me your ears for
a little bit and your undivided attention. Next on the

(01:02:16):
Morning Show with Preston's Guy. If I passed the hour,
it is the third hour of the Morning Show with

(01:02:37):
Preston's Guy. Good morning friends. I'm Preston, he is Jose
and it's a delight to be with you. In the
share time, we have seen a lot of stories involving
tragedy at the hands of peace people that have broken

(01:03:00):
into this country, and it shouldn't surprise us that people
that are willing to break into the country are willing
to break other laws as well. At times, I think
they're almost emboldened by the fact that, oh, this is
all that's going to happen. I'm free to just move

(01:03:23):
around the country. However, I see fit Sweet and we
see the stories of Lake and Riley, Joscelyn Hungary others,

(01:03:44):
these horrific stories of rape, murder, kidnapping, torture, drunken driving,
and I think, to a certain extent, you almost become

(01:04:06):
a little numb to it all. I want to share
the story of a young mom, small town in Florida.
Three children lives with their mom working just doing her job.

(01:04:33):
Across the street from where she worked was a construction site,
and one particular worker at that site took an interest
in this young woman from afar. Now, I remember the

(01:05:00):
lines of Billy Graham you know, God doesn't get you
for the first look, it's for the second taking notice
of another person. That's life. But that gaze turned into
a stare, and that stare turned into a stalker, and

(01:05:29):
over the course of about seven to ten days, that
worker started to follow that young woman. Now, let me
go back to something that I talk about with J. D.
Johnson and Charlie Strickland on our personal defense segments. How

(01:05:51):
often are you really paying attention to your rear view mirror?
I mean, do you ever really think that someone's following you? Now,
for a lot of us guys, wouldn't matter. I mean,
just to be candid, it wouldn't matter. Someone's going to

(01:06:18):
be foolish enough to follow me for the purposes of
something inappropriate. I'm not all that concerned about it. But
how many ladies are just unaware of what's going on
around it? And why should they be. You're doing your

(01:06:39):
job and you're going home at the end of the day.
You shouldn't have to worry about someone following you, should you? Well,
I guess you should.

Speaker 10 (01:06:58):
More.

Speaker 1 (01:06:59):
To share the Morning show with Preston Scott, tell me

(01:07:23):
a story that happened here recently in Florida in a
small community. So this young woman is heading home from
work without realizing it. A stalker now knows where she lives,

(01:07:51):
and so late one Friday night early Saturday morning, in
the wee hours that construction workers showed up. The video
seems to indicate that maybe somebody else was driving him,
so now we know there's two people involved, perhaps, but

(01:08:16):
it's one single young man that the video captures surveilling
walking around the house and then spots a window that
might be cracked open. The stalker now cuts the screen,

(01:08:38):
lifts the window, and enters the house. For who knows
how long. He goes from room to room, opening all
the doors, the doors of the bedrooms of the children,
the door of the bedroom of the muther who owns

(01:09:00):
the home, and the door of the bedroom of the
young woman, the mother of three. At some point in
the middle of the night, while this is happening, the
young mother gets up to feed her youngest child, her

(01:09:23):
baby girl, and he's in the house. At that point,
he's hiding but is not noticed, and it's the middle
of the night. Nothing seems out of place, so the

(01:09:45):
feeding of the child takes place and mom child falls
asleep and hours later they wake up to find every
door in the home open, the door is to the
house open, and two articles of clothing had been taken
from the young woman. Thankfully, no children were kidnapped, no

(01:10:14):
one was raped, no one was murdered, no one was harmed,
except the psychological damage that would come from knowing someone
had been in your home and looking at you while
you slept and then took a couple of trophies articles

(01:10:35):
of clothing. Video showed some but not a real good look.
But the police came got a bootprint, perhaps some fingerprints,
and the neighborhood came together. Video was shared with police.
Soon they had faces on film. By the end of

(01:11:01):
the day they were they arrested the suspect, and this
is where the story takes a bit of a detour. Now,
I am grateful that the police arrested Wayner Garcia Bravo

(01:11:34):
stalking burglary of an occupied dwelling. I'm grateful that Immigration's
Customs and Enforcement have put a detainer on him because
he's illegally in the country from Honduras. I'm grateful that
no one was hurt, not just because of the headlines

(01:11:58):
I read, but because the young woman, and the mother
of three is my daughter. This happened to my daughter
last Saturday morning. I have more to say about this,

(01:12:31):
and I'm going to direct it to the Florida legislature,
Republican lawmakers, employers, business owners, people that work in the trades,
and I want you to listen very carefully to what
I'm going to say. Next it's the Morning Show with

(01:12:53):
Preston Scott. So we now know that we've got a

(01:13:17):
young man that is in jail, will not be released.
He's on an ice detainer, and so we're hoping that
we have a appropriate prosecution because the young man admitted
to everything that he did, the stalking, the entering, the burglary,

(01:13:40):
and so that's not even in doubt. And a credit
to the police department of this small community, they did
a great job. They've been incredibly responsive. But I want
to get to the unspoken part of this problem. Employers,

(01:14:08):
and this is uncomfortable for some Republicans, This is uncomfortable
for some trade associations. There are three primary industries hospitality,
food service, agriculture and trades roofing construction. Don't you dare

(01:14:35):
tell me you don't know you're hiring in illegal. In
this case, this young man was likely part of a
large group of illegals. We'll see where that all leads.
But don't, don't, just don't and to the trade associations

(01:14:55):
out there, stop it. Here's why my daughters shouldn't have
to become a Lake and Riley or Joscelyn Nungary for
this to matter. Do we have to have a homicide?
Do we have to have a rape? Do we have

(01:15:17):
to have a kidnapping and a torture? Did you know
that in Florida, employers of twenty five or more have
to use Everify. Now that's not a foolproof system, but
it's it's a significant system. But employers of twenty four
or less don't. I don't know what the requirements are.

(01:15:42):
You know, a reasonable determination? Look at a phony driver's
license perhaps, do you have a social Security number? Well?
Do you even have to check that? So here's what
happens with some employers. Let's say they've got thirty five
workers forty they form a separate LLC and they split

(01:16:05):
half of them off, so that they are now having
two companies with two sets of employees under the number
twenty five and don't have to use Everify, friends, I'm
going to make it my mission to help that end.
I am going to make it my mission to support
legislation that has been introduced in Florida that would require

(01:16:29):
everify regardless of the number of employees you have. Well,
but that's cumbersome or expensive. I don't give a crap.
I really don't care. Because this worker was present at
that job site because someone hired him to be at

(01:16:54):
that job site. I don't know if it was the builder,
I don't know if it was a subcontractor. I don't care.
I don't care. So my word to you employers is
support and ask for this legislation. Might it cost you

(01:17:15):
a little bit for each employee to run the check properly?

Speaker 2 (01:17:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:17:19):
Will some of you lose employees? Probably? You should. Shame
on you for paying people under the table. Well, but
my prices will go up. Yeah, what's your point. Shame
on the business community across the country that has been

(01:17:41):
getting this little quiet pass for employing illegal aliens. They're
in this country illegally. Help them be legal if you
need to, if you feel compelled, get involved in the
process of helping them come out of the sh shadows
per se. But stop with the excuse making. Republican lawmakers

(01:18:06):
in Florida. Stop protecting businesses that are hiring illegals because
it indirectly leads to these problems. My daughter's had to
change jobs, had to change locations, had to change routines,

(01:18:28):
has to now look in the rearview mirror, has to
have a police officer sit there when she leaves work.
Right now, Really, that's fair, that's right, That's what's supposed
to happen. You know, I'm I did not connect this
dot as tightly as I should. We've talked about illegal

(01:18:51):
employees and employers hiring illegals, but not we've not directed
enough attention at employees. Stop making excuses, do the right thing.
Support the legislation here in Florida. Twenty eight minutes.

Speaker 6 (01:19:07):
After the hour, It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott
running a minute late. Let's get right to it, final
half hour of the radio program. Jose over there running
the radio show and joining me on the phone line
is January little John. She is a parent advocate with

(01:19:29):
the group Do No Harm Medicine dot com and has
been a guest on this program a couple of occasions. Hello, January,
how are you hey, Good.

Speaker 12 (01:19:38):
Morning, Preston. And that website is do you know dot org?

Speaker 1 (01:19:42):
Oh, it's a dot it's a dot org location. All right,
fair enough. First, you were a guest of the President
of the United States. Those are words that don't get
said very often. Tell us about it.

Speaker 12 (01:19:58):
Gosh, well, I real don't even know where to start pressing.
It was just such an honor, and I was so
humbled to be among so many Americans that truly had
tragic stories. I had the opportunity to meet you know,
DJ Daniel, who was just precious that little boy is
still fighting cancer and truly just brought joy to every

(01:20:19):
single person he encountered. He just has such a gift.
And then of course there were the victims of you know,
Lincoln Riley's family, Jocelyn's mom, Alexis was there, and then
of course Corey Combentari's family. So I just was very
humbled to be in a room with just incredible Americans,

(01:20:40):
everyday Americans who have stories to tell. But I think
God is using their pain for purpose, just like he
did for me and my family.

Speaker 1 (01:20:51):
What does it mean to be a parent advocate for
do No Harm medicine?

Speaker 12 (01:20:57):
So I am incredibly grateful to do no harm in
the really important work that we are doing. I serve
as their parent leadings on. So any time apparent contacts
do no harm and is struggling with their child who
has distressed over their sets, I connect that parent to
resources to help them parents and walk their child on

(01:21:19):
the other side of that confusion, just like we did
with our daughter.

Speaker 1 (01:21:22):
Yeah, give everybody the thumbnail sketch january of what happened
with your daughter.

Speaker 12 (01:21:29):
So there are details that I cannot talk about right
now because we are still in litigation. But what I
can tell you is that this is pervasive president and
gender identity ideology has infected every institution in our culture.
It's infected our schools, it's infected our medical profession, my
counseling profession, and even our judicial system. And so it's

(01:21:54):
going to take some time to undo the indoctrination that's
been done and pull it out root by root. But
until then, parents need to fully inoculate their kids from
this ideology because it's not a matter of if they're exposed,
it's whens and so it's really important that children know
from a very young age that there are male and

(01:22:16):
females that no matter what one does to their physical self,
sex cannot be changed. Sex is not a spectrum that
is binary. And so these were truths that we took
for granted even ten years ago. But it's really important
that you ground your children and the reality of their sex.
You celebrate the sex that they were born, and you

(01:22:39):
help them through, you know, often times of puberty that
we all went through, because right now it's being pathologized
and these trans identities are being normalized and even promoted
and celebrated.

Speaker 1 (01:22:51):
January Little John with me Do No harmmdicine dot org
is the website, and we'll talk more. A few minutes
left with January here in the Morning Show with Preston
Scott forty one minutes past the hour. Just a few

(01:23:12):
more with January Little John, our guest, and you know,
just to kind of dovetail your visit on Tuesday night
at the President's Address to the Nation into Congress, you know,
you mentioned being humbled by being around the families and
some of the young people that you were surrounded by, January,

(01:23:32):
but you also had to take notice that half the
room of the elected leaders was not so warm and
sympathetic to any of those causes.

Speaker 12 (01:23:41):
Yes, I did, and that was truly disgraceful. I don't
know how they could sit there and not applaud dj
I mean that that to me, that was just unforgivable.
And there has to be a time when we put
partisans politics aside, and they have shown time again if

(01:24:03):
they are unwilling to do that.

Speaker 1 (01:24:06):
I know that you are in a situation with the
litigation where you cannot talk about specifics of the case.
What can you tell us about the status of it
and what are your goals?

Speaker 12 (01:24:19):
So we are still in the appeal space. We are
now awaiting the elevens t Court of Appeals to rule
on the judge's dismissal of our case. That is the
status of the case. In terms of my hopes, I
want to change the culture. That is really what we
need is a shift in culture. We have to get
back to where we are grounded in truth reality because

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the bottom line pressent, this is a mental health issue
that up until recently. Thankful, you know, I'm very thankful
to Governor de Santis and other states that have passed
laws restricting these barbaric mutilating surgeries and hormone therapies. They
should have never been allowed to do this to children,

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and so I really think in order to fully end
this medical scandal, we really need a shift in culture.
We have to get back to this being a mental
health issue perceived as a mental health issue, because that's
what it is. It's very similar to any type of
body dysmorphia and even anorextia. So that is my goal
is to educate people because the US is now an

(01:25:24):
outlier and how we are treating, especially children experiencing this
kind of distress, and we just need to keep speaking truth.

Speaker 1 (01:25:32):
Isn't it fair to also say that this is about
establishing lines of who's responsible for the well being and
welfare of a child, a school district or a public
school versus a parent.

Speaker 12 (01:25:49):
Well, yes, and ultimately I hope that the court's rule
in favor of parents. I mean, that's really what we
need because parents have the fundamental right to direct the
upbringing of their children that include mental health care and
physical health care. And it's really important for parents to

(01:26:10):
understand what their rights are and to stand up for
them when they have been violated.

Speaker 1 (01:26:18):
January. I've looked at the statistics. I know that it
is just for me personally, I don't believe that this
has been anything other than a social contagion brought about
by social media. Largely, it tends to impact young girls
more than young boys statistically. But that said, as a

(01:26:39):
professional in the field, am I kind of on the
right track here. This is stuff that kids sometimes they
just question and they grow out of most of the time.

Speaker 12 (01:26:53):
That's exactly right question, and that is what the research shows.
Just like with our daughter, if you give these kids
time to mature, go through their natural puberty, you do
not socially or medically transition them. They will resolve their distress.
And this is a social contagion. There is no other
explanation for the explosions and the number of young people,

(01:27:16):
predominantly girls during you know, their prebescent years, when discomfort
over their body is high, suddenly experiencing this type of
distress and believing falsely that they were born in the
wrong body. So you have, you know, this, this perfect
storm that came together during COVID where these lies this
gender identity ideology, this notion that you had a gender

(01:27:39):
identity that is separate from your sex, that you choose
to be a boy, girl, neither or both. This was
all intentionally pushed on our children, and so you're right,
social media played a huge part of it. But you
have to remember, prior to President Trumps taking the office BacT,
this was also being pushed through the Department of Education,

(01:28:02):
through our own federal government. There were CDC grants that
we're pushing Gay Straight Alliance, Gender Sexuality Alliance clubs into
our middle school and high school. So this is still happening.
Gender identity ideology is still being pushed into schools through
these types of clubs, through social emotional learning programs, and

(01:28:23):
I am still getting calls all over the country. This
crisis is still happening for many families across our nation.
This battle is not Overpress.

Speaker 1 (01:28:34):
Is a good starting point for any parent listening that's
maybe dealing with this with their child. Do No Harmmedicine
dot org.

Speaker 12 (01:28:41):
Absolutely, We've put together a parent resource page that is
a fantastic place to start. They can also fill out
a tip line on the website itself and make an
appointment with me just to put in there that you'd
like to be connected with me and I can help
them get the resources they need.

Speaker 1 (01:28:57):
January, thanks for the time this morning. I wish you well.

Speaker 12 (01:29:00):
Thank you, God, bless you Press.

Speaker 1 (01:29:02):
Thank you January little John with us this morning. There
you go, Do No Harm Medicine dot org. That is
the website. Forty seven minutes past the hour.

Speaker 7 (01:29:31):
One correction on my story that I shared. I said
that might cost a little more to go through Everify.

Speaker 1 (01:29:38):
It doesn't. Got a note from an HR specialist who
said there is no added cost for Everify. There are
zero excuses. If you're wondering what I'm talking about, go
back and listen to the podcast and the beginning of
the third hour of the show where I had something

(01:29:59):
to share, needed to get something off my chest. And
don't be surprised if I don't try to find a
way to do a little testifying before the House Senate
committees that might be considering the legislation, because this has

(01:30:21):
to stop, various state chambers of commerces, the different trade associations,
the lobbyists out there. You can either be part of
the solution or part of the problem. All I can
tell you is it'll pivot real quick if it happens
to your kid. I don't wish anything bad on anybody.

(01:30:48):
I've had to pray to forgive this young man. I
just don't know how many other victims there may be.
Is he part of a group that does this? Someone
drove in there? It appears on the video. Anyway, Tomorrow,

(01:31:16):
Casey at the bat, we'll also do a little little
what's the Beef and more. That's Tomorrow, brought to you
by Barono Heating and Air. It's the morning Show on WFLA.
Democrats can't get out of their own way right now.

(01:31:37):
And I say, be my guest, be my guests, being
my guests, I'm gonna I'm gonna write a song. I'm
gonna use that tune. I'm gonna write a song.

Speaker 13 (01:31:53):
Please continue make a mess. Huh, be my guest, be
my guess. Hire fools not the best.

Speaker 1 (01:32:06):
Yeah, it's coming. They just they embarrass themselves. Members of
their own party are saying it. We embarrassed ourselves. More
people fleeing the party. Come on, come on, leave leave.
You don't have to be a Republican. Just don't be

(01:32:26):
a Democrat. Don't be one of them. Don't be Why
would you want to associate?

Speaker 10 (01:32:32):
Like?

Speaker 1 (01:32:32):
What would you Why would you hang with the Klan?

Speaker 2 (01:32:36):
What?

Speaker 1 (01:32:39):
Because they make a great bonfire? Are you kidding me?
Why would you hang out with people like this that
are so mean and nasty and uncaring and oh, by
the way, are wrong about most everything. Tomorrow cannot wait

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getting all kinds of email about the third hour of
the show. Keep it coming President at iHeartRadio dot com. Friends,
have a great day.