Ep. 5345: 75 days and only 4 permits... Looks like Trump was right again.

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Thursday, March 27th.

Our guests today include:
- Steve Stewart
- Dr. David Hartz
- Dr. Ed Moore
- Stefan Paddield


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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Morning quiet just dawned on me. I have not gotten
my water yet. I've been so busy in here this morning.
Great to be with you. It is Thursday, Good Morning
Show with Preston scot In Preston, he is Jose and
a pleasant Thursday morning to you. March the twenty seventh.
More on that date in Mere Moments Show fifty three

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forty five And today's show is a typical Thursday busy.
But we always begin with some scripture, so let's do that.
This is a This is an interesting one because it
requires a bit of a deep dive to I think,
pull out of it everything that God has for us,

(01:02):
recognizing that, you know, the Bible is unlike any other
collection of books, because the Bible is actually a library
in your hands. It's one book, but it's really a
compilation of many books brought into one place. And it

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distinguishes itself from every other work of literature in that
it speaks to you at every stage of your life
slightly differently, without ever conflicting with what it said to
you previously. Like what scripture says to you about a

(01:47):
verse when you're twenty can change a little bit when
you're forty five, and have children, but never conflict with
what it said to you when you are twenty. It expands,
it just it's it. There's nothing like it. And that's
why I think it's referred to as the living Word
of God. You know, it's not just Jesus as the

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Word of God, which he is the Word, becoming flesh
and making his dwelling among us. But it's just it
has it has a quality to it no other writing,
no other work does And one Peter four eight it says,
above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers

(02:35):
a multitude of sins. Now what's interesting about that is
if you dig into the Strong's concordance, here's what that
verse says, and above all things, have fervent charity among yourselves,

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for charity shall cover a multitude of sins. But the
word charity there in that particular translation, which is the
King James translation, that word charity is better translated as
the word love, which is why in most modernized versions

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the Greek word for love is inserted there. But this
is where it gets really interesting. There are at least
three different words for love in Greek. One is aros.
Aros is a word of love. It is where the
word erotic comes from. But what the word aros means

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when it's expressed as love is a romantic love. It
is the love that one has a husband to a wife,
a wife to a husband. It is a romantic type
of love. It is reserved for marriage. Then there's falao.
Fal love is a friendship. Filao love is a brotherly love.

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But the love that's used in this particular verse, keep
loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
Is the Greek word agape, and agape is totally different
than fialao a friendship love, or arrows a romantic love.

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It is an act of will. It is not done
in reciprocal fashion. Well, if you love me, I love you. No, no,
no no no. Agape love is a love that is purposeful, intentional,
and again willful. It is an act of your will.

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So think about this verse in that light. Above all,
keep loving, keep willfully caring, for caring about one another earnestly.
Because agape love, a willful love, covers a multitude of sins,
it doesn't mean it erases, although Jesus's love did do that.

(05:20):
See what I mean by the depth of the scriptures.
But I think what this is also dragging us to
is that that type of love keeps people from sin,
It draws them into a better relationship with God. Ten
Past the Hours, The Morning Show with Preston Scott. This

(05:45):
is the Morning Show with Preston Scott. It's seventh March.
Inside the American Patriots Almanac, we venture and it was
on this date in fifteen thirteen Spanish explorer one ponts

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de la Hone cites Florida.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
What is that then? Look good? I think I will
call it Florida, and I think I think that will
be Saint Augustine.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yes, that's what I will do. Eh. It's it's great
because we're going to talk about the Spanish American War today.
Things got a little testy, but never mind. I won't
go there now. Seventeen nine, the government authorizes the creation

(07:02):
of a permanent US Navy construction of six frigates, including
the USS Constitution. I have told you I have been
on board. If you've not seen the US cons USS
Constitution in person, you should. You should board the ship.
You should tour the ship. You should look at it,
and you should appreciate think about it. The ship is

(07:25):
still floating. The ship can still sail. Seventeen ninety four
is when it was commissioned to be built. Seventeen ninety four.
You're literally standing on US history. It's incredible. Nineteen seventeen,

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the Seattle Metropolitans defeat the Montreal Canadians to become the
first US hockey team to win the Stanley Cup. Nineteen
thirty nine, Oregon defeats sorry, honey, Ohio State forty six
to thirty three to win the first NCAA men's basketball tournament.
But Ohio State would have its day. Nineteen sixty four,

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the Good Friday earthquake, strongest known earthquake in American history,
eight point four in the Richter scale, hits Alaska, killing
one hundred and thirty people. That was in nineteen sixty four.
Today is National Scribble Day. Hey, it's a day that
honors my handwriting. National Okay, I need you on this, buddy,

(08:39):
National Spanish Pala Day. What is paala? But it is
a seafood dish originating from South America. I forget exactly
what will come up. It looks like it has shrimps
in it. It got shrimps, yep with some rice. I
believe it's a yellow rice. It's pretty delicious. Yeah, it
is a yellow rice. Back in the day, they would

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mix whatever they could find, rabbits, snails, chicken was added
any ingredient that goes well with rice, which is basically anything.
I mean, is there anything that doesn't go well with rice?

(09:22):
I mean there are even desserts that work well with
rice pudding. And today is National Joe Day. So to
all of you named Joe, we salute you. We take
a bow, and we say thank you Joe. Look at me,

(09:45):
sixteen minutes past the hour. I don't worry. I won't last.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
Man.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Just made it back here in time, making my breakfast
and thinking, okay, I'm gonna get some water here.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
No water in the water cooler?

Speaker 1 (10:11):
Helldover that? I mean, well, wait, come on, none of
the men around here can lift a five gallon thing
of water.

Speaker 4 (10:23):
Come on, now, come on, eh, living for the those
kyle of building O skuttle building. Gotta live that up.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
It's up with that. It's up with that anyway. Just
got a wine for a second there, so I put
the thing on there, and I'm still a little sore
from yesterday. I don't mean physically. But I got tore
up by some vines yesterday. I just I got I

(10:58):
got home and I said, okay, I am tackling a
few areas because I noticed I had some vines growing
up on some palm trees.

Speaker 5 (11:05):
And I started.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
I just stared at it and I was tracing it
back and I was and it was, WHOA, wait a minute,
that can't be going there. And outside my fence line
there's a green space where I live, and they don't
maintain it. And it's just it's I mean, the number
of rattlesnakes back there probably is like four thousand. And

(11:29):
so I'm looking at this thing and what I thought
was a tree trunk was the base of a vine
that had gotten that big and was feeding so many
different other vines. But to get back to that, I
had to do some work. So I had to do
some cutting. And like an idiot, I'm wearing shorts and

(11:56):
I'm wearing ankle socks because it's a beautiful day, and
I'm like, I'm gonna get a little sun on the legs.
Come on, now, I got heavy legs the time, blonde
in the sun. No, I'm just kidding. So I'm cutting
and then I get to that massive thing and I
had to bring out a chain I had to get

(12:17):
a chainsaw to cut it, and I did, and I
painted the brush killer on the what was let the
stump of it to kill it, because that's anyway, but
my cutting of all the vines and stuff on the
way out there, I'm not thinking about it, and some

(12:41):
of it gets wrapped around my leg and my ankle,
and so when I turned a walk, he go, what
And a bunch of these vines have thorns on them,
and so I got absolutely ripped. When my wife came
home yesterday afternoon, she she's she looked at me and goes, oh,

(13:01):
my gosh, shees, because I had I didn't know, but
I had gotten cut back like by my achilles on
my ankle on my right foot. I knew where I
got cut on my left leg, and I mean, I
mean scratched and deep gouges and stuff, but I really
bled a lot on my right and it was like, oh,

(13:23):
my sock wasn't looking particularly pretty. And so anyway, I'm
just I'm just moaning. Just I'm just moaning right now
because I come in here and water jug is sitting there,
and you know, somebody got that last little bit of
water and they knew because it was just trickling. Now chicken,

(13:46):
they were like, yeah, no, I'm not changing it. So
I did. So Fellas, You're welcome, and it's just come
on now, come on, come on, man, fuck up, let's go.

(14:07):
All right. Came across this story, and you know how
I love flea markets, thrift shops. You know, Jose's a
dumpster diver, and so when you find stuff, it's a
cool story. In this case, Dayton, Ohio. Marissa Alkhorn, she
said it was an awful painting, awful, but it was

(14:27):
two ninety nine. It was like, I need something on
the wall. So she grabbed it. So she's taking it
out to her car and she notices there's a little
plaque on it. And the plaque said Johann Berthelson. And

(14:48):
so she did a little digging and she figured, oh,
he's an American impressionist who died in nineteen seventy two.
His works have some value. But she thought, this is
a you know, a print off, a forgery. It's not
it can't be a real like a guy's painting. I mean,

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I got it for two ninety nine and Goodwill if anything,
she bought it for the frame. It's legit. She sold
it at auction. It's a it's a work titled Chapel
Saint Patrick's Church. She sold it for twenty eight hundred
and seventy five bucks. So her two dollars and ninety

(15:31):
nine cents worked into an investment valued at twenty eight
hundred and seventy five dollars. You never know. Twenty seven
minutes past the hour This Morning Show with Preston Scott,

(16:01):
we see now the new strategy Morning Friends, Big story
in the press box stories here on the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. On Preston, He's OSEI the new strategy
is to thwart Trump with endless lawsuits over and over
and over and over and over. And I suppose Trump

(16:22):
knew this was coming, which is why he tackled so
many things immediately so that he's got time to get
things litigated and bumped up the chain as far as necessary.
It's hilarious. The same ridiculous judge that demanded national security

(16:44):
information that he's not entitled to. He's a district judge. Sorry, dude,
you don't get it, has been assigned the leaked Chat
lawsuit same judge. Wonder how that happened. Now Trump's taken
some als. The Supreme Court has upheld a Biden era

(17:07):
ghost gun regulation. It's not necessarily a Trump deal. But
what this opinion was seven to two. It wasn't close.
The only descents came from Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito.
I'm sure we'll talk about this tomorrow with Lee Williams,
the gun writer. It was the opinion on Bondi versus

(17:30):
Van der Stock, written by Justice Gorsig. Ghost guns are
considered by many a pejorative term to describe homemade firearms
that lack a serial number and therefore can't be tracked
by law enforcement. The argument is, since the beginning of

(17:50):
the country, people have made their own firearms. The current
rule requires in jewels who assemble homemade firearms to add
serial numbers to them. It also mandates background checks for
consumers who buy gun assembly kits from dealers, and so

(18:14):
that's in place. Supreme Court has said, yeah, that's appropriate.
They are writing that the Gun Control Act of nineteen
sixty eight allows ATF to regulate some weapon parts, kits,
and unfinished frames or receivers, including those discussed in that
particular case. So we'll see where it goes from here.

(18:40):
But as of right now, that issue is settled. You've
seen that the same LGBTQ judge, I mean literally, she
is a lesbian judge has ruled that the military may
not ban transgenders from serving. Well, of course they can,
but she is said they may not, so they're appealing

(19:02):
that immediately. It is it is never mind, you know.
And here's the thing. You know, President is signed an
order preventing illegal immigrants from voting. Why does he have
to do this? Now? Seriously, some of this stuff, I

(19:22):
think it's very fair to say, Okay, let's see where
it goes, because I'm not sure this is not one
of them. Why does the president have to take executive
action to make sure illegal immigrants and non citizens do
not vote in federal elections. It also says this particular

(19:42):
order that the US Attorney will take action against a
state the count's ballots received after election day. Yeah. Yeah,
we know the date of the next election right now.

(20:03):
And so the idea that you can't get a mail
in ballot in on time properly showing that it's you,
that you're a legal citizens, that's absurd and all it
does is open the door to fraud. How many votes
do we need? See the last election, and Trump said
something very very I think appropriate here. Perhaps some people

(20:27):
think I shouldn't be complaining because we won in a landslide,
but we have to straighten out our elections. Yes, that's
the point. You don't just complain when you win. You
complain because it's wrong. Period. I think jose just said

(20:50):
amen forty minutes past the hour. You couldn't hear it,
although you might have heard it through the glass it
was so loud. Is the Morning Show with Preston scott Man.
Warm oatmeal is a thing of beauty. Cold oatmeal O

(21:12):
mg ah, cold oatmeal. You just feel like you got
to put it on the back of a brush and
put up some wallpaper. It's like paste. Ah. Anyway, Sorry,

(21:36):
have you noticed the evolution of the story on the
Signal Chat We used Matt Vespa's description nothing burger to
summarize it yesterday. Mistake, Yes, absolutely unnecessary, And you could say,

(22:05):
in fairness glad it wasn't a big deal because had
it been, would have been bad. But it wasn't, so
it could have been bad, it just wasn't. But here's
what I want to point out to you. First of all,

(22:30):
as a story develops, you should be getting more and
more information that broadens the story, that gives more context,
more in depth facts. In this case, this story is

(22:55):
not so much evolving as it is devolving. It's going
backwards because it's very clear that the writer in question,
the Atlantics, Jeffrey Goldberg, oversold what he had in a
major way. The hook of the story was.

Speaker 5 (23:19):
Classified war plans were discussed on this chat, and this
guy was in it. He was a news guy accidentally
put in.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
Now you might remember that this is the same guy
who attacked the CIA director John Radcliffe for blowing cover
for a CIA agent, when what Ratcliffe was doing was
naming his chief of staff. He wasn't a CIA agent

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whose cover was blown. Ratcliffe was announcing his chief of staff.
This is the type of journalists we're dealing with. Except
nothing in this chat was classified, and so the war plans,

(24:25):
which had no names, no targets, no locations, no units,
no routes, no sources, no methods, and no classified information
was out there. But here's where you need to pay attention.
And you know who drew my attention to this, Elizabeth Warren.
You remember at the beginning of this it was top secret.

(24:46):
Classified's class they chatted classified information. You know what it
is Now sensitive, it's sensitive information. Words matter. So we've

(25:09):
gone from top secret to classified to sensitive. You'll notice
no one wants to discuss Hillary Clinton's laptop and ben
Ghazi in the scope of any of this. You want

(25:31):
to talk sensitive slash classified slash top secret. Let's talk
about Hillary and Benghazi. This as was said, unforced error.
But oh how the narrative has shifted. Forty six minutes past.

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When we come back, when a comedian is proven right

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fifty one fifty two minutes past, comedian Adam Carolla funny guy.
He's he has allowed his career to transform itself over time.

(26:50):
He's still a comedian where he's allowed to be funny.
I say that because we're in a woke culture where
funny is no longer acceptable in many quarters, and all
comedians are lamenting that. But he's a conservative, and he's

(27:10):
turned into a political commentator as well. He made a
fascinating observation in the wake of the California fires, and
his observation was the rebuilding process is going to be
a nightmare in California because of the progressive policies in
that state. He said it would be near impossible to

(27:33):
get a building permit. It has been seventy five days
since the fires in Pacific Palisades. We're going to zero
in on Pacific Palisades. One of the very nice verbs
of LA. Over six thousand homes and businesses were destroyed.

(28:03):
Seventy five days later. How many permits do you think
they have authorized? Six thousand? So what maybe six hundred,
five hundred, four hundred, one hundred fifty four four. Here's

(28:38):
why I'm bringing this up. This is a warning to
every single community in America. This is a definite warning
to the leadership of the city of Tallahassee and to
the business community, namely the Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce. This

(29:02):
is what happens when progressive takes charge. They kill business,
they kill development. They do that at times overtly, at
times covertly through the permitting process. Well, you know, it

(29:24):
just takes time. What it's not me, man, it's just permitting.
You know, hogwash. It's progressivism. It is what happens. And

(29:48):
let what is happening in California serve as a warning
once again that when and you can smell, you can
sniff out their There are ways to test whether an
elected official, whether they are local, state, or national, are
pro business or anti business, whether they are pro development

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or anti And when I say pro development and pro business,
I'm taught I'm not talking about stripping an area a
region of everything. I'm talking about intelligently, with all appropriate considerations,

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developing things for the purposes of developing commerce in an
economy and creating jobs and all of those things. Don't
let it happen, people, and you are being warned by
what's happening in California. Six thousand plus homes and buildings
have been destroyed and there are four permits that have

(30:57):
been approved. Four come back. Steve Stewart joins us next,
speaking of local executive editor of Tallhassee Reports on the
Morning Show with Preston Scott. Happened a moment to lose

(31:25):
second hour of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Steve
Stewart with US executive editor Tallahassee Reports at the paper
tallasse Reports dot com. Stephen, I desperately, I talked about
what happened in California in the last segment that they
had all of those buildings and homes destroyed in the fires,
and the makeup of the local commission there has ground

(31:47):
permitting to a halt. I believe that this change at
the Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce with Sue Dick stepping down,
creates an opening for them to kind of reassess their
place in this community.

Speaker 6 (32:00):
I think that that's the that is the narrative that's
going around is look, this is you know, Sue Dick
has been with the Chamber for thirty years, been leader
for twenty five years, and has I mean everybody likes Sue.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
She's delightful, yes.

Speaker 6 (32:15):
And so now they view this as a change that
can maybe further separate, further make the Business committee more
independent from local government, because you look all around Tallahassee
and we're a much different community than we were forty
years ago, thirty years ago. I mean when you're talking
about you know, the local hospital building a hospital in

(32:38):
Panama City, I mean, we're growing, and so this is
a this is a pivotal time, as you've said, to
get new leadership.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
Now, my concern is this, if.

Speaker 6 (32:48):
You argue that Sue has created this, you know, the
chamber in the sense that she's creating policy. Yes, so
a new leader is going to make a difference. But
if there are people behind the scene that are just
telling Sue what to facilitate, then you might you know,
this may not be the opportunity that everybody thinks.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
And so I think we'll find out.

Speaker 6 (33:11):
And so the biggest decision that comes down now is
they've have a search committee. This is not I mean,
Sue's going to be in charge until the end of
the year, so it's not like a sudden leaving a
empty office. And so as the debate goes around town
with any of these big positions, is it going to
be someone hired locally or are you going to go

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outside the community and bring somebody in. We always have
that debate, it seems, when any of these big positions
come open. Children's services counsel, we had somebody you know
that they're They've had people that applied from all over
the country. We hired somebody from here, police chief, we
had a candidate from Tampa.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
We stayed with what we had from Tampa.

Speaker 6 (33:51):
Yeah, and so I'm not saying again I'm not one.
I'm not saying it's good or bad It's just that
is always the debate, and so so it'll be a
very interesting and it'll be something like you had mentioned it,
It'll take some time. This is not something that's going
to happen right away.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
Would it be fair to say that the business community
through express through the Greater Tallahassee Chamber. You use the
word independent. I liken it in some regards to the
relationship between church and state. I believe that the church
is supposed to have an impact on the government. I
believe the local businesses are supposed to have an impact

(34:29):
on the local government. By its independence, the government will
impact businesses, but it should not be directing what local
business does.

Speaker 6 (34:38):
Now and again this comes with the you know, the
organic growth of the community. And if you go back
thirty or forty years, we have one city in Leon County.
I mean that is a unique thing in itself. And
then when you have one city and you've got universities,
you've got the big hospital. I mean, so when the
growth happens, then you you know the original relationship where hey,

(35:00):
we were the government was funding economic development through the
Chamber seven eight years ago, that was broken apart. So
we're starting to make these baby steps. This is another
part of that. Where you look at other bigger cities
like Jacksonville, Orlando, or the Chambers. I mean they endorse candidates,
they are not embarrassed of their pro business positions. Here

(35:22):
that has not been the case. It's getting more like that,
but it's been a slow process. This will be another
part of that, and I think whoever gets hired will
determine how quick that move moves forward.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
This city, as you and I have talked about a lot,
is one vote from becoming a progressively run community, and
with that comes curtailing any business development because that's going
to happen if it goes that way. That's why I
feel like this is so important. What happens with the Chamber.

Speaker 6 (35:53):
And you know this is again when you go back
and look at the power center of this city. And
we've talked about this. The city you know, we'll talk
about this later. Is they own the hospital, they own
the airport. You know, local government owned the civic center.
So this stuff is starting to break away. The civic
Center has been sold to FSU, there's talk of an
independent board for the airport. Now we can talk about

(36:14):
the divesting from ownership to the hospital. So you're right,
I don't think you want, you know, the election of
one or two candidates, you know, having an impact on
that large of an infrastructure. So decentralizing the A is
very important and this new hire will probably help that out.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
Got to have a strong leadership at the chamber to
be independent and pro business. Ten Past the Hour More
with Steve Stewart from Tallasca Reports. It's the Morning Show
with President Scott being the season professional that he is. Yes,

(36:58):
even in the realm of radio. Steve Stewart provided the
perfect segue to the next segment. You mentioned the hospital.
I would say, on a scale of one to ten,
the average person listening to the show, hearing the news
seeing something about TMH and the city owns what went

(37:20):
Wait what? It doesn't sound real, Steve, So set this
story up.

Speaker 6 (37:26):
Yeah, this is I mean, it's a really big story,
and I think the reporting has been off a little bit,
you know, and as I've learned to sit back and
sort of let things happen, yes, you know, And so
first of all, the first thing to understand is that
and I've seen this at the meetings and I've wondered about.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
It every year.

Speaker 6 (37:42):
The city approves the governance board of TMH. They'll have
new board members and they'll approve them. And the reason
they do that is because they own the hospital. This
is they own they own the land two million square feet, yeah, no,
seventy five acres. They owned the buildings two million square feet,
and they own the assets. And so the analogy I

(38:03):
make is like a landlord that owns a restaurant building
and a restaurant comes in and wants to lease that
building because it has a you know, it has a
So the city built the building. They did that back
back in nineteen the forties and fifties. What about all
of the additions and all of the well that's come
So this is what has happened. They so it's a
dollar lease. They're not paying rent to the city, all right,

(38:26):
and so TMH and so and so. Over the last
thirty forty years, TMH has grown. Mark O'Brien has come
in and from all you know, from all quarters, has
done a good job of growing tim EH. TMH, bringing
in renowned doctors so that people don't have to leave.
There's still people that leave talle Hasie, but there's there's

(38:47):
stats that show that more people are staying here for
treatment that they used to leave to go get somewhere else.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
And you even have people I.

Speaker 6 (38:55):
Remember seeing presentations a couple of years ago. You have
people coming from outlying counties now to Tallahassee to get
heart surgery things like that done. And so what's happened
now is as your question is, is there's now buildings
and there's facilities that are being built that are not
that are not owned by the Sea of Talase. And
then you have this relationship with FSU and the med School.

(39:18):
You've got a hospital being built in Panama City where
TMH and FSU or partners. You've got a health center
being built off of Centerville Road.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
Now is that you said Panama City? Is that the
one that was just approved to the Panama City Beach.

Speaker 6 (39:33):
They're looking to get a bond now to do it.

Speaker 1 (39:35):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 6 (39:35):
There's a lot of medical facilities over there, but there's
a hospital that's going to be built in Panama City
and with a partnership with FSU and TMH. And so
there's a health center being built off of Centerville Road.

Speaker 1 (39:48):
A huge project.

Speaker 6 (39:49):
I mean it's gonna be I think one hundred and
fifty doctors at this sort of health center that TMH
and FSU or a partnership with. Now, so what's happened is,
and this is what's been lost in the news coverage.
This whole brew ha ha over selling the hospital started
when TMH decided, look, we've got to have a new

(40:11):
governance structure because we're starting to get outside of the
original footprint of TMH where the city is appointing all
the board members. And so they have submitted a and
this is what hasn't been wasn't initially reported, seventeen page
document of how they want to change the government structure.
They want to create a new holding company called Airis

(40:31):
that encompasses the whole health system, including the TMH footprint.
And so this lands on the desk of the City
Commission and they're looking for this all to be approved.
And the mayor and the city manager looked at it
and said, you know, we've got to get we've got
to get more information on this. I mean, we're you know,
we're not charging any rent. Are we liable for what

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happens in Panama City now because of the agreement now there,
So it's very complicated, and so what happened is they
put out an infernal agenda item. There was no vote
to do anything. There was never going to be any
vote to do anything, and it got turned into because
there was an item. There was a quote at the
very end of a very long agenda item that hey,

(41:13):
there may be a potential to sell or divest the
hospital from the city because we don't want this responsibility.
But that was just part of the item, and it
got the pr got in charge and we can talk
about that in the next segment, that this was a
move to sell the hospital.

Speaker 1 (41:29):
Boy, talk about a big deal. It is a very
big deal for this community. We'll talk more next with
Steve Stewart again. Go to the website Tallahassee Reports dot com,
subscribe and get the paper twenty one past the hour.

(41:54):
Got a note here from a listener. Did you know
one of the main deep water supply wells for the
city of Tello as he's located on THEDMH campus. You know, no,
I didn't know that. It could be why we own it,
the city owns it. I'm just sorry, I don't know.

Speaker 6 (42:09):
Well, you know, I think so if we go now
to where we are what we talked about the reporting
missed was this governance changed the Airas board. Nobody's ever
heard of that ARAS board, and that again, this is
all I think. This is a growing community. Mark O'Bryant,
and during his leadership has done a good job to
where look FS she wants to partnership, partner with TMH.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
It's a community hospital, but our a school of medicine. Right.

Speaker 6 (42:34):
But I think last night what you saw is again
I think the PR machine here locally got ahead of
what was actually happening. And and you know, if there's
one thing, you know, there's probably too many lobbyists in Tallassee.
There's probably too many PR people too, But I think, yeah,
if you look at the agenda item, there's clearly never
going to be a vote on anything.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
This was a informational item. And so to.

Speaker 6 (42:57):
Ratchet this up with this video that was really least
with Mark O'Brien, you know, telling everybody to call city commissioners,
which was taken down by the way not long after
it was posted, which again goes to the point I
think that the PR got.

Speaker 1 (43:11):
A little bit advised him to do something like that.
That's just you're creating a fight where there doesn't need
to be one at this stage.

Speaker 6 (43:18):
Right, and I think people get a little bit insecure
in their positions, I guess the time. But again, there
was never going to be a vote, and so I
watched the thing last night, and so you know, you
have the teammates people coming up, don't sell the hospital,
we want local control, and it's and it struck me
as I figured out what was going on. Actually, what
TMH is asking is to sort of decentral I mean,

(43:39):
it's to do away with a little bit of local
control because they want a board now that is not
appointed by the city and they're going to have some
interest in other areas.

Speaker 1 (43:49):
I was going to say, they're expanding their footprint to
Panama City.

Speaker 6 (43:51):
So they want people on the board that are probably
necessarily not from Tallahassee or maybe have different interests. And
again that's fine, but that didn't even come out of
the debate.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
But it doesn't mesh with the other messaging, right, And
I didn't really understand until you really dug into it
that this this governance structure is a pretty big deal
and so it needs to be talked about. But again,
it provides.

Speaker 6 (44:13):
An opporortunity, an entry point for certain you know, people
to you know, cast some issues or score some political points,
and we saw that last night. But I will tell
you that Mayor Daily, who I've not always been impressed
from some of his leadership skills on some of the issues,
I thought, did a very good job of laying it
out there. And he was very clear, Look, marco'b brant

(44:35):
and I have to repair a relationship here to move forward,
he says, but this is not something we're going to
rubber stamp this, and he held up a document, you know,
seventeen bay document. Do you want us to approve that
creates this new health system board? And you know we
own TMH. Do we continue to want to be part
of this? As there a liability? Is there exposure? And

(44:56):
you know the whole thing of selling the hospital, that
doesn't mean you don't That doesn't mean you sell it
to HCA or to FSU. You could sell it to
the nonprofit that is currently running the hospital.

Speaker 1 (45:09):
You can just divest. But I think again, keep that
water well. Yeah, keep the way, We'll keep the water well.
And the mayor did point out, look, you guys have
done some really good things at TMH, but you know
we you haven't been paying rent. I mean it's two
million square feet of office space. So I mean, and
that's a and it's a nonprofit. It's off the tax

(45:29):
rolls exactly, Yes it is.

Speaker 6 (45:31):
And so I mean, you know, there is a relationship
here and it's going to change because we're growing. And
I think that this is the I think maybe it's
better we got this out of the way now and
so now moving forward, they can talk about exactly the
best way to do this. But the proposal again is
to create a health system board that is bigger than

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the TMH board.

Speaker 1 (45:52):
Now, the argument.

Speaker 6 (45:53):
Is is that the overall board will have a majority
of local control.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
Use the term moving forward, what's going on Willanie and
Boulevard in that circle K and that this is really
a tough issue.

Speaker 6 (46:08):
Look last year somehow and I think the city made
a mistake and they admitted it is they're they're allowed
permitting of a circle K within this neighborhood in Canopy,
and the and the neighbors who have spent four five
hundred thousand, six hundred thousand dollars on homes are not happy,
and so they have the city last year talked about
buying the property from Circle K. Circle K has no

(46:31):
interest in selling it. So last night a number of
people came out and spoke. The mayor said, look, we've
kept our word. We've tried to, you know, deal with them.
They don't want to deal with us. And now they're
they're possibly heading down the imminent domain road, which.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
Is not going to work.

Speaker 6 (46:46):
It's not going to work based on the comments yesterday
because they're actually just doing eminent domain. It's not really
a public use. They're trying to create a public use
to save them from a decision that they made that
they regret now. And so you know the circle case,
and we talked about this, they've they've they're coming now
with a stigma attached to them. I think this has

(47:06):
happened over the last four or five years because Colrna
State's got a number of Circle K's within their neighborhood footprint.
But and so I think that's the issue. So I
don't know how this is going to get worked out.
It just doesn't look like it's on a good path
for the neighborhood.

Speaker 1 (47:20):
And you start to wonder why circle K is so
insistent on doing it when people there don't want them.

Speaker 6 (47:26):
I think that their experiences is the products that they sell.
It's it's a transient you know, it's a transient customer basi.

Speaker 1 (47:35):
You're driving through to.

Speaker 6 (47:36):
Get gas, pick up whatever, you know, and so it's
not really probably the neighborhood.

Speaker 3 (47:40):
Some would say.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
They they have coined in recent years of new term
the inconvenience store.

Speaker 6 (47:45):
Yes, that's a good point. I mean it used to be.
Now you're going to there's there's no eggs, no bread,
there's a robot there.

Speaker 1 (47:54):
Good to see, all right, thanks pressed it. Steve Stewart
with us from Teleast Reports tell us LA getting a
new blog ready to go on Jetson one. Remember the

(48:16):
cartoon the Jetson's meet George Jetson.

Speaker 3 (48:24):
The other Judy his boy, el Royan Jane his.

Speaker 1 (48:28):
Wife, and and of course astrorow great stuff. Jetson one
is a personal flying vehicle and they're selling them. They're
starting to roll them out and it's crazy. One hundred

(48:48):
and twenty eight thousand, eight hundred and twenty on delivery
electric motors. I've I've I've chronicled the development of jets
and one on my blog. But I'm gonna you the
latest demo, which is the longest video yet of continuous flight.
It's about ten minutes of video. It's it's pretty cool
what this thing can do. Not for everybody. It is

(49:11):
not a flying car, it's a personal flying vehicle. And
it's it's the sound of a thousand lawnmowers. I mean,
it's it's crazy. I can't I can't even envision a
world where people are going to work with these things
all over the place. It's it would be insanity. But

(49:32):
that's not the big story in the press box, Doctor
David Hart's just a few minutes away President Trump signing
an order. It's its purpose is to prevent illegal immigrants
from voting. I lamented last hour that we are in
a place where we need that. It should be just
so simple. Voter ID and to get that ID, you

(49:57):
prove that you are a legal citizen of this country.
It's verified. You get an ID, and you show your
ID when you vote. I show my ID when I vote.
It's it's it's horrifying to me how many people we

(50:19):
have voting across the country that shouldn't be, and let
alone voting in multiple jurisdictions at multiple times. Voter fraud
happens because people suck. Now, I mean, look that's what
it is. Yesterday I got torn up by vines out
in my yard. Okay, it's a reminder of the fall
of man. Vines have that have thorns is a reminder

(50:44):
of the fall of man and the fact that we
can't just have integrity and only people that are legally
registered and are legal residents of this nation, citizens of
this nation vote. I mean, come on, but that's who

(51:05):
we are. Doesn't matter what it is. Someone's good cheat,
someone's going to do something. Supreme Cut upholds the Biden
era ghost gun regulation and the ruling wasn't close. It
was seven to two. Neil Gorsich penned the majority opinion.
Only Justice Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito dissented. But this

(51:33):
is a win for gun control advocates. I will tell
you it's not a huge win. But as is the
case of any amendment of any right that we possess,
a loss of any portion of it is an erosion
of it, and that's not good. Forty minutes past the

(51:54):
ONDAC the David Hads's standard back.

Speaker 7 (52:01):
On news radio one hundred point seven double USLA.

Speaker 1 (52:12):
Forty one minutes past the hour time for some optimum
health Naturally with doctor David Harts, you know, doctor Hearts.
I've noticed that a lot of topics we cover and
have covered over the years become very trendy at some
point or another in more traditional circles, and one of
them is gut health. It has become very very vogue

(52:35):
for commercials on television and for traditional medicine to start
acknowledging the importance of gut health. But just how important
is it?

Speaker 8 (52:45):
Well, Preston, you know, I want to talk about it
this morning because it really really is very very important,
and there's more and more research on really all the
chronic disease. Many of the comic disease, I mean majority
of them that we are suffering from have some root
cause in the disruption of what we call a microbiome.

(53:05):
It's just a big name that means the bacteria. And
actually we have ended up having bacteria, fungus, parasites, and
viruses in our gut, but we usually keep track of
mostly the bacteria. But and we got more bacteria in
our gut than we do cells of our body, and
so it is a major major part of what affects

(53:27):
our health. And so there's been a lot more talk
about it through the years it's become. But some of
the things that can cause are immune dysfunction, drastic immune ysfunction.
It cause asthma and flammatory biol disease, cancer, cardiovast disease, diabetes,
allergic diseases, and many types behavioral disorders like depression and
bipolar disease. These things have all been connected to these

(53:50):
little bugs inside of us. So it gets to be
a really important factor if we're trying to avoid some
of those chronic disease that is plague in America, and
we've been talking about for several years, you know, and
it's really really amazing. It's I know this is repetitious,
but I wanted to point out the fact that some
of the things that we've talked about for years are
exactly the things that affect the biome. We talk about

(54:11):
things that keep us healthy. Now we're finding out that
they affect the biome, like eating clean, you know, trying
to stay away from toxic chemicals in our food. And
I'll try to think about an easy way for us
to think about this is if you want to try
to do the best something for yourself, is to start
with fresh organic first and then go to frozen organic

(54:33):
if you can find it which is around, and then
you work your way to regular, you know, plant based
foods as much as possible. Stay away from meat as
much as possible, even though it's good every once in
a while, and then stay with you know, range fresh
range chickens that eat normal free range where I'm trying

(54:57):
to say free range, and then also meat that has
at least amount of hormones possible if you do that
and you stay away from boxes and bags. I mean,
I was thinking, really the best way to think about
this is try to think about what a sixteenth century
farmer would eat before we started changing all this stuff,
and before it was you know, hormones and bags and

(55:20):
all these other things. They just didn't have it in
it and they had to eat fresh food. If they
didn't have it back then or even in the biblical
times and they didn't have it, then we shouldn't be
eating it now. And if we can get back to that,
it really affects the biome. The biome effects are overall
health and we stay much much healthier. So it is
a trendy thing, You're right, But the reason it is

(55:42):
trendy is because we're finding now that that biome affects
all these chronic diseases that all these other different different
things that we're trying to improve effect Now as far
as the biomes concerned, you know, eating probiotics and probotics
are very important. If you're going to get a probotic,
try to get a a spore based probiotic. And they

(56:02):
do have them, they're much more effective. They do get
down into lowered testing before they get digested, and that's
not a bad idea. E periodically, maybe once or twice
a year, even if you feel good, just to go
on a spore based probiotic and just you know, recall
nature your colon and get it back to a normal
microbiome at least as close as we can. Also vary

(56:23):
your foods. Don't eat the same thing all the time,
and eat keyfer based fermented foods that's really very very good,
and yogurts and stuff like that if you can handle
it too. But these just eating well increases the healthy biome.
The biome increases our overall health.

Speaker 1 (56:42):
Thank you, doctor, Heart's good intel this morning. I appreciate
the time.

Speaker 8 (56:46):
Okay, Preston, have a great day, Thank.

Speaker 1 (56:48):
You, sir, you as well. Forty six minutes past the hour.
It's Morning Show with Preston Scott. Road trip suggestion moments away.

(57:15):
But first quick reminder the FSU Ice Hockey Club. Yes,
Florida State has a hockey club and we want to
help them out. They do an annual fundraiser of some
kind and they're back to a golf tournament this year.
They almost have a full field. They need nineteen more
players for a completely full field. The event's happening, but

(57:39):
they'd love to get a full field, and as of
yesterday afternoon, Mark told me they're nineteen players short. So
that's four teams and three singles. You can enter as
a single player and they'll put you with a team,
or you can put a team of buddies together. Just
saying that's what I would do. It's one hundred dollars
a person, four hundred for the team, but you can

(58:02):
play individually. It is April seventh, nine am shotgun start
ish nine am ish at Capital City Country Club. A
little grab and go breakfast, buffet style lunch afterwards, four
man scramble, eighteen holes, great golf course. So just saying
love to see you take part. Yes, I will be there.

(58:28):
You may shake my hand, and if you're kind, I
might look at your golf swing. No, I just would
love to see you play and help out. And you
know they'd love to have you sponsor a hole or
you know, take part in that way. But we want golfers.
We want a full field, all right. So here's what

(58:49):
you do. You just go to FSU Hockey dot com.
FSU Hockey dot com and there's a link there it
says golf tournament. It's so simple, so simple to sign
up and take part. Road trip. All right, here we go.

(59:16):
We have been talking about roadie's and I know some
of you go all throughout the year and you're retired
and you just travel, and that's awesome. I know that
we have people on iHeart that listen to the show
and you're just that's how you found us. You're just
rambling around and you're just like bored and you just
hit the thing and you find us and you're like, oh, oh,

(59:36):
what's this. Let me give you this guy a listen.
He's a jerk, but he's my kind of jerk.

Speaker 3 (59:43):
And so.

Speaker 1 (59:45):
No matter when or where, we're expanding our footprint out
from the Florida area. And so now we're in Kentucky. Now, obviously,
for many, the low hanging fruit in Kentucky is to
simply take a roadie and check out, you know, bourbon
whiskey thing. I mean, it's that's a Kentucky thing, right,

(01:00:08):
And there are all kinds of little distilleries and so forth,
and they can show you the whole process. You can
check out the horses. There are horses and farms and
tours all throughout. But I'm gonna nudge you in a
little bit of a different path. The Ark Encounter. The
ark Encounter in Williamstown, Kentucky, Northern Kentucky. Friends, if you've

(01:00:36):
never ever seen it, be prepared to have your mind blown,
because I've been there. Honest and truly, there is nothing
that can prepare you for stepping off the park. You

(01:00:59):
get on a little by they take you down there,
and for you to see the arc with your eyes.
There's nothing that can prepare you for that, honest and truly.
My reaction to it wasn't all that different from seeing
the Grand Canyon for the first time. I was just

(01:01:21):
in awe. It is built to the exact dimensions of
what the Bible describes. It's a literal museum there's all
kinds of other things going on around there too. They
do concerts periodically and have special guest speakers, and they
have a zoo there and a little petting zoo type thing,

(01:01:43):
and they have some food and all that. But I'm
telling it's right off I seventy five. When you see it,
you will just be in awe. That's all I can
tell you. I would absolutely make a point of going
to the arc Encounter. The website is arcencounter dot com.

(01:02:07):
Simple as that. So as I watch jose Flex's muscles
in front of me, I will now tell you that
we will segue to our history segment for the month.
Doctor Edmore joins us. Next on the phone line, A
little under the weather, More history, next on the Morning
Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (01:02:37):
Not wasting a moment of time.

Speaker 1 (01:02:39):
Our number three, The Morning Show with Preston Scott, jose
running the radio program is always over there in Studio
one A. I am here in Studio one B. It
is show fifty three forty five, and it's time for
a little more history. Joining us, Doctor Ed Moore, Good morning,
my friend. How you doing good?

Speaker 9 (01:02:56):
Monk? Well, I'm getting by. There's a reason I'm on
the phone this morning to set it down there with
you in the studio.

Speaker 1 (01:03:05):
And we appreciate that, and we appreciate that you acknowledged
that reason. Thank you sir very much.

Speaker 8 (01:03:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:03:13):
Well, you know that once a bug strikes, you don't
want to be around other people. So that's what I'm
doing this morning. Hopefully my voice will hold up, It'll.

Speaker 1 (01:03:24):
Be fine, Doctor Moore. We wanted to talk about the
Spanish American Wars as kind of an introduction to a
series that we'll do talking about wars that America has
found itself in over time. Give us the kind of
an overview of what was going on in the eighteen
nineties that sort of set the stage for this conflict.

Speaker 9 (01:03:45):
Yeah, that's what I want the listeners to think about,
because you got to think about the United States. It's
such as it was during that time time frame. By
the end of the decade, we had forty four states, actually,
but most of the Western states were very unsettled. There
were just not that many people there. The US was
relatively isolated. We were growing as a trading partner with

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a lot of other countries. Big events of that decade,
like Yosemite was created, the City of New York as
we know it now New York, Manhattan Boro annex the
counties around formed the Five Boroughs of New York City.
The first American car made in America was sold. It

(01:04:31):
was called the Winton, was sold to a guy in Pennsylvania.
Ford built their first car in the eighteen nineties. Naysmith
invented basketball in the eighteen nineties. Just all kinds of
things we take for granted now we're beginning then. Then
around eighteen ninety seven, seeds of war started being formed.

(01:04:55):
And think about it now. Can you imagine Spain declaring
war on the United States now? But that's the way
the world was structured in those days. Spain, Great Britain, France,
Russia were big dominant powers, colonial powers that had spread
their tentacles all over the globe. And the United States

(01:05:18):
really had in the United States is essentially isolationists. We
didn't seek and there was a sentiment across the country
not getting really involved in world affairs other than trade.
And our army was small. I think we only had
somewhere around thirty thousand people in an active US army.

(01:05:40):
You know, you're not really going to war on a
world stage and that degree in scope with thirty thousand people.
So that's kind of where we were when around eighteen
ninety seven revolutionists in Cuba were battling against again Spain

(01:06:00):
and Spain intrusion, and same thing was occurring in the Philippines,
and there was pressure on our country to get involved,
and we surely did. We go into the details in
a minute, but we were not. We didn't have footprints
all over the world. We had diplomats that we'd started

(01:06:22):
sending all over There's an interesting story of Guam that
I'll get into later, but when we actually invaded Guam,
which was a Spanish property, essentially, there was one American
there that we could leave in charge. When after our
troops left one American Guam and now is a US territory,

(01:06:45):
it was a bloodless takeover of the island of Guam.

Speaker 8 (01:06:51):
Guam.

Speaker 9 (01:06:51):
We sailed ships in there, ships into their harbor, took
over the island, and no guns were fired. Interestingly, the
we fired thirteen canons at their main fort there didn't
really hit anything, which is kind of surprising, and they
thought we were just celebrating coming into their harbor for

(01:07:14):
trade and a delegation.

Speaker 1 (01:07:17):
We're gonna pause right there, doctor Ed Moore with me
more history. We're talking about the Spanish American War of
eighteen ninety eight here on the Morning Show with Preston
Scott eleven minutes past the hour. Once a month we

(01:07:46):
get a little more history with doctor Ed Moore. And
we're not drawn into this in any way, shape or form,
were it not for the fact that Spain was in
our territory by way of Cuba at that point, right.

Speaker 9 (01:08:02):
Yeah, they had Cuba, that Puerto Rico, uh, and then
you know they still were involved. Mexico was a sovereign
state at that point in time. Remember, you got to
think back to the days of the explorers. For about
four hundred years, Spain had had a presence in our UH,
in the area, even in the Greater United States Florida,

(01:08:24):
for where where we lived with Spanish territory, So they
had the footprint here. But it got harder and harder
and more it was more difficult to maintain control. You
started having local revolutions all over South America and Cuba
was one of them.

Speaker 1 (01:08:42):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (01:08:42):
It was getting relatively bloodly, bloody, and the pressure this
is the growth in the beginning really of what came
called yellow journalism, where the major newspapers would headlined all
kinds of things going on down there to try to
build pressure to get us involved. It was big sugar then,

(01:09:04):
that kind of big sugar involved About ninety percent of
the exports out of Cuba were going to the United States,
not back to Spain. About forty percent of the inbound
trade coming into Cuba was coming to us. So essentially
it was an economic ti economic ties that drew us
closer and closer and getting involved in this. And then

(01:09:27):
in February fifteenth, we had we had a huge amount
of citizens in Cuba. So the United States had decided
to send the Maine USS Maine into Havana Harbor, and
that's probably the only thing anybody remembers other than that
in the charge on San Juan Hill. But two hundred
and sixty six American troops sailors were killed when the

(01:09:51):
main blew up in the harbor. Shortly really after they
would pull into January and February fifteenth they'd loaded, and
it took about a month or so other forty days
before they said, well it was exploded by a mine.
They tried. They blamed the Spanish for a mind blowing
up our ship and killing. He gave us an entree,

(01:10:13):
He gave us the reason to go in. It's interesting
little tidbit you find when you start reading on these things,
like Annie Oakley. Everybody's heard who Annie Oakley is. She
wrote a letter to President McKinley is saying that she
had fifty lady sharpshooters with their own guns and ammos
that were willing to go to Cuba. You know, imagine

(01:10:34):
that happening now, you know, citizen citizen group, And it
was really the first time that there's any acknowledgement at
all of women getting involved in something. But on April
the twentieth, they could remember that Maine was sunk on
February to fifteenth. They took him till April twentieth for
McKinley to sign the declaration of war. Actually it got

(01:10:57):
backdated April twentieth. April twenty fifth, US Congress declared war
and everything got backdated day for twentieth because by then
Spain had already declared war on the United States. So
we had a big navy. Interesting for a country that
wasn't really that involved around the world, but we have

(01:11:19):
been protecting trade routes, and so we had enough navy
and enough sailors to decide we're going all in on this.
So it was May the first commodore Dewey took a
Spanish squadron into Manila Bay. Now think about how far
away the Philippines are also Spanish controlled. So when we

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went to war with Spain, we went to war with Spain.
We not only invaded Cuba, we invaded the Philippines. We
took Guam America to what became American Samoa, Puerto Rico.
Each of those required invasions by our troops, but it
didn't not take very long. I mean, Spain was not

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that strong at this point in time. Their resources had expired,
they had a bad economy at home, and the entire
war took one hundred and fifteen days. On August thirteenth,
hostilities ended in Cuba. It continued, however, in the Philippines,

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and we ended up fighting Filipinos, not just the Spanish,
because those revolutionaries didn't want to think things that said
allowed as well. The biggest thing out of all of
this to me is that the United States, because of
the Spanish American War, as short as it was, we
became a world superpower. We had not been until that time.

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Nobody really felt the wrath of our country when angered,
nor the strength of our country when we decided to
put our minds to something to move forward.

Speaker 1 (01:12:56):
Hang on a second, let's pause right there, perfect place.
We'll pick up when we come back. We're talking about
the Spanish American War and what kind of seeds came
from it as we discuss it with doctor Ed Moore.
A little more history here on the Morning Show with
Preston Scott twenty two minutes past the hour, Doctor edmore

(01:13:25):
play and hurt this morning here on the Morning Show.
He will not be benched for injury because he's under
the weather. Nay, nay, That's not how we operate around here.
So he's calling it in on the program today, more
history talking about the Spanish American War. A couple questions,
if you don't mind. Number one, you mentioned the decision
by the United States to take on Spain in other

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parts of the world, not just adjacent to us in Cuba,
but elsewhere. Was that because it was important to let
Spain know that were the United States? I mean, what
was the reason for it hacking them in other parts
of the.

Speaker 9 (01:14:01):
World there, many one was there. We did have people
pushing in our country to be bigger than we were.
You know, as the century turned to think about the colonization.
Europe had colonized Africa and broken Africa all up, and
most people ignore the fact that China was in the

(01:14:22):
same position basically that Africa was. We had the open
we declared, I think John hay was set US Secretary
of State declared the open door policy in China. China
was always viewed as a big trade partner. We're going
to trade a lot with China. The fear was that

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the European powers, most of which were waning by this
point in time, we're going to try to assert their
power and maintain more power by splitting up China the
same way they did Africa, and that would have created
a huge mess. Might have sawt some things for the
twenty first century if they had done that. I mean,

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all of this is tied together. What you do that
effects what really what happens now. But they maintained that,
you know, had the Boxer Rebellion in China, things going
on over there, and we felt like we needed a
bigger presence in that area. So taking Guam, taking Samoa,
and moving into the Philippines. We ultimately end up giving
the Philippines their freedom, they create their own government, but

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we maintained huge bases there for all of it, basically
all of the twentieth century, to give the United States
a huge naval presence in that region, much like we
ended up with a huge naval presence in the Caribbean.
You know, you go all the way back to the
Monroe Doctor and saying that no more, we weren't going

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to allow any more European influence in our hemisphere. The
Cuban missile crisis evolved out of that. I mean, we
had the opportunity at the end of the Spanish American
War to take Puerto Rico, which we ultimately we did
as a US territory, take Cuba as a US territory
or ultimately a state. There were enough Americans down there

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in a lot of American trade, and to take the Philippines.
We declined really to control Cuba. We declined to control
the Philippines, and then both areas became hotspots for a
lot of other activity around the country and around the world.
So China at that point was becoming an emerging nation,

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the largest population in the world at the time, and
our concern was, we can't let China become like Africa,
where we've got fighting amongst little tiny areas that the
Dutch controlled, or the French control, or the Spanish control.
It gave us a bigger sphere of influence, and also

(01:16:52):
with Japan, so a lot went on at that point.

Speaker 1 (01:16:57):
It also opened the door for US to grab Hawaii,
which led to, in my opinion, one of the darkest
points of American history and the deposing of the Queen
of Hawaii. At that point, it was not a very
pretty thing. Had you there, Yeah, I'm here.

Speaker 9 (01:17:17):
I'm sorry, I hit the cop button. The US annexed
on July seventh, annex the Hawaiian Islands, which gave us, again,
if you think in terms of world dominance and control
of the trade routes, Pearl Harbor became immensely important. On
July seventh and at times same tenth time frame, July seventeenth,

(01:17:41):
we took San Diego Santiago Harbor in Puerto Rico, and
July twenty fifth wee invaded Puerto Rico, so we just
ended up hostelities ended in August of that year excuse,
and we were a new country. And you know, I
think if you think back on Henry Ford and Ford

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making the first automobiles coming out of that decade, American
industry expanding, American steel expanding, American agriculture expanding. We created
markets by the limited war that lasted one hundred and
fifteen days. We created markets that remained in place.

Speaker 1 (01:18:21):
Up until now.

Speaker 9 (01:18:23):
In December, the Treaty of Paris was signed and the
rest of the world was now knowing that big bad
US was here to play, ready to deal with any problems.
And that's you know, a lot of events from that
point forward began. If you think World War One was

(01:18:43):
only this big was four mont fument thing in Europe,
our engagement in that was only a little more than
a decade away.

Speaker 1 (01:18:51):
All right, ed, we gotta go, buddy, we're late on
the break. Pick up your lung there and thanks for
joining us. We'll talk again next month to add more
with us this morning more history of the Morning Show
with Preston Scott.

Speaker 7 (01:19:09):
Thing Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one point
seven WUFLA chend your gears here on the program and

(01:19:31):
please to have with us. The executive director of the
Free Enterprise Project Stefan.

Speaker 1 (01:19:38):
Padfield. Stefan, welcome back to the show. How are you, sir,
I'm doing well.

Speaker 10 (01:19:42):
Thanks so much for having me.

Speaker 1 (01:19:44):
I we have followed We have had guests from Free
Enterprise Project for years on the show, and we've followed
the kind of the model of shareholder activism for a
long time. But for those that have no idea what
the Free Enterprise Project is all about, give us, like
the elevator, pitch on on what it is and its purpose.

Speaker 10 (01:20:03):
Sure. So, the Free Enterprise Project is part of the
National Center for Public Policy Research, and we focus specifically
on pushing back on the woke takeover of corporate America.
And we do so primarily as a shareholder. So we
own shares in a lot of the largest companies and
we file proposals. We also engage in litigation and other

(01:20:24):
sorts of educational activities, and that's really our focus on
what we do.

Speaker 1 (01:20:28):
Let's start, because this conversation revolves around the most recent
Disney shareholder meeting. Let's start with the proposal that you
made to shareholders.

Speaker 10 (01:20:40):
Right, So we proposed, we made a request. Because almost
all of these proposals need to be made as a
request because of the division of control between shareholders and
the board, So we made a standard request for the
board to reconsider its participation in the Human Rights Campaigns
Corporate Equality Index. And the reason we did that is
because a lot of people view that index as basically

(01:21:03):
a lever to push corporations further and further to the left,
particularly on issues around transgenderism. Right, and so you can
sort of I think a lot of your listeners are
going to immediately perk up and recognize some of the
problems at Disney, which I think has underperformed the S
and P five hundred by something like one hundred and
thirty percent over the last five years, and how that

(01:21:26):
is tied into their decision. They're seemingly very conscious decision
to push transgenderism and other LGBTQ plus issues into their
products right and on kids, because that's the biggest part
of their target audience. I think it's fair to say.
So that was our proposal to say, hey, stop participating
in this index because there's good reason or at least
consider that, because there's good reason to think that that's

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part of what's pushing you in this radical leftist direction
that is undermining shareholder value.

Speaker 1 (01:21:55):
And the bottom line is there is a fiduciary responsibility
the company has as a publicly held company to a shareholders.

Speaker 10 (01:22:05):
Absolutely. I mean, there are so many ways you can
go from that starting point, but first and foremost, yes,
duty to maximize shareholder value. And another way of putting that,
if some executive or director comes in and says, hey,
I have this really great idea. We're going to save
some forests, and we know if we didn't save the forest,
we would make one hundred dollars per share, but if

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we save the forest will make eighty, but we'll feel
good about the forest. It's just a flat nogo, right.
You cannot set shareholder value on fire to advance whatever
you think is the appropriate ideological agenda of the day,
and that takes up in areas such as are you
fully informed or are you operating in a willful echo chamber?
Are you knowingly violating the law, for example, anti discrimination law?

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Are you knowingly advancing your own agenda, whether that be
financial or otherwise in bad faith? So that fiduciary duty
really is at the core of everything we do at
the Free Enterprise Project. First and foremost, we don't do
anything that we don't think ultimately ties back to the
bottom line, because we believe in free market capitalism and
we believe the best way to serve society is to

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maximize shareholder value because all the things you have to
do right, you have to serve consumers, you have to
have employees that are happy. It all flows from that.
But the minute you start prioritizing something else, whether that
be diversity or transgenderism or esg right, then you're prioritizing
something else and you undermine the prosperity driver that is

(01:23:34):
free market capitalism.

Speaker 1 (01:23:35):
Stefan Padfield, Executive director of Free Enterprise Project. My guest,
another segment to come here on The Morning Show with
Preston Scott.

Speaker 7 (01:23:47):
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The fastest three hours in media. And don't be surprised
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Speaker 1 (01:24:07):
It is a big story in the press box. What
happened with the Disney shareholder meeting with me from the
Free Enterprise Project, Stephan Padfield. Stefan, So, what happened in
the shareholder meeting? I expect it wasn't warmly received.

Speaker 10 (01:24:22):
Right, So, as you say, we expected a low vote
return in our favor, this is basically what we've seen
for years. And certainly those on the left who support
these radical agendas have you know, fallen over themselves to
turn this into a message of oh, ninety eight percent
of Disney shareholders support you know, the human rights campaign

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and the relationship Disney has. But there are so many
problems with that narrative. And I've you know, if folks
want to go to our website at Nationalcenter dot org
or if they want to look me up on x
at Stefan Padfield, I've done a number of pieces where
I break down why you simply can't draw that conclusion.
First and foremost, because the bulk of those votes are

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driven by what are called the Big five, right, the
three big asset managers black Rock, Vangarden, State Street, and
the two big proxy advisors Glass Lewis and Iss. And
each of them have their own conflicts, right. The asset
managers they make money on ESG and fees. The proxy
advisors make money on ESG in terms of consulting. And

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there's a direct line from ESG to DEI to this transgenderism,
and so they're basically conflicted, and that doesn't even speak
to the ideological conflicts, right where most of the individuals
making decisions in these institutions have basically come out from
being indoctrinated and are all on board with these radical agendas.

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And then if you include management, which again I could
go in to great lengths about how hostile management is
to us versus some of the proponents on the left,
you basically account for all the votes, and yet what
you're missing is the retail shareholders probably twenty percent of
the total that don't vote, and all the people who
even Larry Think describes as the true shareholders, right, the

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holders of those index funds who basically are going to
take the short end because Disney is down one hundred
and thirty percent over five years compared to the S
and P five hundred. So it's really problematic to walk
away from that and conclude, oh, everybody's in support of
this HRC agenda. I think it's actually arguably quite the opposite.
And as I say, we could spend an hour going

(01:26:32):
into the details why people should be very suspicious of
these pronouncements that that, oh, these vote counts basically prove
that everybody's you know, in support of trans and kids
and what have you.

Speaker 1 (01:26:45):
Stefan sadly, we don't have an hour, but we do
have about two and a half more minutes. So let
me ask you this. I don't know if you've been
following what the newly appointed Attorney General in Florida, James Uthmeyer,
has done. He put a giant bulls eye punintended on Target.
He's suing Target because of the very issue we're talking about,
a lack of fiduciary responsibility to shareholders as a publicly

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held company. What are the odds that, at least here
in Florida, where Disney has a remarkably large presence, as
you well know, that we see legal action for the
very things we're talking about. The mathematics don't lie. Disney's underperforming,
they're harming shareholders, and we might have an attorney general
willing to take them on.

Speaker 10 (01:27:29):
Yeah. Absolutely, I think, first of all, there would be
no surprise on my part to see that sort of action.
And I can't applow loudly enough what your attorney general
is doing. He's also filed a recent action against the
proxy advisors ISS and Glass Lewis for they're basically pushing
ESG and DI. So I love everything that's being done.

(01:27:50):
And I'll tell you from our perspective when we think
about are we having an impact? And somebody will say, oh,
you just file this proposal and you only got two percent,
so you're not. But the reality is what happens as
a result of the exposure, right, yeah, And what happens
is people like your Attorney general pick up on the
news and say, wait a minute, there's a problem here,
and they see all the ways in which the law

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is being violated. So you know, just nothing but praise
and yes, I would love to see that action, and
I wouldn't be surprised at all to see it.

Speaker 1 (01:28:21):
Well, I for one appreciate what you do. And you
always have a platform here to talk about the actions
and the activities that you're involved in. Stephan, So you
keep us informed and we'll keep everybody else informed.

Speaker 10 (01:28:33):
Thanks so much, Have a great day.

Speaker 1 (01:28:35):
You do the same. Stefan Padfield, executive director with the
Free Enterprise Project, and it's part of the National Center
for Public Policy Research. It's brilliant own shares in the
largest companies to have a voice in their policies, and
as he said, it doesn't matter what happens with these votes.

(01:28:56):
It's exposed Disney's hearing shareholders. They're publicly held, they don't
have that. A private company can do all they want,
but when you go to the public sector, there are requirements.
They're violating those forty six minutes past the hour tomorrow,

(01:29:33):
Lee Williams, the gun writer tomorrow, what's the beef? That
means you? You will be our guest if you accept
the invitation. It's up to you. Your call, literally your call.
Let's see what we did there. We get the best

(01:29:54):
and worst, we get some good news. We'll share some
headlines from the bee. Ryan Day confirm Ohio State will
visit the White House April fourteenth. Way to go Buckeyes now,
congratulations on a great season. The revival that we talked
about breaking out on campus at the start of the season,
I said, will it lead to did? I don't think

(01:30:16):
God cares really about whether someone wins a game or
loses a game or whatever. But I do think he
cares about his people, and I do think he gives
favor and just seems to be pretty cool to me
that a bunch of kids that were leading a revival
on their campus and love Jesus more than football got elevated,

(01:30:39):
and they're going to go to the White House and
they're gonna be thanking Jesus. And I also found it interesting.
Ryan Day said it's an honor to be invited. Now
there's a lot more he said, but I'm just going
to stop and say that it's an honor to be invited.

Speaker 3 (01:30:55):
It's interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:30:55):
The Philadelphia Eagles have changed their mind and they've accepted
an invitation to the White House US and so they're
coming two weeks later on April twenty eighth. Well how
about that. You don't say, really, Eagles, they're gonna show up.
I'm sure some won't, but that's okay. We blew them anyway.

Speaker 7 (01:31:20):
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Speaker 1 (01:31:29):
We dug kind of deep into our scripture today, which
was one Peter four to eight, just saying we went
all strongs, we went Strong's concordance, we went Greek, come on,
come on, yeah, uh good visit with doctor Ed Moore

(01:31:53):
praying for a quick healing running a fever the last
couple of days, and so he played hurt this morning,
but he called in Stefan Padfield Free Enterprise Project. Isn't
it good to know we have people out there fighting? Seriously,
I love what I do because I get to amplify

(01:32:15):
the good work of others. And inside that Free Enterprise
Project are people that get looked down on, they get
mocked and ridiculed, and they're representing the majority of this
country and their feelings about all this DEI crap. Love it,

(01:32:37):
Love it. Doctor David Harts talked about the health of
the gut, and let me tell you I have a
healthy gut. I mean a big one. No, I'm just kidding, No,
I'm not really. That's actually I've got too big of
a gut. But I'm working on it coming back down.

(01:32:58):
I told you I put on about I don't know,
seven eight nine pounds over the holidays, and it's like,
oh boy, those pounds are like no, no, I'm not
going And so we're having a knockdown drag out, which
is sort of what I had in the yard yesterday
with the vines with thorns. Reminder that those things are

(01:33:21):
spawn of Satan and I hate them and they just
destroyed my legs. But that's okay. Steve Stewart joined us,
talked about the big stories, Trump getting smacked around a
little bit, but that's all right. It's all right, it's
all right. Tomorrow we're gonna tee it up and do
it all over again. Friday's always fun. Cannot wait. Friends,

(01:33:43):
have an awesome day. Thanks for listening.