Ep. 5350: Everyone.. Please calm down.

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Speaker 1 (00:11):
My goodness, gracious, I.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Am filling out this massive It's probably a fifteen page questionnaire.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
For iHeart. Oh my goodness, so personal.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Anyway, welcome Thursday, here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Great to be with you. He's osey, I'm Preston. He's
wearing pink. I'm not. I'm wearing coral.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
He greets me in the parking lot and says, hey,
great minds think aliket Man.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Both wearing pink. I said, I'm not wearing pink, I'm
wearing coral. Oh. He muttered something.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Like dude, startled me like that. I'm not used to
anybody else being in the parking lot. I get a
little leedgy, a little twitchy.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
You know what I mean. You don't want me twitchy,
because that's when it's when bad things happen, you know, punk.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Sorry, anyway, it's Thursday. A lot of guests on the
show today. But we start with scripture or Hebrews twelve
two looking to Jesus. That's where it starts, looking to Jesus,
and then we continue in just a moment, but I

(01:37):
just want to stop there for a second, and there's
a classic old hymn, Turn your eyes upon Jesus. It
is amazing how when you just quiet everything, even when

(02:01):
I quiet my silliness.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
And I just.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Focus on what my heart shows me is Jesus.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
And I.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Turn my eyes of faith to him, and I look up.
I don't look down. Isn't it interesting? I always look up,
but everything just quiets. It's almost as if.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
I'm in that boat in the storm, and Jesus says,
come to me, and I think it was Peter that
walked on water.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
As long listen now, as long as his eye were
folks focused and fixed on Christ, the second he took
his eyes off of Jesus down in the drink, isn't
it interesting how if his eyes were on Christ, he

(03:21):
surely felt the wind in the in the storm, of
the of the sea. But Jesus was like, lock in
on me, and you're gonna walk right over it. And
as long as he was doing that, he did. But
when his focus and attention was taken from Christ and

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placed on the wind and the storm and the seas
and the all of a sudden, he fell into it.
It is a beautiful example of the importance of listen
to this verse again, look to Jesus, the founder and
perfector of our faith, who for the joy that was

(04:07):
set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and
is seated at the right hand of the Throne of God. Yeah,
let that marinate for a minute. You let that just

(04:32):
simmer for a little and contemplate that concept of looking
to looking at, fixing your focus there. It is amazing
how the things of this world grow strangely dim ten

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past the hour.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
Woof. Yeah, that'll do good way to start the day. Huh.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
Come on, now, let's have a good day. Decide purpose
in your heart. I'm gonna have a good day. It's
the Morning Show with Preston Scott. And this is the
Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
April third.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Inside the American Patriots Almanac, eighteen sixty The Pony Express
begins service between Saint Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California, eighteen
sixty five. Five years later, Union forces capture the Confederate
capital of Richmond. The outlaw Jesse James shot and killed

(06:04):
in Saint Joseph, Missouri by Robert Ford, a member of
his own gang. That is a fascinating movie. I think
it's called The assassination of Jesse James. And it has
Brad Pitt as Jesse James.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
It takes some license, but it gets a lot of
it right. And yeah, Robert Ford, what a what a weenie?
Oh my goodness, shot him man in his I get it.
He's Jesse James.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
He's bad dude, but still shot him in the back.
Nineteen forty eight, President Truman signs legislation establishing the Marshall Plan.
Nineteen seventy three, New York City Motorola engineer Martin Cooper
makes the first call on a portable handheld cell phone,

(07:06):
which he just invented. You talk about a name that
ought to be right there with Henry Ford. Dude with
Motorola named Martin Cooper. Bet you hadn't heard of him,

(07:32):
and yet because of his invention, now you could argue,
well someone was going to do it.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Well, someone would have invented the car too.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
But we still credit maybe not Henry Ford, but Henry
Ford certainly developed the assembly line. But we give credit
to people that make, you know, pretty significant contributions. And
that's smartphone.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
You have.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
That amount of computing power in your smartphone. Put man
on the moon, only it's in a smartphone now because
of a dude named Martin Cooper.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
I still remember my first brick phone. I had a bagphone.
I thought it was such a big deal when I
went from a bag to a brick. I had a bagphone,
and I thought I was rolling in coolness because I
had a bag phone. And I stood in the middle
of a field and made a phone call. Where are

(08:38):
you talking to me from? I'm in the middle of
a field. Let's see here.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
Nineteen seventy four one of the worst tornado outbreaks in
US history. Strikes one hundred and forty eight twisters one
hundred and forty eight twisters in one day, thirteen states killed,
three hundred and thirty That was nineteen seventy four. Wait
a minute, weren't we in an then? That's what they said.
They said, we are going to be in a mini
ice age ice age coming.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
Funny. How weird weather things have happened long before global warming.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
Sorry, didn't mean to do that that early. Well that's
not true, Yes I did. That was all intentional.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
All right.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
Let's look at this day? Is National Film Score Day?
Why don't we just name it John Williams Day or
Hans Zimmer Day? I defer to John Williams. John Williams
has has composed the most well known movie themes ever.

(09:46):
And I mean John Williams is as Mount Everest and
everybody else is the Rockies. There's some other good composers.
No one touches John Williams. The number of movies that
he has scored would blow your mind. Do you think
of the popular ones like Star Wars and Indiana Jones?

(10:06):
Oh that is you are scratching surfaces there, Jaws, John Williams.
But but I'm gonna go. I'm gonna pull that list up.
National Find a Rainbow Day, National Chocolate Moose Day.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Oh, chocolate Moose is so good, especially if you do
a a Oreo layer, a crushed Oreo layer on the bottom.
You get a little crunchy goodness there at the bottom.
National Tweed Day and National Burrito Day. So there you go,

(10:44):
seventeen minutes past. I'm only one minute late. Everybody remain
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Speaker 2 (11:27):
Besides Star Wars, all the Star Wars movies, besides all
the Indiana Jones movies, including the iconic Raiders of the
Lost Arc and the Theme Shindler's List, Jurassic Park, Harry

(11:47):
Potter Home Alone, Catch Me if you Can, Superman, Close
Encounters of the Third Kind, E t The Extraterrestrial Born
on the Fourth of July, Jaws Saving Private Ryan.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
Hook.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
I mean, oh my gosh, John Williams is the goat
of music scores, so we should just call.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
Why even bother.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
National Film Score Day or what National John Williams Days.
You know what I always thought would be brilliant Disney
started to do this. Now they've taken my idea that
I've had for twenty years. I've always wanted to do
something like Pops go the movies and have a pop

(12:49):
orchestra Pops orchestra type setting outdoors amphitheater type thing, and
you show scenes of films and you play the score live. Now, Disney,
if you recall, just this past year, rolled out the
opportunity to I forget what the movie was.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
With a live score.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
It might have been Star Wars, where they have a
live orchestra playing the music to the movie that they're showing.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
The movie, they show the whole movie.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
I'm more thinking of showing bits and pieces of movies
and rolling the score underneath it and with a live orchestra.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
That just to me, would be incredible.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
All Right, So today's National Burrito Day, and it's important
that it just the stars aligned, because I'm gonna bust
a rumor here. Here was the rumor. The rumor was
that Chipotle was filing for bankruptcy. Now, I'll be the
one to tell you I'm not a huge Chipotle fan.
My wife loved Chipotle and I get it. But to me,

(14:05):
it starts with the heavy cilantro laden rice. The rice
thing is just take that out. Give me the option
add cilantro. Don't make it be part of your rice.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
Put this. You've got cilantro on the side. My goodness.
If someone wants cilantro, add it, stir it in there, whatever,
But don't make me eat something that smells like smelly feet,
because that's I think cilantro smells like stinky feet. And
what's interesting is it's one of those Cilantro is one
of those things that people either love it or hate it.

(14:41):
It's there is no middle ground.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
I tolerate it chopped up and mixed into a salsa
because the rest of the flavors of a salsa just kind.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
Of neutralize it, if you will. But just eating cilantro,
new new, new, new, new, new new. But it was
a rumor based on the closure of Pharmesa Fresh Eatery,
which is connected to Chipotle. It is a It was

(15:13):
a concept restaurant that was piloted by Chipotle in twenty
twenty three at a food hall in Santa Monica and
just didn't work.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
They shut it down, and so because of that, this
rumor started because they showed a picture of this Farmessa
Fresh Market Fresh Eatery closing and they had a picture
of Chipotle next to it, and so the rumor mill
went nuts.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
Chipotle's closing.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
They're filing for bankruptcy, And of course it makes sense
because we were in the Biden era where all kinds
of businesses were closing. Get a list. Check this out.
Sticky Finger Joint, Chicken Fingers Chain closed, Tijuana Flats, Clothes
or at least bankruptcy, Rubio's Coastal Grill bankruptcy, Burger five bankruptcy,

(16:07):
Anthony's Coal Fire Pizza Up bankruptcy, all filed Chapter eleven
in twenty twenty four alone, and so there were a
lot of people thinking.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
This is Chipotle's next.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
No, Chipotle's alive, and well it would just help some
of you Chipotle owners or franchisees clean your freaking restaurant.
A Chipotle that is buttoned up and clean, it's fine.
I can find something to eat there, and I'll be

(16:39):
just fine. But when I walk in and it's just
nasty looking, which a lot of them are, and you
got four thousand people standing back there, maybe someone can
clean out there where people are eating, Wipe a table,
you know, sweep up the crap on the floor, just
saying it might help your business. A little bit eight

(17:00):
minutes past the hour, this consulting free of charge from.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
The Morning Show with Prescot Scott all Right.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
There were some interesting emissions from the tiffless yesterday and
reactions in advance of everything being released. Mexico's government, the
president stated they were not going to impose retaliatory tariffs

(17:30):
on the United States. They're just gonna wait and see
what happens and not react. Before that happened, though, remember
the loud mouth from Canada, Doug Ford, who heads up

(17:51):
all of the Canadian premiers, and they're they're kind of
their their their own little consort them. He said in advance,
we'd be willing to drop tariffs on the United States
if they do the same.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
All tariffs, Yes, all tariffs. Well, now.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
So the list comes out, Russia's not on there because
they're Russia. Belarus is on there because they're being sanctioned.
They're not on there. Rather, Mexico and Canada were not
on the list. It would appear that those two nations

(18:45):
have decided that maybe we can work on this. Canada
started by saying, yeah, well we'll pull the tariffs. What
is Trump said reciprocal? You charge five percent, we'll charge
you five percent. You charge us thirty percent, we'll charge
you thirty You charge us nothing.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
We'll charge you nothing. It would appear.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
There were immediate results without the announcement even being made. Now,
the second part that I want to join joined to
this is Scott Bessen, who is the Treasury Secretary. You
know some China got hit with thirty four percent, the
EU twenty percent, twenty four percent on Japan, thirty two

(19:34):
percent on Taiwan.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
Listen to what he said.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
My advice to every country right now is do not retaliate.
Sit back, take it in. Let's see how it goes,
because if you retaliate, there will be escalation. If you
don't retaliate, this is the high water mark and we

(19:57):
can work from there. Now do they take the advice?
Don't know, but it's it's gonna be okay, everybody. Big
picture again, this is I am not an economist, but
I read an awful lot and I read contrarian views.

(20:18):
I read views that support the notions. I've read every
different thing, and when I weigh it all out, I
believe this is part of the process of ripping away.
You remember the analogy I've been giving you a house
that's been squatted in. Okay, we're ripping away the sheet rock.

(20:41):
Where that's what dose is doing. Ripping away the sheet rock,
we're exposing the frame of the home. And by exposing
the frame, we see what's been eaten up by termites, tariffs,
what's been just destroyed by the previous owners. And we're

(21:04):
going through the process of room by room putting the
house in order. I think it's an analogy that really
works on a lot of levels. Give it time. Elon
Musk leaving the White House that was the thing yesterday
lead research assistant of the Morning Show said, is Trump serious?

(21:25):
Is the announce Apparently Elon Musk is leaving Trump never
said it. It's not happening. The Press Secretary for the
White House, Carolyn Levitt, let me just quote her, rather
than you just taking my word for it, which you
want to.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
This scoop is garbage.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
Elon Musk and President Trump have both publicly stated that
Elon will depart from public service as a special government
employee when his incredible work at Doze is complete. I
guess that's that forty one minutes past the hour. It's
gonna be a good show.

Speaker 1 (22:01):
Print in a positive way, improve the lives of others.
That's what this show is about. And this is the
Preston Scott Show. Another little news nugget I thought was
kind of fun is Elon Musk says that he thinks

(22:25):
it'd be a great, great.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
Thing to show a live video stream of what's inside
Fort Knox. He is checking into the possibility of doing
a live stream while they look at the gold and
see what's there. He said, after all, it's the gold

(22:48):
of the American people. So the American people, it seems
to me, have a right to see their gold. Hopefully
it looks really cool. You know, open the doors.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
Is it there? Is that really gold? Let's check who's
confirming that the gold wasn't stolen from Fort Knox. I
still remember that it was a cartoon or something.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
I saw somewhere that they opened up the vault and
there were a bunch of IOUs people that took gold
and left a sticky note.

Speaker 3 (23:23):
I owe you one bar of gold, Bill, I owe
you two bars of gold. Rufus.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
Speaking of Doge. This comes from Glenn Beck. The deep
state is in conspiracy theory, it's a reality. And the corrupt,
free spending Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service is one example
of how Washington insiders enriched themselves. And he talks about
the agency established in nineteen forty seven under the Labor

(24:01):
Management Relations Act to serve as an independent agency mediating
disputes between unions and businesses and noble mission. But it's
rotted into listen to this. They have found the agency

(24:21):
had no oversight. Employees didn't show up for work, were
constantly some for years kept drawing checks, spent our money
on government issued credit cards to buy luxuries. The Department
of Government Efficiency discovered how FMCS employees use those credit

(24:45):
cards to lease luxury cars, cover personal cell phone bills,
even subscribe to USA Today. The Information Technology director James
Donnan build taxpayers for his wife's cell phone bill, cable
TV subscriptions in multiple homes, multiple homes. Government employee with

(25:11):
multiple homes. They took port They had portraits made of themselves,
painted portraits and placed in their personal offices. First of all,
who does that? Who puts a portrait of themselves? A
painting of themselves in their office? They took exotic vacations,

(25:42):
They hired friends and relatives. And yet you've got this fight.
But listen to this gonna We're gonna run late here.

(26:02):
Recent rallies, this is from Glenn Beck, led by Bernie Sanders,
alexandri Acasso Cortes and their socialist acolytes, claimed to be
a grassroots uprising against corruption and greed. But GPS data
listen from these rallies, the majority of attendees aren't ordinary
citizens fed up with the status quo. They're professional activists.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
Hold on.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
Eighty four percent of devices tracked at these rallies were
present at multiple Kamala Harris events. Thirty one percent appeared
at over twenty separate demonstrations tied to Antifa, black Lives Matter,
and pro Palestinian causes. So simple checks show these phones

(26:52):
pinging at these same sites all over the country. They're
being paid to protest. Who would be who would have
the resources to do that?

Speaker 4 (27:04):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (27:04):
Yeah, George Soros and a few others. Eighty four percent
were President Kamala Harris rallies. And who went to a
Kamala Harris rally that wasn't paid? I'm not sure her
husband showed up without some compensation. Forty seven minutes. Forty

(27:29):
eight minutes passed them about Judge Boisburg. Well, well, well,
isn't this interesting? Thanks to a report from Revolver News

(27:49):
headline Judge Boisburg ray Epps connection should scare every American.
Now that's a name you haven't heard in a minute,
Ray Epps, and this story does a little bit of
interesting digging. Ray Epps is the guy caught on camera

(28:10):
January sixth at the Capitol urging everyone to storm the Capitol.
Multiple videos show him urging crowds of people on January
fifth and sixth to go to the Capitol to breach
the building. EPs is the one person seen on video

(28:32):
directing people towards the capital seconds before the violence breaks out.
We know this at this point, So who is he?

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Who really is he?

Speaker 2 (28:49):
We know what the apologists have said. Cash Patel had
this to say previously. Ray Apps was on FBI Most
Wanted list one day and the next day he was off.
There are only two ways that happens. You die or
you are an informant, they write.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
So the guy who helped lead the charge on January sixth,
and who for years somehow avoided the Department of Justice
obsession with January six prosecutions while Grandma's and peaceful protesters
were hunting down and dragged through the mud, got the
lightest slap on the wrist from the Deep State's biggest

(29:35):
anti Trump rent a judge.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
After Epps was charged a single count of disorderly conduct.
He got one year of probation, no jail, no lectures,
no talk about mobs or responsibility, just to walk out
the back door.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
Who the judge was, District Court Chief Judge James Boisburg.
It would seem that Boisburg, who.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
Happens to be the same judge that gave Kevin Klinesmith
the free pass for fabricating evidence on the Russian collusion
hoax to obtain a FEAISA warrant on Trump. He presided
over that one too. He was an FBI lawyer, Kevin
Klin Smith. It would appear.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
That they didn't give lectures, they didn't give sentences. They
just ignored people who committed actual crimes. You remember in
August of twenty twenty three, when Trump was being arigned
in Washington, DC. Guess who is sitting in the audience

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a judge, Judge Boisburg like a crowd, member of the crowd,
cheering the prosecution of Trump.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
Well, well, well.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
Thirty five thousand, three hundred and fifty. I got the
three mixed up there. Jose's over there in Studio one A.
I'm here in Studio one B, and I am joined
as always by the executive.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
Editor of Tallasse Reports. He is Steve Stewart.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
Hello, good morning, President. You got a lot of things
on the on the desk here today. There's notes, sticky
notes everywhere, so some local news and notes, what's going on.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
Speeds on cameras. We've heard a lot about. As an
older person in this community, I support Yes, I see
people dry like crazy in school zones. We've been talking
about about a year there. Two of them are up
and running giving tickets out.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
And the difference between these and the infamous red light
cameras that were just lambasted the last time they popped up.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
Yeah, I think this is more about enforcement. And if
you start looking at the post COVID pandemic model, where
you you know, a lot of police officers stop pulling
people over, and I think now they've you know, obviously
there's more important things for officers to do. The traffic
enforcement has been a problem and so now this. You know,
in terms of the red light cameras, there's a lot

(32:28):
of debate on what did you stop or was it
a rolling red light? You know, did you really was
it really dangerous? This if you're going more than ten
miles over in in a school. So that's the key
to me. School zone, school zones. And so they're up
and run and we'll se how it goes. I mean,
the technology has made some leaps and bounds. We've heard
about license plates readers. I'm still just blown away by

(32:48):
the things that they do in terms of you know,
reading license plates as people right through town, pulling over
cars that you know, have outstanding warrants, so and we
see crime is down, a crime incidents are down the
way we track it. So anyway, they're up and running
at Cary Forest close to the Soda Trail and also
over on Tharp Street. The plan is to get up

(33:08):
you know, I think twenty three twenty four school zones now.
On Tuesday, the Leon County Commission will look at putting
those cameras in school zone areas which are on county roads. Okay,
and so we'll keep an eye on that. Got a
couple of calls on the Centerviral Centerviral Road turn lane
at centrel Trace. Yeah, that is evidently I haven't been

(33:30):
down there. Ben a fiasco. You know, that's what happens
when you try to fix things right, you're trying to
make things better. Reliefs coming in May from UH talk
to Commission Brian Welts.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
Is it because it's a residential area and they don't
want to work at night, I guess, And you know,
I think that it's going to be done in the
middle of May, but I think there'll be some relief
before them because they've had to just cut it down
to one one lane of traffic there again you're you know,
your mate, this is a canopy road.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
And it's got its own set of problems exactly. So
those two things. Airport traffic, we have tracked it. We've
bragged about the increase in airport traffic hit a little
bit of headwinds, as we shall say, in January and February,
I think the first time maybe in fifteen to sixteen
months that we've had a sort of a downward trend

(34:17):
in airport traffic. So we'll see if it's slight, it's slight.
They were headed up to the million million passenger mark
on a twelve year you know average, and so I
think it got to nine to sixty three. And so
now twelve you're a twelve month, twelve month, I'm sorry,
twelve month the annual rate, gotcha passengers. So that's headed down.
The latest jobs report is basically staggered, and unemployment went

(34:38):
up to about three point eight still more people working
now than this time last year. But I think as
we look at the national picture, you know, there's just
a lot of uncertainty right now to see how things
are going to unfold. So we'll keep an eye on
this and see if there's going to be local trends
or you know, we'll head back up nationally.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
I read that one of the big concerns is that
well people might be employed, they're under employed. Do you
know if that trend exists in the local area.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
Yeah, you know. I think that comes back to the
whole debate on affordable housing. And you know, because people
have jobs. If you look at if you look at
the numbers, I mean, these are not bad numbers, even
though it's stagnant, and you say, and you look at
the growth. That's one of the reasons why this MSA
has been recognized is because the number of jobs. So
what's the next complaint if you have, you know, really

(35:25):
good employment is how much you know, what are the
benefits of those jobs? How much you're making, do they
come with health benefits? And again when you when you
look at inflation and you look at businesses trying to
make the bottom line, you know, add up you start
cutting things. So you know that that's a that's probably
the next step of trying to figure out how we
grow as economies. Are these good jobs, good paying jobs.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
Steve Sharret with us from Teleasti Reports. Subscribe get that
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Speaker 1 (35:59):
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Speaker 2 (36:22):
Stop Stewart I litmenting the absence of coals in the
northeast part of town because they pulled too soon. They
just needed to last a little longer.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
Yes, uh, yeah, you look at the development that is
going on in northeast and I think it would have
been a better decision to stay. But anyway, we got
more storage.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
Tallahasse Tallahassei Memorial Healthcare has been in the news. TMH
is on a lot of different fronts. Yeah, this is
so frustrating to see.

Speaker 1 (36:51):
This dominate the news, and you know it's a it's
an issue. Look the way I've been looking at travel
around town. You know, in the gym, people come up
and give me their opinions if I want them or not.
You know, you're taught to insiders, and you know, maryor
Daily is taking a hit on this, and I don't
know that I don't know that it has anything to
do with the actual issue, because, as you know, it's

(37:13):
a lot about perception and the way I've looked at
this is you've got you know, TMH is a billion
dollar organization. You had FSU is over a billion dollar organization,
and you got the City of Tallahassee billion dollar organization.
They all have very recognizable leaders. Sure, you know Mark O'Brien,
may Daily vergi of a call in no world. Should

(37:34):
any of those people be surprised by a city commission
meeting of what's going on? No world? And that doesn't
mean you have to agree, right, And so what we've got,
you know, I guess based on looking at the dynamics
is TMH is offended by an agenda item that you
know in the very bottom, which had a lot of

(37:56):
good information listed, you know, potential sale and TMA, which
is a very big part of this community in a
lot of different ways, got very offended because they felt
like there wasn't good communication. Now you're gonna have to ascertain,
you know, in the real world, it doesn't matter what
the facts are, it is what the perception is. And
the perception is that Mayor Daily has dropped the ball here.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
But Daily says he meets with the leaders of FSU, FAMU,
all of these different people every six.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
Weeks, right, And I think that again, if you look
again the facts, the perception is this is that somebody
was left out. Okay, okay, and so the fact that
it gets to that point I think falls on the leadership. Now,
you know, you can go talk to all three people
and get three different stories. But the thing that's going
on now with TMH, the overkill from the pr standpoint

(38:48):
of you know, we're not for sale, there's billboards up,
there's video. I mean, this has really taken This has
really taken over the news cycle on an issue that
really needs to be thoughtfully discussed. And again, everything it
seems like that happens here is driven by these personal
politics and this is one of those issues.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
Steve reseid For people that might have missed our previous
segment and maybe even the one before that. The issue
here is I think it's going to be a surprise
to a lot of people, and that is that tmh's land, buildings,
and assets are not owned by TMH.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
Now they're owned by the city of Talahassee. That blows
my mind still, and they lease it. They lease all
that to a nonprofit which is run by Mark O'Brien
to provide healthcare. Now that blows my mind. As well.
But I can't pick sure a nonprofit. It's not uncommon
Senny Greenville, South Carolina, know, yeah, and now there is.
So the issue is the governance, right, So they want

(39:44):
to change the governors because they BEINGMH and FSU, because
they are healthcare. There's so much money involved in healthcare
that everybody wants to get their share. The healthcare industry
is growing. TMH has grown out with outside of the
footprint that is within the governance of the original lease,
and so they want to change the governance. And so

(40:06):
FSU and TMH are partnering on certain projects Panama City Hospital, okay,
and they want to create a new holding company called
Airis Alliance or something like that. And so look, again,
a really interesting topic that needs to be discussed. Yeah,
Instead they've boiled it down to a political slogan, we're
not for sale, okay, instead of saying, well, wait a minute,

(40:27):
what is your governance structure? How does this compare to
other nonprofit hospitals around the country. Let's have a thoughtful
discussion of what this all means. Well, we're not that,
we're not we're being now we're being inundated by you know,
it's you know FSU wanted to buy TMAH. Mayor Daily,
you know, blindsided TMAH and you know Mayor Daily holds

(40:48):
up a seventeen page document that is clearly minimizing the
impact of the city on the governance of TMH. So
it's just again something that you should sit down and
talk about and we go to our side and start
throwing arrows. And I will tell you again the overall
sentiment that I hear, and again I don't go to
everybody's house, is that the blame is falling on Mayor

(41:11):
Daily and we'll see, you know, they're going to have him.
This will come up again in the next City Commission
meeting and we'll see what happens at that point. Sixteen
past the hour more with Steve Stewart from tallas he
Reports the website Tallas Reports dot com.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
Steve Stewart and I having a knocked out dragon out
of fighting right.

Speaker 1 (41:45):
Not really all right?

Speaker 2 (41:47):
So Jerry matt Lowe, we've talked about this before. He
is having to spend a lot of time trying to
repair damage done in the last two election cycles, which
has been significant.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
So we reported, like he said, and we've discussed to
hear about his sort of rehabilitation tour because he wants
to run for mayor, Okay, which to me is a
little bit mind boggling, But I'm not very good at
politics anyway. So I mean, you know, he's won two
elections mayor daily you know, won his last election. Looks
like he's not going to run again, although he hasn't
said that for sure. And so you know, Matt Low

(42:23):
got elected as a reformer, coming on the heels of
all this corruption, the FBI investigations, and he him and
Jack Porter both appealed to conservatives because of that issue,
the one eighty that happened when he got elected. And
that's not this is not me saying like there are
people that donated big money to Commission Mallow and have

(42:45):
not since because of his pivot on these progressive ideological
bent you know, has resulted in he has offended almost
every corner of the community in collegiality with and the
Commission is shot trying to get people, you know, trying
to defeat people so he could have a majority on
the City Commission, going after a public you know, law enforcement,

(43:08):
you know, pushing the planet evidence narrative, uh call, you know,
going after the Chamber of commerce. City manager. Yeah, city manager,
want to get him fired. It's just I mean, the
the list goes on and on, and now the guy
has got a lot of he must have, you know,
a lot of guts in the sense that now I
want to be mayor. And so he goes around and
he's starting to tell people, you know, it's time that

(43:29):
we get along. You know, it's say, it's the guy
who sowed all of the seeds of discord. I know,
and no, you know, I didn't see any apologies and
I didn't see him taking any responsibility. So I don't know, Hey,
weirder things have happened. I mean, it's pretty clear that
he is in this because he he wants to be,
and he's got the time and I guess the money

(43:50):
to do it. Remember the California money that was coming in.
I expect that I'll show back up, and so we'll
see if he can, you know, if he can pull
this off. There are people meeting with them, and you know,
you know, hearing them out, and so I don't know,
I mean, from my standpoint just looking at it. You know,
we've always said that the important issues for any local

(44:14):
race are economic development and public safety. Those are two
of the biggest things that local government do. You look
at the city's budget, it's you know, over half the
general fund is for public safety, and then their next
biggest thing is regulations of economic growth and economic development.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
And in fairness of voting record indicates that Jeremy Mattlowe
is opposing most of those things.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
Look, instead of singling out a project that you're against,
I mean blueprints a sham. He called it a sham,
Blueprint a sham. You know. Now again, there's things that
we I disagree with on Blueprint, sure, but to call
it a sham is something that's been supported well overall.
Blueprint has been wildly successful. And so what you're going
to have, you're gonna have this voting record, a you're
going to have you know, his comments, and then I

(45:05):
guess you're gonna believe that he's just going to change
that is he you know, is he all of a
sudden a supporter of law enforcement. And it's going to
be tough from the thread to needle here because there
are a number of debates that are coming up. The
issue though, and it is in a lot of elections,
is it's really not about who you want as mayor's
who you have to choose from. And the comments that

(45:26):
I've heard over the last couple of months is very
few people want to even get involved anymore because of
what commission mallow Commissioner reporter have done in terms of
getting this out of state money and just going after
people personally. I mean, remember this first step was to
try to name you know, very awkward city commission meeting
after trying to defeat Curtis Richardson wanting to name a

(45:50):
building after him, and it just didn't go over well.
Now the question is you know what happens in this
community is the people sign up to run and then
you figure out who's going to win, and you support
the winners. He's won two elections and so you can't
dismiss that this. You know that this guy could be

(46:10):
the next mayor.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
But as of right now, we don't know who else
is going to be interested in the job.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
No, not at all. I think clearly he's out early
talking about it, and he is you know, again, it'll
be the force of his personality in terms because he's
meeting with people, are they going to actually believe what
he's saying? But then again, it's going to come down
to who's running against him. You may have somebody running
against him that everybody likes, but they know they can't win.

(46:36):
And you know the old political money is going to
go behind the winner. So I've learned that. Yeah, So anyway,
it's interesting to keep an eye on Again. The focus
for Talles Reports are the positions on the issues, right,
and so it's.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
Voting records, what's what's what are you going to exactly,
and so we'll keep an eye on that for you.
Thanks as always, Thank you, Preston, Steve Stewart, Last Reports
Executive Editor.

Speaker 1 (47:01):
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(47:22):
It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
Halfway through the radio program effectually known as common Sense Amplifying.
I know it's such a simple way of describing what
we do, but it's.

Speaker 1 (47:42):
Appropriate and it works. It's the Morning Show. Great to
be with you.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
He's Jose, I'm Preston, Doctor Steve steveson pause for thoughts,
some trip tips for you if you're traveling with your pets,
some things to consider. We also have a road trip
idea then, and Zach Smith from the Heritage Foundation. Why
should anyone care about the Panama Canal. Well, we've tried
to explain it, but I thought better him than me,

(48:10):
because he's an expert and he's written a great deal
about it. And we'll have him on in the next
hour Big.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
Stories in the press box.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
Elon Musk says it'd be fun to take a peek
in Fort Knox. He wants to live stream to look in.

Speaker 1 (48:28):
Brilliant. Why can't we?

Speaker 2 (48:33):
I mean, it's a blooming military base. It's not like
anyone's breaking in.

Speaker 1 (48:42):
Now. It would be interesting.

Speaker 2 (48:46):
Would that be like a big target if someone tried
to fire a missile to hit the gold deposit at Fort.

Speaker 1 (48:54):
Knox, to just blow it all up. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
I could just get in trouble asking the question around here.
But he wants to live stream a look in. His
point is valid. It's your money, it's your gold. You
gotta see it. You gotta make sure you ought to
know that the gold reserves of this country, which belong
to the taxpayers of this country, are there conspiracy theories

(49:23):
have been floating for decades about the gold reserves. Yeah,
I think it's a great idea. Speaking of Elon Musk, No,
he's not leaving the White House.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
He's not leaving. Doge Politico marched this thing out. President
Trump is told his inner circle, including members of his cabinet,
that Musk will be stepping back in the coming weeks. Now.

Speaker 2 (49:56):
The Press Secretary for the White House, Caroline Levitt said,
quoting this scoop is garbage, and she expanded from there, So,
I guess the thing to do is.

Speaker 1 (50:10):
To a few weeks. I mean, what's a few weeks
is a few weeks, Three weeks is a few weeks.
Twelve weeks is a few weeks, one hundred and four weeks.
And then the tariffs were unveiled yesterday, and guess who's

(50:34):
not on that list? Canada and Mexico, in part because Canada,
before the list came out, made an overture they said, well, okay, a,
well like we'll we won't. We won't tariff you if
you won't terrify us. Ah, I'm not kidding the guy.

(51:02):
He's not the prime is it, Prime Minister of Canada.
He's not like the Justin Trudeau replacement. He's the guy
who heads up all the regional governors, Doug Ford, and
he said, if if you don't terrify us, we won't
tear a few at all. So Canada was not on

(51:23):
the list because Trump has said we want reciprocal tarriffis
what you charge us, will charge you. Mexico said, we're
not going to retaliate on anything. We're just gonna Yeah,
because eighty percent of Mexico's exports come right here, it

(51:47):
would decimate them. Trump's making a point, and I think
my analogy is candidly, it's brilliant. We're ripping back the drywall.
That's what doji is. Doj is ripping, ripping off the drywall,
exposing what's damaged in the House, and it's up to
Congress and the president to fix it. Forty minutes past

(52:08):
the hour. That really doesn't work. The more I say it,
I like it. Beck, He's always been a white guy.

Speaker 4 (52:15):
Glenn, Right, we got it licensed to talk nine to
noon on WFLA.

Speaker 2 (52:27):
Hey, if you want to fire an email my way,
just remember Preston at iHeartRadio dot com.

Speaker 1 (52:36):
Let's do this. Let's talk about our four legged Buddies.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
Joining us doctor Steve Steverson at the Bradfordville Animal Hospital.

Speaker 1 (52:44):
Hello, my friend, how are you.

Speaker 5 (52:47):
Hey, Preston, I'm going great. How about you?

Speaker 1 (52:49):
I'm doing well? Tell me something. Are more people traveling
with their pets now than ever? Because it sure seems
that way. It seems like there are dogs and cats
everywhere now.

Speaker 5 (53:02):
You know that definitely pressed More and more we see
people come in there taking their pet on a trip
with them, and so that's definitely something you need to consider,
and you definitely need to plan ahead if you're going
to take your pet with you on a trip. A
lot of times they'll enjoy it just as much as
you will. But you're definitely some planning is involved. It
kind of depends on what you're where you're going, and

(53:22):
how you're traveling, what what you need to consider, And.

Speaker 1 (53:25):
They're both equally important, right, A big pardon, And they're
both equally important.

Speaker 5 (53:32):
Where and how Yes, yes, yes, definitely. If you're going,
are you going within the country you're going to just
to another state you drive into Georgia, or you traveling
outside the country, you're flying to a foreign country. All
that has to be factored in. But how are you
getting there? You're flying? Are you driving? So yeah, definitely
both of those are very important. If you're staying within

(53:54):
the States, you're driving on a car trip, you definitely
want to have a at least at the very minimum,
a make sure your pet's up to dead on this
vaccine and you have a copy of those vaccine with you.
Better yet, you better yet would be to have a
health certificate for your pet, which a veterinearan can issue.
And then, of course plan for your stops along the way.

(54:17):
Don't just try and sneak your pet into the hotel room.
You can plan ahead and find a hotel friend, a
pet friendly hotel to stay in as a good idea
as well as there are a lot of there are
a lot of pet friendly restaurants as well that you
could plan to go to. So a lot of planning
is key there. You know, when you're actually in the
car and you're traveling with your pet. Safety first. First off,

(54:41):
you want to make sure that your pet is properly
restrained in the car. Ideally the best is to have
them in a kennel or a crate or a harness
works as well. No lap pets, don't let the pets
sit in your lap. It's definitely not in the front seat.
No heads out in the window.

Speaker 1 (54:57):
You know.

Speaker 5 (54:57):
You see that also with the dog, you head out
the window. Not a good idea. Definitely not a good idea.

Speaker 1 (55:04):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (55:06):
And then you know, if you if you all of
a sudden decide, hey, I'm going to take my pet
with me on this car trip. But your dog or
cat has never ridden in the car before, you probably
got to put the pet in its carrier or in
its harness in the car and take some short trips
around town to see how they adapt to how they
handle it. You know, if there's they're great with it, wonderful.
If they're not, they're anxious or nervous, or get car sick.

(55:28):
Talk to your veterinarian about some medication to calm them
or prevent motion sickness when you're traveling.

Speaker 1 (55:34):
How much how much water and food should be available
to them when they're in a car.

Speaker 5 (55:41):
You know, so feeding should be just the same routine
feeding can you wally do with your pet at home?
Most people, that's morning and evening or morning or evening,
so that's when you're not in the car. Water should
pretty much be readily available for your pet if not
regular stops and offer them water at those stops. So
every few hours you are stopping and offering water to
your pets, they don't get dehydrated wider traveling. Excellent question.

Speaker 2 (56:03):
We've got about a minute left, doctor Severson. So what
are the important factors for flying with your pet?

Speaker 5 (56:10):
Yeah, so flying was a pet. Number one. Contact the
airline and see what the airline's requirements are and make
sure you comply with this requirements with the size of
your kennel or create documentation. All that documentation should be
attached to the carrier that your pet is in as
you travel. That's where it should be, not in your
purse or on your person, but on the crater kennel
your pet is in. Talk to your veterinarian about travel

(56:32):
with your pet. Talk to your veninarian about the state
or the country you plan to visit. Every country has
different requirements to allow pets into that country and then
requirements for you to get your pet back into the
United States when you come home. So talk to your
veterinarian about travel if you're flying or go into another country.

Speaker 1 (56:48):
All right, I've got to ask this one more question though,
when traveling by plane and you've got your dog now
being handled by other people, what do you do about water?

Speaker 5 (57:00):
H you should have water available to them, and they should.
It's their response. If a pet is in the cargo,
it is the airlines responsibility to make sure that pet
continues to have water available. If it's in the in
the passenger space with you, then you need to give
it water, either very carefully in the in the plane,
or there are locations in each airport where you can

(57:23):
go for your pet to walk and exercise itself and
also offer it water.

Speaker 2 (57:27):
Good stuff. Great tips, Doctor Steverson. Thanks for the time.
We'll talk again in a couple of weeks.

Speaker 5 (57:32):
Great thanks, Preston.

Speaker 2 (57:33):
Thank you, sir, Doctor Steve Steverson with us Pause for
thought on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Well, it's

(57:54):
interesting Canada's out there saying we're gonna fight the tariffs
and they're not even listed.

Speaker 1 (57:58):
On the list.

Speaker 2 (57:59):
Uh so, I mean, who knows, We'll see Australia. It's
not the act of a friend. Well, neither are unfair
trade tariffs. Friend, just saying it's kind of like you

(58:21):
want to.

Speaker 1 (58:22):
Come at me, I'll come at you. No, it's you
have to. You have to fix things.

Speaker 2 (58:33):
Scott Besten is out there, the Treasury Secretary, saying, everybody,
take it in, take it in, just sit, just be calm,
step back and see. I think there's a little bit
of public pushback from some of these nations because they

(58:55):
don't want to seem like sissies. They don't want to
admit that it's been unfair for decades. I mean, when
you've had something one way for a long time, do

(59:18):
you want it to end?

Speaker 1 (59:22):
Okay, that's what you end up with.

Speaker 2 (59:25):
Okay, it takes it. It takes some time to get
through all of that, and so.

Speaker 1 (59:38):
You just have to you have to accept it. You
just you just do.

Speaker 2 (59:48):
Now, I'm just asking you to be knowledgeable. If you
weigh in on the conversation, I recommend don't react. And
let's give some thought to the fact that there is
a one point two trillion dollar trade imbalance that hurts

(01:00:17):
every single one of us.

Speaker 1 (01:00:20):
It's not right. Let's set the word fair aside. It's
just not right. All right, everybody remain cold. Time for
road trip idea. Now we have been suggesting and we're
working out in no particular way. We're going west and

(01:00:42):
north and east and up the eastern coast.

Speaker 2 (01:00:44):
And we were in Kentucky last week and I recommended
to you while in Kentucky see the arc encounter. When
you go north of Kentucky, you are in Ohio and
you know Low Hanging.

Speaker 1 (01:01:05):
Fruit Cedar Point, the amusement park. Eh. I think you
got ahead east and make your way into Amish Country
because that'll take you into Pennsylvania as well. But I
love the idea of making a roade into Ohio and

(01:01:29):
just making sure you find a way to get to
Amish Country and bring a trailer because you want to
buy some furniture. I'm just saying, no, it's it's it's
it's such a I've heard it described as just such

(01:01:50):
a throwback in time. You still have people riding horse
drawn carriages. I'd be down with seeing a community like
that and just putting the phone away and just taking

(01:02:12):
it in.

Speaker 2 (01:02:14):
So, if you're making a roadie to the Midwest, that's
kind of the mid East.

Speaker 1 (01:02:21):
Check out Ohio and check out Amage Country. Zack Smith
from Heritage Foundation. Next on The Morning.

Speaker 6 (01:02:28):
Show, third hour of the Morning Show with Preston Sky,
Good Morning, he says, Hey, I'm Preston Show fifty three
to fifty nice round number.

Speaker 1 (01:02:51):
Now in our twenty fourth year of doing this silliness
every morning, and it's April the third. Joining us on
the show a friend of the program from the Heritage Foundation,
a fellow Floridian, I might add, even if he is
a Fluorida Gator, he is Zack Smith.

Speaker 7 (01:03:08):
Hi, Zach, good morning, Preston.

Speaker 1 (01:03:11):
How are you terrific? My friend? Hey, our subject matter here.

Speaker 2 (01:03:15):
I think you wrote an article and I'll just read
to everybody the title article three in the Canal Zone
District Court. What does the Constitution require of territorial courts?
And I'm gonna guess that to most people listening right now,
they just went, huh. So let's go with a brief history. Lesson,

(01:03:38):
take us back to the beginning of the twentieth century.
Where does this all start? Explain what you mean?

Speaker 7 (01:03:46):
Yes, so I run about this, Preston, because of President
from pledged to take back the Panama Canal, and so
many people don't realize. At the beginning of the twentieth century,
the United States actually ran a large swath of territory
in Panama around the Panama Canal, and they had to
administer justice in that area, and so what Congress did.

(01:04:06):
They established a set of territorial courts in the Panama
Canal zone to administer justice. And there's still territorial courts
in existence today Puerto Rico, Guam, the Marianna Islands, others
as well. And then of course there are also the
local courts in the District of Columbia. And so I
bought what does the Constitution require? You know, Article three

(01:04:28):
of the Constitution, which deals with federal courts, which deals
with judges, has certain requirements. For instance, that judges served
during good behaviors. That's what we think of as life tenure.
Article two of the Constitution requires that the President nominates
to certain individuals to serve, and once they're confirmed by
the Senate, they then serve. And yet many of today's
territorial courts, many of the District of Columbia's local courts,

(01:04:52):
they don't comport with that appointment and confirmation and life
tenure that the Constitution lays out for federal judges. And
so my question was is that constitutional? And I think
in some instances it is not.

Speaker 2 (01:05:07):
Let me give us some historical context of where or
how this court flexed its muscle along the way, I
just sort of visually gave Jose this image of this
swath of land. And so what you're telling me is
there's almost this area in and around the Panama Canal

(01:05:30):
that is sort of sovereign US territory for the administration
of law.

Speaker 7 (01:05:36):
Formerly formerly, so that was the case for most of
the twentieth century. Okay, So Jimmy Carter in the late
nineteen seventies struck a deal for that land to eventually
be returned back to Panama. So the Panama Canal Zone
no longer exists today, But for most of the twentieth
century it was a ten mile wide swath of land
in Panama. It's five miles on east side of the

(01:05:58):
Panama Canal right, a sovereign US territory for all practical purposes.
And there's a good reason that was the case. It
helped use administration, it helped the United States as administered
the Panama Canal itself. And yet that zone no longer
exists because Jimmy Carter, when he was president, struck a

(01:06:19):
deal to return not only that land, but the Panama
Canal itself back to Panama.

Speaker 1 (01:06:25):
So what does that I mean? On the surface we'll
dig a little deeper.

Speaker 2 (01:06:28):
But on the surface, doesn't this all present a bit
of a problem for Donald Trump in asserting that we're
just going to take it back.

Speaker 7 (01:06:37):
Well, look, I think Donald Trump hasn't been exactly clear
what he means when he says we're going to take
back the Panama Canal. I think we're already seeing some
progress being made in terms of Chinese companies that have
been charged with operating the canal being divested from those responsibilities,
and so it's unclear that it means we're actually going

(01:06:57):
to physically take back the Panama Canal. Are simply make
sure that Panama is complying with its treaty obligations to
make sure that everyone enjoys free and fair of asten
It certainly seems strange to me Preston that the United States,
particularly the United States Navy, are paying very high fees
to pass through the Panama Canal, when in fact it

(01:07:18):
was the United States and American taxpayers that helped to
find and create the Panama Canal itself.

Speaker 1 (01:07:25):
It would seem that the United States was responsible for
a lot of economic growth in Panama to begin with,
but because of that canal. More to come Zack Smith
with us from the Heritage Foundation on the Morning Show
with Preston Scott, Mayor of Realville. It's the Morning Show

(01:07:47):
with Preston Scott's.

Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
As side of the Panama can Now that I'm guessing,
like me, none of you've thought about and of course
being explored by Zach Smith from the Heritage Foundation. So
if we look at the administration of the law during
the US ownership for lack of a better way of

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putting it, of the Panama Canal and now it's extinguished,
where's the intrigue?

Speaker 1 (01:08:25):
What has you most fascinated Zach?

Speaker 7 (01:08:29):
Well, part of the reason I wrote about this press
and there's a little bit tongue in cheek, but to
talk about the very real issue that's happening today. A
lot of people don't realize a lot of adjudication resolution
of disputes is taking place by government bureaucrats that are
not appointed in and compliance with Article three of the Constitution.

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We've heard a lot about administrative proud junals, administrative judges,
and this is a big problem in the federal government
today with many of the alphabet soup agencies, the SEC,
the CFTC, the FTC having essentially their own in house courts,
and many people have been raising constitutional concerns about those
courts for many, many years, and you've even seen the

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Supreme Court, the US Supreme Court strike down certain instances
where those courts have resolved cases. And so my larger
question was, when, if ever, is it appropriate for judges
and tribunals constituted not in compliance with Article three of
the Constitution, which deals with federal courts and Article two
of the Constitution, which deals with the President and his

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appointment power, when is it appropriate for those judges and
those tribunals to hear cases? And largely my view is
that is generally not appropriate for those entities to hear cases.
And I think you're seeing the Supreme Court move in
that same direction as well.

Speaker 2 (01:09:49):
It almost and I could be way off in my
assertion here. I questioned last year why, for example, Jack
Smith was allowed to even argue anything in front of
a judge because he wasn't appointed, according to the United
States Constitution to do just that, and so he had

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no more authority to walk into a courtroom and make
arguments than me. Is this similar to what we're talking about.

Speaker 7 (01:10:18):
Here in some sense? Yes, absolutely, look, you're not often
that assertion. President. In fact, you have many legal scholars
of making that same position. Former Attorney General Ed Mesa,
who is the namesake of the met Center where our
work at the Heriby Foundation, took that same position and
a brief he filed with the court. And so, yes,
the Constitution has these very important structural safeguards in place.

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There's certain procedures that have to be followed before someone
or some entity can exercise certain types of power. And
when those procedural safeguards are not followed, it creates very
real issues and undermines the design that the frameworks of
our Constitution put in place to help make sure that
at the end of the day, our rights are protected

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to the fullest extent possible.

Speaker 2 (01:11:05):
Okay, Now, I have looked at, for example, to just
draw this and make a different kind of comparison.

Speaker 1 (01:11:12):
I have looked at.

Speaker 2 (01:11:12):
The work of Doze as the work of a contractor
in a home that's been squatted in for four years,
just saying four years and ripping off the drywall and
exposing the damage to the house. So if we are
ripping off this particular piece of drywall and we're seeing
a conundrum with Article three of the Constitution.

Speaker 1 (01:11:34):
Okay, now, what.

Speaker 7 (01:11:36):
Well, I think Congress needs to step in and take
actions and look if we step out again and look
at some of the larger disputes taking place against about
the federal judiciary of today. We've heard a lot about
nationwiding junctions. There are six hundred federal district court judges,
over six hundred federal district court judges in the United States,
and right now, any one of those federal district court

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judges could purport to stop in the action of the
administration of Donald Trump from taking place anywhere against anyone
at any time. That is a power that has been
unknown for most of our nation's history and was certainly
unknown at the time of our family. And so you're
seeing actions by Congress. Mike Lee has a bill he's introduced,

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Chuck Grassley has a bill he's introduced to essentially pair
back the jurisdiction and power of some of these federal
district court judges. And so I think you're going to
need to see Congress step in and take actions to
correct many of these issues that have cropped up over
the past several years, but particularly that have cropped up
over the last half century or.

Speaker 1 (01:12:40):
So, Zack Smith with me for one more segment. I'm gonna,
we're gonna, We're gonna let this lead us in a
direction or two. So to stick around sixteen past the
hour mort cut was Zacksmith of the Heritage Foundation of
The Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, twenty one,

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almost twenty two minutes past the hours. Zach Smith with
me from the Heritage Foundation, and we're talking about an
article he's written relative to Article three and really the
role of and the constitutionality of territorial courts, which extends
beyond that. So I'm not just going redpill here in
this segment. I'm putting the IV in our veins here, Zach,

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and we're going, we're going, We're going to inject it
straight to the veins. So you mentioned the district courts,
and that has been a massive topic in the first
couple of months of the Trump administration. So is there
an argument to be made that some of these district
courts are unconstitutional in that they've not been going through

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the right process. What's the baseline argument?

Speaker 7 (01:13:58):
No, I think it's very important. The two different things
we're talking about, President One are the territorial courts and
the DC local courts, so what you colloquially would call
the DC local courts. I think there are very real
issues with the way those courts and those judges are constituted.
What we hear about in the news so often is

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what we would think of as Article three federal district courts.
There's not a constitutional issue with the way those courts
have been constituted, are the way those judges have been appointed,
at least nominally, those judges have been nominated by the President,
confirmed by the Senate, and then appointed once that constitutional
process has been followed. When we talk about the Article

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three federal district courts, the issue that's been in the
news so much lately is the power that many of
these federal district court judges are asserting for themselves. It's
a very broad power, a very vast power, a power
that has been unknown for most of our nation's history.
And so I think when it comes to actions Congress

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needs to take there. They certainly need to strip some
of the jurisdiction of those federal district courts, and they
need to clarify that those federal district court judges do
not have the power to issue what's known as a
nationwide injunction, where a single federal district court judge sitting
anywhere in the country reports to stop an action of

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the current administration or any administration from being effective anywhere
at any time against anyone in the United States. That's
a broad power that the framers of our Constitution would
have been utterly horrified by.

Speaker 2 (01:15:35):
So do you think the next course of action then,
for all of these different cases on that issue, is
it going to be a Supreme Court action? Or is
the Supreme Court likely to say, well, you know, it's
the way it is until Congress acts.

Speaker 1 (01:15:51):
Where is this butck going to stop?

Speaker 7 (01:15:54):
Yeah? I suspect the Supreme Court is going to have
to address this issue at some point. So far, they
have declined do so, although you've heard some rumblings from
some of the justices like Justice Samuel Ledo Justice Clarence Thomas.
They have both written to some extent that they are
troubled by this practice, and so I would be hopeful
that a majority of their colleagues on the Supreme Court

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would agree with them if and when the Supreme Court
takes up this issue of nationwide injunctions. But I think
similarly on the same track. At the same time those
cases are making their way up to the Supreme Court,
you're also going to see Congress stepping in and at
least making rumblings about passing legislation. And again, as I mentioned,
Chuck Grassley has introduced legislation, Senator Mike Lee has introduced legislation.

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All they try to address specifically the issue of nationwide injunctions,
but also the issue of these federal district court judges
taking such an expanse of such an aggressive view of
their own power.

Speaker 2 (01:16:51):
I know, I'm asking you to read legal tea leaves
that might not even be in.

Speaker 1 (01:16:55):
The water yet.

Speaker 2 (01:16:56):
But if we arrive at some return of control of
the Panama Canal beyond Blackrock going in and buying a
couple of the ports in essence to run them, do
you see a return of a territorial court to that area,
And if so, does it get constituted as it has

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been and is in other areas, or is there some
nuanced difference that we'll see.

Speaker 7 (01:17:22):
Well, I suspect we are many many levels removed from
having to make that decision. And look again, when the
President says he wants to take back control of the
Panama Canal Zone. I think it's to be determined exactly
what he means by that. But look, if we were
to get there, a new territorial court would need to
be established. I think Congress needs to look very hard

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at whether the former model that was in place once
again complied with Article two, the President's appointment power and
Article three of the Constitution, which required the judges served
during good behavior. Because I think there are very good
arguments that those are very real, very open questions, and
of course the better course of action would be to
simply follow when the Constitution requires in those two regards.

Speaker 2 (01:18:08):
Okay, I've got to ask you. In closing. You said
good behavior, and I know what that means. But I'm
thinking nearly every single person listening has no clue good behavior.
That must mean they're acting properly in their job.

Speaker 1 (01:18:22):
But it's not, is it.

Speaker 7 (01:18:25):
It's not if only that were true. Pressed the Constitution
says the judges federal judges served during good behavior, and
today that's what we would colloquially call life. Judges serve
for life unless they do something really, really bad and
end up getting impeached by the House of Representatives and
removed from office by the US Senate, and that's something
that's rarely happened throughout most of our nation's history. But

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that is what I mean, and the Constitution means when
it talks about a judge or another official serving during
good behavior.

Speaker 1 (01:18:56):
Zach, as always, I appreciate your time and insight.

Speaker 7 (01:18:58):
Thanks for it, Thanks for having me on the show today.

Speaker 1 (01:19:01):
My pleasure.

Speaker 2 (01:19:02):
Zach Smith with the Heritage Foundation, my guest here on
the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:19:13):
The Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one
hundred point seven WFLA. Everybody needs to remain calm. Ford

(01:19:34):
out there announcing a from America for America deal offering
employee pricing to all potential forward customers.

Speaker 2 (01:19:46):
The message is being sent and it takes a while.
Let's just for a second, let's remember our days in school,
and some of you are still in school to a
certain extent. We're all in school because we're all learning.

(01:20:07):
I'm learning every day, and I'm not saying that in
any sense of false humility. Now, I'm learning every day.
How much I don't know. I do my best to
present topics and things and and those stories and subjects

(01:20:33):
that we mull over. I spend time giving great consideration
to them, and then I offer my view opinion on
these things. It mirrors what a lot of you think.
Some of you push back right away because you're just
you're just you don't you don't think the way that

(01:20:54):
I do.

Speaker 1 (01:20:54):
And that's okay.

Speaker 2 (01:21:00):
But know this, we have shared experiences, and everybody knows
that in a classroom setting with multiples of numbers of people,
there are some that it just takes longer for them
to grasp hold of a concept. I was that in

(01:21:22):
math there were certain aspects of mathematics on it got
it other subjects, other mathematical theories and ooh knew you
might as well be speaking a different language. I don't
know what I was the slow guy in the room.

Speaker 1 (01:21:46):
Uh, mister mahallick, would you mind just you know, one
more time on that? Boy? Quit erasing it so fast
I'm writing.

Speaker 2 (01:21:55):
But we're talking now about say tariffs. There are people
that get it, There are businesses, workers, nations that get it.

Speaker 1 (01:22:14):
Well. It was a good ride for the last several decades,
but that's that's up. That the ride is over. Okay.
It's like.

Speaker 2 (01:22:28):
You got a discount on family pricing. We were just
talking about ford an employee price. You got a discount
because your son works at such and such a place,
so you can fly for pennies on the dollar anywhere
in the world. But your son doesn't work there anymore. Ah,
you lost your discount. You weren't cheating. It was a
family extended discount that he got so his immediate family

(01:22:52):
would get a discount, and you enjoyed it.

Speaker 1 (01:22:57):
But he doesn't work there anymore. So the free rides
are over, the discounted rates are done. Guess what. For
some of these nations, the ride's over. It's okay. You
enjoyed it.

Speaker 2 (01:23:11):
It worked at you in your favor for many, many years,
but it's over. Some are out there going I still
want the discount, and you have to say, I'm sorry.
Your dad, your brother, your husband, your wife doesn't work
here anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:23:31):
You don't get the family discount. I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:23:36):
It's okay, everybody. Just remember it will take time, but
we have to do this. It's all right, remain calm.
Forty minutes past the out Yes, that was the big
story in the press box, the reaction to the tariffs.

Speaker 1 (01:24:00):
Welcome to m a d radio network where We challenge
you to make a difference. And this is the Morning
Show with Preston Scott. Have you ever heard of Hawaii's governor?

Speaker 2 (01:24:19):
If I asked you to name the governor of Hawaii,
you probably couldn't tell me his name. Look, you don't
live there, makes sense. We don't know the governor most people,
most states.

Speaker 1 (01:24:31):
We know a few. We know the governor to our north,
Brian Kemp. We know the governor just a little bit
to the west. Sarah Sanders, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, she's she's,
she's got game.

Speaker 2 (01:24:49):
We know our governor. Josh Green is the Hawaii governor,
and he is a Democrat, and he's talking on on uh.
I don't know where Aaron Burnett is if that's CNN.
And for whatever reason, she decides to ask the governor

(01:25:12):
of Hawaii, who, oh, by the way, is a doctor.

Speaker 1 (01:25:15):
About the significance of.

Speaker 5 (01:25:18):
R.

Speaker 1 (01:25:18):
FK Junior Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Speaker 2 (01:25:20):
Now the head of HHS playing tennis with Novak Djokovic,
and she questioned how cuts to AHHS might impact the

(01:25:41):
vaccines and so forth. You might remember Djokovic got really
ripped by the United States.

Speaker 1 (01:25:50):
He had a chance to.

Speaker 2 (01:25:53):
Play for a US Open title, but he was not
allowed to travel into America because he wouldn't get the vaccine.
My hero had a boy and he said, okay, so
I'm not playing tennis in America. In response, Green, the

(01:26:15):
Hawaiian governor, argued that the match between the two, they
were just playing tennis. The guy's a professional, one of
the greatest to ever play an old man who's a
member of the administration. I mean, it's not a match,
for God's sake, that it's BS distraction. Won't do anything
to prevent the spread of AIDS. We have vaccine hesitancy,

(01:26:36):
especially in rural communities. I love to play tennis. I
was competitive tennis player when I was young. But Novak
hanging out with RFK, while good for cardiovascular health, won't
do anything to prevent the spread of AIDS with good
public health advice, and won't do anything to help parents
coffee sorry from getting deadly meningitis if they don't get

(01:26:56):
their vaccines. This is the kind of BS distraction, which
we expected from a guy who took the job for
celebrity reasons. It's catastrophic for our healthcare system and a
shame on Novak for coosing up to this guy Novak,
go play tennis, hit one hundred and sixty mile an hour,
serve but stat of public health. And I hope someone
hits him with an overhead and shows him what it
means to hurt somebody, because that what it's going to

(01:27:18):
do to all these kids who don't get vaccinated and
for the parents don't have to deal with. Dude, you
self righteous, pompous, arrogant jerk. He talks about these clowns.
Aren't public health people. You mean the public health people

(01:27:40):
like you who are liars, The public health people who
still have not admitted that they lied to the American
public through the entire COVID epidemic. You mean those public
health officials, you know, people like yourself. I posted something
on his blog, on his ex page, and I said

(01:28:03):
words to that effect. Do you mean like you The
science was never on your side, It still isn't on
your side, and you're still a liar? Outrage talking about
go back to the tennis court. Definitely good luck at Wimbledon,

(01:28:24):
but stay out of public health. He continued, He went
on a rant, and this is the indignant attitude of
the left when they're lying. Do you remember the old expression.
I believe it was Shakespeare who wrote, doth protesteth too much?
It's what happens when your kid gets caught and they

(01:28:46):
just go nuclear instead of just saying, yeah, mom, dad,
you're right, I was doing this.

Speaker 1 (01:28:52):
I was not. I was not, I didn't do that,
and they.

Speaker 2 (01:28:56):
Go all and it's like, uh, dude, do protesteth too much?
Your self righteous proclamation of innocence tells me you're guilty.

Speaker 1 (01:29:08):
That's this guy.

Speaker 2 (01:29:10):
What a loon, which stands for never mind. It's forty
seven minutes past the hour. It's the morning show. Okay,
I'm having a little laugh here.

Speaker 1 (01:29:28):
Sal Malily, the CEO for Hooters, says that they're vowing
to make the chain more family friendly.

Speaker 2 (01:29:42):
They're rolling the dice if they do, because if they
do that, they'll likely kill the reason why dudes love
going there, and it ain't for the wings.

Speaker 1 (01:29:57):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:29:58):
I've never walked into one of those places in all
my life because I'd be embarrassed. To now, I'd be
I would be like embarrassed, So good luck, sal.

Speaker 1 (01:30:11):
Whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:30:12):
Pat Dreimer said, the tradition get this began on her
fourteenth birthday in Indianapolis, when her friend, Mary Wheaton, gave
her a birthday card. She put her name back, she
signed it and sent it back to her friend for
her birthday a month later. They've been exchanging the same

(01:30:32):
birthday card for eighty one years. They set a record
in the sixtieth year of the tradition twenty one years
ago and have a place in the Guinness World Record
the longest Greetings card exchange. So they just send the
card back and forth to each other every year. Now

(01:30:57):
there's one other. I mean, I suppose it's like a
lot of things. It starts out being somewhat a joke,
then it becomes really serious, then it's like are they
really that cheap?

Speaker 1 (01:31:10):
And now it's like cool. It goes through these evolutions of.

Speaker 2 (01:31:15):
Whatever you want to however you want to describe it.
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Show one on WFLA. Started the day with Hebrews one, sorry,
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Speaker 2 (01:32:02):
Although I will tell you there is a rumor floating
around among the executive staff of The Morning Show that
there may be a future podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:32:12):
Called The day Starter. I'm just saying I've heard. I
don't know. We'll see tariffs, big stories in the press
box dominated by the tariffs. Scott Beston, Treasury Secretary, is
cautioning other nations, don't retaliate, just sit, let it settle

(01:32:33):
for a bit, respond, don't react. Elon Musk leaving the
Trump administration bah no. White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt said, no,
not going anywhere. He'll leave when he's done.

Speaker 2 (01:32:54):
Speaking of Elon Musk, he wants to live stream a
shot of the gold reserves at fortnite. Honestly, that'd be
a brilliant webcam that.

Speaker 1 (01:33:03):
You could just look at all the time. But would
you believe it. Would you believe it's real time or
would you believe they're just looping the one static shot
for thirty seconds and then looping it over and over.

Speaker 2 (01:33:19):
We talked about the connection between Judge Boisburg and Ray
Epps just saying there is one, and that's a little troubling.
Talked about the deep state, some examples of it, and no,
Chipotle's not going bankrupt.

Speaker 1 (01:33:37):
Everything's fine a Chipotle. So they'll get yourself a burritos
National Breeder Day. Talk to you tomorrow.