Ep. 5365: With peace on the horizon, can Trump end the Ukraine war?

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Thursday, April 24th.

Our guests today include:
- Steve Stewart
- Dr. David Hartz
- Dr. Ed Moore
- Kaelen Deese


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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:21):
And welcome friends, ruminators. Hopefully you're both. Thursday on the
Morning Show, he's Jose resplendent in his The Morning Show
with Preston Scott hat. Very limited edition. It's it's it's

(00:43):
just something my boss did out of the kindness of
his heart, and so it's we we don't give them
out very often every now and then because I I'm
wanted an embroidered one. Anyway, it's stamped because the logo

(01:06):
for the redesigned logo for the program is so detailed.
It's just really costly to do the hat the way
that I want it done. But you know, anyway, welcome
to the program. Let's get right to God's word and
this is this is about divisions in the church, but

(01:34):
it's it's also more. We're going into First Corinthians chapter three,
and Paul's addressing the jealousy and the strife among the church.
You know, someone says I follow Paul, someone says I
follow Apollos, and they're like, well, well, Paul's better than Apollos,

(01:56):
and no, Apollos is first and not. It's like Paul's saying, okay,
what then is Apollos? What is Paul servants through whom
you believed as the Lord assigned to each. I planted
Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he

(02:17):
who plants nor he who waters is anything but only
God who gives growth. But notice what Paul didn't say.
He didn't say neither is important. What good's watering if

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you have no seed? What good is seed if you
don't have water? He goes on to say in verse eight,
he who plants and he who waters are one. Each
will receive wages according to his labor. For we are

(03:02):
God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building. I
do what God convicted me to do years ago. I
start the show with scripture that may be watering for

(03:28):
some of you, that may be seed sewing for some
of you. I don't know. What I know is God's
word accomplishes something. It doesn't return void, It does something.

(03:48):
And God is just, by his Holy Spirit, He's just, oh,
he's just He's working on you. And maybe you're someone
who needs to be doing something in your circle. I
know that we are condo it, and that if you

(04:13):
don't allow God to fill you up and flow over
and out of you, and you just stop it up
and you just you just grab hold of that and
you just you bury it.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
It.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
Eventually, like a pool of water that doesn't have flow,
stagnates and gets like this, not very useful or productive.
Ponds have to have air raiders, or they have to
have flow. There has to be some kind of movement,
or a stagnant bo body of water is just dreadful.

(04:52):
And I really believe that that principle from nature reveals
God's nature, and that if we take that same type
of approach with God's word and we just hold on
to it, we don't do anything with it. We don't
allow it to have any movement or growth in our
life and flow out of us into the lives of
the people around us. We kind of smell it up,

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you know. Ten past the hour, one Corinthians three. That's
where we are this morning show with Preston Scott. Eleven

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minutes past the hour. Thick peek inside the Patriots Almanac.
It's the twenty fourth of April seventeen oh four. The
Boston news Letter, the first continuously published newspaper in British
North America, is published eighteen hundred. Library of Congress is

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established eighteen seventy seven, President Rutherford B. Hayes withdraws federal
troops from New Orleans, ending post Civil War military occupation
of the South. Eighteen ninety eight, Spain declares war in
the United States and what it's known as the Spanish
American War. You remember last month we started talking about

(06:24):
America at war, doctor ed Moore in our History Lesson
Today we continue and we pick up there, perhaps more
with the Spanish American War, but then the Great War,
because the Spanish American War really sort of put the
seeds in place for our involvement in the Great War,

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which would only be named World War One. When World
War Two started, it was called the Great War until
there was a second one. So yeah. Nineteen sixty two,
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology achieves the first coast to
coast satellite relay of a TV signal. How about that?

(07:09):
And in nineteen eighty, an attempt to rescue American hostages
in Iran fails. Eight soldiers die when a helicopter and
a transport plane collide in the desert. Still got to
watch the movie arg about that Iranian hostage crisis. It
has bad language, but it is oh soo worth watching.

(07:32):
Based on a true story, and the true story is nuts,
absolutely insane. How the United States Operative posing as a
Hollywood producer of a movie that they wanted to set

(07:53):
in Iran get some hostages out just a few? Is
that the one with Ben Affleck? It is? Oh, okay, Argo,
I gotta check that out. The movie is Argo, and
it is incredible. Great movie. Again, just it's got some

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rough language in it. All right, let's take a peek
here at the national day of for the twenty fourth
It is National Netcare Day. I think we overlook our
next Did you get it? That was good, wasn't it?

(08:34):
I just made that up. National bucket List Day, National
bucket List Day, National Teach Children to Save Day, that's yes.
If you give your kids money, make sure they learn
the art of saving. National Take our daughters and sons

(08:58):
to Work Day? Oh today's day? Huh? Well, all my
kids are adult and grown. I don't think they want
to take off work to come work. Come see dad work.
But that's sorry. And National Pigs in a Blanket Day. Now,
my wife will tell you that. Around our home every

(09:19):
day is National Pigs in a Blanket Day. And right
now my wife is having a very good laugh. You
have no idea pigs in a blanket. It's that's one
of those little dishes with the little mini hot dogs,
little sausages, and you can, you know, you can use

(09:41):
like a croissant dough and you just cut it down
so you get more out of it, Like an eight croissants,
you can turn into sixteen of these little mini guys.
They're incredibly fun to eat now, and then a regular
thing of those would just be annoying as all get out,
But those and you know what's fun. If you do

(10:04):
something like that, You need like a wide variety of mustards.
You need a spicy mustard, and you need a you know,
a honey mustard, and then you need a standard mustard.
And you just take like different dipping sauces and you
slatter it up on your your pig in a blanket,

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and it's so good, so good. All right, now, I'm hungry.
Seventeen minutes after the hour, we come back some other
possible picks for the next Pope.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
NFL draft tonights in green Bay, Wisconsin, home of my
beloved Packers, which sadly that town has turned into a
liberal cesspool, and it just sucks because Green Bay is
just it's the best franchise in professional sports.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
It's not even debatable. It has nothing to do with championships,
though it is called title town because there are teams
that have won more. But it's because it's the only
franch listen to this now. It's the only franchise in
professional sports owned by the people. There is no megabillionaire

(11:28):
owner that says, I'm just gonna move my team to
another city. No, no, that's not happening ever. In Green Bay.
It's owned by people. My children are owners, They own stock,
they have the right to go to a shareholders meeting
and vote. The owners put a president in place, and

(11:58):
the president runs the team and has paid well for that.
But it's it's charming. We never have to worry about
Green Bay moving and it's the smallest market in the NFL.
It's why the leagues don't allow this. I don't know,
allow people cities to own the teams through the people,

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not government people. Anyway, we had fun yesterday, well some
of us did, talking about who the potential candidates are
likely to be for the next pope of the Catholic Church,
making the argument there doesn't need to be one. I
stand by that I'll talk more about that later on

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this hour by sharing some of the mistakes made and
how grievous the papal leadership was. I mean, I have
to you have to learn to say things like people what. Anyway,
I came across yesterday the Babylon b has ten candidates

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for the Pope. Now, the Babylon Bee is, of course
the satirical outlet. It's brilliant because it comes at things
from a Christian perspective. But they take no prisoners. Everything's
fair game, including the Church, Christians, Mormons, Muslims, Republicans, Democrats, Trump, Biden, Obima.

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It doesn't matter. It's all fair game. But it's all satire.
So here are their top candidates for the next Pope.
Joe Biden, he checks all the boxes. He's in his eighties,
he's Catholic, and he has a history of making heretical statements.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He's sure to carry on Francis's fight

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for open borders around the world. Judge James Boisburg. He's
already declared himself President of the United States, so why not.
Pope Kamala Harris is on the list. She's unemployed and
she would always be eager to bless the wine. Jack Black,

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the actor the Church, is reportedly looking to capitalize on
the popularity of the Minecraft movie, but is demanding that
he keep his cartwheels to a minimum. Joel ostein If
you thought the Vatican was opulent before, you ain't seen
nothing yet. Jake the Catholic guy who lives down the street.

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He has some really unique ideas. And then finally their
final candidate is jd Vance the position it is rightfully
his after he defeated Francis in single combat. You can't

(15:13):
hear Moses over there. Busted it. It was his mic
on when something funny is sad. He's always he's laughing
where I can hear him, But you don't get to
You don't get to think anything's funny because his MIC's off.
I'm saving everybody. My laugh is hyenus, hyenas heenus. You

(15:37):
should hear him whistle. Oh my gosh. Every now and
then he'll whistle in church and I don't know what
it does for the people nearby, but I can tell
you dogs come running from five miles. It is the
absolute mother of all dog whistles. Twenty seven minutes past
the hour come back with the big stories in the

(15:58):
breast spot and this is the Preston Scott Show. You
all ready for this? Sorry, I couldn't resist. Third, that

(16:22):
was perfect. Thirty five I'm say such a child, I
really am all right, Big stories in the press box
thirty five past. Apparently Trump had a conniption yesterday over
Vladimir Zelenski's rejection of a proposal that would recognize Russian

(16:43):
control of Crimea as part of a piece deal.

Speaker 4 (16:47):
Zelensky, Ukraine will not legally recognize the occupation of Crimea.
There's nothing to talk about here. This is against our constitution.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
Okay. For his part, Trump had this to say in rebuttal,
and I thought it was fascinating. He posted on truth
Social that the perspective Zelenski has his quote very harmful
to peace negotiations with Russia in that Crimea was lost
years ago under the auspices of President Barack Obama. And

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he's not even a point of discussion. Nobody's asking Zelenski
to recognize crimeas Russia territory. But he wants. But if
he wants Crimea, why didn't he fight for it eleven
years ago when it was handed over to Russia without
a shot being fired. Well, you could argue Zelensky I

(17:45):
don't think was in charge then. But Trump went on
to post I have nothing to do with Russia, but
I have much to do with wanting to save on average,
five thousand Russia and Ukrainian soldiers a week who are
dying for no reason whatsoever. The statement made by Zelensky
today will do nothing but prolong the killing field. And

(18:05):
nobody wants that. We're close to a deal, but the
man has, with no cards to play, should now finally
get it done. I look forward to being able to
help Ukraine and Russia get out of this complete and
total mess that should have never started if I were president.
Of course, he says things like that, Donald, Donald, Donald,
stop it. There may be truths to the statement, but

(18:29):
at any rate, that's the update. I just thought it
was appropriate to give an update on what's going on
over there. And remember, I thought it was very, very
interesting what Peter Schweitzer said earlier this week, and if
you missed it Conversations podcast. In that conversation, Peter said, look,

(18:51):
part of the strategy that Trump is employing here is
to make sure Russia doesn't get any cozier to China.
He wants to end the war because the more the
war drags on, Russia becomes more closely attached to North

(19:11):
Korea and China. I didn't actually think about that. That
was a great point. And then the other big story
is just you've got to be kidding me. According to
the Telegraph, British media outlet, experiments to dim sunlight to

(19:35):
fight global warming will be given the green light green
light by the UK government within weeks. The Brits are
going to engage in outdoor geo engineering. Now what is that.
Here's how it's defined. The deliberate, large scale manipulation of
an environmental process that affects the Earth's climate in an

(19:58):
attempt to counter effect global warming. Oh please, So here's
what they're proposing. I'm not making this up. Stratospheric aerosol injection.
Airplanes release tiny aerosol particles that reflect light back to space.

(20:20):
Cirrus cloud thinning seating thin cirrus clouds in the upper
troposphere with ice nuclei, which could reduce the lifespan of
the clouds and increase cooling. And then marine cloud brightening

(20:41):
boats release aerosol particles that increase the reflectivity of low
lying clouds. In this article, it says what's the worst
that could happen? And then they circle back to eighteen sixteen,
which was described as the Year Without Summer, when a
volcano erupted, putting a cloud of ash into the sky

(21:02):
the size of Australia. It dropped global temperatures two to
seven degrees, devastated the world's summer crops across Europe and
the US due to cold, lack of sunshine, and torrential
rains came flooding the crops of Ireland. Cholera killed millions

(21:22):
in India. I mean, the list of problems go on
and on. Oh people, humans, forty one minutes past the hour,
they're going to do this the morning Shoe at Preston
Scott on news radio one hundred point seven WFLA. This

(21:56):
just made me shake my head. I don't I don't understand. Well,
I guess I do. How some Democrats believe that people

(22:16):
that are into our country illegally have the same rights
in the criminal justice system as citizens do. They have
human rights, So sorry about the threat there. They have
human rights, they don't have due process because they're here illegally.

(22:47):
I don't. I don't know why that's so difficult for
people to understand. And then you've got a case like
this guy whose name I can't even oscar ed Eduardo
or at Tega Anguiano drove drunk, high speeding one hundred

(23:11):
miles an hour on the four h five in Orange
County in November twenty twenty one, crashed into a car
driven by a young couple to nineteen year olds. They
burned a lot, they burned to death. They were alive,
and they burned to death. He was convicted of two

(23:33):
counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, and the California
government is going to release him after three and a
half years. So the United States Attorney for the Central
District of Florida pushed out, my office has filed a

(23:55):
felony immigration charge against this defendant. He faces up to
twenty years in federal p isn't if convicted for and
he listed the statute. If the State of California will
not seek the full measure of justice against this individual
the Department of Justice, Will Pambondi responded, this is absolutely unconscionable.

(24:17):
What about justice for the teenagers killed? What about the
rights of their parents. What I want to point out
here is that no matter what, California doesn't cooperate there.
It's a sanctuary state largely. So here's my bet. My

(24:39):
bet is they try to find a way to release
him before the Feds can get there. They'll make it
as difficult as possible for ICE agents to be waiting
outside the prison doors to arrest him. What is the
fascination that Democrats have now with MS thirteen trende Aragua

(25:04):
illegal immigrants. Do you notice how hard they're fighting for
these people. This isn't a human rights issue. This is
about protecting a voting block for them. And to heck
with the people that have been killed, the collateral damage

(25:30):
that's done, it doesn't matter. It's going to be interesting
to see how this story plays out. But just I mean,
I'm showing Jose the page faces of the young people
that were killed and burned alive in the car crash,

(25:57):
and all of this dovetails together with how are they
in this country buying booze, accessing a car because someone's
employing them. See, that's the part of the story that
no one's talking about employing illegals, illegally sustaining them to

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live illegally in this country by employing them. Forty seven
minutes past the out this morning show on news radio
one hundred point seven double USLA. It's so interesting that

(26:48):
this week I've spent quite a bit of time talking
about the Catholic Church, the Pope, the opportunity the church
has to reorganize itself around Jesus. What ful idea that is?
Oh my God, And it's not alone. You could make
that same argument out about a ton of Protestant denominations,

(27:13):
about a ton of churches claiming Christian status. But the
Catholic Church has organized itself around a person, somehow lifting
a person above Jesus to the point where they allow heresies.

(27:39):
And what's been interesting to me is how many comments
I've gotten via email from people that have thanked me
for being so direct about this, and I've not had
anybody be critical of it, which is great. I'm hoping
that those of you who are Catholic you likely agree
with me, and you're equally for frustrated. But I just

(28:05):
want to illustrate, to just underscore my claim of heresy.
I have here a story that goes back to May one,
twenty nineteen and an open letter to the College of
Bishops signed by more than fifteen hundred priests accusing Francis

(28:36):
of heresy, A twenty page letter detailing the heresies, Heresi's
false doctrine, wandering away from what the Bible teaches. I
just I share that because I've looked at it. Here

(28:58):
the story is from the nawtional Catholic Reporter, but I've
gone and looked at and read the letter. It's been
documented for years that Francis was a heretic. And again,
his place eternally is between he and God. I'm not

(29:20):
judging that. I am judging his ministry on Earth, his words,
his teachings, his leadership of the Catholic Church. And it
was bad. And so the question really comes, are you

(29:42):
going to go back to foundational scriptural doctrine or will
many paths lead to God? Jesus said just the opposite.
Why does the gate that leads to destruction narrow the
one that leads to eternal life? And it's only through

(30:02):
Christ period and religions that say, oh Jesus, good dude,
pretty good teacher, interesting guy, handy with a with a
saw and a chisel, could use a du wall power
tool really well, No, Son of God defeated death, Hell

(30:31):
in the Grave three and oh baby undefeated. He's not
just one of the guys. Ultimately, it's up to you
Catholics to decide based on what they choose and what
they do. What you'll do, you keep it afloat with
your money, So we'll see. We're gonna come back. Steve

(30:58):
Stewart's going to join us next. He of Tallasseie Reports
give you an update on what's going on locally with
Tallassee Memorial Hospital. A lot of interesting developments this week.

(31:22):
All right, it's the second hour, first day on the program.
Jose over there running the show and joining me in
studio is the executive editor of Tallahassee Report, Steve Stewart. Hello,
good morning, President, how are you good. Let's get right
to it. Big story this week TMH changing directions, asking
to withdraw some things. Let's unpack this whole story a

(31:44):
little bit more chronologically. Has been a big ten days,
so I guess a week ago this past Monday, TMH
had asked for a meeting with the city and FSU.
Very closely held meeting only about twelve to fifteen people.
Three from the city three or four from FSU five
or six from TMH to try to, you know, just

(32:04):
get together on some things.

Speaker 5 (32:05):
I think communication has been a huge issue here in
terms of getting on the same page.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
And remind everybody why the city's even in this mix, right.

Speaker 5 (32:12):
TMH owns the assets to the hospital down the land,
the city, the city, I'm sorry, and they have a
lease with the hospital and it's been ratified just basically
rubber stamped over the last twenty to thirty years. But
as we've talked, the healthcare industry has exploded over the last.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
Twenty twenty five years.

Speaker 5 (32:27):
Everybody sees the TMH footprint expanding, and if you look
at other locations, other cities, this is not unique to
Tyle hasse the transition from a public, community owned hospital
to a bigger operation. It's taken places in cities across
this country. It's just that we have been behind in
this and now it's sort of reached this point where
it has to be addressed. And as often happens here

(32:50):
in the capital city, things become about politics, and so
this meeting they had submitted TMH had submitted a governance
structure plan to the city which was very different than
what they were used to ratifying in terms of board members.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
They wanted to change the structure right, and so again
there was not a lot of discussion, and so people
offended each other.

Speaker 5 (33:11):
Big pr moved. Don't you know TEMMH is not for sale.
That is settled down to a real debate about look,
we got to deal with this to move this community
forward in the healthcare landscape. And so teammates had this
meeting last Monday to sort of air some issues, and
it was evidently a pretty tense meeting and there are

(33:31):
a number of frank discussions. And then on Wednesday at
the City commission meeting, city manageris Code, who was at
the meeting with the city attorney, sort of gave a
summary of the meeting to the city commissioners and really
highlighted the technical issues here, which involved, you know, the
city being sort of connected to a board that's in

(33:52):
charge of a of monitoring a hospital or running a
hospital in Panama City. Okay, because FSU is going to
build this hospital and lease it to TMH, So a
lot of new things to talk about parts and there
were some very good questions. However, leave it to Commission
Mattlow to interject politics into this. He had asked the

(34:14):
question about one of the sensitive topics that came up
into meeting. Commission Matlow was not at the meeting, and
he asked the question in a way to scold the
city manager ResCode.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
So somebody who was in the meeting fed.

Speaker 5 (34:27):
Information to Commissioner Matlow, and so we wrote an article
about this, and I think and we'll talk about the
broader issue.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
Of toomates also in the next segment.

Speaker 5 (34:37):
But this is important for our listeners in the community
to know Commissioner Malow will stop at nothing to politicize
and divide this community.

Speaker 1 (34:46):
I mean, we saw it with law enforcement.

Speaker 5 (34:48):
We've seen it with the Chamber of Commerce, We've seen
it with the blueprint. You know, it's the biggest sham
this community has created. And now here we are in
the middle of trying to get on the same page
with a very big issue from a economic standpoint, a
quality of life standpoint, and Commissioner Mattlow is getting fed
information from somebody an ally okay, to go after the

(35:09):
city manager who he's been trying to fire for the
last four or five years. So I think that's worth noting.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
Now.

Speaker 5 (35:16):
I think this is going to take care of itself
because it's been exposed. And the reason I think that
is because there's substance issues involved here, and so I
think it's bigger than the politics. And when you start
the discussion that Reese Goad had at the Wednesday meeting,
look the citizens, there's so many things. There's so much

(35:38):
misinformation they're talking about. You know, we want to keep
this as a community hospital. We don't want to sell it.
It's not a community hospital now, it's a not for profit,
but it's it's pretty much a private affair. I mean,
we don't have you can't get a lot of information
on a teamation. I'm not saying it's a bad thing,
but it's not owned by the city, the operations, just
the buildings. And so I think the idea that you know,

(36:01):
we don't want to sell it, what if you sell
the TMH, you know, to where it's a nonprofit and
then they have a they have a relationship with that
f shue. So anyway, Marco Bryant showed up at NIBA
and gave a very good a very good speech about
what things were going on on Tuesday, and I was there.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
We're going to talk about that next She left out
one area that Jeremy Mattlow divides. He just managed to
pull off the incredible and divide Democrats in a Democrat
run city. No, he has definitely all right, we got
more to come. Ten past the hour, eleven past the

(36:43):
hour where Steve Stewart, executive editor at Tellassi Reports subscribe
go to Tallassireports dot com. Uh, I don't want to
jump ahead of our listeners. Remind everybody. NIVA is an
acronym for Network of Entrepreneurs and Business Advocates.

Speaker 5 (36:55):
Been around for a long time, very very engaged group
and and you know, we it's something that we need
you know, started years in the nineties because of the North,
because of the expansion of capital circle.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
It's crazy how you know, you look at the history.
But it would be fair to say that this is
maybe an aspect that the Tellaso Chamber needs to look
at as being more not not so connected, but questioning.

Speaker 5 (37:20):
Yeah, and I think that they, you know, over the years,
the relationship has developed between the two the two chambers,
so it's not a it's not a contentious relationship, but
they could do some things that the Chamber doesn't do.
And so anyway, and this was a perfect example. I mean,
over one hundred and twenty people showed up to hear
you know, CEO Mark O'Bryant talk about, you know, this issue,

(37:40):
and this was not the normal you know, debate of questions.
They did have some questions the end, but he was
given the Florida to sort of explain what was going on.
Gave a good history lesson about TMH and how it's
grown and where it came from. But when it got
down to the nuts and bolts, he you know, he
talked about some of the things that we have talked
about here. You know, I've done research to look at

(38:01):
what is going on in other communities. And he brought
up the relationship between Tampa General Hospital and University of
South Florida as a model, and we have talked about
it and it's long standing, long standing. You know, they
forged their first agreement with the US Medical School in
nineteen seventy. Tampa General Hospital was created by the City
of Tampa, but it was soon turned over to Hillsborough

(38:25):
County and now it's run as a private nonprofit by
a volunteer board and they have deep relationships with the
University of South Florida.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
Universe Salth Florida doesn't own the hospital.

Speaker 5 (38:38):
In addition, which is really ironic, is that Tampa General
is now looking at the group that runs that of
opening a hospital in a neighboring county. So what's going on?
You know, we act like we're special and this is
such a you know, oh, this is a major issue.
This has been replicated in communities across the country and
so there's an easy formula. There's an easy way to

(38:59):
do this. When I say easy, it's been done. You
got to get everybody on the same page. But we
haven't done that. We haven't educated.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
It's been all about politics.

Speaker 5 (39:08):
Oh you know, TMH is not for sale or you know,
Mayor John Daly's working with FSU to you know, for
a hostile takeover that's not needed. This is where we
have finally reached a point to where we have to
transition to a different model of how how healthcare is
governed in our community and to you know, and it's
everybody's got their little silos and they've got their little

(39:31):
relationships that they've had for a long time and it
has to change. And it's more difficult in the community
like Tallahassee because these relationships are so embedded. But are
they financial. They can be, they're financial, they're political, and
so you know, and what happens is those those come
out when you start trying to rearrange things. And so

(39:53):
I think the name calling needs to stop, which I
think it is. I think Commission Mattlow needs to quit
trying to use this as a you know, he just
announced he's from mayors. I mean, he's to stop this
and just look at what's best for the community. And
the first thing to do is look and see what
other cities are doing, which Mark O'Brien did a really
good job of pointing out he did not come across
as someone who was, you know, adamant that TEAMHS remain

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in control of everything. He understands that there's going to
be a role for FSU, and I think he also
understands that the level of oversight is going to increase
because what the city has done and I lay this
at the feet of the city, no individuals, but just
the structure.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
They have rubber.

Speaker 5 (40:33):
Stamped everything TMH has done for the last twenty to
thirty years, and so that's going to come to an end.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
Well, it requires an investment of time to understand and
know better the operation, and I would argue that they
probably think they don't have that right.

Speaker 5 (40:48):
And I think now is the opportunity for the city
to get out of the business of hospital and then
let this transition and so we can continue to move
forward and you know, do things that really help out
the community and put us.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
On the map for the right reasons. Maybe gain some
momentum for getting out of the business of say running
a utility or maybe an airport or something like that.
One thing at a time. President Okay sixteen passed the hour.
More to come with Steve Stewart of Tallahassee Reports, twenty

(41:29):
one past the hour, a few more minutes with Steve Stewart,
executive editor at Tallahassee Reports, and again subscribe, get the paper,
Tellassi Reports dot com. More importantly, subscribe because you support
independent journalism. And I wanted to mention this. We had
turned the comments off.

Speaker 5 (41:45):
On stories, yeah, because the election season, which just the jerks,
and you know, there are anonymous comments, which I understand,
which I like because we the people that follow the.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
Rules and do the things you're supposed to do. It's
very good interaction.

Speaker 5 (42:00):
Sure, but we had during the election season, people going
in there, you know obviously and just making wild accusations,
which I don't like. You know, I'm not going to say, well,
you know, you just have to fend for yourself. And
so we we delete comments that violate the rules we
got so we figured we were going to just sort
of you know, take them down for a while, but
we're going to start them back up because we've had

(42:21):
some comment you know, people that followed Talents Reports and
their regular commenters, and they provide a lot of insight
and sometimes we get really good tips from these comments.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
Sure, so we're gonna slowly bring.

Speaker 5 (42:30):
It back out, and so wanted to get that out
there so that you know, people can engage again.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
There's a video floating around. I have not seen it,
but I certainly know the story because we covered it
here on the show, and that is of a local
student assaulting a teacher at Leon High School. Yeah. I mean,
look this there's the issue of them. It's a real assault.
It's a real assault.

Speaker 5 (42:52):
When I when it came across and you see that
the student is arrested. They do everything not to arrest students,
you know, because you show up and it's it's in
a it's in a you know, Leon County school district.
Once you get arrested, you've you've crossed some lines here.
There's i mean usually weapons are one right, sure, and
then an assault if you if there's no weapon involved here.

(43:17):
So when you say that someone is arrested for an assault,
I mean there are fights in schools all the time
that people don't get arrested. But when you see that,
that really raises the bar here. And so I have
not seen the video. I've heard the video described to
me is pretty pretty violent. A student attacking a teacher
for the teacher asking him to give up his drink

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and his cell.

Speaker 1 (43:37):
Phone because he was on his phone in the class,
which you know, gets to both their district violation.

Speaker 5 (43:42):
District violations, but he gets hold this whole cell phone thing.
And I've been on the bandwagon of look, they just
need to cell phones need to be disallowed in school
period yep. And Virginia just passed the law. They're going
to do it.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
They've been doing an Orange County in Florida.

Speaker 5 (43:54):
And I'm not talking about putting it in a basket
when you come into the classroom, because that never works.
It's just that they're not allowed on campus. You can
bring them in your book bag and you can go
to the office if you need to.

Speaker 1 (44:03):
Make a phone call.

Speaker 5 (44:04):
But anyway, so, but this issue, and we've had the
tragedy at FSU last week since we've been on the air,
but it got me. You start reading obviously the news
and the perspectives, and it just frustrates me. And you know,
this is obviously parbatly my opinion, but it's driven by facts.
What we don't talk about is the root cause of

(44:26):
violent crime. And I don't, you know, I'm not sure.
I maybe you can help why we don't talk about it.
But the fall those homes in the destruction of the family,
the family structure is you know, if you look at
the stats, they're overwhelming that you can't turn away. I mean,
eighty percent of rapes are committed by people that come

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from fallo those homes. Seventy five percent of all juveniles
that are you know, confined because of crime come from
broken homes. And we don't even talk about it. Now,
I get it, I'm sixty two years old. These seeds
were planted back in the eighties seventies, and but that
is the issue, and we hear people when we have

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these these tragedies, it's about you know, it's about the laws,
and it really isn't. If you go look at the stats,
you can see what the problem is. Now, what is
the answer? Again, We've lived with this for thirty or
four years, and we hear these stats thrown out. Well,
you know, the United States is number one in the
number of guns, you know, in the people own.

Speaker 1 (45:30):
Yeah, it's because we got the Second Amendment next right.

Speaker 5 (45:33):
Next, and so but we're thirty we're thirty ninth on
two person households, thirty ninth, the most developed country in
the world and we're thirty ninth. We're broken in this area,
and nobody wants to talk about it. And you know,
and I hear, you know, I listen to the school
board meetings and they talk about Title I schools, all right,

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and they just talk about.

Speaker 1 (45:55):
The money that they're trying to get for.

Speaker 5 (45:57):
Title one schools. Title one schools have been tied to
one schools. Since they were tied to one schools, there's
been no movement. And so do you think maybe get
off the list?

Speaker 1 (46:06):
Very often? Do you think that maybe money isn't the issue,
but nobody will talk about it. I can't say nobody, well,
no he doesn't. No, I've been look Steve, it's to
me it's low hanging fruit because the reality is we've
talked about it on this program for years. The fatherless
homes in this country are driving a tremendous amount of

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the problems.

Speaker 5 (46:29):
And when I say nobody will talk about it, I'm
talking about elected leaders absolutely, and they don't. And even
the ones that understand it's a problem are afraid to
talk about it because they know it's they're going to
get the you know, they're gonna get to look like, hey,
we can't go there.

Speaker 6 (46:42):
You know.

Speaker 1 (46:42):
Now, now, to his credit, well McNeil, the county sheriff,
has has identified the problem. He has identified it and
even wrote it down.

Speaker 5 (46:49):
Yes, okay, but even when you do that, it seems like,
again we're the only ones that really pull that out
of there. And you know this cuts in this, you know,
so I know people are listening now, they're probably talking
and putting this in a race format.

Speaker 1 (47:01):
This cuts across race, sure does. Look you go look
at the stats.

Speaker 5 (47:05):
Fifty percent of African American homes, okay, fatherless or single parent.
The number for whites is twenty percent, and so it's
not a low number. And so this is an issue,
and it's it's something I'm going to continue to talk
about and use stats. I like opinions based on facts
so that we can sort of get into this debate.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
But the fact none of.

Speaker 5 (47:25):
Our elected leaders will take this and say, look, we
have got to address this. I think that is a
bigger problem than anything we're dealing with.

Speaker 1 (47:33):
Get it. We are a we are a culture. Whether
it's medicine, whether it's societal problems. We deal with symptoms.
We don't like going to causes. That's right.

Speaker 5 (47:43):
Were in other words, Children's Service Council is given money
to help with childcare, right because symptoms, symptoms, what's the problem?

Speaker 1 (47:52):
Well one of them? And I'll go ahead and throw
you a bone. No fault divorce, right, We make it
easy to dissolve a family, exactly.

Speaker 5 (48:01):
And and now we've gotten to the point where they
don't even you don't even get married.

Speaker 1 (48:04):
And you got and so it's it's a.

Speaker 5 (48:08):
But you know, and it's not from a moral perspective,
it's not from a religious perspective. We may talk about
it that way and feel about it that way, but practicality.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
Just look at it. Yeah, numbers don't lie. Yeah, thanks,
thank you. Steve Stewart would Tellassi Reports, tell Ussireports dot
com argument yesterday, United States Supreme Court. It is a

(48:40):
very important case to the nation. It is it has
to do with parents in their rights. It's mockmod versus
Taylor and parents being shut out of the process of
opting their kids out of material that's questionable to their faith,
to their their beliefs. And we will talk to a

(49:02):
reporter that was there from the Washington Examiner next hour.
Also next hour, we have doctor Ed Moore a little
more history talking America at War, big stories in the
press box. President Trump blowing up on Zelensky, Zelenski is

(49:24):
Zelenski seems to want to just prolong this war. I
don't know. If he's just kind of enjoying the chaos
that comes from it that keeps him in power and
not having the need to run any kind of elections.
I don't know. But Trump is trying to get this

(49:46):
war over because the longer the war drags on, the
closer Russia becomes to China. That is one of the
reasons that was made very clear in our conversation with
Peter Schweitz earlier this week, and it's something I had
not considered. Russia's already using troops from North Korea. They
have been nearly a year now.

Speaker 6 (50:07):
I think.

Speaker 1 (50:11):
Trump's point to Zelensky is, why are you sweating over CRIMEA.
No one was sweating over it eleven years ago when
it was handed over to him without a shot being fired.
That happened under Obama. You've got to remember the administration
as in the Obiden administration's position on Ukraine was largely

(50:34):
fueled by Joe getting money, lots and lots of money
from Ukraine illegally. He was getting payouts. He bragged about it,
and don't give it Old Preston he no. I've played
it over and over and over. We're not Russia's friends,

(51:04):
but this is about a game of chess, not checkers.
We finally are on the chess board and Russia, as
this war drags on, it's exhausting its resources and a
relationship with China becomes more and more important to Russia.

(51:24):
The second big story is Brits are I golly, I
can't believe that we have people this dumb. The Brits
are going to try to dim the sun to fight
climate change. What are they thinking? No, it's a three

(51:48):
part process that, according to the Telegraph, the government's going
to approve in the next couple of weeks to actually
try to lower the temperature by seating clouds and creating
reflective qualities to the clouds that come over England. You

(52:12):
ever been over there? Everybody I've ever talked to is like, hey,
it was sonny. I was shocked because it's rainy and
drizzly and cloudy and damp and dreary almost all the
stink and time, and so they want to make it
worse and it's all because of this stupidity known as

(52:35):
global warming. Forty one minutes after the hour, Doctor David
Hart's standing by next on The Morning Show with Preston Scott,
all right, forty two minutes past the hour, try to
get to the source of issues as opposed to I

(52:56):
was talking to Steve Stewart. We are a band aid society.
Let's treat the samptoms. Let's put a band aid on things.
And this segment's about drilling down the causes, joining us
Doctor David Hart's Optimum Health Naturally and doctor Hertz. If
the subject is anxiety. I think nearly all people believe
that anxiety is strictly a symptom of something that's going

(53:19):
on in our brain, what's going on in our life
that we're wrestling with in our brain.

Speaker 6 (53:27):
Rest then that's true, and I think most of us
think that it's coming from our brain, or it's coming
from an outside source. And certainly a lot of our
anxiety can come from those places and can actually come
a little bit from the brain. But what most people
don't realize is it can actually come from the body
itself and also from things that are coming in from
the outside that we don't realize that can be affecting this.

(53:50):
And there's been a lot of research and concern about
even a couple of substances that are coming into us
that can be affecting this as Also, we have certain
types of neuro transmitters that work on our brain, and
one of them is called glutamate, which has been looked
at really recently as a source of some of this

(54:11):
anxiety and even panic attacks. It's a normal neurotransmitter that
actually is an acyto transmitter. It actually stimulates the connection
between neurons in the brain, and we need it. We
need it, and it's very important we don't have enough
of it, then you can have all kinds of problems
include including Alzheimer's and dementia. And when you get too

(54:34):
much of it, it can cause all kinds of problems
like fibromyalgia, really low sensitivity to pain, anxiety, panic attacks.
And unfortunately, there's some things that we can get from
the outside that can affect that, things like monosodium gluemate
in our food. It's monoesotam glue mate, all right, it's

(54:54):
it's a form of glutamate, and when it's eaten it
can cause increased amounts of excited neurotransmitters and it can
really drive us nuts. And I tell you what, when
you get this going in your body, you want to
climb out of your body because it's not anything very fun.
And so also there's a balance because this glutamate is

(55:15):
supposed to turn into something called GABA ga b A,
which is a neurotransmitter that's kind of the happy, happy
one that makes you feel good, it calms you down.
And when that doesn't get gets converted, then all of
a sudden we end up with too much glutamate, not
a happy one. And so there's this balance that goes on,

(55:37):
and it's really amazing how much things in our body
and throughout our body can affect this, especially like even
one thing that really researching recently is a vitamin B
six deficiency. Plane old vitamin B six can be something
that can really decrease this conversion. And also you know
places that we're getting it from the outside. Like I said,

(55:59):
all of a suddenly glutamate and also sometimes amino acid efficiency.
So the bottom line on this, if you want to
try to see if this is a process that is
affecting you is I would get and be sure that
your B vitamins are high to be sure you take those,
especially B six. Also try to increase your protein intake

(56:20):
a lot of times, which we need to. We need
to increase vegetables and especially good vegetables ones that are
organic and not once that have a lot of pest
size in them, and that's important, but getting good protein
and even sometimes they're doing some research on doing high
protein diets, actually increasing meat if you can afford it,
and increasing meat and decreasing carbs. Some of these folks,

(56:44):
because there are certain amino acids that are not being
utilized or even have an intake at a sufficient amount
that are affecting this conversion of these brain chemicals. So
if you want to try that, you can try a
month and maybe increasing protein and even meat and you
want to get pasteurized you know, pasturise type of meat.

(57:07):
And when no low hormone type meat, you don't want to,
you got to. It costs a little bit of money.
Try that, increase your B vitamins and see if it
if it affects your overall you know, anxiety, and it's amazing.
Some of the research says it made very well.

Speaker 1 (57:22):
Help. I will add one thing to your notable list,
and that is check out how much monosodium glutamate or
MSG is in the things that you buy at the store,
because David I learned years ago it is in Yeah,
all kinds of things.

Speaker 6 (57:39):
You're you're exactly correct, and then taking up probotic wouldn't
be bad too, because of course the gut affects all this too.
But that's exactly right, Preston. It's in everything, and I
guess we're finding it out more and more. But you
need to read everything before you eat it and stay
away from the stuff. It's got things you don't if
you can't understand what it says.

Speaker 1 (57:56):
That don't eat it. Thank you, David. I appreciate your time,
my friend.

Speaker 6 (58:01):
Okay, have a great day. Press.

Speaker 1 (58:02):
Thank you, Sarah. Doctor David Hart's with us. No, seriously,
salad dressings soups. There's there's only one soup brand out there.
I talk about it well, Progresso does not have MSG.
Campbell's It's in almost every soup that they make. I mean,
salad dressings. Good luck finding salad dressings without MSG. You
can find them, but you have to look. Forty eight

(58:24):
minutes past the hour, let's pack up the corn of Stoga,
gather all the children, and go. It's time to head

(58:47):
out on another road trip. Here on the morning show.
How you doing, friends, Yeah, we're here to offer you
some thoughts. If you're gonna make some driving trips, we'll
get closer again. But I'm going through some road trip ideas,
and we've been moving up the east coast. Now we're

(59:09):
going to go back to the central part of the
country and move past Ohio into Michigan. And I know
for those of you that are Ohio and Michiganders, that's painful.
It is very, very painful for you. To hear your
names side by side like that because you don't like
each other. Ohians and Michiganders. Now there's some that are

(59:33):
great friends, I'm sure. But yeah. Anyway, driving through Michigan,
you cannot help but appreciate Lake Michigan, the third largest
of the five Great Lakes. From the coast of the
Lower Peninsula, starting in Grand Rapids, take Route thirty one,

(59:54):
about one hundred and seventy five miles of Wow, it's
just pretty massive sand dunes. We're talking about sand dunes
that are four hundred and fifty feet above the water.
That's exactly right. The views of the lake dominate. And
and oh, by the way, let me tell you something

(01:00:15):
I have I have taken. I have piloted a boat
in the Gulf of America. I have piloted a boat
Lake Michigan. Give me the ocean any day of the week.

(01:00:35):
I kid you not. It was a relatively calm day.
But the swales in the in the in the ocean
compare like, I would rather be in the ocean than
on a lake, one of the big lakes. And it
explains why it That has nothing to do with the

(01:00:57):
road trip. I get that, but it it's just those
lakes are incredibly large. They're just there's expansive. But the
waterway between the Upper and Lower Peninsulas is just terrific.
And if you have time, what you do is you
take a ferry to Mackinac Island. It is a little

(01:01:23):
island town, completely free of cars and chain businesses. It's
just a little quaint town and it's worth a stop.
Just saying now, you can also, obviously, if you're in Michigan,
there's lots of other things to see and do. You

(01:01:43):
can go to the Michigan dot org website and Pure
Michigan has got a great list of drives that you
can make all over the state, Upper and Lower Peninsula.
But if you're if you're driving around the country, make
a point of stopping by and making a trip up
that out thirty one and check out the the great

(01:02:05):
Lake of Lake Michigan. All right, we're gonna come back.
Doctor Edmore joins us Next America at War on the
Morning Show with Preston Scott. And so we begin how

(01:02:30):
our number three morning Ruminators. Welcome Morning Show with Preston Scotti. Osey,
I'm Preston and this is doctor Edmore Time for a
little more history. How are you from I'm great. Yeah,
it couldn't be better. Good. Yeah, I warned everybody, we
were surprised. Well, I just never am quite sure. You've
been the bionic man of late. You've been You've been

(01:02:52):
going through a.

Speaker 7 (01:02:52):
Lot that doladders.

Speaker 1 (01:02:55):
But you're feeling better. Yes, oh yeah, awesome. Yeah. We
were talking, like last time we visited, about the Spanish
American War, and let's kind of pick up where we
left off.

Speaker 7 (01:03:06):
Yeah. The interesting thing to me about that phase of
history is if you go back into I mean, it
was the end of the eighteen hundred, so the end
of the nineteenth century, what did the world look like then?
And there were still monarchies all over the place and
countries that people perceived as powerful and having influence and whatever,
and we really weren't one of them. We were a

(01:03:28):
giant market. The United States was a giant market that emerged,
and my view emerged from the Spanish American War. As
we're here now, hello, look at us.

Speaker 1 (01:03:38):
There's still a lot of remnant of the post Civil
War America at this point, right.

Speaker 7 (01:03:43):
Sure, yeah, I mean, and it still is today. So sure,
with regional differences and whatever, but the Industrial Revolution was
taking place, or had been taking place. We had goods
to manufacture, we needed stuff from overseas. So all of
a sudden had been a world power for centuries. They
were not anymore. Uh, here's the United States like, well

(01:04:06):
what do we do? And so it's about a decade
right up to World War One where we were trying
to figure out what's our role on the world stage.

Speaker 1 (01:04:16):
Were we like a big kid that didn't know how
strong he was?

Speaker 7 (01:04:18):
Yeah, basically, I mean I forget who said it in
history about when when Japan bomb Pearl harder? But we
fear that.

Speaker 1 (01:04:25):
We've awakened the sleeping giant.

Speaker 7 (01:04:28):
Yeah, and that's how that probably right up to World
War two, not just World War One. During that time frame,
we were feeling our outs, trying to figure out what
is our role and we weren't trying to police you
or bureau had always been a mess. I mean it's
always been a mess. They were all fighting with each
other all the time, and preparing for this, I went

(01:04:48):
back and looked at said how many times did England
and France go to war against each other? You lose
count and when you when you if you google that
and you look, it's it's uh, you know, the had
one hundred years war they had, I mean truly, and
then like in the thirteen hundreds, but every third year
France and England were back at war.

Speaker 1 (01:05:09):
Isn't that what though? Informed our founders all of that
turmoil of Europe.

Speaker 7 (01:05:13):
Yeah, well and people leaving it going, yeah, we got
to get the heck out of here. And so when
you look at that time frame, right around nineteen hundred
that they are different countries that you wouldn't identify as
today as really having much influent in Bulgaria and Italy
and its world powers, well you know, the Austro Austro

(01:05:34):
Hungary monarchy and Germany. There's Germany, and Germany is sitting
there watching all of this go on, right and figuring, hey,
we can leverage some of this. So you had some
crazy alliances that started being formed during this time frame.
And there's eight or ten things we can run through
in the next segment of what led to World War One?

(01:05:57):
Why did this become a kind of a worldwide battle?
Not so much in the East. Japan was a little
bit involved in it because Japan and Russia had been
at war. I mean, it's you know, there's all these
little wars going on all over the world. It's an
interesting time frame to study, and very little of it

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is studied. I mean, if I asked you what caused
what started World War One, you would probably say arts
Duke Ferdinand getting assassinated. No.

Speaker 1 (01:06:26):
I would not have said that.

Speaker 7 (01:06:27):
Okay, well most that's what they teach you it was.

Speaker 1 (01:06:30):
I would have sat here with a very silly look
on my face, going, I have no idea.

Speaker 7 (01:06:34):
You have no idea. You know, I actually had the
privilege to. I did some work in Bosnia after after
that war, you know, between Bosnia and Croatia and Serbia
major war.

Speaker 6 (01:06:49):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (01:06:49):
But while I was in Sarajevo, I went and stood
on the bridge. There's a bridge right there in Sarajevo,
across the small one across this little river where the
arts to actually was assassinated right on this bridge by
by six Serbian Bosnians. Princip I think was the main
guy that actually shot him, and that triggered that gave

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Austria Hungary the opportunity to invade Serbia because they blamed
Serbia for the assassination that took place in Bosnia. It's
this is how complex all this stuff, but he gave
they wanted to do it anyway. Well, when they invaded Serbia,
that was the last trigger for the beginning of World
War One.

Speaker 1 (01:07:32):
Where I'm packing it. This Morning with Doctor Ed Moore
a cleverly entitled segment called more History here on the
Morning Show with Preston Scott, Doctor Ed Moore said, when

(01:07:53):
he grabbed a bottle of water out of my fridge,
he said, I'm only gonna open it if I need it.
We're one segment in any grabs of water, one segment
in one it's medication.

Speaker 7 (01:08:05):
I'm honest, it makes me thirsty.

Speaker 1 (01:08:09):
We're talking about that time frame between the Spanish American War.
Give us a context from an age perspective. What year
are we talking here?

Speaker 7 (01:08:17):
From eighteen ninety eight to nineteen fourteen. We really didn't
get involved in the First World War until seventeen eighteen.

Speaker 1 (01:08:25):
Were we dragged in pretty much? Yeah, So let's talk
about the events that got us there.

Speaker 7 (01:08:30):
Well, it's a whole bunch of them. There was the
Franco Prussian War. You think of the powers that be
at that time, Russia, this is pre revolution Russia was
the bizarre running stuff, very poor country, ad country, a
lot of people starving, but they still wanted to project
themselves as a world power. England and France had been

(01:08:54):
and not great alliances. But here comes this up to
start Germany and Austria Hungary, this triumvirate. There of folks
that are much more militant. The result of around eighteen
ninety or so, maybe is eighteen seventy, that group, the

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Austria Hungary Empire, took al Saise Lorraine from France in
another small, small war. There were no kinds of small
wars going on at the end of the annexing two
big regions of France that were big for industry and
industrial development. And so Germany and with their allies, looked

(01:09:40):
at this and that we're going to grow. And we
started growing a bigger military and getting more militant. Russia
was sort of floating around there by themselves. The growth
of Germany made Russia go, we need some better allies
because they had actually been at war in the Franco
Prussian War, had been at war with Prussia what was

(01:10:02):
called Prussia, which is really Germany Austria Hungary. So Russia said, well,
we'll ally with France and then France and England had
reached sort of a datant and they were together, so
the three of them became the Western Powers, and then
other little countries joined them. And then on the east side,
ye had Italy trying to figure out what it wants

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to do.

Speaker 1 (01:10:24):
You had this.

Speaker 7 (01:10:25):
Group really wanting to so many wars that they get
jumbled in your head. Russia actually went to war with Japan,
got their butts kicked, lost most of their fleet came back,
so then they're looking for something to do. Germany's looking
for something to do. Nobody trusts anyway, And mentally I
went back to try to figure out why why are

(01:10:47):
there wars? Why have we had all these wars all
the time? And I come up with four reasons. Basically,
one is man being man. We're just inclined to do
stupid things. You know, that's easy, no argument. Greed and coveting.
Then your neighbour's assets, whether it's just pure land.

Speaker 1 (01:11:07):
Or see previous statement on man on man.

Speaker 7 (01:11:10):
There you go, hurt feelings. They actually came up with
a French term for this. It's called ravancism, which is basically,
in a translation, means revenge. But somebody does something you
might have a little battle or something going on during
this time frame, and I remember wars. Then they could have
a war and it didn't threaten the rest of the world.

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It just didn't. And the last is access to transportation.

Speaker 1 (01:11:37):
And materials resources.

Speaker 7 (01:11:39):
What we're seeing now with Russia and the Ukraine. The
next crimea. They want access to the sea, those kinds
of things. So it's not always understandable as to why
countries go to the war. Like I said before, the
trigger and the ultimate trigger in World War One was
Austria Hungary invading Serbia because they thought Serbia had something

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to do with their air arch Snooke Ferdinand being assassinated.
Think of the world during that time frame, there was
lots of little monarchies all over. They weren't all democracies.
One of the benefits of World War One that occurred
was all those monarchies pretty much got tossed to the side,
and really did. And you know, you had the Russian

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to Russian revolutions during that time frame, but the rest
of the world went more democratic. They had elected parliaments
and the world got more stable. Tried to create the
League of Nations after that then quite work, But then
the United nations came out of that that was needed
at the time. Not so good.

Speaker 1 (01:12:44):
Now, that's a great way of putting it. More with
Doctor Ed Moore. Next on the Morning Show with President
Scott Back with Doctor Ed mooreenty two minutes past the hour.

(01:13:11):
Time flies when you're having fun. Here we are the
final segment. Already I haven't.

Speaker 7 (01:13:14):
Gotten past my first page of thought here.

Speaker 1 (01:13:17):
When do you ever we are not going to cover
World War One today. We're dealing with the time frame
and the events leading to it. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:13:26):
Well, if you think of those four points I made
before too, and then think of the map of the
globe Africa for example, Well, all of those monarchies and
they were all had gone aground the world and taken land.
We were off the air. We're talking about how the
US really never was that way.

Speaker 1 (01:13:46):
We didn't.

Speaker 7 (01:13:47):
We had our land, we didn't have to go get us.
But all these countries that are kind of landlocked or small,
I mean the Dutch and the French and the English.
They Africa was split up. Yeah, well then they started fighting.
Is also led to the they had a Moroccan crisis,
in a North African crisis during this fourteen years or so,

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where Germany would poke France and their little territory and
they'd have these little minor battles and skirmishes, but it
just kept adding to the temperature. The temperature slowly, slowly
kept rising. There was a Bosnian annexation crisis. I did
work in Bosnian. It's an interesting place. In the nineties, Bosnia, Serbia,

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and Croatia were all at war with each other. You know,
still in the nineteen nineties, go back one hundred years,
they were all fighting. Serbians have always been very militant,
always wanted to be bigger than they were. Austria Hungary
didn't like that. They feared a Balkan nation being formed
back during this time for it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:55):
When you say Austria Hungary, is Germany part of that.

Speaker 7 (01:14:58):
Part of it? Okay, yeah, but it's the Empire when
they would call the empire, those three countries or three areas,
three monarchies, and the Bismarck and all of that group
from out of Germany. Kaiser Wilhelm he emerged. Bismarck was
more of a reputation as that, but he was more
of a diplomat figuring out Wilhelm wasn't. He was very aggressive.

(01:15:21):
He wanted Germany to become the Joe Biden knew him.
I think he worked for him, I went or actually
he was on the payroll.

Speaker 1 (01:15:29):
Anyway.

Speaker 7 (01:15:31):
They they feared the development of a Balkan state that
would have been all of these areas put together, plus
Macedonia which is in Albania, these countries that are all
in that giant peninsula. So there was that fear going
on and coveting their neighbors, goods and land. I mean,
so you had that going on. You had an Italian

(01:15:53):
war with Turkey that that part mesopotam what used to
be Mesopotamian, the Bible studies and all I meanvided up.
Turkey wanted to be a world power and actually Britain
invaded Turkey. Was it Gallopy or the big battle there
where they got their butts kicked. Mel Gibson made a

(01:16:14):
movie about it and as a soldier from Australia going
to fight in Turkey. Turkey pushed them back, but then
Turkey got weakened. Then somebody else attacked him him. This
is going on all the time during this time frame.
The biggest business to be in during that time frame
was munitions, because somebody was always at war and you
were going to do well. So then you had the

(01:16:36):
Balkan Wars. After the Italian Turkish War. Think of all.
Think of the map of Europe and Eastern Europe, and
there's always some flame going on somewhere all around there,
all coming down to the Archduke Ferdinand and his wife.
I think Sophie traveling in a car in Sarajevo, driving

(01:16:58):
across the bridge and banned got assassinated. Sometimes all it
takes is that one giant explosion that happened that causes a.

Speaker 1 (01:17:08):
Bigger and that was a spark.

Speaker 7 (01:17:11):
Yeah, the assassination was used as leverage to get into war.
In battle the United States set back of World War
One started in nineteen fourteen. My grandfather out of Gainesville, Florida.
They pulled people together. Nineteen seventeen, he went in the
army and went to France. And there was the old saying,

(01:17:33):
how are you going to keep him down on the
farm after they've seen Perri. Well, my grandpa did that
out of a small southern family, went to France and
didn't really come back till he retired to Florida. Because
he came he saw the big world and went to
New York and went in business. And that's what changed
the nature of the United States. When we were sending

(01:17:54):
people had never been to Europe. I mean, it wouldn't travel.
You didn't jump on the boat plane. Now we've been there,
we've done that. It changed the nature of interesting expectations.
What people came back wanting to do and where they
wanted to go. And my pop with and my uncle Rufus,
they were two of those. They went and did that
and then came back and never came back to Florida

(01:18:17):
until much much later because there was opportunity and that
go ahead.

Speaker 1 (01:18:24):
Oh, I was just thinking, I'm looking at the clock
as well. Time always goes real fast. Thanks for the time.
No good to be here. We'll be back next month
and we'll pick up with World War One.

Speaker 7 (01:18:35):
And we'll talk about the alliances that formed and who
fought on which side.

Speaker 1 (01:18:39):
Which was then known as the Great War. We didn't
number it until we had the second one.

Speaker 7 (01:18:43):
It was, you know, they liked to call it the
War to end all wars, but it actually started in
a much bigger one. And we talked about the Spanish
flu in this era of COVID killed probably fifty million
people around the world, and World War One.

Speaker 1 (01:18:56):
Was a big cause of that. Doctor edmore with Us
twenty eight past the hour.

Speaker 2 (01:19:08):
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. I can't say
I'm entirely surprised that.

Speaker 1 (01:19:28):
We're just now hooking up with our next guest a
little late into the segments, so we'll we'll have to
kind of pick up right where we can and use
the time that we have left. But under the category
of better late than never, good to have with us.

(01:19:50):
Kaylan D's Kaylan is Supreme Court reporter for The Washington Examiner. Kaylan,
Welcome to the program. How are you.

Speaker 8 (01:19:57):
I'm doing well today. Thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 1 (01:19:59):
On My pleasure. For listeners that may not be aware,
we've talked a little bit about mop Mood versus Taylor
and the case before the United States Supreme Court. But
just before we get into some of the nuggets of
what went on yesterday, in particular, lay the groundwork. What's
this case about?

Speaker 6 (01:20:16):
So this is great.

Speaker 8 (01:20:16):
This case is really simple, you know, in its in
its own sort of structure. You know, most people think
whenever they go to school, and there's certain content that
might be found objectionable there's ways for parents to opt
their kids out of content that they may not want
their kids to see, such as you know, growth and
development videos and things like that that might be explicit.

(01:20:38):
But this Montgomery County is different, and they've been basically
not allowing kids at all to have opt ups from
certain content when it comes to the nature of certain books,
like books that portray LGBT characters and themes, and that

(01:20:59):
is essentially what the parents in Montgomery County are seeking,
is they want to be able to opt their kids
out of these drag queen story hours, you know, whatever
you would call it, you know, because that's basically what
it is whenever you're talking about giving these types of
you know, very very mature content to kids through the
form of storybooks and things like that. And the Supreme

(01:21:22):
Court seemed to really take notice of that, you know,
they wondered, you know, why is this case season before us?
Why is it even a question of whether a parent
can opt their kids out? And I think that that
was sort of something that they were enlightened to about
Montgomery County because no other county in Maryland is doing
this the same way they are.

Speaker 1 (01:21:41):
Let's let's also point out the petitioning families. We've got
a real cross section of America from a from a
faith religious perspective here, don't we.

Speaker 8 (01:21:53):
Yeah, so the plaintists in this case, the lead plaintists
are actually you know, so I think that that is
something that is you know, not often discussed because you know,
you imagine, you know, there's a lot of you know,
also Christian objection to this as well. But I think
that across the board, you know, we've seen that it's

(01:22:13):
not just you know, one particular religion that's always objecting
to the same things. And I think that that really
encompasses the fact that you know, there's there's a diverse
array of students who you know, come from different backgrounds,
and they have parents that don't want them to necessarily
just be exposed to anything and everything that might be

(01:22:36):
at school. And so for there to be a you know,
school district that's giving students no option whatsoever to be
removed or taken away from this particular lesson, I think
that you know, it struck a chord with not just
you know, one particular belief, but multiple groups of religions.

(01:22:56):
And I think that, you know that that's something that's
really brings people together on this particular.

Speaker 1 (01:23:02):
Inspube joining me on the program from the Washington Examiner
Supreme Court reporter Kaylan Deese. We'll have more with Kaylin.
One more segment next here on The Morning Show with
Preston Scott. The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Montgomery County
Public Schools in Maryland cited at an administrative burden. It

(01:23:27):
was just too difficult chance of absenteeism, allowing parents to
opt out their kids from material that they found objectionable
like LGBT themed story time and books that are I mean, frankly,
they're kind of pornographic. But it's now before the US
Supreme Court with US Supreme Court reporter Kaylan Deese with

(01:23:48):
the Washington Examiner. So tell us what happened in court.

Speaker 8 (01:23:52):
Yes, So, I think that we saw some really interesting
reactions from some of the justices on Tuesday. Whenever this
case was our you for one thing, I think that
we were witnessing a court that was very intent on
getting to the core issue of what was in these
books that might be seen as objectiable by parents. Justice

(01:24:15):
Alito really honed in to the lead attorney for the
Beckett group that was representing the parents in this case,
asking you know, you know, is it just you know,
enough for these books to have characters that are insinuated
or appear to be, you know, a particular way that

(01:24:37):
gives parents pause and reason to you know, you know, say,
we don't want the kids to read this material. And
I think that, you know, essentially what the books are
trying to get at that was not actually, you know,
fully revealed, was that the books are trying to get

(01:24:58):
students to be okay with the lifestyles that are you know,
basically portrayed and in the in the book. And I
think that that is essentially what uh, you know, Eric
Baxter with Beckett was getting at. And it's like, look,
you know, it's not just the fact that there are
characters uh with these particular uh sexual preferences in the book,

(01:25:19):
but it's that it's almost trying to suggest that if
you disagree with what these characters are doing, there's a
moral lesson in these books that's trying to tell you, well, hey,
let's not disagree with that now. And I think that
that is the part where they get to the indoctrination point,
where if the kids that are reading this lesson are

(01:25:41):
being indoctrinate, are made to feel bad if they disagree
with one of the ways that the characters are, you know, behaving.
Then that's essentially what's going on, uh with giving these
kids this material. And I think that we saw a
few justices really kind of being open to that point
of view that this is doctor and doctrination because of

(01:26:03):
the way that Montgomery County is going about these lessons.
There were a couple of you know, outliers. You know,
we saw maybe some viral clips of Justice Stackson saying,
you know, why don't you just send your kids to
private school? Why don't you you know, you know, wait
until you know something's actually happened where you know, there's
a kid that comes home and they tell mommy or
daddy that, you know, they heard about this today in class.

(01:26:27):
But I think that a lot of her hypotheticals were
not being picked up by the majority of the court
because I think the majority was really understanding that that
is something that cannot just be an excuse. You can't
just say, hey, let's you know, pay more money to
go to school. And I and I and I didn't
think that there was a lot of reaction that found

(01:26:49):
her hypotheticals satisfactory and in the aftermath. So I can't
say exactly the number of justices here, but I would
be surprised if the Supreme Court did not rule in
favor of the parents in this case, because it just
seemed like that's where a majority was leaning well.

Speaker 1 (01:27:09):
In this court has has previously ruled that that parents
have a have a fundamental right to what happens to say,
in the life of their child.

Speaker 8 (01:27:20):
That's right. And you know, this is a First Amendment case.
This is you know, in a lot of ways. You know,
it's it's it's it's a narrow case. It's it's seeking
a preliminary injunction that they want to you know, basically
enjoin the school from you know, having this policy that
doesn't allow opt outs, and then it would go back
to the lower court and you know, there would be

(01:27:41):
more litigation, so on, so forth. So it's a very
narrow question. And I think that that is, you know,
not a very tall bar to clear for what the
parents are seeking here. And I and I will tell
you this. You know, it's it's important to pay attention
to the other litigation involving Montgomery County because it's not
just this case. There's other state level cases that are

(01:28:02):
being impacted by this as well. I spoke to an
attorney outside of the court who has several clients who
are going through a very similar situation with the county,
and their legal proceedings are stayed or pause until the
outcome of this case. So it's a very big dilemma,
and you know, I think it's something that the community

(01:28:24):
is really going to change over time, as we know,
lead into the summer, get this decision and watch the
fallout from there.

Speaker 1 (01:28:34):
Kaitlin, thanks for the time today. I appreciate your work.

Speaker 8 (01:28:37):
I appreciate you.

Speaker 1 (01:28:38):
I'm a great one, all right, Kaylin Deese with the
Washington Examiner. He was in the court as the arguments
held were held. Neil Gorsich really jamming on the attorney
representing the school district. You're doing this to three year olds?
Three year olds really bondage forty seven minutes after the

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a Michigan man from Van Buren County, forty five year

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old Fella asked for a very specific scratch off ticket
at the Speedway gas station on South Kalamazoo Street in Paupaw.
By the way, I've been corrected, Mackinaw Mission, Michigan was
the island. He said, the sea is silent. Clerk, though

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gave him the wrong ticket, gave him a major cash
Word scratch off ticket. He said, I played cash word
tickets occasionally, but purchasing this ticket was a total fluke.
I asked the cashier for a different game. She mistakenly
gave me this ticket instead. When she realized she gave
me the wrong ticket, she offered to give me the
game I asked for. I told her, nah, I just

(01:30:23):
keep the major cash word ticket instead. So he went
home forgot about the ticket, and then the next morning
scratched it off and handed it to his wife to
take the barcode and check it out and scanned it
with her lottery app. They won one million dollars. He said,

(01:30:46):
I felt like I couldn't breathe. To keep his ticket safe,
he put it in a jar and buried it in
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