Ep 5370: Insiders edge; The Pelosi stock strategy.

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Thursday, May 1st.

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-Steve Stewart
- Dr. Steve Steverson
- U.S. Sen. Rick Scott



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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Welcome to the month of May. I said to my
sweet wife yesterday, I said, you know what this means,
don't you? Very soon we'll be getting ready for Christmas. Sorry,
sound like a smoker, don't I? I promise you no,

(00:42):
never never smoked. Welcome though to Thursday on the Morning
Show with Preston Scott and Preston He is Jose and
it's show fifty three seventy. Great to be with you.
Let's get into God's word here for just a few minutes.
Yesterday we poked our head into Ephesians four, and we

(01:02):
talked about how God appointed some to be apostles and
prophets and evangelists and shepherds and teachers to equip the
saints for the work of ministry to build up the
body of Christ. We go now with verse thirteen, until
we all attain the unity of the faith and of
the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood

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to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
so that we may no longer be children tossed to
and fro by waves, and carried about by every wind
of doctrine, by human cunning, it, by craftiness and deceitful schemes.

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This speaks to the importance of spending time learning about
God through his word. Studying. God raises up people to
speak God's word into our life. And if you don't
have a church or somebody that you trust, Monday's moving forward.

(02:10):
I am going to post a message that you can trust.
I am going to do that. It is specifically designed.
Whether you go to this church or not is not
the point. It's that I promise solid biblical teaching. Why

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so that we aren't bandied about by everybody selling the
next new thing, that we don't get deceived by bad
scriptural teaching, sorry, by bad teaching that is supposed to
be scriptural. But it's not that we don't fall for heresies,

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but not just that that we are able to discern
what's going on in the world today. When you look
at this verse, it's about growing up as a believer,

(03:20):
getting past Sunday school, if you will, becoming mature because
you are familiar with God's word. You know God's word,
you can test and approve what is and isn't God's
word and look at what it leads to. That we
may no longer be children tossed to and fro by
the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine,

(03:43):
wind of doctrines, bad scripture. Listen to this now by
human cunning, by craftiness, and deceitful schemes. In other words,
by knowing God's word, we have an anchor point by

(04:05):
which we can then apply common sense. We can apply
God's wisdom, and we can discern the things that are
being spoken to us and know whether they are deceitful

(04:25):
meant for harm. There are things that happen in the
world that are a moral They don't have an intrinsic
value one way or the other. But much of what
happens in our world is good or bad, And knowing

(04:48):
God's word is how you are able to discern the difference.
The Holy Spirit inside of a Christian taps you on
the shoulder. Don't go there, don't do that, don't just don't.

(05:08):
You might say why don't, but why it doesn't matter,
the Holy Spirit saying stop, don't do it. Ten minutes
past the hour, Good morning, Welcome to the morning Show.

(05:38):
Take a peek inside the American Patriots Almanac. May one,
eighteen eighty four, Construction begins on the Home Insurance building
in Chicago. Did you know that the skyscraper was an
American invention. That building was ten stories, nothing like it

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had had ever been constructed in the world. Steel made
of steel in Chicago. They paused construction because they weren't
sure it was going to stand up till they investigated
it and looked at it more thoroughly. And then you
fast forward to nineteen thirty one. On the same date,

(06:23):
the one hundred and two story Empire State Building was dedicated.
President Herbert Hoover pushed a button at the White House
and it turned on the lights at the Empire State Building.
Pretty cool. I don't know that did actually turn it
probably just sent a little message and they went flip
the switch, flipped the switch. He just pushed the button

(06:45):
in between an eighteen ninety eight A squadron of US
ships defeats the Spanish squadron a Spanish squadron in Minil
Bay during the Spanish American War. Nineteen forty one Orson
Wells film Citizen Kane debuts at the RKO Palace in
New York City. You ever watched Citizen Kane? Rosebud what uh?

(07:19):
Nineteen sixty three, Jim Whittaker becomes the first American to
climb Mount Everest. Oh, man, have you seen the DGI
And I know Dgi's a Chinese company that makes drones,
but they were really good drones and the capability is incredible.

(07:42):
DGI took I want to say, it's the Mavic, one
of their drones, and did a flight up to the
summit of Mount Everest and you can watch it on YouTube.
It's incredible, four k following the trek and all the
base camps all the way up to the top of Everest. Incredible.

(08:09):
Nineteen seventy, US population tops two hundred million, and on
this date in two thousand and eleven, Navy seals killed
terrorist Osama Bin Laden Boom pop pop bang bang bye bye.
I'm good with that, absolutely fine with that. Let's see here,

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May one, what do we have in the national day calendar.
It is National Investing Day, whatever, It's May Day, of course,
School Principals Day, Law Day, Silver Star Service Banner Day,
National Chocolate Parfe Day, National Mother Goose Day, National Loyalty Day.

(09:04):
You think we've kind of cluttered up May first a
little bit, but let's get to what matters most. It
is a National Day of Prayer. Yeah, so today at
state capitals across the country. So wherever you are at

(09:25):
noon at your state capital should be an organization of
prayer warriors, praying for the cities, the states, the nation,
and the nations, praying for the peace of Jerusalem, praying
for our elected officials. I won't call them leaders. They

(09:50):
are not enough leaders. There are some. So I'll pray
for our leaders, and I'll pray especially hard for our
officials that they become leaders, God fearing, christ centered leaders.
But today is National Day Prayer. More on that just
a moment here, So yeah, there you go, sixteen past

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the hour, come back.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Talk more forty one minutes after the hour.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
National Day of Prayer, little praise and worship starts at
eleven thirty this morning at Florida State Capital. Don't know
how they'll do it in other states. Then noon till
one fifteen is the prayer time. It's going to overlap.
See just think about it. All of the states in
the East Coast Eastern time zone, sorry will be there'll

(10:52):
be people gathered at state capitols praying, and they'll keep
praying until one fifteen, which makes it twelve fifteen in
the Central time zone. And they started praying at noon,
so there's an overlap of fifteen minutes where now toombs
two time zones A praying and hopefully they'll go for

(11:14):
an hour and fifteen minutes and then there'll be another
time zone and then another time zone. You get the idea. Now,
hopefully we'll have some people on the West coast that
are committed to keep praying while Hawaii catches up and
maybe Alaska. I don't know what the time's change difference.
I don't know if Alaska's on Pacific time or not.
I have no idea. I just it's out there, so

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I don't know. I don't know if it's an hour
earlier than that. But you get the idea. So if
you're interested, go down to the state capitol today at
noon and uh and take part. All right, saw this story,
lead research assistant, pass this my way. I'll just share

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it as it's prepared by Trevor Hughes.

Speaker 3 (11:59):
Of you.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
I say today, millions of years from now, North Africa
could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates
pull apart along the Eastern African rift system. Experts have
long known that portions of the continent are separated by
as much as zero point three inches a year in

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some places. Volcanic and geological evidence in Ethiopia and elsewhere
in Africa indicates the existing oceans may one day spill
into the growing rift, severing a small portion of the
continent from the greater bulk of Africa. Now, seriously, there

(12:41):
is an estimation here that you can just do what
you want with. I'm like not worried. Look, if I
really were pulling hard for anything, it would be let's
go ahead and break off California. Let it become an island.

(13:07):
I'm as long as no one loses their life in
that process. I've long believed buying land on the western
side of Arizona as potential coastal property would be a
huge investment. But gelogists believe that if spreading continues, the

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three plates that meet at the edge of present day
African continent will separate completely, allowing the Indian Ocean to
flood the area, making it the easternmost corner of Africa,
the Horn of Africa, a large island. Did you know
that this is crazy? I highlighted this. Did you know
that the National Geographic Society scientists formally recognized the southern

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Ocean encircling Antarctica as a distinct body of water. So
now it's official. Did you know we have a southern Ocean? Yeah,
me either. We have a Southern Ocean. See, there you go.
So what's the big deal about the Gulf of America.

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We named things all the time, Southern Ocean. Did anyone
ask us did we get this? Did we get a
say in the matter? Nay, nay, we did not. Anyway,
you know, I'm indifferent about stuff like this. Whatever the
Earth is the Earth, and God created it, and whatever

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he's going to do, he's going to do, and the
Bible tells me what he's going to do, So I'm
good with it, you know what I'm saying. Twenty seven
minutes past the hour. Twenty six minutes past the hour,
we've got today as typical busy show. I've got Steve
Stewart next hour, doctor Steve Steverson, what to do for

(15:06):
your pets if they start to show signs of overheating.
This can be the difference, but literally between life and death.
So please, if you've got a four legged friend, listen in.
We're going to help you out. In the second hour
of the show, We've got a funny piece of sound.

(15:28):
Trump just shut down this dude from CBS in a
purse a one on one interview. It was brilliant. It
was brilliant. And then in the third hour, US Senator
Rick Scott will be calling in and joining us for
a few minutes, so we'll talk with the Senator and
I am going to ask him about tatea Damiak. I've

(15:51):
been working very hard to try to get the case
of Patrick in front of them. Patrick Tate a Domiak.
He is the young man that has been framed by ATF.
He's been framed and he's sitting in prison and he
needs a pardon. So twenty seven past the hour. Now

(16:12):
let's get to the big stories in the press box.
Next here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott. The
Morning Show with Preston Scott. Times are the big stories

(16:33):
in the press box. If you are just joining us, welcome,
good morning, Thanks.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
Hi.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
He's Jose, I'm Preston Jose right this moment, looking a
bit channeling a little bit of a unibomber.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
Look.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
Welcome to the Morning Show. Ruminators, ladies and gentlemen, boys
and girls, males and females only. Donald Trump Blaming Biden
for the wobbly stock market is how Newsmax put it,
posting on the truth social This is Biden's stock market,
not Trump's. I didn't take over until January twentieth. Tariffs
will start soon start kicking in and companies will are

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starting to move to the US and record numbers. Our
country will boom, but we have to get rid of
biden overhang. This will take a while, has nothing to
do with tariffs, only that he has left us with
bad numbers. But when the boom begins, it will be
like no other. Be patient. Look, there's a lot of
truth in that. There's a lot of hyperbole in that.
There's a combination of both. The stock market, as we

(17:35):
discussed and have discussed with experts, is reactive. It just
reacts to things now. I have long believed that the
stock market was grossly overvalued. I think a lot of
analysts would agree with that that analysis. And I say
overvalued because there was just no discernible reason for why

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stocks were growing at the rate that they were growing previously.
I think a pullback is healthy. I know it's not
good for our iras and four O one k's and
broths and whatever. Investments you have. But here's the thing.

(18:19):
I will make this prediction now that when Trump is
finished with all the tariff negotiations, whoever follows him in
office isn't going to touch it because the dirty work
will have been done and the result will be a
better healthier US economy. Congress has to make some of

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these executive orders permanent. It's up to Congress. They gotta
get it done, just have to. It will likely be
something I bring up with US Senator Rick Scott later on.
This was fascinating to me, was not a news story.
I was cruising through the website the Daily Caller and

(19:07):
I noticed this ad for DUB. Never heard of it.
Dub and Dub Advisors. I think it is. Yeah, they
have developed a somewhat proprietary investment program that at this

(19:35):
time copies the investments to a large degree, not entirely
of Nancy Pelosi. Listen to this. Jose's over there are
just dying. But listen to this. It's not an exact replica.

(19:55):
That's not feasible because of the time delay, but because
of the Stock Act, members of Congress have to put
financial disclosures in what they're doing. Now. You and I
both know that Pelosi's been using inside intel to trade
for years. It's how she and her husband have acquired

(20:15):
insane wealth. Or he's simply the best stock investor in
the history of the world. They they base their portfolio
that is called dollar Sign Pelosi. It's the dollar Sign Pelosi.

(20:38):
That portfolio how strongly the politician believes a stock will
outperform in the likelihood that the politician has insights into
the stock that are not widely known by others. They
combine that since they started it September twenty seventh, ninety

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two thousand, twenty three, sorry to now April first, it
has returned seventy seven point three percent. Seventy seven point
three percent. So what they're doing is they've created I'm

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not I'm not promoting this, I'm not telling you to
do it. I'm telling you, well, heck yeah. They have
decided that if members of Congress are gonna get rich,
likely based on insider information, we're gonna be behind them
by a few days. But we're gonna we are going

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to build a portfolio that matches what they're investing in.
In this case, Nancy Pelosi, isn't that interesting? Isn't that
seventy seven percent as of April first, even with the
ups and downs, the pullbacks, that is insane. Forty one

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minutes after down, You're welcome. Sort of kind of a
big story that judge in Wisconsin that got arrested. If

(22:37):
you don't know the story and what the hubbub is about,
she lied to federal agents that were there in a courtroom.
Outside the courtroom to arrest an illegal immigrant, Hannahdugan, Milwaukee

(22:57):
County Circuit judge told them that he was going to
be over here, when in fact she sent him out
another door. She aided and embedded this man escaping capture.
So the judge directs him away to see the County

(23:18):
Chief Judge Carl Ashley, then hustles the guy out the door,
and so all the Democrats are out with this phony outrage,
the attack on the judiciary. Milwaukee County Chief Judge Carl
Ashley said, federal agents have the right to be in
the hallways. The reality is, for my colleagues, we don't

(23:42):
have control of the public hallways. An administrative warrant, despite
lacking a judge's signature, can be used to make arrests
in a public hallway. It is what it is. She's
in trouble and she should be. And all these other

(24:03):
judges that are out there saying I will go to
jail if I need to. I want you to just
think about this. First, they're outing themselves as overt lefties
and illiberals and activist judges. Secondly, this speaks to the
fact that Democrats are lining up with the illegals that
have broken into this country. MS thirteen gang members, trend
de Aragua gang members, they are, they are lining up

(24:26):
with them. And oh, by the way, they're now switching
to the northern border. We've arrested a bunch trying to
get in MS thirteen gang members through the through Canadian border.
Uh spots. Sounds good to me. This idea and that

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they feel so entitled to be in this country is
a staggering thing. Speaking of another district, judge, Jeffrey Crawford
in Vermont ordered the release of Motion Madawi. He's one

(25:12):
of the organizers of the University of Columbia anti Semitic
attacks on Jews, the protests for Palestine. He was born
and raised in the West Bank. He's here on a
Green card. I don't know how in the world anybody
thinks that that makes somebody, gives somebody the right to

(25:34):
stay here. I don't get that. I will admit I
am not the most well versed on the various entitlements
that come with a green card. What I know is,
if you're not a formal citizen of this country and
you are advocating violence on college campuses and engaging in

(25:55):
anti Semitism, you ought to be kicked out of the country. Sorry,
you're not a citizen here. And so because this judge
let him out, is he is taunting Trump and us
by saying, I'm not afraid of you. And so all

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the illiberal crazies were cheering as he was released, and
he's now been made a star. We'll see where this
all lands. Forty seven minutes after the hour, come back,
got an interesting question for you to consider the Morning
Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point
seven WFLA, Hey, before I get to the question that

(26:44):
I'd like you to consider, and tomorrow on the program,
delayed by all kinds of things, we will do our
what would you do? It's a segment I've been wanting
to break out on the program for a long time.
I finally have some great examples for the segment, and
so tomorrow we'll bring a situation up and I'll ask

(27:04):
what would you do, and we'll take your calls. But
Box Fan Drive, we are needing box fans and we
would love for you to get one. If you're in Tallahassee,
you can drop it off at the Pepsi distribution center
on Pensilcola Street across from TSC, or bring it here
to the iHeart Studios. Normal business hours there's usually somebody here,

(27:28):
but I'm gonna be honest with you. There middle of
the day it could be a dice roll, but nine
to five you'll usually find somebody here. Other than the
lunch hour, but we would really appreciate it. These will
go to Elder Care Services of Tallahassee and make a
difference for seniors that are on fixed incomes. It will

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help them. We did a bunch last year. I think
we got over one hundred fans distributed between the two markets,
if not maybe more. And this year in Panama City,
you can drop them off in any Bay or Walton
County Ace Hardware store. In fact, you can buy them
at the Ace Hardware and then just leave them there
and that's a collection point. And the beauty is that

(28:15):
in Panama City we're working with Bay County Council on
Aging and Shane and Tests over on PAP are going
to help us as well getting the word out on this.
So you know we've got there are ACE locations in Lynhaven,
Panama City Beach, Panama City, Santa Rosa Beach, and so
please help us out. Get as many box fans as

(28:37):
you can and donate them by the end of the month.
All Right, I said I had a question for you.
Elon Musk has announced to Tesla stockholders that he is
going to be backing away from DOZE in terms of
the amount of time he's committing to it, starting probably

(28:58):
next month May my time allocation of DOZE will drop significantly.
I'll continue, I'll have to continue those for I think
the remainder of the president's term, just to make sure
that waste and fraud that we stop does not come
roaring back. And so thank you for that. But here's
the question. There's a group of lawmakers, one of them
Representative Aaron Bean of Florida, who I years ago had

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on the program. He's a unique fellow. We're ready to
take the range and continue to push no matter who's
leading the Department of Government efficiency. Could Congress be trusted
to rein in waste and fraud or it would there'd
be too great of a temptation to turn their head

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the other way on projects they want see. There's my problem.
I don't necessarily think Congress are the right people, is
the right place to oversee doge. I think there has
to be someone independent of government overseeing it, and then

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obviously the government has to the elected leaders have to
be the ones that make the call. But don't you
think this is one of the most important things that's
happened in government in your lifetime? And we're scratching surfaces here.

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I'm hoping to get a little bit of that question
in as well to Senator Rick Scott in the third hour,
because I think it matters. I think who's in charge.
It's human nature. You want to protect your projects, the
things that you think are most important. Isn't that what

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you do with your budget at home? Right? You spend
money on the things that matter to you, and that's fine.
But we're talking about your money and my money being
spent foolishly by Congress Steve Stewart joins me next by

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pass the hour. It is the second hour of our
very first program in the month of May. It's the
Morning Show with Preston Scott and Prestony's Ose. And joining
us in studio is the executive editor of Tallahassee Reports,
Steve Stewart. Hello friend, good morning. How you are you.
I'm good, yeah, good, yeah. We were just talking in
the break. If it weren't for the reporting by Tallahassee

(31:39):
Reports on the crime numbers that are released by TPD,
we wouldn't really have a feel for what's going on
in the community.

Speaker 4 (31:49):
You know it again, we're uh, we're taking this data
that's coming in on a daily basis and tabulating it.
And you know, obviously the way the landscape of news
media has it's about clicks, it's about headlines and shootings. Obviously,
get the headlines, but if you look at the underlying numbers,
which we're seeing and are being verified by other sources,

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is the biggest story I think over the last couple
of years is the drop in crime incidents and it
parallels what we're seeing, you know, reported from the city,
but we don't really see other media outlets saying, look,
you remember the tax increase that got so much media
play that progressives were just act, you know, they were
just outside themselves arguing against spending more money on law enforcement.

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And I think that it's only fair to talk about
what has happened, and you just don't see a lot
of it. Steve Cynics would say.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
Skeptics would say, well, the city of the police Department's
just underreporting their numbers to make them look good. They
really don't have that option, do they.

Speaker 5 (32:53):
No.

Speaker 4 (32:53):
I mean, look, you know, there's those types of arguments,
and I think if you look at the incident's data,
which is this is stuff that comes in the next day,
so it's a.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
Little bit tough to and you're compiling it.

Speaker 4 (33:04):
We're compiling it, and it's a little bit tough be
conspiratorial when you've got you know, actually reports filed. Officers
being called. So the argument would be, well, people aren't
reporting crimes. Well, you know, I mean, I again, if
you look, if you look at robbery and violent crimes,
I mean I think people are reporting those.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
I don't. I don't think we have reason, no reason
not to exactly.

Speaker 4 (33:25):
And so I so when you start looking at these
things and the numbers are falling so far. I mean,
if we look at and we'll have a full report
on the April, you know, the first four months, but
preliminarily it's property crimes down forty percent from last year.
It's down from the previous year. Also, violent crimes down
thirty two percent.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
Now the previous year was down as well, right, so
we're dropping from dropping exactly, and so I think again
you can argue about the causation if you want to,
but but the numbers are what they are, and it's
just again, it is amazing to me that we're not
getting more coverage of that and more looking at what's
driving it. Why do you think you know, I think

(34:08):
that if you if you go back to the old standard,
is that bad news sells? You know, it's it's that's
the headlines you want to see. I mean, if you
look just at and listen, there are events out there.
This is not that there's things aren't happening.

Speaker 4 (34:20):
Sure, I mean we've got to you know, when you
look at a teacher being beat up in the classroom,
you got the tragedy FSU you got to you know,
you got well, as.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
Long as there are people, there will be bad things happening, right,
But you have to put it in context.

Speaker 4 (34:31):
And I think that's the thing that we're I think
this change in the media landscape is what we're missing
is context. And sometimes context takes tough, you know, it's
it's hard work. You got to go and look at
really what's happening. Well, I want to you said something
just a second ago, Steve. I want to I want
to highlight you said bad news cells. I would argue
good news sells the community to outsiders to want to

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bring their businesses here. And we spent a decade on
a very bad part of the crime list in the
state of Florida because it was underfunded, right. And I
think again, though, you have two different things here going on.
It's the bad news sales, but it's also there's a bias, right,
And that's what's tough for news media is to get
past a bias. And you know, you see a lot

(35:15):
of that. Again, smaller city, you've got a corporate newspaper
trying to sell newspapers, and sometimes it's tough to report
what's supposed to be reported. And I think, again, this
stuff is not You don't have to copy tasse reports.
If you look at the budget workshop, the TPD said
crime was down forty percent. I don't remember seeing that

(35:36):
reported in any of the local news media outlets. And
to me, that is that's not fair for the people
that are out doing the work. It's not fair to
go back and look and say, listen, they said they
were going to put this tax increase money for public safety,
and look they did, and this is sort of what
has happened.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
We're not seeing that.

Speaker 4 (35:54):
Instead, it's just more division and there's plenty of negative
things to report on.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Why not report on that? Yeah, I mean, it's fair
to say we didn't need to raise taxes to put
this money out there. What's not fair to say is
the money didn't make a difference, Because it did.

Speaker 4 (36:09):
Right, Let's start looking at how it didn't make a difference,
and there's not any reporting on that.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
All Right, More to come. Steve Stewart with us from
Tallassi Reports. It's the Morning Show with President Scott Back
with Steve Stewart, Executive editor, Tallassi Reports. Subscribe. All you

(36:37):
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The story on crime leads perfectly to this group. You
covered it, you reported, We just put it in our
newscast tCAC. This is a group that it's acronyms up

(37:00):
bad memories to me.

Speaker 4 (37:01):
Yeah, Talles and Community Action Committee. And you know, this
is a tough thing to try to cover because you
don't want to give them oxygen.

Speaker 1 (37:10):
You know, you don't want to give them.

Speaker 4 (37:11):
But and I you know, and so over the last
couple of years, I've watched these meetings. People don't watch this,
but you see people get up and speak and and
the hate and the comments that they make at the
public media that doesn't get covered. Okay, I watch, and
I see we've reported on this. They consistently, and just
as recently as the last couple of weeks call TPD

(37:32):
officers murders. They're slanders and libelous, right and so and
and they get up and speak on national issues and
try to get the city to pull, you know, to
take positions that are you know, far far left.

Speaker 5 (37:44):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (37:45):
These are progressives. And I think it's very important for
your listeners to understand this stuff because again we're the
only ones reporting it. And the and the reason why
I have decided to go ahead and out them and
report them. Is because I do see the media, other
local media outlets citing these people is as policy experts.

Speaker 1 (38:05):
They will cite them.

Speaker 4 (38:05):
Oh that's the president of takak Well who also think
that TPD officers are murders. They leave that out. And
this is part of the progressive wing of this community.
These are supporters of commission Mallow, Commissioner Porter. And you know,
at some point you would think that they would disavow
some of the comments when you get up they meaning

(38:27):
who Porter and Matlow, Okay, but they don't. And it's
because this riles up their base. And so the story
that we have here that nobody's covered is that they
are blaming or you know, are upset that LCSO is
facilitating white supremacy, and so they scheduled a demonstration for Friday.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
So our black Democrat local sheriff, who has largely assembled
more minorities in his leadership team since he's taken over,
is I'm hoow a.

Speaker 4 (39:01):
Racist facilitating white supremacy. And you know the thing about
this is is this has to do with the FSU tragedy.
And if you go on and look, you know the
officer that is involved in this, who is the step
mom of the shooter. If you read about her, and
there were some people from the left side who have
commented on Facebook about her dedication to law enforcement and

(39:22):
how much of a good person she is. And so
this again, and I can't make this point strong enough.
These progressives want to divide the community at all costs, okay.
And you see it here with this group te Kak.
You see it with the local Democratic Party who has
now been taken over by progressives. And it seems that

(39:43):
moderate traditional liberal Democrats are afraid to respond. But they've
pulled aside as the FSU shooting three or four days afterwards.
I mean, it's just all of it didn't take that long. Yeah,
And so you see that. And if you take the
next step and you look at Commission Mattla with this TMH,
the City of tyle Hi se and FSU negotiation, he's

(40:06):
trying to use that again to divide this community because
you know, comments like this is a hostile takeover by
mayor daily. I mean, if you understand the issue, this
issue with TMH, which we'll talk about in the next segment,
it deserves more than somebody trying to use it as
a political football to be elected mayor. And again the

(40:29):
examples are there. The progressive movement just wants to divide
the community for the sake of trying.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
To generate, you know, to.

Speaker 4 (40:38):
Coalesce political power, and again not getting reported. And it's
important that people understand this. I know they have their
day to day life, but you've got to keep your
eye on this and what they're trying to do.

Speaker 1 (40:50):
Steve Stewart with us more to come here on the
Morning Show with Preston Scott. Final segment for today with
Steve Stewart to tell ask report. Steve, you mentioned TMH,

(41:12):
just a quick thirty second refresher on what the issues are.

Speaker 4 (41:17):
So the city of tile has he owns the land
the TMH sits on and the assets, and as a community,
we are behind other communities and transitioning out of this
old model of where cities started hospitals. You know, in
the forties, fifties, and sixties. It's happened all over the country,
but we are behind in terms of transitioning. And what's
happened now is it's come to an head. And TMH

(41:41):
and FSU have been negotiating for years trying and they've
had and they've had partnerships Academic Health Center. But they're
trying to move forward in even more of an integrated
way and they've come to a loggerhead in terms of
where where to move. And in the middle of this
is the City of Tyle Hassee, which again owns the

(42:03):
land at the hospital that TMH is on and the assets,
and they have a say in the governance structure. And
for up till now it's been a rubber stamp. And
so now this is reached ahead because that fish. So
what happens when you look at these to these two entities.
TMH is a quote community hospital. Marco Brien's been the

(42:24):
CEO for about twenty years. From all you know, from
all reports, has done a good job of growing. I mean, listen,
healthcare industry has exploded. So managing that is not an
easy task. It's not an easy task. And so and
again it's like talking about physics. You know, I don't
know how you evaluate a good hospital. I mean, there's
so many different measures and things.

Speaker 1 (42:44):
But this hospital has grown.

Speaker 4 (42:46):
It's a billion dollar institution and so they've got a
good thing going. They don't have a lot of oversight
outside of TMH. They've got a volunteer board that they
sort of control in a point in the city up
to now just sort of ratified it. On the other
side of this, FSU is looking around the country and
they're looking at Gainesville, and they're looking at Tampa, at

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universities that are getting a huge amount of research dollars
because of their relationships with local hospitals.

Speaker 1 (43:13):
And it should be pointed out it is so completely
outside of Florida as well. This is a nationwide trend.

Speaker 4 (43:19):
So the trend is that these hospitals are partnering up
with universities and they're getting research dollars, and FSU was
sort of left wanting more. A couple of years ago
when the relationship in Hillsborough County with Tampa General Hospital
and USF, they were able USF was able to get
an AAU designation because of their relationship, which goes back

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forty fifty years and AAU is the Association of Academic Universities,
which is of American universities.

Speaker 1 (43:49):
It's a highly sought after accreditation.

Speaker 4 (43:51):
It results in more money, more research dollars. It's a
very high level accreditations. She wants that three colleges in
the three universities in Florida have it, University of Florida.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
University of Miami, and us F.

Speaker 4 (44:04):
And so this has pushed FSU to try to be
more aggressive and say, look, we got we got to
partner up with tm HS. In fact, we might want
to own teammates, right, And so this is where we
are and the city is in the middle of this.
Why because we haven't moved forward out of this old
model where the where municipalities were sort of the owners

(44:25):
of local hospitals, nonprofit hospitals. Other cities that we talk about,
you know, trying to look like have have long since
moved out of this. Greenville, South Carolina, Gainesville, Tampa, and
there are models there. It's really a pretty easy thing
to move forward on absent the personalities and the uh,

(44:46):
you know, the the.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
Urge to protect what you have.

Speaker 4 (44:49):
For example, Gainesville, the General the Community Hospital which was
a latch with General Hospital there was taken over by Shans,
which is owned by University of Florida.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
All right, that's the one model.

Speaker 4 (45:01):
Another models you look at Tampa, Tampa General you know,
was started by the city of Tampa. They have these
agreements with the USF to the point that USF was
able to get this AAU accredation. But they don't own USF.
They just have these committees and.

Speaker 1 (45:16):
They mean they don't own the hospital.

Speaker 4 (45:18):
They don't own the I'm sorry, USF doesn't own the hospital, right, right,
So you don't have to own the hospital to get
the AA designation and get these research dollars just to
work in agreement.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
So there are two models there. Yeah, all right, So
the question is.

Speaker 4 (45:30):
Why can't we move forward absent all this you know,
pr movement of you know, TMH is not for sale.
It is for sale. We're going to move from this.
We've got to get the two models that I just
talked about. The City of Gainesville the City of Tampa
are not involved with healthcare. The city at Tahisi needs
to get out of the healthcare business.

Speaker 1 (45:51):
And you could argue that they are out of it
because they've been rubber stamping and not really involved. But
the fact that there's still an ownership tie is the problem.

Speaker 4 (45:59):
The problem now is that it's getting because of the
explosion of healthcare expenditures and the growth what FSU wants
to do obviously with like in Panama City with the hospital,
the city is getting uncomfortable with like wait a minute,
we really don't want to continue to rubber stamp all
these different things that are happening. You're talking about creating
a you know, a different board, and so they want

(46:20):
to get out of it.

Speaker 1 (46:21):
And so where does city officials stand on this?

Speaker 4 (46:24):
Well, it's going to be interesting because the progressive wing
is viewed this as and you know, something that can
divide the community on you know, they've fallen in with
the pr move that you know, TMH is our community hospital.
It's not for sale, well not for sale, I mean
you could sell it to TMH, right, so it is
for sale, I mean, and it's gone to the city
is going to get out of this because it's if

(46:46):
you look around the country, it's the right thing to do.
The question is TMAH and FSU they need to they
need to resolve this and.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
They just need to give a little and then we
can move forward.

Speaker 4 (46:56):
But right now it's what determines a lot of things
until I see it's politics, and it's because we're still
in personalities, yeah, and we're still driven by you know,
the small town mentality. And hopefully this will get resolved
in the next two to three months.

Speaker 1 (47:10):
And we can move forward. Always good reporting. Thank you,
Thank you, Steve Stewart, Tallahassee Reports, Get the paper, subscribe,
go to Tallahasseireports dot com. Thirty six minutes after the hour,

(47:42):
good morning, Welcome, second half of the program. US Senator
Rick Scott in just about a half hour. Some help
for your four legged friends in just a few moments
as well, big stories in the press box. I just
I find this absolutely mind blowing now. Years ago, and

(48:07):
if you remember when I talked with Peter Schweitzer maybe
last week, maybe week before, we talked about a book
called Throw Them All Out. And it was a book
where he broke down how people in Washington, d C.
In Congress just have this nasty habit of getting rich.

(48:30):
How how do they do it? Nancy Pelosi became the
poster child of it all because the wealth that she
and her husband have acquired during her time in Congress
is staggering. You know, the aforementioned Rick Scott, he entered
government as one of the wealthiest men in America. He

(48:53):
is the wealthiest man in Congress, but it had nothing
to do with Congress. He was wealthy before he ever
got there. To me, that's what makes it effective. I'm
not sure he's collecting a salary. He didn't collect one
when he was governor. I don't know if you knew
that he did not collect a salary. Donated his salary
to money to charities all the time, and best as

(49:18):
I can tell, he's doing the same thing with his
time in the Senate. Doesn't need the money. But there's
a company out there called dub Advisors, and they've built
an app that has access to a model portfolio that

(49:42):
tracks the trading strategies of Nancy Pelosi. It automatically rebalances
whenever her moves are publicly announced. It can't be an
exact replica of what Pelosi does, but they've devel developed
a program that when the disclosures are announced roughly forty

(50:04):
five days after a given trade or whatever happens. They
have used techniques that have been used by hedge funds
to design a portfolio that offers what they consider to
be the greatest chance about performing the market. How strongly

(50:27):
does a politician believe a stock will out will outperform,
and the likelihood that the politician has some insight into
the stock that's not widely known by others. That's the
insider intel that Peter Schweitzer talked about would it surprise
you to know that this cash symbol Pelosi portfolio launched

(50:49):
in September of twenty twenty three has returned as of
April first this year seventy seven point three four percent.

(51:11):
This has been the Pelosi formula. Now she and her
husband are either the most fortunate, luckiest investors ever, or
she's getting information and using it to guide her trades,

(51:33):
her husband's trades. Whatever. Seventy seven percent. It leaves me
speechless forty minutes past the hour. That's your big story
in the press box this morning, and it's not even close.

(51:59):
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(52:19):
Let's talk about our four legged friends and joining us.
Doctor Steve Steverson of the Breathville Animal Hospital, Morning, friend,
how are.

Speaker 5 (52:27):
You hey, Preston. I'm doing well. How are you?

Speaker 1 (52:30):
I'm doing great? The weather is warming up. We talked
last time about things that people can do to try
to prevent their dogs and cats from overheating as the
weather warms up and the humidity builds. But it occurs
to me that there will likely be people that maybe

(52:50):
have a problem and they forget something or something goes wrong.
What are some symptoms of heat distress for our pets
and what should we do about it?

Speaker 5 (53:01):
Yeah, you know, press and that's going to happen. We
see it. Unfortunately, you're just a little bit of inattention
and you have a pet that's in distress. So usually
what you'll look for, what you'll senior pet, they're excessive panting.
You know, there are a lot of times they are
panting anyway this time here, but it's a much more
distressed appearance. When they're panting, they'll have these red and
bright red gums, a really fast heart rate. They might

(53:23):
be drooling or salivating excessively, or if they've gotten beyond that,
they may be getting a little dehydrated, actually not drooling
or salivating, some fatigue and weakness. You know, you take
your dog for a walk in the heat of the
day and you're heading back to the house and they
just start slowing way down and they're they're struggling to
get home. Probably a heat related problem going on. You're

(53:45):
seeing those signs. You need to call your veterinarian right away.
This is a critical emergency when that happens. First thing
to do at home is one number one. Were your
dog to a cooler area, get them inside in the
air conditioning, maybe under a fan where there's some air
blowing on them, and do them apply cool water to them,
and especially you want to concentrate on the feet, the

(54:07):
inner thigh area to try and that's what really helps
to cool them down dramatically. You don't want to use
ice water. If you submerge them in an ice bath,
maybe that's good, but just ice water actually, interestingly enough,
that causes what's called vaso constriction, so that ice water
caused all the vessels in their skin to constrict, so

(54:28):
that actually don't cool as well. So using just cool
water is actually better than ice water. And if there
are does some studies to show that just putting water
and dousing your dog with water before you get them
the car and rush them to the veterinarian increases the
chances of survival greatly. So that's the one thing you
do do want to do at home before you put
them in the car to rush them to the hospital
is to wet them down with water to help cool

(54:49):
them down tremendously before they even get to the hospital.
This is a life threatening condition. It requires aggressive therapy
in most cases to save them. Their bodytems to gets
up above one hundred and four one hundred and six degrees.
All these bad things start to happen, and so we're
trying to prevent that or minimize it as best we can.

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So critical that you get them in right.

Speaker 1 (55:11):
Away, Doctor Steverson, you mentioned water on the paws, and
then the inside of the thighs. Are the rear legs
more important than the front legs. Is this about getting
coolness to like major veins, arteries, whatever that pump the blood.

Speaker 5 (55:27):
Well, it's more the abdomen on the belly and the
inner thigh has a lot of vascularity and as quick
return to the heart for cooling their internal organs. Okay, yeah,
the front paws and the back paws are front legs,
and the back legs aren't as qutical as that area.
The paws are very important though, because that's where the
dogs don't sweat, but they can perspire a little bit

(55:48):
through their pads of their feet, and so that's a
really important area to help cool them down, to get
their paws nice and cool.

Speaker 1 (55:54):
What about cats, same thing.

Speaker 5 (55:57):
With cats, Preston, Cats so adapt a little better heat
than dogs do, so we don't see heat stroking cats
quite as often, but it's exactly the same thing, and
that is to cool them down, get them to the
veterian right away, and that's the most important thing.

Speaker 1 (56:11):
Wow, good stuff, doctor Steverson. Thanks for the tips. We
appreciate it very much and we'll talk again in a
couple of weeks.

Speaker 5 (56:18):
Great thanks, Preston.

Speaker 1 (56:19):
Thank you, sir. Doctor Steve Steverson with us this morning
from the Bradfordville Animal Hospital. And you know it's like
it heat man. There are a couple things that come
for our pets, heat related stresses. For our kids, you
always see stories of someone forgetting a child on a
back seat. The heat brings a set of challenges that

(56:45):
you need to be mindful of. I still will always
remember if you're gonna go walking with your dog, take
your shoes and socks off and put your feet on
the pavement. If it's too hot for you it's too
hot for them. We have this idea that wow, they're dogs.
They got these thick pads on it. No, they burn,

(57:06):
They absolutely burn. So if it's too hot for your feet,
it's too hot for their feet. So either wait or
put something on their feet. Forty six minutes after the hour,
got a road trip idea? Something real funny? You not
you need to hear? Next on The Morning Show with
Preston Scott. Yeah, let'spend on the jewing in go.

Speaker 6 (57:41):
It's me road gymp here please shay, Yeah, yeah, we're going.
We're gonna give you some road trip tips here on
the Morning Show with Presidon Scott.

Speaker 1 (57:53):
Friends Today, West Virginia. We're bouncing back along the east
coast for a while. Eastern part of the country. Caverns, mountains,
rolling valleys. It's actually a loop that they recommend you
drive that starts in Morgantown, the home of University of

(58:15):
West Virginia or West Virginia University. You continue southeast Monongahela
National Forest nine hundred thousand acre forested region known for
its camping and skiing. You head west Charleston, capital city
of West Virginia, head northeast to buy seventy nine in Lewisbourg,

(58:42):
you take the detour to the Lost World Caverns, where
you can descend one hundred and twenty feet down. I
gotta tell you, I've been in a few caverns, Carlsbad Road,
renowned caverns. They're so big they don't freak you out.

(59:05):
Small caverns, O duh. No, I don't think I can
do those. I don't think I can do a cavern
where I have to duck at all to get in
or move around. If I have to duck at six
four and a half, give or take, I I am.
I'm not going in, not going in. Can't do it,

(59:28):
just can't. My breath starts getting shallow and I hyperventilate.
I just I know, I know you think less of me.
But that's okay. I've grown very comfortable with myself, and
so I just know. But if you're making a roady
up the east West, Virginia's beautiful, the wild, wonderful loop
from Morgantown takes you all the way around and you

(59:51):
have a great time. So there you go. There's your
road trip idea. I mentioned I had something fun for
you to listen to. This is Trump ABC News Terry
Moran and Moran's asking him of his relative confidence level
in Defense Secretary Pete's Pete hegsith a.

Speaker 7 (01:00:11):
Very good defense hopefully a great defense secretary, but it'll
be a very good defense sector.

Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
You have one hundred percent confidence?

Speaker 7 (01:00:17):
And why do you have to have one hundred percent
confidence in anything? Okay? Anything? Do I have one hundred percent?
It's a stupid question. Look, it's pretty important because I
have no. No, no, you don't have one hundred percent. Only
a liar would say I have one hundred percent confidence.
I don't have one hundred percent confidence that we're going
to finish this interview.

Speaker 1 (01:00:47):
When Moran says it's a pretty important position, he was
very insulted that Trump called him out for asking a
stupid question. I'll be honest with you there, my wife
I have one hundred percent confidence yet, and I'm not
lying I do. Now, do I have one hundred percent

(01:01:11):
confidence that she can lift a car off me if
a car fell on me? Probably not.

Speaker 3 (01:01:18):
So.

Speaker 1 (01:01:18):
Maybe the confidence level depends on the task. But as
a person, one hundred percent, one hundred percent. But I
just love Trump's answer, I'm not one hundred percent certain
this interview is gonna last so good? And it was

(01:01:40):
so Donald Trump, all right, we're gonna come back and
we're gonna talk to our US senator one of two,
Ashley Moody is now the junior center. Isn't that interesting?
Marco Rubio? Though the junior to Rick Scott was our
senior senator. Now Rick Scott is our senior senator and
Ashley Moody is our junior senator. But he is he's

(01:02:04):
long been a friend of this program from his days
as governor, and he will join us next for a
couple of segments here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Let's get right to it. The third hour of the
Morning Show Show five three and seventy. But who's counting?

(01:02:26):
It is Thursday, May first, which means it is National
Day of Prayer state capitals across the country. Prayer will
be again at noon it is. It's going to take
place at Florida's capital in between the historic capital and
the new capital and in the plaza area at noon today.

(01:02:47):
Joining us is the man who was governor for this
state for eight years and now our ranking member of
the United States Senate, Rick Scott.

Speaker 3 (01:02:55):
How are you a Senator, good morning, going on a
great day. There's all wonderful things happened in our country.
Got a lot of work to do, and God's clearly
blessed our country, and I think we need all be
very appreciative. I want to recognize Pam Olson, who who
is very active in prayer in Tallahassee, and she's always

(01:03:20):
He's always praying for me and my family and I
got I got to hope when I was elected as governor.

Speaker 1 (01:03:26):
She's a delightful lady and leading the effort once again
here at the state Capitol. Specifically, Senator, how do you
think people ought to be praying for our government leaders.

Speaker 3 (01:03:39):
I think, you know what I always pray for is,
you know, give me the courage and the wisdom. I
mean one of the wisdom to do the right thing,
the courage to do the right thing. I think that's
what we need to hope for our leaders.

Speaker 5 (01:03:54):
They need to be humble.

Speaker 3 (01:03:57):
And the so and they need to remember, you know,
why they were elected. But I think that the prayer
for wisdom and their for courage to do the right
thing is probably the most important thing.

Speaker 1 (01:04:10):
Recently, you reintroduced some legislation with Senator Tammy Baldwin, the
Cool Online Act tell us about it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:18):
Well, it's pretty simple. I first, they don't believe we
should ever buy anything from China. Communists. China, the country
that is created precursors to kill almost eighty thousand Americans
the year, the country that you know, steals all of
our technologies, build the military, and threaten our allies, country
that wants to dominate the world and hates the American

(01:04:40):
Waylike So, I've been trying to get a legation passing.
They got a peer and I'm really disappointed Amazon, unbelievably disappointed. Amazon.
They said they could put tell where how much the
tarifs are going to be, but they can't put online
where thinks something's produced. When I buy, if I get
on Amazon, if I can't find out where it's made,

(01:05:02):
I assume it's made in China. So I'm not buying
it because it infuriates me. When I buy something and
piercey be created here in the United States and I
get the boxes made in China, I send it back.
And so what this would do is tell people upfront, Amazon, Walmart,
everybody that sells online, tell us where this stuff's made.

(01:05:23):
Go make it hard I want to buy a stuffing
the other day, and so I just called and the
company they shocking. They answered the hunderdline and I said, okay,
so you know you say you make American products. I said,
where's this one made?

Speaker 5 (01:05:38):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
It's made in China. He said, well, why did you
put that on your website? Well, he wouldn't sell the
buy American stuff. And I want my bills, says, and
I tell us where to live the daylight these things
are made, so we can make it an informed decision,
because I personally do not want to buy anything made
in communist China. I don't. I think we have to
think about who our enemies are. They've chosen, they have

(01:06:02):
chosen the bear enemies. Stop buying from them.

Speaker 1 (01:06:05):
How does the legislation? Does the legislation deal with the
pass throughs? We know that South Korea is suddenly going
to start addressing that, at least they claim, But what
about those countries that are taking Chinese products and relabeling them.

Speaker 3 (01:06:21):
First of all, nothing's going to be perfect. It is,
it's where it's manual, it's supposed to be. It's supposed
to be where it's manufactured. Okay, are they going to
play games. Yeah, there's going to be. China is a
despicable government. They're going to try everything they can. But
guess what South Korea wants us to be their ally.
They want us to have troops to make sure China

(01:06:44):
North Korea don't invade. Guess what act responsibly. I'm working
on off ed right now. And it's so simple. Here's
what it says. We are going to have to start
choosing our economic partners. Stop buying oil from Russia, Europe,
stop final old from Russia. You want us to help
you defend as a member of NATO when Russia wants

(01:07:06):
to invade. I was just over over in Finland and
Denmark and Sodio. You want us to be there to
be your backstop right in theis case's there are troops
on the ground right there. Okay, every country in Europe
needs to stop buying now. I know Finland's son, I
know Denmark's hunt, I know Estonia's not. But because what
Germany is and I should want our troops there. We

(01:07:28):
have a lot of troops in Germany because they don't
want Russian baby. Okay, so pick your pardon.

Speaker 1 (01:07:34):
Good stuff joining US US Senator Rick Scott Senator standby
more to come ten past the hour a few minutes
more with US Senator Rick Scott of Florida and the
Senator at what point, what do you think it will

(01:07:57):
take for us to get an act vitual budget that
is passed by Congress and signed by a president versus
continuing resolutions our crisis?

Speaker 3 (01:08:10):
I mean, so that's why I ran, you know, I
ran to be the leader, and I said, come on,
we're going to do We're going to do appropriations. We're
going to go through a real cycle. I don't believe
we're going to get a budget this year. First off,
it does take sixty votes, but we're going to world
end up on September thirty. We're going to end up
with a continuing resolution because you know what it is.

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It's like they don't they don't understand. There's no connect
up here between interest rates being high and wasteful government spending.
No connection here between Why is inflation show so high? Well,
it's because we're spending two trillion dollars more and collect

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two trillion. We've had a fifty three percent increase is
spending the last five years in a two percent increase
in population? Why and it's like it's pulling teeth. So
we need to reduce spending by two trillion dollars. You
know what the House is talking about doing in their reconcilation,
reducing it by one hundred and fifty billion dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:09:15):
It's absurd.

Speaker 3 (01:09:16):
We need reduced like two trillion. Yeah, I mean, I mean,
I think the election was about secure the border, get
inflation under control. Inflation is not going to get under
control if we don't balance and stuck. It's not it's all.
It's all because we borrow money and interest rates. Think
about this, person, Just tell me we only have a

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twenty eight trillion dollar economy. We have to refinance nine
trillion dollars of treasuries this year and sell to Americans
two trillion dollars more of ursuries. It just boggles my
mind that people think, oh, sure, inter rates are going
to come down, how right? Yeah, if there's if we

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start paying off the debt and so then then you know,
people say, well I want to buy treasury, so I
have to I have to buy them, and then then
there'll be a bigger there'll be a bigger needs than supply.
But we are, I mean, we are, we are running
staggering deficits right now, we have got to get this.
But I think I think the budget's going to be
tied to when there's a financial crisis. And there's your

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financial crisis. Look at gold. Gold is doubled in five years.
That's telling you something. It's not because everybody's buying more
gold jewelry. It's because people are decided they have less
trust in the dollar than they do in a hard
asset like gold. That's telling you something.

Speaker 1 (01:10:43):
Absolutely, it is. You know, if the federal government were
like everybody else's budget that's listening to us talk right now,
they couldn't borrow money because they would be out over
their skills, they couldn't do it well.

Speaker 3 (01:10:56):
And then j Powell over the Federal Reserve, his balance cheat.
He's gone and bought long term treasuries, long term government
back bond to keep long term interest rates down, which
sounds really wonderful, right. I guess what it did? It
cost a misallocation capital and he's now short one trillion
dollars and losing one hundred billion dollars here, So that

(01:11:18):
bank that you might want to go borrow a loan
to buy your first business like I did, No I
don't need to you money, Jay Powell. He's paying me
money just to hold treasuries. I think I'll just keep doing.

Speaker 1 (01:11:28):
That, Senator, I want to change gears for our final
couple of minutes here. I had flag to your team
and asked them to get in front of you the
case of Pat Tate. Adomiak.

Speaker 3 (01:11:39):
I saw I read this.

Speaker 1 (01:11:41):
We need just we need your help.

Speaker 3 (01:11:43):
Read Okay, I'm gonna yeah, I just I just saw this,
So I'm gonna see what I can do. I'll get
you know, I always have to get more facts. But
but man, this is it sure seems like this is
makes no sense. This is what they did? Is this?
And why do why do government people want to put
hard working veterans into prison?

Speaker 1 (01:12:06):
In this case, they wanted to make an example of him.
And the bottom line, though, is is they framed him
to do it. And the research that Lee Williams has
done on this is irrefutable. And I can only hope
that you have the opportunity and as a fellow Navy man,
are able to get this in front of President Trump,
because sadly Trump has to take action. This kid should

(01:12:28):
not be languishing in prison.

Speaker 3 (01:12:31):
Twenty or so he should be in prison a day.

Speaker 1 (01:12:34):
Yeah, and everyone read and every single thing that he
was convicted of, every single weapon that was quote illegal,
is legally owned and can be bought online right now,
every single one of them. So I appreciate it, Senator.
Anything you can do to help him, I greatly appreciate it, Sir.

Speaker 3 (01:12:53):
I will go to president.

Speaker 1 (01:12:55):
Senator thank you. You know we're here for you anytime.

Speaker 3 (01:12:58):
All right, take care, bye.

Speaker 1 (01:12:59):
Thank you us. Senator Rick Scott with us this morning,
seventeen minutes past the hour. It is the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. Always appreciate the candor. You can sense

(01:13:34):
the frustration in the voice of Rick Scott when it
comes to our debt. He gets it. He successfully brought
Florida's debt down while we maintain a ballots budget. We
were taking excess revenues and paying down debt. How refreshing

(01:13:56):
right he under stands it. There are not a whole
ton of very wealthy people that understand that concept of
you can't well you know what, let me back that up.
I bet a bunch of wealthy people understand the concept
that you can't borrow more than you take in, you

(01:14:18):
can't have debts that are greater than your income. It's
just our federal government has you and me to fall
back on. I came across a very interesting analysis of
China's behavior by Gordon Chang. He is Gatestone Institute Senior Fellow.

(01:14:39):
He is an analyst specifically of China. He said, something
is very very wrong in Beijing right now, at a
time when China needs friends, because it's not selling goods
to the US, it's going out of its way to
antagonize not just the Philippines, not just Taiwan, but also
South Korea. It shows that this is end of regime

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conduct because Yi Jinping cannot appear to be giving in
to the United States. And Chang is making the point
that I've made that China cannot their national pride in particular,
GI's cannot allow for there to be an appearance of

(01:15:31):
a US win here. Somehow Trump's got to give him
an off ramp. Maybe they really are the United States
and now the gathering nations of the world are holding
literally all the cards. And Chang gets into why, and
I thought this was interesting. He he said, Jinping has

(01:16:01):
configured the Chinese political system so that it's hostile and
because he's been making the claim that China has surpassed
the US. He can't look dependent on trade with the
United States, and he certainly can't look like he's taking
talking to the US under pressure. This is very perplexing
behavior and it shows something very very wrong in Beijing.
Right now, China, without any announcements, is not collecting tariffs

(01:16:28):
on important goods. So for instance, some semiconductors, aviation products,
industrial chemicals, medical devices, some medicines, and he said that's
going to expand this is Gordon Chang. It means that
China has made an important concession, but it's saying it's
not making a concession, which is a fascinating insight. This

(01:16:52):
is going to be interesting. Trump has China over the barrel. Remember,
China can't buy all the stuff it makes because it
suppresses the income of its people through communism. It's it's

(01:17:15):
just not capable of consumption. They also handicap themselves by
going with this single child policy for years and so
their population is literally aging out and they don't have
nearly enough people to replace. So these are some would

(01:17:40):
say desperate times, which is not necessarily the safest thing
for the world, because there's no telling what will happen
when someone's desperate. But when Trump Trump will get to
Trump here in a second. When he says be patient,
He's right. We're not five months into a new administration.

(01:18:06):
It takes time. And I told you this. Twenty seven
minutes after the hour, back with more of the Morning Show.

Speaker 8 (01:18:18):
The Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one
hundred point seven WFLA.

Speaker 1 (01:18:36):
Thirty five minutes after the hour. Late on a Thursday
Morning Show with Preston Scott, National Day of Prayer Today.
Surely we can get one hundred people out there want
to pray right right noon, Get there a little early,

(01:18:57):
little singing, little whoo praise, some worship and then calling
down some thunder from heaven, asking God to give wisdom
and discernment. Rick Scott said, it courage do the right thing.

(01:19:17):
One of the things I've said to people about their
Christian walk for years. Being a Christian now is not
really that different from being a Christian in the times
of Christ and being a follower. It is not easy,

(01:19:45):
but it is unbelievably simple. Let that resonate for a second.
It's not a complicated thing thing, guys am, I faithful

(01:20:11):
to my wife or or am I gonna cheat? You
might be in a marriage. It's struggling right now, both
men and women fix the marriage. It's not complicated. Is

(01:20:33):
it easy? No, it's simple. Do you watch porn? No,
it's simple. You get drunk? No, it's simple. Is it
hard to avoid some of those vices? Depending on what
the vice is for some of you, like you're just

(01:20:55):
you struggle with certain personality traits that lead you into
certain addictive behavior. Gambling. I'm not talking about buying a
lotto ticket once a quarter. I'm talking about people that
are dropping paychecks on games. And I'm not talking scratch offs.
That's bad. I see people scratching away their tickets all

(01:21:20):
the time. It's outside stores. They get the tickets, they're
scratching right away. Is it easy to fight off those
addicted behavior?

Speaker 2 (01:21:28):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:21:29):
But is it simple yes? As I look at the
big stories today in the press box, these aren't complicated things.
Is it easy to transform our government from a government
that takes and takes and takes to treating every tax

(01:21:52):
dollar as if it's literally the dollars of each and
every member of Congress coming out of their personal wallets.
Is it easy to make that transformation. No. Is it
easy to pull together a constitutional convention to demand a
balanced budget and put states? No? But is it simple? Yes?

(01:22:21):
When you call yourself a Christian, you make a commitment
to represent Christ. Is it easy?

Speaker 7 (01:22:35):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:22:36):
Is it simple? Yes? National Day of Prayer today. Stay
capitals across the country. Florida's no different. If you can't
come to Florida State capitals, start praying at noon in
your time zone. In your time zone, start praying at noon.

(01:23:00):
If you can't be there, that's fine. Just start praying.
Pray at some point from noon to one fifteen. Take
five minutes, take a break, take your lunch hour, fast,
faster your lunch hour. Give it up to the God.
Do some pray. Join in easy? No, simple, Yes.

Speaker 9 (01:23:19):
Forty minutes past the Oh my goodness.

Speaker 1 (01:23:59):
I was there. It was It was devastating. November eighteenth,

(01:24:20):
twenty twenty three, Florida State was hosting North Alabama. I
was there. I was there when Jordan Travis went down. I,

(01:24:45):
along with a lot of people in that stadium, just
fell silent. I knew based on what I was watching,
this was not a routine injury. When Jordan Travis went down,

(01:25:16):
it it changed his life. That singular moment. That one
moment changed his life. Jordan Real used a statement yesterday

(01:25:37):
on November eighteenth, twenty twenty three, my life took an
unexpected turn. I gave everything I had to the rehab process,
but despite all my efforts, my leg never responded the
way we hoped. After much prayer and consultation with the
doctor's medical experts in my agent, I have been medically

(01:25:58):
advised to retire from the game I loved so deeply
and so at the age of twenty four, without ever
having taken a snap in a professional football game. Jordan
Travis is done. But here's what I know. His story

(01:26:22):
is yet to be written. I consider a hat that
I have that has his number put on it in
such a way that it says blessed the number thirteen,
and it looks like it's the b L and blessed.

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That's a treasure to me because I think so highly
of him and his commitment to christ. I sent a
text yesture to Michael Alford, the athletic director at Florida State.
I said, what do you think does Mike Norvel have
a spot on his staff for a new quarterback coach?

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I don't know what the future holds, but I know
the one who holds it, and I know that as
much as I kid you not. When I read the
news yesterday, my heart hurt for Jordan. What a good dude,

(01:27:37):
what a competitor quarterback leader. The fact that that team
that he led did not get to compete for a
national title is one of the great tragedies of college
football history. But I doubt they would have won without

(01:28:03):
Jordan Travis. They might have if they'd have kept the
entire band together, but Jordan was the man, and so
I just am heartbroken. But at the same time, I'm

(01:28:29):
reminded of a part of the Bible that says that
when it talks about the death of somebody, that we
grieve differently, that we grieve with hope because of the
assurance that we have in God's Word about what's next.
So we put to death Jordan's professional football career, and

(01:28:54):
my heart grieves for that for him, not in a
way of losing someone's life, you know what I'm saying.
I hurt for him, but I grieve differently because I
know that he places his trust in Christ, and so
I have hope, and I think what's coming is going

(01:29:15):
to be incredible. I don't know what form it's going
to take. I have no idea. If Jordan Travis may
one day be the youngest D one football coach in America,
I sure see him in the college game because I
think his ability to impact young people is so dramatic.

(01:29:37):
But we'll see forty eight minutes after the hour this
morning show at Preston Scott. All Right, National Day of Prayer.

(01:30:08):
Let's get some folks at the plaza in between the
Old Capital and the New there not facing Appalachi Parkway
if you're in the Capital City. Also box fans. We
are collecting box fans Panama City. ACE Hardware stores in
Bay and Walton County. You can buy the fans right

(01:30:30):
there and leave them right there, but if you get
them elsewhere, drop them off at an ACE Hardware store.
They are going to be distributed in the Panama City
region through the Bay County Council on Aging to senior
adults that need them, and as well here in tallahassee
the PEPSI distribution center across from TSC, and you can

(01:30:53):
drop them here at the iHeartRadio station. So that'll make
a big difference.

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Speaker 1 (01:31:06):
Started the program in Ephesians four, verses ten through fourteen.
Well we'll finish this little part of Ephesians tomorrow on
the program, but that's how we began the program. Big
stories in the press box today, of course, we had
a great discussion with US Senator Rick Scott with Steve
Stewart of Tallassi Reports Doctor Steve Steverson in our Pause

(01:31:28):
for Thoughts segment offering tips if you should have a
dog or cat get a little bit overheated. Heat stress
can be a real problem, especially for dogs. Cats are
not so prone to it, but can have it, but
dog's absolutely so some tips on how to avoid that
and what to do. A few sins. It's going on

(01:31:51):
President Trump blaming the wobbly stock market on Biden. Look,
Biden created an economic but the stock market really had
no wasn't reflecting it at all. So I think gets
a mistake to go there. What is interesting is that
there's such a thing as the portfolio of Nancy Pelosi.

(01:32:16):
It's called the dollar Sign. It's a dollar sign Pelosi.
It's handled by dub Advisors, and it's a portfolio that
mimics Nancy Pelosi's trading in the stock market what she discloses.
And it has returned seventy seven point three four percent

(01:32:36):
since its inception in twenty twenty three. Just saying Milwaukee
County Judge said, yeah, the DEM's narrative on the Judge
Dougan case is not exactly accurate. The Feds can do
what they did China exhibiting end of regime conduct. Covered
a lot of ground today. Tomorrow we'll do it again.

(01:32:58):
Also tomorrow, what would you and what's the beef? Have
a great day, friends,