Ep. 5375: All in for the Gospel, Chris and Lacey's Mission from God.

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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Welcome France to Thursday on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
On Preston, He's Jose.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Made the eighth more on that date in mere moments,
and black smoke is rising from the Vatican as they
have held their second vote at the conclave and thus
have not made a decision on the future of the
Catholic Church and who will lead it.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
I feel as though I should have some form of
accent as I discuss it. As international media's eyes are
upon what's going on in Vatican City, we're looking, of
course for white smoke, which would signal a vote has
achieved a decision on the next pontiff. Yeah, anyway, let's

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begin with some scripture of our own. What do you
think we've been talking about Jonah.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Jonah's story is one of God said do this, he
said Nah. He didn't pray about it until he got
tossed off a ship swallowed by fish, and then he thought,
you know, I think I'm gonna pray now just for
a second. Suspend whatever you think of this story and consider,

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isn't that kind of what happens for a lot of us.
We don't pray until we're tossed off the ship and
we're in a belly of a beast. It could just
be a bad situation. It could be the sum of
a bunch of bad decisions. Then we're like, okay, God,
I'm praying. And so Jonah prays. And in fact, chapter

(01:58):
two of the Book of Jonah is his prayer.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
I mean the verse one.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Then Jonah prayed to the Lord is God from the
belly of the fish, and verse ten and the Lord
spoke to the fish and vomited Jonah out upon dry land.
In between was the prayer. Now, what I want you
to think about is what's happened. God said Jonah, I

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want you to do this. Jonah said no. God said okay.
A lot of people were impacted by Jonah's decision, all
the other men of the ship, the captain, they couldn't
do anything to stop what God was doing. Here. They
tossed Jonah overboard. Jonah gets swallowed up by the fish.

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He says, yeah, I think it's a good time to pray.
He prays. God delivers him. Now we pick up the
story Jonah chapter three. Then the word of the Lord
came to Jonah the second time. Arise and go to Nineveh.

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There is such a beauty in that God said exactly
what he said the first time, and Jonah was a
little different this time. Jonah arose and went to Ninevah.

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Hoose'sa they're laughing. I'm laughing.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
It's funny until you go, Yeah, that's kind of me,
isn't it.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
Well, I'm laughing, very relatable.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, buddy, It's like all of this that happened didn't
have to happen, but it did. And God, it's almost
like I hear God clearing his throat Jonah, I'd like

(04:28):
you to go to Nineveh instead of Jonah going I'm
not going, I'm out of here.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Jonah was like, Ah, yes, Lord.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
So where we are in this story is the big takeaway.
It is wise to be obedient from the beginning. This
is a wonderful, full story to share with your children
and your teens and your young adults. Ten past the hour,

(05:11):
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
There will be another vote or two today at the Vatican.
They're taking a lunch break. It's shortly after noon. It's
twelve minutes past noon in the Vatican at the Vatican. Yeah,

(05:51):
Vatican City time probably corresponds with the region, but just
I think it sounds cool.

Speaker 4 (06:00):
VCT Vatican City time.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Today's May eighth, fifteen forty one, Spanish explorer Hernando de
Soto reaches the Mississippi River.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
I just.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Being the idiot that I am. I'm just I'm reaching there.
It is, let's see. Eighteen forty six. General Zachary Taylor
wins the first major battle of the Mexican War at
Palo Alto, Texas, not California.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Eighteen eighty four. Harry S.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Truman, thirty third US President, born in Lamar, Missouri, eighteen
it you don't think of Harry S. Truman being born
in the eighteen eighties. Haberdasher himself eighteen eighty six. Druggist
John S. Pemberton, his name sound familiar. The first Coca

(07:01):
Cola at Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia. I say, begrudgingly,
it is one of the better visits on a trip
to the atl The Coke Museum is amazing.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
It is. It is so cool. They usually have that
massive polar.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
Bear wandering around and I don't know how that thing
works because it's massive and it walks so someone's in
that thing and the top of it is like an
animatronic type deal where it moves its head and blinks
very softly and nice gently, and I mean it's incredible

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poses for pictures. It's awesome because you feel like you're
in a Coca Cola commercial. And let's face it, the
best Coca Cola commercials come out at Christmas time with
the polar bears in the snow and a coke. Those
are the best. Those polar bears are adorable. And so

(08:10):
if I'm at the Coke Museum, I am tracking down
those that polar bear and a hug from it makes
me feel like a child again because it's so big.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Let's see here. That was eighteen eighty six.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Nineteen fourteen, Congress establishes the second Sunday in May as
Mother's Day. Don't forget about it, guys, don't forget.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
Just don't.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
And in nineteen forty five, America celebrates victory in Europe
over the Nazis V Day.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
As a result, today is national Have a Coke.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
Day, even if you don't drink Coca Cola, have a
Coke Day to celebrate an iconic American brand. And you
know what, I think you got to smile when you
do it. So have a coke and a smile. That

(09:20):
ought to be a slogan that they ought to market,
that have a coke and a smile. In fact, I've
got a tune in my head.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Have a coke and a smile. Yeah, that'll work.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
I do that. I get these ideas for like, for example,
I've always believed that publics ought to use where shopping
is a pleasure. I just think that's gold.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
They don't use that already.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Oh they do, that's right. Yeah, maybe that's where I
heard it. Yeah, they do.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
That. I'm just yeah, you're testing me. I'm not a
big fan of Nike. I have some Nike gear. I
don't buy new Nike gear.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
But there was a time that I thought a really
good slogan for them would be just do it. It's
also National Coconut Cream Pie Day. Woh, coconut cream pies.
They're solid. They are solid, sixteen almost seventeen minutes past.

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I'll say it's sixteen so.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
I can feel like I'm on time.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
The show happens on Thursday nights beginning June twelfth. Alone.
This time, I'm alone heads to Africa and it premieres
June twelfth at nine o'clock Eastern. We may have somebody
from a previous season of Alone, maybe one of the

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contestants or a producer, somebody from this season.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
I don't know. They're working on it.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
They're going to be in the Great Karu Desert, which
is crazy. Cobras are among the snakes that are in
the area, and there is no anti venom for a
cobra snake bite. It's just it's nuts. But you get

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a bunch of stuff that don't count towards the ten
items that you're allowed to have. You can't take. For example,
you're allowed one pair of high leg hunting boots knee
high's maximum height, but you're allowed one pair, only allowed

(12:00):
one pair of ankle high boots. You're allowed one T shirt,
short sleep, not two, not three.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
One.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
But then you get to the items that fall into
the category of shelter, bedding and hygiene tools, hunting, cooking,
and food.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
And that's it.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
You get ten of those three categories. You can pick
ten things, and so you have to consider the climate
you're in, the animals, you may or may not face,
the hunting that you will need to do to secure
to procure food, and so I've given Hose the assignment

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because he enjoys primitive camping. If you're dropped in the
middle of this place where the temperatures can get really
cold and really hot, it's extremes very dry, less than
sixteen inches of rain a year, but you're gonna probably

(13:07):
be buy a water source, but you gotta filter that
water in some way, shape or form. What's the first
thing that you're picking out of your ten items, Well,
I would.

Speaker 5 (13:23):
Say a knife, especially the hunting knife on here. They
have a couple of different knives, but I feel like
a knife I would be able to, you know, dig
even if it's just four inches, you know, I'd be
able to dig with that, you know, possibly some shelter
to get away from the sun.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
Now, to give you an idea of what he's choosing,
from under tools to pocket knife, which could be you know,
a multi tool, that's another option, like a leather man
a hunting knife, which is heat talking about no longer
than ten inches straight buy no other built in blades,
no skinning blade on the spine, no nothing, nothing else.

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A sharpening stone if you want to try to keep
it sharp. You can bring a sharpening stone. But now
if you get a knife and a sharpening stone, that's
two items. You're down to eight left right, Uh, you
can get duct tape, a shovel, a machete, a sewing kit,
a carabiner, an led flashlight, a Scotch eyed auger, one

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two handle draw knife, a hatchet, a saw, an axe.
Some use an axe for securing woods, some use a
saw something. It's more productive to use a saw less effort.
So you're starting with your ten inch You want one
of those ten inch knives?

Speaker 2 (14:50):
Oh? Yeah, are you getting a sharpening stone? Are you?
Or are you going to try to find one?

Speaker 6 (14:56):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (14:56):
Yeah, I'll try to find one.

Speaker 5 (14:58):
I wouldn't wouldn't want to waste an item with the
sharpening stone, but but yeah, I'll try to find one.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
And I'm assuming I got socks.

Speaker 5 (15:05):
So I would be able to use some rocks, sand,
dirt and stuff to make a makeshift water filter.

Speaker 7 (15:12):
Oh sort of thing.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
It will get to.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
We're gonna, we're gonna we're gradually gonna put together our
lists here and so when we're all said and done,
we're gonna have our ten items that we're gonna bring.
If you'd like to just kind of have some fun
with us on this. We're gonna talk about it on
Thursdays because the Alone shows on a Thursday. I just,
I just it fits. And yes, it is that good

(15:35):
of a television show. I'm telling you. You can catch
previous episodes on the History Channel's website History channel dot
com slash alone, and you'll find previous seasons at least
last season's on there. You can watch the whole thing.
You can binge watch binge watching alone is really fun,
but it's it. I'm warning you now. It's so addictive

(15:56):
and there's nothing hokey about it. There's no setups. This
is legit, honest reality television, and I love it. So
you can go to the list and if you go
to History Channel dot if you go to History dot
com slash alone, you can get to the twelve the

(16:17):
list rather the gear list, and you can figure out
what you would take. But I caution you read up
about where they're going before you make your choices. Twenty
seven minutes after the Going Back with More including the
Big Stories in the press Box, Steve.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
Stewart just a little bit.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
Dr David Hart's next hour try to help you feel
a little bit better got a road trip suggestion, And
in the third hour, I'm going to introduce you to
a couple Chris and Lacy Ryan, and they are heading
to the Czech Republic to serve as missionaries. And it's

(17:07):
an incredible journey that they're about to embark on. They've
been there, but they're about to make the move there
as in I'm not sure when I'll see you again
type move. And I thought it would be fascinating to
talk with a couple heading over and give you an

(17:28):
opportunity if you want to take part in what they're
doing their journey, give you a chance to do that.
So that's coming up later in the show as well.
Big stories in the press box. I have to say
I take no joy in it, but there is a
a bit of a smile of vindication. The antics of

(17:52):
the Florida Legislature during this session have caught the eye
of the national media. The Federalist listen to this headline
GOP works with Democrats to make Florida purple again. Joey Pullman,
who is the executive editor for the Federalists, said, State

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House Republicans work with Democrats to make Florida purple again.
The establishment's revival in Florida threatens Republican victories in the
state long term and Florida's policy leadership across the country.
Republicans may be heading toward a no confidence vote in
Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez after he and other state

(18:36):
legislators have spent this spring attempting to neuter policies that
make Florida the national pace center for evective governance. This
includes efforts to hamper immigration enforcement, protect education waste and indoctrination,
undue lawsuit limits, increase taxes in smear conservatives. Inside the article,

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she quotes Anthony Sabatini, a former state rep county commissioner
outside of Orlando. He says Florida was very atypical for
six years. Then now it's just going back into typical mode,
which is more like Texas or Indiana or Georgia.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
A red legislature that we're.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
Going to do everything we can and to bring Walmart's
tax rate to the lowest maginal level imaginable, and then
do absolutely nothing to combat things that affect the quality
of life for the desiccating middle class. How familiar does
all of that sound to you? This is exactly what

(19:35):
I've been pointing to. I've been telling you and I've
been warning you where this session was going and why
the House definitely needs new leadership. The Senate, it's a
coin toss. I would lean towards new leadership in the

(19:56):
Senate because they're killing legislation that is needed for political purposes.
There there are votes by Florida senators torpedoing nominees that
basically amount to smear campaigns. I'm just gonna say, I
told you, I told you, And now it's on the

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national radar. What's happening here in Florida. You watch, They're
going to be there. The Danny Perez crowd in the
House is going to get really nasty. They're not going
to be conciliatory. They're not going to step back and
go you know they're right, Oh no, no, nope, that's

(20:40):
not how these kinds of things go. Wait, Watchers filing bankruptcy.
Sixty two year old program is entered chapter eleven, which
will quote bolster its financial position, increase investment flexibility and
its strategic growth initiative, and better serve its million members
around the world.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
Hmm.

Speaker 1 (21:04):
They've got about one point five billion in debt and
the problem is that the weight loss world has kept
on moving and weight watchers has stayed pretty stagnant. I
equate weight watchers to the newspaper industry. The newspaper industry

(21:24):
did not evolve with the digital world, and weight watchers
has not evolved as everything from shots to online programs
for weight loss have taken over and healthier reading. And
then Trump's not budging on China's tariffs. They are going
to have some discussions this weekend, but Trump's not gonna Nope,

(21:53):
He's holding firm good forty one minutes after the hour.
Something you need to.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
Here next.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Just came across
this in one of my gazillion feeds. Never heard of

(22:26):
Rod dreher d R E H E R. He's a conservative,
he has authored books. He's a writer, lecturer. The Benedict
Option Live Not by Lies one of his books that
he'll reference here.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
Living in Wonder euro Conservative is how he's described as well.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
He is. He's giving a lecture here at the University
of Texas, Austin, and he's addressing and defining totalitarianism in
this era. And I think it's very, very relevant.

Speaker 8 (23:15):
There was a TV reporter went to a small town
in western Indiana to interview these evangelical Christians father and
his daughter who ran a pizza parlor.

Speaker 9 (23:24):
They asked them, would you serve gay customers? And they said, well,
of course.

Speaker 8 (23:28):
They said, would you cater a gay wedding pizza parlor
in small town Indiana? They said, well, no, we're Evangelical Christians.
That's against our belief, but we will welcome gay customers.
This went viral nationwide. They got death threats, they had
to go into hiding. This prompted a man, he is
a cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic, to reach out to
me through a mutual friend, to say, I've got to

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tell somebody this. My mother spent six years in a
Communist prison in Czechoslovakia when she was young because she
was a Vatican spy. All that meant was she wouldn't
stop going to Mass when the Communist told her to stop.
When she finally got out, she immigrated to America and
met my dad, and that was that. He was born
in America.

Speaker 9 (24:08):
She lives with us now, me and my wife, and
she's really old.

Speaker 8 (24:10):
She said, son, the things that are happening in America
now remind me of what was happening in my home
country when communism first came. And this doctor was so
rattle by he had to tell some journalists and it
was me, Well, I thought, you know, my mom watches
a lot of fots news. She's afraid of the Muslims
and everybody else. This is probably just an old lady.

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But then when I would go travel around. I would
travel around and when I would meet people who had
come to America from the Soviet Bloc, I would just
ask them, because this was when the great Awokening was
really getting underway, I would ask them, are the things
you're seeing here?

Speaker 9 (24:42):
Does it remind you of what you left behind?

Speaker 8 (24:44):
All of them said yes, And that's when I realized
there's a story here, and that was the genesis of
lifnot by Lies.

Speaker 9 (24:51):
The first half of the book, I talk about what kind.

Speaker 8 (24:54):
Of totalitarianism this is, because it's not the Soviet hard version.
It's something much more subtle, much more like Brave New
World than nineteen eighty four.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
It reminds me of the very first week I was
doing this radio program. I don't remember a lot because
I was really sick that week, but I remember a story,
and the story was of a playground in California that
banned the game tag because it was discriminatory to the

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child who was it in their minds, little fatty fat
kids were always it and then picked on. And nothing
could be further from the truth, because anyone with an
ounce of common sense that remembers playing the game nos.
The last person you want is it is a kid

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that's a little portly. They're too easy to catch. You
don't want the fastest kid, the most agile.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
You want that.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
Kid in the middle to be it. Someone you can
catch but still presents a challenge. But I'll never forget
that because I said, at the time you watch this,
political correctness is going to be the undoing of our culture.
And at the core of the Great Awokening, I'd never

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heard that before. That's brilliant, The Great Awokening at the
core of it is political correctness. I just thought it
was an interesting observation from a guy who has researched this.
Forty seven minutes past the houtum, the Great Awokening.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
Gotta love that, all right.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
A few little logs and ends here before we get
to the top of the hour. Steve Stewart joining US
President Trump, dispelling the long standing rumor he's going to
do it. He's going to try to get a third term.
He's going to try to violate the Constitution. He's like,
uh no, I'm not. He was asked directly, he said no.

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On NBC's Meet the Press, he was asked who would
be perhaps a successor. He listed two names. He listed
the Vice President jd. Vance, which you would expect, and
he listed Secretary of State Marco Rubio, which I thought
was fascinating. Thought it was very very interesting. Are you

(27:51):
seriously considering a third term, mister president, even though it's
prohibited by the constitution, or is this about staying politically viable?
He said, this is not something I'm looking to do.
A lot of people have said, oh, no, you can
do it. And obviously there are a lot of people
that think he ought to.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
Jose and I are split. We are divided. We are
a divided family on this. But that's okay.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
He's wrong. Now. You can't do that.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
You cannot feed into this dictator, bend the rules. No,
the Constitution is clear two terms. I think we can
argue about whether or not he was robbed in the
second election. I think he was most of you think

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he was. But I also think it worked out to
our advantage. Trump being out set us up for a
better second term with Trump than we.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
Would have had otherwise.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
I don't think there's any doubt in that second little
item that I think is worth noting here. DHS says
it will pay illegal immigrants one thousand bucks to self deport.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
What do you think about that statement?

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Released earlier this week, Illegal aliens would see quote both
financial and travel assistance to facilitate travel back to their
home country.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
Through the CBP Home app, and.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
That those individuals who aren't authorized to be in the
United States will get a one thousand dollars stipend after
their return to their home countries been confirmed through the app.
Sign me up, I'll give a love offering. No, seriously,

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it is an absence brilliant investment. If it helps get
someone back home, so be it probably wouldn't go any
more than that. But we'll save money. We're saving money,
we're saving pain and suffering, saving all kinds of things. Because, again,
as I said, lawmakers are unwilling to do what is

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needed to deal with this problem completely and that means
fixing legal immigration, allowing for the proper and appropriate number
of work visas, which I have no problem with, and
I wouldn't think most of you do either. Just do
it the legal way, the right way. We've made it difficult.
Some are violating the law because it is so difficult.

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But the bottom line is they're violating the law. They
have broken the end too the country illegally, just like
someone might break into one's house.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
It's not right.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
The liberals aren't welcoming them to sleep on their couches. Okay,
a couple of judges are, so I think it's a
good investment. All right, we come back. Steve Stewart joins
us from Tallassi Reports. Thursday on the Morning Show with
Preston Scott, It's the second hour. Thursday's always fun around here.

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It's May the eighth on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
He's Oajaiam Preston. If it's raining around throughout the day,
just be careful, take a little time if you miss
any part of the show. That would be a while
you're stuck in traffic waiting for the rain to pat
That's a great time to listen to the podcast of
the show anything you might miss. But on Thursdays we
are joined by the executive editor of Tallassi Reports. It's

(31:44):
Tallasseireports dot com and he is Steve Stewart.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
Hello, how are.

Speaker 4 (31:48):
You good morning, Preston Good. Yeah, Yeah, lots to talk about.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
I had mentioned in the news last week the town
hall was taking place and most of the city and
County commission were there. A couple of the city you
know officials backed out, but tell us about it.

Speaker 10 (32:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (32:05):
So, you know, this town hall has been going on
for a while, and I will say that it's gotten
better in terms of the questioning. It used to be
more of a platform for the status quot less partisan. Yeah,
and now it's gotten you know, there's there's issues that
are you get people on the record this town hall.
The two issues that I wanted to highlight. They talked
about the UH the agreements with ICE, which have been

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in the news. The cities particularly has you know, with
the progressives Commissioner Porter and commission Matload raised concerns about
that agreement.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
And just to make sure our listeners understand ICE, you're
referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and.

Speaker 4 (32:41):
These are the agreements with law enforcement agencies around the
state to help enforce the federal immigration laws. And so
the city of Policies signed off on an agreement, and
so is leand County sheriffs, as hundreds of law enforcement
entities across the state. But again, like I said, in
the city, there was a number of you know, voices

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that just didn't want anything to do with it. So
this was brought up in the town hall, and you know,
there's a little bit I've always argued, Look, you know
there's a continuum on this immigration issue. There are people
here illegally who are felons or who have orders to
be removed. You would think we could all get on
the same page and say, yeah, that's a group that
we want to get out of here, and then we
can talk about the other groups depending on But it's

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always it's always the the context is always one way.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
Or the other.

Speaker 4 (33:29):
It's never in between saying yeah, this is a good idea. Well,
we did see David O'Keefe, who is I would put
in the progressive category in the town hall said look,
you know, we you know, we don't want you know,
we don't want to be knocking on doors in neighborhoods
and going to schools and churches. But we you know,
he indicated that we do want to remove people that

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are that are here and harming other people. So the
first sort of crack in this progressive wall against you know,
removing anybody, and I don't understand why we can't get
you know, more clarity on that from elected officials. Look,
this is where I disagree on this, but here we
do need to be removing people who are here illegally
and are violating laws. But we really can't even get that.

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But we did get a little bit of that at
the town hall City Commission Courage Richardson went to great
links to let people know they'll listen, we're doing the minimum.
The city TPD is do the minimum that's required here.
Again not it's almost like they're being very defensive in
that they're even participating in this. And so that was

(34:31):
one issue. The other issue is the TMA's City of
Talase issue and FSU. Again, I think the underlying issue
here is it's sort of gone quiet over the last
four to six weeks, which means that there's some dealmaking
going on behind the scenes.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
But I think the overall no one trying to submarine
it no.

Speaker 4 (34:51):
You know, remember that pr move the very beginning that
is completely died off. And I think now people understand
that there are big issues at stake, there are things
that need to get done so that we move forward
as a community. You look around at these other communities
that have already dealt with this, and so the consensus
from the town hall was, look, we want community control

(35:12):
over the hospital, but at the same time, we want
the benefits of you know, the expanding healthcare industry. And
so I think they're going to get there. And but
I don't think it's.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
Gonna It's not.

Speaker 4 (35:25):
The next time we hear about this, there's going to
be an agreement. I think that the initial the initial issue,
which was like pulling the band aid off, was letting
everybody know that there is an issue. Yeah, and everybody's
sort of pointing fingers. Now they've I think, all gotten
together and said, look, we got to get this done
because we we are behind where other communities are have

(35:47):
already moved forward and dealing with this issue.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
Where they have to get.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
To is an agreement that allows the research that FSU
is in essence demanding to be accredited by AAU, but
also provides community care. They have to find that that
sweet space in between in.

Speaker 4 (36:05):
My opinion, and also the city needs to get out
of the hospital business completely.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
Agree. Yes, yeah. Steve Stewart with us. More to come
on the morning show.

Speaker 4 (36:23):
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Speaker 2 (36:30):
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Speaker 1 (36:31):
It's very easy tellahassee reports dot com. Steve Stewart with me,
the executive editor, and the airport's in the news.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
This is a great topic. This is going to be.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
Interesting to follow over the next probably a couple of months,
break down how the organization of this all works.

Speaker 4 (36:49):
So what happened?

Speaker 2 (36:50):
You know?

Speaker 4 (36:50):
Last year we had some bad news from the airport
in the sense that Jet Blue pulled out for other
reasons than Tyle hassee. But it was sort of politically
viewed as all the cities failing. And then we've had
other issues. There's an airline here that's gone bankrupt. Well,
we've had airlines come and go for three four break right,
although traffic is rebound from the COVID pandemic and so

(37:10):
we've reached almost a million passengers a year. But Mayor
Daily last year talked about air service incentives to help
out in terms of the high cost affairs getting more competition.
And so that's going to be on the agenda for
the blueprint and a governmental agency they're going to ask
for six hundred and seventy thousand dollars a year to

(37:31):
help provide some incentives to airlines. Now does that work well?
First of all, the incentives and we wrote a story.
We were the first to write a story about this,
and you know, a lot of people don't want the
city involved. You know, they should privatize the airport. And look,
there's two competing things here. First of all, the way
the airline industry is structured, which is private sector, they're

(37:51):
going to go and it's just like basic economics, supply
and demand. The larger cities that have more people flying
are going to have cheaper fares. And so in other words, Jacksonville, Orlando,
tourism destinations, you know, Panama City, they're going to have
lower rates because they've got more people flying. What you
can't do is say that this is because of Tallahassee,

(38:14):
we're doing something wrong. If you look at the data,
and I looked at it. I looked at it just
two days ago. Gainesville, which is in a similar situation,
as Tallahaisee. Their flights their average flights were five hundred
and seventy dollars, which was more actually than what it
is in Tallassee. It's because of the way the industry
is structured, and so it's it's something that you have
to address or you have to live with it. So,

(38:36):
in other words, if cheap flights are important to you,
then you need to move to an area like Jacksonville
or Orlando and you take the growth in the urban
sprawl that you get with those areas and you get
cheap flights. Other than that, you've got to get creative
and how you deal with this. And this is this
is where airline incentives come in. Cities all over the
country do it to varying degrees of success. It depends

(38:57):
on how they do it and what the approach is.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
Are their commonalities and those that are successful versus not.

Speaker 4 (39:02):
So let's look at Daytona Beach, which is a little
bit of a tourism area, right. They have in this
is the headline story in our new public in our
new newspaper, and we detail what's going on in Daytona
and it's they had some similarities with Talasi. Jet Blue
was there in twenty sixteen. They paid them airline incentives
to come. They were there for two and a half

(39:23):
years and then they left. They left not because there
weren't people flying Jet Blue. It was because they changed
their business model. Does that sound familiar, Same thing happened here.
Jet Blue was here for eight nine months. They left
because they changed their business model. Daytona didn't write it
off as like, well, incentives don't work. They doubled down
and two years ago they put up a million dollars

(39:45):
a year for incentives. They got a new low cost
airline that is still there today. Okay, and actually they
attracted another one that just started last year and they're
adding flights, so that's a million dollars a year.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
Also, Sam for.

Speaker 1 (40:01):
Florida outside of Orlando exactly used incentives and they have
worked because of the how big Orlando Airport is. They've
gotten some overflow from there and that has been a
great investment. So these incentives work, and they work.

Speaker 4 (40:16):
Because of the economics of the way the airline service
is structured. So that's so that's going to be the
big deal is are we going to do it? Are
we going to live with it? We can't just continue
to have politicians that are against growth and then complain
about high airline tickets. We've got to have so to

(40:36):
be interesting to see what their positions are on this.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
In about thirty seconds, how is that money used? In
other words, we spend seven hundred thousand dollars on incentives,
Where does that go?

Speaker 2 (40:46):
How is it used?

Speaker 4 (40:47):
So the broad the way it works is that look,
they guarantee you put in these flights, will guarantee so
many seats, and they may not even have to use
the money if the seats are full. At the end
of the year, they true up. They say, this is
how many people you know use this route. We need
this much money, so we break even. This is all
greed up front. So that's how it's gonna work. The
debate I think we're going to see in Blueprint is

(41:09):
that they're asking Blueprint for the money the city. The
city's in control of the airport. Why not just take
it out of the city budget. We've talked about the
we've talked about the subsidies with star Metro, which is
about ten million a year. Why not take a million
out of that subsidy and put it towards the airport.
So I think the debate there is going to sweeten
the pot even further. So I think the debate there

(41:30):
is going to be wait a minute, what you're in
charge of the airport, why are you asking blueprint for money?

Speaker 2 (41:35):
In other words, county citizens as well, right, and.

Speaker 4 (41:37):
They're going to say, well, this is a regional airport,
Well how about some regional control exactly. So it's going
to be an interesting debate and that happens today, So
we'll see nice.

Speaker 1 (41:45):
Steve Stewart with us. Another segment to come here on
The Morning Show with Preston Scott twenty two past the hour,

(42:09):
Steve Stewart with us. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, I
haven't turned your mic on, Palell. You're supposed to be
a broadcast professional. You do a show on another station,
you should know by now.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
All right, you're covering as always.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
You crunch numbers, you follow data, oh yes, and see
where it leads.

Speaker 4 (42:27):
So we got two couple of good stories where it's
just you know, and we'll get people to look at
this and you know, some people don't like the data
and you argue, well, then you know if the data
says this or something wrong with the data, and look
of course, so let's let's start with the crime stats,
which I this is almost a disclaimer. We're not trying
to document every crime that ever took place in the

(42:50):
city of Telzy. We're trying to We're trying to get
a early peak of crime trends because crime data, you know,
it used to be we'd wait for seven eight months
to find out what happened the previous year in terms
of crime we ranked. So what we've done is take
the TPD reports that come out.

Speaker 1 (43:07):
Every morning, and those reports are based on you said,
we're not here to document every crime, well, but they do,
and you have to use the numbers they provide, right
and reports that are filed and so and it's look,
I think, so we're looking at trends and the numbers
for four months in is that property crime and violent crime,
violent crime being robbery, assault and battery as salt and

(43:28):
battery are down thirty.

Speaker 4 (43:30):
Forty percent, big numbers in terms of drops. Sure, they're
even dropped, they're even down from two years ago. We're
seeing some of that, you know, from a national perspective also,
and you know if you look at shootings, you know
last year, the first four months there were eleven shooting
fatalities this year there's eight. That is you know, that's
still obviously an issue. That's what dominates the headlines. But

(43:53):
the what I like to call the you know, the
nuts and bolts of crime are down, and I think that,
you know, we can talk about why. I think a
lot of it has to do with the real time
Crime Center, which a lot of other locations are using also,
But the technology is just amazing in terms of how
they can and you know, it's I think we're starting

(44:14):
to see the turn effect on some of this stuff,
which a lot of these shootings you really can't deter
they're emotional, they're drug deals, you know, gone bad. So anyway,
that is good news from that standpoint. Can we make
some inroads into the shooting category, we'll We'll have to see, so,

(44:34):
you know, that's one thing. The other thing is the
job numbers that we report now that does come from
you know, obviously national numbers, but is reported every month.
We were a little concerned a couple of months ago about
the job numbers. It looks like they've rebounded and the
next couple of months will tell where we are on that.
But we've got two thousand more people working this month
than we did a year ago. And the other thing

(44:57):
that's good about that is we have like three thousand
more people in the work for But.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
Don't we usually see a drop when the kids leave
school lose town.

Speaker 4 (45:03):
We do see a little bit of a drop, and
that'll it'll be the magnitude of the drop that will
tell where we are. But if you look at the
graph that we have, I mean, and it's one of
the things we're highlighted by the independent group that was
looking at you know, MSA Economies and Tyle Hasee came out,
you know, in a pretty good light, was that, you know,
we've got some pretty steady job growth. You could argue
that the jobs don't pay enough, but at the same

(45:26):
time there is some decent growth when you see the
unplumbing rates at three point eight percent. But again, what
you like to see is job and the numbers of
people working and then also in the workforce. Something else
we're starting to track more detail, because it's big in
the news is home prices, and you know, that's tough
to get to in the sense of when you start

(45:48):
talking about average home prices versus median home prices. And
we've started to sort of document that. Again, Tyle hassee
people will say, well, these homes are expensive relative to
the rest of the Florida.

Speaker 2 (46:00):
They're not.

Speaker 4 (46:00):
And so that is again I think a positive for
our for our local economy. It doesn't deter people who
are looking to move to Florida. Tyle HASI comes up
on the radar is one of the areas that would
be affordable. And so anyway, I would say, pretty good
set of numbers on some of the you know, and
things that are pretty important in terms of quality of life.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
What's your sense on where the community is kind of positioned?
For example, you still hear complaints about the permitting process,
You still hear, you know, the pushback against business in
certain quarters.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
What's your thought.

Speaker 4 (46:33):
I think there are a couple of things to look
at over the next year. I think first of all,
and we talked about this during to break this teammate
FSU healthcare debate has got to get resolved. It should
have been resolved a couple.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
Of years ago. We can talk about the reasons why it.

Speaker 4 (46:45):
Weren't wasn't, But if you look around at other communities,
we're behind. You know, healthcare is an expanding expenditure and
we need to you know, we need to get all that.
The second thing is a new Chamber president will be
announced this year. I think that's going to be critical
in sort of what your argument is of repositioning where

(47:06):
business fits into this debate in terms of growth and politics.
We've got to get out of this. I think we've
got to put a little bit of daylight in between
the business priorities and local government.

Speaker 2 (47:18):
We need a little more.

Speaker 4 (47:18):
Tension between that, and so that is an opportunity to
do that, and we'll see what direction the Chamber heads
in that with that position.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
As always, thanks for the work you guys are doing.
Thank you, President Talahas to Reports dot Com. Subscribe, get
that paper and support independent journalism, you know the kind
that actually asked questions here in the Morning Show with
Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
Morning Scott, what.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
Obligatory shaking of head forward and back, letting the hair
go in the eyes and then whipping it back as
you play the air guitar. Welcome to the second half
of the program. Good morning friends, ruminators, ladies and gentlemen,
boys and girls, males and females only.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
It's the Morning Show.

Speaker 1 (48:21):
Great to be with you on Preston, he's Jose and
doctor David Hart's standing by.

Speaker 2 (48:25):
In just a few.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
Moments, we'll talk a little optimum health naturally.

Speaker 2 (48:32):
See what I did there.

Speaker 1 (48:34):
That's a double entendre optimum health naturally or optimum health naturally.
See big stories in the press box. Trump is not
budging on China tariffs. You might have heard in the
National news there expecting to announce a deal with the
UK today.

Speaker 3 (48:56):
Great prisoners step forward and said, let's resolve our different sir.

Speaker 1 (49:05):
So we'll see what that looks like. Each and every
time a deal is done with a major trading partner,
the pressure ramps up on China.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
And that's why he's.

Speaker 1 (49:19):
Not He's not going to do it. He was asked
if he was willing to pull back on the one
hundred and forty five percent tariff to get the negotiating started.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
It goes no love it, absolutely love it.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
Weight Watchers has filed bankruptcy. I put this story is
a big story because I think it is an interesting
development in the weight loss trend. I mean, if you
look at what's happened in the world of weight loss,
you got GLP one drugs, you've got the zempics, of

(50:02):
the world out there.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
You've got the.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
Online weight loss programs, the various apps that you can
subscribe to, the calorie counters, the calorie scanners where you
just scan something at the store and it tells you
immediately what you need to know nutritionally. They're just all
kinds of things. And I likened it to I likened
weight Watchers to the newspaper industry. The newspaper industry, of

(50:28):
all the media outlets, got caught with its pants down
in the digital era. Radio was ahead of everybody, I
Heeart ahead of everybody in radio. Television then was next
on board, but the print media just got left in

(50:49):
the dust. Weight Watchers has fallen to the same fate.
They just they thought the loyalty of their But you
know what, some of you know, darn good and well,
the cost of being unweight watchers.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
It's expensive, oh my goodness.

Speaker 1 (51:09):
And when it's all said and done, you're basically paying
for frozen food a lot of money. And now there
are just so many options out there where you get
this special machine and you scan the pre made meals
and it automatically programs the machine and cooks your meal.
And you've got this chef inspired meal, that's healthy and

(51:33):
away you go. I mean, weight watchers just can't keep
up with that. And so they're sitting with one point
five billion dollars a debt. That's just that's staggering to
me anyway. And then the dysfunction of the Florida legislature
has now reached the national media outlets like the Federalist

(51:54):
GOP works with House State House Republicans is the headline,
work with Democrats to make Florida purple again. That is
a backhanded slap in the face to the elected Republicans
in the State House and Senate. And the article by
Joey Pullman, who's the executive editor of the Federalist, which
by the way, very reliable, concerned outlet, just goes on

(52:18):
and hammers Danny Perez and named members of the House
and Senate Senate as well, and it's up to them
to fix it. Forty minutes past the hour, Let's get
you feeling better naturally next on the Morning Show with
Preston's Guy. Forty two minutes past the hour. Time to

(52:44):
get you feeling better and not just treating symptoms here,
we're talking causes, root causes in ways to feel better.
Naturally the doctor David Hearts, good morning, sir, how are.

Speaker 10 (52:55):
You good morning, Preston doing well.

Speaker 1 (52:58):
I love days like the when you're just going to
help our listeners by handing them a tool or two.
And the idea is, okay, what can someone do to
improve their health and impact multiple areas of Maybe concern

(53:18):
is the wrong word, but the one that's coming to mind.

Speaker 10 (53:21):
Yeah, press, So I want to talk about something today
that can affect heart disease and high pertension and type
two diabetes, allabolic syndrome, obesity, depression, anxiety, mental health disorders,
Alzheimer's disease, cognitive decline, suppressed immunity, increase, cancer risk, droke,
early death, numerous numerous chronic and very severe diseases. Of course,

(53:45):
we talk about nutrition, we talk about toxicity. We talked
about all these things through the segment, through the years,
and this is one thing that I think we miss
in the way I will talk about this morning is sleep.
People think, well, okay, I sleep, sleep seven hours a night,
eight hours a night. I got that handled well. The
research you've shown is not that simple, and it's something

(54:08):
that is really pretty easy to fix. In some cases.
It takes a little bit of work. But really what
the problem is is that when we sleep, we as
most people know, we go into different levels of sleep.
And what we're finding is that when we're not going
into deep levels of rem sleep, we could sleep seven
to eight hours nine hours and be sleeping but not

(54:28):
be getting RESTful sleep. That's actually affecting our health and
this is causing some major problems. They can affect numerous
different health conditions. It can affect our mental aspects, it
can affect our immunity of our bodies, so we can't
fight even cancer results which are within our bodies. So
it's something that a lot of us kind of miss

(54:50):
because we're thinking we're handling it. But you know, when
you're protecting your sleep, you're protecting your life literally, and
so it's something that's very very important. And it's like
I say, it's not just the hours, it's well not
it's deep ream or not. So how do we do this?
First of all, there's some things that we can do
to actually increase our sleep, and then there's some technical

(55:11):
things I want to tell you about that I think
are important. First of all, create a consistent schedule, go
to sleep pretty close at the same time, every night.
It's really really important because when you change it, then
your body gets out of the circadian rhythm and it
affects it affects everything. And then eliminate evening light exposure.
I mean this is sometimes there can be little lights
in the room. It can I know, I have some

(55:32):
shades in our room that lets a lot of light in,
and or you can get like spot lights and come
in and so forth. That can affect you reduced evening stress.
Try to calm down, slow down before you get into bed,
don't you know. Don't you know, look at a real
active TV show or something they try to jump into
bed because lower cortisol levels really allow you to go

(55:53):
into a deep roof ream sleep. Also keep your bedroom cool,
dark and kind of silent. Be sure you don't you know,
affect the temperature as well as the noise levels that
are around. Also caffeine, this is sneaking. I wouldn't do
it after two pm in the afternoon. Some people really
have problems with it. They say, I don't do it,
you know, but many times it can affect your ream

(56:16):
sleep and you go to sleep, but you're still not
getting once again into the dream sleep, and there's some
things that you can do, like monitors, like there's something
called a w h oop o woop monitor which you
can actually buy these that will give you deeper information
as far as what your ream sleep is doing rather
than just trying to go by a number of hours
and then and then you can change some of these

(56:37):
variabilities and try to change it to see what you
can do to increase the ream sleep. So it's there's
some things that you can do to get a little
bit deeper in these ream cycles because sleep is not
a luxury, it's really eccential for life.

Speaker 2 (56:50):
Good stuff, doctor Hertz. I love it.

Speaker 1 (56:52):
And what I love is there's some fundamental areas that
people can start with, Like you said, pay attention to
what you're eating before and started at start your sleep
pattern at a normal time, a regular.

Speaker 10 (57:02):
Time, right, and the eating and you can you know,
don't do that about three hours or so before you
go to sleep, but as early as you can.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
Good stuff. Thank you, David. I appreciate it.

Speaker 10 (57:11):
Okay, Preston, have a great day.

Speaker 2 (57:12):
You as well.

Speaker 1 (57:13):
Doctor David Hert's with us this morning on the Morning
Show with Preston Scott. I was staring Daggers through Jose
during that segment, just saying friends, sleep matters. Forty seven
minutes after the hour, all right, kids, road drip ideas.

(57:42):
We're getting you ready for the summer and giving you
some thoughts on where you can pack up the kiddos
and make a roadie. Now, for some of you listening,
especially on the iHeartRadio app, you're traveling the fruited Plain
all year long. You're in that stage of life where
you're you're you're just allowing what hair you have left
to blow in the breeze, and you're just traveling about

(58:07):
the fruited Plain all the time. Today, the road trip
suggestion is Arkansas. Yeah, Arkansas has got a couple of
things worth seeing. Now, for a lot of people, Arkansas
is what you go through when you're going somewhere important.
You're going through Arkansas. It's just kind of on the

(58:27):
way to something else. But I'm gonna give you a
couple of ideas here. Number one is a road trip
through the Hot Springs National Park, and make sure that
you are making a stop at Mount Magazine. You can
take a scenic drive up to the peak and it's
really pretty, but all of that pales in comparison to

(58:51):
a stop at Crater of the Diamonds Park. I've talked
about it, and they've had another diamond discovery of substance.
My man, David Decook, was kicking around some dirt and
he found something that's the largest diamond found in the
park so far this year, three point eight one carrots

(59:15):
a brown diamond. I'm looking at it and it's like, whoa.
My man's gonna make a little money off that if
he wants to sell it. He's named it the Duke
Diamond after his dog. But yeah, he was just visiting
and was kicking around some dirt and there it was

(59:38):
just like that, just right there. Now I've been there,
and it was really a lot of fun because you can,
for like eight bucks or something like that, rent a
kit and you scoop up some dirt and then you
screen it and you put it in a bucket and
you can wash it out, and I mean, you can

(59:59):
do the whole thing. And they have geologists right there,
and it's finders keepers. They will tell you if you've
got a diamond in there at all, you find a
little teeny tiny one, or if you've got something big.
What I learned is it's really good to go. They
till it up every now and then, if you can

(01:00:20):
find out when they're tilling it up, they expose more rock.
And then if you go right after it rains, if
it's had a heavy rain, and you go bring your boots,
it's worth it trudging around in the mud because the
rain exposes oftentimes some of the better rocks. And so

(01:00:41):
even if you don't find a diamond, you're gonna find
some really cool stuff and it's a good time. So
Crater of the Diamond State Park in Arkansas, you gotta
do it. You just you've got to do it. You
got to make that a stop. All right, Third hours
coming up. Let me tell you what we're gonna do.
As you know, I start every program with a devotional
I know, secular radio program.

Speaker 2 (01:01:03):
What are you doing? Well, that's what I'm doing.

Speaker 1 (01:01:05):
That's what I've done. And I like to talk about God.
I like to talk about Jesus. I like to talk
about the things that matter most and that matters most,
and everything that I talk about in the show, I
run through that filter. And I thought it'd be interesting
for you to hear from a young couple that has
decided to go all in on a mission's calling and

(01:01:31):
it's not their first mission trip, but this one is
kind of a trip for keeps, at least for a while.
Chris and Lacy Ryan are friends of mine, and we're
going to talk about their trip to the Czech Republic.
Why does someone go there? And maybe look over the years,

(01:01:55):
the Mad Radio Network make a difference as partnered up
with a lot of different groups and projects, and a
lot of you've stepped up and been part of those projects.
This might be something that speaks to some of you
and you might want to partner with them.

Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
We'll tell you how you can do that as well,
So stick around. Good.

Speaker 1 (01:02:15):
Third hour is next show fifty three seventy five of
the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All Right, kids, welcome
third hour of the radio program affectionally known as Common

(01:02:36):
Sense Amplified.

Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
It's me and him. That's Jose over there in Studio
one A.

Speaker 1 (01:02:42):
I am sequestered in Studio one B, and it's the
Morning Show with Preston Scott. Great to be with you,
show five three and seventy five.

Speaker 2 (01:02:49):
But who's counting? I am, And.

Speaker 1 (01:02:52):
I'm grateful for every dog on one of those shows,
and I'm really grateful to have some friends in here
with me. I got to know Chris Lacy over the
years as we attend the same church, and so as
full disclosure here, we attend Red Hills Church. They won't
be attending there directly for much longer because Chris and
Lacy are about to head out to the mission field.

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
Welcome to the show. How are you guys? Great?

Speaker 10 (01:03:15):
How you doing?

Speaker 2 (01:03:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:03:16):
All right, so deep swallow here share the short version
of where you've been before we talk about where you're going.

Speaker 11 (01:03:24):
Oh yeah, I guess I'll take some time of sharing that.
So Lacey and I would say we both felt ill
called a missions pretty early in our life, our first
like real foray into.

Speaker 2 (01:03:35):
The task Did you feel called missions separately before you
were married?

Speaker 1 (01:03:39):
Hunt?

Speaker 11 (01:03:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:03:39):
Yeah, really in different ways too.

Speaker 7 (01:03:42):
It was pretty neat.

Speaker 2 (01:03:42):
That's that's probably a story for another time, but it
is pretty cool how.

Speaker 7 (01:03:45):
The Lord brought that all together.

Speaker 11 (01:03:47):
Nice okay, But we spent our first real launch into
the missions world in Guatemala. We did like short term
trips with an organization for years that was fighting human trafficking.

Speaker 2 (01:04:00):
Hmmm.

Speaker 7 (01:04:01):
It was faith based, but you.

Speaker 11 (01:04:03):
Know, attacking that issue had on sort of first and
it was in that space where both of us were
really we had been dating and we're on a trip,
and we both were like, man, this is what the
Lord is calling us to do together. And so we
then got married and spent our first full foray in
a a country in Asia that I can't really share,

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but I'm confident everyone listening would know where we were.

Speaker 1 (01:04:31):
Lacy is that like, that's my man, We're going to
get married and go work in the mission field and
some Asian nation.

Speaker 4 (01:04:38):
Absolutely.

Speaker 9 (01:04:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:04:40):
I remember being in Guatemala and just and I knew
what I wanted to do, and I knew what the
Lord had been calling me to do, and I was
seeing him work out those same gifts. And I was like, oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:04:51):
What you both learned from Without naming the country, we're
leaving that out. What you learned from that experience?

Speaker 11 (01:04:56):
Oh man. One thing I learned is just how powerful
God is in a country that is it's very difficult
to even just say that you believe in God, follow Jesus.
The zeal and the passion of the believers to put
Christ above everything else was like you read about that

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kind of stuff, but it was shocking to see it firsthand.
And realize that, like, wow, people here are literally willing
to die for the faith, and like it would without
a second's thought, like without a second thought.

Speaker 1 (01:05:32):
Did it cause you to look at American Christians differently?

Speaker 8 (01:05:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:05:37):
Yeah, I when we first came back, there was actually
a lot battling, a lot of sort of anger. Yeah,
but it did it definitely. You know, you see the
persecution that people face, and you see that for their faith,
for their faith, for their faith only. Yeah, and not
even for fighting to you, you know, evangelize, but just

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for believing, just for wanting to go to church, just
for participating in worship. You know, they're persecuted and they
see that and they're grateful for it because and.

Speaker 1 (01:06:13):
When you're in that situation, there's this dynamic tension because
as a Christian, you're supposed to share your faith and
what you believe, but you're in an environment in this case,
where you're literally risking your life to do it.

Speaker 12 (01:06:24):
M h.

Speaker 7 (01:06:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:06:26):
It's a really unique I think what's difficult for a
lot of us too is we feel this, you know,
this burden to be sharing at every opportunity. But there
it was also a really like powerful thing to learn that,
like even I am just a vessel and like trusting
what the Holy Spirit is doing and using me to do.
Right now, it might just be to build a relationship

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with this person so that they eventually get to get
to a place where they can hear what they need
to hear. Because if I were to say something right now,
it could shut it down right now. So even that
in itself was like, wow, I actually have to take
a step back, Like I have to be the I
have to realize like, oh it actually it actually doesn't
all rely on me, so I can I can just
be patient and wait for what God is doing.

Speaker 7 (01:07:09):
And like see in partner with him in that.

Speaker 1 (01:07:11):
So you got to walk around with your discernometer on
full tilt to know whether it's time to share or not.

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
Be just wait understand. Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:07:19):
Yeah, And that Actually the second thing we learned was
how much we needed training, how much we needed to
you know, we had the zeal, we had the love.
It was confirmed that we absolutely knew this was what Jesus,
this was what the Lord was calling us to do,
but man, we needed someone to teach us how to

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do it in a way that wouldn't hurt the people
We were ministering to man.

Speaker 1 (01:07:46):
You do almost think you guys have done radio in
your background, because that was that could not be a
better segue to where we're going next.

Speaker 2 (01:07:53):
We got more to talk about. Chris and Lacy Ryan
with us.

Speaker 1 (01:07:56):
We're going to segue right out of that back next
after seventy seconds here on the Morning Show. It's the
Morning Show with Preston Scott back with Chris and Lacy Ryan.

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When I say missionaries, I.

Speaker 2 (01:08:22):
Mean yeah, yeah, yeah, that's yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:08:26):
Do you feel like missionaries? You mentioned the need lazy
to get training. Did you do you feel different now
when you say to yourself I'm a missionary than you
did before the training.

Speaker 6 (01:08:39):
Oh, I was gonna say a thousand percent, but honestly
it's more than that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:08:47):
Why what comes about through the training that is so
I guess defining for your.

Speaker 4 (01:08:54):
Role probably the stripping away of self.

Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
Simple.

Speaker 6 (01:09:01):
Yeah, you know, whenever I think whenever we went to
our first field, we brought way too much of who
we were. We brought way way too much of what
presuppositions and just you know, oh you need this. I'm
coming to give you something that you know you need,
which is true in a sense. But we learned that,

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you know, we're we're just like Chris said earlier, we're
just the vessels for what the Lord is doing.

Speaker 1 (01:09:29):
I heard someone once say that that the essence of
sharing the gospel, and whether that's just a couple of
people here in America or doing what you're doing overseas,
that the real boiled down, distilled version is one beggar
showing another beggar where they found bread.

Speaker 7 (01:09:42):
That's good. Yeah, that's very good. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:09:44):
So that that resonates.

Speaker 11 (01:09:47):
Especially, and this is related to that. But you what
what you find in especially in a cross cultural situation,
is way before people respond to the Gospel, they respond
to you. And so like that that was what was
and this is what Lacy was touching on when she
was talking about what we took.

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
Away from the training.

Speaker 11 (01:10:05):
But it was like, I want people to re spot
on the gospel. I don't want to come with like
things about me from my culture that I like that
are important, but those are the things that the people
are going to see first and here first, and I
don't want that to take away from the actual message
that I wanted to bring them.

Speaker 1 (01:10:19):
So you've had a couple missions experiences, trips, stays, training,
and now in my mind, just you guys know me
just well enough to know that this is entirely possible.
I'm thinking dart board with the world. We close our
eyes and we throw a dart. How'd you end up with?
Czech Republic?

Speaker 7 (01:10:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:10:40):
So one of the things about our previous time, in
our first long term stay was even though it was
really difficult, we realized that, like, that's.

Speaker 7 (01:10:51):
What we wanted to work in.

Speaker 11 (01:10:52):
Like we felt called to difficult, complex areas, and when
we had opportunities to go visit the Czech Republic, we
realized that, like, wow, this is one of those places.
And but it's even what makes it even more unique
is it's sort of like an overlooked hard place because
students of history and theology will be very familiar with

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people like Yan Who's and the Moravian Brotherhood.

Speaker 7 (01:11:17):
Those are all.

Speaker 11 (01:11:18):
Who's was a precursor to the Reformation, the Moravian Brotherhood
is the precursor to like the modern Mission's movement.

Speaker 7 (01:11:26):
Those are all guys from the Czech Republic.

Speaker 11 (01:11:29):
This is a place where like Christianity used to thrive
and now it's less than half a percent Christian Wow,
which when you look at the world that ranks it
in some of the most There's a lot of debate
in the missions war about what unreached means. But like,
if we're talking about people who just don't know the Lord,

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that's pretty unreached.

Speaker 1 (01:11:51):
If he asked me, well, I was just gonna ask,
is it half a percent Christian? And the majority is
blame or is it blank? As in they don't have
a Yeah, they're secularists, they're humanists.

Speaker 6 (01:12:05):
It's like five like less than five percent has any
kind of believe anything at all. And then so ninety
five percent of the country is atheistic.

Speaker 1 (01:12:14):
Really that is hard to get my mind around. So
how do you even begin that process? Because I mean,
you're going, this is where you're going, and we're going
to tie into that a little bit more in a molment.
But where does that mission start? Well, part of it
is I mentioned their history.

Speaker 11 (01:12:36):
I want like people there will see that, Like it's
not that I'm even bringing something new to you. This
is something that is part of your Like I am
a Christian today because of the Czech Republic in a
lot of ways, like because of work that God started there.
And so I'm not even bringing you something you haven't
heard before. It's just something you've forgotten, Like this is
woven into who you are as a people. That the

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motto of the Czech Republic is truth prevails, which is
really interesting because they are living in a place.

Speaker 7 (01:13:05):
Of, you know, post truth.

Speaker 11 (01:13:07):
But so I just want to help you rediscover, not
even bring in something brand.

Speaker 6 (01:13:11):
New, and on an individual basis, it starts with just
earning trust and going over there and learning from them.
You know, this is a long term thing. It's not
just we're just going to go over and this.

Speaker 2 (01:13:23):
Isn't a three months six month.

Speaker 6 (01:13:25):
Mission now, Yeah, this will take indefinite years of building
trust with individuals and showing them that we're not there
to just you know, bring them something and leave. We're
there to love them, just like Jesus would.

Speaker 1 (01:13:36):
I would imagine that part of I mean, I'm not
trying to pat you guys on the back, but the
fact of the matter is anyone that does this is
making a remarkable personal sacrifice. You are leaving your families
and what you know to go and love these people
that you do not know. I would imagine that is
part of the entry point is for them to see that.

Speaker 11 (01:13:56):
Yeah, that's a good way to put it, because people
when people understand that, they do see just how much
it's authentic.

Speaker 1 (01:14:02):
Yeah, all right, we're gonna we're gonna talk more when
we come back about specifically the work over there, who
they're working with in terms of is there a base
to all of this work that they're gonna do, and
maybe most importantly, how you, my friends, my ruminators, dear
dear people can link up and support what Chris and

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Lacy are doing more to come on the morning show.

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I warned him before we ever started. I said, it's
gonna be scary and frightening. How fast the time is
gonna go by? And here we are the final seven.
You're heading to the Check Republic if all things go
the way that you want them to go. And you
were just saying the visas are approved, and that's a
miracle in and of itself, the speed of that.

Speaker 11 (01:15:07):
Yeah, they'd say two three months, maybe longer, and it
was just a day or two past one.

Speaker 2 (01:15:13):
So God wants you in the Czech repub.

Speaker 1 (01:15:16):
Apparently, right, So explain to people how that functions in
your situation. What does that look like going to the
Czech Republic.

Speaker 6 (01:15:25):
Yeah, so we are actually going to be partnering with
a really healthy local church in Prague, which is a rarity.

Speaker 9 (01:15:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:15:33):
Yeah, And I mean that's a whole miraculous story.

Speaker 1 (01:15:38):
Ron Is it a rarity because there is a church
and because it's local and because it's healthy. All of
those things make it raree together.

Speaker 6 (01:15:46):
Yeah, okay, and just the way that it's led and
the discipleship orientation, and I mean they really pursue discipleship,
which is kind of rare in Czech Republic, unfortunate. But
so we are actually going to be partnering with them
because they they want to be missional and they have

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a lot of young people there that are are hungry
to be really you know, evangelists that that want to
be discipled in a way that hopefully they will become
future church planters.

Speaker 1 (01:16:20):
In my mind, I picture based on kind of what
you were describing, Chris, with the background of that there'd
be this remnant of older women with scarves tied around
their shin right, that are that are make up that church.
And when you say there are young people there, that
that really excites me. Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:16:38):
People familiar with Prague will know that Charles University in
Prague is one of the oldest like continuously functioning universities
in the world. So not only do all of Czech
people from all of Czech come to Prague for that school,
but people from the throughout.

Speaker 7 (01:16:53):
The world go to Prague for that school.

Speaker 11 (01:16:55):
Okay, So you actually have this group of people sort
of like constantly coming in and out of younger people
from Czech and throughout the world.

Speaker 1 (01:17:04):
So there are two specific needs that exist right now.
Let's talk about first the need to get there. What's
the finances look like?

Speaker 6 (01:17:16):
Yeah, so in order to get there, that's plane tickets,
that's apartment deposits, you know, all the things we're looking
to raise thirty five thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:17:24):
Okay, and that's you're kind of liquidating your life here Stateside,
and it's moving everything that you have with you and
the whole nine hours.

Speaker 11 (01:17:33):
We actually own about eight moving boxes of things total
right now, so like we don't have anything. That's also
partially just establishing a life there because like, yeah, we
are basically starting over.

Speaker 1 (01:17:45):
So you're you're purchasing residents and you're purchasing what you
need to function in the Chester to public furnitures and
different things like that. Yeah, all right, to give and
to help with that. What's the best way for people
to do that.

Speaker 11 (01:18:00):
The best way to do that is actually really simple.
It's give sendg dot com slash ryans and that'll bring
you to a our like kind of campaign page for that.

Speaker 1 (01:18:12):
I have posted this of folks on our ex page,
and I know some of you are like, I don't too.

Speaker 2 (01:18:18):
Yeah, I don't either, all right, but we have the
page and the link is there.

Speaker 1 (01:18:23):
I just pulled it up. Give send go dot com
slash ryans. You can just write that down, friends. I'm
posting this on the blog page as well, and this
is for just singular donations to help get you over there. Yes, right,
then there's the second level of need.

Speaker 11 (01:18:40):
The second level of need is that that amount just
gets us there and gets us established in the country.
Then we then need about six thousand a month as
just our how we live, like our regular ministry funds,
being able to buy food, all of that stuff, like
our yearly salary for the both of us, And that
was like a recur need that we would need.

Speaker 2 (01:19:01):
You know, and where are you right now on support?

Speaker 11 (01:19:05):
My last update was that we're at about forty seven
hundred a month, so we're about thirteen hundred a month
below what we need to be at to just to
function indefinitely.

Speaker 1 (01:19:16):
So roughly speaking, you're about two thirds there. Yeah, yeah, okay,
just about eighty percent.

Speaker 2 (01:19:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:19:22):
So if we had thirteen people listening right now and
they wanted to give one hundred dollars a month to
support it, You're done.

Speaker 11 (01:19:27):
I'd buy plane tickets.

Speaker 1 (01:19:31):
Now, we might not get all the stuff over there
about guys, and we've got a link for that as well,
But that process is a little bit more because it
is a we're hoping for monthly commitments. I mean, you're
not going to turn anybody away that wants to help
give anything towards that. But what really, and I know
this from our previous efforts here on the show, what

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makes a difference is a monthly commitment of whether it's
twenty dollars or fifty dollars or one hundred, whatever it is. Yeah,
and so that is through the Clearinghouse, Yes, real quickly,
what's that about?

Speaker 11 (01:20:02):
So yeah, we we are missionaries sent out by our
sending church, Red Hills, but we are also a partner
with the Clearinghouse and essentially what they do is they
handle all of the finances for missionaries.

Speaker 2 (01:20:14):
You get set up with.

Speaker 11 (01:20:15):
Them, they handle everything you need, any forms you might
need for governments, for visas, all of that. When people
when you give to them, it's tax deductible, all of
those things. But they're essentially they they help missionaries get
to the field by taking care of the finances for them.

Speaker 1 (01:20:30):
Folks have got a link to that as well on
the X page, and I will have that on the
blog page as well. We're gonna get updates mm hm,
and we're gonna believe that God's going to meet these
needs quickly. Absolutely, Thanks so much for what you're doing
and what you're going to do. It's you know, and
and folks that listen know my heart on this. I

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never ask people to give to what I don't support.
And so friends, I'm saying this to you not because
hey me, I'm saying it because I want you to
know that my wife and I have sown money into
Chris and Lacy for a number of years. We will
continue to do that, and I'm asking you to join
us in that effort. So I'm I'm better for knowing you,
and I'm grateful for what you're doing.

Speaker 2 (01:21:10):
Thank you, all.

Speaker 1 (01:21:12):
Right, Chris and Lacy Ryan, and again more on the
blog page. The links are on the X page. Right now,
time for news. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 12 (01:21:26):
Oh the fun doesn't stop here. Find more on his
blog doubled u f l a f M dot com.
Keyword Preston, Yeah, I went wrong. That was really cool,

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fascinating insight into the commitment missionaries make. But what struck
me equally was.

Speaker 1 (01:22:10):
Just listening to what happens in places around the world
today in this age for simply believing in Christ, you
risk your life not sharing believing it. Well, I appreciate

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them and their courage in doing what they're doing, and
I hope that you will really consider helping. I'm I'm
a big, big fan of partnering with people that can
do what I cannot do. I'm not I'm not gifted
as they are gifted. I am called as they are called.

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My calling is different. But in my calling, I have
the opportunity to use the things that God has given
me because it's not my money, it's God's and I
can reallocate that. And that's something that my wife and
I really really really take joy in is taking part

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in that.

Speaker 2 (01:23:32):
So what do you think.

Speaker 1 (01:23:36):
Yeah, I think that was more important than the big
stories in the press box. I mean grand scheme of things.
Big stories aren't change they are what they are, right,
this can change things.

Speaker 13 (01:23:55):
Forty minutes past though, Welcome to the Morning Show with
Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:24:10):
All right, I'm just gonna stay on a different path
here for another segment.

Speaker 2 (01:24:24):
And this is a very secular reference that I think speaks.

Speaker 1 (01:24:32):
To what I'm trying to drive at with whether you're
doing what I do, which I have one of these,
and I get to talk to thousands and thousands of
people every single morning, or whether it's in our circle
of friendships or work or encounters at the store or

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whatever it might be. I remember a scene from Field
of Dreams, the Kevin Costner movie about baseball, and he
and the fictional writer Terrence Man James Earl Ray, James
Earl Jones. Yeah, sorry, wrong guy. There they're doing research

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on a guy in a small little town, chiselm Minnesota,
who was a doctor who had won at bat in
the major leagues. In the movie, Doc Griffin I think
was his name, could be wrong, could be some other

(01:25:45):
Graham doc Moonlight Graham.

Speaker 2 (01:25:47):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (01:25:52):
And they're having this discussion with a librarian or someone
in the newspaper that's pulling up microfilm, and.

Speaker 2 (01:26:02):
They talk about the fact that what a.

Speaker 1 (01:26:06):
Shame that he only had the one at bad or
didn't get in a bad or whatever it was. And
the lady said, well, his presence in this community made
a difference because he was the doctor in this small town.
And no matter what it is that you are doing

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in your life, you matter.

Speaker 2 (01:26:32):
To a group of people.

Speaker 1 (01:26:35):
Your presence and what you do and how you do it,
and what you say and how you say it and
the things that you engage in. It may not make
an impact in the world, but for those people that
you're encountering, and those people whose lives you enrich by

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sharing a word of encouragement or a hug or a
word of silent prayer on their behalf, not knowing anything
other than they just look like they need something.

Speaker 2 (01:27:11):
And you don't have to know.

Speaker 1 (01:27:12):
God knows, you can make a profound difference in those lives.
And I think that's what encourages and challenges me when
I meet people like Chris and Lacy. Because I'm not
ever going to the Czech Republic. I'm not, but I can.

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I can go by helping them do what they're called
to do. My the resources God has blessed.

Speaker 2 (01:27:56):
Me with can go in my place.

Speaker 1 (01:28:05):
And this young couple that is literally moving their life
to invest years in people they've never met, do not know,
and their only relationship to them is that they are
children of God that may not know it, and they

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want to see how many of them would want to.

Speaker 2 (01:28:30):
Know their father. Sign me up. So yeah, that'll do
for now.

Speaker 1 (01:28:46):
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Here you go forty seven minutes after the arm come back.
We'll wrap it up with a oh, you got to
be kidding me story.

Speaker 2 (01:29:18):
Mom's dads.

Speaker 1 (01:29:19):
Be careful when the littles have your phone, and be
careful of the things that you've been looking at online
or the shopping sites you've been to, because you never.

Speaker 2 (01:29:35):
Know what they may or may not find. Click or
not click.

Speaker 1 (01:29:39):
In this case, a Lexington, Kentucky woman, Hollyloo Favors, was
shocked when Amazon dropped off a recent order seventy thousand
dumb dumb lollipops, forty two hundred dollars worth of dumb dums.

(01:30:05):
Her second grade son Liam, playing around on the phone,
decided he was going to place an order for some
suckers while her mom was.

Speaker 2 (01:30:16):
Busy. Each case of.

Speaker 1 (01:30:19):
Dumb dumbs retails for one hundred and thirty dollars, and
that means that thirty cases totaled four two hundred dollars
worth of dumb dumbs. Amazon initially agreed to allow the
return of eight of the thirty cases, so she started

(01:30:41):
attempting to sell others to friends and neighbors, she said
in an update. After a long day of working with
the bank and talking to a few news stations, Amazon
contacted her and agreed to refund the entire purchase. Thank
you to everyone who offered to buy a box to
help us. I will be happy to get you what
you ordered or donate them to a charity of your choice.

Speaker 2 (01:31:01):
Making the best out of it. Lemonade out of Lemons,
my friend.

Speaker 11 (01:31:04):
Brought to you by Baron No Heating and Air.

Speaker 2 (01:31:07):
It's the morning.

Speaker 1 (01:31:08):
Show on WFLA. There's a Lemonade out of dumb dumbs.
I don't know, but we've seen stories like this. Kids
just purchase poop and don't see cash poop. Mom's got
a credit card.

Speaker 2 (01:31:28):
Jeez, that's just nuts. Big stories in the press box.
Of course.

Speaker 1 (01:31:33):
We had a great visit with Chris and Lacy Ryan
missionaries to the Czech Republic. Got ways for you to
help on the X page. Coming to the blog page
later today. Good visit with Steve Stewart. Doctor Hart said,
you want to avoid problems, You want to you want
to help avoid problems. Here here, here, here, here, here, here,
here here, get some sleep, get some good rest. It

(01:31:57):
will make a difference in resetting your and helping you
maintain health or achieve it. Sleep matters, friends, You cannot
cheat your body.

Speaker 2 (01:32:06):
Oh I'm fine on five hours. No you're not. No
you're not.

Speaker 1 (01:32:12):
There are things going on internally. No you're not, and
not just n no you're not, but k n w
no you're not.

Speaker 2 (01:32:26):
Know that you're not.

Speaker 1 (01:32:30):
Great article in the Federalists, confirming what I have been
saying for the entire legislative session.

Speaker 2 (01:32:36):
It's a train wreck. Headline.

Speaker 1 (01:32:39):
State House Republicans work with Democrats to make Florida purple again.
That was the gist of my remarks to the Capital
City Republican Club yesterday. The failures of the Republicans and
elected office weight watchers filing bankruptcy, Trump not budging on
the China tariffs, allegedly going to announce a deal with

(01:32:59):
the England today. I want to make a road trip
head to Arkansas and Crater of Diamond State Park. Recently
a guy found a three point eight one carrot brown
brown diamond. DH is going to pay a thousand dollars
from immigrants to self deport illegal immigrants, and Trump says JD.

(01:33:21):
Vance Marco Rubio would be good successors after.

Speaker 2 (01:33:24):
His term is over. Friends, I can't wait for tomorrow.

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