Ep. 5392: Men in women's sports, why is this still a thing?

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Thursday, June 5th

Our guests today include:
- Steve Stewart 
- Dr. Steve Steverson
- Scott Beekin



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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Hello, Hi there, good morning, and welcome Thursday in the
Morning Show. It's June fifth, and I'm pressed him. He's
Jose Show fifty three ninety two. What a day yesterday was?
Did we get a little rain?

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yes? We did? That was good.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
It was refreshing for the ground, the plants, the soul
and something I'll talk about more tomorrow and the best
and the worst. Yeah, yesterday was a special day. And
but let's let's focus on today, shall we, Because this

(01:01):
is the day that the Lord has made, and I
will rejoice and be glad in it. That's not my scripture.
The scripture today comes from First Chronicles sixteen, verse eleven.
Whoa First Chronicles going deep? Huh No, not really, seek
the Lord and his strength, seek his presence continually on

(01:32):
the surface. That's like, duh, what's the keyword there? What
is the keyword?

Speaker 2 (01:44):
For you and me? It's found twice seek.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
So just for a second, let's suspend what the of
that scripture is and let's focus on the word seek.
What happens when you're seeking something at home, say your
car keys. Ever had that happen where you lost your

(02:20):
car keys? What about when you're seeking a specific tie
or a specific blouse or a specific fill in the blank.
Maybe you're at the store and there's a specific ingredient
that you need for a recipe. What kind of effort

(02:49):
is required to seek? What single mindedness do you operate
in when you're seeking something?

Speaker 2 (02:59):
See that?

Speaker 1 (03:00):
See that, I think is what we're really driving at here.
When you and I seek something, there is a tunnel
vision attached to our search. Nothing else matters. We're seeking.

(03:23):
Maybe maybe the car keys is one of the best examples.
You've got somewhere you have to be and you're in
danger of being late. Nothing else is in your vision.
You are searching. You are seeking for your car keys.

(03:44):
Nothing else matters. I mean, there could be a twenty
dollars bill that you thought you lost five months ago
that you come across. You don't care. You're looking for
your car keys because you've got somewhere to go, You've

(04:09):
got a doctor's appointment, you got to get to church,
you got a date, whatever it might be. You are
seeking your car keys.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
So here's my question.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Do you seek the Lord and his strength and his
presence as you seek your missing car keys? Do you
have the same single mindedness to find the Lord? To
find his strength, to find his presence, as you do

(04:52):
to find those missing keys or whatever it is that
you're looking for or seeking. By the way, you remember
that verse, seek first the Kingdom of God.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Just saying ten past the hour. Good morning, everybody.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott. The Morning
Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
All right, let's take.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
A peek here inside the American Patriots Almanac. It is
June the fifth, So what do we have?

Speaker 2 (05:51):
List? That's what we have. We have a list. Eighteen
fifty one.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe begins appearing in
serial form in the National Era, an abolitionist periodical. Isn't
that interesting how that classic book became what it was
when it started as a series Crazy nineteen thirty three,

(06:18):
The United States goes off the gold Standard. Nineteen forty
in Akron, Ohio, the BF Goodrich Company exhibits synthetic rubber tires.
I always thought, when I had my sixty nine trans am,
I always thought BF Goodrich were just those tires were

(06:41):
just so cool, white letters on the side, big old
fat things suck.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
They were the best.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
Nineteen forty seven Secretary of State George C. Marshall outlines
a plan to help rebuild post World War two program
known as a Marshall Plan, and that was in Europe,
of course, the Rebuilding of Europe. Nineteen fifty six, A
hip shaking Elvis Presley sings his latest signal, holb Dog
on the Milton Burn Show. Yay, pretty good, right, all right,

(07:23):
and then sings just like him, don't I Hey, he
I make one person laugh in particular, just one. And
it's not my wife when I do that, So you're welcome.

(07:44):
Nineteen sixty eight, Senator Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated in
Los Angeles by Sir Hans Sir Hann, an Arab nationalist.
On this date, I remember former NFL player Rosie Greer,
defensive lineman at the time for the Los Angeles Rams,
was there kind of acting as a quasi bodyguard. There

(08:05):
is reason to believe mk Ultra was involved in that assassination.
The description of the Katonic state that Sir Hansir Hen
was in just saying, just saying, I hate that. I
think that way now, I really do.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Are my bubble heads listening to me?

Speaker 1 (08:34):
I mean, I'm just yeah, anyway, national Day of it's
in the National Ketchup Day. We would be worse off
were it not for the development of Ketchup. But I
still struggle with the idea that tomatoes are a fruit.

(09:00):
Think about it. What does vegetable soup hath slice tomatoes
tomato soup? Don't you think of it as it's not
it's vegetable soup. To you and me, it's not fruit soup.
We're going to taking fruit soup and having a grilled
cheese with it. It's tomato soup. It's a it's a vegetable.

(09:24):
I think it needs to be recategorized. I think we
need to accept a tomato for what it is. To me,
a tomato is a transfruit. It's a transfruit. It's not
really a fruit. It just it's pretending to be one.
It's a vegetable. Deep down, it's a vegetable. It's a transfruit.

(09:47):
It's National start Over Day, National Veggie burgered, Ah, no,
it is not. It's a veggie burger. It's a veggie sandwich.
But don't don't. Don't insult the legacy of a burger.

(10:09):
But I know what the counter to that is. The
counter to that is well pressed and it's not ham
and I would go, aha, you got me on that
ven National moonshine Day, National Gingerbread Day. Oh, gingerbread is
an underrated cookie. A gingerbread cookie is underrated. It has

(10:34):
a little spice to it, it does.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
Oh, it's a beautiful thing. All right, seventeen passing.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
I gotta leave time on the other side of this,
got some very important things to talk about it. I mean,
you know what day it is. It's Thursday, but you're

(11:15):
just texting me that David Jolly's running for governor as
a Democrat.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
He's such a.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Say anyway, Hopefully no one's gonna fall for that nonsense.
We've got some we've got We've got some great options.
On the other side, Democrats are lost. They're just they're
just lost. I'm only going to remind you that Alone
is one week away. I'm not going through anything in

(11:42):
the list today. I'm doing it later in the show
because I want to talk about it later in the show,
because I've been talking about Alone at this point in
the show, and y'all are sick of it. Even though
I think it's awesome fun to talk about I think
through all the time. Okay, that that list won't work.

(12:03):
No that with no, it'll work. And when I'm when
I'm going through my ten ten items, I'm constantly thinking,
did I pick the right ten items?

Speaker 2 (12:11):
I think I did? I think I did. Now.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
I have yet to see a season unfold where somebody
picked the exact same ten items I did. That would
be stellar. Wouldn't it to watch someone compete using the
same list you you compiled? That would be incredible? But
now some of the some of the contestants will frustrate you.

(12:36):
I still remember the season where guy said, uh, bears
better worry about me. He's got his his friends coming over.
His friends are all you know, he's goodbye party and
he's got his friends and they're like, you sure about
dealing with those bears? He said, those bears better worry
about me. First, he didn't last one night. He found

(12:59):
bear scat around where he was dropped, and he tapped out.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
He was done.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
I can't imagine the grief he took from his buds
because they show the bear's better worry about me.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
And then it's like, hello, I mean to go now.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
Too funny. What I do want to remind you of
is coming up. June twenty eighth. It's a Saturday and Sunday.
It is the thirty fourth annual. And oh, by the way,
that is the proper use of the word annual. You

(13:40):
don't say it. You say first, the first whatever, or
the second whatever. Only when you get to the third
can you say annual. You have to earn the right
to say annual. So it's the first, the second, third annual.
This is the thirty fourth wall Big Mend Railroad Association,

(14:04):
Tallassee Model Railroad Show and Sale. You heard right, model trains. Baby,
did you ever have a train? Sat Jose, No, sir,
only one of the Christmas ones it right around though.
Yeah the tree the battery operated once far Yeah, yeah,
I got you. And that's and that's what it is

(14:26):
for everybody. But even that's cool. It's just cool seeing
the train, man, it's cool. But the little h O
or the I mean, even the z gage, the little
teeny tiny micro trains, they're so cool. That's that's one
of the spoiled aspects of my childhood. I had a

(14:51):
massive basement area and it wasn't really our den was
down in our basement. We had a tri level home
and he had a landing level and then you went
up to the main floor and down to the lower level,
and the lower level had this massive den and a
huge I'm talking twenty five hundred square foot open area

(15:18):
that had a wood shop. My brother would had a
gunsmith area that he would redo loads on all of
his firearms, you know, remaking his bullets basically, and I
could have a train set. However big I wanted it. Oh,

(15:42):
I miss having that kind of space because I love trains.
So if you're interested it's It does cost you to
go ten dollars free parking though. It's at the North
Florida Fairgrounds from nine to five Saturday and Sunday, June
twenty eighth and twenty ninth, The Tellassing Model Railroad Show

(16:02):
and Sale. Come get some of that. It's really fun,
it really is. And if you're into trains, you can
buy stuff, sell stuff whatever. You can learn more about
it by getting in touch with the Big Bend Railroad Association.
Maybe it's is it Big Bend Model Railroad Association. Sorry,

(16:23):
twenty seven past the hour, come back with the big
stories in the press box.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
Thanks for joining us.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio
one hundred point seven Double UFLA or on NewsRadio Double
UFLA Panama City dot Com.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
Thirty six past the Hour, The Big Stories in the
press Box A little different.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
Did you know that? It is.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
The United States Post Office National Dog Bite Awareness Campaign month.
More than six thousand dog bites of mail carriers last year.
You know, dogs attack for a lot of different reasons.

(17:31):
Sometimes they think their territory is being invaded. Sometimes, for example,
if you send your kid to the mailbox to get
the mail from the mail delivery person, they may think
that person is a threat to the child, and your
dog may be overly protective. There are some things that
you need to maybe consider if you've got a dog,

(17:54):
and look, I'm just helping out here. I'm helping bring
the mail because that's what we do. Remind your kids
don't take mail directly from the carrier. Now, just don't
let them put it in the box, let them leave,
and then have your child go to the mailbox. There's
also a service out there, informed Delivery. If you go

(18:19):
to Informed Delivery Informed Delivery dot USPS dot com, you'll
know when your mail's coming, when a package is on
the way, when it's literally when it's on the way
and then you can make sure your dog's inside. Yeah,

(18:39):
I'm just saying, unpredictable are animals and their reaction to things.
It could be, you know, a female carriers, male carriers, perfume.
I don't know if you know, but a lot of
perfumes have animal derivatives in them. And yeah, it's just

(19:02):
it's just so just saying little awareness here, trying to
help out the male carriers. We appreciate you. And of
course they asked the male carriers, don't feed the dogs,
don't bring the milk bones and all that stuff. I
know some people, some male carriers, some delivery people do that.

(19:25):
They got to they got milk bones and stuff like that.
I get it, but they're asking you.

Speaker 4 (19:29):
Not.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
Number one city for dog bites is Los Angeles, number two, Houston,
number three, Chicago. Not a surprise, a lot of population there,
So I'm not blaming it just because they're blue cities.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
Although it's hard to ignore blue territories lots of dog bites.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
Florida's number eight in the number of dog bites again population,
but by a wide margin. Florida's two hundred and ten
dog bites last year. California seven hundred and one, just
saying Nebraska's passed the law protecting women's sports. We will
talk more about this next hour, and this this issue

(20:14):
in the in the third hour, but thirty three to
sixteen stand with women. There's some weaknesses in the law.
For example, they're they're they're looking at the NCAA. No,
it's the NCAA is not getting it done. We have
to do DNA testing. But it's it's something, and so

(20:36):
it's going to be signed. The Governor's going to sign it.
But I want to know who the sixteen are that
didn't vote for it. Who are the sixteen I would
be immediately primarying anyone who does not vote in favor
of protecting women's sports and women's spaces. I would be
primarying them. In a New York minute, all right, forty

(20:56):
minutes past. Lots of other story that didn't quite make
the cut but are worth you hearing about.

Speaker 3 (21:03):
It's Themad Radio Network, where we challenge you to make
a difference in.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
Your world with the morning show Preston.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
Scott, A few other stories here. Tell me what these
two stories have in common. A federal district Judge Edgardo Ramos,

(21:41):
Southern District.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
Of New York.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
Issued an order on June third preserving a previous preliminary
injunction that had blocked the Department of Education from rescinding
extensions given to states for accessing COVID nineteen funds for
school districts. I want you to get your brain around this.
This is such a glorious example of the dysfunction, waste,

(22:07):
and open to fraud that routinely takes place in Washington.
The Education Stabilization Fund more than two hundred and seventy
six billion dollars to support school districts in mitigating the
impact of the COVID nineteen pandemic. States were initially given

(22:31):
until September thirtieth, twenty twenty four to.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
Use the funds.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
Then it was extended to January twenty eighth, twenty twenty five,
to access the funds. The Department then later granted extension
to playtiffs, allowing them to access the funds through March
of twenty twenty six. How long are we going to
make funds available to mitigate COVID when it's been over.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
For three years?

Speaker 1 (23:00):
If it ever was to begin with, okay, if I
extend grace and say okay, I'm gonna give you a
couple of months of uncertainty, and I'll set aside the
fact that there were many of us screaming from the rooftops.
She can't vaccinate against this. It's a flu, That's what
it is.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
It's a flu.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
So the Department of Education under Trump says, Okay, enough, already,
we're shutting it down.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
Judge said, oh no, you're not.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
So Once again, a district judge is impacting and wasting
billions of dollars. Second ruling, US District Judge Royce Lambert
ruled that the US Bureau of Prisons must continue providing

(23:55):
trans identified inmates with gender affirming care.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
Trump prescinded that.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
ACLU fought it, so guess what you and I have
to keep paying for it. We have to pay to
allow men to be in prisons with biological women, which, oh,
by the way, is an absolute danger, and at some
point I think it's it might There might already be

(24:25):
a case where female inmates have sued because they were
raped by pretending females who are dudes. I think there's
an ongoing case. This dude's being protected because he just

(24:45):
says I'm a female.

Speaker 3 (24:46):
Now.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
Christopher Ray, former FBI director absolutely lied to Congress about
the the efforts to surveil Catholic churches and Catholics. New
documents released by US Senator Chuck Grassley of iowas chairman

(25:13):
of the Senate Judiciary Committee, show that the FBI actually
engaged in a bureau wide investigation into what they called
radical traditionalist Catholics. So if you believed in the Bible
as it was written, you were a radical and you
were on the Southern Poverty Law Centers hate list.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
Those losers.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
Ray in testimony, claimed he was aghast when he learned
about the memo and took steps immediately to withdraw it
and remove it from the FBI systems. Unfortunately, according to
documents found, there have been there were repeated memos, memorandums,

(26:01):
and documents. In fact, Grassley found at least thirteen other
documents and five attachments using the phrase radical traditionalist Catholic,
not one thirteen plus five. He lied liar forty six
minutes after the hour, I didn't get through all those

(26:22):
stories that said, didn't how many story do.

Speaker 3 (26:25):
We got, Preston Scott on news Radio one hundred point
seven dousla.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
Well, just because they've not found him, Yet.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
I wanted to wait to day to see what we
would learn and to see if they apprehended this guy
right away, so that I wouldn't have to even mention
his name. You might not know the story Washington State
Travis Decker, thirty two year old former army soldier manhunts

(27:17):
underway for him. He picked up his three daughters from
his ex wife, beautiful little girls, Olivia five, Evelyn eight,
Peyton nine, and he had never not returned the girls

(27:41):
on time. And when they didn't come back, the mother
of the three girls knew something was wrong. He was
supposedly taking him camping, and they found the three girls

(28:05):
dead with bags over their heads and their arms hands
were zip tied behind their back. Who or what does

(28:38):
this don't know if this guy could claim PTSD, no idea.
Don't know enough about his military background to say one
way or the other.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
But I just.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
And I'm not going to spend any more time on
this story today. I just want to make sure you're
considering what those three little girls went through.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
Were they told it was a game.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
When they had their arms zip tied behind them.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
Or did they know?

Speaker 1 (29:38):
And then when a bag was placed over their heads
and their fathers began to choke them. Their father began
to choke them. Were the others watching? I When I

(29:59):
started the the details of this story, it shook me.
And that's happened several times over the years, and it's
probably happened to you. When you read stories of terrible
things happening, especially to children. It brought back memories of

(30:20):
grand jury cases that I sat on that involved children.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
That were murdered. Children.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
So he's probably he's been seen on a door bell
camera somewhere. But here's hoping and praying one of two things,
they catch the guy or he's off himself. And I

(30:56):
know that sounds really harsh, but prayers for the mother
of these three and these are just these are three
beautiful little girls, and knowing that they were welcomed into
Jesus's arms. But Travis Decker thirty two, he will answer

(31:22):
for this one way or the other.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
All right, here we go.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
We're already fired up here in studio. Steve Stewart with
me from Tallassi Reports. He is the executive editor and
it's good to be with you here for the second
hour of the Morning Show with Preston Scott Stephen.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
How are you, good morning, Good for going out this week.
Was working on it yesterday.

Speaker 5 (32:02):
Great stuff, twelve pager, a lot of good stuff. Crime numbers, yes,
so we you know, we tabulate TPD incident reports that
come out daily. What do you say to people that
say tpd's not reporting everything. Look, these are incidents that
were reports are filed. If you think that on a
daily basis, these are reports that you know happened the
previous day. You think they have somebody there that is

(32:24):
conscious is consciously not reporting crime. There may be some
things that fall through the cracks, that's fine. But if
you think there's some major conspiracy, you know that's you're right.
But I just don't think the numbers show that. And
I'll give you an example. I mean, this is not
all about pumping sunshine. Yes, crime numbers are down, the
incident rates are down. We're not trying to document every
crime that takes place. We're looking for trends. Five months

(32:46):
into this year, compared to last year, violent crime and
proper crime are down thirty five to forty percent. We've
talked about the reasons why people are getting caught at
the real time center with cameras, you know, public cameras
around a license plate. Everybody's not everybody, but a lot
of people these neighborhoods have doorbell cameras. I mean, I
think the the turn effect is starting to enter into

(33:08):
the equation. Except except So, what we noticed because we
dig into the data is that we track specific crimes,
is that the first three months of this year, robbery's
which is a very quality of life crime, you know,
that's where it involves two people face to face, either
with a weapon or as opposed to a burglary, right,
And that's the thing that I like to track because

(33:30):
that's the thing that really scares people. And so the
first three months of this year, the robbery numbers were
down compared to twenty twenty four. The last two months
they have increased back to the levels with twenty twenty four.
And so we dug in to find out what parts
of town that's happening in not surprising North Monroe, they're
they're having more robberies there South City, which is Orange

(33:54):
Avenue and South Monroe right, and then also in the
french Town areas. So those are three areas. A lot
of the other areas North time ten there has been
a robbery this year. Okay, so there are it's a
very it depends on where you are in a city.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
And I think obviously that's what we look at.

Speaker 5 (34:14):
And I think again, these trends, these trends are nationwide
in some areas, but it's a very local number because
when you start gathering this data together, you're relying on
police departments to report numbers, and so it's better just
to get it to get it at the source. It's

(34:34):
tough to compare sometimes because of that. You can compare
previous years. But I think the actions that have been
taken by TPD, uh more investment in real time, more
police officers is really starting to have an impact. Would
it be fair for me to just kind of to
counter the people that say, oh, they're not reporting all
the crimes. Wouldn't it be fair to say that it's
a disincentive to not report all the crimes, because then

(34:57):
the people that want to defund police say, look, we
don't have any crime, we don't need as many officers.
So if anything, there would be a reason to inflate
the numbers. If anything, Yeah, that would be an argument.
The other thing too, is, look, I take these you know,
the these these critiques so I'm always looking at things
to make sure that the data we provide is credible.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
Sure.

Speaker 5 (35:15):
And so you look, for example, shooting shooting deaths, that's
a that's a that is a stat that's not going
to be swept under the rug.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
I mean, it's pretty public.

Speaker 5 (35:23):
So they're down forty percent this year, so that that
sort of is you know, it makes you say, okay,
well that's down also, and so you sort of get
the convergence of data, and so do somebody. You know,
I find it hard to believe that somebody has a
car stolen is not going to call and report that.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
Okay, Now are they not going to report I misplaced
my car?

Speaker 5 (35:44):
Are they not going to report somebody you know, stopping
by maybe and try to break into the car and
they get caught, you know, doing it and they run
downe Maybe all right, But so there are certain crimes
that you look at.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
That you know, we're going to get reported. Yeah, And
so I think that's one.

Speaker 5 (35:58):
Of the ways that you look at again that convergens
the data and it shows that you know that crime
is down. And again, the reason why we track this
and we're so concerned about it, this is the number
one priority of local government, absolutely, and it's where your
tax dollars are being spent public safety exactly.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
And so I think it's important that we talk about
it weekly.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
Though, and so we do. Steve Stewart with me here
on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
Making sense of it all the Morning Show when Preston
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Speaker 2 (36:52):
Twice a month. You'll get a paper.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
Steve Stewart, the executive director, with me some interesting developments
and zoning.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (36:59):
So as we talk about law enforcement being a number
one priority of local government, close behind is you know,
regulation of growth of where you can build things, what
your neighbor can do to their property. That is under
a plan called the Comprehensive Plan, and it tells you know,
you talk about single family neighborhoods, you talk about urban residentially,

(37:19):
you talk about commercial and so as we have seen
growth and we talked about this a couple of years ago.
We had a headline that the growth debate in Tallahassee
is going to be a major driving force not only
in how we grow, but in politics. And we've seen this.
The progressive politicians who've got elected have voted against projects
that pushed the outskirts of the urban service area. From

(37:42):
a development standpoint, they don't like building roads to facilitate growth,
the Wallaanne development, the Northeast Parkway.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
They voted against.

Speaker 5 (37:52):
Neighborhoods out Appalachi Parkway because they argue that growth out
grow out puts you know, is more expensive because you
have to your car to get somewhere and.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
So and use as opposed to using that bus system.

Speaker 5 (38:06):
Well they want to yeah, and you know, public transportation us.
And so this is more of a theory that they
read about and they see in the Ivory towers. How
they want to you know, they want everybody to live
in the city core, so that they want people to
live their way right, so they can walk to work
and listen. Most of the elected officials in Leon County,
the city in the county, they want to blend to that.

(38:28):
They understand that people want to live in the northeast
or in the east. They want They want to live
in a single family home and a single family neighborhood
with people that you know, that people that have the
same priorities as them, you know. And so you see that,
you see the development behind Childs, you see the development
of Bullheed Lee and Bannerment. But they also understand infill
and that's the key word is infil. They progressives want

(38:50):
people living closer to downtown because like you said, they
want this being able to walk to work, you don't
use your car, which is good for the environment.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
Well, it used to be a twenty four hour downtown.
Then they kind of set for an eighteen hour downtown.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
Right.

Speaker 5 (39:01):
So what has happened now is staff has said growth
management staff said, okay, we hear you.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
We see that.

Speaker 5 (39:07):
You know, we are growing out some we we need
to change the the zoning regulations to promote infill. Okay,
and we're willing to do that. And as I said before,
most politicians want a combination of both progressives. They don't
like growth period, so they want it all downtown. Well,
so now they've responded. The Growth management people have responded
to what the progressives want and some other you know,

(39:29):
other people and they they have changed some of the
rules that allow for denser development. In other words, if
there's a half acre a lot where a house used
to be that is old and going to be torn
down and you can now maybe put you know, four
town homes on there. And there's some of that has
taken place on the outskirts of Frenchtown and it's really
you know, it's a nice they look nice. But this

(39:52):
comprehensive plan has got to address every priest of property
in Leon County, and so they have some of the
neighborhoods are concerned.

Speaker 2 (39:58):
So this is not just the it's the county.

Speaker 5 (40:00):
It's the county also, okay, And so they have made
it so that neighborhoods that you can increase your density
on what was originally protected as residential preservation. And so
neighborhoods like Betton Hills and Waverley and Lost rollbos are
they're losing their mind because they're concerned that lots could

(40:22):
be developed beyond single family homes. And it is a concern,
it is right. Well, there are some provisions in the
complan that says that in some of these legacy neighborhoods
that you have to get the approval of the neighborhood
to increase that density. But they don't, you know, that's
buried in the language. And these neighborhoods have come out

(40:42):
and objected to these changes, which puts the progressives in
a little bit of a in a bad place because
wait a minute, we don't want growth out and now
the people that support us, the inner city, you know,
neighbor they don't want it near them. So you know,
we're do we grow? And now it's not like Tallahassee
and le I kind of has a huge growth problem.

(41:04):
I mean, we're growing. You know, we did a report
to shows that our population growth is pretty slow.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
Yeah, we're exploding it two point something percent over four years,
you know.

Speaker 5 (41:14):
And so but this is an issue that I think
it's they had a meeting last night. We reported on
that in our in a newspaper, and they're trying to
get the neighborhoods, you know, on board, and look, we've
got to have this for these lots that that are
you know, that are outside of neighborhoods or would you
agree to it? Would I agree to it? Look, Kolarna
States has all kind of different No.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
But if you were in one of these neighborhoods in town.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
Would you agree if you moved in knowing that that
lot's not going to ever be developed, and they suddenly
wanted to develop it.

Speaker 5 (41:41):
I would not want if I moved into a single
family neighborhood and I had single family homes next to me,
and then a home was bought and torn down, I
would not want four townhomes on that piece of property, exactly.
But if I'm in a neighborhood and part of my
neighborhood is on a major artery and one of those
houses you know can't be sold because it's on a
major artery, you know nobody wants it, it would be better

(42:01):
used to put four town homes. I think I would
be okay with that. But yeah, and that's what they're
trying to get at. There's situations where you could do this,
but it's tough more to come with.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
Steve Stewart of Tallashi Reports so here we got radio.

Speaker 1 (42:16):
Station Steve Stewart with me from Talhaskan Reports Tallaskreports dot Com. Yeah,
we were talking about this owning and that that leads
real nicely into a topic that he's currently chair of

(42:39):
the commission. Brian Welch commissioner from a district for yes, Uh,
Bannerman Road.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
Yeah. So commission Weltz is very good at giving updates
and and actually it's very communicator.

Speaker 5 (42:49):
Yeah, interacting on social media sometimes that opens them up
to a lot of criticism.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (42:54):
And the Bannerman Road issue is one that he keeps
giving updates on. And you know this is if you
go back, and we talked about this during the break.
The first round of blueprint in two thousand ignored the
northeast and Bannerman Road is a road that probably if
you would have been looking at what's going on, should
have been in the plans to be already expanded and widened.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
And then now it's biting them in the butt.

Speaker 5 (43:17):
Now what's happening is the growth is ahead of the infrastructure.
You've got the development of Bullheathy Road with the apartments.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
Coming in and homes. You've got the new public's in
the development there exactly. And so the plan is good.
It's going to be widened all the way to the
entrance to Summerbrook four lanes and then it'll be two
lanes all the way to Meridian. There'll be some roundabouts
in and I mean again it's a good plan, but
the timing is horrible. And that's sort of what the
update said. There was some analysis that indicated the road

(43:46):
basically has to be torn up and redone, so no
resurfacing the two lanes that are there. And adding to that,
I think you got to tear it up and so
the final project won't be done until twenty thirty five.
That's absurd, But as Commissioner Weltz pointed out, the majority
of it will be done in twenty twenty nine. They'll
open up you know mile I guess mile increments as

(44:07):
it gets done. And they're starting they say they're starting
the construction in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (44:14):
You know you can't.

Speaker 5 (44:14):
Yeah, they've done a lot of you know, behind the
scene work, three hundred and fifty.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
Do they have to do any land acquisitions?

Speaker 3 (44:20):
There?

Speaker 5 (44:20):
One hundred and fifty different land acquisitions, So it's it's
a long process. You know a lot of utilities that
you got to move and things like that. But again
I go back to the planning, and this is is
it's interesting the city you know at that time, which
was twenty five years ago, probably didn't know that they
were going to continue to acquire land. I mean, you know,

(44:43):
the city limits goes all the way to the Bannerman Road. Yep,
they annex it in because they want the tax money.
And you know, they did not plan properly for the
northeast and so now they're trying to catch up. And
the money is allocated for the Northeast Parkway for the
expansion in Bannerman Bannerman Road. But it, like I said,
the timing is just horrible.

Speaker 1 (45:02):
Well, and there are a lot of for sale signs
popping up along Brannerman Road now exactly.

Speaker 5 (45:07):
And I think again, if you look at this, as
we talked about the growth, there are two big developments.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
You know, there's one behind.

Speaker 5 (45:14):
Childs High School, huge, yes, and then there's this one
of Billhatley and Bannerment. And again this this tells you
we're there's demand that these these Clearly these developers don't
build these on, you know, with a lot of speculation
because there's big neighborhoods and so there's demand there, there's
you know, as Superintendent Hannah revealed, there is no schools

(45:36):
are a capacity okay in Leon County, and so there's
space and so when you start looking at where are
quote the good schools from not only you know, a
grade standpoint, but from a and I'd say this from
a safety standpoint, because that is an issue.

Speaker 2 (45:50):
And if you think that, you know, I'm being an alarmist,
you just talk to parents. That is an issue.

Speaker 5 (45:57):
And unfortunately we haven't been able to spend as much
time on this, but discipline in schools is a major
driving force for a lot of different things, for where
people choose to live, for teachers getting out of the profession,
and that's not being addressed enough because it's tough to
report on. It's tough to get the information. You know,

(46:17):
when you see these events that do happen and people
are arrested, that's one thing, but that is the exception.
There is so much going on in classrooms that we
don't know about in certain schools that this is why
you see people moving.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
To areas where there are favorable school environments.

Speaker 1 (46:34):
You and I were talking in the break and before
we even started the segments this morning about the state legislature.
In one of the areas that I think the state
legislature failed is not making the cell phone ban, carry
it into high schools across the state and be done
with it, because it's a large contributing factor to the
problems we're having in discipline.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
No doubt.

Speaker 5 (46:53):
And this is one of the things that drives me
crazy as a data person because all you had to
do is look at the studies that have been done
in Europe and even in the United States. It is
a it's unassailable the data, and it's really not a
conservative or liberal issue.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
It's a leadership issue.

Speaker 5 (47:11):
And I don't you know again, I know I've got
to go back and look into this, but I know
that the school board was going to put a committee
together to look at it, but it's just they don't
want to make decisions because you're going to have to
explain yourself and parents will come out and complain. But
it's it's the right thing to do.

Speaker 1 (47:29):
Yeah, they need to forget what the state is recommending
in that regard and just implement it as a district policy.

Speaker 2 (47:35):
And it's been done in some school districts around the
state of.

Speaker 1 (47:38):
Yes, it has successfully too. Yes, Steve, thanks has always
appreciate with the work you're doing. Thank you, Preston all
Right tellashoreports dot Com twenty seven minutes past the hour, Mayor.

Speaker 3 (47:56):
Of Realville, he offers a State of the Nation every
single day. This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
Big stories in the press, Post for Thought. Just a
few minutes away, doctor Steve Steverson pack with US. Nebraska
has passed the law protecting women's sports. It's the Stand
with Women Act. It is Legislative Bill eighty nine, passed
overwhelmingly thirty three to sixteen in the UNA Cameral legislature.

(48:42):
So apparently they don't have a House or a Senate.
They have one body thirty three to sixteen overwhelmingly. I
don't consider that overwhelming. I mean, if you base it
on numbers, yeah it was. It was two to one,

(49:03):
two thirds, but sixteen people voted against protecting women's sports
in Nebraska, the heartland of America. The law declares that
males and females possess unique and immutable differences even prior

(49:24):
to birth, and those differences are quote enduring. That's all true,
but sadly, the bill codifies the single sex sports requirements
that are already being implemented by the state's athletic associations.
And here's the key, and by the NCAAA. The problem

(49:46):
is that codifying what the NCAA is doing now is
not enough.

Speaker 2 (49:53):
It's just not enough.

Speaker 1 (49:55):
We're gonna hear stories next hour about how this this
is continuing. Men, males, boys are dominating women, females and
girls sports. Just for a second, think about where you

(50:19):
have to be in your self image to be a
dude and think it's okay to beat a bunch of girls.
I got an e mail from a listener who is
involved in disc golf and said, the dominant professional disc

(50:40):
golf player in the area is a dude competing against women.
He has an advantage, but because the association that they're
part of is so small, they don't have the money
to fight a legal fight. It's like, no, you make

(51:01):
the rules. The rules say this. If you don't want to,
don't join. You don't have a right to be a
member of the association. Association says you'll submit to a
DNA test and you'll abide by it whether your DNA
is a male or female.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
Dumb.

Speaker 1 (51:20):
I mean, this is how simple this ought to be.
DNA test settled, not interpretation of what's on a birth certificate.
Other big story in the press box. It is US
Postal Service National Dog Bite Awareness Campaign Month. It is
UH that's what we're looking at for the month of June.

(51:44):
The month of June is about my birthday, my granddaughter's birthday,
my dad's birthday, my brother in law's birthday. I've got
another granddaughter born in June. June's about National dog bite
awareness for postal carriers. That's what June's about, my friends.

(52:05):
We're making June great again around here. So just be
aware of your dog when the postal workers come around.
There's some basic deus and don'ts. You know this forty
minutes past the hour, come back speaking of animals, little.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
Pause for thought.

Speaker 3 (52:19):
Next this is the m AD Radio Network where we
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upon others, you know, you know, be a good person.

Speaker 2 (52:36):
With the morning show Preston Scott. Next hour on the program,
Scott Beacon, the bee Line blogger, wrote a piece a
couple of weeks ago about the National Spelling Bee that
I've got it.

Speaker 1 (52:52):
We got to talk about it might have been just
last week. It's fascinating, fascinating stuff. But that's coming up
next hour, where.

Speaker 2 (53:01):
First let's talk about our four legged buddies.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
It's time for a little pause for thought with doctor
Steve Steverson of the Bradfordville Animal Hospital.

Speaker 2 (53:08):
Good morning, sir, how are you hey?

Speaker 4 (53:11):
Good morning Preston. I'm doing well. How about you?

Speaker 1 (53:13):
Would it be useful for me to say, doctor Stevenson,
how in the world?

Speaker 4 (53:17):
I yell?

Speaker 2 (53:18):
Aed?

Speaker 4 (53:20):
Oh, that was an amazing trip, Preston. A beautiful country,
you know, amazing history. You see buildings over there that
you're walking through. Though this building was built in thirteen
forty seven. You know, we weren't even a discovered continent yet,
it's pretty amazing to see some stuff over there.

Speaker 1 (53:35):
Yeah, it went to the home out of my ancestors
from Scotland. So anyway, anyway, I'm sorry about that. Look,
the weather's getting warm. And what should pet owners know
about their dogs and even cats as it relates to say, grooming.

Speaker 4 (53:57):
Yeah, you know, Preston, we get this this question a lot.
And should should I or should I not shave my
pet for the summer, and so, just for practicality reasons,
a lot of people do want their pets shaved, and
so I always tell them, you know, if you do
shave your pet, make sure that they are not going
to be outside in the direct sunlight all day long.

(54:19):
Probably have a professional groom or shave your pet so
they can leave an inch or so of coat so
it protects their skin. They don't get sunburned. Dogs and
cats can get sunburned just like people can. Really yep,
oh yeah, and so don't shave them all the way
down to the skin. And definitely don't try and trim
your dog's fur at home with a pair of scissors.

(54:39):
We see that all the time. We see dogs from
here that little cuts on their skin where they pull
the fur up a little too tight and cut with
the scissors and actually cut the skin. So a little
professional groomer do that. If your pet's going outside just
a little bit each day and they're not outside for
a sad amount of time, you don't need necessarily need
to have them shave down. They're fine with even with
a longer thick coat. You need to brush them regularly.

(55:02):
That's really important. Brush them and keep all that undercoat
excess for off of their coat so the coat can
work like it's supposed to help keep them cool, you know,
just like if you put a winter coat on go
outside from their conditioned outside, you're cool. Inside that coat
for a few minutes, but then over time you start
to warm up inside that coat, and that coat becomes
a burden to you being outside in the heat. And

(55:23):
same thing a lot of times with dogs and cats,
if they have a really really thick coat, you let
them go run around outside that heavy coat on for
the afternoon. That can be a problem. So if your
pet's gonna be outside a lot, you may want to
consider having them shave down.

Speaker 1 (55:37):
Doctor Steveson. There are so many different kinds of brushes
and shedding devices for lack of a better way of
putting it in like rakes almost and some of them
don't feel really good to my own hand. I can't
imagine what they feel like to a pet. What is appropriate?
What's the best way to thin that coat out and

(55:58):
to brush that dog.

Speaker 4 (56:01):
Pressing? There are several things you can use there. There
are a what's called a slicker brush, which is a
little flat, rectangular shaped little bristles and you can brush
that through their coat and that easily takes off all
the very very loose fur. The matte rakes, the d
matting brushes like you talk about, have little times with
little edges of sharp edges, on where you can cut

(56:22):
the fur with it all most some dogs don't mind.
Those other dogs are right, they can be very uncomfortable.
There are these gloves nowadays you can get that are
de MATTINGO that you put on that collects the fur
almost like stack ELECTRICITYA. It's the fur sticks to it
that you canoose. Those are effective as well. Just about
any of those will work. The main thing is to
use it. Don't use it once the beginning the summer,

(56:44):
then forget it. Probably at least once a week. You
needs to brush your dogs and your or your cat's
coat to make sure you're getting all that excess fur
off them so their coat can work the way it's
supposed to.

Speaker 1 (56:55):
Last question in I remember when I had my dog,
and you remember my dog Scooby. When when you brush
a dog or a cat, you inevitably will see sometimes
indications of a skin condition or a hot spot or
something like that. What should you do? Should you avoid
brushing those areas and immediately, you know, get your dog

(57:17):
or cat to the vet or what's the right protocol there?

Speaker 4 (57:21):
Yeah, exactly if you said you see or some scats
or scales or a hot spot or some problems on
your dog skin, you definitely want to call your veterinarian
and get your dog into have those checked out, and
I would leave them alone until your veterninarian sees them
to know what needs to be done, because sometimes those
spots need to be shaved and cleaned up. Other times
they need some topical treatment or some oral medication. Just
depends on what it is. So yeah, if you see

(57:43):
some skin skin lesions on your pet, make sure and
get them seen.

Speaker 1 (57:46):
Are there certain shampoos that are better than others for
dogs and cats this time of year?

Speaker 4 (57:51):
You know, in general, a good just a general good
cleansing shampoo is what you want to use. You shouldn't
need anything specific or anything super medical shampoo. Just a
cleansing shampoo that you can lather well and it rinses
off well is what you want to use.

Speaker 2 (58:06):
But don't pull anything out of the shower stall.

Speaker 4 (58:09):
Nope, use a dog shampoo or a pet shampoo. Yeah,
the pH of their skin is different than ours, so
you want to use a pet specific shampoo.

Speaker 2 (58:17):
Good stuff as always, Doctor Steverson, thanks.

Speaker 4 (58:19):
So very much, great thanks Preston.

Speaker 1 (58:22):
Doctor Steve Steverson with us from the Bradfordville Animal Hospital.
Some little warm weather. Tips for grooming your pet here
in the Morning. Sorry if I didn't touch your lizard. Sorry, okay,
I'm not worried about grooming your lizard, okay, or your
snake or your bird or whatever. Dogs and cats mostly

(58:44):
here in the Morning Show, the Preston Scout.

Speaker 2 (58:50):
Don't forget, We're told them, don't forget. We're just reminding them.
What do you want from me? Leave me alone?

Speaker 3 (58:58):
The Morning Show, Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred
point seven, Double USLA or on NewsRadio double USLA. Panama
City dot Com.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
Let's pack up, hit the rope, explore. It's summertime.

Speaker 1 (59:25):
Yeah, we started giving you suggestions a few weeks ago
for Florida in the immediate area. If you put a
bullseye over our region Panama City, Tallahassee, and then go
from there. That's kind of what our mindset is for
a few months here as we give you road trip suggestions.

(59:47):
Now we've mentioned the new Universal theme park might be
worth checking out. Epic Universe. They don't do anything poorly,
I mean, quite frankly, other than the wokeness that you
get from Disney these days. Disney does what they do well,
but you just have to endure the fact that there's

(01:00:08):
wokeness all around it. Universal I've not experienced a lot
of problems with Universal's wokeness level.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
But we we threw out the new Park as a suggestion.

Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
Last week we mentioned Coral Castle in Homestead. This week
in Florida, the Skunk Ape Research Headquarters now O C
H O p Ee, Florida. Is it a chopye? Is
it a copy? I don't know, never heard of it.

(01:00:42):
What I know is, if you're if you're into the
bigfoot thing, you got to learn about. The skunk ape
makes a very rare appearance. I'm just saying this is
this is the stuff of legend. But uh, but allegedly

(01:01:02):
it wanders South Florida, the skunk Ape, even though scientists
doubt the creature's existence. I mean, scientists doubt all kinds
of things that are real, you know what I'm saying.
But no, there's a there's a there's an actual place
these Skunk Ape Research Headquarters. Three dollars admission fee, photos,

(01:01:25):
newspaper clippings, grainy videos, even a plaster cast of a
skunk apess footprint. It's there, you find it. And so yeah,
it's the thing. So there a chopee. I still like
it could be a sound as opposed to a sound.

Speaker 2 (01:01:44):
O C H O P e E.

Speaker 1 (01:01:46):
Just look up skunk Ape Research Headquarters and you'll you'll
find it. There you go. We got you covered. There's
your there's your road trip idea. Here on the on
the program. When when we come back, Scott Beacon's going
to join.

Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
Us and.

Speaker 1 (01:02:08):
The National Script Spelling Bee. Did you ever do a
spelling bee when you were in school? I mean I
did the classroom spelling Bee.

Speaker 2 (01:02:17):
Nope, no spelling bees.

Speaker 1 (01:02:18):
I might have won my school spelling be one year.
I might have, but again I might not have. I
was a decent speller back in the day, nowhere near
where these kids are today. The stuff they're spelling crazy,

(01:02:41):
it really is. It's insane. I would guess that the
words they're spelling in the final rounds would stump ninety
nine percent of Americans. But Scott Beacon of the b
Line blogger has got some really interesting insights into into

(01:03:06):
the spelling Bee and observations, and I thought it'd be
worth taking a few minutes to talk about it. So
he's going to join us next hour. A lot of
other stories to get through next hour, and some of
them are absolute smh stories. So stick around our three
next to the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Here we

(01:03:33):
go third hour. It is show fifty three ninety two.
But who's counting it's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
He's osey, I'm Preston. This is Scott. Scott Beacon joins
us the bline Blogger and if you go to his
blog page, it's real simple and easy bline blogger dot
blogspot dot com, and you subscribe, you'll get some great

(01:03:57):
content in your email box on a fairly regular basis
every few weeks, maybe every couple of weeks, maybe twice
a week. I don't know, Scott, how do you pick
what it is that you're going to write about?

Speaker 6 (01:04:11):
Well, President, I think it comes down to what I
find interesting. I figure some other.

Speaker 7 (01:04:15):
People might find interesting. So that's really the driver.

Speaker 6 (01:04:19):
And also a big part of that is it's got
to be a piece of a data or a fact
that I think a lot of people would not notice
and not to be highlighted.

Speaker 7 (01:04:31):
So that's really what drives it most of the time.

Speaker 1 (01:04:33):
The last piece you wrote in the month of May,
you titled what privilege as in question what privilege? And
it was about the National Spelling Bee. What drew you
to the spelling Bee?

Speaker 6 (01:04:48):
Well, like you participated in spelling bees when I was younger,
and in fact, I won my fifth grade spelling bee
look at you, And I went to the city spelling
Bee chancechampionship, and so I've had an interest in that
for a long time. Now I've got a state that
I did not win that city spelling Bee, but it

(01:05:11):
gave me an interest in the whole topic, and so
I followed it from time to time, and I really focused.

Speaker 7 (01:05:18):
On about eight years ago.

Speaker 6 (01:05:19):
I wrote a blog post on this when I watched
the Spelling Bee, and the thing that struck me was
that fourteen out of the fifteen finalists were all children
of immigrants, specifically primarily from South Asia, which was pretty
amazing to me when you consider that their parents did
not even have English as a native language, and here

(01:05:42):
they were in the United States being the best spellers
in the country.

Speaker 2 (01:05:47):
So where did this lead you?

Speaker 1 (01:05:49):
You start with the observation that look at these finalists,
look what they have in common?

Speaker 2 (01:05:55):
Okay?

Speaker 6 (01:05:56):
Then what, well, you know, we always so often in
this country that the deck is stacked against this group
or that group, and a lot of people argue, that's
why we need affirmative action or DEI programs to level
the playing fields. But then you look at these children
that have come in who didn't even have with their parents,

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did not even probably have English spoken in the household
to begin with, and they're winning the National Spelling Bee.
It's pretty incredible when you look at that as a
testament is do we really need all these programs to
level the playing field when really what you need is
you know, individual initiative and people going out and you know,

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perseverance and hard work gets done. And that's what these
kids really do, because you're right, And when you look
at the words they're spelling, it's incredible.

Speaker 2 (01:06:49):
Well, I can't even pronounce the word the kid won
the event on.

Speaker 6 (01:06:54):
I agree I could neither.

Speaker 1 (01:06:58):
So so I mean, and you talk about determination and work.
The young man who won the spelling Bee this year
came in second the year before.

Speaker 6 (01:07:09):
Correct and yeah, go ahead, he probably from what I've
read about a young man, I mean, he was studying
five or six hours a day, you know, just going
through the dictionary and reading and looking through every word.
You could imagine, and he did. If you go back

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to last year. I didn't watch last year, but looking
at some of the summaries, they couldn't stop either of
the two finalists.

Speaker 7 (01:07:37):
You know, both of them spelled every word they had.

Speaker 6 (01:07:40):
And what they ended up doing was like a speed
contest where they gave him certain number of worders to
spell and the winner just got was the one that
could spell him quicker. And that's how he lost. But
he never really in two years, think about it, he
never misspelled one word.

Speaker 2 (01:07:59):
Can't two hours without misspelling a word?

Speaker 4 (01:08:03):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:08:05):
Join us?

Speaker 6 (01:08:06):
Yeah, the country we live in is the greatest country
that anyone's ever lived in, and the opportunity is still
there for anyone to get a hold of. And I
think that the interesting thing about this is these children
came in with immigrants who really believed in the American dream,

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and they didn't hold the kids back. They said that
anything's possible, doesn't matter about the color of your skin
or your religion where you came from. You could achieve
anything in this country because it's a true meritocracy. When
you're going to get down to it, it's very rare
in the world today.

Speaker 1 (01:08:44):
It's also important to note, we're not talking about something
that's just relegated to spelling either. Overall achievement in schools.
You just look at valedictorians in a lot of schools
and you're going to find some consistencies there as well.
We're going to talk more about this with Scott Beacon next.
It's the bee Line Blogger and the website is Bline

(01:09:05):
Blogger dot blogspot dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:09:07):
Here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Florida Sunshine
State to Washington State. No, No, not Washington.

Speaker 1 (01:09:20):
Sorry, Washington's also hopeless for crying out loud? Is this
the only bastion of physical wealth and mindset goodness? Yeah,
And this is the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Scott
Beacon with me the bee Line Blogger. We're talking about
one specific piece, What privilege. That's the name of it,

(01:09:41):
What privilege. We've been abused with the term white privilege
for about a decade now. It's really been a trendy thing,
although it's something that has been endured for quite some
time in different forms. Scott, your data showed that students
in American public schools, in schools in general that are

(01:10:01):
of Asian descent are remarkable achievers. Tell us about the
numbers you dug.

Speaker 6 (01:10:06):
Up, Well, it's pretty amazing what we've seen in the
last twenty five years. In particular. You know, if you
go back in time and look at some of the data,
and specifically, let's say math and science, and if you
went back to the fifties, the sixties, the seventies, the
disproportionate achievement was Jewish students compared to the percent of

(01:10:30):
the population today, Asian students only make up about five
I mean Asian students in generally population as well, probably
is only about five percent of the population, you know, but.

Speaker 7 (01:10:43):
They're garnering a.

Speaker 6 (01:10:44):
Disproportionate number of the awards and the science competitions, math competitions.
We obviously see it in the spelling bee, you know,
where it might be forty or fifty percent.

Speaker 7 (01:10:57):
And I think my thesis.

Speaker 6 (01:10:58):
On that is you go back and you look at
Jewish students for examples in the forties, fifties, and sixties,
and a lot of them were immigrants at the time
as well. And my belief is that these immigrants came
to the country, you know, they were a disadvantage group,
they were discriminated against, but they had parents in particular,
who came to the United States with the American dream,

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and they really told their children the same thing, that
this is a country that you can achieve anything, and
they kind of motivated those children to study hard, work
hard to achieve the American dream, and they did. And
we're seeing the same thing I think today with Asian
students over the last twenty five years, and the Jewish

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students really have dropped off with regard. You know, there
God has many immigrants, they've been more successful. We all know.
Sometimes you get a little successful, you get a little softer,
and I think we're seeing that play out right now
in some of the numbers, which is kind of interesting
because it really does again reinforce of the American dream,
the opportunity, and really a lot of what you achieve

(01:12:05):
in the United States really comes down to your own
individual efforts.

Speaker 1 (01:12:08):
Well, I was going to say, I have long contended
that education in terms of, you know, we fund education
at enormous levels here in our country, but I liken
it to putting fuel in a gas tank. There's just
so much fuel a gas tank could hold, and after that,
you're really kind of throwing away gas or in this

(01:12:29):
case money, and so we've long heard that while we
all know there are problems in the public school system,
the reality is is that, you know, there are students,
largely from different ethnic backgrounds that are achieving very high
levels of success in our schools. And so that speaks

(01:12:49):
to the culture at home more than it does to
the culture.

Speaker 2 (01:12:51):
At school.

Speaker 7 (01:12:54):
Exactly.

Speaker 6 (01:12:55):
And if you look at the data, which I have
in the past, I mean, if you look at recent
African immigrants, they have disproportionate amounts of success, you know,
if they're coming from Ghana or Nigeria, very successful, and
in fact, their incomes are much higher than whites born
in the United States. So yeah, when you hear the

(01:13:17):
term white privilege, you know what does that really mean?
Because we have people achieving a recent immigrants at very
high levels no matter what the color or ethnic background.

Speaker 1 (01:13:27):
Well, if that, if this doesn't just real plainly point
out the need to really re examine what's going on
in American homes and where we put our emphasis on
the value of education and helping our kids and preparing
our kids for success, I don't know what would.

Speaker 7 (01:13:48):
Exactly right.

Speaker 6 (01:13:49):
I mean, because it's you know, the teachers today have
a have a tough job, and it does start in
the home. You can only do so much. And you know,
just like if you're a college athletic team or pro athletics,
you've only a coach, can only do so much. It
helps have a little bit of talent to begin with.

Speaker 2 (01:14:05):
On that field. Parents need to hire an assistant teaching
coach in their homes from an Asian family.

Speaker 7 (01:14:12):
What do you think, Yeah, it might it might work.

Speaker 6 (01:14:15):
I mean those they've had such success and you know
those ages your parents have really give them a lot
of credit because they're involved in their children and and
they probably push them a little harder than a lot
of others of.

Speaker 7 (01:14:28):
Us have done.

Speaker 6 (01:14:29):
And and it obviously, uh is obviously it's working for
them in that respect yields results.

Speaker 1 (01:14:35):
Scott, thanks so much for the peace. I appreciate the
time this morning hit him.

Speaker 6 (01:14:38):
Well, Okay, appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (01:14:40):
Thanks President.

Speaker 2 (01:14:42):
All Right.

Speaker 1 (01:14:42):
Scott Beacon, the bee Line blogger here in the Morning
Show with Preston Scott. It's one team. Two minutes after
the art, it's just ironic. The second Lady usha Usha

(01:15:07):
vans Ussia ussha ussha Usshia encouraging kids to read twelve books.

Speaker 2 (01:15:14):
This summer. What were we just talking about now?

Speaker 1 (01:15:19):
Really as bad as public education is at this stage,
and it is, it's just we've got too much wokeness
in public schools. Think about the fact that immigrant students
immigrant wrong word. Students that are of different ethnic backgrounds.

(01:15:41):
They come from their parents are our Indian or their
parents are Japanese or Korean. They come here and succeed
at an incredibly high level. Students that are here that
are coming to secondary school or higher ad from African

(01:16:05):
nations achieve at an incredibly high level because they view
it as a privilege or it's a structural difference in
how the parents operate in that household. You will learn,
you will devote time to your studies. Anything you want
to be good at takes time. Nothing comes from not

(01:16:32):
taking time. Nothing You can be a naturally born fill
in the blank. You still have to have time. I
just you got to put in the work. And the
fact that they're achieving says that well, even despite the
weakness of our educational system, the levels in which these

(01:16:54):
students are achieving say it can be done. But it
starts way before we think it does. It starts at two,
at three, at one, and a half. It starts by
having your child learn words and colors and numbers and
shapes when they're one, speaking to them in the womb. Anyway, Sorry,

(01:17:23):
I want to just take a moment and remind those
of you in the third hour of the program that
we are one week away from the season debut of Alone,
season twelve, the best television program out there. To give
you an idea, go to your nearest cliff and take

(01:17:48):
a look, and then go to the Grand Canyon, look
at a tree in your backyard, go to the Redwoods
in California. That's the difference between television and Alone. Alone
is in a world all by itself, and I bet
Jose still hasn't looked at an episode. It starts next

(01:18:15):
week on the History Channel. I am not being compensated.
I'm not being paid. I love this show. I wish
I were being paid to promote this program. It's just
but I would be talking about it anyway. I've got
my list of things that I would do if I
were taking They videotape it themselves. The contestants are competing

(01:18:37):
for half a million dollars. Whoever lasts the longest, and
sometimes it's sixty seventy eighty days, it's one hundred days.
Sometimes that's the winner lasts that long. Sometimes it's two
people that are out past two months out in the wild.
They've long run through a bunch of their whatever they brought,

(01:19:00):
and now they're really improvising. It's fascinating, and they have
to videotape themselves. They have access to a medical crew,
they have access to emergency extraction. That's it. They are
on their own. They can't bump into each other. They
are separated from everybody, everybody, and so it's great television.

(01:19:22):
It's fascinating television. It's problem solving television. They bleep out
bad words, most of the bad words, so I think
it's pretty safe for kids to watch because they learn
problem solving and bad problem solving when people make poor decisions.
But it's fascinating. I recommend getting the list of items

(01:19:42):
and picking your own ten items based on where they're going.
And this is South Africa where they're going. The Great
carew is where they are so read up about that.
You can go to history dot com slash alone and
you can look at all the information. You can watch
previous episodes, but you can check out the gear list

(01:20:04):
and pick your ten items and have some fun with it.
But one week, it's one week, twenty seven minutes after
the hour, It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (01:20:18):
Started counting his shows at the beginning because we weren't
really quite sure how long he'd last. Yeah, now it's
just turned into a thing. Welcome to the Morning Show
with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (01:20:51):
Thirty six minutes past the hours the Morning Show.

Speaker 1 (01:20:54):
Hello everybody, final half hour of the show, at least
for today. Tomorrow, what would you do? Got another scenario
for you where we will ask you what.

Speaker 2 (01:21:04):
Would you do?

Speaker 1 (01:21:06):
We're going to put you in a pickle and see
how you navigate that situation. And also tomorrow we'll have
what's the beef? Best and worst? Good news some headlines
from the Bee. Friday is always fun here on the
radio program. It is National dog Bite awareness for the

(01:21:30):
postal service. They're asking you to please you know when
you're For the most part, Christmas time is about the
only time your postal worker delivers at a weird hour
where it could be who knows when. You generally know

(01:21:51):
roughly when your postal worker is going to come through
your neighborhood. Have your dog leashed up or inside. You
shouldn't have your dog free running anyway. You just should
It's dumb unless you have a big piece of property
and then you have a fence of some kind that

(01:22:13):
keeps your dog in or you know, you got the
electric fence, which you know. I'm not a big fan
of those. You know, you walk to the edge. I
know they learn. I just I just there's anyway. There
are some six thousand dog bites last year of postal workers,

(01:22:35):
and Florida ranks number eight, probably because of population. If
you look at the states in the top ten, you
know you got California, Texas, Ohio, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Florida, Missouri,
and North Carolina. I mean those those top eight. You know,
Michigan's a little weird, but Illinois and Texas, California being

(01:22:57):
the top of the dog bite states. That doesn't I
mean that if nothing else, that's population, right, But it
still speaks to man just simple things, being mindful of
the fact that you want your male because what will
happen is if someone is worried about your dog, they're

(01:23:19):
going to put a notice in your box and they're
going to tell you to go pick up your male
at the post office. They're just not going to mess
around with it. So just saying I'm with them on that. Nebraska, Now,
this will become very relevant here in a moment. Nebraska's
passed the law. So we now have twenty seven states

(01:23:44):
that have passed laws prohibiting males from competing in female sports.
But how are we determining what is a male and
female for the purposes of competition or whatever. If it's
anything other than DNA designation, we are going to miss.

(01:24:06):
It has to be DNA, all right. When we come back,
I have a paper clip full of stories connected to
this topic and it's sickening, it really is. Way do
you hear the snapshot of stories we got next? And
there I'm saved them. These are stories from the here

(01:24:28):
and the now, forty minutes past the.

Speaker 2 (01:24:29):
Hour, the bolding ship with President's called and this is
the Preston Scott show.

Speaker 1 (01:24:56):
Sorry, playing the air trombone there. I think it's a trombone.
I could be wrong, It sure feels like it's a trombone.
You know, instruments have their moments in the sun and
they're just cool. Like there are just certain songs that
you hear a tuba and you're like, come on, that's
just so cool, or a souzophone. I for years did

(01:25:19):
not know the difference between a tube and a susophone.
No idea, didn't know there was a difference. I didn't
know that that there was a difference between a violin.

Speaker 2 (01:25:36):
And uh a cello until I like, okay, okay.

Speaker 1 (01:25:43):
I got you, I got you that this one goes
this way and it can kind of double as a
bass boom boom, but a cello could just be spectacularly beautiful.
Not knowing the difference between a cello and a violin
just speaks to me being dumb. Not the difference between
a susophone and a tuba. That's that's that's a different story. Okay,

(01:26:07):
I don't feel so dumb about that. But anyway, it
has nothing to do with what I wanted to talk
about here. Parents Minnesota State High School girls softball Tournament underway.
Number two seeded Champlain Park defeated number seven Egan five

(01:26:27):
nothing because Marissa Rothenberger, a male, through a complete game shutout.
This is a sport where a male fast pitch softball
pitcher has an incredible advantage and hit her an incredible advantage,

(01:26:52):
incredible advantage over girls through fourteen shutout innings and back
to back games to get to the finals of the sectionals.

(01:27:15):
And people are noticing and for everyone that says, oh,
it's so unfair for the parents to be putting on
shirts that that demean that they make this girl feel. No,
it's not a girl, it's a boy. And shame on
the parents of this child. This is unfair, patently unfair.

(01:27:47):
We still have now the story of the Olympic gold
medalist Emaine Khalifh. Medical reports have been leaked. Dude has.

Speaker 2 (01:28:01):
X y chromosomes born with him.

Speaker 1 (01:28:09):
He's a dude and he's beating up women in the
ring and winning gold medals. How they're awarding a gold
medal to a man in women's boxing is beyond me.

(01:28:29):
Miss North Florida has been stripped of her title for
refusing to sign a Miss America contract that falsely defines
female to include castrated males. Kaylee Bush, crowned in September
twenty twenty four, stripped of the title in November, objecting

(01:28:50):
to the false definition contrary to religious beliefs and Florida law.
The contract requires female beauty candidates to agree to compete
against biological males who have been subjected to medical mutilation.

(01:29:11):
For the record, we're trying to get Kaylee on the
show next week. She's an honorable young lady. I think
Liberty Council is participating in a potential lawsuit. We routinely

(01:29:35):
have guests from Liberty Council, including founder Matt Staver and
a key litigator. But this is where we are. Olympics,
high school beauty pageants. When will this stop? And I'm
not stopping until this blight is removed from society And

(01:29:59):
by that I'm the blight is allowing men to compete
against women. The blight is not men who have a
problem mentally. I have empathy, I have sympathy. I have
none when it comes to men taking away women's awards, places, accomplishments, records, scholarships.

Speaker 2 (01:30:26):
I have no.

Speaker 1 (01:30:27):
Empathy or sympathy there none whatsoever? Whatty seven minutes after
you and I hope you don't either, Oh my, for

(01:31:04):
our program? What would you do if you are new
to the Morning Show? We've stumbled into this thing where
we are finding stories or running across situations.

Speaker 2 (01:31:22):
That create.

Speaker 1 (01:31:25):
A challenging set of choices. Do you do this or
do you do that? Or is there another option? Sometimes
these things straddle in to the law versus not unless

(01:31:47):
it changes tomorrow. I've got a circumstance where I'm going to.

Speaker 2 (01:31:51):
Ask you.

Speaker 1 (01:31:55):
And I'll share how this came about, but I'm gonna
ask you to consider whether you would technically break a law.

Speaker 2 (01:32:10):
Or not.

Speaker 1 (01:32:11):
It's it's not unlike a running stop, a rolling through
a turn where you're pulling up to a red light
and you're like, you're seeing cars coming and if you
come to a full stop, you can't you can't make it.
But if you just kind of keep rolling just a
little bit, you can safely turn and get in front

(01:32:33):
of the traffic that's coming. Or at a stop sign
where there's no cars coming in any direction and it's
a four way stop and you're just kind of you
look both ways and you're like, yeah, I'm rolling, you're
technically breaking the law. But so I've got a situation
that's like that but totally different. It has a wrinkle

(01:32:56):
and we'll talk about that tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:32:58):
Brought to you by Barrao Heating There. It's the Morning.

Speaker 1 (01:33:01):
Show on WFLA big stories in the press box today.
It is National dog Bite Awareness Month. You might think
it's some other month. No, no, no, no, it's the
month of my birthday. It's dog by Awareness month. It's
the birthday of two of my granddaughters.

Speaker 2 (01:33:25):
It is the birthday of my dad, my brother in law.
I think Pete.

Speaker 1 (01:33:35):
Merrivitch, it's born on this in this month. John Dillinger
was born in this month. Just kind of just pointing
it out, and it's dog bite awareness for the Postal
Service Nebraska passing the law protecting women's sports. Why are
we having to do this? Why are we having it?
Because we're not just taking this. We're waiting for lawmakers

(01:33:58):
instead of parents saying no.

Speaker 2 (01:34:00):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (01:34:01):
I think I said in a commentary last week, you
have to crash women's and girls' sports.

Speaker 2 (01:34:07):
You have to crash.

Speaker 1 (01:34:08):
Them and not compete at all, period, No signing up,
nothing unless they take a position outlawing boys men competing
against girls. We're not talking about co ed sports. Guys
on the run after killing his three daughters. Washington State.

(01:34:32):
Terrible judges. District judges acting once again as authorities to
stop they're adjudicating for people that don't even live in
their district.

Speaker 2 (01:34:43):
It's wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:34:44):
Tomorrow I can't wait, twenty one hours away. Friends, have
a great day.