Ep. 5396: Who is funding these riots?

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Thursday, June 12th.

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- Steve Stewart
- Dr. Mathew Zaideman
- Jonathan Hunn



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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Your ears either perk up or your mind runs in fear.
The sound of the beginning of the Morning Show with
Preston Scott, how are you, Good morning friends, Great to
be with you. I'm booyed a little bit because I've

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gotten more feedback from the gentleman who shared a note
with me facing some pretty significant surgeries and wasn't sure
what the future would look like, whether there would be
one past those surgeries, whether we would make it through
those surgeries, whether we would make it to those surgeries.
And so I've heard a couple of times from a
listener of the show and a contributor to the program,

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not just an email, but phone in form and and
just delightful to hear from him a couple of times
and to get an update on what's going on with
him personally. But welcome to the Thursday, June twelfth edition.
More on that date and moments. We've been going through
Colossians three this week. We started with verse twelve. Put

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on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts. Notice,
put on put on compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience.
Putting those things on, we talked about is an act
of intent, just like putting on shoes, putting on a coat.

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You put on you choose to do these things. It
is intentional. We go on to say, bearing with one another,
and if one has a complained against another, forgiving each other.
The Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive that.
You know what that is. That's the word of God

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poking you in the chest. You must forgive others as
Christ forgave you poke in the chest, kind of like, hey,
listen there, buster, you better not hold on forgiveness anyway.

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And then we pick up here and above all things
put on love, which binds everything together in a perfect harmony.
And that's what we talked about yesterday, the binding agent
of all of this, what brings it all together. And
we used it in sort of the form of a
recipe and how eggs oftentimes and recipes are binding agents.

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Whether you're frying something, whether you're dredging, whether you are
in preparation for frying, whether you're making a cake or eggs,
it's a binding agent, right, and there are others, but
eggs is kind of the main one. And so love
binds all of these different actions and intentions together. Now

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we get to the verse today, and let the peace
of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you
were called in one body, and be thankful. I think
the end result of that recipe, if you will, of

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being intentional about choosing to love, choosing to show compassion
and kindness, humility, meekness and patience, bearing with one another,
forgiving one another, the end result of following that recipe

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is the peace of Christ ruling your heart. And I
think what I like about that word rule is what
is a rule. It's not the exception, it's the rule.

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If you do these things, I believe the rule is peace.
You walk, live, act, think, speak in peace. I may

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work in construction just like you are. But these are
really good, challenging, encouraging, affirming, but asolutely they are teaching scriptures.

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Do this, choose to do that, and here's your result.
Ten past the hour. Good morning, good morning, good morning,
good morning, Welcome, It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred
point SEVENUFLA, June.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
Twelfth, sixteen sixty five. English colonists establish a municipal government
in the old Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam, which they
rename New York. I sometimes forget there is a Old York.

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It's in the UK. Oh, yeah, York, So it was
New York, saying. Seventeen seventy six, the Colony of Virginia
adopts a bill of Rights asserting that all men are
by nature equally free and independent. And of course they

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held on to slaves. See this was a probably a
conundrum face by the founders, but they placed in the
They knew this has to end. Slavery has to end.
Men of great courage, but they weren't quite courageous enough

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early enough to end slavery. But they put a mechanism
in the constitution for it to end, and it did
sort of. Some people go to jobs today and they
think man. Nineteen thirty nine Baseball Hall of Fame dedicated
in Cooper's Town, New York. Nineteen seventy one. President Nixon's

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daughter Tricia and Edward Cox are married in the White
House Rose Garden. And in nineteen eighty seven these words
were spoken by the Gipper President Ronald Reagan, General Secretary Gorbachev.
If you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the

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Soviet Union in Eastern Europe. If you seek liberalization, come
here to this gate. Mister Gorbachev opened this gate. Mister
Gorbachev teared down this wall. Whoof and he did. And

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one of the coolest things I've ever seen is a
large piece of that wall standing at the Reagan Library
in California. Big piece of it right there. What a
monument to the gipper. Just awesome. All right? Today is

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a National Red Rose Day. I think always of my mom.
We have a rose garden in our backyard. All of
the roses that we have are selected, except for one
which we inherited when we bought the house twenty plus
years ago. Twenty years ago, there was a climbing rose
in the back that I saved. But I've added and

(08:42):
I've put a rose garden in my backyard, and all
of them are wonderfully fragrant roses, and they're just that
was something my mom loved, is growing roses, And so
that's kind of an homage to my mom. It's National
Loving Day. My my daughter used to say when she

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was not quite getting her way, that's not love. Another
Today's National Loving Day, National Jerky Day. Are there you
you certainly have eaten your share of of jerky. Oh yeah,
I love me some jerky. Okay, So what's like the
favorite of favorite jerkys Old Trapper, the Teriaki Okay, amazing.

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I'm more of a Lynx, but I'm not. I don't
can't say I've tried the Old Trapper. They're so good,
very tender and incredible. Okay, worth the money Teraioki. Yes,
I like the sweet and spicy that the Jack Lynx
sweet and spicy is really good? Is I mean to me?
You got I mean, in a pinch beef jerky will

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do right? You just you got a little jerky there,
You get a little something to chew on and all that.
But but if you're choosing, man, give me some little flavor,
a little spice, little something there. But I've never gone into,
for example, you walk into a Bucky's, They've got a
wall of jerky that is like incredible. And that's gonna

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come to the Tallahassee areas soon. It's National Peanut Butter
Cookie Day. And peanut butter cookies are fine. They break
apart very easily because peanut butter is tough to cook,
to bake with it crumbles. But the right kind of
peanut butter cookie with a Hershey's kiss in the middle.

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You just bake the cookie and right as as it
comes out of the oven, drop that Hershey's kiss right
there in the middle, and let it just sit. And
then when you bite into it, it's gooey. It holds
its form, but when you bite into it, it's gooey.
It's just the thing of beauty. So there you go,
sixteen past the our. Do you know what's coming next?

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Do you? Today is a red letter day in my
television viewing world, because in twenty three minutes, the opening

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shot of the US Open is going to take place
at Oakmont in Pennsylvania, outside Pittsburgh. If you are a
golfing person, you are so geeked up for this because
you are going to watch the best golfers in the
world suffer, and I mean suffer like we all suffer.

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They have they This golf course has been tweaked two
years ago, maybe since then as well, to be as
close to the way the original architect designed it, but
for the modern game, embracing all that it is, it

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is right now the hardest golf course anywhere in the planet.
And I watch some very good players play this course
a couple of weeks ago and get absolutely trashed. And
I mean players that will break par all the time
trashed one finished in two played two rounds, finish twenty

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one or twenty two over. It's just it's brutal. It's rough,
that is five inches thick, where the ball drops down

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and you can't see it and you still have to
figure out how to hit it. Where if you hit
it in traps, you're hitting it sideways. You're not hitting
it towards the green very often. I mean it's going
to be brutal. The greens are on average, I want
to say, almost nine thousand square feet eighty five hundred
and are what is called in the world of golf,

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it's called a stimpmeter reading where they have this device
that you find a level piece of ground, place a
golf ball in it, and think of like a measuring stick,
a ruler that's maybe eighteen inches long, with a little
pocket that the ball sits in and you lift it
up and then at a certain point the ball rolls

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out and then however far it goes is the number.
So a stimp meter of eight is eight feet it's
a slow green. Twelve is a fast green. These are
allegedly running fifteen, which is insane. Fifteen is if the
blowing the ball may not stop, it will just blow

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off the greens. That's how fast that is. So it's
his delicate balance and it's going to be absolute carnage.
And I cannot wait to watch the best players in
the world suffer the way the rest of us do.
And it's fun because the players are like, yeah, I
Justin Thomas, one of the better players in the in

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the game, was saying, yeah, I hope it psychs out everybody.
He said, I that's fewer people I have to worry
about beating. He said. It just comes with it. Xander Schoffley,
former Olympic champion, was like, yeah, people tune in to
watch us suffer, so I prefer to look at it
as let's just have fun and tackle it. And of

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course Scotti Scheffler, Scotti Scheffler and the best player in
the world, and it's just going to be amazing. I
cannot wait great stories of amateurs playing because it's an
open championship, so there are amateurs that quality to play
in it. It's gonna be great. But then when the

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golf is over, tonight on the History Channel. Alone. I
won't watch it tonight. I watch it on the DVR
Friday night. It's a ritual my wife and I during
the Alone season. It's kind of a Friday night thing.

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We go have a early dinner somewhere and then come
back home and snuggle up and watch Alone. Yeah oh yeah, yeah,
maybe Alone go on. So this is like about as
good as it gets for me. The US Open all
weekend long. I'm not mowing my lawn until until there's

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not golf to watch. I mean, like Saturday morning, I'll
mow my lawn Saturday morning. I'm not mowing it and
missing golf. But between the US Open and and Alone tonight, yeah,
twenty seven minutes past, Yeah, it's time.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
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Speaker 1 (16:52):
London bound passenger plane carrying two hundred and forty two
people crashes after takeoff in India. I'm not sure they're
going to find anybody on this one. Air India is
the provider Big Stories in the press Box. This morning

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Thursday on the radio program, Steve Stewart comes up. Next hour,
doctor Matthews Adaman in for doctor David Harts in our
Optimum Health Naturally segment, and then Jonathan hun He is
director of communications with the Alamo Trust. The Alamo. Yes,
as in remember remember the Alamo. We will talk about

(17:38):
the Alamo and a fascinating development literally development there in
recent months. He scheduled to join us, but the Big Stories.
Senate Subcommittee on Crime and counter Terrorism, Josh Holly, the chair,
announced an investigation into one of the entities that is

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likely funding the riots in Los Angeles. Yes, you heard right.
These people are coming off of buses with kevlar, with
implements to throw at drop on police from bridges and

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so forth, and so. The letter addressed to the executive
director of the Coalition for Human Immigrant Rights says, in part,
while peaceful protest is a cornerstone of American democracy, these
demonstrations have escalated into lawless mob actions. Credible reporting now

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suggests that your organization has provided logistical support and financial
resources to individuals engaged in these disruptive and this disruptive actions.
Bank growing civil unrest is not protected speech. It is
aiding an abetting criminal conduct. Guy posted online Matt van Swale.

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He said, can someone please explain to me how on
earth it is possible for someone in La to riot
five straight days? How does one endlessly riot and still
hold on a job to feed their family. They're being
paid and this is a criminal enterprise. And so there

(19:32):
is one big story. So you know, Gavin Newsom filed
a loss a lawsuit against the Trump administration, accusing it
of trying to militarize the city. Filed emergency motion to
block Trump's troop deployment, but a federal judge rejected the motion.
Why because it is federal actions and it maybe tough

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for people to understand. But you know, Obama won a
case against Arizona. Arizona wanted to enforce laws that the
federal government wasn't under Obama, even though Obama was far
different than Biden when it came to the border, he
sent a lot of people back. But Obama said, no,
you can't do that because immigration laws federal law. You

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have no say. And the US Supreme Court agreed. So
it doesn't matter with gavinew Some things or Karen Bass
thinks grand jury. Listen to this. A grand jury has
indicted Democrat Representative la Monica mc iver of New Jersey.

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She faces more than eight years in prison after that
stunt where she tried to keep ice officials well, she
assaulted ICE officials as they were trying to arrest Newark
Mayor Roz Baraka. I think it's I think this dude's

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a relation to Rosah Ghoul from the Batman movies. I
think ros Baraka. It's kind of a combination of Rossah
Ghul and Barack Obama rozoh Baraka. So she's rule of law. Sorry,
but a New Jersey grand jury that's a large group

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of If the grand jury functions like this, that means
roughly twenty twenty one people voted out of maybe twenty five,
but at least good number of people of her peers
of her citizens said yeah, she needs to face charges.
And GM investing four billion in US manufacturing plants in

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the next two years. Another win for the Trump administration.
More investment coming to the the fruited plains. Forty one
minutes after the hour, We're going to circle back to
that Los Angeles story here real quickly. Oh the fun
doesn't stop here.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
Find more on his vlogubuflafm dot com.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
Keyword preston. This is a piece of sound of the
mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, who has been a
train wreck as most Los Angeles mayors are just like Chicago.

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These are cities so beholden to the Democrat Party. They
can't seemingly break the chain. They keep electing terrible people.
Listen to what she had to say. This is twenty
four seconds of infamy and it explains really everything we need.

Speaker 3 (23:02):
To stop the raids. She just should not be happening
in our city. It is not warranted and it does anything.
The only thing it does is contribute to chaos. This
was chaos that was started at Washington, d C.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
On Thursday.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
The city was peaceful on Friday. It was not because
of the intervention of the federal government.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
Those twenty four seconds summarize failure in leadership. No raids
do not need to stop the fact that she is
blaming this is the tactic. Let's blame Trump. The city

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was peaceful. No no, no, no, no. See you are a
sanctuary city and state that is operating against federal law
and targeting criminals, illegal immigrants with final deportation orders has

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to continue stopping them. Rewards this rioting. In fact, the
raids need to be happening all over the country, and
they should be absolutely happening in Los Angeles. They are

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warranted these raids, whether the city was peaceful or not.
I would love to pull business owners in downtown Los Angeles, residents,
people that work down there. I would love to hear
if they think their city was peaceful the day before.

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But this is the liberal slash illiberal approach to everything.
This is the think about this. This is the same
mindset that blames the gun not the gun holder is

(25:23):
This is the mindset that projects blame in the wrong places.
The fault of the unrest is strictly on the mob.
If federal officials do their job and are allowed to
do their job, they arrest people and they leave. This

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would be like saying if LAPD showed up with a
warrant to arrest somebody guilty of molesting children and the
friend it neighbors decided they're not going to let them
take them, We're gonna blame the police for showing up

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to conduct the arrest. It's absurd, it's absolutely absurd. It
is gaslighting to the end. And I want to remind
you California doesn't have a say in this matter. That's
why the judge refused it because the Supreme Court has
already settled this issue. Immigration is a federal issue unless

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a state is able to convince a judge otherwise. That's
why Trump wants to finish building walls and help along
the Rio Grande River to secure this nation. And oh,
by the way, amazingly, there's less fentanyl on the streets.

(26:59):
No way. Forty seven minutes after the hour, interesting development
as a result of Simone Biles.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
Maybe forget to subscribe to the Conversations with Preston Scott
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Speaker 1 (27:29):
Perhaps you've been following. I'm sure that a lot of
you were like me, you don't pay attention to gymnastics
until and around the Olympics, because unless you've got a
kid in gymnastics, why would you, right, I mean, it's
just but in the Olympics it's cool. I love watching it.

(27:51):
And so Simone Biles was like, oh, come on, girl,
little mighty mite, incredible, best female gymnast. Perhaps ever that
said she stepped in it defending men competing and pretending

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to be women, and so she attacked. Riley Gaines Online
came back around, Riley's not putting up with it. That girl.
Not only is she a hero to millions of little

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girls around this country that will get to compete fairly
one day when we clear this field and get this done,
but she's got some pretty good social media game. And
so Riley fired back. Simone apologized because she got blistered.
And I would bet there is a phone call from

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an agent, someone representing Simone Biles. I have no evidence
of this whatsoever. This is just a hunch. Someone said, Simone,
I hope you have your nest egg, because you've just
flushed it down the drain. Your future endorsement possibilities, You've

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just cut them by not half, by eighty percent, because
that's roughly the number eighty percent of this country thinks.
And even right now, I believe the number sixty seven
percent of Democrats think that men competing against women is wrong. Transgender,

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whatever their thing is, whatever their mental or emotional issue,
it doesn't matter. It's wrong. It's a guy. It's the
biology of a male. Now we've got to get to
a place where it's DNA tested, and that's not birth certificate.
Cannot allow it to be birth certificates because in three

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quarters of the states I believe it is. You can
change it, So that's no. But USA Gymnastics has pulled
from its website pages, its transgender eligibility policies and resources.
They're gone. In a statement, it said in May, USAG

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removed its policy to assess compliance with the current legal landscape. Previously,
USA Gymnastics was very, very very permissive in allowing men
to compete against women. USA Gymnastics. This is the same
group that the females were abused for years by the

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team physician. Remember that guy's serving life in prison for
what he did. And Simone Biles was allegedly one of
the victims. And she is defending men competing against women. Well,
we'll see where this leads. In terms of Simone Biles.

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I think the damage might be done because she's not
fully apologized. She's just apologized for personally attacking Riley Gaines.
She hasn't said she was wrong, but she's completely wrong.
This is not one of those well everyone has an opinion, No, no, no,
if you think men should compete against women, you're wrong.
You're just wrong. Sorry, accept that you're wrong. All right,

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we come back. Steve Stewart joins us from Tallahassie Reports,
second hour Thursday, here on the Morning Show with Preston

(31:59):
scot In Morning Friends. He is Jose, I'm Presston and
this is the executive editor of Tallaskan Reports. Remember it's
Tallaska Reports dot com. Steve Story, Hello, good morning. How
are you. I'm good, I'm good. Good. Do you think
people in town are ready to embrace an increase in the.

Speaker 4 (32:17):
Fire service fees? Well, it's coming and it's coming early.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
You know.

Speaker 4 (32:22):
The budget workshop for the city was a busy day
at city all yesday with the budget workshop. In a meeting,
budget workshop, they do these very transparent. It's great information
if you look through it. This is the third of
four before the fiscal year twenty twenty six. Fire service
fees is a major part of this a fire service
fund of about seventy five million dollars. Their fees were

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set in twenty twenty three, supposed to be a five
year agreement to twenty twenty eight. We subcoon the county
subcontracts with the city to provide services, so they sign
on to these rate increases and collect money from unincorporated area.
Some things came along inflation, a new agreement with firefighters
and new fire you know, fire stations that were being built.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
Costs going up.

Speaker 4 (33:06):
So the city said, hey, look we can't wait five years.
We got to have more money now, and so twenty
two percent increase. They sent it over to the county.
County says, we're not real happy with this, you know.
So the county sent it back with about an eight
million dollar cut.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
And this is the money.

Speaker 4 (33:21):
We're talking about five dollars a month, which is sixty years.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
The increase.

Speaker 4 (33:25):
The cut by Leon County would save a dollar a month.
I will tell you my read on this is the
county does not They are uncomfortable with being seen as
raising fire service fees. So they want to make it
clear to people that this is a city deal.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
And so I think that's what this is about.

Speaker 4 (33:45):
Yesterday at the budget workshop, they took the proposal from
the county that was a cut, and they said, no,
thank you, we're gonna we need every dollar that we
said we needed. So they went ahead and voted for
that increase. Now, what will happen is behind the scenes.
It will either get worked out or go to arbitration.
But that you know, that was a major issue there's
at the workshop.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
It would seem if the costs are legitimate, and I
have no reason to think that they're not legitimate, the
costs increase are what they are. The city's on pretty
good ground here. Well.

Speaker 4 (34:14):
I think one of the things too is that if
you remember back during the negotiations with the firefighters, there
were a couple of Leon County commissioners who were advocating
that they needed more money. Yeah, and so they gave
them more and so yeah, I think you're right on that.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
So we'll see where that goes. You know.

Speaker 4 (34:27):
From the budget workshop thing, I think people need to
sort of reset to where we are on terms of
the money that we're spending. You this budget is one
point two billion dollars City of tality.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
Yeah, it's sporty.

Speaker 4 (34:38):
Sporty about nine hundred and fifty million in operations, with
a you know, with a capital budget that adds on
to that general fund two hundred and twenty five million dollars.
So that's up about thirteen million from last year. Property
taxes are up about six point seven million, not the
actual rate, the collected amount.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
So there was a property tax increase, no rollback, they're
going to spend that and so and they're transferring money
still from the utility fund. Oh yes, yes, yes, fifty.
So I broke this down.

Speaker 4 (35:06):
Out of the nine hundred and fifty million dollars in operations,
about five hundred and fifty of that is actual utilities water, sewer, electric, utility,
and so about ten percent of that gets transferred into
the general fund.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
So that's not so they're paying that, they're paying. They're
covering the cost of operating the utilities, right, and they
have excess funds that they transfer to the general fund
exactly because doesn't that operate as a de facto tax
on everybody. Then again it does, and for some people
that don't even live in the city. But that's been
that's been litigated.

Speaker 4 (35:43):
The point being this, if you look at the budget
two hundred twenty five general fund, okay, it's two hundred
twenty five million. Seventy seven million comes from property taxes,
so it's about you know, a little less than a
third comes from property taxes, another fifty eight from the
transfer from utilities. But if you look at the top
two or three categories in the general funds public safety.

(36:04):
Then when I talk about the general fund, understand that's
two hundred and twenty five million. The fire services fund
is outside of that, so that's another seventy five million
dollars there. So three hundred million for basics, you know,
for general fund services public safety, fire police the third
issue that's less.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
That's about a quarter of the budget. Yeah. Well, if
you look at I mean if it's one point some billion,
oh no, but that adds the utilities.

Speaker 4 (36:30):
The general fund budget okay, between fire service and police is.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
What one hundred and fifty million dollars? Okay? Then parks
are next. So the third of the four workshops has
taken place, taking.

Speaker 4 (36:44):
Place and they pretty much are on schedule for that budget.
Is there much acrimony, No, not in terms of the
five to zero.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
On the fire services. Everybody supported that.

Speaker 4 (36:52):
It'll go back to the county and that's where the
acrimony will rear its head.

Speaker 1 (36:56):
All right. We got more to talk about with the
local comp plan as well, some entry developments there here
with Steve Stewart to tell as who reports Wing Show
with Preston Scott. I got bad thought.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
My news Radio one hundred point seven Double UFLA.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
Minutes after the hour the morning Show, the comp Plan
explain what it is?

Speaker 4 (37:24):
Yes, you know, I use the word zoning because I
think more people understand that the comp plan is this
for a four hundred page document that really is the
regulations and the rules of where you can build and
how you grow. Uh, you know, how what are the
It gets to the nuts and bolts of how roads
are going to look, where sidewalks go, what setbacks.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
Are, how comprehensive plan for the community. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 4 (37:47):
And so about ten years ago they decided to rewrite
it City County both both Okay, and so they decided
to start rewriting it because they wanted to deal with
some growth issues. And so they've done that. And what
they did last night was just kick the can down
the road for another year. They had been working on it.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
So what's another suspicion as to why.

Speaker 4 (38:10):
Yeah, I think they want to be First of all,
I think there's a on the city Commission. This is
about the competition between growing out and growing in downtown
and growing out.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
You've heard the progressive wing.

Speaker 4 (38:23):
On the City Commission just you know, say talk about
urban sprawl, and you know, I sort of have to
chuckle about this because if you travel around the country
and you go to other towns, I mean, we're the
furthest thing away from urban sprawl.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
Are we growing out? Do we have suburban you know,
suburban neighborhood?

Speaker 4 (38:39):
Sure, but go to Jacksonville, go to Orlando, you know,
go to Austin, Texas.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
And oh, by the way, people are fleeing inner cities
and going to urban area.

Speaker 4 (38:49):
Right, and so I think that you've seen some you know,
look the again, they were wanting to do away with
the Northeast Gateway, the Wallaune plantation, which is some of
the only land in the urban services area to develop
up for neighborhoods, and and so in addition, what this
comprehensive plan is the the edits are too or the
amendments are to facilitate the growth for the next twenty

(39:10):
five years. Okay, And they have built they have put
in more incentives for what they call infill, which is
growing in, which is what the progressives want.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
Yeah, they want you to They want more people living,
you know, they want density, they want population density.

Speaker 4 (39:24):
So then you can get out of your car and
you can maybe walk to your job, or you can
take Star Metros.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
And there's so many grocery stores downtown, so that would
be great.

Speaker 4 (39:31):
So anyway, what's happened is they've they've built the comprehensive
plan to facilitate that. And now some of the neighborhoods,
the legacy neighborhoods lost Rollbos, Beden Hills, La Fia Park,
they don't want it. They don't want, you know, a
higher density in their area. And it's like, so, you know,
what are they going to do. There's been a number

(39:52):
of meetings about this. Neighborhood groups are just raising cane.

Speaker 1 (39:55):
About it, and we're talking about when you say the
neighborhood groups, these are really well attended meetings where neighborhoods
are showing up.

Speaker 4 (40:03):
They are and you know they have associations kona atn
Association of Talacy Neighborhoods. And so the gentleman that is
in charge of right rewriting this, Ardi White, has done
a really good job. And his respond I mean he
actually when you have the public comments, which last night
there were thirty comments, he sat back there and took
notes and then got back up and responded to not negatively.

Speaker 1 (40:25):
He just responded, this is how I addressed this issue.
And so he has really.

Speaker 4 (40:29):
Done yeomen's work and trying to do what he thinks
the commission wants.

Speaker 1 (40:34):
And he's listening. He's listening, okay.

Speaker 4 (40:36):
And so most of the commissioners and most elective officials
see a blend between growing out and growing in. They want,
you know, they want to do both. The progressives have
really been very critical of growing out, but now they're
it's sort of, you know, they've got a little bit
of a problem here because the people that support them, well,
you know, they want more infill, the Progressives, but these
neighborhoods don't wan anything to do with that. So what

(40:58):
has happened is I think there were no questions about
how to deal with some of these legacy neighborhoods that
mayor Daily made the motion to kick this down the
road for another year. And so they'll refile what they've
done in September and then start engagement again, and hopefully
a year from now that everybody will come downtown to
a public hearing and we'll sing Kumbaya and they'll approve

(41:21):
the new comprehensive plan.

Speaker 1 (41:22):
Do you get the impression that the one year delay
is to refine the plan more, to give people more
chance to have input, or to hope it dies away.

Speaker 4 (41:32):
Now I think what's going to happen is they're going
to do carve outs for some of these legacy neighborhoods
and leave them the way they are without the density.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
Sort of let them be grandfathered exactly. I think that's
what the goal is going to be. Okay, more to
come with Steve Stewart. We come back that little gathering
of law enforcement and federal and local in along Gain Street.
We'll talk about that next. Steve Stewart with me from

(42:10):
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I'm gonna I'm gonna throw out what is a very
common term inside the world of Gain Street and what

(42:34):
happened a couple of weeks ago to eighty seven g
What in the world is that?

Speaker 5 (42:38):
So?

Speaker 4 (42:38):
What the the raid that happened on Gain Street has
prompted more discussion at the city and you say, well,
why is the city discussing this? Well, a few months
back was revealed that the city manager and the police
chief signed an agreement with ICE and Homeland Security to
cooperate with them and the enforcement of the illegal immigration

(43:01):
laws or immigration laws. And that's nothing new, right, Well,
the signing the agreement is new, and but the cooperation
has been kind of a state wide. So what has
happened is now they're going to allocate a police officer
to help with processing some of the arrest However, what
happened at the three or four months ago was the

(43:22):
questions from the progressive wing of the city commission otherwise. Yeah,
it was like, you know what does this entail? And
she failed and said, look, we're going to cooperate. We're
going to arrest violent criminals. We don't care where they're from,
you know, if their citizens or not, if they're violent,
If they're violent criminals, we're going to arrest them and
we're going to help process them. And this is we

(43:43):
have one officer that's going to be dedicated to be
trained and the processes that are required.

Speaker 1 (43:49):
And so Commissioner Porter was really upset.

Speaker 4 (43:52):
That the agreement was signed with upcoming before the Commission
their business, and so she said, you know, do you
she wanted to she wanted to pursue is this legally
required for us to do this? And so really pretty
much got shut down. However, what has happened now last
night at the City Commission meeting is the raid on

(44:13):
Gain Street has brought this up as another you know,
it raised it back up to the top. There were
speakers from the local TACAC group, which you know calls
TPD officers murderers on a routine basis, you know, wanting
wanting them to take you to withdraw a cooperation with ICE.
And so what has happened in a three to two

(44:35):
vote Commissioner Porter, Commissioner Matt Low and Mayor Daily Uh,
they're going to bring back over.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
Those are three names you don't hear together very often.

Speaker 4 (44:44):
They're going to bring back an item that describes exactly
what the talented Police Department and is doing with Ice.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
And you know it's it's going to get again.

Speaker 4 (44:55):
It's the two that voted against it, Commissioner Richardson and
Commissioner Dian Williams Cox, Dian WILLIAMS.

Speaker 1 (45:02):
Cox just made the comment.

Speaker 4 (45:04):
We need to tread very carefully here and so this
is going to raise this up again to another level.
And so look the rhetoric, I mean I listened to it,
I saw it live. The rhetoric that was spoke at
the meeting probably won't be seen. You know, we'll report
on it, but most people in tallency.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
Won't see it. It was you know, I mean, there
was very.

Speaker 4 (45:26):
Very hateful rhetoric, not much discussion about the pros and
cons of what we're doing in terms of enforcing the laws.
And you know, we talked about this previously. You know,
the Progressives weren't a little bit of a corner when
you're arrestling criminals are here illegally. Now, when you see
the images of people being arrested that were working even

(45:48):
though they're here illegally, this does seed a little bit
of the political high ground.

Speaker 1 (45:53):
And I think I think you gain it right back
if you if if the Republicans in the state gather
some curage, close the verify loopholes and begin to insist
at law enforcement also arrest the subcontractors that are knowingly
hiring illegal immigrants. And I think that's the key there.

Speaker 4 (46:10):
You don't see you don't see any pictures of that
because of the media, And I think that's they've been
and they're not being arrested the subcontract right, they've been
given a pass, and so you know, I think that's
we'll see how this goes in.

Speaker 1 (46:22):
Terms of the political high ground. But I will tell you,
and I've been watching this.

Speaker 4 (46:25):
They were quote the people that were against this of
enforcing laws were on the defensive. This provides them an
opportunity to get back on the offensive on this. And
I think that it's just because look, you've got you've
got us corporations luring workers. You know, they're not having
to pay insurance, probably paying lower wages. People are being

(46:45):
paid under the table, right, and so that that is
something that's got to be addressed here.

Speaker 1 (46:50):
It's going to start looking one sided.

Speaker 4 (46:52):
And again, if you need these workers, then there are
work visas that can be that can be had. The
problem with that and this is again and the barrier
to entry with corporations. You've got to pay fees, you
got to vet the people that are coming.

Speaker 1 (47:04):
Over here well, and you can't reward people that broke laws.
You have to make them get back in line.

Speaker 4 (47:11):
No exactly, but the point being is that the businesses
don't want to have to do the steps they're involved, right,
and so this has got to become more of an
issue or the immigration issue, which has been you know, guy,
it's just been a mess for years, is gonna.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
I've been calling out Republicans in the state legislature all
session long, which is why not one of them will
appear on this program. It's true story. Real quickly, you
had some notes on TMH and FSU and the city.

Speaker 4 (47:37):
Have an update on Team H which has gone sort
of silent. Reese Code gave an update.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
Sounds like the city has sort of backed out.

Speaker 4 (47:43):
Of the negotiations and let FSU and TMH talk and
work out an agreement.

Speaker 1 (47:47):
Which and the update was it was positive.

Speaker 4 (47:50):
And I think then it will come back to the
city and the city will decide how they want to
move forward.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
So that's where we are on that. Thanks as always
for the intel. Thank you, Presting. All right, Steve Stewart
with us caught up on all things local. It'll be
a couple weeks before we have them back because we're
off next week. But twenty seven minutes past the hour,
Remember Tallahassee Reports dot Com, The Morning Show at Preston

(48:20):
Scott On NewsRadio one hundred point seven WFLA. Well, GM
is going to put another four billion into the US
economy in the next two years. It is announced a

(48:45):
four billion dollar investment in US manufacturing plants, plants in Michigan, Kansas,
and Tennessee. We'll expand their finished vehicle production of their
most popular vehicles. According to the chair and CEO of GM,

(49:06):
that's a win. That's another win for Trump. Say what
you will about the tariffs, one thing has absolutely happened
as a result because businesses want certainty. There's a certainty

(49:27):
attached to manufacturing stuff in this country. You don't pay tariffs.
There's certainty. How's that for a number zero? And so
you are seeing businesses say, you know, it makes sense.
BMW I talked about it yesterday, BMWGM, other manufacturers, Honda,

(49:50):
I think it was. They're just saying, yeah, let's just well, okay,
we're gonna spend money somewhere. Let's spend it where we
have the largest market share, where we make the most money.
And for many of these manufacturers, if not all of them,
it's America. Why Because we are a consumer nation. Another

(50:12):
big story in the press box. I thought this was
absolutely wonderful. You may remember the story of Representative Lamonica
mc ivor. We've touched on it briefly. She was quote
at an ice facility in New Jersey to conduct a
Congressional oversight inspection. They were basically trying to crash the facility.

(50:41):
Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman was their representative Rob Menendez. Maybe
Rob was trying to see his dad in prison. I
don't know, maybe he got confused. But as they began
their visit, a protest rally was underway outside the facility.
The congressional delegation was brought inside the secure area, and

(51:05):
shortly thereafter, Mayor Roz Baraka arrived with his security detail
and told the gate guard that he was part of
the congressional entourage. No, he was not. He lied. He
was denied entry after the guard was concerned with the
mayor's safety. He was allowed inside the secured area, but

(51:26):
a federal officer said the mayor was not authorized. They
issued the mayor multiple warnings to leave, and that's when
MacIvor got involved and forcibly tried to stop the arrest
of the mayor. Well, she's now facing eight years in
prison because a federal grand jury has said yes, indict

(51:51):
her and issued indictments when a federal grand jury says
there's probable cause. M mmmm mm hmm. And US Senator
Josh Howley Senate Subcommittee on Crime, Encounterism, counter Terrorism, is
calling for an investigation of one group perhaps there will

(52:14):
be more that he believes and the committee believes is
responsible for funding some of the rioting taking place in
Los Angeles, which is not protected free speech. Forty minutes
past the hour, doctor Matthews Adaman standing by Optimum Health naturally.
Next on the Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (52:41):
Let's get you feeling a little bit better naturally. It's
Optimum Health Naturally. Here on the Morning Show with Preston
Scott joining me this morning, Doctor Matthews Adaman from one
of North Florida spying wellness.

Speaker 5 (52:52):
Good morning, sir, Hey Preston, how's it going.

Speaker 1 (52:56):
I'm going well, going well, doing well. Tell me first
before we even start, what is creatine? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (53:07):
Great question, And I was hoping to do that in
my best Arnold Schwarzenegger voice, you know, but I figured
I couldn't pull that off. Tried a couple of times,
didn't work right. Creatine is actually a naturally occurring substance.
Our bodies actually make it through protein that we intake,
but we also get it directly through foods like red meat,

(53:27):
pork and fish, things like that, and its primary function
is to help develop muffle mass, and so that's what
it's most known for, and it certainly does that very effectively.
In fact, it's been the most studied sports medicine supplement
that there's been. So what we don't realize all the
time is creatine is actually not only just found in muscles,

(53:51):
but it's also found in brain tissue as well. And
what we're discovering is it has a role in brain function,
which is pretty interesting. Now if we think about muscle
mass alone, and you're probably familiar with some of these
studies that we've known for you know, a couple of decades,
that muscle mass is really important for maintaining cognitive function

(54:12):
as we age. In fact, studies have shown repetitively that
when we decrease thigh muscle mass, for instance, that is
an independent risk factor for developing dementia, Alzheimer's things of
that nature. So and when you consider that we naturally
lose muscle mass as we age, you know, just maintaining
muscle mass seems to be a pretty important thing. But

(54:35):
what's really fascinating is just this past month, there was
a study published that was a pilot's study looking at
supplementing creatine with Alzheimer's patients. So not patients that risk
for Alzheimer's are showing red flags, actually diagnosed with Alzheimer's,
And what they did was there's only twenty patients. It

(54:56):
was a small study, but they all took twenty milligrams
of creatine over eight weeks, and not only did they
see the increase in creatine, which we would expect, but
they had a ten percent increase in working memory and attention.
Now that may not seem like a gigantic leap, but
when you're considering patients who've been diagnosed with Alzheimer's typically

(55:17):
don't improve right, they typically just keep getting worse. So
just to get a ten percent increase over eight weeks
is pretty significant. And we've also seen studies showing with
sleep deprivation, especially with women, that creating can increase cognitive
function and performance. It's also been studied in autism to
show improvement as well. So there's a lot of you know,

(55:41):
utilization for this outside of just getting ripped, which should
we say now, I will say twenty grams is a
really large dose, So no one should go out and
do that on their own without consulting with a doctor.

Speaker 5 (55:53):
Of course.

Speaker 6 (55:54):
I actually find that three to five grams is pretty
effective for doing what you want to do. You know,
sometimes you'll have some upset stomach. That's another reason to
go kind of slow, and it will be more effective
if you do it in conjunction with exercise, especially things
like resistance training. As far as safety, Yeah, go ahead.

Speaker 1 (56:14):
Well, I was just going to ask is it best
to pursue this through the foods that create that have it,
or is it best to look at it so that
you can have a measured dose of it in in
nutrient form.

Speaker 6 (56:27):
Yeah, that's actually a great question, because, like I said,
you get it through protein. So that's the first thing
I would suggest is make sure you're getting adequate protein
and adequate exercise. Those two things alone are going to
be really helpful. And when you do that, you probably
don't need these megadoses of creatine to be honest with you,
the safety profile is really good. The only time you

(56:49):
have to really think about maybe not a great idea
is if you already have existing kidney disease. But if
your kidney is already healthy, it's very very safe. Now
some brands are going to add others things associated with
exercise enhancement, things like synthetic caffeine and things other that
you may want to avoid. So look for, you know,
brands that say NSF Safe for Sports. That's an independent

(57:13):
organization that measures purity and safety of supplements.

Speaker 1 (57:16):
Good stuff. Doctor Zaidaman, thanks so much for the time
this morning.

Speaker 5 (57:21):
Thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (57:22):
As always, I appreciate it. Doctor Matthews Adaman with us
from North Florida Spying and Wellness their website Healthy Tallahassee
dot com. Forty six minutes past the hour. Yeah, road

(57:59):
trip idea and again it's the start of the summertime
school's out. We want to start closer to home. I'm
going to just suggest you go to places like visit
Florida and just look at the options. Visit Georgia, you know,

(58:21):
any of the tourism sites run by the states Alabama, Georgia, Florida,
and just see what's close by. Don't overlook hidden gems
near by. Now I'm gonna stay with Florida and whether

(58:42):
you're talking Panama City, Panama City Beach. You know, Peer
Park is a favorite of mine with my wife and
I love going to Peer Park. It's just a good hangout.
It's just a nice stroll. The beach is right there.
Of course it's at the peer Peer Park, thank you
very much. But you can you can, like you can
rent boats and if you know anything about boating, it's

(59:06):
it's it's a it's a breeze. Get a pontoon boat,
go out to Shell Island, get a jet ski and
zoop around. You can do little guided tours and they'll
take you out and most almost always you're gonna you're
gonna come across like little pods of dolphin and that's
so much fun. It just is. You can charter a

(59:26):
fishing boat, go out there and catch some fish. There's
so many things to do. You want to head down
towards Gainesville. The Santa Fe Zoo, it's a teaching zoo
that the University Santa Fe Community College now State College has.
It's a fun zoo. They have the Butterfly museum and
and to me, it's great they have a museum of

(59:48):
natural history. It's it's a lot of fun too. There's
some really good things to do in and around the area.
So my advice to you maybe maybe Mary at the Caverns. Right,
There's just some options, so don't overlook places you can go,
not just the theme parks. You know, the theme parks

(01:00:10):
are fine if you've got a little money to spend
because they're pricey. You know, the sea worlds and and
you know the bush gardens where you've got kind of
a zoo and an amusement park kind of blended into one.
But you also have like wild Adventures nearby, and there's
they're just My point is there's lots of options for

(01:00:31):
you to go and have a good time with your
family and and not be gone that far from from home.
So there you go. I came across this story and
I'm horrified by this. Did you know that we have
been dealing with an invasive ant species in Florida in
the southeast for the last ninety years. It is called

(01:00:58):
the Asian need ant. Hold onto your hats here. If
you're someone that carries an EpiPen because of your concern
of beastings. These ants can cause anaphylexis. They They can

(01:01:19):
cause anaphylexis in humans and cause a real problem. And
I've looked it up. You have to handle them a
certain way. But they are in and around our area.
They do exist, So I'm just saying they're not fire ants.

(01:01:44):
This is something different. They look different, and you know,
you can use some of the same products to kill them.
But man, if you are sensitive to beastings in the
don't mess with this stuff. I mean, really, I bet

(01:02:08):
they came from Wuhan. They're probably they're probably modified, genetically
modified to kill us. That's how long the Chinese have
been playing the long game. They nineteen thirties. They've been
around since then. But I just saw the story. When

(01:02:31):
we come back, hopefully we have set up Jonathan hun,
communications director with the Alamo Trust. The Alamo was in
the news. We talked about it a couple months ago.
We're finally going to talk more. It's really cool what's
going on. And trust me, you will remember the Alamo
when we're done here. On the Morning Show with Preston,

(01:02:53):
Scott ive passed the hour third hour Morning Show with

(01:03:17):
Preston Scott and Morning Friends show number five thousand, three
hundred and ninety six. He's Jose. I'm Preston, and you know,
if you've listened to this program at all, I am
just a nerd when it comes to history. That does
not mean I know it all that well. I'm just
fascinated by it. And I came across the story. We
talked about it on the show back in March, and

(01:03:39):
the headline of the story is historic discovery confirms the
courey that supplied limestone for the Alamo. And joining me
on the program is Jonathan Huon. He is the communications
director with the Alamo Trust the website Thelamo dot Org.
Jonathan at long last, sir, we got you on the show.

Speaker 5 (01:04:00):
Oh how are you, Yes, Thur, Good morning from the
Alamo City.

Speaker 1 (01:04:03):
I appreciate you making time for us. I have been
pursuing this time for a while. Now. I want to
give everybody a snapshot because I would gather most people
listening to our show today have never been to the Alamo,
but all are familiar with parts of the story. Remind
us the purpose the Alamo served from its onset, what

(01:04:26):
was the reason it existed?

Speaker 5 (01:04:28):
Sure, so the Alamo began as a Spanish mission in
the early seventeen hundreds. In fact, that Zach location was
built where it is today in seventeen twenty four, just
celebrating its tri centennial last year. Was Spain's effort to
settle and really us blay Christianity throughout the region and
really was part of Spain for nearly three hundred years,

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and Texas remained under a Spanish rule until it became
part of Mexico in eighteen twenty one, and then after
Mexican independence. The Constitution of eighteen twenty four gave states,
including states like Texas, more economy, but when General Santa
Anna overturned the Constitution in eighteen thirty five created more
of a centralized power, unrest broke out across the country

(01:05:12):
and in Texas, settlers like the Texasananos alike viewed it
as really a betrayal of their rights and a revolution
followed and that same year, Texan forces captured the Alamo.
In December of eighteen thirty five from the Mexican army,
setting that stage for Santa Ana's return, and then March
eighteen thirty six, after a thirteen day siege, Setana's forces

(01:05:35):
overran the Alamo, killing the about one hundred and eighty
nine known Alamo defenders, including James Bowie, William Travis, Davy Crockett.
But their sacrifice became a rallying cry for Texas independence,
and after the battle fell into disrepair, it was used
as a military outpost. The US Army came in in
eighteen forty seven and just really kind of became a

(01:05:58):
huge seed for Military City USA here in San Antonio.

Speaker 1 (01:06:02):
So the reason it was the epicenter as we kind
of look back and we see that as the flash
point of this conflict with Mexico. You mentioned Santa Anna,
the reason is because Texas took control of it.

Speaker 5 (01:06:19):
That's correct, because there was a lot of unrest when
that change of the constitution being removed, So the eighteen
twenty four constitution basically being torn up in eighteen thirty five,
and at that point period of time you had basically
a civil war across Mexico many of the states. In fact,
when that took place, Texas sent its navy to the

(01:06:41):
Yukaton later because the Yukaton Peninsula almost became part of
its own nation as well, So it wasn't just Texas
fighting for its own independence nation. It was a really
civil unrest across the entire nation as a result of
the constitution being torn up by its leader.

Speaker 1 (01:06:58):
You mentioned some very famous names, and I want to
just take a second to drill down on some of them.
We'll do one first and then we'll take a quick
break here. What was Davy Crockett doing at the Alamo?
He was Wasn't he a member of Congress at one point?

Speaker 5 (01:07:12):
That's correct, So he was probably one of the most
famous Americans at that time that was setting the states
to become president. He and Andrew Jackson, both from Tennessee,
didn't see eye to eye politically. Andrew Jackson did everything
possible to actually have him lose this congressional did and
that was that when that famous phrase came out, yell

(01:07:33):
nego or that he'll actually come to Texas in early
eighteen thirty six. So it was a really interesting story.
You know, one thing that I had actually learned in
my time at the Alamo. You know many legendary stories
about him, but he was actually with a young naval
lieutenant the first individual to help boil a presidential assassination attempt,

(01:07:55):
and it was of Andrew Jackson. Later ruined his own
political career. So there are a lot of interesting stories
you'll learn while working or coming and visiting to the Alamo.

Speaker 1 (01:08:04):
Joining me on the program as Jonathan Huon he is
with the Alamo Trust. We are talking about the Alamo.
We're going to get to this remarkable discovery and its importance.
But bear with us. There's a lot to talk about
because the history of the Alamo, as we're learning, is
fascinating and we are just getting started here on The
Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (01:08:29):
Thought or story you want to share, write them at
Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. Yes he knows how to read. Well,
actually his producer reads him. He doesn't know how to read.
It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:08:49):
I admitted just a few minutes ago, I'm a nerd
on history, and I remember talking on this program about
the story of the letter that William Travis famously wrote
and had sent out seeking help reinforcements because he anticipated
what was coming to the Alamo. And I talked about

(01:09:11):
that letter making its way back to the Alamo. If
I'm not mistaken, Jonathan, that letter returned just a few
years ago for the first time since it was written
and send out. Is that correct?

Speaker 5 (01:09:23):
This it's actually the second time, But you actually bring
up something that's very timely, Preston, because the Texas Legislature,
we were working with Representative Cody Harris here in Texas,
just passed HB thirteen ninety seven awaiting the Governor's signature
to actually return the Travis Letter to be on display

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permanently at the future Visitor Center museum that's opening in
twenty twenty seven. So we're very very excited about that
because one thing, as many people were the number one
chorus destination in Texas. We get one point six million
people to the Shrine of Texas Liberty each and every year.
Our tour guides will talk about the letter and then
people ask, well where is it? And unfortunately it's in

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the state archives basically in a basement in Austin. But
now with this new Visitor Center museum we're open in
a few years, we'll be able to have it on
display for our many visitors.

Speaker 1 (01:10:16):
Have you seen the letter?

Speaker 5 (01:10:18):
I have the last time we had it on display
last year.

Speaker 1 (01:10:21):
How I don't want to put words in your mouth here,
but I was moved by just the story, the letter's existence.
It was coming back and there's just a poetry to
that when you first saw it with your own eyes,
tell us what was your reaction and what was in
the letter.

Speaker 5 (01:10:42):
You know, it's always a special moment when you come
across a very important historic American document like that, and
that's a deeply significant part of American history, a special
part of history between really the Revolutionary War and Civil War.
And you know, first time I had seen it and
was being put on display by our collections team here

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and actually having a moment in the room by myself
with the letter, it was especially significant. It kind of
reminded me when I was a young boy going to
DC for the first time and seeing the Declaration of Independence,
because this was a huge part of just US history.
And when you think about the few pieces of paper
documentation in American history, this has got to be one

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of the in my personal opinion, one of the top ten.
So it's just very important that we have this back
at the album and we're really excited to have it
on display at the Alamo in just a few short years.

Speaker 1 (01:11:36):
A deeply personal letter but also a letter with a purpose.
Remind everybody the purpose of this letter and what he
was hoping to accomplish.

Speaker 5 (01:11:48):
Yes, So at the time that it was actually written,
the Alamo had already been under siege. It was a
plead for reinforcements and supplies to show on wavering resolve
in the face of overwhelming odds. Who really address the
people of Texas and all Americans of the world. As
it actually stated in the letter, it was going to
call for help in a bold declaration of defiance to

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stand up against really thousands of Mexican troops that were
surrounding them and the now really ending in the now
legendary phrase victory or death. The letter became a powerful
symbol of courage sacrifice. It really helped the galvanize support
for the Texan cause during the revolution.

Speaker 1 (01:12:28):
Was it just that it got to its intended destination
too late to matter or what was the end result
of that letter being sent?

Speaker 5 (01:12:39):
So it was dispatched, there were about thirty two brave
souls that were actually called the Immortal thirty two and
Gonzales that did arrive prior to the actual battle. Unfortunately,
it wasn't enough reinforcements to actually make a difference with
the overwhelming odds that took place at that point in time.

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There were some reinforcements that did arrive, but it unfortunately
was not enough. But again the Alamo became an ultimate
rallying cry. Just about really a little over a month later,
the Attle Sangacento, which did ultimately result in the Texas
independence by capturing Santa Ana and its forces.

Speaker 1 (01:13:22):
Jonathan Huan with us from the Alamo Trust website, Thelamo
dot org. Set up your time visit. Make it a
road trip for yourself and your family this summer when
we come back the discovery that prompted this entire visit.
Next on the Morning Show twenty one past the Hour,

(01:13:48):
Jonathan Hewon with me with the Alamo Trust. We're talking
about a historic discovery. But first, speaking of history and
the Alamo, I tested my memory with Jonathan and the
b and I said, is it true? Is my memory
correct that the artist Phil Collins, formerly of the group
Genesis and then he had an incredible solo career, that

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he was like one of the biggest collectors of Alamo
memorabilia or history of anybody out there, Jonathan.

Speaker 5 (01:14:20):
Historical historical artifacts. That's correct. He actually had over four
hundred and thirty items making him the largest private collector
of Alama artifacts in the world. And you know, we're
really excited to have the Collins display really up and
about on display here at the Alamo now.

Speaker 1 (01:14:37):
So he donated all of it.

Speaker 5 (01:14:39):
All of it, and twenty fourteen, a little over two
or ten years ago, it valued at about twenty million
dollars all of the people of Texas.

Speaker 1 (01:14:48):
That's incredible. Yeah, okay, he's now my favorite. All right,
let's talk about the restoration of the Alamo. What's the
project and then lead us to this headline of a
historic discovery.

Speaker 5 (01:15:01):
Absolutely, so I'm glad you asked that. So right now
we are working on something called the Alamo Plan. It's
an over half a billion dollar investment into the Shrine
of Texas Liberty, the entire Alamo grounds to make sure
that we are really bringing the Alamo up to its
well recognized name internationally. So we are not only preserving

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the church in Long Barrack, which are the two remaining structures,
we are building a visitor center museum that will be
opening just in two short years in twenty twenty seven.
That'll have eight galleries, a four D theater, and a
rooftop event space. That way we can tell the full
three hundred year history of the Alamo like never before.

Speaker 1 (01:15:41):
Tell me about the Qurey discovery.

Speaker 5 (01:15:44):
Wonderful. That's a great question. So I mentioned the preservation
of the church in Long Barrack. So the Long Barrack
is one of, if not the oldest building standing still
in the state of Texas, built in seventeen twenty four.
The church that everyone knows very well in the historic
Western Facade that you're all very familiar with, built in
about the mid seventeen fifties. Now, in order to preserve

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these structures, ensure that they're standing for future generations in
another three hundred years, we had to make sure that
we're finding appropriate limestone. So we had done testing really
in many different areas, but working with historical documents, specifically
the Minchaka map it's a map from the nineteenth century,
we were able to determine a location where we could

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do some additional testing, and doing that testing in combination
and in concert with those historic documents, we actually found
a match of this limestone and it was just a
huge discovery, very excited for us. So more importantly knowing
that exact location where the limestone was quarried, but more importantly,
having the stone match for this preservation effort of the

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church Long Barrick are very very important. Back beginning next
year will actually be replacing the nineteen twenty roof that
was put on the structure, so in order to do so,
having that limestone match is very very important. But that discovery,
you know, going back three hundred years, it was incredibly important.
We're very very proud to have made that here in

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San Antonio.

Speaker 1 (01:17:09):
But if I read this story correctly, Jonathan, it was
almost a fluke that you found the exact quarry because
it was during an excavation for a gorilla habitat at
the San Antonio Zoo.

Speaker 5 (01:17:25):
That's right. So our conservator was actually going by the
area and we had been reviewing those historic documents for
some time. She made the suggestion to actually test that
location and sure enough, you know, it came back a
match that we couldn't have been more tried to as
well as the San Antonio Zoo.

Speaker 1 (01:17:43):
So, okay, does that change how the zoo handles the
gorilla habitat?

Speaker 5 (01:17:49):
Not to my knowledge. I know they're moving forward with
that project, but you know, working with them and they've
been fantastic to ensure that we do have a lot
of that material as we move forward for the preservation effort.
So it's it's just a wonderful discovery, but more important
so that we can help to ensure the historic structures.

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You really helped, because, as my conservator likes to say,
they are sick patients. They are very old buildings and structures,
but we have to make sure they're standing for future
generations to really know not only Texas but American history.

Speaker 1 (01:18:22):
So the plan is for the restoration and the opening
of the new visitor center slash museum to happen in
twenty twenty seven. Is there a tentative month of completion
you're looking.

Speaker 5 (01:18:32):
For right now? It's going to be fall of twenty seven,
So no specific months, but we're looking at the fall.

Speaker 1 (01:18:39):
I cannot wait to visit. It's funny because I've been
through San Antonio. I had a brother live in San Antonio.
I have personally never laid eyes on the Alamo, and
it's kind of strange because it's kind of stuck in
downtown San Antonio, right.

Speaker 5 (01:18:55):
That's correct. You know, we're one of the few UNESCO
World Heritage sites that's actually in the middle of the
major metropolitan area, but the Alamo was really kind of
central to San Antonio, and just commercial developments that took
place really over centuries after it was the mission and
complex was completed, just grew up over time. And that's

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why it's one of the most unique challenges to the
Alamo Plan because part of that is to take back
as much as the mission and battlefield footprint as possible,
and we work with many of our stakeholders of the
city of San Antonio with their county in order to
do so. They're wonderful partners, have been doing a fantastic job,
and we're really excited for this plan to be complete
at the end of twenty seven. But press and I

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have to say, if you're in the Alamo City, please
let us know. We're happy to give you a VIP
tour behind the scenes.

Speaker 1 (01:19:42):
I am going to take you up on that. I
guarantee it's going to happen after that visitors center opens up.
I cannot wait. You've sold more than a few tourists
visits to the Alamo here this morning. Jonathan. Thanks for
being a champion waking up for us and joining us
on the show.

Speaker 5 (01:19:59):
My pleasure thank you for having me on.

Speaker 1 (01:20:01):
Thank you Jonathan Huone with the Alamo trust our guest
communications director. What a history lesson and a little vision casting.
And I'll tell you what if they get that Travis letter,
just look up the document now you can look at

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it and you can get the you know it was handwritten.
You can get the type translation of it. It is
such a worthwhile read. And we didn't even get to
James Bowie, the guy who's the Bowie knife. It was
after him. Classic story of American history right there. I

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hope you enjoyed that. The Alamo. Hope you remember the Alamo.
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 5 (01:20:57):
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On news radio one hundred point seven DOUBLEUFLA.

Speaker 1 (01:21:22):
Took the interview just a couple minutes long because I can,
and so I did big stories in the press box
this morning. Plane crash in India heading to London, almost
two hundred and fifty likely dead, bad bad, shortly after
take off. Don't know what happened, don't plane lost, lyft

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lost an engine, lost engines. I have no idea, but
bad Air India Air Air India. Senate Subcommittee on Crime
and counter Terrorism, the chairman, Josh Hawley, Senator from Missouri,
sent a letter to the Coalition for Human Immigrant Rights.

(01:22:07):
While protests peaceful protest is a cornerstone of American democracy,
credit reporting now suggests that your organization has provided logistical
support and financial resources to individuals engaged in these disruptive
actions otherwise known as the riots. And he went on
to say, bank rolling civil unrest is not protected speech.

(01:22:30):
It is aiding an abetting criminal conduct. So we're going
to begin looking into who is funding this stuff, because
protesters are not just you know, people living paycheck to paycheck,
can't take a week off work to go, you know,
drop molotov cocktails on police. These are paid protesters. This

(01:22:50):
is Clantifa to the core. This has got the fingerprints
of people like George Soros all over it. Not saying
that it's but it's got the fingerprints of people like
him and his son funding civil unrest. And for what

(01:23:14):
Because we want to get illegal immigrants that are criminals,
not people that are here illegally working. Yeah, we'll get
to them now. This is about getting the bad people,
you know, the ones that are raping, murdering, breaking into homes,
you know that kind of thing. By the way, a

(01:23:35):
federal judge rejected California's plea to stop the federal government
from from conducting these raids and sending military support. Trump
sent sent it, and federal judge said, yeah, that's the

(01:23:56):
right of the federal government on immigration. Immigration policy is
the sole responsibility to the federal government. Now, when they're
not following the law, then states have the option of
doing things, which is what we saw Texas do when
the federal government's not following its own laws. But when
they are, states can't do much about it. Grand jury

(01:24:17):
has indicted a Democrat representative of Congress and she's now
facing eight years in prison. New Jersey grand jury has
indicted Representative Lemonica mc ivor for her role in the
fiasco that took place May ninth outside the Delaney Hall
Federal Immigration Facility in Newark. Train wreck and GM investing

(01:24:43):
four billion in US plant manufacturing in the next two years,
another win for the Trump plan on getting money getting investments. Look,
manufacturers overseas are saying, Okay, there's uncertain over what's going
on with tariffs. Here's how we avoid that we just
manufacturer in America, then we don't have any tariffs at all.

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Brilliant forty one minutes past the hour, come back with
a troubling story, little development. This is a story that

(01:25:33):
we've talked about a couple of times. Back back in April,
Frisco Centennial High School in Texas, there was an altercation
between two seventeen year olds and Austin Metcalf and seventeen

(01:26:01):
year old Carmelo. Anthony. Metcalf was sorry a student at
Memorial High School. Anthony a student at Frisco Centennial. And
there was a track meet at Kukin Dahl Stadium, Kaikandall Stadium,

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and there was rain delay during the district Track and
Field championship. Inside. The arrest report says that Metcalf reportedly
told Anthony that he needed to move out of the
Memorial team tent. The report noted that Anthony grabbed his bag,

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opened it, reached inside and said, and I quote touch
me and see what happens. Austin Metcalf stood up and
pushed the mail to get him out of the tent.
According to the arrest report, that is the quote. Witness

(01:27:12):
told police that Anthony then reached into his bag, took
out a knife and stabbed Austin because obviously that's what
you do at a track meet, you always come prepared
to stab somebody. And then he left the scene after
stabbing the kid in the chest. Meanwhile, the young man

(01:27:33):
died in his twin brother's arms. You may recall this
is turned into an absurd scene set of scenes where
the accused family is raising money, is in essence taunting

(01:27:54):
the victim's family, and bond was dropped from one million
dollars to two hundred and fifty thousand. He's in house arrest,
ankle monitor. Who would get that treatment for stabbing somebody
in the chest? Well, you form your own opinion on that.

(01:28:15):
But here's what I can tell you that the new
development is they have the videotape of what happened. Surveillance
video has been obtained and Frisco Independent School District confirmed
it possesses it. It will not be releasing the video publicly,
but it exists. Now. I again, I am I am

(01:28:37):
using my experience as a member of a grand jury
dealing with capital crimes. Six months of serving on a
grand jury, if a prosecutor said the young man is
recorded to have and has been heard saying, touch me
and see what happens. We would submit to you that

(01:28:59):
that indicates premeditation and e as a grand jury would
concur one he opened a bag and reached inside, and
while he opened it, knowing he had a knife in there,

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said to the young man, touch me and see what happens.
And here's here's the problem that the accused is going
to have. At no point is that video going to
show that he should have been in any reasonable fear
for his life or of great bodily harm. A shove

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does not constitute to seventeen year olds. Now, maybe a
seventeen year old shoving an eighty five year old constitutes
fear of bodily harm, great bodily harm, fear of one's life.
But in this setting, uh huh, Nope, this young man

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is going to head to prison and he should. And
it's just it's talk about it. I mean, who goes
to attract me prepared with a knife to stab somebody.
I'm sorry, I'm not buying that. That's just that's the

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crap mentality that exists in too many places in this world.
In America. Forty seven minutes past the hour, come back,
wrap it up, tell you about tomorrow's show next,