Ep. 5407: Killer Bee's are back and we are not talking about Wu Tang.

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Thursday, July 3rd.

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- Steve Stewart 





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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Wait is this on? Are we are we rolling?

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Well?

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Why didn't you cue me? Oh hi, everybody, Welcome to
the Morning Shottle with President Scott. It is Thursday, July third.
I knew we were starting just having some fun. It
is our final show for a few days. We're off
or fourth of July. Hey, look, when the company says

(00:41):
it's a holiday, we're bolting just I don't if they're
celebrating Tiddleywinks day, I'm out. I will not turn away
a company holiday unless we had some kind of disaster
like our hurricane or something. I would I would be here.
I may be alone, but I would be here. That

(01:06):
said next week we're gone too, so we will not
be back until the fourteenth. Eleven days, just saying it's
going to be a minute, and I'm very pumped to
just take a break, get some things done around the house. Yes,

(01:29):
just unplug my brain. I can't think of the last
time I took a long break in the summer. I
normally just take a day here and a day there,
a couple of days there, and then get to the
Christmas break. But no, no, no, this year, taking a
little bit of a time out right in the middle

(01:49):
of the heat of summer and before we get to
the brunt of storm season. So soak it in, everybody.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
This is it for a while, Okay, but we are
coming back. We're not being taken off the air. We're
not putting a time out. We're just taking some time off.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
All right. Our scripture today comes from John twenty twenty nine.
Jesus said to him, have you believed because you've seen me?
Blessed or as I like to say, blessed are those
who have not seen and yet have believed. First of all,

(02:42):
this is the night of the resurrection. Upper room, it's locked.
Jesus pops in. What's up? Okay, might not have said
what's up? But you know what I'm saying. You know,
he just and he was establishing I think something very

(03:04):
cool for you and I. Blessed are those who have
not seen and yet have believed. You know what that
is faith, and Jesus is complementing those But I want

(03:28):
you to think about that word blessed. Blessed are those
who have not seen yet believe. So what does blessed mean? Favor? Right?
I think that blessed is summarized really well by the

(03:50):
word favor. So favor is upon those who have not
seen and yet have believed. So there's something that.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Is so important about our faith in God, in Jesus,
in the message of the Gospel, in scripture. And I
think it's important for us to recognize something I talk about,

(04:29):
you know, frequently with people, and that is that every
single person lives by.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Faith in something, even if it's faith in themselves. So
it's never ever going to be a question of can
or can't. I can't believe that. Well, of course you can't,

(04:57):
because you live by faith all the time. It's about
where you place your faith. You live by faith. The
person listening to me right now that says I don't
believe any of that, Well, that's your choice. But you
live by faith, and I can prove it to you
a thousand times over. You live by faith every single day.

(05:21):
It's all about where you're going to place it. I
think it takes more faith to not believe in God
in his son Jesus than it does to believe. Ten
past the Hour, dig inside the American Patriots Almanac. Next
on the Morning Show with Preston.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
Scott, Inside the American Patriots Almanac, and I gotta tell you,
I am I'm really fighting the urge to.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Watch John Adams the miniseries, the docu series. I think
it's Paul Giamondi plays John Adams, Laura Lenny plays Abigail Adams.
She's beautiful in this role. Just an incredible cast. It's
it's tremendous, it really is. I'm just I'm almost I'm

(06:26):
almost wanting to binge watch the whole thing starting today
and then through fourth or July. So much fun to
watch that again, just the whole thing. It's just it's
a great story. It's based on the David McCullough Pulitzer

(06:47):
Prize winning book John Adams, which is thick, massive book,
great great story. July third, What do We Got Here?
Eighteen sixty three, The Battle of Gettysburg ends with a
Union victory, Thank goodness. Eighteen ninety Idaho becomes the forty

(07:12):
third state, and potato chips were immediately invented. Eighteen ninety eight,
the US Navy defeats a Spanish fleet in the harbor
of Santiago, Cuba during the Spanish American War Cuba. In
nineteen eighty six, President Reagan presides over the reduction of

(07:32):
the one hundred year old reduction good Grief rededication of
the one hundred year old, newly renovated Statue of Liberty.
So there you have that. Now we get to the
national day of I wanted to take some time here.
It's National Fried Clam Day. Clams are a really funny

(07:55):
thing because, honest to truly, they are tasteless, but I
love them. They're rubbery, they're chewy fried, They're better than

(08:20):
not like anything quite honestly. I mean, my goodness, deep
fry in oreo and come on, but clams, I don't know.
I just yeah, it's not like I go out of
my way to eat them. I would go out of
my way to eat eat like crab and shrimp. Lobster

(08:41):
would be down the list a little bit. Clams would
be way down. Scallops yeah, absolutely, scallops with some garlic butter, Yeah,
pan fried. Come on, National Chocolate Wafer Day. May I
just have a moment to say wafers are an underrat
did incredible snack dessert? Who has not munched an entire

(09:08):
package of sugar wafers? And then you get the chocolate
covered kind.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
Oh yeah, that's what makes a KitKat so good.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
The wafers it's National eat your bean's Day whatever, and
it's National Complement your Mirror Day. Now, I want to
look at this for just a second. Most of us

(09:43):
look in a mirror every day, so National Compliment your
Mirror Day is a great reminder to take a moment
and compliment yourself before rushing through your morning rituals. Our
mirrors go through a lot. They see us at our
worst and our best. It's time they're given their due.
Today we're asking you to find the closest mirror, pay

(10:05):
the reflection a compliment it deserves. You're smart, beautiful and
worth every word. Well, okay, then, so give yourself a
little pep talk here today unless you look in the
mirror and look like I do when I wake up,
and it's like am I putting clothes in those bags?

(10:26):
Under my eyes? Sixteen minutes almost seventeen minutes past the
hour here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Time
for the Scott Brothers segment of the program. Did you

(10:49):
know that insect fighting is a popular pastime in parts
of Asia. Cricket fighting is a thing in China, while
the Japanese prefer to fight beatles. How do you make
crickets fight. How do you make beatles fight? I would

(11:12):
think crickets would want to just jump away things I
don't know caused by something that I now do know.
I now know that these types of games happen in Asia,
but now I want to know more. Thanks, boys, all right?

(11:35):
I shared with Jose He saw the rundown. He said naps.
He said, are we talking about naps? And what did
you ask me? I said, well, boy, I hope this
is good. I hope it's a good thing about naps
because I love naps. It makes you smarter, right, Listen

(12:00):
into this study presented last month at Sleep twenty twenty five,
the thirty ninth annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.
Research shows frequent, longer, irregular daytime naps, especially in the
early afternoon, were linked to a higher risk of death.

(12:26):
Oh yeah. Eighty six thousand people were studied. This is
not just a handful, averaging sixty three years of age,
all of whom worked regular daytime schedules. Scientists define daytime
napping as sleeping between nine am and seven pm. Sometime

(12:47):
in that window of time and after the initial study,
researchers kept tabs on the participants for eight years and
discovered that fifty one one hundred six percent of them
died during that time period. The research showed that taking
longer naps and napping between eleven and one or between

(13:10):
one and three was associated with a higher mortality rate.
The results were adjusted for other potential factors demographics, weight, smoking,
alcohol consumption, et cetera. Naps are not necessarily problematic unless
they are used to compensate for chronically poor sleep at night.

(13:32):
The study did not establish that naps directly affect the
risk of death. Quoting one of the scientists, there are associations.
We cannot conclude from this study whether napping causes poor health,
but what they did find was a higher mortality rate

(13:53):
for those that do. Hey, here's what I know about napping.
Naps when you're not feeling real good are incredible. They're like,
oh yeah, But for me, I get up so early

(14:18):
in the morning. I can after if I if I
have lunch, which is an if. I don't always have lunch.
Sometimes I work right through the day, whether it's working
outside or whether it's working on something related to my
job here. I don't always have a lunch. I can

(14:41):
sit on the couch and I'll find myself nodding off
for two minutes if I sit down, if I lay down,
sit If I take a formal nap in an afternoon,
I am useless the rest of the day. I can't function,
So so I avoid naps like the plague because I look.

(15:05):
I know of people that can take a nap the
ten minute, fifteen minute quote power nap and are refreshed
and feel great. I am not one of them, you know.
I don't know the study is what it is. I
don't have an opinion one way or the other. I

(15:28):
just know that for me, napping is like, oh no, no, no,
don't do that because you will be useless. For I
can't function. I'm just so lethargic after a nap. It
is not refreshing at all to me. Twenty seven minutes
past the hour come back. Kind of an unusual mix

(15:50):
of big stories in the press box. Next it's the
Morning Show with Preston Scott. Well, let's go ahead and
get this said. I haven't spent any time talking about

(16:11):
this case. I didn't think it was worth the time,
but I do think it's worth talking about the verdict.
Sean did he Combs did he do it? Jerry said
he did on two counts, and he didn't on three counts,
the three most serious counts. They found him not guilty.

(16:33):
The prosecution did not prove it. He's facing ten years
for his involvement with prostitution. Most think he's going to
get a year and some change, a year and a

(16:53):
half something like that. Don't know he's being held. Believes
he's a danger to the public. Here's what we know
from the videos that have been made public. There's a
bunch of videos that haven't that he you know, they
a lot of defense attorneys that are commenting on this said,

(17:16):
this is a classic case of the federal government overcharging.
This shouldn't have been in federal court. It should have
been in state court, and they overcharged and they went
too far. Had they gone for different charges, they would
have probably been successful. Here's what everyone can agree on.
He's a piece of crap. Now. Is he unredeemable? Of
course not. But as he is, he's a rotten human being.

(17:43):
His treatment of women is disgusting. And you know, I
don't I can't understand the attorneys Spike in the football yesterday.
I watched their press conference. Hey, you have a job
to do. You did your job, and you did it well.
Good for you. But man, I'm not celebrating because this
guy's a piece of garbage. He just is. Jerry found

(18:09):
him guilty of two things, not guilty of three. Fair enough.
I wasn't there. What they watched pretty disgusting, but it
may not have necessarily risen to the Rico sex trafficking thing.
But what cannot be denied that even he has admitted

(18:30):
to is his treatment of his women over the years,
the videos of him beating women. It's just whatever. Whatever,
he's going to be a celebrity in prison, so be it.
University of Pennsylvania is totally folding on Leah Thomas and

(18:56):
allowing men to compete against women. They have agreed to
settle with the federal government and the school will apologize.
They will reinstate recognitions to women who were beaten by
Leah Thomas. They will strip him of all of his

(19:19):
records in women swimming. I don't know, I thought it
was great. Keith Olberman's out there slamming this decision and
making fun of Riley Gaines. Oh wow, you're now fourth
place instead of fifth place in an event, and Riley

(19:43):
just was brilliant. She said, how about recognizing the fact
that the girl who finished second was actually the winner
and she'll now get her rightful record and title, and
that the four hundred and sixty ninth ranked male swimmer
is back to four hundred and sixty ninth. You know

(20:05):
what I mean. I just thought it was brilliant. But
the University of Pennsylvania is going to be revoking the
fake records and apologizing to female athletes to avoid penalties
for violating Title nine. This is the start. This is significant.
We're starting to see some movement here. We've got to

(20:26):
get it into the All of the sports have to
take positions on this, settle it with DNA testing, and
we've got to get it in the Olympics. Cannot have
men beating up women like happened in the last Olympics.
Can't have it. And this is an fyi, though officials
in Alabama say nothing's to fear. In Barber County, which

(20:54):
is close to the Alabama Georgia state line, they have
had to euthanize a feral swarm of Africanized killer bees.
Now Africanized bees are a hybrid of African and European
honey bees, and so they have been in touch with

(21:18):
local beekeepers to make sure they understand what's going on.
Killer bees, though, moving a little bit more into the southeast,
it's just something to be mindful of. I am all
about the bee population because they're vital for harvesting crops.

(21:38):
You gotta have pollinators. Bees are pollinators, and I think
there's something to the cell phone towers disrupting the bees
because there are definitely less of them. So I'm all
in favor of those who are you know, have beehives
and whatever those things are called that what is it

(22:02):
apari's or something that that you know that raised bees.
I'm all for it, man, I am. I am down.
If I could talk my wife into it, I'd have
someone put one in my yard because I just think
it's awesome. Anyway, forty one minutes past the hour. There
you go. You're caught up big stories in the press box.
Got more though, coming up next The Morning Show with

(22:23):
Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point seven WUFLA. Okay,
this is a connected story to the transgender nonsense. Do
you know anything about the story of Christopher Scott Williams

(22:48):
and his connection to a woman named Mozzi Why Clark, sorry,
Mozzi Clark. Williams was serving twenty eight year sentence for
first degree assault. He first requested to transfer to a
women's prison in twenty nineteen, and it was denied because

(23:11):
of his history of violence against women. Try to wrap
your mind around this sequence here denied. His transfer was
granted two years later after he allegedly assaulted a corrections

(23:32):
officer while in the men's prison. A six foot four,
fully intact biological male then got transferred to a women's
prison because he claimed to be a woman. So Mazzie

(23:53):
Clark is forced to share a cell with a convicted
sex offender. During the time Mss Clark was locked in
a cage with this guy, he talked to her in
sexually explicit manner shall we say, touched himself, threatened her

(24:18):
with sexual violence. She complained prison officials did nothing, and
so he sexually assaulted her multiple times, yes, raped her repeatedly.
She files a complaint through the Prison Rape Elimination Act.
He was removed from her cell, but still was allowed

(24:41):
to remain in the women's prison. In a lawsuit now
filed against the Department of Corrections, It alleges that Williams
continued to harass and intimidate Miss Clark, following her around
in the yard and staring at her. The lawsuit now
has five additional defendants from the prison. The claim is

(25:07):
the prison system violated her constitutional rights. Well, yeah, she's
now been released. He's now been allegedly transferred back to
a men's prison. There are judges that are stopping the
federal government from ending this practice of allowing men to
be in women's prison. And there are federal judges forcing

(25:31):
taxpayers to continue surgeries, hormone treatments, and other things to
transition somebody. This lunacy has to stop. Just an additional

(25:54):
story out there in the news forty six minutes past
the hour. You know, we've talked off and on over

(26:24):
the years, talked recently maybe last week. It was about
dealing with homelessness. Something the state has got to get
its arms around is mental hospitals. Mental health hospitals when
you look at tackling the homeless situation, and there are

(26:47):
parts of town that just are not safe to walk around.
You know, Charlie and I talked about this yesterday in
personal offense, and I'll be honest I don't know if
it was on the air or off the air when
we just talked about that there are places where there
are homeless people and if you say or look the

(27:09):
wrong way, you trigger something and you don't know what's
going to happen. Now, in the context of yesterday's program,
that's about situational awareness and being aware of your surroundings

(27:34):
as it relates to the problem of homelessness. You know,
some of the studies show that three quarters of the
homeless are dealing with mental health issues. I have always
believed in reading all of the different ways that communities
and look, there are communities that have zero homelessness. They
don't have any and it's not just because they are

(27:57):
intolerant of it. It's because they are intolerant of giving
people excuses. If you're homeless, we offer services, you either
avail yourself of those services or you leave. That's what

(28:19):
communities that are successful at dealing with homelessness do. The
people that really want help get it. The people that don't,
that want to live this lifestyle as a choice, and
just trust me, it is a choice for some. It
is not a choice for all. For some who have

(28:43):
been incarcerated and are newly released. It's a bitter, brutal reality.
They have nowhere to live. The circumstances facing people newly
released from prison, those obstinates are massive. It's one of

(29:04):
the ways that this program tries to make a difference
by trying to be involved with finding employers that are
willing to help, crafting solutions for those that are getting out,
in linking them with transportation, with housing, you know, all
of the different things that are needed. You know, it's
tough to have a job if you don't have a house,

(29:24):
an address, a bank account, things you and I take
for granted, But when dealing with homelessness, I think one
of the very first things that has to happen is
you've got a triage. The problem. How many people are

(29:45):
homeless because bad breaks, They got laid off, they were
living paycheck to paycheck, They could not secure a job
paying enough to keep a house over their head on
an apartment room. I mean, what do you do. You're

(30:06):
living in a community, maybe with or without family, but
those options are not available for whatever the reason. What
do you do? It's really easy to say, well, you
shouldn't let yourself get there. I get that, but there
are people that are in that spot, and they it's

(30:26):
not that they were bad, they just lost their job.
They weren't bad employees, they just lost their job, contraction
at the workplace, whatever. Then there are those who are
drug addicted and those are the reasons why they can't
hold a job. They need help. And then there are

(30:48):
those that have mental health issues. There are roughly three
buckets that people fall in. But we've gotta we've got
to address this and do a better job here in
the state of Florida, at least, that's that's what I

(31:08):
think we we have to put on the radar of lawmakers.
Here we go. It's the second hour morning show with
Preston Scott Show fifty four oh seven.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
But who's counting? That is Jose over there in Studio
one A. I'm here in Studio one B, and I
am joined by the executive editor, not just the executive.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
Editor of Tallassi Reports. He is Steve Stewart. Hello, good morning,
how are you. I'm doing just great. It's my Friday,
that's right, for a couple of weeks, that's what I hear.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
Yeah, so I may drive around here just for the
heck of it next week.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
Nice. Nice, Why not robot.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
Hey, so what First of all, let's back up a
little bit. What precipitated the decision to engaging in a
little polling. Well, so, social media obviously is a big
way people are getting their news.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
It's just it's a fact of life.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
You know, you look at it and and as I've
always talked about with social media, when you see something
you're interested in or you think wow, that's the headline,
you need to verify in two or three different places, right,
because there's usually a catch. And so people are getting
the news of social media. One of the things that
and this has been going on for years, is that
there's always this perception you you get your opinions on
things by what you think, and you actually then projected

(32:28):
out to everybody else that you know they.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
Should feel the same way.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
Well they should exactly, because our opinions are well thought
out right, right, and so polling so social media does
provide exactly, they're very well thought on, provide some opportunities
to get engagement and to figure out hoxactly. Absolutely, And
so we we've started to look at.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
Some ways to do this and we've.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
Actually we started with our first poll on Facebook and
it had to do with cell phones and schools, and
so we you know, we basically asked a simple question,
how many people support no cell phone phones in K.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
Through twelve schools?

Speaker 2 (33:02):
And so overwhelmingly ninety five percent. And we push the
poll out so it's just not our followers, it's just
not the you know, it's just not talent reports followers.
We pushed it out to all of the city of
Tall High see, so you get a good diverse, uh,
you know, response for the people that are interested in Facebook,
and it was ninety five percent supported no cell phones

(33:23):
in schools. But right off the bat, I found out
how you have to it's all about how you ask
the question, because the issue that we're having is is
that they're not allowing them in classrooms. But the really
the goal is to get them to stay in you know.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
The backpacks.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
The backpack so when you're walking around the halls, kids
aren't looking down at their phones. They're actually engaging with students.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
Or they're not trying to set up a situation and
videotape someone for the point of embarrassing.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
Right, So we should ask the question of you know,
how many people support cell phones not being on campus
at all? And you know, there's like eighty comments on
the pole, so you can read through those, and I
think the support would be this, parents are concerned, they
want their kids to have the cell phones on them, yes,
but I think that they would be okay with it
being just locked away in the bag in case there's

(34:08):
an emergency.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
Absolutely, And so I think that's isn't that what Orange
County has been doing.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
That's what That's what a lot of schools are doing.
And so anyway, that was learning. The second pole question
was how do you support having the speed enforcement cameras
on during the whole school day?

Speaker 1 (34:24):
Okay, and that was interesting.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
So we did this both on Twitter, which has a
younger audience, and on Facebook, and seventy five percent of
the response on Twitter, which was close to a thousand
X Steve X. Some of us are a little more
hip than you. You can tell Steward to Talents Report,
it's ex Steve. But they've about seventy five percent are

(34:46):
against having them on for the whole the whole day,
meaning just when it's flashing beginning and when the kids
are coming and going.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
Yeah, they want to be able to speed during and you.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
Know it's again hundred the comments, you know, violation of
you know, it's against the constitution.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
Grab cash grab is a big one. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
Now on Facebook it's a little bit less, about sixty
five percent or against it.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
But that's still high.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
It's still high, which I that's nearly super majority. I know,
And it's so it's sort of interesting that I don't. Again,
this is not scientific polling. I would say it's a
pretty good diverse number though, because it's a big number.
We've probably got a thousand responses.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
That's an official poll.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
Yeah, that's and you know, the question would be then
who's responding? Is it just people that want to speed responding?

Speaker 1 (35:35):
You know? But so I think that's interesting.

Speaker 2 (35:37):
So we'll continue that, we'll get into some war. There's
a lot of these questions. It's key to how you
ask it. But you know, we've got pot you know,
we've got the election elections coming up next year, we
got some other issues, and it's I think it's interesting
to get feedback and then we'll.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
Write stories about it.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
So if you're interested in filling out the poll, you
can go to your Facebook or your x.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
Account and do it. Thank you. You know what I
ended up doing. I ended up going was what somebody
else came up with. They got sick of it. X
Twitter twis we'll just call it twis ten past the hour,
and for some reason I get hungry for a snack.
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Yes he knows

(36:18):
how to read. Well, actually his producer reads him. He
doesn't know how to read. Welcome to the Morning Show
with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
Back with Steve Stewart, Tallahassei Reports, Subscribe, Get that paper,
Tallahassee Reports dot.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
Com following always the numbers. One of the many things
that you do so well, Steve, is you and your
team just get data, crunch them and make them digestible,
because that, I think is one of the big challenges
is okay, yeah, we see all these numbers, but what
does it mean? Right?

Speaker 2 (36:53):
And again, we'll get numbers on the speed cameras and
we'll have, you know, we'll be able to report on
that and you get the opinions. This is a big,
big issue because the way social media works is the headlines.
People start believing headlines, and if you don't have the
underlying numbers, they're just looking at getting clicks, and so
the underlying numbers and so we start with crime data,
which we've been doing and you know, we always are

(37:15):
looking to make sure that the crime incident data that
we tabulate and then report on is credible and reliable.
It's not trying to track every crime, but we've gotten
some reliability measures and looking at how the TPD has
reported this. And so I'm sorry, can I ask you
when you say it's not about getting every crime, explain

(37:35):
that a little bit because I think listeners might say,
wait a minute, what do you mean. Well, in terms
of these are incident reports for example, something may you
can follow an incident report and then the crime can
go away because they do some they do an investigation
and it just doesn't turn into an actual crime.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
So would it be fair to say then you're basing
the data on what is considered a crime and is
investigated by Tallassey Police exactly Oka.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
And it gets to the point to where there's a
report five they file a right, somebody may call a
police officer or something, they show up and there's no
report file. So it's trends and it's been it's done
very What we've seen with the data is it tracks
what is happening, So what we're doing is getting.

Speaker 1 (38:13):
Dated to you.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
You know, if you remember the days back when Leon
County was leading the state and crime, we would find
those numbers out, you know, six months after the year
where the crimers reported. So now we're reporting it on
a monthly basis. And so now we're six months into
the year. There's been a lot of effort obviously to
address crime with a tax, you know, controversial tax increase,

(38:36):
money towards technology, more police officers, and it seems.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
To be working.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
I'm crimes down, the crime, incidents, violent and property is
down thirty eight forty six months into the year. Shootings
fatal shootings, which obviously lead all the reports, you know,
are down also six months into the year. And so
you know, there was a video that was put on
the Facebook account of TPD and again it's is real

(39:05):
time center. They are, you know, they're getting help from
drones and helicopters. We see a massive drop in auto
thefts and burglaries, which used to be a huge problem
two years ago. And I'm convinced it's because people now
are getting caught at such numbers that they that they
can't get away with it. And we see those numbers falling,
and so it's all these are all good numbers. People

(39:26):
will say, well, you know, crime is going down nationwide.
It is, but the numbers I'm seeing nationwide do not
compare to the double digit decreases that we're seeing here
in Leon County and the city of tyle A Sea
the numbers.

Speaker 1 (39:40):
That we're tracking.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
But again, the number of officers, it is increasing.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
And so that is something that they want to keep doing.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
And as I've always said, if you look at the budget,
we get all in all these arguments with local government
about you know, ideology and certain things. Public safety is
a number one priority and that's what it should be.
And your checkbooking urse reveals your priorities, and that's where
the money's going, and it's having an impact, and I
think that we can't lose sight of that. What about
the airport, airport hitting some headwinds here, you know, we

(40:12):
were every month reporting increases. Again, these are a lot
of national trends. Jet Blue pulled out of a number
of cities. I just saw in the news Jet Blues
pulling out of Miami. They're looking for a business model
to make money, and so that hurts mid sized airports
like ours. And so our numbers have been down for
like two or three months in a row. We were
at trying to get to that twelve month number of

(40:34):
a million passengers. We were at like nine hundred and
sixty thousand climbing. It's now it's headed down. We're probably
at nine hundred and forty thousand now, and so we
have to see what happens over.

Speaker 1 (40:43):
The next couple of next couple of months. This might
actually end up being a great question for your polling exactly.
I'd be curious how many people are just not flying anymore.
They're just choosing not to fly.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
Right, instead of it being some kind of struck problem.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
Yeah, that it's just for example, you know, my wife
and I we're just not interested in flying unless it's
an absolute we have to just rather drive. That'd be
a good question.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
And you know, again Silver always is, you know, file
for bankruptcy. So that's another carrier here, so we'll have
to keep an eye on it.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
More to come with Steve Stewart, Tallassi Reports Website, Tallassireports
dot Com twenty one minutes past the Hour with Steve Stewart.
Final segment here. Tallassi Reports dot Com is the website

(41:39):
you could subscribe, get the paper delivered and you'll get
a digital version of the paper, and of course you
get the stories online. Colarin Lakes got the residents out
there in old units one and two got a letter.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
Yeah, so I did a little digging on this Leon
County Commission. We'll have a meeting on Tuesday and they'll
rest this one of a couple number of issues.

Speaker 1 (42:02):
But this one is interesting.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
And so Clarin Lakes, you know, wanted to back in
the early two thousands septic tanks and there was a
deal brokered with the city to provide central water and
sewer out to those neighborhoods. But you had to just
you had to elect to go ahead and get your
septu tank replaced and you connect to the central water
and sewer And that's expensive. I mean now, I guess

(42:25):
it runs about fifteen thousand dollars to have that done.
But the agreement, it's complicated in the sense that those
that remain on SEPTA tanks had to pay one hundred
and seventy dollars a year to the city to reserve
space with the central water and wastewater system to when
they converted to that process. So if you had a

(42:45):
seconty to thank you were paying one hundred and seventy
dollars a year since two thousand and five, and it
was just it became.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
To reserve space. It became routine.

Speaker 2 (42:54):
Okay, well last year the city.

Speaker 1 (42:56):
I'm sorry, that's just laughable. To reserve space, what you
sold it to somebody else.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
They had to account for if everybody wanted to get
on the central water and sue, they had to have
the space. So there was the same amount was charged,
you know, for what fifteen years. Well, last year of
the city says, ah, so we're gonna we're gonna move
this to four hundred and forty dollars a year. That's
not a small increase, No it's not. But the reserve

(43:22):
space went over was at what and thirty percent and
so it's going up again in twenty twenty five to
like four hundred and sixty dollars And so that's a
complicated issue. But the people that are paying that are
the ones that from what I understand and I talked
to someone, you know, the county, is that the ones
that are on this on septic tanks are paying that
because once the septic tanks fail, like when you get
to the end of your use for the current sept tank,

(43:45):
you're not going to be able to get a permit
for a sept tank and you have to convert. So
it's a process of I guess a number of houses
that converted over the last twenty years in those two units,
and so they're going to get sticker shocked when they
get that bill and the county once again, the city
seems to to here lately frustrate elected officials at the
county on a regular basis because the fire service fee

(44:06):
is going up twenty twenty two percent, So the county's
got to tell their constituents.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
They're doing a cash crap.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
And now the same thing with you don't want you
know two, which is a little bit more focused, but anyway,
so that's what's going to happen there. So again, if
you once you convert, then that fee goes away and
then you're paying your regular monthly bill to the city
for the for the utilities. They're gonna be there's gonna
be public hearing on that. You know again, a lot
of this people are living their lives, paving their bills.

(44:33):
They don't even know what this is. And then they'll
they'll see this, they get this letter, and so.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
It's roughly a forty dollars monthly increase or a one
time hit on the property tech.

Speaker 2 (44:44):
Right, And so that's the explanation. We'll see if anybody
speaks on that. But it was something that again Leon
County elected officials are frustrated with the expenses that are
going up. And this is again just like the fire
service team. Now a couple other issues at the County
COMMISSI meeting waste Pro. If you remember the contract a
couple of years ago. This is I'm going to give

(45:05):
a hat tip to Leon County Commissioned on this. There
was a big debate about waste Pro and the customer
service that they were having three or four years ago
or not. Competitive bidders came in. It was very close.
They went with waste Pro because of the costs of transitioning. However,
they put their thumb on them in terms of micromanaging
customer service. The number of complaints when you compare it

(45:26):
to three or four years ago is way down. So
not to say there's not any complaints, but they have
really I mean, this is what you call moving the
needle well.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
Waste Pro simplified its processes for getting alternative things picked up,
whether it's the large kind of you get you know,
you had to pull a refrigerator out or whatever the
case might be. You no longer have to make calls.
You don't have to deal with the inconveniences when you
have yard debris or whatever simplified. And this is in

(45:55):
the unincorporated area. And you might ask, well, you know,
why is it so complicated? The city does and they
don't see have any these complaints because it's not everybody
signs up for it. So it's you know, it's like.

Speaker 2 (46:04):
Every other house or every two houses. And so again,
I when I talk about moving a needle, when you
see these kind of reports, this is what you want
to see. I mean, it shows what's happening. Now. You
may have some you know, you may have some critique
of how they're measuring it, but it's clearly they're moving
in the right direction.

Speaker 1 (46:21):
Costs have gone up for waste pro in the county, right,
they have increased for the quarterly charges that they charge
out there. But the service has definitely gotten better.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
But the one thing I would tell you now, the
cost they've the costs have actually gone up in terms
of what they're charging the county, but the county is
subsidizing the cost and they've kicked this down the road
for another year because there was debate about actually passing
those cost increase.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
On to the So even the cost increases that have
been received are subsidized, yes they are.

Speaker 2 (46:51):
It's very low compared to what's going on in other counties.
And because of the fire service fee the county has,
they've kicked that can down the road and if some
again for another year. So look for that to go
probably next year, real quick. Children's Services Council, they're going
to have to send some names to the governor to
replate for a vacancy. Their choice is to send twenty
four names or to pick three, and last year I

(47:15):
think they ended up just sending everybody that wanted to
be on there and let the governor pick. So we'll
keep you up to day on what happens there.

Speaker 1 (47:20):
Nice. Thank you, Steve, Thank you. Talk to you in
a couple weeks, all right, Steve Stewart with us. He
could be wandering outside the building a week from now,
But that won't be our problem now, will it? Twenty
seven past the hour? Boy, that escalated quickly.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
I mean that really got out of hand fast.

Speaker 4 (47:44):
On WFLA thirty six minutes past the hour of the
Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (48:05):
Lots to get through today on the program, Big stories
in the press Box, Let's kind of go through those,
and first, the big beautiful Bill is not across the
finish line. Don't know if it's going to be ping

(48:28):
pong back to the Senate. They're trying to just accept
enforced members of the House to accept what the Senate
has done. Don't know if they're going to do it.
And that's why I'm not spending more time on it,
because I knew this was coming. It's just it's disappointing

(48:52):
that we're doing all this through reconciliation, and it's just anyway,
just think about it. We haven't had an actual budget,
I don't think in three decades something like that. Anyway.

(49:14):
University of Pennsylvania is revoking all of the fake records
of Leah Thomas, otherwise known as Leah Dude Thomas. They're
being pressured by the White House by federal edict. Trump

(49:34):
administration has struck a deal that requires the school to
strip Thomas of his records. Titles and other recognitions, one
while competing on the women's team in swimming. It's an

(49:55):
actual resolution agreement to comply with title nine. So now
instead of encouraging men to take women's awards and occupy
their spaces, maybe we'll see this reverse Finally, Jerry Fine
Sean Combs guilty on two counts, not guilty on three.

(50:23):
Here's what I care about. He's a rotten person. Now,
we all have sin in us, right, we all fall short, gotcha?
But this guy operates sin in a whole other level.

(50:49):
And I know sin is sin, but his abuse of women,
the stuff that he arranged for and did, he's a
crappy human being, just is And I I know the

(51:14):
way the public is. I know that he is going
to be lifted up when he comes out of prison
because he's going to serve some time. How much I
don't know, but whatever, he's a crappy, crappy person. That is,

(51:36):
he's guilty of being a rotten person. The videos that
have been viewed by the public, we're not talking about
the stuff the jury had to endure. That's enough to
convict him in the court of public opinion of being
just a rotten human being, and I wish his defense
attorneys had been a little bit more sympathetic to the

(51:59):
win and he's abused and not extol him as some
great guy. Oh, thank you, thank you Diddy for putting
us on your team. Thank you so much. What he's
a rotten person. Shut up. You did your job. I
don't begrudge the attorneys. They did their job. But what

(52:22):
you could say is clearly the actions of mister Combs
were not in keeping with what society expects. He was
found guilty on two charges, but we were pleased that
we were able to prove his innocence, or that the
we were able to poke holes in the prosecute, whatever,
but just he's not a good person. And the last

(52:42):
big stories killer bees Georgia Alabama border. They have euthanized
a large swarm of them in Barbara County and advising
bee farmers in particular and people in the region to
be aware. So I'm making you aware. Forty one minutes
to pass them back with more of the Morning Show

(53:05):
with present Scott. Normally we would have doctor Steve Steverson

(53:30):
on the program. He is on a veterinarian missions trip.
This is pretty cool stuff that doctor Steverson does from
time to time. He goes with a group of vets
to poor parts of the world to provide care for
farm animals and to help people in kind of third

(53:56):
world countries keep their livestock health. They donate their time,
they go with paying their own expenses. It's a really
cool thing that he does. In fact, I might take
a segment to talk about that specifically when he comes back.
But that doesn't mean we're not talking about some animals

(54:18):
in the wild or in our homes. We love them
critters large and small. Time for another edition of Animal
Stories on The Morning Show with Preston's.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
Oh Yeah, California. I've watched the video of the security
camera in a California cabin as a mother bear and
her cub were rating the refrigerator.

Speaker 1 (54:46):
They got inside the cabin. Tahoe Keys is the location.
Bears just go through the front door and man, they
are in the kitchen like a bee line straight there.
It tells you, right, no matter how good you think
you're refrigerator seals. Those guys can sniff it out. The

(55:10):
cabin was unoccupied at the time of the bear glory
A sorry made that up, and so in the video
It's hilarious because the mom is just obsessed with trying

(55:32):
to pry open this one container.

Speaker 2 (55:36):
I don't know if it was like a squeeze jar
of something, but she couldn't get her paws around it,
and it was driving her nuts, and so it just
kept falling out of her paws and she'd chase it around.
And then while that's going on, there's some stuff that's
spilled out and the little one's just lapping it up.

Speaker 1 (55:56):
Great video, really was. But my favorite story here that
I've seen in a while is the story of Hendrix,
a twenty year old parrot. He's at the Rhode Island
Forever Pause Animal Shelter looking for a forever home. He

(56:18):
was taken from his owner for malnutrition. Mostly naked, the
feathers are slowly starting to grow back. He was suffering
from malnutrition. But in the advertisement for Hendrix, it says,
if you adopt Hendrix, listen to this, you're basically adopting
Samuel L. Jackson, because apparently Hendricks has nothing but a

(56:46):
vocabulary of slurs and curse words. He just cusses all
the time and says very inappropriate things based on racial
epithet They've received over fifty adoption applications, despite everybody knowing

(57:07):
what Hendrix is all about. I think they get points
for saying you're basically adopting Samuel L. Jackson. That was brilliant.
I can't I'm laughing. I didn't play the video. There's
a video of him out there being himself. If you
know what I mean? What is seven minutes past? There?

(57:30):
Come back on the road again? A road trip suggestion
or two? Next on the morning show, Let's give you

(58:05):
a road trip suggestion. What do you say? What do
you say? What do you say? And if you're in
the Tallahassee or Panama City area, this is right smack
dab in the middle. I mentioned it briefly last week
because I'm really focused on giving you ideas to make

(58:25):
little roadies in the area. Summertime with the kids, right,
may not necessarily be an overnight, just something different to
do you ready? Florida Cavern State Park in Marianna. If
you've never been in the caverns.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
First of all, oh, go on a hot day because
it is lovely and cool.

Speaker 1 (58:54):
It just is and it's spectacular. Like bring your camera.
Practice a little bit with your phone to get the
best shots. Try different. It's just they have cavern tours
offered on a first comfort or basis. You can purchase
in person at the Florida Cavern's gift shop from nine

(59:16):
to A to four B Central Time. It is in
the Central time zone. On the day of arrival, you're
encouraged to arrive early. Tours do sell out at times,
especially on weekends and holidays. I would personally probably not
go on fourth of July. I'm just saying I would
put this in your book as something you want to
do this summer before the kids head back to school.

(59:41):
But it opens up from at eight am and goes
till sundown three hundred and sixty five days a year.
The tours are from nine to four five dollars per vehicle.

Speaker 2 (59:55):
The cave tours children too, and under no charge three
to twelve nine bucks per person, thirteen to sixteen sixteen.

Speaker 1 (01:00:04):
Dollars per person. That's if you want a tour. You
don't have to have a tour. You can just go
in and wander around and enjoy the caverns. But yeah, you're.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
Gonna this stalactites, stalagmites, flow stones, You're gonna you are
gonna see the draperies everything.

Speaker 1 (01:00:27):
It's just it's beautiful, absolutely beautiful. So there is your
your suggestion for a roadie for the week. And given
that we're not gonna be here next week, next week
would be a wonderful week to go. You're not gonna
miss the morning show, just saying the next week is

(01:00:51):
a great time to go back in the podcast, the
Conversations podcast, and visit the blog page. Get your fill
by going back. Catch shows you missed, catch segments you missed,
all of that all right now when we come back,

(01:01:11):
I am being dragged closer and closer to the position
of being a little alarmed at some of the vaccines
we are giving our children. And the Secretary of Health

(01:01:33):
and Human Services has been doing some digging now. Tucker
Carlson is kind of becoming a little bit nutsy. Love Tucker,
but Tucker's starting to become a little bit of a
caricature of himself, much the way Anne Coulter did. Longtime

(01:01:53):
listeners of the show will remember we were a favorite
stop for Ann Coulter. Then Ann Colter just got weird,
and I'm worried the same thing is happening to Tucker.
I'm worried that he's kind of falling in love with
himself a little bit, but he's getting good guests. And

(01:02:16):
Robert F. Kennedy Junior has shared some things that I
think need repeating, and I'm going to share them with you.
Next hour three on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

(01:02:37):
Five passed the hour.

Speaker 2 (01:02:38):
It is the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Third hour
of the program, Just us. This hour, just us.

Speaker 1 (01:02:45):
So get yourself a cup of coffee, maybe some tea
little orange juice. Grab a bagel, little everything spread on it,
maybe veggie spread on everything, bagel. That's what I meant
to say. I didn't. It's just anyway. I have long

(01:03:06):
believed that the autism problem, if we want to call
it that, the the expansion, the growth of autism was
largely due to diagnosis. I'm reminded of the Russian doctors

(01:03:35):
coming to America and they said, what how do you
how do you treat autism ADHD et cetera in Russia
And they said, we don't allow it. And I thought,
you know, maybe we're just kind of overdiagnosing things because
we love to medicate people, right Ritalin, We love to

(01:03:56):
give out meds to kids and and that we're just
over diagnosing it. It's just it's not as prevalent as
we think. I became.

Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
More aware of the reality that what we really are
dealing with is we don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:04:26):
Vaccines may not be causing, but vaccines might be causing,
and if so, which ones? How do we start to
untangle this? Well. One of the things that I really
was excited about RFK Junior taking over with Health and

(01:04:50):
Human Services is that I really felt like we had
somebody that was an advocate for health care and especially children,
and we'd get some answers, we would get some movement
on the topic. Well, he sits down with Tucker Carlson,
and it's abundantly clear that early on in his administration

(01:05:15):
of AJHS, Kennedy is laser focused on finding out what
has been suppressed inside the federal government. To an extent
I'm almost shocked it's there for it to be found.

(01:05:36):
I came across an article on the Gateway Pundit that
watched the entire interview roughly I want to say, maybe
an hour and a half, and distilled it. Kennedy revealed
that the health agency, the CDC, buried a nineteen ninety

(01:06:01):
nine internal study led by researcher Thomas Verstratton, which showed
listen to this a one thousand, one hundred and thirty
five percent percentage sorry, one hundred and thirty five percent

(01:06:24):
increase in autism risk from the hepatitis B vaccine, specifically
one thousand plus percentage risk increase. Kennedy said, the researchers
were shocked by the findings, and so what they did

(01:06:48):
is they just covered it up, quoting they got rid
of all the older children essentially, and just had younger
children who were too young to be diagnosed with autism.
By getting rid of they kicked him out of the study.

(01:07:10):
He then got into why your pediatrician will kick you
out of their practice if you refuse vaccines, quoting there
is a published article that says fifty percent of revenues
to most pediatricians come from vaccines. The higher the vaccination rate,

(01:07:36):
the bigger the bonus to the doctor, quoting that's why
you're pediatrician. If you say I want to go slow
on vaccines, will throw you out of his practice because
you're now jeopardizing the bonus structure. How about we just

(01:08:01):
pause right there for a second, let you digest that
eleven minutes past the hour, Sweet God Almighty, talking about RK.

(01:08:26):
Junior's visit with Tucker Carlson, the Secretary of Health and
Human Services, and the fact that pediatricians get bonuses for
the number of vaccines administered. That is unconscionable. Now you

(01:08:52):
do you, but I would be recommending you ask your
doctor directly. Do you get a bonus for vaccines? I
would ask do you get income based on the number
of vaccines that you administer? Yes? Or no? Now consider this.

(01:09:17):
None of the vaccines given to children in the first
six months of life have ever been studied for autism connections. None. None.
There may be no connection, but we don't know. He
went further. The CDC actually did find a link when

(01:09:42):
they studied the DETAP vaccine, but they dismissed it. Kennedy said.
They claimed it didn't count because the data came from
the very system vaers, the very system that they used
and invented to track vaccine injuries. Because because it showed
that there were some, they discounted it because they said

(01:10:03):
that it was flawed. That's their system. So when the
evidence pointed to harm, they simply claimed their own system
wasn't reliable enough, so they ignored it. But it didn't
end there. Kennedy attested that the CDC killed off vaccine

(01:10:23):
injury reporting system that actually worked because it worked too well.
It showed one in thirty seven vaccine caused an injury
of all vaccines. Tucker asked, yes, Kennedy confirmed. Kennedy explained
that the CDC funded a study led by researcher Ross Lazarus.

(01:10:44):
It compared a sophisticated machine counting system to airs. What
did they find. VERARS was failing to catch over ninety
nine percent of vaccine injuries, and they were ignoring that.
So the numbers were significantly greater than what was reporting.
You may remember we had some fun with VEAYRS during COVID.

(01:11:08):
The new system revealed that two point nine two point
six percent of all vaccinations resulted in injury. So what
did the CDC do? They shut it down in twenty ten,
and they used VEAYARS to this very day, the system
that they would not use data from. But it didn't

(01:11:30):
stop there. He broke down Pfizer's own COVID vaccine trial data.
The trial showed a twenty three percent higher death rate
in the vaccinated group. Twenty three percent. Piser gave twenty
one thousand, seven hundred and twenty people the vaccine twenty

(01:11:51):
one thousand, seven hundred and twenty eight the placebo. Over
six months, twenty one vaccinated patients died of all causes,
compared to seventeen in the placebo group. That is a
twenty three and a half percent higher risk. It doesn't
stop there. There's more inside the industry, inside the CDC,

(01:12:17):
inside the various boards. I'm stopping there because we're out
of time. It's important for you to know. That's the point.
Kennedy's whole point is this. Vaccines may not be causing autism,
but they may be, and we don't know because none

(01:12:41):
of them that are given to children in their first
six months have ever been studied. Yeah, seventeen minutes past
the out change gears next year in the Morning Show
with Preston Scott, twenty two minutes past.

Speaker 2 (01:13:07):
I gotta get my grouchies out of me because that
that last those last two segments made me grouchy.

Speaker 1 (01:13:13):
Then they make you grouchy. How is it possible that
we are sticking needles in the arms of babies and
putting things in them that we've not tested to see
if they cause autism. And even if you say, well,

(01:13:33):
but that's only one in how many thousand? Who cares?
What if your child's that one? What if you genetically
have a predisposition to react to that injection that's in
your family? You have five kids, how many are going
to end up with the problem with dealing with autism?

(01:13:58):
And I know that there are various levels. It's called
a spectrum for a reason. Here I am getting grouchy
all over again. All right, President Trump has announced a
trade deal with Vietnam. Now you know what.

Speaker 2 (01:14:14):
I'm stupid because it never dawned on me. It should have.

Speaker 1 (01:14:22):
I know all too well about the Vietnam War because
my brother fought in it and died as a result
of his time serving in Vietnam as a Marine.

Speaker 2 (01:14:32):
What do you mean by that, President? My brother died
of agent orange cancer. The Navy, to its shame, will
not acknowledge those men who died because of agent orange
as a casualty of the Vietnam War. Thus their names
are not on the wall honoring their service to this country.

(01:14:54):
My brother left four children behind. At the age of
forty nine, he had cancer in literally every organ of
his body. When the surgeons at Johns Hopkins Hospital opened
him up, they sewed him right back together. It was
fifteen minutes, and they said it looked like a hand

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grenade went off inside of him. Get your affairs in order.
But what I didn't know, I'm staying grouchy, staying grouchy.
I don't want to stay grouchy.

Speaker 1 (01:15:30):
What I didn't know and should have is it Vietnam
is a socialist communist nation. It's the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Duh.
They won. We lost, But.

Speaker 2 (01:15:47):
It's not considered the same as China, right, It's just not.
We don't have the same issues with what we know
on inside China.

Speaker 1 (01:16:02):
Anyway. President announced Vietnam will pay the United States a
twenty percent tariff on any and all goods sent to
our territory. That terrif, by the way, is kind of
gonna be paid by you and me a forty percent
tariff on any transshipping, meaning if they're a pass through
for another country like China, it's gonna be on the

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up and up. We're gonna know.

Speaker 2 (01:16:31):
In return, our markets are open, our products are open
in there in Vietnam.

Speaker 1 (01:16:38):
One hundred percent with no taxes, no tariffs. He Trump writes,
it is my opinion that the SUV, or as it's
sometimes referred to, large engine vehicle, which does so well
in the United States, will be a wonderful addition to
the various product lines in Vietnam. Dealing with the General

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Secretary of tou Lamb, which I did personally, was an
absolute pleasure. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
So there you go, one another deal. A lot more
need to be hammered out, but it's you know, if

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they're paying the price the tariff, someone else is paying it,
because look, the only money a government has is money
it takes from its people. So it's a mixed bag, right,
But we're slowly leveling playing fields, opening up markets for

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our people. And if prices are raised, it then makes
things better for American manufacturers because it's fairer. So I'm
overall this is a win. Twenty seven past the hour
reset the big stories in the press Box and another
America First story coming up. Mayor of Realville dispensing information

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at the speed of sound. It's the Morning Show with
Preston Scott Killer Bees one of the big stories in

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the press box because they're kind of sort of close
to our listening area. Alabama, Georgia border Barbara County, Alabama.
Officials have euthanized a feral swarm of Africanized honey bees
known as killer bees. It's kind of a tough name,

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but they do swarm. They are they are They are
a hybrid bee. They are a bee of African honey
bees and bred together with European honeybees. What could go wrong? Right, Well,
they are very territorial and they don't like anybody coming

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near their their hives at all. You've seen the stories.
I mean, people have died as a result of these
and not necessarily people that are allergic to bees things,
but people that just get stung hundreds of times because
these guys when they a loud noise could set them off,

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not just a jostling of the of the hive, but
just a loud noise, a backfiring engine, a whatever, dropping
a board and off they go. And so officials are
warning bee keepers in the region. They are setting traps

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in a radius of like five miles from where this
hive was, and they're advising anyone in the region just
know that they're there. They're going to do everything possible
to take precautions to a prec to protect communities in
the area and the local honeybee population. See, that's the thing,

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honey bees are. I don't want to use the word endangered,
but I will say that there does seem to be
a connection between cell phone towers and any disruption of bees.
I know for a fact that I have far fewer
bees in my yard than I did before, and in fact,
I think it led to my I used to have

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what was called a cocktail citrus tree. It produced three
or four fruit, fantastic tree. It eventually got diseased and died,
but it wasn't producing much fruit because it didn't get pollinated.
There just weren't many bees. And so you know, and

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my home is relatively close to a cell phone tower,
as are most of us at this point. We're all
sort of close to a cell phone tower. So anyway,
that's one big story. Just to be aware of Jerry
Fine Sean Comb's guilty on two counts, not guilty on three.

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We've just settled on the fact that regardless, he'll spend
some time in prison, hopefully come out a better person,
a different person, because as of right now, he's a
rotten person. He just is. His treatment of women is
beneath contempt. It just is. And then the last big story,
University of Pennsylvania's agreed to strip Leah Thomas of his

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fake swimming records, apologized to female athletes impacted. Now, this
may or may not change any lawsuits it may or
may not be facing from individuals that were harmed. But
this is a very blatant admission of guilt by a

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public university that has been stridently opposed to such an admission.
And so in that regard, this is a good sign.
They're bending a knee to the law Title nine and
to decency. This is I think a very significant development.

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We'll see if this now finally gets some common sense.
And again, if they don't go to DNA, it's not
good enough. It has to be DNA testing that determines
male female surgeries, hormones, none of that matters. It's about
DNA testing. You're either a male or a female. It's
just that simple. But those are the big stories in

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the press box. Forty minutes past the hour. More to
come on the Morning Show with President's Guy. Those serving
communities as law enforcement officers and first responders, I say,
you are all essential workers. Welcome to the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. This is this is pretty cool. State

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Department has unveiled it's America first rebranding. It's part of
a sweeping makeover that Secretary of State Mark Rubio Is spearhad.
Apparently all of these different little branches of the Secretary

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of State's office across the world have these unique logos
and brands, and it's absurd. The Secretary is putting the
American flag on it. Did you know that behind? I
believe it is hold on here. I want to say,

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maybe it's Coca Cola, and maybe McDonald's. I'm not sure.
The most recognized brand in the world is the United
States flag, and so they they are rebranding it all

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of these things. The redesign is very simple to recenter,
re anchor the visual identity of the American efforts overseas
in the American flag. There are some things you look
at and you have no clue it's associated with the
United States government at all. That's obviously contrary to our purposes.

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If we're contributing something great overseas, we want that positivity
and that contribution to be immediately visually distinguished as something
associated with the United States, and they gave examples on
the State Department's website of all these bizarre logos, and
it's all our money, it's all US, and there's nothing American.

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There's nothing about the USA, there's nothing about it. It's
crazy movies, like what are we doing? So this is
brilliant simplicity. Branding is about consistency, and if you think

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about it, it makes sense now. Of course, George W.
Bush and Barack Obama are teaming up to attack Trump
and the efforts to eliminate USAID. Largely, there's certain initiatives
that it's fair to say we need to think about keeping,

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but the overwhelming majority of them gone. We don't need
to spend the money on it now when you're in debt. Look,
this gets back to how do you run your home.
There are a lot of things that you want to do.
There are a lot of things you'd like to do.
There are a lot of groups you'd love to help,
but you can't help everybody. Why your budget. You have

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so much money that you can spend on causes. You know,
my wife and I have things that we feel strongly
that we want to support every single month, and we do.
If I want to support something else, then I either

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have to get a raise see my income go up,
or I have to cut something elsewhere in my budget.
I have to see my budget get better in another
area of expenditure. You know, we're we're on a fast
track of paying We have a debt. We have a house.
That's our debt. That's all we got. Now. I'm not

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thrilled we have the debt, but we're paying it off
at an accelerated rate, and when that time comes, maybe
we'll have some more money to spend. But the federal
government has for years just said we'll spend what we want,
send money everywhere, and then we're not even getting credit

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for it because of these silly logos. Sign me up.
I'm all about this. This is brilliant. And the fact
that George W. Bush is out there with Barack Obama
hammering us on cutting expenses, it tells you all you
need to know about George W. Bush and what I've
been saying. Nice guy, I'd sit and hang out and

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talk with Barack Obama. I'd have a great time telling
him how wrong he is, and we'd have a good
conversation George W. Bush decent human being. I think policy wise,
president wise not so much. Forty seven minutes past the hour,
wrap up, this program put a lid on it.

Speaker 2 (01:28:46):
Next, Okay, this is sad and funny all at once.
And this is this is the ultimate kicker of a story.
To end the broadcast with Right.

Speaker 1 (01:29:09):
Norway, A bunch of people love playing the lottery in Norway,
like they love playing it about anywhere it's offered. Right
Norse tipping. Norway's lottery companies sent a text message to
forty seven thousand people informing them that they won the lottery,

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but they converted the winnings from euros to kroner, and
instead of dividing the winnings by one hundred, they multiplied
by one hundred and so forty seven thousand people were
told they I had one one point two million kroner,

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which is about one hundred and twenty thousand dollars US.
So some of them, when they got the text saying
they'd won, went out and started just going nuts spending money.
It was an error. They didn't win one hundred and

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twenty five kroner or one or rather one point two
million kroner they made. They won one hundred and twenty five,
which is twelve dollars and forty cents. I'm terribly sorry.
We've disappointed so many. I understand that people are angry
with us. To them, I can say sorry, I understand.

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This is a small consolation.

Speaker 2 (01:30:51):
Could you imagine if you went out like I said,
I'm spending half of it. You spent one hundred half
of one hundred and twenty thousand, You spent sixty grand,
you bought yourself a new car, and then you found
out how you won twelve bucks.

Speaker 1 (01:31:10):
Here's the moral of the story is you be careful
if you're told you won.

Speaker 2 (01:31:14):
The lottery brought to you by Barono Heating and Air.

Speaker 1 (01:31:17):
It's the morning show one on WFLA. Don't spend it
until it's in the bank. You know what I'm saying.
Don't don't do it. Oh, this is our final show
until like that. I could have paused like forever, but

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this is our final show till Monday, July fourteenth. We
are we are taking tomorrow for fourth of July. Be
safe around the fireworks, friends, and then we will take
next week off. This can be hanging out doing got

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some projects need to get done, play a little golf. Yeah.
We started today's show with John twenty Verse twenty nine
and we rocked and rolled from there. A lot of
fun stories in the news, a lot of nuts of

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fun stories in the news, but we covered it all.
Hope you enjoyed the program today. When we come back
after our vacation, Salnuzo will join us the legislative sessions
in the rearview. Rearview mirror will have an idea of
what the governor's signing and not signing, what's going into law,
what isn't, what's coming ahead, what's unfinished business. We're going

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to talk through it all. When Sal comes back, I'm
going to have my own legislative list that we'll talk
about before we visit with South, So I'm looking forward
to that already. Till then, friends, thanks very much, We
appreciate you very much, and be blessed. Happy fourth of July.