Ep. 5411: You don't say....

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- Steve Stewart
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Good morning, ruminators. Welcome to Thursday. Already already you know
Christmas season is here. I mean it's funny because Christmas
in July is becoming a thing. It really is. I

(00:38):
think it's serious. XM is running classic radio shows from
back in the day, all dealing with Christmas during the
month of July. It's hilarious. Anyway. Welcome to the Thursday edition,
July seventeenth. More on that date in mere moments, He's ose,
I'm preston show fifty four to eleven. Our verse today

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fifty four to eleven, Matthew eleven. Huh No, it's just
a coincidence. Verse twenty eight. Very familiar passage. But I'm
going to ask you to dig just a tiny bit deeper.

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And it's a bit of a challenge when we're dealing
with a passage we've heard over and over again because
we tend to. It's like the Christmas Message in the
Easter message. Preaching a message at Christmas in Easter, for
most pastors is really difficult because everyone knows the story,
and so trying to get people to just push past

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what you think you know and open your mind up
to learning or getting a refreshed message from it. It's
really tough because this is a verse that we've just
heard over and over and over. But I contend that
a lot of these verses, especially the ones that we hear,

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a lot, we gloss over and we miss the real
depth of what's being offered. Try me out on this.
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest. Have you ever really

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pressed into that offer? Isn't that one of that you know?
These are this is red letter, This is red letter stuff.
So Jesus is looking at you and I and he's saying,
all of you with burdens, all of you that are

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tired and just warn from the stress of life and
the and the things that you're carrying around, come to
me and I will I will provide rest. If you

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take this as literally as I believe Jesus meant it,
think of those times when you're just exhausted, you're just
I mean, it could be work, it could be physical exertion,

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it could be just stresses of family matters, it could
be just burdens you're carrying for others. Be careful there.
Jesus is saying, come here, come here, And I think

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the implication is give all of that to me and
rest in a very human way. My wife will tell

(04:37):
you she sleeps so well when we're sitting together on
the couch and from time to time we just kind
of have this routine where I know she's just gonna
press up against me, put her head on my chest

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and just sleep. And it's the soundest sleep she has.
And Jesus offers us something far greater when we press
up against him. Try it. Ten past the hour. It's

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the Morning Show with Preston Scott. This is the Morning
Show with Preston Scott. First day of the British Open

(05:46):
showed Jose I've got a hat from Royal Port Rush.
From Royal Port Rush, buddy of mine has gone overseas
and played a couple of times in that circuit, played
a lot the US Open courses of the US British
Open courses, including Saint Andrews, and when he was last there,

(06:10):
he played at Royal Port Rush and he brought me
back a hat from the pro Shop and it's like,
oh yeah, come on, So I had to wear it
on the first day of the British Open. I had to,
so I have it here and to my Buddy Wayne,

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Thank you, sir, once again for the hat. Inside the
American Patriots Almanac. It is July seventeenth, eighteen ninety seven.
Let me, let me back up, let me go backwards.
Nineteen ninety seven, After one hundred and twenty years in business,
F W. Woolworth closes the last of its four hundred

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and five and dime stores. What a depressing thing that was?
I remember? Who has not? I will? I can't say
that now. Many of us remember the heyday of Woolworth.
Woolworth's was great. It was like it was like SNH
Green stamps. Remember when you get SNH Green stamps, and

(07:15):
you'd save those stamps and get stuff from their catalog.
You'd buy groceries, you'd get green stamps for the money
you'd spend, and then you'd paste them in these books.
And after you collected so many of them, you could
go to the green stamp catalog and get stuff and
it was just so cool. Nineteen seventy five in Apollo

(07:36):
spaceship rendezvous with the Soviet Soyez spaceship, first superpower docking
in space. If I'm not mistaken, that was doctor Norm Thaggard,
who has been on my program a few times over
the years. He's around. I don't know if he's still around.
I don't know if he's still alive. But doctor Thagard,

(07:59):
I think he has is an FSU guy, I believe,
but he's frequently Tallahassee Tallahassee guy. Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California,
in nineteen fifty five. Harry S. Truman meets with Winston
Churchill and Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam com conference in

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Germany in nineteen forty five. And it was on this date,
this where I started. I wanted to reverse it. The
Klondike gold Rush begins in Seattle when news of gold
in Alaska arrives. Gold Fever is still a thing. One
of my favorite shows, not my favorite. My favorite is Alone.

(08:43):
We're in We're in the midst of the Alone season.
But one of my other favorite shows is a show
called Mine Rescue with Freddie and Wan and I've had
some of the gold Rush guys on my program over
the years. I've had Todd Hoffman on the show, had

(09:05):
a couple of the other guys I I some of
it just gets a little over the top, the drama
and all that, and you can kind of sense. They're
kind of playing to the cameras. What I really enjoy
about gold Mine Rescue is it shows you the breadth
of gold fever that still exists, and these two guys

(09:29):
go and help people that are really struggling with their
efforts to find gold. It's a it really is a
good show. It's a it's a terrific show. If you've
never seen that and you're into that kind of thing,
it's I think it's worth looking at. It is National
dole Whip Day. Dole Whip. Dole whip is a fruit

(09:56):
soft served product. It's a dairy free treat that's been
around since nineteen eighty four. Have you ever heard of
dole whip? The original doll whip consisted of a float
of whip in a glass of pineapple juice topped with
a Maraschino cherry. How about that that mango, lemon, orange, raspberry, strawberry, lime, cherry, watermelon?

(10:27):
No way? Okay, So that's a thing. National Lottery Day,
like anyone needs reminders on that World Emoji Day, when
isn't it? And National Yellow Pig Day. So to my
sweet wife who loves pigs, there you go, honey, find

(10:50):
any yellow pigs in your collection and celebrate them. All right,
we have a busy show. Steve Stewart, doctor Steve Stevenson,
Zack Smith, and of course you and I we had
lots to talk about today, so stick around the Brothers

(11:10):
segment and that old people smell. We're going to talk
about it. I know, but look, trust me, it's what
we do here. We smell or did you know? Tuesday,

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January thirteenth, five thirty two. Now let me pause here
in this book, it says, ce, I keep seeing this?
What is this all about? Five two? Ce? Excuse me?

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Is A is a new thing they're trying to get
rid of?

Speaker 2 (12:05):
Ad?

Speaker 1 (12:08):
It's it's a D C E stands for common era.
It's a secularized way of saying the year five thirty
two A D A D. Of course, an o dominie
refers to the year of Christ birth, and so BC

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is before Christ. And the effort to try to secularize
dates is annoying me. Anyway. January thirteenth, five thirty two
A D Did you listen to this? Chariot racing fans

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in Canstantine can Constantinople sorry known as the Greens and
the Blues nearly brought down the Byzantine Empire what is
known as the Nika riots. They were fighting over their
chariot races. The fans were so they're like the precursor

(13:17):
to the hooligans of today's modern soccer era in Europe.
That's hilarious. Okay, there you go, all right. I promised
I was going to talk about old people smell. Lead
research assistant sent this my way. A lot of people
posted on social media that there's this smell that a
lot of old people have. I'm, of course not one

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of them. There is some science to this. It is
described as like a dusty smell, like an old book.
Some describe it as kind of oily and greasy smelling.
None of these are very flat mattering, of course, But

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there is a biology component to this. It is it
is called two no ninal. It is a compound that
emerges from lipid oxidation, which is the process of fats
in the cells breaking down due to imbalances in the body.

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It is a compound that is unique to aging aging skin.
It has some challenges to it. It can have a greasy,
somewhat cardboard like odor. It is not easily washed off
like in normal bathing and all of that. What you

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come to realize in looking at this is that our
skin is the largest organ of the body. It covers
you know, it covers the body and as a result,
as we age, the fatty composition of this compound is

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difficult to wash off. Some medications cause some problems with it.
It is suggested antioxidant rich foods like fruits and vegetables,
staying hydrated, using antioxidant skin care might make a difference.
Some of these problems are not real or perceived, but

(15:35):
it does exist. Body odors can also be a sign
of something going on that's a little more serious in
your body. So if you're older and you're noticing some changes,
doctor doctor see an alternative care specialist. I suggest that

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first because you know, as you know with doctor Herts,
we have the segments, doctor Zaidaman, when we talk about
our optimum health naturally segments. A lot of this stuff
can be addressed through nutrition, just saying there's something you
can do about it and help, but just know that

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there is a degree of normalcy to it through just
getting older. And if you're scrubbing and scrubbing and scrubbing,
you might scrub your skin raw, and it might be
that you need to just approach the challenge a little
bit differently. Twenty seven minutes after the hour, But old
people smell it's a thing.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
Sporting Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred
point seven w u FLA, thirty six minutes past the

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hour of the morning Show. Big stories in the press Box,
two of them. One to follow up on our discussion
yesterday with Randy Terraburelli the book JFK Public Private Secret.
He didn't get into the assassination very much. I think

(17:27):
he said it's one paragraph, one page. He said, that's
not my area of expertise. There are all kinds of
books about it. I shared a few things with him
off air that I thought were interesting, And then yesterday
comes this story in documents that have been now released

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and declassified, there is a link between Lee Harvey Oswald
and the CIA. They named the officer with the CIA.
Nobody got to hear from Oswald, of course, because he
was assassinated. And here's what I'll tell you about all this,

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Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna told The Washington Post. This confirms
much of what the public already speculated that the CIA
was lying to the American people and that there was
a cover up. She personally believes that there was absolutely
more than one shooter. I guarantee you there is more
than one shooter. I think the evidence is overwhelming, and

(18:41):
I think it's all based on for It's not hearsay,
it's forensic. It's it's the wounds, it's the bullet that
was found behind Kennedy. It's I mean, it's just it's overwhelming,
and I beg of you if if you've not done it,
rent it. Find a way to watch it. JFK What

(19:05):
the doctor saw. It's a documentary that interviews the doctors
maybe twelve fifteen years ago that were there in the
room at Parkland when Kennedy was brought in, all of them.
They sat them all down together and separately. In my opinion,

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LBJ had him killed. The fact that the CIA was
involved tells you all you need to know, because the
CIA has no business in domestic affairs. Second big story
in the press box to illustrate the trash that is
our federal government and its bloat State Department, biggest reorganization

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since the Cold War. Officials telling reporters it took us
three months to get a list of the people that
actually work in the building. There are three thousand fewer
employees now. They couldn't tell you how many people worked here.

(20:14):
It's sort of scary as a taxpayer and as a
public servant to think that we don't even know how
many employees we have. This is a national security agency,
you know, who are these people? And they don't have
a roster, they don't have a list. It took three
months to find out how many employees they have in
the building, let alone all the other areas. Documents previously

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had to go through fifty or sixty different levels of clearance.
They've got that whittled down to about twelve. Imagine fifty
or sixty different layers of approval needed for a document.

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Talk about obscene duplication of effort. It goes further. They
have found three separate offices dealing with sanctions, two handling
arm control issues, all doing the exact same things. The

(21:30):
Diplomats in Residence program has been canceled, quoting State Department
employees getting paid to hang out at Georgetown and sort
of recruit for the Foreign Service without any means of
metric or accountability. We are talking about one agency. It

(21:55):
doesn't surprise me Mark or Rubio is at the helm
of this that he's just take a knife to it. Actually,
he's saying take a chainsaw to it. We'll get to
the scalpel later. Forty one passed the hour. More to
come inside the belt weigh here. Do not miss this
next second. The work husband of Jill Biden, Jill Biden,

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former assistant to the president's senior advisor to the First Lady.
Like the first Lady needs a senior advisor. She's not elected,
she doesn't never mind. Anthony Bernal was called into the
Houseoversay Committee asked this question. Asked if any unelected official

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or family members executed the duties of the president and
if Joe Biden ever instructed him to lie about his health.
He refused to answer the question on the basis that
the answer could incriminate him another fifth Amendment. I know,
I know. It doesn't mean he's guilty. I know. I'm

(23:10):
just telling you he's unwilling to speak the truth. You
can take from that whatever you want. He will not
speak the truth. Another staffer.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Man.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
But here's what I wanted to get to because it
involves some math, And anytime I get to use math
on this radio program, I do it. Why Well, because
math is a certainty. Statistics they just are what they are, right,

(23:50):
It's sterile. And this is something that I think is
it's an aspect of the autopen story. Okay, the auto
pen is did Joe Biden actually execute anything and any
of his duties as president? Or was it completely run

(24:11):
by others? There's growing evidence that he had He had
nothing to do with being the president. He was. He
was a terrible figurehead. He was a walking he was
a human roomba. You know, you just run into things
and then turn around and aimlessly walk and being guided

(24:34):
around by foreign leaders. It was an embarrassing thing. Right
but hold on now, hold on pause there for a second.
Right now, they are looking at one up to one
million documents that have auto pen signatures on them. I

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want you to just consider I did the math, and
this brings a context to the one million documents that
I think matters a lot. If we just go with
a simple figure of four years times three hundred and

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sixty five days in office, that that brings you to
fourteen hundred and some odd days, right, fourteen hundred and five.
Maybe that is six hundred and eighty five documents a
day that Joe Biden allegedly gave consent to being signed. Friends,

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there's not a chance. That's why I said, I'm using
math because it just speaks to it. Just I think
it just lays this out a little differently. Six hundred
and eighty five executive decisions a day a day, and

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we know he spent a third a half of his
time on vacation. So if you, if you, if you
say a third and you add a third to that,
that's over eight hundred, eight hundred and fifty documents a day,

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maybe maybe nine hundred a day. No way, we have
to know who was running this country. We have to
forty seven minutes past the out That incredible and that
number incredible. The Morning Show with Preston Scott. I promise

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it's the last story from inside the Beltway for the day.
This is it no more. This is yet another example
of the contemptible hypocrisy of so many elected politicians. I

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could say mostly Democrats, but that might not be fair
because hypocrisy exists on both sides of the aisle. But
let's face it, show of hands, who doesn't know deep
down that Adam Schiff is an absolute snake. He's creepy,

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he's condescending, and oh, by the way, he's a liar.
He lied about the smoking gun on the Russian collusion,
never produced it, said he had it. Well, look what
we've learned United States Federal Housing Finance Agency based on

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media reports, mister Adams Schiff has in multiple occasions falsified
bank records and property records to acquire more favorable loan terms,
impacting payments from two thousand and three to twenty nineteen
for a Potomac, Maryland based property. This is from the
FHFA director. As regulator of Fannie May, Freddie Mack and

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Federal home loan banks. We take very seriously allegations mortgage
fraud and other criminal activity. Such misconduct jeopardizes the safety
and soundness of fhi FA's regulated entities and the security
and stability of the US mortgage market. Fannie May's financial
crimes investigations have concluded that Schiff allegedly engaged in quoting

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a sustained pattern of possible occupancy misrepresentation. Here's what happened.
Schiff and his wife purchased a home in Potomac Maryland
for eight hundred and seventy thousand dollars. They entered into
a Fanny May backed mortgage agreement over a term of

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thirty years, asserting the property would be their primary and
principal residence. Let's get to the punchline here. At the
same time, he took a homeowner's tax exemption for condo
he owns in Burbank, California, claiming that was his primary residence.

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Duly dut to lyad do do? They didn't list their
home in Maryland until as a secondary residence until twenty twenty,
So for seventeen years they lied, and by claiming it

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a primary residence they got better loan terms. They lied,
they committed mortgage fraud. He's had nothing to say. Normally,
Adam Schiff would be holding press conferences and appearing on
ABC and NBC and CBS and CNN and MSNBC to

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assert the dirty deeds done by Trump against him. This
is retribution. It would be proven. He's got nothing to say.
When we come back, tell us who reports. Steve Stewart
will join us. He's the executive editor, and we will

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catch up on what's going on in Florida's capital city
because it matters. Yes, it does. All of this that
we're talking about, it matters. I've passed the hour at

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second Hour Thursday. Always busy here on the Morning Show
with Preston Scotti, so Osaia. I'm Preston at show fifty
four to eleven and I am joined by the executive
editor of Tallahassee Reports, the website where you can subscribe
and support true investigative journalism here locally in Florida's state
capital is Tallassee Reports dot com. Hi, good morning, Preston.

(31:47):
How are you doing. I'm doing well.

Speaker 4 (31:50):
Middle of the summer, you know, a little bit of
a downtime in terms of local governmetings, but still a
lot to talk about.

Speaker 1 (31:55):
Do you think that, whether intentionally or not, government officials
take advantage of that that it's kind of a time
where people aren't really zoned in. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (32:04):
I think that's most of the time. So I don't
know that this is any well.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
But I mean summer vacations, Yeah, kids are busy, and
it's like it's I just don't know how many people
are really engaged as they would be later in the year.

Speaker 4 (32:16):
Well, you know, and that's a great point and The
major thing here is that we've got you know, over
the summer is when they local governments basically start dealing
with their budgets. Yeah, and then they have in September
is when they've you know, the fiscal year starts October first,
and that's when everybody gets signed off on these budgets.
And and you know, we've we've been talking about this
for a couple of weeks and I wanted to bring
it up again in this segment, is that I think

(32:38):
spending of local governer is going to be an issue
in the next couple of years, and we're starting to
see things that indicate it it will be. You know,
Leon County government, Leon County Commission has prided itself and
trying to keep its milit rate where it is, even
though they're not rolling back when they get more money
like a lot of governments do. But even there, you're
starting to see some some debate over spending the you know,

(33:02):
they've been giving five percent across the board raises for
the last three years and this year that was a
four to three vote so to do that. And so
they're going to have the public hearing in September on
this and there are a couple of people pushing back that, look,
you know, we need to start getting our fiscal house
in order, because I think local government's got a lot

(33:22):
of federal well I don't think. I know they got
a lot of federal money during COVID, and I think
they use that. Unfortunately, once you start getting that, it's
tough to take things away. And so that's on the
county side. If you start looking at the city, which
runs a lot of the utilities in addition to local government,
you're seeing these adjustments through inflation factors that nobody really

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knows about. The you know, you tell your electric utility bill.
Even if everything remains normal, fuel costs stay the same,
they get these automatic CPI inflation increases that they don't
even have to vote on. So that's happening. You start
seeing about to fire service fee twenty twenty two percent
increase coming up. You see spending three point six million

(34:07):
dollars on a grocery store, you know in a certain neighborhood.
That kind of spending I think is going to is
going to come back to haunt them because people are
going to say, wait a minute, we've just got this
new Children's Services Council tax, which is another nine million
dollars a year.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
And that's remember that's a property tax.

Speaker 4 (34:26):
So when they were talking about two or three years
ago about the money they were going to collect, that
was based on property values. Then what's happened over the
last three years. Property values have gone through the roof.
So now CSC is going to get more money. And
now we've got the school board and this is probably
the biggest budget hole of all and they were probably
the biggest beneficiary of the COVID money from the Feds

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and the state. And now we have Superintendent Hannah saying
there's going to be a twelve and a half million
dollar budget hole, budget shortfall for the school board coming up.
And this is from a school system that has lost
customers over the last ten years. And so all these things,
I think people are going to start to realize, wait
a minute, we're spending all this money and you know why.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
It will be the answer will be the question, where
where do you think this this really starts?

Speaker 4 (35:20):
Where's the problem. I think it goes back to what
you had said. I think people are checked out. I
think that during COVID money was not an issue. All
you got to do is look at the federal the deficit.
People were spending money left and right because it was
a you know, it was a pandemic, and I think
people just they accepted it. And that's where we are.
I think we're going to start coming out of that.

(35:41):
I think people are going to start, you know, looking
around and say, wait a minute, just like in your area,
Deck of the Woods, the Klin and Lakes issue, where
those two and then those neighborhoods, they're yearly.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
Fee almost tripled.

Speaker 4 (35:52):
Yeah, and that stuff is starting to happen from the
city and then the county had to pass it on.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
But that is starting to get coverage.

Speaker 4 (36:00):
I think people are gonna start saying, wait a minute,
where where all these price increases coming from.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
I'm you know, all of this reminds me and we'll
talk more about it in just a moment. With the
county school system, the question is always where can we
get more money instead of where can we cut and conserve? Exactly,
It's always about taking, not cutting. Ten past the hour.
More to come with Steve Stewart of Tallassi Reports. Remember

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the website Tallasseireports dot com. This is the Morning Show
with Preston Scott getting situated here with Steve Stewart of

(36:52):
Tallassi Reports. We were talking about spending and let's zero
in on Leon County schools and Superintendent Rocky Hannah is
trying to find money, right.

Speaker 4 (37:03):
Yeah, Look, Superintendent Hannah has and I've said this before
the reporting that I've done, and you look around him.
He has the toughest job I think in the county.
It's it's it's crazy that the you know, the the
things that have to get done to educate thirty three
thousand students. You know, there's there's a degree of darned
if you do, darned if you don't right, and you know,
it's a it's a tough job. Now, having said that,

(37:23):
what has happened is obviously the in Florida with the
advent of vouchers and charter schools. This provided competition to
a monopoly system which was out of control. And that's
my opinion, you know, and I think that if you
look at what's going on, you know, that's what it needed,
with some competition. And your point is instead of, you know,
instead of trying to look at yourself and figure out

(37:45):
what can we do better or more efficiently or more
efficiently it's like, you know, there's a lot of complaining
and like you said, looking for money. Now, to Superintendent
Hannah's credit, he has detailed a twelve and a half
million dollars budget shortfall that they have, and you've got
a story up and you can read the specifics. You know,
the Feds have frozen six million dollars that you know

(38:07):
to Leon County, this around the state, but their portion
of the frozen money is about six million dollars.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
The first question that.

Speaker 4 (38:13):
I have is why are the Feds so involved with
local you know education this is and so that's a
lot of that's a lot of money six million dollars
that is not going to be coming here for after
school programs, for some Title I school stuff. And so
that's six.

Speaker 1 (38:28):
Million of it.

Speaker 4 (38:29):
The other three million is the loss of money from
the state because the number of students have gone down
or have chosen to go to charter schools or you know,
or use vouchers. And then the other thing that that's
three million there. And then the other three million that
really just makes you wonder is the increase in health
insurance for all the employees at Leon County school Board.
And this gets to a whole separate issue issue of

(38:52):
we've watched healthcare expenses explode the last four years because
why because there's money everywhere, right, And they just increase
the cost three point two million dollars. So just like that,
you've got a twelve million dollar of Well, yeah, that's
that's a thought, right, And I was trying to think
of ways around that because that is that's a huge increase.

(39:13):
And so now Superintendent Hannah is like, look, we got
a major problem here. We're gonna have to cut, which
is you know, probably something they need to be looking at.

Speaker 3 (39:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (39:22):
Again, you know, from my perspective, when you look around
the state and see what's happening, there's been a shift
on and a lot of demographically, there's been a shift.
If you look over in Jacksonville, you know a lot
of families are moving out of Daval County to Clay
County and Saint John's County and.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
That's where the schools are being built.

Speaker 4 (39:39):
Deval Counties closed something like thirty schools, So you have
an issue with the demographics in some areas. Other areas,
the stat you just gave fifty one percent I think.

Speaker 1 (39:48):
State wide, Yeah, more more students are using the choice
mechanisms in some form or fashion.

Speaker 4 (39:53):
Right, and so those are those are things that you
know didn't sneak up on you. And so we haven't
we haven't read district, we haven't closed schools to become
more efficient. And so like youre said, and to you know,
Superintendent Hannah is out looking for more money. And so
now there's reports that he's going to go to the
Children's Services.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
Council no, no, no no.

Speaker 4 (40:13):
And look for two million dollars a year to do
that to plug in one of those holes. And this
is going to get into a debate over what is
legislatively you know, statute regulated is you know, the CSC
there's some limitations on the money that you know, being
able to go to serve education purposes because they didn't
want to co mingle those pots. You're supposed to move

(40:34):
the needle outside. You're not supposed to replace money. And
this is what we talked about what was going to happen. Yeah,
you know, and so this is going to the Children's
Services Council will meet tonight. Well you know we'll have
a report on that, but you know he's going to
talk about this budget shortfall and then ask for help
from another property tax that people are paying.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
That's unfair, that's double taxation on the residents of this community.

Speaker 4 (40:58):
And you know, the other thing is I think what
you're to find out is that the school board has
got into, has gotten into spending money and issues that
aren't directly related to education, you know, after school care,
you know, meals and things like this.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
So we'll get more details on that. I think it
would be helpful for the schools and the school board
and the superintendent to kind of rein it in a
little bit and realize that you don't spend you don't
put bonus money like you if you get a bonus,
you don't put it in your budget. Money's from the feds,

(41:33):
moneys you can't count on recurring year after year after
year like your property tax revenue. You shouldn't be spending that.

Speaker 4 (41:39):
And I think what that's done is that's kept them
from becoming more efficient or saying, look, we need to
close these schools or we need to do this.

Speaker 1 (41:45):
It's kept them from addressing those issues. More to come
with Steve Stewart. Final segment was Steve Stewart of Last
Who Reports and one final segment here where we're talking
about TPD and a lot going on. Really, yeah, law

(42:08):
enforcement in general.

Speaker 4 (42:09):
They had TPD had the press conference, but it was
a regarding this Operation rabbit Hole, which is dealing with
internet you know, internet l luring kids into basically sex crimes,
which is just it's just brutal to talk about. And
I was able to go to the press conference and
I wanted to share with your listeners the issue here,

(42:29):
and this is, you know, we cover a lot of
the incident reports on a daily basis. This issue you
could tell during the press conference, which included TPD and
included Leon County Sheriff's office while we knew it was
their FDL, Homeland Security, US marshals, This issue of people
online trying to get the attention of kids is a

(42:53):
big issue. And I could since you know they had
they arrested sixteen people who actually they caught soliciting online
and actually showed up somewhere.

Speaker 1 (43:04):
So this is not this is like that Dateline television
show where they were sitting in a house waiting for
the predators show up.

Speaker 4 (43:11):
And I think there's two points that they were trying
to make this press conference was that this is a
problem that is underground that people don't recognize, but it is.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
A big problem.

Speaker 4 (43:21):
This happened, This took probably two months to set up
this sting operation. Over three days, they got one hundred
contacts over three days and they had sixteen arrests. Sixteen
out of those hundred, you know, agreed to show up
somewhere to meet a minor, okay. And so I think
their frustration is that, look, we could do this, you know,

(43:43):
the resources, we could do this, and this would be
a constant thing and people aren't aware of that.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
They're frustrated that there's not enough coverage in the media
about this.

Speaker 4 (43:54):
And they didn't say this, but but I will is that,
you know, you have a shooting among gang members, it
makes the headlines, you know, and the news. These things
are going on and social media, they're not seen, they're
not out you know, on the street, and it doesn't
get any coverage. And so they were really trying, this
is why they did the press conference, really trying to

(44:15):
get this message out to parents, to you know, to
understand what their kids are doing on these on phones
with apps. Again, it goes back to my point of
you know, the schools to just get rid of them
for eight hours so the kids are separating from them,
and so it's a big issue. Is eye opening to
be there and you know, see the pictures of the
people they arrested and the people that are being arrested

(44:36):
for this, whether locally across the state or across the nation.
You talk about a cross section of America. It is
every every every race, every ethnicity, every socioeconomic group, every profession.

Speaker 1 (44:52):
Yes there's nobody that you're like, oh my gosh.

Speaker 4 (44:56):
And yeah, and the thing is these again, these are
people that act they try traveled. This wasn't you know,
they got some tip online and what's somewhere and arrested
somebody it was they traveled to they were going to
do this, and that's what's so scary about it.

Speaker 1 (45:08):
So I think that that's.

Speaker 4 (45:10):
Important and we're gonna, uh, you know, we've got a
story about it'll be.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
In our next newspaper.

Speaker 4 (45:14):
But it's important for parents because you just forget you
think it's very insidious and the sense that how these
people get lured in, and so it's a big issue.

Speaker 1 (45:22):
The other thing, and I've mentioned this in previous stories,
Steve not related to this, but the issue in general
is that it speaks to the sickness of the person
that's arrested in this case, because they know that there's
a chance they're going to get trapped. They know that,
but their obsession with young people and children is so
great they're willing to take that.

Speaker 4 (45:42):
Chance, right And I think that what they're trying to
do is let people know, look, there's a de turnout.
You're gonna get caught if you continue to do this.
We're going to run these stings and we're going to
catch you. And I think that's the reason for the
press conference.

Speaker 1 (45:54):
Now.

Speaker 4 (45:54):
A couple other points on law enforcement that'll be coming
up in August. There'll be a city commissionating where there's
going to be There won't be a scheduled vote. There's
going to be information on the two to eighty seven
g agreement that TPD has with Homeland Security because of
Commission Reporter wanting to talk about this, so they're going
to get some feedback from Chief Revel on it. It's

(46:16):
going to be a very I think it's gonna be
a very tense situation because at that point, Commission Reporter
could make a motion to end the agreement and put
everybody on the record of where they stand. It'll be
interesting to see if she has the courage to do that,
because you know, I have looked at the check book
again in the city, and she's traveling to these local
progressive conferences and if you go and look at their

(46:38):
you know, their jobs. Yeah, they don't like they don't
like license plate readers, person and they've they've got those
knocked out in some areas. So it'll be interesting on
that issue to see what happens on crime stats real quick,
middle of July still robberies, propery crime down, auto thefts
and burglaries up, probably because of summer.

Speaker 1 (46:58):
Kids got to have a thing to do by the
Come on now, we'll keep it. We'll keep an eye
on that. Uh well, con Pat's gone now, but I'm tall.
There nothing to do and we need more. We need
more volleyball teams. All right, my friend, thank you, thank you.
Pressing Steve Stewart Tallassa Reports twenty seven minutes past the hour.

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(47:50):
My interview with Randy Terra Borelli his book JFK Public
Private Secret. Uh, I just told his booking agent. Yeah,
we sold more than a few books yesterday. The email
response was off the charts. It really was. And that's
a credit to Randy because when you're taking subject matter

(48:14):
like JFK and it's not an assassination book is it
barely touches on it. It's about the life, and it's
really remarkable. The stuff that we learned yesterday was just
like what it I mean, the idea that you can

(48:35):
basically hire a concubine and that's okay, but divorcing is not.
That's how the Catholics in the Kennedy clan justify we're
keeping the marriage together, but we're conicating with the concubine whatever.
I mean, good grief. Talk about your absurdity on the

(49:01):
subject of JFK. One of the big stories in the
press box. And by the way, if you if you're like,
what in the world are you talking about? Joe Kennedy.
JFK's dad had an agreement with his wife that they
would hire a concubine, a woman that was basically a

(49:25):
paid administrative assistant who was there to service. That's Randy's word.
Service him sexually because you know, I guess after a
gazillion children, you know what, he and Rose just didn't
have a thing. I don't know, it's just it's I

(49:47):
can't get my brain around it. And so the idea
of JFK being a Philander, that's, well, that was Dad
had a paid assistant. You know what I'm saying. It's
it's it's incredible. Documents now reveal that Oswald had a
link to the CIA. It's established, it's documented, it's in.

(50:09):
It's it's it's in the documents that have been unclassificed, declassified.
I'm telling you, go see the documentary JFK. What they saw,
meaning the doctors at Parkland. Any doubts you have over
the whole single bullet thing is a magic bullet single
shooter theory gone. There's not a chance at all that

(50:37):
it was a single shooter. Not a chance, not a chance.
I'll go so far as to say, if you believe
that Oswald was a lone gunman, you are really really
not paying attention. This was this was a plot by
the US government to kill the President of the United States,

(50:59):
and they did. You got persuaded by a documentary, No,
I got persuaded by forensic evidence by doctors who were
all there. State departments being reorganized three thousand fewer employees.

(51:25):
Prior to now, it took forty to fifty different levels
of approval for any document to come out of the
State Department. They had duplication offices with sanctions and arms
control issues. First of all, what is is never mind

(51:49):
the diplomats and residence program toast a waste of money.
We're talking one agency, and thankfully Mark Karubio's on top
of it. That's the only reason why this is happening
at this speed. It should be happening across every agency
in this country. Forty minutes past the hour, Come back,

(52:09):
Doctor Steve Steverson joins us. Next pause for thought on
the morning show, The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Forty
one minutes past the hours This Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Great to have back on the back on the program,

(52:31):
Doctor Steve Steverson of the Bradfordville Animal Hospital, Hello there.

Speaker 2 (52:35):
Hey, Preston's good to be back.

Speaker 3 (52:37):
How are you.

Speaker 1 (52:37):
I am terrific When we missed our last segment, I
explained to everybody that you were busy doing some veterinarian
sort of missions work. I want you to have some
time to tell everybody about what you and other vets
were doing.

Speaker 2 (52:55):
Oh press, this is an unbelievable trip. So there were
four of us, four veterinarians, all of us from Florida
and Alabama. We flew to Guatemala City and then we
took about a seven hour van ride up into the
mountains of Guatemala. It's some of the descendants of the
Mayan people and they they speak this original Mayan language

(53:19):
and they've learned to speak Spanish to communicate because Spanish
is kind of language of Guatemala, but it's not their
first language. So it's a little bit of a communication
barrier between us and them because we're trying to go
from English to Spanish to mom is the name of
the name of the people in their language. These people
are pressing. They're extremely extremely poor.

Speaker 3 (53:39):
You know.

Speaker 2 (53:39):
You fly into Guatemala City and it's a big, a
big city like a lot of other citas around the world,
you know, and you'll see uh KFC. I saw check
E Cheese as we drove by. They had a mall,
you know, so it looks like any other city. But
then you get out into the countryside and get Florida
and farther up in the mountains, these people are poorer
and poorer. They'll have maybe, you know, an eighth of

(54:02):
an acre with a little ten by ten, little tin
roofed shack that they live in. They may or may
not have electricity or running water, and they all they
have to survive on is that little tiny plot of
land with maybe a little bit of corn or some potatoes.
And they have livestock. And so we were there to
help take care of their livestock. So we were, you know,

(54:25):
not what we see what I see typically up here
at Bradford, Atlantama Hospital treating you know, goats and chickens
and cows and hogs. But they have all these ingrained
ideas on how to do husbandry, how to take care
of their livestock. A lot of them really aren't the
best for their livestock. So we're trying to train them

(54:47):
how to take better care of their livestock. Then we're
vaccinating and deworming these animals. A lot of them are
just parasites internal and external or a big problem. We
have very inexpensive drugs the United States that are very
effective at controlling these things that they don't have or
can't get in Guatemala. So we slew down there with

(55:08):
a lot of drugs in our suitcases because they're not
available in Guatemala. And so how do you couple things pressing?

Speaker 1 (55:15):
How do you how do you manage the logistics of
I mean, let's work backwards of bringing those types of
medicines in country. And then how do you make the
connection with these groups in the middle of the highlands,
the mountain villages. Who connects these dots?

Speaker 2 (55:33):
Yeah, so a couple of things. One, it's not a problem,
very easy. You can go to tractor supply here in
Tallahassee and think of a bottle of ivermectin and which
every knows ivormcan Nowada is from covid. Sure, we used
iverymectin for forty years in ventinary medicine and it is
a very effective anti para citicide. So you can get
a bottle of ivermectin and put it in your suitcase.
That'll treat one hundred cattle. And so it's not a

(55:54):
problem getting the drugs and taking them over there. Now,
once we get there, they're actually is a program was
started by some uh, some men out of central Florida
outside of Orlando to various Florida and they started this
mission organization is called Mission House Ministries Guatemala and you
can google it. They have a website. And so this

(56:16):
organization is the one that started this what they call
the Animal Project. And they are up in the mountains
in a little town called come Tancio, and so they
have a house store we were able to stay. So
we had a bed each night in a place with
fresh water water that was safe for us to drink,
you know, don't drink the water in Guatemala, or they
had safe water for us.

Speaker 3 (56:34):
To drink, you know.

Speaker 2 (56:36):
And so we would get up each morning and they
have a van that the Mission House Ministries provides, and
we had a translator driver that would take us up
into these specific communities. These people have applied to Mission
House Ministries for there. They have a couple of projects.
The one that we were on is called the Animal Project.
And so these people if they qualify, then and Mission

(56:57):
House Ministries provides them with some animals, either some chickens
or a cow or some hogs, and then they give
them two years to support with that animal. And so
we're up there with these people that have been in
the project during this two year period, and we're deworming
and treating them and talking to these natives about the

(57:18):
care of their animals. At the end of two years,
they graduate from the program, they should be self sustaining
by them and somebody else steps into their spot in
this program. So they have about seventy five families on
this program at all times. So they live in these
little huts with a dirt floor, cooking over an open
fire inside the building. So you can imagine they get older.

(57:39):
They all have resptoy problems from all the smoke they've
been held. It's really really just dire living. But one
success story is one group we went to with these
two sisters. Their husbands had left, they haven't heard from
in years. They went into the city to get jobs.
So it's these two sisters with six kids between two
of them. So they have this one little by ten rooms,

(58:01):
all one bed mattress on the floor. All six are
sleeping on this mattress and they provide these ladies with chickens.
And so now two years later they're about to graduate
from the program. They've done well enough press them with
selling eggs from their chickens at the market. They came
back between last year and this year and paid to

(58:21):
have a concrete floor put in their little hut. So
now they're not sleeping in the mud and the dirt
of their floor, and that just to me was a
huge difference for them in the quality of their life,
just to put a concrete floor in their home, you know.
So this program. Another thing about Preston program the read
I really like this program. I've done this type of
work in other countries. This program is unique because it's

(58:43):
squadum malins that run the program. These people that board
of trustees are people that are Americans that go over
there all the time, but actually the boots on the
ground are primarily a squadumlins and they have a lady
that organizes this ministry, this animal program, and two other
guatemal men that oversee it. So it's not a bunch
of you, not a bunch of gringos showing up for

(59:04):
a week doing some animal work making yourself feel good
than leaving, and they're not any better off. Right after
we leave, these Guatemalan men and this lady continue to.

Speaker 1 (59:12):
Go out every there's following sure three.

Speaker 2 (59:14):
Months to visit these people continue to care for their
animals and really improve their quality of life, and so
that really appealed to me. This is a really good
program that I'll definitely go back on this mission trip
because this is one that's going to be helpful people
of Guatemala very very much.

Speaker 1 (59:32):
All Right, well, I've marked your absence of two weeks
ago now as excused. Okay, so you do have an
excused absence, and now proud to have you on the program.
Proud of the work you're doing, doctor Steverson. Thank you, sir.

Speaker 2 (59:46):
Great, thanks presting doctor.

Speaker 1 (59:48):
Steve Steverson with us this morning. That's pretty cool. Forty
eight minutes, forty nine minutes past the hour. It's the
Morning Show with Preston Scott. Let's take a road trip.

(01:00:19):
I've been saving this one. You've still got time to
plan an outrageous roadie and do something different. Lego Land,
New York. There are thirty million bricks throughout the park.

(01:00:43):
It's costly seventy bucks a day for kids, eighty bucks
a day for adults, twenty bucks for parking. On top
of all of that, and then you got your food
and so forth. But it an it's actually a resort.
Lego Land, New York Resort. It is in gosh in

(01:01:04):
New York. And the attractions, the rides, it's geared to
kids from two to twelve. So this is a really
good park to bring the littles. You know, I've long
maintained that some of these parks they're just not they're
not right for little little kids. You're toddlers, you gotta

(01:01:28):
wait a little bit. This one might be a little
bit better. Seven different lands. You got Brickstreet Selfies like
crazy there, Lego Factory Adventure Ride, they've got a Ninja
training camp, the Lego Ninja Goir World, Lego Castle roller coasters,
there a couple of them. Lego City kids can earn

(01:01:50):
their Lego driver's license, Lego Pirate Land, and then Lego
Land is it's it's where they build. I mean, it's
just it's replicas of cities and everything made a Legos.
So that's a road trip idea for you. I know
it's a drive, but that's the whole point, right, It's summer.

(01:02:14):
School's going to be here like in four weeks. Four weeks,
so yeah, come back. Let's talk to Zack Smith on
the Morning show. Indeed, you are listening to the music

(01:02:42):
that signals the beginning of an hour on the Morning
Show with Preston Scott In Preston, he is Jose at
Is Show fifty four to eleven, and I waste no
time bringing on our next guest, Zack Smith, familiar voice
Heritage Foundation. Zach, how are you, sir.

Speaker 3 (01:03:02):
I'm doing well. Thanks for having me on the show
this morning.

Speaker 1 (01:03:04):
Of course, a week ago you wrote a piece titled
look to London for a Glimpse of New York City's future.
This has all been precipitated by Zoran Mamdanni. Tell everybody
who he is.

Speaker 3 (01:03:23):
Yeah, Zoron Mamdani. He's the leading candidate to be in
New York City's next mayor. He recently won the Democratic
primary race. And of course a heritage we do policy,
not politics. But what I did I looked at Zoron
Mamdani's policies and it's not an exaggeration to say, Preston
that he is pushing hardcore Marxist policies in a host

(01:03:47):
of areas, and everything from policing and public safety, which
I write a lot about, to economics and housings. He's
proposing to start government run grocery stores. It's an absolute
horror show in terms of the policies he's putting forward.
And as a point out on my piece, if we
look across the Atlantic Ocean to London, where many of

(01:04:08):
these same socialist type policies have already been implemented, it's
been an abject failure that have led to more suffering
from the citizens there, and I think we could expect
more of the same in New York City if mom
Donnie is elected and able to implement his policies as well.

Speaker 1 (01:04:26):
I want to just take a step backwards for a moment,
because I feel as though there's a lot of confusion.
We hear socialist Marxist Donald Trump says communist. Is there
really a difference?

Speaker 3 (01:04:43):
Well, I would say they're all problematic ideology, sure, with
policies that don't work now fundamentally don't work. But there
is a difference in terms of how far each is
willing to go with their policies. And certainly I think
if you look back to someone who identifies as a communist. Now,
I don't know that mom Donnie would self identify as

(01:05:04):
a communist, although I would say if you look at
what he has posted on his x feed previously, I
think he is certainly closer to that communist end of
the line, and what it means is typically in terms
of how far they're willing to go in terms of
undermining a basic capitalist concepts, how far they're willing to

(01:05:27):
redistribute property and wealth through taxation and other means as well.
And look, I think what's really revealing Preston is Mom Donnie,
you know, four or five years ago, tweeted a well
known phrase that Karl Marx himself coined is something to
the effect of everyone according to their ability, everyone according

(01:05:48):
to their need. And anyone who's familiar with that knows
that phrase or some version of it came directly from
Karl Marx himself to push his new communist ideology. So look,
this is problematic stuff from top to bottom, and nothing
good for New York City or from our country will
come from it if Mon Donnie is able to implement

(01:06:11):
these policies.

Speaker 1 (01:06:12):
I want to do a little deeper dive into what's
gone on in London. But before we do that, and
before the break, let me just ask you how problematic
is this guy's candidacy for the ranking members of the
Democrat Party, Not just in New York.

Speaker 3 (01:06:29):
But congressionally, well, I think it's very problematic. Look, even
some congressional leaders have had to condemn certain of his policies.
In addition to his problematic economic policies, he's also adopted
many anti Semitic policies as well. He's refused to condemn
anti Semitic slogans like Globalized in Tempata, other chants that

(01:06:55):
have basically condemned Israel for their act in Gaza. And
so this has created a very real problem for democratic
candidates and officeholders nationwide. But again, just from a policy perspective, Preston,
I think we should all be horrified at some of
what he's proposing.

Speaker 1 (01:07:14):
We're going to take a look at what those proposals
have looked like over recent years in London. Next our
guest Zach Smith from the Heritage Foundation. You can look
up his piece Look to London for a glimpse of
NYC's future. You can also find him at the Heritage
Foundation Morning Show with Preston Scott on news Radio one

(01:07:38):
hundred point seven WFLA. Zach Smith with me from the
Heritage Foundation. We're looking at what is coming to New

(01:07:59):
York York City should they go ahead and elect Zoron
Mamdani as their next mayor. And he compares what it
could look like by looking at what it does look
like right now in London. Paint the picture in London,
who the mayor is and how in the world did
this guy get elected? And what's he done?

Speaker 3 (01:08:21):
Yeah, it's not a good situation in London. It's the
current mayor is someone named Sadique Khan. He's a socialist
as well, not quite as far left as Zoron Mamdani,
but certainly he embraces socialists, the quasi Marxist type policies.
And if you look at what's happened in London since
he's been elected, you've seen crime sore, violent crime, stuff,

(01:08:44):
shoplifting are all up. It's public housing sector in London
is abysmal. The private rental sector. He's taken efforts to
try to shrink that intentionally, and so as a result,
you're seeing a surge in homelessness. He's also helped to
weaponize London police to monitor online speech to enforce kind
of the liberal socialist orthodoxy. I think we've all probably

(01:09:07):
seen pictures of people in the United Kingdom and London
specifically being arrested for praying silently outside of abortion clinics,
for being interrogated about posts they've made on social media.
He's certainly been supportive of those efforts as well, and
unfortunately he's also helped to stoke some of the same
anti Semitic type rhetoric that we've seen. Mamdani helped to

(01:09:31):
stoke as well. And I'll give one example that I
talk about in my piece. In twenty twenty three, on
our Mystic Day, which is the UK's equivalent of Veterans Day, essentially,
three hundred thousand pro Palestinian demonstrators disrupted the ceremonies the
other solemn events that were taking that day, and con

(01:09:52):
didn't really rebuke them, We only nominally said something. And
as a result of that, reported anti Semitic incidents in
London and it's surged by staggering one three hundred and
fifty percent in the weeks afterwards. And you see this
time and time again. In a speech he gave at
the close of Ramadan, he condemned Israel for their supposed

(01:10:14):
occupation of Gaza, and yet he never has condemned Hamas
Preston are there October seventh attack in that same speech
or anything like that. So problematic stuff from top to bottom.

Speaker 1 (01:10:29):
We've documented on the show Zach the headway that Islam
has made in England, but certainly in London, the existence
of Sharia courts across the country. Is this an indicator
his election and his place in London? Is this an
indicator of just British indifference or is this a greater

(01:10:51):
indicator of Islamic impact and influence.

Speaker 3 (01:10:56):
Well, you know, it's really a strange situation because if
you look at his policies, many of his policies are
very left leaning, very liberal, very out of line with
other Muslim members of the British political community there. And
so you have him focusing on things like climatest justice,

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things like DEI initiatives, and really the one area, unfortunately,
where he seems to align, particularly with other far white
members of the Islamit community there in Britain, is in
some of the anti Semitic rhetoric that he has embraced
and used and allowed to flourish under his rule. And look,
I think again, if you look at Mamdani and some

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of what he said, you know, not a lot of
people realized before he was a politician before he was
in the State House there in New York, he was
a small time rapper essentially, how I would phrase it.
He performed under the stage name mister Cartermom. You can
go on YouTube look up some of his videos, but
there's a line in one of his song he says,

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quote my love to the Holy Lane Five, you'd better
look him up. Well, I did look him up, and
I think your readers, if they're a Christy, can look
them up as well. And if you do that, you'll
quickly find out that the Holy nine Five are individuals
who are convicted of funneling millions of dollars to Hamas.
And that is the individual that he was giving praise

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to before he was ever in the political world, before
he was in the political arena, and I think that's
a very problematic thing in and of itself.

Speaker 1 (01:12:31):
More time was Zack Smith coming up next sixteen past
the hour. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott Zack
Smith with me. We're talking about a piece he's written,
Look to London for a Glimpse of New York City's future,

(01:12:53):
and he points to the mayoral disaster of London that
is sad and just looking at the policies advanced by
Zoe Randmum Donnie in New York City. Who is right? Now?
You would have to say the leading candidate. But I
want to go back and ask you, Zach, aren't we

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fundamentally facing maybe a bigger problem than that is, how
is it possible that someone that espouses socialist Marxist communist
views is a self described socialist? How can they even
run for office when they're asked to uphold the Constitution?

Speaker 3 (01:13:33):
Well, look, I think what we're seeing is a failure
of basic civics education in many respects preston that so
many people have been taken in by these talking points,
this philosophy that has failed time and time again wherever,
whenever it has been tried. And I think that's why
you're seeing Governor DeSantis others placing such an emphasis on

(01:13:54):
civics education so that citizens are equipped to understand and
push back against the philosophy whenever someone brings it up
and tries to repackage it in a new social media
friendly format. But look, you're absolutely right. I think we
should be troubled by the fact that this ideology has
taken off. We should be troubled that so many people,

(01:14:15):
particularly at the local level around the country, have adopted
this policy. But I think that's why it's so important
to have these conversations, so that we can push back
against it and point out socialisms and Marxisms and communisms,
mini flaws and many failures.

Speaker 1 (01:14:34):
You mentioned to me in the break though, that there's
even another layer to this, and it has to do
with citizenship.

Speaker 3 (01:14:40):
Well, that's right. Look, I think we've seen some questions
being raised around what Zoron Mamdani may have filled out
on his citizenship application form. Whenever you apply to be
a US citizen, to be naturalized, as Mamdanni is, you
have to essentially swear essentially that you're not going to
adopt policies undermine the current system of government that don't

(01:15:03):
undermine the United States. And so you've seen some calls
to examine that. I don't know that they've gained much
traction yet, but I think it is a very interesting
question to ask, is you know, if someone espouses these socialist, Marxist,
communist ideologies, certainly seems to me like that would undermine
our current system of government. And so I think that's

(01:15:24):
why you've seen some calling for his naturalization forms and
others to be closely examined.

Speaker 1 (01:15:31):
Well, let me I happen to have, as fate would
have it, in my stack of papers that I refer
to from time to time, literally here at all times,
the Oath for Naturalization, and it says at the very
beginning that I hereby declare on oath that I absolutely
and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to

(01:15:54):
any foreign prints potentate state, or sovereignty of whom or
which I have here been a subject or citizen. And
this is the part that you're alluding to, Zach, that
I will support and defend the Constitution and the laws
again of the United States, against all enemies, foreign and domestic,
and I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.

(01:16:15):
How can someone be a socialist or Marxist or communist
and stay true to that oath. That's not possible. They
are in contradiction to each other.

Speaker 3 (01:16:27):
Yeah, look, it's I think that's a great question. But
it's more than that too, Preston. Look, you have to
fill out detailed information, you have to go through students
and background checks, you have to go through interviews, and
so it'd be very interesting to see what the answers
to some of those questions were throughout that process. But look, mom,
Donnie hasn't been shy about his policies. He hasn't been

(01:16:47):
shy about his positions. That's particularly true if you go
back and read his ex then twitter feed from around
twenty twenty twenty twenty one. I lead to some of
those posts in my article. You can go of my
own x feed at tz smith. That's at tz smith
where I highlight and talk about some of those posts
as well. But look, he's been very vocal about his

(01:17:08):
view that police officers should be defunded. You should defund
the police. He's been very vocal about his views that
socialist policies are the way forward, that we should freeze rints,
that we should again implement government controls in many areas,
and so it's a litany of problematic Marxist based policies

(01:17:30):
that he's been advocating for for many years. At this point, all.

Speaker 1 (01:17:34):
Right, in closing forty five seconds, what's better New York
go ahead and elect him as your mayor and watch
it all burn or now you got to keep him
out of the office.

Speaker 3 (01:17:45):
Well, it's not a great choice, because at this point
your choice is either Zorn Mamdani or maybe Andrew Cuomo,
maybe Eric Adams, which have their own problematic policies as well.
But look, I think this is a bad thing for
us as our country. Preston, if Mom Donnie is able
to implement these policies, or if anyone is able to
implement these policies in one of our nation's biggest cities.

(01:18:08):
New York City has many problems, but fundamentally it is
one of the iconic American cities on the world stage.
It carries a lot of weight in terms of the
financial markets, other areas of everyday American life. So this
would be a really bad thing if he's able to
implement these policies, and I think he should serve as
a warning to the rest of our nation that someone

(01:18:31):
who espouses these policies to be elected as the mayor
of a major American American city.

Speaker 1 (01:18:38):
Perfect last word, Zach, thanks for the time today.

Speaker 3 (01:18:40):
Be well, of course, thanks for having me on.

Speaker 1 (01:18:43):
Thank you, sir, Zach Smith with us from the Heritage Foundation.
You're in the Morning Show with Preston Scott to m
a D Radio network. It's the Morning Show with Preston

(01:19:04):
Scott got my British Open hat on literally Port Rush.
I've got Royal Port Rush right here. Very cool to
have this hat courtesy of my buddy Wayne Wayne May. Oh,
he may not want me announcing that he's a friend, bud.

Speaker 2 (01:19:30):
He is.

Speaker 1 (01:19:32):
He's a kind, considerate soul, so he's my friend. But no.
And when he was over there playing golf he got
me this hat a year ago and it's like, yeah,
very cool. Opening day British Open at Royal Port Rush.
Thank you very much. Scotti Scheffler being Scottie Scheffler. He's

(01:19:53):
in the he's right now tied for fourth. I think
it is maybe fifth. I don't know. Yeah, I got it.
I got an old Sorry TV in here can't really
tell big stories in the press box. Sort Of scary,
that's what officials at the State Department are saying. Sort

(01:20:13):
of scary as a taxpayer and a public servant to
think we don't know how many employees we have at
the State Department. They it took three months to get
a list of people that actually work at the State Department.
That is horrifying. That is one agency three months to

(01:20:34):
figure out how many people are we paying that's incredible.
So they're pairing it down, simplifying. It's just it's an
example of the waste that is in our government. It
will not impact our foreign embassies one iota. This is

(01:20:56):
all duplicative in country right here, three thousand and I'm
sorry for anyone that's losing their job over this, But
you know what, You darn well know that we are
inflated as a government. You know this, and you chose

(01:21:22):
to work for him. That's on you. I'm sorry. I
I can't even doze. Was just scratching the surface. It's
we're not even close to getting to the iceberg underneath

(01:21:45):
the water. JFK assassination bombshell is how it's being worded
in some news outlets. Lee Harvey Oswald has been linked
to CIA assets prior to the assasassination. I will tell
you that, after much reading and review, I'm sixty five

(01:22:07):
years old. I grew up fascinated by who killed JFK?
Who killed Martin Luther King, who killed Robert F.

Speaker 3 (01:22:16):
Kennedy.

Speaker 1 (01:22:18):
I've been fascinated by the assassination attempts and the assassinations.
There's no rational way to agree with the Warren report
in any way, shape or form, and to not conclude

(01:22:42):
that this was a government coordinated operated killing of a
United States president. And it is because I believe that,
and I believe that we do not know the truth
that I believe the same thing was attempted on Donald Trump.

(01:23:03):
I believe our government, maybe former government, but using assets
and ineptitude, attempted to kill Donald Trump. There's no doubt
in my mind none. Now there's far more evidence on

(01:23:26):
JFK because they killed him, and the forensic evidence in
the body of John F. Kennedy is open and shut.
There was more than one shooter, and once there's more
than one shooter, you have a conspiracy just is I
personally believe LBJ was behind the assassination. Will we ever

(01:23:47):
get the truth? I don't know, no idea. I don't
know that they will ever allow us to know the
truth of the things that our government has been involved
in and done. There's a thread of that running through
other stories that perhaps we'll touch on. I want to
be careful with stuff like that because I used to think,

(01:24:12):
let me use this as as an analogy. I don't
think demons are behind every bad thing that happens, or
behind every corner I just think they're behind most. And
I don't think the US government is behind everything, but
I think it's behind a lot. And that saddens me

(01:24:39):
because I never used to think that way. Forty one
minutes passed the out the next story in some sick
way kind of makes sense on news radio one hundred
point seven double UFLA. I've actually kind of almost rehearsed

(01:25:01):
how I'm going to tell this. I'm gonna share this story.
I'm gonna I have to do it backwards. I gotta
do a reveal at the end. All right. This comes
from researchers at Emory University's Department of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia,

(01:25:21):
reported in the journal Nature. A little bit of a
hint there, and it deals with something called psilocybin psilo
cy b I N psilocybin. I'm guessing that's how it's pronounced.

(01:25:43):
A naturally occurring psychedelic compound produced in nature. There is
considerable clinical evidence for its potential in treating various psychiatric

(01:26:04):
and neurodegenerative conditions, for example, Parkinson's. Using mice, it increased
the longevity of mice that were older, causing mice that

(01:26:29):
had aged and grown white hair to grow black hair
as a guy with silvery grayish white hair mine. Actually,
you know what I actually thought about, how silly I
would look with just for gray just for men. Is

(01:26:53):
that what it's called just for men, just for gray,
just for men, the stuff that you wash into your
air and it gradually turns it back to a more
natural color. I would look so stupid. There's no way
you might could do that. If you're in your forties
and you're kind of getting some gray and you want
to just delay it a little bit, you can get

(01:27:13):
away with that because your face can carry it. But
I'm starting to get that phase where I look like
an old golden retriever, you know, the white under the
eyes and all that, because my eyebrows are so white
that now underneath my eyes kind of reflects the white
of my eyebrows. So I've got that golden retriever aging outlook.

(01:27:34):
But back to this, psilocybin mice were getting healthier though
they were aging. It appears to slow the wear and
tear that a company aging. And while human trials have
focused on mental health outcomes depression anxiety PTSD, this particular

(01:27:57):
study highlights the fits theological shifts, including markers of cellular
aging that are improved by psilocybin, also known as I'm
gonna this is why I ever reversed it. I didn't
want to say it. I didn't want to say it

(01:28:19):
until the end of the story magic mushrooms. I just
didn't want to go there. I had to talk about
the story because it's just it's it's a news story.
It's out there. Key to living longer could be tied
to a surprising substance, according to a study. The study

(01:28:42):
is psilocybin, also known as magic mushrooms. No, I'm not
telling you to go get magic mushrooms. I'm telling you
to go see I would see an alternative care doctor
that specializes in nutrition. Now, if he says, have yourself
a mushroom, hey, I'm not gonna be having any. But

(01:29:06):
I'm just saying you help yourself. But don't just rush
off and head to the woods. Okay, just trust me
on that one forty seven minutes because I've tried. No,
I'm just kidding.

Speaker 5 (01:29:18):
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until we found the right, right partner. Very excited about that.
Man bought two identical Powerball tickets. It was a mistake.
He ran the same numbers twice. He did not mean
to do that. The number hit not for the grand prize,
but he won two one million dollar prizes. Unbelievable. He

(01:31:15):
thought he was buying the numbers for two separate drawings.
He bought them for the same one two million bucks. Yeah,
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It's the morning show on WFLA. No, I'm not telling
you to run out and buy lottery tickets. And look

(01:31:40):
if you if you're doing good, you're not struggling to
pay for your groceries and your utility and all that stuff.
You want to drop a couple bucks on a lottery ticket, cool, whatever, this,
don't be obsessed with it. Gambling is an addiction like
any other addiction, and it can ruin you.

Speaker 3 (01:32:02):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:32:03):
I buy little scratch off lottery tickets for the kids
and everybody in the family at Christmas time, put them
in the stockings, just say hey, have some fun. Here
you go, and maybe now and then I might buy
a lottery ticket once or twice a year. I don't
think about it. It's just like but I will tell

(01:32:26):
you as often as I talk about it, I would
have plans should I win a decent lottery. I don't
need to win the big powerball lottery, right. I don't
want I don't want to have to like change my
and have guards. I don't I don't want to have
to deal with that. I don't want my kids and
my grandkids in danger. I don't want any of that,

(01:32:47):
But you know, a few extra bucks in the bank
wouldn't hurt. A little extra money to the church, little
extra money to the missionaries and the programs that we
love and support. I'm just saying big stories in the
press box. Jfk assassination Lee Harvey Oswald is in fact

(01:33:08):
connected to the CIA State Department downsizing so far three
thousand too many employees. And that's just domestically. Gave you
a road trip idea. Talked with Steve Stewart, talked to
Zack Smith, talked to doctor Steve steveson a good show today. Honestly,
we took you inside the Beltway and some If you

(01:33:30):
want to know what's going on inside the Beltway that'll
blow your mind, check out the first hour of the
podcast Professional Tip Back tomorrow. Have a great day.