Ep. 5416: It's hurricane season... Are you ready?

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Tursday, July 24th.

Our guests today include:
- Steve Stewart
- Dr. David Hart




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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Here we go Thursday. Can you believe it? It's already
Thursday here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. I
am but a strong he is, Jose, and this is
common sense amplified. How are you? We'll take a dive

(00:39):
into God's word as we begin the show. This is
first John two. I hope you're sitting down friends. This
is this is one of those that you ever seen,
one of those big knives that has a really fine
point and just just right there, just right in the heart,

(01:05):
and then it just goes what right through you? Ready?
And by this we know that we have come to
know him if we keep his commandments. Whoever says I

(01:29):
know him but does not keep his commandments is a
liar and the truth is not in him. We'll just

(01:50):
pause there for a moment. Let's have a moment of
silence for our self righteousness. Yeah, there, that went. Here's
the thing. It's not my place to condemn, because I

(02:15):
would have to start with me. I have to take
a verse like that and say how am I doing?
And I need to check my own life. How am
I doing? On the commands that God gives? We think

(02:35):
because you hear commandments and you're thinking the ten. Jesus
took those ten and bowled them down to two. Love God,
love others. But it's a lot more nuanced than just
hugs and kisses and turning your head away from things

(02:58):
that are wrong, because we want to love and not
judge that that thing that we are in today in
our culture, it's happened for about twenty years now, judge
not lest ye be judged. And that's where people that
live in overt sin and they want to keep living

(03:18):
in sin. They're not saying, hey, i've fallen short. I
want to do better and I want to walk away
from that and I want to go to that. They're
not doing that. They're saying, I want you to accept
that I'm going to keep sinning. I'm going to keep
doing it. But hey, I'm a Christian. Jesus is like, no, no, no, no, no,

(03:39):
no no no. And I can't judge where anyone is.
I can barely even judge where I am right. I
have to just work at making sure that I am
following the commands as as God has spoken them and

(04:06):
revealed them in scripture. Here's the thing. Remember what we've
golly for years now. If you're gonna call yourself a Christian,
be one, act like it. I wear a wristband that

(04:29):
I had made. I give them the just a few
people that are interested in them, that are friends of mine,
that I just encounter, and I may. I printed them
in five colors and it just has these letters d
w JD. Not do what Jesus. It's do what Jesus did?
Not What would Jesus do? I know what Jesus would do.

(04:53):
I want to do what Jesus did. I want to
live as closely as I can next to him. I
want to do what he's doing. So I've got this
bracelet dw JD. Do what Jesus did. That's my daily reminder.
I wear it everywhere I go. Yeah, that'll do. Ten

(05:17):
past the hour Thursday on the Morning Chat with Preston Sky,
I'm living past right. Some of you are like, boy,

(05:44):
that that sounded like a legit? Yawn? Was that legit? Yon?
I don't know? Was it such a jerk? Okay, it's
the twenty fourth day of Joe. It's July is almost over.
You realized, before you know it, we're gonna be talking

(06:05):
about the twelve Days of Preston sadly between now and then,
we'll also probably be dealing with a hurricane or two
in the in the region. But we're gonna hope for
the best, Yes we will. It is the twenty fourth
of July. Destois is founded as a French fur trading post.

(06:25):
I think we had to do that. I think we
had to just refer. Don't say Detroit, this that happened
in seventeen oh one. Let's just call it Destois. The
Deti Tigers, the Destois Red Wings, the Destoins Pistons. Where
you're going Detois, right, dettis? Huh Detois. Eighteen forty seven,

(06:55):
Brigham Young leads Mormons into the Valley of the Great
Salt Lake. We'll just leave that right there. Nineteen eleven,
American explorer Hiram Bigham discovers Machu Picchu, the lost city
of the Incas, in the Andes Mountains of Peru. Wow.

(07:21):
You imagine you're just wandering through the mountains and all
of a sudden you're like, whoa Chicago, you know, from
an ancient perspective, kind of Chicago. And on this date
in nineteen sixty nine, Apollo eleven astronauts splashed down in
the Pacific If you believe that thing. If you're one

(07:43):
of those who thinks we actually went there, and yes,
I do. I do believe we did go there, and
I anyway, let's see here. It is National Amelia Earhart Day.
She was born on this day. National Cousins Day. So

(08:05):
grab yourself a cousins if you were in the Midwest,
and for example, if you are in Wisconsin and I
said grab yourself a cousins, you would be thinking of
a sub that's like a major sub chain, submarine sandwiches.
National drive Through Day. Oh, if you had to pick
one drive through, what would it be? What would be

(08:30):
like your favorite drive through? Would it be Chick fil A?
Would it be Arby's? Would it be Hearty's? Would it
be the Golden Arches It's okay. Would it be a
dairy Queen? More on that in a moment. It's also

(08:51):
National Refreshment Day, National Thermal Engineer Day. A tip of
the cap to those that designed thermal underwear. Now I'm
just kidding, although if you live in a cold part
of the country, thermal underwear is like the bomb. But

(09:13):
you have to find some that aren't gonna shrink when
you wash them. I got some back a couple of
years ago. I can't, for the life of me remember
why I got them. I mean, I really can't, but

(09:34):
I did, and they got washed and they weren't supposed
to shrink, I don't think. But oh my gosh, all
of a sudden, I'm wearing knickers and it's just like
it's the weirdest feeling when you're wearing something that has

(09:54):
gone from fitting you great to not fitting at all.
It's awful. So yeah, sixteen past the hour, come back?
He did, you know? And a coconut smile. I'm gonna

(10:22):
talk about food here, fast food and the like a
little bit more. But before I do, why is it
that never mind? I'm not, I'm I'm not. I'm not
taking up the time there. It could find its way
into the best and worst next tomorrow, but I'm not, no,

(10:43):
not gonna do it. That can do it wouldn't be prudent.
Got a suggestion Culver's as a drive through of choice, Yeah, strong, culvert.
I don't think I could pick a best. Here's what
I will say. We know Chick fil A is at
a kind of a different level, right, we kind of

(11:03):
just accept that when the Chick fil A near where
I live was closed down for four or five months
this year. The Wendy's right next door just blew up.
And those poor people, nicest folks in the world, they
just didn't have the staffing to cope. They weren't ready,

(11:26):
and so the line was just brutal and it just
was slow, all right, But you endured it because that
was you know, it was right next door and that's
and then all of a sudden, Chick fil A opened
back up, and it's like a ghost down at Wendy's.
And I feel so bad for him. Almost makes me
want to go buy something, Go get the bowl of

(11:48):
chili or something like that. My dad used to love
Wendy's chili anyway. But I think an underrated couple of
places because of the diversity of the menu that that
comes and goes is Arby's and Hearty's. Hearty's comes up

(12:11):
with some really sneaky good stuff, really just sneaky. But
Arby's it's just it's they have the meats. Vin Grahames Man,

(12:31):
we have the meats. Anyway. Did you know a modified
Brothers segment here? Did you know that on August August
July thirty first at Dairy Queen, it is Miracle Treat Day.
Just on the thirty first, order your favorite blizzard and

(12:56):
a dollar or more will be donated to the Children's
Miracle Network Hospital to benefit local children's hospitals. Now you
can learn more Miracle treat Day dot com, Miracle treat
Day dot com and maybe just give a little bit
if you want. But yeah, going to Children's Miracle Network Hospitals,

(13:20):
that's a good thing. So I'm just saying, one week
from today is the thirty first. Can you believe it?
We're gonna polish off the month of July next week
and it is Blizzard Day, so think about it. My
wife and I love blizzards. We do. We do. We

(13:41):
will share a blizzard every now and then. We will
not share. We'll get a little mini of what she wants,
usually the turtle pecan. It's just like she loves that,
and I'm fine with it. But I'm a little more decadent.
Give me the chocolate brownie inflicted with funny and everything else.
Blizzard chocolate, chocolate, chocolate, chocolate chocolate. That's just that's incredible.

(14:05):
I mentioned a cocaine a smile. Coca Cola is going
to make good. They will drop a product, allegedly this
fall coke, and they're gonna promote it with cane sugar.
It's not a big switch up for them in that
they've been doing. Why have they been producing that in Mexico?

(14:31):
The glass bottled Mexico version of Coca Cola that does
get imported is made with cane sugar. So they're gonna
I'm guessing they're gonna market it big cane sugar coke
or something like that. They're gonna keep making stuff with
high fructose corn syrup. I don't know why. Maybe it's

(14:56):
they're gonna put their toe in the water with this
sampling and see what happens. I'm all about it. I
am all about it. If I can do away with
a high fruit toast corn syrup, count me in, because
let's face it, that is not what the invention of
Coca cola called for. High fruit toast corn syrup. No, no, no,

(15:19):
my I would bet they went with sugar. So yeah,
good news, making America healthy again. Good stuff. Twenty seven
past the hour, we get the big stories in the
press box coming up next here on the Morning Show
with Pressman Scott. Let's uh, let's crack open the big

(16:00):
stories in the press. Pots love this idea. It's going
to go to a full vote in the House a
bill to create a cabinet level Secretary of the Coast
Guard Department of Homeland Security. Congress want to elevate the

(16:22):
Coast Guard to better match the stature of the other
military branches. And oh, by the way, the Coast Guard
is playing an integral role in protecting our nation's border, huge,
especially along California's coast and the Gulf of Mexico Florida's

(16:44):
coast East coast. Yeah, Florida Senator Rick Scott, along with
Senator Shelley Moore Capedo of West Virginia, introduced legislation in
the Senate that would establish a secret of the Coast
Guard for the cabinet back in April. I think that's

(17:09):
a massively important thing. I'd never given it never occurred
to me that, yeah, it's not a cabinet level when
the Joint chiefs of Staff meet, coastguards are not sitting
at the table. Why coast guards very important, especially when

(17:32):
we're being invaded as we have been. It would make
sense why that didn't get a lot of traction under
Joe Biden. But now we get to the big story.
Tulsi Gabbard, let me just read the headline from town Hall.

(17:53):
I didn't write this, Tulsi Gabbard just made Obama eat
it on the Russian collusion hoax. Obama released this statement.
These bizarre allegations are ridiculous in a weak attempt at distraction.
That's part of why Trump has said to Pam BONDI

(18:17):
go ahead with his Epstein thing. I'm of the opinion
there is absolutely nothing distracting for Trump in Epstein at all,
no matter what photos, real or doctored, are out there.
Trump said he was took a flight with Epstein but

(18:39):
had nothing more to do with him. If there was
anything more to it, it would have been released during
the previous campaign. There's no doubt about that whatsoever. Because
you had all of Obama's intel people still working for Biden.
They would have absolutely just destroyed Trump with it. They didn't.

(19:00):
I think Trump honestly believed let's move on, it doesn't matter.
But I think a lot of us think it does matter.
And it does. But let's go back to Obama distraction
from what and I think this is part of calling
Obama's bluff. So Tulci Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence,

(19:23):
lie Putin. This is what she posted. She Putin and
the Russian government helped Trump win the twenty sixteen election. Truth.
President Obama, former Director of the CIA John Brennan, and
others fabricated the Russian hoax, suppressed intelligence showing Putin was
preparing for a Clinton victory. Manufactured findings lie. The fabricated

(19:47):
Steele dossier was not used as a source in the
Obama administrations January seventeen Intelligence Community assessment of the November
twenty sixteen election. Truth. Not only did CIA director Brennan,
FBI do doctor Comey, Dni Clapper, and others include the
Steele dossier, but they kept pushing it out. The media

(20:11):
jumped on board live. The Obama administrations January ICA, which
ICA stands for Intelligence Community Assessment, was an independent intelligence
community product produced with a political analysis truth. Obama ordered
the intelligence community to create an intelligence community assessment they

(20:31):
knew was false, promoting a contrived narrative, and so you
start to then get reactions. A newly declassified twenty twenty
House Intelligence Committee report found that Obama intel community did
not have direct evidence Putin wanted to help elect Trump,

(20:51):
but published it anyway on the orders of Obama breaking
dn I. Tulci Gabbard, director of National Intelligence, just released
reports proven that Obama directly gave the order to publish
the Russian collusion hoax, knowing there was no proof that

(21:12):
Putin backed Trump. Holy crap, Tulsi just proved Obama lied
again in his statement yesterday. I did a commentary today
in Butler Trump turned his head and it kept him
from getting killed because I believe that was the intent

(21:35):
to kill Trump, and I believe that the shooter was
a pawn used by a lot of these same people.
They recognized that in twenty sixteen they couldn't stop him
with all the lies, they had to go a step further.
They had to try killing him. It is my absolute

(21:55):
belief that whether it was direct, aren't in government or
former government officials were involved in coordinating the attempted assassination
of Trump. There's no doubt in my mind none. But
Trump's not going to turn his head this time when
it comes to Obama. That's why he's calling him out

(22:19):
and I would too. No matter what happens with criminal
indictments or lack thereof, history will judge these evil people.
Forty one minutes past the hour. This is the Morning
Show with Preston Scott. If you like flying, whether you

(22:53):
are a nerd like me, or you're just like in
the flight simulators, or you just think it's cool, I've
got to see my blog page. I had no idea
that there were so many self launching gliders. I've never
been in a glider. I've never flown a glider. I've

(23:14):
flown turboprops, standard single props. I've never flown a twin,
never flown a jet. Don't have the qualifications for either
of those. I would feel pretty confident if I had
to fly an airplane right now, just a single prop, uh,

(23:35):
you know, turboprop type thing. But anyway, back to the
I've got a blog up there there. Apparently it's a
thing now. They're making gliders that have electric or gas
powered engines. You take off with and then they rotate
down and fold up into the fuselage. They fold up

(23:57):
out of the way. But the one I've got on
my blog page is a jet. It's a jet engine,
a single jet engine that then rotates back and tucks
into the fuselage, so you take off yourself and if
something went wrong, you pop that thing up and incredible.
I'm right now, I have I have up on my

(24:20):
desktop here a glider flight that's seven hours from the
north of France to the south of France in a
in a glider over the Alps. What crazy. Anyway, back
to evil people, Rand Paul dropped a bomb yesterday. He's

(24:45):
suggesting that they charge Anthony Fauci with lying to Congress.
He said, I believe Anthony Fauci committed felony by lying
to Congress, so you have to charge him with a felony,
take him to court, let the court decide whether the
part is upheld. He said, you can't just go after
the autopen. You got to go ahead and charge somebody

(25:08):
and then make them prove that the autopen and the
whole pardon process was a legitimate. And he said Fauci's
the most likely. I think Anthony Fauci is the most
likely to be chargeable. There are other people Hunter Biden
could be charged, but someone has to be charged. Fauci
testified before Congress in a very vigorous and heated and
animated way that the National Institutes of Health never funded

(25:30):
gain a function virus research in Wuhan. This is directly
contradicted by the actual people who are involved in the funding.
Absolutely charge him, charge him, make him have to testify,
and then, as opposed to just letting his statement stand,

(25:53):
let's bring everybody else out there in all the documents.
Anthony Fauci's responsible for the death people across the world.
He is forty six minutes past him. Very cool news.
Next moments away from the second hour of the Thursday

(26:39):
edition of The Morning Show with Preston's Goy Good Morning
Friends Show fifty four to sixteen, he's ose, I am Preston,
Here we go, Here we go. School year is right
around the corner. We are. We are literally just a
few weeks away from the start of the school year,
and iHeartRadio. He's going to tip a cap even before

(27:00):
the school year starts. We want you to thank a teacher.
I want you to just think about don't we all
have a teacher that made a difference in our life.
You know, for me, one of my teachers that made
the biggest difference, the one that made the biggest difference
was also a coach. You know, coaches oftentimes are in

(27:23):
classrooms and Jerry made a massive difference in my life.
But I remember a lot of my teachers. I had
wonderful teachers, I really did. I remember teachers going back
to grade school by name. But this is your chance

(27:44):
to thank a teacher who you know is a great teacher,
maybe they've helped your child, and nominate them because we're
going to award public school teachers grants of five thousand
dollars to buy supplies for their classroom. What you might

(28:09):
not know is, and I can say this because my teacher,
my wife used to be a teacher in the classroom,
is teachers frequently are pulling money out of their pocket
for supplies. You know, it just is what it is.
Teachers will sacrifice to make sure your kids have the

(28:32):
resources that they need. You know, there are different drives
and things that help make sure the kids have a
backpack and all that. Well, then there's the notebook paper
and you know, the glue sticks and whatever else is
needed in the classroom through the year. And so what
we want you to do is we want you to

(28:55):
think about right now nominating one teacher who's gone above
and beyond for their students. So all you do is
go to iHeartRadio Dot com slash teachers, iHeartRadio dot com
forward slash teachers and nominated teacher. You don't have to

(29:20):
do it right this second. If you know of one,
go for it. Absolutely get them out there. But you've
you've got time to think about this a little bit.
And we've got partners at Donors Choose that have kicked

(29:40):
in to provide those five thousand dollars grants that will
go to teachers across the country. So take a shot
and nominated teacher that you know in love that are
great at what they do and help them make a difference.
I mean, you're you think about it. That's a huge blessing,

(30:07):
a five thousand dollars grant. Think of what a teacher
could do with that to help their students. iHeartRadio dot
com slash teachers. You can go to our x page
at TMS Preston Scott. You'll see the link there as well.
Just posted that. I'll pin it to the to the
feed so nothing kicks it down and uh we thank you.

(30:29):
That a that a much. We got Steve Stewart coming
up next, doctor David Hart's Little Optimum Health. Naturally we
will Yeah, we're gonna, We're gonna We're gonna shatter a
myth or two that some of you are holding on
to in the second half hour, next hour, and then
in the third hour. It is hurricane season, and so

(30:51):
we will prepare you, especially you newbes new to the
Sunshine State. We'll get you ready all that more. Next
on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Swimming in deep

(31:11):
waters around here. Morning Show with Preston Scott. He's Jose,
I'm Preston. This is the executive editor of Tallahassee Reports,
Steve Stewart. Steve will not will not bring people into
the deep waters you and I were just swimming in. Instead,
we'll stay in the We'll stay in the shallow pool
known as Leon County Schools shallow pools.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
So a week ago we were talking about the twelve
a half million dollar budget deficit the Superintendent Hannah publicly
is make everybody aware of and if you go through
and look at the numbers, I mean, there's there's a
lot of issues to deal with here.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
And one of the issues was a some.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
Federal grants that were frozen that that were being used
for after school programs. And you know, one of the
things that I've discovered over the last week. After school
programs serve there are a lot more than just babysitting
for parents.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
I had heard some officials talk.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
About how we use they used that time and some
Title I schools to actually teach, Yeah, and so they
viewed as a very important part.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
Of the It's almost a remedial time. Yes.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
And so the fact that these these funds were frozen
at the federal level put at risk some of the
after school programs at these schools where they were they
were needed not only for the well being of the
student where the schools were impacted, but also the academic progress.
And you could tell that Superintendent Hannah was very troubled
by that part of it. There's other there's other budget

(32:39):
gaps that he's going to have to deal with, but
this was one that he he moved to try to
shore up right away. And so remember last Thursday we
talked about him going to the Children's Services Council and
asking for two point one million dollars to bridge this
gap this year because he didn't want to go into
the year without the after school program. So I sat

(32:59):
that Thursday evening they had the meeting. This the CSC
had a meeting that was basically for CSC Children's Services Council,
on which Leon County taxpayer's fund to the tune of
about nine million dollars a year. And we'll talk more
about that in next segment. But this meeting was supposed
to be about the middlit rate and adopting the budget.
But Superintendent Hannah and another school will remember Daryl Jones
was actually the chairman. They're on the CSC Council, and

(33:22):
so they made a presentation about this program and what
they needed the money for the treasurer of that group.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
They'd have to recuse themselves from any vote, right. Actually,
I think maybe Darryl Jones did.

Speaker 2 (33:36):
I can't remember now, but there was I think there
was some discussion of that, but since that was not
going the money is not going to the school is
going to a provider. But we could we could look
into that. But the the issue. The treasurer of the
group was also a member, Paul Mitchell, who is a
lobbyist here in town.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
You know.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
He let them know first of all that look, we've
got the money with without increase in the militar rate
to fund this if we need, if we need to,
But he also was very tied into what was going
on at the federal level, and he said, look, I'm
confident that within the next week, these these dollars, these
moneys are going to be released from the federal government.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
Well they went on and move and they moved forward.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
With the meeting, and Superintendent Handa made a very i
think persuasive, persuasive presentation about the need for this money.
And after some assurances were made to look, if the
money comes down the pike, then you know the CSC
is not on the hook, they went ahead and voted
to fund the after school programs to the tune of
two point one million.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
Dollars, which raises a lot of questions.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
So the cs just has two point one million laid
around without increasing you know the military, someone might ask.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
And so they voted to do that.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
However, within forty eight hours, you know, a story comes
out from ap that the Feds have released this money
for the after school.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
Program So Paul Mitchell was right. Paul Mitchell was right.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
But the thing that it did for me is if
you through this, the Republican senators had sent a letter
to Trump and the Department of Education. These after school
programs are very important and as we just talked at
the beginning here, and so I think that is something
that you start seeing, this convergence of data. The Trump
administration held up six billion dollars in grants to schools

(35:20):
because they wanted to make sure that they weren't being
spent their being spent properly, right, And so what happened
is this was part of that about one point three billion.
And sure enough, you know the convergence of data, the
bipartisan messaging that look, we need these programs.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
It moved the.

Speaker 2 (35:37):
Federal government, which I thought in itself was pretty impressive.
It's significant, but it puts again a focus on the
importance of after school programs and I want to talk
about that more next segment with the implications with the
Children's Services Council.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
There he is Steve Stewart taking us to break here
in the Morning Show with President Scott. This is the
Morning Show with Preston Scott. It's still Steve. I'm growing older,

(36:12):
but I never grow tired of doing this show. Love it.
Steve Stewart with us from Tellasson Reports. Let's keep talking
about because you and I both look back up years
before the CSC became a reality, when it was pitched.
We had questions on accountability, the amount of money being
taken out of the local economy, what actually you're going

(36:34):
to do that's going to move a needle, and all
of those programs and all of those questions sort of
kind of remained. But this after school would move a needle. No, definitely.
And that's sort of that sort of thing I got
by watching this meeting.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
I mean, it was very informative, but you know, if
you go back to the CSC and one of our
concerns was that this money was going to you know,
a large amount of money nine million a year you
could have some impact, was going to just create this
bureaucracy and it wasn't going to move the needle.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
And I think, really it's sort of where we are now.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
It largely has unlike Blueprint that took your tax money
and actually identified projects that were going to spend the
money on.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
Tangible this is the result. This is the reverse.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
They bring the money in and now they've created this bureaucracy.
And that meeting, as I said, was about basically approving
a budget and a milite rate, all right, And so
there was Daryl Jones, who is who is not shy
about his desire to you know, serve his constituents. He's
he's a school board member from the South Side and
a lot of his schools are Title I. He's on

(37:36):
the school board and also it's now the chairman of
the CC. After they went ahead and funded the after
school program, superintendent hadn't made the motion to hold the
milage rate. Uh, even not roll back the rate. I
think they you know, even they're going to get a
little bit more money and actually increased.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
You could see that.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
The chairman, Darryl Jones, was visibly frustrated that they didn't
get to discuss the idea of increasing the milage rate
because that's what he wanted to do. And I think, again,
he wants more money and he wants to give in
to these nonprofits. And we're going to get a story
up on this. But I started looking over the budget
that is required to be sort of put out and

(38:15):
how and the different bucks buckets where the money goes.
We're getting they're taking in about nine million dollars a
year and they're spending I would say anywhere from fifteen
to twenty percent okay, one point two to one point
five million dollars on administrative cost, which is if you
think about this, so yeah, nine million coming in, they
have created offices, they've rented vans, they've got you know,

(38:39):
salaries and benefits contracted staff.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
Think about this. Every dollar that comes.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
Through the CSC has got to go through this bureaucracy,
and then it's being given to a nonprofit which has
its own administrative costs. And so it's almost like you're
getting the dollar is getting hit, you know, twice beyond.

Speaker 1 (38:56):
That's better than fifteen percent. And you know, we're going
to doc at this, but it is. It's alarming to me.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
The the that seemed to be the most the biggest
priority with their creatives procracy, now it's sort of self
sulfilium because if you look at the programs that they're funding,
you know, look, this community supported this nine million dollars.
All right, we were past that, you know, we were
against it. The nine millions come in, all right, now
let's move let's spend it to move a needle. My
theory has always been you find two or three programs

(39:24):
that after school, and you write a three or four
million dollars check.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
To somebody that is actually doing that.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
Okay, what you don't do is divide the money up
across thirty nonprofits and the range of money that they're
giving out ten thousand, thirty thousand, eighty thousand, you know,
two hundred and fifty thousand. So they're saying, well, we've
got to have staff them to make sure all this
money is being spent you know appropriately. We got to
we you know, we got to put out bits, and

(39:50):
that I think was the wrong approach. You've got ten
people aroun on this governing council, pointed by the Governor
of other officials here locally, they should sit a once,
you know, once every you know, two months, identify what
areas they want to spend the money, and write big
checks instead of these small things that just.

Speaker 1 (40:10):
Keep these nonprofits coming back. And what happens.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
Word gets out that you can get as little as
fifteen thousand dollars from a CSC and everybody it's like
an infomercial. Everybody is showing up and asking for money.
And this goes back to the reason why mister Jones
is wanting to increase the military rate.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
There is never going to be a shortage of people
that will come and ask for money, and he'll have
a pocket of constituents, right, and so I think that
what we've got to start looking at now and this
after school program, So this is focused on Title I
schools and parents don't have to pay. I mean a
lot of this is basically covered by these grants.

Speaker 3 (40:49):
You know.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
One of my ideas would be, look, let's write a
check big enough to people even in all parts of
Leon County can use after school program.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
We're not having to.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
Pay for it because there are people that you know,
there are parents to uh two, you know, families that
are working to make ends meet. They followed the rules
and they can't afford it, you know, compared to someone
who maybe has you know, got some other challenges and
haven't followed the rules and they're getting it for free. Yeah,
And it's another way to divide the community. And that's
what I think is happening with the c C. This

(41:20):
money is starting to go to one area and I
don't think it's a good thing.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
More to come with Steve Stewart again. Tallahassee Reports dot
com is the website where you can go, you can
support the paper, you can subscribe, do all of the above.
And we've got more to come with Steve next all right,

(41:51):
we've got two more topics to get to. We've we've
covered what's going on with the c SC Leon County schools,
but uh, let's go to the city slash county and
a little bit of a back and forth between Jeremy
Mattlow and Christian commands. So we get a little bit
of everything here.

Speaker 2 (42:05):
We get uh, we get increase in taxes, we get politics,
fire service fee. I think everybody's known if they've listened
to the show, twenty two percent increase ahead of schedule
because of inflation and uh, construction costs, right, and and
so there's this and so there's a lot of focus
on the fire service fee. And the fire service fee
was created a number of years ago, and there's some

(42:26):
inconsistencies on who pays the fee.

Speaker 4 (42:29):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
Some churches, some smaller churches don't pay the fee. Uh,
some larger churches do.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
Leon County school Board quit painted a few years ago
because they're considered.

Speaker 1 (42:38):
Their a nonprofit and they, you know, they're looking for money.
Why would some churches pay it? Well, some churches, you know,
are not just churches.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
They have you know, they have gyms, they have after
school programs. So some of that stuff would not be
exempt in a nonprofit environment. But anyway, as you as
you as you look like you're sure about that, exactly.

Speaker 1 (42:59):
That's the point, right, it's it's it's not clear.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
And so anyway, uh, the city is responsible for you know,
administrating this, and they've sent the bill of the county
and the county is frustrated. We knew about that, but
the city has been pretty has been unanimous to five
members in voting for this increase and and all this
until last week when Commission Mattlowe, who is made it

(43:22):
known that he's going to run for mayor. And now
we you know, we have broke the story that commit
that Mayor Daily is going to seek reelection.

Speaker 1 (43:27):
So this is going to pit these two together.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
Well, Commission Mattlowe has sort of made this this a
new pack that he's going to be, you know, friendlier
and more uh you know.

Speaker 1 (43:36):
Uh, collegial. Collegial is a great word, and so he
you know, he can't start yelling things at people.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
And so now he came out, into my view criticizing
the fire service fee, and it looks a little political
because we haven't heard anything from this when they were
actually voting on the increases.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
We didn't hear that, and.

Speaker 2 (43:56):
So so he penned this my view saying that they
should basically put a moratorium on charging churches the the
fire service CEE, which I don't think is really a
lot of money, you know, in the in the big
scheme of things, it isn't. And he also is, you know,
concerned about this lawsuit that's being filed by a group
in terms of the how the fire service fee is

(44:18):
being collected, and if you around the state, there's a
lot of controversy or fire service fee. But what he
didn't point out was the group that is filing a
lawsuit is you know, one of the spokespersons is someone
he's supported to run for office and try to get
a majority.

Speaker 1 (44:34):
On the City Commission.

Speaker 2 (44:35):
So you can see the politics sort of you know,
intertwining in this debate of the fire service fee. Christian Command,
who has been on the leading edge of this in
terms of arguing about expenses. Why is a fire a
station costing thirty four million dollars?

Speaker 1 (44:51):
Good question?

Speaker 2 (44:51):
And why the count Yeah, And those are good solid
questions to talk about and try to get some answers
to because the county, it's a past through for the
county in terms of they just had to build the
unincorporated area.

Speaker 1 (45:03):
However, as you know, voters don't always.

Speaker 2 (45:06):
Pay attention to the details, and a lot of elected
officials sitting on the County Commission are going to get
blamed for this increase, even though the city is administrating
the program. So that's why Commissioner Command is very interested
in this. So he followed up Matlow's my view with
a my view of his own, asking, wait a minute,
this looks a little political here. Why didn't you voice
your concerns when you were voting to increase the.

Speaker 1 (45:29):
Fire service fee?

Speaker 2 (45:30):
And so you know, if this is going to be
I think again, it's a debate on a real topic.

Speaker 1 (45:36):
Twenty two percent increased in the fire service fee.

Speaker 2 (45:38):
It's a lot of money, and it's some real questions
that need to be answered, and it also has a
little bit of a political angle to it, which I
think makes it very good topic. We'll see where this goes.
This is going to be they are going to mediation
because the county is challenging this, and there's a process
for doing this, which means they're going to bring in
a third party and mediate it and that was in

(46:00):
the other point is Commission Commission Matlow's asking for an
independent review. Well, they're already going to get one, and
so again it's a it's an issue to keep an
eye on. The second thing I wanted to bring up
is obbas listen a minute left, Yeah, perfect jobs. You
know we cover this every month. You know, one month
doesn't make a trend. Two months starts to get concerning

(46:22):
for the first time. First of all, unemployment rate is
at a thirty four month high. In other words, it
hasn't been this high, and thirty four months concerning another
thing that I look at as a number of people
that are employed, because the unemployment rate can be misleading.
We had fewer people working in June than this year
than we did a year ago, which has not been
the case for a lot of months, and so we

(46:44):
got to keep an eye on this. The summer is
slow anyway, but this is really slow, and so we'll
keep an eye on a job's unemployment rates four point
three percent states about four point one. We're usually lower
because of our state employment, but something we need to
keep an eye on.

Speaker 1 (46:57):
Thank you, Thank you, Preston Steve Stewart with me for
Tellahassee Reports. We do this Thursdays because that's after all
the meetings have happened between the city, the county and
the school board. We then gather together, are sequestered in
this very studio to talk about it all. And you
can support the work at Telehassie Reports by going to
Tallahassee Reports dot com.

Speaker 5 (47:27):
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
Moments away, doctor David Harts will join us. Kevin wrote me,
I hope your day has started great. Yes, sir, it has,
Thank you very much, he said. All of the obscure
charges discussed by Greg Jarrett, Sewn, Hannity Clay, and Buck
Glenn Beckett, Ceter Love those guys in their perspective are nice,

(48:02):
but treason is the most appropriate. It would make my day, week, month, year, decade,
and century for Obama, Brennan, Clapper, Comy, Rice Strock, Paige, Shift,
Pelosi and Shumer to all be indicted for treason. Those
people are pure evil and corrupt. Treason is likely a

(48:24):
no bond charge, and I'm pretty sure it's a capital
offense punishable by the death penalty. Unfortunately, the Left will
never accept it and there will be likely significant civil
unrest if they were indicted for treason. But we survived
the twenty twenty nonsense, and I'm sure we would survive
this and come out stronger in the long run. Have
a great day, Kevin. I could not agree with you more.

(48:46):
You might be saying, what do you what? What Obama treason? Yes? Yes,
last hour we went through just some of these statements
by the Rector of National Intelligence TULSEI Gabbard, who called
Obama's bluff. Obama released his statement after the first hundred pages.

(49:10):
These bizarre allegations are ridiculous. In a week attempt to
distract or a week attempt at distraction was the actual
quote Gabbard said, Oh really, here's another one hundred some
odd pages. Obama ordered this to happen. What's this? The

(49:30):
whole Russian collusion narrative? None of the evidence lived up
to what he wanted. It didn't matter. He did new assessments,
he changed the people reporting, he ignored the evidence. He
found enough people willing to go along in the higher
in the highest positions, and he fabricated it. The idea

(49:54):
was to do exactly what happened, to muddy up Trump's
first term. They couldn't stop the election. They tried, They tried.
They buried Hillary's laptop problems, just like they buried Joe
Biden's laptop. The media was playing out of the same
playbook they always do, but it didn't work. Trump got elected,

(50:18):
so they they played their cards. Let's make it impossible
for him to get much done. Fifty to fifty they got.
They got some of that accomplished, endless hearings, smoking guns
that Adam Schiff has never accounted for. They're all liars

(50:38):
to the bone, liars. As a result, it is my opinion,
for a lot of reasons, that when Trump ran for reelection,
they knew he was going to win, and they knew

(50:59):
he was gonna win big. So what did they do?
I think they tried to kill him. I think Barack
Obama will have plausible deniability of any sense of a
whiff of that. But there is no doubt in my

(51:23):
mind that the shooter in Butler was a pawn, manipulated
mind controlled to a large extent. Haven't you found it
interesting how we have learned nothing about him and those
offshore accounts. Nothing, It's gone. I think we'll get to

(51:45):
some I think we might get somewhere on that soon,
I don't know. Forty minutes past the hour, come back,
let's talk about something better like your health. Forty one
minutes past the hours Morning Show with Preston Scott. Great
to be with you this morning. Time to talk about

(52:09):
your health. In fact, what we want is we want
optimum health for you, and we want you to do
it obtain it naturally. Enjoining me doctor David Hart's coome
morning friend.

Speaker 3 (52:19):
Good morning in Preston.

Speaker 1 (52:21):
I I emphasize the word naturally, right, Yeah, that's right,
because everything grown in nature is good, is it?

Speaker 3 (52:34):
That's kind of what we want to talk about this morning,
because you know, I'm we're definitely for natural as much
as possible because usually natural is better, and most of
the time it is. But there is something right now,
back and growing naturally that it's not. It's not quite
as good as we'd hope it would be. And I
think the perception in the in the public is that

(52:56):
if it's natural, it's got to be better, you know,
and it's less harmful or has less you know, problems
we need to worry about. But when it comes to cannabis,
unfortunately it's not quite true. And one of the reasons
I'm bringing this up this sport is I'm running into
a lot more research about that's been done on cannabis since,
you know, since June twenty two, we've got bunches of

(53:17):
US thirty seven US states that passed medical canis laws,
in nineteen states that have legalized recreational canvas and it's
growing like crazy. And also what's really kind of scary
about this is back in the seventies where I was
raised in, you know, cannabis was like one to four
percent in THC, which is the psychoactive part of an

(53:40):
addictive part of the cannabis. It was only one to
four percent. And now even in dispensaries it's up to
fifteen percent to thirty percent. They've engineered and bioengineered, so
they're increasing it like crazy. So it's much much stronger
than it used to be. And even back then, you know,
we all had you know, experience with people that we

(54:01):
knew or experimented ourselves on this stuff, and it was David,
we've lost you, so okay, can you hear me now?

Speaker 1 (54:12):
Yep? I can hear you now? You you the last
thing we heard was we knew people or perhaps experimented
with it ourselves.

Speaker 3 (54:20):
And found that we solve problems and people and I
did people that were un motivated, they had compairment with
their cognition. And that's what's happening right now is the
recent research even that's come out in the American journalist
Psychiatry and saying that there is cognitive problems with prolonged
use of cannabis and it can contribute to problems later

(54:44):
on in life and then even in increasing dementia and
other problems too. So this this is not an innocuous problem.
This is not something that is just good for you.
And it's also there comparing it with alcohol, and they're
finding that's actually more harmful to the body in general,
even the lungs and so forth of it's inhaled then

(55:07):
effects of alcohol on this. So it's something to realize
that as we look for things and people with experiment
with these sort of things, just because it's natural, it's
not always less harmful. I mean, listen, poppies grow naturally
and we go to them from that.

Speaker 1 (55:25):
Yeah, we'll leave it right there, Doctor Hart's the cell
phone sounds like it's on some weed right now. It's
struggling this morning. We're getting a choppy signal, so we'll
try again in a couple of weeks. Thank you, my friend.
Have a blessed day. Forty almost forty six minutes past
the hour we come back. We've got a lot to
talk about that of course, optimum health naturally here on

(55:48):
the Morning Show with Preston.

Speaker 5 (55:49):
Scott, Thing Joe with Preston Scott, Go ahead on News
Radio one hundred point seven d wn UFLA.

Speaker 1 (56:16):
Pack up, hit the road, let's go. You don't have
much time left to make a little roadie before school starts.
So my suggestion comes from a hunch that after the summer.
It's sad that I'm saying after the summer, summer's going

(56:39):
on for quite a while longer. And in my mind
school ends on Memorial Day and begins on Labor Day.
That's that's how my brain works. I remember that's that
was the school year, Labor Day to Memorial Day. And
you had three months off June, July, and August. You
went back to school in September. I can't believe we're

(57:00):
starting so early. I get it, and I'm a fan
of year round school, but I digress. This is based
on you've spent money already, there's limits to the amount
of cash you've got available. Have you thought about making
a trip down to Disney without going into the theme parks.

(57:25):
There there's a ton that you can do and enjoy
without spending money to go inside the theme parks or
stay at a Disney resort. There's Disney Springs, which is
a blast. Yeah, the food there is a little pricey,
but it's still fun to go to. There's the air

(57:48):
the cable cars over the air. I don't know what
they call those things. But the Disney Lyft system that's
now integrated. You can go and jump on one of
those at no charge and go to different points. You
can go to the you can get on the monorails.
You can ride the monorails for free. Just cruise around
and see all the parks. You can get on the transports,

(58:11):
and you can get to, for example, the hotels at
the Disney Animal Kingdom, and there are spots there where
you can see some of the animals have a meal.
I mean, there are things to do that won't set
you back a bunch of money, and you'll have a
great time and you'll kill an entire day just for free.

(58:35):
Other than your food. I just my wife and I
did this little adventure a few years ago. We just said,
let's go down there and nuts, you know, just goof around,
and we did. We had a great time. It was fun.
You probably would want the Disney app It would help

(58:58):
you out a little bit, know in transportation, timing and
all that. But yeah, and then you can you can
get to a spot to enjoy the fireworks. We saw
some of the fireworks from a monorail right going around
the parks. It's great. There are places where you can

(59:19):
see the fireworks each night at Disney Parks for nothing.
So there you go. There's your suggestion. There's your road
trip idea for the day. Got a note here from Jeff.
I'm not sure treason would stick, but seditious conspiracy definitely.
See how it pans out, Lisa. Looks like it's getting
some traction at Department of Justice. Agreed. Got another note

(59:42):
from a buddy of mine who's attorney. An attorney, I
can say that, why hasn't Fauci been charged in Florida
and Texas state court? Federal party not applicable. Yeah, James
uth Meyer, I'm calling you out. No, that's a very
good point and a wonderful question. You know, Governor Ron

(01:00:06):
Desan has made a point of talking about Anthony Fauci
and federal pardons do not shield from state prosecution. Think
of the people that died where you live, that likely

(01:00:26):
died because of the vaccine, not COVID, likely died because
treatments that might have worked were for a button couldn't
use them. They made a mockery of any doctor that

(01:00:49):
would dare prescribe hydroxychloroquin or ever ivermectin. You realize ivermectin
now is being considered as a possible treatment against cancer.
Ivermectin is available for dirt cheap all over the world,
easily accessible. And they, the FDA, CDC, the big pharmaceutical

(01:01:20):
companies that wanted those shots rolled out so they could
bankroll it, or rather they they could make money and
go to the bank with it. That that was such
a scam and it killed people, absolutely killed people. I'll
be honest with you, I took a whole lot of

(01:01:42):
abuse that a lot of you will never know for
talking about that stuff the way that I did. I
am of the opinion that the advice that we offered
on during COVID saved lives. I'm pretty dog. I'm proud
of it because we've been proven right and a lot
of you were with me on that, and you're better

(01:02:02):
and you're healthier because of it. Come back, it's hurricane season.
Are you ready? Are you new to the state of Florida?
You might want to stay with us all right here

(01:02:33):
we are, Yeah, third hour Thursday. Always busy on Thursdays
here on the Morning Show. But then again, we're busy
every day here on the Morning Show. I describe to
people that one of the reasons why I love doing
what I do is I am a frustrated athlete. When

(01:02:54):
I was a kid, I played I played everything. I
didn't play organized football, but I played football because we
played football in the school yard. No pads, no helmets.
That's what she did. When I was a little kid,
we played tackle in the asphalt when there was snow.
You played on the asphalt playground, but you had snow

(01:03:17):
on it. It was awesome. No one ever got hurt.
You didn't skin a knee or anything like that because
it was covered in snow. It was great. I played everything.
Love sports. And the thing about this show that is
so remarkably similar to sports is I have a time frame.
I have three periods, sort of like hockey, but I

(01:03:38):
have a time frame that's the same every single day.
The guidelines of the boundaries of this program are the
same every day, but what happens inside those boundaries are different.
Every day is different every day, and I love it.
I love what we do, and I'm thrilled that you
are choosing to share time with us this morning here
on the Morning show. We got a lot to do

(01:03:59):
this hour, but I wanted to make sure because we're
about to move into August. And while we yeah, there
might be a little storm out there, we're going to
keep an eye on the fact of the matter is,
by and large August forward is where you really start
to pay attention to what's going on in the Gulf.

(01:04:21):
We're going to likely get more storms developing. I hope
it's a very benign season, but it might not be.
I remember still though, after the rash of hurricanes in
the mid two thousands, we went over a decade without

(01:04:43):
one touching the state. They were out there, they just
never came here. You just don't know. And that was oh,
by the way, when Al Gore said we would have
more than ever, and they would be disastrous, But that's
a topic for another day. They are a fact. They
are a thing. It isn't brought to you by Loew's

(01:05:03):
and Home Depot, though they benefit hurricane season, brought to
you by big box stores. No, they benefit as all
stores do during hurricane season, because they're selling water, and
they're selling batteries, and they're selling all kinds of other things.
But you might be new to Florida and you're sitting
here going at what is what are we talking about here, Preston, Well,

(01:05:31):
there are some things that you really ought to know
about hurricanes. There are things that you need to know
about preparing. One of the first things I want to
play it in your mind, is this the iheartstation you

(01:05:54):
are listening to to now radio. We're talking radio broadcast,
whether it's in the Tallahassee region or the Panama City region.
These family of stations, not just our station, but all
of our sister stations. They are the go to when

(01:06:15):
storms come. The multiplication of signals that we have affords
us the opportunity to continually broadcast the worst storms that
have come through our region. We have not been knocked
off the air because We've always had another signal to
go to because we're on all of them. So you

(01:06:38):
need to remember that iHeart is your go to. We
are here in the Tallahassee region. We are the designated
FCC emergency outlet. Why because we are reliable. Our engineering

(01:07:00):
staff keeps us ready to rock. We have emergency generators
that are fueled and always ready, and we stay on
the air. So that leads to one of the singular
most important things we'll go to break with this. Make

(01:07:20):
sure you have an old fashion battery powered, not rechargeable,
battery powered transistor radio. Maybe it's one that has an
emergency weather button that you push and you get the
weather ban the National Weather Service automatically, but one that

(01:07:40):
you can dial to our station, leave it there, turn
it off, and have it ready. Now you can just
leave the batteries out of it, pop the batteries in it,
and you're ready to go. That way, you don't run
the batteries out inadvertently or they don't corrode a little
bits that happens in some situations. But have a radio

(01:08:02):
ready that is tops on the list because that communication
will be crucial for you to have the information that
is provided by US and by our emergency broadcast partners,
the federal government, the state government, the National Weather Service.
All right, ten minutes past the hour. We're going to

(01:08:23):
pick up right there with some to do lists. Next
on the morning chair with President Scott. All right, let

(01:08:46):
me get something said here about sandbags. You can get
some in advance, just to have them ready. There are
and again every property is different. You own a property
that is flood prone, it would be really smart right
now to look at options to change the grating to

(01:09:08):
get water away from your property. French drains, dry creek beds,
different ways to move water away. If you want to
protect a specific area that's vulnerable, you need to understand
a little math here. Number one, you don't fill a

(01:09:29):
sandbag full. If you fill a sandbag full, they can't
stack properly in seal gaps. You fill them halfway to
two thirds full. You have plenty of room to grab, twist,
put a tie on it so that when you put

(01:09:50):
it down it has room to move a little bit,
because that's what enables a sandbag to work. But the
math codes like this. If you want a wall of
sand bags five feet long by one foot high, you
need thirty bags. Every five feet by one foot, you

(01:10:14):
need thirty bags. Do your calculations for every one foot
of height one foot by one foot is five bags,
six bags, really, so your multiplication works off that five

(01:10:39):
feet long, one feet high, thirty bags. That's kind of
what you're looking at all, right, So you do your
math based on that. Take a look at your area.
If you have a front door, if you have a garage,
if you have an area that's flood prone, like, for example,
a garage. Don't think you're going to span that with
just what you get from the I don't care what

(01:11:01):
county you live in. They limit the amount to usually
twenty five. Well, I just told you it takes thirty
bags to go five feet The average garage is what
twenty twenty five feet? You had an idea of how
many bags you would need. If you're going twenty five feet,

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you need one hundred and fifty bags to go one
foot high. So I'm sharing this so that you can
be thinking ahead of Okay, maybe it would be smart
for me to It's not the dumbest thing in the
world to fill up a bunch of sand bags now
and just set them in a corner of your lot

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or corner of your property, or buy your shed, stack
them on the back side of your shed or something.
Do as much preparation as you can do. Now, if
you feel like you need to cover windows, I'm telling
you now, get your plywood or whatever you're going to use.

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You know there there are products out there that literally
attach and detach just like that. And it's not plywood.
They just and they're very they're very strong against flying debris.
Look into it. If you're going to use plywood, get
your plywood, cut it the size, have it ready, stack it,

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sit it somewhere dry. Do as much prepping as you can.
Get batteries, get water, get non perishable food items. On
the subject of water, your pool might be a great
source of water. If you have a salt pool. Do
you know that there is a little pump acted active

(01:12:51):
desalinator that you can get water out of your pool
if you add an emergency and your water supply was
shut down, it'll purify these alienate your pool water. Just
saying there are different ways to go about it. Prepare.
We got more on the list next sixteen past the hour,

(01:13:12):
and I'm just scratching the surface here. Morning Show with Preston.

Speaker 5 (01:13:15):
Scott UFLA on your phone with the iHeartRadio app and
on hundreds of devices like Alexa, Google Home, Xbox and Sonos.

Speaker 1 (01:13:25):
Yes, and Ihearts Radio station. Boy, do I have lists?
Keep in mind I've been doing hurricane coverage for twenty
three years. You acquire lists, you learn things. I'm grateful

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that we've been fortunate in our immediate area in Tallahassee.
Though of you in Panama City no different. You know
what it's like, especially just to the east. It was
just like bomb went off. Take video with your cell phone.

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Take pictures of the outside of your home. Once you
hear a storm is approaching, take pictures, Take video of
everything outside and inside. Closets your electronics. You're safe, although

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if you don't have one. You know the best place
to put your documents to keep them waterproof your dishwasher,
Just remember they're in there. Don't wash a load of
dishes before the storm comes. Your dishwashers a waterproof place.
Keep your documents dry. You need the videos and the

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pictures for insurance purposes, just in case it's current and
it shows the condition of your property and your belongings.
Make sure you know we're not going to get into
the operational stuff. You might think about getting some sterno

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so you can do a little cooking. If you lose power,
you might think about food stuffs that you can keep
cool that doesn't have to be frozen. Do you have
the ability to keep your frozen foods frozen without power?

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First aid kit, medicines? Do you have prescriptions filled for
a period of time because these storms create disruption for weeks,
if not longer. Flashlights, We talked about batteries. As you

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get into storm season, I strongly recommend you never let
your car get blow half a tank because the lines
of gas stations will be out of out of sight.
They will be crazy, and it would be wonderful for
you to just need a half a tank of gas

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or a quarter tank not to have to fill up.
Remember your pets, mosquito repellent. Cash. If you lose power
in a region, do you have cash because that might
be the only way you can buy and sell anything,

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or do you really strictly on plastic so hit the
ATM you get to the store, get a little cash back.
One of the things that is I think smart people
do is starting in June, at the beginning of hurricane season.
When they buy stuff, they get a little cash back
twenty bucks here, forty bucks there, and by the end
of as they get closer to a storm, they've got

(01:17:21):
a little bit of cash built up without it being
a real painful thing to your bank account. Have a
manual can opener. Ooh, we didn't think about that. Have
a way to access your food and cook it. Fill
up your bathtub, fill up your washer, and then just

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let it sit. You need sources of water. Consider the
number of people in your family. Anything possible for bulk
store ridge of water, disposably eating utensils, plates, et cetera.
You're not gonna want to use precious water to wash

(01:18:10):
dishes by hand. It's it doesn't make sense. You're gonna
be You're gonna be doing you know, the old school
sponge bath. Keep yourself clean. Make sure you get photo
copies of your prescriptions. If you got kids, entertainment, some books,

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some magazines, some board games, drawing stuff, crayons, things to do.
And again, we are we are just you know, we
are scratching the surface. There's there's all kinds of things.
But hopefully this gets you at least thinking about it.
Looking up some resources, and just know that we will

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be here for you if a storm comes. It's past
the hour. We'll get to the big stories in the
press box next year. In the Morning show, Preston Show
with Morning Scott.

Speaker 2 (01:19:10):
What.

Speaker 1 (01:19:21):
Our bosh has walked in? It's like theme music, put
his hands out, just saying good morning, just saying good morning. Okay,
might not might not have done that. Well, I'll tell

(01:19:41):
you the sharks are starting a circle. What do you
think is gonna happen? I mean, in just a few minutes,
we're gonna I'm gonna go ahead and talk about Stephen Colbert.
Look at how upset ye and all the hand ringing

(01:20:01):
over a guy who never needs to work another day
of his life versus say, oh, I don't know the criminals.
No handwringing over the criminals that we're dealing with with
the Department of Justice, with illegal immigration, murderers, rapists. But

(01:20:25):
by god, Stephen Colbert and the people complained he'd probably
never watched the show, but he's number one in his
time slot. Preston, So what he's losing forty to fifty
million dollars a year? I got a hold. What's going

(01:20:50):
to happen in the media as more and more evidence
comes out. At some point the editorial meetings at the
Wall Street Journal, New York Times, WAPPO, even CNN, they're
gonna sit around the table. They're gonna be staring at

(01:21:11):
all of these documents that they wrote that Obama approved,
that Obama said yes, and they're gonna have to say, well,
bleep it, we have to report this. We got him.

(01:21:34):
Understand this. In some circles on the left, Barack Obama's
already out. They don't want him, they don't need him,
they don't care. Don't underestimate as the evidence builds up,

(01:22:00):
how quickly they will jettison these guys. I'm not saying
it will happen. There is an absolute case. One of
our listeners said treason, absolutely, Another said, maybe not treason,
that might be tough, but seditious. Conspiracy, Yeah, sedition. I

(01:22:24):
don't know. I don't know what they did was wrong.
That's what I know. I know that what they did
broke laws. You don't need to be Perry Mason to
figure this one out. The headline from town Hall, which

(01:22:49):
I read in the first hour, is just brilliant. Tulsa
Gabbert just made Obama eat it on the Russian collusion hoax.
Obama was saying, these bizarre allegations are dickless in a
weak attempt at distraction, distraction from what. In case you
haven't heard, we're winning. Tariffs are working, the whole tariff

(01:23:14):
thing working. We're deregulating. Money's coming back into this country,
Investment is being made, Jobs are going to be born.
We're six months in. He took office six months ago
to the day, four days ago, six months and four

(01:23:35):
days in. This is what will they do? Are they
gonna round the wagons up? Or are they gonna jettison him?
I don't think they like Hillary at all. Barack, Eh,

(01:23:56):
he's a little smoother. We'll see, we will see. Forty
minutes past the album, some great sound on. Stephen Colbert,

(01:24:17):
All right, let's put some context to this. Donald Trump
sued CBS over the sixty minutes Kamala Harris interview. He won.
He got a thirty six million dollar settlement from the network.

(01:24:39):
They lied, they edited the interview, they falsified the interview
to try to make Kamala Harris look like something other
than the flaming idiot that she is. And I'm sorry
if that comes off harsh. I get it, but she is.

(01:25:03):
And so the idea here is that CBS is trying
to curry favor by canceling one of the chief critics,
Stephen Colbert. Now let me stop you right now. I
know they pronounce it Colbert. Did you know that Tony

(01:25:27):
Dorset was really Tony Dorset. Don't believe me. Ask his dad.
His dad was once interviewed and said, Tony Dorset, I
don't know who he is. All I know is my
name's Dorset. When Tony Dorset left college and went to

(01:25:49):
the pros, he suddenly became Tony Dorset. I'm telling you
it's Colbert. It ain't Colbert. That's a type of cheese.
I'm just kidding. I know it is. I'm just being annoying.
I know it's Stephen Colbert. I'm just being annoying. Scott
Jennings on CNN is asked the question, do.

Speaker 6 (01:26:11):
You think that they're canceling the show because this is
what President Trump wanted to let this merger go through. No,
I mean it's pretty look at the reporting on this
on and off the record. Executives all over are saying
we had to do it for financial reasons. This is
a massive show with a massive staff. It's losing a
massive amount of money. This is the nature of the
TV business right now. You just are not economically viable

(01:26:33):
if you're supposed to be doing a comedy show that's
not funny, that's losing fifty.

Speaker 1 (01:26:37):
Million dollars a year.

Speaker 6 (01:26:38):
I mean, only liberals, extreme liberals, would think that we
have to keep subsidizing partisan rants every night that are
economically not viable just because why, it makes absolutely no
financial sense. He works for a for profit company. Don't
you have to turn a profit at some juncture and
he's not doing it. And you know, there's a lot
of people in this general business right now who think

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that I exist to go after Donald Trump at all costs,
But no one stops to think do I exist to
make money or not? Maybe these things aren't compatible when
you cut out half the country from your possible audience.

Speaker 1 (01:27:13):
Brilliant. And here's the thing. That's the lesson to the left.
That's the lesson to Disney, that's the lesson to Target,
that's the lesson to all of these businesses, the Starbucks
of the world, who want to cater to the left

(01:27:34):
in the marginal groups. You don't have to hate on them.
Just whatever. If they catering to the fringe markets out there,
will never win them. May I hate you because you're corporate.

(01:27:55):
But when it's all said and done, CBS, Paramount, Viacom,
they're publicly traded companies. These outlets have to make a profit.
At some point the Disney shareholders will say enough, we're
not getting as much return as we should get. But

(01:28:21):
the idea that democracy is hanging by a thread because
Stephen Colbert got canceled because he's crappy. By the way,
he's a foul mouth. He should be signed for saying
f you on network television yesterday or the day before.

(01:28:47):
He's got the money to pay the fine, Make him
pay it. It's probably in his contract. He's got to
pay fines like that. I don't know. I don't know
for sure, But being number one, when you're losing fifty million,
what does that say to you? Don't blame Trump, blame
the aes at CBS. They can't sell your product. Why

(01:29:08):
can't they sell your product because you alienate the people
that matter. Now obviously I'm not I'm not in their market.
Why I go to bed at seven thirty every night,
maybe eight. I don't I don't even know what is it?
Jimmy Kimmel him, Jimmy Fallon? Is that it? Is that

(01:29:31):
what we're talking about here. Kimmel's okay, I or not
Kimmel Fallon, Fallon's okay. I don't have a problem with
Jimmy Fallon. He's not as as ridiculous as the other guys.
But the other guys. Scott Jennings is right, why you
just you do monologues that attack half of the country.

(01:29:54):
Why would we pay you to do that when you're
losing us money? Forty eight minutes after the hour, we're
gonna wrap up the show. Got something to say about
some pumpkin lattes. Next, we were just talking about woke companies,

(01:30:26):
and Starbucks straddles that line. Sometimes they're really woke, sometimes
not so much. I'm not a Starbucks guy, because I'm
not a coffee guy, I don't care. But I know
based on the lines, a lot of you are Starbucks people.
Jose would apparently be one of those that likes to

(01:30:46):
throw away eight bucks for a coffee. I don't know what,
only for the coffee you're about to talk about. There
is something intrinsically wrong. From a seasonal perspective of a
pumpkin latte rolling out on August twenty sixth, there is
no way that should be allowed until at the very

(01:31:10):
earliest September. I mean, does it even though the weather's
not going to say fall to us until November. Don't
you at least have to wait till September before you
do pumpkin anything. I don't think that'll make my worst

(01:31:30):
of the week and my best and worst. But it
was a candidate.

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Brought to you by Barno Heating and Air. It's the
Morning Show one on WFLA. What a show, huh. I
feel like I've been riding a big horse all day long.

Speaker 1 (01:31:53):
I'm tired. This show took an immense amount of energy,
and I love it. I love it. That's what I
live for. Started the program with first John two verses
three and four. Here's my suggestion. Read it while standing

(01:32:20):
in front of a mirror. Read it and then look
up at the mirror. Let me know how it tastes. Okay, hey,
tough one, tough one, but good good. It's kind of
like when you get that exercise that you've been wanting
to get and you're just exhausted, and it's like, who

(01:32:40):
I'm tired. But it's good. That's what that's like. Telsea
Gabbard trashing Barack Obama. She's got the documents to prove it.
This is gonna get ugly. Just going to be a
matter of who's going to try to help pretty it up. Anybody,
Anybody can come to Brocks Rescue. We'll see they're busy
trying to save Stephen. Colbert. Thought I'd do Colbart and

(01:33:05):
Colbert all in one. Colbert never mind Coastguard. Yeah, all
about it. Friends back tomorrow.