Ep. 5455: Jimmy out, common sense is in.

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Thursday, September 18th.

Our guests today include:
-Lt. Gov. Jay Collins
- Steve Stewart
- Dr. Steve Steverson



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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Wet, my shirt untucked, and the Good Book underneath my arm.
I'm here for you. Welcome everybody in the morning show,
President Scott, how are you friends, Good morning, Thursday, September
the eighteenth. He's Oseia, I'm Preston, and we begin show

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fifty four fifty five. Man, there have been so many
people that have had their eyes opened. The scales fall
off in one week. The mocking, the hate, the bitterness,

(01:07):
I know underscore no of young people who have said
I want a Bible, who have said I don't want

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to be part of that. It's Jesus or nothing. All
of the mocking and belittling and attacking. Listen to this
scripture Second Corinthians ten three through five. For though we

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live in the world, we do not wage war as
the world does. Let's pause for just a second. The
world chose to try to kill somebody with a message

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it didn't want to hear, and succeeded. But now that
message is spreading. We don't wage war as the world does,

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wrote Paul. The weapons we fight with are not the
weapons of the world. On the contrary, we have divine
power to demolish strongholds, We demolish arguments, and every pretension

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that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and
we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
There are your marching orders. I've had so many people
write me, what do we do? We're watching, literally the

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Holy Spirit just penetrate hearts and minds. Satan in scripture,
is described in the Old Testament in such a way

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that we will one day look at him and go,
you you're the guy. You're the big ass. Are you kidding me?
You're a whimp? No. Scripture says, he blows himself up

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and inflates himself to be bigger than he is, when
in reality he's nothing. Is he is he in fact
the ruler over this fallen earthy by default, sort of
kind of for now, but wherever he is. And Jesus

(04:36):
has proclaimed those two forces cannot exist in the same space.
Light defeats darkness, it's unbeaten. So I simply remind you

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we demolish arguments in every pretension that sets itself up
against the knowledge of God. We demolish those things, and
we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
So don't lose sight of your witness for Christ. Ten

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past the hours the Morning Show with Preston Scott on
news Radio one point seven Double USLA. Opening the pages
to the American Patriots Almanac, we find in seventeen ninety three,
George Washington laid the cornerstone of the US Capitol. Now,

(05:46):
I once was given a very behind the scenes tour,
as in like the area where they gave rides to
people under the Capitol to get congressmen and their guests
where they need to go. It's crazy. And I got
to see the lower level of the US Capitol where
the bullets still are lodged from the War of eighteen twelve.

(06:11):
The bullets are still in the pillars. Phenomenal. But I
would lull. I would pay money for someone to take
me to that corner stone and let me touch it.
I don't know if it's exposed now, I would. If

(06:36):
it's not exposed, I would excavate around it, build around it,
and create an area where people can touch it. That's
what I would do. Eighteen fifty Congress passes as passes
the Fugitive Slave Act, which mandates the return of slaves
who escaped into free states or free territories. Bad day

(06:57):
in American history, but came it. That's when America was great.
We solved problems, not then, not that that was like him,
that's embarrassing, but we overcame that. It was on this
date in nineteen forty seven the United States Air Force
is established. Nineteen eighty four. Interesting, it was on the

(07:21):
same date that a retired Air Force Colonel Joe Kittinger
becomes the first person to complete a solo balloon flight
across the Atlantic. Could you imagine just the currents of
the air blowing you wherever, and you're going over the

(07:41):
Atlantic in a balloon. It wasn't just any capsule he
was in. He was in a you know, I mean
it was it was a small place. It would make
a tiny home look very very large. Guiding Light in
two thousand and nine, television's longest running drama airing since
nineteen fifty two, broadcast its final episode. I was on

(08:02):
the air when Guiding Light went off the air. Today
is National Pawpaw Day. Do you know what a papa is? No,
not me, although that is who I am to my grandchildren.
On the third Thursday in September. It is a great

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but forgotten American fruit. It's a creamy mango. Banana flavored
fruit it's called a papaw. Grows natively in the United States.
Sixty varieties to choose from, banana, mango, sometimes pineapple. In

(08:44):
Kentucky it's the Kentucky banana. It's the Hillbilly mango. It
is the largest edible fruit native to the United States.
And I never heard of it. Today's National Cheeseburger Day. Well, now,

(09:08):
I've been eating spicy foods the last couple of days
for lunch. I've had lunch meetings this week, and yeah,
I went to one of those Japanese you know, ramen
bowl rice bowl places, had myself some spicy miso soup
with some chicken and shrimp and a little spinach thrown

(09:32):
in there, along with a little cream cheese. And I
was dabbing my forehead after I ate most of that thing.
My goodness, gracious, but it was good. Bouru bou never
heard of it. I had never heard of it. Buddy
of mine said, come on, let's go. I'm going you've
eaten there. Yeah, so I went, okay. I mean, once

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you get past the fact that the menu is intimidating
because you're looking at this the set of options that
you have is outrageous, it really is. And you can
take all of it and make it a burrito, a
Japanese burrito. Basically, you can take all this stuff and
mix it put it in a burrito. I might have

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to try that with some of that little spicy stuff.
Come on, anyway, we will talk more about food in
mere moments. Sixteen minutes past the hour, trust me it.
Did you know that could cause you to reconsider some things?

(10:43):
Twenty one twenty two minutes past the hour. It's the
Morning Show, the big stories in the press Box you
do not want to miss. And by the way, listener's
guide to the Morning Show with President Scott press By
is spelled with one s. It's short for my name,

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not the media, the press priess. It's short for press done,
press box. It's my box of stories. Did you know
that the time of day that you eat in later

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life could foreshadow in early death? Now listen to this.
This is fascinating And what really caught my eye is
this is a longitudinal study. You know what that means.
A longitudinal tudinal study is the study of the same
group of people over an extended period of time. Two thousand,

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nine hundred and forty five adults in the UK in
Newcastle and Manchester were studied listen to this between nineteen
eighty three and twenty seventeen. That is a long time

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international team of researchers found a link between eating breakfast
later in the day and a greater chance of an
early death among elderly people. See it's not just the
food we eat. According to this study, it is the
time we eat our meals that impacts how our body functions.

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So specifically, volunteers who tended to eat breakfast and dinner
later in the day as they aged were linked to
poorer physical and mental health. When it came to all

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cause mortality the likelihood of dying for any reason. The
researchers found a significant link between eating breakfast later and
a higher mortality risk. For each hour later that breakfast
was taken, the chance of dying during the study went
up eight to eleven percent, according to the nutrition scientists

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quoted in the study from Harvard. Our research suggests that
changes in when older adults eat, especially the timing of breakfast,
could serve as an easy to monitor marker of their
overall health status. Isn't that interesting? So, for example, for

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people that ate breakfast at let's say seven or eight am,
and as they age, maybe retire, whatever, they change their
lifestyle so dramatically that they might sleep till eight or
nine or ten and eat breakfast at nine or ten
or eleven or twelve. For each hour you departed from

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the norm, your chance of mortality early increased by roughly
ten percent. And that's a study of nearly three thousand
people over the course of over thirty years. That's amazing.

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So there you go. This is why we do what
we do. We uncover these little gems of knowledge and
you put what wait on it you want. It's up
to you to decide whether you think there's some merit
to that or not. But I think it's fascinating. I

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think that that part of the connection is that if
you're eating later and later and later, you're getting up
later and later, which suggests you're not as active. There
is a a natural biological rhythm and clock that we carry.

(15:37):
And I think that if you fall into a pattern
of if you're for example, I later in life became
an early riser. This show forced it upon me. I
wasn't always a late an early riser, but that's now
my rhythm. It's hard for me to sleep past six am,

(16:04):
and so yeah, I'm gonna get on up and get
after it. If I ever retire, and I don't see
myself retire retiring, I just I just don't see it.
I don't see a purpose in just saying I'm not
gonna work anymore. I'm gonna do something. I don't know what,
but I'm gonna do something always. But you're not gonna

(16:25):
find me. Just nah, not gonna do it. Twenty eight
minutes after the hour, let's come back with some news
and then again the big stories in the press box
coming up. Runing show with Preston Scott. Can you fly
this plane and land it? Surely you can't be serious.
I am serious, and don't call me surely. On News
Radio one hundred point seven UFLA. Remember the sound. A

(17:03):
couple days ago, Nick freydis Virginia representative, playing the clip
of a smug little girl saying he's insignificant, He's not
a martyr, he doesn't matter enough. Well, it matters enough
that Jimmy Kimmel's off the air. ABC has pulled Jimmy

(17:26):
Kimmel Live indefinitely. Now he'll be back on the air
I person, that's just a personal guess, that's no knowledge
of anything. But two of the largest media groups in
the country said, no, we're not airing it. You do
what you want. We're preempting it. We will not air

(17:48):
his program. Sinclair and Nextstar Media Group combine. They own
a lot of ABC affiliates across the country and most
likely in the heartland, in rural areas, not in the
smug arrogant, illiberal hubs. The president of Nexstar mister Kimmel's

(18:16):
comments about the death that mister Kirk are offensive and
insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse.
Continuing to give mister Kimmel a broadcast platform in the
communities we serve is simply not in the public interest
at the current time. We have made the difficult decision
to preempt his show in an effort to let cooler
heads prevail as we move toward a resumption of respectful,

(18:37):
constructive dialogue. Now the FCC is investigating anybody who will
broadcast him because of what he said. We hit some
new loads over the weekend with the Maga gang desperately
trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as
anything other than one of them, and doing everything they
can to score political points from it, and the sycophants

(18:58):
in the audience clapping, oh oh yeah, waity good Jimmy.
And it's so annoying. It is so wrong, it is
so evil, and I'm glad. See what this tells you.
This is listen, listen, listen. There's good news in this.
This is telling you that even in the left, there

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is a dividing line that's been established that says, no,
we're not going there. We're seeing this happen. They can
cry and whine all they want. This is Trump trying
to silence and all the Democrats are out there. Chuck Schumer,

(19:43):
this is wrong. This is a wrong decision. Whatever, whatever, noise, noise, noise,
Charlie Brown, teacher, momp womp, woah, wah wah whatever. Second
big story, Federal Reserve. Federal cuts the interest rates by
a quarter of a basis point. There was a dissenting vote.

(20:06):
It's from the new Fed Governor, Stephen Miron. He wanted
half a point. That's why he voted against it. He
thought that there needed to be a full half point.
It's quarter point. So there you go. That's that's rates
have dropped a little bit. And a previously deported Honduran
illegal immigrant charged with killing a teen who rejected his

(20:29):
sexual advances by running her over and her mom in
a car. The Biden administration would not deport him. He
first came to this country in two thousand and five.
Or was deported in two thousand and five, but was

(20:50):
arrested in twenty thirteen, but he was released three months later. Oh,
by the way, arrested for DUI. But he was released
three months later under the Alternatives to Detention program, which
was what Barack Obama. He just kept breaking into the country,

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and in twenty twenty four he was his case was
deferred under Joe Biden's administration, under ice with Joe Biden.
And now someone's dead and the girl's mother because he
proposed proposition both of them they said no, he got
angry because he was drunk and he ran him down
and killed the girl. Another illegal, another illegal in this country.

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Forty one minutes past the hour. Those are your big
stories in the press box. This is why Jimmy Kimmel
needed to be pulled off the air. This isn't about
a First Amendment right on Piers Morgan's program, he had

(22:05):
a panel and on that panel was a YouTuber named
Stephen Bonnell. He goes by the name Destiny. During a
recent stream, he argued on YouTube conservatives should be afraid
of getting killed when they go to events, so that

(22:25):
they look to their leadership to turn it down. The
temperature the issue right now, he said, they don't feel
like there's any fear. We're Christians, most of us. We
don't fear you, We fear God. He then parroted the

(22:51):
false narrative that the shooter is a right winger. See
Jimmy Kimmel said it on national television and yeah, makes sense.
Here's Morgan. You don't want to hear it. But the
reality is the investigators, according to the governor of Utah,

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established that he was radicalized to a leftist ideology that
drove him the murder. Charlie Kirk. Bonnell said, that's just
not true. There's no way to deal with it. You're
living in a delusional fantasy. Let's pause, hit the button
and remember one of my rules. To a liberalism. They
are what they accuse others of being. They do what

(23:35):
they accuse others of doing. Peer's Morgan asked Bonnell if
he would condemn the assassination if it turns out to
have been somebody with a leftist ideology who wanted to
shut up Kirk. Well, then, and I'm going to share
a couple thoughts here now from Jeff Charles of town Hall.

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Bonnell put on his coward hat and said, I won't
condemn anything until the President of the U States can
go on the air and say all of us need
to calm down. You won't condemn the murder of Charlie
Kirk until Donald Trump says something Morgan said. Bon Alvin
makes another false claim response leftists and Democrats have been
condemning and turning down the temperature, condemning violence, turning the

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temperature down for a decade. You do realize, I hope
all of you understand, and I hope you all remember
the Maxine Waters comments, the comments of Alexandri or Alexander
at Casio Cortez, the jank youngers of the world to
make get in the face of anyone who works for Trump,
getting the face of anybody who voted for Trump. You

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do remember people attacking kids for wearing a Maga hat,
being the ultimate bullies and punks, and yet he has
the gall to suggest that the left and the Democrats
have been turning down the temperature. And then he said this,

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He suggested that Trump was somehow responsible for Kirk's death.
Listen to the quote, if you wanted Charlie Kirk to
be alive, Donald Trump shouldn't have been president for a
second term. Every time he's in office, this happens. People
joked about when Biden came in. It was so boring,
nothing was going on. Seven out of the ten largest

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protests in American history have happened under Donald Trump. They
happened because of BLM. They happen because of what has
happened on the left. And then he went on to
mock online Erica Kirk appears. Morgan said, you inflamed the temperature.

(25:56):
You're mocking a widow. This is this guy's the classic
keyboard warrior. Only he, at least to his credit, doesn't
bask an anonymity. He should. He needs to be relegated there.

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And I'd never heard of him until this. And guess
what he's going right back in the circular file when
I'm done talking about this story. Forty seven minutes past
the hour, Wait do you hear what was said in Dearborn, Michigan.

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In Dearborn Michigan, forty percent Muslim. The mayor who is
Abdullah Hamoud, and the city commission wanted to name a
street after a Arab American newspaper publisher. Now, I'm not

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going to take time reading to you all of the
things that the reporter, the publisher, Osama Seblani has said
over the years, the things he's written, the comments he's made.

(27:32):
He's an extremist. He talks about oh coming to America
with one hundred and eighty five dollars and only America,
Greek country, can you make something? And he's truck He's right,
only in America. But the fact of the matter is
you can't rewrite your history. You can atone for it.

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You can say I was wrong, I was young, I
was misled. You can you can make it right, but
you can't erase it. And they wanted to rename a
street after him. The signs went up and a member
of the community showed up to offer his opinion. And

(28:18):
his name is Edward Barum. Ted Barum happens to be
a Christian pastor in town. Here's what happened.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
I feel like having that sign up there. It's almost
like having you know, name me a street, has Bula
Street or Hamas Street. I mean has Bulla you know,
bombed up the embassy in Bay Roots and including many Americans.
So I just feel it's quite inappropriate.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
You are an islamophobe, and although you live here, I
want you to know, as mayor, you're not welcome here.
And the day you move out of the city, well
with the day that I launched a parade celebrating the
fact that you moved out of the city because you
are not somebody who believes in coexistence.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
There you go. You don't believe in coexistence. You're not
welcome here because you just simply politely. I mean he
ended his comments with God bless you. I did not
respond to the marror with Haiti said. I said, God
bless you. You're an islamophobe. You may live here, but

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you're not welcome here, and I'm gonna throw a parade
when you move. This is friends, this is the reason
why you. You cannot allow communities to be run by
people who's whose entire reference for governance is is subjugation.

(29:52):
Their their their guidebook is filled with admonitions to lie
as often as you need to accomplish your purpose for
a lah. I don't understand how this is being allowed

(30:14):
in our country. Historically, it makes no sense. You place
your hand on a Bible to take an oath of office.
You take an oath. You are swearing on the Bible
that you will uphold and defend the values the Constitution.

(30:37):
And I recognize that there may be some communities and
don't do that anymore. I am of the opinion you
cannot be an Islamist and serve an office here. I
just don't your values are contrary to that of the
American system of government. You're welcome to be here and

(30:58):
live here, as long as you understand you're living under
just like you know, if you want to go live
in an Islamic nation, you understand what comes with that right.
Same should be said here. All right, Moving on, that's
the air being let out of the left balloon because

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they're learning how extreme their left wing is and how
horrible they are. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. Second Hour, The
Morning Show with Preston Scott and Preston. He is Steve
Stewart and he's the executive editor of Tallassei Reports again
the website tallasi Reports dot com covering stories reporting on

(31:42):
things that a lot of other people don't want to
talk about or report.

Speaker 4 (31:46):
Yeah, so the first story is very disturbing. I can't
it may get a little better after this. But you know,
we've talked about tracking the crime stats and one of
the things that we've been able to sort of say
when you look at violent crime in the house decreased
that the reminding main violent crime really is a very
isolated type of crime.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
It usually happens among.

Speaker 4 (32:07):
People that know each other. Bad drug deals, domestic violence.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
Very gang gang. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (32:14):
Well, we had an incident at the Market District, which,
as we talked about, I think is really under the radar,
and that is yeah, we we actually published a story
Saturday that resulted in other media elities asking questions.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
But we had a we had a rape.

Speaker 4 (32:29):
Of a young lady in the Market district at eight
thirty nine o'clock on Thursday who was along in the
evening store in the evening. It was in one of
the stores there off of Market Street. The suspect, who
was arrested the next morning and found walking in Kolna, States,

(32:51):
is a homeless transit who was registered at the Kearney Center.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
And when I say registered, he went there, he had
a record of being there. Well.

Speaker 4 (33:01):
No, not only that they allowed him to have to
get his mail there and he could go back and
do whatever. He was arrested in July for shoplifting, and
so that is based on court records. The issue here
is a couple of things. First of all, we've crossed
that bridge. This is a brutal crime by a transient

(33:25):
homeless person that he has been really facilitated.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
And I'm not saying the crime has.

Speaker 4 (33:30):
Been facilitated, but him being here is being facilitated by
our social safety net, and I think that is something
that needs to be addressed. One of the things talking
to different people is that you hear these progressives talk.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
About these are our neighbors. He's not a neighbor.

Speaker 5 (33:51):
Now.

Speaker 4 (33:51):
We are doing some research and I'm not ready to
talk about where he's from and what his record is.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
We have some leads, but I've got to verify that.

Speaker 4 (34:00):
But my question is, before someone like the Cornity Center says, yeah,
you know, you can just you know, you can just
be your home base, do they do a background check?
Do they find out why he's here. And I think
this is the frustration that you see with law enforcement
is that, you know, we hear a lot of this
rhetoric about we've got to take care of the homeless,

(34:21):
you know, and the compassion, and what we're doing is
we're seeding over the rights of people who are often
have mental health issues, often are running from records from
somewhere else, and we're giving them. We're siding with their rights,
over the rights of a young lady to follow all
the rules and work and try to make a living

(34:43):
and now was brutally beat and raped because we are
siding with the rights of these individuals.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
It is it.

Speaker 4 (34:53):
And now we've had two we've had two local government
meetings county and the city, and nobody has brought this up.

Speaker 1 (35:02):
Really, nobody's dealt with it.

Speaker 4 (35:04):
Nobody has said, hey, this is something that we haven't
seen before. And so we're going to continue to do
the research on this person, not with the focus on
this person, but finding out how he got here and
then how our system is facilitating this.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
What are the protocols. Does the Curney Center do a
background check of people that check in there is there
something that law enforcement does in conjunction with them, it
would seem to be appropriate.

Speaker 4 (35:31):
Well, my thing would be, if you arrest somebody for shoplifting,
you would do a background check there, I would think,
and you find out that he's wait a minute, he's
a transient homeless person. That's not people we want in
our community. We don't know anything about them. They're here
for a reason. Yeah, and so that is not a
good situation either. But I do get the sense that
a lot of people's hands are tied on what they

(35:53):
can do because of, you know, the policies that the
city is following.

Speaker 1 (35:59):
Well, he'll be a gain to the Florida State prison
system for a while, it would think, And we would think,
all right, ten past the hour, More to come. Steve
Stewart with me from Tellassie Reports. If you want to subscribe,

(36:22):
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Steve Stewart, the executive editor with me City Commission. At
a meeting, a lot of things came out of that. Mean.

Speaker 4 (36:40):
Yeah, so just again, I watched the meeting it was
last night. I want to get you up to down
on a couple of things. First, they passed the budget,
which people has become a snoozer around here, and I've
warned people, and we see this at the state level
with the CFO going around to different locations and look
at it expending. This is going to be an issue

(37:00):
in this community. Is starting to look at where we
are in terms of spending. And so this budget was passed,
a billion dollar budget, you know, includes things like millions
for a grocery store, you know, and in certain neighborhoods,
money for you know, a lot of different things that
we you know, star Metro subsidies where people are a
number of people using Star Metros going down. We just

(37:22):
not those items aren't even being discussed.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
Can I just pause for a second. A grocery store
in a neighborhood where there's a private sector by a
major company with a large grocery store right in that
same neighborhood, and so we're as a government going to
compete against a private sector.

Speaker 4 (37:42):
Yeah, and the optics is that you're helping out a neighborhood.
But we've got to actually have a story that's coming out.
It's in our next newspaper. I mean, I mean this
will run. Grocery stores have a horrible track record. Well sure,
and I mean I high speed rail. I look to
try to find one that was successful. So I could
write an article that you know, both sides. Yeah, there's

(38:02):
not both sides. And what will happen is.

Speaker 1 (38:05):
It's like the performing arts.

Speaker 4 (38:07):
What will happen is this is they'll build this grocery
store and they'll have to they'll have to subsidize it
to keep it operating. And you know, instead of just
listen if there is an area and there's if there's
need in that part of the neighborhood, I would rather
that you have. You know, we've got plenty of nonprofits
in this community.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
Well but Steve, if there was a market and a need,
someone would.

Speaker 4 (38:26):
Build one, right, So there is that too. Anyway, that
was so they passed the budget. But there was some
other issues that you know arose there. One was the
fire service fee. Oh yeah, yeah, we've been talking about
this and you know this is again it's got ugly.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
It's got an ugly city.

Speaker 4 (38:45):
The city Tallassee is providing the service, and Leon County
is a customer, and Leon County is not happy. And
last night there was a vote to look, you know,
Leon County needs to start preparing to provide their own
fire service in the unincorporated area, and they're giving them
a three year on war. You know, I think the
city is really tired of the pot shots that they're
taking now. I would argue that the city could probably

(39:08):
try to address some of those potshots with some responses about,
you know, different things. And again they have a little
bit I mean remember, you know, there was a new
bargaining agreement with the firefighters, and that was something that
was not accounted for and it was a significant amount
of money and a number of people in the County
Commission supported that. And so they're a little bit taken back,

(39:30):
taken aback by how they now don't want to pay
for that, and so they see some politics involved. Anyway,
it's a really bad situation. I think obviously, cooler heads
will prevail eventually.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
But the city is not hurting for money. They're not.

Speaker 4 (39:45):
And the fire service fee has always been you know,
it used to be included in your property taxes, right,
that was how you yeah, but then they took it
out and they charged you a fee, so you know,
again that's part of the spending that you know, I
think people are going to be looking after.

Speaker 1 (40:01):
That is a real big issue.

Speaker 4 (40:03):
Another issue that is on the radar is Capital City
Country Club. I don't know if you saw that that
they are trying to They're trying to buy the land
from the city. The city owns over one hundred and
it's about one hundred ninety acres. The Capital City Country
Clubs operating with a dollar lease that was signed in
nineteen fifty six.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
A lot of controversy about how that came about.

Speaker 4 (40:24):
Obviously, Commission Mattlow, who will talk about the next sedment,
took complete advantage of trying to talk, you know, introducing
the race factor, which I don't There may be some
room to talk about that, but anyway, the city's gonna
have to deal with what, you know, would this because
I think Capital City Country Clubs and financial straits.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
It's one hundred and eighty acres, you know, My thought
is that'd be a great place for affordable housing. You're brutal.
Sixteen minutes past the hour. We're going to pick up
right there next on the Morning Show with Preston Scott

(41:05):
back with Steve Stewart of Tellassi Reports. He's the executive editor.
Remind you of go to Tallassireports dot com in Tallassie Reports.
When Jeremy Mattlowe announced his decision to run for mayor,
he said, and I quote, I am uniquely qualified to
bring our community together under a common vision and to

(41:27):
seek collaboration with all who are willing to make Tallahassee
a better place. But yet, he recently had a public
engagement said this.

Speaker 5 (41:37):
We had great leaders in our community, presidents like Barack Obama,
teachers I had like mister Driman, that led us to
do the right thing. And I look at what my
son has, and we have a racist president who's stoking
the hatred in our community, and we have a governor
that's no better, to say the least.

Speaker 1 (41:59):
Right, Let's set aside the fact that he's in a
room full of like minded people who actually think there's
some wisdom and common sense in that statement. But Steve,
that's the division that he brings.

Speaker 4 (42:14):
I want to be clear to point out this happened
and I was, you know, verify this. This happened after
the Charlie Charlie Kirk assassination. So the guy has no
you know, he had I don't know if this is
really a window into his soul, but I mean this
is really, I think a bad look and a couple

(42:35):
of things. From an ideological standpoint's a bad look. But look,
he's trashing the governor who signs, who signs the bills
that give money to our community. I mean, would you
even I mean, would you even entertain, you know, an
audience with this guy? And it, to me is just
it's pretty amazing what we've gotten down to here, Steve.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
I'll answer your question. I don't know if this is
a window into the guy's soul. Well, the Bible says
that out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

Speaker 4 (43:03):
Yes, that is exactly who he is. And you know
there's other evidence, you know, of who he is. I mean,
he sat on the dais and has listened to people,
and this is recent. You know, people you know call
TPD officers murderers and not say word, and they're his supporters.
They mean, they clearly get up and say they're you know,
they're supports, and they just sit there and don't say
a thing.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
You know.

Speaker 4 (43:22):
He also worked with Max Hurley, who manipulated a video
to you know, argue that a TPD officer planet evidence
on someone which was complete, completely false, went through the
jury system, but he promoted that.

Speaker 1 (43:37):
And this guy is running for mayor and we.

Speaker 4 (43:39):
Don't have with no regret, but yeah, and we don't
have like there doesn't seem to be pushback on this
from from Democrats. The Democrats have you know, if you
look at this from a national perspective, they've lost control
of their party to this left wing progressive movement. And
as you've said and we've talked about, is they are

(44:00):
very reluctant to speak out, and then you know they
may have good reason.

Speaker 1 (44:06):
Sure.

Speaker 4 (44:07):
I mean, look, they have gone after you know, talas reports.

Speaker 1 (44:11):
And not just you know, name what they do.

Speaker 4 (44:14):
You know, you call somebody a racist, is a it's
like a police officer planning evidence. They're trying to ruin you,
you know, and they've gone around and try to get
our advertising canceled. So these are brutal people. And I
think what we're starting to see now is the impact.
You know, Mattlowe was running for mayor and people are
afraid to throw in their hat. Now Republicans can't run

(44:36):
because it's been proven that it's just it's just a
fool's errand and.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
So taking your friends and families money exactly, you.

Speaker 4 (44:44):
Know, and so, but other Democrats look to be afraid
to stand up.

Speaker 1 (44:49):
Now we have some time and we'll see.

Speaker 4 (44:51):
But you know, another thing again on a more I
that's the emotional side of this, causing calling someone a racist,
you know, just to get collapsed and vote. It is
just so it's just disgusting. But let's look at this,
look at the TMHFSU merger that we just got news of,
which is a big deal. Should it happened years ago,
and we can go into the reasons why it didn't.

(45:12):
But com mister Mattlow again is you know, we've got
some pretty smart people.

Speaker 1 (45:17):
You know, as far as smart people go.

Speaker 4 (45:19):
Head of FSU, head of TMH, they get together with
all their you know, people under them, and they work
out this deal. The TMH board votes to go ahead
and merge with FSU, where FSU is in control, okay,
of the assets that the city owns, and they're going
to run in a hospital and FSU Health that'll be
the brand. And Commission Malow without even seeing the parameters
of the agreement, comes out and trashes it because he

(45:43):
thinks that you know, this is going to result in
the situation where the state of Florida will have too
much say over healthcare. And again, the lens for which
he views things is, I think what we need to
take from this it is completely ideological and is completely progressive,
and he.

Speaker 1 (46:02):
And it's disconnected from reality. It's disconnected from reality. And
what he says is just they're basically lies that he
can work with people. He can't work with anyone. He
spent the last four years showing nothing but division. Yeah,
and so you see this, do you hear this quote again?

Speaker 4 (46:17):
This was from last week, and you know, there's there's
there's nothing there that would indicate, first of all, that
he has the capacity to be compassionate or to work
with people. And I think again from a practical standpoint,
he'd be horrible for Tallahassee. So you know, we'll see
their rumors heard him yesterday of people that will be

(46:39):
getting into the mayor race. But know this, as we
have said, no Republicans or moderate conservatives can run for
city commission. They the northeast will have a major impact
on who is elected. So that's where that's where the
Northeast has to focus.

Speaker 1 (46:55):
Northeast needs to also focus at the exact same time
on the annexation. That's what needs to happen in the northeast. Yeah,
especially if he was to get elected. Yeah, I think
they need to push it regardless because there need be
there needs to be district representation. Florida. Tallassee, Florida is
the only and you pointed this out to me, Steve,

(47:17):
you did the research. The only city in the top
twenty populated cities in Florida without district representation, the only one.

Speaker 4 (47:25):
And it's you know, and it's quite obvious.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
Absolutely, Thanks for all you do. Thank you pressing Steve Stewart. Subscribe,
get the paper, friend or foe. You'll at least know
what's going on twenty eight minutes after the hour quickly

(47:57):
the big stories in the press box so that we
can have a laugh together. Okay, and I know it's
not big, but we need a laugh, don't we? Not
losing sight of everything that's going on around us. For example,
ABC is pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live indefinitely. It's a win two. Yeah.

(48:19):
The FCC was saying, uh ah, but this is two
broadcast media groups that own a bunch of affiliates sending
a note to ABC saying we are not airing his show.

(48:40):
Those groups are Sinclair and Next Star. They send a
note to ABC saying what he said about the assassination
of Kimmel of Kirk is inappropriate. We're not going to
air him, and so they're pulling the show indefinitely, permanently,

(49:00):
probably not indefinitely. We'll see. We'll see how long that lasts.
Fed Reserve cutting the interest rates by quarter point. The
federal governor voted against it. Is their new one. Steve
Stephen Miron. He wanted a half a point. That's why
I voted against it. He wanted a half point. And
yet again, another previously deported Honda and illegal immigrant charged

(49:23):
with killing a teenager who rejected his sexual advances. So
he did what anyone would do. He ran her over
with a with his vehicle. Also ran over her mother. Now,
rest of the show, we got pause for thought. In
just a few minutes, doctor Steve Steveson will be joining us.

(49:44):
We've got a road trip suggestion, and yes we're going
to do those things. We've got Lieutenant Governor Jay Collins
joining us. On the phone. Now this is the funny part.
I send a note out because originally the Lieutenant govern
Or was coming in studio. Now I've never met him,
never had him on the show. He was a former

(50:06):
state senator, but he is. He's a hero. He's a
military hero, is what the Lieutenant governor is as well.
And so I sent a note out to the staff saying, hey,
in case you're interested, the Lieutenant Governor is scheduled to

(50:27):
join us in studio if you want to stop by
and say, lo before or after. And so what happened, well,
between the time I sent that note out and before
I was able to say, just got worried he's going
to be phoning in the other half of our building

(50:48):
was cleaned immaculately. It was. I walked back there after
I printed some stuff this morning, and I just walked
around the corner and looked and laughed. Someone or someone's
some people in the office here just oh, it's had
the governor's coming, and they clean that place. And I

(51:10):
felt so bad, but I didn't because it's been filthy
for a long time. And know, just a pig sty
back there. And you know, we keep our studios pretty
much buttoned down on our little corner of the world here,
and so it just makes me want to every now
and then say, hey, the governor's coming or hey, the

(51:32):
Vice president's showing up or something. I don't know, because
if it gets it done, that's great. But that was
just kind of funny. Forty minutes past the hour, Doctor
Steve Steverson, A little pause for thought is next. This
is the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Got a great

(51:56):
topic for our road trip suggestions that will probably take
a few weeks to go through. Came across something that
I just have to share that's coming up in just
but first pause for thought here on the Morning Show
with Preston Scott, joining us doctor Steve Steverson with the

(52:17):
Bradfordville Animal Hospital. Good morning, doctor Steverson.

Speaker 6 (52:20):
How are you, Hey, Preston. I'm doing great. How about yourself?

Speaker 1 (52:24):
I am doing well. I am fascinated by the telehealth industry.
I had an appointment with a doctor. He said, hey,
let's do a telehealth thing next time. I said, that's
fine with me. Is that a thing in your world
and veterinarian medicine.

Speaker 6 (52:41):
Yo, Preston, Actually it is. It is just recently in
the past year has become illgal in the state of
Florida to use telemedicine for dogs and cats. Some great
advantages with telemedicine offer some disadvantages. You know, it's so
much easier to get on my phone and call your
veterinarian and talk about your and there's a lot of

(53:01):
things we are able to do with telemedicine. There are,
like I said, limitations as well. Certainly, nowadays it's legal
to have an initial assessment and establish what's called a
veterinary client patient relationship over the over a video conferencing.
It can't just be a phone call. It's got to
be a video conferencing where there's some visual capability as well.

(53:22):
But we can assess a dog or cat's condition remotely
a lot of times. With that, it's very effective to
use telemedicine talking about some behavior advice or management or
chronic conditions. You know, we we see a lot of
pets that have chronic conditions and need medication and medication
adjustments quite often, and very often we can talk over
the phone with a client and be able to discuss

(53:46):
how their pet is doing and decide how to adjust
their medication or tweak their medication to make them happier.

Speaker 1 (53:54):
I'm just guessing. I would imagine that it is far
more difficult to proper treat a pad on the front end,
like an initial visit, but far easier after you've seen
the pad or performed a surgery in a follow up capacity.
Is that fair?

Speaker 6 (54:13):
That is definitely true, yes, you know, because it is
if we have seen the pet physically, we know that
that we know their conditioning, their situation, then being able
to talk over the phone is much much more simple
because we have the knowledge of that pet. So absolutely
having an established examination, a physical exam first does make
it much much easier. And along those lines, there are

(54:34):
certain things where we have to have a physical exam
and you can't do that through tell the medicine, And
so having the pet in the facility and having a
fiscal exam is really important for a lot of cases,
and of course emergencies in an emergency situation, you know,
don't try and go make a phone call and try
and get a tell a medicine consult head. You're veninarian
right away. If you have an emergency emergency.

Speaker 1 (54:54):
Situation, well, you you had shared with me in a
note when we kind of talked about our topic here too.

Speaker 5 (55:00):
Day.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
You said, you know, pats can't talk. We think they
could talk to us, but they can't tell you what
they're feeling, what they're going through, and that's why that
that initial visit is really useful. I'm curious though, do
you just as a matter of practice, do veterinarians set
aside now time each day or a couple of days

(55:20):
a week at the end of the day, at the
beginning of the day for telehealth.

Speaker 6 (55:25):
You know, a lot of your practices are as we're
starting to figure this thing out, a lot of veterinarians
are beginning to do that and have time set aside
so they can establish and have a setup and actually
are so that you can have this telemedicine consult And yeah,
so some of them, some of them already do that
and have a set time set aside. Others just kind

(55:45):
of do it.

Speaker 7 (55:46):
Throughout the day.

Speaker 6 (55:47):
Whenever they have a few minutes, they'll do a tell
a medicine consult. So it just depends on the practice
how they're going to handle that.

Speaker 1 (55:53):
In veterinarian medicine, you know, doctors are we're seeing more
quote nurse practitioners or a physic assistant that have certain
amount of leeway in terms of diagnosing and maybe even prescribing.
Do veterinarians have that same type of assistant available.

Speaker 6 (56:12):
Not yet, Preston. That is the next emerging topic with
our legislature as actually is coming up this year as
a discussion on having a veterinary assistant position. It's got
a veterinary PA bill is what we're calling it, and
so that should help to ease some of the strain
and difficulty in getting into see your veterinarians. We have
a veterinary PA that can do some of the limited

(56:35):
exams and things like that for us. So that's a
very good question that's coming. It's probably this year.

Speaker 1 (56:41):
Good stuff. As always, I appreciate the time, doctor Steverson.
We'll talk again soon.

Speaker 6 (56:46):
Great, Thanks Preston, Thank you.

Speaker 1 (56:47):
Sir, Doctor Steve Steverson with us from the Bradfordville Animal Hospital.
Pause for thought here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

(57:09):
Oh yeah, yeah, oh. We need to get back to
talking about things like you see. It's are on the
road again segment here in the Morning Show with Preston
Scott road trip ideas and I'm zeroing in on you fellas,
and I know, I know there's gonna be a lady
or two out there that says, what do you mean

(57:29):
just the fellas. I like being a dude ranch person too,
that's fine, But let's face it, this is about guys.
Guys deep down would love to spend some time at
a dude ranch. It's called a dude ranch for a

(57:50):
purpose because it's for dudes. It's being a cowboy, being outside,
riding horses, eating food, cooked over, working out nor a grill.
I got suggestions eleven different dude ranches, and I'm gonna

(58:13):
go through them for the next few weeks. I mean,
we're talking horseback riding, campfires, hikes, rustic cabins, the whole
cowboy thing with a little modern twist. Perhaps our first
one is Alisaul Ranch in Solvang, California. Sol Va Nng, California.

(58:34):
Ali Saw Ranch Modern taste of the Old West, Santa
Inez Valley, nestled in the heart of Santa Barbara Wine Country.
Ten thousand, five hundred acres of goodness. It's a working ranch,
range of luxury accommodations for cowboys at heart. They've got studios, cottages,

(58:57):
spacious homes complete with America on an artwork, wood burning fireplaces,
you can ride horses, you can wander the waters of
the one hundred acres spring fed lake, and again the
name Alisol Ranch, Ali Sal Ranch. Second one for the day,

(59:18):
the Circle Z Ranch and Patagonia, Arizona. The Circle Z
Ranch that come on now. In this one, it is
authentic tradition, meeting meeting unspoiled adventure. That's their little slogan
dating back to nineteen twenty six. This historic Dude Ranch

(59:42):
is about an hour south of Tucson, which means you're
heading in the direction of Tombstone. So if you went
to this Dude Ranch, you could make an excursion over
to Tombstone easily. Thousands of acres of Arizona wilds, mark
by rugged canyons, mountain ranges, the rushing waters of the

(01:00:03):
Sonata Creek before winding down in a Spanish style abode,
cowboy cookout, smoky campfires, pool lounging, kind of a home
away from home. There you go, friends to suggestions that
one is the Circle Z Ranch in Patagonia, Arizona. Come

(01:00:29):
on now, inside some of you, it's tapping, tapping the
shoulder of your inner. John Wayne Well I'll tell you, pilgrim, now,
I love this country and I love the back country more.
I mean, come on, some great, great ideas here. All right,

(01:00:53):
we come back, turn the page again. Jay Collins, highly
decorated Army Special Forces combat veteran a number of debilitating
injuries that led to a loss of his leg, but

(01:01:13):
remarkably continued to serve five additional years as a Green Beret.
Post amputation, served as a state Senator for Florida's District fourteen.
I think it is and now is Florida's lieutenant governor

(01:01:35):
never talked with Jay. Anxious to hear our conversation. A
few things we're going to tee up and talk about,
so I hope you'll stay with us. Conversation with Florida's
Lieutenant governor is next live here in the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. Quick check of news, weather and traffic.

(01:01:58):
Back with our three five minutes past the hour, This

(01:02:18):
Morning Show with Preston's Gott. Great to be with you.
Third hour of the program. It is Show five, four
hundred and fifty five. That is Jose in Studio one A.
I'm here in Studio one B, and I am thrilled
to have with me. First time I've had Jay Collins
on the program. Served as a state Senator from District
fourteen and then was chosen by Governor Rond de Santas

(01:02:41):
to be Lieutenant Governor Jay Collins. Jay, but more than
any of that, thank you for your service to our country.
I appreciate you joining me this morning.

Speaker 7 (01:02:47):
How are you, man, I'm doing good this morning. How
are you guys doing well?

Speaker 1 (01:02:51):
I got to tell you, I originally told the staff
that you were going to come in studio, and I
want to thank you because you had a desired effect.
I've never seen the other side of our building so
cleaned and straightened up ever, and so I sent the
notice out. Sorry he's calling in, but thank you for
cleaning up anyway. It was brilliant.

Speaker 7 (01:03:13):
Well, I was looking forward to being in studio. I
truly was. That's very time. Tell them thank you. I
look forward to seeing it next time around.

Speaker 1 (01:03:20):
And I told him I might just announce that you're coming,
you know, every other month. It worked out great for me.

Speaker 7 (01:03:29):
That'd be the guy behind the shadows.

Speaker 1 (01:03:31):
That's it. That's exactly right. How big of a difference
is it to move from the State Senate to now
a position as Lieutenant governor.

Speaker 7 (01:03:41):
Well, honestly, more than anything, my focus I want people
to know my focus is the same. It's about giving
back and making the biggest difference I can here in
the state of Florida. If you're gonna get dressed up,
word a student tie every day, you better get something
done right. So in terms of job responsibility, you know,
I have a great opportunity to touch with really anything
and everything that goes on in the state, to be

(01:04:02):
a part of that, to lead from the front to
you know, help influence or move them forward. It's been
a blessing. Now it's certainly busy, but on the other
side of that, I just have one job. I'm singularly
focused on the state of Florida, and honestly, that is
an incredible blessing to have that singularity of focus, the
one you know, no spare jobs. I'm taking care of

(01:04:23):
my family, I'm taking care of the state, and that
is where we're at. And I love doing the job.
I'm so blessed to be the twenty first Lieutenant Governor
of Florida.

Speaker 1 (01:04:32):
Update us on the status of Alligator Alcatraz. We had
a judge say, for a lot of really silly reasons.
Now that's to shut down. We saw the cooperation with that,
but then all of a sudden that ruling was basically
put on hold. So is Alligator Alcatraz still operating? Is
it bringing people back in? Update us on the entire

(01:04:54):
illegal immigration enforcement model? Here, what we're doing in Florida.

Speaker 7 (01:04:58):
Yeah, you know, this is same game, different day. Right.
The fact is Florida leads from the front. Our two
eighty seven g approach at the state level leads the
way across the nation. I think you have to cobble
together the next three or four states together get even
close to what our output has been. So why is
that Governor Santis is an absolute bold conservative as is

(01:05:21):
I think I've heard the first lady say, is Steele
the eyed missile man? Right? He knows what right is.
He steps into the breach and he does what does
what's right, And we're very blessed for that. Alligator Alcatraz
is open. We knew activist judges were going to attack us.
We knew that that would get overturned. Just as sure
as the suns are going to come up, activist judges
are going to do what they do. That just is
the game, the left tride, they're lost. We're going to

(01:05:44):
move forward. There's a complete stay and you know, we
are open for business at Alligator Alcatraz Deportation depot is
up and moving, and those even talk of the Panhandle, Pokey.
We are committed to a legal immigration. I want to
remind people this isn't a Republican thing. It's not a
Democrat thing. This is an American thing. People across the nation,
and absolutely unequivocally across Florida has said take care of

(01:06:07):
legal immigration. This is a problem, is costing lives, is
costing dollars, and we believe it has to be fixed. Now.
President Trump listened. Governor de Santus listened. I would love
to see other governors step in, step up and do
what we do here in Florida.

Speaker 1 (01:06:21):
Lieutenant Governor j Collins with me this morning. He's going
to join us for a couple more segments. More to
come here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott on
News Radio one hundred point seven USLA Morning Show with

(01:06:42):
Preston Scott. Lieutenant Governor J. Collins with us. We chronicle
on this program all of the time, the crimes that
are being committed the vicious crimes, violent crimes being committed
by illegal immigrants that are in this country. We have

(01:07:02):
pointed it out to you and Lieutenant Governor, you were
asked by the governor to go to California to bring
back the truck driver who killed three Floridians on the
Florida Turnpike. Did you have an interaction with him?

Speaker 7 (01:07:18):
You know, Preston, thank you for that. You know, we
had a very limited interaction in terms of conversation. He's
very quiet, kept his head down. Really. The one thing
he talked about was Chick fil A when we stopped
and we needed to eat right. That was it. Other
than that, again, no signs of concern, remorse, nothing whatsoever.

(01:07:39):
But in the end, you know, why do we do that.
It's important to lead from the front. I think it's
absolutely unequivocally necessary to have your leader step up and
be there when things can go sideways, to lead from
the most difficult place. We didn't know what Gavin was
going to do. We had to step up. We needed
to have somebody there, and I'm grateful that the governor

(01:08:01):
put his faith in me to go there, accomplish the
mission and bring him home. And in the end. Three
people will you know, have their killers day in court,
and it's heartbreaking. Three lives had to be ended early
because this guy couldn't read road signs, because he didn't
know how to do what he's supposed to do safely.
And two states failed to take illegal immigration seriously, it's

(01:08:22):
just not going to happen.

Speaker 1 (01:08:23):
I have longed, I have long positive, Lieutenant Governor, that
many Democrats that support illegal immigration, they don't care about
the collateral damage. It is a means to an end
and they're, you know, sorry it happened, but it's okay
in the grander scheme of things. But at the same time,
I couldn't help but notice that our Attorney General wanted

(01:08:46):
the subpoena the company that had hired this truck driver,
suggesting why are we employing illegal immigrants? But yet here
in Florida the Republican Party has stood in the way
and refuses to close loopholes and either verify why are
we not going after employers of illegal immigrants that are
knowingly employing them here in this state.

Speaker 7 (01:09:08):
Well, I'll tell you, Preston, that's a great question. And
the root issue is this we need to put up.
It's about deeds, not words. Right, we got to put up,
we got to shut or we got to shut up.
We've got to follow through with our our our what
we ran on. Frankly, the governor's left in the front
has been very clear on this. I have made my
points incredibly clear on where I stand that on legal immigration,

(01:09:30):
have been very clear when the expectations are and now
we have to move those things forward. And the fact
is this. I am grateful that James Athmeyer, our Attorney General,
did that that he is holding these people accountable. But
we absolutely have to take this serious. We have to
understand that floordans American people. They want to see this fixed.

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We have to understand that we do need to verify,
but we also have to make a decision. I believe
that our economy will be just fine. The jobs will rework,
they'll adjust, and business will go about it. But we
have to be strong and bold in trying to solve
this problem. I think that's the next next phase of this.
We have to keep working together, take this thing seriously

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and take it to the next step.

Speaker 1 (01:10:16):
But do you understand and I know you do in
great regard and respect to you, sir, but it rings
a little hollow because the Republicans are the ones that
stopped the efforts. It was political because Jason Pizzo was
advancing legislation, but Jason Pizzo, when he was a Democrat,

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was only addressing half of the Everify loophole. There are
multiple loopholes in Everify, and employers are using them, and
Republicans did not find it convenient to deal with it,
nor did they want to talk about it. I want
to just give you this little fact that you'll find interesting.
I've done this show for twenty three years. It's the
first time in twenty three years a Republican lawmaker would

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not come on the show because I said I wanted
to talk about Everify. No one would come on the show.
No one.

Speaker 7 (01:11:08):
I would have come on the show. I didn't know
there was an opportunity, Preston.

Speaker 1 (01:11:11):
But well, sadly, I mean sadly and in all fairness,
and I told your staff I was going to bring
this up sadly when you were a state senator. I
got a call from your team wanting to talk about
a farm bill. I said, I'm happy to talk about it.
I just want to talk about Everify. They would not
book you. They refused to have you come on the
program and so and I don't believe, and I believe

(01:11:33):
for I completely believe you knew nothing about that. But
I'm just telling you that's how deeply seated this protection
is by the GOP of e Verify.

Speaker 7 (01:11:43):
Well, Preston, I will tell you, I make it a
point to dig into my calendar to understand what's going
on and to make sure that I'm on the right
side of the issues. We'll dig into that, we'll figure
out what happened, hoping that and what I expect from
my team back there is that they did that and
the calendar is just in line for whatever we were

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trying to do. But if there was something more, we
we'll come to grips with that. But the bottom line
is this, We've got to fix the problem. Yeah, And
this isn't about politics. It is about people. It's about
solving these.

Speaker 1 (01:12:15):
Problems, absolutely about.

Speaker 7 (01:12:16):
Moving forward, and it's about safety, security and our economy
and making sure this works. And I appreciate you bringing
that up, though, Preston.

Speaker 1 (01:12:25):
We've got a lot more to talk about. We're going
to talk about making Florida healthy again, and the Lieutenant
Governor's square in the middle of that with the first Lady,
Casey DeSantis. That and more to come. Still here on
the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All Right, a little

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miscommunication with the staff. He had another interview book that
started two minutes ago, and I respect that they had
reached out to me yesterday and said, look, the calendar
got pretty jammed. That's why he's not going to be
able to come in. No problem, Listen, he he is
not afraid of the issue. I am of the opinion

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that and I'm getting a lot of response from people
about him kind of sort of not answering my question.
He was blindsided. Now, I warned his staff that I
was going to bring up e verify, and they said, hey,
no problem. Cool. But I also am aware that staffs,

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and I just know this, sometimes a staff does not
want to expose a sitting elected member of the legislature
to a question or an uncomfortable topic. So when he
was a state senator and they called and asked about
a farm bill, I was all in on the farm bill.
He headed up the Agriculture Committee. In fact, specifically, when

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he was a state Senator, he was the chairman of
the Agriculture and transportation committees, happy to advance, I said,
I simply want to make sure we carve out time
to talk about Everify. At that point, the request to
have him on the show ended. Unlest anybody think, well

(01:14:36):
it could have been a scheduling thing. Yeah, it could
have been, and it could have been for what every
lawmaker in the state of Florida, because none of them
would touch the issue, none of them. This is a
problem for the Florida Republicans and a problem for the
Florida Chamber of Commerce because they will not publicly deal

(01:14:57):
with the loopholes and Everify. Look, there's only so much
you can do as an employer, but you have to
do what you can do. And the only way you
fix this problem is by holding employers accountable. Well that's fine, Preston,
but you don't know. Prices will go up. Yeah, okay,

(01:15:20):
why are they down because you're paying under the table,
because you're paying them less than you would pay somebody
else to do that job, because you know you've got
them in a corner. They're here legally and you know it. Now,
there's another side of this. The other side of this

(01:15:41):
is the assumption that everybody that you see that is
Hispanic is here illegally. That's just not true. They're not.
Are there people here legally that have refused to learn
the language, Yes, shame on them. They're living in the
greatest country in the world and they are hindering themselves.

(01:16:04):
But we can't afford to throw that blanket on everybody
and say, oh, they're they're they're not speaking the language,
and there they look like they're from Honduras or or
they look like they're from Guatemala, or they look like
they're they're here from Venezuela or Mexico. They must be
here illegally. No, they must not be. They might be,
you could even say likely could be, but we cannot

(01:16:28):
say uh ah unless we know. I know, and so
do you know that there are certain trades that employ
illegal immigrants. And I told you when this happened, I

(01:16:49):
was not letting go of this. I was not letting
go of this issue. Why because every dog one week
I'm reading about illegal immigrants killing people and they have
to be sustained somehow. How are they being sustained. They're
being sustained by people employing them. I am not letting

(01:17:14):
go of this. My wife will tell you if I
grab hold of something I do not let go. This
is deeply personal to me. I apologize to no one.

(01:17:41):
I hope the awareness of the situation now and the
fact that it has been run from by the legislature
and a key organization that I love and respect dearly,
but is just wrong on this issue. They are wrong.

(01:18:04):
They need to be calling for their members, They need
to be calling for change. Well, you don't understand the complexity.
Oh cry a river to somebody else. Tell that to
Lake and Riley's family. Tell that to the family of
the people that died on that turnpike. Tell that to
the family of the people that are being murdered and

(01:18:26):
raped in Florida. Yeah, the complainton, Yeah, tell that to them.
Spare me. I'm grateful Jay Collins came on the program.
He is a hero. I'm not going to hold it
against him. I don't know that he knew anything about

(01:18:47):
being being asked to come on this show. No idea.
I just know I've been doing this for a while.
I didn't have any state lawmakers this year because I
wanted to talk about eve Verify. Now, you tell me
what that means. He offered on the break to come

(01:19:09):
back every week if I wanted him. I don't need
him to come on the show every week, but i'd
love to have him once a month. Absolutely, he'd be welcome.
You know why, because he's a hero, and I believe
he cares. I believe he cares about this state. And
I think he's actually liberated a little bit being the
lieutenant governor versus a member of the state Senate. I

(01:19:30):
think he's in a better position. That's what I think.
Twenty eight minutes after their sorry about that. No, I'm not.
I'm not sorry about it. I'm sorry about that.

Speaker 8 (01:19:40):
Ever, you may be from Florida Sunshine State to California.

Speaker 1 (01:19:45):
Hey, scratch that. California is hopeless.

Speaker 8 (01:19:49):
For the rest, we're your morning show, The Morning Show
with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:20:01):
You listen all morning long because you just never know.
For example, the big stories in the press box have
changed a little. Yes, Jimmy Kimmel and this, I didn't
really frame this in a context that gives it the
gravitas that deserves. ABC didn't pull Jimmy Kimmel. Disney did.

(01:20:28):
Disney owns ABC. Disney pulled Jimmy Kimmel. This is a
watershed moment. Perhaps we'll see he shouldn't be canceled through
the things he said, Yeah, kind of should in this case. Yeah,

(01:20:49):
what he said cross the line. There are lines. There
are things I just can't say on this show. Can't
say certain words. I just I can't. You you shouldn't
be keynceled. Well, no, I'm an idiot if that happens.

(01:21:12):
Two different broadcasting companies that own lots of television stations
across the country sent word to ABC that they are
not going to air Jimmy Kimmel's program. We will not
air him. ABC responded through Disney responded through ABC, saying
we're pulling the show in definitely. Jimmy Kimmel alive. Good, good,

(01:21:41):
Now he's going to be out there with the Stephen
Colbert and they're gonna hold a little, you know, a
cry session. But remember now, this is the same and
I wonder if the girls on the View are taking notice.
Just wonder this is the same group that puts out
the view. Fed Reserve cuts it right, It's rate for

(01:22:04):
the first time in a minute quarter point. Yes, a
deported a previously deported Honduran charged with killing a teen
who rejected his sexual advances because that's what you do.
After all, you know, you try to proposition a young
girl and her mother present, and when they say get lost,

(01:22:25):
you run them over with your car and kill one
of them and leave the other in critical condition, because
that's what you do. Because you're here legally, you've never
been really, you've never faced the consequences for your choices
of being here illegally. And then this we now know.
The transgender roommate of the Assassin of Charlie Kirk was

(01:22:47):
previously kicked out of his parents' home over issues surrounding
substance abuse, gender identity, and an addiction to video games.
He lived with his grandparents after his father kicked him out.
According to a relative, he was kicked out of his
parents' home at the age of eighteen because he just
would not and that's what you have to do sometimes.

(01:23:17):
Dad thought this a quote of a relative, thought he
wasn't being respectful and was problematic, so they kicked him out.
He lived with his grandparents till he was eighteen, graduated
from high school, and then yeah, he was using drugs
and alcohol. He was addicted to gaming. There you go,
forty minutes past the Aleen come back. We're going to
kind of pick up their sort of kind of Next

(01:23:42):
This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott, I mentioned this,
ever so briefly, a guy named Chelsea Wolf. You heard right,
a guy transgender, wanted to compete. He was an alternate

(01:24:06):
on the US Women's BMX team for the twenty one Olympics.
Despite being a biological male. Was on the women's BMX
team as an alternate. Went to Instagram to celebrate the
murder of Charlie Kirk, posting we did it another with
a black screen, white letters, saying the find out era

(01:24:29):
looks good on him, then posted a smiling selfie giving
a thumbs up. A photo captioned, being a Nazi is
completely optional. By the way, he didn't have to do
all that he did and now he's dead. Don't live
your life in a way that the world is better
following your death. Everywhere he goes he calls anybody who

(01:24:50):
disagrees with him a Nazi with a bunch of profanities.
He was videotaped at the Oakland Grand Prix race, which
is by the way, run by USA Cycling, when protesters said,
why are we allowing a man to race against women?
Quote and I watched the video go suck a sought

(01:25:13):
off shotgun. Mother, bleeper, You're a Nazi piece of bleep.
We don't bleep with Nazis. That's how we feel about
Nazis around these parts. This is America. We kill Nazis.
When he wanted to represent this country in the Olympics,

(01:25:33):
he said, my goal is to win the Olympics so
I can burn a US flag at the podium. This
is the illogical hate in the transgender movement, the extreme,
not just not the people that are just confused out

(01:25:54):
there and they just want to, you know, be a
furry or be a whatever behind closed doors. That's not
what we're talking about. That's between them and God. It's
when it spills out in the culture and they insist
on their delusion becoming ours. US Cycling said the views
of current and former national team athletes are their own

(01:26:16):
and do not reflect those of US Cycling. Chelsea Wolf
has not been a member of the US cycling team
since twenty twenty three. Yeah, but here's the problem. You're
allowing him to race against women. So USA Cycling is
fanning this flame by allowing it to continue. And this

(01:26:36):
is why the Supreme Court needs to settle this matter.
If we can force this back to Hey, whatever people
do behind closed doors, that's up to them, as long
as they're not committing a crime. But when it is
imposing on society and people are being threatened threatened, I

(01:26:59):
mean people are being physically attacked and assaulted for asking
a question. At this race, someone went up with a
video camera is there testing and was assaulted, screamed at
by female and male enablers, vicious, vile profanities and assaulted.

(01:27:21):
And oh, by the way, the police are looking into it.
Now it's Oakland. What are they gonna do? It's Oakland, California.
I'm just saying, but this is this is this is
the reality. I'm gonna ask the question I've been asking

(01:27:42):
everybody since Charlie was shot and killed. What is worse
the death of Charlie Kirk or the celebration of it
by so many for everybody? And I just I'm arming
some of you with some rebuttal for everyone who says, well,

(01:28:06):
what about this person? What about that person? Citing someone
on the left being killed, like the lawmakers in Minnesota,
did we celebrate that? Didn't we call that out on
this very program of course we did, and so did
just about everybody on the right. We distance ourselves. We
condemn those things, we don't celebrate those things. There's no celebration. Yeah,

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there's a difference.

Speaker 9 (01:28:37):
Forty seven minutes past the obum.

Speaker 1 (01:28:56):
Okay, yeah, oh boy. Tomorrow on the program, got a
Florida Man segment. We'll take your calls during What's the
Beef from the ground Up. We're gonna give you some
tips on helping your lawn in this transition time of
the year. Got a good news segment headlines from the

(01:29:18):
Bee and I thought it would be appropriate. I've been
holding it. I came across it, our friends got beacon
from the Bee line blogger came across it. It's one
guy's thoughts on what happened last week, and I think
they're worth repeating, but it will take a little time

(01:29:40):
to share it. So that's coming tomorrow as well the
on the radio program. So I hope you make plans
to join us for the Friday edition. Friday never fails
to live up to the lofty standards of this program.
It's just it stories that we didn't get through throughout
the week, but we're worth sharing. We try to push

(01:30:04):
all that stuff out. So there's just a ton that
we plow through on Friday, and I hope you make
plans to join us.

Speaker 8 (01:30:10):
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Speaker 1 (01:30:21):
Look back at the program one hundred and eighty seconds
or less. We started with Second Corinthians ten three through five.
A lot of people saying, man, what are the marching
orders for Christians? There they are Second Corinthians ten three
through five. Really good, really good, really good. Big stories

(01:30:43):
in the press box today, learned a little bit more
about the roommate. ABC News halting Jimmy kimmelive and definitely
now there's some real pushback there. I think it's bowing
a knee to a dictator. No, it's no hun The
FCC grants licenses to broadcast, and there are things you

(01:31:05):
can can and cannot say, and businesses have a right.
Businesses said, we don't want to be affiliated with Jimmy Kimmel. Cool.
ABC Disney said, this is not good for our business
to be putting Jimmy Kimmel on the air right now.
This is as simple as it gets. It's a marketplace decision.

(01:31:32):
I can't help the fact that Jimmy Kimmel, who's not funny,
is tone deaf and can't read the room. And you know,
the funny thing is that's his job. The job of
a comedian is to read the room. It's not funny
to joke about and to plant seeds that are factually
incorrect about the murderer of Charlie Kirk. It's not funny.

(01:31:59):
It didn't crack jokes about it. He was saying something
that was factually untrue. Federal reserve cutting interest rates quarter
point eh previously deported Honduran illegal immigrant charged with killing
a teen who rejected his sexual advances. Of course here

(01:32:21):
in the country illegally. I wonder how he provided a
living for himself. Who was employing him? I wonder he
drove his car over the girl and killed her. Shared
the audio of the mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, Michigan telling
a man who is a Christian minister that he's not

(01:32:41):
welcome to live in that city. He's not welcome to
live there. In fact, when he moves, the mayor said
he'll throw a parade. Governor had nothing to say about
any of that, And then we pointed out that the
time of day that you eat, notably as you age.
If you eat later and later in the day, notably breakfast,
you are reducing your life span and by up to
ten percent. Interesting. It was just an interesting longitudinal study.

(01:33:08):
Big word, wasn't it. Yeah, tomorrow Friday, can't wait. Friends,
have a blessed day.