Ep. 5460: Fat Bear Week.

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Thursday, September 25th.

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- Steve Stewart
- Dr. David Hartz
- Florida C.F.O. Blaise Ingolia



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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Good morning. How are Yeah, it's Thursday already my own mind,
September twenty fifth. I feel like I was just talking
about it being the end of August and now we're
at the end of September. All of my urging to

(00:34):
sing Neil Diamond is gone. Where is leaving September on? Anyway,
it is good to be with you. He's Oaia. I'm
preston show fifty six. Sorry, fifty four to sixty went
a little dyslexic on you there. Oh, there's so much
to talk about and we've got to fit it in

(00:56):
amongst our incredible guests. We've got Steve Stewart this morning,
Doctor David at Hearts talking more about chronic fatigue and
blazon Golia. He has been appointed the state CFO state
senator formally and wants the job permanently, so he has

(01:17):
filed to run for the office of CFO. So we'll
have him on the program talk about his efforts to
bring some accountability to cities across the state. Learning more
about how state the state can approach the property tax
issue by addressing waste in local government. What is needed

(01:40):
versus what is spent. There's a big difference anyway, let's
start with the most important thing, and that is scripture.
And this among the most important things in scripture. How
about that. It's not like there's anything that's not worth
reading in scripture. But there are some verses that pin

(02:06):
down your theology. There are others that give it some flavor.
There's some that give it some historical context. This one
is an anchor point for what you believe. John fourteen

(02:28):
six Jesus said to him, I am the Way, the Truth,
and the Life. No one comes to the Father except
through me. One of the reasons why I said to

(02:53):
you that the late Pope Francis was heretic is because
he violated that. And I know that many of you
Catholics recognize that, like, whoa, that is way wrong. Yeah,

(03:19):
because Pope Francis famously talked about how there are all
kinds of paths leading to God, to which you could
literally reply, what the hell, because that's what that's leading
one to. No one comes to the Father except through me,

(03:45):
Who's me, Jesus Christ, the Son of God. That's it.
Narrow is the path, narrow is the gate. It is
what it is. You don't have to believe it. It's
purely your call. It is your choice. But if you're

(04:09):
going to wander into other things, other religions, other faiths,
dabble in astrology and all of this other stuff, you
have to reconcile all of it with that singular verse.
And that's why I said, this is an anchor verse.
This is a verse that nails down your theology. Yes
or no, it's not. Well, you know, I don't think that. No,

(04:32):
I'm sorry. You conform to it. It doesn't conform to you.
You take it or leave it. And this is something
that the world struggles with. But let me remind you
we were created to worship. That's why people elevate things

(05:01):
into places of worship that they don't belong. It can
be your spouse, it can be your work, it can
be money, it can be stuff. Jesus fills the void
and Jesus provides the way. Ten past the Hours in

(05:24):
the Morning Show with Preston Scott, give it like a
fine wine.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Ah, excuse me, man I please have some more water
the pellegrino. Yes, sparkling, m this breathe very nice. Good
morning and welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
Uh soron Mom Donnie getting the endorsement of Comas. Harris
and I discussed the importance of joy. That's his Oh,
New York City, if it if it becomes turned over

(06:21):
to a socialist mayor, I will never go back to
that city. Ever, I won't go to Dearborn, Michigan. Why
would I now? Why would I? Anyway? Sorry? September twenty fifth,

(06:42):
Here what do we got? Sixteen ninety Public Occurrences both
Foreign and domestic. That's the first American newspaper. What a title,
Public Occurrences both foreign and domesicic great title to a
newspaper published in Boston. Unhappy authorities quickly closed it down.

(07:07):
See even then free speech, we struggled with it sixteen ninety.
Seventeen seventy five, Patriot Ethan Allen is captured by the
British during an attack on Montreal. Seventeen eighty nine, Congress
sends twelve amendments to the Constitution of the States for ratification.
Ten are later ratified and become the Bill of Rights.

(07:34):
Nineteen eighteen. Eddie Rickenbacker earns the Medal of Honor in
the skies of near Everdon, France. Nineteen fifty seven. I've
told the story of Eddie Rickenbacker Army troops escored nine
black students into Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas
to enforce desegregation. Who stood in the way of that?

(07:56):
Oh yeah, democrats? And in nineteen eighty one, Sandra Day O'Connor, Hey,
I'm just sharing history, just huh said, come on now, cubbies.
Nineteen eighty one, Sandra Da O'Connor sworn in as the
first female Supreme Court justice. There you have that. It
is hold on to yourself here now, sorry, that's strike

(08:24):
that from the record. Just strike that statement from the record.
I never said it. Today is National Open the Magic Day.
Here's what they're referring to, the joy of reading, reading
a book, picture books with your kids and that moment

(08:44):
when something just goes bing confetti moments. Those are confetti
moments when kids see something and it connects. I remember
my wife telling me. One of the reasons why she
got her man there's in education and why she specialized
in reading, and why she's did reading research and is

(09:06):
involved in literacy and teaching right now, literacy. She said,
if I can teach a child to read, I can
change their life. That is the singular skill that unlocks
everything else, and we've lost that too many parents are

(09:27):
too busy and they don't make the time to read.
It's huge. Today's National Daughter's Day, aw National cas Adia Day.
I was off by a day. I made a bunch
of casa das. My wife and I had caseida is
yesterday and then I made a bunch that she took
over to some of our kids and our grandkid, daughter,

(09:51):
grand granddaughter, and so they all munched on my and
my My granddaughter was told that Papa made her dinner. Papa, Yes,
little one, I did. It is National Lobster Day. Now
what if we put those two together Lobster case adhi,

(10:16):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, that'd be a thing. National
Research Administrator Day, National Tune Up Day, National Comic Book Day,
National Math Storytelling Day using math and storytelling, and National
One Hit Wonder Day. You know what Hit wonder is

(10:38):
all those songs that they had one like Tequila by
the Champs, or Monster Mash by Bobby Boris Pickett and
the crypt Kickers wipe Out by the Safaris. It never
rains in Southern California, Albert Hammond, I mean, there's all

(11:01):
kinds of great ones that were one hit Wonders seventeen
past the hour. Sorry, hey, did you know? Coming back strong?
Here on the Morning show. Got to show some love

(11:28):
to former Seminal Great catcher Cal Raley leading the majors,
leading the bigs and home runs. Last night he has
his eleventh game with more than one home run in it.
The Mariners clinched the Al West and cal Raley hits

(11:51):
home runs number fifty nine and sixty. Come on, and
he's not cheating like Barry Bonds did, like Sammy Sosa,
Mark McGuire, He's not a cheater. He and Aaron Judge
are doing it normal without cheating. Aaron's got fifty or

(12:16):
fifty one home runs, but Cal's at sixty. Cal is
at sixty home runs? Do you realize how crazy that is?
I thought Roger Marras should have held the record until
Aaron Judge broke it. There's no way that Roger Marriss

(12:40):
should not have still held that record. And oh, by
the way, Hank, Aaron still is the all time record holder.
It's not Barry Bonds he's a cheater. How do you know?
How do you know he cheated? Have you looked at
that man's head size?

Speaker 3 (12:55):
No?

Speaker 1 (12:55):
Really, all you have to do is look at his
head when he played for Pittsburgh and then when he
played for San Francisco. It's huge. He's like wearing a
size nine hat. It's huge. That's steroids. Well, steroids doesn't

(13:18):
make you hit it out of the ball party, Oh
yes it does. It brings a fair a foul ball
back into play. A bat that's laid into this into
the that would otherwise be late into the hitting zone
now gets to it. That ball that carries just another
three feet otherwise would have been a fly ball to
the warring warning track. No, no, no, it matters. So

(13:43):
really happy for cal Raleigh. He is the man and he's, oh,
by the way, incredible behind the dish. So congratulations to
FSU's great catcher cal Raley leading the Mariners. I got
my team to pull for now because my twins stink

(14:04):
because they can't they can't get it together. They're just
they were doing so well, and I really do like
our manager. But golly, anyway, today is did you know?
So that was it? Did you know? Did you know
caw Raley leads the majors and home runs with sixty?

(14:25):
Did you know it's fat Bear Week? Couldn't get to
it yesterday. The cat My National Park in Alaska has
released the bracket for this year's Fat Bear Week competition.
If you don't know anything about it, the largest brown

(14:46):
bears on earth are found at this one particular place,
Brooks River in cap My National Park. In fact, you
can find a video feed a webcam that's constant, that's
on all all the time that you can stream. Maybe
I'll put it on my blog page. I used to
do the bald eagle cam up at Barry College, and

(15:08):
maybe I'll try it again. It was down and then
I kind of lost sight of it all. But Fat
Bear Week started this week and you can vote daily.
It's a single elimination tournament. They show you the pictures
of the bears, a little description, and it bears advance until,

(15:32):
for example, you've got This year's bracket includes one twenty
eight grazer. That's bear. One twenty eight female bear who
claimed her first Fat Bear Week title of in twenty
twenty three, so she's a returning champion. But there's a
subplot here. She also was the first pregnant bear to

(15:53):
win the competition in twenty twenty four. Explains being fat
right as result, one twenty eight junior, Grazer's cub won
this year's Fat Bear Junior Championship. So he's an up
and comer. You've got thirty two Chunk Bear six ZH nine, who,

(16:18):
by the way, was the twenty twenty two Fat Bear
Junior Champion. One twenty eight junior is as I said,
that's Grazer's cub. And so there's some there's some big
competition here and you can look it up. Explore dot
org will have links to it. Explore dot org or

(16:39):
just look up Fat Bear Week and you'll you'll find
the bracket and you can vote. So take part twenty
eight minutes past the hour, come back with the big
Stories in the press Box.

Speaker 4 (16:49):
Next, come to the m A D Radio Network, where
we challenge you to make a difference in your world
and possive way improving the lives of others.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, this

(17:23):
is kind of a snapshot, you know, quick take version
of the big stories in the press Box this morning
here on the Morning Show. And for those who are
just joining us, Hi, Hi, Hello, how are you.

Speaker 5 (17:36):
Now?

Speaker 1 (17:36):
I'm over I'm over here. Yeah, I'm Preston, he's Jose
and this is the Morning Show with Preston Scott. I know,
cleverly titled, but I mean, what are you gonna do?
I mean, Morning Joe was taken social Security raising the

(18:05):
retirement age is not under consideration. This from the Commissioner,
Frank Bisignano. They're focusing on cutting waste for an abuse.
The Left is trying to say because he went on
Fox Business with Maria Bartiromo, who has been a guest

(18:27):
on this show, and said everything's being considered, will be considered.
They're like, ah, no, we're considering ways to improve this situation,
but we're not going to raise the retirement age. Blah
blah blah blah blah. They have to do things though,

(18:50):
they have to shore it up. The problem is that
Social Security needs to be looked at through a different lens,
and we're not willing to look at it that way.
We need to look at phasing it out. We need
a plan that tells people you're in charge, you deal
with your own retirement, you get all your paycheck, and
we're going to just those who are who are putting

(19:12):
money in the system now. In other words, it's got
to be a glide slope. That's probably sixty years to
get off of Social Security, but they have to. We
have to do it. Second quick story here open a
open AI chat, GPT, Google Gemini x's groc perplexity AI.

(19:36):
Guess what source they rely on for information on questions
on the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Its top source is Al Jazeera,
an anti Israel pro jihad news outlet controlled by the

(19:59):
Nation of Katar. Just letting you know. Also, we're still
here now. You could easily say that doesn't say much
for you, Presston. The rapture happened yesterday or the day before.

(20:20):
Know anybody who's just gone now, clothing left on the
floor behind the wheel of the car, planes falling out
of the sky and cars running, just saying fraud, fraud.

(20:40):
South African pastor gotta look him up. I gotta look
him up. And then I just want to say this
about the shooting yesterday in Dallas. No, we're not going
to mention his name, and I'm not going to waste
time on that old chestnut. But here's what I will say.
Look at the list of people on the political left

(21:03):
as extreme as the transgender LGBTQ hate shooting up schools,
killing Charlie Kirk. Now we've got a guy shooting Ice
at Ice missed, killed two detainees, and all of his
messaging is anti Ice. His mom was a lefty, is

(21:26):
a lefty. It's not her fault, though, it's his fault.
He made the decision. It's not on her, no matter
what her thoughts, no matter how extreme, or what she followed,
or who she followed, It's on him. But here's the
point I want to make. Isn't it interesting how all
of this is coming from the left, being celebrated by

(21:47):
some on the left, But that the left leaves somebody
with no purpose in living other than killing somebody else
and taking their own life. That's what the left offers you.
You know what the right offers. You. Come on, let's
let's let's win the argument. Let's win people's hearts and minds.
Let's have a meeting of prayer. Let's let's consider ways

(22:11):
to make things better. You know what the left offers,
Let's shoot and kill them. Now, I'm just telling you
this is this is a fundamental truth. That's what the
left offers young people. And look what's happening. Look at
the list forty one minutes after the album. Sorry, but
someone's got to say it. Yeah, all the Rapture videos

(22:43):
are beginning to disappear. You realize people quit their jobs,
sold their cars, sold their possessions. Some probably went on binges.
Not seriously, Well, if the world's gonna end, I might
as well party. I good. This is why I beg

(23:09):
you to know God's word so you won't be deceived.
This was such an easy, easy pick off. Guy said,
Jesus appeared to him in a vision. But Jesus said,

(23:30):
I don't even know when it's gonna happen. Jesus said that, Jesus,
So what did Jesus say, Pastor I was just kidding
when I said I didn't know, there was a wink
at on, you know, wink wink. Or when I said

(23:50):
I didn't know, I had my fingers behind my back
and I had my fingers crossed. Oh jeez. See, if
you know God's word, you're not fooled by this stuff.
You're not You're not deceived. So I'm not going to
ridicule anybody that fell for it. I'm just going to say,
use it as a lesson to learn God's word for yourself. Okay,

(24:18):
guess what the FBI found at John Bolton's home. John
Bolton formed a National security advisor. He's a warhawk. He
wants to go to war all the time. And oh,
by the way, he famously said on CNN State of

(24:40):
the Union that when Donald Trump was accused of having
classified documents at mar A Lago, remember that the break
in at Mari Lago. It's not just a question of carelessness.
These are highly sensitive documents. The classification system is designed
to protect our most important secrets, and if they're not
handled properly, it can do grave damage to national security. Then,

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he told NBC News in twenty twenty three, the president's
quote handling of these documents shows a complete disregard for
the rules that government classified information. I went through a
rigorous process to clear my book, and he thinks he
can just take these materials tomorrow, lotro and treat them
like personal property. That's not how it works. This story

(25:21):
from Politico, FBI agents executing a search warrant at former
National security advisor John Bolton's downtown Washington office last month
turned up documents marked as classified.

Speaker 6 (25:32):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
Included materials that reference weapons of mass destruction. US mission
to the United Nations records related to the US government
strategic communications. They were labeled confidential. Some pages were marked secret. Huh,
you don't say. Isn't it interesting? After all the fluff

(25:58):
and the posturing and the bloating of what Trump is
accused of doing, and he finds himself in the exact
same position. How about that? Is this going to be
a very serious matter to him or only to people

(26:19):
that he doesn't like. He's allegedly on the right. He's
not right, and I'm not saying he's left. I'm saying
he's wrong. He's just wrong. Forty six minutes after the hour,
when we come back, parents, take note, Well, you are

(26:41):
challenged to make a difference each and every day. Would
you do that for us? Please? Please? Just a little?
Just try it, wid you.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
And not only is the false prophecy of this pastor
make him look stupid, it hurts the body of Christ.
It hurts the larger Christian family because this is allegedly

(27:26):
a pastor, someone who allegedly should know better, should know
God's word. It discredits everything that comes out of his mouth.
Moving forward, everything I said parents. Really you need to

(27:51):
zero in here on this segment we have and I
intentionally talk about stories like this at this time because
whether you're in the Eastern time zone or the Central
time zone, you're kind of getting into your day and
the kids are still with you or about to head
off to school, depending on which time zone you're in,

(28:12):
And I talk about the impact that TikTok has on
young people and the influence and the ridiculous stunts that
TikTok advocates and challenges, the TikTok challenges out there that
caused some young people to die, some to be catastrophically
injured performing these stunts or challenges, and in this story,

(28:37):
both death and catastrophic injury. Two Pennsylvania teens are now
facing charges after they drove their friends on TikTok inspired stunts.
They were unrelated to one another, involved different stunts, but
both happened in Northampton County, eighty five miles west of

(28:58):
New York City eighty miles north of Philadelphia. In one case,
a seventeen year old died while riding on top of
a folding table tied to the back of his friend's car.
Video showed the friend driving recklessly through a parking lot
and whipped the writers sitting on the table into another

(29:21):
parked car, and he died, seventeen year old boy. In
the other case, a nineteen year old woman allegedly drove
through a parking lot with her twenty year old friend
surfing on her trunk. The woman on the trunk fell

(29:43):
off and suffered catastrophic head injuries that will be permanent
in nature. Now neither teen is being accused of planning
to hurt their friends. They are allegedly criminally culpable because
the incidents were quote so grossly negligent and reckless. Neither

(30:09):
driver as a criminal record. Neither victim's family is calling
out for incarceration, so the office is not going to
seek jail time for either of the kids if they
agree to plead deals. But there are repercussions like knowing,
for in one case, for the rest of your life
that your actions were responsible for the death of somebody,

(30:31):
or your actions were responsible for the permanent paralysis maybe
of somebody. My point in sharing this story is parents,
just have a talk with your kids and use these stories.
Say look, guys, this, I'm sharing this with you, not

(30:53):
so that you do it better or do it safely.

Speaker 7 (30:56):
They just not do these things at all. You get
one life, that's it. It's a one shot at living
your life. Don't be reckless with it. All right, we're
gonna come back. Steve Stewart will join us. Much to

(31:19):
talk about with Steve, and I'm quite sure we also
have doctor David Hart's next hour, try to help you
feel a little bit better. State CFO Chief Financial Officer
Blazingolia will join us in our number three.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
So we have much to discuss. Stay with us Thursday
on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. It is the

(31:55):
second hour. It's Thursday on the Morning Show with Preston's
cock in Morning Friends. We are in the final day
of the month of September. I cannot get that through
my brain. It no, seriously, it's really difficult for me
to figure that out. And Grace mercifully sorry no hurricanes yet, grateful.
We need to keep it that way because nothing would

(32:17):
make me happier than for the forecasters to be proven
woefully wrong. But it is Thursday, and that means it's
time for Steve Stewart. He is the executive editor of
Tallassi Reports website. Tallassi Reports dot com. So we got
a race fam meyya.

Speaker 8 (32:31):
Oh yes, we got more names in the hat advertising dollars.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
So well not probably for us, Oh I would disagree.
You know what, You're right, they need us, They need
all of the people that don't think like them.

Speaker 8 (32:45):
This look so, you know, you Commission Malow, Loryen Osley
now is in, and Daryl Parks. And the thing about
this is the all three Democrats. And so the interesting
thing is the more you have up to the prime,
the more important the Northeast vote, the you know, the
moderate conservved vote is going to be. And so they're

(33:07):
going to be Commissioner Mallow's early strategy from what we
had heard, was basically to write out the Northeast and
go for the south side vote. You know, and and
you know the white liberal progressives.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (33:17):
Darryl Parks really throws a wrench into that because he's
someone who is is very visible in the black community
and has been for years. And so now you know,
Commission Malow is like, well, now he's he's you know,
dissed the Northeast, and now the African American community, you know,
is looking at Darryl Parks. And then comes Lorn Osley,

(33:37):
who is I would say a pretty liberal Democrat, but
not you know, not uh. I've talked to law enforcement
groups who said that that she has supported them was
when she was in the state legislature. So in other words,
I would say a sensible.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
Not an extremist right. And so this really.

Speaker 8 (33:56):
Puts the the you know, the squeeze on commission.

Speaker 1 (33:59):
Mallow and what are you hearing of any other people
maybe getting in now?

Speaker 8 (34:04):
I mean, you know, I think you probably usually in
these seats that are you don't have an incumbent, you
get four or five people, so maybe someone else will
get in. I think the nightmare would be if a
conservative guide in for for the other three, because then
that just takes that would take a number of votes
that would take you know, five or six thousand votes

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just off the table. Now the primary, and you know
the primary works. The top two in the primary.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
You're not going to win it in August though, well
you can if you get over fifty still still yeah,
I thought they still had I thought the top two advance,
whether they had fifty plus one or not.

Speaker 8 (34:41):
That is you know, I'll have to check into that,
but you may be right on that may be wrong.
But anyway, So it's going to be the top two.
And you know, obviously the more votes to get dispersed.
Right now, with these three that you have, you've got
sort of a they're sort of across the spectrum clearly.
You know, when I talk about is the two most

(35:01):
important things are law enforcement and economic growth? How do
you you know, how do you view those those those things?
And I think that's that's the issues that I focused on.
The third thing that I'm going to add this time
in terms of what I look at is your commitment
to to what to Tallahassee. And we talked a little
bit about that before it came on, is that I
think we've had a number of people and Mattlow falls

(35:22):
clearly in this category, is that there are focused on
something else. You know, he's focused more on how you
ran this ideology down. You know, we've had some successful
politicians in the past that have been looking to run
for you know, government, higher office, and I'm more interested
in somebody now that is just especially given the narrative

(35:42):
or the issues that we're dealing with. Naturally, this is
just focused on what's best for Tallahassee, you know, there
and and so you know, could Laurene Osley be that person?
She obviously doesn't have you know, she's I don't think
she has any ambitions to run for higher office. Is
she someone that would listen to other people?

Speaker 1 (36:00):
I think, well, she's come from higher office exactly.

Speaker 8 (36:03):
Yeah, so this is maybe something that is that it's
not about her, it's about listening and figuring out what's best.
And so you know, we'll see again. For me, the
bar is pretty low. Support law enforcement and you know,
and let's you know, economic growth, I mean support economic
growth policies.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
It's going to be interesting. I got Blazing Golia on
the program next hour, and you know, he's going city
by city. They're going to try to lay the groundwork
for figuring out the best way to move forward on
eliminating property tax. And that necessitates figuring out what cities
are spending money on exactly.

Speaker 8 (36:38):
And we've talked about this. This is going to happen
next year. Spending has gone up because of the property
tax values, yeah, property values and then getting private text
and so it's definitely up for a review.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
It's going to be fascinating to see, all right, but
there's still plenty of room for anybody out there named
Bill Montford who wants to get in the race, just saying,
not saying. Ten minutes past the hour This Morning Show
with Preston Scott, Steve Stewart with me from Tell Ask Report. Steve,

(37:14):
you were just talking about the divisive nature of Jeremy Mattlow,
especially the last four years he's sewing discord in the
City Commission. But he's not alone in sewing discord.

Speaker 8 (37:28):
Now, I think one of the things, no, the Charlie
Kirk assassination has sort of rippled down to a lot
of different communities. You've seen educators having problems because the
comments that they make, which is still just unfathomable to
me that you would actually have to take the time
and be able to do this. But it's here in
Leon County. You know Darryl Jones, who is a member

(37:49):
of the school board from district from the south side,
and he's elected obviously in the district.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
I've watched him for a number of years. I don't
know him that well.

Speaker 8 (37:56):
Very command of the English language, you know, and he
likes to talk, very good speaker. I always that intrigued me.
I'm not intrigued by him anymore.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
Uh, you know, he.

Speaker 8 (38:05):
Posted that Charlie Kirk in response to the Education Commissioner
sending out a letter that says, look, we need to
be cautious about what you say. You've got a First
Amendment right, but there's also consequences to that. His response
was to trash the commissioner and say that Charlie Kirk
was a racist, homophobic clansman and those.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
Are you know. And he took that post down, didn't
he He did?

Speaker 8 (38:28):
And and the point on that, I think, which is
even worse, is it really shows you that he's trying
to hide who he is. And he's an extremist clearly.
And so this this got out Talas Democrat wrote an article.
He was not apologetic, and so the best I can
take tell the community in your listeners is that I'm

(38:49):
through the anger stage on this of just you know,
just sort of throwing out my hand and saying, really,
is that count this as a blessing because people are
revealing who they are. Yeah, and you sort of just
you know, you just say, okay, we know.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
Now.

Speaker 8 (39:03):
The problem is this, he's also a county employee. He's
also the chairman of the CSC Children's Services Council. So
I think I don't know that we should be elevating
people that have this mindset in this community because it's
not good for the community.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
Well, I mean, you can argue that the state has
taken the position that teachers that take this position, it's
not about free speech. It's about the character of them
being in the classroom and advocating for the murder or
celebrating the murder of someone who was engaged in civil discourse.
Can't you make that same argument about a school board memb. Well,
I think he can.

Speaker 8 (39:36):
But as you know, if you look through history, I mean,
he's elected and people have gone to prison and then
got re elected. So I mean he's representing a district.
The point I would make on this in the community
needs and this will be interesting to see how the
school board responds, right, because you could say, well, you know,
he's an elected official, he has this constituency. But this
comes at a time when Leon County schools are losing customers.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
Yeah, they're hemorrhaging students and you know, and.

Speaker 8 (40:00):
Also comes on the heel of this gender ideology that
was in the school system. And I'm going to give
Ciprin Superintendent hand Ah credit for addressing that this, you know,
and the you know, this guide for teaching gender.

Speaker 1 (40:11):
Ideology that was in school.

Speaker 8 (40:13):
It was underneath it wasn't being talked about tile supports.
I'll take a lot of credit for exposing that and
getting that dealt with. Well, now we have this, and
so again, you cannot you cannot expect families who will
read this quote okay and not say, geez, I don't
want my kids in this school system. So he's he's
having an impact overall even though he represents a you know,

(40:36):
a certain constituency.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
Well, what about the students I was written to by
student a student yesterday that is starting a tp USA
club at a local high school. What about the students
that want to be part of that club knowing that
a school board members thinking that the guy who was
assassinated deserved it.

Speaker 8 (40:55):
No, And you know, look, it's that's the exact point.
It's it's like you're saying, oh, well, you know, you
have people that would read this and say, it's okay
for me to not like Charlie Kirk because he's a racist,
homophobic clansman. And I think you know, if you disagree
with Charlie Kirk's position on issues, come out and say
that that's fine. I support affirmative action, you know, I
but to use those terms again, it clearly tells you

(41:18):
who he is.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
And now it's going to.

Speaker 8 (41:19):
Be up for the community to say, do we really
want this person in these these high level decisions? Are
these high level positions where he's making decisions?

Speaker 1 (41:29):
Well, now it'll be interesting to see what the county does,
what the school board does, and to me, what the
state does now that it's known what he did, right.

Speaker 8 (41:37):
And again the key thing not apologetic at all.

Speaker 1 (41:41):
Yeah, that's very important. All right, sixteen pasted. More to
come with Steve Stewart of Tellasti Reports. We're back with
investigative reporter Steve Stewart of Telaski Boards. And I'll remind
you friends, subscribe support the effort of independent journalism. Uh

(42:06):
an actual newspaper that that that is growing, as opposed
to retracting or contracting. Steve, a couple of items here
you want to get so.

Speaker 8 (42:16):
Lorie Cox, who is actually the chairman of the Leon
County School Board, was called to testify or before the
Florida Department Education meeting and involved how the Leon County
School Board is dealing with the union and pay raises
for teachers. And it's an interesting topic that the uh,
the head of FTO, he has been blaming Superintendent Hannah

(42:38):
for this. And what happens is the union and the
school board agree on a contract and instead of signing it,
the union just waits for three or four months and
continues to ask for more things, and teachers are delayed
in getting their money.

Speaker 1 (42:53):
And the head.

Speaker 8 (42:54):
Of the Department of Education is saying, look, you guys
are an outlier. Why aren't you just signing the contract,
you know, and given them money to the teachers, And
so Lori Cox went in front of him and said, listen,
this is not a problem with the This is not
Superintendent Hannah's fault. This is the union.

Speaker 6 (43:11):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (43:11):
They've become used to doing this, and at the very
end the school board sort of folds and gives them
a little extra money so they have an incentive to wait.
And one of the board members brought that up to
to Miss Cox's, Look, you might not think Superintendent you
know Hannah is at fault here, and I understand your
criticism in the union, but if he folds at the
end every year, they're going to wait. And so evidently

(43:32):
this year, he's really not going to fold and so
we'll see what happens. But again I think it is
it is a sort of a look into how the
teachers union is taking advantage of the system and just
trying to get every little dollar, you know, and to
this point the school board has sort of folded and
let them wait. But and again the money comes back.

(43:53):
They get it retroactively.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
But it's just a.

Speaker 8 (43:57):
It's a process that the head of deo he is
not it is not fond of.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
It's needlessly cumbersome, exactly. That's a great way of putting it.
What about the city Commission seat three sixty.

Speaker 8 (44:07):
Three, So where Commission Mattlow is leaving, and it looks
now like he's not gonna have a place to go
back if he was interested in getting out. So he's
sort of, you know, stuck where he is because there's
a number of people running. The thing I would point
out is just like last cycles, and it's almost like
the progressives can't help themselves because what you would really
like to have is candidates that you don't know where,

(44:27):
you know, you don't know where they're coming from. You know,
they're like interested in running and this guy PJ. Perez
is a teacher and he gets in and you're like, okay,
you know he's been here for a number of years.
And right off the bat, Ryan Ray, the head of
Democratic Party, who is Mattlow's local Democratic Party, who is
Mattlow's aid and is you know, left winging extremists, comes
out and introduces him at the campaign cake off, even

(44:49):
Thosese other Democrats in the race, and this guy Perez
who you know, and I'd love to talk to him,
but he goes right out and start attacking Daily and
talking how Blueprint is not spending dollars efficiently and you know,
things like this, and basically sides with the progressive. So
he gets labeled we're a year out and the guy

(45:10):
is already in that camp, and.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
So is it a fair label based on what he
said so far?

Speaker 8 (45:17):
You know, the campaign kickoff opposed to Lorraine Osley's comments
which said that she is now you know, not going
to talk about specific positions until she gets out and
talks to the community and listening to her. Whether he
problems when you compare it to that, yeah, not a
good campaign role all out in the sense that you're
already labeling yourself and saying instead of saying, well, you know,

(45:40):
I got to look at my position on law enforcement.
I want to you know, I want to talk to
the community or you know, Blueprint has done some really
good things. I want to focus on what they've done
well and then see if there's some other.

Speaker 1 (45:51):
Issues we can deal.

Speaker 8 (45:52):
It's just this broad negative, you know, view of Blueprint
and then you know, and he he comes out, it
gives you the idea that he is against economic growth.
You can look at our jobs report. There's not a
lot of economic growth going on right now, and to
argue that that is one of the major topics that
we you know, we got a real end growth. It's

(46:13):
just you know, something that I think I might have
not talked about. But anyway, it'll be interesting to see
because there are there are four candidates in there, and
we'll you know, we'll get their positions on the different
items before the election.

Speaker 1 (46:25):
What do you keep an eye on? What what stories
are you kind of working on?

Speaker 8 (46:28):
Well, so the market district, sexual battery, we are still
gathering information and I think we're going to have something
that's going to be original. What happened, So there was yeah,
sexual battery, brutal I've read the detailed report that was
not included any mediality. I mean, it is brutal, and
I think that there is more of the story than
we're being told. And so we're digging around our.

Speaker 1 (46:49):
Allegedly a homeless guy from out of the out of
the country, it.

Speaker 8 (46:53):
Appears, although there are conflicting reports on where he's from. Okay,
and so what what policies are we following that allowed
this to happen because he was arrested two months before
this happened.

Speaker 1 (47:04):
Okay, and so we'll keep you post on that. Thanks
as well as always, thank you, Preston. All right, Steve Stewart,
Tallassi Reports. Subscribe go to Tallassireports dot com.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
Morning Drive version of an audio magazine and keeping you
company as you prepare for your day. It's the Morning
Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (47:38):
Get ready for this. Sorry, thirty five minutes past the hour,
Doctor Dave in just a couple of minutes here. Social
Security chief says that raising the retirement age is not
under consideration. So don't get your depends in a bind,

(47:59):
don't your nickers in a buying, don't get your slacks
or your skirts, don't just relax We have had a
lot of people since Trump took office making up crap
and using fear. There are a lot of reasons to
be concerned about retirement. There are a lot of reasons

(48:23):
to be concerned about the fact that the government has
rules in place that tell you when you have to
start taking your money. And it's just rubbish. That needs
to change. But social Security needs to change. It needs
to change dramatically. We need to be weaned off of
our dependence on it. People need to be given the
freedom to do what they want with their own money.

(48:43):
And if they're not. Look when you say to people,
we're going to take care of you, and you don't
expect people to do what they need to do to
prepare for their own retirement days. If they want to retire, well,
you're going to breed people that are fiscally ignorant. I've

(49:06):
been advocating for as long as I can remember getting
rid of Social Security. I'm in it too long. Now,
you've taken my money too long. I want it back.
I would have been willing to forego that twenty five
years ago and say, okay, you can keep what you've taken,

(49:27):
which they already spend anyway, I don't want to get
bogged down on that. Al Jazeera is the top source
for almost all of the AI sources out there. So
if you, for example, decide to say, what's the latest
on the war between Hamas and Israel or the Israeli

(49:47):
Palestinian conflict, You're going to get Al Jazeera's viewpoint. Just
know that. I think that's important. We're handing over our
intel on the information you consume to Al Jazeera a

(50:10):
bunch of Jahadi supporting people. I mean, you may remember
reporters for Al Jazeera were killed with hostages in their
homes after the October seventh attack in Israel. Al Jazeera

(50:33):
rapture didn't happen, huh, No way, all those videos, people
put their homes on the market, sold their cars, quit
their jobs, liquidated their savings accounts because they believe this crap.
I'm begging you learn God's word so you're not deceived

(50:54):
or misled, not just by stuff like this, but by
bad pastors, because there's a lot of them there just are.
And then there's this. If you go back through the examples,
including might I add the Pulse nightclub in Orlando years ago,

(51:21):
member of the LGBTQ community shooting, schools in Minneapolis, in Nashville,
Christian schools killing students, transgenders, the killer of Charlie Kirk
dating an engage engaged in an intimate relationship with a

(51:46):
man transitioning to a woman. Now, I don't know what
that makes that relationship. Now we've got a guy on
the left of the political responsible for killing detainees. Ironically,
when it's an anti ice assassination attempt, he kills detainees,

(52:14):
ends up killing himself. Here's the lesson. The left has
nothing to offer. It just doesn't. It has nothing to offer.
That does not mean join the Republican Party. It means
get away, get away from that stuff, steer clear. It
is an ideology that leads to nothing, offers nothing. Forty

(52:37):
minutes past the album, Doctor David Hart's a Little Optimum
Health naturally.

Speaker 4 (52:42):
Next, guy, do what you're talking about, what you will
be talking and most importantly, what you should be talking about.
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
Twenty one minutes past the hour, Doctor David Hartz joins
us this morning. A little Optimum Health Naturally, Doctor Harts,
we've been talking about chronic fatigue and for those that
might have missed a few of the episodes, let's sort
of reset the definition and separate fatigue from chronic fatigue.

Speaker 5 (53:20):
Well, that's a very good a thing to do, Preston,
because you know, chronic fatigue is something that's much more severe.
It goes, you know, lasts a lot longer obviously because
it's chronic, but it affects people's lives dramatically. And I mean,
fatigue at any level is terrible, and it can affect life.
It can affect our enjoyment of life or how much

(53:42):
we can accomplish in different time scales, like through the
day or through a lifetime. And a lot of this
aren't functioning that full potential. You know, we're kind of sputtering.
I always tell people, do you want to run on
all cylinders or just part of your cylinders? And there
are many things that can affect that. And so we've
been going to and talking about a few things that

(54:03):
can affect that. One thing I want to talk about
this morning was something we really take for granted. A
lot of times we just assume if we've slept just
a little bit, or have slept you know, a few hours,
or we sleep maybe even six or seven or eight
hours that we've gotten good enough sleep to be functioning normally,
and a lot of times it's just not the case.
We're not going into deep enough sleep. And it's this

(54:26):
is really something that we take for granted, we just
kind of miile past it look for the real, super important,
you know, more more serious things as far as our
overall health. But this thing affects every single one of
the other causes because it can affect our immune system
and you know, even our killer T cells, which has
been a lot of research done recently on that about
how that affects even prevention of cancer increases when we're

(54:49):
in a deeper ream sleep, and so you know, our
brain health, amyloid and tow or taken out of our
brain and cleanse when we're in deep sleep. There's increase
problems as far as developing heart problems, type two diabetes,
high blood pressure, on numerous different types of diseases which
increase when our sleep patterns aren't good. So it's really

(55:11):
something that is worth us taking a look at and
some of the things that we can do to help this,
which you know, some of these are things we know,
but we just don't take the time to do it,
you know, improving our sleep environment, you know, trying to
get something that is actually dark in a room. You know,
I just did this recently myself. I put some shades

(55:33):
on a window, and I have something that measures in
my sleep, which I strongly recommended, or a ring or
a smart watch or anything else that can kind of
measure how you're sleeping. And I got like half an
hour to forty five minutes more deeper in sleep. I
just closing up some light that was coming in the room.
Things like that we don't think about, but it's really
really extremely important. Also getting some exercise, get out and walking.

(55:57):
We say that, but it actually affects our sleep that
allows us to go into deeper ring sleep. Avoiding electronics
and stuff like looking at a bunch of computers and
stuff like that, or even TV before we go to sleep.
A lot of times you don't realize what we're watching,
you know, kind of flows into our sleep time and
can affect this. And getting into a good, you know,

(56:18):
regular schedule of doing this, you know, trying not to change,
you know, drastically, trying to go to sleep you know,
pretty close at the same time and get up at
the same time if you can. Most people do that
with work and stuff, but easily at nights the problem
we get you get hanging around longer at night and
so forth, and so also you know, avoiding alcohol, nicotine,
and you know caffeine. But people as they say, well

(56:39):
I can, I can go ahead and drink coffee or
caffeine drinks and still sleep. Well, you still may not
be going into a deeper sleep because of it. It's
because you get into a light sleep level doesn't mean
you're getting into a deep sleep. And a couple thing
you can do take and you get on. The melotonin
still works. It's a very important hormone in our and

(57:00):
it increases in our sleep time. Magnesium is a good thing,
and also valerian roots. You can take all those things
which will help you get into the sleep. And this
is something that is just something we need to look
at periodically, even evaluated with some kind of you know,
some kind of an electronic device or whatever we can
do to try to figure out what types of levels

(57:20):
we are and to try to improve them.

Speaker 1 (57:22):
Good stuff, Doctor Harts, thanks as always for the time.
We'll talk again soon, all right, Prestin, have good day.
Thank you. Sir doctor David Hart's with us this morning.
By the way, anything that emits a blue light in
your room when you're trying to sleep is going to
hurt your sleep. And it was a little like a
cable box or whatever. Cover that blue light. Cover it up.
Forty six minutes past the hour.

Speaker 4 (57:47):
And if you're lucky, he'll be wearing his Clark Kent
glasses today The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (58:17):
Fifty one, almost fifty two minutes past the hour here
on the Morning Show Blazing Golia just a little bit away.

Speaker 5 (58:24):
We have.

Speaker 1 (58:27):
Got a short visit with him. Lots of things still
to get through. If you've not heard the Big Stories
in the press Box. By the way, speaking of the
Big Stories, we're thinking of putting the Big Stories out
on Instagram daily and maybe x as a video feature,

(58:51):
just kind of a short Here's what you need to know.
These are the big stories in the press Box. Boom video.
Haven't fully made up our mind, but it's something that
the staff and the Morning Show board of directors is considering.

(59:11):
So stay tuned. Road trip suggestion on the road again
here on The Morning Show with Preston Scott. These are
thoughts on trips you might want to take. And you
might remember last week we started to talk about eleven

(59:33):
dude ranches for a Western inspired getaway. I'll be I'm
going to tell you right now that speaks my language.
Being somewhere surrounded by mountains, vast planes and vistas with

(59:55):
horses and man, yeah, that would be kind of a
cool thing. And so we're ticking off the different locations
that are highlighted here in this piece on Epic Times.

(01:00:16):
Number three on the list is the Diamond d Ranch
in Stanley, Idaho. It's it's more off the grid than
a lot of the other places. It's a backcountry getaway
tucked away in the frank Church Wilderness, just a few
hours northeast to Boise. It's an all inclusive guest ranch

(01:00:37):
that features cabins set against a bank drop up bank,
backdrop of the Salmon River mountains. A lot of family
friendly stuff there. So it's not just this isn't just
I'm not just promoting a guy's only thing here, Okay.
This is a themed type vacation. Horseback riding, hiking, bonfire's archery,

(01:01:02):
clay shooting, gold panning. Come on, how cool would that
be to have a chance to put a pan in
the water, scoop up, get a little shovel, grab a
little gold or just some dirt, and then pan it.
I've watched I've watched gold Rush enough to know how

(01:01:23):
to pan. I can do that. I can I can
swirl that around. I know that gold sinks to the bottom.
That would be so much fun. The second offering for
the day is Grand By Colorado, the Sea Lazy U
Ranch right there by the Rockies, northern Colorado. It's been

(01:01:46):
around more than one hundred years. See that speaks my
language too. All inclusive retreat, open year round, high class amenities,
down home experiences, eight thousand, five hundred acres. You got
horseback riding you can. You can work the cattle. You

(01:02:09):
can help herd up the cattle on a horse if
you want to, don't want to rough it, you can.
You can enjoy the farm inspired gourmet meals, full service spa,
and they have they have luxury cabins available there as well.
So there's there are your two suggestions. So those are

(01:02:33):
your your thoughts for the day. We've got the We've
got the third hour of the Morning show coming up next.
Blazing Golia will join us we'll reset the big stories
in the press box if you if you missed it,
and we'll also talking about something called rhetoric and reality

(01:02:56):
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(01:03:40):
on Jose over there in Studio one A. I'm here
in Studio one b enjoining me on the phone line.
He's a former state representative. He's also a former state
senator and now he's Florida's CFO Chief Financial Officer. Blazeing Golia, Blaze,
how are you. I'm well, good morning, Thanks for making
time for us this morning. So you get appointed to

(01:04:01):
the job, you're going to run for the office. We'll
talk about that later. But when you walk into the office,
is there like a whiteboard or some sticky notes that
Jimmy Patrona's left behind that you kind of pick up on,
or how did you begin to formulate your your task list.

Speaker 6 (01:04:20):
That's a really good question. You know, Jimmy left the
office in a very good, very good spot. We have
a lot of very very talented people there. We brought
in a lot of the talented people that I have
identified over the years, including some of my previous staff.
But ahead of the appointment, you know, there was this
time where it was like, wen's the appointment going to happen?

(01:04:40):
We don't know. All that time, we were looking at
the office and the duties and the power that comes
with the office, and started formulating a plan about sixty
to ninety days prior to getting in there, with the
hope that eventually we would one day, you know, be appointed.
So as soon as we got that's one of the
reasons why we were ready to go on day one.

Speaker 1 (01:05:03):
So what is that list? What I mean, I know
a little bit about what you're up to, but I
want to hear it in your words.

Speaker 6 (01:05:12):
Well, if there's three very big things that we are
trying to tackle, One is property tax reform. We are
trying to deliver reductions or possibly the elimination of property
taxes on homesteaded properties. We're seeing the same thing today
that we saw in the mid two thousands. Prices escalated,
property taxes escalated, and governments are growing their bureaucracies and budgets,

(01:05:39):
sometimes almost double. The said State of Affairs is their
budgets have gone up in between sixty to twenty percent
over the past five years. So I'm going to be
working a hand in glove with the governor making sure
that we are making the message and support for property
tax reform. But you can't get to that until you

(01:05:59):
do this second biggest thing, which is holding the local
governments accountable and auditing them to make sure that we're
cutting out the wasteful spending. And you're seeing that now.
We're going city by city, county by county, rooting out waste,
fraud and abuse, and calling out the bureaucrats in the
career of tax and spend politicians for those escalating property taxes.

(01:06:20):
And the last thing is making sure that we have
a vibrant insurance market here where companies compete for your
rate dollars, pushing the cost curve down, but also at
the same time holding those insurers accountable, including fines to
make sure that they do what they say they're going
to do. So those are the three big things, along

(01:06:41):
with everything else that we are going to be rolling
out and you'll see that stuff happening over the next
six months.

Speaker 1 (01:06:47):
Joining us CFO, Blazeingolia and Blaze. You mentioned the auditing
of local government. What authority does your office have with
regard to that.

Speaker 6 (01:07:02):
So there's actually two authorities we have. One is housed
EOG by virtue of law and executive order, and that's
creating the Department of Government Inefficiency and I say inefficiency
on purpose, but that allows them to go in and

(01:07:22):
you know, request all of this information and then started
looking at this. But I have broad authority under Florida's
constitution to audit any any entity, public or private that
receives any tax dollars. So and that's the initiative that
we are doing out of my office that we have
termed you know, the Florida Agency or Fiscal Oversight or FAFFO,

(01:07:44):
if you will. So those are the ways we can
go in and look and start holding these up, these
local governments accountable.

Speaker 1 (01:07:52):
Blazon Goolia with US State CFO. He'll be with us
for one more segment. We'll have a longer visit, I'm
sure in the days, months, weeks to come. Next The
Morning Show with Preston Scott doubufla final few minutes with

(01:08:14):
Blazing Golia, Florida State CFO, our first visit since he
took office and Blaze what kind of reaction are you
getting as you roll into town. I mean, I'm hearing
a lot of different stories. Of course, I love the
fact that you're doing these audits. I think it's awesome,
But I also know there are some communities in this
state that probably aren't very happy to see your folks.

Speaker 6 (01:08:35):
Well, I think it depends who you're asking. If you're
asking the taxpayers, I think what they're saying is that
it's about time that somebody is looking out for the
taxpayers that have a taxpayer advocate in the office of
the CFO. Absolutely, if you are making a bunch of
money off of local government, or if you're a local
government itself, or if you're a bureaucrat that it has

(01:08:55):
been benefiting from the expansion of local government over the
past five years. Yeah, you're not that I'm coming into
town and we see that by the pr campaign trying
to make the ridiculous statement that they needed to double
their budgets over the past five years in order to
keep essential services, which is absolutely a fabrication.

Speaker 1 (01:09:15):
What are some commonalities. I know it's real early in
the process and kind of the state tour is underway,
but are there some commonalities that you're seeing in governments
with regard to waste.

Speaker 6 (01:09:29):
Yeah, so let's talk about wasting and excessive spending and
the commonalities. What we're seeing across every single government is
the same thing. Is that since COVID, local governments took
that extra money and expanded government, adding bureaucracy, adding programs
that shouldn't be their expanding programs that shouldn't be there.

(01:09:51):
And then they all knew that this COVID money was
supposed to go away, it was only short term. But
then the local government's got lucky by this huge influx
of tax dollars. Not only did they not be affrugal,
which your money, they expand it and double down on
some of these programs that shouldn't have been there in
the first place. So that's the commonality in terms of
high level thirty thousand foot view spending is that they

(01:10:13):
got the COVID money and then they got lucky with
all this extra tax revenue and expanded governor government even more.
But when it comes to when it comes to what
they're spending the money on, there is expanding the bureaucracy
and hiring bureaucrats for no reason whatsoever. So you will

(01:10:35):
see counties and cities that have minimal expansion in population
but a massive expansion in population, and the numbers just
don't make sense.

Speaker 1 (01:10:46):
If I were to ask you early on, and I'm
not holding you to it, but I've been advocating for
the elimination of property tax since the very first week
I started this show in March of two thousand and two,
and so that we're here, it's only been a quarter
of my lifetime. I mean, you know, it's been a minute,
but we're talking about it. What do you think is

(01:11:08):
the key to the revenue component as it relates to
cities and counties if we roll away the property tax,
what's going to be the key mechanism to fund those entities.

Speaker 6 (01:11:21):
So the first thing is we need to start off
with the premise that they don't need all of the
money that they have, right now.

Speaker 1 (01:11:26):
So when we're talking about.

Speaker 6 (01:11:27):
Revenue replacement, we're sort of submitting to them that they
needed the revenue in the first place. And I would
argue that, no, they don't need all that revenue in
the first place if they simply went back down, went
back to twenty nineteen levels and indexed forward for just inflation,
not even accounting for population, because who where's it written

(01:11:50):
in stone that if you wind up getting an extra
thousand people in your city or county that you have
to hire one hundred people. That just doesn't make any sense.
But if you go back to the twenty twenty twenty
nineteen levels, you'll see that they don't need all this
extra money, so all that could be cut out. And
then I think what you can do is phase in
in order to get to the point where we have

(01:12:11):
no property taxes on homestead of properties. You just phase
it out over three five years. This way there is
a point certain that they know that there will be
no more, and then you just take the money coming
from growth, from normal growth. I think it is I
think we can get there. Yeah, it's a lofty goal,
but I think the numbers do make sense. Another thing

(01:12:33):
that I think we can do is get rid of
the required local effort from locals for school boards and
make that a function of the state. Have the state
fund the schools, and then you're getting rid of about
thirty five percent of your property tax just.

Speaker 1 (01:12:49):
Off of the bat.

Speaker 6 (01:12:50):
So there's a pathway to do it. I'm hopeful that
the legislature can get something super aggressive on the ballot,
but at the very least, even if they don't, you're
going to see a massive property taxt gun on the
ballot in twenty six.

Speaker 1 (01:13:02):
Love to have you come visit us again sometime whenever
you like, Blaize, I appreciate your time.

Speaker 6 (01:13:07):
You got to thank you for the opportunity.

Speaker 1 (01:13:09):
Thank you, Blaze and Golia State CFO. Our guest. Those
of you longtime listeners know we have routinely had the
CFO for the State of Florida on this program over
the years. Whether it was Jimmy Petronis, whether it was
Jeff Attwater, we have always had a great relationship with
the state CFO, even when it was a Democrat that

(01:13:29):
one time. But this guy is a bit of a
bulldog and he talks my language and I love what
he's about, So could be really a lot of fun
to watch this tour what happens across the state seventeen

(01:13:49):
past the hour. I want you to really listen to
this compilation. It's just a minute twenty seven seconds of
what democrats leading voices, which you'll recognize each one, used

(01:14:18):
to say about illegal immigration.

Speaker 9 (01:14:20):
I think we got to have tough conditions. Tell people
to come out of the shadows. If they've committed a crime,
deport them, no questions asked, They're gone.

Speaker 1 (01:14:28):
If they've been.

Speaker 9 (01:14:29):
Working and are law abiding, we should say, here are
the conditions for you staying. You have to pay a
stiff fine because you came here illegally. You have to
pay back taxes, and you have to try to learn English,
and you have.

Speaker 6 (01:14:41):
To wait in line.

Speaker 10 (01:14:43):
What's going to happen is you are going to pay
a significant fine, you are going to learn English. You
are going to go to the back of the line
so that you don't get ahead of somebody who is
in Mexico.

Speaker 1 (01:14:55):
City applying legally.

Speaker 10 (01:14:57):
I think the American people they appreciate and believe in immigration,
but they can't have a situation where you just have
half a million people pouring over the border without any
kind of mechanism to control it.

Speaker 11 (01:15:10):
We all in this body, and I know I can
speak very firmly for the Democrats support strong border controlled
and it must be part and the first part of
any comprehensive immigration reform.

Speaker 3 (01:15:26):
Illegal immigration is wrong, plain and simple. Until the American
people are convinced that we will stop future flows of
illegal immigration, we will make no progress dealing with the
millions of illegal immigrants who are here now and on
rationalizing our system of legal immigration.

Speaker 1 (01:15:49):
Any questions. By the way, did you notice the applause
when Hillary and Obama said and they need to learn
to speak English. These are Democrats at Democrat rallies applauding
the notion of assimilation. But isn't it amazing how we've

(01:16:14):
gone from that to demonizing Ice. We've gone from we've
got to control our borders, We've got to send them
back if they've committed a crime, to now creating an
atmosphere where we have made people working for this government lawful,

(01:16:36):
constitutional appointed. I mean, the ICE is under the constitution.
They are doing their job, and they are being targeted
three or four times alone in the last thirty days
in Texas. Gavin Newsom in California saying, you have to

(01:16:57):
take your masks off being docked and all of it,
every gum last bit of this comes from Democrats on
the left, all of it. How do you reconcile that

(01:17:18):
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer. I think
I speak for all of the Democrats when I say, oh,
you clearly don't. Lady, who's changed? Wouldn't you consider those

(01:17:46):
words that we just heard from Clinton, Obama, Pelosi and Schumer,
absolute platform talking points from the Republican Party, every word
of it, every word of it, and there they are.
You just heard it. I didn't make it up. That's
not AI, that's them. And now we are dealing with

(01:18:13):
ice agents having to duck dodge and sometimes they don't
successfully do it bullets aimed at them because of the
rhetoric from Democrats elected Demo. This is an extremist. These
are elected Democrats that are making these statements. They are

(01:18:36):
in the Senate, in the House. This needs to be
They need to be held accountable for this. Twenty seven
minutes past the hour. There's rhetoric and the reality that
comes as a result of it. This is the Morning

(01:18:59):
Show with west In Scott unplanned segue. I was just
talking about how the popular talking points for the Democrat
Party until Trump came into office was export illegals. They

(01:19:26):
commit a crime, you're out of here. Well, they commit
a crime by breaking into the country. If they are
going to follow the rules, here's a pathway. But as
Obama said, you're not getting in front of the people
legally applying in Mexico City. Trump came into office and
suddenly it changed. So we have this shooter in Dallas yesterday.

(01:19:55):
He is just firing indiscriminately at the building. He's not
hitting ice officers. They're all accounted for their fine. He
ends up killing detainees and hurting others before he shoots
himself in the head. I think there's a bigger, much,
bigger lesson here. Whether you look at the policy of abortion,

(01:20:27):
whether you look at the policies of affirmative action, which
diminish expectations and addict people to government assistance, crushing real
dreams and aspirations, whether it's the LGBTQ community now that

(01:20:54):
has become militant and dangerous. Not all, but many a not.
Look at the shooters. Go back to paulse Nightclub in Orlando.
Look at the shooters and Look who celebrates when these
things happen. If the victim is on the left, there's

(01:21:18):
condemnation and screaming about gun control. If the victim is
on the right, by god, we're gonna have celebrations. Not
by all, but enough. The assassination of Charlie Kirk has
revealed that inside the Democrat Party there's about thirty percent

(01:21:38):
or so that are truly twisted and sick. And so
now we get to the big overall lesson. The left
is all about division and and crushing any aspirational hopes

(01:22:04):
and dreams and ideas. Think about it. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton,
Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer would be welcomed on a Republican
stage with that messaging on immigration that I just played.

(01:22:26):
They'd be welcomed. Now, if they said that all out loud,
they would be outcast from the Democrat Party. So what
do we have? The left offers no future. The left
is a breeding ground for disillusionment, discontent, violence, anger that

(01:22:55):
leads to murder, and interestingly enough, oftentimes someone just ends
up putting a gun to their head after they've killed whoever.
They are exceptions. Some of them want the notoriety that
the media is more than happy to extend an offer,

(01:23:19):
But I just thought it was important that we take
a second and really get down to the nitty gritty here.
When lawmakers in Minnesota were shot and killed, those of
us that are on the right didn't care about their politics.
That was wrong. We tried to understand their politics. Did

(01:23:42):
it play a role where they attacked for them? Were
they targeted for them? But we didn't celebrate their deaths, deeed,
Dear God, No, we don't celebrate the murder of people.

(01:24:04):
One side does, not all, not all. But it's up
to those of you that are civil to stand up
and to shut down these lies about Charlie Kirk, to
shut down these targeted comments about ice and people that
are doing their job that, oh, by the way, your

(01:24:26):
side once once supported spoke out on one hundred percent.
It's up to you to police yourselves or, as we shared,
you're gonna own it. I've got a long blog on
my blog page about it, written by somebody else that said,

(01:24:48):
you're owning this. You're owning this, and you better start
policing yourselves. You better start policing what comes out of
your mouths. Forty one minute past the hour, we come back.
The four horsemen of the Apocalypse of the Western Civilization.
I'm just which knock knock?

Speaker 4 (01:25:11):
Who's nash on WFLA.

Speaker 1 (01:25:19):
Forty two minutes past picture. Davis Hanson writes for The
Daily Signal. He's a contributor. He's described as a classicist
and historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. That's a
great story, by the way, how the Hoover Institute got
the best offices, grounds, everything at Stanford and the liberals

(01:25:44):
hate them because the Hoover Institute's a bunch of conservatives
and they have the best of everything at Stanford, and
everybody else at Stanford hates them. It's awesome, it's brilliant.
But he writes a commentary, The four horsemen of the
Western civilization apocalypse have arrived, and he details them. The

(01:26:11):
first I'm just going to give you the quick overview.
The first is what he calls the Green madness. An
elite in all these Western countries felt that they were
at the end of history going to create heaven on Earth.
Started to dismantle nuclear power, oil generated power, coal power,
and in substitutions subsidized very inefficient, unreliable solar and wind.

(01:26:36):
They stopped producing oil and natural gas, fuel costs skyrocket,
et cetera, etc. If you just he cites Germany, he said,
Germany is a shell of itself. Why alternative green madness. Second, borders.

(01:26:59):
Countries are made and kept unique by their borders. Cultures
are kept unique by their borders. The United States along
with other Look at England. England is losing itself. Other
countries in Europe are losing themselves because of their borders.

(01:27:21):
Trump identified that in his speech to the UN. He
properly acknowledged a lot of these countries now have fifteen
sixteen percent Islamic refugees. This doesn't work. I'm going to
illustrate that tomorrow with a story, a follow up of

(01:27:43):
what happened. What's happening in Dearborn, Michigan. It's happening, it's happening.
There's another problem. It's called demographic suicide. The fertility rate
in Europe one point four US one point six. The

(01:28:07):
basis of fertility to replace the population has to be
minimum two point one to reproduce the culture. When you're
down below that, you are watching the sand run through
the hourglass. You're not replacing enough of your people with
your people to sustain your society. And finally DEI and

(01:28:37):
I identified it because it's called political correctness. DEI is
just a new corporate term for political correctness. I identified
it again the very first week of doing this radio program.
I talked about political correctness. I said, unchecked, it's going
to be the destruction of our civilization. Were watching it happen?

(01:29:01):
Victor Davis Hansen writes about it commentary, The four horsemen
of the Western civilization apocalypse have arrived. They're here. It's happening.
Forty six minutes after the hour. Come back. I'm going
to reset a note I got yesterday on the program.

(01:29:31):
All right, I'm paying attention to the weather. Don't you worry.
My simulator app is showing that the stuff churning out
there is not going to be a threat to Florida,
probably not a threat at all to the United States.
It could push up a little bit, maybe up the
eastern coast, but not going to impact Florida very much.
But there is there are rip currents, especially along the

(01:29:54):
eastern coast, pretty high, moderate in the Gulf. So just
again be advised. All right, yesterday I got a letter
from a young lady that is a local high school student.
It's going to start a Turning Point USA chapter at
a local school. And I've since gotten other notes because

(01:30:15):
I talked about that and someone say, look, we've got
a homeschool group and we're putting together a Turning Point
USA chapter. Would you be willing to and so let
me just say as I said to the young lady
in the note, one hundred percent, go for it, open
that chapter, get it, do it absolutely, one hundred percent.

(01:30:37):
And I was asked on both would I be willing
to speak absolutely?

Speaker 5 (01:30:40):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:30:41):
It needs to be at a lunch hour, because late
in the afternoon is really a challenge for me. It's
not like impossible, but from a planning perspective, you'll have
more success if you do it at lunchtime. You just will,
because students are largely able to stay on campus for
one day a month or however often you meet or

(01:31:04):
bring in a guest speaker. But my pledge was this,
whether you're listening in the Panama City area, if you're
listening on a broadcast radio station to my show, I
will go to your school. If you want me to come,
I'd be happy to sit down and talk about things
and take questions about whatever does matter. I've been doing

(01:31:28):
it most of my life and I'd be happy to
And yes, that includes private schools and homeschools. If it's
a turning point USA or something like it that you
want to do, absolutely sign me up. I'm one hundred
percent on board. Brought to you by Barono Heating and Air.
It's the Morning Show one on WFLA. Just send me

(01:31:51):
a note preston Atiheartradio dot com. Simple as that. Today
we opened the s with a fundamental anchor point of theology.
If you're a Christian John fourteen six period end. There
is a period on that sentence. That's it. So check

(01:32:13):
that out. That's a good one to talk about with
your kiddos. Had a good visit with Steve Stewart with
doctor David Harts and State CFO Blazing Goliat first visit
as state CFO. I think I've had him on the
show once, maybe twice before when he was either a
state rep or a state Senator. I forget, but happy

(01:32:34):
to have him about that rapture. Oops. That goes back
to knowing the Bible. Know the Bible so you can
discern bad teaching and heresy and false prophets. Personally, I

(01:32:56):
was always involved in a nonprofit ministry. Sorry. Al Jazeera
is the reliable source on information for the Israeli Palestinian
conflict for virtually every AI program out there, including groc Geminy, Perplexity,

(01:33:22):
Open AI, Chatbot Chat GPT. Yeah it's yeah, al Jazeera.
Let's just go ahead and take propaganda from the Jihadis directly.
Why don't we social security aging raising the age requirement
not under consideration, but they have to do something. They

(01:33:44):
gotta do something. We cannot keep our head in the
sand ignoring this problem. The latest attack on ICE yesterday morning.
It's a lesson. The left offers nothing. The left offers nothing.
It's idiot ology is bankrupt. It is fat Bear week.

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Go to explore dot org to learn more. Tomorrow, got
a great show already planned. Can't wait. It's only twenty
one hours now, have a great day.