Ep. 5474: Another Truck Driver.

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

Our guests today include:
- Steve Stewart
- Dr. Steve Steverson
- U.S. Rep. Jimmy Patronis



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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Yay, it's all I got. Show's over. Hey, how you doing? Everybody?
Welcome Thursday, October the sixteenth, on the Morning Show with
Preston Scott. Two weeks from tomorrow will be Halloween. Halloween

(00:34):
will be on a Friday. Oh man, I gotta tell you,
that's just like now, well dressed up, scorely kids coming
to the door. Yep, it's you know, I just I

(00:57):
don't know anymore. I think there's a part of me
that wants to just sit on the front porch. Yeah
you want candy, you sure just be jerk. No, I
can't do that. There are too many cuties, little sweet kids.

(01:20):
Our neighborhood's really fun because you know, parents walk around
with them. Sometimes they're in like these caravans of golf
carts and and pulled on trailers with a tractor, and
it's like they'll jump out and raid you. And yeah,
I'm certainly not doing the I'm putting it out, closing
the lights and saying good luck because one little snot

(01:45):
took everything last last year. Oh creep. So now I'm
gonna make them come to the door, and I'll I'll
be up almost I'm gonna be up because it's a Friday.
I'm all be up, let's start. I'm Preston by the way. Hi,
welcome to the radio program that has my name on it.

(02:06):
That is Jose He's running the show. And we start
with scripture. It says in John six thirty five, Jesus
said to them, I am the bread of life. Whoever
comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in
me shall never thirst. A lot of people forget just
for a second, just imagine yourself there. You're hanging around

(02:31):
this guy that has fulfilled prophecy. He's different. There's something
really special about this guy. But he says stuff like that,
and you're like, what are you talking about? If you

(02:58):
look at the New Testament, and I'll use a broad term,
if you consider the number of times that Jesus rebuked
his disciples, the guys following him, it's pretty frequently. But
think about what he's saying, guys, I'm the bread of life.

(03:24):
Whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes
in me shall not thirst. What I mean, the guys
are like probably looking at each other. Do you understand
what he's saying? What Jesus? We forget They weren't Christians.

(03:48):
Yet they were followers of Jesus, but they did not
have the deposit of the Holy Spirit in them until
ill the night of the Resurrection, when Jesus appeared and said,
receive it. Now, You're going to receive a new heart.
Right now. The Holy Spirit's taken root in you. Right now,

(04:10):
all of a sudden, you talk about, you know, jose
has his habit of going, you know, like something mind blowing, right,
you talk about mind blown. All of those things that
Jesus said for those three years all of a sudden
made sense. Now, consider what the Old Testament says about

(04:38):
knowing God. That to people that don't know God, the
things of God are just silly, they're gibberish. What and so,
what I'm basically saying to you is that if you're
out there listening right now and the things of God
just seem to escape your ability to grasp or understand,

(05:00):
jump in the water, give your heart over to Christ,
let the Holy Spirit take residence in you, and these
types of scriptures will make sense. A lot of things
will just suddenly make sense. Ten past the hour, It's

(05:20):
The Morning Show with Preston Scott. It's the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. Coming up to twelve minutes past the hour,

(05:40):
Let's take a peek at the American Patriots Almanac for
the day, which is October sixteenth, new to the program.
That's what we do. We give you something very stable
to start your day, very very predictable. We get through
the first couple segments being very predictable. You can count
on a little bit of a walk through the history book.

(06:06):
And this is from the American Patriots Almanac. It is
seventeen fifty eight. Lexicographer Noah Webster is born in West Hartford, Connecticut.
Lexo what yeah, Lexicon? You know the dictionary Noah Webster

(06:31):
Webster's Dictionary. Born in seventeen fifty eight. Eighteen twenty nine,
The Tremont House, the first modern American hotel, opens in Boston,
with luxuries such as indoor plumbing and a key for
each room. What is this you're doing, sir? This is

(06:52):
a key to your room and is unique to your
room only. What are you saying? This hotel ell isn't safe.
That's that's that's that's the first thing that comes through
my mind. Abolitionist John Brown in eighteen fifty nine, hoping
to start a slave rebellion leads twenty one men in

(07:13):
a raid against the Federal Armory in Harper's Ferry, Virginia
now West Virginia. Nineteen sixty two. JFK. President learns that
US spy planes have detected missile bases in Cuba. We
never ever should have not We should have taken that

(07:35):
territory years before. We just should have. I mean to
show you what restraint we have used in expanding our
country after Okay, maybe some dubious things over the years
with the American Indians and you know, Hawaii, and you

(07:58):
know all that, notwithstanding we should have taken Cuba. What
else we got? Two thousand and two, George W. Bush,
President signs a Congressional resolution authorized in the use of
force against Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq. Found that rat
in a hole literally, I mean, talk about embarrassing. That

(08:20):
guy was found in a hole, and you know, we
created a vacuum there. It's kind of one of those
you're darned if you do and you're darned if you don't.
You had to deal with him. He's poisoning his own people.
He was a threat to the region, but we did
not we didn't fully understand the consequences of that vacuum

(08:45):
that would exist there. It is National Sports Day, National
Liqueur Day. I've never fully understood what a liqueur is
versus liquor booze. I mean, I know it's part of it.

(09:08):
I just know that it's sort of like fancy. Liqueurs
are fancy. It comes from a Latin word meaning to liquefy.
Liqueur is an alcoholic beverage that starts with distilled spirits
like vodka, rum or whiskey, then is flavored with ingredients
such as fruit, cream, herb, spices, flowers or nuts. Sugar

(09:32):
or another sweetener is added, giving most of liqueurs a
sweet profile, often syrupy consistency. So there you go. That's
why there are some desserts made with liqueurs that like,
I remember that there was a dessert, a brownie dessert
with kolua whatever that is. I thought it was a

(09:53):
volcano in Hawaii, but it's apparently a liqueur of some kind.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
Department Store Day, National Get Smart about Credit Day, Know
your Credit, National Dictionary Day, of course, National Boss's Day,
and get to Know your Customer Day. Really a day
for that. That's an everyday thing when you're in business
sixteen past the hour? Hey did you know? And more?

(10:21):
Next there's a there's a commercial on Tunnel to Towers
and it's got Michael Douglas on there. It is amazing
how so many people as they age look like their parents.

(10:42):
It doesn't happen to everybody, but there are some like
he looks like Kirk Douglas. It's crazy. At that's not
the did you know? The did you know? Is that
in twenty eleven, a law was created in Barcelona, Spain,

(11:06):
to make it illegal to be shirtless. Do you know
that you can't be shirtless in Barcelona? Now? Does that mean?
Is that? Does that in? I mean, isn't isn't Barcelona
near the beaches or is it not? I don't know.

(11:26):
One of my sons would know he lived in Barcelona
bar Colona, But yeah, I don't. I don't see a
need for, you know, the whole shirtless thing. I think
there's is it near the is it on the ocean?
See it is? I look at you and the little

(11:49):
continental flavor there with the sea. Yeah, I like that.
I like that. This is I wrote down that The
New New York Times is ill equipped to engage in
this even though it is an op ed piece, a
guy named Daniel Williams on behalf of New York Times

(12:11):
trying to explain the rise in Christianity among gen Z
and millennials. Obviously, hello Charlie Kirk pointing to Jesus. But
inside and this particular commentary is written by a Mary

(12:33):
Rook and she's taking a part. The New York Times
op ed written by Daniel K. Williams, who argued that
despite the rising secularism among about one third of gen Z,
there is a revival of conservative Christianity, which he sees
as a response to post COVID despair search for purpose

(12:56):
charismatic influences. Williams worries that the inter intertwining of faith
and right wing politics emphasizes tribalism and spiritual conflict. He
even goes so far as to say that becoming a
Christian and a conservative could lead to some questioning democracy
if their values don't prevail through voting. Now, there's a

(13:20):
lot more to this, but I'll simply point out that's
why anybody writing for The New York Times, for the
most part, is ill equipped to delve into such subjects,
because it's a complete lack of understanding. First, yeah, we
reject democracy because we're not one. We're a constitutional republic.

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There's a difference, and why people on the left can't
seem to understand this. And even this guy trying to
dissect and he does get a couple things right. There's
some observations he makes that are accurate. But to point
to what's happened on the other side of the aisle,
that people, young people, not all of them, many of them,

(14:07):
because of what's happening in our public education system and
in secondary education, higher education, are getting indoctrinated and brainwashed.
They're not taught critical thinking skills. They aren't exposed to
the history of this country. And the history of this
country is good, bad, and ugly. But guess what, the

(14:31):
good outweighs the bad and the ugly, and the good
is buttressed by the reality that we can fix stuff
here because we have amendments to our constitution that do
not empower you and I, but limit the power of government.
These are freedoms that God has given us and are

(14:55):
now enshrined in the Constitution. What he fails to understand
in all of this is that conservatism, true conservatism, is
anchored in Christian faith, is anchored in Judeo Christian ethos.

(15:18):
They cannot be separated. And that's why you know the
New York Times. Fine, you're offering analysis of something that
is happening, but we're over analyzing and you're not capable
of understanding it. Going back to where we started the show,
because you don't know God. If you don't know God,

(15:41):
you don't understand the things of God, though they're made
playing all around us in creation. Twenty seven minutes after
be out, I thought that was pretty good. This Yeah,
senseay of sensibility, communicator of common sense amplified.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Thursday on the program means a busy day. Steve Stewart
will join us in about a half hour. Doctor Steve
Steveson will join us at next hour. Help for your pets?
What do you do if your pet is stung or
bitten by an insect? But if you don't know what
the insect is, but you're seeing your animal act a

(16:41):
little weird. We'll talk about that stuff you never know,
you just don't know. We also have Jimmy Patronis, US
Congressman from Florida's first congressional district. But right now, the
big stories in the press box, federal judge has ruled.
This is brilliant. I had shared with you that there

(17:05):
was a transgender case from Idaho and the plaintiff complaining
about all this a transgender athlete. What in the case dismissed.
We don't want to go We do not want it
to go to the Supreme Court. Sorry, never mind, We're good,
We're good. Judge would not buy it. Judge said, nope,

(17:30):
we are not dismissing. We are not dismissing, and this
could be a huge Scotis case. US District Judge David Nye,
appointed by Trump in twenty seventeen, rejected the former Boise

(17:52):
State transathlete Lindsay Heacock's motion to dismiss the case. They
did not want it to go to the Supreme Court.
We desperately need a case to go to the Supreme Court.
There are still people being damaged and injured by allowing

(18:15):
men to compete against women. Second big story in the
press box, parents be advised, and I'll take it a
step further. Marriages be advised. Open AI founder Sam Altman
CEO announced that it would lower restrictions on the content

(18:40):
of chat GPT to allow it to create erotica. The
new functionality will only only be applied to users who
explicitly ask for it quoting. Now that we have been
able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have
new tools, we're going to be able to safely relax

(19:03):
the restrictions in most cases. Is sure about that. I'm
warning you parents, and I'm also warning you marriages. Be
careful of this stuff. That's all I can say to you.

(19:28):
Advise you to steer clear. If you're using AI, put
fences around it. If your kids are being encouraged to
use it for school, put fences around it. And then, lastly,
I told Jose before the show started, I called it

(19:50):
stinking Hamas. First of all, we mentioned yesterday they're shooting
anyone they suspected worked with Israel Oil. They're shooting and
executing publicly any rivals. They are not disarming. That's a violation.
I told you I would bet the farm that they
are going to bring bodies back, claim that their hostages remains,

(20:14):
and they're not. And that was the case. The fourth
of the four bodies that were returned, not even remotely
one of the hostages. They have no idea who it is.
And now they're saying they misplaced twenty or so of them.
We don't know, can't find them, you know, you know,

(20:36):
stuff in the garage just kind of gets away from you.
They are not going to disarm willingly. This is not done.
I'm not just taking any any credit away what Trump
has accomplished. Even people who hate him are acknowledging good job.

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But I told you we are nowhere near the finish
line on this forty minutes after the hour, those are
your big stories in the press box. Listening to the
Mad Radio Network, where you are challenged to make a
difference each and every day, would you do that for us? Please?

(21:22):
Please just a little just try it to it you.
This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott Staying in
the Middle East, we're learning more from those who were

(21:43):
held hostage, and just think about what that would be
like for a moment. The people that were just released
were held hostage for two years. But there were others
that had been released, But you noticed that they had
very little to say why they didn't want to jeopardize friends,

(22:06):
loved ones, fellow Israelis, that were being held hostage. But
now we're getting some information. One Israeli citizen who was
a hostage said many of his captors were not Hamas
soldiers at all, They were just Palestinians. Now think about

(22:31):
that for a second. A guy named tal show Him,
whose son was just released this past week, said he
was intentionally starved for sadistic psychological warfare in an effort
to just make us suffer to pressure Israeli society. He

(22:52):
confirmed that terrorists bragged about stealing humanitarian aid meant for
Palestinian civilians, quoting I saw it with my own eyes.
They stole boxes and boxes of humanitarian aid from Egypt,
from Turkey, from the Emirates, but they didn't agree to
give us any of this food. In the tunnels, they

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endured torture and cruelty. Some of his captors, he said,
showed empathy, smuggling food and giving him a message from
his wife, he said. But most of those who watched
over us were not soldiers. He said. One of his
guards was a first grade teacher, another a lecturer at

(23:36):
a university, another a doctor. He characterized them as normal
people becoming terrorists out of fear. Did they do it
because they feared, well what you're seeing right now that

(23:57):
if they didn't, they'd be lined up and executed, which
is what's happening. Hamas controlled schools in the Gaza Strip
known for indoctrinating children extremist views on Israel and Jewish people,
whereas the Palestinian authority in the West Bank teaches children

(24:23):
that it glorifies Yahad, it romanticizes terrorism. It's just it's
what happens there. This is this is what has to
be dismantled, and it's not going to be easy to
dismantle it. I don't know, I I you know, Trump

(24:46):
said famously, if you don't disarm, we'll do it for you.
I hope it's I hope it is a multinational military
effort to do that. That it's not just the United
States guys having to do this. That it's not Israeli

(25:08):
defense forces having to do this. I hope it's multiple nations,
including Arab nations. That would be very important. We'll see,
we will see when we come back. A tragic follow
up to the story of truck drivers that are illegally

(25:33):
in this country getting their licenses. Another story about a
truck driver, only this one an American. We'll get to
that next forty six minutes after the hour, it's The
Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, this is consider

(26:04):
this a college education moment. This is general studies for all,
but a specific major for truck drivers. I'm as serious
as a heart attack on this one. Friends. We're not

(26:27):
talking about New York and California, and who knows how
many other states given CDLs to illegal immigrants who can't
speak the language and jeopardize us on the roads. That's bad.
And I've talked out of how often, And you know
what it occurs to me even right now, I sound

(26:49):
like I'm lecturing. I am because I'm sick of bad
drivers that are aggressive on the roads. I'm sick of
young people the tailgate and weave in and out. I'm
sick of tailgating in general. I'm really sick of tailgating
on interstates and truck drivers stop it. Police yourselves, all

(27:20):
of you. But you don't understand they cut right in
front of me. Okay, well, dry your tears, cupcake, and
slow your vehicle down because you're driving a massive vehicle
hauling generally enormous loads. One trucker a thirty three year

(27:47):
old young man named Cain Aaron Hammock was driving on
I eighty five near Commerce, Georgia. He was tailgating. Everybody
saw him. He was right up against a vehicle too
close on an interstate, a mini van. He hit the vehicle,

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which in turn caused that vehicle to get sandwiched and
hit four other vehicles. So it was a chain reaction
started by one truck driver being an idiot. Oh by
the way, eight people died, seven of them in that van.

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Five of the seven that died that were in that
van were children. And the people in that van that
died likely died of being burned to death because of
fire broke out. The vehicle was smushed to the point

(29:12):
that the doors couldn't open. Apparently, this young man is
now facing eight counts of vehicular homicide and one count

(29:34):
of what's called feticide because apparently one of the victims
was pregnant, all because of following two close. If this

(29:55):
gets one of you to back off, this lecture's worth it.
But everybody listening, everybody stop it. Stop driving like jerks.

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I've made a personal vow. I'm reporting anybody I experience
driving recklessly if I can get their license plate number
safely and the description of the driver. I'm not racing
to catch them, but if you know, fate intervened. Just

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the other day, had someone driving like a jerk, young
man in a white pickup truck, reving the engine, weaving
back and forth, tailgating people including me and I. I
wrote his license plate down. He's wearing an FSU plate,
driving like a jerk. I happened to be right next

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to him at a stoplight. He couldn't outrun the traffic
though he was weaving back and forth. I reported him.
I said, you might want to do a welfare check.
I don't know if he's drunk or not. Reported exactly
where he was going. I hope you all do the same.
This is a tragedy. It is it is five past

(31:36):
the hour. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. That's Hose.
I'm Preston, great to be with you. It is Thursday,
and that means it's time for the executive editor of
Talassie reports Steve Stewart. He walked in fighting a headache
and all he had to do was spend about two
and a half minutes talking with me and the blood
got flowing. No need for tiling all or advil, none
of that stuff. Just let just hang out with me.

(31:57):
We'll get the blood flowing back to the brain. How
you doing. I'm doing better now, yeah, thank you. That's
that's why I'm here. I put some to sleep and
others I send the other way. You're following. Obviously we
are now kind of we're into that campaign flow and
it's happening. Yeah. So you know, you get your initial reports.

Speaker 4 (32:17):
You've got some people that have declared for mayor, with
Mayor Daily not running. Commission Mallow has been running for mayor,
you know for probably about eight years. But so they
file campaign reports and everybody wants to see who's raising money.
And you know, the three that are in, Daryl Parks,
Louren Osley, and City Commissioner Jeremy Malow all raised significant money.

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Darryl Parks raised the most ninety one thousand dollars or so,
followed by Commission Mallow about seventy three thousand, and then
Lauran Osley, who got in you know, really late, raised
about sixty three thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
And so why is this significant?

Speaker 4 (32:55):
I mean this what will happen is if the money
the way the money's fling is will determine who else
gets in. I expect there may there's a possibility of
one or two more people getting in the race, but
this is going to really sort of limit who gets
in because of the money. It'll start drying up now.
I will tell you that if you start looking at

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a lot of the specific donations, which I prouse them
is there's still a lot of there's a lot of
money on the sidelines just sort of waiting to see
what's going to happen.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
I think they want to see.

Speaker 4 (33:27):
I know Lauren Osley has not really commented on anything
from a policy standpoint. She's sort of on a listening
tour to find out exactly, you know, where the community is,
what issues are.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
Important going anywhere in the Northeast.

Speaker 4 (33:40):
I she will, I mean, this is what we've talked
about previously. From the mayor's race and looking at the
last two races, the Northeast is going to have a
huge impact on who the mayor is. Yeah, and so,
which you know is exciting from that standpoint, and so
I've always you know, had two or three that you

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want to know exactly where people stand and then and
then you find you figure that out. I think one
of the things that I've added to this list is,
you know, is looking at the candidate and their dedication
to the community versus you know, some other personal thing like.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
And we've called side interests national narratives that kind.

Speaker 4 (34:21):
Of right, And I've criticized Commission Mallow for you know,
I think his interest is that, you know, promoting a
national ideology.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
I'm curious, as you're able to just kind of look
at some of the donations that are coming in. How
much are some of these candidates getting from outside the city, right?

Speaker 4 (34:36):
And so obviously previously we've seen the money come from
California for to Commission Mallow. That'll be later if that
happens again. Look Darryl Parks, who actually reached out to
me because you know, I'm a reporter and wanted to
introduce himself tremendously engaging. Sure, and so he has a
lot of connections around the country and around Florida, and

(35:00):
so I noticed some donations, you know, coming.

Speaker 1 (35:02):
From around Florida.

Speaker 4 (35:03):
But again, he's been in Tallahassee for a long time,
not you know, more active on the national stage, but
it's been in Tallahassee, and so he has I think
a very good network here, so obviously Lorraine Osley does.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
I think the person that's.

Speaker 4 (35:19):
Getting gonna get squeezed with this is Commission Mattlow. There's
no doubt about that, and so we'll have to see
and that will I think encourage him or almost be
required for him to get money like he did last
time from these national groups. I would say that Osley
and Parks have more of a base inside Tallasee than

(35:42):
actually Mattlow does from a financial standpoint.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
What about the race to replace Jeremy Matlow.

Speaker 4 (35:48):
That that is the next interesting race, and there's four
candidates in that race, two of them significant contributions reported
to Leithy. Edwards raised about fifteen thousand dollars and then PJ. Perez,
which I would say is sort of the progressive candidate
and that's based on what he's saying, that's not my opinion,
raised about thirteen thousand. There are two other candidates in

(36:10):
that race did not raise a lot of money, but
those so that's four in that race to replace Balllow
and that that seat could be more important than actually
than the mayor's race, depending on you know, what happens
there in terms of the three to two split.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
Yeah and so.

Speaker 4 (36:26):
And then one other race that may be worth watching
is on the county. Commissioner Proctor is running. He doesn't
have a cant, he doesn't have an opponent, but he
still raised about twelve thousand dollars. Rick Minor, who represents
District three, has an opponent. Commissioner Minor has not reported
any contributions yet, but his opponent reported thirteen thousand dollars,

(36:48):
so that's going to be I mean again, he raised
fifteen thousand dollars a districted race, which is not a
you know a lot of voters.

Speaker 1 (36:55):
It's not like city wide. That could be interesting to watch.
All right, More to come with Steve Stewart from Tallasti Reports.
I few want to know what's going on in the
capital city. The best way to do that is by
subscribing to lascireports dot com. It's the website. Executive editor.

(37:18):
Steve Stewart joins me on Tuesdays. It was interesting the
Leon County School Board meeting took place on the night
of the Charlie Kirk vigil. I think it might have
had something to do with one issue, but we'll get
to that in a few minutes, what's going on with
school system?

Speaker 4 (37:33):
So yeah, so this has been an issue over the
last year. Alvi Smith has sort of adopted this topic,
and she had brought it up about a year ago.
Is that basically looking at the operations of lcs and
where the money's going and how we're keeping schools open
that are low capacity. In other words, there's been some
demographic changes. She brought this up about a year ago,

(37:55):
and it was crickets. They didn't want to talk about it,
and so she wrote it a piece which we published
in Talent Supports, and very very well written piece that
looks at and says, you know, look, we have got schools.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
I think eight out of the fifty.

Speaker 4 (38:13):
Schools have shown some growth over the last fifteen years.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
The rest of them have declined.

Speaker 4 (38:19):
And we've got schools that are operating at blow seventy
percent capacity. And this is due to a couple of
different factors. I mean just migration within the county, you know,
the charter schools and scholarships. Yes, what's happened all over
the state, and there are people and you know, Duval
County has closed schools and so obviously it's not a

(38:39):
popular thing to do. But when you when you got
a financial issue, which Superintendent Hanna has been very clear
of saying, look, you know, we we we're we're up
against it here in terms of money. And so Alva's
point is, or you know, is that we've got to
look at these schools. And so she wrote this opinion
piece and she threatened to make emotion to mandate that

(39:01):
you know that the superintendent look at what's going on
and report back to the school board.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
And so I watched the school board meeting and before.

Speaker 4 (39:09):
She could have a chance to really make the motion,
super intend to Hannah got up and address the school
board and said, look, before the end of the year,
we'll do an operational analysis. We'll look at some options
here in terms of what we're going to do from
a financial perspective. And look, you know this school board
is lean's heavy left. Even though you've got two candidate,

(39:32):
two board members Lori Cox and Alvi Smith, who I
would say are moderate, doesn't really matter. I mean, the
majority lean's heavy left. And you know, they don't want
to cut expenses and they want to look at trying
to generate revenue, which you know, given the fact that
where they are now, I think the first thing you
have to do is start looking at these schools, because

(39:54):
you know, the opinion piece compared this district to Okaluosa County,
which is about the same thirty two thousand students. They're
paying their teachers twelve percent more average salary fifty six
versus fifty thousand.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
They've got forty four schools.

Speaker 4 (40:09):
We've got fifty one, and so there's a pretty good
comparison there to be made. Now, look, there's some differences,
but I think the issue and look, these budgets, these
school budgets and the way the schools are financed are
very complicated. I've been looking at it for years. It
is just complicated to find out. And you're a data guy,

(40:30):
and I'm a data guy. I look at this in
after an hour, I'm like, man, I need a break.
It's like, you know, because there's so many strings on
where money can be spent and how it's spent. But
this is I think going to be the important part
is starting to look at where it's going. And I've
got some questions about where this money's going. And so
the big thing is this is you're losing students. Teacher

(40:53):
salaries had relative to other counties in the state over
the last ten years in Leon County.

Speaker 1 (40:59):
Have fallen, They've lost ground, They've lost ground.

Speaker 4 (41:01):
So how do if you're losing students, you would think
you would have more money to pay teachers, but you're
losing something's going on.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
Well in the state has allocated funds for teachers to
have increases, right.

Speaker 4 (41:13):
And so I think, now, look, you know, the board
member Smith's asked, look, should we bring in a consultant,
an outside independent, you know, eyes to look at this.
And boy, that got shut down pretty quick because they
don't want an independent look at this. And so that's

(41:35):
a tell that is a talent. It makes me more
interested in looking at it. And so we'll start digging
into it a little bit. But I think it is
a you know, that's going to be an ongoing issue.
And he promised to have this done by the end
of the year. So he's going to meet with each.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
One of them say this is what I've found. Yeah,
and so we'll keep an eye on that. Yeah, we'll see.
I won't hold my breath on that one. All right,
sixteen past the hour, seventeen past the hour late here
it's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Oh, yeah, that's

(42:15):
what we do. Just kind of ease in, ease on
out Steve Stewart with US Investigative Reporting. You'll find it
at tell aserreports dot com. Subscribe, support the work more.
At the school board meeting, the topic did it ever
get brought up about what Daryl Jones posted about Charlie Kirk,

(42:35):
which was defamatory, It was libelous. If he spoke it,
it would be slanderous, but then he just took it down.

Speaker 4 (42:44):
Yeah, I think so this is you know, the issue
that came up at the board. It's been and it
was written about, and then it was sort of the
Facebook post which referred to Charlie Kirk as a homophobic,
racist klansman. And this is a leader in the community.
Now he took the Facebook post down or somebody did,
But I mean, this guy's Darryl Jones is the chairman

(43:06):
of CSC.

Speaker 1 (43:07):
He's involved with a lot of different organizations. He works
for Leon County, the Office for Economic by talenty right,
and he's a school board member. And so.

Speaker 4 (43:17):
You know, there the Charlie Kirk and I've got some
emails on this, the vigil that happened yesterday was going
to keep people from going.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
To the school board to address this issue.

Speaker 4 (43:28):
I was watching it and for a lot of different reasons,
and I was a little bit taken aback because what
happened was no one spoke, uh and criticized him about this.
He was there's five or six people spoke to defend
his First Amendment rights to say whatever he wanted to say,
and they misquoted, you know, Charlie Kirk's positions on a

(43:48):
number of things, and it was just sort of ironic
that they were standing up defending somebody's you know, first quote,
First Amendment rights to criticize the guy who actually was
murdered exercising his first a minute, right, And so I
thought that was interesting. But again, I think the tension
was what was going to happen from people that were

(44:08):
sitting on the diace and Lori Cox, who obviously is
the most conservative member of the school board and who
you know, was attacked when she was running for office
from the progressives and she's the chair of the school
board right now, which rotates, and so you know, she
was going to be the one that had to address
And I watched this and look, she's in a minority

(44:30):
in more than one way, right from an ideology standpoint,
and she did a good job of acknowledging.

Speaker 1 (44:37):
Listen, this is.

Speaker 4 (44:38):
This is a kind of conversation that that we don't need.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
She read the social media policies of the other That's
like lecturing the entire family when one child was an idiot.

Speaker 4 (44:48):
I know, and I think this is again it's a
tough situation to call people out, especially if you don't
if you don't think you're going to have any support.
I will tell you that the you know, the comments
by Daryl Jones that you know I read, and I've
had a lot of time to think about this. The
more disturbing thing for me is that people on the
DAAs like Roseanne Wood and Marcus Nicholas don't recognize that

(45:11):
this type of rhetoric is not needed from leaders and
did not have the backbone or the courage to say
something to their colleague. Now, Darryl Jones has been very
smug about this and has not acknowledged just won't say
anything about it, and so good luck in two weeks.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
Jarreed.

Speaker 4 (45:28):
Yeah, so I think you know, the point on this
is it would have been a lot easier for him
to apologize and say I have some major disagreements with
how Charlie Kirk addresses some issues, but I appreciate his
engagement and his willing to discuss these topics. That had
been the easy way to do it, okay, But instead
it was a very lazy comment that he thinks is
just going to go away, and you know, I don't

(45:50):
think it is, and I think that, you know, and
beyond this, just from a practical standpoint, you've got a
school board that just just talked about how they're losing students,
and then you've got these comments that basically say, if.

Speaker 1 (46:05):
You sort, if you support traditional.

Speaker 4 (46:07):
Values, if you have any kind of disagreement with anybody
on some of these controversial issues, then you can be
called these names.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
And we have chapters of Turning Point USA, you know,
sprouting in schools here locally, What are those students, what
are the sponsored teachers? What do the parents think?

Speaker 4 (46:29):
Yeah, you know, if you support traditional uh, you know,
family values, you're homophobic. You know, if you think you
should be judged by the content of your character or
not your race, you're racist, you know.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
And so it's just it doesn't it is like.

Speaker 4 (46:43):
You're almost just trying to hurt the school system, and
so it will be interesting seeing what goes on from here.
But it is, I mean, an apology is in place.
I will I'm going to be interested to see what
happens at a CSC meeting a children's services ulseil meaning
because I think more people will step up there and

(47:03):
have comments also, so we'll see what happens.

Speaker 1 (47:06):
Something else.

Speaker 4 (47:07):
I wanted to get to real quick because Lorie Cox,
who was a chairman, went and spoke to the State
Board of Department Education and she was critical of the union,
and the union rep got up at the meeting and
the time that for speaking and actually just went after Laurie.
Uh personally, very unprofessional. The guy's name is Scott Maser,

(47:30):
I know, yeah, and it really looked bad. And again
nobody on the dayas took the opportunity to say, you know,
this is not a this is not a professional way
to run things.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
You should not be attacking you know, elected officials here,
especially as a union rep.

Speaker 4 (47:45):
And you know, I'm beginning to think that he just
needs something to do, because I understand he's a full
time employee now representing the union.

Speaker 1 (47:52):
And he's no longer teaching in the schools.

Speaker 4 (47:54):
That's not from what I understand, and I'm going to
do some digging around on that, but that just was
not very professional.

Speaker 1 (48:01):
Sad. Yes, thanks as always, Thank you, President. Twenty eight
past the hour. More to come here in the Morning
Show with Preston Scott. 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.

(48:33):
Thirty six minutes past the hour. Half hour from now.
US Congressman Jimmy Patronis will join us. Always like talking
to Jimmy. Why because he's one of us. He's one
of us, and I am looking forward to our visit

(48:54):
catching up. He listens to the program. I love it.
I love knowing that our show is heard in the
halls of Congress. Think about that, Think about that for
just a moment. Ah, I love it. The prison walls
of South Dakota where Charlie Ailsen is to the halls

(49:18):
of Congress. Some would say, what's the difference, anyway, The
big stories in the press box. Hamas is about to
find out what happens when they don't abide by the
agreement that their representatives signed so we'll see. I told

(49:39):
you that they were likely going to hand over bodies
that were not Israeli hostages. We're not talking about the
guy the people that were released on Monday. We're talking
about the remains of hostages who died because of AMAS
and in their care. And they can't find about twenty

(50:00):
of them, you know, I just the kids. I don't know,
you know, they they misplace things. And then I had
told you that you can watch for them returning a
body or more bodies that were not hostages, and that

(50:21):
is exactly what's happened. One of the four that were
immediately released, I think it was Tuesday, perhaps not in
Israeli hostage. Second big story in the press box chat
GPT is now going to allow erotica for verified adults.

(50:45):
Oh what could go wrong? First of all, parents, you
do know your kids can hack around that adult thing, right,
you know that? Okay? Second thing, as more and more
young people are relying on AI for school and teachers
are directing some of it. It's letting somebody else or

(51:09):
something else write a report. Does not transmit or translate
information into the brain of your kid. Bad idea. But
this is also bad for marriages men or women. Now,
I would be of the opinion that this could potentially

(51:31):
be more problematic for women because women are more likely
to read erotica than men. It's just just is what
it is. Have you ever seen the bookshelves at bookstores.
I'm just saying those covers aren't being marketed to dudes.

(51:55):
And a federal judge has ruled in favor of allowing
a Supreme Court case to to to proceed despite the
trans athlete wanting to get it dismissed. They don't want
it in front of the Supreme Court, but it's likely
and there anyway. So those are your big stories in
the press box. On deck, Doctor Steve Steveson is waiting

(52:17):
for us. It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott and
if you're lucky, he'll be wearing his Clark Kent glasses
today The Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, next hour,

(52:37):
not only Jimmy patronis US Congressman, but a story that
Vice President jd Vance is downplaying and I think he's wrong.

Speaker 5 (52:48):
Ah.

Speaker 1 (52:48):
I hate being on the wrong side of him, but
I'm not on the wrong side. I'm right.

Speaker 5 (52:53):
Ah.

Speaker 1 (52:53):
But that's next hour. Let's talk about our pets. It's
time for little pause for thought here on the Morning
Show with Preston Scott and joining me, doctor Steve Stevenson
of the Bradfordville Animal Hospital. Doctor Steve, how are you, sir.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
Hey Preston, I'm doing well. How about you?

Speaker 1 (53:12):
I'm doing great. I'm grateful the weather's cooling down because
I'm not fighting mosquitoes nearly as often. But I'm curious.
Do do animals fight stings and bites year round? Or
is it more prevalent in the warmer months?

Speaker 2 (53:31):
You know, press, We certainly don't see it in the
in the winter time, but in the the the cooler
months of the year, we certainly can see our pets
gets stung by something in the fall and in the
spring as well as in the summer. If it's warm
enough for the for the insects to still be out
buzzing around, your pet's gonna get stung. So we see

(53:51):
this quite often where a dog or a cat owner
calls and the pet has been stung by a bee
or some other flying insect and they want to know
what to do about of it.

Speaker 1 (54:00):
I'm curious, can I can I interrupt and ask are
are dogs or cats, are any of the breeds or
any of their any of them potentially as allergic as
say a human to a beasting.

Speaker 2 (54:15):
Oh, absolutely real individual variation. It's not any one particular
breed individual pets. We do see some pets that have
a severe allergic reaction. We'll have dogs or cats come
in the clinic that their their faces severely swollen, they
have hides, they may be in inspiratory distress. So uh
that venom from an insect can cause some tremendous reactions

(54:35):
in certain pets. Now that's not that common as far
as you know. Most pets come in they have a
little swell and spot where the where the insects stung them,
and there's some redness and some inflammation there. You know
when the when the pet, when the pet gets stung
and that that extings them. They inject a little bit
of venom into the pet and then the tissue that
touches that venom then has a tremendous reaction and those well,

(55:00):
these all kind of chemicals that cause all this swelling
and pain. Hope that's all that occurs. If that's all
there is a little red swelling spot. You make sure
the stinger is gone, if you need to take some
tweezers and you can pull the stinger out of it's
still in the pet, and you can apply a cold
compress or ice pack to that spot. Try and keep
the swelling to a minimum, and then you probably want

(55:20):
to call your veterinarian just to check and see a
dose of Bena drill probably to give your pet. That's
a really good idea to make sure they get some
any histamine in them. Try and keep that swelling and
reaction to a minimum, okay, And then beyond that, you
want to watch your pet for any severe swelling, any
hives where they break out in little bumps all over
their body, any vomiting or difficulty breathing. If you see

(55:43):
any of those symptoms and you get your pets veneer
in and right away, they can have a go into
a shop from that, have a severe allergic reaction and
then have some emergency drugs administered right away. So that's
the key is to make sure that they that you
watch them, treat them appropriately, and contact.

Speaker 1 (56:01):
Our bees, wasps, hornets are those the most likely culprits.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
Yes, they are most common thing We see our bees
and press this kind of own little personal theory. But
we see this more often the spring and in the
fall than the summer. Actually, I believe it's because at
the time of the year, the bees and the lost
are not flying as rapidly in the cold weather, and
so we have a lot of owners. So yeah, my
dog is and chases the bees or chases the wasps,

(56:29):
and so now these insects are flying at half speed
because they're cold, and so the dog's able to catch
them now where they couldn't catch them in the summer
when they're flying at full speed. And so we see
a lot of this in the spring in the fall, so.

Speaker 1 (56:43):
Tough that for sure, talk your dog down, keep them
from chasing after the bees because that could be a
bad situation. And they bite to get one in their mouth.

Speaker 2 (56:52):
Absolutely absolutely, Yeah. Ants can bite, but they bite, and
other than fire ants, ants will bite, but they don't steam.
They don't have venom. Fire ants kind of like a
wasp or a yellow jacket. They can have some venom
on their in their pinchers when they when they buy cheat.

Speaker 1 (57:08):
Sure, all right, doctor Steverson, thanks for the time. We'll
talk again soon.

Speaker 2 (57:13):
Great, Thanks Prestin.

Speaker 1 (57:14):
Thank you, sir, doctor Steve Steverson with us this morning.
He joins us a couple of times each month. See
look at us, No, really look at us. You're looking
guys right now. We are trying to address every part
of your life and that even of your pets. Twice
a month Pause for thought here on the Morning Show

(57:35):
with Preston Scott. Ah, Yes, time for a road trip
idea on the road again Thursday feature on The Morning

(57:58):
Show with Preston Scott, where we give you suggestions on
where to go all across the fruited plane and beyond
for little trips, excursions, vacations. And I've spent the last
few weeks covering dude ranches. Okay, it's okay if if
women go too, so we'll call them dude and dude

(58:22):
at ranches. But these are these are things that are
primarily designed for people that want to get out in
the plains, in the in the mountains, in the in
the in the in the forests, in the in open spaces,

(58:43):
and so in this particular edition, the final three suggestions
the Hideout, Lodge and Guest Ranch in Shell, Wyoming, Big
Horn National Forest to the east, Yellowstone National Park to
the west. This is a Horn centric upscale property about
an hour away from Cody, Wyoming, six hundred and fifty

(59:08):
thousand acres. Sign me up. Then there's the Westgate River
Ranch Resort and Rodeo in River Ranch flow It. That's right.
There is a dude ranch in Florida. Who do I

(59:31):
didn't know? Did you know? I didn't know? It's one
of the eleven spots picked in this particular article. It's authentic.
It's a dude Ranch Florida Wilderness, hour and a half
south of Orlando. What there's such a place? Seventeen hundred

(59:51):
acres overlooking the beauty of the winding Kassimi River. Go
horseback riding. You can visit at Farm River Crew Swamp Buggy.
They've got an on site water park. Cowboy hats are optional,
but the fun is guaranteed. So that's right here in Florida.
And then there's the Driftwood Ranch Resort in White Lake,

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New York. That's our final suggestion. It is it's the
wild West in the East. It is one of the
Empire State's newest ranch style offerings. It's literally new, unlike
a lot of these that have been opened since the
eighteen hundreds, meaning the land and there's been property developed,

(01:00:36):
you know, housing. This one has been opened since April.
It's a working horse and cattle ranch. Sits on two
hundred acres in the Catskills, just a few hours from
New York City. They have a Western Barn suite, they
have the Longhorned Suite, And so this would be maybe

(01:00:58):
for somebody that's looking for a little bit more of
a newer kind of esthetic. I personally, you know, being
a little bit older and a little rough around the edges,
I prefer maybe something more in the western parts of
the country. I don't think I could mind being in

(01:01:22):
the Northeast at a dude ranch. And even though it's
in Florida, you know, Florida dude ranch, it just seems
to sit funny with me. It just it don't sit right.
I think you got to be west of the Mississippi,
and I think you need to be in the West
to be in a dude ranch. But that's just me now. Anyway,

(01:01:46):
I hope you enjoyed the last few weeks. I think
we took about three weeks maybe four talking about dude
ranches and possible places to go on the road. Again.
We do it once a week each and every Thursday.
Give you some roady suggestions. Now when we come back,
not only do we have the cyber machine of the

(01:02:09):
Chi Cooms to talk about, not only are we going
to reset the big stories in the press box. I
wrote this in the rundown must be better. And interestingly enough,
I am on the opposite side of Vice President j. D.
Vance on this issue, maybe not entirely, but in parts.

(01:02:30):
And we'll talk about that. But first, US Congressman Jimmy
Petronis is set to join us from Florida's first congressional district.
He is next with me on the Morning Show with
Preston Scott. We have in a moment to lose not

(01:02:56):
only the words of Batman and the old TV show,
but us when we have a guest like this standing by.
He's Oaiah, I'm Preston, and this is US Congressman Jimmy
Petronas from Florida's first district. Congressman, How in the world are.

Speaker 5 (01:03:10):
You, hey, buddy, how are you well?

Speaker 1 (01:03:13):
I'm I'm doing great, but I don't live up there,
I don't work up there. I don't have to be
up there, so I'm awesome compared to you.

Speaker 5 (01:03:22):
Well, I actually have to be up there a heck
of a lot more than I thought I was about
to be up there. The good thing about it is
I'm not up there to make friends. All the friends
I need live right here, so it's great to be
with you.

Speaker 1 (01:03:34):
Tell me this, what's the best part of being in Congress?

Speaker 5 (01:03:38):
All right? So I'm going to tell you the one
answer I tell a lot of folks and they get
shocked by there's actually a lot of good people in
the process. And they get shocked when I say that.
There's a lot of members who just truly love their country.
The freshman class I'm part of it is probably about

(01:04:00):
seventy men and women, some of which abandoned their occupations.
There's there's one guy from from Green Bay, self made,
got into the pizza business, sold as pizza business and says,
you know, I love my country. I want to run
for Congress. Did exactly that. You've got a number of physicians.
When you're a doctor, you can't practice medicine anymore. You

(01:04:23):
are it's literally against House rules to practice message of
your attorney, you cannot practice law anymore. So these men
and women, you know, they literally leave their occupation that
provided for them and their families to go to Congress,
and I tell you they're up there for the right reasons.
And and then you got some knuckleheads, but the good
outweighs of bad.

Speaker 1 (01:04:43):
Okay, how many of the good are on the other
side of the aisle? I know there have to be some,
but how many?

Speaker 5 (01:04:51):
So I'll be honest. So I've been there since April,
and when you've got that many bodies to try to
get it, and we said we've got you know, we're basically
spilit right down the middle with what we've got. You know,
one eighteen to one eighteen. I mean literally, I was
the one vote that got the one big beautiful bill
across finish line. So I haven't spent a lot of

(01:05:14):
time learning and meeting the folks across the island. There's
the ones that I knew just from a previous life,
like a Jared Moskowitz or Darren Soto. But for the
most part, you know, you just there and you can
get the history of what's happened up there. It seemed
like there was a lot of division created between the

(01:05:35):
parties under Pelosi. There was a number of things that
Bayner had done that helped members get to know members
and it seems like once Pelosi became Speaker and through
her times it kind of got reinforced where the dividing
lines between these members working on each other became massive walls.
And so, I mean, you know, we we're you know,

(01:05:57):
Speaker Johnson is truly a decent man. I mean, this,
this guy, he has got unbelievable patients, but you know,
he's you know that the analogy he uses a lot
of times is is, look, he's like trying to, you know,
coach a football team, and he's trying to run plays.
But he's got players on the team Republicans that will

(01:06:17):
go and tell the place to Democrats. They go tell
the place to the Senate, they go tell the place
to the press, and it undermines our whole effectiveness. So,
I mean, it's it's it's been eye opening. You know,
you've got to be comfortable taking, you know, reasonable bites
of policy that pass. It's kind of hard to eat

(01:06:38):
the pizza all in one one byte.

Speaker 1 (01:06:41):
Jimmy Patrona's weather US. He is the congressional representative for
Florida's first district. Of course, the longtime CFO for the
state of Florida before becoming a member of Congress. Jimmy standby.
We got another segment to go and we have uh
really one but kind of one and a half big
topics to talk about next year on the Morning Show

(01:07:03):
with Preston Scott. This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
US Congressman Jimmy patronis with US eleven past and Congressman.
In ninety seconds because I'm going to help today, you

(01:07:26):
believe me, right, Okay? In ninety seconds, give us where
we are with the shutdown.

Speaker 5 (01:07:35):
So with a shutdown, we are in an interesting spot.
That so I live in an ECDO chamber here in
northwest Florida. Every day when I get out, people stop
me and say, don't give in, okay, don't let don't
let them spend one point five trillion dollars. So as
you've got members of Congress that live in districts that

(01:07:56):
are that are our supporters of this, then you've got
Trump leaning in making sure like the men and service
women of our districts are getting paid through you know,
just fungible solutions with payroll. Then you've got the Chuck
Schumers of the world who got inviscerated back in March
for working across the Iowa Republicans to get government back functional,

(01:08:21):
and now he can't do it anymore. So if he does,
he gets inviscerted by his left. But the more again
he stays against Trump. His base in his state of
New York loves it. So now he is like, all right,
you know what, there's new sense to me working across
the isle. I might as well just stay in my
happy place with all my dim supporters. I keep the

(01:08:42):
aocs at bay, and I keep the mundanmies from gaining
the power. Because still Schumer's the most powerful Democrat, at
least in my opinion, in the United States. So I mean,
we're at the impass right now. I question if you
don't start to see this go further than into November

(01:09:02):
even and then you're going to get to the point
where there's gonna be those federal employees that say, I
cannot afford to cash flow my house anymore with the
government shut down. I'm gonna have to go find another job.
So people start pivoting and probably finding other careers as
Trump finds ways to continue to keep our nation safe
by moving dollars around. Now, what the Democrats want again,

(01:09:28):
they want a one point five trillion dollar expansion, and
I can get you the list, but it's about greater
access to medicaid benefits to Blue states leveraging their illegal populations.

Speaker 1 (01:09:39):
All right, I'm going to arm you with the solution,
but it's going to be difficult. Now, and I'm not joking.
I have given this great thought. I know that my
suggestion in the minds of some Republicans in Congress, my
suggestion is one that could cost someone their committee assignment, etc.

(01:10:03):
But I think it will not do that. And I
believe that we need someone just saying, someone to introduce
legislation that in a government shut down, Congress doesn't get paid.

Speaker 5 (01:10:17):
Okay, so that bill is introduced. I'm a co sponsor
to it. Ralph Norman's got the bill, Rick Scott's got
it in the Senate.

Speaker 1 (01:10:24):
Okay, good publicize it. It needs to be out there.
And here's this is the.

Speaker 5 (01:10:29):
Ultimately, I'm not taking my paycheck right now. This is
the number of us said, you know what, if our
federal employees aren't getting paid and we're not doing our job,
then why are we getting paid? Why way I feel.

Speaker 1 (01:10:42):
And I completely agree, And what it does is it
puts Democrats in a corner here, because I believe Jimmy,
the overwhelming majority of people in this country don't know that,
they don't know that you guys are getting paid anyway
that it doesn't affect And I'm not saying you guys,
meaning you personally.

Speaker 5 (01:11:00):
Yeah, yeah, I know what you mean.

Speaker 1 (01:11:01):
The overwhelming majority are getting paid, and those of you
that are not. You need to stand together. Call a
press conference, go on Brettbaar Live, go on all the
shows that you can and announce that you're not getting paid,
and you've introduced legislation and and and you guys need
to barnstorm this because I've not heard that. And how

(01:11:23):
is it that I, in my position, I've not gotten
a press release, I've not seen anything about it. So
I am on your side on this, and I think
it will work. There will be incredible national pressure if
you guys inform the electorate of how Congress gets around
this by getting paid.

Speaker 5 (01:11:41):
Sure, sure, no, I think I think you're right. Well,
we did it. We put them on social media with it,
and I've gotten stopped by a number of folks in
the district. How I say, how in the heck did
you find out that I'm not doing getting my paycheck
and this that we saw it on the news or
we saw on social media. So again, it's it's so

(01:12:02):
interesting now how different people consume their news. And you know,
there's there's, there's there's those that religiously are going to
listen to you every morning. You set their routine. They're
going to learn what's going on in their battle day
because of what they learn on your show. And that's
enough for them. So you know, you gave me an
opportunity to talk about it, So thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:12:23):
Yeah, have your staff send me a list of who
in Congress is not taking paychecks in the House and
the Senate, and I will go to war with you
on that. The next the next thing we find that out,
that would be awesome. The next thing is we had
a caller call in and say, in the same light,
in the same vein, maybe Congress needs to be made
to be on Obamacare too.

Speaker 5 (01:12:44):
Oh so great question. We are on Obamacare, So I did.
So that's one thing I learned. I worked for the
State of Florida. State of Florida's got that we're a
self flended health insurance plan. Yeah, and the insurance and
State of Florida is very good and Washington, d C.
I paid twelve hundred dollars a month to have health
insurance for my family. So back either under Paul Ryan

(01:13:07):
or a speaker Banger, there was legislation passed, and it
was the attitude was is all right, you loved on
the Democrats as the Republicans, we're in control. You love
Obamacare so much, you wanted the law of the land.
Then everybody gets it. So every member of Congress, that's
what they've got. They've got Obamacare.

Speaker 1 (01:13:26):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (01:13:27):
So that's again, I tell that took a lot of
people because there's a lot of expense you have making
the trip. Look, I don't want any sympathy from anybody,
you know what. I'd be better off working in my
family's restaurant than going to Congress financially. But I just
I love public service. I love fixing people's problems. It's

(01:13:48):
a different way. I just get my soul nourished. But yeah,
Obamacare is the law of the land for members of Congress.
Our retirement, there's there's a couple of different classes of
retire read in Congress. So with the One Big Beautiful Bill,
there was a provision where I'm paying. I believe it's
four percent out of every one of my paychecks that

(01:14:11):
goes to my federal retirement. I'm not eligible for federal retirement.
I think five years into the system, since years in
the system, and then you become vested, and then I
get a one percent back for every year of service
I get. Now, there was an older program that I
think was more lucrative, but members of Congress, I think

(01:14:31):
over the last ten twelve years are in the new system,
which is just not as lucrative.

Speaker 1 (01:14:37):
Jimmy, you always have a microphone and a platform here
anytime you want it. Brother, thanks for coming on, Thanks
for having me. I appreciate no, sir, anytime you just
let me know.

Speaker 5 (01:14:47):
I know, and whenever you need me, let me know
that you're the best present. Appreciate you well.

Speaker 1 (01:14:52):
I need you tomorrow, Miller, thanks for listening. You enjoyed
me tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (01:14:58):
N Doctor Shane wore me out about coming on the show.
There to us that kid, I can do it next week.

Speaker 1 (01:15:05):
All right, brother, you be well see take it all right,
Jimmy petronas you as congressman, our guest.

Speaker 2 (01:15:25):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:15:26):
Twenty four minutes past me, I ran a little long
there with the congressman. But I hope you can hear why.
We just enjoy having him on the program. Another ally
here in Florida, to common sense, I find myself unfortunately
disagreeing a little bit with our Vice president and I

(01:15:47):
and I like and it's okay. Let me just say
that up front, it's okay. He is shrugging off a
little bit of outrage about a leaked group chat from
young conservatives, young Republicans in particular. I don't know that
they're conservatives, but young Republicans arguing and said it pales

(01:16:12):
in comparison to the texting from the Virginia Democratic Attorney
general candidate named Jay Jones. I don't disagree Jay Jones
is talking about killing people with bullets. I mean, but
I will say that this is a story that was
leaked to and exposed by Politico. And Politico is like

(01:16:35):
a lot in the mainstream media. They clearly have an agenda.
They've moderated just a bit, a little bit of a
wobble to the middle, not a big one, but occasionally
it's a chat on an app called Telegram. Now this
will tell you what you need to know. I can't

(01:16:57):
repeat most of what they chatted about out and shared
with each other. I just can't. It would be bleeped.
It would be so inappropriate that I'd be almost embarrassed
to say the words. One is a young man who's

(01:17:19):
Kansas Young Republican vice chair, another's vice chaired New York
State Young Republicans. Another was chair of that organization when
he was writing these messages. He says, this entire thing
is orchestrated. But it's twenty nine hundred pages of texts

(01:17:41):
that are largely violent and inappropriate. And I'm not talking
guy talk, which is still inexcusable to me but excusable
to many, as asks guys being guys. No, no, no,
this is political philosophical talk that goes beyond what I
think is even remotely appropriate, to the extent that even

(01:18:03):
a few of these guys have said, yeah, my language
was really offensive in inappropriate, and I apologize. That's fine.
We are we're talking about New York Young Republicans. We're
talking about, you know, stuff that is just beyond And

(01:18:28):
now one of them is pointing at a guy named
Gavin Wax. Gavin Wax works for the Trump administration in
the State Department, formerly led the New York Young Republican
Club could be a little little turf war there. But
here's the thing, and this is what I wrote. I
don't care about Jay Jones as it relates to this.

(01:18:50):
You don't look at this through the lens of well
it's not as bad as Jay Jones. Well, of course
it's not as bad. But it doesn't matter. See, you
don't make you. You set standards, and standards aren't based
on what we didn't and in school, or well he

(01:19:12):
did it, or what you did with your brothers and sisters.
Well she said this, So I said that it doesn't matter.
This is the lesson we teach our children. Right, it
doesn't matter what other people do. You hold yourself to
a higher standard. And I wrote these words, must period

(01:19:33):
be period better exclamation point. Now this is this is
a handful of knuckleheads across the country and it's getting
it's getting a lot of air sucked out of a
lot of rooms. But you know what, I'm I'm good
with the exposure. I'm good with this. It needs to

(01:19:54):
come out. It's wrong and we need to say that
it's not okay, regardless of what anybody else does. And
I hope you agree with me, and if you don't
agree with me, it's okay. You can be wrong. It's
all right, there's nothing wrong with that. Twenty nine minutes, Hey, yeah,
I'm not late. Two minutes late past the hour? Here news,

(01:20:18):
it's now. Who's nash On w FLA. No no, no, no, no, no,
no no, don't do thirty seven minutes past the hour

(01:20:40):
Morning Show with Preston Scott, Big Stories in the press Box.
Quick version. Federal judge rules in favor of allowing Scotis
case to UH to proceed. This is a transathlete case.
This is a case of a guy who wanted to

(01:21:01):
sue the state of Idaho and said no, no, no,
just kidding, And the judge said, no, no, no, no,
you filed a suit. We're going to let it proceed.
They don't want it to proceed. They don't want this
case going to the Supreme Court. Judge said, no, it
will proceed. Judge David Nye emphasized that after years of litigation,

(01:21:27):
IDO is a fair right to have its arguments heard
and adjudicated once and for all. Court feels that he Coxes.
The athlete involved here is Lindsey Heacox, who's a dude,
that the mootoness argument is as above, somewhat manipulative to

(01:21:49):
avoid Supreme Court review and should not be endorsed. Yes,
that's called common sense. Thank you. Let's get it in
front of the justices. Let's settle this issue of what
is a woman? Some of the answers you get listening
to kids on campus or just stunning the degree in

(01:22:14):
which people are are are I don't even want to
say brainwashed. They just are refusing to acknowledge what is
just obvious.

Speaker 5 (01:22:26):
It is.

Speaker 1 (01:22:26):
It is the equivalent of saying that up is down
and down is up. It's obstinates. It's just wanting to
be argumentative. It's laughable, and we need to stop it.
Chat GPT will allow erotica for verified adults. I'm warning

(01:22:51):
you parents, and I'm warning your marriages now. I I
got a note saying that chat GPT is also going
to be engaging in AI porn. I don't know that.

(01:23:13):
If that's the case, one would think it would be
regulated to the hilt. But I don't know. What I
know is whether it's porn or erotica, it is dangerous
to a marriage. Those are things that are to be

(01:23:34):
saved for marriage, the intimacy of a marriage between a
man and a woman, a husband and wife. All I
can do is just sit in a chair of common
sense and say be careful friends. And then lastly, Hamas

(01:23:55):
is violating virtually all of the agreement that was that
was hammered out and signed to. And who here is
surprised forty one minutes after the hour, come back and
yeah this is a different story. Come out, Jakes will

(01:24:16):
just make you furious. Don't worry. We're here to make
it all better. There you go, Yes, it's okay, Yes,
this is the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Came across

(01:24:37):
a premium report from Epic Times. It's got an infographic
the CCP's cyber war machine. One experts said they have
the manpower, they are extremely focused and leverage AI and
technology for maximizing their attacks. And inside this twenty one

(01:25:00):
page report, which I spent a great deal of time
digesting yesterday, it is and I'm hearing some music or
something playing, thank you. The Chinese Communist Party is using

(01:25:24):
an extensive network of hacker groups to collect intelligence and
steal intellectual property, as well as compromise critical systems as
part of a hybrid warfare strategy. This is important, meant
to defeat the United States without necessarily engaging in kinetic war.

(01:25:49):
We have talked about this, We have talked around this.
China cannot afford to get in an all out war
with US. It wants our land, it wants our resources,
it needs us for slave labor. And don't for a

(01:26:13):
second think that that's just hyperbole. No, no, no, that's
how the chicom system works. There is a working class
and then there's the ruling elite. That's communism. That's softened
somewhat in socialism, but it's all in the same family.

(01:26:35):
Cybersecurity companies have identified two hundred hacker groups linked directly
to China. It's happening right now. The main target is
the US, not just our government, but also private companies
of strategic interest. They're looking at the infrastructure, the power grid,

(01:26:58):
the water supply, said one expert to the CCP. Cyber
is one of many methods of unrestricted war, weakening your
enemy from the inside with no rules, just short of
conventional war. The war machine from the CCP is greater
than anyone realizes. They have the manpower, they're extremely focused,

(01:27:21):
minimally fragmented under the totalitarian communist regime, and they leverage
AI and technology to maximize their attacks. That's what's inside
this report. If you dig just a little bit deeper,

(01:27:43):
you find that they use something called watering hole attacks.
You ever heard of it? Yeah, me either. With this method,
they try to create a psychological profile of their targets
to determine online behavior. Does this get to They're observing

(01:28:03):
what's going on inside your homes, your search engines, your
video games, all of this that you're doing online. They're
watching all of this. The goal is to pinpoint specific
websites that the targets are likely to visit, meaning you.
The hackers then search for security weaknesses on those websites

(01:28:25):
and plant malware on them, and then they wait for
their targets to visit the website and infect their computers.
Thus the watering hole. The watering hole is where all
the animals have to come to get water. They're gaining
They're gathering the information on what you buy, where you visit,

(01:28:47):
what you do online, so they can then direct their poison,
if you will, to the watering hole. You see why
baby monitors that have encrypted technology and stuff connected to
Chinese companies become such an important detail. Do you see

(01:29:10):
why transformers being used by the power grid of the
United States, made in China, why it becomes so important?
Forty seven minutes past the hour, we're doing our part
here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Okay, who

(01:29:43):
has ever been to a zoo? And then who has
ever been to a zoo and seen an enclosure and thought,
I wonder if an animal can get out? You know,
we all do our own little security kind of thing.
Sorry about that vices. We all do our security evaluation.

(01:30:08):
Is that cage really? Is that glass really thick? It
doesn't matter you're looking at it, you are well. It
almost happened at the San Diego Zoo. No less a gorilla.
It's on video. A gorilla charges slams into the glass portion.

(01:30:30):
You know, they have the part above where you can
look at the gorilla and without glass, and then they've
got those areas where you can see much closer. Perhaps
and for whatever reason, I don't know what spooked it,
freaked it whatever, the gorilla charged at the glass and
it broke, cracked it. Now it didn't give way, but

(01:30:57):
it cracked. If he'd have done it, if he had
done it again, it probably would have given way. Can
you imagine it's a ten year old Western Lowland gorilla.
It's one layer of the three layer tempered glass, so
maybe it would have taken more than that. No one

(01:31:18):
was injured. They replaced the panel. He lost a brother
apparently in a cardiac event back in August, but don't
know what provoked it. They do these charging behaviors, but

(01:31:40):
it's like normally they just kind of back off. But
maybe he's stupid or something. Maybe he didn't know there
was glass there. I mean we see that with birds,
right even I mean even children run into glass like that.
But could you imagine being there and being on the
other side of that that would I would have wet
my pants. Absolutely brought to you by Baron No Heating
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(01:32:06):
good devotional to start the program today. John six thirty
five was our verse. That's where we spent a little
bit of time. Busy Show. Steve Stewart joined US doctor
Steve Stevenson our Pause for Thoughts segment on stings what
to do if your animal is stung, most likely by
a bee, but talked about some does and don'ts there

(01:32:26):
and US Congressman Jimmy Petronis joined us for ten good
minutes so that you know, obviously it's Thursday. I mean,
we usually have some terrific guests anyway, but Thursday's usually
a little busier. Hamas. They're about to find out what
happens when they don't willingly disarm. I guess you know,

(01:32:47):
I this really isn't about I told you so, other
than this was always going to be a monumental task.
And i'm I'm I guess the one good out of
this is it Hamas. With everybody in the Middle East celebrating,
Hamas is showing itself to be a real turd ball.

(01:33:11):
Everyone's celebrating and Hamas is ruined. It's like they're urinating
in the punch bowl. Chad Gpt allowing erotica for verified adults. Yeah,
good luck keeping a rain on that. Parents just be advised,
marriages be advised. Federal judge letting the case proceed to

(01:33:34):
the Supreme Court on trans athletes. They wanted to dismiss it.
Federal judge said, no, I think the state of Idaho
has a right to have this case heard. Covered. A
lot of other ground Tomorrow. It's Friday. You know what
that means. Can't wait. Have an awesome day, friends,