Ep. 5489: Analyzing Mamdani's speech

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Well, good morning, everybody. Welcome to Thursday, November the sixth,
on The Morning Show with Preston Scott. I so badly
want to pump the air brakes. This is moving way
too fast. We are moving into the Thanksgiving Christmas season
too fast. Now. When I was a kid, it would

(00:39):
never get here fast enough. That's the thing. When you're
a kid, looking ahead is like, oh, when will they
get here? But as you age, it's it's boy, tap
the brakes. You just want to slow things down. But

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we are in it now. Thanksgiving, we'll be here before
you know it. The next thing, you know, we're going
to be talking about the Twelve Days of Preston and
then a brand new year twenty twenty six and the
two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of our nation. And consider

(01:23):
the irony that the mayor of the largest city in
our nation celebrating the two hundred and fiftieth birthday of
this nation, this great nation, is going to be an
Islamic extremist who hates this country. We're going to start
today with some scripture, as we always do Jeremiah twenty

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nine to eleven. For I know the plans I have
for you, declares the Lord. Some versions say plans to
prosper you. This version my ESV says plans for welfare
and not for evil, to give you a future and
a hope. The word that I want to focus on
here is the word that is translated in many different ways,

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in different translations. It is the Hebrew word sealom sealo.
It is It's Strong's Hebrew word seventy nine sixty five.
It means completeness, soundness, welfare, peace, completeness, safety, soundness, health, prosperity, peace, quiet, tranquility, contentment, friendship,

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human relationships with God, especially in covenant relationship. Peace, peace
from war. Peace as an adjective. We hear the word
welfare and we immediately think of right programs, and we

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forget that welfare is an all encompassing term of prosperity,
of peace, completeness, safety, soundness, health, welfare. Jeremiah, speaking on

(03:40):
behalf of God, says, for I know the plans I
have for you, plans for your welfare, all of those things.
Think about that word in Hebrew means all of those things.
Say lo m. Some might pronounce it with three syllables,

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some might go salm with two. But the Hebrew word
is conveying a completeness of care. God's plan for you
is one of hope of a future. Hope in and

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of itself as a word is forward thinking, right, because
hope is always about what's ahead. We hope for the best. Well,
I wasn't yesterday. That's for what's ahead, the future. And

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God's plans for you and me, they are plans of
completeness for our welfare.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
Man.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Get around, get your mind around that. That's what God
wants for you. So then we ask what if anything
may be standing in the way of that that exists
in our own heart. Ten Past the Hours, The Morning
Show with Preston Scott Inside The American the newly taped up.

(05:47):
I had to I had to tape it up some more.
I got so much tape on this thing, My American
Patriot's Almanac. But you know what, I love the charm
of that this book has been used so often every
single day since I brought it in this studio. And
this is the second edition of it that I've had,

(06:09):
and it's it's literally just being held together by tape.
And I love that. I don't I just I don't know.
It just seems cool to me. I hope whoever does
this show when I'm done, that they honor this segment
and do the American Patriots Almanac. But November sixth, seventeen

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eighty nine, John Carroll of Maryland is appointed the first
Roman Catholic bishop in the United States. Okay, eighteen sixty
Abraham Lincoln defeats three other candidates become the sixteenth US president,
just for a moment. Do you think that people knew

(07:02):
at the time how consequential that choice would be. Do
you think that the people at the time of electing
George Washington, the first president who happened to be the
head of the Continental Army, do you think they knew

(07:28):
how consequential it would be that Washington would say I
have served It's time for another. It's one of the
funniest lines in the musical Hamilton. And for all of
the people out there that are like, oh, but that's

(07:51):
a Disney production and whatever, I don't care. It is
a wonderful musical. It does have some risque parts and
inappropriate language in parts, but it is it tells the
essence of part of the story of Alexander Hamilton. But
what fascinates me is this the best parts involve King

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George the Third, and there's a song that he does
where he learns that Washington has stepped down, and the
King says, I didn't know that that was something you
could do, that he surrendered his power. It's brilliant. But

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I say that because elections are consequential. I wonder what
yesterday's gonna or Tuesday will look like. In history, Rutgers
defeats Princeton six to four in the first intercollegiate football

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game in eighteen sixty nine. Eighteen eighty eight, Republican Benjamin
Harrison receives fewer popular votes but more electoral votes to
defeat in come At Grover Cleveland to become the twenty
third US president, and in nineteen twenty eight, Herbert Hoover, Republican,
defeats Democrat Alfred E. Smith to become the thirty first

(09:18):
US president. So there you go in history. Today is
National cash back Day. I'll be the first one to
tell you. Unless you're using your card for like business
purposes where you're spending tens of thousands of dollars on

(09:40):
your business credit card and then you pay it monthly,
those cash back things just don't work for me. The
idea of oh, you get a penny for every dollar
you spend or for every ten dollars you spend. It's like, no, no,
National Nacho's Day. I will admit there are some nachos

(10:04):
that I think, but a good nacho bar tough to beat.
So many options, right, it is National Men make Dinner Day.
Like that happens once. No, there are a lot of
guys that like making dinner, that enjoyed the process. And

(10:26):
it is National Saxophone Day. So there you go. Seventeen
minutes past the hour, we have a did you know?
And a quasi announcement next Jose again, you see over

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there in Studio one A. I'm here in Studio one B.
Next hour will help for your pets. Steve Stewart will
join us from Talahashian Reports. Third hour, No guest, we're
gonna talk, gonna take some calls in the third hour
of the program about the death penalty. I want to
get you to weigh in on the death penalty. Death

(11:22):
penalty choices are now in the news. We'll share that story.
Get your thoughts on it. Is it antiquated? Are we
past that? Given the number of years and appeals and
all of the process. But then again, there are no

(11:44):
do overs, right, you better be certain that the person
that is being put to death that's guilty. I think
the bar needs to be extraordinary high. But we'll talk
about that in the third hour. Because it is in
the news. This isn't just a random topic. No, no, no,
there are a lot of other things that we can

(12:04):
talk about better quote random. This is newsworthy because it's
in the news. Did you know that although Eric, the
second King of Norway, who ruled from twelve eighty to
twelve ninety nine, was nominally a Christian, he had problems
with the church, so he earned the nickname priest hater.

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It just seems like such a I don't know. I
wouldn't have expected the King of Norway priest tator. Just
there's no eloquence to that. There's no flow. I just
I expected better. But that's that's a factoid of history
right there. Monday, the Giving season begins. We are starting

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a week late. I have been known to start as
early as the middle of October, but we normally shoot
for the first week of November. Now, I will tell
you what happened. We were looking at joining in with
I had a guest on the program that shared stories

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of how playgrounds in Columbia made a difference, a big difference.
And we had talked off air about taking part in
helping build and rebuild playgrounds in these very poor villages
where the existence of the playgrounds exposed young people, children

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to the principles of democracy, playing a part, pitching in
having a say, taking a vote. But here's what happened.
She worked very, very hard, but we got to where

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the government of Columbia insisted that the nonprofit that was
put together for this purpose hold money and escrow for
multiple months, so any donations you would give would be
held in escrow. Why it makes sense because of Cartel's

(14:31):
laundering money. They didn't want there to be a chance
of money being laundered through this nonprofit to build playgrounds,
and then the project would be delayed by another six
months because of that, and it wouldn't even happen until
maybe the summertime. And I just explained that I just

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didn't think that that would work for our audience, and
I would be uncomfortable having our payment information held an
s grow by a government. I just I just said
I And she was very kind, she said, I fully
understand she'll turn to benefactors that after you know that

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don't care so much, I suppose. But the giving season
will begin on Monday, and we have a very ambitious
heavy lift. It's funny because as this project was kind
of falling apart, I had someone reach out to me
and say, would you consider And I feel like that

(15:40):
was God's answer. It's ambitious, but that's kind of what
we do. So Monday, I'm going to tell you all
about it. And I'm excited because we have roughly five
weeks six weeks to get it done and we're gonna try.

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We'll just we'll try our best and do what we can.
So that's coming up Monday here on the Morning Show
with Preston Scott twenty seven Past the Hour, the Big
Stories in the press Box and some things you really
do need to hear. One big story in the press

(16:36):
Box today it is dissecting the speech of the Mayor
elect of New York City. I thought it was fascinating
to listen to Van Jones talk about this speech. In

(17:06):
this speech, the mask came off, you know, Mom. Donnie
in his campaigning was trying to be very careful. He
was walking back some statements distancing himself from others, being
very coy. He was lying and so the mask came off.

(17:35):
The comments were unbelievable. The tone was negative and nasty,
it was arrogant. He was quoting socialists and Marxist, the

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founding father of socialist India, who crushed Hindus and empowered Jihadis.
These are the words that he's using in quoting Nehru.
He declared his intention to freeze rents, buses fast, and
free universal childcare. He's a Muslim democratic socialist. That's a

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quote toppling the political dynasty, a dawn of a better
day for humanity. Avowed to make New York City a
city where the Donald Trumps of our city have grown
far too comfortable taking advantage of their tenants. He mocked
Trump and Van Jones. On CNN, a very left commentator

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had this to say, I think.

Speaker 3 (18:51):
The Mom Donnie that we saw in the campaign trail,
who was a lot more calm, who was a lot warmer,
who was a lot more embracing, that's not present in
that speech. And I think that Mom Donaly is the
one you need to hear from tonight. There are a
lot of people trying to figure out can I get
on this train with him or not? Is he gonna

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include me? Is he going is he going to be
more of a class warrior even in office. I think
he missed a cance tonight to open up and bring
more people into the tent.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
I think its tone was sharp.

Speaker 4 (19:25):
I think he was.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
Using the microphone in a way that he was almost yelling.
And that's not the mom donning that we've seen on
TikTok and the great interviews and stuff like that. So
I felt like it was a little bit of a
character switch.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
Here, Oh, a character switch. That's not the one we saw.
You mean Takia, You mean Takia Van, That's what you mean.
Let's listen to Scott Jennings break this down from CNN
difficult and hang on a second. I gotta pause that one,
and I gotta go to this one here. This is

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Scott Jennings breaking it down.

Speaker 5 (20:00):
Uh oh, are you saying he didn't He wasn't the
unifying voice of a generation that you predicted mere moments ago.
Acts Where was the where was the man that you
predicted would not slice and dice the oly look, guys.
He started his speech by quoting Eugene Debs, who ran
for President of the United States five times as the

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Socialist Party of America candidate.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
He repeatedly attacked people in.

Speaker 5 (20:27):
This I don't know, I know my Socialists.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
I keep it close on.

Speaker 6 (20:35):
So.

Speaker 5 (20:35):
So here's the thing. He went after. Everybody that he
thinks is a problem. People who own things, people who
have businesses. He said an interesting quote, no problem too
large for government to solve or too small important. And
so when when you think of the world that way,

(20:56):
that every problem, no matter how small or how large,
is something thing for government to do. Let me just
decipher this for you. Tax increases as far as the
eye can see, which means the people who need to
provide jobs to the young people that you say need
jobs are going to flee as quickly as they possibly can.

(21:16):
I think this was a divisive speech. And he clearly
sees the world in terms of the people who are
oppressing you and the oppressed. And he said the oppressed
are now in city Hall.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
There you go, there you go. We'll have more on
it next hour. We'll let you listen to the speech
a little bit of it yourself. Forty one minutes past
the hour more on this topic.

Speaker 7 (21:42):
Next forty two minutes past, I mentioned this piece yesterday
written by Young Lady that Lee Hartley Carter, president of

(22:03):
Malansky and Partners, language strategist, research or author, persuasion, convincing
others when facts don't seem to matter.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
She's on X. She said, the hidden reason New Yorkers
voted for a socialist and it's not what you think,
she said. To some, it's proof that the far left
is taking over. But that's not what happens, she writes, Mom,
Donnie didn't win because New York suddenly fell in love
with socialism. He won because he captured something every politician

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should be listening to right now, deep frustration that the
system doesn't feel fair anymore. And here's the twist. That
frustration isn't confined to struggling families or low income voters.
It's spreading among people who are doing fine. The educated, ambitious,
upwardly mobile professionals who are supposed to be living the dream,
but can't shake the feeling that they're falling behind. They've

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done everything right, schools, hours, hustle, yet they feel stuck.
Rents climb faster than salaries, Taxes eat awigh their paychecks,
buying a home feels impossible. They're not broke, they're just
burned out. They don't want handouts, they want honesty. They
don't want they don't trust the system, but they're still
trying to make it work. Mom, Donnie saw them before
anyone else. He didn't talk like a career politician. He

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sounded like someone who actually understood their frustration. She wrote,
New York used to run on ambition. It was a
city of hustle, where if you gave everything, you could climb.
Put a pin on that. It's not guilt, it's exhaustion.
It's grief for a city that wants rewarded work with
upward mobility and now feels like it rewards luck, leverage,

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or connections instead. He told them, you're right, the deal's
been broken. Let's fix it. He didn't offer a revolution.
He offered recognition. That's partially right, and it's partially wrong.
He didn't win because of ideaogy one because of empathy. Well,

(24:05):
let's just for a second think about that. I'll tell
you why he won. I'm gonna tell you exactly why
he won. And she's got a couple of points in
here that are correct, but she's mostly wrong. And the
reason why she's mostly wrong is because she's reading all

(24:25):
of this through the lens of a city that has
been run by Democrats for the most part and governed
by Democrats completely with the exception of a Rudy Giuliani
here and there, has been governed by Democrats from the
state on down. So when she talks about I've written

(24:46):
a gazillion notes here in what she wrote. When she
talks about New York used to run on ambitious in
the city of hustle, where if he gave everything you
could climb. Not under Democrats. It's never been that way
under democrats. Democrats don't reward that, they never have. But
what I want want to want to point out is

(25:07):
something that I'm just gonna share a bit of it,
just a little bit of it. This is just a
small piece of what Jonathan Gruber said about Obamacare.

Speaker 8 (25:19):
Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage.

Speaker 9 (25:22):
And basically, you know, called the stupid.

Speaker 10 (25:24):
Of the American voter or whatever, what was that, lack of.

Speaker 9 (25:28):
Transparency is a huge political advantage.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. You know
what that's called in Islam, That is called takia. It
is it is why Van Jones correctly discerned, boy, this
isn't the guy that ran for office. Of course it is.
It absolutely is. This is the guy. The person you

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heard campaigning is not the guy. This is the guy.
He didn't win because of ideology, won because of empathy, No,
because fault the stupidity of the American voters. Go back
to Jonathan Gruber, it's because people don't understand the dangers

(26:19):
of Marxism and socialism because they haven't been taught. And then,
lastly on all of this is that New York City
now is going to experience such a rapid transformation in

(26:46):
some areas, it's going to be a slow trickle in others,
because it has to be like the boiling of the frog.
That have to do things gradually in some areas, but
his pride and his ego won't allow it to be
slow in others. Now, this is a very significant happening,

(27:07):
and it's why it must have our attention. People don't
want to come to grips with what Islam teaches and
how it's adherents function in leadership. We find that politically incorrect.

(27:28):
We don't want to go there. I will, I will
repeatedly go there. My faith demands it forty eight minutes
past the hour. This is gonna make a lot of

(28:06):
you maybe uncomfortable. I am growing very concerned about where
Tucker Carlson is going. I have been concerned. You know,
there was a time years ago I wanted to get
Candas Owens on the program. No More and Tucker Carlson.

(28:33):
What's going to be interesting is turning point. USA could
lose all of its momentum by remaining affiliated with people
that are saying outlandish things. Candas is one of them,
and Tucker now is another. And it breaks my heart.

(28:56):
Joel Rosenberg wrote a piece for Newsmax he is the
editor in chief for All Israel News, and said Tucker
Carlson just fired a political equivalent of a nuclear missile
at President Trump, vice President Vance, and their entire conservative

(29:19):
governing majority. On his October twenty eighth podcast, Tucker attacked
Christians and Jews who want a strong US Israel alliance,
attacked Christian Zionism as theological heresy that's his word, and
attacked all Christians who embraced the biblical historic mainstream theology
as being infected by a brain virus. That's another quote

(29:41):
of Tucker. So Tucker called Christian Zionism whatever that means heresy.
He clearly does not believe in the idea that God
will bless those who bless the nation of Israel. Look,
God will hold Israel accountable for Israel, just like he'lloicold
us accountable for us, and and and nations accountable for

(30:03):
the for for themselves, and and you accountable for you,
and me accountable for me. But he said that Christian
Zionists have been seized by this brain virus. Went on
to say, Christian Zionist, what is that? I could just
say for myself, I dislike them more than anybody. And

(30:26):
then he talked about the relationship with Nick Fuentes. This
is not going to go away, and I'm just I'm
offering a pause button here for you to push when
it comes to Tucker Carlson. He's a bright guy, he's insightful.
There are a lot of things he has to say
that I think are really good. But like anything, use

(30:50):
your discernment. Steve Sewart joins me next in the Morning
Show with Preston Scott Time for a visit with the
executive or of teal Aci Reports he is Steve Stewart,
now a saged not just newspaper veteran, but broadcast veteran. Wrient.

Speaker 9 (31:08):
Well, thank you for that introduction. Got a newspaper going out.
I'm a little wired.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
Yeah you've been up for that. Yeah, but hey it's
great paper. Got a lot of information in it.

Speaker 9 (31:16):
It's not bad getting up at four. I get it
before four. Hey yeah, I'll crash around two.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
That's all right.

Speaker 9 (31:22):
But things in there that you won't get anywhere else.
So anyway, like what, well, let's start with the crime numbers.

Speaker 11 (31:29):
Right.

Speaker 9 (31:29):
We get a lot of headlines about incidents, which is
you know that happens, but we look at the numbers
that are released from TPD to get an idea where
trends are happening. And you know, the headlines are that
the year to date numbers are down compared to last
year on crime incidents.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
And some categories down significantly. Right.

Speaker 9 (31:48):
However, when you look at year to date numbers, when
we get this far into the year, you know that
sometimes can hide what's going on, say the last three months. Well,
we've got the data so that we can look at that,
and you know, unfortunately crime has taken a turn over
the last three months in terms of related to assaults,
which is fights, gun shootings, and when you look at

(32:10):
the last three months compared to last year, it's those
type of crime incidents are up thirty forty percent in
the last three months. So we risk losing this, you know,
year to date numbers that are down because of what's
happening recently. So we'll see if that. You know, we've
got what we've got two months left, well yeah, two

(32:31):
months left, less than two months. So now on the
good news real quick, that the number of shooting deaths
is off of last year's number by pretty substantially. I
think it was twenty one last year through October sixteen.
Now still too many, but that is down, but yeah,
that's a concern.

Speaker 12 (32:47):
Now.

Speaker 9 (32:48):
The other thing good news property property incidents are down
still thirty five percent compared to last year, so we're
making some headway there. But the violent crime is worth
keeping an eye on.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
Do we have Are you able to break down, for example,
where these crimes are taking place.

Speaker 9 (33:05):
Yeah, I mean it's you know, it's again in the
traditional areas, and it's where when you see headlines, it's
the South Side's French Town and that's known attacker type
thing versus just random attacks. Look, there's yeah, I mean
there's just just near I think Griffin Heights. There was
a murder this weekend, right, there's an investigation into that.

(33:26):
You again, and I don't want to tie these together,
but you start seeing the headlines that start fitting these trends.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
You see that there was we reported to.

Speaker 9 (33:33):
Leon High, you know, thirty six arrests last year, which
was double the previous year.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
So you start seeing, wait a.

Speaker 9 (33:39):
Minute, words, is happening just recently last day or two,
another student was arrested Leon for not only getting into
a fight with a student, but then fighting with a
tea an adult. And so these are things that are
starting to bubble up in these statistics, and you know
it's becoming quality of life issues when you start talking
about we had a gun we had gunshots fired downtown

(34:02):
at College Avenue in Adams Street on Friday night at
two thirty, and so those things start to you know,
I like to talk about you don't want to take headlines,
you know, and take them out of context. But what
we're starting to see now is the headlines are starting
to match these broader trends. As it results as it
relates to violent crime.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
Well, it's interesting because the City Commission has long believed
in a twenty four hour at the very least an
eighteen hour downtown these things not to be not to
create a pun here. But they shoot those ideas down
now and look, they've they've made progress on this.

Speaker 9 (34:39):
The Real Time Crime Center is something that is really
made some headway in catching people and possibly providing a
to turnment.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
But you know, one of the things.

Speaker 9 (34:49):
That's tough to deal with is people that are not
not afraid of the consequences. Yeah, and a lot of
that has to do with gunplay. Everybody's carrying a gun
and when you've got it, and these are young people,
and so it's it's a difficulty to deal with, but
it's one that's there and we're reporting about it.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
Steve Stewart with us from Tallashi Reports. More to come,
stay with us. Remember you can subscribe get the paper.
Another one's coming out. Go to Tallhasti Reports dot com.

Speaker 10 (35:23):
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
One of the more intriguing stories as we are joined
by Steve Stewart of Tallashi Reports because it really does
touch virtually all parts of the community is is what
will happen. What is happening with Tallassi Memorial Hospital TMH.

Speaker 9 (35:51):
And FSU the you know, the MoU to create an
academic medical center, which is long overdue. And one of
the reasons why I like this issue is it's so important,
first of all, and then there's a lot of there's
a lot of meat to go after.

Speaker 1 (36:06):
Well, there's a lot of entities here with with moving parts.

Speaker 9 (36:10):
Right, and so first, one of the things that you'll
see in our newspaper, which is not yet.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
To be reported from any other media outlet, which to me.

Speaker 9 (36:16):
It's just unbelievable, is that you've got these two institutions negotiating.
You've got MoU, and you've got the chair at the
time of the TMAH board donating money to the mayor
old campaign of Jeremy Mattlow. And you know, and so
I mean, that's a story. Now you might say it's
no problem with it, but it's a story to let

(36:37):
you know that, wait a minute, I'm negotiating with you
and you're donating money not a year ago, or I
mean right in the middle of the negotiations the chair
of the TMH board. It just doesn't seem that doesn't
seem like a smart thing to do. Well, there's zero
wisdom in that, right. But the point, and we've talked
about this last week, but the bigger point here is

(36:57):
no other media outlet has reported that contribution. Remember when
FSU donated money donated money to city commissioners during the
Dope Campbell issue with the blueprints, I was reporting huge,
huge news, no reporting. So I'm again it'll be It'll
be on the front page of our newspaper and just
look free to do it. But again, it's about transparency.
Now onto the bigger issue, the TMHFSHU thing. This is

(37:20):
all about. There's a couple of things going on here.
First of all, to the biggest silos in our community.
TMH and FSU are getting ready to merge together, which
I think is a good thing. It's going to cause
people to instead of having a TMH board with TMH
people on it and an FSU board with FSUE people,
we're gonna have a board where people are gonna have
to look at each other and talk and you're gonna
have to have super majority to make any major decisions.

(37:41):
To me, that's great. More transparency is great for the community.
It may not be great for some individuals involved in
a process, but that's great. The problem we have here
is getting to that. And as I said, Commission Matt
Low is against this agreement, has been pretty clear. There's
some questions about is Team makes really negotiating in good faith?

(38:02):
Are they trying to stall this so they can still
remain a standalone community hospital, which is really not viable
if you look around the country. So those are unanswered questions.
The problem comes down to trust. You know, f SU,
who is the big dog in this town financially, that's
a fact. Okay, they've you know, they have helped out

(38:23):
in a lot of different areas, but they've also ruffled
some feathers. The dope Campbell thing was not handled probably
the best. There's some blueprint money that that they that
they've dealt with that wasn't handled the best. But FSU again,
the jobs, they create, the economic impact. They buy power
from the city of Tallahassee, and everybody says, well, of
course they do because they're here. Guess what University of

(38:46):
Florida doesn't bypower from city of Gainesville. So count your
blessings on that they bought the civic Center from Leon County.
So I mean, look, there are personality is going to
offend people, no doubt about it. But you got to
look at the broader picture here. And the thing that
concerns me right now is we're not getting it's more
of a pr campaign on I think, I think more

(39:09):
on TMH side because they have less leverage in this
in this situation. And so we'll see how this develops.
But you know, it's brought in Tallase State College, which
has been a community fixture here for years, and you
know a number of years ago they were asked to,
you know, start a program because we need nurses at TMH.
And now all of a sudden, TSC isn't community enough

(39:30):
to be on the board of TMH. And what I'm
referencing is the agreement was the government structure was nine
to eight, nine tm eight seats, eight FSU seats, and
then the Fame you wanted to be involved. FSU said, look,
we'll give up one of our seats to FAM you
and then TMH give up one of the.

Speaker 1 (39:48):
Seats to Tallese State College.

Speaker 9 (39:50):
Well, FSU held up their end of the deal, but
TMH doesn't want to do it. They're worried about state influence,
which again this goes back to a little bit of
an ideological battle. Tallasei State College Board of Trustees is
appointed by the governor. However, I mean they're all living
in Leon County.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
Fs hu's a state university, Steve, I know.

Speaker 9 (40:12):
And so this is a battle of control about trust.
We've got to get over this hurdle so that we
can move forward. But again there are there are gonna
be a lot of bumps on the way because we
really don't know the intentions at this point. You know,
does teammates still want to be a standalone hospital or
are they just negotiating the best deal in their eyes?
We know that's yet to be determined.

Speaker 1 (40:33):
More to come with Steve Stewart Talasireports dot Com on
The Morning Show with Preston Scott twenty one past the hour.

(40:55):
Somewhere John Adams is smiling up and up in heaven
because you told Steve, facts are stubborn things. With a
smile on my face and they are. They just are.
Tellas who reports Niba Neiba the mayor as he is
right now, John Daily.

Speaker 9 (41:13):
Yes, so he spoke at Neba and I trust a
wide range of issues, and so we've we've got our
lead story is on that just because if you can
just read this six hundred word story and you can
get up to date on a number of things and
you can agree or disagree. So obviously he's in his
last term, got a little bit more freedom of what
to say and do, and he's you know, he is

(41:35):
a promoter of talle Hasee. And he talked about a
lot of the good things that are going on in
terms of you know, we you know, we're in all
American city.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
I don't know if you knew that.

Speaker 9 (41:43):
And of course we have one of the lowest militar
rates in the state of Florida.

Speaker 1 (41:48):
Artificially kept down by the utility.

Speaker 9 (41:51):
Next yeah, and you know, so we have one of
the strongest economies based on some of the information coming
from you know, independent UH studies about a year ago.

Speaker 1 (42:02):
No thanks to the local business community. That is thwarted
by the local elected leaders. That's because of Florida State
and government.

Speaker 9 (42:10):
But go ahead, yeah, and so anyway, so he talked
about a number of those issues. He talked about the
t MHFSU merger, which he's which he is squarely behind,
and I've talked to some people to get their impression
of the meeting, and I think that this TMHFSU thing
with the with the Academical Medical Academic Medical Center is
something he wants to sort of leave as his legacy. Sure,

(42:31):
so we'll see if that gets done.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (42:33):
He did highlight some challenges. Talked about the air airport
traffic being down, said it's a you know that it
is a consequence of a number of things outside of
our control.

Speaker 1 (42:44):
Don't disagree, don't disagree with that.

Speaker 9 (42:46):
Talked about still how we're trying to you know, we've
got a master plan there, trying to develop around the airport,
you know, trying to get a hotel out there, trying
to get more businesses out there. And so in the
International Processing Unit or facility is going to come online,
which is supposed to help create jobs. So, you know,
he again, when you're in charge, you present a challenge

(43:07):
and then you say, hey, listen, we're addressing this. The
crime issue, you know, he didn't. He talked about the
declines year to date, not did not address the violent
crime issues that are Maybe when he sees our story
he'll get on that.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
So he did address that. The other thing that he addressed.

Speaker 9 (43:22):
And this is is the potential of losing property tax
revenue because of some changes in state law. And you know,
he was more factual on this. Look, this is going
to be a twenty two million dollar hit to the
general fund and future leaders are going to have to
figure out how to deal with this if it comes
to fruition. And so basically a twenty two million and

(43:44):
I thought it was more than that, but twenty two
million dollars on the general fund, which is a two
hundred million dollar fund, So that's about a ten percent cut, right,
And so I don't know, we could probably do that
if we sit here with the pistol and paper, But
that was an issue that I think going forward they're
going to have to deal with. It's a bigger issue

(44:05):
on the county side, I think, but anyway, from the
city side, they get city gets.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
Revenue from a lot of different things, as you well know.
You know, the thing that troubled me about John's comments
on potential property tax changes here in the state of
Florida which need to happen is he immediately played the
card that the left always plays, and that is, you know,
this is going to impact parks and rec well only
if you'd allow it to. You know, this is about prioritizing,
and that's really the point I think that the CFO

(44:32):
for the State of Florida, Blazing Goalie, is trying to
drive at. Is what cities and counties have done since
twenty nineteen is they ballooned their budgets by fifty percent.
And this is Republican and Democrat run communities all across
the state. They have ballooned their expenditures. And there are
ways to cut it.

Speaker 9 (44:48):
Well back, look when you look at it, and we've
talked about this, the top three priorities for local government
law enforcement, fire services, and parks. Okay, after that, you
can start looking at, you know, for fee services. And
we've talked about Star Metro. And I am not saying
that we don't need a public transportation option, but we
don't need one that's being funded subsidized by the tune

(45:12):
of ten million dollars from property taxes, right, And so
I think there's some areas to look at. Is it
going to be comfortable? Is it going to be tough,
No doubt about it. But you look at what's going
on with Leon County schools. They are to the point
now because they have done I would argue poor planning,
and now they are at the point where they're going
to have to close schools because they've the I mean,

(45:34):
they're at the end of the row in terms of finances.
And I think what this does when you start looking
at this property TAZ thing, is that makes local governments
start to get a little bit more practical in where
they're spending their money.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
Absolutely as well as should be.

Speaker 9 (45:48):
No, and it's and it's so, it's it's tough, but
it's something. You know, everybody's coming out of the COVID era,
right and you know, and I know it was five
years ago, but look, there are things from a federal
contact that are just starting to hit the end, you know,
and people are having you know, from a healthcare standpoint,
from school standpoint, they're having to get back to the

(46:09):
numbers before COVID, and there are some changes that have happened.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
There's not a single person listening to this program and
there's not a single person between you, me and Jose
that have not had to deal with a reduction in
income where you've had to reprioritize your budget. It's what
you have to do, and government doesn't like doing it,
and they're having to start to address that now.

Speaker 9 (46:29):
They haven't had to in the last couple of years
because of the money coming down from the Feds.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
This is good. This is good. It's good for everybody,
and thankfully you're reporting on it. Appreciate it. Thank you.
Pressing Steve Stewart with us from Telehassi Reports. Subscribe. I
tell you that all the time makes a great Christmas
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go to Tellaskireports dot com. Thirty six minutes past the hour,

(47:11):
let's get to the big story in the press box.
You heard right, singular one, the victory speech of Zorn Mom.
Donnie Van Jones of CNN, a very extreme left commentator
that has over the years moderated sum recognizes this is

(47:35):
not the guy he switched characters. Where's the guy who
was a little bit more measured and restrained. Check these
comments out. Okay, we got a problem here because it
is it is playing it in in a left channel only. Okay,

(47:58):
here's what we're gonna do. I'm gonna I'm going to
re record that and we'll play it next hour. My
apologies I never would have thought that was going to happen.
Van Jones, for his part, though surprised.

Speaker 3 (48:09):
I think he missed an opportunity. I think the mom
Donnie that we saw in the campaign trail, who was
a lot more calm, who was a lot warmer, who
was a lot more embracing, was not present in that speech,
and I think that Mom Donnie is the one you
need to hear from tonight. There are a lot of
people trying to figure out can I get on this

(48:30):
train with him or not? Is he going to include me?
Is he going to be more of a class warrior
even in office. I think he missed a camp tonight
to open up and bring more people into the tent.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
I think its tone was sharp.

Speaker 3 (48:48):
I think he was using the microphone in a way
that he was almost yelling. And that's not the Mom
Donnie that we've seen on TikTok and the great interviews and.

Speaker 1 (48:55):
Stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (48:56):
So I felt like it was a little bit of a.

Speaker 1 (48:58):
Character switch here. Wonder why why was there a character
switch Van, because that's not who he is And Scott
Jennings nailed it on the same panel with Van Jones.
David Axelrod, the longtime Obama UH advisor. Listen to Scott Jennings.

(49:23):
He broke it down.

Speaker 5 (49:24):
Oh are you saying he didn't. He wasn't the unifying
voice of a generation that you predicted mere moments ago
acts Where was the Where was the man that you
predicted would not slice and dice dealer?

Speaker 8 (49:38):
Look, guys.

Speaker 5 (49:38):
He started his speech by quoting Eugene Debs, who ran
for President of the United States five times as the
Socialist Party of America candidate. He repeatedly attacked people in.

Speaker 10 (49:51):
This I know my socialists. I keep it close on.

Speaker 5 (49:58):
So the thing he went after everybody that he thinks
is a problem, people who own things, people who have businesses.
He said an interesting quote, no problem too large for
government to solve or too small important. And so when
you think of the world that way, that every problem,

(50:21):
no matter how small or how large, is something for
government to do. Let me just decipher this for you.
Tax increases as far as the eye.

Speaker 1 (50:31):
Can see, which means yeap, the exodus already began. I
don't know if you know this. More than one hundred
million dollars of Florida real estate has been purchased by
New Yorkers that were nervous in recent months because they
saw what was coming. They saw what was coming, and

(50:55):
they've already said, see you, businesses will leave. Mom. Donnie
is going to do generational, devastating change to New York City.
It was bad because it's been run by Democrats. And
that's why the analysis that some have offered about this
not being about going further left is missing the mark.

(51:20):
The New York that Frank Sinatra sang about, if you
can make it there, you can make it anywhere. That's
a New York that doesn't exist anymore, and it hasn't for decades.
Old Blue Eyes was talking about a New York that
hasn't existed in forever. Now, this is about a lack

(51:42):
of transparency and voters not being smart enough to recognize
that when a guy openly says what he's gonna do,
believe him. Forty minutes past the hour, switch gears Doctor
Steve Steverson. Pause for Thought is next.

Speaker 13 (52:01):
Ray talk about our pets?

Speaker 1 (52:11):
Doctor Steve Stevers and joins us with the Bradfordville Animal Hospital.
Good morning, sir, how are you hey?

Speaker 11 (52:18):
Preston, I'm doing great. How are you?

Speaker 1 (52:19):
I'm doing well? Yeah, I chuckled at your note, because
I watch people arm wrestle their dogs when they go
for walks, and it's like a battle of wills, and
I ask myself who's walking?

Speaker 11 (52:31):
Who exactly preston?

Speaker 1 (52:36):
But you see injuries come as a result of this.

Speaker 11 (52:40):
Oh we do you know? We some of have a
rash this year of people who've come in who tell
us they were pulled down by their pet and they
wind up injuring a wrist or a forearm or just
a week had a lady and who has an eighty
pound eight month old Labrador puppy, so this is going
to be a big dog, and she had to be
looking wonder Actually the dog took off the other She

(53:01):
wasn't aware of it. Before she knew it, she fell,
hit the ground, hit her head and knocked her out. Yes,
so we see, we hear this all the time, and
so I just want to mention this that make sure
if you get a new pet or you whether it's
a puppy or you get an adult dog, make sure
you have some obedience training so the dog is obedient

(53:21):
and responds to you. The group puppy kindergarten classes are
great for just very basic obedience, but if you have
a dog that's going to grow up be a big,
powerful dog. You may need more than just that puppy
kindergarten class. You may need to go have some one
on one training, or take a dog to a dog
camp where they stay for a few weeks and get

(53:43):
ultimate training. I know dog Pond Kennels does a really
good job with that, and we have a lot of
clients that take their pets to dog Pond for that
type of training, which is a really good idea. And
then you know, we could spend a whole session one
sometime pressed in talking about leasha's and collars and heartsis
and how to select the light one to help prevent

(54:03):
those those falls from happening.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
Well, let me let me go ahead and go here,
because I know that in the coming weeks we want
to talk about, you know, the holiday urge to buy
a pet for a kid. True or false. Choker collars
are good or bad for dogs.

Speaker 11 (54:22):
There are pros and cons to choker collars Preston. Typically,
in general, they're bad. We don't recommend them. Okay, there
are certain exceptions. So if you have a very big
dog that walks fairly well on a leash but needs
a little more attention. Sometimes a pinch collar or choka
collar might be necessary in those cases, but you don't

(54:44):
know how to use it, so you don't injure your
pet with a choker collar pulling on their trachia on
their neck.

Speaker 1 (54:51):
Generally speaking, do you want harnesses and again broadly generally
harnesses with that you know that that they basically it's
they're wearing a vest or a collar, So.

Speaker 11 (55:03):
Generally we recommend a harness actually more than a collar
from most pets. Now, you don't want the harness where
you clip on the top of the back. You've got
a clip on the front of the chest so that
the dog when they pull, it's not like a sled
dog clipped in on the top of their back or
they're pulling you down the road. There's other types of
harnesses that have in a more appropriate clip where they
can't pull as well, and those are the types of

(55:25):
hornses we typically recommend, but they're less damaging to the
neck if the dogs are pushing or pulling a lot.
So we took them a very specific type of harness.

Speaker 1 (55:34):
You know what, we'll we'll work into the harness thing
with part of our gift giving guide for pets. I
think that'll be a great topic to bring up, Doctor Steverson.
Thanks has always appreciate the time and the advice.

Speaker 11 (55:47):
Great thanks question.

Speaker 1 (55:49):
Doctor Steve Steverson of the Bradfordville Animal Hospital. My guest
forty six minutes past the hour, come back road trip suggestion,
and then we're gonna get you ready for a phone segment.
We're gonna take some calls and we'll tell you about
that next Here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 10 (56:08):
This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (56:27):
Time for work trip suggestion. Here on the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. This suggestion comes from my book here
Unique America. Not my book like I wrote it. No,
it is I own it. Strange, unusual and just playing fun.
A trip through America. Hardcover book. You can get it.

(56:47):
I've had people ask me can you get it? Sounds
like a cool book it is. It's a fun read.
It's a great book for one of those places where
you sometimes find yourself reading, you know what I mean,
instead of being on your phone. The RV Hall of

(57:08):
Fame in Elkhart, Indiana. The Recreational Vehicle Hall of Fame
is a celebration of road trip adventure. That's what this
segment's all about. It was built in nineteen ninety one
one hundred thousand square feet, featuring winnebagos, airstreams, holiday ramblers,

(57:28):
and scores of lesser known vehicles. The Hall of Fame
section includes the names of industry big wigs and innovators
dedicated r vs should be excused for not knowing any
of them. After all, they were too busy our being
to pay proper attention. But you can go inside these
RVs going back years. If you're traveling the road, that

(57:53):
would seem like a great place to visit. That would
make a lot of sense to me. So there's your
road trip suggestion. If you are traveling across the Midwest
heading up towards Indiana, I recommend to stop in South
Bend visit Notre Dame. Indiana is a beautiful state in

(58:14):
its own way. I mean, you know the old idea
of basketball goals nailed to the side of every barn.
I mean, there's some truth to that. Basketball is like
the state sport in a big way. Of course, this
year now IU is Indiana University's number two in the
nation in football. How did that happen? My goodness, gracious. Anyway,

(58:36):
So there's your road trip idea, the RV Hall of
Fame in Elkhart. All right, we're going to transition here.
I don't know how this is going to go. As always,
I'm prepared, but I found this topic worth talking about,
and obviously I would prefer to not just talk by myself.

(59:06):
Just Jose and I discussed the idea the death penalty.
What made this interesting to me is death row inmate
in South Carolina, and I'm gonna I'm gonna not use
the guy's name because we don't talk about killers. There

(59:29):
is no shroud of mystery or doubt about this man
being a horrible killer. One of four he likely killed,
but the one that he was executed he is going
to be executed for is the murder of William teachIn.

(59:54):
He not just fatally shot him in his home just
because he burned his eyes with cigarettes and painted catch
me if you can on the wall with his blood.

(01:00:16):
When his daughter was calling to find out about him,
the killer picked up the phone and said, yeah, I
just killed him. Click. He is going to be executed,
and he has chosen the firing squad. You have three

(01:00:40):
options in South Carolina, you have lethal injection, the firing
squad or the electric chair. He has chosen the firing squad.
So three anonymous members of the Corrections department will stand
at fifteen feet the three to eight and they'll end

(01:01:07):
his life. Now, in some cases, you don't know who
has the real bullets versus the dummies. In this case,
they might all have them. Don't know, don't know if
they even do that practice anymore. My question for you
is what are your thoughts on the death penalty. I've

(01:01:29):
broached this subject ever so briefly over the last few years,
but I'd like to hear your thoughts on the subject
of the death penalty and the various methods and is
it still the right thing to do? Next, I passed

(01:02:02):
the hour phone numbers eight five zero two zero five
to b FLA eight five zero two zero five ninety
three fifty two ruminators. I would like to hear from
you on the subject of the death penalty. There are
and I'm not gonna I'm not gonna fight with anybody
about this. My views or are mine, yours are yours.

(01:02:24):
I won't say that anyone's right or wrong, per se.
Lets you say something like ridiculous, But no, really it is.
It is a topic that I think those of us
who are quote tough on crime, I'm not sure we're
always right about it. And I'm not sure that the

(01:02:47):
people that oh, no, no, no, you should never put anybody
to that, I'm not sure they're right about it. I
do think that we need to step back for a
moment and just look at the issue broadly. Who is
sentenced to life in prison, who is sentenced to the

(01:03:09):
death penalty? What are the forms in which we carry
out the capital punishment. This was brought up simply by
a guy choosing to die by firing squad. There's something
that say that's cruel and unusual punishment. There's a story
of somebody recently in South Carolina being executed by firing
squad and they missed his heart and so it took

(01:03:29):
him a minute to die. And so I'm just taking
calls and getting your thoughts on this, and again this
is not to be argumentative in any way, shape or form.
I would earnestly like to hear your thoughts on just
the concept of the manner, the guidance for who should

(01:03:51):
be facing the death penalty, and just the topic in general, Matt,
thanks for being so patient. Up you're on the air.

Speaker 6 (01:04:01):
What do you think, oh person, uh love the show
man got a lot of a lot of weigh in
on this one. Without sounding cruel or pruit brutal, bar barry.
I do believe in songs you made death say you
know you made a mistake. You you drunkenly killed somebody.

(01:04:24):
You're repented about it, you feel horrible about it. I
mean life in prison maybe for that one. But if
you brutally kill somebody by bashing their head in with
a rock, I believe you should receive the same punishment,
you know, and without you know, without people having to

(01:04:45):
do that. We have robots now with AI and uh,
we can just send them into a little room and uh,
you get, you get what you dold out.

Speaker 11 (01:04:56):
You know.

Speaker 6 (01:04:56):
It brings the mind the woman that was set on
fire in the subway in the York a can full
of gas and a match and make it publicly known.
That's that's that's what you face when you when you
do these brutal crowns. Maybe it'll cut back on some
of it, Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:05:16):
So literally an eye for an eye, et cetera.

Speaker 6 (01:05:20):
It is it is the Old Testament. And I know
our Lorden says savor says turn the other chief, but
that doesn't dismiss some of the ruling rules of the
Old Testament.

Speaker 1 (01:05:32):
Yeah, I'm I'm just pointing out that what you're advocating is,
however somebody caused the death of another is the form
of death they should face.

Speaker 6 (01:05:44):
And if it's heinous enough, Yes, got it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:48):
Thank you, Matt. I appreciate you calling and uh, I
think you articulated your view very very well. Mike Nikki,
you are next. What about you? Eight five zero two
zero five WSLA eight five zero two zero five ninety
three fifty two. We've got We've got time to let

(01:06:08):
you talk and share your thoughts as we did there
with Matt, and appreciate and if you want to call
in and say I think it's barbaric, that's fine. I
value your opinion. I want to hear from you. Dialogue discussion.

(01:06:30):
It's Morning Show with Preston Scott taking some calls on
the death penalty. You believe in it? What are the
bars that should exist before handing out that kind of sentence?

(01:06:53):
Are there? Are there are there places that the evidence
needs to be and it canviction for the death penalty,
because that's man. You still see stories of people being exonerated.
They're sitting on death row, they're doing life in prison perhaps,
and then they find out through DNA they did not

(01:07:15):
they weren't there. And boy, with a capital punishment, there
is no do over, Mike, what do you think?

Speaker 2 (01:07:27):
Okay?

Speaker 14 (01:07:27):
Thanks pressing When it comes to death penalty. One thing
that really irritates me he have these people we know
for sure that kill somebody. Why in the world do
they stay on death row for ten to twenty years.
What they need to do is if we know without
a shadow of doubt that they kill somebody, go ahead,

(01:07:50):
try them, go ahead and convict him and execute them
within thirty days. There's no need for the taxpayers to
pay for their up old while they're on death penalty.
In the penal system, we need to go ahead in
subject to the crime. One thing for me, if you
rape or kill a little incant child, there's no execution

(01:08:15):
that's good enough to terminate their life. I mean, send
them into the in the prisons and let prison.

Speaker 2 (01:08:22):
Just to take care of them.

Speaker 14 (01:08:24):
Because that's one thing that irritates me more than anything
is somebody that has no value of the little kid.
I mean, go ahead and drawn quarto like they did
Brave Heart William Wallace. I mean, they have no right
to live on this earth. So thanks for listening and

(01:08:44):
have a good day.

Speaker 1 (01:08:45):
Thank you very much. Appreciate the phone call. Let's go
to Nicky Nikki Europe.

Speaker 10 (01:08:50):
Good morning morning.

Speaker 12 (01:08:52):
I appreciate you taking my call. I just you know,
it's one of those things where as a mother, I
especially if there's a crime against the child or or
just anyone who's vulnerable like that.

Speaker 14 (01:09:07):
Uh.

Speaker 12 (01:09:07):
I used to think that death penalty was the way
to go. I used to think, you know, especially the
more the more atrocious the crime, get it, get them out.
I don't want to pay to feed them, house them anything.
But then I thought more about it, and you know what,
we need to bring back more chain gangs. And I'm
not talking about this cushy little Oh yeah, and you

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get TV time and oh are your are your body
cuffs chafing you? Let's pad that a little bit. I'm
talking about old school, one hundred years ago chain gangs. Uh,
you know, and work it off. And I think in
many cases, I think death is too good for some people.

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You know really, uh just let's just uh, if we're
going to pay to feed and close the let them
pay it back in another way and don't let them
off easy.

Speaker 1 (01:10:06):
Thank you, Nikki, appreciate that. See I'm not here judging
any of it. I just want to take in your thoughts.
That's why we're doing this eight five zero two zero
five to be fla ted. Thanks for calling in.

Speaker 15 (01:10:19):
Hey, yeah, I love the braveheart reference. You know freedom.

Speaker 1 (01:10:23):
Yeah, not exactly a capital crime, but yeah, yeah, thanks.

Speaker 15 (01:10:28):
Before the death penalty and when I became a lawyer,
I decided, like, you know what, it's not a deterrent
and it ties up the court system for years. There's
so many appeals and that you have to look at
it because it's it's the state trying to take someone's life,
so it takes years. I don't think it's a deterrent.
I don't think people who end up committing heinous crimes

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are deterred by like, oh gee, I better not do this.
I might get the death penalty if I get caught.
It's it's just a waste of time. I just don't
want them in society either. Have someone off and you know,
in prison somewhere, you know, maybe in a smaller cell
than people get nowadays. But anyway, there's my two cents

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on it.

Speaker 1 (01:11:12):
Appreciate it. Thank you, Ted. Eight five zero two zero
five to b FLA, Patricia, you will be first when
we come back. One more segment, death row. Good with it.
The method of execution in South Carolina it's lethal injection,
electric chair, or firing squad. You can choose the the
inmate chooses, the convicted chooses. What do you think about

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all that? Eight five zero two zero five to be
f LA come back takes more calls. You are not
letting me down, ruminators offering some very interesting ideas thought

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your personal insights on the subject of the death penalty. Patricia,
back to the phone lines we go. You have been
very patient. Thank you, you're up.

Speaker 16 (01:12:11):
Hey, Preston, thanks for taking my call. I don't have
a problem with the death penalty except that the appeals
and delays and all these things that it takes to
put someone to death. And I agree one hundred percent
with Ted. I think that if you commit a crime

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that would be I guess otherwise subject to the death penalty,
you should get life in prison without the ability to
get parole and your life should be hard because I
gather that people that are on death row, they get

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a lot of freedom and flexibility to go to the
library and to meet with these people and you know,
do all these things. And I think you certainly should
be able to get an appeal if you are innocent,
and you you know, get somebody to support that you're innocent,
that that you get an appeal, and that you get

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the ability to seek counsel for that. But otherwise you
should be in a tiny little cell by yourself with
no amenities, no TV, no computer, no nothing, because of
what you did. And that is a lot less costly
to the state and to the taxpayers than all these

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countless appeals, and I think it's a lot more of
a deterrent.

Speaker 1 (01:13:40):
Thank you very much, Patricia, I got to roll on.
Appreciate the phone call. Let's go to Michael. Oops, Michael,
did I lose you? Michael needs to call right back,
So let's get Michael back on the phone line. Jim,
you're up, Go ahead. Did we lose Jim?

Speaker 6 (01:13:55):
Two?

Speaker 1 (01:13:56):
Good grief? Call back. We need Michael and Jim to
call back. Something glitched on the phone system. Let's go
to James, James, are you there.

Speaker 17 (01:14:04):
I am. Good morning guys.

Speaker 1 (01:14:06):
Good morning.

Speaker 17 (01:14:07):
So I've been to prison and I worked chow on
death row when I was a young man. I made mistakes.
I's toned for my mistakes. I've turned my life around.
I now have six kids in a good job.

Speaker 1 (01:14:18):
Good for you.

Speaker 17 (01:14:20):
What I can say is they don't care. They don't
find Christ until they die. There's no The only remorse
they have is they got caught. It's every one of
them follows the same storyline. Oh well, now that I'm dying,
I'm gonna find my savor, which is hard feelings for

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me because the person they killed never got a chance.
I'm for the death penalty, okay, just simply for the
fact of seeing the people who killed people living with killers.
Bunk mate was a killer, just didn't have the death penalty.
They do not care. It's they're only sad they got caught.

Speaker 1 (01:15:09):
James, thanks for your insight. I'm grateful to hear your story.
Makes my heart happy. Thank you very much. Let's go
back to Jim. Jim, you're up.

Speaker 2 (01:15:17):
Good morning pressing, Now are you good?

Speaker 1 (01:15:20):
Sorry for running the call.

Speaker 2 (01:15:21):
There, That's okay. I've got experience with this. My sister
was brutally murdered, strangle to death and the guy put
mason jar gas on her and caught her on fire.

Speaker 1 (01:15:35):
I'm so sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:15:36):
We went yeah, well, you know God's got all that, brother.
Let me tell you, it's the only way I made
it through, went to court, all the games that they play.
We went for the death penalty and we didn't get it.
He got life in prison plus seventy years without the
possibility of parole. But you know, I was disappointed at

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first about the death penalty because I really wanted him
to die. But I look at it. It can go
both ways. For me, He's going to be the rest
of his life with somebody telling him what to do,
how to do it, when to do it, and have
him to protect himself to live day by day. He

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can't go to refrigerator get something to drink. He can't,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:16:22):
Yes, And if.

Speaker 2 (01:16:26):
If they were to take the lethal injection off, you know,
either you get fired squad or you get the electric chair.
That's the way it should be. Because none of their
victims got the choice. They killed them brutally, They died
with fear, and we're going to put them to sleep.

(01:16:48):
And you know, and as far as the fellow before,
it doesn't matter when and how he got he got saved.
Maybe it took that for him to give his life
to christ. I don't want anybody to perish in him,
even the guy that killed my sister. So that's a story.

Speaker 1 (01:17:06):
President brother, thanks for sharing it. I think you got
a lot of people thinking about things with that, and
I'm again I am so very sorry about the loss
in your family. There is there are no words. Final
caller here is Michael. Michael.

Speaker 18 (01:17:24):
Go ahead, good morning, preston the previous two call before
these two gentlemen, the guy and the woman, come on, Oh,
just put him in a little sale and no, I
don't want my tax payers supporting these pieces of trash.
And they come up, well, the death tailling is not
to turn Well, you dang skippy have public hangings and

(01:17:46):
you do it. Oh, you're convicted of murder and your
sentenced to death. Automatic repeal. You got twelve months on repeal.
After the repeal, they find evidence. Great, have a new trial.
They don't guess what you're going on out in the courtyard.
You're gonna be strung up, You're gonna be kicked off
that platform. You know, a fucking dropping, the snap of

(01:18:07):
the neck and that's it. But have it public that
will deter people. The reason I don't think the death
Tony is a quote a deterrent is because it takes
twenty thirty years to finally put one of these guys down.
And like the previous caller, what about the victims, what
they suffered, what they went through? You know, I'm sorry,

(01:18:27):
I have no compassion with these people. Yeah, I'm gonna
I don't let God judge them. Yeah, he may judge
me for the way I feel, but I'm sorry. If
you kill somebody, to me, you're just a piece of dirt.

Speaker 1 (01:18:39):
Michael, thanks very much. I appreciate you calling in. Well
done everybody. No, I appreciate you calling a variety of opinions.
As I said, I just wanted to hear what you
had to say. Twenty eight minutes past the hour. I
hope you enjoyed, I think a very thought provoking half
hour here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 10 (01:19:03):
This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:19:23):
All Right, solving my sound problems. Let's listen to and
we're gonna we're gonna take a little time on this,
just a couple minutes of the quote victory speech of
the new extremist Islamic, anti Semite socialist mayor of New

(01:19:47):
York City. Just listen.

Speaker 19 (01:19:52):
If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump
how to defeat him, it is the city that gave
rise to him. And if there is any way to
terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions
that allowed him to accumulate power. This is not only

(01:20:17):
how we stop Trump, it's how we stop the next one. So,
Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I.

Speaker 1 (01:20:31):
Have four words for you.

Speaker 8 (01:20:35):
Turn the volume up. We will hold bad landlords.

Speaker 19 (01:21:01):
To account because the Donald Trumps of our city have
grown far too comfortable taking advantage of their tenants. We
will put an end to the culture of corruption that
has allowed billionaires like Trump to evade taxation and exploit
tax breaks. We will stand alongside unions and expand labor

(01:21:27):
protections because we know, just as Donald Trump does, that
when working people have ironclad rights, the bosses who seek
to extort them become very small.

Speaker 10 (01:21:41):
Indeed, New York will.

Speaker 19 (01:21:46):
Remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants,
powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant.

(01:22:15):
So hear me, President Trump, when I say this, to
get to any of us, you will have to get
through all of us.

Speaker 1 (01:22:26):
Forty minutes past the hour back with a little bit more.
Only my thoughts, guy, to what you're talking about.

Speaker 4 (01:22:37):
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:22:49):
All right, let's let me jump around here a little bit.
Let's listen again to some of this, and I'm gonna
stop it and offer some thoughts.

Speaker 19 (01:22:57):
Anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how
to defeat him. It is the city that gave rise
to him.

Speaker 1 (01:23:08):
If anyone can show the nation betrayed by Donald and
how is okay? Okay?

Speaker 8 (01:23:21):
And if there is any way to terrify.

Speaker 10 (01:23:23):
A despot a despot, it is by.

Speaker 19 (01:23:28):
Dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power.

Speaker 1 (01:23:33):
Okay, Now we're going to start getting to some meat,
dismantling the systems that in other words, capitalism. Do not
ever lose sight of the fact as a socialist he
hates capitalism. Again, I believe people like him should never

(01:23:58):
be allowed to run for an office in this country,
any office anywhere, dogcatcher. None. I don't believe that that
they should ever be given the opportunity to hold an
elected office, because they oppose the very foundation of our government.

Speaker 19 (01:24:22):
This is not only how we stopped Trump, it's how
we stop the next one.

Speaker 1 (01:24:27):
Okay. So he is of the thought that this is
this is a problem, that being a capitalist and successful
is needing to be stopped. Okay. Noted, Let's go uh,

(01:24:53):
let's go here.

Speaker 19 (01:24:54):
Because the Donald Trumps of our city have grown far
too comfortable taking advantage of.

Speaker 1 (01:25:00):
Their tenants, asking people to pay their rent on time
at whatever the market force demands, which I will add
has been caused by Democrat policies which have dominated that
city for decades. That's the fault of the landowner. So

(01:25:21):
we're gonna, we're gonna hold, We're gonna We're gonna make
sure that landlords lose money and have to give away housing.
This is socialism.

Speaker 19 (01:25:35):
We will put an end to the culture of corruption
that has allowed billionaires like Trump to evade taxation and
exploit tax breaks.

Speaker 1 (01:25:45):
That's tax law. If you don't like the tax law,
we have a government, and you change it. Tax loopholes
are legal. I don't like them. I don't like the
tax system at all, but I don't begrudge somebody for
utilizing the tax breaks that are available to them when

(01:26:06):
you're taxing them at thirty eight and thirty nine percent
of their income, which is absurd. But notice the tone.

Speaker 19 (01:26:18):
We will stand alongside unions and expand labor protections because
we know, just as Donald Trump does, that when working
people have ironclad rights, the bosses who seek to extort
them become very small.

Speaker 1 (01:26:36):
Indeed, those bosses are the ones that are the employer's loser.
You watch what happens to the jobs and the job market.
Now you watch, you watch what happens moving forward.

Speaker 8 (01:26:58):
New York will.

Speaker 10 (01:26:59):
Remain ain't a city of.

Speaker 1 (01:27:01):
Immigrants, Okay, immigrants or illegal immigrants or both. Are we
going to conflate those, of course we are. But as
he talks.

Speaker 19 (01:27:14):
A city built by immigrants, you know what I hear,
powered by jeezk uta.

Speaker 10 (01:27:22):
God guda.

Speaker 8 (01:27:24):
Dot stand.

Speaker 20 (01:27:27):
Ah hih that's what I hear. I hear, I that's
what I hear. That's his tone. That is his tone.

Speaker 19 (01:27:38):
Friends, So hear me, President Trump, when I say this,
To get to any of us.

Speaker 10 (01:27:47):
You will have to get through all of us.

Speaker 1 (01:27:50):
That is the socialist creed right there.

Speaker 8 (01:27:58):
This.

Speaker 1 (01:28:00):
I did a commentary this morning where I if you
remember the original Mortal Kombat movie, it started with it
has begun, and it was the universal Mortal Kombat. Right,
it has begun. The Islamic socialist takeover of this nation,

(01:28:30):
with the takeover of New York City, has now begun.
I'm gonna keep telling you, reminding you New York's not
the first, it's the biggest, it's the most important. It

(01:28:51):
is what Justin Haskins warned of back a few months ago.
He's like, this would be a very bad signal because
you watch what happens in New York City. Friends. If
there's any advantage that we have, it's that we have
now a full year of New York before the next
set of elections. Republicans need to tie the Democrat Party

(01:29:17):
to Zorn Mom Donnie because they endorsed him forty eight
minutes passed the out scary times. Yeah, it's a new

(01:29:42):
world right, and a lot of regards. We now can
order anything we want and have it delivered to our home. Right,
you can have your groceries delivered to your home. You
can buy a car and have it delivered to your home.
You can, you can. You can buy your prescription meds

(01:30:04):
and have them delivered to your home. And that's what
one woman in Kentucky ordered. She had some medications that
she needed. I don't know if they were refills or
new prescriptions, but she was expecting a package with her
medications and she got two boxes. In one of those boxes,

(01:30:27):
she was a little surprised. You're thinking, did Amazon get
something wrong? Right? You know, sent you know, a circle
lamp or something for your camera instead of the meds. No, no, no, no, no,
no no no no, she uh. Instead of getting her

(01:30:48):
urgent medication, she received a shipment of human arms and fingers.
And no, this is no joke. The lady opened up
a box and got parts that were supposed to go
to a medical school for practice.

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Speaker 1 (01:31:31):
Ah, here we go. All right. We started the day
with Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven, did a little bit
of a deep dive, went into the strongest concordance on
that one, and focused on one word in particular that
might be worth your listening to at the beginning of
the podcast when it posts in a little while. Had
a good conversation last hour Steve Stewart, doctor Steve Steveson

(01:31:53):
talking about pets training obedience training mentioned my good friends
at Dog Pond Kennels. That was pretty cool and probably
not a good idea to use those choker callers the
harness is but what I thought interesting a harness that
hooks from the chest, not the back. Go figure. Big

(01:32:15):
story in the press box the election in New York
City of an extremist, anti Semite, Islamic socialist. Good luck,
New York City, this is what you voted for. Wait,
do you see who shows up? Way? Do you see
who's already leave it tomorrow? It's Friday and I cannot wait.

(01:32:40):
Have an awesome day, friends,