Ep. 5506: War with Venezuela?

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Thursday, December 4th

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Every morning.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Thursday, December fourth, on The Morning Show with Preston Scott
Counting down the Days show fifty five oh six, and
we are we're just a couple of weeks away from
ending our season here on the program, taking a little
bit of a break, but we will leave you with
the twelve days of Preston. But as we do each

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and every morning, we like to start with God's word
because that's what we ought to be doing. And with
all due respect to those of you that do this
at the end of your day, that's great, man. I
I have to say, I think it's more productive at

(00:58):
the start of the day. Let me use this as
the example. Does it make sense to start your day
with coffee or end your day with coffee, start your

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day with a little nourishment or end your day with
a little nourishment and go to bed it just do
it doesn't make sense to me. It's still better than nothing.
But I maintain and life has taught me, and I
believe many of you the same, that taking some time

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in the morning with God affects your entire day. So
we're talking about different Christmas songs, Christmas hymns. I heard
the bells on Christmas Day, there's one of the lines,

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then peeled the bells more loud and deep. God is
not dead, nor doth he sleep. The wrong shall fail,
the right prevail with peace on earth, goodwill to men.
Who is God to you? And be honest with yourself

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about your answer, Your words, your deeds, your thoughts all
reveal the truth. And only by reconciling what you say
out loud what you think with the re reality, can

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you begin to piece together some form of understanding of
the relationship you either have or don't have with God.
Who is God to you? Is He just a buddy
you go to when times are tough, the ever present

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help and a time of trouble? Okay? Fair? But is
that it? I'm reminded of the lyrics of a song
that Larnel Harris did called I missed my time with you,
those moments together. I need to be with you each day,
but it hurts me when you say you're too busy.

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This is God speaking busy, trying to serve me. But
how can you serve me when your spirit's empty? There
is a longing in my heart, wanting more than just
a part of you. It's true, I miss my time
with you. God misses his time with us. Because he's God,

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He's able to have an intimate relationship with each and
every one of us. Psalm twenty nine, verse eleven says,
may the Lord give strength to his people. May the
Lord bless his people with peace. I believe that your

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ability to receive strength and peace from God is completely
determined by who God is to you. The wrong shall fail,

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the right prevail with peace on earth, Good will to men.
Ten past the hour, that'll do, Starting the Thursday edition
of the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
Listening to the m a D Radio Network, where you're
challenged to make a difference each and every day. Good morning,
and welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
All right, eleven minutes past the hour is ose. I'm Preston.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
Hi.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Update you on Orphan Shade just a little bit. It's
it's so fun, man, just I just looked at my
wife yesterday and just amazed at what God is doing.
We're not there, but we are so tantalizingly close. We
can actually finish this project this week. I'll explain more.

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We could finish it today, We could finish it before
the end of the show December fourth, What do we
Got here? Sixteen seventy four, Jacques Marquette and two French
traders build a hut at what is now Chicago and

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introduce pizza Hut. Okay, maybe not that that might not
be quite historically accurate. Seventeen eighty three the Revolutionary War concluded.
General George Washington bids his officers farewell at Francis Tavern

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in New York City, where he had a cherry coke.
Now I can't swear to that either, but eighteen sixteen
James Monroe, Virginia elected the fifth US President. I'm pretty
sure that US Highway twenty seven that runs nearby here

(07:13):
is named after him. Monroe Street, I think could be wrong,
could be named after a shock absorber, just saying it
could be named after Marilynd Monroe because the road, you know, curves.
You know what I'm saying. Let's see here. The American

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Anti Slavery Society is organized in Philadelphia in eighteen thirty three.
Nineteen ninety six, General Motors begins the first mass production
of a US electric car, the EV one. So there
you got that. Today is a National Santa's List Day?

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Did you ever put a list together for Santa. Did
you ever do the Santa thing? Did you ever sit
on this line app in the whole nine yards? Oh yeah, yeah.
All of a sudden you went Wisconsin on me, you
went Midwest? Oh yeah yeah. Did he bring it out
on you, you know, talking Santa Claus? Yeah, yeah, it
was good. You've never heard my Santa story. I can't remember.

(08:16):
I may have heard it last year, but I do
not remember. I'll wait and save that for the seventeenth,
seventeenth final show of the year. We will do our
annual presentation of The Man of the Birds, and I'm
thinking of turning that into a YouTube. Does Instagram have

(08:38):
a limit on how long it can be? I should
know that, but I don't back up now. I shouldn't
know that. I'm okay with not knowing that YouTube though.
I might take the Man and the Birds and I
might turn that into a YouTube feature. Might. We'll see.

(09:04):
I just I I don't know if I want to
go the route of getting all the permissions or or
getting an artist to do what I want done. I
don't know. We'll see. Uh, let's see here. It is
a wildlife conservation day. A lot of people don't know this,

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but Wildlife arc they they are is Wildlife is conservative.
That's why it's Wildlife Conservation Day. It's it's same same
kind of route, you know, I'm kidding. It is National
socc Day, National Dice Day, and then this one National

(09:46):
Cookie Day. Best Cookie we could we could do a
phone segment on that, The best cookie? What is the
best cookie that you enjoy eating this time of year? Now?
I have a cookie that just evokes so many memories

(10:09):
of my mom, and my precious daughter in law tracked
down a similar recipe and made them for me a
couple of years ago, and when she gave them to me,
I just sat and cried. I'm not kidding. They reminded
me so much of my mom. I just bawled because

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it was so first, it was just so sweet, I
mean literally they were They were really good. But we
need to do it. We need to do a segment.
Those cookies evoke great memories of Mom. But there was
another cookie Mom introduced me to that is still my favorite.

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We'll have to talk about that. Seventeen past the hour.
It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

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Here are the numbers, here's where we are, and I'm
gonna be as as candid as I can with you.
I believe, whether you give five dollars or five hundred dollars,

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or five thousand dollars or ten thousand dollars, there is
blessing for you by taking part, sewing into it. It

(12:59):
was so interesting. I was listening to. I forget what
I was listening to. I know what it was. I
was listening to a podcast on iHeartRadio Scrooged No Scrooge,
Sorry Scrooge, A Christmas carol featuring Sean Aston. He is

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the son of John Aston, otherwise known as Adam's Family,
the Original TV Show and Patty Duke. I believe Sean
Aston is a wonderful actor in his own right. He
was the star in Rudy. He was Rudy Rudiger, the

(13:49):
Notre Dame football player. He was in fifty First Dates.
He's been a ton of movies, ton of movies. He
plays Ebenezer Scrooge, and I was really surprised at how
well he did. It's an audio presentation, but it's sponsored
by a ministry, and they were talking about whatever you

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do for the least of these, you do into me,
and it just it reminds me of the value of
just doing what you can to make a difference in
the lives of others. And that might be a hug. Right.
You may come across the situation a friend at church

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or or just a friend a family member, and all
you can offer them is a hug or an ear
or a tear. But being part of it, no matter

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what the level is equal sacrifice. God just asked us
to dig deep and do what we can. Let me
tell you where we are. Our goal for Orphan Shade
building home number six for orphan little girls and creating
a new home for them, not an orphanage, a new

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home where they will live as eight children with a
mom and dad, a husband and wife who are voluntar,
who are serving. Volunteering is the wrong word. They're going
to serve. They've taken it on themselves to give their
lives to raise these little girls. The goal was fifty

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five thousand. We are at fifty one, three hundred and
fifty seven. We are three thousand, six hundred and forty
three dollars away from God accomplishing this incredible thing through us.
And so here's my challenge. Don't miss out. Yes, you

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can give. You can probably come around behind all this
in a few months and say I want to support
Home number six and I'll give you twenty five dollars
a month. That's awesome, But we've got to build a
home first. And I know from just the fact that

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there were many people that gave in twenty twenty two
and gave again this year. Jay met with many of them,
and people are supporting again because of the integrity of
the work that Jay and Stacey do and what's being accomplished.

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So if you can take part, this might be the
day we get it done. We've only got thirty six
hundred and forty three dollars to go. We started in
early November a month ago, and I swallowed big. Okay,

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here we go fifty five thousand dollars gulp, And here
we are Orphanshade dot Com. Click the donate button, drop
down menu, build a house comments House number six, a
little town of Bedlam. Hey, good morning for those of

(17:49):
you that might just be waking up trying to be sensitive? Yeah,
who am I kidding? I'm never sensitive? Well, yes i am,
but not to things like that. Welcome everybody to the
Thursday edition of The Morning Show, Steve Stewart in a
little bit, Doctor Steve Steverson, Pause for thought, gift ideas

(18:12):
for your pets and by extension you we covered whether
you got to buy a pet last last time. This
time we're gonna talk about pet gifts because it's there's
still plenty of time. Big stories in the press box.
A pastor, sorry, someone who calls himself a pastor, a

(18:37):
reverend Philip Faneuf, North Chili United Methodist Church in Rochester,
New York, North Chili. Okay, hey, that's what works for you. Fine,

(18:58):
Thanksgiving Sunday before Thanksgiving. Here's the announcement. I'm going to
quote him, so I get to announce with joy that
I'm transitioning. I'm affirming to all of you that I
am transgender. The best way to put this is that
I'm not becoming a woman. Put a pin in that statement.

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I'm giving up pretending to be a man. This is
a process and it may be shocking for some as
to what this all means. And he goes on to
describe himself as a sexual, meaning he's not going to
be looking for romantic relationships. He's just through pretending to
be a man, but he's not becoming a woman. But

(19:45):
yet he's going through hormones and wigs and dresses, and
he's gonna be a woman at least present himself as one.
So first and foremost, we have a problem here with
basic fundamental intelligence. Now, of course you're trying to become
a woman, he said. I've been asked by my parents

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to say they do not support or agree with my decision.
He said, that way to go, Mom and dad. You
love your kid, but of course you don't support that.
It should be noted that the United Methodist Church reversed
rules that condemned the LGBTQ identities. According to its official website,

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the United Methodist Church now affirms human sexuality as a
sacred gift and says this applies to all persons, regardless
of sexual flee flee from a United Methodist Church. This

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brother deserves prayers. But when he says I'm giving up
pretending to be a man by pretending to be a woman,
I find that statement in and of itself rather ironic, dude,
you are a man. You're going to pretend to be

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a woman, and you're taking drugs and you're putting on
clothing and wigs to try to fool people. Second big story,
flee from churches like that, Ladies and gentlemen. Any church

(21:39):
that remains a part of the United Methodist Church since
the United Methodist Church has abandoned God's Word is not
a church of Jesus Christ of the Bible. It's just not.
And you need to leave. There are no excuses. Well,
we've been there our whole life. No sorry. Second big storymember,

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when we told you about the Illinois police officer that
was an illegal immigrant, a police officer that was arrested
by ICE earlier this year, do you remember the story
we talked about it. He's not legally allowed to be
in this country. ICE arrests him, a judge set as

(22:27):
bail at twenty five hundred dollars immigration bond, I should say,
and so he's now back employed carrying a firearm by
the Hanover Police Department with back pay. An illegal immigrant

(22:54):
is enforcing the laws in the suburbs of Illinois. And lastly,
Kat Cammick announced the Oversight Committee has passed the USA Act,
which he talked about on this program. More next hour,
forty two.

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Percent Christmas, shet off your mind, get it off your chest.

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You have a story you want to share, Write him
at Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. Welcome to the Morning
Show with Preston Scott.

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Good morning friends. I am just a continental man. Actually,
that makes me think of the old Steve Martin.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
We're too wild and crazy guys.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
Anyway, Welcome to the Thursday edition Steve Stewart. In a
little bit, Doctor Steve Steveson talk a little bit about
old miss and losing Lane Kiffin. Over the long haul,
they will be better for it doesn't matter whether they'll
win more games or not. It doesn't matter. I had

(24:07):
really hoped that Lane Kiffin had matured. But yeah, we're
gonna learn a little bit more next hour about all
that college football needs to find its way. It hasn't
found it, and I'm sure at some point we'll get
Michael Elford on the program to talk about all things
FSU and kind of the PostScript on the football season.

(24:28):
Not now, We'll give this some time to settle, but
I want to get his thoughts on just where college football,
we're coaching contracts and all of that. Where it all
is right now, I think it's lost its way. It
actually could take a lesson from pro football, and I
think it will. But you remember we were following the

(24:48):
special election in and around Nashville for Congress. Matt Van
Epps won with fifty four percent of the vote to
forty five percent to illiberal Nashville hater aften Ben. Here's
the thing. It represents a thirteen point shift, though to

(25:12):
the bad Trump won that district by twenty two points.
This guy won by nine. That's something Republicans need to
be paying attention to. They just do. Whether they will,
I can't tell you that, but they ought to be

(25:34):
paying very close attention to it. And Republicans, instead of
writing strongly worded letters, ought to be passing legislation because
there's no telling what's going to happen in the midterms.
I don't have faith in the messaging. I have a
little more faith in the American people than I have

(25:56):
in the messaging, but not a lot. And so this
is this is not hey, let's celebrate, look at us.
We held serve You're you're in a district that is
deep red and you won by nine points, when Trump
won by twenty two forty six.

Speaker 4 (26:17):
Pass.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
Come and enjoy Audio Magazine, a journey into whatever is
left of journalism and always pointing out and correcting what
is not. The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
Now now Orphanshade dot com. We are a mere three thousand,
six and forty three dollars away from hitting our goal.
Let's try to get it done this week. I'm just
I'm just sitting stunned at your generosity. Orphanshade dot com.

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Click the donate button. Get in on the blessing that
comes by taking part five dollars, ten dollars, twenty dollars,
fifty dollars, five hundred whatever. Orphanshade dot com. Click the
donate button and in the drop down menu build a
house and in the comments house number six. Now we

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have been talking about places to do some shopping and
to recap where we've been. We've recommended Kevin's Catalog dot com.
We've recommended seventeen seventy six United dot com. That is
a website with patriotic gear, shirts, hoodies, hats, et cetera.

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Yesterday we got to Little Things. It's called Little obsessed
dot com kind of a clever title, and it's all little,
small stuff, very reasonably priced stuff you can throw in
a stocking, stuff that you can kind of fill out
a list with today. This is a site that is

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useful for guys and that can be taken two ways. First, ladies,
if you're struggling what to find your guy, now, I'm
not going to tell you. Everything here is at a
price range that you might want to spend there. It's

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all over the place, but it's it's stuff that guys like.
And so the second way that this is for guys is, guys,
this is a site that you'll just love cruising. It's
just going through it. It's called men's Gear dot Net.

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Men's Gear dot Net. I mean, for example, they've got
a category called rides, and one of them right here
is the Nano Mobilize encloses riders in a sleek, protective shell.

(29:31):
This is this is absolutely insane. It's got roll bars,
it's it looks like it's an electric bike, but a
very high end electric bike that literally you're out of
the elements, you're enclosed in this. It's if you go

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to the site and look Men'sgear dot Net you will
see it right there as you scroll down, just two scrolls,
two little spins of the dial on your mouth. It's
not quite below the fold, it's right out the folds.

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It's incredible. We got music stuff, they got stuff for
you know, gear, tools, hobbies, outdoors. They're gonna hook you
up with the site that sells the stuff. Sometimes it's Amazon,
sometimes it's it's For example, they've got an airstream trailer,

(30:34):
a miniature one that is an Adventures Paradise trailer. It's small,
it can be towed by about anything. It's got solar.
I'm just saying there's there's literally something for anybody on
your list. And there's thirteen and twenty four pages. Let

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me say that again. There's thirteen hundred and twenty four
pages to go through. So if you're interested, you can
break it down by gear, rides, tech, gadget, style, man, food, architecture,
and then they have another category called Buyer's Guides. I'm
just here throwing you bones, give any ideas. Next hour

(31:24):
here on the Morning Show, doctor Steve Stevenson will join us.
We will give you ideas for your pet, and we're
going to talk about those communicator gifts. Where you allegedly
can teach your dog to push a certain set of
buttons to communicate to you. I've seen it work. It's
pretty crazy. But Steve Stewart joins us.

Speaker 4 (31:44):
Next, just make you feel good? Huh.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
That music just it just says it screams, Merry Christmas.
How are your friends? It's the second hour and it's
our second to the last visit for the year with
Steve Stewart, Executive editor, tellass Reports website, Tellasreports dot com.
It's this week and next week, buddy, and then we're

(32:23):
done until January.

Speaker 6 (32:24):
All right, well we got some good stories today and well, yeah,
we got to get right to it.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
We'll have some more next time.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
Why are you wasting time? Sorry?

Speaker 6 (32:30):
Sorry, still listen original reporting here. Yeah, so I had
been wanting.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
To do this.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
It took me a year to get to it.

Speaker 6 (32:35):
Remember when they referendum was to double the salaries of
city commissioners, they were making forty five forty six thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
Yeah, because you know, after all, that's that's not enough
for a part time gig. No, and so, but to
their credit, they work a little bit more than a
part time gig.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
They do, and it's a billion dollar institution.

Speaker 6 (32:54):
You know, they got a lot of responsibility. So anyway,
they were going to ask for the same salary as
county leon County commissioners, and so, you know, I just
sort of laughed it off, like, there's no way we're
going to vote this in, right, little did I know?

Speaker 4 (33:07):
Right? Little?

Speaker 2 (33:08):
Did you know exactly?

Speaker 6 (33:10):
And so it passed, and everybody's getting more salary now
and his full time job for a number of the
city commissioners. And so I went back and wanted to
look at I said, well, how you know who voted
for this, Well, we've got a story up. I would
encourage everybody to go look AT's brief. But there's a
couple of things you can look at first.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
As the ballot.

Speaker 6 (33:27):
Language I don't remember. I did not remember the ballot language.
But the ballot language never mentions a dollar number.

Speaker 4 (33:33):
It is.

Speaker 6 (33:34):
It is just verbiage about how according to you know,
they want their salary to be the same as county
commissions according to state law.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
Well, what that does is that allows it to be
for them to get raisers if county commissioners get raisors.

Speaker 6 (33:47):
Right, and you're not missing it, You're not mentioning a
dollar value in the referendum, which is just amazing that
you can actually do that. But hey, you know, so
they got it on the ballot. And again, if the
ballot language said who supports doubling the salaries of city
coming from forty eight thousand to ninety six thousand dollars?
What it ever passed? Well, that's what I would think.
But that language there leaves it open. So then that

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was an interesting part. But the the other interesting parties
we get down and look at the different parts of
town and how they voted. Now, remember the city commissioners
all run in one district the city. However, this the
for voting purposes and precincts. The city is broken up
into districts, so you can look at different geographic areas.
And so we have a chart there which I like charts.

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It shows the votes from each of the districts. And
you know three four and five District three four and
five which is District three is Betten Hills and Waverley.
District four is Klarna States summer Brook, Ox Bottom and
District five is east and Southeast. So that is if
it gives you a geographic idea east side and Southwood, Yeah,

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Southwood exactly. And so those three areas it fails with
that language probably fifty one forty nine. Okay, However, the
south Side District one and District two, District one, which
is the south Side District two, which is universities and
out Southwest overwhelmingly supported it.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
That one exactly. What do you make of that?

Speaker 6 (35:14):
You know, that's a you know, I guess, I'm not sure.
I mean, the thing is Perston of all. You can
argue that those very progressive, so District two is very
progressive students.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
That fam U FSU south.

Speaker 6 (35:28):
Side are very obviously rely a lot on government, a
lot of services.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
So maybe that that's the reason why.

Speaker 6 (35:35):
But that divide that that is a huge difference between
geographic areas in town. What it does do is sort
of reinforce the sort of the segregation that and I
don't mean it just based on race, economic social race.
How taalass he is flowing from north to south, It's weird.

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North is the most conservative and the further you go
south is becomes more liberal. Now, there are pockets of
the progressives that sort of hide out in certain neighborhoods.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
Now, just like weeds exist everywhere.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
So anyway, interesting story.

Speaker 6 (36:16):
Implications. I think it just sort of verifies some things.
I wish again shocked that it passed. I think the
Bouot language was probably the key.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
There, doesn't it also buttress when you see the voting districts,
you see a very different set of values from one
to the other, which supports the notion we've been pushing
for a few years now, the need for separate districts.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
Definitely.

Speaker 6 (36:38):
You look at the District four, which is north of
I ten forty five percent support southside sixty seven percent.
That's a difference of what twenty two percent, So very yeah,
I would agree with that.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Ten past the hour, More to come with Steve Stewart
here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
Him as your uncle, Preston, the relative you actually enjoy
having around and not just at the holidays. This is
the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
Back with Steve Stewart of Tallashi Reports. It makes a
great Christmas gift. Not Steve Stewart, but he's writing and
the work of his staff, you know, with Telehasker Reports.
To subscribe and give it as a gift. Tallasireports dot
Com you're following the crime date as you always do,
and it's not necessarily warm and fuzzy.

Speaker 6 (37:34):
You know, this is stats. You have to be very
careful when you look at stats. Year to date stats
can show one thing, but like three month trends can
show another. We started off this year very very good
in terms of having property and violent crime incidents on
the downside when compared to last year. However, that move

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has been eroded.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
You wouldn't know it. I mean, year to date, incidents
are still down.

Speaker 6 (38:00):
Total incidents are down about twenty five percent, property thirty percent.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
Violent crime now is down only twelve percent.

Speaker 6 (38:07):
And then the issue we have here is we can
look at this obviously we track these incidents on a
daily basis. Is over the last three months, if you
look at the very top of the story in the verbiage,
the number of assaults are up like fifty percent over
the last three months when you compare it to last year,
and they're above and that's disturbing, and you know, that

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is eroding the gains that we've made with the violent crime. Robberies,
you know robberies, which again robberies are the type of
crime you you really want to avoid. Because it involves
somebody crossing this rubicon to where they're actually addressing another person.
And we had more robberies in November twenty five that

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we've had in any month in the last what eighteen
nineteen months, So, you know, I don't know what's going on.
I got to dig into you know, most of this
stuff is happening around campuses on the South Side, but
I want to look into that.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
But you know, again, just disturbing.

Speaker 6 (39:05):
I don't know if police officers aren't being aggressive enough.
You know, we had that We're starting to see, you know,
we we had that sexual that horrible sexual battery, sexual
assault in the Market district.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
Well, I was going to ask you about that. Is
anything developed in terms of more information.

Speaker 6 (39:20):
We're still doing some research on this. We're trying to
we're trying to get one last piece of information, which
is difficult to get. And I'll go ahead and say
we're trying. There is a lot of we've pulled reports
from around the state, and there's a lot of question
about where this person is from and was he supposed
to be in Florida on the reports? Uh or Florida

(39:42):
in the country, in the country, Okay, and so we'd
like to verify that before we write something. But my
point on that is, if we're a little more aggressive,
this guy should not have been on the streets in
in Leon County. I mean, he was actually arrested for
shoplifting at Walmart or So my point being that's an
example of where this guy shouldn't have been you could

(40:04):
have avoided a violent crime. Is that is that what
is happening now is that we're not being aggressive enough
into trying to address.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
This, and that may not be our necessarily our geographical area.
In this case, you're referring to incidents that he had
in other parts of the state of Florida exactly right.

Speaker 6 (40:22):
So when you arrest a guy for shoplifting, you wrought
it and you see, well, wait a minute, this guy
so he's got a founding conviction.

Speaker 1 (40:28):
He was arrested for battery Miami. Why what are you
doing here?

Speaker 2 (40:31):
Right? Right?

Speaker 6 (40:31):
Obviously you know he was told to leave those areas.
So anyway, that's one example. Another example is that you know,
most of the research that I do is that these
these type of things are being committed by a very
small part of the population.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
Sure, and you know, I.

Speaker 6 (40:45):
Think it's in some areas law enforcement feels as a
success just to keep it in a certain area. It's like, look,
we know, we you know, we've got to be careful
about how we deal with these situations and so anyway,
but it is concerning to see the increase in assaults
over the last three months. And so something else that

(41:06):
we included in this story is a track, a rolling
twelve month track of shooting deaths, which is always a
big issue, and it's you know, it reached a peak
of thirty two, I guess back in probably maya, twenty
twenty three. It has been falling since then. It's actually
twenty twenty four, twenty twenty four, so it's down to eighteen,
which is about six shooting deaths per one hundred thousand.

(41:30):
Atlanta is about eighteen p one hundred thousand, So you know,
we're we're down. But again, this is as you we
talked about it to break the difference in some of
these bigger cities is the shootings here are basically domestic violence.

Speaker 1 (41:45):
Drug deal's gone bad.

Speaker 6 (41:46):
Right, It's not hold up to a grocery store, I guess,
or just a random killing exactly.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
Yeah, all right, more to come with Steve Stewart of
Teleastry reports again the website Telasireports dot.

Speaker 7 (41:56):
Com, UFLRA, on your phone with the iHeart Radio app
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Speaker 2 (42:27):
The final segment here was Steve Stewart of Tallahassee reports
Capital City country Club is it's in an interesting spot.
It is a legacy place. It is a location that
is very very adjacent to a lot of gang activity
and at the same time there's some beautiful properties around

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that golf course.

Speaker 6 (42:49):
To me, this is a very interesting issue and it
will tell you when you see the discussion in the
vote next week exactly people that take issues and try
to divide the community. This isn't for me. If you
look at the and there's been some questions about this,
and the staff is given an analysis of what would
happen if we kept this and turned it into a green.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
Space, we'll reset the issue. Right.

Speaker 6 (43:11):
So the Capital City Country Club, which is under a
dollar release from the city, has gone to this say
and say listen, we want to give you one point
two million dollars to the golf course.

Speaker 8 (43:19):
Then we're gonna you know, and we're gonna.

Speaker 6 (43:21):
Upgrade it, We're gonna spend some money on it, and
we'll you know, make it a golf course forever, and
we'll let fam you use it as their home course. Well,
we'll build a a park for the people that were
enslaved and buried there, that died, so all these things
and the reason is that they want to do it
so they can go out and borrow more money and
they can have some ownership of the property. Uh, the

(43:43):
city right now is not collecting any tax dollars from
it because they own it. So they started entertaining this.
There's some questions. Well, wait, you know, the.

Speaker 1 (43:51):
People around the club wanted to remain a golf course.

Speaker 2 (43:56):
Of course they do. So you got.

Speaker 6 (43:57):
Commissioner Mattlow, as you can imagine a commissioner porter who
want to keep it. And he actually started talking about
affordable housing. Well that sort of drives the people around
the neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
That are probably to make them nervous.

Speaker 6 (44:08):
Yeah, wait a minute, you know, I'm not sure we
want that, you know, And that's so, so the land
is worth more if you develop it, but everybody wants
to develop, so okay, so we've sort of moved past that.
So then the next question was what if the city
keeps it and just makes it a green space. Okay,
well they came out with an analysis that it's going
to cost you know, probably one hundred fifty hundred dollars
a year to just maintain it. It's a big piece,

(44:31):
one hundred and seventy eight acres. Yeah, you can't walk
away from it. And well, how about if we make
it add it to the make it a golf course,
a public golf course that the city buys the property,
you know, keeps the property. And you know, the analysis
there is it's going to you know, probably lose close
to one hundred thousand dollars a year.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
And it's four miles away from another city on golf course, right,
and they're going to have to buy equipment.

Speaker 6 (44:54):
Oh yeah, And so they're talking about a five or
six million dollars infusion of cash. It just doesn't make sense.
So if so, what's on the agenda is to sell
it to the country club with a lease that has
all these parameters, you know, golf course forever, fam you
is board of trustees on FAMU is on board. The
neighborhoods around it, I think are on board because they're

(45:17):
just interested in being a golf course. They've submitted in
letters of support given these criteria which they've met. They're
going to take one hundred thousand dollars out of the
money that they get to make the park that is
important to a lot of people, and so you know
it just and again it will go on the tax rolls.
So they'll probably make forty to fifty thousand dollars a
year in revenue from the property.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
So the question becomes who on the city Commission wants
to ruin what is generally considered by most everybody else
a win win win for everybody else.

Speaker 6 (45:48):
That's I think what's going to be interesting to see
is they've asked a lot of questions. Okay, a lot
of rhetorical this property is worth you know, you know
ten million dollars, Well it is if you build houses
on is that what you want to do? So they've
sort of answered all the questions. So now it's going
to be interesting to see if this is another three
to two vote. And I've read the agenda, it came

(46:09):
out yesterday. It's a they are daring them to vote
against this. This is a very detailed agenda.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
The staff.

Speaker 6 (46:16):
The staff has done a good job of saying, look,
it's going to cost. This is what it's going to
cost to keep it a green space. You want it
to be a golf course, be ready to sholl out millions.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
And so tell me.

Speaker 2 (46:27):
This and and and this might be outside the parameters
of what you're able to comment on, but given your
knowledge of the of those research numbers, what the staff
is put together, given that it is such a fiscal
no brainer, what would be the reason for anyone voting

(46:47):
in opposition division?

Speaker 6 (46:49):
I mean, this is well, look, I haven't been shy
and talking about this with with Commissioner Mallow and commission reporter.
There's not an issue that they that comes in front
of them that they don't try to figure out a
way to divide people in the city.

Speaker 1 (47:02):
I mean, it's just clearly that.

Speaker 6 (47:04):
And so this is you know, commister Malow views this
as possibly a race issue, and you know, really and
put you know talks you know, uses the word plantation,
and you know the racism that existed when this club started.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
Don't they still hold meetings at Goodwood? I'm just curious.

Speaker 6 (47:19):
Yeah, So I think that this is it's about division,
and I think they feel like that they can divide people,
they can win more elections, and so that's what is.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
But this will be again and we'll talk about this.

Speaker 6 (47:30):
This will be next Wednesday that the decision will be made,
and so we can talk about Thursday. But I think
the outcome well again, say a lot about you know,
the people that are in charge here.

Speaker 2 (47:39):
I always appreciate what you're doing. Thank you, Preston, Thank you,
Steve Stewart. Subscribe, get that paper, tell ashoreports dot com.

Speaker 3 (47:53):
Morning Show with Preston Scott Tom on News Radio one
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Speaker 2 (48:19):
Those of you that live in and around the Capital City,
I sure hope you support the work Steve does because
we would be in a world of hurt without Tallasseh
Reports and the work that they do unearthing what's really
going on in this community. And that's why there's some

(48:40):
people that hate him and hate Tallahassee Reports and do
everything possible to try and divert attention from hurt. Financially, Yeah,
they have displaced the former newspaper of rec and now

(49:01):
really is the newspaper record for this community because they
report facts and data. But let's get to the big
stories in the press Box. Kat Camick came on the
program Tuesday to talk about the USA Act, the Unauthorized
Spending Accountability Act. It has made it through the Oversight Committee.

(49:25):
She told us that that day she was testifying before
the committee on behalf of the legislation, and she is
asking all of you to call your member of Congress
wherever he or she may reside, and asked them to
co sponsor and to support and vote for the USA Act.

(49:46):
The latest report from the CBO found twelve hundred and
sixty four authorizations that expired before the fiscal year twenty
twenty four began. That there are almost half a trillion
dollars of appropriations linked to expired authorizations. This is about

(50:13):
the bureaucracy of Washington having grown without any Congressional oversight
or approval. She mentioned the EPA. Did you know the
Environmental Protection Agency doesn't exist legally? Congress never created it.

(50:37):
There's better than a thousand such examples. It needs to happen.
It needs to happen. Illinois Police Department rehiring an illegal
alien that was arrested by Ice earlier this year. It
is unbelievable. This guy is in the country illegally, and

(50:58):
he is back as a police officer with a firearm,
arresting people for violating a law. And he's not here legally.
It is unbelievable that this is happening in our country.
It's just one guy. I mean, come on, who really
cares what's going on? And what is what's what's the

(51:21):
name of that little community in Illinois, huh Hanover Park.
It matters if it's happening in one community, it's happening
in others. Just think about that for a second. That's

(51:45):
that's literally the fox guarding the henhouse. He's here illegally.
Final big story. Pastor at a United Methodist church, as
has said hormone replacement therapy is underway for the past

(52:05):
three months. Pronouns he prefers now or she and her.
His name will be changed to Philippa. He says, I'm
not becoming a woman. He's taking hormone injections, he's wearing wigs,

(52:27):
he wears women's dresses, but he's not becoming a woman.
Somehow explain this to me. But he's a pastor at
a United Methodist church, and the United Methodist Church has
given its full support. That's about all I have to

(52:53):
say about that. Forty minutes past, the other doctor Steve
Stevenson joins.

Speaker 4 (53:00):
Me next.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (53:06):
Do you understand the words that are coming out of
my mouth?

Speaker 1 (53:09):
On news radio one hundred point seven double USLA.

Speaker 2 (53:19):
If you have not heard the news. We are just
thirty six hundred dollars away from reaching our goal for
orphan Shade. So if you can help, go to Orphanshade
dot com. That's Orphanshade dot com, click the donate button
and the drop down menu build a house, and we
are building house number six. This is our final visit

(53:44):
of the year with doctor Steve Steverson of the Bradfordville
Animal Hospital. Doctor Steve, how are you, sir?

Speaker 9 (53:51):
Thank Preston. I'm doing great? How are you?

Speaker 2 (53:53):
I am? I am fascinated by what we're going to
talk about today because even though I do not have
a pet anymore, you took care of our last pet, Scooby.
I am fascinated by where we're going with dogs and
toys and things that people can get their pets for Christmas.
But I've got to ask you first before we start

(54:14):
going through the laundry list, what about these communicator products
that are out there where dogs in essence seemingly can
learn to tell us what's on their mind.

Speaker 9 (54:27):
You know, Prestin, that's really interesting topic. So you're what
we're talking about is there are these buttons that you
can purchase and there's several companies that make these, and
you can record your voice on that button saying it's specific,
like a one word phrase like outside or food, you know,
or walk, and then your pet, well it can associate

(54:49):
that button with that sound to what comes next. And
so you're you're pecking learn to communicate with you to
tell you, hey, I want food, or I want to
go outside for a walk, how you go to the bathroom,
And so in a very limited capacity, it seems like
it makes a lot of sense. And yeah, I'm sure
any dog just about can learn to press a button,
just like training a dog to ring a bell on

(55:12):
the door, handled and east to go outside. Right now,
what's really interesting is in this past couple of years,
this has been known for ten or fifteen years. They
have these single buttons, but now they have a complex
set of buttons. People will have twenty buttons laid out
on this mat and the dog will walk over and
press specific buttons to put two or three words together
to communicate with their owner. And there's been a lot

(55:34):
of studies done on this and they have determined this
is not just random a dog walk over to press
buttons for attention. They actually press specific buttons to put
a coherent thought together to communicate with their owner.

Speaker 1 (55:46):
So I'm not sure what.

Speaker 9 (55:47):
To think of this, but it is quite fascinating.

Speaker 4 (55:50):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (55:51):
I love it, I love it. All right, let's talk
about some of the go tos. What are you seeing
out there? And I want to save some time for cats,
but let's start with dogs. What are some of the
products that make some sense for pet lovers and for
dog owners in particular.

Speaker 9 (56:09):
The press a couple of them. You know, there are
illuminating the leashes and collars that are a great idea.
And there's one now that's a the leaseh actually lights
up like a lighted rope when you have it attached
to your pet. Cool and so if you do early
early morning walks or walks in the evening after dark,
having that light on your leash and the dog's collar
is a great idea to help for safety. There are,

(56:31):
of course, the traditional chew toys, you know the cong
toys and the bully sticks. There's one out now called
the Better Bone. It's made out of cellulose and it
is something the dog can chew. It's not going to
splinter like a nyla bone wood. So the Better Bones.
Another new procts A great idea the GPS trackers. If

(56:52):
you have a pet that has a habit of getting out,
getting away, or you go on hikes out in the woods,
probably a GPS track would be a great idea. The
number of pets that we receive up at Bradfordville that
come in. You since I found this dog, you know,
out in the woods of the National Forest, or you know,
running down the road and turn to come to find
out the owner was you know, oh I lost my

(57:13):
dog two miles away. So a GPS tracker might be
a great idea if your dog is one of those
it likes to wander. One last I have a good
idea this year are there's a these pet portraits. It's
very inexpensive to take a picture of your dogs. Then
join these companies and they will make a like a
watercolor artwork portrait of your pet. And so it's a

(57:34):
great great idea to have a portrait of your pet,
especially a special pet that you have lost.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
Now people know I don't I'm not a fan of cats.
I never mean to them. But let's help out the
cat lovers out there. Cats aren't as easy to buy for.

Speaker 9 (57:52):
You, Preston. Probably, I would suggest the number one thing
to think about getting a cat if you don't already
have one, is a cat tree. Cats like verticality. They
like to go high. Yeah, that's why they're aways on
here countertops and things like that. They like to be
off the floor, yep. And so a nice a nice
cat tree where the cat can sit up high and
sit on top of the tree and look down on

(58:13):
everything is a great idea as a good gift for
your cat.

Speaker 2 (58:18):
Cat toys, Well, cats are up there elevated plotting your
death anyway. They're trying to figure out how they're going
to take your life.

Speaker 9 (58:26):
Like a panther up in a tree looking down.

Speaker 2 (58:28):
You're exactly right, that's exactly what else do you got
for cats?

Speaker 9 (58:33):
There are a lot of two toys for cats as
well that they can enjoy. A lot of them have
cat nipping them, which makes them really stimulates the cat
and they really enjoy those, so that's a good idea
as well. They do have harnesses for cats. If your
cat likes to walk, a nice harness is a good
idea rather than a collar to walk your cat. So
another good idea is a harness for your cat.

Speaker 2 (58:52):
Nice. Do you do you advocate stockings for dogs and
cats and putting any kind of treats and if so,
what kind of treats?

Speaker 9 (59:00):
Absolutely yes, some of these these two toys and some
of these nice flavored treats are are fine as well
as maybe the new leash or a collar or good ideas.
So I think you can stuff you're stalking with for
your for your pet.

Speaker 2 (59:14):
No chocolate though, for your pets, absolutely not.

Speaker 9 (59:19):
No chocolate.

Speaker 2 (59:19):
All right, Doctor Steverson, thank you. We'll talk again after
the first of the year. Great, thanks Preston, Thank you
New year as well. Yes, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year
to you and your team, Doctor Steverson at the Bradfordville
Animal Hospital. Our guest for pause for thought.

Speaker 3 (59:35):
From Florida, Sunshine State to California. A scratch that California
is hopeless. For the rest, we're your Morning show, The
Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
Time for a road trip suggestion, keeping in mind that
most of my listeners are in North Florida from the
Big Bend through the Panama. If you can, I think
it's worth a hotel stay. Head to Atlanta, go to

(01:00:30):
the Atlanta Botanical Gardens and see the Garden Lights Holiday
Nights Show. It is rated one of the best Christmas
light displays anywhere in the nation. My wife and I
went and it was absolutely delightful, loved every moment. Get

(01:01:02):
there before it starts. You can't necessarily tour because they
close the park down the gardens and then they open
it up. But you get there right as they're opening
up for the Garden of the Garden Lights Holiday Nights Show.
It is just awesome, it really is. You'll have a

(01:01:25):
wonderful time. It's the Atlanta Botanical Gardens and you can
go to atlantabg dot org. Just atlantabg dot org and
there you have it. There's your road trip suggestion, because
it's really not a bad drive up there, but it's
a great show. So maybe the Calloway Gardens one. It's

(01:01:46):
a little closer, not nearly the traffic right, but you
also might want to check out if you've been to
the Calloway Gardens. You might want to check out the
Atlanta Botanical Gardens show. The holiday lights are great. So
I was gonna take a second to talk about lane Kiffin. Okay,

(01:02:09):
the rumor floating around is that FSU was trying to
get lane Kiffin. Here. We dodged a bullet. He did
not want Lane Kiffin. Lane Kiffin said farewell to his
team and posted that the players on the team asked
the athletic director to let him stay. Players by name

(01:02:33):
are posting that ain't true. We did not ask for
him to stay and coach. None of that is true.
And you can ask any player that was in the
room and other players. I mean we're talking starting centers,
starting offensive lineman. Players are coming out posting, no, that
is not true, and that is Look, lane Kiffin's had

(01:02:54):
some issues, and I hope, just as I hope that
anyone overcomes their personsonal challenges, that he overcame his personal issues.
This is one issues not overcome. He's a jerk, he
just is. And so to whatever extent the true, there's

(01:03:14):
truth to the fact that FSU was going after Lane Kiffin. Man,
I hope if that's true, we were fortunate that it
didn't work out. I'm very grateful Lane Kiffin is not
at Florida State. Give me Mike Norabell ten days out
of ten over Lane Kiffin. We come back. We're going

(01:03:35):
to define who the awfuls are?

Speaker 8 (01:03:36):
And are you a member of the awfuls?

Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
Five minutes past the hour, it's the third hour, turning
the page on the Rundown the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Great to be with you, Orphanshade dot Com. I want
to get us to the finish line this week. We
are We're thirty six hundred dollars thirty seven hundred dollars away.
It's amazing. Thank you, just thank you. But I also

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want you to get in on it. And when I
say get in on it, I just believe that there
is a blessing to be had for taking part and
doing what you can. And that could be five dollars
to make a difference. Maybe it's five dollars one time gift.
Maybe it's five dollars a month, whatever, whatever, skipping the

(01:04:49):
capuccino for you know, whatever, the fancy coffee is once
a month anyway. Orphanshad dot com donate button build a
house comments House number six all right. When I saw
this story it was written by Amy Curtis at town Hall,

(01:05:10):
I laughed out loud. I also shook my head and
I got very, very sad. It evoked a lot of emotions,
and I learned a new acronym. The acronym is awful.

(01:05:32):
And so I want to start this by asking are
you a member of the awfuls?

Speaker 9 (01:05:42):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:05:42):
I'm gonna start by saying, guys, you're dismissed. You're not
a member. You're just not. Now, maybe this pastor we're
talking about today wants to be a member of the awfuls.
But let me just share as Amy Lay's this story.
She headlines this, and it's an opinion piece Misery Love's company.

(01:06:06):
Guess which demographic group is increasingly unhappy. For most of
this writer's life, she writes, she's been exposed to second, third,
and fourth wave feminism. This probably explains why she's not
a feminist, because she saw that feminism was selling women

(01:06:28):
a bill of goods that would ultimately make her and
other women miserable. You see, feminists told women they didn't
need to be married or have kids. They told women
happiness came from abortion, uncommitted relationships, and focusing on their careers.

(01:06:49):
And if you've paid attention to the affluent white female
leftists over the years, that misery is playing out and
TikTok meltdown videos and unhinged social media posts on a
daily basis. But now there's more polling data that shows unmarried,

(01:07:10):
childless awfls are increasingly unhappy with life. So let me
hit the pause button here. The awfles and this does
not apply to every affluent white female, but it does
apply to every white, affluent, white female leftist. Awfles are

(01:07:35):
of affluent white female leftists. Some of the posts as
we begin this are things like who would have thought
a cat doesn't make you happy? Amy ends this part
of the column by saying it's sad, frankly, but it's

(01:07:59):
entirely self and inflicted. Now, the reason why I'm devoting
two segments to this, and we'll pick up in segment
two here in just a moment, is because I want
women and I have. I've shattered the mold with this program.

(01:08:25):
Most talk radio programs catered to men. iHeartRadio judges me
based on men who listen. I went a different way.

(01:08:45):
I believe that I could do a program that not
only men were interested in listening to and wanted to
listen to in large numbers, and the ratings for twenty
plus years have proven that. But I believe that I
could create a radio program that women would want to
listen to, that moms would want to listen to, that

(01:09:08):
moms and dads would want to listen to with their
kids in the cars. And so this is about arming you,
ladies with some information and a thought or two to
engage your friends that are awfuls, because you probably have some,

(01:09:31):
and I want you to keep them as friends with limits.
Ten past the hour more on this next. Let's just
start with the presumption that he's right. Believe me, it
works around here.

Speaker 1 (01:09:48):
This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (01:10:02):
To pass the hour, we're talking about the awfuls. It
is an acronym that I'm gonna credit to Amy Curtis
at town Hall, which stands for affluent white female leftists.
If you look at a lot of the protests that
are going on on certain subjects, there's your group, A

(01:10:25):
bunch of crusty old women, a bunch of old white
women that are just they're the Karens. Most of the
Karens are affluent, white female leftists. Am I wrong? Course
I'm not. When we put this program together, I believed

(01:10:54):
that by doing my very best to keep the language
appropriate and when we talk about sensitive subject matters, to
be as diplomatic as possible, that we could keep people
listening to the program, and that by changing topics we
would get enough diversity, enough stories, enough you know, lighter

(01:11:19):
moments and interviews and the serious that we mix it
all up. It's a good three hour listen. Yeah. I
know we have service elements, meaning news, weather, traffic, and
I know we have commercials, but it's free. You listen
for free. You listen on the iHeartRadio app for free.
I think it's a good deal. And oh, by the way,

(01:11:44):
I'm not perfect in any way, shape or form, but
I love Jesus and I think that matters too, that
we share a common faith in God, and so we
look at things through the lens of scripture. And the
awfuls out there aren't beyond capturing for for goodness, for God,

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they're not They're not out of his reach. But I
think it's important to understand what what's going on here.
Awfuls seem bound and determined to vote in politicians who
want to make the rest of us lonely and miserable.
To my dad used to tell me, misery loves company,

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and that's true when when people as a group or
as a as a person are miserable, they want other
people miserable around them. Nothing makes a miserable person more
miserable than everyone around him being oblivious to their misery

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and being happy. That's that's where the emotion and the
anger and the violence comes in, and politicians pray on
that to keep awfuls down. Amy said, and this is
something we have talked about over the years. This is

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really important. More than half of awfuls also have at
least one diagnosed mental illness. That is a fact, more
than half of young white women have been diagnosed with

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a mental illness. She ends with this. Back in May,
we learned the vast majority of leftists arrested at the
anti Israel pro Palestine protests in Columbia where women. Leftist
women are also more likely to end friendships over political disagreements.
When you spend your life looking at everything through a
political lens, it's no wonder you end up alone and

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sad online about this cats Netflix TikTok and boxes of
wine aren't cutting it. She ends with this line, having
people in your life who you love more than yourself

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is what makes life good and worth living. Let me
say that again, because you know what, that's straight out
of God's word. That is a scriptural, biblical principle. It
is a truth, and if you will, truth does not

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require you to agree with it. I've used this example
over the years, and I'll end with this. You can
ignore gravity all you like, but step off the edge
of a building and you'll see the truth of gravity
take hold.

Speaker 4 (01:15:00):
But I don't believe that.

Speaker 2 (01:15:02):
It doesn't matter whether you believe in gravity or not.
It's a it's a truth. Having people in your life
who you love more than yourself is what makes life
good and worth living. That is a truth. Eighteen minutes

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past Christmas, Christmas.

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Twenty three minutes after all Right, we talked yesterday our
personal defense segment. Right, I didn't get to a bunch
of stats. Did you know that in the last decade
or so one hundred and eighty one. I think it is.
I think that's the number of active shooters active shooting incidents,

(01:16:33):
fifty one percent were stopped by civilians, and that civilians,
though do get injured. Only in one occasion was somebody
who was innocent a bystander shot, And I believe only

(01:17:01):
once or twice did somebody who was intervening lose their
life in an active shooter situation. Police are six times
more likely to lose their life because of the tactical
advantage that you have as not being in uniform. So

(01:17:26):
I share that because one pray for law enforcement, I
pray for friends of mine, and I pray for the
people that are putting their life on the line every
day at a traffic stop. I mean, you know, serving
a warrant, You just it is so difficult for if
you do not really understand the danger of pulling a

(01:17:51):
car over for the most routine, random thing, the danger
walking up to that window. Jeez. So a story comes
out yesterday on the Gateway Pundit, November twenty fourth, Wilmington, Delaware.
A resident University of Delaware student. I will use his

(01:18:13):
name for a purpose. Look Luq Monman Cohn he's a
twenty five year old legal immigrant legal from Pakistan. Court
document show he was asked and subsequently refused to exit

(01:18:36):
the vehicle during an after hours property check at Canby
Park West, which is maybe a housing complex apartment complex.
He would not get out, he was taken in the custody.
During the search of his vehicle, officers found a three
fifty seven glock and gun with twenty seven rounds. It's

(01:18:57):
not a three fifty seven magnum three fifty seven clock.
The handgun had been inserted into a microplastic conversion of
firearmbrace Within the vehicle. Officers also found three more loaded
twenty seven round mags, a loaded nine millimeter glock, an

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armored ballistic plate, marble composition notebook. We all know what
those look like, right, those composition books. Quoting from the
court documents. In the handwritten notebook can discussed additional weapons firearms,
and how they could be used in an attack, how
law enforcement detection could be avoided once an attack was

(01:19:43):
carried out. The notebook referenced a member of the University
of Delaware's police department by name, and included a layout
of a building with entry and exit points, under which
the words UD Police Station, University of Delaware were printed.
The notebook included writings about martyrdom. Hmm, what does that
sound like? Oh yeah, Islam. When they executed a search

(01:20:11):
warrant at his residence, they found a Glock nineteen equipped
with an illegal machine gun conversion device, a five five
six rifle with a scope and a red dot, eleven
more extended mags hollow point rounds to play tactical vest.
Newcastle County Police Department, along with the FEDS have busted

(01:20:37):
this guy. How many more are there? This, to me
is a classic case of a sleeper, In this case,
someone in this country legally preparing to commit an act

(01:21:00):
of jihad for the sake of Allah. And I bring
this up and connect it to our segment yesterday and
our chat just moments ago about the importance of being
prepared as a concealed carry firearm holder. I do not

(01:21:26):
believe in open carry. I believe in it as a right.
I do not believe in it as a tactical idea.
It's foolish, It's just foolish. But the importance of awareness
of your circumstances.

Speaker 1 (01:21:50):
Morning Show with Preston Scott Good on News Radio one
point seven double USLA.

Speaker 2 (01:22:08):
Talked this week about US Venezuela options that are and
are not on the table. What it's all about, analysts
saying that the clock's ticking on what's going to happen there.
I hope we stay within the lane. Be the only

(01:22:32):
way I can put it. We don't need to be
sending troops over there, We don't need to be committing
acts of war. I don't mind a little. You want
to overthrow your government, maybe we'll give you some big
max you know, some happy meals help you out. But
beyond that, yeah, no, I think it's helpful to sometimes

(01:22:57):
place yourself and the commander in chiefs chain and ask yourself,
what would I do? I think what we're doing now
is fine. We're shipping people back. Venezuela is back to
accepting flights of illegals shipped out of this country back there.

(01:23:18):
We've shut the border for the most part. We're blowing
up drug traffickers. Soon they're going to run out of
people willing to do it. Would you be jumping in
a speedboat leaving the coast of Venezuela heading into international waters. See,

(01:23:42):
that's the thing the people are saying Wow, they're just fishing.
Are you looking at what's in those boats? They got drones,
they got helicopters, they got they can see inside the boats.
No fishing rods inside those boats. Come on now, other

(01:24:02):
big stories in the press box. Pastor announces gender transition
during a service, giving up pretending to be a man. Quote,
I'm not becoming a woman, he told his congregation before
the Sunday before Thanksgiving. I wonder if you got applause.
I'm sure he did. You know it's a United Methodist Church.
People that are still attending a UMC are lost. They're
biblically lost. They just don't know any better. Father, forgive them.

(01:24:26):
They don't know what they're doing UMC leadership.

Speaker 4 (01:24:29):
They know.

Speaker 2 (01:24:32):
I don't know how they're reconciling their position on transgenderism
and homosexuality and all of that stuff with God's word.
But that's on them. But the hilarity of a guy
saying I'm not becoming a woman yet. He's then talks
about the injections and the therapies and the wigs and
the dresses. Okay. US Congresswoman kat Camick's efforts to get

(01:24:56):
the unauthorized spending accountability Act through Congress took big step
forward when it passed the Oversight Committee. I don't think
it'll get across the finish line because I don't think
there's enough people with courage.

Speaker 4 (01:25:06):
To do it.

Speaker 2 (01:25:07):
It's the right thing to do. If you don't know
about the USA Act, look it up and tell your
congressional member to support it. And in Hanover Park, Illinois,
they have put back on the force with back pay,
with a firearm as a police officer in a legal
immigrant He was arrested a few weeks ago by ice.
He posted a twenty five hundred dollars ice detainer bond,

(01:25:30):
and the police department hired him back because that's what
we do in Illinois. Forty one minutes past the hour.
We'll add to the hilarity.

Speaker 3 (01:25:41):
Next decades of doing morning drive radio differently, doing it
his way like old Blue Eyes, except he has a
little more hair.

Speaker 1 (01:25:52):
The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (01:26:02):
I think when I was growing up, it was called halatosis.
You probably never heard the term bad breath. Oh man,
you got halatosis, dude. There are a lot of things
that lead to that. Everybody's chemistry in their mouth is

(01:26:23):
a little bit different came across this story from Not
the Bee, which of course makes it one hundred percent true.
It's not the Babylon bee. It's not the bee. It's
their companion site with true stories. And of course, bacteria

(01:26:43):
is the number one cause of bad breath, and for years,
the method of fighting it was to swish around a
little uh, chlorahexadine in your mouth. That's the key ingredient
in most mouthwashes. But enter the twist, bacteria are becoming

(01:27:09):
resistant to it. Well, now people have been turning to
it so long the bacteria have said huh. Enough of
them survived the swish, clawed their way to the back

(01:27:30):
of the mouth. I made and made other little bacteria
that had a little more resistance to the chlorohexidine. So
what to do? Scientists are looking for a new way.

(01:27:51):
According to the Journal of Herbal Medicine, they have found
the solution. I have to remind myself, this is the
type of content that I believe you listen for these
You've got to be kidding these stories, you ready. Garlic

(01:28:18):
mouthwashes containing a high concentration of garlic extract can perform
on par with chlorhexidine in reducing microbial activity. So gargling
with garlic is just as good. Huh. Well, there are

(01:28:39):
two problems with this study, as has pointed out here
and not to be. Problem number one, it's a meta review,
which means there's no actual research. The researchers collected three
hundred and eighty four articles testing garlic's effectiveness and chlorohexidine's
effectiveness and compared the studies. A lot of those studies

(01:29:00):
were in vitro, meaning they weren't even on live people. Overall,
garlic was as good, just not the most rigorous science.
Drawing that conclusion, problem number two, it's freaking garlic. I mean,

(01:29:26):
garlic is a great seasoning for the right dish. You
don't want to put garlic in your dessert? Oh no
you don't. Oh don't shake your head up and down
like you do that and it tastes great. If you
believe Jose's nodding his head. If you believe garlic belongs
in dessert, then I've lost all respect for your cuisine. Hey,

(01:29:48):
you garlic with everything. No you don't. That's a lie.
That's a lie. You do not eat garlic with everything.
No you don't, that is factually a lie. Don't tell lies.
Say you're kidding. I also eat it raw. I believe that.

(01:30:09):
I believe you do that, but you do not eat
it with everything that what cereal? Thank you that you lie.
There is no world where gargling with garlic is going
to be giving you better breath. It's just not. It

(01:30:31):
might kill whatever, but it's not going to give you
better breath. And that's the bottom line. See, aren't you
glad you're listening? No idea how much coughing is being

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done behind the scenes here, But being a professional broadcaster,
I'm not hacking in your ear trying my best. I
will eat in your ear. I will eat food. I
will not cough. Although you could argue that one's just
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I'd love to say, only in Illinois can an I
legal immigrant become a law enforcement officer and carry a gun.
But that's probably not true. It's probably happening in New
York and California and other states across the country. Cat
Cammick has gotten the USA Act through the Oversight Committee
in Congress. That's a very big step. The Unauthorized Spending

(01:33:32):
Accountability Act. We're funding to the tune of billions of
your dollars, agencies departments that Congress is never authorized. Hundreds
that need to be looked at again. Pastor in the

(01:33:56):
United Methodist Church in Rochester, New York has announced to
the congregation that he's not becoming a woman. He's just
giving up pretending to be a man. So he's going
to pretend to be a woman by he's got the
hormone injections going on, he's got the whigs, he's got
the and that's what he's going to do. And somehow

(01:34:17):
this is okay with the United Methodist Church. The words
Ichabod are written over that church, congregation, over that denomination.
The word Ichabod means the spirit has departed. Mass shooting

(01:34:41):
averted in Delaware. We define who the awfuls are? Asked,
are you one? Apparently FSU was in the running trying
to get Lane Kiff, and I'm glad we didn't. That
would have been a bad mistake. We covered a whole
lot of other ground here this morning with Steve Stewart

(01:35:02):
and doctor Steve Steverson, some pets, suggestions for gifts, gifts
for your pets. We'll be back tomorrow. Friends, have a
great day.