Ep.5436_ O'Bidens Legacy.

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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Doing the show of Shivvy. As we begin Thursday of
the Morning Show with Freston Scott August twenty, first show,
fifty four to thirty six. He is jose in the
doppled top, the multi colored doppled top. It is one
of the most stylish and it's one of a kind.

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His fashion is absolutely one of a kind, straight out
of GQ details, all of Esquire, all of the traditional
men's outlets, your two kindserts. Yeah, yeah, it's And what's
nice is it has a monochromatic feel to it. Wow,

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we having these pops of color. And so anyway, we
welcome you to the broadcast. As always, we begin the
show with some scripture and we are in one Peter
five where we have been following this chain of thought

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here that Paul is writing as it relates to our
interactions and confrontations with Satan with demons, that there is
a reality to it. Jesus endured forty days of fighting,

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and I want to get to this verse nine where
it says resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that
the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your
brotherhood throughout the world. It is a fascinating scripture. Here's why.
In the Bible, No, I'm just kidding, it's fascinating because
it speaks to the organizational structure of the spirit world.

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There is remarkable order there. Remember, Satan chose to consider
himself equal to, if not above, God, which again this
blows the Calvinist predestination thing into the into the into

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the sky. Because if if Satan and a third of
the angels were not given the free choice, then God
was the author of sin, and there's your problem. But

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at the very beginning of creation, Lucifer Satan was a
creation of God, but was given free will. A third
of the angels followed. Here's what's important. These are eternal beings.
Their role is not challenged anywhere in scripture, and it

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speaks to resist him, firm in your faith, knowing the
same kinds of suffering or being experienced by your brotherhood
throughout the world. There's a scripture elsewhere that says resist
the devil and he will flee. It's not just talking
about Satan individually or singularly. It's talking broadly about the

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encounters that we have not you know, demons aren't behind
every corner and every bad thing we cooperate just fine
without the help of Satan and make bad choices, but
show a weakness, they'll they will, they'll put a finger
in it. They'll press and press and press. They'll tempt

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and tempt and tempt. Resisting that though they give up
because they are numbered, that that order requires them to
kind of get to a point where they're like, well,
this isn't working, and they'll take their efforts elsewhere. That's
why resisting and staying strong in your faith. Are you

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gonna be immune to being tempted? Nope? Are you going
to be immune to being tested? Nope? But by resisting,
you create a decision process for the demonic world. Are
they gonna keep wasting their time bugging you with this
temptation or this test? Or are they gonna move on
to somebody else that they think is a little weaker

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because there are so many of them, they're not making
little baby demons. That's it. They're numbered. So this verse
is an encouragement to you to remain strong in your
faith and that when difficult problems come, do not surrender
to them. Resist, fight. It will get better. And that's

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what the rest of this chapter kind of alludes to.
Ten past the hour. It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
The Morning Show with Preston Scott on US Radio one
hundred point seven Double UFLA or on NewsRadio DOUBUFLA Panama
City dot Com.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Between twenty twenty and twenty twenty four, Democrats lost two
million voters. Republicans gain two point four million. It's not
due to being Republicans. Trust me, that's Trump. That's Trump.
And there are areas where Trump isn't a bonafid conservative,

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but he's He's one of the best presidents in this
country's had. Imagine if we had a true conservative, and
we had a party that was committed to that cause,
and we had a messaging apparatus that could communicate the
why why it works outside of elections. Imagine it would

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be transformative. It would be anyway. August twenty first, eighteen
thirty one. Nat Turner leads a violent slave revolt in
Southampton County, Virginia. Eighteen fifty eight. The first of seven
Lincoln Douglas Debates takes place in Ottawa, Illinois, eighteen eighty eight.

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William Burrows of Saint Louis Patent's the first successful adding machine.
What that's nuts. Nineteen twelve, Arthur Eldred, Oceanside, New York
becomes the first Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America.
Arthur would be so dismayed at what's happened to the

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Boy Scouts and Scouting. Just break his heart, as it
does many of you who are longtime Boy Scouts, Eagle Scouts,
troop leaders. Oh my goodness. Nineteen forty four Dumbarton Oaks
Conference in Washington, DC lays the groundwork for the United Nations.

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Nineteen fifty nine. President Eisenower signs and executive order making
Hawaii the fiftieth state. Nineteen fifty nine. So it's been
a minute since we admitted anybody else to the party.
It is National Brazilian Blowout Day. That's referring to hair drying. Yeah,

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I know about things like this. I'm a renaissance man.
Today's National Senior Citizen's Day, and this was interesting. National
Spumoni Day. Do you know what spamoni is? It is
It comes from Southern Italy Spamoni, so you gotta say it.

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Spamoni three molded layers of flavored gelato and often including
candied fruits and nuts, and two layers with a third
layer of chocolate. Genuine spamoni recipe was brought to the
United States in nineteen oh five. Salvatore Lesa started a

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bakery in Chicago with his wife Lucia. A traditional recipe
called for three layers of semifredo, an almond layer, a
semi sweet chocolate and atcha. Strachia dalla is a type
of gelato with irregular bits of a chocolate in it. However,

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here in the Cut and in the States, most spomoni
will include a chair cherry layer and bits of cherries
no no, a layer of pistachio ice cream ooh, and
a layer of chocolate okay. Other varieties include hazelnut, vanilla, strawberry, pineapple,
to name a few. So today spamoni a lot of

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ice cream. Parlors will offer up their own version of spamoni.
And it's a slice. It's a frozen dessert. Like I said,
it's a slice though, So there you go. Hashtag National
Spamoni Day.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
My favorite part of the story. Strachia dala just saying
that I feel so Italian. Strachia daly. No, that isn't right,
strachit talla hey, Strachia Della. You could go to Italy
and probably say that and make people laugh. Hey, Strachia, Della,

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let's just look at you, shake their head and laugh.
Let's just say in ice cream, what is that about?
Sixteen passed the out come back with it? Did you know?
And a even bigger did you have to wait the

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requisite amount of time before we begin?

Speaker 4 (10:45):
Here?

Speaker 1 (10:46):
Steve Stewart next hour, Doctor Steve Steeverson Pausford thought we'll
talk about dental hygiene for your pets. And then a
fascinating I can't wait. Professor at Florida State University reached
out to me said I'd love to share what we're doing.
I was like, tell me more, And as he told me,
I said, we need to just chat about this. He

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is professor doctor Ryan Owens. He's the director of the
Florida Institute of Governance in Civics at Florida State University.
So he's going to join us in studio and we're
going to chat. You know, our reservation about what goes
on in college campuses across this country. So what's happening

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in the Institute of Governance in Civics at Florida State.
He wanted to engage I'm like, okay, okay, let's do that. Yeah.
Did you know this is great? My wife will love this.
Did you know the Doctor Seuss book Green Eggs and

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Ham uses only fifty unique words. SUS's publisher bet him
he couldn't write a book with only fifty words. He did,
so that book one of the classics of children's literature.
I mean, look doctor SEUs, Theodore at geiselz just I mean,

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he's an icon. But to think that that book came
about because of a bet. I wonder what the bet
was like. Was it lunch, was a dinner? Was it
a bonus? Was it just for giggles? I don't know,
don't know that. Here's another did you know? Not in
my did you know? Book? Presented to me by my sons.

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Did you know that the EPA administrator Lee's Eldon I
think he was a former congressman, said more than three
times the EPA budget was being spent on climate change
and other bogus programs. Over twenty nine billion dollars in
grants have been canceled the budget for the for the

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EPA's ten billion. In July, President Trump said this unreliable
wind and solar energy sources displace affordable, dispatchable energy, compromise
America's electric grid, and denigrate the beauty of our nation's

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natural landscape. Reliance on so called green subsidies threatens national
security by making the United States dependent on supply Chaine
controlled by foreign adversaries. Ending the massive cost of taxpayer
handouts to unreliable energy sources is vital to energy dominance,
national security, economic growth, and the fiscal health of the nation.

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Boom me. We have got to get the message to
the young ones. The young ones are just being bombarded
with this nonsense, evidenced by yesterday the step daughter of
Kamala Harris's climate anxiety because she's just been such a

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bind over. I don't even know if I can have
my cycle please. And also a final did you know
this one? I mean that one's not controversial. The only
thing that's controversial about that is that thirty billion dollars
had been wasted. It's controversial, surprising, no, of course not.

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But how about this. We talked about Cracker Barrel changing
up the interiors of their restaurants, lightening them up. Traditional
cracker Barrel fans hate it. I'm like, eh, okay had
Cracker Barrel used Joanna Gains to pull it off. It
would have been incredible. You know, I'm a little disappointed

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in Chip and Joanna, especially Chip's response to some things
on their show. She's still an incredible designer, she just is.
She's got a style that is so smart and elevated
and lived in. She would have been the person to
hire to do the redecorating plan for Cracker Barrel. Having

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said that, they've rea, they've dumped their logo. That logo
has been iconic for how long now? You know the
the the barrel, the dude on a rocking chair. I
think it is by a barrel. It says cracker Barrel.

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They've just they've taken all that away. It just says
cracker Barrel. How boring is that? Come on now, and
they're they're doing their best to try to Our story
hasn't changed. But if the cover of the book has

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changed to the point where people don't recognize it, it
doesn't matter about the story. They're not going to buy
the book. Logos are funny things. There's a time to update,
there's a time to modernize, and there's a time to
leave things alone. We'll see, We'll see what happens. We'll

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see if the loyalists say, yeah, I do like the
way it's going. I don't know. I've not seen it
in person, so I'm not sure it's inevitable, because my
wife and I enjoy an occasional cracker barrel when we're traveling.
But anyway, twenty seven passed the hot come back with
the big stories in the press box and this is

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the Morning Show with Preston Scott thirty five thirty six
minutes past. This is a remarkably important story. And as
of carrying this over into the next segment or beyond,

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sometimes I need to I feel the need to take
just a little time to explain my thought process. We
and I would include me. We we tend to push
through stories too fast. The twenty four hour news cycle

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has conditioned us to move next, move along, next, next, next, next,
and we don't take the time to really look at stories.
I think that some of it was brought about innocently

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just technology, the Internet, constant, constant, constant. You've got twenty
four having news outlets on cable. They have to fill
the time. You would think that would lead them to
allow stories to marinate a little longer, to sit longer.
They're just jamming new content down your face all the time.

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An example is this story of the truck driver that
is illegally in this country and his driving on the
Florida Turnpike though he was a CDL holder from California,

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costs three people their lives on the Florida Turnpike. What
we're learning now is why I am slow to sometimes
grab stories when they immediately happen, and why I am
definitely not going to move past certain stories until we
get resolution. Tomorrow. We got Lee Williams Tata Domiak. That

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story's not done till he's out and restitution is made.
It's not done. COVID's not done till the truth is out,
restitution is made to whatever degree there needs to be
some in this case. What is updating on this? This

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tragedy to borrow from Katie Pavlich of town Hall is infuriating.
His work authorization was rejected under the Trump administration September fourteenth,
twenty twenty, but it was approved by the Biden administration

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on June ninth, twenty twenty one. There is no national CDL.
The CDL was granted him by the state of California.
Gavin Newsom and his team are doing everything possible to
peddle this away from themselves. After questioning by the Department

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of Transportation, it was found that Singh failed basic proficiency tests,
does not speak English, and can't read basic traffic signs.
During the Federal Motor Safety Motor Carrier Safety Administration interview
with the driver, investigators determined administered an English Language Proficiency

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Assessment ELP in accordance with guidance quoting the driver failed
the assessment, providing correct responses to just two of twelve
verbal questions and only accurately identifying one of four highway
traffic signs. Additionally, Washington State issued the driver a regular,

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full term commercial driver's license on July fifteenth, twenty twenty three.
On July twenty On July third, twenty twenty five, just
a month and a half ago, New Mexico State Police
conducted a roadside inspection of the driver issued a speeding ticket,
but there's no indication that an ELP assessment was administered.

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What's interesting about that is New Mexico had not yet
begun the ELP as an out of service condition, despite
a requirement being infect since June twenty fifth, In other words,
if states had followed the rules, three people would be alive.
He would never have been allowed to drive forty one minutes.

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You welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Our
twenty third year is behind us. We are in year
twenty four of this program, and I still love doing

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what we do, talking about the things we talk about,
though some of the things we talk about are not pleasant.
Going back to this story, this matters because someone employed
this man, and Florida Republican lawmakers better wake up. It's interesting.

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The research team of this radio program dug up some sound.
This is two thousand and eight. This is the Democrat
debate for the nomination for president. George W. Bush has

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been in office for eight years. Roughly. You'll recognize the voice.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
The Bush administration has done nothing to control the problem.

Speaker 4 (23:30):
That we have.

Speaker 3 (23:31):
We've had five million undocumented workers come over the borders
since George Bush took office. It has become an extraordinary problem.
And the reason the American people are concerned is because
they are seeing their own economic position slip away. And
oftentimes employers are exploiting these undocumented workers. They're not paying

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the minimum wage, they're not observing workers' safety laws, and
so what we have to do is create a comprehensive
solution to the problem. Now I have already stated that
as president, I will make sure that we finally have
the kind of border security that we need. That's step
number one. Step number two is to take on employers.
Right now, they an employer has more of a chance

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of getting hit by lightning than be prosecuted for hiring
an undocumented worker. That has to change.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
They have to be held account accountable. Barack Obama two
thousand and eight. Obama sounds like he could be the
head of border security for this country, doesn't it. That
was Obama back then. Obama was deporting people left and right,

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but that's gradually changed. The party has seen a slippage
in registered Democrats, and they need more voter They need
a group of people that feel a sense of loyalty
to the Democrat Party. Speaking of Obama, Chicago residents calling

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the Obama Presidential Center a monstrosity. Nineteen point three acre
site historic Jackson Park. It is a as of now,
it's just a two hundred and twenty five foot tall
concrete museum. That's an I soore. Some call it a

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monument to one man's ego. Alder Woman Jeanette Taylor, represents
the neighborhood, said locals are being priced out. I just
find it funny that Chicago's hosting this thing and Obama
barely gave Chicago a moment of his time when he

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was in office. Why because of black on black crime.
He didn't want to go there. It's the most pressing
issue in Chicago, and he didn't want to deal with it. Okay,
beyond the obvious, you know, running of the state. Just yeah,

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shake my head. Forty six minutes past the hour. You'd
enjoy that Obama. Sound funny how he thought about illegal immigration? Then, Okay,

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more on the Obiden administration, the eight years of Barack Obama,
the four tortuous years of Joe Biden. Bank executives are
now coming out sort of. They're not dropping names necessarily,
they're just coming out telling Fox News that, under pressure

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by Obama and Biden, they were denying services to individuals
and businesses for political reasons. It is called d banking.
We talked about it, we chronicled it. The President has
signed an executive order outlawing d banking. The problem is
it's an executive order it has to be codified in law.

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It can't be just left as well. This is what
one president thinks. D banking refers to the practice of
closing accounts or denying services to individuals or businesses. No explanation.
It originated as part of a federal anti money laundering

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set of laws and regulations. An entity can be debanked
after its transactions are marked suspicious, and that would make
some sense. The problem is that the Obama and Biden
administrations targeted specific industries, specific people. It had a name

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Operation Choke Point, and under Biden, Operation Choke point two
point zero. According to a House Oversight Committee report, Operation
Choke Point aimed to choke out legal companies disfavored by
the Obama administration and work with bank regulators to label

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certain industries, including firearms sales quote high risk. Why would
it be labeled high risk? Something's high risk if it's
in danger of losing money and or assets. They've targeted

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legal businesses and oh, by the way, they targeted Trump.
They targeted the first lady. Oh, by the way, not
just the first lady. Did you know Baron Trump? Their
son was debanked. JP Morgan Chase accused by former Senator

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Sam Brownbeck debanking his nonprofit, the National Committee for Religious Freedom.
JP Morgan maintains now not true, never happened. It happened.
It absolutely happened, and debanking has happened. Have we rooted

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it all out? Probably not. But again this is I
wonder if anyone's keeping a list of the executive orders
signed by the President that have to be turned into law.

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It's sort of like when you when you come across
an exercise that just really effectively impacts you. That was
really good, but you forget. You didn't make note of
it and add it into your routine. You did it
one time, you really like it, and then it was gone.

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It's like, yeah, I forgot all about it. That's the
thing here. If Congress doesn't act to deal with this
stuff permanently, we got a problem. Hey, I don't know
if you know. I want to get it on your radar.

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There's a recall on some frozen shrimp products out of
Walmarts because they have man made radioactive sessium one thirty
seven showing up four ports from Indonesia, Los Angeles, Houston, Miami,
and Savannah. So and this includes some bretted shrimp just

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saying be advised, it's the great value stuff. I'll tell
you more. Next hour five passed the hour Thursday show
fifty four to thirty six of The Morning Show with

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Preston Scot Good morning friends. I'm Preston. He is Jose
and this is the executive editor at Tallahassee Reports, Steve Stewart.
Hello friend, good morning. How are you. I'm good? All right,
some great stuff coming out of Tallahassee Reports. I see
Jeremy Mattlowe's face right there at the head of an

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article here, and the headline says city commission votes consider
challenging ice agreement in court.

Speaker 5 (32:04):
Yeah, so this has been brewing and there's a lot
of implications here. But first of all, the specific issue
is that the two eighty seven agreement, which Governor de
Sandis in the state of Florida has argued that all
local governments need to sign up to help with the
enforcement of the immigration laws.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
And so there are a couple of cities.

Speaker 5 (32:23):
That are challenging this in a formal way. South Miami
has follow the lawsuits saying that we don't have to
sign a too eighty seven agreement, and so he gets
technical on the terms if you don't sign a two
eighty seven agreement, then that the Florida law indicates that's
your sanct sanctuary city, which then means that the Florida
content take other actions. And so up to this point,

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the City Commission of Tallass City Commission, they signed the
agreement as an administrative thing. The city manager TPD, Chief Revel,
TPD signed the agreement and didn't They didn't consult with
the City commission. This is just something they got legal
representation and said, yeah, you need to sign it. And
it basically it is so symbolic in the sense that
it does require TPD to train one officer in how

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to input data on a federal system if and when
an illegal.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
Or immigrant is arrested and has a detainer.

Speaker 5 (33:18):
Before they used to have to just they just would
turn over the person to the Feds. Now they actually
enter in enter in the information. So and there's some
other things that have to happen if there's some arrest.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
So it's nothing major.

Speaker 5 (33:32):
And Chief Revel pointed out that, look, we weren't involved
with it, were not involved in any of the raids
by Homeland Security here, and so there's obviously minimal participation,
which could be troubling on one side, but again, your
audience is the progressive wing that wants to sever this agreement.
And so it had been Mayor Daily and the other

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two commissioners had really stiffed armed the progressives until last night,
and now now they are they passed emotion unanimously. That
really is the first step of the City of Talise
getting embroiled in a legal controversy over a two.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
Eighty seven g what's the opposition? The opposition? Why? Why
is this a problem for Jeremy Matt low Jack Porter,
And I guess.

Speaker 5 (34:18):
Joe, this is again because this is a symbolic issue
that progresses have adopted. They they don't want the immigration
laws to be enforced. They give one side of the story.
You know, the raid on the Gain Street was, you know,
Commission Mattlowe was showing so much compassion for the workers
and their families. What he fails to say is that
the majority of those workers were basically being trafficked from

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Central America and probably making low wages, you know, or
living in houses that are owned by the people they're
working for. He didn't say that, and so that is
the issue they're going to turn Talahassee into a you know,
into this liberal bash where they're going to make these
symbolic votes and not and this one's not sim in
the sense that they're getting information.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
This is the first step Commission.

Speaker 5 (35:03):
Mattlow believes that cities don't have to sign the two
eighty seven g and he's ready to go ahead and
start the process of the City of Tallahassee getting involved
with this lawsuit. I mean he set it, you know,
look for ways that we can help South Miami in
the lawsuit and also bring back information that would set
the groundwork for us to follow lawsuit. And it was

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a five to zero vote. And you know, you want
to look the other way on the politics. But look,
Mayor Daily decided he's not going to run. He doesn't
need moderate a conservative. He doesn't care now what moderateor
conservatives think about him.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
Could you argue that this is now the true John
Daily on this issue.

Speaker 5 (35:41):
Look, you could argue that the you know that conservative
voters made.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
Or encouraged John.

Speaker 5 (35:50):
Daly to be more moderate so that he could win.
And now I think you're going to start to see,
well you saw it last night, and look, you know,
I have a you know, I have a reporter relationship
with Mayor Daily and I've talked to him a lot
over the last two or three months because of the
issue here running for office. And he has always been
a liberal, of course, and you know again the politics

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was though that he had to moderate that to get elected.
And last night, I mean I watched this, Preston, and
as a citizen of Leon County and the state of
tall I see my stomach turned. I mean, this is
where we're headed under, you know, a progressive leadership. And
I think the progressives have done enough to scare people
from running for office with the way they conducted their
elections that I'm beginning to think now that we're closer

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now to being led by progressives than we've ever been.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
Steve Shwart with US ten past the Hour. More to
talk about that mayor's race next on the Morning Show
with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
The Morning Shoe with Preston Scott on News Radio one
hundred point seven WUFLA.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
You wouldn't know about the things you know about if
you didn't know about Tallahassee Reports. See how I did that.
That's a professional broadcaster. Just go to Tallahassee Reports dot com. Subscribe,
get the paper, learn all these details. You started to
kind of segue this into the mayoral race, right.

Speaker 5 (37:22):
I think we saw after the vote on that informational item,
which is laying the predicate for a lawsuit. So then
you know, it's like five zero commission Matlow is the
new mayoral candidate. He's leading the city commission, you know.
And then commissioner reporter calling in from some destination. She
said she had COVID, but there's been rumors she's been
out of town a lot over the last two or

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three months.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
Anyway, she called in COVID. We'll do that to you.

Speaker 5 (37:45):
Yeah, And you know, again piling on, is she wants
a symbolic resolution, you know, trashing the immigration policies and
actions by the Trump administration, you know, and is she not.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
Aware what happened in Central Florida on the turnpike. Well, see,
this is the thing. And you know, so that was
voted down three to two.

Speaker 5 (38:02):
All right, so they gave you give a little, right,
you give an inch, and they're going to ask for more.
And so the compassion that we are seeing from the
progressives or that you know.

Speaker 1 (38:13):
For people who here are here illegally.

Speaker 5 (38:17):
If I would have been in the audience, I would say, wait,
does anybody have any compassion for the three people in
the families that died in that traffic accident in South Florida?
Which is a roaring endorsement of why you need rational,
sensible immigration policy, and you know, and nobody wants to

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talk about it, right, And I don't even know if
that story made any local media out and what made
Talis reports, but if it made any local media outlet here,
because it again, it shows exactly what's what what immigration
policies that are going to arise can cause. Now, so
what you got now is you got commission Mattlow, and
you got a mayor's race. And I will tell you
the chamber conference was last weekend. Mallow went running over

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there because he's running from mayor suddenly. Yes, So from
what I understand, he was not very well received, very awkward.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
Good.

Speaker 5 (39:07):
But the other thing that I heard is there's listen,
there is a lot of uneasiness among people because they
are starting to think that Mattlow is just going to
walk in to this mayor position because they can't find
anybody to run. And this goes back to this whole
approach that the progressives have used for the last four years,
and again some of the modern Democrats have stiff armed

(39:28):
the progressive wave of the City Commission. But in the
process the tactics that they used, which were very personal,
very aggressive. I think now are paying dividends for the
progressives because nobody wants to raise their head up and say, look,
you know, I'm a moderate. These are sensible policies that
we can follow here and run for office. They're nowhere
to be found. We're Scott Maddox, He's a moderate.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
That is funny. Do you think he could beat Mattlow? Yes?
I do too. Yeah, I mean, it's it's what we've
we've talked about on the broader scale nationally for years,
is that you know, John F. Kennedy today would not
be welcoming the Democrat Party that the party's changed.

Speaker 5 (40:10):
So we could have we could have Scott Maddox running
against Jeremy Mallow and Scott Maddox would win.

Speaker 1 (40:15):
That's what you're saying. I could happen. Interesting, But anyway,
so this is where we are.

Speaker 5 (40:22):
And look, I gotta tell you, when I was watching
the City Commission meeting, it's almost like it has just
changed the the sort of the I don't know, just
the theme of what was going on there. You've got
these people, the progressives that are there, right that get
up and speak. These are the ones that call TPD
officers murderers, accuse them.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
Of playing evidence.

Speaker 5 (40:42):
These are the supporters of mister Mallow and Jack Porter
and commission and Commissioner Porter said, hey, well, I'm with
everybody in that room. She just acknowledged being with people
that call our police officers murdhers. And so we better wigh,
we better wake up, you know, and figure something out here,
because we're headed in that direction. And I think the

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you know, the mayor's race is going to be the
flashpoint for this. And so all the you know, the
last two cycles where the pushback on the progressives you
know happened. I think now it's gonna be this is
where it's really gonna matter.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
The theater can Oh my goodness, gracious. More to come
with Steve Stewart. Remember you can subscribe, Just go to
Tellassireports dot com. More with Steve Stewart of Tallasti Reports

(41:56):
again Tallasti Reports dot com. Uh, I don't know if
we could get any more acrimonious than what we've talked about.
But I think we're about to try fire service Sea.
It's time for a divorce, Preston, and it's getting ugly. Okay,
So set the stage here.

Speaker 5 (42:11):
So fire services fee. The city runs the fire department.
The Leon County back in two thousand and nine signed
a contract to basically become a customer. People in the
unincorporated area are paying the county and the county is
basically contracting with the city to provide fire services.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
And it is before nine.

Speaker 5 (42:31):
It was a little bit of a loose agreement, but
it got more structured that way, and so every five
years they send a bill to the county as a
customer in the county district, you know, decides how they're
going to collect the money and they send it to
the city.

Speaker 1 (42:44):
And so that's worked until COVID.

Speaker 5 (42:46):
Hit had some issues with obviously with the finances and
you know, now you've got inflation and so and then
there was the battle over the bar the firefighter wages,
and you had some county commissions, you know, encourage the
city to increase the.

Speaker 1 (43:01):
Wages for the firefighters.

Speaker 5 (43:03):
And what had normally happened is every five years they
trued up the fund in terms of increasing the rates
or whatever they needed. So when you say trued up,
you mean looked at increases and said, look, the next
five years, we're going to need this.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
Here are actual costs. Now we need to balance that, right,
and so.

Speaker 5 (43:18):
Then you'd have the same rate for five years and
then you come back, well, they set that rate, but
what happened was uh inflation, a new bargaining Uh you
mean Joe Biden, a new bargaining agreement. And so it
seems like I got to put up with here the
new bargaining agreement. And so the city said, look, these
are these are increases that we did not anticipate when

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we set the rate, you know, a couple of years ago.
So we're going to need a mid five year change.
And it turns out to be you know, the percentage
is twenty twenty two percent. But as Commissioner Dian Williams
Cox said last night, we're fighting over five dollars a
month for public safety. And so what's happened is Leon
County is dug in their heels the lean kind of
commit as a customer to the city, okay, and they said, look,

(44:03):
you know, we want to see the books. You know,
we don't have to pay this, and you know that
they're causing and you know that a press conference with
the who I call the DOGE duo, Commissioner Proctor and
Commissioner Coban, who were looking you know, which is again
what they're doing. I wish they'd do with every department absolutely,
you know, why is it costing this much for a
fire station? The problem is is this is like an
irate customer at a department store. At some point, the

(44:25):
department store just says, here's your money, you can.

Speaker 1 (44:28):
Go somewhere else. And that's what happened last night.

Speaker 5 (44:30):
I think the city is tired of dickering over five
dollars a month and having to, you know, having to
deal with these criticisms, and they're saying, look, you know,
after we get through this contract, maybe you guys just
need to go somewhere else and get your fire services.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
And so is that going to happen?

Speaker 5 (44:50):
Probably not, But I think on the County commission side
that there's gonna have to be some reassessment of just
what they're fighting. And it is in its look it
really puts people want to predict me here because I
really do like the idea of someone like ly, I
kind of government, who you know, causing questions, asking questions.
It's bigger than just one person showing.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
Up at a meeting.

Speaker 5 (45:12):
This is lee, I kind of government is a big customer.
So but you but I think what's happening is asking
some legitimate question questions is sort of spilling over to
this political dialogue of you know, saying that the city
is incompetent, that they don't know what they're doing.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
Is it fair Steve to say that this is getting
people's eyes off the ball. The issue isn't so much
how much is being spent. I mean, we both agree
personal safety of a community is number one. Law enforcement
em as fire right right, It's number one job of government.
The question is is the city properly spending the rest

(45:48):
of its budget?

Speaker 6 (45:49):
No?

Speaker 5 (45:49):
And I think that's you know, that's the question I
would ask is, look, why do we have.

Speaker 1 (45:54):
To increase this?

Speaker 5 (45:54):
Is there not somewhere else we could cut instead of
increasing this? Because public safety is a top priority. And
so I think those are good questions. The problem is
is the politics of this. You know, mister Mallow was
not supported by TPEED or you know, the police union,
and he was criticized in spending for you know, for
law enforcement. He was supported by the firefighters and he
voted for this twenty two percent increase. So that's where

(46:16):
the politics enters in this sure, and so I think again,
just look, and we've talked about this.

Speaker 1 (46:21):
In the next year.

Speaker 5 (46:22):
I think spending is going to be an issue here
locally in terms of increases in property taxes because things
a sort of starting to get out of hand, and
this is an indication of that. But again, it's in
one of the main responsibilities of local government, public safety.

Speaker 1 (46:37):
So let's just look at it.

Speaker 5 (46:38):
Let's see exactly why does that police station or why
does the fire station cost thirty four million dollars? You know,
and you know, last night Rees go saying, look, you know,
this community wanted us to pay firefighters more. I mean
it was a pretty you know, pretty overwhelming support for
the firefighters getting more wages. We did that, and now
you don't want to pay the bill.

Speaker 1 (46:58):
Well, I think the question would have done themselves a
big favor had they looked at their own budget and found,
for example, we've talked often about public transportation, ride a
bus service, We're going to make some cuts here, they'd
probably find a more receptive county if they'd have found
ways to fund fire services aside from just telling them exactly.

Speaker 5 (47:20):
And I think the counties at a bad spot because
there's not a lot of options, you know of where
they can go to get fire services, and so they
need to do this. They need to question the city respectfully.
I mean, that's not where it is now.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
Facebook marketplace, they could find some there you go eBay, Amazon,
Amazon is delivering out in the county. Just saying thanks
for being on this stuff, appreciate it. Thank you. Presting
Steve Stewart with us TALLASI Reports website Tallasireports dot com.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
In show with Preston Scott or not there is no
try on News Radio one seven double USLA.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
Thirty six minutes after the hour, Good Morning Friends, The
Morning Show with Preston Scott. How are you uh? Big
stories in the press box, Let's get to that. FDA
warning investigators found radioactive shrimp UH detected at major US

(48:42):
ports shipman of Walmart. Shrimp tested positive for a man
made radioactive material called cessium one thirty seven Los Angeles, Houston, Miami,
and Savannah. Yeah, pretty much covers the country at least
both coasts, multiple samples, including one of breaded shrimp. The

(49:13):
shrimp supplier is from Indonesia, and the frozen shrimp tested
positive for radioactive contamination. So here's the deal. Let's get
to the bottom line. The bottom line is this FDA
officials said consumers should not eat or serve great value
raw frozen shrimp. Even though they're talking about these breaded shrimp,

(49:36):
which oftentimes is cooked you just reheat them. This recall
advisory is great value raw frozen shrimp from Walmart with
lot codes eight zero zero five to five four zero
dash one eight zero zero five to five three eight

(49:59):
dash one and eight zero zero five five three nine
So five five three eight five five three nine five
five forty those are your lot numbers. Basically, they're just
saying throw them away. Just I think that maybe just
this is just me. I'm not I'm just I'm just

(50:22):
spitballing here. Take them out and use them to line
a pathway or something. They should go in the dark.
Just being an idiot and uh update here. Even though

(50:43):
local elected commissioners may not care about the impact that
illegal immigrants working in the workforce or having like you know,
murdering people and killing people and being responsible for the
death of people. They clearly don't care about that. Get this,

(51:05):
The guy responsible who was driving the truck not alleged.
He's responsible for the death of three people. That's not alleging.
I watched it, I saw it. It's him. He failed
the assessment, providing correct responses in just two of twelve

(51:28):
verbal questions, only accurately identifying one of four highway traffic
signs in test administered on an English language proficiency assessment.
What the heck? And that's just we're just scratching the
surface there. This dude can't speak English. What are we doing?

(51:57):
See that needs to be And oh, by the way,
to lead immigrants of this country, God bless you, Thank
you for coming in legally. But if you don't know English,
I can't tell you how many times that we see
stories been in this country fifteen years and they can't
speak English. What see? That has to change. Part of

(52:20):
becoming a legal immigrant is passing an English proficiency test.
And you know what, if I were an American and
I wanted to live in a foreign country and make
it my permanent residence, I think that I should have
to pass a language proficiency test in that country. There's

(52:40):
nothing wrong with that. Forty minutes past the common sense
amplified President Scott road trip suggestion coming up in just
a few moments. Next hour, Professor Florida State University, doctor

(53:00):
Ryan Owen's director the Florida Institute of Governance and Civics.
What do he want to talk about? Yeah, we have
him in studio. We're gonna chat it up a little bit.
But first, Oh, yeah, I love talking about our four
legged friends. Members of the family. Joining me, Doctor Steve

(53:24):
Stevers into the Bradfordville Animal Hospital. Good morning, doctor Steverson.
How are you? Hey?

Speaker 6 (53:29):
Good morning, Preston.

Speaker 1 (53:29):
I'm doing well.

Speaker 6 (53:30):
How about yourself?

Speaker 1 (53:31):
I'm doing terrific. I came across an article back back
a few months ago that inspired me to ask you
and that and that we would spend a little more
time talking about dental hygiene for dogs and cats. How
how prevalent is the topic in practice?

Speaker 6 (53:50):
You know, it's huge, Preston. We see pets every day
that has significant tartar build up and ginga itis and
all the Perry Donald's disease problems that that creates. So
this is a a very very big topic. We're doing
dental procedures on pets practically every day. It's such a
big issue in dogs and cats.

Speaker 1 (54:08):
When you say a procedure that seems like it could
being a lot of things.

Speaker 6 (54:15):
Yeah, well, you know, we can't just tell them to
sit in a chair and say, ah, right, we can
clean their teeth the way we do so it requires
some sort of anesthesia at some level to relax them
so that we can open their mouths to clean their
teeth and evaluate them. We take dentalex rays on dogs
and cats teeth, just like Dennis would do us, looking

(54:36):
for problems with the roots of the teeth. So it's
you know, dogs and cats, unless you brush their teeth daily,
they build a tremendus amount of tartar on their teeth,
and that tartar has to be dealt with in some
form or fashion or it's going to create all kinds
of problems down the road.

Speaker 1 (54:52):
What are treats? What are I mean? You see the
advertisements for those dental chews and so forth. First, are
they actually useful?

Speaker 6 (55:03):
Yes they are. You know the next best thing to
brushing your pet's teeth is to use some sort of
a dental treat or dental chee and so I highly
recommend them. There's a handful that are very very effective.
The key is the chewing action. So you want to
use something that your dogs or cat is going to
chew for several minutes. If they're going to take that
treat and wolf it down in thirty seconds, well let's

(55:25):
probably not doing a lot of good with that chewing
action on their teeth. So you want something that's can
take them a couple of minutes to chew before they
finish it. And so Greenies is very very popular. That's
a very good one. Most dogs really really like them
and they'll sit and chew on those very well as
they consume them. There are cet As a company that
has several types of dental treats or shoes. They are

(55:47):
also very very good, and so there are actually is
a council, the vo HC Veterinary Oral Health Council that
approves these treats, and so you can look for a
dog treat and look for that VOH see approval seal
on the package to see if it's one that's been
evaluated and studied to say yes, this will do what
it needs to do to clean your dog's teeth.

Speaker 1 (56:08):
How often should you be handing a treat like this
to your dog and our cat's the same with frequency.

Speaker 6 (56:15):
Yeah, they are both are the same. And probably once
or twice a day is enough, really, you know, too
many treats? Yeah, yeah, too many treats is like us
eating candy bars.

Speaker 1 (56:24):
Right.

Speaker 6 (56:25):
Usually they're very high in calories, so they're going to
put on a lot of weight if they're eating too
many treats. And a lot of times dogs really enjoy them.
Cats do, so they can use it as a training
tool as well. You know, when they first go outside
in the morning and go to the bathroom and come
back in, give them that treats as a reward, and
a lot of times they'll look forward to it, and
it's a win win to do it that way.

Speaker 1 (56:47):
What if you see what if you see your dog
chewing on one side of their mouth almost all the time,
is that an indicator of a dental problem?

Speaker 6 (56:56):
Absolutely, preston. If that's the case, they should chew a
little on one side, a little on the other. So
if they only chew on one side of their mouth,
you want to have that checked out and see if
there's not a problem. Very often a dog or a
cat can have a bad tooth, and they're not going
to tell us. They just avoid that side, and so
the dog will cattle come in and we'll look and
there'll be an abscess or a bad tooth in there
that's creating all their problem and taking care of. So, yeah, absolutely,

(57:19):
if they're chilging on one side of the mouth, or
you see food falling out of their mouth when they
chew inappropriately, they can't keep the food in their mouth,
they concerned, have your veternir and check them out.

Speaker 1 (57:29):
I suppose in closing, it's important that we not just
kind of put food in front of our pets and
set and forget but now and then observe them actually eating.
And that would include observe them eating these pet chews,
these dental chews.

Speaker 6 (57:43):
For sure, press and you want to observe them, want
to make sure there's anything happenomal going on. They don't
hesitate eat their food. If they usually eat all of
it and all of suddenly only eating a little bit
of it, you need to be aware of that. Or
if they have an odd behavior they're grabbing the food,
and sometimes owners will come in or tell us that
the dog or the cat is kind of throwing the
food to the back of their mouth and swallowing it
whole and not chewing it. Well, there's a problem that

(58:04):
we need to check that out.

Speaker 1 (58:06):
Always great spending time with you, doctor Steverson. Some very
helpful things for pet owners out there. Thanks so much
for the time.

Speaker 6 (58:13):
Great thanks Preston.

Speaker 1 (58:15):
Doctor Steve Steverson with the Bradfordville Animal Hospital in are
cleverly titled twice a month segment Pause for Thought. Here
on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 7 (58:48):
Time for.

Speaker 1 (58:52):
A road trip suggestion. And this one's going to fool you.
I know that there are many of you listening in
Panama City, Panama City Beach, the surrounding area, surrounding counties.
But to all of you listening across the Fruited Plain

(59:12):
via iHeartRadio, and to those of you that do in
fact live there visit Panama City and Panama City Beach.
Did you know I came across an article America's best
small retirement town has pristine Beach's accessible activities and three

(59:35):
hundred and twenty days of sunshine a year. Panama City Beach, Florida.
It's actually becoming a top choice for retirees. I don't
know if they want that, but that's what's happening. But really,
when you think about it, it is a delightful place. Granted,

(59:58):
governance in Panama City Beach needs little help, little help,
little nudge in the more conservative direction. But if we
set all that aside, you got Pier Park, which is
one of my favorite places to be. My wife and
I just love wandering through Peer Park. You got twenty
seven miles of some of the best beaches in the world,

(01:00:22):
more than likely top five beaches in the country for sure.
You got Shell Island. You can go see dolphin all
the time, all over the place. Get on a jet ski,
rent a jet ski and jump out there and it
is so much fun. It is delightful. My wife and

(01:00:44):
I went to jet skiing back a few years ago
and pot of dolphins found us, and boy was that fun.
I just I marvel at stuff like that little baby
doll and the whole pot swimming right by looking up
side eye on me. It was great. But then there's

(01:01:06):
the Margaritaville Beach Cottage Resort. Now I have stayed at
multiple Margaritaville properties, and I have been blown away each
time I have not seen this. They've got Beach Front Villas,
two acre heated pool, Lazy River, Margaritaville Beach Cottage Resort.

(01:01:31):
Didn't know it existed out there. Oh, I'm gonna check
that out because that is that that is one of
the underrated chains, if you will out there. I stayed
at one in Pensacola Beach and then I stayed at
their Margaritaville Club Hotel in Atlanta. It was spectacular, and

(01:01:57):
I know it's some of your thinking really in the
atl Oh. Yeah, it was awesome, brilliant. Loved it. So
I'm just saying, sometimes we forget what's right in our backyard,
you know what I'm saying. It's right there for a
bunch of us, and for those of you that live
in the area, embrace what you have. It's spectacular. So

(01:02:21):
there you go. There's your road trip suggestion. And if
you're outside of Florida, come on, come on, it's nice
and warm. We come back third hour of the Morning
Show with Preston Scott. Professor doctor Ryan Owens joins me
next and here we go five past the hour. It

(01:02:54):
is Thursday on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Could
be with you Show five four hundred and thirty six.
But who's counting, right, I mean, no one's counting, okay
other than me. Those a's over there in Studio one.
I am here in Studio one B, and I cannot
wait to have this discussion. Doctor Ryan Owens is a
professor at Florida State University's director of the Florida Institute

(01:03:14):
of Governance and Civics, and he is my guest in studio.
How are you, sir?

Speaker 4 (01:03:18):
Hey, I'm doing good, good Thursday to you.

Speaker 1 (01:03:21):
Yeah. I have to start this by asking what prompted
you to reach out and engage with the show. Write
me a note.

Speaker 7 (01:03:32):
I love what you're doing, and I love what I'm doing,
and I want people who love what both of us
are doing to hear about it. So you know, I
am the director of the Institute for Governance and Civics.
We're trying to resurrect an appreciation for liberty on college campuses,
particularly here at FSU. Came down here from Wisconsin about
a year ago to direct this thing.

Speaker 1 (01:03:51):
And moment, just a moment there, please, just a moment
to acknowledge the Green and Gold where you do hold
season tickets. Oh you're oh yeah, yeah, and just tell
me that he's not my new best friend in the world.

Speaker 4 (01:04:05):
Gold packers.

Speaker 1 (01:04:07):
Oh yeah, gold pack golack goal.

Speaker 4 (01:04:12):
Okay, you slip into that real easy, can't you.

Speaker 1 (01:04:14):
Oh my goodness, yeah, I can do it in a minute.
How'd you end up at Florida State University?

Speaker 7 (01:04:18):
This position opened up, and uh, and it was really
appealing to me. I believe pretty strongly in what we're doing.
I don't mean to be hyperbolic, but I do think
that the future of the country is really at issue.

Speaker 4 (01:04:28):
It's at risk right now.

Speaker 7 (01:04:29):
If we have people who don't understand how, you know,
the American government works. There are rules of citizens, what
does it mean to be a citizen? We're going to
have a heck of a problem on our hands in
the future. We're starting to see that right now. And
so for me, the ability to come down and take
this thing over like just started up from the ground up.
We are literally building this from scratch, okay, and uh,
you know, there's a lot of flexibility there and an

(01:04:51):
opportunity to build a vision and that and that's what
we want to do.

Speaker 4 (01:04:54):
We're here to help.

Speaker 7 (01:04:55):
We're here to promote civic literacy, civic awareness, civic thought,
wherever we can.

Speaker 1 (01:05:00):
When you were brought into Florida State, the hiring process
is going on, what were you told about the goals
the purpose of this department?

Speaker 7 (01:05:10):
Yeah, well, what I was told basically was here's the
statutory mission that we have right, and there's six or
seven bullet points within that statute, and they're general. They
all kind of point towards the same thing. And you know,
the direction that I had was lean into this, make
your vision fit with what we want to do here,

(01:05:31):
and so I had I don't want to say carte blanche,
that's not right, but I had a lot of flexibility
to kind of bring in my expertise. My background is
in law and politics. I'm an empirical social scientist, but
I also understand that you can run as many statistical
models as possible, but if they're not answering important normative questions,
they're meaningless.

Speaker 4 (01:05:48):
So what we're trying to.

Speaker 7 (01:05:49):
Do here is just a number of things. I'm building
a Civics degree program at FSU that is part social science,
part civic thought, so that we teach people what it
means to be an American, but then give them the
tools to go out on the job market. Later to
get good jobs and make an impact in their community.
We created a First Amendment Law Clinic at the College
of Law so that students can learn the importance of

(01:06:12):
free speech, conscience, liberty, and learn how to defend them.

Speaker 1 (01:06:16):
What was the reception as you got for first How
long has this process been underway?

Speaker 4 (01:06:21):
One year? One year as you began.

Speaker 1 (01:06:25):
Obviously we've seen a lot of tumult on college and
university campuses across the country. What kind of reception did
you get at Florida State.

Speaker 4 (01:06:33):
It's been positive.

Speaker 7 (01:06:34):
I've been pleased with the reception that we've had from leadership,
and there are a lot of people on campus who
recognize the value of intellectual diversity and understand that student
success is tied to an understanding of American civics and
an ability to comprehend other people's viewpoints and have some

(01:06:56):
political tolerance. So you know, it's not without its obles,
to be sure, in any organization is going to be
that way. But I am very, very supportive of what
we've got going on here and in the relationship that
we have with the leadership on campus.

Speaker 1 (01:07:09):
Because generally speaking, broadly speaking, we paint with a big
brush around here. Yeah, there are always exceptions. Broadly speaking,
diversity means as long as you agree.

Speaker 7 (01:07:20):
Yeah, we see that sort of alarmingly in the data,
particularly among the eighteen to twenty four or twenty nine
year olds. Just one of the things that we do
at the IGC as well as you know, teaching and
the clinic and things like that, is we do a
lot of polling, and we've conducted a handful of polls
so far in our existence, and the data are somewhat

(01:07:40):
frightening among eighteen to twenty four or twenty nine year olds.
There is a real strong creeping intolerance that exists, such
that we're seeing data now where younger people are saying
they're not even willing to date people who have opposing
political views, and in fact, some of the data show
that sort of younger progressives are over to times more

(01:08:00):
likely to date an ex felon than they are to
date a conservative.

Speaker 1 (01:08:04):
Right in just a moment of silence here for decency,
thank you.

Speaker 7 (01:08:12):
Yeah, And you know, we see some similar data on
the other side of the spectru two.

Speaker 4 (01:08:17):
It's not all just the left.

Speaker 7 (01:08:19):
Of course, data are a little bit more troublesome on
that side of the spectrum. So you know, what are
we going to do in this country in the future.
If we're only dating, marrying, procreating with people who believe
like we do, then we're raising kids who only believe
what we do. Pretty soon the polarization that we see,
I mean, is going to be one heck of a problem.

Speaker 1 (01:08:38):
We got a lot more to talk about. Levin passed
the hour joining me in studio. Doctor Ryan Owen's FSU
director Florida Institute of Governance and Civics. Do you have
an idea? We got a lot to talk about. It's
the Morning Show with Preston Scott. It's the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. Back with doctor Ryan Owen's professor, Florida

(01:09:08):
State University. We're talking about the Institute of Governance in Civics.
How does this How does this play out day to
day on campus?

Speaker 4 (01:09:18):
It's a lot of work. Yeah, yeah, it's a lot
of work.

Speaker 7 (01:09:20):
But we're doing the Lord's work, as they say, right, So,
what we're doing a handful of things. We are helping
to hire faculty and work with existing departments to place
faculty in those units. We are working to create a
degree program that I'm really really excited about. I think
it's going to do some wonderful things. We bring in
speakers and we put on programs regularly. We've got some

(01:09:43):
fantastic speakers coming up and be happy to talk about
coming here in a bit.

Speaker 4 (01:09:47):
But we're doing all of that.

Speaker 7 (01:09:48):
We do a lot of polling, data analysis, working with students.
We've got book clubs for undergraduate students. We're really firing
on multiple cellulators.

Speaker 1 (01:09:57):
So does does a student sign up for specific courses?
Do they take coursework then then affiliate with the institute?
How does that work?

Speaker 7 (01:10:05):
Yeah, so the way the program, that degree program will work.
We are in the process right now of getting that
up and running and seeking the approvals from the State
University System of the Florida BOG and others. So that
should be ready to rock and roll in fall of
twenty twenty six. So students will come and they just
they can commit to this as a major, just like
they would any other major on campus. We're also working

(01:10:26):
to get some certificate programs and things like that. So
once students get on campus, we will advertise this program
to them. We'll advertise this to them as they're applying,
so that people know what we're doing, what we're up
to parents will feel comfortable, you know, sending their kids
to come work with us. We also have, you know,
the book clubs and things like that, so students will
see advertisements for what we're doing. They can join us,

(01:10:48):
they can see the flyer, come to our website, which
is IGC dot FSU dot edu. They can learn more
about us that way. We're on socials a lot, so
there's a lot of information that they can obtain, and
we're reaching out to them for all of these matters.

Speaker 1 (01:11:02):
Are you teaching courses specifically yourself.

Speaker 7 (01:11:05):
Yeah, I've got a couple of courses. My background is
in law and politics. I was a practicing lawyer for
a couple of years and realized that that wasn't what
I wanted to do, so I teach classes on the
United States Supreme Court. I do a class every year
on the Supreme Court's current term, which is really cool.
Students love it. It's a hands on course. We take
six or seven cases currently before the US Supreme Court.

(01:11:27):
We read the briefs, we listen to oral arguments. The
very last class of the semester, we go to the
Florida Supreme Court. We do mock oral arguments in there.
It's a great class. Students learn what it means to
argue both sides of the positions, and they get some
writing skills, they get some oral presentation skills.

Speaker 4 (01:11:42):
It's a fun course.

Speaker 1 (01:11:44):
What's the process look like time wise for you in
this evolution? I mean, in our last segment, we'll spend
some time on the speakers that are coming in and
some things that people might want to gravitate to learn
more about. But talk us through the logistics of what
you're doing.

Speaker 7 (01:12:00):
Yeah, well, my vision if we just want to back
this up, I mean, my vision for this thing is
for us to be the nation's premier policy institute in
creating the next generation of effective citizens and responsible leaders.
And the way that we do this structurally is we
focus on four pillars of liberty. We're focused on constitutional liberty,
economic liberty, conscience liberty, and educational liberty. So I talked

(01:12:21):
about that degree program. Students come in, they'll take a
course set of courses, and then they can concentrate in
one of these four areas. We've got four branch heads
who are they report to me, and they are pursuing
those goals in each of those four pillars.

Speaker 4 (01:12:34):
Of liberty. The speakers that we bring in right, they
fit within that.

Speaker 7 (01:12:37):
So our goal is that within five years or so,
we want the First Amendment Law Clinic to have some
cases at the Supreme Court. We want to have a
number of students in the program and lots of speakers,
and finally, we want to become the nation's data hub
for all things civic awareness and civic related.

Speaker 1 (01:12:57):
Can't wait, can't wait to see this on fall. It'll
be a lot of fun to be an observer of
all of it. Doctor Ryan Owens with me, Florida State Director,
Florida Institute of Governance in Civics. More to come on
The Morning Show with Preston Scott twenty two past the hour.

(01:13:37):
We're going to stay as long as you can here,
dtr Ryan Owens, and this will likely be the first
many visits over the coming years. He is professor at FSU,
director of the Florida Institute of Governance in Civics. You
talked about the four pillars in the previous segment. I
want to talk about conscience. How do you create a
pillar around something that is so intrinsically personal.

Speaker 7 (01:13:58):
Yeah, it's a great question. People have to understand this
is intimately attached to liberty. If you don't have the
freedom to worship as you see fit, I mean that
is one of the most, if not the most fundamental
right that you have as a human being, is the
right to worship and the right to your thoughts and expression.

(01:14:18):
And so what we want to do is under make
sure that students understand that this does come to political
tolerance and intolerance. It comes to just a general awareness
of what those around you are doing. If you respect
the individual, you have to respect the individual's right to
worship as he or she sees fit. And so with
the First Amendment Law Clinic, the courses that we're requiring
on the First Amendment, this is going to teach students

(01:14:39):
what the law is today on the First Amendment. But
more importantly, it's going to teach them the why, not
just the what, but the why why do we value
this stuff?

Speaker 4 (01:14:48):
Right?

Speaker 7 (01:14:49):
And so this comes back to some very very foundational
principles about your relationship in the state of nature. If
you will, right, without any government, what would exist, Well,
your relationship with God would would still like exist, and
so no government can come in and intrude on that.
So I think teaching students, the what about the doctrine
why it exists? Those two things together are very very useful.

Speaker 1 (01:15:10):
Does it become somewhat remedial then some? In fact, if
you look at all of these four pillars, there has
to be a degree of remedial education infused in all
of them, because so much of this is lacking, even
in Florida, in our public education system K twelve.

Speaker 7 (01:15:27):
Yeah, there's definitely some of that, There's no doubt about it.
But I think, you know, repetition is the best form
of learning, absolutely, So we want to hit people over
the head theoretically with this stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:15:37):
So remind them constantly why we're doing this?

Speaker 1 (01:15:40):
Why?

Speaker 4 (01:15:40):
Why?

Speaker 1 (01:15:40):
Why? Why? Why?

Speaker 7 (01:15:42):
So, Yeah, there is a bit of a remediality to it,
but I think that repetition is going to be important.

Speaker 4 (01:15:47):
Students will see it, they'll hear it, they'll understand it.

Speaker 1 (01:15:50):
One of the things that your organization is doing is
bringing speakers in the purpose of those speakers is to
simply expose the student body that wants to come and
listen the public at large. Who are you targeting.

Speaker 7 (01:16:03):
Yeah, lots of people really really happy what we had
last year. This year coming up, we've got some fantastic people.
So on September seventeenth, we've got Rich Lowry, who's the
editor in chief of National Review.

Speaker 4 (01:16:14):
He's going to come in.

Speaker 7 (01:16:15):
He's going to talk about the Constitution and the meaning
of America. October one, we've got somebody coming in to
talk about Thomas Jefferson and the university and what he
believed the proper role of the university was. You know,
some may agree, some may disagree with that, but that's fine.

Speaker 4 (01:16:28):
That's kind of the point.

Speaker 7 (01:16:29):
Right October third, we're going to do a fantastic Supreme
Court preview of the upcoming cases at the US Supreme Court.
That'll be at the Law School. We've got an event
on October twenty fourth about the Founders and religion and
what the Founders thought about religion, how they exercised it,
things of that nature. November fourth, we've got a guy,
Daniel di Martino's coming in to talk about how socialism

(01:16:52):
destroyed Venezuela. Somebody from Venezuela talking about, you know, this
increased role of government in the Accountoy way.

Speaker 1 (01:16:58):
Socialism's bad. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:17:00):
Now, many people are saying, come on, many people are saying.

Speaker 7 (01:17:04):
November tenth, we're going to celebrate the marine's birthday, so
that'll be interesting. And November eighteenth, we've got Glenn Lowry,
the economist, coming up to talk about the case for
Black American patriotism. So, as far as I'm concerned, the
sun is rising on Florida State University.

Speaker 4 (01:17:20):
It truly is.

Speaker 7 (01:17:21):
We've got some fantastic people coming in and I know
I went through a lot of speakers there and dates.

Speaker 4 (01:17:26):
Listeners can go to our.

Speaker 7 (01:17:27):
Website FSU dot IGC dot FSU dot edu to learn
more about those dates, how to register the times. But
you know, we are doing a lot of stuff. We're
proud of what we're doing. We're proud to be part
of FSU, and I can't tell you how excited I
am to just write this ship.

Speaker 1 (01:17:45):
I asked about the targeting is this Are these speaking
events strictly for students and faculty members, those on campus
that want to listen and participate, or is it open
to the community who can come?

Speaker 7 (01:17:58):
Well, I'll pull out my Wisconsin accent. Oh no, oh, no,
it's for everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:18:04):
H This is open. Are you serving pop? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:18:06):
We got some soda we're.

Speaker 1 (01:18:09):
Gonna let It's open to the public.

Speaker 4 (01:18:11):
It's open to stay.

Speaker 1 (01:18:12):
I do have listeners in Wisconsin. You should know.

Speaker 4 (01:18:14):
God bless them, yeah, God bless them.

Speaker 1 (01:18:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:18:17):
So it'll be open to the community, okay, And these
are all free events, right. We do not charge for
our events because, dog on it, we believe in liberty
so much that we're willing to pay the cost to there.

Speaker 4 (01:18:26):
Your gole are exposed to it.

Speaker 1 (01:18:27):
Well done, sir, well done. All right. This is a
starting point for us to get to know each other
a little bit. And any polling you do, anything you
want to push out, you'll you'll have a place here
anytime you want it.

Speaker 4 (01:18:40):
Well, love it, appreciate it, Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (01:18:42):
Appreciate you coming in. Doctor Ryan Owens, Professor Florida State University,
Director of Florida Institute of Governance and Civics, and of
course brought in about eighteen pages of notes. We got
through one that means what seventeen more visits at the
very least here on the Morning Show with Preston.

Speaker 2 (01:18:57):
Scott, t Mayor of Realville. It's The Morning Show with
Preston Scott thirty thirty six minutes past the hour.

Speaker 1 (01:19:22):
I hope you enjoyed that visit with doctor Owens. Enjoyed
meeting him. See he's got him. He definitely has Wisconsin vibe.
I gotta tell you it's and not only because he
can pull off the accent. You can only pull that
off if you are authentically you have authentic roots to
the Midwest, and by that I mean Wisconsin, Minnesota, and

(01:19:47):
the Dakotas. That's kind of the hub. You might find
a little of it in northern Iowa, but not really.
It's a Wisconsin, Minnesota, Dakota thing. Land of Goshen. My gosh, yeah,
you got Leif Lendergarde there you've got. You've got Kester

(01:20:10):
Energy drinks. My gosh, yeah you don't. If you've not
heard of Keister Energy drinks, my goodness, you've You haven't
lived unless you get your hands on a cold Keister. Sorry,
that's just it's a it's an old bit that we
did here on the show years ago, a little homage
to my Midwestern time spent, my time spent in Midwestern America.

(01:20:39):
We've learned today that the driver of the truck that
is responsible for the death of three people, that the
illiberal progressives in Tallahassee don't seem to want to acknowledge
the victims, don't never want to acknowledge the victims, which

(01:20:59):
soon simply underscores and buttresses my long standing argument that
the Left doesn't care about the victims. Oh sure, it's
a shame and it's a tragedy. But in the grand
scheme of things, if we have more illegals in the country,
the better, because, as we've documented, not just here in

(01:21:20):
Florida but nationwide, Democrats are hemorrhaging voters. They need voters.
This is simple math. This is not complicated. The invasion
of our southern border and to a lesser extent, our
northern border, is all about numbers, a victim class, a
group of people. I mean, you heard the left talk

(01:21:42):
about who's gonna hunter Biden, who's going to take care
of the pools, who's gonna do the lawn, who's going
to be serving you of water and chips and salsa?
The I involved in the guy drove the truck that

(01:22:02):
killed those three people. He was rejected under the Trump administration,
but approved under the Biden administration for work authorization. Further,
he failed the assessment of the English Language Proficiency Assessment,
able to provide correct responses to just twelve two of
twelve verbal questions only identifying accurately one of four highway

(01:22:26):
traffic signs. He he can't speak English. He's been in
this country how many years illegally and he can't speak
the language. And so when there's a sign that says
for official use only, what does he know? He can't
read it. So he just swings around, pulls you turned
jack Knife's truck and decapitates three people, just three, right,

(01:22:56):
And this is something Florida Republicans don't understand in the
State House Senate. This is what Republicans nationally don't understand.
Your unwillingness to target employers. I mean, my god, we
listened to Barack Obama talk about it. Now, he didn't
do it, but the unwillingness to target employers of illegal

(01:23:19):
immigrants and not creating a pathway that demands certain things. Okay,
you came across the border illegally. Here's what we're going
to do. You don't have a criminal record. After our interviews,
we think you want to be here, you have a
family here. Here is your requirement. You will pay X
amount dollars of fines every year for hour many years.

(01:23:39):
You broke into this country illegally, you've been here fifteen years.
You will pay these fines for fifteen years. They'll be
appropriate to your income, and you will learn English in
the next ninety days. You will not return to me,
to this hearing without speaking the language. Just that simple.

(01:24:01):
There's some certain requirements, and then you hammer the people
that are the criminals. You get them out of here,
after you sentenced them and put them in prison. Then
you get them out of here. Forty minutes past the hour,
we come back. An ironic story from the state of California.

Speaker 2 (01:24:18):
The Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one
hundred point seven WFLA.

Speaker 1 (01:24:29):
Yeah, ironic might not be the right word. It's just
interesting that it comes from California. Now, let me back
up and give a little perspective here. In twenty twenty three,
you may remember Bed Batham Beyond just collapsed. Chapter eleven.

(01:24:51):
They shuddered all of their physical stores, poor inventory management,
slow adoption of online shopping trends, over reliance on coupon shopping.
That's what Reuter's reported. Overstock dot Com purchased its brand name,
domain and other intellectual property, subsequently relaunched the website under Bed,

(01:25:14):
Bath and Beyond banner in August of twenty twenty three.
In November, Overstock rebranded its corporate identity as Beyond, Inc.
But then Kirkland's Inc. Finalized a twenty five million dollar
investment deal with Beyond, which is also the parent company
of Overstock Zulii Buye Baby Bye Bye Bye Baby Sorry

(01:25:39):
in February, which enabled Kirklands to become the exclusive brick
and mortar operator and licensee for a new smaller neighborhood
bed Bath and Beyond locations nationwide. Well, they're rebranding Beyond
to back to bed Bath and Beyond Ink, and the
executive chairman, Marcus Lamonis announced yesterday they will not open

(01:26:06):
and they will not operate retail stores anywhere in California.
It isn't about politics, It's about reality, he said. It
was a decision driven by the fact that the company
would not be able to sustain operations in the state
due to higher taxes environments for business. Noting that the

(01:26:28):
state's policies created a system that makes it harder to
employ people, harder to keep doors open, harder to deliver
value to customers, he said the state's budget surpluses come
at the expense of ordinary citizens who are paying too
much and businesses who are squeezed until they break. He said,
they're not going to participate in a system that works
that way, so they're not going to operate there. They'll

(01:26:48):
try to service California customers by shipping into the state,
but they will not operate an outlet there. They're going
to go back to opening stores. In fact, I want
to say they're first. You know, brick and mortar reopening
is going to be Nashville. Is that where it's going
to be. But there's just no chance that they're going to, yeah, Nashville,

(01:27:16):
that they're going to try to do business in California.
I share this not because a bunch of you care
about bed, Bath and Beyond, though I'm sure there's a
few of you that missed the brand. I thought it
was cool store, a lot of stuff in there. College
students loved it, But those coupons were a problem. They

(01:27:42):
just they taught people to shop off coupons. That doesn't
work very well. The reason I share the story is
to illustrate and point out the dangers of embracing socialism.
California is a socialist state. Everything they do targets success

(01:28:05):
and business and citizen freedom everything. And so when you
see businesses fleeing California, people leaving and coming to states
like Texas and Florida and Tennessee where there is no
personal income tax, where you know, we have a long

(01:28:28):
way to go, but we're still the free state of
Florida compared to many, if not most, there are still
places like Florida's capital city that are bastions of illiberalism
and a incubator for socialism. Just remember what we've talked

(01:28:49):
about this morning on this show. The city of Tallahassee
is won election away from becoming a socialist city, maybe
not in actual name, but in practice because the people
well behind it won it that way. Just keep that
in mind. Forty six forty seven minutes after the hour,
wrap up the show with another sort of quasi big
story from the other story, of course, is the shrimp.

(01:29:23):
There's some shrimp being recalled that were sold at Walmart's
Frozen Shrimp because they have cessium one thirty seven, a
man made radioactive material. And so we've we've given you
the lot numbers on that. But I had a I
came across a comment someone someone's channeled their inner forest gump,

(01:29:50):
and I just got to thinking how that, how that
might work. You remember the scene where where Forrest and
its best friend Baba uh, they started talking about all
the types of shrimp. There's shrimp scampagne and shrimp and
grits and shrimp tacos, shrimp fried rice, shrimp, star fried shrimp. Alfred. Oh,

(01:30:13):
there's ball trimp. There's ball srimp. There's shrimp curry, there's
shrimp pole boys. And there's radioactor shrimp. Radio active shrimp.
Easy to find in the dark room. You know, you

(01:30:35):
can eat in the dark. You don't have to worry
about that. But no, they're they're asking people to turn
those things, throw them out, throw them away, I suppose
if they're If they're it's a if it's a lot number,
you've got all the all the lot numbers start eight
zero zero, and then it's uh five five three nine
five five three eight five five four zero or five

(01:30:58):
five three eight five five three nine five zero. That
would probably be easier to remember. Thirty eight thirty nine.
If you've got those lot numbers, get rid of those shrimp.
Brought to you by Barrono Heating and Air. It's the
Morning Show one on WFLA, or I could say it

(01:31:18):
the most annoying way possible. Saying shrimp in the way
that I'm about to say it is like like screeching
silverware on china and nails on a chalkboard. Swrimp. Oh
my gosh, No, it's not shrimp. It's shrimp. Sah, shrimp,

(01:31:43):
it's not shrimp. If you're out in public you're not
quite sure what to do, Just ax me. Come on,
come on, we are, we are, we are. We're talking

(01:32:04):
literal here. What happened to our music? The music goes on? No,
there it is. The borge just went. My borges went
because I went. Come on, it just went. So we're fine.
Did it stop? No? It didn't stop. Okay. Uh. Big
stories in the press box, the shrimp, big story, shrimp

(01:32:26):
little oxy moronic? Don't you think the update on the
illegal driving a truck killing three people? Talked about the
best retirement home in America, according to some is now
Panama City Beach gave you a road trip idea. Just

(01:32:48):
just go to Panama City Beach. You might be saying,
I live in Panama City Beach, Well visit, check out
your town. It's good place. Bank executives blowing the whistle
on how Obama and Biden pressured them to d bank conservatives.
Let you listen to Barack Obama in two thousand and

(01:33:09):
eight talk about how bad illegal immigration was for the country,
and that interesting. I guess his thoughts have evolved. We
had a great visit with Steve Stewart of Tallassi Reports,
a great visit with doctor Steve steveson talking about dental
hygiene for your pets. And a terrific visit with doctor
Ryan Owens, Professor at FSU, Director of the Florida Institute

(01:33:31):
of Governance and Civics. I was buoyed. I was encouraged
by that visit. My friends. Tomorrow Lee Williams, the gun writer,
What's to Be Friday and more talk to you then,
have a blessed day.

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