Ep. 5145: Another Day of Wild Stories

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Episode Transcript

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Good morning friends. Welcome Thursday,ladies and gentlemen, Ruminators near and far.
Common sense amplified yet again, Thursday, April twenty fifth. Remember you
can stream this live on iHeartRadio.So whether you're looking up WFLA in Panama
City or WFLA one hundred point sevenin Tallahassee, wherever you travel, you

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can listen live simple it's just delayeda little bit. You can still phone
in at times. You can participatein all Things Morning Show via the app,
but we welcome you to the radioprogram we'll set up for you here.
In a second our verse today Colossiansone twenty seven and twenty eight,
it says to them God chose tomake known how great among the gentiles are

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the riches of the glory of thismystery, which is Christ in you,
the mystery Christ in you, riches, Christ in you, the hope of
glory Him. We proclaim, warningeveryone and teaching everyone with all wisdom,
that we may present everyone mature inChrist. There you go. I think

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that verse just kind of speaks foritself, so we'll leave it right there.
Today busy day, Thursdays always are. Doctor David Harts will join us
next hour Steve Stewart from Tallahassee reportsthere is so much happening, so much
political conniving going on here locally.It's just it's Michael, it really is

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Tallahasseans. Is that what we callthem? Do we do? We call
those who live in Tallahassee Tallahasseans orTallahashians. It's something fun about tallahash Heights.
Yeah, make it biblical sounding,the w sites, the Hiptes,

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the tallahash Heights or is it Tallahashites. The sh sound, the sh sound
just adds a little panage. Yeah. Yeah. So you have a very
consequential election coming up here, youreally do. And I'll be shocked if

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we don't talk about this with SteveStewart. I'm just gonna tell you,
don't fall for the nonsense on thewhole pay raise thing that Jeremy Mattlow is
pushing out. He was all infavor of it back a couple of years
ago. This is all political,This is all about staging. This is
nothing more than that. Just voteagainst any referendum that raises the pay of

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the city commission. Just vote againstthat. And then and then, just
if Jack Porter's defeated and Curtis Richardsonhas retained. Though it's still all bunch
of Democrats. There are more reasonableDemocrats that don't want to destroy this city

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that will be left to run things, and Jeremy will be left as a
solo, solitary vote on most thingsand he can pursue his whatever, you
know, other ways. Just knowthat the orchestration behind trying to keep this
community just out of touch, illiberal, ridiculously left is all centered around Jeremy

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Mattlow. His aid is the headof the party. His sick of fans
are the ones that are the extremeleftists that are behind every little evil thing
that's going on around here. Sojust keep that in mind. This is
a remarkably consequential election and you've gotto dig just a little deeper and let

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that guide your voting. Also todayon the program, doctor Ed Moore will
talk. We're going to take alittle detour. I'm going to let him
take a detour. He's such anerd when it comes to Florida politics and
the governance of this state. Hesaid, I really want to talk about
the history of the cabinet. Okay, then we're going to get to back

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to explorers and Pioneers, which wasthe chosen topic for the year. But
we're gonna, We're gonna, We'regonna divert one one more month in our
history segment with Doctor dmore So muchto discuss road trip idea as well,
and a good one one I neverever heard of in South Dakota. It's

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crazy and it's really cool. Sostick around. I'm gonna try to get
this going here. It's The MorningShow with Preston Scott. It's The Morning
Show with Preston Scott. Well,I sort of had pizza yesterday. I

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did not have time to pick upa pizza from Dave's, but I did
treat yourself. Well, I justpopped open the freezer and had a couple
of French bread pizzas. Little guysthat are dulled them up a little bit,
added a few more things. Butyeah, I just yesterday, I

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just wanted to go suck my thumb. I mean, it's just once the
forecast for today looking like more ofthe same or honestly, yeah, it's
just that week. It's just Imean, I was just scanning through headlines
this morning and it's it just afire is burning all across this country.

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You and I were talking about itbefore we even started the show. Do
we flunk them? Do we flunkthem out of school? Or just kick
them out of school? All theselittle jerks at these college campuses, and
that's what they are. They don'tknow anything about the Middle East. They
don't know anything about Hamas, Hezbollah, who they's, They know nothing about

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it nothing. It's almost an identicalcrossover to what happened in the summer of
four years ago. Summer of twentytwenty. It's almost a direct overlap.
The exact same people, the exactsame types at these college campuses. It's
almost a direct overlap. I feelas though a bunch of them. First

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of all, they're all wearing masks, nearly all of them cowards. But
at least they're not all wearing black, so at least they've diversified their color
palette just a little bit. Yeah, the Palestinian flag colors have some green
and some red, and you know, they gotta the fashion Eastas have a
little bit of pop right now.But it's like it's almost like, oh,

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you mean, there's something going onin the green so we can like
skip classes. Oh yeah, Iam totally down with that. I'm like,
okay, fail the classes. Abunch of you aren't graduating now see
you next year. Maybe so youflunk them out of their classes for missing
whatever, because this is the timeof year when you got finals. Right

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this I mean, isn't graduation comingto a bunch of school campuses in April
and may flunk them, flunk themout. Let's see what mom and dad
feel about that. Anyway. I'mjust I'm so over the snowflakes of this
generation. I really am. Anyway, I'm sorry, Patriots Tomanac, April

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twenty fifth. United States declares waron Spain. Eighteen ninety eight, UVS,
US and Soviet forces meet at theElbe River in Central Europe. World
War Two draws to a close.Nineteen fifty nine, Saint Lauri's Seaway linking
the Atlantic to the Great Lakes opens. That's still an incredible feat to me.

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Pioneer ten crosses Pluto's orbit in nineteeneighty three, continuing its voyage voyage
in space beyond the Solar System.I wonder when the last time it was
we heard from Pioneer ten. Igot to look that up. And Space
Shuttle Discovery places the Hubble telescope intoorbit. There were problems with that,
and in twenty eleven three day tornadooutbreak hitting states from New York to Texas,

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Texas to New York, killing overthree hundred and so that was in
twenty eleven. I remember talking aboutthat, all right, fifteen sixteen after
the hour, Now it's the morningchat with Preston Scott twenty one minutes after

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the hour. Got the answer toby wondering. Pioneer ten sent its last
transmission that we've picked up on Januarytwenty third, two thousand and three,
when it was seven point six billionmiles from Earth. The signal took eleven

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hours and twenty minutes to reach us, and they believe that the power then
decayed to the point where it couldn'ttransmit anything by a radio transmitter anymore.
Final attempt to contact Pioneer ten failedin two thousand and six. By twenty

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seventeen, it is estimated it waseleven billion miles away and is located in
the direction of the Taurus was andnow would be inside the Taurus constellation heading
out of the Solar System if interceptedby intelligent life. I'm sorry, I

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had a good laugh on this one. Pioneer ten carries an aluminum plaque with
diagrams of a man and a woman, the solar system, and the location
relative to fourteen pulsars, The ideabeing that if intelligent beings interpret the diagram,
they would be able to determine,based on the position of the Sun,
the Earth, and so forth,where we are. My question is,

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would anyone in the modern era beable to tell that is a man
and that is a woman? Whatis that? I was in that direction.
I'm wondering if Pioneer ten takes offin this day and age, do
they put a cross dresser? Dothey put a transgender? Do they what
do they do? Do they puta dude with bulging biceps and calves in

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the skirt with some lipstick, Imean back hair? And now, what's
the accurate representation of humanity today inthe year of our Lord twenty twenty four?
For deep space life to figure out? I would Here's how I would

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depict us apple tree, apple onthe ground with a bite taken out,
That's how I would depict mankind.Can you imagine that fallen apple from the
tree with a bite taken out?Can you imagine the aliens trying to decipher
this poem. This what is thisstory? This high level philosophical people that

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just give us this image? Bah, let's just laugh. Yeah. Speaking
to Markers, I got a greatnote from Todd mentioned the Dolittle raid over
the last few weeks. Wasn't sureif you knew Doolittle and his crew's practice
at Eggland Air Force Base. That'swhere they did their practice before they went

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out there on the aircraft carrier totake off. The field they used is
now called Eggland C five Range WagnerFields. It is just south of I
ten, near and east of FloridaState Road two eighty five on Bob Sykes
Road. There's also a commemorative signat the turnoff to the field where it

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there's a marker, and he tooka picture of it. He sent it
to me do Little Raiders, andit explains all of it. He also
said, I believe the crews goingin for the failed resc of the Iranian
hostages in nineteen seventy nine tested somespecial tactics at the same field. And
isn't there a connection to D Dayprep and Coast Island Carabelle area? Yeah?

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Man, shout out panhandle, Yeah, come on, so that's pretty
cool. So Todd, thank youvery much for that tip and the photo.
Very cool to know that would becrazy. They kind of depicted that
scene in the movie Pearl Harbor wherethey put a line on the runway marking

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the point where the B twenty five'sI think it was they had to take
off. By then they didn't,they were over the edge of the ship,
and so they just they kept strippingit down, making it lighter and
lighter and lighter, and then ofcourse they had to even be more drastic
than that on the day of thelaunch in the when they did do the
raid on Japan on Tokyo, becausethey were spotted by a fishing boat and

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they had to take off sooner thanthey planned, so they didn't have enough
fuel, so they had to stripeven more of the armaments and different things
off the planes to get them totake off and be more efficient with the
with the fuel that they could carry. So there you go, all right,
twenty seven past the hour. We'vegot the big stories in the press

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box. Next here on the MorningShow with Preston Scott. The Morning Show
with Preston Scott on News Radio onehundred point seven WFLA thirty five passed morning

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show, Hello Everybody, Big starin the press box brought to you,
but I grow a creative marketing anddigital expertise. Got this breakdown from one
of the research assistants. Where doesone US tax dollar go? Twenty two

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cents goes to Social Security, fourteencents to medicare, fourteen cents to help,
thirteen cents to National Defense, thirteenpercent, thirteen cents to income security.
That would be programs like food assistants, disability insurance, et cetera.

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Eleven cents interest, five cents toveterans benefits and services, two cents to
transportation, two cents to commerce,four cents for other That is courtesy of
the US Bureau of Fiscal Service,based on government outlays for the fiscal year

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ending September thirtieth, twenty twenty three. So there is the breakdown, the
most recent breakdown of where every taxdollar goes and how it's broken down.
You think Social Security is in trouble, nearly one quarter of every tax dollar
goes to keep it afloat, andwe don't have the political courage to admit

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it's in trouble because they mismanaged itand spend all your money, all of
my money, all of our money, housing payments at an all time high
rates topping seven point four percent,and so median monthly housing payments right now
twenty seven hundred and seventy five dollarsa month. Meanwhile, Joe Biden is

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calling for forty four point six percentcapital gains tax rate. That would mean
that with state capital gains, Californiawould have a combined rate of fifty nine
percent, New Jersey fifty five percent, Oregon fifty four and a half,
Minnesota fifty four and a half,New York fifty three and a half.

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That means states and federal governments wouldtake better than half of a capital gain.
By the way, China is lessjust say it. Judicial watch out

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there saying, and with a freedomof information request they're getting records. FBI
records indicate that Fauci, the agencyrun by Anthony Fauci, funded gain of
research gain of function research at theWuhan Lab. Inside it says in the
notes that they would leave no signaturesof purposeful human manipulation. It was manipulated.

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The government knew it, agencies knewit. It was intentionally manipulated,
and they have now the records,but guess what we have Just for giggles,
Joe Biden once again at the NABTUthe foundations for a Bright Future on

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the teleprompter, imagine what we cando next four more years? Ah?
Did you catch it? Did youcatch it? He's reading the teleprompter.
Imagine what we can do next fourmore years? Pause. As Clay Travis

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pointed out online, he's literally RonBurgundy reading everything in the prompter. Imagine
what we can do next four moreyears? Oh? Year, what happened

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in the Ron Burgundy thing? Hisco anchor, knowing that he read everything
wrote, had profanities written on theon the teleprompter, and Ron Burgundy then
proceeded to get fired because he readthe teleprompter and had just set a bunch
of profanities on the air, andhe cursed out his audience. That'd be

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awesome, Joe Biden, bleep you. Oh, I guess I shouldn't have
said that. Forty minutes Preston Scott, this is the way my news radio
one hundred point seven double USLA fortyone minutes after the hour. Interesting perspective

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here on EVS from an interesting source. Brian Dean Wright never heard of him.
He's a former CIA operations officer.He's got a podcast called The Right
Report, and he said, ifpeople knew the truth about EV's those that

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are motivated by the green, goodfor the environment angle, they'd think twice,
maybe even more than that. Hesaid, it's not a green vehicle,
it's in fact, quoting dirty.Starting with the batteries, which I

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think we could all agree batteries areeverything on an EV agreed. I mean,
that's it. Those are the thingsthat are going to deteriorate and go
out far sooner than a gas poweredengine. They are toxic to the environment
once they're out, they're unbelievably expensiveto replace. But then there's this,

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the thousands of pounds of materials cobalt, lithium, nickel that have to be
extracted from around the world to evenmake the batteries. Congo is the source
of seventy percent of the world's cobalt. Of that, about a third comes

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from miners who are mostly kids.This is a guy with a CIA his
job to know things like this,quoting this is the horrific thing imagining these
child miners pulling this stuff out ofthe ground to make our green cars go.
Also, we know that about nineteencobalt mines in the Congo fifteen are

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controlled by the Chinese government or aChinese entity. Lithium most comes from Australia,
but a large amount comes from SouthAmerica, known as the Lithium Triangle.
The mining is problematic because it takesfive hundred thousand gallons of water to

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produce a single ton of lithium.It's a coveted resource in the region,
and so how water is used affectsthe indigenous people. We're removing one critical
resource by a lot of those indigenousfolks down there so we can have our

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green, clean car. He says. Nickel primarily comes from Indonesia. There
are two approaches to nickel mining,he writes of one involves an energy intensive
process that requires a cold, coldfired furnaces. He said, once you

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finish mining for nickel, it needsto be disposed of either in tailing ponds
or dried and stacked. Both ofthose pose environmental problems. And then he
points out to where the technology isgoing right now with these evs. Do
you know that Ford filed for apatent last March that would We mentioned it

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briefly it would use self driving capabilitiesto repossess the vehicle. It would repossess
itself if someone was laid on payments, and they would determine what that means.
The car would be programmed to driveaway from the owner and turn itself

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back into a bank to the fordlending motor credit to the local forward dealership.
Whatever. And then you've got China, which controls eighty percent of the
refining of the minerals needed for allof the batteries. And Joe Biden is

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putting rules in place to force youand me to buy electric vehicles. If
it goes unchanged, for many ofyou, your next vehicle purchase will be
required to be electric. That doesn'tcount the cost of you charging it and

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having to put in the infrastructure tosupport that charging. That doesn't count the
delays in whatever your travels are becauseyou got to wait hour, hour and
a half along with everybody else tofuel up. And what if what if
all the charges are used when youneed to be somewhere. Can't just stop

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in the gas station and four minuteslater drive away. Doesn't work that way
Back with more of the Morning Showand Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston
Scott fifty minutes after the air boardgot a lot of feedback yesterday, big

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story yet yesterday talking about it againtoday a little bit. The effort apparently
to kidnap child children Panama City Beachpublic beach last weekend, and boy,
as I thought, Bay County SheriffsTommy Ford and his staff there very very

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responsive to the report, unlike PanamaCity Beach. In fact, Grant.
I got an email from somebody thatretired law enforcement in the community that attempted
to get the report, got hungup on, got promised that they would
get a call back. Nothing.And I got other email from people that

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live in the region saying, yeah, the Panama City Beach Police Department is
notorious for burying things like this becauseallegedly this is their emails not you know,
I don't live there. Love visitingpeer Park, love visiting the area,
love it. But they said it'sbad for tourism. Well, what's

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worse for tourism? Having a kidnappingfrom a public beach? Does that help
tourism? You know? This remindsme of that famous scene from the movie
Jaws where Matt Hooper, the oceanologist, the shark expert that basically says to

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the mayor, you're gonna ignore thisproblem until it swims up and bites you
in the and and that's why I'mgrateful the Sheriff's office is involved. There's
likely that FDL e FBI will probablybe involved. For those of you that
do not know, I have thepolice report. It was entrusted to me
by the victims. I've known thevictims and since nineteen eighty seven. I

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mean, I don't know what tosay to you other than I know this
family and what happened to them washorrifying, and it should be concerning that
there very well might be a ringof people in the region looking for the
opportunity to snatch a child. Andso we are doing all we can.

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My outlet, this show Shane inTasks doing their show in Panama City,
the Country station on iHeart, ourcolleagues on all the different formats talking about
this. Keep it on your radar. If you're going to the beach,
keep it on your radar, Beaware, be vigilant. Honestly, if

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you're at a beach, I understandthat you'd love to be alone, have
the beach to yourself. But ifyou're with kids, Be careful, be
careful. Safety in numbers big time, all right now, And I will
mention that again later on in theprogram. I don't know if you've seen

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Google, the CEO Sundar pitch High. Is that how you pronounce his name?
Isn't it funny? Sewing and reaping? How it works? Could we
agree that Google has been one ofthe most progressive, permissive cultures out there
and hateful to the right, hatefulto conservatives. They've bred this, this

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village of intolerance and hate, andso it shocks me not at all that
they have a sit in a proPalestinian city in on the job. Well,
they fired twenty eight of them,and as they investigated, they came
to fire twenty two more. Sofifty have been fired from their main offices.

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He said, Ultimately, we area workplace. Sewing and reaping sucks,
doesn't it. Five minutes past it'sthe second hour of the Morning Show
with President Scott I set after yesterday'sshow. During yesterday's show, I wanted

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I wanted to take a bubble bathed. I wanted to be surrounded by butterflies,
hummingbirds, and eat a pizza.This was I was just traumatized by
everything that we talked about yesterday justkind of built up and today is just
a continuation of it. Welcome friendsto the second Hour. He's Grant Allen,
I'm Preston Scott and he is SteveStewart. He is the executive editor

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of Tallasseh Report. It's on thewebsite, of course, Dallasti reports dot
com. Where would I be withoutyou? You would be? Sounds like
a song, that's a good one. But thank you schools. Look,
you know I'm gonna I'm gonna breakmy arm patting myself in the back here,
but you know, good journalism.We had a reporter covering a gender

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review at the school board meeting,which is a prefer preview of this board
meeting on Tuesday, and so bigstory out that we've We've got in thirty
comments on Facebook, fifteen hundred peopleread his story and it was just out
late last night. So we'll geta clip of what we're talking about.
But Alva Alva Smith, you know, sort of drew a line in the

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sand and said, look, we'retalking budget here and we cannot be honest.
And by the way, just andthis is just a clerical thing to
many. They don't know that AlvaSmith was Alvias Striplin to many that Alvas
Yeah, same person. Yeah.And so they're talking budget and she just
she came out and said, listen, if we're not gonna talk about closing
schools down we're not serious about thebudget. And she went on to talk

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about schools that are losing population anduse the word downsizing. This was at
the end of the agenda. Reviewgot very quiet, and so we'll you
know, what was the reaction toby the other board members and the superintendent
really just you know, silence,silence. I think that this is something
now that's gonna she's we'll have aclip up of the of her comments this

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afternoon or this morning. But thisis going on Duval County, which is
Jacksonville. They've lost thirty thousand studentsin the last ten years and so they're
closing like ten schools, and wellwe saw this coming, right and in
Deval it's a combination of people movingto Saint John's County where they're building schools

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like crazy, all right, andyou know, charter schools, private schools
and things like that. Here it'syou know, we've our student population is
not growing, and there are peoplemoving to the demographics, people moving to
separate parts in different parts of town, and they're leaving these elementary schools to
be at forty percent capacity and we'repaying millions of dollars to keep them open.

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And so she's drawn a line intosaying this is a big issue for
her, and I think is anotherindication of the problems we have with the
education system here are they are theyfocused into why the exodus from the schools,
which candidly I predicted. Yeah,well, I think you know,
if you start looking we're talking elementaryschools, if you start looking at the
neighborhoods, people, you know,people they're moving in these neighborhoods that don't

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have kids, and then you gotthe neighborhood schools, so there's nobody going
to school there are there? Theirnumbers are decreasing. You've got kid,
you know, I've got parents arelike, I don't want to send them
to these Title one schools which havebeen titled one schools as long as they've
probably had the designation title ie,there's no improvements. So they're saying,
hey, I'm not going to sendmy kids here, even if they live
in the school district. So andagain it's there are more options as well.

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You can school virtually, you canschool at home, there are there
are more private schools, and thereare more options. Look, we're not
getting the full story. And againI hate to pick on Leon County schools,
but this is where this is whereI live. There is underneath the
veneer of this school system, underneaththe nice turf fields that we spend ten
million dollars for. I mean,there's stuff going on in classrooms that if

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we had reporters that we could getout and get the story. I mean,
there are discipline problems in schools.There are teachers leaving because of discipline
problems. Nobody wants to address Nobodywants to address it. There are they're
just operational issues. We've got coachesthat you know, are you know,

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running sports teams, kids that wantto be involved, and they don't even
load scores up on a website.I mean it is you get to do
whatever you want to do. Andit goes back to this thing that we're
seeing everywhere is the rules are beingredefined. You can cuss in a classroom,
you can show disrespect for a teacherand get in a fight and not
be suspended like you were two orthree years ago, and all be videotaped.

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Yeah, and it's so it isout of control. And the result
is they're losing students and they andthey, you know, they're scratching your
head trying to figure out why.Really, it's it's pretty obvious. And
no, man, I mean seriously, are they really don't understand why they're
losing students? I think they do. They don't want to talk about it,
though, so they talk about,hey, you know, we need
a new logo, we need anew mission instead of just doing the nuts

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and bolts. Yeah, we haven'treally even spent time on the logo issue.
Yeah, one hundred thousand dollars fora logo that a lot of kids
could have done for fifty bucks onfor me program. For me to argue
that that is that's going to helpwhen you've got all these other issues that
you want to dress. It's justit goes to show you where the focus
is and the priorities, and it'sit's a sad situation for the school system.

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Boy, there's a lot to bemade of that logo story, trust
me. Ten minutes after the hourWe've got so much to cover. Steve
Stewart, Talasa Reports dot Com,Preston Scott, Hello, Hello, anybody

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ho Hi fly on News Radio onehundred point seven double UFLA. There are
easy solutions to a lot of this, but you have to have nerve,
and the nerve is just lacking.There is no backbone. Talking local issues
here with Steve Stewart Tallhassa Reports,we segue from the Leon County School Board

(37:38):
to the City of Tallahassee. Iguess things got fun last night. They
did a couple of issues, realissues here. First of all, charter
amendments they've got. They went aheadand set the public meeting that they'll have
for the proposed charter amendments, whichdeal with a one hundred percent raise for
city commissions, which I just don'tget at this point. Did you see
Jeremy Mattlow writing in and agreeing withyou? Well, I except yeah he

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saw that. Yeah, commister Matt, I mean so, but in my
opinion piece. You do know hesupported this a couple of years ago.
I've talked about it already. Yes, I mean it's amazing, it's amazing.
So anyway, the charter miments threeof them I think are good.
Pay raise is just you know,at this point is one hundred percent increase

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in salary without any kind of increasedresponsibilities or any requirements that it would be
your full time job. So anyway, that's one issue. That issue is
TPD headquarters. Uh, they gotan update on this. You know,
this is a complicated issue. Wegot everybody agrees, even progressives agree,
we need a new police station onehundred and thirty five million dollars at the
Northwood Mall. We did a detailedstory and went and looked at some comparables

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in South Florida. It's in therange because of the cost. But at
the same time, when things youknow, this has been a tortured process
because twenty sixteen they were going tobuild it on in you know, South
Monroe, delayed that. Then yougot the COVID pandemic. He got inflation,
So yeah, inflation big part ofthis. Yeah, but you know,
I think it was a sixty milliondollars seventy million dollars in twenty nineteen.

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Now it's one thirty five. Andagain it's in range with some of
the other police stations that are beingbuilt across the state of Florida. But
you know, ten percent twenty percentchange is thirteen to twenty million dollars.
I think when this happens, youneed to be very clear with the citizens
and very detailed about why this isgoing up. I don't know that we're
there yet on that, but thisis where does that lie? Does that?

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Does that lie with the city management? Does? I mean? But
you know, again, the biddingprocess, the bidding process is going to
start. He's put out an estimateof one hundred and thirty five million.
They're going to be in May.They're going to start bidding out and hopefully
there are some things that are startingto show costs or starting to come back
down. Well, isn't that amistake for the city to put an estimated
cost? That's the whole point ofa bit. Well, there's there's pieces

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in part so I think that they'retrying to put let people know what it's
going to cost. But you know, there's some comments like, look,
why don't we wait a year andsee if these costs come down? Now?
Yeah, you know, and soyou know that could be something that
we do. So I but butI'm sorry, that's just that bidding processes
backwards Steve, you don't you don'ttell people what you're willing to pay.
Well, again, Preston, whenyou've got fifteen, let's say fifteen pieces

(40:15):
of that are going to be bidout, you're not saying that this is
what we're gonna pay on this.But this is a this is a very
high level estimate. Okay, sothey'll be you know, it'll be bid
out. But there are some concernsand I think rightfully so sure, but
it's again, it's not a veryit's a process that it's been that has
come a long way, and Iagain I would argue that maybe you wait

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a year. That's what what happensin the private sector. When you start
to build an apartment complex or somethingand you see costs or going up.
Usually business say, wait, well, we're not going to build this right
now. We're gonna wait and seeif things change. Homeowners do it all
the time, they renovation. Wait, the price of wood is skyrocketing.
Let's hold exactly, so this maybe, you know, because that's a
lot of money. And again,if you could save now it is one

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hundred year building, it's gonna beit's gonna be a building going to last
one hundred years, So anyway,I think it's a topic worthy of discussion.
So anyway, that's the sort ofthe business side of this. But
it got political last night again,a lot of speakers talking from the progressive
side being very political. John Dalydid call out Commission Mattlow for his constant

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attacks on TPD and quote the planetevidence narrative. It's interesting to note that
they seem to be moving back fromthat now because I don't think it's a
winner for them, because it's clearthat when you start accusing a TPD officer
of planning evidence, you're accusing himof committing a crime. And I think
there are a number of people thathave, you know, behind the scenes,
have talked to the mayor and said, look, this has got to

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stop. And so he did addressMattlow. They got into a shouting match
and then the meeting was adjourned.Much like accusing police of being cop killers
exactly. I mean, it's thesame narrative that their whole killer cops.
Sorry, they are hoping to createa political issue ahead of the elections.
I would say this one has failed, but it's a very messy situation,

(42:01):
and of course the citizens always losedefinitely. Steve Stewart with us from tal
Lash Reports. More to come hereon the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
One last segment Steve Stewart at thewebsite Tallas Reports. It's the only place

(42:23):
you're getting reporting friends, Talasserreports dotCom. Yeah, all right, here
we go quick, Jackporter last night, who she made it? This is
a This is a great example ofthe politics of this. It's talking about
everything except what we'll get to thatin one mal So there was some flooding,
obviously because of the rain. Rightso we had Jay Gaither our neighborhood.

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They had some flooding issues. Theyhad set up a meeting for the
commissioners to go meet with some officialsthere and they had a briefing and Jack
Porter canceled her for briefing and thenon the way I guess between then and
the meeting texted or asked res Goadto send her the information, which he
never got back to her. AndI don't know the timing on this.

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Well. Last night at the meeting, she trashs Reese Goad for not responding
to her without saying that she hadmissed her briefing, though Mayor Daily noted
commission Porter, if you would attendyour briefings, then maybe you would be
you would have the right information andyou wouldn't have to ask for it.
Sorry I'm being anyway. So thepoint being again that the city commissioners trying

(43:34):
to highlight problems with administration that reallydon't exist. Okay, now onto the
whole progressive wing of things. Herewe talked about the trips. Nobody is
asking her about the trips she's takento these local progress groups which is promoting
progressive policies. Are none of theother commissioners asking questions about this? They
have not started to ask it,But I wanted to give you some insight.

(43:55):
David o'keef, who was a LeonCounty commissioner and a part of the
progressive wing, he did on hissocial media that he attended a left wing
progressive conference in Atlanta that was basicallyheaded by some BLM finder founders defund the
police people. And it struck methat these two progressive members of local government,

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David O'Keeffe and Jack Porter, theychoose to go to these conferences,
very partisan left wing progressive conferences.But what they won't go to is the
Chamber conference which is a community conferencewhere a lot of different nonprofits, businesses,
elected leaders go to to talk aboutthe issues that are affecting Tallahassee.

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They actually choose to trash that conference, don't go. But they will go
to these left wing progressive conferences.Now, I can't say this strong enough,
but your listeners need to understand.I think that's a very important distinction
of what the mission of the progressiveelement of the Democratic Party here is.

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They don't care about Tahassee. Theycare about getting this progressive element, this
progressive policies into the state capitol.It's about affecting this community, it really
is. It's not about tyle Hassee. And so you've got to understand this.
And this is, I think isa big example, and we're going
to write about this because it struckme. Why are they choosing to go
to these conferences. They'll fly toTempe Arizona and Saint Louis, Missouri,

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or drive up to Atlanta, butthey won't go to Amelia Island where we're
discussing issues about Tallahassee. And youknow you'll hear Commission Matlow talk about the
Chamber conference being you know, it'sdevelopers and developers are corrupt this chamber conference.
School board members go there, RoseanneWood goes, Darryl Jones, you

(45:44):
know, we've got Superintendent Hannigo goes. So we have a mixture of the
community that go there and they justdetigrade the meeting and turn around and go
to these other conferences. That isall you need to know about what they're
mission is. So does Commissioner Malownot go to the chamber meeting? No,
he trashes it. They and thisis again what you have to look

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at is is he a member ofthe chamber. Yeah, I mean he's
a local business. So let metell you last night that the Tallivi's Talent
See Police Department headquarters is being builton the Northwood Mall. It's thirty acre
site. I think the TPD istaking up maybe seven acres of that eight
acres, So the rest of it'sgoing to be opened up for other development.

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There's going to be like, uh, there's gonna be retail, there's
gonna be mixed used. They're tryingto put a community arts area there.
So I think it was Commissioner Matlowor commission reporter made a motion that none
of the other land be sold tothe private sector for development. In other
words, they want the government tobasically control all that. And then Commission

(46:50):
Matlow made the point that maybe weshould have a city run daycare facility there
and so so to compete. Likeso, I thought, maybe we should
have a city run pizza restaurant there. No, and of course he'd be
the vendor. Right, But we'veyou got to pay attention to these things

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because this is rather this is notabout democrat or Republican. This is about
they want a trophy. They wantprogressives in charge of the state capitol of
Florida. Sure, that is thegoal, and they're getting help from the
from the from national groups. Allright, thanks for the update. That's
you can there's a lot to shockabout as we move forward. There were

(47:36):
many fun episodes ahead. We'll beback next there. Thanks for what you're
doing. Thank you, Steve Stewart. Subscribe, get the paper, it's
how you'll that's the only way you'regonna know what's really going on. And
uh again to the to the aidsand supporters of Jeremy Matt Loan, Jack
Porter, thanks for listening. It'stwenty seven past the hour, the Morning

(48:01):
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(48:51):
suggesting that is really double taxation.It's just not fair, it's not right.
This is government when they are hemorrhagingcash with bad spending. They are
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(51:31):
criminal investigation into Fauci's Gain of functionscandal. That's what Ran Paul has been
talking about for years. Since it'sall unfolded, and then there's bullet point
after bullet point after bullet point ofthings inside these emails that point to the

(51:52):
deception by Fauci, the underhanded dealings. And keep in mind, all of
this enricheder and damaged you. Itexerted more control in your life by the
federal government some of you, someof you are still wearing masks. That's

(52:17):
an indicator of trauma that it's ait's a variation of a trauma that is
called the Stockholm syndrome, where wheresomeone who's kidnapped begins to sympathize with their
abductors. It's a psychological thing thathappens. You're wearing a mask because you

(52:39):
believe what they've been telling you allthis time. You're a victim. You've
been traumatized. And now we're startingto see, as we predicted, the
evidence is coming out. Big storiesin the press box on the Morning Show
with Preston's Scott Scott mother no youwears her drape on news radio one hundred

(53:05):
point seven. WUFLA. Let's getyou feeling a little bit better naturally,
a little optimum health naturally by doctorDavid Hearts, or with doctor David Harts.
How you doing, friend, I'mdoing well for using good morning,
Good morning. Let me ask youif I am hearing from more and more

(53:30):
people just casually mentioned that, oh, they've got a migraine or they suffer
from migraines. First question, isit becoming more common? Well? I
believe it is. And research showsright now that almost fifteen percent of the
people of the United States experienced migrainesat some time another, So it's worldwide.

(53:52):
It's like one billion people, andit's very common. And I believe
it is because it's probably somewhat relatedto all immune disease, and that is
increasing quite crazy too. So Ithink you're right. I think it is
actually becoming more more frequent. Andhow would how would you help someone determine
whether they've just got a bad headache? And what differentiates a migraine from a

(54:15):
bad headache. Well, first ofall, they're consistent, and if they
if they occur over maybe you know, fifteen days or maybe say half the
time of a month, you know, fifteen days within a month, then
they're probably being caused by a migrainetype headache. There's certain things. There's

(54:35):
ones that have ores to them andthere's ones that do not. If you
start to get any changes in visualacuity or you start sometimes people can get
certain nue in parts of their bodiesand so forth, those ones with aura,
and they're always usually migraine related.Also, sometimes sinus headaches can be
what you think is a sinus headacheis actually a migraine, which has been

(54:59):
kind of interesting to you know,the sinus doctors themselves, because they're finding
out that many times when they dosurgery on some of the sinus people related
symptoms, they're not getting results therethey wanted. And they'll find out their
migraines. So I think usually theconsistency of them and how they hit.

(55:20):
Also, if they're really severe painthat hits you, then always you need
to get a neurological evaluation if headachespersist. But many, many times these
are migraine related. So what nowis someone supposed to do? Okay,
Well, there's certain triggers, andlet's talk about some triggers that you can
avoid. The triggers you can avoidsome of these migraines, caffeine. Caffeine

(55:44):
is definitely one. If you drinka lot of coffee or caffeine related beverages,
it can do it. Preservatives andfood, you need to read the
labels and just stay away from thisstuff. We talk about this all the
time for many different reasons, butespecially nitrates and msgy those classic things there.
They've got ways they kind of relabelthese things. They don't call them

(56:05):
straight out MSG natural flavorings. They'vegot away with being able to put that
on it and almost put anything init. So trying to get something as
natural as possible. Chocolate, redwine are certainly ones. And this is
what I want to talk about.Most people won't think about, and we
kind of harp on this a lot, but it causes a lot of problems.
It's good old gluten gluten, anda good way to kind of remember

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with this would be BROWT b Ro W, which is barley rye oats
and wheat. Just stay away fromthis stuff for a while, give it
a good, you know, amonth, and see if your frequency of
your headache decrease. These are allthings that stimulate automune reaction by leaky leak
and these big proteins, the Gladdenproteins through the walls of your's only one

(56:50):
cell, you know, thick you'relining over your intestine, so as it
gets through, it causes an automunereaction, it causes inflammation. It can
trigger these things off. So tryto eliminate them out of your diet.
Do a kind of a progressive eliminationdiet. Eliminate them over a perio of
time, give yourself a chance,see if things change, and if they
do, then continue to eliminate them. Just a few supplements really quick.

(57:13):
B twelve excuse me, B tworibo flavor. It has been shown to
decrease these consistently. Fever few,magnesium and co Q ten are all ones
that seem to help. Also,good stuff and I'm sure real useful to
a bunch of people out there.Doctor Arts is always thanks for the time
this morning. Okay, Preston,have a great day. Thank you,

(57:34):
sir. Doctor David Harts with USOptimum Health naturally some help for migraine sufferers
here on the Morning Show with PrestonScott The Morning Show with Preston Scott on
News Radio one hundred point seven DoubleYou have la I just have to mention.

(57:59):
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs, Democrat,vetoed a bill aimed at strengthening the
rights of homeowners to evict squatters.She vetoed it quoting this bill fails to
leverage existing legal mechanisms respect the dueprocess rights of lawful tenants. This has

(58:20):
nothing to do with lawful tenants,you moron. You know what I was
all about. I was contemplating makingthe Grand Canyon the theme of my road
trip idea. This is the behindthe scenes of this segment. But then

(58:51):
I come across this, a blotpak on the state of Arizona. This
woman that this, this governess thatinfuriates them, the liberals when you call

(59:12):
them by their their gender titles actressinstead of actor governess. But really,
what a maroon. This has nothingto do with the legal mechanisms. The
legal mechanisms are for tenant landlord issues, not squatters. This bill addressed squatters

(59:39):
and afforded them no rights because theyshouldn't have any because they're not tenants.
They do not have a lease,a rental agreement, ownership. They have
broken in and are living in someoneelse's home or on their property. They

(01:00:01):
don't have rights. This bill wouldhave allowed law enforcement to simply remove them.
What a novel plan. I hopethey're able to override this veto.
But you know what, I'll providemy own veto. I'll not talk of

(01:00:22):
the Grand Canyon in this segment todayinstead. Okay, I'm kidding. I
was never going to talk about theGrand Canyon in this segment. But we
do have a road trip idea onthe road again. This inspiration comes from

(01:00:44):
the book Unique America. I hadno idea. Keystone, South Dakota long
way away. Don't just go toSouth Dakota for Mount Rushmore. I don't
know if it was inspired by MountRushmore. But in Keystone, South Dakota,
it's the National Presidential Wax Museum.Huh, it's epic. I don't

(01:01:10):
know how big the thing is,but I can tell you the exhibit First.
The website's impressive. Presidential wax Museumdot com open every day. They
offer tours, self guided things,and I got to tell you the exhibits
are kind of impressive. Some ofthem. They have a Donald Trump exhibit.

(01:01:31):
Come on, come on. They'vegot a US flag exhibit where some
of the founders in wax. Andthey're really well done. I mean,
this isn't dacky. They got aGeorge W. Bush nine to eleven with
the Fireman the Chief where Grat hasthe bullhorn in his hands. You've got

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the Yalta conference with Fdr Stalin andChurchill. You've got the Mount Rushmore unveiling,
Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Abraham Lincoln.
They got all kinds of stuff.And they even have a little thing for
those of you that enjoy little wineand coffee. They have they have something

(01:02:12):
called grapes and grinds. So it'sopen Monday through Friday, from March through
May, from May through September,September through October, so I guess they
close down in the heart of thewinter. So they closed from November through
the beginning of March. So checkit out the Presidential Wax Museum. When

(01:02:35):
we come back, more history,literally doctor Ed Moore, We've got We've
got more history on the Morning Showwith Preston Scott. Just in case Steve

(01:03:15):
Stewart's still listening. The reason youdidn't have sound in your headphones is you
had it up. Whatcked? Itjust blew up? Doctor Ed Moore's eer
canals by plugging it back in.Welcome friends to the third hour of the
Morning Show with President's laughing. Overthere at Studio one A is Grant Allen.
I'm here in Studio one B,and I am joined by doctor Ed

(01:03:36):
Moore. Time for a little morehistory. Hello, my friend, are
you I've already explained to everybody thatthat the we're going to go back to
explorers and pioneers next month, thatI can see how this happened for you
after last month you just started youknow, you know, we really ought
to. So here we are.We're going to talk about Flora's cabinet.
Well, yeah, what prompted actuallywas a little changes that two people that

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I knew that served Florida both passedaway within the last month, and I
started thinking about them, and Iactually worked in the cabinet process back when
they served, and I thought it'dbe worth all because so many people are
here that weren't here, and that'swhat you realize. Florida's changed. And
we'll talk about numbers later. Butit's changed so radically since that time.

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You mentioned Bill Gunner to people andthey just go Bill Gunner, Who who
is that the insurance office on thomasVille Road. I mean, they don't
have that sense. You mentioned BobGraham even you think wasn't that long ago,
But to a lot of people,it was that long ago because they
weren't here. They lived somewhere else. And these guys served in a very

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interesting time. And I was fortunateto first work for the legislature when Bob
Graham was a US I'm in astate senator from Miami Dade. And what
an interesting group of characters served duringthat era. There are people that have
written books Golden Age and like tocall that time framed Golden Age. You

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could also write a book called theAge of Corruption because of what was going
on in Florida during that time frame, just within the cabinet itself. What
time frame would that be, I'vesaid nineteen seventies. If you just clocked
across the seventies, we're going toask you got elected governor in seventies,
and of course he never had onescandal involved him, but in his administration

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there were quite a few members ofthe cabinet. In those days, the
cabinet was a seven member cabinet,all independently elected. Florida is the only
state that's had that former government,where most states have a very very strong
governor, and we've moved towards thatsince that time. Really actually since the

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nineteen ninety eight constitutional revision took placein two thousand and three with term limits
for everybody, change the nature ofgovernment in Florida. But in those days
we always had termin Actually in thesixties and prior to the governor served only
one term in Florida, and thecabinet members could serve for life, So

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we had a lot of people thatwere there for a very very long time.
So does your look at Florida's cabinetfor today, are you focusing on
those roaring seventies or are you goingback to the very beginning. Well,
we could go back to the beginningeighteen forty five. They created a government
in Florida when Florida became a state, and you had cabinet positions then,

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but in those days, largely theyserved at the will of the governor,
or served the governor. Even inthe constitution that took place after the Civil
War when a new government was putin place basically inserted. Was it friends

(01:06:54):
of the governor at the time orwas it people that the governor said they
were capable for the task. Maynot be friends, they might be friends
both. It wasn't largely a meritocracy, Okay, you know it, you
know. It was more like,oh you knew, yeah, hey,
Preston, will you come help meout? And the people that you met,
and that's how you formed the cabinetin those days. The public got

(01:07:17):
tired of that. From eighteen sixtyfive to the eighteen eighty five. We
had a constitutional revision occurred in eighteeneighty five, and that's when you have
the independent cabinet members seven from thattime forward, and they all were all
independently elected and conserve lifetime. Youhad to run for reelection, but it

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was tough to defeat them because theywere the incumbents. They the incumbencies very
strong. We're going to pick upright there, doctor edmore with us more
history here on the Morning Show withPreston Scott. This is the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. Minutes past thehour of the Morning Show and doctor Ed

(01:08:02):
Moore picking up with the change wherewe started. What were the seven cabinet
positions? What were they? Whatwere they? Well, you had the
governor obviously as the chairman of thecabinet, and you had an attorney general,
you had a state comptroller, youhad a Commissioner of Agriculture, you
had the insurance commissioner, state treasurerand insurance commissioner, and a Secretary of

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State. Wide range of people.One would have thought that generally, if
you think about politics, people wouldrun, say I'll run for Secretary of
State and then serve awhile and thenI'm going to be the US Senator or
the governor or whatever. But thatreally isn't the case. Charlie christ and
since the sixty eight nineteen sixty eightConstitution revision to now, Charlie Chris,

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I'm pretty sure, is the onlyone that was a serving cabinet member that
became governor. No way, Charlieare seeking another office. Well, and
that's what he did and found hedid what most people thinks happened happens with
all of them, as Commissioner ofEducation, attorney General than governor. It's
like kind of like the children's pastor, the youth pastor, the associate pastor

(01:09:13):
becomes the pastor. You work yourway up. You would think that would
happen. There's been three US SenatorsGraham, Bob Graham, and then Dick
Stone and Bill Nelson that were servedin a role on the cabinet and then
became US senators from Florida. That'sit out of all of those people over

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all that long period of time.So it's not necessarily that proving ground,
training ground, let the people evaluatewhat kind of job you do, kind
of thing doesn't happen that often.We're more and largely it's because of the
population shifts in Florida. In myview, Florida has changed so radically since

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the nineteen seventy election, and nowthat people that live here don't know who
these people are. I mean theywell, you dropped some names I'd never
heard of. Yeah, well,you know, dick Stone was Secretary,
Bill Nelson, I mean, nextthing you're gonna tell me he was an
astronaut. Yeah, he was anastronaut and now he's the head of the
Space program. You know, thekind of lateral arabesque. Yeah. Yeah,

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but got like dick Stone Secretary ofState and then ran for the US
Senate ran actually against Bill Gunner backthen, and dick Stone ended up eking
that out. I worked in thatcampaign. I knew dick Stone and a
good man and did a good job, and Paula Hawkins beat him. I
mean, paul Hawkins came off ofthe old statewide elected Public Service Commission that

(01:10:41):
had three public service commissioners. Paulawas able to always be the no vote.
She was a Republican and two oldtime Democrats. So when he came
for rating increases and all those thingsthat everybody hates, Paula would vote no.
Everybody loved her. She went tothe US Senate back in the day.
And you define that however you want. Did the cabinet matter, Yes,

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it mattered a lot. It's whatgoverned the state. A lot of
agencies. Back in those days,a lot of the state agencies were under
the purview of the cabinet, NaturalResources, Environmental Protection, Department of Revenue.
They were all cabinet agencies. Therewere thirteen fourteen agencies that function under

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Now we're down to four and there'sfour members and it takes only how do
you get a majority on a fourperson board? Well, you say,
well, the governor has the weightedvote, So if the governor's on the
affirmative side, he just needs onevote to get his way, and so
that's what occurs frequently. Now.They still sit over a number of agencies

(01:11:51):
and of State Board of Administration byexample, it's the board responsible for managing
the investments all the state money.Pretty big. I mean you're talking billions
and billions of dollars. Three ofthe four cabinet members sit on that.
One Commissioner of Agriculture, No,they're not part of that. So it's

(01:12:13):
an awkward structure. I'm an oldcabinet guy. I like having those seven
people there. I think that givespublic a lot more access places they can
go, they can I was goingto say as large as government, I
mean, granted, Florida as leanas any state government is, but that's
in kind of per capita staffing.I would think you'd want more cabinet members.

(01:12:36):
Over the last thirty years or so, Florida has drifted towards the national
norm of having a very strong governorand holding the governor accountable. I kind
of like the diffusion and having morepeople engaged. But we're not there.
We're going to keep talking about theFlorida Cabinet in history here in the Sunshine
State with Doctor ed Moore in theMorning Show final segment. Doctor had more

(01:13:12):
and more history and the Florida cabinetno good. You'd asked before about consolidation
when we went from seven to four. Yeah, I always found that precipitated
that uh goo goose. They callthem good government type people. It's too
much. We don't like the cabinet, let's shrink it down. Can't get
rid of it at all. Ifind it interesting. One of the ones

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that survived out of all that wasCommissioner of Agriculture stayed as a cabinet with
four votes. They consolidated the Treasurerand the comptroller CFO put them together as
a CFO. Secretary of State gotremoved. If I were in a track

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or a mindset of running for office, probably one of the ones I would
be best suited for him or oflike being Secretary of State of Florida.
The stuff that's within that agency,stuff that is a tremendous interest to me.
But it's gone. It's an appointedposition now, so you're down to
four. We'll see, there's noreal push anywhere to do any changes or

(01:14:15):
consolidation on anything that's there now.Is that because the perception is that Florida
is well run and it's working.Yeah, and we have. We've gravitated
towards a much stronger governor that workswhen the governor's doing things that you like
and you want to have happen.And if you get a governor that we
almost got two elections ago, thatpeople would have scratched their husband. Go

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where's Florida going now? But rightnow, you know, if you're a
conservative, you like what's happening here. If you're not, it's bothering you.
But there's still no real change.But it's pretty magnetic. They want
to take the office back, butI'm not hearing anywhere. Hey, you
know, we ought to get someother positions here. We can put our
people in. You've had some diversity. Alex Sink is a Democrat, I

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mean there's been Would she be aDemocrat today? By definitely? You know
what I mean, conservative business personand that's what I'm saying. She wouldn't
fit inside that mold anymore, youknow, I don't know. I mean
it was an opportunity for her.She ran one nice lady, did a
good job and it's gone. NikkiFreed was a Democrat on the as the

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Commissioner of Agriculture. Not a traditionalperson that you would think, but it
was available and she took that position. Will there be a Democrat after the
next election in Florida on that probablynot. And a lot of those people
that are sitting there, people arespeculating they want to run for governor,
So what's going to happen? Andthey're termal limited, largely termal limited,

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so we'll have a pretty fresh slate. When DeSantis leaves office, You're going
to see a lot of new cabinetmembers. And so that changed the nature.
But first I want to talk aboutthe numbers. I went back,
he asked earlier eighteen forty five,when Florida became a state, we a
mosely defeated Richard Kall in a governor'srace three thousand, two hundred and ninety

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five to two thousand, six hundredand seventy nine. State wide, that
was it Miami Dade. Then itwas just Dade Counties at Southwarner mostly won
sixty to five. Do you thinkFlorida's changed a little bit since eighteen forty
five? Yeah? Yeah, Andthen when you go when you go.

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More recently, eighteen forty five,forty five, Florida had approximately sixty six
thousand people, mostly across the topof the state in the Panhandle. Uh
so you know we've changed. WhenASKI was elected in nineteen seventy, one
million, seven hundred and thirty thousandplus votes were casts. One million,
seven hundred and thirty Okay, wehad a total population of six million,

(01:16:57):
seven hundred and eighty nine thousand peoplein nineteen seventy six point seven million people.
The Dasantas election in twenty two,Florida had twenty two million people.
Seven million, seven hundred and twentythousand people voted. Okay, seven million,
seven hundred thousand voted. When Iask you one, the state population

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was less than seven million. Imean, when you see numbers like that,
it's a crazy affirmation that Florida isgrowing. We're probably netting people moving
and coming, probably netting two hundredtwo hundred and fifty thousand people a year
still, and we've been doing thatfor a long time. Where it ends

(01:17:41):
nobody knows, but all I seeis development occurring. So I think that
those desantus numbers of people seven millionvoting is going to be ten million voting
soon. And I mean we're bigplayers on a national stage. We still
have yet to have anybody make thatnational stay, but I pray that it's
coming. We need to be representedin DC by a president from our state.

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Love to see it happen. Inmy lifetime. We've had people try
not so good so far. You'resmiling at me, but you twenty three
million people in this state. We'regrowing, California shrinking even though they're still
so big, they're still shrinking.You know, we're players. We should

(01:18:29):
be players and continue to be players. The cabinet helped to build this state
and created the environment. I thinkas a group, those strong people out
of the seventies not the ones thatwent to jail, and a number of
men ended up going to jail.Commissioner of Education, the state treasurer went
to jail. I mean, itwasn't all pure, but there were good

(01:18:50):
people involved in to their credit,guys like Bob Graham and Bill Gunner served
did well and stepped aside and stayedavailable and engaged. I've served on boards
with Bill Gunner, nice wonderful man, and I'm sorry to see them go.
Thanks for the time doctor Ed Moorewith us this morning twenty seven minutes

(01:19:12):
after the hour in the Morning Showwith Preston Scott, The Morning Show with
Dreston Scans all right thirty five minutespast the hour. Tomorrow, Lee Williams,

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the gun writer, will join usin the Shortest Things to talk about
it. He's got an update onthe atf Arkansas story, got Florida Man,
animal stories, Best and worst ofthe week headlines from the b busy.
Friday's always as long as the newsdoesn't ruin it for us. That's

(01:20:00):
so weird to say that's what weare. We talk about the news,
but it's don't you want just alittle respite? I know I do.
Anyway, Friday, we try ourbest, so join us time for the
big stories in the press box andour thanks to Grova creative marketing and digital
expertise before sponsoring our segment here.Housing Payments. The median price of an

(01:20:27):
average mortgage payment is at an alltime high. We are approaching three thousand
dollars a month. Even if Iwanted to go get a different house,

(01:20:54):
find that big piece of land,there is no chance I could afford it.
Couldn't do it. Couldn't do itwouldn't be periodent. It's just you
know, younger years I lived formy mortgage. Mortgage took up way too
much of the budget. You can't. I mean, twenty seven seventy five

(01:21:20):
is the median price of a housepayment monthly now average in a normal car
payment. Now you're now at thirtytwo thirty three hundred dollars a month on
two payments. Multiply that over theyear, and then factor in your utilities

(01:21:44):
and different expenses and your food,and I mean, oh my goodness.
Part of this is the result ofbad fiscal policy on both sides of the
aisle for years. A lot ofthis is Joe Biden Obama, the regulatory

(01:22:10):
change that you know, Trump couldonly do so much. He didn't have
a lot of cooperation from the Houseand Senate, even when Republicans controlled it
for what two years. He wasdodging legal bullets even then as president in
the form of Russian collusion and allthat. The regulatory environments just crippling us.
We're over our head with debt.Biden now calling for a forty four

(01:22:35):
point six percent tax on capital gains, the highest since its creation in nineteen
twenty two. You could actually tracea lot of this back to when government
realized they could squeeze people for moneyand get away with it. Judicial Watch.
FBI records indicate Fauci agency funded Gainof Function Wuhan lab research would leave

(01:23:01):
no signatures of purposeful human manipulation.It was intentionally done in a manner to
hide it. Anthony Fauci's fingerprints areall over the very disease that he was
the czar advising not just Trump butBiden on again. Biggest mistake Trump made

(01:23:29):
was not firing everybody when he cameinto the White House. Second biggest was
putting Anthony Fauci as virtually the lonevoice in this whole thing. When it
happened, Trump got bad advice.Those are your big stories. Forty minutes
after the hour, come back withcan AI predict political orientation? Welcome to

(01:23:53):
the Morning Show with Preston Scott.Story has been bouncing around for a couple
of days. Some researchers are outthere warning us that facial recognition technology is

(01:24:18):
a lot more threatening than previously thoughtand pose serious challenges to privacy. Apparently,
a study is determined that AI cansuccessfully predict a person's political orientation based

(01:24:38):
on images of expressionless faces. Thestudy was published in the journal American Psychologist.
It says an algorithm's ability to accuratelyguess one's political views. Listen to
this is on par with how welljob interviews predict job success or alcohol drives

(01:24:59):
aggressively. That's the accuracy. Thelead authors said. Five hundred and ninety
one participants filled out a political orientationquestionnaire before the AI captured what he described
as numerical fingerprint of their faces andcompared them to a database of their responses

(01:25:21):
to predict their views. The authorsaid, I think that people don't realize
how much they exposed by simply puttinga picture out there. We know that
people's sexual orientation, political orientation,religious views should be protected. It used

(01:25:42):
to be different in the past.You could enter anybody's Facebook accountancye for example,
their political views, the likes,the pages they follow. But many
years ago Facebook closed this because itwas clear for policymakers and Facebook and journalists
that it's just not acceptable, it'stoo dangerous. But if you can still
go on Facebook and see anybody's picture, this person you never met. They

(01:26:05):
never allowed you to look at thepicture. They would never share their political
orientation, and yet Facebook shows youtheir picture. And what our study shows
is that it is essentially, tosome extent, equivalent to just telling you
what their political orientation is. Ibelieve it totally. And you see it
in the grocery store. You goto the grocery store and you just see

(01:26:29):
like like, let's say, youknow, you've got one depiction and it's
just like written all over their face. Right, they're kind of grouchy,
you know, like I don't knowhow to do. There aren't words today.
It's a more sophisticated version of myshopping cart. Yes, absolutely,
liberals don't put shopping carts away.Nature actually tells us a lot, right,

(01:26:53):
so listen now, they did this. They wore a black T shirt
adjusted using binder clip to cover theirclothes. They removed all jewelry and if
necessary, shape facial hair face wipeswere used to remove cosmetics until no residues
were detected on a fresh wipe.Their hair was pulled back using hair ties,

(01:27:14):
hairpins, and a headband, whiletaking care to avoid flyaway hairs.
The facial recognition algorithm, which iscalled vgg face two, then examined images
to determine face descriptors or a numericalvector based on the face data that's both

(01:27:36):
unique to that individual and consistent acrossdifferent images, and then they run that
through their algorithm and determine that person'sa moderate, that person's conservative, that
person's illiberal, and then they goto the interview the questionnaire and they find

(01:27:57):
out, Yeah, they're right.Man, the world that's ahead. Look,
I'm I know that God will comeget me in his due time,

(01:28:18):
but man, I'd sure be interestedto see how this all unfolds. If
it's allowed to. Forty six afterthe hour, let's do this final reminder

(01:28:43):
for those of you in the PanamaCity Beach area that there was an incident
last week. It was reported toPanama City Beach Police. I've got independent

(01:29:04):
reports from listeners who have who areretired law enforcement that they made effort to
get a look at the police reportand Panama City Beach Police was not cooperative.
And so what I can tell youis Bay County Sheriff's Office is and

(01:29:30):
they are involved in this. There'snot a lot of actionable information. We
have an incident. There were peoplethat saw some of what happened, but
it was it appears as though therewas a a coordinated effort to attempt to

(01:29:53):
kidnap a small child from the beachin Panama City Beach. It was a
public beach with parking across from it. And it's horrifying, but thankfully everybody's
safe. If you missed yesterday's show, I'll only go so far as to
say that they trusted me. It'snot a news story. This is a

(01:30:18):
family that I have known since nineteeneighty seven. Their word is beyond reproach
to me. I have a policereport in my hands, and so I
have shared without releasing names because Iwill not do that. That'll be up
to them. They're frightened. Theyare frightened because this was it looked like

(01:30:43):
a ring of internationals coordinating to attemptto abduct children. Yes, it's a
thing. This stuff happens, andso I feel a responsibility and given this
platform to try to make a difference, to help and to improve people's lives

(01:31:04):
and to keep you safe. Andwhen there's something like this, it happens
in any community that I broadcast toroutinely. Look, I may not know
the suburbs of any number of citieswhere my show's listened to an iHeartRadio.
But I do have a responsibility inthe broadcast areas of Tallahassee and Panama City
and the surrounding area. Is there. If we've got predators at working,

(01:31:27):
if we've got a scam working,if we've got different things, I feel
a responsibility to tell you about itand to try to keep you abreast of
what's happening. So what I willtell you is that Bay County Sheriff Tommy
Ford very responsive to the report.He reached out to us. I have
put him in touch with the family, and so thank you to the Sheriff's

(01:31:48):
Department of Bay County, to thePolice Department of Panama City Beach Police.
I'm sure some of you officers outthere are awesome leadership organization. Inside.
You've got some explaining to do.You just do and sorry if that hurts

(01:32:08):
anyway. Until there's an update,that'll be the last that I'm talking about
it of And then to just periodicallyremind you as the warm temperatures warm up,
more people are going to the beaches. Be safe. If you have
children, in particular small children,be very very vigilant. I would say,
even if you have high school agedchildren be very vigilant because human trafficking,

(01:32:30):
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Watch FBI records indicate Faucy Agency fundedgain a Function Wuhan Lab research in a

(01:33:16):
manner that would leave quoting from thereport and the not the report the FBI
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