Ep. 5150: National Day of Prayer

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Episode Transcript

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Good morning, my friends. WelcomeMay second on the Morning Show with Preston
Scott. Great to be with you. Show fifty one fifty Day, eleven
ninety five, America held hostage.He's grand Allen. I'm Preston Scott.
We have as always a very busyday for you on Thursday. We'll reset

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that in mere moments. But firstour versus the day and today, of
course is one of the big stories. Is it is National Day of Prayer.
That is a big story. Isuppose you could say that it's somewhat
sad that it's not National Day ofPrayer every day, but I digress.

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Our verse today comes from Colossians four, verse two. Continue steadfastly in prayer,
being watchful in it with thanksgiving.Boy, we have talked frequently over
twenty three years, the importance ofgratitude, the perspective of gratefulness should season

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everything in your life. And forthose of you that are a little younger,
you know, boomers, we werenot born in the era of abortion.

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It happened, it just didn't happenvery often. Those of you that
are younger, your starting point isthat you were born, that you were

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given a chance, because not allbabies in the womb are afforded that chance.
In fact, it's rather sad andheartbreaking to say the most dangerous place

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in the world for a baby istheir mother's womb. But the attitude of
thanksgiving, of gratefulness, thankfulness shouldpermeate our view of virtually everything. Could

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things be better in our country?Yeah? Absolutely, but you don't really
have to travel far to figure outthat it's still better than That's not to
say you accept the erosion and degradationof this nation, but you persevere and

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you work towards a better version ofthis country through the lens of thankfulness.
Remember what this verse says, continuesteadfastly in prayer. Now you can take
that a couple of ways. Youcould say that the writer is saying,

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well, make sure you're praying continuously. You could also say, continue whatever
it is that you do, steadfastly, with prayer guiding you, assisting you
in whatever it is you're continuing.I personally think it's both, because that's

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how God works. God works onmultiple levels at once. His word is
able to say multiple things that aretotally harmonious to each other at once,
and so this simple little verse continuessteadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it.

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Be watchful in whatever you're doing,whether you're praying or whatever you're continuing
to do, and do that withthanksgiving. I'll be honest with you.
That's a really nice start to theshow. Thank you God for your word.

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Preston Scott on News Radio one hundredpoint seven UFLA, May second, fourteen

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ninety seven. John Cabot, explorerset sail from England in search of a
westward route to the Indies. Whenwe think of explorers, we don't think
of the English. They're not inthe same world as the the Spanish and
the Italians. There had a coupleof famous ones, this guy, Sir

(06:14):
Walter Raleigh, Francis Drake. Thoseare some, but they don't roll off
the tongue like the others. Yeah, I suppose De Soto, Columbus,
the Gamma Magellan, great Shirts,by the way, true eighteen sixty three,

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Confederate General Stonewall Jackson is accidentally shotby his own troops at Chancellorsville.
He dies eight years eight days later, eight years, eight days later.
What a bummer man. You're makingyour way through a war, a war,
you're on a horse half the timeas a leader, if not more,

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and you get picked off by yourown guys. History, a lot
of a lot of guys who studiedthat era have said, if Lee doesn't
lose Jackson, it's a different it'sa different Gettysburg. And if it's a
different to Gettysburg, then it's adifferent war and thing. You know,
it's just one of those pivotal momentsin history that it feels like a just

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feels like a lynchpin, you know, like one thing goes another way and
entirely different set of circumstances could happen. But but Longstreet was advising him at
Gettysburg. It's true. Yeah,and he was advising a different strategy.
It's true. And so I'm notsure. I know. It's great conjecture,

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though it's it's it's a worthy discussionof what ifs. Nineteen thirty nine,
New York Yankees first baseman lou gerrigstreak of twenty one thirty consecutive games
two thirty comes to an end.The loudspeaker when they announced that he was
not starting, that he was notin the starting lineup. They were stunned.

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The crowd was stunned. No oneknew, no one knew what was
what was going on, that hewas suffering from als. Cal Ripken broke
that record in nineteen ninety five,which is some feet. I mean,
that's just that's crazy durability. Nineteenforty nine, Arthur Miller's death of a

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salesman wins a Pulitzer Prize. Andin nineteen sixty five, the Early Bird
satellite sends TV pictures across the Atlanticfor the first time. There you go
this state in history. Today's program, you get Steve Stewart coming up next
hour, Doctor Steve Steveson in ourPause for Thought segment, it's getting warm

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and if you've got a pet,there are some absolute does and don'ts.
We'll talk about that. Scott Beacon'sgoing to join us for ten minutes this
morning. Talk about a recent piece, The Road to Riches, and a
fascinating uncovering. You know, PeterSchweitzer wrote the book Throw Them All Out

(09:22):
years ago, talking about how membersof Congress on both sides of the Isle
of enriched themselves at the expense ofthe American people. And I mean the
numbers are staggering, but you wouldbe shocked to learn about the other side

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of that equation. Who didn't profitfrom being in Washington, DC, in
fact, who was penalized for beingand why he uncovered that. So we'll
talk with Skyt for a few minutesthis morning. We also have I've gone
inside the pages of the Babylon Bfor a story because it was too good.

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Nine ways to deal with campus protestersaccording to the Battle and B,
So we'll share that later on thishour. Keeping my eye on the evitall,

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which is electric vertical takeoff and landingaircraft, and I guess that's how
you eva'tall. It's it's an interestingthing that's happening in the world of flight,
and I don't get it. We'veseen enough problems with combustion of these

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massive batteries in these cars, thesheer weight, and I know they're working
hard to overcome some of these.But a company called Beta Technologies achieved a
bit of a milestone in the lastweek or so. They've spent four years

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flight testing its aircraft, logging overforty thousand nautical miles and it did a
transition for the first time. Itwas crude Nate Moyer, former Air Force
experimental test flight pilot, was flyingthe Ilia and it took a transition from

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hover to vertical flight. What makesthis different is that it's a fixed wing
plane and the vertical props are merelyto assist it in taking off and then

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they're cut off as forward propulsion comesfrom its separate propeller in the back.
And then it has conventional wings,unlike an osprey, which has its props
rotating and a lot of the dronelike technology that elevates and then pitches.

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This is totally different. What's interestingis it's working with the United States Air
Force. In fact, it hasa contract they're going to be deploying these
things aircraft chargers at Eglin for testing. They expected to be used for cargo

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and passenger carrying. How are theygoing to solve the problems that are plaguing
electric vehicles and how does this makesense? First of all, you know,
maybe maybe I'm wrong, but itwould. It would. It occurs

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to me that something that is solelyrelying on electric could easily be brought down
with a small scale EMP, andthat suckers dropping like a lead weight because
the weight of these things, thebatteries. I mean, you have any

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sustained flight, can you imagine thebattery weight. I don't know. Maybe
they've got this figured out. Maybethere's gonna they're gonna deploy a bunch of
parachutes, like a Cirrus and somesome other commercial, you know, planes
or personal use planes that are outthere that have a parachute deployment system.

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I don't know. All I knowis the basic problem with electric vehicles now
transmits itself to flight. And whileit's cool and like, you know,
there's there's this one company called JetsonJets the jets in one, which is
named after the Jetsons, and theyhave these personal flyers and the concept is

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really cool. You plug this thingin and you fly yourself to work and
you you know, you're checking outthe wires and you're dropping into the parking
lot and there it sits until youoff you go home or wherever, and
it's cool. I mean, it'sback to the future part two. But

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I don't know how they haven't solvedthe problems, and they're not going to
be solved, not in our lifetime. They're just just not it's the technology's
not there. But Joe is goingto continue to push us and bully us
as long as he and his puppetmaster, the Big Bore, are in

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charge in any way, shape orform. And as president, we're seeing
what he can do as president.Well, we've got a big story coming
up in the press box. He'sdoing it again. He's real leaving more
student aid. Even though the SupremeCourt say you can't do it, He's
doing it. He's doing it.So let's do some new big story in

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the press box. Stories and muchmore still to come on the Morning Show.
It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Before we get to the big

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stories in the press box, justwant to acknowledge and express condolences to the
Florida State football family all knowles everywhere. You might not have heard. Former
seminal quarterback Marcus Outson has passed away. He died Tuesday at the age of
forty six. Affectually known as theRooster complications associated with a rare immune deficiency

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disorder, and played for coach Bowdenfrom ninety six to two thousand. Was
a starting quarterback. After an injuryto start a Chris Wanky nineteen ninety nine
Fiesta Bowl Mark the inaugural Championship BCStitle game. And I believe, if

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I'm not mistaken, he started thatgame, or at least might have played
in it. I know that he'she. He won both of his starts.
He beat Wake Forest in Florida.Winky might have been available for the
national title game against Tennessee. Welost that game and then went on to

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win a year later beat Virginia Tech. But at any rate, that was
that was then a good guy byall accounts, never heard a bad word
said. Great teammate, and justsad, very very sad. Big Stories
in the press Box brought to youby Grove, a creative marketing and digital

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expertise. It is National Day ofPrayer. If you are in and around
Florida State Capital, eleven thirty tillnoon, some praise and worship at noon,
the prayer service begins runs till onepoint fifteen. I want to remind
you that prayer is going on acrossthe country at noon in each time zone,

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so it'll just kind of follow thesun all day long. Appropriate and
so if you cannot be there,take some time at noon join with people
all across the country that are prayingfor this nation take some time, make

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the effort. Brown University has donethe unthinkable. You see this. They
gave in to the protesters. Theyare celebrating they won and yes it matters.

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They reached an agreement with the antiIsrael protesters. They closed the encampment
in exchange for administrators taking a voteto consider divestment from Israel in October.
What so these little malcontents and theoutside agitators are causing the university to consider

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its relationships with Israel in any way, shape or form. They're gonna they're
gonna vote on it. And ifthey don't vote the way that those people
want, what do you think isgonna happen? They'll be back and they've
just proven they can win. ChristinaPaxton, the president of Brown University,
should be ashamed of herself because youknow what she just did. She's rolled

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every university under the bus. Whata loser. So what's the next demand?
What's the next thing? Horrific?Bad decision? Madison County Flip's Republican

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I'll credit Evan Power. Evan sawthe news about Madison County, saw the
numbers immediately held a rally and theyregistered enough new Republicans that now Madison County
is officially read. Fifty seven ofthe sixty seven counties now are read in

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varying degrees. I just that's justthat is awesome. And then there's this
little tidbit. Don't want to missit. AstraZeneca has admitted in a legal
document that it's COVID nineteen vaccine cancause a deadly blood clotting condition. What

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did I tell you? I said, over time, they're going to try
to cover their tracks, they're goingto admit to things. They're going to
release information forty minutes after the hour. So predictable wufla FM dot com keyword

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Preston Steve Jordan Tellashi reports in justa little bit years ago, when I

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was the sports director at an ABCaffiliate here in town in the capital city.
That's a story, by the way, that whole thing is a story
unto itself. I don't believe I'veever told it how I got that job.

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Just yeah, anyway, God isjust I think God this laughs at
us sometimes and chuckles. But Idid a feature on Florida A and M

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and the condition of its facilities inathletics compared to other schools that are hbcused.
And I traveled to with a videographer. We traveled around the southeast and
one of the places we stopped wasSouthern University. Now you know anything about
Southern University, it's in Baton Rouge. What makes that significance. Baton Rouge

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is Louisiana's capital. Baton Rouge isthe home of LSU. So all of
a sudden there was this strange littlenexus. Tallahassee and Baton Rouge are darn
near identical state capitals, major university, major HBCU, all right next to

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each other, all right there.Now. I say that because there's a
story that caught my eye and itwas like, well, this is interesting.
Here's the headline. Baton Rouge residents, tired of poor schools and services

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will likely soon have separate city.Even as opponents cry racism. There is
a part of Baton Rouge that feelsas though it has been taking advantage of
and they have been trying to deannex its existence from the roles of Baton

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Rouge and create the city of SaintGeorge. They were stopped by a lower
court and then a fifth circuit Courtof Appeals inside the state. But the
State Supreme Court has just ruled no, they have followed all of the procedures

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and the requirements they may proceed.They've gotten fed up. They've gotten fed
up with city officials ignoring them.Wow. Does that ring true for many

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in and around the City of Tallahasseewho feel as though the City Commission which
has ignored the logic of districts,the fairness of districts, the importance of
districts, and continues to ignore theneeds of the northeast part of the city

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that it grabs and annexes for moneyonly. The feeling the unstated policy of
the City Commission of Tallahassee is youpeople are well off. Screw you.
That's that's the policy. Fine,northeast part of tallahass He gets nothing from

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the city. A few police officerswhen called. That's it. Got no
other love cities doing nothing for them. City is it's sort of like that
part of the community is a donorcommunity. There are others. They're gonna

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find out the same thing over time, but the northeast is the big one.
I just wanted to encourage all ofyou in the northeast that are starting
to get fed up with this lackof representation and concerns over the city,
like if the if the next setof elections, if the wrong people win
or retain their seats, this citywill go Socialists write it down. I've

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been warning of this for years.Jeremy Mattlowe wolf in Sheep's clothing. Jack
Porter sat in this chair right acrossfrom me and was not honest about who
she was. Was not honest,and now she won't answer questions from Tallassi
reports about various activities she's involved in. In that interesting. There needs to

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be a formal ethics charge anyway,more coming, all right, I got
to make the most of this timehere before we get to the second hour.
Her name is Johanna King Slatsky.I'm not making that up. She
is a PhD candidate and paid instructorat Columbia University. She was the spokeswoman

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for the protesters. And check outthis exchange with reporters she wants she's demanding
the school be fed or the schoolfeed the protesters. Check this out.
Obligated to provide food to people who'vetaken over a building. Well, first

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of all, we're saying that they'reobligated to provide food to students who pay
for a meal plan here. Butyou mentioned that they were requested that food
and water be brought in unless Imiss to allow it to be brought in.
I mean, well, I guessit's ultimately a question of what kind
of community and obligation Columbia feels ithas to its students. Do you want
students to die of dehydration and starvationor get severely ill, even if they

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disagree with you. If the answeris no, then you should allow basic
I mean, it's crazy to saybecause we're on an ivy Leau campus,
but this is like basic humanitarian aidwe're asking for, like could people please
have a glass of water? Butthey did put themselves in that very deliberately,
in that situation and in that position, So it seems like you're sort
of saying, we want to berevolutionary, so we want to take up

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this building. Now, would youplease bring us food on water. Nobody's
asking them to bring anything. EveryWe're asking them to not violently stop us
from bringing in basic humanitarian aid.That's not true. They she just got
through asking them to bring in food. The way that reporter framed that question.
It seems like you're saying, wewant to be revolutionaries, we want

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to take over this building. Now, would you please bring us some food?
That's so funny, like you can'twrite that kind of comedy. First,
well done to the report money.But Andy Roddick, tennis player Andy
Roddick weighs in and posts this replyon his Twitter page. He put that

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up and he said, or youcould leave and go get some food.
It's so because of that, Iam proud to bring you courtesy of the
Babylon B. Nine highly effective waysto remove protesters from your campus. Number
one, hauld all deliveries of pizzarolls and fruit snacks. They'll be running

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home to raid their parents for beforeyou can say colonizers. Two tell them
you're a jew. You saw ajew across the street and he's getting away.
Three send Kyle rittenhouse. He'll clearthe quad in less than twelve seconds.
Four Throw granola bars containing gluten atthem. Five tell them they have
to locate Gaza on a map beforethey can protest. Six put up a

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sign that says free drugs and gaystuff this way with an arrow pointing off
campus. We're pretty sure they're suckerfor drugs and gate stuff. Seven,
hold a Biden campaign rally, instantghost Town eight, run around screaming I'm
un vaccinated and coughing everywhere. Andnumber nine pepper spray to the eyeballs Classic

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nine highly effective ways to rid yourcampus of protesters, courtesy of the Babylon
b Second Hour is next. SteveStewart on deck from Tallas Reports. Stick
around, friends, We're just gettingwarmed up this morning show with Preston Scott.

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Five minutes past the hour. SecondHour, You say yes, Second
of the Morning Show with Preston Scottand Preston He's grand and this is Steve
Stewart. He's the executive editor ofTallahasti Reports, the website Tallas Reports dot
com. How are you can Iget somebody to bring me some food?
Please? This is a glass ofwater? Was that unbelievable? Wait?

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You want to be revolutionaries and you'reasking the school for food? Yeah?
Whatever? So, uh, notall that far away. You know,
we're talking education, but we're talkinglocal education. Leon County Schools and one
of the school board members, AlvisSmith, brought up a problem. Yeah,

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it was brought up, and itwas we were the first report on
it because we had a reporter coveringin a gender review meeting, which is
not covered by you know a lotof local media outlets, and we see
what media. And so I wasreading the report from the reporter and I
said, look, this looks likean interesting tidbit downsizing schools, and you
know, it's an issue here,but it's been an issue around the state

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there when you start googling and lookinginto this Duval County, Tampa, South
Florida there, I think it's inTampa. They're closing schools this fall.
Hashtag school choice right, And sothe point is is a lot of times
what happens is leaders don't want tomake the tough decisions. They ignore issues.
Alva Smith has brought this up,and sure enough, we do the
research. You know, you seethat's you see this an issue around the

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state. And then you look atthe twenty two elementary schools. We've got
a story up again sort of focusedon data. You look at the twenty
two elementary schools and their population growthover the last five years, their capacity,
and what they've done in the lastyear, and you can see that
there are four or five schools thatshow out show up in the sense that
they have declined population in the lastfive years they have capacity blow seventy five

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percent, and then just this mostrecent year they also had to decline a
population. And so the issue hereis money. I mean, you know,
these schools are older, they theyyou know, require more maintenance,
and they're not being used. Andit's precedent. It's like the rezoning issue.
Nobody wants to rezone. Nobody wantsto talk about downsizing schools. And

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I would argue because there is notthe level of media coverage that is needed
and we're starting obviously that TAAs Supportsis getting it out there for discussion.
Wait a minute, why are you'retaking more money in every year because of
property values? Even more so nowstudent population is declining, and you're you
know, and we're just going tocontinue to do this. And so look,

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there are a lot of different reasonscharter schools want demographics. People are
moving to different parts of town.Well, I was going to ask you,
your researcher at heart, that's whatyou love to do, is dig
in. Is there a way toquantify why the neighborhoods around these schools are
no longer sending kids because best asI can tell, there are still neighborhoods
around these schools. No, Imean you look at I think Hartsfield,

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which is over near Indian Headacres,that is more of an adult community without
kids. That's just the way itis. I mean, there's demographics have
changed, so they've changed. Yeah, And you look at elementary schools,
which is really because there's so manyof them, they serve specific neighborhoods and
over the last thirty years, youknow, they're just the demographics have changed.
People aren't having as many kids,people that move to town with kids

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are choosing to live in the northeast. You look at the capacity of those
schools in the Northeast and in theEast, and so it's not just charter
schools, and so I think thatthat's the thing. Now. Look,
I talked to school board members Smithabout this, and there's also some opportunities
here that this is land. Theseare facilities, they can be turned into

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other things, parks, special needschools, whatever. But the point is
is you can't continue to keep aschool open that's sixty five percent capacity and
it has a declining trend. It'sjust not it's not efficient, it's not
effective and it's not good for thestudents. What was the reaction among the
superintendent and the other school board members. It's funny you should ask, because

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I went back to look at thetape myself after I got the report and
it was complete, like, we'renot even going to talk about that now
since that point. What was Alvis'sresponse? She just looks she brought it
up. She's laying down the markerfor the discussion on the budget to come
ahead. But after our story,another media outlet decided to follow up on

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this. Superintendent Henna says, youknow, there's no plans now to close
schools, which is true, butthe that really didn't answer the question,
know what are you going to dowith these schools that have declining enrollment?
So it's an issue to keep aneye on nice stuffs the airport. All
right, ten minutes past more withSteve Stewart from Tallassi Reports. Preston Scott,

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I got ben FO one News Radioone hundred point seven double USLA.
All right, Steve Sewart with usfrom Tallashi Reports. So we've gone from
the schools now a bunch of datalocally. What are we learning about the

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overall state of things? Here.Given the sort of the way media tax
issues the media just national, state, local, you know, it's the
emotional headline. We like to getdown and look at numbers like just what
we just those are things we cantalk about well in facts exactly, you
can't massage that. So let's talkabout a couple of things. Airport traffic

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if you and you can pull thisup if you want. Present, but
we have a story now that showsthe latest airport traffic was up eleven percent
in March. In February we reportedthat it was up twenty two percent,
and we're starting to see a trendhere. If you look at the if
the twelve month annualized traffic and thebottom of graph there with the blue the
blue bars, you can see thatit was sort of flat for a while

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after it recovered from the COVID pandemic. But look the last six or seven
months. Jet Blue is here,discount carrier. We talked about the impact
of that that it has on theother carriers in terms of maybe lowering rates.
Traffic is up, this is andwhat do we learn about Silver Airways
in that it is? Is itan outlier? What's up with the why
it's down twenty percent. Yeah,I think again, probably suffering from the

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competition from Jet Blue. But sothis causes me when I see something like
this, I go and look aroundand what's happening in the you know,
in the country and that nationally?Sure enough, Wall Street Journal article business
travels are businesses are starting to travelagain. The zoom meetings may be okay
for internal meetings. Sure, there'son Biden flights into the tellahasse illegals.

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So the uh, that's good,that's Presston at Preston's Guy dot com.
But the but so, what's happeningnow, I think is you're starting to
see the Wall Street Journal indicated thatbusinesses are starting to get out in front
of their customers again. And Idon't know how much that is impacted here,
but you can clearly see this isa trend. It's not just one
or two months. So we'll seewhat happens. The goal here, obviously

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is to get to the million passengermark, which is where they were headed
years ago. But sure, butthey have run into a number of issues.
So we're getting close to nine hundredthousand. So look at that information
and we'll see what happens. Igot to ask you, I know you
got more to cover. Yeah,do you buy that Wall Street Journal thing?
Because I think more people are doingvirtual stuff. I don't think they're
flying, No, I think Ithink that there are business right related at

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least now. I think sales,if you can do sales virtually, I
think you're missing something. Sales isabout developing relationship and being in front of
people, and I think businesses arestarting to get back to that. So
I do buy a little bit ofthat. Okay, jobs, jobs,
So the latest jobs report, actuallythe unemployment rate went up here locally.
However, there's a little bit ofa silver lining around that cloud that went

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up because the workforce is expanding.And again, if you look at the
chart we have on that, youcan see again something that is These are
trends that have not been replicated.Click on the Business Today there you go,
look at look at this chart.Present this really works well on the
radio. Steve. I'm excited.I know I'm excited about If you look

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at the last six months there,you can see that the number of jobs
has remained high. I think thisis the Amazon effect. This is purely
my opinion, but this is againa trend worth watching. Normally jobs fall
off this time of year, andthey've stayed up. So another good trend.
Although the unemployment rate, like Isaid, is up, is because

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it's because the workforce is expanding.And so what was the third thing we
were going to look at jobs,Well, we're crime crime, So we
tracked TPD incidents crime incidents. We'vebeen doing that for years, so we
can don't have to wait on theFBI numbers year and a half after they
happen, and so we tracked thesedaily reports and as of four months,

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four months into the year, theoverall crime incidents are down eleven percent compared
to twenty twenty three, which wasa high year. Violent crime is down,
so is property crime, So thatis that is a good thing again.
But fatal shootings, yeah, theyget they get all the they get
all the coverage. But this isa very interesting thing. Last year,

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so when you compare it to lastyear, there was three fatal shootings in
the first four months, okay,the last eight months of last year twenty
one. This year, there's ninefatal shootings up through the first four months.
So it's going to be interesting tosee how that comparison plays out.
Given the dramatic increase in the rateat the end of twenty twenty three.
We'll see, but that obviously isyou know, it is the thing that

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we want to really try to address. Are the is the decrease in crime
numbers seen in the in the mostprevalent zones like the zip code that's where
the violent crime was. So you'reyou get a decrease in robbery, which
is a very personal crime, sureyou go up to end. Also assault
and battery, they're both down,and so it will be interesting. I

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mean, the property crime is blowtwenty twenty two levels, which was lower.
Violent crime is in between twenty twentytwo and twenty twenty three, so
we know why. Well, youknow, the city put more. They
would argue that the Real Time CrimeCenter is having an effect. There's more
officers on the street because they've putmore money into law enforcement. So that's

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what they would argue. Back withmore with Steve Stewart next twenty one minutes
after the hour, and to thefriends followers, sick fans of Jeremy Mattlow
and Jack Porter, good morning,Thank you very much for tuning in and
contributing to my success here on theMorning Show with Prestin Scott. He's Grant
Allen and this is Steve Stewart,the executive editor of Tallast Reports. Every

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week we come together and talk aboutwhat's going on in the community. And
you know, we've talked about theacrimonious relationship that exists between John Daley and
Jeremy Mattlow. Jeremy made it verypersonal in the last election cycle, and
now we're in another cycle. Yeah, I think that if if you look
back, the elections are shaping up, obviously again about the control of the

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City Commission, and it seems likein between we don't get anything done because
it's three to two vote and soyou know, setting up the elections.
You know, is it fair tosay it's now come down to Democrats versus
extreme progressive Oh yeah, that's exactlywhat it is. And I think that
that actually what that does is ittakes a little bit of the political aspect

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out of local politics and you canactually start looking at at issues because it's
not all he's a Republican. Youknow, we're going to trash that from
that flag up. So now wegot to talk about policies. You know,
where were you on the Amazon fulfillmentcenter. Where are you on law
enforcement? You know, where areyou on economic growth? And so those
are more issues than we can focuson issues and stuff. Where are you

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and who's paying for it? Sorry? No, exactly. And I think
one of the things that I reallywant your listeners to understand is and because
sometimes you can get focused on payingattention to the wrong things. But if
you start looking at this national narrative, you're looking at the demonstrations at colleges.
This is a progressive element in ourbody politic that we have really in

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Florida been able to avoid for themost part. Okay, and I've said
this on a number of occasions,and I believe it now stronger than ever.
Is that what the progressive element inLeon County is trying to do is
trying to pull this national narrative andshove it down the throat of people in
Tallahassee. And they started with theyou know, the Summer of Social Justice,

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where they tried to connect the TPDto the to the other issues of
law enforcement that you might see insome of these bigger cities, and it
just wasn't there. It was afalse narrative. TPD has a pretty good
record when it comes to dealing withofficer related shootings, they have been cleared
and unfortunate incidents and so but stillthe progressives try to go after TV because

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there's one underlying thing that you see. Progressors don't like law enforcement. They
just don't well, they don't likelaws, they don't don't like boundaries,
they don't like the rules, right, and so we start to see that.
You see that, like I said, with the Summer of Social Justice,
we see this with Commissioner Mallow allegingplanning of evidence, which was again
based on a false narrative. Andso the question is you've got to look

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at these indications of where they wantto take the community. And we've talked
about Jack Porter traveling to these conferences. We've talked to David o'keeff now went
to Atlanta to a left wing conferencewhere the top two speakers, the main
headliners quote trainers, are defund thepolice movement types. Okay, so and
they're not answering questions about who's fundingthat. They're not answering questions, and

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so, you know, occurred tome and we've talked about this is what
are their priorities They can find thetime and the and the resources to go
to these conferences, but they won'tgo to the Greater Taise Chamber conference in
Emilia Island. And the thing is, look, they have tried to brand
the Chamber as these corrupt developers.Look at the list of people that go

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to the Chamber conference. These areDemocrats, Liberal Democrats, nonprofit, nonprofit
organizations, education institutions, tcc TMH. You know this is tyle a.
See. Now, you can saythat we shouldn't be an Amelia Island,
but the point is you've got electedofficials that are choosing to go to progressive

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training academies in Saint Louis, Atlanta, Washington, c But they won't drive
two and a half hours to getcritiqued or to get you know, to
find out what's just to hear fromthe business of community, well, the
nonprofit community, the education community,it's you know, the small business community.
They won't do it. I thinkthat that is a huge indicator of
the problem that lies ahead for usif we're not careful in evaluating who we

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vote for. It's also, Ithink important to remind people that there are
other officials elected officials that have goneto conferences and when asked who paid for
what they answered the questions, theypaid for it themselves, et cetera.
There are there are conferences that arenonpartisan League of Cities, you know,

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Council of Mayors or whatever that youknow that the government pays for. But
sometimes things are gifted. You filegift disclosure. I think everybody on the
City Commission has filed a gift disclosureat some point or another, other than
Jack Porter, Okay, maybe commissionMattlow because he doesn't travel at all.
But this there is a process forthis. And look, we're the ones

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asking the questquestions. They have tunedus out. It's up to other local
media TV stations. Where's Andy Alcockwhen you need him with the camera and
the microphone? Right, yeah?And miss him? Yeah, And so
we'll see what happens. We're goingto get more aggresses on trying to get
these answers, but I think it'svery important and it is It tells you
where we're headed by the way theseofficials are reacting, well, there's certainly

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where they want to take the cityin mass Exactly as for Commissioner Matt Low
not traveling, you got to stayput when you got dough rising. Just
saying thank you always, Steve,Thank you, Preston, Steve Steart,
Withers, Telelasher Reports, Subscribe toget the paper, Telelassho Reports dot Com.
Back with more of the Morning Show. The Morning Show with Preston Scott

(47:46):
on News Radio one hundred point sevenw FLA. Thirty six minutes, pass
the hour, pause for thought,moments away Scott Beacon next hour for a

(48:13):
few minutes talking about a piece he'srecently done about the Road to Riches runs
right through Washington, DC. Whata shock. Big Stories in the press
Box brought to you by Grow butCreative Marketing and digital expertise. Vaccine manufacturer
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can cause a deadly blood clotting condition. Fifty one people are currently suing for
financial compensation as a result of thecondition. Are we is there seriously?
And I'm just is anyone surprised?Anti Israel protesters got to win right now?

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Police, you're breaking down the encampmentat UCLA. It's ugly. It's
just ugly. It's getting uglier.Brown University they reached an agreement with the
anti protesters. They agreed to havea vote on divestment from Israel in whatever

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form that means. I mean,whatever form that takes. Why in the
world would you give into these knuckleheadsthe statement Brown has always prided itself on
resolving differences through dialogue, debate,and listening to each other. I cannot

(49:52):
condone the encampment, which was inviolation of university property policies. I was
hoping also been concerned about the escalationinflammatory rhetoric. I appreciate the sincere efforts
on the part of our students totake steps to prevent further escalete. Whatever
you loser, you just gave in. By the way, a little reported

(50:15):
story, there were a group often protesters arrested at the University of South
Florida. One of them, thirtynine year old Atah Oathman, had a
gun on his person. How long? How long Biden is now getting rid

(50:44):
of the debt of three hundred andseventeen thousand borrowers six point one billion dollars
for those who attended the art institutes, claiming that they were they were misrepresented
the value of that education and theworth of that degree and the job prospects,

(51:07):
etc. And today of course,his National Day of Prayer. Music
starts at eleven thirty. The prayertime begins at noon, noon to one
fifteen. If you cannot go tothe state capitol historic steps, sorry,
the steps of the historic old Capital. If you cannot go, take some
time between noon and one fifteen topray. Just pray for our nation,

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Pray for this train wreck that isunfolding around us. And lastly, Madison
County has flipped. It is nowRepublican that didn't take long back with doctor
Steve Steeerson. This is the MorningShow with Preston Scott. It is show

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fifty one fifty. Do you wantto reach out Preston at iHeartRadio dot com.
Let's talk about our born legged friends, be they feeline or canine.
And we are joined by doctor SteveSteveson of the Bradfordville Animal Hospital. Hello,

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my friend, how are you hey, Chreston, I'm doing well.
How are you well? We wentfrom spring to summer pretty quickly. Yeah,
we didn't have two springs like normal, dude, did we No,
we didn't have much tell me now, you know. Every year I feel
like it's important to remind folks,especially those that are moving here from other

(52:44):
parts of the country that may notunderstand the combination of heat and humidity that
we face in this part of Florida. Just some of the dues and don'ts
of keeping our dogs and cats aliveas the heat starts to build. Yeah,
no, preston, as the tempersget warm, it's getting up above
ninety degrees that you really really carefulwith your dogs and cats and leaving them

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outside. If you do have adog that's outdoors, need to make sure
that to keep them safe, theyalways have several things need to be available
to them. Number one, ofcourse is water. They've always got to
have plenty of cool fresh water todrinks. And I have bowl sting out
in the middle of the sun.It's got to be cool water. So
keep that bowl in the shade.That's the most important thing. And then

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on top of that, make surethe dogs have plenty of access to shades
they can get out of the sun. Dogs can't sweat like we do to
control their body tempt or. Theyhave to pant to blow off excess heat,
and that's not a very efficient system. And so if they're out of
the hot sun in the middle ofthe day, it can be deadly for
them, so make sure they haveplenty of shade to get into. Then
moving air is really important. Ifyou have a can, put a fan

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or have a ceiling found in theback porch, they can get under that.
Moving air really helps them to cooldown as well. So it's a
good idea to have. Let yourdog if these outside of your cat have
access to a fan like a ceilingfan, that can get under the cool
down as well. So the otherthings you can do, one of them
is if you do walk your dogand exercise them, probably want to do

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it early in the morning. That'sthe coolest time of day right now,
much much better than going in theevening. Sometimes that heat, even though
the sun's gone down, the heatwill linger for several hours, so it
may be better to walk them earlyin the morning was the coolest time of
day to avoid on the heat forthem. Let's talk about doctor Steverson.
Let's remind everybody about that asphalt theroadway problem with the build up of heat

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as well. Oh. Absolutely,pressing the asphalt definitely retains heat. You
walk up there and take your handand put your hand down on the asphalt,
you can feel how hot it is. Even nine or ten o'clock in
the evening, sometimes the asphalt isstill really really warm, and of course
dogs absorb that heat and you can'tget rid of it even at night,
And so avoid that hot asphalt duringthe day. That asphalt can get up

(54:57):
to where it's scalding. It canburn your feet or your dog's feet,
and so you don't want to haveyour dog walking on that asphalt in the
heat of the day when the sun'sbeing gone on either, So be really
careful with asphalt. Concrete is notquite as bad, but walking on grass
certainly is way better than any ofthose other two surfaces for them to keep
them cool. Tell me this whenit comes to, for example, leaving

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water out, we talked about puttingit in the shade. A lot of
people have metal bowls for their dogs, for their food and for their water.
Metal seems to me to be somethingthat would conduct a little more heat.
Are there. Does it matter thetype of container that you put the
water in, you know, president, if it's in the shade, a

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metal bowl is okay. Okay,a ceramic bowl it probably doesn't absorb quite
as much heat, But if it'sin the shade it should be fine.
Either way now out in the sun. Definitely want to be careful what kind
of bowl you iss ab. Iwouldn't recommend puting the water in the sun
in any case, so having thewater out in the shade is better.
The main thing there's maysure you haveplenty of it. You don't theend to
be running out of water in themiddle of the day and you're at work

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and don't know it. So makesure they have access to plenty of fresh
cool water. What the issue ofa fan I've long wondered because I knew
dogs in particular, they don't perspire, They have to ventilate by panting.
Does hot, moving hot air helpthem even though the hairs the air is

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really really hot and humid. Doesthat benefit them if they're in a fan
under and getting hot air? Youknow what actually does because that moving air
has some convection to it, andthat's okay. Convection helps to cool them
even if it's hot air on aback porch when it's ninety degrees outside.
That is better than no air movement. And what about cats? Same thing

(56:49):
with cats. Cats are actually lessefficient at getting it at heat than dogs
are. But cats user are moresedentary and don't run around in the back
of your heart like a dog wheel. So we see left cats with heat
choke, and we do dogs forthat reason. But casts are susceptible just
as well. All right, doctorSteverson, thanks very much. We'll pick
up there and talk again in acouple of weeks. Great, thanks Bresting,

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Thank you, sir, Doctor SteveSteverson with us pause for thought.
Segment's been with me for a while, sort of like money time. We
have these segments Healthy Expectations, optimumhealth. Naturally, I mean, we
just we do things to better yourlife and in this case your pets.

(57:30):
We come back, give you aroad trip idea. But first introduce you
to the nine. It's the MorningShow with Trustin Scott on News Radio one
hundred point seven w FLA, fiftytwo minutes past the hour. Because of

(57:52):
the fingerprint and echo, if youwill, of this radio program, I
decided it would be appropriate to listenthe news of those arrested for protesting at
the University of Florida, pointing outthat nearly all of these protesters, and

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even the young Jewish students at theseschools that are standing with Palestinians, they
would be the first to be tobe dead. They would be the first
beheaded by the Jihadis. They wouldbe the first to be executed. The
LGBTQ plus crowd would be the firstto be tossed off buildings. Just they're

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not your friends, protesters, Theynever will be. They hate you.
You are useful idiots to borrow aterm from another story. But these are
the nine pro Palestinian protesters. Andon the chance that you know some of
them, I just wanted you tobe aware. Twenty three year old Kiley
Nicole Gliwa, twenty year old RosannaYeshidah Bizram, twenty three year old Alison

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Rooney, twenty year old Tess JadenSiegel, twenty four year old Mary Caitlin
bor Boom. Promise you if youknow Mary Caitlyn, you know her right?
I mean bor Boom. That's nota common name. Twenty year old

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Augustino Matthias Pulliam, twenty six yearold Parker Stanley Hovis, twenty one year
old Charlie Canal Pringle, I wonderhe was who he was named after.
And twenty year old Alan Frisscherry.There's your nine. Just again, I

(59:51):
want to make sure that you canapplaud their efforts. When you see him,
if you know them, buy hima beer, get him a you
know, a fruit snack, youknow, congratulate them on their success in
school. Well done, well done. Let's plan a roadie traveling the fruited

(01:00:15):
plain. Honestly, it would beawesome if I could find a way to
do this show traveling the country.I would get up early to do this
show from the West, as longas I didn't have to live there,
as long as I could just keepmoving different place every day. Break out

(01:00:38):
the mobile studio, sit down,do a show from wherever, move on
to the next place. That'd befun. That would be awesome. The
technology exists. Anyway, here's yourroad trip idea. Not from our book
Unique America. This I just ranacross. Opened yesterday the John and Annie

(01:01:01):
Glenn Museum, and it is openedup in New Concord, Ohio for the
season. It is where John spenthis formative years. It's a museum dedicated
to where he basically grew up.Did you know who his wingman? He

(01:01:22):
was one of the Aces of Aces. He signed up when he was twenty
to be a United States Marine Corpspilot, a Navy pilot. Do you
know who his wingman was? You'regonna love this. This is right up
your alley. John Glenn's wingman wasTed Williams, the Ted Williams of Major

(01:01:50):
League Baseball Hall of Fame. Hesaid he was honored, said he was
a fearless pilot, brilliant pilot,honored to fly with him. Cool stuff.
Check out the Museum New Concord,Ohio. It is the third hour,

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second day of the month of May. Hi, thanks very much for
making time. We appreciate it,always do. Always grateful, humbled that
you choose to share time with useach and every day. He's Grant Allen
running the radio program I'm Preston ScottShow fifty one to fifty of the morning
show. Great to be with youand please to have back with us on
the program. Scott Beacon, youknow about the B Line blog and Scott,

(01:02:52):
how are you today? I'm fantastic, Preston, how are you?
I am terrif I shared with youin an email when I dug through your
story on as answering the question doesthe Road to Riches run through Washington,
DC? There were some things thatdid not surprise me at all, and

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there was one thing that in thecontext in which it was shared, shocked
me. So let's start at thebeginning. Where did the idea for this
piece come from. Well, Icame across recently a fantastic website. It's
called the Quiver Quantitative, and itgoes by the website. Anyone can look

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it up quiverquant dot com, andthey do a net worth calculation of all
members of Congress on a daily basis. Now they don't privately held companies,
they don't value those every day.That's yearly. But the publicly traded stocks
and bonds, they do, infact, an hour by hour net worth
calculation for those. So it wasinteresting because when I saw that website,

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one of the things that was highlightedthey do a daily calculation of gains or
losses of members of Congress. Andin one day, about a month ago,
Nancy Pelosi had a gain of onemillion dollars in the market. And
I'll put that in context. Shemakes one hundred and seventy four thousand dollars
a year and she made one milliondollars in the stock and bond market in

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one day. Pretty unbelievable. Now, help us understand do elected members of
Congress. Are they using like someblind trust or something like that, or
I mean, how is it possiblethat they're benefiting to the extent that they
seem to well? Nancy Pelosi's case, I mean, she does have a

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husband, Paul Pelosi, who's owneda venture capital company for a number of
years, But you know, he'seighty four years old. I mean,
you know, it's hard to believethat he's that involved on a day to
day basis making that much money's adventurecapital. You know, most of the
money that the Pelosis have made thelast ten years have been in the stock
market trading Silicon Valley names is wheremost of that money's come from, which

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you know, you could argue,well, they're California people, it makes
sense. But then, I meanI mentioned to you Peter Schweitzer's a good
friend of this program. He wrotea book where he investigated the remarkable timing
of how members of Congress seem todo so well in the stock market repeatedly.
And you're finding something similar in whatyou're looking at. Yes, definitely,

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And not to then make this abipartisan argument. Mitch McConnell, yep,
in the Senate. You know he'sgot a net worth of forty three
million. They're forty six million dollarsright now. It was twenty three million
dollars ten years ago. And thisis a man that for the last fifty
years has been on a government paycheck. You know, it's it's pretty unbelievable.

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And in my blog post, youknow, we really should have had
them run on the Social Security TrustFund with regard to the way the way
they've invested that money. We shouldn'thave kept in the US treasuries. It
should have been McConnell and Pelosi investingthat money for the benefit of the American
people. And that was a pointPeter was making. It's on both sides

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of the aisle, people enriching themselveswhile working for taxpayers, and they craft
these kind of interesting barricades. Sometimesit's just being married to Paul Pelosi.
For Nancy, that's her fallback.Now. There are members of Congress Florida
Senator Rick Scott is one, MittRomney another. They come into office though

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as independently wealthy guys before they evergot to Washington exactly, and Rick Scott
is considered to be the wealthiest memberof Congress right now. I think about
three hundred and twenty six million ofnet worth. But amazingly, Nancy Pelosi
is number two ahead of met Romney, who again you mentioned, you know,
made a lot of money in theprivate sector with Bain Capital over the

(01:07:04):
years. So it is. Itis pretty incredible. And miss McConnell is
number twenty five out of five hundredand thirty five members of Congress. He's
not done very well for himself.He should be ashamed. Yeah, Scott,
standby because when we come back,there's another interesting little tidbit that came

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up out of this piece. Ifyou want to follow Scott's work, it's
Bline blogger dot blogspot dot com.Scott Beacon with me on the Morning Show.
It's The Morning Show with Preston Scottworking hard to provide information to you,

(01:07:49):
clearly on the backs of others.It's good to be with you.
And in this case, the guydoing the heavy lifting is Scott b getting
piecing together some intel that he's pulledout. And I'm going to just pull
right from your your piece here,Scott, So does the road to Riches

(01:08:09):
run through Washington, d C?Hello, Oh, I thought you were
going to quot further from my peace. Now I was setting you up.
That was the fastball in the middleof the plate, and I totally whiffed.
Well And answer to your question,does it does the road for Richard

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run from the Washington See? Itapparently does, except if you're Donald J.
Trump. Oh you gotta share that. If you go back the time
he announced he was running for president. Forbes magazine does an annual the Richest
Americans in the country, and thentheir twenty fifteen survey, he was estimated

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to have a net worth of fourpoint five billion dollars. Today they lift
him as in a net worth ofhalf of that amount approximately. So it
certainly did not work out for DonaldJ. Trump with regard to the riches,
and I think that's one of thereasons that he's so disliked by those

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in Washington. You know, allwe heard during the presidency of Donald J.
Trump was how he was going toenrich himself. He was in it
for himself. He didn't care aboutanything else but putting money in his pocket.
And yet he's the one president thatwe've had in my lifetime or your
lifetime that went through four years andcame out poor when he left office.

(01:09:36):
Then when he came in it's it'squite incredible, especially in contrast to Barack
Obama or or Joe Biden. Right, Yes, well I was pretty incredible.
Yeah, and and and for youknow, for example, George W.

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Bush, the Bush family is wellknown to be very well off before
George W. Went into office.I mean, my goodness, he was.
He was an owner of a professionalbaseball franchise. But in the case
of Obama and Clinton, I meanObama was almost destitute at times in his
life. I mean it was hiswife's salary that kept them afloat. And

(01:10:20):
now look at him, no,exactly exactly. And Bill Clinton in the
same way. I mean they bothhad very very little in the way net
worth and the now both of them, I think, are considered now to
be the if you take all thepresidents, would be considered probably the top
ten of the richest presidents of alltime. Scott, what do you think

(01:10:42):
that the important takeaway here is?I know that in your in your pieces,
you usually just lay out information,let people kind of draw whatever conclusions
they want to draw from the informationpresented, the data that you're offering.
But from a personal perspective, what'sthe takeaway for you? When you were
finished writing this and you just kindof reflected on it. What is what

(01:11:03):
stands out now? The biggest thingthat stands out to me is the you
know, the dual standard here andthe way Donald Trump has been painted as
someone that's completely selfish, doesn't careabout anyone but himself, and the fact
if you actually look at it,you know it's been a selfless act for

(01:11:24):
him to get involved in politics.He would be much better off and much
richer if he'd never got involved inpolitics, because they've really worked to tarnish
his brand. Specifically, if youlook at COVID, it's kind of interesting
one of the reasons that his numberswent down, if you'll think about it,
everything that he had, hotels,casinos, et cetera. Were drastically

(01:11:47):
affected by COVID. What was notaffected by COVID, What benefits by COVID.
It was Silicon Valley. It waswhere Nancy Pelosi or Mitch McConnell,
et cetera. Maybe had money investedin those stock of those companies did very
well in COVID. Everything that DonaldTrump had was hurt, and he really
made decisions at the time that workedagainst his self interest. I appreciate the

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time has always got be well andwe'll talk in soon. Okay, thanks
so much pressing, and do saya prayer for the United States of America
National Prayer. Absolutely, we're askingpeople to do it each and every hour.
Thank you. My friend Scott Beaconwith us this morning. And again,
the website is really easy. It'sb line Blogger, b line Blogger,
all one word dot blogspot dot com, sixteen past the hour to show

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you how remarkably screwed up our nationis right now, bereft of leadership,
just leadership anywhere. Hellou, Hellou. The heads of these universities cowards,

(01:13:28):
the lot of them. Okay,not all of them. I suspect in
states where there's Republican leadership that hassome backbone and has some true conservatism running
through its veins, we're just notseeing this stuff, you know. I
suppose we've fallen into the trap alittle bit. It's spreading across the country,

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not really, it's spreading in theplaces you would expect it to be
bastions of a liberalism, the fertileground of democrats. That's where it's at.
So you got the Ivy League schools, you got UCLA, the left

(01:14:09):
coast appropriately named, and what aren'twe talking about? This story sucks the
air out of the room, andthere's some there's some fairness to that.
We need to be paying attention toit. Will you remember those girls we
talked about that just they If youdidn't see the video West Virginia middle school

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girls refusing to compete against a boyin the shot put did you see the
video? They got the shot putin their in their hand, they walked
into the ring and then they walkedThey put it down and walked out,
walked into the put it down,walked out. That's what they did.

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They were not going to compete.So you know what they've been how they've
been rewarded for their bravery. TheHarrison County Board of Education has banned the
girls from future competitions. This isWest Virginia. If that doesn't speak to

(01:15:31):
the infiltration of the public school systemby illiberal sickos, I don't know what
does. That's just sick that istwisted. These girls silently. They didn't
make a big deal of it,and honestly, if they had, I'd
have been fine with that too.If they'd have had a press conference,

(01:15:55):
maybe they could have done. Youknow what they should have done. They
should have taken a faux shot,put smashed it in the ground like a
gender reveal, and shown blue powdercoming up for the dude. So thankfully
the state of West Virginia Attorney GeneralPatrick Morrissey, running for governor, he

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has filed a lawsuit. He issuing the Board of Education on behalf of
the girls, and this could getthe case to the United States Supreme Court,
and I hope. So now here'swhat's interesting. There's a strategy out
there that the left employees at differenttimes and they settle cases and they stop

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fighting in small like this one becausethey don't want the case to go to
the United States Supreme Court. Theydon't want this thing to be ruled on
so they can keep bullying people inother parts of the country, in other
jurisdictions. Somehow, this has toget settled. It has to get settled.

(01:17:10):
The fact that we are, onone hand, all the world is
staring at these idiots at these universities, and no one's talking about the constant

(01:17:32):
hitting of the nail on the headdriving in this transgender lunacy. No one's
talking about that except a few placesoutlets like us. We're talking about both.
But we've been talking about this wholetransgender thing since the outset onset of

(01:17:53):
it. This is unconscionable to me, but it illustrats again the infiltration.
How deep illiberals are in West Virginia. I mean there were really they've taken
over a school board in Harrison Countyanyway, Just keeping you up to speed,

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twenty seven past the hour, bigstories in the press box, some
fyis and no buzz buzz still tocome, Preston Scott. The greatest trick
the Devil ever pulled was convincing theworld he didn't exist. On news radio
one hundred point seven double UFLA.Man, what a busy day. But

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that's Thursday, right Friday. Ican't wait. There are there are stories
that that filter themselves out of theregular shows Monday through Thursday. They just
they just scream Friday. They're notquite evergreen. Evergreen's a term that we

(01:19:15):
use to describe a story that Ican pull out anytime, anytime I want,
and I have a I have ablinder full of stories like that that
slow news days come they're on abunch of those, or a guest cancels
or doesn't call in or something justsomething weird. And I've got these evergreen

(01:19:36):
stories and and and so I havea ton of those, but I have
other stories that they're not ever green. They're a little bit more timely than
than that in terms of they're sortof now related, but just interesting as
all get out. And so wewill, uh, we will uncork some
of those tomorrow on the program TheBest and the Worst Be. Also,

(01:20:00):
we're going to explain the significance ofthe number one hundred and forty eight.
That's your quiz, your your that'syour your assignment. What is significant about
one hundred? Only one hundred andforty eight, Only one hundred and forty
eight, So what would that berelating to only one hundred and forty eight.

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So that's tomorrow on the program,along with what's the Bee Friday,
The Best and Worst Good News,the be Headlines, and so forth.
Big Stories in the press Box broughtto you by Grove Creative marketing and digital
expertise. Scott Beacon referenced it.We've talked about it. We talked about
it Monday with Pam Olsen, whois the president of the Florida Prayer Network.

(01:20:48):
She is I mean, listen tothese titles, Executive Director, Hilltop
House of Prayer, State Capital Coordinatorfor the National Day of Prayer Task Force,
State Director, Florida Prayer Caucus,Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation member. I
mean, yeah, go get them, pay them. Today's the day.

(01:21:12):
It is National Day of Prayer,East Coast noon, Central time Zone noon,
Mountain time Zone noon, Pacific timezone. You get the idea,
at noon all across the country,so as the sun moves across the country,
prayer will begin at high noon ineach time zone across the country in

(01:21:40):
state capitals, all of the statecapitals in the Eastern time zone, there
will be prayer happening, asking Godfor help. But we have to humble
ourselves. That's a big story.Vaccine manufacturer Astrozenica admitting that its COVID nineteen

(01:22:08):
vaccine can cause a blood clotting conditionthat is fatal. No way, Brown
University President. University officials have negotiateda settlement with protesters. They've agreed to
some of their demands. Yeah,it's a good idea. I think Joe

(01:22:31):
Biden discharging another three hundred and seventeenthousand borrowers six point one billion dollars of
student loan debt. They attended theart institutes. They're just finding ways.
They're just finding ways. And MadisonCounty Flip's Republican. So now fifty seven

(01:22:56):
of Florida's sixty seven counties are readmore to come. Some FYI is next,
Preston Scott? Can you fly thisplane and land it? Surely you
can't be serious. I am serious, and don't call me Shirley on news
radio one hundred point seven WUFLA.There's some random stuff here, three three

(01:23:35):
different stories. The Canadian municipality ofthe I'll delay Madeleine in the Gulf of

(01:23:55):
St. Lawrence. I was gonnasay, let me guess Quebec. Is
the Gulf of Saint Lawrence a partof Quebec. Maybe, I don't know,
but they now require a QR codeto be there and to leave.
I don't know. It's not Quebec, but it's close, well kind of

(01:24:17):
close. Yeah, Okay, there'sa part of it that touches it,
the Les de la Madeline. Thiswill say that the requirement of a QR
code to enter or leave the archipelagowill only be for tourists, while residents
will require to show their driver's licenseto enter or leave. Well, I'm

(01:24:44):
not gonna be going there anytime soon. They say that they're going to be
charging thirty dollars to any visitor whocomes, anyone who just who visits?
Do you think this is one bigplot to keep tourists away actually to keep
things local? I'm just I mean, that certainly is what some thought,
but residents aren't real happy. Therewas supposed to be a QR code for

(01:25:10):
residents as well. Want to beable to follow ven you come and go?
What could possibly go wrong? Secondstory, Guess who's delivering the keynote
speech to the Florida Democratic Leadership Bluetwenty twenty four event. Joe Uncle Joe

(01:25:38):
John Fetterman. Oh really, nowlet's do Okay, we all made fun
of but he turned out to moderatebased ogre man at times. At times
exactly, it's more just an onlinememe. Now that's it's kind of funny.
I mean, yeah, he's he'sgot his issues, but I take

(01:26:00):
dealing with him who seems to bekind of an independent minded Don't you dare
bully me to you guy, whichI can respect own your beliefs even if
I disagree with you, and you'lldialogue with I'm good with that. Here's

(01:26:20):
what makes this interesting. Do youremember hearing the story from Steve Stewart that
Nicky Freed, who's the chair ofthe Democrat Party in Florida, had put
out some uber progressives from a localpolitical Democrat party in another city in Florida.

(01:26:42):
Yeah, yeah, I do rememberthat. Now, of all the
people she has coming down, she'sgot a guy who is a notorious moderate
among Democrats. It's just interesting.I don't want to read too much into
it, but I think I thinkyou can read something into the decision to
invite him over any number of crazieswho are experts at gaslighting. Right,

(01:27:10):
So is this now a concession byNikki Freed that the extremest wing of the
party is not going to win anythingin Florida. It's just going to cause
them more and more losses. I'mjust asking the question. I saw this
not good. We can't have theDemocrat Party coming to their senses. We

(01:27:32):
need them to stay on, staycrazy, Yes, stay crazy. Crap.
This isn't good. But I meanthere's the ad. Yeah, I
I think this is worth noting.What you do with that, I don't
know. It's an interesting discussion.Nonetheless. Right, Yeah, not worth

(01:27:54):
like a whole segment of the show, but worth mentioning. Yeah, keeping
on the radar. And then there'sthis line the Department of Justice has argued
before the Supreme Court that droning Americancitizens is permissible because Obama said it.
Obama's Department of Justice said it couldbe done. So they're doing it because
Obama said it was okay. Justjust think about that for a second.

(01:28:16):
They're arguing before the United States SupremeCourt. Well it's okay because Barack Obama
said it was okay. Yah,at least they're being honest. Now they
just we're gonna nucas all. It'sit's incredible. So it surveilling US citizens

(01:28:43):
with a drone is cool because becauseObiden. But Obama said it was cool,
that it was okay. See,they weren't challenged on it. It
came up on the presidential immunity arguments. That's how this back with the final
second. Okay, I said,no buzz buzz What do you think of

(01:29:20):
no buzz buzzes? Uh, nobuzz buzz. I don't know's it's like
alcohol free beer, like it's referringto beer like Heineken zero or whatever they're

(01:29:41):
at rolling out with like this zeropercent alcohol content beer now on the front
end. For those of you thatdo not know, I've never had a
drink, never had a beer.I couldn't tell you what a beer tastes
like. All I can tell youis I think they smell gross. I
think they're just like nasty. Butthat's me. However, alcohol free beer

(01:30:06):
is one of the hottest growth trendsin the industry, thirty four point five
percent rise in sales. You've gotAthletic Brewing Company. Six of the top
twenty five biggest selling non alcoholic beerbrands Heineken zero point zero, number two,

(01:30:35):
get Us zero point zero, numberthree, Budweiser zero number four,
Klaus Tailor non alcoholic at number five, rounding out the list of the top
five sellers. There are three reasonswhy this is happening. One, alcohol

(01:30:56):
free beer now tastes like real beer. Okay, nothing like some good old
barley I okay. Women have madezero proof beer a regular drinking option.
Women are driving the alcohol free categoryapparently. And number three, young adults

(01:31:19):
drink less beer than past generations.They don't want to have club soda.
I don't know what's wrong with alittle dictor pepper. I'm just saying little
ginger ale some root beer. Sothey gravitate now to the to the alcohol
free beer. But it's only threepercent of the total beer sales. Just

(01:31:48):
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of the day Colossians four to twobeing a national day of Prayer. That's
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bigger of the big stories. Itstarts at noon eastern steps of the Old
Capital here in Florida, right thereon Monroe Street facing Appalachi Parkway. If
you can go, go, Ifyou can't go, pray, pray anyway,

(01:32:31):
Madison County. Flip's Republican. There'san answer to prayer right there.
Vaccine manufacturer Astrozenica admits to stroke sideeffects their vaccine. Turns out, does
blood does clot blood? What Ijust I'm shocked by that revelation. These

(01:32:58):
the vaccine. They didn't, itcould be bad for people. No.
Anti Israel protesters celebrate a win atBrown University, Biden Harris giving another three
hundred and seventeen thousand borrowers. TaxpayerGrace talked to Scott Beacon about the Road
to Riches running right through Washington,d C. Unless your Donald Trump tomorrow,

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we'll do it again the Friday edition. Can't wait. Thanks for listening,
friends, have a great day.