Ep. 5155: COVID Origins Were Known Early

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Thurs. May 9, 2024. 

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Episode Transcript

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Good morning. I was trying tocome up with something I don't know,
profound to say to be the firstwords of the morning for some of you.
But it's just me so that thepossibility of that happening is just so
remote. Anyway, Good morning,Thursday, May ninth, Show fifty one

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fifty five of The Morning Show withPreston Scott. I am Preston. He
is Grant, and it's a delightto share time with you. As always,
I'll tell you about the programming alittle bit, but we like to
begin the program with a little bitof scripture. We call this segment the
sixth, seventeen sixty three segment becausethis was inspired by the Supreme Court's ridiculous

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decision to say that teachers were notallowed to read scripture to start the school
day or at any point in theschool day. They couldn't do it.
Now, sadly, a lot ofpeople have said, look at that,
we kicked God out of schools.No, we didn't. We just made

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a dumb decision. But since teachersare no longer allowed to share a verse
of scripture, which I remember,despite that ruling, I had teachers that
did it. Anyway, Yeah,suppose if you're going to be a rebel,

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be on the right side, huh. But I decided that this would
be our way of replacing that andgiving you something to share with your kids.
If you are not a person thatspends much time in scripture or first

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thing in the morning, you're busyand you haven't necessarily laid anything out.
I just think it's important to startyour kids with a verse, a prayer,
a hug, and I love you. I think it really matters how
you send your kids to school.It matters a lot. Being a grouchy

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parent first thing in the morning juststinks for your kids, and so I
challenge you to get past it.If that's if that's an issue, well
that's just who I Well, changewho you are. Your kids deserve better
than that. They don't deserve beingyelled at first thing in the morning,

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screamed at. Do your parenting andyou won't have to be upset about something
as they start their day, becausethat just that just it ruins their day.
And so our scripture today really kindof underscores this thought. And if

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it sounds like a mild rebuke,okay, it doesn't apply to everybody,
but it applies to some and ifyou don't have kids, it still applies
to you because you determine largely whatkind of day you're gonna have. I

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try my very best to be consistent. I'm not perfect, boy, ask
anybody who knows me. I amfar from it. But what I try
to be is consistent. Listen towhat this verse says Hebrews thirteen eight.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday andtoday and forever. Yes, he's God.

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He's able to walk that path ashe did without stumbling. But our
goal should be to chase after that. And what that verse says to me
is one word consistency. We gravitateto God in part because he is the

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same yesterday, today and forever.If we can find a way to try
to chase that and be as consistentas we can be, we help our
children, We help our spouse,we help our co workers, we help

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people around us because they can counton us being and fill in that blank
consistent. Ten minutes after the hour, take a peek inside the Patriots Almanac.
There you go, We're being consistent. And it's the Morning Show with
Preston Scott. It's the Morning Showwith Preston Scott. Already Thursday, We're

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nearly a third of the way throughthe month of May. Already land of
Ghoshen. My gosh, it's justspeeding right on by this year. I'll
be honest with you, I'm nervousfor November. They're already getting ready to

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a cheat. A lot of peoplesay, what stupid. Of course they
are never stopped. Yeah, anyway, let's see here. May Night,
seventeen fifty four, the first politicalcartoon, sorry, political cartoon published in

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America appeared in Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette. Do you know what it was?
That's a great trivia question. Thefirst political cartoon was of what Franklin himself
probably designed, what is called theWoodcut, which shows a snake severed into

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pieces representing Britain's American colonies. Thedrawing was a reminder that the colonies must
unite to defend themselves as they enteredthe French and Indian War. Now this
is seventeen fifty four, mind you. In an article accompanying the cartoon,

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Franklin warned of quoting the present disunitedstate of the British colonies and the extreme
difficulty of bringing so many different governmentsand assemblies to agree in any speedy and
effectual measures for our common defense andsecurity. Franklin may have chosen a snake

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because of a popular superstition that issnake had been cut into pieces, would
come back to life if the pieceswere joined before sunset. Dozens of newspapers
throughout the colonies reprinted the cartoon.Years later, the Revolutionary War was approaching,
the snake image became a favorite symbolfor many believed in unity and love

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of liberty. Join or die iswhat it said underneath the severed snake.
Prior to that, on this date, in fifteen oh two, Christopher Columbus
Sales from Cadiz, Spain, onhis fourth and final trip to the New
World. Eighteen sixty five, RichardGatling receives a patent for chewing gum.

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Now I'm just kidding, the Gatlinggum that made it funny. No,
the Gatling gun, of course,although that is funny. The Gatling gum

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early version of a machine gun.Nineteen twenty six, explorer Richard Byrd and
co pilot Floyd Bennett claimed to havemade the first flight over the North Pole.
It's been disputed by some, andin nineteen seventy four, the House
Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against PresidentNixon. You deserve to know if your
president's cork. Well, I'm nota Kirk. Sixteen minutes past the hour,

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we come back old people. Youdefine that however you want. Listen
up doctor David Harts this morning willjoin us Steve Stewart. Of course,
next hour. Got a great roadtrip idea if you're going to do some

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traveling this summer, and we'll tryto offer some thoughts for those that may
not have time to make a longextended trip, but things a little closer
to the region. We'll do thatas we get to June. We can
also talked this morning about divorce.This topic was spurred by a story I

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came across that I will share.And then, of course you got the
big stories in the press box.How do you define old age? What
does old mean to you? Isit a certain number or is it more

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just kind of where you are.I've met some really old thirty year olds,
forty year olds. Conversely, I'vemet some very very young sixty sixty
five, seventy eighty year olds.I don't I know how we generally grab

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that thought of older citizens and adults, and we look at it through the
lens of you know, when peoplepass away, you know, when they
reach older old age. Came acrossan interesting mental health article Epic Times on

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how online social engagement can influence olderadults, especially anxiety and depression. And
the study was kind of interesting andenlightening. And for those of you look,
a lot of older people wake upearly in the morning. They like

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to get busy, get doing things. If they're out working outside or doing
any activities, they want to doit in the cooler part of the day.
Morning he can really linger, especiallyas we get into the summertime.
But the study was published in NewMedia and Society, and researchers found that

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certain social media activities were associated withhigher rates of depression and anxiety. The
activities included primarily looking at photos ofnon family members, answering questions for others,
and checking in on people suddenly absentfrom the online community. For example,

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looking at photos of family was notrelated to depression or anxiety. Looking
at photos of non family members resultedin higher rates of anxiety. And so
there's a list of activities that arepretty healthy for older adults that are online.

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Other studies out there indicated that anxietyand depression have become increasingly common among
older people. Some research suggests ratesof depression among older adults around the world
maybe as high as forty percent andanxiety rates fourteen to seventeen percent. It

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appears as though the internet can playa role good or bad. It's dependent,
it's somewhat nuanced. If you useonline social engagement as a replacement for
in person relational contact, you're likelyin some trouble. Social isolation and loneliness

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are key risk factors for poor mentalhealth and older people. Now some of
these risks can be mitigated through onlineinteractions. There are other risk factors for
anxiety and loneliness and depression, chronicdisease, poor mobility, hearing and vision

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loss. You know, I know, for example, that hearing loss causes
people to feel more and more detachedand isolated, and it does. It
has been proven to have a correlationto mental health. Social media can help

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bridge some of that when used properly, when you're doing the right things with
it. Here's what I think itsays to everyone. If you have older
people in your life and you area not so old person, you have
a responsibility to be in their life. If you are a son or daughter

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of an aging parent, if youare a grandson granddaughter of aging grandparents,
make the effort for Pete's sake tobe in their life. If they can't
come to you, find ways tocome to them. And that's what this

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study is showing. Those are thepositive things of social media. I mean,
my goodness today, I remember itwas pipe dream material that you could
talk on the phone and see eachother. Take a few minutes once a

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week, once every two weeks.Watch the difference it makes in people in
and around your life. Twenty sevenminutes after the hour. And for you
old folks use social media wisely.It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

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You're right to it. Big storiesin the press box this morning Thursday,
in no particular order. The SelectSubcommittee on the RONA Virus has released a

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document set of documents. Brace yourselves. This is going to be shocking.
The State depart knew in July oftwenty twenty the origin of the COVID pandemic,
that it was a lab leak inWuhan, and they lied to us.

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They have lied since July of twentytwenty. If you believe that even
that, I don't know what tobelieve that our government says about much of
anything, but we at least knowthat they said publicly something totally different than

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what is now known. They knewprivately. The State Department lied, the
federal government lied. The interesting questionhere, there's a series of questions that
come to mind when you look atthis story and the information that has been

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released. Why was there a coverup? What was the point? Was
the point to cover up the factthat we were funding gain of function research
and we're working hand in hand withthe Chinese government? Why did they lie

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for years? Did Donald Trump know? Or let's go back to that admission
of a CIA officer to an undercoverjournalist working for O'Keefe media group, when
he said, we didn't tell himanything. We kept all kinds of things

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from him. Certainly that gives Trumpplausible deniability. What about Mike Pompeo because
he was Secretary of State. Thoseare important questions that need to be answered.

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The Georgia Court of Appeals has agreedto review the decision by Fulton County
Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee when hekept Fanny Willis on the case and did
not discharge her for lying. TheGeorgia Court of Appeals has agreed that yes,

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they think it should be reviewed hisdecision to keep her on the case.
That is important, FBI, ifyou believe him issuing a warning along
with other US agencies that there isa renewed effort by North Korean hackers linked

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to the Military Intelligence Agency for NorthKorea. They are using fake user names
legitimate domain names to impersonate individuals fromtrusted organizations, including think tanks, higher
education institutions, to gain trust,build rapport, and then to eventually steal

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information. So be very very carefulif you start getting emails from that trusted
organization that you've been donating money tocheck and verify. Here's let me tell
you what I do. If Iget something and it just something looks off
to me, You look for misspellsand little tiny things because your eyes will

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automatically correct wrong spelling. You haveto be diligent. But what I'll do
is I'll just type in the siteitself. I won't click a link,
and I'll look up that story orthat whatever and find it for myself and
then Lastly, US Navy secretary announcesa nuclear powered attack sub will be named

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the USS Miami. It's not thefirst time Miami's been honored, but it
will be the latest time. Fortyminutes past the hour, come back with
a harbinger The Morning Show with PrestonScott on News Radio one hundred point seven
WFLA. By the way, beforeI move ahead real quickly, can you

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name the Secretary of the United StatesNavy. When I saw the name and
saw a picture, I was like, really, not for any reason other
than I guess I just didn't expecta guy named Carlos del Toro to be

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the Secretary of the United States Navy. But he is Cuban American rose through
the ranks. Wow. Cool,good on him. All right. Most
of you probably have never heard ofSteward Health. It is the largest physician

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led hospital operator in the United States, so that would lead me to think
that it is owned by physicians,a consortium of physicians. Fair enough.
It is filed for bankruptcy and isnegotiating to restructure its business. Submitted the

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filing in US Bankruptcy Court Southern Districtof Texas May sixth, Negotiating a Debtor
in Possession Financing Agreement for medical PropertiesTrust DIP financing, available to firms that
have filed Chapter eleven, allows companiesto raise capital to fund operations while the

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bankruptcy process progresses. Here's what's interesting, the reasons, and what I want
you to just think about is howmuch more of this are we going to
see, not just in the medicalprofession but in general, but in the

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medical profession specifically insufficient reimbursement from Medicaidand medicare. How long have we heard
that doctors can't survive on what theyget in reimbursement from the government. If

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you just stopped right there and triedto fix healthcare, good luck. The
cost of being a doctor is enormous. I still remember sitting down with emergency
room doctors, nurses, surgeons,surgeons in general and having them share with

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me the costs of being in theprofession. I still remember a surgeon,
one of his associates in the samepractice was sued for making a mistake in

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surgery or something malpractice. He wasaimed in the lawsuit because he's a partner.
He was dismissed by the judge.The judge said, you had nothing
to do with this. You're dismissed, You're not part of this lawsuit.
He's clear he had no exposure whatsoeverlegally to any finding. His malpractice insurance

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went up fifteen thousand dollars because hewas named even though he was dismissed.
Guess who pays those costs? Patients, insurance companies. The list goes on
and on. But they also werehaving problems with rising material and operational costs
due to inflation, surging labor costs, and continued impacts of COVID nineteen.

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So let's set aside the reimbursement partof that and let's go look at the
rest of it. How much ofthat is going to impact other businesses,
other industries. How many more peoplein healthcare are going to be impacted.
My point in bringing this up isto illustrate the importance of having people that

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understand how an economy works dealing withan economy. Forty seven minutes after the
hour, Illinois's Gift to America.Next, and this is the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. What is Illinois'sgift to America? You may ask the

(26:49):
southern part, basically everything south ofChicago, the Cubs, the White Sox,
the Bears, the Bulls, basicallythe part that you would consider West
Indiana. That's a nice area,good people there. Chicago's are remarkably clean
city. You're kidding, No,not at all, remarkably how uh the

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whole area is infested with crime.You just yeah, certainly they have murders
on every quarter, but dog goneit to pick up that plastic straw.
They clean up after themselves, wipeup those bloodstains. Man, they got
it down. It's just so interestinghow the type of people that that Illinois

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voters tend to elect. Chicago votersare just sketchy, it really is.
It's like, what is it aboutvoters in Illinois? And I'm not saying
it's universal every single election, buthistorically, I mean, you've got the

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long standing corruption of Mayor Daily goingback to you know, the fifties sixties,
I mean, unbelievable than his son. You got Rob Blagoyevich, who
went to prison. I think hewas a Republican governor and he was just
a train wreck. Then you've gotBeatlejuice and her successor, a socialist and

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then a Marxist that one always followsthe former. And then there's this.
I did not know this, Butdid you know that the governor JB.
Pritzker is part of the family thatowns the High Hotel Corporation. I didn't

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know that the prinz Kars have beenin the news recently. Well, I
know that they are giving money handoverfist to quote vulnerable democrats. I also
know that they are funding, throughthe Libra Foundation, the anti Israel protests

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along with George Soros, and Ithink it's the Rockefeller brothers. They they
funded a group called Climate Justice Alliance, which has taken part in the you
know, Genocide to Joe genocide Joemarches and organizations. Another is Black Organizing

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for Leadership and Dignity, which hasbeen promoting anti Israel demonstrations. Another is
the Immigrant Defense Project. My pointis, what is it about people in
Illinois that they elect these sketchy,questionable people mayors, governors. I just

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I guess it doesn't surprise me,except that the leftists hold themselves out to
be so elite and so able todetermine morality and what's right. And look

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at who they elect in New Yorkand Illinois, in California. It's just
it's crazy. It's like a brokenrecord, just stuck on the same thing
over and over and over. Wecould be face of that here in Tallahassee.
Friends, Let's move into the secondhour here the Morning Show with Preston

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Scott. Unbelievably nearly a third ofthe way through the month of May.
Next thing, you know, we'regonna be shopping for Christmas. Grant Allen
over there laughing at me, shakinghis head in disgust in Studio one A.
I'm here in Studio one B onPreston Scott, and I am joined
by the executive editor of Tallahassee Reports. He is Steve Stewart. Hello,

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good morning. How are you,Preston. I'm terrific. How are you
to do? You came in firedup, buddy, tires on fire?
Hey, you know, just alot to do. I mean, we're
we're in a good space, Ithink here in some areas. Yeah,
I mean, it's it's like anythingelse. It's a mixed bag, it

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is. And uh. And solet's let's first talk about the City Commission
meeting. Yeah, so one ofthe we'll talk about a number of the
issues because there was a lot covered. But one of the first things that
I want to talk about was areport that came out last week and it
has to do with our local economy, the tallhase MSA Metropolitan Statistical Area,
Leon County gatst and Jefferson Wacolla.And this this economic magazine Area Development,

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which has been around since nineteen sixtyfive, partnered with a private analytical company
to go around and look at localthe msas in their economic future and lo
and behold, it came out thatthe tallhase MSA is has one of the
best the best outlook for economic poistfor economic growth in the next five to
ten years and rank them number onein the category and number nine overall based

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on based on jobs, job growth, workforce, new business, new companies
that have moved into the area.And so obviously when this comes out,
I am always leery of these rankings. Yeah, because there's there, they're
these magazines that it's clickbait. Itcan be, it can be considered clickbait
if you're not careful. This thisis different if you go and look at

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the methodology and we've got a storyup and obviously the city and the county
are in the Office of Economic Vitality. Are you ready to promote this,
and they've done that at the CityCommission meeting. But I think this,
if you look at this and youstart parsing out what the good news is,
it makes a little bit of sense. You know. We have talked
over the last three or four monthsabout the impact of the Amazon Fulfillment Center.
We talked about the increase in UHairport traffic with the addition of Jet

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Blue low cost carrier. So thosethings started, you know, starting showing
job growth and changes in some ofthe things that were down because of COVID.
But if you look at the nationalcontext, people are moving to Florida,
well, it's Florida has established itselfas almost a micro country, micro

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economy within the larger context of what'shappening nationally, which is a disaster.
So if you look at the opportunitiesthat Tallasee presents, We've got an area
that is not is not like Orlandoor Jacksonville or even the villages where it's
just sort of grown outside his boundary. We have a lot of areaity drive
fifteen minutes outside of Tallahassee and you'reyou know, you're in forest. And

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so when people are looking when they'removing in droves to Florida. It's not
I don't think it's unrealistic to thinkpeople are gonna look at Tallassi and say,
hey, this is pretty appealing.I think it's funny when you look
at this. Amazon doesn't sit aroundand thow a dart to figure out where
they're going to put a fulfillment center. It's it's very much like publics in
that they do tremendous research before theymake a decision chose this area. And

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this was two three years ago,and now all of a sudden you see
this, this magazine come out withthis very analytical approach to things, and
so I think it's very positive inthe sense of where, you know,
if you're for economic growth, ifyou're for you know, more jobs and
people being able to get employed andthen get off the government assistants and things

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like that, I think this isvery positive. Now there's some negative things
that come with it. Home values. When people want to be in an
area and you're constrained with you know, how many homes you can build,
prices go up, and you know. I talked to Tom's Report subscriber on
the phone from fifteen twenty minutes yesterday. Who is you know has children that
live here trying to afford a home, and she's, you know, she's

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saying, look, I'm you know, I'm I'm really happy. The economy
is going well stuff, but thegetting into a home as a first time
home Tallas is becoming very difficult todo that. That's probably part of the
downside of what we're seeing in termsof the economic growth. Is it just
that though, or is it policieswithin the city or the county, regulatory

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issues, hurdles that are placed inthere that make it more expensive. I
think there's no doubt that in termsof the availability of homes, the available
of the UH, the ability tobuild homes fast, I think it's something
that's obviously starting to have an impacton that. More with Steve Stewart again
Subscribe Tallahassee Reports dot Com. Tenminutes past the hour, Welcome to the

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morning Show with Preston Scott Beg withSteve Stewart of Tallahassee Reports. Levin passed
the hour. More going on inthe city, Yes, meeting last night
and a couple of interesting things.First of all, public safety camera initiative.
This is something that's happening all overthe country and it's you know,

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remember back when you were like,oh, these cameras are you know,
watching what's going on downtown and youhad civil liberties questions. Well, the
advent of the iPhone, where everybodyhas a camera, is sort of numb
people to the fact that, hey, everybody sort of now assumes that they're
being recorded or can be recorded.And so now I think law enforcement has

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taken advantage of that and are startingto you This is you know, we
talk about the Capitol Regional Real TimeCrime Center. We have ninety three cameras
around the city of Tallahassee put upin neighborhoods like the Bond Community that are
there, and they some of themare labeled police camera. And it is
interesting to hear people talk they wantthose cameras in their neighborhoods. It's to

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have an impact on obviously on crime. And when you say real time,
meaning this stuff is monitored the activelyyes, and so yeah, evidently,
and this had a huge impact onsolving crimes, deterring and so they're trying
to expand this with a program that'scalled the Public Safety Crime Initiative where people

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that have business and residents door wherethey call them doorbell cameras, or are
businesses commercial businesses where they can actuallythere's a device now where they can actually
tie in to the real time crimecenter. They can turn their camera over
to the real time crime center whereit can be monitored real time. And
this has happened in Orlando, Jacksonville. So businesses are voluntarily saying, yeah,

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go ahead, use mine as asurveillance point exactly. Now. The
other thing you can do is youcan just register your camera and say listen,
I will have you can have accessto my video, you know,
retroactively, like over a three dayperiod. And so again in Orlando and
Deval, they have thousands of peoplethat have registered these cameras, and they've
got thousands that have said here,yeah, use the real time aspect of

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these cameras to help with with crime. And so I think this is a
new This again, this is thetechnology side of law enforcement. That is
uh, that is it's been createdbecause of the the problems of the perception
that anytime you pull somebody over it'sa confrontation, you know, And I
don't think it's going to do awaywith that in the community policing, but

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this is definitely something that it's goingto help out. I think it's also
a response to the Black Lives Matterdefund the police initiatives and that communities are
saying, forget that, we'll dowhat we can to help, right.
And so it also fits in withthis automated you know, issuing tickets for
speeders through school zones, which isanother program that was voted on last night.

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So the technology is catching up withlaw enforcement, and you know,
the crime incident numbers which we talkedabout recently, are headed down. Let's
just hope they continue to do that. And so that with one exception which
is notable, which is gun crimes, right, which is his shootings,
which is you know, is somethingthat we'll see how that ends up with
the rest of the year. Butthat was on the the other thing,

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from an economic standpoint, we've talkedabout this with the issue on Pensacola West
Pensacola Street, the university is movingto the west. If you go if
you go over there, well inplace it can move, right, We've
talked about this. If you goto Okala and look to the east towards
the stadium, there's a bunch ofnew development there and it really you can
just tell it's moving to the westnot so much. There's businesses that are

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that have had to close because ofthe impact of the homeless shelter, but
there are businesses that have hung inthere and now they're starting to get some
help. They've tried to create aplace, a sense of place with you
know, you've got the market districtin midtown. It's called the West End
District is what they want to labelit. So they're trying to get the
city to help them out with thatsort of branding help as far as the

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yeah, putting signs and making youknow and you know things that they like
they've done in the market district.Now, mostly this is driven by the
business groups and they let the cityknow, listen, this is what we
want or you know, you know, you want to put around about here
to slow traffic down, put somesigns up, because that area should really
be a very walkable area. It'sit's like a campus area. FDOT is

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doing a big project on Pensacol Westpensal Cold Street. I think it's supposed
to start by the end of thisyear. So that area I think is
in the they're battling trying to gettransformed. But they've got a lot of
hurdles because of the homeless shelter andsort of some years of neglect in that
area. Yeah, but it shouldbe a vibrant area because it's the road
that connects TCC with FSU and youwould think that that would be, you

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know, an area that would againbe vibrant, be free of crime and
things like that. So we'll keepan eye on that. More to come
with Steve Stewart of Tallasse Reports,Tellassi Reports dot Com twenty one minutes almost

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twenty two minutes past the hour Thursday. Here me and Steve Stewart of Tallahassee
Reports and sadly a common refrain.And you know, we were talking about
the West End and the difficulty andthe effort on West End business owners to
try to get some support from someof the officials, and some certainly are

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more willing to lend an ear,but I think the lack of knowledge,
Steve, you could point to thefact that some city and county commissioners don't
go to events like the chamber retreatthat they hold where elected officials are supposed
to come and hear from the businessleaders. They don't know. Yeah,

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look behind the headlines. You know, in terms of some of these things,
it's important for your listeners to understandthe details. I mean, we
have heard the Progressives Commission Mattlow justtrash the Talasi Chamber conference Commerce. Look,
I've had issues on some of thepositions that the Chamber has taken candidates
they've supported over the years. Butthe thing is, and I think people

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have to take note of this isthis is part of sort of the council
culture that has gone on around thecountry, and Commission Mattlow is very good
at doing. This is taking thisgroup and trying to basically minimize them or
vilify them, right, And it'simportant to understand that. You look beyond
the leadership of the Chamber of andthere's you know, they have thousands of
members. Uh. You look atthis conference that they have. You again,

(43:05):
you can criticize it. That's youknow, two and a half hours
away. If you go look atthe list of people that go to that,
these aren't the people that that areyou know, involved with local government.
These are the people that are runningtheir businesses, trying to develop relationships
with other businesses, network they're they'renetworking their nonprofit groups. There Again,
local businesses. They're Democrat lead localleaders. I mean, the school board

(43:28):
goes over to this conference and youknow Darryl Jones, Roseanne would her who
were liberal Democrats at a minimum,right, And so for Commissioner Mattlow to
take this and they've done a goodjob, and some of the media has
helped out of branding the Chamber ofCommerce as an enemy of you know,
of a lot of people in thecity. Tality, I think is is
something that's got to be pushed backon. And if you start looking at

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these progressives we've talked about Commissioner Reporterwho she is taking these trips to these
progressive training academies. She's gone toSaint Louis, she's gone to Tempe Arizona,
she's gone to Washington, d C. But she won't travel two and
a half hours to the Chamber Commerce. And oh, by the way,
I won't answer questions about the fundingof those My point is is she is

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actually prioritizing this progressive left wing trainingover Tallahassee, and it's her job to
go to these conferences because that's whereyou're going to get feedback from, not
just the upper echelon of the Chamberworkings. But from again, people that
run nonprofits, that run local businesses, from people at TCC at Leon County

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Schools, they're not doing it.David O'Keeffe, Leon Kunty Commissioner David O'Keeffe
he attended a progressive training conference inAtlanta that was on campaign tactics, which
he paid for himself, but itwas it was led the two top trainers
were leaders in the defund the policemovement. I asked him if he was
aware of that. He said no. I asked him if he was concerned

(44:59):
about that. He said no.So again, he's someone that has not
gone to a chamber conference. He'schosen, Okay, his priorities are to
go to these campaign these left wingcampaign training conferences over Tallahassee. I think
it's very important to understand this,and this is what I'm starting to see
is a narrative is these these progressivesdon't care as much about Tallahassee as they

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do in trying to take this nationalprogressive narrative and trying to ram it down
our throats here in Tallahassee. Andyou you know, there's no better way
of seeing that than looking at howthey treat law enforcement and how they treat
economic growth. You're talking about noshows. You know, the Senior Center

(45:43):
was they broke around on the SeniorCenter out in the Canopy development, forty
thousand square foot project, and youknow which is going to be in Canopy.
It's going to serve senior citizens,going to have a lot of amenities.
We're paying for it, obviously ata lot of capital money. And
Commission Matlow, Commission Porter aren't therebecause they don't like the Northeast Gateway.

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They don't They think that that's urbansprawl and it's not really that's something they
don't want to see in Tyle AsSee. I got news for him.
Florida is growing and a lot ofthese people I'm getting the emails, Steve,
people are moving here and they're bringingwith them a different kind of politics

(46:27):
than what these folks are customers.Well, we'll see. I mean,
last night at the end of theCity Commission meeting, Commission Mattlow again brought
up and used the term planning evidencein regard and related to this previous case.
Where's the police union sue him?And it's again the tax on law
enforcement. They voted against a policecontract. They appointed police abolitionists to the

(46:50):
Citizen Review Board. They promoted thisnarrative of a TPD officer planning evidence killer
cops, killer cops. It isa amazing but we're going to see,
We're going to see if they're ableto, you know, get control of
the city Commission because they're only onevote away and that's what their focus is.
Thank you for what you're doing,Thank you for reporting. I'll be

(47:15):
here next week. Yeah, Ican't wait. Sort of got to take
an Anna ascid before Steve Roves inhere, and that's the only thing.
Twenty seven minutes after the hour,Yeah, folks, very important set of
elections coming up. There are options, uh, there are better choices than
others, and we'll be here tohelp. This morning show Preston Scott Boy,

(47:43):
that escalated quickly. I mean thatreally got out of hand fast.
On WFLA Big Stories in the pressBox brought to you by Grove of Creative
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(48:06):
bill signed by Governor Bryant Kemp lastmonth has turned squatting from a civil matter
to a criminal offense, as itshould be one neighborhood in Atlanta, South
Fulton County. People that were arrestedjust days ago got out and got back

(48:30):
into the home undeterred. Doing sex, trafficking, prostitution is part of that.
Of course, Drugs, they gotfirearms. They're running crime syndicates out
of these homes, and they're breakinginto these nice neighborhoods. This is a

(48:54):
sign of the times. This iswhat happen. Happens in the wake of
progressivism. Atlanta is not a hubof conservatism. This is the kind of
thing that happens. Get to theother stories. Documents reveal the US State

(49:25):
Department knew COVID leaked from a labin Wuhan, and the Chinese comedies the
Chicoms covered it up. Documents nowin the hands of the Select Subcommittee on
the Coronavirus Pandemic have released redacted documents, and the redactions cover some things,

(49:52):
but they don't cover all. Andsome of what is uncovered is that the
State Department has been lying to theAmerican people for well since July of twenty
twenty, and that leads to aseries of questions that have to be answered

(50:13):
in some form or fashion. QuestionNumber one, did Donald Trump know now.
My answer to that would be likelyno, because we have a CIA
official on tape in an undercover videothat is very clear stating that the head

(50:35):
of the CIA and that the FBI, that they all got together, they
were domestically basically surveilling Donald Trump whilehe was president, and that they kept
things from him. Highly likely hewas not told. So why did US

(51:00):
officials cover for China? Well,that's a great question. Were they covering
because they knew that if they blewup China, that China was in turn
going to reveal that we have beenfunding gain of function research. Gain of

(51:24):
function is taking a naturally occurring virusor disease and manipulating it. It's dangerous,
and we've seen the results. AlthoughI will maintain till I die that

(51:45):
the coronavirus was not remotely responsible forthe number of deaths that they claim,
I would say not even ten percent. But they lied for years? Did
the Secretary of State at the time, Mike Pompeo, No, just saying,

(52:07):
just asking. Georgia Appeal's Court agreesto review the Fanny Willis disqualification ruling.
She was not disqualified from the trialprosecuting Donald Trump and others under RICO
statutes. As it relates to questioningan election, I'm still struggling that asking
about the fairness of election is somehowa crime. And warning from the FBI

(52:30):
and other agencies. You can takeit for what it's worth, since it's
coming from the FBI warning you tobe aware of hacking going on and standardized
email now always happens, but it'sgetting worse. Apparently the North Koreans behind
it. Let's help you feel better, naturally. It's called Optimum Health.

(52:51):
Naturally. That's the segment. Wedo it twice a month. And joining
us is doctor David Hart's good morning, my friend, how are you,
good morning, investor doing well?I think one of the most disrespected organs
of the body is the liver.It gets no respect, doctor Hartz.
It's not talked about, it's ignored. We we treat it as if it

(53:14):
doesn't exist. And it's the RodneyDangel fear of the simples of the body.
Heaven's at our peril too. Well, that's true. It really is
very very important for overall health andand there's some things that can happen to
the function of the liver and notnecessarily pathology we're talking about now, we're
talking about dysfunction where's it doesn't functionas well as it should and it detox

(53:38):
is the body. It takes thechemicals that we're kind of undundated with in
our diets and so forth and helpsget rid of them. And when it
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know, craving sugar, not haveenough energy. It also affects allergies a
lot. You can end up producinga lot of histamine in your body,

(53:59):
which and show up all kinds ofdifferent ways on the skin with hives,
as well as just overall allergies asfar as environmental allergies throughout your whole body.
I've treated just numerous people throughout theyears of this and it really does
affect that. It also can affectsensitivity to chemicals where you start having a

(54:20):
real problem with just the chemicals thatare in our environment, and also resistance
to weigh change and struggling with moodswings, also gas and bloating and your
body can affect this. So it'sa lot of different things that it can
affect in our body. A coupleof things we can do to help it.
We can try to eat just agood diet that we always talk about
on this segment. And also eightto ten glasses of good spring water or

(54:44):
filtered water is really really important.We just don't drink enough water at all,
and that is that's one of theramifications of that is the liver function
itself. Also some things we caneat that helps, just things like artichokes
and beats and brussel spouse. We'vetalked about this a lot, and because
they're really very good for detoxification,as well as broccoli so forth. Is

(55:06):
fermitted foods like solid crowd and camuchaand and those type of fermated foods are
really really important. Green tea Ikind of like green tea myself, and
it really is is a really greatantioxid and it helps detox the body so
whole lot better than coca cola,that's for sure sure. And then and
then it admitted fasting just trying tostay away from food for and maybe eat

(55:30):
within an eight hour period of timein the day and leave it about sixteen
hours where you're not eating. Thisis amazing how much this detox is your
body and helps the body reset theliver, and it's extremely extremely important.
If you supplements you could take ifyou want to try to take some supplements,
milk, thistil we've talked about witha thion. If you find a
liposomal version of it, it doeswork a lot better. It breaks them

(55:52):
into little small particles that they're absorbedbetter, and they're and they're available out
there. But old turmeric we knowabout that. And there's something we've talked
about is NAC. It's called innacetyassisting. It's called NAC. Is easy
to remember that way. It worksreally well. Corilla and activated charcoal,
all these things are things you cantake if you have some of them or
if you can get them. Andthen selenium there's another thing up to four

(56:15):
hundred milgrim. So there's things thatwe can do if we're kind of focusing
on it to keep the liver.And they're all saying, you get a
healthy liver, you live a littlelonger, you know, And it's actually
very very true, because it's veryvery important to the overall body. Good
stuff. Doctor Hartz as I said, we don't think a whole lot about
that that particular organ No, wedon't. In fact, we don't even

(56:37):
like to eat at least I don'tknow. Yeah, yeah, add me
to that list. It's not abig fan. I'm not a big fan
of that. But but at anyrate, thanks very much for the time
today, my friend. Okay,have a great day, Chris, Thank
you, sir, Doctor David Hartswith us. Who knew? Did you
hear that list of things that deliverimpacts in your body? You'd think it

(57:02):
was made for a purpose. Fortysix minutes after the hour at this It's
the Morning Show with Preston Scott.Road trip idea just a few minutes away.

(57:32):
Talk about divorce in the next hour, prompted by a story that it's
kind of haunted me for the lastfew days. But first, Bureau of

(57:52):
Labor Statistics given us the median annualwage for all US workers for twenty twenty
three. What do you think itwas? The median wage all states?

(58:14):
And of course whatever that wage isgoes further in some states than others.
Who do you think the median wasall states, all jobs? Fifty thousand,

(58:38):
you are near on it. Fortyeight sixty wow, forty eight thousand
and sixty bucks. The highest medianwage for individual workers was in Massachusetts at
sixty thousand, six hundred and ninetydollars, the lowest in Mississippi. The

(59:00):
medium wage of thirty seven to fivefor states in our part of the world,
Mamma forty one to three, Jojiaforty five to four, Florida forty
five seventy forty five thousand and seventydollars. Uh, you might be interested,

(59:24):
Well, what about California. Californiaonly fifty four and when you consider
the cost of living in California,how do people exist? Yeah, drugs
and only fans as side money.I guess New York fifty six eight,
New Jersey fifty four to eight.North Carolina forty five four. Texas turning

(59:52):
the page here on the report Texasforty five nine. So Florida and Texas
slightly below the median average, butyou factor in other things. Yeah,

(01:00:12):
I'm just I'm I'm just letting youknow what the numbers are. Form your
own opinions on what that means.This is cool, all right? Road
trip idea. If you're traveling theFruited Plain this summer, maybe you're out
there now. We have listeners,we have truckers driving, we have people

(01:00:37):
that are all over and I've learnedthat inevitably I'll give one of these tips
and then I'll get pictures. TheEnchanted Highway. You know where it is,
No, it's in North Dakota.It's called the Enchanted Highway. I
would have guessed eastern Kentucky. It'sa mystery in there. It begins on

(01:00:57):
I ninety four at exit seven nearGladstone and terminates thirty two miles down the
road in the small town of Regent. It is a series of massive steel
sculptures that are along this stretch ofroad, and they're incredible. I got
to tell you. They really aresome one hundred and ten feet tall one

(01:01:24):
hundred and fifty four feet long.They are primarily the work of Gary Greff,
a former school teacher completely untrained inart and engineering, decided to go
for it and put his town onthe map. And so now it's a
thirty two mile stretch of road calledthe Enchanted Highway. Geese of flight,

(01:01:49):
grasshoppers delight, Theodore Roosevelt rides,they've got the Tin Man, they've got
the Tin Family, all kinds oflittle. I'm little, they're huge.
And so if you're ever in NorthDakota, check out along I ninety four

(01:02:12):
exit seventy two and a head south. They're going to be spread about across
thirty two miles a road. Absolutelyworth it. Fifty seven minutes past the
hour, come back with our threeof the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

(01:02:45):
Five minutes after the hour, thirdhour of the Morning Show with Preston Scot
in the Morning Show fifty one fiftyfive and I want to tackle a topic
that, through the course of doingfive and fifty four shows prior to this

(01:03:06):
one, we've touched on come acrossa few times. I just want to
take a little more time with it. And I want to talk about what
happens when marriages fail. I myselfam part of a broken home. My

(01:03:34):
parents started getting divorced when I wasin my early teen years and in it
took a while because it was contentious. It wasn't contentious over custody. It
was never an issue. It wasn'trealistic for my dad to seek custody because

(01:03:58):
he traveled up to three hundred daysof here just didn't make sense. I
was the only miner in the homeat the time, so it was just
me, mom and me. Lovedmy dad. Loved my mom, I

(01:04:19):
saw my dad. I was fortunate. I was fortunate in part because I
was a little older and figured outpretty quickly because of the ancillary issues surrounding

(01:04:43):
the divorce of my mom and dad, that I was going to have to
kind of buck up and grow upa little bit. Up until that point,
I was the proverbial and literal spoiledbrat was. In the year subsequent,

(01:05:11):
I have observed known of personally endureddivorce and the divorces of others.
I have watched the destruction that followsso many This topic was prompted by a

(01:05:46):
story I'll get to in a littlebit, but I want to bring the
topic up because there are some thingsthat everyone needs to understand and consider.
I consider myself an expert because Ihave been on the child end of it.

(01:06:13):
I've been on the spouse end ofit. I have been on the
counseling side of it. As avocational pastor. I've been in the midst
of a lot of it, andI have pretty strong opinions on it.
I get email from you. Sometimesthe email is heartbreaking, Sometimes the email's

(01:06:44):
defiant. Sometimes the email projects blame, but the commonality is the destruction that
comes as a result of divorce.It is like a relational tornado, and

(01:07:08):
you're not quite sure where that thingis gonna spin off to and hit.
And there are things that you thinkit would touch and it doesn't. And
there are things that you think itwouldn't and it does. And it's hard
to predict, but the damage it'sgonna happen. So we're gonna talk a

(01:07:30):
little bit here in the next segmentabout some of that and some of the
things to consider before you let yourmarriage fail. Stick around. It's Morning
Show with Preston Scott. It's theMorning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio

(01:07:54):
one hundred point seven WFLA. Comingup to twelve minutes past. They are
talking about divorce. Obviously, Ilook at this through the lens of what

(01:08:17):
the Bible has to say. Thereare clear justifiable reasons for it. Abuse
infidelity are the two primary reasons.The Bible talks about it and speaks of

(01:08:42):
rites of and lists. It doesn'tmean that you should, it means you
can. It's spelled out pretty clearlythere. Breaking of the covenant that is
established before God at a Christian weddingis a pretty big deal. And so

(01:09:10):
this isn't about passing judgment on anyonethat's been through divorce. Sometimes you know
you can be I'll use the terma victim of a divorce because if someone
wants to get out of a marriage, in most states, you can't do
anything about it. You cannot stopit. Then there's the practical side of

(01:09:33):
well why would you. That persondoesn't want to be married to you anymore.
So what's the point. Some say, well, you fight for your
marriage. Here's what I can tellyou. We have long believed in the

(01:09:55):
I call it the Jerry Maguire schoolof marriage. You complete me. That's
what's leading to all the failed marriagesin the church and out of the church.
You can't be the ying to someone'syang. You can't fill out that

(01:10:18):
person if they are a broken personthat has some issues that need healing.
If you find yourself being I wasjust never happy until I found you,
you're in trouble. Why Because noone can live under the pressure of being

(01:10:40):
the source of somebody else's joy.People settle for a good marriage, and
they say marriage is hard work.I don't believe it has to be or
should be. A good marriage issettling. A great marriage is the goal.

(01:11:00):
That's what that's what you should have. And I believe the only way
you have a chance at a greatmarriage and you can be in the midst
of a marriage right now and findyourself there is by being able to say,
apart from your spouse, you arewhole. You are you are content

(01:11:23):
as it. And again my viewis through the Christian lens, you are
content as a Christian who God madeyou to be. That you have joy
in your life being who you are. Yeah, rough edges and all that,
we all have them, and there'sthings we're always working on. But
generally with you and God, you'dbe fine. If it was just you
and God, you'd be fine.You don't need another person to complete you.

(01:11:51):
What I can assure you is youget divorced because you're bored. That's
on you. That's not on yourspouse. Your spouse can contribute to it.
That's on you. You wander around, you start looking at other people.

(01:12:13):
That's on you. That's not onyour spouse. That's on you.
That shows where you are. Butknow this, when divorce happens, you
can fool yourself into believing, well, it's better for the kids if we're

(01:12:33):
not married. You're kidding yourself.Now, if you're an abusive relationship.
That again, we're not talking aboutthat. If it's because you and your
spouse can't get your individual acts together, that's on you. And your kids

(01:12:55):
are going to suffer. Because Goddesigned the family for a husband and day
wife and husbands. It's on youto be the spiritual head of the home.
If you're being dragged a church,guilted in the church, that's on
you. Understand your kids are watching, Your kids are listening when we come

(01:13:20):
back. A story that just shookme twenty two minutes past. Got a
note here. I don't know thisis accurate or not. Listeners shared since

(01:13:42):
the nineteen seventies, a number ofchildren growing up in a single family home,
single parent home, sorry, hasquadrupled since nineteen eighty. So is
the US prison population. There's nodoubt that there is devis station done.
But what follows here is next level. Now, based on the story the

(01:14:10):
wife, it would seem believe thatthe husband had had an affair. I
don't know. What is known accordingto law enforcement, which gives you an
indication of where this is going,is that the husband had filed for divorce.

(01:14:31):
They had a three year old son. It was a bitter custody battle.
He was questioning her mental fitness.She wanted to retain custody of their
son, and there was fighting goingon over that issue. And it happens

(01:14:58):
all the time. Here's what doesn'thappen all the time, but this is
where it can lead. She senta text message to her husband and it

(01:15:24):
was on the tail end of awire transfer taking all the money out of
a joint account. The husband assumedthat she was going to run with their
son, and so his attorney initiateda court order for a writ to make
her appear in court the next day. But by then she had let herself

(01:15:47):
into their former shared home and destroyedproperty inside the house, cut every piece
of clothing, everything that he hadcut. It just put cuts in the
middle of everything. She's with herson, and she left a message stating,

(01:16:11):
you don't have anything to go hometo now you really don't. You
won't have anything at all at theend of the day. You left us
for referencing somebody else, and thenDaddy left us for some woman he met
on the internet. Explained to yourson why you're not here. She'd laid

(01:16:34):
out her wedding dresses, wedding portraitsand pierced the pictures with two gunshots.

(01:16:54):
She sent one final message. Shesaid, say goodbye to your Say goodbye
to your son. She wrote toher husband, say goodbye to your son.
She tried to reach him and thenrecorded a twenty one second video.

(01:17:17):
She says to the child, saygoodbye to daddy, which he does.
She kisses the child and apologizes thathis father can't be there with him.
It would appear, based on theevidence that she had her son looking at
cartoons at three twenty nine in anafternoon before she shot her three year old

(01:17:41):
son in the back of the headand then shot herself. She ended the
life of a three year old,beautiful little boy out of spite hate.

(01:18:06):
Now, I would say that isa great indicator that she certainly was not
well, no matter what the circumstancesare of a divorce. That who does
that? Who does that? Butthat's where this leads all too often.

(01:18:35):
If it happens once, it's toooften, But it happens more than once.
I brought the topic up because I'msick of divorce. I'm sick of
people not heeding the warnings going intoa relationship. I'm sick of people not

(01:19:02):
that claim to be Christians not doingthings God's way in their relationship. And
I wanted to just talk about it. I wanted to nudge, I wanted
to probe, I wanted to prad, and I want to challenge you.
If you are in a difficult stretchin your marriage or things are just not

(01:19:26):
good, do something about it.Husbands, step up. It's almost like
we need a manly minute for husbandsout there, and dads, come on,
step up. Stop making children victimsand stop making children the recipients of

(01:19:56):
a single parent home relate. Sorry, no I'm not. It's The Morning
Show with Preston Scott. Big Storiesin the press Box spelled a little differently

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Can I hear an Io when Isay? Oh? H Io? The

(01:20:40):
Attorney General for the Buckeye State pushingback Dave Yost, The First Amendment protects
you and saying whatever it is youhave to say, even hateful things are
protected. Though the First Amendment wasalways designed to be a shield against the
government, it's not a sword againstyour fellow students, and they have rights

(01:21:03):
too. Your First Amendment rights arelimited by their right to be able to
go to school, use the library, get the value of their education,
and the tuition they pay for.So he is warning the masked cowards.
They always are masked, aren't they? From the Klan to the Clantifas,

(01:21:27):
they're always masked. They don't havethe courage to say, look at me,
I'm owning this. They're hiding behindmasks so mom and dad don't see
them. The Attorney General of Ohiois threatening prison time up to eighteen months
in prison. Go get them,guy, go get them there, you

(01:21:53):
go, here we go, Comeon, Bud and away, General Yost,
go get them. Yost. Soundslike I'm in the movie remember the
Titans coach host? Yeah, absolutely, the head coach of the assistant coach.

(01:22:15):
He was a head coach that becamethe assistant coach to Herman Boone to
Denzel Washington's character coach Boone. Icouldn't remember. Hey, that's why I'm
here. That's why I'm here.FBI issuing a joint warning with other agencies
on UH hackers targeting email accounts.They're they're they're pretending to be notable,

(01:22:40):
upstanding organization institutions that you follow.They're playing a game of numbers. They're
they're throwing out this stuff and theycount on a percentage of people just clicking
blindly, and then it's on.So just be if in doubt, follow
my rule. It seems to work. Here's my rule. When in doubt,

(01:23:06):
I enter the website address myself,I don't click any links, and
I look up whatever it is thatthey're promoting, pushing, asking whatever,
and I look and see if Ican find it. Because if it's a
legit link, it would go backto that site anyway and you'd be able
to find it. So I justfind it independently. Speaking of our government,

(01:23:30):
documents from the Select Subcommittee on thecoronavirus pandemic show that the State Department
knew as of July twenty twenty thatit was a lab leak from Wuhan.
All kinds of questions arise out ofthat short version they lied. What a
shock. Georgia Appeals Court agrees toreview the Fanny Willis disqualification ruling. The

(01:23:54):
ruling was allowing her to stay onthe case. The Georgia Court of Appeals
is saying, let's take a lookat that a little more. That's a
win for Trump and all of theother co defendants. And the Navy Secretary
announces a nuclear power to tack subwill be named the USS Miami, or,
as Doctor Moore might say, Miami. Welcome to the Morning Show with

(01:24:19):
Preston Scott. Hey, let metell you about tomorrow. Of course it's

(01:24:44):
Friday. We'll have headlines from thebee. What's the beef? We do
not have to come up with thebest and worst tomorrow, sir, unless
we decide to find it another placein the show. What do you think
do we do that? Don't know? Or do we just If we can't
do it where we anchor it,then we can't do it. I think

(01:25:06):
that's what I'll do. We'll skipit. We're skipping it. And good
news tomorrow. Why guess who calledand said, hey, can I have
a few minutes? Commissioner of Education, Wow Manidiaz said, hey, press,
can you find a few minutes forme? I know it's Friday,

(01:25:28):
I know you have those. Ilook forward to the best and worst and
good news every week. That No, he didn't not at all. No,
Nah. In fact, they dideverything possible to get him on the
show today. But no, heprobably doesn't know one thing that I generally

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talk about. But it is goodto know that he did reach out and
want to be on the show.So we will afford the Commissioner of Education
some time on the program tomorrow,and we will also take care of the
rest of business, which is tryto clean up the desk, we try
to get through some stories that we'vebeen just holding on to that we didn't

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quite get to because there's you know, I mean, that's the way the
new cycle works. This story isjust hilarious to me. Here an ex
CNN reporter Michelle Kosinski, whoever sheis, I mean, at this point,
didn't everybody work for CNN at somepoint, I mean, Tucker did.

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She's posting about a dinner party afew weeks ago. Had dinner with
a few couples, friends, friendsof friends, all American, All were
well educated, successful in careers.They seemed great on the surface. She's
posting this until what for like anhour, but slowly, over a few

(01:26:54):
drinks, they began to let sliptheir true maga natures. She said.
One couple in the group wouldn't allowtheir kids to apply to Ivy League universities,
but were weird about explaining their reasoning. Others used air quotes when talking
about climate change. She sounds likeshe had dinner with our ruminators, except

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for this, did I have dinnerwith this person? The others, when
they realized that a few in theirpresence came armed with actual facts, quickly
changed the subject and nervously said theydon't want to talk politics. They realized
they would be eviscerated on all idioticpoints, especially on the economy. That's
such a goat move. Oh,you're just dropping these things on a leftist

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and you're like, but I don'twant to talk about politics, Like,
that's such a goat move. That'shilarious. You're just like triggering them,
and then you back off and say, no, no, no, we
don't have to. As it wenton, my friends and I realized we
were surrounded by otherwise carefully closeted maggots. Maggots. Yeah, it's funny how
the extremist or just wrong beliefs can'thelp but leak out even when you least

(01:28:04):
expect them from people you least expectthey're out there. Then she writes this
dinner continues to haunt me. Theyall seem so normal. Yeah, when
I asked the couple who were myold friends, how they didn't know,
they said that in their upscale Floridaneighborhood, people are extremely careful not to

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ever broach or debate the subject.She writes, this is not healthy if
people don't ever talk about these thingsas friends and neighbors and only live in
their own warped Remember what we've alwayssaid? What is it that we've said
about illiberals? They are what theyaccuse others of being. Listen to this
statement. If people don't ever talkabout these things as friends and neighbors and

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only live in their own warped informationsilos, how will they ever learn what
is true or false? How willthe truth ever make them consider alternatives?
The lure of BS is co optingdecent minds. Then come the retorts.
Oh, she got ratio to oblivion? I hope. Mark Hemingway writes,

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it is truly amazing how at atime when mortgage rates have close to tripled
in three years, overall consumer pricesare up twenty percent, twenty five for
food, and Russia's at war inEastern Europe the entire Middle East is a
powder keg. The response is maggotsdon't know facts. Then there's this one

(01:29:33):
journo is horrified to learn that educated, upper class Trump supporters exist in secret
and speculates on how to get themthe re education camps. I would be
surprised if I was in an upperto like middle upper middle class to upper
class conversation and find like minded.I would assume, actually that most of

(01:29:56):
them were probably pretty left. Thiswould be a pleasant surprise. Here's what
would disappoint me if she's if ifanything she said, keep in mind she's
you know, is true and accurate. What would disappoint me is if MAGA
supporters aren't armed with facts. Becausethey're all on your side, and that's

(01:30:18):
why we do what we do everyday for you. Time to issue corrections
from earlier in the broadcast. RodBlagojevich was a Democrat, so there you

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Uh, something in my head saidhe was a Republican when he got in
trouble. He was not. Hewas a dem So there you go.
Now, look, Republicans Democrats don'thave the corner on corruption. We were
just commenting earlier about how Illinois andCalifornia and New York, but Illinois in

(01:31:01):
particular just produces an inordinately high numberof elected officials that are ethically challenged.
That's all. Okay, do youremember the story, sir, of David
Rush. We did it in thisvery segment back a month or so ago.

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He was the dude in Idaho balancinga lawnmower on his chin. Oh
yeah, nine minutes and seventeen secondsto break a Guinness World record. He's
on a quest to hold the mostconcurrent Guinness World records at one time,
which is well, that's a littleredundant. So then we fast forward and

(01:31:51):
just about a week or so ago, he added another record by throwing and
catching a fire sword seventy three timesin thirty seconds, basically twirling it like
a baton. Okay, so heset a record there that left him with

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one hundred and sixty six current titlesGuinness titles. Then, just two days
ago he caught five T shirts andput them on fired from a T shirt
cannon in forty six seconds. Andcome back to this story tomorrow. He's

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now going for the record of mostrecords held at one time. But I
have an idea we'll get to thattomorrow on the program brought to you by
Barono Heating and Air. It's theMorning Show on WFLA. It took way
too long to get through all thatthis show, bitch, Steve Stewart,

(01:33:02):
doctor David Harts, I talked aboutdivorce. I've got emails from people responding
to that with a suggestion for me. We'll talk about that suggestion tomorrow.
A new feature on the show,perhaps, what might that be? Can't
wait? The Friday show is justtwenty one hours away. Come on,

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everybody, join me tomorrow.