Well, good morning, Welcome to the Thursday wet edition of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. I'm Preston. He's grand April eleventh, Show fifty one thirty five. Got some announcements to make that we will be making throughout the morning for the immediate area where we are broadcasting from. I've not received notices outside of this part of our listening areas, so if you have any to share, email me Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. But our verse today one
Peter two twenty four. He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds, you have been healed. A lot of people struggle with that. By his wounds, you have been healed by accepting the work that Jesus did for you on the cross. You're healed of your sins, the wounds of sin, because the wages of sin are death is death. And I can't explain why God chooses to heal some people on this side of eternity versus the other.
I just know that healing is a promise. Which side of eternity it's on. You know that that's up to God. But the provision of healing is found in Christ, and that healing comes from your sins. That healing comes from the infirmities that we walk and live with each and every day. So rest in that embrace that rejoice in that. Okay, I told Grant on the phone. I phoned him because on my way in I had one of the most horrifying experiences of my life driving into work. There was a
spot on the road that was not marked. I'm not exactly sure why Leon County and the City of Tallahassee don't have areas that they know are flood prone. I guess marked out when they know rain. I mean, goodness, gracious, my email box had forty thousand emails about flash flood warnings and you know, storm warnings and all that, So I would think the county has
a pretty good idea of what roads face problems. Now, over the last couple of years, I have taken a new route to work because the other route, the road that I used is covered with those speed bumps that slow you down to twenty miles an hour, and there's eleven of them on this road, and I have no interest in that. So I went a different route and so there's never There's not been this type of rain in a short period of time since I started taking the alternative route. So my headlights didn't
give it away, and I was running brights. I drive a large SUV and that probably had a lot to do with keeping me safe. What I thought was one of those you know, puddles on the side of the road and is splash all of a sudden, it's the whole road and it's deep. Yeah. Thankfully the wheels did not come off the pavement. I could tell, and I just I just kept going at you know, I'm not
a ridiculously fast driver. I was going forty in a forty five, but it was enough, and obviously I slowed way way down, but I just kept going. There's you don't stop there at that point, and I got through to the other side. So I say that to say this, there is going to be localized flooding wherever you are listening in the broadcast area. I don't know how much rain you have. Just understand there is localized flooding. Understand that Meridian Road here locally north of I ten should have signs on
it. And I'll be honest with you, it's shameful that the county and the city didn't have signage up in that area. And so when I called, I said, uh, you guys might want to drop some signage. Well, we're we haven't gotten cruise out yet. And I got to notice that they were receiving a higher volume of calls the normals on the non emergency line. So my advice to you is don't count on the city or the county having done their job. And so Leon County schools are delayed one hour.
High school starts at eight thirty, elementary at nine thirty, a middle school at ten thirty. For Leon County schools, Advise your driving children in high school and think ahead. If there's a chance that it's a low lying area in a road, send them another route, and if that's not feasible, keep them home. That's me. Ten minutes after the hour, it's Morning show, Preston Scott. They're gonna get a I'm just which knock?
Who's thatsh on WFLA Inside the American Patriots Almanac is the show today? Thursday? Just is how it works out? Nineteen forty five, Well, how about that the most notable day in history in this country? Isn't until nineteen forty five. Huh, hey, American troops liberate Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Do you think there's any way you can prepare yourself to see something like
that? You never considered. It happens to law enforcement from time to time they enter a crime scene that their mind just doesn't allow them to comprehend. Even with what they deal with day to day and the people that they deal with, their mind just does not allow them to comprehend what they're watching, what they're seeing. And I would imagine for American troops, Allied troops going
into these concentration camps. I mean, you know, I remember the scene from Band of Brothers where they're going through the woods and they break through this clearing and they see this fence and they see a camp behind the fence, and they go in there, and what they see are corpses, living skeletons, people that have been tortured, experimented on, branded And I just I don't know how you come to grips with witnessing that when your mind can't conceive
of that level of inhumanity. And if you'll allow me, that's why I think some of us are so concerned with just where our culture is heading because we're seeing it look evil as existed since the Garden, but we're seeing a level and pervasiveness of evil that is next level all over It's anyway. Nineteen forty seven, Jackie Robinson, first black baseball player in the majors, plays an exhibition game as Brooklyn Dodger. Nineteen fifty one, Truman relieves Douglas MacArthur,
General of Command, for publicly criticizing his Korean War policy. Oh, Douglas at a boy. And it was on this date in nineteen seventy that Apollo thirteen lifted off. If only they knew. I think that movie Apollo thirteen is just one of the best. They took a couple liberties, but not many. The story itself is just so good you didn't need to They took a couple, you know. So this person was really the one that made the radio call and they showed another Houston, We've got a problem.
That's ja ex Swigert that actually said that. In the movie they had Jim Level, which is Tom Hanks's characters say the words little things like that. But the job that NASA did to get the boys home. They had to figure out how to do it, and then the guys out there two hundred thousand miles away had to figure out how to do what they were being told to do on the fly with whatever they had. Couldn't run out to the garage and grab another tool. They had to make it work. And that's
just it's a great story, it really is. Sixteen minutes after the hour, come back more on click and click and clack The Tappitt Brothers. Steve Stewart comes up next hour about forty five minutes from now. Doctor David Hart next hour as well. If you wrote trip Idea in place to stop along the fruited plane, if you're ever traveling Dean Clancy Americans for prospec it sounds like you ought to be an author Dean Clancy's latest book. That's because there's
an author named Clancy out there somewhere the greats books. He's with Americans for Prosperity Senior Health Policy FELLO, and we'll be talking about the problems with healthcare. I'll be curious. I just got sent something from one of our research assistants, and apparently life insurance companies are starting to crack down on people that have been vaccinated with the JAB and that there are certain policies that you will
not qualify for depending on how many shots and boosters you've gotten. Now, I don't know this to be a fact. It's a it's a sound clip. I looked at it and listened to it. But is it possible.
Absolutely, it is, absolutely, it is. We were we were talking about the fact that during COVID there were people dying shouldn't have been dying, and that's still the case, and it's just decimating life insurance carriers because they're paying out premiums to people that they shouldn't be paying out premiums to, or not premiums. They're paying out claims to families that should not have to file
claims because they're they're the insured is too young, you know. They they the insurance is about odds, and I don't I don't think a lot of people understand stand that it doesn't matter what kind of insurance. Insurance is about the odds of something happening one way or another, and the insurance company and their actuaries calculate those odds and then set the rates based on those factors that
contribute to the odds. One way or the other. And that's why I've always had a problem with the idea that you're going to make insurance companies carry healthcare. For example, for somebody that has not taken care of their body and is you're forcing them to take a loss, that's no longer insurance. Now I'm not saying those people shouldn't find a way to find some help, but you don't call it insurance because insurance is based on odds and you can
not. It's the It's like, for example, someone betting take back to the future, knowing the odds, knowing who's going to win rather and so they bet because they know the result, you're going to force a payout. Well, that's you're no longer betting. It's the same with insurance. You're forcing an insurance carrier to pay on somebody's health when they have pre existing conditions that would otherwise disqualify them. Anyway, got some great email yesterday. We
were talking about the the show car Talk on NPR. Now NPR will be a topic on tomorrow's program, and I would play a clip. I don't know if you had a chance to listen to any of it, you I will play a I would play a clip rather, but NPR, they're jerks, and I don't even want to take the chance. So I'm not gonna play a clip, even if it's on YouTube or whatever. I'm just not going to do it. The brothers were hilarious when they were doing the show.
I highly recommend you going in finding it. But I had listened to yesterday. I said they came up with the law firm of Dew we cheat them and how but I would send a list of some of their other ones and I have to be very careful with some of this, and they would say these really fast, Like at the end of the show, they'd give
a list of credits. Head of Security, Barb Dwyer, Barb Dwyer, Marine biologist FRIEDA Wales, restroom attendance Trudy Door and Donna Hall, Russian chauffeur, Pickoff and Off accounts payable administrator Emelda Checks, airline seat tester Wilma butt Fit, animal control officer Turner Loose. But my favorite is their clothing designer Hugh jass Cheez. Just some of the many reasons why Click and Clack The Tappit Brothers were among my favorite listens when I was younger miss it. Two
bad nprs turned to trash. This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Good morning, and welcome to the radio program. If you're just waking up. This kind of important stuff, though not a big story. This is a preempting of the big stories, brought to you by a grove of creative marketing and digital expertise. Leon County Schools have made the decision to delay the start of school today by one hour across the board. Now, some of
the surrounding school districts may have made a similar decision. I suggest you check with your list serve, check your email box, your feeds, whatever. But for Leon County's residents, you've got kiddos in school. High school students start at eight thirty today, middle school at ten thirty, elementary at nine to thirty. So high school at eight thirty, Elementary at nine to thirty,
middle school ten thirty. Everybody delayed one hour. What's most important, though, is that you understand, as of this morning, there weren't any flooded road signs out where we were driving. And I had a very negative experience, a little disappointed in our city in county on that one. Thankfully, though I drive a big enough vehicle that the sheer weight of the vehicle kept me safe, that will not be the case for some of you.
If it's dark, you won't see it. So my advisement is make sure your kiddos know a route to go, and make sure they know that if they're seeing a road flooded, do not cross it. Just go home. If you don't have another way to school, call it the day. I mean go home. You cannot be assured that signs are up, That's all I'm saying. I can tell you that for those in Leon County, Meridian
north of the Itent Overpass is bad. One listener said he got eight inches of rain overnight, just under two inches before midnight and another six since then. That's a lot of rain and it's not going to get absorbed right away, so it's going somewhere. It just sheets off and goes. So there you go. The big stories. Better than a dozen members of the U of the GOP side of the House tanked the renewal of the FAISA, but it's a good section. Seven oh two rank and file Republicans are livid with
a handful of conservatives. Trump said he came out and posted on truth, so you'll kill Fiza. It was illegally used against me and many others. He's right, And here's the dynamic that's underway right now. It's a tug of war between It's a tool to keep us safe as a country, but sadly that tool has been misused. And so I don't know what I think, but that's the status of it. It's been tanked and Republicans are blasting other Republicans for it. There were fifty six reforms in fizis seven oh two
that are embedded in the base bill. Conservatives don't think some conservatives don't think it went far enough, and that that may or may not be the case. I don't know. Republicans want one question added to the census. Are you a citizen of the United States? Yes? Or no? Democrats are fighting at tooth and nail. They have to they have to change the law to get this done, because the Supreme Court said that under the law as it stands right now, you can't include the question. I don't know what
anyone's thinking on this. In twenty twenty, apportionment to Congress was based on illegal aliens. As a result, states like New York Illinois, California that are sanctuary states. They are getting more representation in Congress than they should by a pretty significant margin. And it matters. It just does. This is one of those low hanging fruit. You've got to be kidding me things. There's more. We'll get to it next here in the Morning Show with Preston
Scott. Alrighty, Steve Stewart just a little bit. This is a local news story, and I think it's interesting Representative Anna Paulina Luna filing a bill enacting the death penalty for child sexual abusers, turning it into a capital crime. What do you think about that? On the surface, broadly speaking, sign me up. I need to know that we're going to properly define it
though. For example, there are cases where a sixteen year old and his fifteen year old girlfriend engage in intimacy together and he's labeled as having committed a sex crime fifteen and fourteen fifteen year old. I mean, we can all agree it's stupid and it's wrong, but I want to make sure that that situation isn't thrown There's a difference between that and someone that serially is a predator looking for children to sexually abuse. Am I making that? Am I making
sense? I am of the opinion that those people that engage in that type of crime and that type of trafficking, I'm of the opinion that they cannot be rehabilitated. I that's just my opinion. Can they be forgiven? Absolutely they can. But I believe we need to do something significant to try to curb this crime. But you know, we'll see where this goes. It's bold move, Cotton. And then here in Florida, Democrats bragging about raising
one point three million in Florida in the first quarter. Republicans raised eight point one just Florida Democrat Party, Republican Party of Florida eight point one to one point three. Go ahead and brag about that, Dems. And then this it relates to yesterday's topic where we talked about Hamas and we talked about the possibility that most of the hostages, if not all of them, are dead. Joe Biden was asked the question repeatedly whether the hostage is held by Hamas
and the Gaza are still alive. There are at least eight Americans being held. He did not answer that question. He refused. He did, however, take a question about abortion now that tells you all you need to know. His silence on the subject, I think is a strong indicator that some of the intel that we're getting indicating that not all the hostages are alive and
well, which is why Hamas is not accepting any deal. If Israel turns loose criminals and terrorists and there are no hostages in return, they will destroy wherever the those people. It's over. You think the attack of Hamas has been tough, now wait until that happens. I think Hamas is stringing them along as best they can because I think they've killed all of them, or
let them die. Back with a very important story. Fifty one minutes after the hour, Steve Stewart just a little bit, Doctor David Hart's next hour Optimum Health Naturally road trip idea and Dean Clancy joins us from Americans for Prosperity. We'll talk about healthcare and the many things that are that are contributing to
the rising costs. I heard from somebody who I spoke with recently who is fighting a specific disease I won't go into any details beyond that, and was told that the medication for one week, sorry, one month, was thirty three thousand dollars. It's Pfizer medication, and they have to have this for five months. This person cannot find any help. Insurance will not cover but a tiny fraction of it. And I'm thinking to myself, surely a doctor
knows this. Surely a doctor knows that this protocol is not feasible. One hundred and sixty five thousand dollars for five months of medication anyway, just some of the many problems. So, yes, not yesterday. A couple of days ago, my phone rings. I'm working out in the yard and it says restricted. Do you ever get a call like that? I do, and I never answer them, or it just says unknown number, unknown caller, something like that. Well, see, I do, because sometimes it's
a member of Congress. It's I mean, there'll be people that will call me on occasion and it is it says restricted, and I generally know I don't set those calls. So all right, So I pick it up and I get this, Hey, this is Deputy so and so Leon County Sheriff's Office, and I'm looking for a Preston R. Scott. I said, that's me. He said, Man, you've got a good vibe immediately immediately. My radar is going right, my discernometer is clicking. Oh man,
I would have just rolled with the punches at that point. So I've got a break. We got. The vibes are high right now, so deputy, you know, shoving stuff things. I got a good vibe. He said, listen, you missed your your jury duty court date? And uh, did I now? And I said, you don't say see. At this point, I immediately know what I'm got. Oh yeah, okay. So here's what happens. And this is my way of saying, this is a scam that's going on. So I said, really, well, that's
interesting. I never got to notice. And I'm pretty good about these things. He said, yeah, we hear that from time to time, you know, postal service. And my brother on the other end of the line is just trying to just just groove with me, all right, So he says, we don't want anything to bad happen to you. So I said, let me stop you. You're gonna ask me to pay the fine over the phone, right, I said, you know what, I've got a great idea. I happen to have in my phone the cell number for the
Sheriff of Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil. Let's three way. Let's do a three way call, and let's see if this is not some kind of touch. The sheriff in real quick, all of a sudden, I am, I am hit with a litany of profanities that almost made me blush. I mean he was dropping every possible combination of bombs together and then hung up the phone. Click. So here's the point. Uh, missing jury duty is a thing. If you get a summons, respond appropriately, but don't under
any circumstances fall for that. Okay, it is I called. I called a buddy of mine at the Sheriff's department. He said, yeah, that's game's been going on for a little bit, but it's it's it's apparently coming back up again. So I'm making you aware. It's a thing. You can have some fun with it like I did. Oh, you can just go click. Time for the second hour of the Morning Show. All right, it is the second hour of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Good
morning friends. Great to be with you on Preston. He's grant quick reminder. School in Leon County's delayed one hour due to the rain and the localized flooding. High school eight thirty, elementary school nine thirty, middle school ten thirty. Keep that in mind, and if you have your kids out driving to high school, make sure they know the basic rules of if a road is flooded, do not cross all of that stuff. We do have flooded roads. Not all signs have been out, and that's a story for another
time. But just keep that in mind. There is localized flooding. As you're driving to work today, be careful and take your time, all right. We are joined on Thursdays by the executive editor of Tallaska Reports, the website tallaskerports dot com. Steve Stewart, Good morning, sir, Good morning. How are you, Preston. I'm doing all right for guy who almost got swept into the weeds by rushing water, Yeah, rushing war was it rushing? Oh yeah yeah, yeah, wow. Yeah. Only you couldn't
see it. Yeah, that's good. Yeah. So anyway, you know, I was well aware as I walked through the crowd at springtime Tallahassee. And of course we talked about the case last week involving a Tallassee police officer. We mentioned it just briefly, maybe, but there has been some gross misrepresentation by some locals. You know, it was a week ago that we actually you and I sat right here and saw the edited clip that was published
by the left wing blog Our Tallahassee. And so it's been a week but and this is very important for your listeners that this is a narrative that has been pulled from national headlines and forced down our throats by progressive elopment Leon County. And it really is bad. And this is this is really what happened. They've conspired. They released a tape just before a trial was set to take place and implied that they were breaking news and that TPD officers there Tallahassee.
It's not ours right that they implied that that Talasi Police department planted evidence in a dui case. And they took a clip that they were leaked and were able to, through a biased narrative in a story, make it look like that, and it went viral. Everybody helped it go viral and went national because the way they edited it looked very suspect, even looked suspect to
me. But what happened over a span of three days is the narrative completely changed and my faith in the jury system was restored, well, because they had to watch all of the video, the edited version. Not only that is first of all, and the fact that they're acting like they're breaking news. The TVD officer had already been had a deposition four weeks earlier and admitted
she had made a mistake. The chronology part of this is what drives the whole thing, is that the officer was doing her duty two o'clock in the morning on southn Row. Someone's blowing down South mon Row without his headlights on, pulls him over. Breast smells like alcohol. He says he's been to a bar and had a couple of drinks. Refuses a sobriety test. That's kind of an opening shut right if license is suspended before anything else happened.
Strike three, okay. And so then the officer who which we're still going to try to figure out exactly why she did this, made a mistake, Yeah, all right, And they took that mistake and tried to magnify it and impact a jury. They had to remove two jurors after this story was published because they had seen the report and they said they would not be able to make an unbiased decision. Well, they went through the trial. That's
sad. They went through the trial, the facts came out, and on Monday they delivered a guilty verdict for DUI can I point out when you say the facts came out, are we talking about the entirety of the video along with the depositions and everything for videos? Yes, they got to cross examine all the not the churchy, no, and so. But the thing that
is concerning here is that this was a conspiracy. The progressive element here conspired and this is Zyar talahassee with the head of the DEE c Ryan Ray and city Commissioner Mattlow. I have never I have never seen anything like this.
We've had people go to jail for stealing money, you know, in bribery, but trying to demean and to have the kind of negative impact on law enforcement that this incident did, and was supported by an elected official, City Commissier Jeremy Mattlow before, during, and after the trial continues to say that TPD fabricated in planet evidence. He needs to be He long ago needed to be sued for defamation for insisting that officers are cop killers that have been acquitted
and so forth. At some point Steve, someone needs to file a lawsuit. You know the thing about this, I mean, the easiest way to settle this is at the ballot box. But this whole thing is planned to try to help out his partner, Commissioner Jack Porter, who is running for you know, re election in August and November. And the tragic thing is
is they continue to go after law enforcement. Well, what makes their job even more difficult and in a time here when we're trying to be sure we don't cross that line of getting into an area where we can't control violent crime. Steve Stewart with us from Tallashi Reports. This is why you subscribe, because you get the unvarnished news, properly presented with facts. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Preston Scott, go ahead, make my day on
News Radio one hundred point seven w USLA. Yeah, the ballot box can settle a lot of this. I still want to see a lawsuit. I want to see Commissioner Matt Low sued for defamation, for slander and for what he posts. Libelists that he posts, that's libelists. When he attacks people that have been acquitted and calls them cop killers and in this case, a jury, as you say, saw through it. But he will continue because that's what he does well. And the other thing on this is we get
to the media angle on this, and this was a national story. I mean Stephen A. Smith picked it up last week and now all of a sudden, they see the jury it comes back with a guilty or it can I oh, what happened here? Well, you got to dig and figured out. CNN had to almost print a retraction and so but where's the local media on this? I mean, we're the only one that I think is covering it in the detail. I mean it was forever that we found out
that they pulled this person over at two in the morning. I mean, the biased narrative was out there first, and it sort of was what the local the traditional mainstream media used. But the story here is the efforts by this these elements, and they won't write that. Of course we're gonna we're they're going to protection. They are, and it's amazing because this was all planned out and it blew up in their face because the jury saw past it.
But anytime you try to take a mistake and you want to and you're trying to hurt law enforcement and you said this is dangerous to this is I'll make the statement, I think this is worse than what the all of the corruption stuff because that stuff, while it might have lined the pockets of individuals and it might have hurt our trust in those elected officials. What what Commissioner Matt Lowe by extension the others that are connected to him are doing. It
endangers our community. It endangers everybody because it hurts law enforcement. No, and it's I mean that's one of the you know, that's the foundation of the local community is you know, first responders, law enforcement, and they're
going after that. It's their first job. Yeah, I mean they're they're the ones that have appointed police abolitionists to the Citizens Police Review Board, and that's happened in some other little areas in Florida, and that's why the state has moved to say, look, we're not going to have this with these police review boards. Let me just to those that are the mattlow sick of fans out there, let me just say a good morning, thank you for
listening, appreciate you boosting my numbers, but also shame on you. Go ahead next all right, City Commission meeting last night, a couple of items that will impact you. First. Chart to Review committee delivered their recommendations a couple of weeks ago. Last night, the City Commission voted to put a couple of things on the ballot in November. One of them is the move is operational to move an election from August to November if there's only two candidates
from a city, which is the school board and Lean County does. Another one is they're going to expand the authority of the Ethics Board to not just the City Commission, but to the city commissioners when they serve on the cra and the blueprint which was not there. So that's those are two good ones. They're going to. The other thing, which was a three to two vote, is they're going to put on the ballot to increase their salary.
Commiserate to le County commissioners. What city commissioners right now make half of what county commissioners make, which is ninety thousand dollars for the county commission and that's stipulated by state law. Though well the state law tells what a county commissioner
makes. The city charter rides on that piggybacks on that the mayor makes what a county commissioner makes, because it's since the twenty years ago when they established a leadership mayor and so they're going to put it on the ball and see see how that flies. They want to pay raise. They want to pay raise. I don't I mean, given the environment that we're in, given the fact that this is supposed to be a part time job. They're supposed to be. You know, the thing is is we need less meddling in
the operation of a city. What we've got now is we've got a couple of people that sit on the city commission. They're looking at this as a you know, political stepping stone for you know, more notoriety, and we don't need that. We need people that actually work jobs right and show up and do this as like a you know, air to the city right because you've got you've got city managers. It's a council former government to operate.
But you know this, and again you could argue the county commissioners are paid too much, but that doesn't mean you shout up that. Another thing real quick is they did they did approve moving forward with radar to issue tickets and school zones. If you're ten miles over the speed limit, so you've got eleven mile per hour window there. But if you're speeding through school zones, you could get a camera issued ticket. And so they're going to move forward
with that. Okay, back with more with Steve Stewart again the website Tallahassee Reports dot com sixteen past the hour. Final segment here Steve Stewart, executive editor, Tallhashi Reports, My guest, Each and every Thursday, we talk about what's going on because no one else will. I mean, you know, I got information yesterday from somebody. There is not a trusted media source other than you and me. Well that sounds biased, but I would tend
to agree. And I mean we just whatever it is is what it is. Yeah, And the thing about it is is this is really important right now. I mean in terms of what looking at what's being reported, I've never seen it this bad. It we go back to the days of the corruption, you know, we go, we go well before those days. Yeah, you talk, you start talking about biomass and stuff like that. I mean, the reporting there with suspect it is now, it's gone.
It's biased, and we we can't talk about some of the things that we know, but there are stories that are not happening. This should be aren't being covered. They're not being covered, and they know, and reporters know. They know what's going on with this progressive movement, and they know the lies and they know what they're doing, but they won't write the story.
But if there's any good news in it is there is, they may not write that story, but they also will not provide cover at this point, right, and I mean the perfect example again, and I hate to keep talking about this, but this is going to continue to be an issue. I mean, an ethics advocate said Jack Porter needs to explain her travel expenses, and usually that's enough to generate someone to ask the question, but nobody will ask the question. She won't talk to us. But Commissioner Porter has
traveled on city taxpayer money to left wing progressive groups. That's the first thing. Second thing is somebody else is helping pay for part of that travel, and she's coming back and voting on issues and we don't know who it is who's influencing her exactly. Yeah, local speaking up local rations. She's in one. Yes, I wanted to reset on what's happening in the local Elections Team because it's starting to heat up. So I wanted to run through a
couple of the races. Superintendent of Schools Rocky Hanna, who was originally elected as an independent, got some I would say at the time, got some probably moderate conservative votes, has been has been elected twice now is running as a Democrat, and so in other words, we'll have a Democratic primary, and a lady named Janiah Swain, who is a educator at Famu Drs,
which is a charter school, is running against him in the primary. Now as an independent, we have Joe Burgess to this running so he'll go right to Nova, who's the principal at Charles High School. Right, so if a Republican was to get in, theoretically you could win. You could become superintendent schools with thirty three point four percent of the vote theoretically, So it'd be interesting to see if a Republican doesn't get on that race. That's something
to look at. The other race that I'm Brian Welch and Isaac can always mess up his last name, Monteya or Mantilla is running against Brian Welch. The reason I bring this up District four obviously in the area, which a lot of lack of representation in the city. Exactly, thank you. But the money that's being thrown at this race. Brian Welch has raised one hundred and forty thousand dollars and his opponent has raised eighty five thousand, which is
very good. I mean, this is a districted race. It's not like you got to cover a whole lot of area. So that's gonna be there's gonna be advertising there, people are going to know these two candidates. Another race that we're looking at is well, okay, we'll go to the Porter race and look, this is getting sort of full. Anthony DeMarco is running, has a raise one dollar. Lewis Gilbert is running, has raised seventeen
thousand dollars. Rudy Ferguson just reported and he's up to sixty five thousand dollars, and then Jack Porter has seventy two thousand, and then a guy that just joined the race yesterday, David Walmsley, developer here in town. Interesting looking character, don't know a how about him met So you've got one, two, three, four five people running for that seat. So, in other words, Commissioner plaguely runoff four challenges. Four challengers will probably go August
and then runoff in November, you would think. And then you have Curtis Richardson who has two opponents also dot Iman Johnson, and then Bernard Stevens, who is a pastor here in town who shows up at the city commission meetings and if you one of those presentations, Uh, very, very very it's a performance, I should say. So. Anyway, those are some of the races that we're looking at. Look, school board, school board.
You know, Lorie Cox has got a Progressive supported opponent. They're very upset that one Republican in the eighteen seats in local government, Jeremy Rogers, a firefighter, is running against her. She is two year term because of her replacing D. D. Recimues, and so she's going to be on the ballot and that would be November unless someone else gets in the race. So we'll keep an eye on that. She's got just drew an opponent, she
just got in, and so that race is in very early stages. Yeah, good questions there, President, you know, but we will be we'll be cut. Look, we've got two publications going out a month. We're going to be covering these races. From here on in getting look, there will be stories that just basic questions and answers. We want to know positions. Yeah, well, and let me point out to those of you that
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digital expertise. Lee Uncounty Schools. Due to the rain and the localized flooding is delaying the start of school by one hour across the board, So your high school kids started eight thirty elementary nine to thirty, middle school ten thirty. The end of the day is the same, but the start of the day delayed by one hour. Make sure your kids know that roads are flooded and may or may not have signed So if they see water across the road, don't go. Just turn around. And if that means not getting to
school, so be it. It's all right, it'll you'll be able to excuse it. Safety is more important than anything else. I had a bit of a scare on the way in this morning because signs were not out. I'm very disappointed in the fact that there was not signage here Leon County, Tallahassee, and roads should have been already marked because the city and county know where the flooding will take place. They know this. Anyway, it is what it is. But just be safe, make sure the kiddos are safe.
Make sure you're safe as you are as you are driving. And so there you go. Big stories planned, big stories, real quickly. Joe Biden dodging a question about whether the hostages in Gaza are alive. He wouldn't take the question. He would take questions. It wasn't one of those. He's not taking any questions which is the norm. Because he took questions about abortion, he would not touch the question. Are, for example, the eight Americans being held that we know of, are they alive? Have they
been killed or allowed to die? Remember we talked to you yesterday and shared a story that there is some intelligence coming out out saying suggesting that the reason why a MAS is not accepting a deal with Israel that's favorable to them is because the hostages are mostly all gone. They're dead. See that they are probably trying to make arrangements to get themselves somewhere else before that news is made official. The HEISA, the HEISA, the House PAISA renewal is dead.
At this point, two sets of Republicans blaming each other, more conservative members saying you didn't do enough. PAISA has been abused, and it has been it has been abused, and yeah, we're a little compromised. But I would point out the bigger issue is what's going on in our border. If we take care of our border, pizes not quite the thing that it is as in terms of a problem. Florida Representative Anna Paulina Luna filing a bill
who enact the death penalty for a child sex abusers. Interesting. I don't know that it's the right thing to do. I don't know that it's the wrong thing to do. I know that something needs to be done beyond whatever we're doing to these types of people, but we need to define it properly. He can't have a cup, you know, a kid that engages in you know, sex outside of marriage with his girlfriend who's a year younger than he is. We can't have him labeled a sexual predator, which does happen
sometimes. And the Florida GOP, as the Dems are in Florida bragging about raising one point three million, Republican Party chairman Evan Power points out Republicans raised a point one his boats bigger than her boat. Doctor David Hart's next Preston Show with Morning Scott, what Let's get you feeling a little bit better cover We cover a myriad of topics with doctor David Hart's Optimum Health Naturally. Good
morning, doctor, good morning. You know a lot of people are trying to get a handle on different kinds of conditions that we as humans deal with, and one of them, of course, anxiety, and what tags along with that oftentimes is depression. Is it possible that the triggers for that are not necessarily life related in the sense that you know, conditions at work or conditions at home or whatever it might be. Are there other possible causes?
Yes, they are. And this is really kind of amazing when you think about it, because you know, the anxiety rate and the depression rate in America, of course has been steadily increasing, but and it went off the chart during COVID, to say the least. But even after COVID, now the depression rates and anxiety rates in America up to like thirty two percent. And it's it's a pandemic. I mean, as far as pandemics concerned,
is mental illness and depression is going crazy. And of course the way we're treating it is with medications and pharmacology, and you know the ssries like zoof and lexapro and prozac, and then there's benzodiazepine, which are like valium and klonopin and xenix and so forth, and these these drugs have been used them in they're in a tremendously widely prescribed But there does seem to be another paradigm that's coming along that's actually seemed to be in this whole picture, because the
one thing that they all have in common, these flammatories, I mean, all these different antipsychotic drugs, is that they are anti inflammatory. Everyone has a little bit of anti inflammatory effect. And so there seems to be something going on with this inflammation again in the body, which we have talked about a lot, but it definitely seems to be effecting the brain. And they seem to think it's almost getting the brain on fire and inflamed, and it's
causing and contributing to a lot of these depressous syndromes. And so you know, we we can find this by actually measuring certain inflammatory factors in the body, like you know, the six and UH tumor of crosis factor. That's their blood tests you can do. And if you have this inflammation in your
body, it definitely can be affect in your brain. And this is something most people really aren't looking for, and it's something that's passed just what's going on around us, you know, just around these each and every day.
So what in the world is someone supposed to do? Well? You know, this is the same old problem then we have always and this is why we try to talk about all the different life factors that can affect and things we can do for overall health because the same things that are affecting our gut and guts once again is really really big in this because it's the same story, but it's the same problem. And if what we're doing is we're talking about it a lot of times, we're not doing anything for it. It's
the same things that affect our overall health. When we go ahead and eat certain things like increased carbs and so forth like that, it affects the gut bacteria. And we're finding that even supplements like probotics that have increased lack of Bacillus ramos, which is one of them, has a tremendous effect upon anxiety and depression. Who have thought that your gut would affect your brain, but it does. And also there's different irritations in the body and the gut like
increased bacterial overgrowth and microbial floora which can affect that tremendously. That can be affected just by taking simple probotics and spore probotics are the best way to go with that. Also, decrease in things like seed oils you want to eat. You know, mostly what we talked about this a lot, but it's just even works for this because anything that affects the whole body, inflammation affects every one of these different conditions, including cardiovasc disease. Upon it's the same
thing. So so finding ways in diet, in nutrients to reduce inflammation seems to be a key to addressing this. It's the key to addressing a tremendous number of different chronic conditions, and definitely depression anxiety is one of them. Also, as always, great stuff, doctor Hearts, Thanks so very much. We'll talk in soon. Okay, thank you, Presten, have a great day. Thank you, sir. Doctor David Harts with us this morning. Who knew, well he did, That's why he's on the show now,
you know, hell a friend tell both of them. Forty six minutes after the hour, come back with a road trip idea and more on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Preston Scott, you're mocking me, aren't you. Oh no, no, no, no, no no no. Unused Radio one hundred point seven tell the UFLA storm that came through our region late yesterday in the evening and then through the morning hours is now up in Northeast Georgia. Where the Masters is being played, so it's delayed. Sad.
Are they going to be able to get it all in? Oh sure they'll just they're going to delay the start. Don't know if that means they'll get the first round in it entirely. They might have to go to split teas. Don't know. They hate doing that. I love it. There's so many things I love about Augusta National, how they do things. But anyway, I came across this story of a girl that was struggling to find herself. Mister wright, she was looking for a boyfriend that might be a future
mister husband type of thing. Boy, and many many such cases. Oh boy, you know. I mean, look, that's why we do the mainly minute right, every little bit that we can do to help. This girl said that she and her friends got an idea when they witnessed other young women giving out friendship bracelets with their phone numbers to men in public. Now, first of all, that's dumb, not smart. Not smart. Now I understand you can just change your phone number, but what a hassle that
is. So that's just dumb. So here's what she came up with. She's twenty four names. Michelle Arshad and she works in finance, tends to be introverted. So they came up with the idea of getting personalized stamps. And so she said that if she sees somebody that she thinks looks like a nice guy, she'll walk up to him and stamp the top of their hand and it says, you're cute, I'm cute. You should hit me up if you're single. Instagram At mess named Michelle And now she's got a she's
in a committed relationship now, so she's not using the stamp. But I just got to think, and that's where we are now. And it's weird how social media can actually be used as a barrier before giving that person your phone number, it's like, here, just take a creening. Yeah, here's my Instat. We'll message on Instat instead of you know, I give you my phone number and then I have to block you. And then it's
like, it's weird. If it gets weird, you know. Yeah, And if they go ahead and hit you up, then you have a little bit of a background that you can look at and see, you know, it's this person kind of trashy or are they not? You know? So for her post on This got two point four million views so far, tells me there are a lot of desperate people out there. Just saying I'm not
saying that's the right thing to do. I'm not saying that's what I would advise a kid of mine to do, Just saying there's one way to approach the situation there, and it's infinitely better than handing out your phone number. True, So kudo's on that front. Let's do it. Let's take a road trip. Time to go on the road again, and inside our book Unique America, we have come up with another stop. So if you're traveling the Fruited Plain, and I'll be shocked if someone listening hasn't been there,
we take you to Marshall, Michigan and the American Museum of Magic. Whether it's Harry Houdini, the Great Blackstone. They have memorabilia. They have a great collection of some of the great magicians' work, some of their props, some of the things that they used. And it is an eighteen sixties building that has been turned into the American Museum of Magic founded in nineteen seventy eight. It is it's a thing. It costs seven bucks to get In offseason.
They arrange private tours daily. But if you're interested, Marshall, Michigan, the American Museum of Magic, see it before it's gone. It's the best I could do in short notice. All Right, we come back. We're gonna talk about healthcare and what's right, what's wrong? Where we going. Dean Clancy, Americans for Prosperity Senior Health Policy Fellow, will join us. We're gonna have a little talk about this because it's not getting any better.
In fact, all that's happened is it's in the midst of all of the advancements in medicine and medical discovery, somehow things have gotten worse. We'll talk about that and more next on the Morning Show with Preston's gott. Oh, good morning friends. It's a wet day and we have a lot of
localized flooding in much of the broadcast areas. To be safe as you're driving, remember if you are in around Leon County, your schools are glayed by one hour across the board, high school, elementary and middle school all starting one hour later. Welcome to Thursday of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. That is Grant. I'm Preston. Great to be with you April eleventh. Appreciate you sharing time with us. We try to make the most of it.
And we have a guest here from the Americans for Prosperity Organization and I've had guests with AFP for a while and Dean Clancy is the senior Health policy Fellow at AFP. Dean, welcome to the show. How are you. Oh, it's great to be here. Thank you. Let's talk a little bit. Your expertise is healthcare, and you know, in fairness, and it's really tough for me to be fair to the Biden administration because the resident
has been a disaster. But he he's inherent a mass that his predecessors inherited and his predecessors have inherited. But let's first start talking about Bidenomics. How is how's Joe made things worse? Well, you know, he's got an incredible record. Prices have soared, it's harder to get groceries and gasoline. The job market continues to be iffy. A lot of people have just stopped looking for jobs. There's been some improvements, but not nearly what he boasts
about. And when it comes to healthcare, well, health insurance premiums are at an all time high. It's getting harder to find a doctor and a hospital that's in your health insurance plans network. That's directly a result of the so called Affordable Care Act that he called a big deal fourteen years ago. And of course he has no accomplishments to run on to speak of on things like immigration, foreign policy, energy and so on. So other than that,
he has a fantastic record. Bidenomics is working healthcare though, as we said, is our focus. And what specifically has he done that has been responsible for the continuing spiral of the healthcare cost problems in this country, Well, he's doubled down on an approach that predates biden which where the government basically miths, regulates, and over subsidizes and missubsidizes healthcare so that prices just always
keep rising and almost always faster than inflation. And of course he supported the Affordable Care Act. When he came into office, he doubled down by making those subsidies much more lavish. He's also imposed price controls on prescription drugs in Medicare, which is very popular, but it's leading to drug shortages and will stifle new cures. Economists the political spectrum agree about that, and the other day he had an event with Senator Bernie Sanders where he tried to tout all
of this as a great accomplishment. But at Americans for Prosperity, we do a lot of pulling. We talk to people on their front door, and what we found is that the high cost of healthcare is now the number three issue on their list, exceeded only by inflation and jobs. That's where we are with Bidenomics and Biden's healthcare record. I'm surprised that immigration is not on top of that. But let's set that aside for a second. Dean,
how do we reset things? You know, I mean, it's easy for us, and it's quite honestly, it's low hanging fruit to dump this on Biden. He deserves blame for his portion of this. But the problems with healthcare in this country predate Joe, They predate Obama, They predate a lot of things where policy analysts have experts found where health care got off the rails. Yes, yes they have. And by the way, on immigration, you're right, it is number four. Both health care and immigration are in
the top five consistently throughout this presidency. As a concern of voters, where did we get off the rails? Well, it actually goes all the way back to World War Two, when the federal government, under pressure from labor unions during wage and price controls, decided to just not tax employer provided health benefits even though they are a form of compensation they technically should be taxed as
income. When they did that, it drove a movement to everybody getting group health insurance instead of just purchasing individual health insurance, you know, directly from an insurance company. And what that did was set off an inflation because people rely a little too much on insurance, and so they've become disconnected from the price. They don't ask how much will this cost. In nineteen sixty about half of our expenses were paid for out of pocket in medical care. Today
it's only ten percent. Ninety percent of the time, we're relying on strangers to negotiate and purchase healthcare for us. And that hey, Dean, stand by, We got to take a quick break here. Ten minutes after the hour, Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred sevenfla shared earlier in the program of a friend of mine who was being asked to pay thirty three thousand dollars
a month for a five month course of a medicine to treaty condition. And I don't know where you come up with one hundred and sixty five thousand dollars to pay for a Pfizer drug like that, Dean Clancy with us from Americans for Prosperity. Dean. That's one example, and there's countless others just like it. I don't even know where to begin. Sure, some prescription drugs
are very expensive. Part of that is because they're new, they're breakthroughs, and there's a patent of a monopoly granted by the government, and that helps the drug maker or the inventor recoup their costs of research and development. But those drug companies do play games to try to prolong those monopolies, and the government has distorted things so badly that the prices can be ridiculous. The good news is most prescription drugs in America are actually rather affordable. It's largely a
success story. But people who do see those outlier drugs that costs so much. That causes a police problem, and the result has been caused by politicians for price controls. At AFP, we think that's a mistake. We should try to have more competition to drive down drug prices, not more government. See I would see in this one case, I would say, you know, shame on the doctor. I mean, you know, a person can't
afford that, and so why even put that out there. If the person cannot afford that type of medication, go with another treatment, go with a different set of protocols. Well, sure, if there is an alternative. It may be that there is none. And of course this is precisely why people have health insurance, is to deal with large unexpected expenses like the one we're talking about, and people need that. But unfortunately the government has basically
driven up the cost of insurance for everybody. And it doesn't need to be that way. It would be much better if, you know, we don't need to take away subsidies for health insurance. And by the way, almost all Americans receive some kind of subsidy. It could be directly through a government program or indirect through the tax code, but we all get some money.
Why not let people take that money directly as cash basically that they can use for the health insurance they want, the amount of coverage they want, and then what they don't spend on insurance. Let them save that in a tax advantaged health savings account which they can use for their copays, deductibles, prescription
drugs, doctors, appointments, you name it. This is very easily doable, and if we did it, I think you would see costs coming down because we would have more you know, more people shopping for value, demanding price transparency, more competition. You know what makes markets work in every other
part of the economy besides healthcare. You know, one of the things that strikes me as we're discussing about this, Dean, is that you're starting to then untangle the web and you start to see how broad the web is. For example, this really involves tax code. You know, when you see said earlier that the benefits should be taxed, well, certainly not under the tax code we have right now. And so you then have to address tax code and we even we haven't even gotten to tort reform and the and the
need to go there to address this. And so I just wonder what the practical ramifications are of fixing this and whether it can be fixed. Bear with me, We're going to take one more break. Here with me is Dean Clancy. These are the Americans for Prosperities, the senior health policy fellow there. We're talking about healthcare in America. By noomics, of course, has been a disaster across the board. It's only exasperated the problem or exacerbated the
problem with health care costs. But it predated Joe, it predated Barack Obama and the foolishness of the Obamacare that the Supreme Court unbelievably codified. You know, this is a massive problem, and I'm packing it is going to be very difficult. We'll get to a little bit more with Dean next. Apologies if I sound scattered. I think it's the nature of climbing the mountain,
the mountain of the healthcare challenges that this country faces. You know, I talked earlier about the fact that and Dean clancy with us from Americans for Prosperity. Dean, I just mentioned the misnomer of the word insurance in and of itself, that if you force insurance companies to cover people with pre existing conditions, that's no longer insurance. If we want to do it, that's fine,
but let's call it something else. Because insurance is about managing risk, and so to a certain extent, we have some semantic problems to add on top of everything else. No, you're right. We call it insurance, but it's really prepaid health benefits, and it's not insurance. True insurance, you're right, is based on risk. And when you do it that way, healthy people have an incentive to sign up early and to stay enrolled in the insurance risk pool, which is good for everybody, brings prices down.
We've messed that up with government policies that basically turn insurance into a political benefit. That you know, it's all about mandates and price controls, and it is a mess in your mind. Give us the three things that you think need to be done in order in order for us to get a movement of this going in the right direction. With regard to health care, well, the one big thing we need to do is what we at AFP call a
personal option. That's a personal option means reforming health care to put you, the patient in charge. And the three big components of that our first, fund patients, not insurance companies. We've got billions going to insurance companies through Obamacare, Medicaid and other programs. Let's let individuals take that money and take
control and spend it themselves on the insurance they want. The second plank is let everyone have a tax free health savings account so they can spend what they don't you know, those subsidies, whatever they don't spend on insurance, they can put it in the account and they can buy the medical services and see the doctors for example, that their insurance doesn't cover, you know, with
them in control. So hsays for all. And then the third thing is let everybody have the option of paying for healthcare directly, you know, instead of going through insurance. Just pay your doctors directly, maybe on a monthly subscription basis. This is a movement right now. They call it direct primary care. You pay a fixed fee every month, no extra fees, and
your doctor is available to you essentially around the clock. It's great. Patients love it and doctors love it because they're practicing medicine instead of working for insurance companies. So those are the three planks of the personal option. Obviously part of that with at least two of them. Best as I can tell, would be the requirement for us to know what certain procedures, a menu of prices for services right well, and you would get that, you would get
price transparency. Would you would see shoppable services upfront? Right now, healthcare is like a grocery store where there's no prices on the shelves and some of the aisles you're not allowed to do unless you get permission from your health insurance company, and you might find your grocery store is not even in your health insurance network. You know, it's crazy. Whereas with the personal option,
it'll be like today's grocery stores. You'll see the prices and the products upfront, and you'll decide what you get and how much you get, and it'll work because markets work even in healthcare. Dean in closing, what are the biggest impediments to this? Are they in government or are they in the healthcare provider the insurance provider sector. The biggest opposition is all the special interests that
are making a mint off the status quo. That's health insurance companies, pharmaceutical manufacturers, you know, doctors, hospitals, they're all kind of we're all victims of a system that has become very hard to reform. But the hope is that if enough voters can let politicians know that they're demanding change. I do think you can get change. It will be incremental, but move in
the right direction. The other big problem is healthcare politics is highly polarized, with Democrats favoring government solutions Republicans favoring market solutions, but it's been hard for them to find centrist incremental solutions. We think the personal option is exactly that it shouldn't be controversial, and we've been working to line up support in Congress. We've actually got several hundred members of Congress now who have put their name
on one or more of these personal option reforms that I'm talking about. And if we can just get the right person in the White House and the right people controlling Congress, I think we have a chance to move forward and make health care better. Dean, thanks for the time today. I appreciate you bringing some clarity to what is an absolutely muddy situation. Thank you for your
time. Oh it's my pleasure. Thank you. Dean Clancy with US Americans for Prosperity, my guest, he is the Senior Health Policy Fellow with AFP. Interesting set of potential solutions. There something to think about. Twenty seven past the hour, It's The Morning Show with Dresten Scott again reminding parents of Leon County students. That school is delayed an hour. The high school kids just got should have just gotten there to start school. Elementary delayed to nine
thirty, middle school delayed to ten thirty. So keep in mind there are flooded roads in the area. There are roads that are unsafe. So just be advised. Parents. Okay, you have you have been warned. I've done my best. Almost almost bought it myself. I almost found myself floating down some impromptu river two lane wooded road. Who knows where that thing would have led Narnia just it was. It was like slow motion way. So there's a lot of water here with how deep did your vehicle go? Uh?
Well, I didn't have anything come in the door, but you know, you know the side on the fact that you were But it was that you're saying, door, It was slapping the under carriage. Yeah, yeah, it was. It was. And I mean, I boy, I created a wake. I bet Wish was not expecting it. I want to thank uh leadership inside the city and county for making sure that those roads got marked. I'm sorry. I struggle with that. You know, what roads
are going to get flooded? Why in the world wouldn't signage be up like, oh, I don't know last night. Yeah, Like a lot of those roads, like the canopy roads, I'm thinking, you know, but Meridian is a great example. You get to like one of those really deep kind of gullies kind of around the lakes and ponds and stuff, and I'm
like, man, the water is already just right there. Anyway. It would take just very little, you know, rain for it to just overflow right into the road, and you're not sure where the road ends and where the gully begins. If you're not familiar with canopy roads. Canopy roads are just something very cool. They're very cool, yeah about this community. But they're not necessarily safe. And so anyway, it is what it is.
RPF in Florida, the Republican Party of Florida significantly outraising Democrats. While Dems are bragging about making one point three in fundraising for the first quarter, Republicans hit eight point one million. Oh my gosh, the House getting some email on this faiza is bad, Okay, it is. I understand its purpose. I still think that if we simply shut down the border, a lot of our issues will be solved. We deal with immigration, we solve a
lot of issues. FISA has been I don't trust government ergo, I don't trust FISA. And Republicans are fighting over how much reform needs to come, and so a group that wants more reform, if not an end to FISA tanked it and the rest of the Republicans are angry. I don't know what to tell you. They'll tell you that FISA has been used to thwart terrorist acts. I'll tell you that Americans are also being snooped on without permission and
justification. Do what you will with that. Joe Biden asked about whether or not hostages in Gaza, including at least eight Americans, are still alive. He dodged the question. However, he took a question about abortion that combined with what we talked about yesterday, a report suggesting that the intelligence is showing that most, if not all, of the high hostages are dead. It starts to get more credibility with Biden's silence. Now, look, on most
occasions, Biden's saying nothing is a win. Right. It's a win for Joe, it's a win for Democrats and for us. It gives us something different to focus on instead of just laughing at Joe. We're talking about it the other day. Watching Joe walk around is like watching a roomba, a human rumba vacuum. I did not create that line. That was acted out by a comedian on stage and it was hilarious. And then lastly, Republicans trying to get a question added to the census are you a citizen of the
United States? And Democrats are fighting it tooth and nail. Why because Congress apportionmen depends on it. Wufla FM dot com keyword preston. Liberals took control of South Korea's parliament. Whoa, whoa wow man, All right, people are stupid. I don't know why, God done, Just smite us.
All well, that's our main export, you know, people, All of the nations where we've had, like, you know, major influence, like when we rebuilt Japan after we defeated them in World War Two, South Korea versus North Korea, right deep ties to both of those nations in the post war era, all have the same trajectory where we have this influence. It's like every last nation, including much of Europe. So that's our main export. That's why this isn't the good news segment tomorrow. It's Thursday Friday.
We would be the music intro to this segment would have been dune Dun dun du. You know people are dying everywhere. Yeah, I mean it's just some funeral dirge. According to Gallup, this is interesting. Forty eight percent now say they would not consider buying an EV That is up seven points forty eight percent. We're now nearing the tipping point. And Joe Joe has mandated that fifty six percent of new vehicles sold in the marketplace had to be electric
by twenty thirty two. Good luck with that. Told you it's just not going to happen. Disconnect from reality. People are waking up. There is a limited use for evs, very limited, and you better be counting the cost. Hurts. Didn't they have a new CEO? I don't know what else to say. Now the new CEO is a train wreck, but that's for them to figure out. Then there's this down payments made by home buyers have increased by almost twenty five percent over the last year. Get your head
around this number, the median down payment for US home buyers. What do you think it was? In February, the median US nationwide gosh, I I couldn't even I couldn't even guess. But I bought my home in twenty nineteen at a really good price and very favorable market conditions, correct, very favorable market conditions. And I'm thinking of that number, whatever that number was, right, right, And I don't think I even take a guess.
I don't know ten thousand, fifty five thousand and six and forty dollars, you see, like I was nowhere even closed right right, Like I wouldn't have been either. Yeah, I saw the headline and I didn't read. I didn't click. I just I kind of just sat my desk. I closed my eyes and I thought, okay, twenty twenty five grand who more than double what I was guessing, which I thought was high. And your question, I know exactly the question. Who has that? Yeah? And
that's why rent is now the thing? Right? People are like the market's are out of reach for me. Right, you got to catch a break, have someone that looks kindly on you. Maybe an inheritance, I don't know. I don't know where you come up with that kind of cash. And the reason why it's gone up is because they're buying down as much principle as they can, so they're financing less to try to offset. I hope they're doing the math, because I don't know if buying down the principle gains
you much versus keeping the cash in savings. Unless people are just deciding this is where we're gonna be. We're posting up here for thirty years, yeah, and like we're gonna just forever home. This is gonna be it. This will be for our kids. Unless that's the decision they're making. It's just you don't know. Yeah, and that makes sense. I would lean towards keeping that amount of money in my bank account and investing a bunch of it in a wroth. But that's me come back with unbelievable news. I
yeah, damn. I was not prepared for what I learned yesterday, and the announcement might have come the day before opening week of the NFL football season, will find my beloved Green Bay Packers playing on the road in Brazil. When did they get a deal with Brazil? Tell me about it. This is getting out of hand, one of them. I don't want the NFL to turn into like the Champions League. You know they've got their own thing. Yes, you know they do what they do. Yes, they're an
international competition. The NFL is not. But it's a marketing strategy. Yeah, it's all money making schemes. So one of my sons said, I hope we get all our players back alive. I would trust it if it was Bolsonaro's Brazil, but Lula's Brazil. I don't know. Okay, what just Bolsonnaro, the former president. Okay, I mean that's what I figured you were talking about. But yeah, the fact that you dropped that out there is just like, oh, that's next level. From producer of the
Morning Shore with President Scott. Lula is the current president. I forget his first name, that's his last name. Yeah, he's got a business here. Lula Lemon Is that what it is? Oh, that's that's why. That's why it sounded familiar. Lemon is the citrusy fruit is big in Brazil. I didn't realize he was so in the phone. No, no, no, that's Lulu. Sorry, my bad, take it back, Take me back. He's very into athleisure. Yeah like that. I just I
mean, here's the only good news. It's a road game for the Packers, but Philadelphia doesn't really have fans over there, but Green Bay does packers have fans everywhere around the world. It's a home game for green Bay anywhere in the world they play. It just is that said. I don't know, and it's going to be on a Friday night, Friday night in South America. What are we doing? I don't know. Yeah, nothing, says blue collar meat packing industry of green Bay, Wisconsin. Am imlberding my
own brats rio right, Yeah, there you go. We're bringing our own beer sausage to beer cheese out of trust your cheese sausage. Can you imagine a bunch of wisconsinights from Green Bay going and traveling to Rear. Oh gosh, it's so hot down here. My goodness. Well let me think that's their South America. That's going to be their spring. So our fall is their spring in South America. So leave, come over here. Take a look at this. My gosh, she's climbing the rocks. Oh look,
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