Good morning. I was trying to come up with something I don't know, profound to say to be the first words of the morning for some of you. But it's just me so that the possibility of that happening is just so remote. Anyway, Good morning, Thursday, May ninth, Show fifty one fifty five of The Morning Show with Preston Scott. I am Preston. He is Grant, and it's a delight to share time with you. As always, I'll tell you about the programming a little bit, but we like to
begin the program with a little bit of scripture. We call this segment the sixth, seventeen sixty three segment because this was inspired by the Supreme Court's ridiculous decision to say that teachers were not allowed to read scripture to start the school day or at any point in the school day. They couldn't do it. Now, sadly, a lot of people have said, look at that, we kicked God out of schools. No, we didn't. We just made
a dumb decision. But since teachers are 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, be on the right side, huh. But I decided that this would be our way of replacing that and giving you something to share with your kids. If you are not a person that spends much time in scripture or first thing in the morning, you're busy and you haven't necessarily laid anything out.
I just think it's important to start your 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 parent first thing in the morning just stinks 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, change who you are. Your kids deserve better than that. They don't deserve being yelled at first thing in the morning,
screamed at. Do your parenting and you won't have to be upset about something as they start their day, because that just that just it ruins their day. And so our scripture today really kind of underscores this thought. And if it sounds like a mild rebuke, okay, it doesn't apply to everybody, but it applies to some and if you don't have kids, it still applies to you because you determine largely what kind of day you're gonna have. I try my very best to be consistent. I'm not perfect, boy, ask
anybody who knows me. I am far from it. But what I try to be is consistent. Listen to what this verse says Hebrews thirteen eight. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Yes, he's God. He's able to walk that path as he did without stumbling. But our goal should be to chase after that. And what that verse says to me is one word consistency. We gravitate to God in part because he is the
same yesterday, today and forever. If we can find a way to try to chase that and be as consistent as we can be, we help our children, We help our spouse, we help our co workers, we help people around us because they can count on 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 Show with Preston Scott. Already Thursday, We're
nearly a third of the way through the month of May. Already land of Ghoshen. My gosh, it's just speeding right on by this year. I'll be honest with you, I'm nervous for November. They're already getting ready to a cheat. A lot of people say, what stupid. Of course they are never stopped. Yeah, anyway, let's see here. May Night, seventeen fifty four, the first political cartoon, sorry, political cartoon published in
America appeared in Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette. Do you know what it was? That's a great trivia question. The first political cartoon was of what Franklin himself probably designed, what is called the Woodcut, which shows a snake severed into pieces representing Britain's American colonies. The drawing was a reminder that the colonies must unite to defend themselves as they entered the French and Indian War. Now this
is seventeen fifty four, mind you. In an article accompanying the cartoon, Franklin warned of quoting the present disunited state of the British colonies and the extreme difficulty of bringing so many different governments and assemblies to agree in any speedy and effectual measures for our common defense and security. Franklin may have chosen a snake because of a popular superstition that is snake had been cut into pieces, would
come back to life if the pieces were 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 symbol for many believed in unity and love of liberty. Join or die is what it said underneath the severed snake. Prior to that, on this date, in fifteen oh two, Christopher Columbus Sales from Cadiz, Spain, on his fourth and final trip to the New
World. Eighteen sixty five, Richard Gatling receives a patent for chewing gum. Now I'm just kidding, the Gatling gum that made it funny. No, the Gatling gun, of course, although that is funny. The Gatling gum early version of a machine gun. Nineteen twenty six, explorer Richard Byrd and co pilot Floyd Bennett claimed to have made the first flight over the North Pole. It's been disputed by some, and in nineteen seventy four, the House
Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against President Nixon. You deserve to know if your president's cork. Well, I'm not a Kirk. Sixteen minutes past the hour, we come back old people. You define that however you want. Listen up doctor David Harts this morning will join us Steve Stewart. Of course,
next hour. Got a great road trip idea if you're going to do some traveling this summer, and we'll try to offer some thoughts for those that may not have time to make a long extended trip, but things a little closer to the region. We'll do that as we get to June. We can also talked this morning about divorce. This topic was spurred by a story I 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? Is it a certain number or is it more just kind of where you are. I've met some really old thirty year olds, forty year olds. Conversely, I've met some very very young sixty sixty five, seventy eighty year olds. I don't I know how we generally grab that thought of older citizens and adults, and we look at it through the lens of you know, when people pass away, you know, when they reach older old age. Came across an interesting mental health article Epic Times on
how online social engagement can influence older adults, especially anxiety and depression. And the study was kind of interesting and enlightening. And for those of you look, a lot of older people wake up early in the morning. They like to get busy, get doing things. If they're out working outside or doing any activities, they want to do it in the cooler part of the day. Morning he can really linger, especially as we get into the summertime.
But the study was published in New Media and Society, and researchers found that certain social media activities were associated with higher rates of depression and anxiety. The activities included primarily looking at photos of non family members, answering questions for others, and checking in on people suddenly absent from the online community. For example, looking at photos of family was not related to depression or anxiety. Looking
at photos of non family members resulted in higher rates of anxiety. And so there's a list of activities that are pretty healthy for older adults that are online. Other studies out there indicated that anxiety and depression have become increasingly common among older people. Some research suggests rates of depression among older adults around the world maybe as high as forty percent and anxiety rates fourteen to seventeen percent. It
appears as though the internet can play a role good or bad. It's dependent, it's somewhat nuanced. If you use online social engagement as a replacement for in person relational contact, you're likely in some trouble. Social isolation and loneliness are key risk factors for poor mental health and older people. Now some of
these risks can be mitigated through online interactions. There are other risk factors for anxiety and loneliness and depression, chronic disease, poor mobility, hearing and vision loss. You know, I know, for example, that hearing loss causes people to feel more and more detached and isolated, and it does. It has been proven to have a correlation to mental health. Social media can help bridge some of that when used properly, when you're doing the right things with
it. Here's what I think it says to everyone. If you have older people in your life and you are a not so old person, you have a responsibility to be in their life. If you are a son or daughter of an aging parent, if you are a grandson granddaughter of aging grandparents, make the effort for Pete's sake to be in their life. If they can't come to you, find ways to come to them. And that's what this
study is showing. Those are the positive things of social media. I mean, my goodness today, I remember it was pipe dream material that you could talk on the phone and see each other. Take a few minutes once a week, once every two weeks. Watch the difference it makes in people in and around your life. Twenty seven minutes after the hour. And for you old folks use social media wisely. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. You're right to it. Big stories in the press box this morning Thursday,
in no particular order. The Select Subcommittee on the RONA Virus has released a document set of documents. Brace yourselves. This is going to be shocking. The State depart knew in July of twenty twenty the origin of the COVID pandemic, that it was a lab leak in Wuhan, and they lied to us.
They have lied since July of twenty twenty. If you believe that even that, I don't know what to believe that our government says about much of anything, but we at least know that they said publicly something totally different than what is now known. They knew privately. The State Department lied, the federal government lied. The interesting question here, there's a series of questions that come to mind when you look at this story and the information that has been
released. Why was there a cover up? What was the point? Was the point to cover up the fact that we were funding gain of function research and we're working hand in hand with the Chinese government? Why did they lie for years? Did Donald Trump know? Or let's go back to that admission of a CIA officer to an undercover journalist working for O'Keefe media group, when he said, we didn't tell him anything. We kept all kinds of things
from him. Certainly that gives Trump plausible deniability. What about Mike Pompeo because he was Secretary of State. Those are important questions that need to be answered. The Georgia Court of Appeals has agreed to review the decision by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee when he kept Fanny Willis on the case and did not discharge her for lying. The Georgia Court of Appeals has agreed that yes, they think it should be reviewed his decision to keep her on the case.
That is important, FBI, if you believe him issuing a warning along with other US agencies that there is a renewed effort by North Korean hackers linked to the Military Intelligence Agency for North Korea. They are using fake user names legitimate domain names to impersonate individuals from trusted organizations, including think tanks, higher education institutions, to gain trust, build rapport, and then to eventually steal
information. So be very very careful if you start getting emails from that trusted organization that you've been donating money to check and verify. Here's let me tell you what I do. If I get something and it just something looks off to me, You look for misspells and little tiny things because your eyes will automatically correct wrong spelling. You have to be diligent. But what I'll do
is I'll just type in the site itself. I won't click a link, and I'll look up that story or that whatever and find it for myself and then Lastly, US Navy secretary announces a nuclear powered attack sub will be named the USS Miami. It's not the first time Miami's been honored, but it will be the latest time. Forty minutes past the hour, come back with a harbinger The Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point seven WFLA. By the way, before I move ahead real quickly, can you
name the Secretary of the United States Navy. 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 expect a guy named Carlos del Toro to be 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 of Steward Health. It is the largest physician 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 is negotiating to restructure its business. Submitted the filing in US Bankruptcy Court Southern District of Texas May sixth, Negotiating a Debtor in Possession Financing Agreement for medical Properties Trust DIP financing, available to firms that have filed Chapter eleven, allows companies to raise capital to fund operations while the
bankruptcy process progresses. Here's what's interesting, the reasons, and what I want you to just think about is how much more of this are we going to see, not just in the medical profession but in general, but in the medical profession specifically insufficient reimbursement from Medicaid and medicare. How long have we heard that doctors can't survive on what they get in reimbursement from the government. If you just stopped right there and tried to 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 me the costs of being in the profession. I still remember a surgeon, one of his associates in the same practice was sued for making a mistake in surgery or something malpractice. He was aimed 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 whatsoever legally to any finding. His malpractice insurance went up fifteen thousand dollars because he was named even though he was dismissed. Guess who pays those costs? Patients, insurance companies. The list goes on and on. But they also were having problems with rising material and operational costs due to inflation, surging labor costs, and continued impacts of COVID nineteen.
So let's set aside the reimbursement part of that and let's go look at the rest of it. How much of that is going to impact other businesses, other industries. How many more people in healthcare are going to be impacted. My point in bringing this up is to illustrate the importance of having people that understand how an economy works dealing with an 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's gift to America? You may ask the southern part, basically everything south of Chicago, the Cubs, the White Sox, the Bears, the Bulls, basically the 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
whole area is infested with crime. You just yeah, certainly they have murders on every quarter, but dog gone it to pick up that plastic straw. They clean up after themselves, wipe up those bloodstains. Man, they got it down. It's just so interesting how the type of people that that Illinois voters tend to elect. Chicago voters are just sketchy, it really is.
It's like, what is it about voters in Illinois? And I'm not saying it's universal every single election, but historically, I mean, you've got the long standing corruption of Mayor Daily going back to you know, the fifties sixties, I mean, unbelievable than his son. You got Rob Blagoyevich, who went to prison. I think he was a Republican governor and he was just a train wreck. Then you've got Beatlejuice and her successor, a socialist and
then a Marxist that one always follows the former. And then there's this. I did not know this, But did you know that the governor JB. Pritzker is part of the family that owns the High Hotel Corporation. I didn't know that the prinz Kars have been in the news recently. Well, I know that they are giving money handover fist to quote vulnerable democrats. I also know that they are funding, through the Libra Foundation, the anti Israel protests
along with George Soros, and I think 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 Joe marches and organizations. Another is Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity, which has been promoting anti Israel demonstrations. Another is the Immigrant Defense Project. My point is, what is it about people in
Illinois that they elect these sketchy, questionable people mayors, governors. I just I guess it doesn't surprise me, except that the leftists hold themselves out to be so elite and so able to determine morality and what's right. And look at who they elect in New York and Illinois, in California. It's just it's crazy. It's like a broken record, just stuck on the same thing over and over and over. We could be face of that here in Tallahassee.
Friends, Let's move into the second hour here the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Unbelievably nearly a third of the way through the month of May. Next thing, you know, we're gonna be shopping for Christmas. Grant Allen over there laughing at me, shaking his head in disgust in Studio one A. I'm here in Studio one B on Preston Scott, and I am joined by the executive editor of Tallahassee Reports. He is Steve Stewart. Hello, good morning. How are you, Preston. I'm terrific. How are you
to do? You came in fired up, buddy, tires on fire? Hey, you know, just a lot to do. I mean, we're we're in a good space, I think here in some areas. Yeah, I mean, it's it's like anything else. It's a mixed bag, it is. And uh. And so let's let's first talk about the City Commission meeting. Yeah, so one of the 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 a report 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, which has been around since nineteen sixty five, partnered with a private analytical company to go around and look at local the msas in their economic future and lo
and behold, it came out that the tallhase MSA is has one of the best the best outlook for economic poist for economic growth in the next five to ten years and rank them number one in the category and number nine overall based 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. It can be, it can be considered clickbait if you're not careful. This this is different if you go and look at the methodology and we've got a story up 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 City Commission meeting. But I think this, if you look at this and you start 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 months about the impact of the Amazon Fulfillment Center. We talked about the increase in UH airport traffic with the addition of Jet Blue low cost carrier. So those things started, you know, starting showing job growth and changes in some of the things that were down because of COVID.
But if you look at the national context, people are moving to Florida, well, it's Florida has established itself as almost a micro country, micro economy within the larger context of what's happening nationally, which is a disaster. So if you look at the opportunities that Tallasee presents, We've got an area that is not is not like Orlando or 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're you know, you're in forest. And so when people are looking when they're moving in droves to Florida. It's not I don't think it's unrealistic to think people 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 around and 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 they make a decision chose this area. And this was two three years ago, and now all of a sudden you see this, this magazine come out with this very analytical approach to things, and so I think it's very positive in the sense of where, you know, if you're for economic growth, if you're for you know, more jobs and people being able to get employed and then get off the government assistants and things
like that, I think this is very 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
saying, look, I'm you know, I'm I'm really happy. The economy is going well stuff, but the getting into a home as a first time home Tallas is becoming very difficult to do that. That's probably part of the downside of what we're seeing in terms of the economic growth. Is it just that though, or is it policies within the city or the county, regulatory
issues, hurdles that are placed in there that make it more expensive. I think there's no doubt that in terms of the availability of homes, the available of the UH, the ability to build homes fast, I think it's something that's obviously starting to have an impact on that. More with Steve Stewart again Subscribe Tallahassee Reports dot Com. Ten minutes past the hour, Welcome to the morning Show with Preston Scott Beg with Steve Stewart of Tallahassee Reports. Levin passed
the hour. More going on in the 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 over the country and it's you know, remember back when you were like, oh, these cameras are you know,
watching what's going on downtown and you had civil liberties questions. Well, the advent of the iPhone, where everybody has 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 taken advantage of that and are starting to you This is you know, we
talk about the Capitol Regional Real Time Crime Center. We have ninety three cameras around the city of Tallahassee put up in neighborhoods like the Bond Community that are there, and they some of them are labeled police camera. And it is interesting to hear people talk they want those cameras in their neighborhoods. It's to
have an impact on obviously on crime. And when you say real time, meaning this stuff is monitored the actively yes, and so yeah, evidently, and this had a huge impact on solving crimes, deterring and so they're trying to expand this with a program that's called the Public Safety Crime Initiative where people that have business and residents door where they call them doorbell cameras, or are businesses commercial businesses where they can actually there's a device now where they can actually
tie in to the real time crime center. They can turn their camera over to the real time crime center where it can be monitored real time. And this has happened in Orlando, Jacksonville. So businesses are voluntarily saying, yeah, go ahead, use mine as a surveillance point exactly. Now. The other thing you can do is you can just register your camera and say listen, I will have you can have access to my video, you know,
retroactively, like over a three day period. And so again in Orlando and Deval, they have thousands of people that have registered these cameras, and they've got thousands that have said here, yeah, use the real time aspect of these cameras to help with with crime. And so I think this is a
new This again, this is the technology side of law enforcement. That is uh, that is it's been created because of the the problems of the perception that anytime you pull somebody over it's a confrontation, you know, And I don't think it's going to do away with that in the community policing, but
this is definitely something that it's going to help out. I think it's also a response to the Black Lives Matter defund the police initiatives and that communities are saying, forget that, we'll do what we can to help, right. And so it also fits in with this automated you know, issuing tickets for speeders through school zones, which is another program that was voted on last night. So the technology is catching up with law enforcement, and you know,
the crime incident numbers which we talked about 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 something that we'll see how that ends up with the rest of the year. But that was on the the other thing, from an economic standpoint, we've talked about this with the issue on Pensacola West
Pensacola Street, the university is moving to the west. If you go if you go over there, well in place it can move, right, We've talked about this. If you go to Okala and look to the east towards the stadium, there's a bunch of new development there and it really you can
just tell it's moving to the west not so much. There's businesses that are that have had to close because of the impact of the homeless shelter, but there are businesses that have hung in there and now they're starting to get some help. They've tried to create a place, a sense of place with you know, you've got the market district in midtown. It's called the West End
District is what they want to label it. So they're trying to get the city to help them out with that sort of branding help as far as the yeah, putting signs and making you know 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 city know, listen, this is what we want or you know, you know, you want to put around about here to slow traffic down, put some signs up, because that area should really
be a very walkable area. It's it's like a campus area. FDOT is doing a big project on Pensacol West pensal Cold Street. I think it's supposed to start by the end of this year. So that area I think is in the they're battling trying to get transformed. But they've got a lot of hurdles because of the homeless shelter and sort of some years of neglect in that
area. Yeah, but it should be a vibrant area because it's the road that connects TCC with FSU and you would think that that would be, you know, an area that would again be vibrant, be free of crime and things like that. So we'll keep an eye on that. More to come with Steve Stewart of Tallasse Reports, Tellassi Reports dot Com twenty one minutes almost 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 and the effort on West End business owners to try to get some support from some of the officials, and some certainly are more willing to lend an ear, but I think the lack of knowledge, Steve, you could point to the fact that some city and county commissioners don't go to events like the chamber retreat that they hold where elected officials are supposed
to come and hear from the business leaders. They don't know. Yeah, look behind the headlines. You know, in terms of some of these things, it's important for your listeners to understand the details. I mean, we have heard the Progressives Commission Mattlow just trash the Talasi Chamber conference Commerce. Look, I've had issues on some of the positions that the Chamber has taken candidates
they've supported over the years. But the thing is, and I think people have to take note of this is this is part of sort of the council culture that has gone on around the country, and Commission Mattlow is very good at doing. This is taking this group and trying to basically minimize them or vilify them, right, And it's important to understand that. You look beyond the leadership of the Chamber of and there's you know, they have thousands of
members. Uh. You look at this conference that they have. You again, you can criticize it. That's you know, two and a half hours away. If you go look at the list of people that go to that, these aren't the people that that are you know, involved with local government. These are the people that are running their businesses, trying to develop relationships with other businesses, network they're they're networking their nonprofit groups. There Again,
local businesses. They're Democrat lead local leaders. I mean, the school board goes over to this conference and you know 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 good job, and some of the media has helped out of branding the Chamber of Commerce as an enemy of you know, of a lot of people in the city. Tality, I think is is
something that's got to be pushed back on. And if you start looking at these progressives we've talked about Commissioner Reporter who she is taking these trips to these progressive training academies. She's gone to Saint 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 funding of those My point is is she is actually prioritizing this progressive left wing training over Tallahassee, and it's her job to go to these conferences because that's where you're going to get feedback from, not
just the upper echelon of the Chamber workings. But from again, people that run nonprofits, that run local businesses, from people at TCC at Leon County Schools, they're not doing it. David O'Keeffe, Leon Kunty Commissioner David O'Keeffe he attended a progressive training conference in Atlanta that was on campaign tactics, which he paid for himself, but it was it was led the two top trainers were leaders in the defund the police movement. I asked him if he was
aware of that. He said no. I asked him if he was concerned about that. He said no. So again, he's someone that has not gone to a chamber conference. He's chosen, Okay, his priorities are to
go to these campaign these left wing campaign 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 progressives don't care as much about Tallahassee as they do in trying to take this national progressive narrative and trying to ram it down our throats here in Tallahassee. And you you know, there's no better way of seeing that than looking at how they treat law enforcement and how they treat
economic growth. You're talking about no shows. You know, the Senior Center was they broke around on the Senior Center out in the Canopy development, forty thousand square foot project, and you know 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 at a lot of capital money. And Commission Matlow, Commission Porter aren't there because they don't like the Northeast Gateway.
They don't They think that that's urban sprawl and it's not really that's something they don't want to see in Tyle As See. I got news for him. Florida is growing and a lot of these people I'm getting the emails, Steve, people are moving here and they're bringing with them a different kind of politics
than what these folks are customers. Well, we'll see. I mean, last night at the end of the City Commission meeting, Commission Mattlow again brought up and used the term planning evidence in 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 police contract. They appointed police abolitionists to the Citizen Review Board. They promoted this narrative of a TPD officer planning evidence killer
cops, killer cops. It is a amazing but we're going to see, We're going to see if they're able to, you know, get control of the city Commission because they're only one vote away and that's what their focus is. Thank you for what you're doing, Thank you for reporting. I'll be here next week. Yeah, I can't wait. Sort of got to take an Anna ascid before Steve Roves in here, 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 to help. This morning show Preston Scott Boy, that escalated quickly. I mean that really got out of hand fast. On WFLA Big Stories in the press Box brought to you by Grove of Creative
marketing and digital expertise. Atlanta now dealing with the problem of squatters. Bipartisan bill signed by Governor Bryant Kemp last month has turned squatting from a civil matter to a criminal offense, as it should be one neighborhood in Atlanta, South Fulton County. People that were arrested just days ago got out and got back into the home undeterred. Doing sex, trafficking, prostitution is part of that. Of course, Drugs, they got firearms. They're running crime syndicates out
of these homes, and they're breaking into these nice neighborhoods. This is a sign of the times. This is what happen. Happens in the wake of progressivism. Atlanta is not a hub of conservatism. This is the kind of thing that happens. Get to the other stories. Documents reveal the US State Department knew COVID leaked from a lab in Wuhan, and the Chinese comedies the
Chicoms covered it up. Documents now in the hands of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic have released redacted documents, and the redactions cover some things, but they don't cover all. And some of what is uncovered is that the State Department has been lying to the American people for well since July of twenty twenty, and that leads to a series of questions that have to be answered in some form or fashion. Question Number one, did Donald Trump know now.
My answer to that would be likely no, because we have a CIA official on tape in an undercover video that is very clear stating that the head of the CIA and that the FBI, that they all got together, they were domestically basically surveilling Donald Trump while he was president, and that they kept things from him. Highly likely he was not told. So why did US
officials cover for China? Well, that's a great question. Were they covering because they knew that if they blew up China, that China was in turn going to reveal that we have been funding gain of function research. Gain of function is taking a naturally occurring virus or disease and manipulating it. It's dangerous, and we've seen the results. Although I will maintain till I die that the coronavirus was not remotely responsible for the 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, just asking. Georgia Appeal's Court agrees to review the Fanny Willis disqualification ruling. She was not disqualified from the trial prosecuting Donald Trump and others under RICO statutes. As it relates to questioning an election, I'm still struggling that asking about the fairness of election is somehow a crime. And warning from the FBI
and other agencies. You can take it for what it's worth, since it's coming from the FBI warning you to be aware of hacking going on and standardized email now always happens, but it's getting worse. Apparently the North Koreans behind it. Let's help you feel better, naturally. It's called Optimum Health. Naturally. That's the segment. We do 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 doesn't exist. And it's the Rodney Dangel 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 and and there's some things that can happen to the function of the liver and not necessarily pathology we're talking about now, we're talking about dysfunction where's it doesn't function as well as it should and it detox is the body. It takes the chemicals that we're kind of undundated with in
our diets and so forth and helps get rid of them. And when it does start dysfunctioning, it can cause all kinds of different problems, like you know, craving sugar, not have enough energy. It also affects allergies a lot. You can end up producing a lot of histamine in your body, which and show up all kinds of different ways on the skin with hives, as well as just overall allergies as far as environmental allergies throughout your whole body.
I've treated just numerous people throughout the years of this and it really does affect that. It also can affect sensitivity to chemicals where you start having a real problem with just the chemicals that are in our environment, and also resistance to weigh change and struggling with mood swings, also gas and bloating and your body can affect this. So it's a lot of different things that it can affect in our body. A couple of things we can do to help it.
We can try to eat just a good diet that we always talk about on this segment. And also eight to ten glasses of good spring water or filtered water is really really important. We just don't drink enough water at all, and that is that's one of the ramifications of that is the liver function itself. Also some things we can eat that helps, just things like artichokes and beats and brussel spouse. We've talked about this a lot, and because
they're really very good for detoxification, as well as broccoli so forth. Is fermitted foods like solid crowd and camucha and and those type of fermated foods are really really important. Green tea I kind of like green tea myself, and it really is is a really great antioxid 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 to stay away from food for and maybe eat within an eight hour period of time in the day and leave it about sixteen hours where you're not eating. This is amazing how much this detox is your body and helps the body reset the liver, and it's extremely extremely important. If you supplements you could take if you want to try to take some supplements,
milk, thistil we've talked about with a thion. If you find a liposomal version of it, it does work a lot better. It breaks them into little small particles that they're absorbed better, and they're and they're available out there. But old turmeric we know about that. And there's something we've talked about is NAC. It's called innacety assisting. It's called NAC. Is easy
to remember that way. It works really well. Corilla and activated charcoal, all these things are things you can take if you have some of them or if you can get them. And then selenium there's another thing up to four hundred milgrim. So there's things that we 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 little longer, you know, And it's actually very very true, because it's very very 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, we don't. In fact, we don't even like to eat at least I don't know. Yeah, yeah, add me to that list. It's not a big fan. I'm not a big fan of that. But but at any rate, thanks very much for the time today, my friend. Okay, have a great day, Chris, Thank you, sir, Doctor David Harts with us. Who knew? Did you hear that list of things that deliver impacts in your body? You'd think it
was made for a purpose. Forty six minutes after the hour at this It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Road trip idea just a few minutes away. Talk about divorce in the next hour, prompted by a story that it's kind of haunted me for the last few days. But first, Bureau of Labor Statistics given us the median annual wage for all US workers for twenty twenty three. What do you think it was? The median wage all states? And of course whatever that wage is goes further in some states than others.
Who do you think the median was all states, all jobs? Fifty thousand, you are near on it. Forty eight sixty wow, forty eight thousand and sixty bucks. The highest median wage for individual workers was in Massachusetts at sixty thousand, six hundred and ninety dollars, the lowest in Mississippi. The medium wage of thirty seven to five for states in our part of the world, Mamma forty one to three, Jojia forty five to four, Florida forty
five seventy forty five thousand and seventy dollars. Uh, you might be interested, Well, what about California. California only 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 the page here on the report Texas forty five nine. So Florida and Texas
slightly below the median average, but you factor in other things. Yeah, I'm just I'm I'm just letting you know what the numbers are. Form your own opinions on what that means. This is cool, all right? Road trip idea. If you're traveling the Fruited Plain this summer, maybe you're out there now. We have listeners, we have truckers driving, we have people that are all over and I've learned that inevitably I'll give one of these tips
and then I'll get pictures. The Enchanted 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's a mystery in there. It begins on I ninety four at exit seven near Gladstone 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 of road, and they're incredible. I got
to tell you. They really are some one hundred and ten feet tall one hundred and fifty four feet long. They are primarily the work of Gary Greff, a former school teacher completely untrained in art and engineering, decided to go for it and put his town on the map. And so now it's a thirty two mile stretch of road called the Enchanted Highway. Geese of flight, grasshoppers delight, Theodore Roosevelt rides, they've got the Tin Man, they've got
the Tin Family, all kinds of little. I'm little, they're huge. And so if you're ever in North Dakota, check out along I ninety four exit seventy two and a head south. They're going to be spread about across thirty two miles a road. Absolutely worth it. Fifty seven minutes past the hour, come back with our three of the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Five minutes after the hour, third hour of the Morning Show with Preston Scot in the Morning Show fifty one fifty five and I want to tackle a topic that, through the course of doing five and fifty four shows prior to this one, we've touched on come across a 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 myself am part of a broken home. My parents started getting divorced when I was in 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't realistic for my dad to seek custody because he traveled up to three hundred days of here just didn't make sense. I was the only miner in the home at the time, so it was just me, mom and me. Loved my dad. Loved my mom, I
saw my dad. I was fortunate. I was fortunate in part because I was a little older and figured out pretty quickly because of the ancillary issues surrounding the divorce of my mom and dad, that I was going to have to kind of buck up and grow up a little bit. Up until that point, I was the proverbial and literal spoiled brat was. In the year subsequent, I have observed known of personally endured divorce and the divorces of others.
I have watched the destruction that follows so many This topic was prompted by a story I'll get to in a little bit, but I want to bring the topic up because there are some things that everyone needs to understand and consider. I consider myself an expert because I have been on the child end of it. I've been on the spouse end of it. I have been on the counseling side of it. As a vocational pastor. I've been in the midst of a lot of it, and I have pretty strong opinions on it.
I get email from you. Sometimes the email is heartbreaking, Sometimes the email's 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 you're not quite sure where that thing is gonna spin off to and hit. And there are things that you think it would touch and it doesn't. And there are things that you think it wouldn't and it does. And it's hard
to predict, but the damage it's gonna happen. So we're gonna talk a little bit here in the next segment about some of that and some of the things to consider before you let your marriage fail. Stick around. It's Morning Show with Preston Scott. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point seven WFLA. Coming up to twelve minutes past. They are talking about divorce. Obviously, I look at this through the lens of what
the Bible has to say. There are clear justifiable reasons for it. Abuse infidelity are the two primary reasons. The Bible talks about it and speaks of rites of and lists. It doesn't mean that you should, it means you can. It's spelled out pretty clearly there. Breaking of the covenant that is established before God at a Christian wedding is a pretty big deal. And so
this isn't about passing judgment on anyone that's been through divorce. Sometimes you know you can be I'll use the term a 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 stop it. Then there's the practical side of well why would you. That person doesn'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 tell you. We have long believed in the
I call it the Jerry Maguire school of marriage. You complete me. That's what's leading to all the failed marriages in the church and out of the church. You can't be the ying to someone's yang. You can't fill out that person if they are a broken person that has some issues that need healing. If you find yourself being I was just never happy until I found you, you're in trouble. Why Because no one can live under the pressure of being
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 is settling. A great marriage is the goal. That's what that's what you should have. And I believe the only way you have a chance at a great marriage and you can be in the midst of a marriage right now and find yourself there is by being able to say, apart from your spouse, you are whole. You are you are content
as it. And again my view is through the Christian lens, you are content as a Christian who God made you 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's things we're always working on. But generally with you and God, you'd be fine. If it was just you and God, you'd be fine. You don't need another person to complete you. What I can assure you is you get divorced because you're bored. That's
on you. That's not on your spouse. Your spouse can contribute to it. That's on you. You wander around, you start looking at other people. That's on you. That's not on your spouse. That's on you. That shows where you are. But know this, when divorce happens, you can fool yourself into believing, well, it's better for the kids if we're not married. You're kidding yourself. Now, if you're an abusive relationship. That again, we're not talking about that. If it's because you and your
spouse can't get your individual acts together, that's on you. And your kids are going to suffer. Because God designed the family for a husband and day wife and husbands. It's on you to 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 back. A story that just shook me twenty two minutes past. Got a
note here. I don't know this is accurate or not. Listeners shared since the nineteen seventies, a number of children growing up in a single family home, single parent home, sorry, has quadrupled since nineteen eighty. So is the US prison population. There's no doubt that there is devis station done. But what follows here is next level. Now, based on the story the wife, it would seem believe that the husband had had an affair. I
don't know. What is known according to law enforcement, which gives you an indication of where this is going, is that the husband had filed for divorce. 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 going on over that issue. And it happens all the time. Here's what doesn't happen all the time, but this is
where it can lead. She sent a text message to her husband and it was on the tail end of a wire transfer taking all the money out of a joint account. The husband assumed that she was going to run with their son, and so his attorney initiated a court order for a writ to make her appear in court the next day. But by then she had let herself into their former shared home and destroyed property inside the house, cut every piece of clothing, everything that he had cut. It just put cuts in the
middle of everything. She's with her son, and she left a message stating, you don't have anything to go home to now you really don't. You won't have anything at all at the end of the day. You left us for referencing somebody else, and then Daddy left us for some woman he met on the internet. Explained to your son why you're not here. She'd laid out her wedding dresses, wedding portraits and pierced the pictures with two gunshots.
She sent one final message. She said, say goodbye to your Say goodbye to your son. She wrote to her husband, say goodbye to your son. She tried to reach him and then recorded a twenty one second video. She says to the child, say goodbye to daddy, which he does. She kisses the child and apologizes that his father can't be there with him. It would appear, based on the evidence that she had her son looking at cartoons at three twenty nine in an afternoon before she shot her three year old
son in the back of the head and then shot herself. She ended the life of a three year old, beautiful little boy out of spite hate. Now, I would say that is a great indicator that she certainly was not well, no matter what the circumstances are of a divorce. That who does that? Who does that? But that's where this leads all too often. If it happens once, it's too often, But it happens more than once. I brought the topic up because I'm sick of divorce. I'm sick of
people not heeding the warnings going into a relationship. I'm sick of people not that claim to be Christians not doing things 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 stretch in your marriage or things are just not good, do something about it. Husbands, step up. It's almost like we need a manly minute for husbands out there, and dads, come on,
step up. Stop making children victims and stop making children the recipients of a single parent home relate. Sorry, no I'm not. It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Big Stories in the press Box spelled a little differently because it's a knockoff based on my first name. So it's pr E s. Bos brought to you by Grove, a creative marketing and digital expertise.
Can I hear an Io when I say? Oh? H Io? The Attorney General for the Buckeye State pushing back Dave Yost, The First Amendment protects you and saying whatever it is you have to say, even hateful things are protected. Though the First Amendment was always designed to be a shield against the government, it's not a sword against your fellow students, and they have rights
too. Your First Amendment rights are limited 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, they're always masked. They don't have the courage to say, look at me, I'm owning this. They're hiding behind masks so mom and dad don't see them. The Attorney General of Ohio is threatening prison time up to eighteen months
in prison. Go get them, guy, go get them there, you go, here we go, Come on, Bud and away, General Yost, go get them. Yost. Sounds like I'm in the movie remember the Titans coach host? Yeah, absolutely, the head coach of the assistant coach. He was a head coach that became the assistant coach to Herman Boone to Denzel Washington's character coach Boone. I couldn'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, upstanding organization institutions that you follow. They're playing a game of numbers. They're they're throwing out this stuff and they count 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, I enter the website address myself, I don't click any links, and I look up whatever it is that they're promoting, pushing, asking whatever, and I look and see if I can find it. Because if it's a legit link, it would go back to that site anyway and you'd be able
to find it. So I just find it independently. Speaking of our government, documents from the Select Subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic show that the State Department knew as of July twenty twenty that it was a lab leak from Wuhan. All kinds of questions arise out of that short version they lied. What a shock. Georgia Appeals Court agrees to review the Fanny Willis disqualification ruling. The ruling was allowing her to stay on the case. The Georgia Court of Appeals
is saying, let's take a look at that a little more. That's a win for Trump and all of the other co defendants. And the Navy Secretary announces a nuclear power to tack sub will be named the USS Miami, or, as Doctor Moore might say, Miami. Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Hey, let me tell you about tomorrow. Of course it's Friday. We'll have headlines from the bee. What's the beef? We do not have to come up with the best and worst tomorrow, sir, unless
we decide to find it another place in 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 that's what I'll do. We'll skip it. We're skipping it. And good news tomorrow. Why guess who called and said, hey, can I have a few minutes? Commissioner of Education, Wow Manidiaz said, hey, press, can you find a few minutes for me? I know it's Friday, I know you have those. I look forward to the best and worst and
good news every week. That No, he didn't not at all. No, Nah. In fact, they did everything possible to get him on the show today. But no, he probably doesn't know one thing that I generally talk about. But it is good to 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 try to clean up the desk, we try to get through some stories that we've been just holding on to that we didn't quite get to because there's you know, I mean, that's the way the
new cycle works. This story is just hilarious to me. Here an ex CNN reporter Michelle Kosinski, whoever she is, I mean, at this point, didn't everybody work for CNN at some point, I mean, Tucker did. She's posting about a dinner party a few weeks ago. Had dinner with a few couples, friends, friends of friends, all American, All were well educated, successful in careers. They seemed great on the surface. She's posting this until what for like an hour, but slowly, over a few
drinks, they began to let slip their true maga natures. She said. One couple in the group wouldn't allow their 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 like she had dinner with our ruminators, except for this, did I have dinner with this person? The others, when they realized that a few in their presence came armed with actual facts, quickly
changed the subject and nervously said they don't want to talk politics. They realized they would be eviscerated on all idiotic points, especially on the economy. That's such a goat move. Oh, you're just dropping these things on a leftist and you're like, but I don't want to talk about politics, Like, that's such a goat move. That's hilarious. You're just like triggering them, and then you back off and say, no, no, no, we don't have to. As it went on, 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't help but leak out even when you least expect them from people you least expect they're out there. Then she writes this dinner continues to haunt me. They all seem so normal. Yeah, when I asked the couple who were my old friends, how they didn't know, they said that in their upscale Florida neighborhood, people are extremely careful not to
ever broach or debate the subject. She writes, this is not healthy if people don't ever talk about these things as friends and neighbors and only live in their own warped Remember what we've always said? What is it that we've said about illiberals? They are what they accuse others of being. Listen to this statement. If people don't ever talk about these things as friends and neighbors and only live in their own warped information silos, how will they ever learn what
is true or false? How will the truth ever make them consider alternatives? The lure of BS is co opting decent minds. Then come the retorts. Oh, she got ratio to oblivion? I hope. Mark Hemingway writes, it is truly amazing how at a time when mortgage rates have close to tripled in three years, overall consumer prices are up twenty percent, twenty five for food, and Russia's at war in Eastern Europe the entire Middle East is a
powder keg. The response is maggots don't know facts. Then there's this one journo is horrified to learn that educated, upper class Trump supporters exist in secret and speculates on how to get them the re education camps. I would be surprised if I was in an upper to like middle upper middle class to upper class conversation and find like minded. I would assume, actually that most of
them were probably pretty left. This would be a pleasant surprise. Here's what would disappoint me if she's if if anything 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. Because they're all on your side, and that's why we do what we do every day for you. Time to issue corrections
from earlier in the broadcast. Rod Blagojevich was a Democrat, so there you Uh, something in my head said he was a Republican when he got in trouble. He was not. He was a dem So there you go. Now, look, Republicans Democrats don't have the corner on corruption. We were just commenting earlier about how Illinois and California and New York, but Illinois in particular just produces an inordinately high number of elected officials that are ethically challenged.
That's all. Okay, do you remember the story, sir, of David Rush. We did it in this very segment back a month or so ago. He was the dude in Idaho balancing a lawnmower on his chin. Oh yeah, nine minutes and seventeen seconds to break a Guinness World record. He's on a quest to hold the most concurrent Guinness World records at one time,
which is well, that's a little redundant. So then we fast forward and just about a week or so ago, he added another record by throwing and catching a fire sword seventy three times in thirty seconds, basically twirling it like a baton. Okay, so he set a record there that left him with one hundred and sixty six current titles Guinness titles. Then, just two days ago he caught five T shirts and put them on fired from a T shirt cannon in forty six seconds. And come back to this story tomorrow. He's
now going for the record of most records held at one time. But I have an idea we'll get to that tomorrow on the program brought to you by Barono Heating and Air. It's the Morning Show on WFLA. It took way too long to get through all that this show, bitch, Steve Stewart, doctor David Harts, I talked about divorce. 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 just twenty one hours away. Come on, everybody, join me tomorrow.