Five past the hour. Good Morning Friends, Wednesday, May fifteenth, on the Morning Show with Preston Scott, just about halfway through the month of May. It is show fifty one fifty nine. He's Grant. I'm Preston Scott. Great to be with you this morning. As always, we love sharing time with you. Today's program rundown looks like a to do list for a week. It's just floated. We'll set the program just a moment or two.
The verse of the day this is this is an interesting one. I've got a couple of different devotionals and then I've got my Bible app that has a daily scripture. This is from one of the devotional apps that I've got on my phone. It's John fifteen to two. Every branch in me, this is Jesus. Now, so let's just for a second. We're sitting around a fire, We're sitting around a table, we're on rocks, and it's just you, some of your closest friends, family that you believe,
love Jesus and him. And this is what he says. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes that it may bear more fruit. As he says it. I love doing this. I love imagining for as long as I've ever read scripture, And I mean this goes back to when I was a kid being introduced to this concept that there's a personal God that loves me, and I started reading the Red letters, really reading. I have always tried to
place myself there, to think about what it was like. To the point this type of spoken word by Christ, I wonder is he looking at different people as he says this, As he said, every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away. Is he staring at someone? Is he making eye contact with two or three four people? And conversely, every branch that does bear fruit he prunes. And that's important. Prunes. What
does that mean he disciplines. He's still even those that are serving and doing their very best to represent Christ in their life, in their thoughts, in their words, and their deeds, they're still pruning. This past weekend, I pruned our azaleas. Why because pruning begets more flowers, It shapes the plant, it makes it healthier. It fills in areas that are a little long and leggy and not so not so filled with growth. That's what God
does in our life. So remember number one, there's a real strong encouragement there to live properly so that you're not well, you're not taken away from from the vine, from from the source. But importantly understand that there there's pruning that comes to those that are bearing fruit. There are seasons where things are kind of clipped back little bit, and that's okay. So rejoice in that. I always used to explain it this way. Pruning brings growth.
God reveals himself and all of creation. His nature's revealed in nature. Ten past the Hour inside the American Patriots Almanac. We go next, settle in for the morning. It'll be worth your time. The Morning Show at Preston Scott. This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott, US Senator Rick Scott. Next hour, Florida Man, Florida Man Factor Fiction, Next hour, Third hour, Charlie Strickland. Got some things he wants to talk about.
Talk about those things. Personal defense segment. Got some questions wondering how some things well, never mind, we'll explain May fifteenth payday for many of you. Woo sixteen oh two English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold leads the first European exploration of Cape cod. You want to know why that guy's name isn't in the history books? Think about it. I mean, now you could say, well, he's in your history book. That's true. There's just some names they
just don't have a ring to them. Bartholomew Gosnold, it just didn't resonate the same as some of the others. But we're giving him his due. Sixteen oh two. Ooh, look at me dropping lines. Let's see here. Seventeen fifty six, England declares war on France in America beginning of the Seven Years War. Nineteen eleven, Supreme Court upholds an order for the dissolution
of the Standard Oil Company. It was ruled monopoly. Nineteen forty. Crowds of shoppers scrambled to buy nylon stockings the first day they go on sale and selected stores, And in nineteen fifty one, the AT and T announces that it is the first US corporation to have one million stockholders. Nineteen fifty one. So there you go. I wanted to get through that real quickly because we've got a few announcements to make. First. This is kind of fun.
First Commerce Credit Union partner of this radio program for years and a partner in this community for longer. Dogs for Dogs today at their sum of East location, which is kind of their main headquarters on ninety and I ten. It's that complex that's sort of diagonal to the Car Museum on the other side
of the interstate. It is from eleven to one. They're raising funds for the Leon County Humane Society, and so you can grab a hot dog, chips and a drink for a donation minimum suggested donation of five bucks while supplies last. You can also just donate directly. It is the Liz Nicks fundraiser. Liz was a member of the board at FCCU and animal Lovers, so they're doing a thing to support love it wonder if they'll have pupps out there,
have some dogs. I'm the type of guy that I've never done it, but I've actually drove by and thought about just sort of sitting in the dog parks, like there's one near my house, and just go sit in there while other people bring their dogs and ask if I if their dog can just be friendly to me? I can I pet your dog? Because I love dogs. I do. I just don't want to own one, but
I do love dogs absolutely. The county beginning to pick up debris as in vegetation, tree limbs, that kind of thing from the storm beginning beginning Friday. So just remember the pickup starts on Friday. They're not picking up household garbage. This is not what this is for. This is debris from the storm. Vegetative they call it vegetative debris. That stuff decomposes, dissolves and actually turns in. It's great stuff if you can can mulch it up and
use it. But at any rate, they will be picking that up starting on Friday. And this is the weekend the Tenthannuel Lionfish Festival in DestinE, so it runs this Saturday and Sunday. So if you are a spear fisherman to want to start, you know, snagging some lionfish for the chance of winning some prizes they've got I think it's one hundred thousand dollars worth of prizes, contest for most biggest, smallest. Yeah, one hundred thousand dollars worth
of prizes. If you want to learn more, Emeraldcoast Open dot com. Emeraldcoast Open dot com. So we're caught up on some PSA's there're seventeen past the hour getting invitations to visit people's dogs. I'm a pathetic souls, I would tell I was telling Grant and the Break. I looked it up last year before the Spearfishing Lionfish Spearfish Tournament began. Last year, they had one hundred and forty four participants. The pre tournament number was fifty one hundred and
thirty nine fish. Get this, In the tournament, nineteen thousand, five hundred and sixty lionfish were speared or caught, so a total of twenty four thousand, six hundred and ninety nine. You'd think, well, that surely decimated it. It put a dent in it. But they're at it again. The pre tournament standings as of early this week. As of Monday, forty two hundred and eighty three lionfish were caught or speed. Bob Brown he's
got a team put together. He's got five hundred and ninety lionfish by himself. Buddy Tim Shivers has five hundred and ten, Mark Klein Peter has two hundred and twenty seven, and Tommy Crumlin one hundred and eighty seven. Tommy, come on your boys, are waxing you. Between Bob and Tim, they've got eleven hundred lionfish caught between the two of them. That is insane and an I mean, I don't know how they're catching them. I don't
know if they're just like going down there with some massive drop net. I don't know if they're allowed to. I don't know how you but I'm thinking if you're spearfishing, that is a ridiculous amount of time underwater. That's just that's that's amazing, all right. Lead research assistant of the program shared this with me. Fred Keller used the chassis of a nineteen seventy six Mazda pickup truck and created an SUV sized radio Flyer red Wagon that was street legal,
engine, four speed transmission, fully street legal. Made it about fourteen years ago, so twenty ten Fred passed away. His wife's selling the vehicle. She said, I'll miss it. I'll miss driving the fun of driving it. It's so much fun to take somebody for a ride and seeing people's reaction. It was auctioned over the weekend by Alaska Premier Auctions and a Raisers,
part of a Mother's Day Classic car auction. What do you think it's sold for and I'm saying this is identical to a radio flyer wagon, as in, it's got the a large faux toe bar that you would hold on to to pull someone in a wagon or pull your if you were a little kid, you'd pull your wagon around with you. It's got that. It's it's shaped identical, the tires look just like. But it's a street legal running vehicle. Just imagine though, a radio flyer that's the size of a small
suv that is fully street legal, wide open, no cover. No, it's a wagon with a motor that you can't see. I mean, it's it's crazy. What do you think it's sold for? It was sold at auction seventy three five seventy three thousand, five hundred dollars. One of a kind, unbelievable. It's got a one point six liter four cylinder engine, four speed manual, fifty seven thousand miles on the odometer. And it is a radio flyer. It's it's you can look it up online and see the
pictures of it. It's spectacular. It's just cool, all right. When we come back, big stories in the press box And a special note to those of you live living in South Georgia, Preston Scott on news Radio one hundred point seven dub UFLA. I mentioned that those in South Georgia that listen to the appropriate and I recognize that we have listeners all throughout Georgia, but we are in a broadcast pattern that covers a good bit of South Georgia.
You need to be aware of what just happened. This story comes from one of the research assistants, Otherwise it would not have been on my radar. Big Stories in the press Box brought to you by Grove Creative Marketing and digital expertise. The headline from Uncover DC dot com Wendy Mahoney writing, the Georgia State Election Board ensures twenty twenty four will be a twenty twenty repeat and this should really concern Georgians, those of you that are citizens and you pay your
taxes in Georgia. During the quarterly meeting on May seventh of the Georgia State Election Board, there was a motion from a board member, doctor Janis Johnston. She had made the case that there were a lot of discrepancies that needed an Attorney general investigation into Fulton County of the twenty twenty election and I'm going to cite those in just a second. A fellow board member don't know if
I'm pronouncing his name correctly. Rick Jeffares or Jafares had said he was supporting the idea, but he didn't show up to the meeting, and so she didn't get a second to her motion, and it was shelved by the chairman, John Fervier. Now, at that point it was likely going to be a two to two vote and he would have to go on the record and break the tie, but couldn't do anything. He showed up on a meeting on May eighth, made a motion for reconsideration with doctor Johnston, did Jeffares
or Jafares, but the chairman ruled it out of order. Whatever. Here are the issues. Their investigation has uncovered twenty thousand, seven hundred and thirteen ballots with certified votes that have no source tabulator from which they should have originated, in other words, where they come from. They have seventeen eight hundred and fifty two ballots with certified votes but no ballot images that are required for vote tabulation. They don't have the image of the vote, does it even
exist? They have seventeen two hundred and thirty four unsourced votes found for certification after reporting results with an even even larger shortfall, and then thirty one and twenty five double scan double counted ballots. That's a lot of irregularity in one county and it's gonna sit and die without an investigation. Mississippi now adds to the list of states that are banning biological men from women's spaces. The governor
signed the bill into law. Governor Tate reeves so single stall bathrooms, changing areas, dorms, well as at least one gender neutral bathroom and changing room in all public institutions. Schools are protected from that, but schools will go to a biological sex period, not what you identify as so we're gaining ground
on that front a little bit. I thought this was interesting. There have been rumors floating around that the first Lady of the State of Florida, Casey DeSantis, might have an interest in running to be governor in twenty twenty six, No, says Governor. Governor Desantas said that his wife has zero interest in political office, so take that for what it's worth. And then, lastly, the Chairman of the FED says that confidence that inflation will slow is
not as high as it was previously in the year. That follows what we said last month that the Fed Reserve is ultimately coming to the realization that the economy is so bad they can't even do biden a favor and throw them a lifeline. That's my way of wording it. But I told you there was no chance the economic numbers would allow them to do it. They couldn't not cut interest rates, not where inflation is. And that's what he just confirmed.
Forty minutes after the hour. More here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Preston Scott, do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth? On news radio one hundred point seven double UFLA another sign of the times. This story, it didn't quite get some details right, but Fox Business reporting Red Lobster closing dozens of locations as bankruptcy possibilities loom. Now we have we have chronicled Red Lobster as well as a lot of other chains
that are struggling. They're struggling with the the the cost of everything going up. I mean, if you've been if you've been a fan, I've got a part of my my wall here I've got a lot of the captains from the Deadliest Catch have been on the show. I've had Bill Watrowski, Wild Bill uh sig Hansen, Keith Coleburn, I've had uh Jonathan Hillstrand, it might have been Andy Hillstrand, I've had I've had several of them on the program. And so I've always followed what goes on in the fishing industry on
both coasts. And if you if you've been paying attention, going back to the Obama years, they've been killing the fishing industry trusting government estimates as opposed to the guys who make a living out there in gals. There are a few captains that are female, not many, but it's their livelihood. They gain nothing by overfishing. And instead of believing them, they've been putting quotas,
they've been shutting things down. They've been making things brutally difficult. To that point, Florida Governor around the Santa Sign signed into law basically law opening up red snapper season. We talked about it with SALNWSO on Monday. The fishing industry gets hammered. The price of seafood, crabs, everything skyrockets. Well, you've got red Lobster caught with the regulatory environment. See that's how
the regulatory environment trickles down and affects a seafood chain like Red Lobster. Then you add to that the regulatory environment of forced wages, and you get a perfect storm. With then inflation where everything surrounding any industry is going up and people are having less disposable income to spend dining out. You've got the perfect storm to kill a chain like Red Lobsters. Kill it. They're facing bankruptcy. But it says in the story that California and Florida will be losing five
locations each. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no no no. If you go to the Red Lobster site, there are right now probably two dozen closing in Florida alone. Now the closest location I can find to where most of us live is Jacksonville. Jacksonville's losing all three of its Red Lobsters. Gainesville's losing its Red Lobster on New But if you if you look up the chain's website and then look at Florida closings, you'll see or wherever you live, you'll see whether it's it's staying open or
not. But I wanted to just again, you know, I mean we're talking seafood, do a deeper dive and and look at why this happens and making sure that we're piecing together all of the different parts of an operation for a business and how the decisions of a government weigh so heavily on now jobs. You know, you and I going out and have an endless shrimp isn't the issue. The issue is the jobs. Look, almost anything that you buy on any menu at any restaurant, you can make it a home and
probably for a lot less. So you're paying for the convenience and hopefully the expertise of a chef to cook it in a manner that you really enjoy, season prepared, little twists and things that just make it a nice experience. But we're we're with all of these things coming together, we're removing all of that and then, oh, by the way, we're killing all the jobs of the people that work there. This is how the decisions you make in
the voting booth determine what happens in real life. We've said it before, We'll say it again. Elections have consequences. The Morning Show with Preston Scott Us Senator Rick Scott. Next day, we've got quite a bit to talk about with the Senator and the time will have What kind of what kind of life would you have to be living to make it your job to be the sour patch in the room, and I mean literally your job. You were
compensated to just try to make other people miserable and you enjoyed that. What would that say about you? I would think, I mean, and obviously there are people that are fine with that because they exist. Their sole profession is to reign on other people misery. Example, Freedom from Religion Foundation their sole purpose. They claim to be a group of atheists. They actually have almost a sister organization made up of alleged Christians, the Separation of Church and
State Foundation or something like that. Bunch of misguided souls. They are just a sad little bunch, this group founded in nineteen seventy six. They target Christians, that's all they do, and they bully. They bully groups that simply don't know their rights and don't fight back. They've taken advantage of what a lot of a lot of people do, not all but many personal injury lawyers to just settle, don't litigate, just settle, just get it over
with operational costs, cost of doing business. It's like I knew a guy, No, seriously, I knew a person who would drive around and look in his rear view mirror for somebody that wasn't fully paying attention, and then he'd hit his brakes and get them to rear end him. He's constantly looking in his rearview mirror, and if someone's for example, you're leaving an interstate or you're entering an interstate and you're turning to look to merge. Now that
happens, you're taking a quick look. He waits for that quick look, hits his brakes, you rearend him. All of a sudden, the claim is made. Oh my back, Oh my neck, Oh the damage to the car. I know this because this happened to a family member, and I happen to know the person, and upon doing some investigating, found out that this same thing happened in other states with this same person. It was
a scam. He was running. You've got organizations now bullying. In this case, a small elementary school public school in Florida has been targeted because the elementary school had a fellowship of Christian athletes huddle, and they sent a letter to the school district superintendent saying you better disband that elementary school students can't possibly lead a group like that. They could not. It has to be done with teachers, supervision and help with adults. They acquiesced, they shut the
thing down. Unbelievable. What a miserable lot in life. Hey Brent's second hour, ruminators, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, far thank you for spending time with us, sort of kind of getting back to a kind of normal for some. It's gonna be really hard and long for others. In the wake of the storm, the damage just crazy. The power of a tornado, let alone a few of them, and it was I mean, could you imagine if it was spread over a wider area, how shut
down things would be. And that is no one's fault, that's just that's what happens. But grateful to see schools back operational. Clearly priorities made on
getting kids back into school. So to all of City County workers, those of you out of town listening to the radio program, you've you've stumbled upon the show, thank you now, sincerely, a sincere, heartfelt thank you for helping those of you that live and work here that are called out at all hours of the night when things break and you know, power go out in a given area for who knows why. It could be just a line that drops because of a branch. It could be because of an accident,
some malfunction, it could be a storm like this. No, really, we appreciate what you do. And to those of you that are part of the agreement that sends teams from one part of the country to another when when that part needs help, thanks for coming. We appreciate it. I know
you're being compensated, but that doesn't matter. You've taken on the job that is a dangerous job and one that requires you to do things like this at all hours and leaving your family behind, and we appreciate it very very much. And who knows, maybe you'll become an iHeart listener of this radio program. Wherever you go back to you'll you'll tune into the show because you can
listen to this show live on the radio on iHeart. That's something to always remember that you might you might leave your car behind, you might leave the transistor behind at home, or however you're listening. But man, you've got a smartphone, laptop, desktop, you've got us. You can listen to this show live. You can stream all the content on this radio station live. Just remember WFLA in Panama City or WFLA in Tallahassee, simple as that,
and then you can listen via podcast. The Morning Show with Preston Scott speaking of smartphones, saw this story one of the lead research assistants or the lead research assistants. You know, when the smartphone was first introduced two thousand and seven, actually nineteen ninety two, what blackberries a nineteen ninety two BlackBerry was considered a smartphone? Yes, yes, smartphones were introduced first time in nineteen ninety two. And what did it do? Like, what were the
features of weberry? It was beyond whatever the the given just being able to place a phone call was, whether it's you know, doing some modest online stuff or whether it was texting or whatever the case might be. But what's interesting here is that the average American checks their phone one hundred and forty four times a day. Oh, I'm sure mine is much higher. To be
honest with you, I've die, yeah, I believe it. And they talk about that that is a dreadfully bad habit and there are recommendations inside this story because they they found I mean, obviously it's it's determined that it can be a distraction to relationships. It could be a distraction if you have kids because you spend time with your phone over your kids. I mean, the
list goes on and on where smartphones can get in the way. But they're just they're talking about some some little habits, you know, like just don't have it with you with everything that you're doing. Just put it away, leave it behind, Go work in the yard, go do something without it. Schedule literally one of the recommendations is literally scheduling time without your phone.
Yeah, scheduling it. Desperate times, call for desperate measures. Leave you leave your phone in a separate room while while answering questions scored UH the highest when people took a test. Five hundred undergraduates took a test. Each members were told to put their phones on silent to prevent any interrupting sounds during the experiment. Wait people had their phone not on silent, they were they were asked to put it on silent, and participants who left their phones in a
separate room while answering questions scored the highest. Those who kept their phones on their desks while answering the question scored the lowest because the phone just being there, even on silent, distracted them. It's just the power of the device to just draw your You're just looking, just good. You see it light up, even on silent. You're looking. So take that for what it's worth. Eleven minutes past the hour, check on weather and traffic here on
the Morning Show. This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott. I've been hanging on to this story and I'm going to keep this segment short so i can get to the next segment with enough time. So make sure that we get out of this segment on time, mister producer. Flight attendants at JFK. What a shock. New York City have been part of an international money laundering ring to smuggle eight million dollars of drug related proceeds out of the US.
And they're using flight crews flight attendants because they have special access to and through airports. Four airline employees, three from New York another from New Jersey, took a cut of each shipment as they snuck through a special employee access lane at TSA checkpoints onto flights bound for the Dominican Republic. Now they use what's known as the Known crew Member program, the KCM Separate Expedited Security Lane,
they face less scrutiny. As alleged the defendants knowingly smuggled large amounts of illicit money linked to the sale of narcotics, including fentanyl, took advantage of airport security checkpoints using their trusted positions as flight attendants. So we've got flight attendants now being mules run and drug money. But here's what I wrote in
my notes. What if see in the wake of nine to eleven I have been saying and I've been accused of being stupid for saying it out loud, But trust me, if I'm thinking it, bad guys have long ago thought of it. All these people that have acts has passed the TSA checkpoints in some of these large airports where they're they're selling stuff. They're selling magazines and gifts and all kinds of things. You're telling me a box cutter can't get
through there, that they don't have them. You're telling me that these people can't be part of a sleeper cell. You're telling me something far more serious than running drug money couldn't take place. We're vulnerable. We are sixteen past the hour. You've got to hear what's coming next. Just about twenty one minutes past the hour. US Senator Rick Scott coming up. I gotta be on time in this segment, so with no will delay. Last week floor
of the United States House of Representatives. For many of you, this will be the first you've heard anything about this story. US Congressman Matt Gates, and it is a development. Speaker, I seeking animous consent to enter into the Christal List record part two of the interim report that I have prepared for the House of Representatives, entitled Unwelcome in Nager Without objection, Mister Speaker, I rise to warn this body of the deteriorating conditions in the African country of
najer and to give rise to the concern of service members and contractors. More than a thousand of them right now are functionally being held hostage Innjerer. They are being used as pawns during a negotiation that has left America at the bended knee of Third world criminals and thugs as our troops seek medicine and fresh water in troop rotations. How did we get here with more than eleven hundred Americans
endangered right now in Nazer. Well. It started back in March of twenty twenty three, Secretary of State Antony Blincoln went to Nager and proclaimed that it was a model of resilience, a platform for great democracy. It would be where America would execute its Africa strategy. One year later, almost to the day, there was a coup in Nager. And guess who overthrew the government that we said was the great model of resilience. People we trained. We
trained the coup leaders to go throughout the democratically elected government of Nager. And I know this will surprise you, But after that occurs, they say they want our bases that US taxpayers have poured more than a billion dollars into gone, They want our service members gone. And so I came to this floor after hearing from some of my constients who were stationed in Njer and after the
overthrow of the government, there weren't resupply flights. They said, Congressmen, we are going to be out of medicine in May if we don't get this sorted out. Three days after I filed part one of the report that I am supplementing today, the Biden administration announced that we will be leaving Nager,
a welcome sign, I'm sure, but the leaving didn't actually happen. We have people who are now more than two hundred days into a one hundred and eighty day rotation, and while the negotiation regarding retrograde and withdrawal or ongoing, the government in Nager is using the well being and health of our service members as leverage to get what they want out of our government. Our troops aren't getting medicine for malaria, for cholesterol, for their blood pressure, chronic conditions.
And I've received the letters from the wives, from the fathers of the people who are in Nager now, and they say, we know that our family members are being extorted by the local governments when they try to leave hundreds of dollars to even bring a bag through the airport. We know that Russians
are behind the wire. You know what a real US president would do, say that C one thirty's are on their way to this year today with the water and the medicine and the food our troops need that they will have a full fighter pilot escort there. And if the Nejeri government or any other third world thug tries to even turn on their air defense systems. We should show those leaders and those thugs what the target package looks like on their houses and
their family members, because it should not be Americans that are suffering. Because President Biden and Blincoln are so embarrassed that their strategy in Africa failed that they're willing to let Americans' conditions deteriorate. They're willing to let our military spouses and family members wonder what's going to happen to their loved ones with their blood pressure rising and no blood pressure medication, or concerned what will happen now that we're
in May and there's non sufficient malaria medication. We should always keep our people's well being at the forefront of our minds. And today today we should be resupplying our troops in Ajer Africa, and we should dare these thugs and criminals to mess with us while we're doing that. This is a total embarrassment, but saving politicians and people like Biden and BLINKLN from embarrassment is not worth putting
US troops at risk. I will stay on this. I will stay on our government and the Najeri government to ensure that our military members and their families are appropriately treated and their concerns are elevated to the highest levels of this house. Thank you, mister Speakraielbeck. Anyone know about that? That one listener, send me updates on this story for the last few weeks. This is a story that is even getting gay on CNN. They're paying attention to it
even CNN. This is significant development. We've got Floridians in Niger and Biden's leaving him hanging out to dry and as Congressman Gates stated, because they're embarrassed what they did failed and backfired famously. They trained a junta that took over the government that they were bragging about. Twenty seven minutes after the hour, come back, US Senator Rick's got away in on that and much more. When we come back Preston Scott on News Radio one seven double USLA, thirty
five past the hour. It is Wednesday, here in the morning Show with Preston Scott, grand Allen running the program and joining US Florida US Senator Rick Scott, Senator, how are you, sir? That's a rainy day in DC. Uh and probably nothing good for you will happen today in DC. Is that supposed to be good? News or sorry, is that supposed to be something shocking for me? Presten, This is I've been up here five years, and you know it's so frustrating, is it? Is it?
It's like these people realize that when you spend this ridiculus amunt of money, that inflation's not going to go up. When you try to shut down direction, fossil fuel gas prices are not going to go up when you dictate the terms and tell everybody they're every all of our you know, uh, you know everybody you know, like around the world, that we're the smartest people in the world. Maybe people say, you know, you might be, but I'm tired of you telling me that. Go to hell. I mean,
that's what's going on. This administration is the most incompetent group of people that you can ever assemble. I have made this comment repeatedly, and I've not had one member elected to Congress willing to say they agree with me. But I know that they do without saying it. But I'm going to throw it out there, Senator, if this isn't intentional the ruination of our economy, the energy sector, uh, slamming people with regulatory strangleholds, taxes,
if it's not intentional, what is it? I know? I mean, person, I mean, you can't be this stupid. I mean everything, every thing that you buy, everything, our whole life is tied to the price of energy, right from your utilities to your gas, to everything that's produced, your food, everything. So to intentionally cause the price of gas to go up and say, guysh, I'm shocked that we have inflation and
don't worry be transitory. I mean, you can't be that dumb. And to do, you know, hold weapons back from Israel, but say you're pro Israel. I mean, who who believes this stuff? Have an open border where we don't vet anybody and think, oh gosh, yeah, crime is going to go down. We know Maduro is empty his prisons and sending all his criminals. Guess what if they're criminals in Venezuela. Yes, they're going to be criminals here. And if you're right this your seems like it
has to be intentional because you can't be this stupid. I mean, think of Lincoln the other day said that Israel should get the hell out to Gaza. Wait a minute, they did that. They get they got out of gossip, They let Goslins decide how to be governed. They chose some of us, they chose some us, dozens chose some us. Then Hamas comes
across the border and kills twelve hundred people, including over thirty Americans. They're still holding American hostages, and both Blincoln thinks that we shouldn't do that, Israel shouldn't do anything about it. So how many thousands of Israel Israelis to be killed just just because they're Jews? That's all. That's the only reason I've been over there. I was over there about months and a half ago. I went to a place where i'd been before, where sixty three people
were killed. Babies were beheaded, girls were raped, people were burned alive. I went to the Nova Film Festival area, talked to parents that kids were just ever, just killed because they were there and they were Jews. Do you b Lincoln says, get the hell out do you think us, Senator? Do you really believe the hostages are still alive? Because I don't. I don't know how many. I've got this little boy a picture of
him, Ariel, the four year old Google redhead boy. And I was telling some of the idea of members when I was over there that I had this picture and they said, well, don't don't be optimistic. I don't know, but don't be optimistic. It's been what's been how many it's two hundred some days and these people are treated like like dirt. I mean, I don't know how people survive. And if these kids, these you know, there's they took a ten montal baby, you think it's what's the chance
that somebody really cares about him? And they when they put when they beheaded babies and they killed babies by putting in a microwave. I mean, these are this is are buried. What these people do. So senator stand by. Senator Rick Scott with us this morning for a few more minutes, and uh, we're going to talk about his recent visit to the capital city.
Of course, he was governor in the state of Florida, knows Tallahassee well, but came through when the in the wake of the tornadoes, and we'll talk about that as well as a couple of other things next the Morning Show with Preston Scott. A few more minutes when us Senator Rick Scott, Senator Tallahassee was your part time home when you served as governor and you came back recently to take a look at the damage in the wake of the tornadoes on
Friday. We were on the air when all of it happened. What were your impressions when you came through. Well, I'm dammy, Joe. You know, I was over there, you know where Bordos is. Yep, was up over there, and and he feels hard for the people. You know, it seems like it's always the poor families get hurt. But I went over and thanked the sheriff and his team for what they do. I
mean, they're out there trying to keep people safe every day. Sounds like the utilities worked hard to get the power back and that's that's the first. You know, people want to you know, to keep them alive first, and then number two, you got to get them back to normal life. You got to get power back on. You got to get the communications backed up. So it sounds like I talked to I talked to Coeo Tack when
they were committed to get things back up quickly. So you know, you just you know, what you learned in these disasters is keep people alive. Everything you can keep them alive number one, and then number two, get them back to a normal life as quickly as you can. Senator, you serve on the Armed Services Committee. We shared some time last half hour talking about the developments or lack of developments in Niger that better than a thousand US
soldiers in personnel over there in essence being held hostage. Another failure by the Biden administration. You look at what's going on in this world, and Biden got elected. Russian made Ukraine, Iran as you know, you know, basically attack well they attack Israel, the hooties, you know, you know, we're trying to control the Red Sea. You've got his bottle shooting rockets, Hamas, attack kills, You've got China, you know, thrown in
Taiwan, you got to do in Afghanistan. I mean, why this whole Biden team on to look at the mirror and say, what in the hell have we done? Maybe we've got to change something. And then now you look at Niger, you know what, you know, why can't why can't the Biden administration have a relationship with anybody but the bad guys? I mean, you know he Katou said she and he ran, so he tries to get him. He knows money. It goes to Gaza's going to hamas he
knows it, doesn't do anything about it. They've spent and they spent three hundred million dollars, three hundredllion dollars of our dollars to build a port the Gaza that you know, if you put a US trips so close to that, get killed. I was, I was the Navy. I never thought the commander in chief would intentionally put me at harm's way. I mean, if somebody attacked as I got it. But this is, this is like you. They're putting American troops in harm's way without the ability to defend themselves.
Do you believe Joe Biden is actually making any decisions at all? Or is there somebody else or a group of somebody else's that are really shaping US policy? Well, you know and the everybody. I don't know Joe Biden will I never served with him. I met him a few times. I was with him about six months ago in the last after the last hurricane. I think he's basically outsourced his life. I mean he's he's allowed all decisions being made by somebody else. He just no of these guys appear. And
what I think that title that's a nice title. I get to do I get to find their Force one. You can go make all those decisions, you know, blink In and Olivan and Susan Rice and people like that. You guys, you guys make up that. I'm just gonna go enjoy the White House, nice place, camp David's pretty nice. Air Force one is nice you So yeah, I think he's sort of outsourced the whole job to
other people. If if Barack Obama's not actively involved in this, he's surely got to be in the circle somewhere, doesn't he, Because I mean the policy people, well, the policy it is the same crazy people. I was going to say, because Obama said he was going to radically transform this country, and we're seeing the radical transformation in the last three years. Yeah, I mean they've been they've been doing it. I mean, just look
at the persecution of Trump. I mean, who would have thought that you have you don't account for something the right way in your books, that you're going to go to jail. Who would have thought that the number one partical candidate of a would be would they they try to put the guy in jail? I mean, he's got all these cases are just Hey, Joe Biden wants to win. Democrats can't run on the border, they can't run on the economy, they can't run on foreign policy. So hey, let's just
get our guy and the other guy in prison. Maybe maybe that'll stop him from being able to campaign. I mean, this stuff, this stuff should scare the crap out of you. I mean I went through this, and I know so many business people have gone through it that if you go fight, you know the Democrats they're going to do everything they can to destroy you, whether it violates the law or not. That's what we've learned as well.
Court. The court decisions don't seem to matter to them. Oh look look at the Look at the I mean, look at all the stuff. I mean, Biden just violates the law. Democrats do hold them account. Look at the border. I mean, my orcists, my christ by the constitution had to have a trial. By constitution had to have a trial. But we didn't tell We just dismiss it. I mean they had to,
that was the constitution, and they didn't do that. I mean, did valate the law, but also violent the constitution and the Democrats are all okay with it. Amerphis is a complete liar. He's violated the law intentionally. I mean he's coming in front of me and lied to meet countless times. Well, I don't know how you do it up in Washington, DC, Senator. I guess you have to wear a hazmat suit at all times.
But I appreciate your time this Weeking we don't change it, that's our real life will go away if we don't change this, no doubt, no doubt, Senator, thanks for the time. I look forward to having you back soon. I see Preston by US Senator Rick Scott forty seven past the hour. It's the Morning Show with Dreston Scott. We need a little pick me up here on the program. So, yeah, if you read something insane, I probably did it. I'm fat about the block in my name.
Now thereson to the sins I have committed and we all be better when we have somebody. Yeah, before we get to Florida man fact or fiction? Uh, Florida man stories here? What is it about people in Florida assaulting people with food? How is it that food has now become a weapon. I suppose it's better than right. We got Charlie Strickland coming in a little bit we're gonna be talking about having to defend yourself or or the situations involving,
you know, weapons that can really cause harm. So I suppose a seventy three year old man handcuffed now charged with a felony battery charge after being a rested at a wah Wah convenience store in Fort Pierce. He'd been previous previously trespassed. It was still active. It placed him in handcuffs, and
he was holding half a cheeseburger while being cuffed. After being provided demands to drop said burger, he refused to do so, according to the arrest report, quoting after the handcuffs were placed on him, Joseph forcibly threw the burger into my right leg, leaving residue on the thigh of the law man. So he's been charged with throwing a half eaten cheeseburger the guy. First. First of all, the man was in cuffs and he managed to throw the
cheeseburger. Well done, I mean, you know, I'm just saying. And then there's this story, by the way, I need to Joseph Delancey is the name of the man with the hamburger arm. Then there's Kanye Medley, twenty year old arrested for hitting his sister with fried chicken. They got into a family argument. Amid the squabble, Kanye grabbed a bag of Churches chicken and unleashed a storm by throwing Crispy Chicken at his sister. Only only
in Florida, All right, Time for Florida man factor fiction. I've got three headlines, you tell me. Florida man threatens to cut buttockx with machete over a dispute over potato chips. Florida man arrested for stealing seventy five pool flows to engage intimacy with and Florida man caught stealing women's underwear from suitcases fired from baggage handling job. Gosh, two of these are weird. I'm going number one. It's headline number three. Florida man caught stealing women's underwear from
suitcase, fired from baggage handling job. Is it Sam Brenton, the nuke guy? You'd think it would be right. That's probably where he got his start. Personal Defence Charlie Trickland gonna follow up what we've done in the last hour by past the hour. It is the third hour. Ruminators, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and yes, just boys and girls. It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott Wednesday, May fifteenth. For some of you, it's Payday. He haught of that. He's Grant Allen. I'm Preston
and this is Charlie Strickland. He is the co founder of the Talent Training Group, co host Talent Outdoors and All Things Talent. Hello, good morning. How you is? I am I'd be great, I am fantastic. Did you love Senator Scott's intro to his segment it's raining up here and I don't know how people live. Yeah, it was like, it's not going to be a good day for you with what we do in Washington, DC
to ruin your life. It was a great interest. Yeah. Well he's he sees the inside of it. It's been up very long enough to know how terrible it really is. Yeah. So maybe maybe we can pull out, you know, control of the Senate that's go around, and maybe they can actually start to do something. Although I never expect anything actually come out of Washington in our favor. I just wished they would quit weaponizing all of
the alphabet agencies and going after everybody that doesn't need to be targeted. The beauty of Florida is not just the the amendment that says we've got to have a balanced budget. It's not just no income tax. The beauty of Florida is a part time of legislature. They can they can only do things for two months of the year. That's the beauty. Yeah, that's and it's amazing watching Tyler hassee when there's sessions in sessions out, I mean, it's
different. I was doing an active shooter training course the other day for an association, which basically includes some lobbying and stuff, and I was talking about, well, how does a business flow and as well, when sessions in we do it this way? When and then the rest of the time we do it that way. Yeah, a lot of that goes on in this town. And I was it was encouraging to hear that, you know, Senator Scott had actually was paying attention to what was going on in this town.
And I and I'm gonna say this, and this might not be popular to the people who are here in the Talla hassee right now that are suffering. And I am not by any means minimizing the suffering that they have. My daughter has been without power with kids, brand new kid. It's been a bad time. It is. It's terrible. However, go ahead, the winds that were here the tornado, the winds were how fast one hundred
and twenty something like that. One hundred and thirty maybe fast, Okay, it was one hundred and fifty in Jackson County and it was thirty five miles wide. So when Michael hit, when hurricanes hit, it's regional, it's not. It's not one thousand yards wide times a mile or two. Now. Hitting the capital city is terrible, but I think it should If you see how bad it is in Tallahassee, then go back a few years and you'll know how it was through a whole region. Think of all the places
in the state of Florida that are just absolutely destroyed. Well, I think just like downtown Tallahassee. I think the way to look at it is Tallahassee got a taste of what it's like when you're near the coast when a hurricane comes in. Because more power poles were snapped in half during this tornado than three hurricanes combined. And I've been out on the streets of Tyla hassee when I was with a Sheriff's office, I was on the Severe Weather of Salt
team. They took the SWAT team and they gave us change. So you guys just sulted hurricanes. Well we called it that because they would bring us in and make sure we could still crank up a chainsaw and put us on the streets during the highest of the wind when you know everybody else is going in, you know there and you see the debris removal teams and Tyler has the police department, Sheriff's office had those same teams out during this working I
saw them. Kudos to them for doing that. I mean, there's a tradition of that. I remember Larry Campbell going out with a chainsaw and clearing trees on his way into work, you know, after one of those storms, and that's what happens. All of the agencies come together. Everybody works together to do that. It's uh, you know, but it is. It's been bad, but it's not We're on what are we six Capster South?
It was like sixteen miles from the coast and in Mariana is like forty five minutes from the coast, and they got one hundred and fift mile on our winds and Jackson County up there. So if we ever get a hurricane that truly just plows right up to Saint Mark's River, we had a problem. Yeah, no doubt about a tree community. I put it this way. We'll see after that. Well, well, it's trees and tornado or
hurricane force winds don't dance well together. One of these days, if that did happen, you'd see a lot of utilities starting to go on the ground here. You just can't do it now. Ten past the Hour with Charlie Strickland on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. The Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point sevenbufla back with Charlie Strickland and the Talent Training
Group. Before we get to some of our personal defense topics here, I just got to ask you there was a Florida man story, I don't know if you caught it on your way in here, of an officer charging a guy who's trespassing and he'd arrested him because he wasn't obeying the order of staying off this property. But he got hit with a cheeseburger and went to his leg and he wrote him up for felony assault. Have never done anything like
that, aggravated battery on law enforcement officer. If you batter a law enforcement officer, it is automatically a felony because they are a law enforcement officer. Now, I don't think I would charge someone with the fel Well, if you charge him with the battery, it's going to be the felony. It's never going to make it to court. They're going to pull it down immediately,
especially in that case, I doubt. But what's the closest thing to a write up of somebody throwing a cheeseburger and hitting you that you came across? Remember the wide right ear when Miami beat us, which time one of the ones here in town Town. I was a two year FSU police officer and number seventy nine. Mark Caesar was a defensive end for the Miami Hurricanes. Right before the field gold attempt, he was one that disrupted the option
where we were trying to score a touchdown. FS she was and he was one that interrupted that play. Okay, prior to halftime there were FSU fans. We were down on the sidelines before when the chain link fence was down there. It wasn't. It wasn't. There was nothing between the ball players
and the and the fans except just a little fence. And one of them, Mark Caesar, was sitting there with the defensive line, and he took a cup of ice and he looked over his shoulder and he threw the cup of ice up into the stands and it hit me, and so not like you remember it or anything, it hit me. And I went over and I and I looked and I was trying to figure out which one it was, and all going seventy nine Caesar Caesar and I went over there and I
and I tapped him on the shoulder. That's what I wrote it up. I tapped him on the show. I got his attention by touching him on the shoulder. It's more of a you know, hey, And he spun around and shoved me. It's like, get off me, and so I uh, And then the whole defensive line stood up in my face. And he was the smallest of him. But I don't know how many he was
gonna use, but I knew how many he brought to the fight. And I know how that goes on the sidelines, and laws are short of suspended in athletic events sometimes, but technically it should have been a handcuffs right there in the middle of the game. But I actually was not that stupid. So I said, all right, I'll be back with you in a minute. And so I called up my chain of command all right, said hey, this person battered me football player, and they're like, ah, yeah,
whatever, and I said, no, no, seriously. One then he came down and talked to me and says, yeah, you're not gonna you can't charge him. I'm like, what do you mean, well, you you We're not going to do that, and I said, so I went back over and standing every by the fans and they're all like, well, what about us, we got hit with ice too? I said, oh you did, really? Yes, would you fill out a sworn alf
of David saying that you were the victim of battery? And they did, and I only had, like, I can only find five sworn half of David. There's like forty people saying they got hit with six pieces of ice. I don't know how that must have glanced around, and so they I got some sworn alf of David's and I wanted to go. I said,
what do you go to do, so we're gonna arrest him. And my chaining command was like, no, now, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll go in, We'll go see him and talk to Because they go in, they talk to him that he's gonna come out and apologize, and I want I'm not willing to accept that, but you can't ask those fans. And all we wanted charge. He got charged with five counts of
battery against the fans, but not the felony against me. Had they let me do what I wanted to do, which was arrest him at halftime, that would have been then he wouldn't have been in the game, would not have interrupted that option, and then we may not have had to kick that missed field goal. We may have won. That would have sent USD to the national championship. So if somebody would just listen to me every once in
a while, we'd have another national title. See, I knew, I knew what was going to happen, but they didn't want to listen to me. Anyway, it made the national news. I've got the articles. Awesome. I still have the letter of apology he had to sent me as part of his plea agreement and apparently English was not his one of his courses he passed. I can tell you that you don't say yeah anyway. We're going
to get back to the personal offense part of this segment. Charlie Strickland with me of the Talent Trading Group on the morch Oh with Preston Scott almost twenty two minutes past the hour. Personal defense segment. Charlie Strickland of the talent training group talentrange dot com and of course co host of Talent Outdoors. You
can hear a weekends on Saturday at ten am Eastern. Charlie, you sent me a story here, and as listeners know, I look at stories and I believe that almost any one of these things can offer us an opportunity to learn something. And this particular story caught your eye. Going to leave the name of the loser out of it that was in the middle of this, but the headline New Jersey marine arrested after allegedly making threats to kill white people,
began planning mass shooting. What stood out to you about this story, Well, it won it's a military guy. He's not old enough to have served in combat, so it's not PTSD or anything like that. This is a young marine starting out. He made threats, and it wasn't He's a black guy making threats to kill white people based on the fact that it's a racial issue. He's basically lashing out. But that's not what stood out to me. What stood out was in the article when I read it, was
that. And he had been posting on some social media saying what he was going to do for almost a year planning this, posting updates on how he's going to do it, how to smuggle guns in the New Jersey, how to do this, how to do that, and then he was in the military, went to training. Nobody vetted this, I mean nobody looked at this. Apparently seems like that would be enough to discipline somebody or not let them in the military, or give them the advanced firearms training. And all
the military people get military training. They got so somebody dropped the ball there, So let's train this person who's spouting off about how dangerous they can be. And then what really got me was when he I'm looking in there and he had been scouting locations and he had picked the location. He never said where it was. He said, I've picked a location. I've scouted it and I'm pretty sure nobody has guns there. So he went out. This
is his mindset. This is the mindset of a predator. He's going out and looking for places he knows is a soft target where no one will fight back, no one's going to present any sort of resistance, and that's where he's going to go. The fact that there are no guns there, and we talk about, oh, we don't want guns here, and we don't want guns there. Wells specifically, where that these people are planning to go to is where they know they're not going to run into these types of situations.
You notice in states where we've armed people in the schools, guardians, law enforcement, we've mandated in Florida now we've mandated based on how many people are in the school, how many law enforcement or guardian type people, armed people have to be there in order for school to go on. Is it a ratio? I think there is. There's a base, maybe something to do with the funding. I'm not that familiar with it. I know there
was a discussion the other day about this somewhere. But the fact is is that we've got armed people in the schools now and you don't hear as much about school shootings in these areas. When we have these people there, it is definitely a deterrent. My fear is that, well, we'll go a while without any and then they'll say, well, we can back off that
a little bit. And I don't think that's a good idea. But you're always looking for places to cut the law enforcements, cutting training, which is the worst place to cut it you've got, but you know you don't want to start cutting your armed security in these places. So and there's no move to do that here locally, But as some of the state funding expires in time, people are going to have to start looking at their own pockets to fund some of this. I'm afraid down the road, and you know it's
certainly worth spending the money. So in this case, I mean, that guy actually went out and figured out where he could go. He was late, and somebody was paying attention. But he's posting from twenty twenty two to twenty twenty three, and he gets arrested in twenty twenty four, making these
threats and planning this the whole time. And you're telling me that nowhere along the way did anybody go and look into it and do anything until it's crazy to think given the reality that today most every employer that I know, one of their background checks is social media. They go out and they look at someone's social media and see what they're all about. Yeah, are we that
desperate in our armed services now where we don't care? I don't know, you know, he could have been doing it under an alias on social media and maybe they finally connected the dots or something. Maybe that I don't know. I don't know enough about that case, but I can tell you that when I'm hiring and I you know, I have an armed security company. When I hire somebody, I go look at their social media and I and
I watch what they say. You know, if they say something that makes the company look bad or indicate some lack of balance and they're not working for me, you know, they go they go do that somewhere else, sure, because you know, you have to vet your own people. But what you say matters, because social media is a place in this day and age. People don't realize it, but they're they're they're showing their soul to the world on social media. The stuff you post online, that's who you really
are. I mean you wouldn't do that in public. You wouldn't say the things in public that you would say on social media. People can say it and they don't feel like there are any consequences to that. Now we know that there are. We know that what we say the world sees and they
see right through us to who we really are. But that, you know, that's he's talking about a year and a half, two years he's wanting to go do this stuff, and nobody did anything that whole see something, say something deal sounds kind of corny, man, somebody you see that, You've got to let somebody know. I mean, that's yeah, that's what happened. Have he had it going out, shot up a place and killed a bunch of people and everybody say, oh, he's a nice guy.
I never would have realized it. Oh except for all these social media posts I've been seeing for two years. I suppose if you're a private business owner, one of the lessons in all of this is they still target gun for his own So if you're one of those, don't promote it. That's for sure. Twenty eight past the hour, It's the Morning Show. Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point seven Double UFLA or on NewsRadio Double UFLA Panama
City dot Com thirty six minutes past. It is Wednesday. In the morning show, Charlie Strickland of the Talent Training Group with Me Personal Defense talk about some of the stories of the news. Another story that you flagged is, and it has been in the news, is the body camera now is out showing the shooting of a airman by Florida deputy in an apartment doorway Fort Walton
Beach. What stood out to you, Well, obviously this is a tragedy for the family of the deceased, for the deceased, his girlfriend, and the deputy involved in the Shares's office over there, and the community. I mean is there's nothing good about this. There's nothing good about this. There's not a silver lining in this at all. Wrong, did anybody? Uh? I think? Well, based on which we know understand, I'm extremely law enforcement friendly. Of course, in law enforce I'm still a cop.
I'm a law enforcement trainer, have been most of all of my career. I think the deputy messed up in a big way. I think he was wrong, but I still don't know all the details. So I'm withholding some judgment on this, But based on all of the scenarios that I've been through and all of the real life experience that I have, I think that he he reacted poorly set the scene because for people, a lot of people don't know this story. Okay, So the Sheriff's office in Oaklus County responds to
a complaint of a disturbance of some sort at an address. There's some people say the guy went to the wrong address and the Sheriff's the sheriff is maintaining he did not go to the wrong address. But the information given to the sheriff's office sometimes they call in the dispatch and that there's a disturbance. It's in an apartment, an apartment complex where you got multiple rooms and multiple doors and multiple floors and all this kind of stuff. And so you know,
a lot of times the information that we get is wrong. But the deputy is responding to the location that he was sent to based on some sort of a disturbance there, and we don't know what that and so without knowing all that information, in the frame of mind he was in. But there's a difference between there's shots fired an apartment too, and a woman screaming for help, and whether somebody arguing an apartment too or somewhere on the second floor.
I mean, there's a lot of different things you could have going into that. So until we know what that call was, it's kind of hard to judge. But at the same time, no matter how what kind of information you have, and the fact that there weren't three or four officers there means that it probably wasn't shots fired. It was probably an argument and a routine
deal. The deputy goes up to an apartment door and this is on body camera, and he knocks on the door, boom, boom, boom, backs up a couple steps, pauses, knocks on the door, sheriff's office, open the door, something like that, Sheriff's office. He announces, and then he switches sides to the door, stays out of the peep hole where you can't see who it is, which is a law enforcement's officer safety issue. We don't stand in front of the door. Absolutely. He knocks
on it again. Somebody comes to the door. It's a twenty three year old black kid, an airman, military guy, reputable kid. You know, he appears to be clean cut, he's a military guy. He works at Hurbert Field and the Special Operations Divisions and the Air Force. You know there's a lot of military in this area. The kid opens the door and we then split seconds the deputy. The deputy says step back, and then
boom boom, boom, boom boom. Kid gets shot six times. Now in the video you see the kid answers the door with a gun in his right hand, but it's down by his leg and the deputy didn't see that. Based on mya of his body language and his voice, he didn't see it initially, but when he did see it, the gun was never brought up, was never presented to the deputy, never pointed at him. I didn't see any furtive movements or any threatening behavior on behalf of the kid.
The deputy saw a gun and shot him. Pause right there, because there are tons of questions to be asked. We're gonna keep talking about this more with Charlie Strickland of the Talent Training Group on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Forty one minutes past. Charlie Strickland with me, we're talking about a shooting of an airman in Oklalusa County
for Fort Walton Beach area. And we're gonna pause right there, and I'm gonna ask the question at that moment, the interaction between the young man and the airman and the sheriff's deputy. The airmen legally had every right to have a firearm in his hand inside his home. So you got to look at it from the airman's perspective. Okay, So he's in there, he's on FaceTime with this girlfriend. She saw all of this happen, she heard it. She was still on the phone. So there's a witness outside of the
body camera footage. Now, So he's in there. We don't know if he heard the deputy say sheriff's office or shriffs any of it. He could be he could have had it turned up. He could have been in the back room and just hurt thump, thump, thump on the top of it in front of the room. I don't know that kind of neighborhood they live in. But you have every right to answer your door anytime you want to
and your private residence with a gun in your hand. Don't point it at anybody that's aggravated us, all of course, But to have a gun in your hand is perfectly legal, justifiable, and reasonable depending on the circumstances. If you don't know who who's at your door. I mean JD and I were talking about this on our show. We answer the door with a gun in our hand. If if you knock on my door, I'm either gonna I'm either gonna put my gun in my hoster on so I have access to
it, or it's gonna be in my hand. That's normal. That's normal for law abiding people to do that. I mean, you know, maybe not normal for everybody, but yeah, it happens, and it's lawful and it's and it's perfectly legal and reasonable. And so just because I have a gun in my hand doesn't mean that you can shoot me. Now, if I point the gun at you, that's a different store. Absolutely, it
is. So from the kid's perspective, he's going to the door to an unknown somebody thumping on the door pretty assertively, okay, and he wants to know who it is. He doesn't show the gun, he just holds it
down behind his thigh and he's got his body bladed. But when the deputy says step back, and he moved the gun became exposed, but it was still down in a non threatening manner, down by his leg, and the deputy didn't didn't take a step to cover, to use the doorjam as cover, point the gun at him and go drop the gun, drop the gun or anything like that. He just went bam bam, bam, bam, bam bam. So the deputy did not have his gun drawn from his holster
until he saw the fire. I saw the gun, drew the pistol, and the kid put his left hand up like palm out like wait. You know, he put his hand up like hey, and held his hand up, and he had the other one down by his leg. And there was no time for him to react or to step out of the way or drop the gun. I mean, it happened so fast. You know. He opened the door and saw a uniform. He was surprised, it seems, from what I can tell. So there is virtually no verbal exchange. Zero.
He said step back, you know, when he opened the door and goes step back, because the deputy's responding. Now from the deputy's perspective, he goes there and say there's a disturbance going on. The guy opens the
door. After several times him knocking, the guy comes to the door, opens the door, and he goes step back so he can see what's going on in the apartment, which he has no authority to tell the man to step back in his own apartment unless there's some life in danger, and he doesn't have I don't know that he had that in from so he says step back, and that's when he saw the gun and engaged. There was there was zebra. And here's where the issue comes into play. Was a deputy
justified I don't think so. I think he's in a world of trouble. I think the agency is fixing the payout as much as they can legally, and then the legislature is going to have to fund some you know, approve some some more funding. This is going to be Ben Crump involved in it and all this stuff. It's going to be a big deal. I think one of the biggest things is going to go back to law enforcement training.
They're going to pull his training records and you say, how much situational based training, how much reality based training, how much force on enforced training, Because that's the only way to solve this problem is to put your people through that type of training, because that's how you You can train your way out of this, but you can't policy your way out of this. You sue
your way out of it. And there are so many lessons on this one, not just for law enforcement, but lessons for everybody about the importance of situational training. Well, and don't think it couldn't happen at your house or my house. Tomorrow somebody law enforcement's going to go to the house to knock on the door and ask questions if there's something going on in the neighborhood.
They're gonna they might go to the wrong house. It happens all the time, so and you might answer the door, would have gun in your hand, and then that could be you or me. And so we all have a vested interested in this. So when training is not funded very well, we've got to do something statewide, especially in smaller agencies, to start making a difference. Thanks for the time, Charlie Strickland with US Talent Training Group.
Remember talentrange dot com. Get your training there and head out to the range. Do some training yourself. Forty seven passed the out lessons to learn if you're willing to learn man, crazy crazy stuff. Still talking to Charlie before we started this segment here tomorrow on the program, Steve Stewart Jimmy petronas State CFO, said, he sent me a note almost right after the storms
came through last week. He said, happy to come on to help people to keep from getting ripped off, because now it starts everybody coming in. It's already started. I'm sure storms and this will serve as not just help for those that were damaged in the in the region, but upcoming storm season. Some things to know to not get ripped off. You know, these types of events bring out the best in people and the worst in people.
There are some unscrupulous, unscrupulous businessmen and women out there that just want to take advantage and they will. So we'll talk with the CFO about that today from eleven to one. I mentioned this at the start of the show.
This is for listeners in the Capital City region. Dogs for Dogs. It's a little community cookout that First Commerce Credit Union is hosting at their main HQ on Summitt East here in Tallahassee, and the proceeds go to They're asking for a five dollars donation for a hot dog, chips and a drink obviously, you can give a whole lot more than that, and the money goes to the local Humane Society. And I'm all about stuff like that. So if you can go out there and lend a little help, have a little food,
that would be a good cause. So again, that's today twenty seventy three Summit Lake Drive between eleven A and one p Flora First Commerce Credit Union here in Tallassee, Florida. Brought to you by Barono Heating and Air. It's the Morning Show one on WFLA. Big stories in the press Box today, of course, brought to you by grob a creative marketing and digital expertise Casey DeSantis. Yeah, she's not interested in being a governor, the governor
said, yeah, no, she's not there. Georgia, Georgians, you've got some problem with your Georgia State Election Board. They are not pursuing a couple. One member in particular, wanted to pursue some serious problems in Fulton County that are documented. We've told you, but it's documented. But enough of the board did not want to do it, and the one member that wanted to do it didn't show up to a meeting, and so our thanks to doctor Janis Johnston. Well done, ma'am. Appreciate you, but you're
not enough Georgians. You're facing the same problem you had the last time. In twenty twenty, just letting you know, Mississippi joins the States trying to do something to protect women and women's places, women's sports. Red Lobster facing bankruptcy in locations around the country, but a bunch in Florida. Thankfully, none in our listening area, unless, of course, we go to iHeartRadio thews all kinds Americans check their phones one hundred and forty four times a day.
Do you need to go on a diet? I think that was put well, you need to find ways to diet from your phone exposure and kind of re engage life a little bit. Tomorrow we'll tee it up all over again. Got a lot to talk about. Take on a road trip, give you an idea there, pause for thought and more till then, have a great day friends, Thanks for listening.