Thursday. It is May sixteenth on the Morning Show with Preston Scott Im Preston. Good morning friends, ruminators, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Thanks so much for making time. We appreciate it very very much. It is show fifty one sixty and yesterday twelve twelve of America not just being held hostage, but being bleds from its wounds and left dying on the side of a road. Great to be with you this morning. We will set up a busy show for you in just a little bit. Thursday just tends to
be a lot of guests and today no exception. But we always start with some scripture. It is our six seventeen sixty three segment, like what are you calling it that? Look up the date something, something will fire up in your mind. I think that'll help you figure it out. Proverbs eleven twenty four says one gives freely, yet grows all the richer. Another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. Boy Jesus taught parable or
two. That definitely connects back to that proverb being faithful with what you have been given. And so often I see people, especially younger people that are not they want everything. Now, we have raised an impatient set of generations
of late and we've probably spoiled them. And as a result, they don't respect, they don't appreciate, they don't walk in the attitude of gratefulness that they should, and so they rob themselves by their attitudes and their conduct of future blessings that would otherwise be open closed because their hearts are not right. Listen to that again, One who gives freely, we automatically take a verse like that, and we think, let's clearly talking about cash money, yes
and no, certainly it's talking about our giving. But we give when with far more than just cash, don't we? I mean, if I were to ask you, what are your resources? Would you literally just limit it to what's in your bank account or in your wallet at the moment? See, I think that we do. Back up, I think too many do resources, your time, your strength, your skills. One gives freely yet
grows all the richer. How close is that to the parable where Jesus was talking about to the one who has, he will be given more, and others who were given will have it taken from them and given to the one because others were not faithful. To use what they've been blessed with, and so after a period of time it gets stripped, can it be recovered?
Absolutely a change of heart. Does that walk with the right perspective of gratitude, appreciation, Use your resources wisely, your time, your effort, your skills, and you'll be given more. If not, you might find yourself bumping around a little bit to you learn the lesson. Ten minutes past the hour, It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Preston Scott sixty percent of the time. It works every time on News Radio one hundred point seven.
Doubufla Yeah, Steve Stewart, next hour, Well have our pause for Thoughts segment with doctor Steve Steverson, Road Trip Idea. Third hour, Jimmy Patronis Florida State CFO. Some things to avoid if you are in the aftermath of the storm and still doing some cleanup and you've got some issues ahead, and just some tips in general as we're heading into storm season. He wanted to come on the program and share some ways to keep from getting defrauded of your
money. Animal Stories got an interesting piece from Scott Beacon that I want to share insights into Trump's vice presidential pick. He did some data crunching, which is fascinating on the subject that we talked about. Maybe it was last week, but let's take a peek. May sixteenth, eighteen thirty six, the first steamboat on the Pacific coast tested in Vancouver, Washington. I might have named it something other than the Beaver, but that's what it is. So
we don't revise history around here. We can hope, but we don't do that. On May sixteenth, eighteen forty two, a little bit of a deep dive here, one hundred pioneers with eighteen wagons set out from Independence, Missouri, one of the first wagon trains to the Northwest. Over the next two decades, tens of thousands would follow the Oregon Trail, one of the
longest of the great overland routes to the western frontier. I'm trying to remember, is it the Oregon Trail the video game that you can still see the ruts across the Dakotas. I've heard that. Yeah, I mean they're still there, and it fascinates me to no end that they're still there. I think it goes straight west across you know, Montana and Wyoming and Idaho into
the Northwest. I think I could be mistaken, but you've heard something like that, and and that that to me, they've got to preserve somehow, some way, some of that I don't you know, I don't know if you pour cement in the ruts to preserve it and form like molds of it. Yeah, I was going to say, make like a cast mold, yeah something. Yeah, And but but but like section it off. If I if I'm a farmer and I've got that across my land, I'm thinking
Field of Dreams kind of stuff. You know, the farmers that owned the land that uh they built that that baseball field on for the movie Field of Dreams. You know, it was bitter and contested for a while, and I think they eventually kind of worked out a way and and turned it into a combined attraction that's just downright cool in Dyersville. My dad did actually actually started a radio network in UH based in Dyersville, Iowa, because of the
Field of Dreams and had some incredible talent working with him. Michelle Tafoya got one of her first big breaks working with and for my dad, And so anyway, just kind of interesting. Eighteen sixty eight, the Senate fails by one vote to convict President Andrew Johnson and his impeachment. You know, impeachment trials used to be held in the Senate until just this year. Yeah, they've always held one until just this year with Joe Biden. They've always held
one except this year with Joe Biden. And in that interesting going all the way back to eighteen sixty eight, they were old in trials, the giving presidents a look and yeah, you know, anyway, just eighteen eighty eight and Philadelphia, German immigrant Emil Berliner demonstrates the first modern phonograph record. I had someone send me a video blaming the technology of that. I have to look at it. Nineteen twenty nine, Emil Jennings Best Actor, Janet Gaynor
Best Actress are are among the winners of the first Oscars. Janet Gaynor I think she later did a song I Will Survive. That was a big disco hit. I'm kidding. I know it was Gloria Gaynor. I'm just And then in nineteen ninety one, Queen Elizabeth the second becomes the first British monarch to address Congress. She was cool. I will admit Charles has even though he's not going to be long for the job. Charles has acquitted himself a
little better than I expected. So yeah, seventeen minutes past the hour, I'm sure that all of Great Britain was waiting for my judgment of their cana or people. Just too many fall into the slow learner's class. Look at this video of this woman in Mexico and she decided to get cute with a wild bull that was on the beach, and things didn't end very well for It's like the people that take selfies trying to get close to the buffalo in
Yellowstone or wherever, and oftentimes doesn't end well for them. Then there was the group that decided they were going to take some bear cubs that they came across and pose. They picked them up and held them and posed with them, and the cubs were eventually abandoned by their mom, as I understand the story, because they had the human sent all over them, so they had to be rescued. It's like, come on now, people, look, I get it. There's some out there, many of you. I've I've
read your email. You are of the mindset that that is how within the herd, that's just what happens. You remove those people from the the pool of potential donors to uh that that particular gene pool and uh yeah, anyway, I don't know how many of you are embracing this chat GPT, and I don't know what any of that stands for. I don't know what GPT stands for you? Does it? Is it an acronym for something? I
have no idea. Open AI, the the startup behind the chat bot, have rolled they they have rolled out, has rolled out a new, a new version. It is the new GPT model. GPT stands for Generative pre Trained Transformer, just the style of AI. I guess okay, uh it's capabilities. One demonstration, the voice assistant was able to read out a bedtime
story in different voices, emotions, tones, you know what's coming. Moms and dads for you know, forfeiting that responsibility and handing it over to AI, because they don't want to be troubled reading a bedtime story to their kids, so they'll let the AI bot do it in their child's favorite voice, Starry Vader. Yeah, that could be. That'd be a great one.
There were once three little pigs, I mean, never mind. Another used the capable abilities to walk through solving a math equation written on a sheet of paper. It used its vision capabilities. So you can hook these things up. I guess to your camera and it can look at a problem and then walk through the solving of it. Now, he's listening to the commencement speech of Jerry Seinfeld at Duke, where he handled the jerks brilliantly when they walked
out. Some of them walked out thankfully. Most students booed and hissed at them. That's good, he said, paraphrasing that AI technology is like they should brand itself the opposite of what Nike did. You just can't do it. And so it's like we're going to turn to artificial intelligence because we can't figure it out. I just want to point something out to you. How many phone numbers do you know? How many phone numbers have you memorized?
And no? Fewer than ten? Oh yeah, fewer than five. There was a time we knew hundreds because you had to you had to know them. You had to know them, like you had to know your Social Security number. As we quit solving problems and turn to AI, we will quit knowing things, remembering things. I just wanted to point out I hope, honest and truly this stuff. I don't think. I don't think most people
fully understand the dangers of where we're going. But I just use the phone number thing because there's enough of you out there that remember the days when you had to know phone numbers. We don't know them anymore. And that's what's going to come of AI, and at some point AI and those that leverage it will take advantage of that. Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point seven Double UFLA thirty six Past the Hour, Big Stories in the press Box,
brought to you by Grove of Creative Marketing and digital Expertise. I hope people in America as a group are not stupid enough to buy Joe Biden's now sudden interest in limiting border access. You said he'll do something if it reaches four thousand a day. Really that's all it'll take. Huh, Sweet God Almighty. The fact that there are still people wearing masks leaves me with little
hope. And if you're one who's wearing one, I'm sorry if that hurts your feelings, but I've now come to the conclusion that by and large, people that wear masks are like people that don't put away shopping carts. They're illiberals. And I can't help you. I can pray for you. I love you now, I mean that I do. You're a human being with a heart and a soul and big story is just some not going to go
deep into any of this stuff, very disappointing. In the wake of the Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade, abortions are up nationwide eighty six thousand per month, and Florida, California, and Illinois saw the largest increases. Florida, Californian, Illinois. Yeah. I I don't know what's so difficult about. If you're going to engage in that lifestyle, just don't get pregnant. I I mean, I can explain how it happens, but I
don't think I need to of right now. On average, in the United States, it takes one hundred and seventy seven seven hundred and ninety eight dollars for a family of four to live quote comfortably. Inflation right now is annualized at about six percent. We've talked about the median wages, the average wages in the country fifty nine to four, twenty eight to thirty four per hour is the average, and it just gets more and more expensive to live.
And so you're looking at this, there is no end in sight to the inflationary problems that we're facing. The only end I can see is a total and complete change in Washington. But even then I have my doubts because I don't trust Republicans. And then, lastly, Washington d C hosted a voter registration training for illegal immigrants. Now this was openly done. It took a freedom of information request by Judicial Watch to get the information. Said some form
of government ID was required. Migrants are not allowed to Illegal migrants are not allowed to vote in federal elections, just city contests, according to a newly approved law in Washington DC. Question number one, do you really think that's going to stop them? Question number two? This is literally Campbell knows tent. And this is why Washington, d C. Can never be allowed to become a state. Forty minutes past the hour, It's the Morning Show with
Preston Scott. Doesn't always work out, But when I put a radio program together, I will frequently have stories kind of laid out, think of sticky notes all over my desk, and I kind of look at him and I try to build the radio program. And so as we went through the big stories in the press box, you'll notice we ended with a voting story in Washington, d C. Highlighting the problems with Washington d C. In a
broad sense, but we were talking about voting. And we follow that with an Ohio Secretary of State, Frank LeRose, asking for the Biden administration to please help because they are purging from state voter rolls non citizens. Now they suspect there's a lot more than one hundred and thirty seven, but they're not getting help from the Biden administration releasing what level of documentation they have on these people. A lot of the data needed comes from federal sources. They're not
helping. So what does that tell you? It tells me that what we have been discussing about this unprecedented invasion of our country and that the real reason for this was to offset the number of Democrats leaving the party to allow into this country another victim class in massive numbers and hope that enough of them can vote illegally and that the time it would take to litigate it will seal the
deal for Biden or whoever to be re elected or to get installed. So here you've got Ohio attempting to purge from its voter roles those that shouldn't be allowed to vote, who in fact ought to be thrown out of the country, and the Biden administration's hindering that they're not releasing that information. Now we segue to George Soros. He is spend eighty million dollars, according to the Media Research Center, through his group Free Press, to pressure big tech platforms
to juice up their censorship ops in advance of the twenty four election. He is funding groups that are calling for the censorship of information ahead of the election. Let me read from the release from Media Research Center. One of the wealthiest men in the world is using his vast wealth and power to silence regular
Americans ahead of the twenty twenty four election. At a time when defending free speech is key, leftists are trying their best to shut down the voices of half of America, if not more, especially those who disagree with the radical
agenda promoted by Biden, Sorrows, and most big tech executives. Last month, the outlet Free Press boasted about a letter urging executives at discord Google, Instagram, meta Pinterest, Reddit, rumble, snap, TikTok, Twitch, Twitter, and YouTube to keep online platforms safe and healthy finger quotes through six specific interventions, and it was signed by two hundred civil society organizations, researchers, and journalists. At least forty five of the signatories have had their coffers
packed with sorrow's cash to the tune of eighty plus million dollars. This is what we're fighting, and we cannot quit fighting. Bible says, do not grow weary of doing well. It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Okay, that's kind of funny. High school prank time. I don't know if it was one or a group, but a bagpiper was hired to follow the principal around all day at a school. That's funny. Literally everywhere he walked,
the bagpiper was behind him playing. Can you imagine having an upset stomach? Oh, I really got to use the restroom. And then you just hear Scotland the Brave everywhere he goes. He's just followed walking to the buses, followed walking down the sidewalk in front of the school, followed walking through the hallways, followed everywhere. That's brilliant, all right, not so brilliant. I remember those of you in the Capital City area remember Claren Country Club,
And I would expect it's going to reopen sometime this year. They've been working hard at it. A lot of rumors as to what it will become in terms of its price point and so forth. We'll see. Ownership has the right to do what it wants with it. But I remember that some of the lakes and not ponds, sorry, little ponds, had these massive carp in them. Carp have massive appetites. They they tend to keep ponds clear, but if they're in the wrong bodies of water, they can be
a problem. And so in Colorado they have a problem with what are called Asian big head carp so much so they are they're getting anglers to help them out and getting them out of bodies of water. In one particular pond, every single one of them were at least three feet long, and the heaviest was forty six pounds. That's a massively large fish. They are not native to Colorado. They negatively impact the overall ecosystem. They are prolific eaters.
They feed primarily on plankton, and therefore compete with a lot of native and sport fish species which depend on plank plankton as a food source. They are considered a threat to the actual fish you want in these ponds. And so your mind immediately says, okay, what knuckle had released those things? I mean, how does that happen? And you dig deep into the story and I I can't explain why my eye was drawn to this. Maybe it was
because my interaction and seeing these massive carp. I don't know if they were big head Asian big head carp that were in these little ponds at the golf course or not. I do not know, but I looked a little deeper into the story. In nineteen ninety two, Asian big head carp were introduced as part of a national study about reducing pond algae by Colorado Parks and Wildlife. So they took an invasive, non native fish, introduced it, and
now thirty years later they're wondering why something went wrong. I just it just makes me laugh, because this stuff happens all the time. Anthony Fauci thought it would be a good idea. Let's let's take a virus found in nature and let's diddle it a little bit. Let's let's dottle over it a little bit. Let's tweak it here and there. Unless we didn't, we might have, but we might not have. And and you wonder why things go
wrong. They weren't ever supposed to be in the waters of Colorado. They're not supposed to be in a lot of bodies of water where they're probably located. Because my hunch is if they tried this in Colorado as part of a federal program, they've They've done it elsewhere, maybe Colin Country Club. I don't know. I'm just saying. And so all of a sudden, Frankenstein's monster gets loose, and these are the results. An invasive species has to
be removed from the waters of Colorado. Good luck with that, Steve, start next, all right, a second hour of The Morning Show with Preston Scott, Thursday, May sixteenth, heyday plus one for many of you have any paycheck left? That is great. Allen over there, Studio one A. I'm here in Studio one B, and I am joined by the executive editor of Tallahasse Reports again the website Tallahassee Reports dot com. He is Steve Stewart. Hello, good morning, are you I'm good. How are you
good? Yeah yeah, busy paper going out this week. Okay, good stuff in it. But wanted to start with sort of a storm update. Yeah, boy, that was something. You know. It was Friday, last Friday. I put my kids, and the kids left to go to high school at six thirty. And right after they got in the car to leave, man, maybe ten minutes, I'm starting, you know, all of a sudden, the storm hits Miss Inklarn and it gets intense. So
I'm starting looking track and find out where they are. So they do get to school, which was good, but it was unlike hurricanes, this is something that happened without notice tornadoes, and I've been here since nineteen eighty nine, never I don't think a tornado has really ever, really caused major damage here, and so I think on Sunday, when the National Weather Service laid out the pass of these these tornadoes, it was it was obviously historic,
but the numbers are just mind boggling. I mean, when you look at the city says eighty thousand people were without power right after the storm for over four hundred utility polls destroyed, which was more than the last four hurricanes combined. That's just so hard to believe. Tuned into this County Commission meeting,
over fourteen hundred structures damaged, with over two hundred completely destroyed. The issue here as they moved to get power restored with twenty seven mutual aid utilities coming to town. I left town Saturday morning for something and could see the trucks
headed in. That's when I realized how bad it was. Is that there's gonna be at least two hundred homes that are going to need additional work before they can even turn power on. I think that's going to be so there's gonna be some a lot of pain for a number of displaced people, yes, exactly, which again rivals any hurricane we've seen. And so anyway, it's so interesting how focused the path was of the three tornadoes. That's what tornadoes do. Yeah, And like I said, we're not used to that.
And you know, there's been some if you go on social media, obviously in these situations, a lot of second guessing on different things. But I don't know, I think most everybody probably gets a pass on this, you know, from up front, but we'll probably learn more in the next couple of weeks. The concern I had, Steve, and this is just you know, I voiced it on the program. I was concerned that the school system did not send releases out of any kind and don't anymore. Apparently
they rely on people to go to Facebook. And first, it's unprofessional because it's the only elected government body, local, state or federal that doesn't send press releases. So we were flying blind. The only information we got was unofficial and from parents, and that's not a good way to conduct business.
Now. I think if you look at the communication to the schools, and we noticed that, again this is personal experience, the kids got there and then it wasn't long they were taking AP test, and it wasn't long after that they were told to leave. And I got a couple of calls from parents who are like, what are we doing sending kids? They actually told
them to get off a campus. I know I got the same notifications, which you know, you again you hate to be critical during this crisis mode, but that is sort of an interesting you know, and because once I was thinking, once my kids got to school, they would be safe, but then there were kids actually walking outside of school during the storm. Fortunately this was north of town, and I guess it wasn't as bad north as
it was central and south. The question that I have is just one of and again I agree with you to a certain extent that you get a pass, But the part that doesn't get a pass to me is to me, you know, we knew whether was coming when we started the program. That was plenty of time to ground the buses and shut things down for you know,
for that morning and usually and usually that's what happens. And I think if you listen to Superintendent Rocky had a I think he he indicated that they got some bad information, that they weren't completely informed, but I heard he was out of town. Well, and that then there's a chain of command issue. Who's who's making decisions? Right? And so this is when you start digging into electedly can say whatever they want and that's what's going to get
published. Yeah, the question is does someone go and dig and find out exactly what was happening, because you know, in the past they've aired on the side of caution. I mean, they've had people miss school and nothing happen. Agree, So for this to happen this way is a little bit concerning. But the question is you've got this recovery effort. When are you gonna take that Some are going to take the time to figure out exactly what
happened. Yeah, and that to me, it's it's not you know, I'm critical of the communications department because I think they don't do their job. That said, I'm not overly critical other than the fact that there didn't seem to be a process if the superintendent's not available to make a decision exactly. All right, More to come with Steve Stewart to Tell as he reports the Morning Show with Preston Scott's on News Radio one hundred point seven WFLA. Steve
Stewart with me from tellass reports. I'm still just shaking my head over people not doing their job. But moving on. Yes, So we're going to get ahead of an issue here, and your listeners should be aware of pedestrian safety. Commissioner Jackporter has started to bring up the issue of pedestrian safety. If you go back and look, there was a there's a weird story written in local media with a tortured headline that tried to indicate that Leon County was
ranked horribly with regards to pedestrian safety. But if you read into the article. The data they used was put out by a personal injury law firm, and then it finally always a good source for creditbility, I mean, who knows. But then it also said that, you know, the article concluded that, you know, Leon County was not in the top ten of the most dangerous counties in Florida. So why the headline. Well, the only quote in the article came from City Commissioner Jackport. This was back in January,
December January. Well, then recently we had that tragic accident over on FSU campus where the student was killed mode over in the crosswalk by someone traveling seventy miles an hour. Not long after that, commission Jack Porter had a press conference. In between those two events media events, I noticed that the city commission that she'd asked for this program called Vision zero to be introduced into
Leon County. Vision zero is a safety program adopted in Europe in nineteen ninety seven and pushed by progressive groups to basically redesign highway systems to fit pedestrians and bicycles. So I did some research on this, and you know, we've talked about Commissioner Reporter going and get progressive training at these three conferences. Guess who advocates for Vision zero. I wonder these conferences what commission report moves to.
Yeah, she doesn't have an original idea, so anyway she's pushing this. She had a press conference after this tragic accident. Tragic accident, and the media, as has been the norm over the last couple of years, they take tragic accidents or issues and they write stories about it without looking at the underlying well numbers, in facts, in fairness. That's how a lot
of laws get passed in mid state legislatures, including Florida emotion. So what I decided to do is go look at the pedestrian safety data that is cataloged. And what I found was the amount of data that is kept nationally and by the state is unbelievable. You can figure out how safe your community is.
We've got a story and actually have it up at talis reports dot com that we looked at pedestrian fatalities per one hundred thousand population in Florida over the last six years, and we compared Leon County to not only Florida, but to other counties that have similar populations, which was a Scambia, Saint John's and Alachua, which is Gainesville, which has obviously a university, and we found out that the county fell fares pretty well over the last six years.
You could see that we're blacked. It's improving, yes, it is improving now. So when you look at those those those numbers there, then you've got to have that as the context when you start talking about bringing in something like Vision zero. Now, we have an article in our newest Prent edition that is written by the Reason Foundation, which is a libertarian group which goes and allizes things and it and it takes a pretty good look at this Vision
zero program. It's been adopted by your you know, by New York City, San Francisco, La Chicago, been a failure in most places because how is it judged a failure? Well, because well they look at stats like that. They haven't changed. The idea is that progressives don't like cars. Okay, they don't want you to drive your car, and yeah, of course, but they don't want you driving cars. And so this instead of looking at specific accidents and trying to figure out what to fix, they want
to redesign all. You know, they want to increase public transportation. They want to they want to redesign the transportation system to make it more difficult for drivers. In other words, if you're if you're having to wait in traffic because you've got more bike lanes and you've got you know, different things. I mean, they've got a program to where you actually drop people off in the middle of the street, and Gainesville has adopted this, and I'm looking
into this. But so this, this is something we need to be aware of because what's happening. And this is the same thing on parking minimums, Progressives are pushing and getting rid of rid of parking minimums. They don't want parking places for people, okay, they want to leave it up to developers. So on the one side, progressives say developers are corrupt, but on the other side, they want to leave it up to developers to decide up
to need parking places. And this is another issue that we can talk about, but it has a lot of externalities and effects neighborhoods that are near economic centers. So anyway, these are some things you need to keep your eyes on, your eyes on and we're we're providing the information. Elections matter, and there are elections coming up this fall that matter a lot more with Steve Stewart Next twenty two Morning Show with Preston Scott twenty two minutes past the hour.
I just just told Steve Stewart, executive editor Tellassi Reports again the website Tellasreports dot com, with what we're seeing happening down at the airport. We need a gateway. We need more than one gateway. We need all the people coming in. We need gateways in all four directions, north, southeast, and west. We need gateways everywhere. So but the news is good,
Well, I get yeah. I mean if you look at the numbers, and that's sort of you know, we just went to what you do you crunch the numbers and then you try to look at what Why isn't this narrative out there? You know, we've we've been following this every month. There's a number of economic stats that we publish and look at and stupid data.
And so if you look at the airport passenger traffic the last I mean year to date is up fifteen percent, where the annual rate is at eight hundred and ninety five thousand passengers trying to get to that million first got to get to nine hundred thousand. But it's just over the last three or four months that the traffic has just really started to increase. David Pollard at the airport says it had Jet Blue bringing in the discount carry has a lot to
do with that. Well, it's interesting because the session's over, right, So what are they coming in town for, even on the cheap carriers? Yeah, I mean well again, and we talked about this a little bit last time, is that I've read from a national perspective that business traveling's picking up. The zoom calls are good for internal meetings, but customer service, you know, trying to do sales and still to sit across from people. Yeah, you want to go shake the hand and you know, look them
in the eye. And so that's starting to pick back up. Okay, so maybe that's part of it. But again, the numbers are just amazing double digit growth I think year over year the last three months, and so you know, it's interesting to keep an eye and see exactly you know, I'd love to be It's sort of like people buying very expensive homes. You just like to go interview a bunch of them, figure out what do they do for a living, where they come from? You know, the same
thing with the airport. You'd like to find out why all of a sudden do we have fifteen percent, twenty two percent, eleven percent growth year over year in the last three months. I mean, it is you know again, it's very interesting. And so anyway we'll leave that, you know, and that is airport is listen. That's been part of the sort of master plan is to try to develop that area out there. How is that going
that? I think I think it's moving slowly but deliberately. I don't know, you know, there was the one issue that they had some they had a project that was that has fell through that they were going to rent some space. There's a lot of road renovation going on around right, and so they're trying to make it easy for you know, we've become a logistics hub
with Amazon. The two different locations. A lot of people don't know about the location on Capitol Circle Northwest, and so anyway, I think it's it's good. I just it's funny to see things like that that are doing well. But you don't understand how much does Amazon historically rely on an air hub. You know, that's a that's a great question. I don't think, you know, I think that the the Capital Circle Northwest one. I think probably it would be the one that would be relying on that because of the
direct link to the airport. Obviously not the one out off of Mayhem. But you know, as we talked about with this recent report talking about the local economy, Amazon picked this area for a reason. There's not a lot of these fulfillment centers that are distributed. I'm going to be an idiot. I'll tell you why they picked it. They picked it for the same reason why drug runners pick it. No, it's it's it's a crossroads to a lot of large areas. It connects Atlanta and that that whole hub to south
and central Florida. No. I mean if you look at where our location is from Jacksonville, Pensacola, Atlanta, Orlando, I mean we are pretty centrally located from that standpoint. Yeah. So anyway, again, these are all good numbers. Now on something on another indicator that is going the other direction is we publish single family permit data and we've noticed it over the last twelve months ending in about January, that this number was increasing. In other
words, there are more permits being issued for single family construction. That has started to trend down in the last couple of months, and those are trends that they tend to get going one direction and sort of head that direction for a while, and so that is I don't know if it again. So they spiked after the prices of wood dropped the last twelve months, started recovering to where you were at about sixty permits a month, and then crested and
started now going. It's headed back down now. Ironically, last in Tuesday at the Uncunty Commission meeting, they approved a pretty large residential development out Appalachi Parkway at April Road, which is east of Capital Circle, out Appalachi Parkway, which is within still the Urban Services Area. Five hundred and forty two residential units that will be built out there in size we know, no, we do not know. Twenty percent of them think will be town homes,
eighty percent will be single family homes. And so interestingly enough, you know Commission o'keeff, who is the progressive on the Leoni County Commission, who had called Canopy sort of urban sprawl which is in the northeast Jack and Jeremy's bff. This was in his district and he voted for this and didn't say one thing about it being urban sprawl. Not sure what to make of that. I'll have to thought to him a little bit more down the controversial fires burning
about him. Maybe maybe, but this is out of ways, like I said. But again, urban service area I got. I got a couple of calls about it. They're excited. Maybe this will bring out more services, more restaurants, things like that. So anyway, we'll keep an eye on the you know, the new development area because interest rates are coming down if you read the National Financial News, and so we're sort of stuck in that area. So we'll see what change anytime. So yeah, see how
that impacts residential home prices. Thanks for the time they keep pressing them. Steve Stewart tallhas Report Subscribe. It's called Tallahassee Reports dot com. That's where you go to the website to subscribe and get that paper delivered to you. Preston Scott, this is the way on News Radio one hundred point seven Double UFLA Florida CFO. Jimmy Patrona's half hour from now. Some help for your
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in local elections. You know, in my world, you'd somehow find all of the real conservative illegals in this country that just to their core are just they just believe in conservative values, and you get them to run for office, and you elected them, and then you kick all the liberals out of the city and start over. But Washington d C. Literally is holding voting
registration training for illegals. No, I'm not making that up. Illegals are allowed to vote in local elections in Washington, d C. I'm telling you, forty minutes after the hour, some tips for your four legged Friends next, and welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott twenty one past the hour. Remember if you want to share anything with me your thoughts, link Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. Let's talk about the kittens and the puppies, the
dogs and the cats. It's time for Pause for Thought with doctor Steve Steverson of the Bradfordville Animal Hospital. Good morning, sir, how are you hey, Preston, I'm doing great. How are you? I'm good. You know, when I see the topic of dental care for pets and and consider the the idea of trying to brush the teeth of a dog, I just laugh. Yeah. It takes a lot of patience and a little bit of effort and time to get to where you can brush your dog's seats very often.
But it can be done. Do you have to? Is it one of those things that you have? You just have to start early when they're puppies to get them used to it. Preston, is much much easier if you start when they're when they're young and train them to allow their teeth to be brushed. Some dogs any age don't mind it. Others are are a little more challenging. And it just takes a little bit of time. You
know. You take the either the little finger cut with the bristles on it on your fingertip or at dog canine toothbrush, uh, and you start with just the teeth that the dog will allow you or the cat will allow you to brush. And you just just right over the canine teeth right in the front and just brush that a little bit and every day or a couple times a week. And when you brush, start there and work your way around
and start going farther and farther around. As time goes by, you get to where you can brush almost all of the dog's teeth or the cat's teeth. How do you get how do you get to the backside of the teeth? So that was about to say it's finishing in dogs and cats. It's the outer surfaces of the teeth that are the problem. Dogs and cats rarely have any sort of significant target build up on the inner surfaces of their teeth. Okay, so it's the outside you want to brush. If you just
brush the outside, that is wonderful. That is all you would need to do. And cats allow you to brush their teeth. You know, it's funny some of them do, and they're not as tolerant of it as dogs are, but they certainly will let you. There's pastes that are flavored. Now you can get you know, a chicken or a beef flavored and all these different flavors of toothpaste that you can use for your dog or cat. So they like the taste of it. Some of them will start chewing on
the brush just because they like the taste of it. So then that you can make this a fun game for them, so you can start brushing their teeth. So it's not an impossible thing to do if you are patient with it. Okay, now I think it's we've got to make this abundantly clear. Never ever use adult toothpaste, not even children's toothpaste, right, That
is correct. Human toothpaste can contain It contains a lot of fluoride, which can be a problem for dogs in their digestive system cats as well well, and also a lot of paste toothpaste nowadays have xylotol in it, which is an artificial sweetener that is a deadly to dogs and cats. So don't use human toothpaste. Use your canine specific or a pet specific toothpaste. There are other products out there, Steve, I can see for a lot of owners
of pets they're going to go with the path of least resistance. And there are the dental chows, and then there are additives that people put in their water. Are any of these useful? They can help for sure. You know, some dogs and cats will never allow you to brush their teeth, and it's better to use the dental choes or dental treats in those dogs and cats versus not doing anything. Now, you want a chew toy that they will chew sufficiently, and they need to show it for at least two or
three minutes. If you give your dog a raw hide and he tries to wolf it down and eat it in thirty seconds, yep, it's not doing his teeth any good. He needs to chew it for two or three minutes to make it effective to brush and scrape their teeth as that they chew them. There are many many types of dental schoes and treats out there. You certainly want to talk to your vetinarian about what they recommend them. Which ones are good and safe and effective. There are a lot of out that are
really good, Like the greenies are great there are these. There are a couple of new types out nder. These rice bones you can get now that are available. So there are a lot of different types of shoes out there that are are good. Talk to your vetinarying about that other water additives. Yeah, go ahead, those preston those prest and health. They reduce the bacteria in the mouth. And it's the bacteria in the mouth, it's a
normal flora. That's what produces the tartar that creates all the problems in our dog's mouth, just like it what a now is if we didn't brush our teeth. Okay, and so those additives do help with that for sure. Okay, real quickly. Uh. Soft refrigerated pet foods are all the rage. They're all over TV. They're direct marketed as well. What is better for the dental health of pets? Dry food or soft foods? You know, they had discovered at We used to think dry food was better than soft
food. And there's a lot of statesmen done on that now and that's actually a fictitious, it's actually a It doesn't matter whether dry food or soft food. The more important thing is you do something to take care of their teeth afterwards. Always good stuff, Doctor Steverson, thanks for the time this morning. I appreciate it. Great. Thanks, Prestin, Thank you, sir, doctor Steve Steverson. There you go, pet owners, see cat owners.
I'm looking out for you, helping you out. Still the idea of brushing of the teeth of a pet, I know you should, but still forty seven minutes after the hour, Preston Scott Hello, Hello, anybody by my news radio one point seven double usla Ah. Just man, they got it right when they came up with this at not the be What a time to be alive. I don't know if you know about the Visual Art Portal
in New York City. Yeah, I know about it, folks. It live streams continuously to connect New Yorkers with their counterparts in Dublin, Ireland. The art sculpture connects the two cities. Located on twenty third Street and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, allows people in Dublin to see what's going on in New York in real time and vice versa. People have connected by offering greetings,
messages and other salutation. The president of the Flat Iron Nomad Partnership, which operates the portal, said, yeah, there's been a point one percent interaction that includes some hateful messages, some nudity, and it ruins it for everybody. So we're temporarily closing the portal. Dublin City Council said, well, we cannot control all of these actions. We are implementing some technical solutions to address this. I mean, what could possibly go wrong? Yeah? Right?
Who who greenlit this saying oh, this will be great? We trust people to not Honestly, I think it's an awesome idea, I really do. But it occurs to me that maybe you put it inside the Visitors and Convention bureau as a display monitored by people on both ends, not just in the middle of the street. Yeah, sidewalk. I mean, and then I'm thinking to myself, who who drops his drawers lifts their shirt? I mean, who does this? Who decides this is a good idea? I
just just made me laugh. I'm not suggesting you go to New York City or Dublin. Yeah, I was gonna say, is the road trip idea? Go see the portal? Nope. I got something really good though. Inside Unique America, my book that I rely on frequently, not all the time. I've got Herald Warps Pioneer Village in Minden, Nebraska. You go to the website Pioneer Village dot com. This is a very cool place and you very few of you have probably ever heard of it. It is.
It covers more than just a mockup of the Oregon Trail, which we talked about earlier in the program. It covers a lot more than one time period. He's covering the time from eighteen thirty to nineteen sixty two. Twenty eight separate buildings, more than one hundred thousand square feet of display, fifty thousand artifacts, and you're going to find an eclectic hodgepodge, a frontier fort, a general store, art collections, historic flying machines, antique tractors, automobiles,
atomic power displays, you name it. So make note Minden, Nebraska, Harold Warps, just remember Village dot com. I'm serious. Check it out. Might be a great place to stop for you. That's how we do. We come back Florida. CFO Jimmy Patronis will join us. Storm season's coming for many here, it's already come. More. Next for the five and sixtieth occasion, we turn the page on the rundown and get to our number three of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. I'm Preston. He
is Grant Allen. It is Thursday, May sixteenth, and it's great to be with you this morning. And I am honored to have with us once again Florida's Chief Financial Officer CFO. Jimmy patrons All are you, sir? Heck, I'm honored to be with y'all. Thank you for having me. I warmly received your email and offer to try to guide those listening through the process of recovery, not get scammed, not get taken advantage of. Jimmy, it strikes me that a tornado is kind of like a rifle versus a
hurricane, which is kind of like a shotgun. But the damage left behind, regardless is always devastation. And what are some things that you can advise our listeners in this area impacted by these storms that might be helpful to them. The best thing I can tell in President is don't sign anything. A lot of your listeners have been approached by very aggressive tactics by contractors and tree
tremors. With when it comes to tree tremors, if you've got a tree down in your yard, that is going to be your responsibility to get removed now. If the trees on top of your house, that will be a responsibility of your insurance carrier. So you know, when when you've got a damage to your house created by the tree because of the storm, that's where where your insurance company will come and take care of it. The contracted tree tremors by the insurance companies. Now you can say, hey, I've got
other trees here, can you take care of them? The same time they will treat that as a separate contract. But these guys that come fly by night, that come and knock on your door, that want to offer to put a tarf on your roof if you'll sign something, those guys are now going to take over your insurance claim. And unfortunately they will suck up the resources that really should be going to the repair of your house, that should be going to use. They will take it and use it for them.
So I just you know, if it sounds too good to be true, please don't take the baite. What what are the I guess the options. Is it first call to the insurance company, is it somewhere else? So what I tell people all the time, if your first phone call is either to my office at one eight seven seven, my fl CFO, your insurance agent or your carrier. There's zero chance of you getting scammed. Okay, you know what was what's great about the tornadoes we saw it also idel Ya
because the size of the storm was manageable. The carriers have the ability so that one of the carriers I was talking to this earlier this week, when a storm hits, they've got the ability to physically pick up the phone and talk to ten thousand people with a twenty four hour period where the carrier will call, they will say you know, I'm x y Z insurance company you're
in and they track it via via storm weather spikes. So you know, if you live along blairstone and your carrier, you probably got outreach from carry your carrier because along Blairstone there was such a devastated path. It'll either text or email a phone call, so you know, I know sometimes it sounds a little unorthodox that your insurance company is trying to call you. But with the insurance company mentality as guided now is be proactive, reach out touch to
the policyholder. Let the policy holder we're here to file a claim. When you file acclaim with that policitive, that carrier over the phone. It's not costing anything, it's just getting the ball started. You're not obligating yourself to anything. But I would always err on the side of caution. If you've got the ability to jump in line as quick as you can and get a claim started, take it. I want to get your money as soon as
possible. If if someone's already signed and now they're listening to you and they're concerned, what recourses do they have? So it depends on what you signed. You can call again, call our office at one eight seven seven my FLCFO, or you call your agent. One thing we did in this most recent legislative session, but it doesn't kick in till July one, is we put a ten day right of recision period in it. What we saw with Hurricane Idelia, and I hate getting in the middle of contract between adults,
but what we have with Idelia. I'll give you one example. We had a man in Perry. He had no damage to the roof. He was ninety years old. He had signed up with four different roofing contractors because they were so aggressive. So then our dipths, our law enforcement officers, they went out, they tracked down those contractors and go really is this what you really really want to do? And we got all four of them torn up voluntarily by the contractors. But you know, I mean sometimes unless we know
about it, we can't help you. So we've got our guys. I mean literally minutes after the storm, we put our defass team, that's our our law enforcement officers. We hit them out in the street. I told them, the guys, cruise the neighborhoods with your lights on, no sirens, just like them. I want people to see that you're there. But the bad guys will keep on moving if they see law enforce there because they know better. Good stuff. Hang on, Jimmy, Jimmy Patrona's state CFO
with US storm seasons about here. We already experienced some of it in the Capital City region. Some advice coming up next the Morning Show with Preston Scott making time in his very busy schedule to share some helpful tips to those of you impacted by the tornado outbreak nearly a week ago. The devastation. You've heard the numbers more power lines snapped in half, poles snapped in half than the last three to four hurricanes combined, which tells you something about the intensity
of the storm. Mister CFO, let's talk about storm season and some of the best practices, not so much for battening down the hatch, but are preparing for having to deal with the aftermath of a storm from paperwork and documents and so forth. Yeah, let's say we're a smartphone society. Now preston and tell people use your smartphone. And you know, unfortunately Tallahassee has been devastated, but there's a lot of parts Tallahassee in the northern part that didn't
have the type of storm activity. But take your phone. Take take a walking talking video or the outside of your house. It'll take you two minutes to walk around the outside of your house and just say, hey, today's date. You know, this is what time it is. And you can and just show that your house has no trees on it, okay, and
that all your eaves and your roofs and good and just good shape. Don't climb up on the roof, just the outer edge of your house and uh, and some photos do the same thing inside and kind of take a little bit of an inventory showing you know, your TVs, you're all covering your furniture. Because when you have a storm and it's not if it's when it's going to happen. Okay, you're gonna have to file a claim. Whatever you have gon that's photographic evidence, I would email it to yourself. So
it's in a virtual place. It's in the cloud, and it's always there. So when and if you do have damage, now an adjuster's going to come to your house saying, hey, this was how my house looked on May sixteenth of twenty twenty four. And so it makes it more black and white, more cut and dry, because now you go back and you've got a tree fall in your house, it becomes pretty obvious. Yeah, this this tree didn't exist on May sixteenth, But here we are on August twelfth,
and the tree is there. So that's that's one thing that's really easy to do. The others, you know, take pictures of your insurance documents and do the same thing, just email them to yourself. But like said, the beauty of technology now is like we saw with Idellia, we saw with the tornadoes, is the carriers are leveraging that technology to reach out to those that, like I said, in this one carrier was talking to where the winds spiked over one hundred miles per hour. I mean, those folks
got calls immediately. To the carrier's outitude is I would rather get to you first than the bad guys. So they want to start that claims process as soon as possible. Yeah, because Florida has unfortunately, because we have more than more than most people believe the number of tornadoes that hit this state. In fact, I saw somewhere Jimmy that Florida ranks number one and most tornadoes
every year annually. But that said, we've learned some painful lessons over the years through hurricanes and all that about how just rotten some people can be. Yeah, and that's why you know, we keep on every year that I've been in office, We've kept on chipping away at the bad guys with walls. So like some of there's there's good public adjusters, and there's some that are they're like locusts, they're so bad. And so like, we successfully
last year put a thirty day writer decision on a public adjuster. But what I also put in there is, you know, you got thirty days from the time of the disaster, and most people are going to file acclaim. You would think within ten days they got damage, they're going to contact their carrier or their carrier's going to contact them with them first ten days. So my attitude was, Okay, carriers, here's thirty days for you to get
your act together. If you don't get your actgether when that first thirty days, then you know what, We're going to cut the dogs loose, okay, and they're going to go out and take over these claims. So the carriers is a way to get the carriers attention, but it was also telling the public adjusters, Look, if you're noble in what you're doing and your good people, fine, but if you're one of these predators, we're going to give that homeowner up to thirty days to get their wherewithal and fire your
tail. Nice. Always appreciate your time, Jimmy, and I appreciate all you're doing on behalf of the citizenry of this great state. Thank you well, I tell you, radios, it's the gifts during disasters. Thank you for what y'all do. You may not hear it enough, but you're just like a first responder because you're sitting there behind the microphone during the worst weather of anybody. So God bless y'all. Preston, thanks for having me this
morning. I appreciate it. Sir. Jimmy Patrona's Florida CFO with us some brilliant tips. Just walk around your house, in and out with your phone, narrate what you have, document its condition, take some pictures, and then email all of that to yourself. You will be so grateful. Do it sooner versus later seventeen minutes past the hour makes me happy when I can
say friend of the radio program. Obviously, having members of Florida's Cabinet, lawmakers, members of the House, the Senate, it benefits you having someone like Jimmy Petronas take the time to say hey, and I mean he hit me up immediately, he said, find some time I'm available. I'll make it work in my schedule. I know there will be predatory practices, but to have friends of the program like that, I hope you understand how highly they think of you. It's not me they they think highly of you.
They're saying, let me help, let me give information, let me explain whatever, let me hear from you. But those friendships extend beyond elected officials. I'm thrilled that Scott Beacon is now a friend of this program because his blog is exceptional? What makes it so unique? And why I know that? You know a good friend and one of the research supervisors here, Rob Rob, introduced me to Scott's work. He just said, check out this
link, look at this guy's material. And then he said, by the way Scott listens to the show, you know, And then we became connected and friends. What makes Scott's work unique from so many blogs out there? And that's fine. They're just giving you their opinion on things, and that's awesome because when it's all said and done, inevitably, that's what I do. I give you. I give you my opinion on things. Scott offers you data, he digs, he probes, and then at times he allows
that to inform a set of thoughts. Sometimes he just lets the data sit out there and you ruminate on it and decide what you will. But he weighed in on the vice presidential possibilities for Donald Trump, and he broke it down this way. The individual should be ready to and able to serve the country. Because Trump's not a young man. Trump would enter office older than
Ronald Reagan left office in his second term. Second, Trump should be selecting someone who is young enough and capable enough to carry on the MAGA agenda. America First, I would call it. Instead of make America great again, I would say America first. I think America first before buddles the MAGA crowd. They can try to relabel it, but they've labeled MAGA. America first plays very differently, and I personally think that would be a branding thing that
Trump ought to do. And the Republican Party how to just jump all over that. America first. Third, Trump needs to select someone who the establishment fears almost as much as they abhor him. He then breaks down why Biden is boxed in. Kamala's got them totally screwed because if they jettison him and they fall back on Kamala, Kamala is worse and they know it. So he's taken the candidates that are most likely out there, and he's included now
Governor Round de Santas in this list. And he's taken the names Tim Scott, Ben Carson, Christy Nome, Tulsea Gabber, Doug Bergham, vivek Ramaswami, Tucker Carlson, Marco rue jd Vance Ron de Santis, and he's put them all on a grid, ready and prepared, carry on the legacy, is feared and fearless. Only two candidates does he have ready and prepared carry on the legacy and feared and fearless. Two he's got. Tim Scott is ready and prepared and carry on the legacy, but not feared and fearless.
Ben Carson none of those. Christy Nome the first two, but not feared and fearless. Tulsi Gabbard ready and prepared, but not carry on the legacy. Doug Bergham not carry on the legacy, not feared and fearless. Same with Tulsi Gabbard. Vivek carry on the legacy, feared and fearless maybe, but not ready and prepared. Same with Tucker Carlson, Marco Rubio not feared and fearless. He's got JD. Vance and Ron De Santis as the only two that are ready and prepared, prepared to carry on the legacy of make
America great again or America First, and feared and fearless. Breaking down their policy positions and media response to them both. I just thought that was interesting. JD. Vance is a name you might hear more and more. Preston Scott does mother, no, you wear eth her drapes on news radio one hundred point SEVENBUFLA. Should a state should federalism extend so far that a state or even a community be allowed to make it possible for illegal immigrants to vote.
No way, federal election law should trump that should just not be allowed for the for the sake of thought experiment, Like let's say you come to the conclusion that the answer is yes, you know, like a a Washington, d C. Or in New York says, hey, uh, borders don't matter, citizenship, proof of birth in a particular locale, none of it matters. Love thought experiments, none of it matters. If you're here,
you can participate in civic elections. You know, let's say they just all categories and distinctions are blown out of the water and anyone in Washington, DC can vote. See, yeah, you have no tie to the land anyway. See. Likewise, shouldn't locals, states, counties be able to determine Yeah? No, I don't want to participate in that anymore. That political arrangement, Like if we're if we're forced to be quote unquote compatriots members
of the same country. You know, logically, if the locale. If we're thinking hyper federalism here, the local can do that, let anyone vote logically, then another state or community doesn't have to put up with it. See see thanks for well, thanks for playing the game. Yeah, I mean we got a bunch of people have no idea what we're talking about. Yeah. Guy that was ordering at the at the take out part of publics pointing at things because he didn't understand a blooming word. The guy was saying,
would you like would you like three chicken tenders or four? Yeah? See what are we doing? Washington, DC? Big story in the press box. Creative Grove, a creative marketing and digital expertise, is going to allow illegals to vote in municipal elections only. Of course they would never be allowed to vote in a federal election. Of course. No, they're gonna be able to give them a ballot that just has the local stuff. I'm sure no chance of illegals voting there. Abortion is up across the country.
It's not gone down, it's gone up, and Florida one of the leaders of more abortions, not less, and as of right now, inflation out of control. It takes at least one hundred and seventy eight, roughly one thousand dollars for a family four to live comfortably in the US. Now, obviously those are those are our definitions of comfortably and so forth, that are
that are up for grabs and discussion. But I'm just making the point that the number crunching continues to show inflation is just pushing everything higher and higher and higher, and there is no way wages will catch up. Not gonna happen. Come back, Let's change gears. Let's do something fun. Animal Stories next The Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point seven w FLA. In the wild or in our homes, we love them critters large
and small. Time for another edition of Animal Stories on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. I think through what firefighters do. I mean, they're they're running into burning buildings to try to recover whatever they can to try to save lives whenever they can, to save facilities, save buildings. But then they get other calls to rescue animals. Duluth Fire Department, Duluth, Minnesota, We're talking way up there. Uh. They had to use a super sized
ladder truck known as the tower to rescue Nina. Nina was an escaped cockatil. Cockatil think of a miniature cockatoo, kind of a combo between a parakeet and a miniature cockatila. There there are kackatoo. They're they're they're interesting birds. I years and years and years ago I owned a cockatiel, but it was located on the sixth story window ledge at Saint Luke's Hospital. Not quite sure how the bird was in the hospital, but you just you start to
play in your mind. I think an animated movie where this bird's like, yeah, I'm getting out and then realizes he can't fly because his wings have been clipped, not cut off, just clipped where he doesn't have any He doesn't he's got no aerodynamic lift. That's what they do to birds. They keep him from flying away by doing that. So he's out there, he's on the sixth floor ledge looking around, going yeah, this doesn't look promising. So the fire guys have to rescue the bird. Oh they did it,
well done. But this this could be easily a worst of the Week. But barring a change, I've already got my best and worst picked out. So this is this is certainly an animal story. Visitors at the Taiju Zoo in the jang Soup province of China kind of went at an exhibit. The exhibit was the panda exhibit, and inside were these small little pandas, except they weren't. They were chows whose fur was cut and dyed to look identical to a panda, and so zoo officials marched these dogs out, allowing
people to believe that these were pandas on display. But they got busted. They said they put them on display because they don't have any resident pandas. They said that fur dying process was not dangerous or harmful to the canines. They told state run media outlet that the panda dogs aren't meant to be deceptive whatever. That's shameful. I mean, that's just I bet the dogs were cute, but that's just shameful. But that's what you get. That's what
you have with animal stories tomorrow on the program The Best and Worst. I've got a few. I got a call out. I'm trying to get a writer covering a story about Florida and m University that is doesn't reflect well on the school. They received the donation that wasn't apparently and they're looking a little bad and thought they were gonna roll in with a three hundred million dollars plus donation, and we'll we're again we're trying to get the writer of the story
on. But we'll talk about that. What's the Bee Friday Course? The best and worst good News, the Bee Dad joke. That's tomorrow here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott op X. It's called Operator Experience. If you ever wondered what it would be like to be an operator. This is not for everybody. I shared a little bit of this earlier in the week. It is an event coming up in just a couple of weeks in the
Montgomery area of Alabama. It's a three day course developed by former Seals, special ops, real world operators, and it's it's designed for people that a want to experience what that's like, but more importantly, are willing to support a mission called Legacy Relief Project. What these guys do. These are again our former special ops guy. They empower Christian organizations to advance God's truth into some of the most difficult, closed regions of the world. It is built
on the foundation of military special ops intelligence expertise. Legacy Relief Project then leverages the knowledge to help people in difficult circumstances. You can go on their website and learn about what they've done and where they've done it by going to Legacy Relief Project dot com if you are interested in learning more about this special ops thing. It's they're asking for donations. They're raising funds for another trip,
another relief effort. That's what the money is going to go for, and a few little rudimentary costs, AMO and so forth. But you can write them info at Legacy Relief Project dot com and just put in the project in the subject line op hyphen x op x and and ask them for information and uh and they'll tell you all that you need to know to make a decision. It's not for everybody, like I said, but it might be for a handful of you. I know that there are a few people that are
signed up for this, a couple dignitaries. Can't give you any names or anything, but if you want to, if you want to, at least learn more info at Legacy Relief Project dot com. Brought to you by Barno Heating and Air It's the Morning Show on WFLA. We looked back at the radio program in one hundred and eighty seconds or less. We started today with Proverbs eleven twenty four. That was our verse of the day. The big stories in the press box. Out of control. Inflation, it's continuing now.
Food prices have dropped back for the first time in forever, but modestly. But other things are picking up. And all you need to do is look at the Fed's actions. The FED, which desperately wanted to reduce interest rates to try to help Biden, they just can't. Inflation's too bad. Remember that bill, the Inflation Reduction Act. How's that working out. We're just here to remind you. Got to do things differently, got to put
new people in charge. And that's everywhere all over the place. Eighteen months following the Supreme Court's decision that ended the protection for abortion, the number of abortions is up. Sadly. Florida one of the leaders Washington DC voting registration for illegal immigrants. They're teaching them how to vote because legally, in Washington, DC, they can vote in municipal local elections. Now they say they
will not be allowed to vote in federal elections. Yeah. Right, And we just had an impromptu little discussion in the last half hour about how far does federalism go. You know, this is absurd, This should not be allowed period. Well, but we only wanted municipal elections. So what they're here illegally they can't vote Oregon purging non citizens from state voter roles. But they need to purge more, but they can't because the FEDS aren't cooperating with
database helpum George Soros spent has spent eighty million to silence Americans. According to the Media Research Center, they're already priming the pump for censorship of information that's not helpful to Joe and the lead up to the next election. Chat GPT has the new GPT forty model. Yeah, I'm gonna ignore that too. I haven't looked at any of that. I haven't listened to any of it. I haven't asked it a question, and I won't. But I will be back tomorrow