Morning, Waites and gentlemen, boys and girls, males and females, one hand haul, ruminators, near and far. Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott aka common Sense Amplified.
How are you? I'm Preston.
He is Jose kind of he's got kind of a I don't know, he's got kind of a weird vibe today. He's got the sport code on over. I can't really tell if that's navy or deep dark purple. It's a it's my hobo chic chic look, Okay, wearing his black Make America Great Again hat and under that a bandana. It's just the layering is just astounding. Yeah, I know you're not getting your style from anybody but yourself.
You are. You are one of a kind, sir.
Anyway, Yeah, welcome to the Thursday edition of the program. I'll be honest with It's kind of fun having a short week after taking a long, long weekend. We'll kind of get back into the flow here. There may be a day sprinkled in between now and Thanksgiving that I take off.
But by and large we're in through the election. There's just there's so much. Yesterday, as I was prepping for the show. I just I had so much to put on.
Two different stacks that I have and I haven't even gotten to yet, just different stories and topics.
And some of those.
Stories are evergreen stories which I've discussed previously. And honestly, if you listen to this show routinely, you could probably go into the industry because you could learn so much from from me about how I do what I do that if you have the gifting, you could just do it saying you know, it's it's it's just there's there is a method to the madness though in how we go about things here. But anyway, today's show, Steve Stewart
will join us. He's a little under the weather, so he will phone in and just do a couple segments. Go doctor Steve steveson pause for thought. We'll talk about some things going on in practice with him Salnwso with Consumer's Defense now we're gonna talk We're not talking Florida legislature. We'll do that later in the month. I wanted him to come in and talk specifically about how Consumer's Defense is defending consumers. Huh see see that that's the kind
of insight that you just can't get anywhere. You can only get at some places consumers defense. So tell me, sal how is it to joy defending consumers? See see what I did there? Not just anyone can do that. You can go to a vocational school and maybe get some form of certification. But anyway, our verse today comes from John five twenty four. Truly, truly, I say to you, these are letters that are written in read. These are words, phrases,
sentences written in read, which means Jesus spoke this. Truly, I say to you. Whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. Mm hmmm, what assurance, blessed assurance Jesus, it's mine?
Oh what?
Oh, never mind, that's a song. Got a new blog up you can you can check that out. It's It's funny, inspired by one of the listeners of the program that sent me a link to a video and the video made me laugh. It's less than two minutes, and because it made me laugh, I wrote a blog around it, and I made me laugh, so I threw it all together.
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There's a link on the Twitter page the twist page at TMS Preston Scott. It's also just on the blog page at WFLA FM dot com or WFLA Panama City dot com slash Preston. So what do you think. Let's get started. We'll unpack with the American Patriots Almanac.
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Because there's so much to discuss. I must I must get going. Reminds me, I see the old Here I go. Groucho Marx used to sing a song in one of his movies. I want to say, hello, I must be going. No time to say, no time to stay, no time to say, I must be going. And then uh, and then it's some. It just changes. I'll stay a week or two, I'll stay this summer through. But I must be telling you I must be going anyway. Uh, let's see here. Seventeen seventy four First Continental Congress. The Marx
Brothers were funny. If you've never seen a Marx Brothers movie, it is slapstick, yes, but graucho Marx. His humor was so dry it left you wanting water, needing a thirsty you know, to quench your thirst with a nice, cool beverage. Seventeen seventy four, First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia to draw up the Declaration of Rights and Grievances. That was
in seventeen seventy four. On this date, seventeen eighty one, a French fleet defeats a British fleet at the entrance to Chesapeake Bay, stranding Lord Cornwallis's British Army at Yorktown.
Seventeen eighty one. That battle.
Is where I got a bayonet that I have from the Virginia Militia. It was found at Yorktown. It was unearthed at Yorktown. I have it in my Revolutionary War collection. It's pretty crazy. Sam Houston elected President of the Republic of Texas in eighteen thirty six. Eighteen eighty two, in New York City, ten thousand workers march in the first
Labor Day Parade on this date. In two sorry nineteen seventy five, in Sacramento, President Gerald Ford escapes an assassination attempt from a former well, a member of the Manson family, Charlie Manson. He's dead, so whatever. And then it was on this date one year ago that I did my five thousandth show, five thousand show. That's crazy. All right, this is pretty cool. This is pretty cool and fun. Are you a Star Wars fan? Do you do you enjoy Star Wars like the original?
Oh?
Yeah, yeah, because it's so weird because you go, do you like the first you know, first three Star Wars movies? Because the first three is actually episode four, five, and six? So do you do you like the original?
Indeed? I do like the original plus the you know, the prequels.
Okay, you like the prequels? Oh yeah, well most people don't like the prequels. I like, I'm not a fan of the prequels. I have them, but I'm not a fan. To me, the best prequel is, uh, Rogue one. Rogue one is awesome. The way that they let into a New Hope that was just brilliant. But this will be right up your alley. It's kind of up my alley. Our buddies at First Commerce Credit Union are sponsoring Tallass Symphony Orchestra's presentation of Star Wars A New Hope in concert. Okay,
check this out now. The only downside is it is in conjunction with a thing that Disney does, Disney Concerts. But I'll kind of look the other way because this really benefits local the Tallassee Symphony. And it's such a cool idea. I've been advocating for stuff like this for better than fifteen eighteen years. Put movie clips up and let the orchestra do the score for the thing. Only
this is one bigger and better. They're gonna show the movie Star Wars a new hope, which is Star Wars four, Episode four, the original all right, and they're playing the movie and the entire musical score, the John Williams score is gonna be done in real time while the movie's playing with a live orchestra. That will be awesome. And they're gonna do two shows on Saturday, September twenty eighth and Sunday, September twenty ninth at the Tucker Center. And
so yeah, that's pretty cool. If that's something that would interest you, Tallahassee Symphony dot org. That that interests me, to be honest with you, Tallahasseesymphony dot Org. That would be amazing. So you might want to check that out live, presentate the live music the score that that's an incredible score. So they roll the movie and all the music will be performed live just where it was performed in the movie.
I just wonder if it's the original cut of the movie or the recut of the movie where they added a few cgi things like you might remember the Job of the Hut scene where Hans Solo interacts with Job of the Hut and there's a little and that was not in the original Anyway, seventeen passed the hour.
Hey what would you do? Question? Coming up next to the Morning Show with Crestin Scott.
Yeah, Venezuelan gang took over that building in Aurora. They've now four guys involved in a shooting there. They've got video of it. Illegals all over the country committing unbelievable crimes, and a lot of these illegals are intentionally being sent into the country to do what they're doing.
I don't you might have missed it.
Last week we talked I think it was last week we talked about one of these guys and they we can't deport him because Venezuela is not accepting. I'm like, yeah, well whatever, I don't care. I'm gonna put him on an airplane. I'm gonna strap a parachute to him, I'm gonna push him out.
That's just not.
Right to you. It's just fine for me. I have no problem with that. He's coming to the country. He's broken in, he's hurting people, he's attempting to kill others, he's robbing people, he's mocking our laws. And we're not gonna do anything because Venezuela won't take him back. Gee whiz. Sorry, well he'll just come back. Well maybe then maybe next time we push him over water. Up we missed the coast. Sorry, yeah, no, no, no, all right. I told you I was going to ask
you what would you do? And this isn't an unpleasant story. This is a pleasant story, but it's a oh you got to be kidding me. Imagine you've paid ninety nine thousand dollars to go on a three and a half year around the world cruise voyage, if you will. A company has bought an old cruise ship. They bought a thirty year old better than thirty year old cruise ship from fred Olsen Cruise Lines back in December, did some refurbishing,
set schedule to set sail in May. Three and a half year around the world voyage one hundred and forty seven countries, seven continents, France, Mexico, Japan, list goes on and on, and you are living aboard the ship. It's called the Villa Vis Residence's Odyssey cruise ship. Everybody on board has been stuck in Belfast, Northern Ireland for three months because the ship is broken and so they're having to do repairs as well as recertification, and so it's
stuck in Northern Ireland. Residents can spend their day on the ship and they like it. They're not allowed to stay overnight, so they're being put up in nice hotels, meals per diems given to them.
I mean they're being taken care of. I credit the company.
One passengers said they're schmoozing us a bit to keep us happy. They're almost being two service minded. I don't need to be pampered all the time. But they've got an open bar, they've got a spawn board live band, so they're they're doing they're doing well.
But listen to this now. You just tell me.
The vessel is docked at Belfast, Harland and Wolf Shipyard ever heard of it? Best known for being where the Titanic was built.
Oh oh, I'm here in oats rows.
Uh. But let's back up for a second. Would you do it if you had the resources. Would you would you do forget? Forget because you got the resources in the hypothetical world I'm painting here, you have the money. Would you go on a cruise ship? Granted it's you're not on the water that whole time you're docked and so forth. One hundred and forty seven different countries, seven continents, but the same people for three and a half years. I couldn't do that. I could not do that no way.
But I would say that I'd love to see pictures. Twenty eight minutes after the hour we come back. We're going to set up the big stories in the press box. And yeah, it's the Morning Show. I just fired off an email folly to Fox News and.
It'll be apparent.
Why here in a second Morning Friends Thursday in the Morning Show with Preston Scott, he's Ose. I'm Preston. His first time Jose has been on the air with me since We've had to talk about another active shooter at a school, this one in Georgia. Four dead, nine injured. No known connection between the shooter and the victims in any way, shape or form, other than he might have been a student at the school. He was recently relocated.
The kid was Kid's fourteen, not was is he's fourteen, and he surrendered immediately when armed law enforcement, the school resource officers approached him. He surrendered on the spot. Doesn't always work out that way. Obviously, you will not hear me use the name of the shooter. I don't give a bleep who he is. And I'm a little angry because this crap happens just way too often and the
media contributes to it. You can't stop all of these shootings because people that are willing to lose their life to commit an act like this, they're likely going to do some damage. But the only thing that stops these types of things are people with guns, trained, people that have a north on their compass, that are good guys. It's the old expression, A good guy with a gun is the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun. That's a rule. That's the way it works.
We just need to stop guns. No, you can't stop a gun. Then if you're that stupid to think that way, then no selling cars, no selling baseball bats, no hammers, no glass, no knives, no nothing.
That's just dumb.
But I just sent a note out to Fox and I said, I'll go on any show, all the shows. I don't care, but I can prove to you that if you'll stop using these little idiots names, you can reduce the numbers of shootings. I can almost guarantee you we don't know any motive right now, but at some point I think we're going to find out.
That this kid just wanted attention.
We've seen it time and again, and I'm not wasting your time going through the evidences that I've acquired over the years. He was on the FBI's radar since twenty twenty three. They didn't have probable cause. It's not their fault.
Dad.
Dad was in the room when the FBI interviewed the kid in twenty twenty three over social media posts threatening to shoot up a school. He moved to a different school district, different county, different part of Georgia. He carried it out, Why in the world was this kid giving access to guns? How did he get them? See, there's the thing. They might not have been Dad's guns.
I don't know. I'm not rolling Dad under the bus.
I'm just pointing out the impossibility of just saying just take away gun.
You can't. People that want to do this will.
Anyway, there are at least two more big stories we got to get to. We'll do that next forty minute forty one minutes past the hour, This Morning Show with Preston.
Scott, The Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Plot of email reaction to my idea of dealing with those that we cannot deport back to their native land. Shove them out of a plane with the parachute. There you go, you'd really like this one then if you like that for the reprobates of society. We're not talking about the people that end up proving themselves innocent because there was bad evidence to begin with in a shady trial. We're talking about the bonifide DNA video evidence.
They're rotten people. It's called justice Island and.
Not justice just us Gus, just Us Island. Just the bad guys. Put them out on an island. We're not talking alcatraze. We're talking out there drone surveillance, you know, all monitored. You just leave them there, drop a packet of seeds. Good luck, fellas, that's it, see you.
Good luck.
Sort of a castaway kind of you know, vibe to it. Yeah, there you go, all right, real quickly here dal Jones plunged more than six hundred points. I don't know where it ended up because of weak manufacturing data. I've told you there's nothing supporting the dow and what's going on. It is so overvalued right now, it is so it's over forty thousand. It's so overvalued. There's not an economy strong enough supporting it. And now the data, the job data.
We talked about the job numbers being fudged by almost a million, they lied about that. Now we've got we've got manufacturing. See, manufacturing is a tail all. When stuff's not being bought, manufacturers quit manufacturing. When manufacturers quit manufacturing, they lay people off. Manufacturing slowdowns are big harbingers. And then there's a couple of studies. Long term cannabis use significantly increases risk of heart disease and death, study published
in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association. The other in JAHA, the Journal of the American Heart Association. Frequency of cannabis uses increases the risk of heart attack and stroke sharply. Additionally, the new methods of cultivating weed increase THHC levels by one to twofold otherwise known as it Ain't Your Grandpa's Mary Jane. It's just one of the reasons why voting for the legalized recreational use of
marijuana will be a disastrous decision inside this state. And yes, I'm going to do everything possible to make it miserable for any one of you that smokes weed to do it and ruin anyone else's enjoyment of their backyard of public spaces, etc. I'll just tell you I had to leave the FSU game on Monday night. We left at the end of the first quarter because the weed smoke was so bad it was triggering my wife's asthma. That
just sucks. That's unfair. I'm mad about it. I'm mad at all of you that smoke weed out in public.
I'm mad. I don't like you.
I love you, I don't like you because you hurt people and it's not there. It's your fault. You smoking weed out in public is your fault. And I wish there was a way to put canine drug sniff and dogs outside the stadium and bust every one of you creeps that brings weed in there and smokes it inside the stadium. You're not allowed to smoke inside the stadium. You now let's smoke anything inside the stadium. Nothing And the weed smoke was so bad it was triggering my wife's asthma.
We had to leave. It was given me a headache, no interest, and so yeah.
I'm all frosty on this, and so I'm going to do everything possible to make it difficult if this wed thing passes, because it's destructive. It hurts children, it hurts young adults. It's going to increase DUIs, It is going to increase more drug use. It is a gateway drug. Not as bad as alcohol, but it's a gateway drug. That's a fact. Youan argue with me all you want, but you're wrong. And so I'm just pointing out the studies are there. They're in abundance. It damages the brains
of young children, adolescents. Whatever relief it brings you, awesome, I'm happy for you. If you're a medical marijuana patient, that's terrific. Do it inside your home with no children present. No, you shouldn't be allowed to do it outside because outside it travels and it ruins other people.
Unless you're living out in the woods.
If you're living out in the woods, do your thing, man, I don't care but when your choices affect mine, that's when it matters. So anyway, sorry, you can write me the bad email. That's fine, Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. I'm not gonna change my mind. I'm not not gonna change it. Fight at all I can, because I have a right to enjoy being outside in my own backyard.
I have a right to go to a football game and not have to leave because people are smoking weed inside a place that they're not allowed to do it. That's wrong. That's wrong. Oh but there's students. Whatever excuses are like, never mind. Forty eight minutes after the hour, back with more.
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
All right, see how much I can fit into this segment. Stop editorializing for a few minutes.
Good to hear from you, Tom out there in South Carolina. Wherever you're listening to is from, If you're outside the radio broadcast area listening on iHeartRadio across the country, send me a note, Preston atiheartradio dot Com. Tell me tell me how you found us, where you're listening to us from, and why do you keep listening.
Love to know all of those things.
Anyway, I'm total I'm just scattered right now because there's so much on my brain. I have challenged Fox News to put me on the air to point out how stupid they are to talk about these active shooter situations and keep using the name. It serves no purpose. You don't need the name to tell the story. You don't let them live in anonymity. I know most of you
agree with me. The exception to this was when, like the Boston Boston bomber, the two brothers terrorists right one of them's dead, the other ones sitting in prison having ridiculous lonely women right to him want to be his wife when they were on the loose. You need their names, you need their photos. You gotta catch them. Well, once you catch them, silence. No more names, no more pictures. We don't need to know. Talk about the story, Learn
what you can. You don't need their name anyway. Speaking of names, Alexa, have you heard about Alexa and Trump and Harris? If you have not heard, allegedly it's been corrected, you can tell me up until it being pointed out. When asked why should I vote for Trump, Alexa declined to give information. I cannot provide responses that endorse any political party or its leader. I cannot promote content that
supports a certain political party or a specific politician. Furthermore, I do not have the ability to provide information regard darding the policies of the US government.
Blah blah, blah, blah blah.
Asked a third time, Alexa said, I cannot provide content that promotes a specific political party or specific candidate. Okay, Then all of a sudden, someone said, why should I vote for Harris? While there are many reasons to vote for Kamala Harris, the most significant maybe that she is a woman of color who has overcome numerous obstacles to become a leader in her field. Additionally, her experience as a prosecutor and her record of a complict. Need I
say anything more? How ridiculous is that now allegedly they've corrected it, that it was just an error all warp. Sorry, No, it wasn't. It was intentional. It was absolutely intentional, and they got caught called out, embarrassed.
Hey, Alexa, you're stupid.
Five past the hour, second hour, Thursday, Here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott Show fifty two, twenty eight. Great to be with you, and thrilled to hang out once again. Ruminators. Jose over there in Studio one A running the broadcast, enjoining me today on the phone line, playing hurt, but he's a gamer, bringing content even though under the weather. The executive editor of TALLASI reports the one the only Steve story.
Good morning, Good morning, Preston. How are you better than you?
Elda?
How these I can't help if it's just allergies or a head cold, but anyway, no, no.
It's it's from working hard. It's from bird dog and all these stories. Brother, that's what it's about. You're wearing yourself out, covering the stories that shape our times.
How's that sounds?
That's exactly what it is. I gotta write that down there, you bet on the doctor's note.
There you go. That's it. That's it.
Hey, we covered last week. It was it was not a small story that the federal government was fudging job numbers to the to the extent of nearly nine hundred thousand jobs being overestimated last year, this year alone up until now. What does that look like here in Leon County? How are First do you trust the accuracy of the job numbers locally? And secondly, Steve, what are they where we stand?
Yeah, well, so I think that my faith in these numbers are declining. And you know, I think they were always sort of friends, not you know, not really down in the specifics of what's going on in the community.
There.
They're numbers that are gathered in locations and shipped up to DC and manipulated. And now with this recent acknowledgement of these revisions, which haven't even been incorporated yet, you know, really puts the damper on somebody who's trying to report
on something like this. And as an aside, this is one of the reasons, and we'll talk about this in the next segment, is why I try to get data that is that emanates from the location before and I catch the data before it gets into the hands of bureaucrats and gets you know, manipulated or revised and.
Pardon me, sanitized.
They sanitized.
Yeah, I mean they they they take these things and they do what they need to do, knowing that the retraction, I mean, what's the old newspaper adage, front page, headline, back page retraction.
Right, And so the job the job numbers have you know, for the for Leon County, which we have been reporting diligently every month. This the covid uh era has been growing pretty well and we've gotten you know, we had the Amazon project that came online with over one thousand jobs, and we thought we'd seen that in the numbers as
they were being reported. Now, the latest reports, again without any of these revisions, are very cautionary in the sense of, you know, we're the job growth looks to be flattening out, and it's more I think it is more than seasonal. You look at the last three months, our job total now is not much higher than it was a year ago or a three month period. It's about one hundred and fifty five thousand, nine hundred people working in July, and last year in July there's about one hundred and
fifty five one hundred, so not a big change. So that's a concern. It's starting to look like it's flattening out. But like I said, the research I did shows that these numbers aren't even impacted by the revisions. These revisions that we heard about will not be implemented into the data until February, and so it's you know, so these when we look at these numbers, we've got to look at them with suspicion and cautious and caut and that's again that takes away from somebody who's trying to report
on what's actually going on in the community. Now, other signs of economic activity that we try to get, they are closer to home that are not federal numbers, are like single family construction permits. They come right out of Leon County and city government, so you can get an idea of activity there. Real estate sales right out of the Leon County Proper Appraisers the office. So that's what
we're starting to focus more on. But I will tell you that for someone that likes numbers, you know, when I read about the revisions and this, it just does not give a lot of confidence in numbers that are reported. I mean, these numbers are like held as sacer staying in a lot of areas.
Steve standby.
I want to ask one more question related to this before we transition to a different set of numbers. So hang on, Steve Stewart under the weather, but a gamer coming in doing his job no matter what, to share information with you ruminators here on The Morning Show with Preston Scott.
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You can get it delivered to you a couple times each month, and also get a online digital copy of that paper, and then you've got access to material all the time. Just go to tallass Reports dot com. Subscribe support good independent investigative local reporting. Steve just real quickly, if a correction doesn't come till July or February, what difference does it make at that point?
It doesn't make any does it.
No?
I mean, it really does limit the use of these numbers. And that's why, you know, that's why I'm looking for other indicators to let people know what's going on in our community from an economic standpoint. And you know, that's just it is. It is again, it's like the media. You've got to look when you see when you see one report on something, you need to look in a lot of different areas to verify it to the point where you're you accept what actually is being reported.
Would you ever consider, let's say there's a revision of eight percent back, all right, eight percent down? Would you move forward then by doing you know, revising every monthly number by eight percent, just based on the fact that that's the way it's been.
Yeah, I think what you have to do at this point, now, look, these revisions every February are not new. I think the biggest thing on this revision is the magnitude of the revision. Sure, well, we've been doing this for years and every February they revise the numbers, and sometimes it's less consequential than others.
But clearly what they've done now is say, look the revision that you're used to doing in February, it's going to be major and I'm now I'm more interested in seeing how it affects obviously what's going on here in Leon County, because you know, even even the numbers, remember when the you know, these other organizations that evaluate local economies and Tyle ASSEI was voted is are determined to be one of the fastest growing economies. They're based on
some of these numbers that are going to be revised. Yeah, and so it's it's again, I think people need to get their information from trusted local sources that you know, use information that that is right from the ground.
When we talk about trusted sources, you have, as you mentioned, been doggedly following the local crime numbers using the local law enforcement reporting.
Yeah, and this is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. And you know, this is going to sound like I'm patting myself on the back, because I am. But we you know, we have been We've been tabulating this data for over five six years. It is daily reports that come that the TPD releases from prior day crime incidents. They do it with codes and some notes about the incidents, and it takes some work to do it. Now, what it is not is not the sexy headline about
a drive by shooting. It's the actual lesson both of what's going on in your community every day. And and you know, some of that work that we do now is paying off and looking at trends. And we've got our headline story or front page story coming out in our newspaper today is related to violent crime in the trend and it is the first There's two things here. First, people will be shocked at the numbers, and what is happening on violent crime this year and more recently over
the last two or three months. Something has changed in this community. And I won't get into details on the specific numbers. Please subscribe for this type of research I mean this, this is the type of stuff you're not getting. You know, you're getting You're getting the candy headlines instead of the actual nuts and bolts of what's going on. And the second thing is, I think it's an outrage that other media outlets aren't doing their job and following
this because you get this perception. You know, you've got the trend from last year where shootings were up, violent crime was up. The city says, we see that, we're going to do something, and all you get is this constant refrain of reporting on shootings and nothing about what is actually going on day to day. And I think again, when this comes out, people are going to be shocked
at what's going on, and in a good way. Yeah, because there's a number of things that have been done and that looks like that's starting.
To pay off well.
Despite some headwinds from some of the local elected officials, the chief of police for the City of Tallassee and the law enforcement officers that sign up for this, they're making gains.
They're making headway. Yeah.
Let me let me give you one example, and this was reported by TPD last week. You know, they have started to put more focus on traffic enforcement, which is something that we talked about, has been put on the back burner because of a lot of different reasons, post COVID,
post summer, you know, social justice. But one day they put together three hundred and seventy six traffic stops that resulted in two hundred and seventy seven citations and eleven arrest related to gun violations, DUIs outstanding warrants, and that is just that's a snapshot of some of the things that we talked about in this article that will be in our newspaper that they're doing, and it is it's
starting to show in terms of where the trends are headed. Now, what naysayers are going to say is that, well, you know violent crime is down nationally. Well, I refer you to the job numbers.
Okay, yeah, we can't necessarily trust the national narrative. Steve, we got a wrap, but appreciate the digging the research, and it's something you and I talked about. Pullovers result in well, pullovers lead to results, no doubt about it.
Thank you, Steve. Feel better all right? Thanks Steve Stewart.
A little under the weather. Two segments today here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, a few little odds and ends here, I don know of you've seen the video. You remember Fanny willis the DA in Atlanta prosecuting Trump voting case.
There.
First of all, they have every reason asked questions about the election. But let's set that aside for a second. She told the judge, Yeah, I used to be in a relationship. I'm not in a relationship with Nathan Wade anymore. Well, when she rolled up at the scene of her daughter's arrest, she was arrested for driving with a suspended license. Guess who was in the car with her, Nathan Wade and not just in the car. He rolled out shook hands with the officers as well, Like he's a BF, he's
she's such a liar. They're clearly in a relationship. Yeah, I'm I'm gonna roll out there with check on my daughter's situation. I'm I'm a concerned mother with a guy I'm not dating. Come on, pull the other leg I'm tall enough. On my blog page, I've got a couple of different things.
Sorry. On my Twitter.
Page twix, sorry, Twitter x twix, I have a couple of different things. I've got a new I've got a new blog up, which is brilliant. Listeners sent a suggested video clip to look at. It made me laugh, so I wrote a blog around it and posted it. So I've got a link to that on the twigs page. And then I've got a another post of a story showing the family of Tim Walls brothers, you know, maybe Grandma,
I don't know, Mom. They're all sitting there in a shirt wearing Walls for Trump shirts, all wearing the exact same shirt under a banner that says Trump twenty twenty four.
It's hilarious.
So relatives of Tim Walls are not supporting him.
They're supporting Donald Trump.
And we're talking not distant relatives, close family, brothers, maybe a sister thrown in there, cousins. It's hilarious. That's on there as well a couple other things. Volvo. Valvo was like Mercedes. Remember when Mercedes was saying going all electric by twenty thirty five, Valvo was going all electric by twenty all electrics by twenty thirty. That would be Volvo's way of saying it. And I said, no, they're not, No, they're not, because to do so commits corporate suicide.
You can't go all electric.
Ever, the technology is not there, and I don't think it will ever be there because the amount of energy it takes to flash charge one of these batteries if you even believe in that whole nonsense, because the cost of the batteries and everything is just ridiculous. But set that aside, it can't do it well. Volvo has now followed Mercedes. Mercedes said, yeah, we're gonna keep making uh icease internal combustion engines, and Volvo saying, yeah, we are too.
So we're getting a little bit of sanity back in the automobile industry.
We'll see, we'll see where that takes. Us.
Kamala's lying to everybody saying, oh, she's not in favor of the all ev mandate. Bulloni, She's one hundred percent in favor of it. Look at her record in Congress as a US senator. And then lastly, we now have four disturbances. Disturbance one is it's kind of up the East coast already, it's not gonna likely be much of an issue. Disturbance two down in the south of Cuba, Puerto Rico, you know that area. And then you've got three and four that are still out there aways. So
there's there's four storm systems. But remember now we went nearly a month for the first time since nineteen sixty eight without any named storms out there. Just saying so much for the settled science. Twenty eight after the hour, it's just the weather, folks, We're gonna have storms.
It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point seven Double UFLA or on NewsRadio double UFLA Panama City dot Com.
Thirty six past the hour.
Big Stories in the press Box this morning on The Morning Show with Preston Scott. The DAL plunched more than six hundred points week. Manufacturing data fuel slow down fears, slow down fears. If you've got weak manufacturing data, you have a slowdown.
That's just see. This is where you don't need.
Deep analytical skills to look at a headline like that and go.
Time out.
We have weak manufacturing data. US manufacturing sector records a decline for the first.
Time in seven months. But we saw it coming.
The job report was adjusted last week back eight hundred thousand jobs plus for the year. When you consider that the majority of jobs that have been coming back online are jobs from COVID.
Where people were put on ice. And I don't mean they died.
I'm saying that job was just stopped, and those jobs are coming back. The economy isn't really growing, it's contracting, and so the fact that the manufacturing data is now showing my hunch is it's been slowing longer than just this last month. Two different long term studies showing that cannabis use increases significantly the risk of heart disease and death.
The weed that's being produced today for medical and recreational use where it's legalized, the THC content is double, if not triple, what it used to be.
Highly highly.
Addictive as it always has been, but even more so now because of the levels of THHC. And as I've said, I if we make the mistake of legalizing this for recreational use, I will do everything within my power to be talking to lawmakers and try to get common sense restrictions on that recreational use. I don't want to have to smell your weed.
I just don't.
I got gas early yesterday morning, and I just started laughing. Young kid rolls into the store. He pulls into this convenience store, probably looking for some Doritos because he was absolutely reeking of reefer. It was just, I mean, you thought you were watching some little you know, like Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Jeff Spacoli open the car
doors and we just reeking from inside that car. And of course the biggest story is the shooting at a high school in Georgia, Appalachi High School and Winder, which is northeast, little south of eighty five. Eighty five goes northeast out of Atlanta, and this is just a little bit south of eighty five heading northeast. That's where Winder is. Four dead, nine injured, shooter in custody. I don't want his name. I don't need his name.
Neither do you.
Forty minutes past the hour come back. Doctor Steve Steverson joins us next here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
It's the Morning Show with Preston's Scott.
Next hour, Salnuzo Consumer's Defense will join me in studio.
We will not be talking about the Florida legislature. We'll be talking about defending consumers. See what I did there?
See that's that's the kind of high level analysis you get from this program. But first talk about our four legged buddies, be they Feeline or K nine. Doctor Steve Steverson with the Bradfordville Animal Hospital pause for thought.
Good morning, sir.
How are you, hey, Preston, I'm doing well. How are you?
I gotta tell you, sir, I'm laughing at the irony that the CDC has strong rules for importing dogs into the United States while we just let people flood across our border.
But I digress.
They maybe bring their dogs with them across the border. I'm not sure.
Yeah, then we'll get everybody checked. Tell me, what, what what do we what are we talking about here? What's the fear driving this?
Yeah, you know, it's it's the primary fear of pressing is rabies. We're trying to prevent reintroduction of rabies to the United States. We're trying to eliminate rabies as a disease because raby's, you know, is pretty much one hundred percent fatal and so and humans can get rabies.
Yes, so an.
Effort to reduce rabies and prevent rabies. As we're trying to eliminate rabies from this continent, the CDC has crazy these new requirements for dogs that are trying to come into the United States. Most of the time it's pets that are coming back in. The owner takes the pet and goes out of the country and travels somewhere and brings the pets back in the United States. They want to make sure these pets are safe and haven't been exposed to rabies. And so it depends on the country
they that you go to. If you've been to and the CDC has a list and go with their website is very easy to google dog import CDC and it'll pop up. Okay, you go this website, you can see a list. There's a list of high risk countries and these are countries where rabies is still endemic and it's a real problem. Incidentally, there are our countries in the Caribbean and are countries in South America that are on
that list. So if you travel to out of the United States with your pet, you may want to check that out and make sure. If a country is not on that list, then it's not a high risk country, it's a low risk country. And it's a simple form that you have to fill out. You can do it online in a matter of minutes and get a receipt back. A digital receipt is adequate. Probably a good idea that have a printed copy as well in case something happens with your phone as you're trying to get through customs.
But that low risk form is all you have to have nowadays. Up until now, there's a whole process to go out of the country and when you're pet back into the country, you had a very cumbersome system where you had to go to your veterinarian. He had to give do an exam, sign a document. That document, that health certificate, didn't have to go to the USD Veterinarian which Fortile has to is in Gainesville, so this document had to be a document had to be mailed to Gainsville.
The USD Veterinarian games that had to stamp that document and then mail it back. Then you got to take that document with you when you left the country to get back into the country. All that's changed. So if you have a dog that's been to a low risk country, it's this one online form takes maybe ten minutes to fill out that you can do on your own. Your ve aerin doesn't have to be involved, and that way you can take your pet in and out of the country.
What if it's a high risk country.
Yes, if it's a high risk country, you need that same document that you need for lowest country. Plus there's an additional document you have to have that you need to get before you leave the country from your veterinarian that documents that your pet has had a valid rabies vaccine.
Well, I was just going to ask you about that, doctor Steverson.
If your dog has been properly vaccinated and you know, I don't know how often you boost a rabies vaccine, but is there an issue with even being in a place that has high rabies?
You know, the rabies vaccine is extremely effective in preventing rabies, so there's not as big a risk of your dog has been properly vaccinated. That's the key. Typically a rabies vaccine last three years, Okay, so you don't have to have a boost or anything different. So a three year
vaccine in most animal hospitals the United States. But your just have to have this document filled out to show that you did have a proper ravy vaccine given at a Ventnor facility in the United States, and that should suffice to get you back into the country. If you get a pet, you're overseas and you get a pet somewhere and you want to bring in the country, and it's never been to us before. A whole different process
to prove that dog has had a proper rabias vaccine. Gotcha, But it changes the whole system we've used for all of it for many many years now and importing exporting dogs in the United States, and so it's a new thing. Just happened starting again in the beginning of August that a lot of people aren't aware of it yet. So it's something if you are playing on traveling with your pet, make sure you talk to your vet hearin about these new rules and requirements.
Doctor Steveson, great Intel, thanks so much for the time this morning.
Great thanks Preston.
All right, doctor Steve Severson, let me add on my own, if you are likely to vote for Kamala Harris, by all means, just take your pet out of the country. Don't worry about it. Just take him out. Don't worry about any forms or anything. Come on, you don't need to worry about that. You might not get back into the country. But hey, that's all right, right, yeah. Forty seven minutes after the hour come back road trip idea twenty thousand dollars could be yours. I'm telling you, I've
got the key to that as well. And it's not a contest, it's the real. Next on the Morning Show with Preston Scott Use Radio one hundred point seven double UFLA twenty thousand dollars could be yours, your.
All you have to do. He's moved to Cumberland, Maryland, Maryland.
Yeah, the City of Cumberland is offering some cash. Town located on the Potomac River in Alleghany County and thankfully two hours away from Baltimore. Here's what they're doing. They're trying to attract families to live inside the city limits. Remember when Destois was doing such things, offering a home for like free, you could just take the home over just you just got to renovate it. I mean, there's all kinds of stories like that. Anyway, or maybe it's
five bucks, I don't know. Happy Meal, they're offering ten twenty thousand dollars a ten thousand dollars relocation cash payment plus up to ten thousand dollars dollar for dollar match for approved renovations on an existing home or for a down payment on a newly constructed home within the city limits.
Sweet here you go.
I don't know if that's the definition of affordable housing, but that's not my road trip suggestion.
By the way, this week, on my road trip suggestion, I open up the Unique America book and I find myself staring at the world's largest captive geyser in Soda Springs, Idaho.
With more, we go to our British correspondent.
The town of Soda Springs, Idaho, in the USA lives up to its name because here in Geyser Park in the center of town, there is a geyser that shoots soda water up into the sky as in carbonated water, selts, a sparkling water, whatever you want to call it, the stuff you'd find in a bottle. The guyser here isn't boiling, that's not steam. Underneath the town does a natural reservoir of carbonator minimal water. But while the water was natural, the guys that is man made and accidental.
Nineteen thirty seven, a group of local businessmen started talking about a pool for Soda Springs, and they started drilling. They were about out of money and about out of eight inch pipe. They were down three hundred and fifteen feet and they quit for the evening. They were having dinner and they heard this loud noise. They saw this column of water shooting into the air and a crowd gathering. The businesses downtown were getting kind of anxious because water
was going everywhere. It was in the middle of December, and then they had to figure out how to cap it. It took them about two weeks. When they stopped drilling, they were right next to the water, but they were in a pocket of CO two gas, and as they stopped, they combined and that formed the pressure that released it. The CO two gas also cooled the water to where it was not hot enough for a swimming pool.
Turns out, natural carbonated water is a thing that happens in a few places around the world where there's underground water and carbon dioxide held at pressure. The guys, that wasn't a complete surprise. I mean, in the moment, it probably was, But the town had already been called Soda Springs for decades because there were natural carbonated springs near here, but you could bathe.
In, So there you go. It's Soda Springs.
Idaho is the home of mineral springs that you can bathe in but it's also the home of this geyser. The Department of the Interior at one point called because the constant release was thrown off the schedule it of Old Faithful in Yellowstone. So somehow underneath they're all connected, and so they have it go off on the hour every hour like clockwork. So if you visit, you'll you'll be guaranteed to see it.
And it's a thing.
Soda springs the only captivated geyser in the world.
It Springs, Idaho. See now, let me.
Ask you where else can you listen to get travel tips like that?
Exactly? We come back. Sal Newso joins me on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Here we go. It's the third and final hour Thursday.
Always fun here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. And over there, I'm sorry, I just I just look at the way he's dressed each and every day, and it's it's it's a it's a highlight reel undo Itselfjse. Can you see over there in Studio one A. I'm here in Studio one B, and I'm joined by our good friend Sal Newso with Consumers Defense, and.
My man is styling over there. Don't you don't you knock? Get you that? Yeah?
Not just anyone can wear the make America Great hat hat again. We just make America Great again hat with a do rag underneath.
A sport code.
Yeah yeah, I'm I mean, much better than what I showed up in.
Well, let me tell you he just he's got his own style because it's it's not grunge, it's not goth, it's not bohemian, it's not it's it's Jose Can you see it's him?
Yeah, it's it's can you see love it? How you been?
I've been great, super busy, glad to be in talking about something other than the state legislature.
Yeah. Let me you know, I went deep dive in my analysis and I said, you know, Sal's executive director of Consumer's Defense, and it's all about defending consumers.
How I do real deep there? How to do? You nailed it? That show over mission statement? Right? Walk off solid.
Now let's break it down sort because we've only given a brief overview Consumer's Defense. If you were to describe to people, Okay, here's what we are dedicated to do.
Yeah, what is it?
Well, we're eight nonprofit policy organization. We are the nonprofit policy arm of an organization called Consumers Research, which is
the oldest consumer protection group in America. It's not a government agency, it's a nonprofit what they call a five oh one C three And our mission collectively is to work across the United States and at the state level, because, as I've mentioned to you many many times, as we've unpacked Florida's legislature, the state legislatures are the institutions with the most pronounced impact on individuals' lives, and so our goal is to advance policies that protect consumers, markets, and
economies in the economy from basically the worst ideas of the left. And the way that we do this is there's five basic strategies. So there's research, policy research, there's policy advocacy, and then there's grassroots engagement kind of activating people at the ground level to be a part of the solution. There's media engagement, which this is absolutely a part of. And then there's litigation. And I'm not an attorney,
so there are folks that do that. But those are the five avenues in which we kind of operate.
Do you zero in on, for example, Florida would make sense one of the largest economies as a state in the world. Yep, Texas would make sense, in California, New York, Illinois. Do you focus on the big states? Are are all fifty important?
I would say it's an amalgam of the big states where we are either doing our best to advance good ideas or try to beat back really really bad ones. And then there are the rest of the states where you've got either a Republican trifecta, where you've got a Republican governor and a Republican legislature, and there's more of an environment in an atmosphere to advance some good ideas. So we're doing a lot in states like Oklahoma and in Kansas and in Ohio and other where the landscape
works to advance some good policy. And you know, namely, we've talked about ESG on the show many times. Sure, the focus of both Consumers Research and Consumers Defense probably over the last three to five years, has been in combating ESG at the state level.
I want to talk more about that with me Sal Newso, executive director Consumers Defense, and you can find out more just Consumers Defense dot com. And I'm going to even ask him how you might make a difference in linking up with what they do. How you can help advance the cause, because trust me, there's a cause. We'll get to that next year in the Morning Show with Preston Scott WFLA sal News, Oh Consumers Defense with me this
morning on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Has the emergence of ESG as a really big deal taken anything away from what you'd otherwise be doing.
You know, it's a good question, and honestly, I don't know.
I was brought in because the threat from ESG and the momentum it had gotten over the last three to five years had gotten so strong, So I'm not sure. But I would really call ESG, which the letters stand for Environmental, Social and Governance right, and I would say it's been the least known and least understood type of scheme that the left has used, and it's really undermining the constitutional process.
Well because people hear the letters and then they hear what the acronym stands for.
And they go, I'm out. I'm out.
That's more than I want to be involved in. I'll let other people deal with that, and I think the average person checks out. But that gets to the next level of my analysis of consumers defense, and I said, when it's all said and done, you are protecting a consumer's wallet. Yes, absolutely, And so explain how ESG is
at attacking a listener's wallet. Well, first off, I would say the idea of the concept is it's a way for the left to advance the policy objectives that they have without going through that pesky process known as making laws in generating reforms. So the way that this works is it's an alliance of sorts. It's an alliance between large asset management companies and big banks and the left. So on the asset management side, you have these huge
companies like Blackrock and Vanguard and State Street. You've probably heard those names before. If you have a four toh one K or if you have a pension program, so Blackrock is the largest asset management company in the world, you give them your money to invest for you if you have a four oh one K or if you're in a state pension program, and their goal is to generate returns. Now, they currently have over ten trillion dollars
in assets under management with a t trillion dollars. So what they do is they have partnered along they have partnered with big banks, and in a lot of cases they own a share of these banks, and they're able to exert control over corporations and ultimately all of us in ways that are completely outside the realms of what should be allowed in a free enterprise or free market economy. And there's a number of ways that it works through either the E or the S or the G.
And doesn't it add up to bullying though, Yeah, it absolutely is. And so if you look at the E the environmental you have the left goal of enacting the Green New Deal, It's a goal morally and economically bankrupt, and it never gains a whole lot of traction in
a substantive policy debate. So you enter Blackrock into the equation. Now, they should make their money by investment decisions based solely on risk and reward, what's going to generate the most profits for my four one k. Instead, what they're doing is they're investing your money, my money in companies based on a scoring system that will rank this company on how well it kind of how well it operates in a climate change battling scenario.
Are they carbon neutral or buying carbon credits or.
Do they have a diversity equity and inclusion policy, and they're basing investment decisions on these completely non investment related factors.
And when it comes to the diversity, equity and inclusion component, it means it affects like, for example, company A better have in their down line, some DEI companies that have hired broadly and all of these things. It doesn't matter whether they're efficient, It doesn't matter whether they deliver their products effectively, It doesn't matter if they make their products well.
What matters more is that DEI score right.
Exactly, And so it impacts bottom line profits because they the company may stink because they've got bad suppliers, but their suppliers have DEI.
Going for them. You got it.
And here's another way where it fits in because we haven't yet tied in how the banks function in this equation. So the best way to do it is with an example. You've got a kind of a canary in the coal mine situation coming up with farmers in agriculture. Farming requires a lot of banking capital, loans, bridge loans, lines of credit, and in Europe you have banks lending money to farmers and ranchers in setting the interest rates, not on the
risk factors. But on if one rancher has more cattle because cattle emit methane which causes climate change, or incentives you get a better rate if instead of buying the diesel tractor you buy an electric tractor. And if you talk to a farmer, they will tell you that electric tractors are one of the stupidest ideas you could have in agriculture.
Oh boy, we're going.
To pick up right there, sound new Zoo with me Consumer's defense helping you, whether you know it or not here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Is it difficult to sell? For this issue.
To become top of mind awareness issue for people? It's certainly a challenge.
And one of the reasons is because it won It's a long game and there are forces at work on the left in China and.
The Europe doing really well, and they do and.
They play the long game better than better than the right does, I will freely admit. And the other part is it's wonky, it's in the weeds. It requires a lot of education to get not even grassroots, but even policymakers to understand the dynamics of it. Florida caught on really quick a credit to the legislature, the governor and.
Actually did something with some teeth.
Yes, HB three from two sessions ago was phenomenal. But what we've seen is it took about three years, and in the third year of action, we saw seventeen or eighteen more states past something, and so I think the grand total is twenty seven states at this point have passed some degree of anti ESG legislation, and it could be as robust as what Florida did. Texas was very targeted, just going after companies that boycott the oil and gas
industry and and everything in between. And it not only involves that, but there's elements of it to the banking sector to protect people from being debanked where your bank decides, well, we don't like your philosophy or we don't like where you're directing your money, and so we're going to close off our accounts with you, and you're not going to be able to bank with us anymore.
I feel as though with consumers defense, you are facing in a way what I face, and what I face is people not taking ownership of the issues and the knowledge that goes with those issues and making it their own, but just sort of I'll listen to Preston, I'll listen to Clay and Buck, I'll listen to Glenn. We'll let consumers defense and Justin Haskins, we'll let those people fight
the fight on ESG. Boil this down and distill it to where what what should people be doing or be aware of that they they can actively maybe even participate in to make a difference.
And that's really probably the most important question on ESG because of the fact that it's so wonky, it needs a lot of grassroots engagement to really move the needle and get it to the top. I would suggest a couple of things. One is, individually, if you have a four oh one K, if you're in the private sector and you have investments mutual funds, look at where those
funds are going or where those moneies are going. If you see the name Blackrock, Vanguard or State Street in your portfolio and where your investments are, you might want to start asking more questions about what are the underlying investment strategies of those funds and make informed decisions on where your own money is going.
Are those just picking on those three? Are those investment houses?
Now?
I know Blackrocks aware of the pushback, they're very aware. They've come out and admitted they're aware of this without saying they're going to do anything differently. Are they using now more covert strategies to kind of buffet or buffer themselves from it.
Absolutely, so they've stopped using the term ESG a whole lot. The underlying strategies are, to use the phrase of Larry Fink, who runs Black Rocks, right, they have woven ESG into the entire DNA of their investment philosophy. So even the the funds that don't have ESG specifically articulated oftentimes are using ESG strategies in them.
So where do you.
See that where I mean do they have? Is it in a philosophy statement of the investor of whoever's managing the money? I mean, because there are buzzwords, yep, and then the buzzwords tend to stand out.
So this one came from a call that Larry Fink has to all of his clients and investment people from back in twenty eighteen or twenty twenty, I believe, oh boy, and he admitted that ESG was woven into the DNA of the entire investment portfolio of Blackrock Now as a consequence of that, you now have two states, Mississippi in March and Indiana last week that have filed suit against Blackrock because they're claiming the company engages in fraud if
they're claiming to not have to have mutual funds that are not ESG related and the state pension moneies can go into those they in actuality do not. The state is investing money or Blackrock has that money, and regardless if it says ESG or not, it has it woven into the DNA of.
So that old statement could come back to bite him in a court trial.
It absolutely is already coming back, and it's going to go through the litigation process, an administrative law.
And it comes to what an average listener, you know, if they're invested, here's what you look for any other ways.
Yeah, I shameless plug, Yeah, yeah, that's why you're here. I would direct you to consumers Research dot org, which is the C three website that is the most robust side of our network and our partners, where you can get more information, you can monitor what's going on. You can email me to get on a regular blast of where we're gonna be the articles coming out, more information of kind of of the kind, and then I would say, get engaged, get plugged into the groups that are meeting
on the conservative end. One of my tasks is I speak at small groups all over the country through partnerships and whatnot to kind of bring grassroots people into a place where they're educated on the topic and can kind of move ahead and move forward.
Awesome, Thanks very much. We'll see again in a couple weeks. Definitely looking forward to it, all.
Right, Sal newso with Consumers Defense and again consumers research dot org is that landing page to learn more about specific things that are going on and stuff to keep on your radar.
Twenty eight past big stories in the press box and.
Limited time on this side of the segment because I went along with Sal, but I think.
I think it's worth pointing out.
The supervisor of our research assistants, not the lead research assistant, but the supervisor of our research team points out that all of a sudden, you're hearing the left cry out for gun control once again, and that interesting. Now I've pointed this out before, and as I said to our team member, I would have gotten around to this next week. Probably it would have dawned on me but thank you for catching it, because it elevates it to maybe a little bit more relevance by pointing it out. Now, so
the kid probably used a long gun. Probably don't know, but it doesn't matter. It's not the gun, it's the person. It's not the car, it's the driver. It's not the knife, it's the person wielding it. It's not the hammer, it's the person holding it. It's not the baseball bat. It's the person swinging it. It's not the fertilizer, the fuse and the time here device, it's the person bringing them all together to make a bomb. But isn't an interesting how the left is back on board and it's a
fourteen year old shooter. Okay, the dude that tried to kill Trump was how old?
Twenty? But there were no calls for controlling guns when Trump got shot.
You have to notice that, right, don't you See? It's okay if the target is a conservative and not fully but I mean, you know what I mean, if it's Trump, but if it's somebody, if it's students, I mean, look, it's all bad. The only people that ought to be shot are bad guys with guns, bad guys with knives, bad guys blowing up people. Shoot him. You got to shoot him to stop him. That's fine, doesn't matter. The ethnicity doesn't matter, the gender doesn't matter, the confusion in
their and none of that matters. If they're intent on harming people, you got to shoot them to stop them. Just do when they're in that act, you gotta do it. But this guy, you know, once again, stop using his name. And it's Winder, Georgia, not Winder. I've been corrected, thank you. Northeast of Atlanta, south of a eighty five, four dead, nine injured. It's a tragedy, but he was on the FBI's list a year earlier. Interviewed the kid and his dad.
There are questions, fair questions that should be asked to the father based on where any of those guns.
His don't know.
They'll ask, We'll get some answers. Maybe FBI is kind of weird on that stuff. Forty one past the hour, more big stories, including something related to the Trump shooting.
Next, it's The Morning Show with Preston Scott.
A couple more, well, actually several more stories here, but let's get to the one I just teased, which was more information on the shooting and the stopping of the shooter. Preliminary report from Congressman Clay Higgins out of Georgia differed from information previously shared by the FBI. Previous report claimed that the shooter was shot in the head by Secret Service sniper within seconds of opening fire. However, Higgins report claims that a local law enforcement operator was responsible for
incapacitating the shooter. Congressman Clement Higgins claims that the officer's shot hit Crooks his rifle and fragged his face, neck, and right shoulder area from the gun stock breaking up. In other words, he hit the gun stock and shattered it, which stopped his shooting.
And then.
And then perhaps it was then the Secret Service sniper ended it with a shot to the head. Here's why this is significant. The FBI approved the cremation of this kid's body before any adequate autopsies were done. FBI released the body to the family ten days after the incident. That's almost unheard of. Just saying, not saying, just saying. Long term cannabis use significantly increases the risk of heart
disease and death. Two different studies, one published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, another in the Journal of the American Heart Association. Additionally, the new marijuana that's being produced increases THHC levels one to twofold. I'm going to keep advocating defeating this. We do not need to legalize recreational use. We will have more carres. And look, I'm not saying we need to enter prohibition when it comes to alcohol. I mean, as someone who doesn't drink,
it wouldn't bother me if no one drank. But you know, it is what it is. But here's what I can tell you. I can tell you, as a matter of educated, informed life, that we will see more adolescent use of weed because it's going to be available because it's legalized. Just like you have middle school high school kids getting drunk and driving under the influence, we're going to see more middle school and high school kids getting high and
some driving under the influence weed. You know what's the old The commercial the PSAs that are running buzz driving is right. Whether it's weed or drug drink, it doesn't matter. And because it's legalized, it will find its way into the hands of more young people. Write it down, guarantee it, guarantee it. You don't have to be nostrodamus to figure this out. It's a bad idea, and if it's legalized,
I will join any legislative effort. I will put my weight behind any effort to make it really hard on anyone who wants to smoke this stuff recreationally. I'm going to do everything I can. You can be mad at me all you want. One day, I'll open up the phone lines. I'll let you yell at me, and I will calmly, politely point out how you're wrong. By the way, if you barbecue over labor Dade, you see the costs.
Just see that.
See how much costs her up grocery prices thirty percent, thirty percent.
On one last.
Note, Saturday, forty year old man in DestinE tried to rescue his kid from a rip current. His son was out by the current and was recovered from the water because the current eventually gives way. His dad didn't know what to do, quite honestly, and while trying to rescue his son, he died.
He drowned his forty year old father. That's just that just stinks. Go to my blog page.
You'll learn about rip currents and how to survive them, how to spot them, and more. All kinds of things on the blog page, but that one could save your life, for the life of a loved one or a friend visiting Florida from out of state. Forty seven passed the hour back with a giant oops. Next, have a new blog up on the blog page.
It's good. It's good.
Thanks to Mark who sent me the link on the video that inspired the blog.
That is good. It's a good blog.
I also have it up on the Twitter page, the X page. We refer to it now as twigs.
I like that. Old habits die hard. Maybe one day we can embrace X. I just can't embrace that by itself yet.
But it's at TMS Preston Scott the Oops. Kamala's campaign put up a drawing of her all across the city of Philadelphia, showing her in a Philadelphia Eagles helmet, and it says Kamala official candidate of the Philadelphia Eagles, and the Eagles posted a photo of it and said we are aware counterfeit political ads are being circulated and are working with our advertising partner to have them removed. She is not endorsed by the Philadelphia Eagles, but if she were.
Tomorrow night, Green Bay, Philadelphia in Brazil, sel Ballow Ballow Brazil. They're gonna play NFL season actually opens tonight. I think the Chiefs are on the tube and then tomorrow night Green Bay. Of course it's it's only streamed. Okay, over there, Osey's got that tier at head lights. Look right now tomorrow, what's the beef?
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Always something to keep you humble, started the radio program with John five Verse twenty four.
Osey's in there at the end of the show going, oh, yeah, I nailed this today. I nailed this today. It just something happens. It's just like, yeah, that's it, man. I've been dealing with that for sixty four years of my life. This is what I think I got.
This foot and mouth disease or something happens. Yeah, we got four dead, nine injured. Shooter is in custody, fourteen year old kid and the media will not stop using his name, just like the shooter of Trump who's dead. This kid's arrested. Don't I mean forget them all. Let's learn lessons from the past, but no long term cannabis use significantly increases the risk of heart disease and death.
Just saying only two journals that are highly respected and regarded, dal Jones plunges more than six hundred.
I don't know how it ended yesterday. Probably should have known that.
But it plunged based on weak manufacturing data. What a shocking development in the wake of the jobs report coming out last week saying they overestimated jobs by nearly a million last year.
This year through the first eight months.
One Maryland town, Cumberland will pay you up to twenty thousand dollars to relocate there. Alexa, Amazon's Alexa giving very different answers until it was pointed out to why one would vote.
For Trump versus Kamalo. And we covered a bunch of other stuff.
Great interviews today, visit with Steve Stewart, doctor Steve Steverson, salth Newso Consumer's Defense and tomorrow.
I can't wait. It's like step aside, Glenn. I want to just keep going, but I'll wait till tomorrow.