The Morning Show, Singers, you're doing friends, Monday, September sixteenth, Here on The Morning Show with Preston Scott Show fifty two thirty five. He is Jose Can you see I am Preston Scott. Great to be with you. More on this date in history and mere moments. But we begin, as always with scripture James three p. Thirteen. Who is wise and understanding among you? Let's pause for just second before we get to the second half of that verse,
Who is wise and understanding among you? Are you that person? Like in a group of friends? Are you that person? Listen to what it says, by his good conduct? Let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. That is going to be a cornerstone to where we're going to go a little later in the show in our Sons of Thunder segment, Who is wise and understanding among you? This is now the description of who the wise and understanding is among you? By his good conduct, let him
show his works in the meekness of wisdom. You know, it's interesting the connecting of the word meekness with wisdom. There's a lot of truth in that. Wise people just have a calm about them, a meekness if you will. They just don't seem to get ruffled very much by much. I mean, it's just and their humility shows inside that wisdom. Good way to start the day. Unfortunately, we have another
attempted assassination to talk about. This effort wasn't as potentially deadly it could have been, but thankfully no shots that we know of got close to Trump. But clearly there was an attempt and will unpack what we know. Got some guys coming in next hour to talk about team challenge and if you know people that are going through challenges with drugs, substance abuse addictions, talk a little bit about that and a way that you can perhaps make
a difference. Third hour, World Talk, FSU Football. Yes, so stick around ten past the hour. Much to do Monday on The Morning Show with Preston Scott all right, eleven past the hour. The American Patriots Almanac is open to the sixteenth of the month. To a little deep dive here, it was on this date in sixteen twenty Pilgrims boarded the Mayflower. Now on the old calendar it would be September the sixth, but it turns to September the sixteenth.
They set sail from Plymouth, England for the what they believed was the New World. One hundred and two passengers plus crew crowded on to the tiny ships, which probably measured about one hundred feet long and twenty five feet wide. I don know if you've ever seen. Years ago they had the recreations of the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria come into what well, all of a sudden the name escapes me straight south of us, not Carabelle.
But anyway, they docked them there and they were exact representations of those ships, and I was stunned at the size of these types of ships, Like, how did you cross the Atlantic? In that? I mean insane? Anyway. William Bradford, longtime governor of Plymouth of the Plymouth Colony, left us a little flavor of the two month voyage across the
Atlantic in his book of Plymouth Plantation. He writes, after they enjoyed fair winds and weather for a season, they were encountered many times with crosswinds and met with many fierce storms, with which the ship was shroudly wickedly shaken, and her upper works made very leaky. One of the main beams in the midships was bowed and cracked, which put them in some fear that the ship could not
be able to perform the voyage. But in examining all opinions, the master and others affirmed they knew the ship to be strong and firm underwater. And for the buckling of the main beam, there was a great piece of iron the passengers brought out of Holland, which would raise the beam into its place. The witch being done, the carpenter and master affirmed that with the post put under it, set firm in the lower deck, and otherwise bound, he
would make it sufficient. And as for the decks and upper works, they would calk them as well as they could with flex seal. No. I sorry, that's and though though with working of the ship they would not keep long, keep staunch, Yet there would otherwise be no great danger if they did not overpress her with nails. So they committed themselves to the will of God and resolved to proceed. That is next level bravery. I again, one hundred by twenty five, and you got one hundred and two people
on board. That's crazy. So it was on this date sixteen twenty the Mayflower departed Plymouth England eighteen ninety three, one of the wildest land runs in history. About one hundred thousand settlers pour into a section of Oklahoma called the Cherokee Strip to claim homesteads. Not a proud day in our history. Nineteen oh eight, William Billy Durant founds
General Motors in Flint, Michigan. Nineteen nineteen, Congress grants the National Charter to the American Legion, and in nineteen forty President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs the Selective Training and Service Act, otherwise known as the first peacetime military draft in the United States. The rumblings of what was going on in Europe and Asia forced the President to do something that a lot a lot of people were happy about, but it raised up a force that freed the world along
with our allies. Sixteen passed come back. You can't believe what James Earl Jones did before he passed away. You can't believe it. This is a very interesting story with all the talk of AI and AI being revealed in some quarters to be literally ruled by demonic forces and
I mean literally creepy stuff out there. But according to Vanity Fair, James Earl Jones, before he passed away latter stages of his life, signed away his voice rights to Lucas Films and a Ukrainian startup company, Respeecher, back in twenty twenty two, so this would have been two years ago, two years before he died, and specifically his voice as
it relates to Darth Vader. Matthew Wood, a sound editor for Respeecher, told the told Vanity Fair that recording a brief line of dialogue in twenty nineteen the Rise of Skywalker, Jones had mentioned he was looking into winding down this particular character. He showed Jones Respeecher's work. The actors signed off on using archival recordings of his voice, adding that they kept him informed on plans for the character and listened to his advice on how to keep it consistent
with his past work. Respeacher also did Mark Hammill his voice as Luke Skywalker for the series Mandalorian. They deaged him, They took his voice and made him sound younger using the technology, and so it's just an interesting development. Now. The wrinkle in all of this is there are tremendous fights inside the industry, whether it's video games, movies, shows any kind of recording where someone's voice is being replaced with AI, it's like, hey, good for James Earl Jones.
But James Earl Jones was James Earl Jones. He carried leverage and got full disclosure. Most of us don't get that. The voice actors that are out there whose names you do not know. I did a bunch of characters in one or two animated movies years ago that were Christian films, and it was a company called Interlight Productions, and it
was a blast. I would go into the studio and I could make up voices, I can mimic certain sounds, but what I generally do is they would have a wall of the drawing of the character and they would for example, I played Samson in one, and then a bunch of other characters and voices inside of that one, and I think Moses in another one. And so they would write a description of the character, and I would try to come up with what I thought would be a voice that would match that that character, that look.
And then what was really cool is I remember seeing what you would call the pencil drawing version where it wasn't fully colored in, and you'll see that with a lot of Disney stuff where they show the animation with your voice and all that. That was pretty sweet stuff. And to date, this a little bit that was laser disc era. I don't know if you remember laser discs. They basically were the precursor to DVDs, and so it was like beyond vhs, but before DVDs and mass production
and so laser discs were kind of a thing. But it was a lot of fun. But what's happening inside the industry is for example, back to Star Wars. You might remember I think it's maybe the best of the non Star Wars franchises that Star Wars, which is Rogue One. I think Rogue One is just an outstanding movie. I think it's just a tremendous movie. You might remember seeing Peter Cushing who was in the original Star Wars episode four. Grand Moth Tarkan was his you know, any a bunch
of characters. You know, you're like, what, oh, I don't know what that is. Peter Cushing was big in the horror films of the fifties and sixties. He was kind of a big deal. Well, they recreated him, and they allegedly didn't have permission to do it, and so there's a big lawsuit going on by using his literally his image, voice and likeness and recreated it after he died because he you know, he died years before that movie came out.
So there's a lot of controversy about all of this, but at this point you're gonna hear Darth Vader if they decide to keep using that character in various iterations of the whole Star Wars saga, and James Earl Jones was cool with it. So there you go. Twenty seven past the hour. The Big Stories in the press Box got two if I get to them both next, get it off your chest. You have a story you want to share, Write him at Preston at iHeartRadio dot com.
Welcome to The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Thirty five past the hour, Big Stories in the press Box Here on the Morning Show. Friends, Hope you had a good weekend, even if you're an FSU fan boy that yeah, we'll talk to Iris Chaffell in the third hour about that, and hopefully look Misery Love's Company. No one's having fun, all right. Mike Norvell's not having fun. The players aren't
having fun. They're not happy with what's going on. But this is on the coaching staff to fix this, and they're gonna have to They're gonna have to do that, and it's gonna be uncomfortable for some of those kids. But honestly, the players wanted to step into the adult world and turn college athletics into a minor professional league with paid players and so forth. Tough decisions are made, right,
I mean, that's just this is what you wanted. So anyway, we'll unpack all that, all right, So we're not going to use the name of this loser. Fifty eight year old guy with an AK forty seven fired shots, probably not really clear what he was really aiming at, other than knowing that Trump was in there somewhere. He had appropriately determined the location on the Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach that was closest to the road,
therefore offering him the best availability and accessibility. You could argue that, you know, all the security kind of draws attention to Trump at that point on a golf course, but Trump would be easy to pick out his gait, the way he walks, the way he kind of he's kind of hunched at this point a little bit but
no one was hurt. Sadly, he wasn't hurt when Secret Service opened fire on him when they saw the barrel of the gun through a fence line allegedly four to six hundred yards away from where Trump might have been. But Trump wasn't I mean, no sense that he was in imminent danger. Though obviously, you know, I don't know what the effective range is of an AK forty seven. Whether six hundred yards is maxing it out or not, I don't know. I don't know that it matters. You
could probably have done some damage at that point. But they caught the guy, They arrested him, They had the gun, he had a couple of backpacks on the fence with a GoPro. What's interesting to me is the comments of his son, who will remain nameless as well, because he said, and I quote that his dad's a registered Democrat and hates Trump like all reasonable people. Okay, and obviously he really doesn't know his dad. He says, Oh, my dad's awesome father, and I love him very much, and you
can absolutely love your dad. But he had no idea that you know, my dad's not a violent His dad has fifty pages of a criminal record fifty five zero. So son is clueless about Dad. It's not a crime. But you know, like all reasonable people, he hates Trump too. I suppose this is horrifying where we are in our culture today. I can't stand Biden, I can't stand Harris, I can't stand Obama. But I would never wish arm on any of them. Never, never. I have great faith
that judgment will come. God will speak to each of them in his private chambers about the choices they've made, didn't make, whatever that's between them and God. I don't. I hate their policies. I want them to fail, but personally whatever. Forty minutes past the hour, that's one of the two big stories. I was going to do this story a little later this half hour, but since we
were talking about the Trump another assassination attempt. Richard Blumenthal, Democrat from Connecticut, senator, US senator, let me just quote him just. I think the American people are going to be shocked, astonished, and appalled at what we will report to them about the failures of the Secret Service in this assassination attempt on the former president we're talking about July.
This is a Democrat doesn't like Trump, but I think they also ought to be appalled and astonished by the failure of the Department of Homeland Security to be more forthcoming, to be as candid in frank as it should be to them in terms of providing information. A bunch of Democrats being quoted in this article slamming the Secret Service in the Department of Homeland Security and to a lesser extent, the FBI. Interesting. Huh. Interesting? The other big story in
the press box. I don't know if you've seen the video wearing a Palestinian pin Newton, Massachusetts, Thursday evening, group of maybe ten or twelve pro Israeli protesters. So he charges across the street. So unhinged is this It looks like he's maybe of that ethnicity Palestinian Middle East, and starts attacking a forty seven year old guy named Scott Hayes. This guy starts shouting, you know, shouting things at him, screaming profanities, middle finger, on and on, and then he
just can't take it anymore. He runs across the street and starts attacking this forty seven year old who by the way, was an Iraq war veteran carrying an American flag, and I mean starts beating him. The guy pulls his gun the veteran. It's I don't know if it was intentional or in the force, in the in the in the scuffle, gun was discharged, shot the guy in the stomach.
He's serious injuries. They arrest the Iraqi war veteran, even though the district attorney says, there's a lot we've got we don't know yet, and and so why are you arresting There's video the entire encounters on video. The dude charged across the street, tackled him, threw him onto the ground. He's on a cement sidewalk. I would think that's imminent threat, bodily harm. I don't know what the laws read in Massachusetts, but he was legally entitled to be carrying a firearm
and they arrested him. Crazy. This may be the most important self defense case that is gonna end up going to trial if they go ahead with charges, if they don't dismiss them, because the arrest in and of itself shows a presupposition that attacking someone that you disagree with is okay. That I mean, retreat was out of the question. He was tackled and thrown to the ground. This is a case to pay attention to. I'm just elevating it
onto your radar because this matters. All right, we come back more horrifying news of the damage being caused to this country and to families in this country by illegal immigrants that are bent on violence and sadly, in another case, murder. That story's next forty six minutes past the hour. It is The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Fifty one minutes past the hour, Monday, Here on the Morning Show. Good morning friends. We're here for you, We're here with you.
We're here because of you. M do you ever think of that anyway? I hope you had a nice weekend. It's rain Can we get just a little sunshine, please, just a little bit of sunshine maybe sometime this week. I gotta get out and mow my grass. It's just brutal, but it's it's good for the aquifer. All this rainfall is good for the aquifer.
All right.
We have said, and this is something that is so very important for you to just remember as you discuss this with other people. These are the issues that are at stake in November. It's not a threat to democracy. We're not protecting we don't need to protect democracy because democracy is bad. We're a constitutional republic. Democracies run people
over and turn to socialism. That's what happens. We are we are battling against a set of policies that are systematically destroying your life, your quality of life, your chance at improving your quality of life. Because what all liberals do is they cut all of the wrungs out of the ladder. You can't climb any higher than you are. You're handed a ladder based on where you are, and that ladder goes no higher than where you are. That's it. That's the way it works. There is no upward mobility.
And we have people coming into this country that for them, a socialist life in America looks awesome. Poverty in America looks amazing compared to where they live. But here are the consequences. And I've pointed out time and again examples from the news time and again. This is all except Democrats. For example, you don't know the name of thirty four year old Julio Cesar Pimentel Soriano. You don't know who
he is. I mean east sounds like a cheese right, Oh no, no, no, he's a Dominican wanted in his home country for a murder in twenty nineteen, who has been arrested for the brutal murder of a family of four in Upstate New York last month. The family, the Ubaldos, and their two children, four and two, found brutally murdered, and then he set fire to the house. Allegedly entered the island of Puerto Rico illegally, obtained a fraudulent New
York identification. With that identification, who's free to travel from Puerto Rico to the United States mainland here illegally. My guess is somehow his his ethnicity allowed him to curry favor with his family, and then he turned on them and killed them. That's my short version of what I
think happened here. Now, First of all, I would find out where he got that identification, and I would make sure that I would go to Puerto Rico and I would ruin that person, and that person would be up for charges of murder as well, because he's responsible for that person getting for this guy getting into the country. But here's somebody illegally here. Because we have poorous borders, we are understaffed, we are overwhelmed, we might have caught
this guy trying to enter in with fake documents? Have we not been overwhelmed? Maybe not? But to Democrats, this is acceptable for the greater good, which is elections. We already know that there are people registered to vote illegally. We know that the stories are popping all over the place. You've got the Venezuelan gang that we will just I'm not even bothered mentioning their name anymore, not because I
can't pronounce it, but because why give them publicity? Already taking over buildings in Aurora, Colorado, Now they've taken over a hotel in El Paso, Texas. Mmmmmm, acceptable collateral damage. This is how Democrats think about things in general. Yeah, there'll be some people hurt, but it's for the greater good. All Right, We're gonna come back talk a little bit
about a program called Team Challenge. If you know of somebody dealing with addictions, talk about that in a way that you can perhaps help, not just by referring if you know somebody and knowing about the program, but we'll go a little deeper. That's coming up next here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Hey, Friends, Good Morning, Second Hour, Show five thousand, two hundred and thirty five of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. But who's county right?
Jose over there in Studio one A. I am here in Studio one B, and it is Monday, September the sixteenth. If here an FSU fan, it's okay to wear black. I get it. I understand. We'll we'll try to help with that next hour because Misery does a love company, and so Iris Chaffell will join us next hour. Doctor Joe Camps later on this hour, but we will talk this half hour about team challenge, and we'll get to the specifics of why we're going to have that conversation
a little later. But joining me in studio is Danny Francis. Danny is here with me. He works with ADDIE's Land and Tree Service. For those of you that may or may not know, they're a client of mine. I've worked with John Boseman. They personally have done work for me at my home multiple times over the years. And and I love John. I love the work that he does, I love how he does it, I love the type of person he is, and and he works with John and we found out just I didn't know until just
recently that you worked with John. But you and I go to the same church. That's right. How you doing today? Good? Good? I appreciate you having me on. No, it's my pleasure. We were just talking in the break teen Challenge. A lot of people don't know about it, but let's before we kind of get to teen challenge, the purpose that it serves and its role in your life, a little snapshot just kind of where you're from and how you ended up in Tallahassee, Florida.
Okay, So I'm from Saint Petersburg, Florida. I grew up there my whole life, but I went to Florida State, so I also have family in Tallahassee. So Tallahassee's been a place I've been coming up to since I was a young kid.
Is that what drew you to Tallahassee to go to Florida State? That you had some family up here or was there some other was what drew you here?
Yes?
So my parents went to Florida State as else, I've been a Florida State fan watching football game, that's right.
That's right. Yeah, So that's kind of part of it.
And I had some family up here, plus I just thought it was a great opportunity. So that's what brought me up here for college.
Tell me a little bit about kind of the the nuts and bolts of growing up, being in school and just sort of where your path began to deviate just a little bit.
Okay, So I went to Catholic school kindergarten through eighth grade, and like we already kind of talked about, I knew.
God and.
I had a lot of the knowledge that you get in Catholic school, but I never really grasped the understanding of the relationship Jesus wants us to have with them. So in high school, I went to public school, and I slowly kind of started to deviate away from him.
Can you can you look back and kind of pinpoint what that was that maybe just started to pull you. Was it kind of the peer groups and the friendships or what was it? Partly that and partly I just I never really got it.
I Uh, I thought the Christian life was about, you know, living this life where you have to follow all these rules, and I never really understood the love, the grace and the mercy God has for us and how much we need that in our lives. So I kind of deviated away from him in high school, and at that time I started to start to look for happiness and gratify, gratification and some of the some of the wrong areas
of life. And it takes you know, going through those experiences and not being gratified right time after time.
You know, I've had conversations like this over the years, because I was a vacational pastor for about twenty years and with a lot of those years spent with young people high school, college age. And one of the things that I remember in a lot of conversations with people that struggled with different kinds of addictions, whether it's substance or something online. At the time, it wasn't online, it
was in magazines or in movies. That kind of thing is you always start out feeling like you've got control of it. That's right. Is that is that sort of where it starts for you. You you've got this, Yes.
And I wouldn't say that like I was a person that just failed immediately right away. Yeah, And I kind of feel like, you know, I was, I was good at things, I was good at sports, and I relied on myself for all that and it took a lot a lot of times of of messing stuff up over over my high school and college years and then furthermore even even more and when I started to experiment, experiment with all the wrong things, sure.
To learn that I needed something more. We're going to talk more with Danny about that that that road that you travel. It's kind of funny. I've described it to people as a crack in the windshield that you get this little tiny little chip or crack and you think, ah, it's no big deal. I got this, and then just life the running through the road, it just becomes a bigger crack and a bigger crack, and then it's spider veins out. Next thing you know, you winshield caves in.
And you thought you had it under control from the very beginning, but it's not the way it works. More to come here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Danny Francis with me in studio. He works with ADDIE's Tree Service. But more importantly, we're talking about his story,
and that's the thing, everybody's story. It's kind of it's and you've been around this now enough and we were just talking about you just you're sharing your testimony with different groups of people in different parts of the world even and it's interesting. Everyone has a unique story, but there are some real finite common between those stories. Right. Yes, for you, You're you're in high school, You're starting to make questionable choices, and then you end up at Florida
State University. Tell us about what happened there.
So when I got here to Florida State and Telassie, it started off as a great opportunity.
I joined a fraternity. Was that a good or bad decision? Looking back?
It could have been a good decision, but it turned out to maybe not be a good decision for me. Okay, it just exposed me to more more time to kind of party. You can use it as a great opportunity for networking and getting to know people, but it just allowed me to party a little more. Okay at the time, I guess I didn't need that all right, So I started, you know, drinking and partying a lot in college and I ended up not graduating. I left Florida State after
three years. What was your major business administration?
So were your parents aware of the struggles you were having or I mean kind of give me a snapshot of what was going on with common Dad, they were aware.
I don't think it was. I mean, in college, the partying's kind of normal. I think I kind of hit a little bit the extremity of it at times. But it wasn't always like that, you know. It kind of went back and forth, like I were.
You putting Were you putting on a front for mom and Dad? Sometimes? Yes? Okay, definitely, because that's part of the deal here, isn't it. That's right? That's right.
And as I got older and I moved back home to Saint Pete, and I mean.
I held jobs for a long time.
It wasn't It took me many years before it got out of control. But like you said, putting on that front to my parents, it turned into, you know, ten years down the road where I didn't have a great relationship with them. As a lot of times I didn't want to be around them because then you know, you're you're having to hide things. Once it got into the drugs, then that so there was two versions of you pretty much, yes, kind of the the Danny and the Daniel or the Dan and the Dan Danny.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, yes, okay, So when I was in my early thirties, I got into a car accident, and I was prescribed pain pills, and that's kind of where things really took a bad path, and that's what eventually brought me to teen.
Challenge was trying to get get help with that. Was it oxy codone? What was it? It was?
Yes, it was oxy codone from a doctor and then not from a doctor, you know, then.
You find your sources. That's right, and uh, it just I just went down a bad path. Did you have this feeling as you when was there an awareness that you were addicted to these pain pills within months? Really? Yeah?
So it's a great feeling to be honest with you at first, but then when you don't have them and you need them, I mean, talk about misery. That's one of the most painful, you know, needing something that you either don't have or and then all of a sudden you're relying on It's it's weird and you're chasing it. Yes, of course, because that's what you need to but you need to feel better, right at least that's what you tell yourself.
That's right. Yeah, he's got a little bit of a smile on his face because he's looking back. I can see it on his face. But we're going to talk about that turning point, because the turning point is a really good one. And we're going to tell you about the role that a group called Team Challenge played in all of this, and then we're going to talk about how you can play a role in that group Team Challenge fun, how that works, isn't it? Sixteen passed the hour?
Danny Francis with me in studio. You're in morning show with Preston's God. All right, we're back Danny Francis with me from ADDIE's Land and Tree Service. But we're really talking about his life, journey and his testimony. That's a very direct way of putting it. And you know, those of you that know anything about God know, you know you overcome in life by the blood of Jesus and the word of our testimony. And that's the good and
the bad. You know, we sometimes think that the bad stuff is oh, don't talk about no, no, no, no. That stuff is important because it shows the power of God in your life. You're still here, no matter what you've gone through, You're still here. And no matter what you're going through, you're still here. You've got a chance to change that with the help of God and Danny. What was the point for you that you realized you needed to do something?
So I believe God had to step in my life. I went to teen Challenge for six months in twenty sixteen.
It was kind of a.
I was in a bad spot and my parents went I kind of did it to appease them.
I didn't finish the program.
I did about six months, and I went back home and I had a job waiting for me, and I did really well for about a year or two. But that time I spent in teen Challenge the first time, I didn't actually get why I was there. So in twenty twenty one, I got arrested and teen Challenge was my option.
It was a part of a diversion program basically pretty much.
Yes, it was a way to not have to spend a bunch of time in prison. I did do some time in jail, and I believe God allowed me to lose my freedom so I could have some time I'm away from what I was doing out in the world.
Oh, the irony of ironies. Lose your freedom to gain your freedom.
That's right, that's right. So in jail, I uh, I started reading my Bible, again. I was really, uh seeking something better for my life.
I was unhealthy.
I started working out again in there, and uh, it actually didn't look like they were going to allow me to get teen Challenge two to kind of avoid my all the time I was gonna have to do. But with five months into jail, I was ready to take like a two or three year sentence, and my lawyer came to me and said that, you know, out of nowhere, they're gonna they're going to allow you to do a year and teen Challenge. I mean, I had a first and second degree felony they were gonna have hold with
with ald of adjudication on my charges. I wouldn't be a felon if I did everything. And actually I just got off probation three months ago. Congratulations, yes sir. But getting to teen Challenge, Uh, it was tough at first. I mean it's.
So you you don't have it because you've been there before. No or just having to go there and admit you've got this issue, that's right. Noaen, I got a year.
You know, you you don't have a lot of freedom, but you actually are learning how to use your freedom. Teen Challenge will give you some of those tools that will allow you to live your life in a more in an actually free way.
Once you once you're out, in no way, if you complete a year, are you good. But it gives you those tools.
So the work, the school work where you're you're learning more about God and Jesus and the and and why he has this wants us to have this relationship with him. It's for us, you know, it's uh, it's to set us free. It's to show that he loves us and he has grace for us. And you know, for me, even though I messed up that, I still have an opportunity in life. And took me a month or two to really get settled in there because it's just it's different than being out. Yeah, but once I did, I
really took advantage of my time in there. I ended up actually doing an internship for seven months so I could help guys coming in behind me get the same experience I had.
Folks. Here's what we're gonna do. There's a golf tournament coming up the end of the month. It is the twenty seventh. Eddie's Land and Tree Service has done an event for the last three years and the event benefits the Tallahassee Team Challenge. I'm gonna put all the information on our TwixT page. Sorry Twitter next, that's just my
stupid way Twigs. And we're gonna put it on my blog page as well, because honestly, the sign up is it's more just kind of showing up and registering and being part of the event where the proceeds go to the Tallasse Team Challenge to help get them a new HVAC system, which is really needed. I've been involved with
Team Challenge over the years. I was telling Danny before I go back with Team Challenge to nineteen eighty three or eighty four in Phoenix, and by being involved with just having a heart for what they do and how they do it. And I guess the final thing I want to share is if you're struggling out there, there's a Team Challenge somewhere in your area. I don't care where you're listening to the show on iHeartRadio across the country,
there's a Team Challenge nearby. And Danny, thank you for coming in and telling everybody your story as a pleasure. It's made a difference in your life. I can see it in your face. But you'd recommend I would thanks for having me. Yeah, thank you. So we'll put the information out how to sign up for the golf tournament. We iHeart were co sponsoring the event and helping out
publicizing it. Yes, I'm going to be there. I'm going to be playing, and so I look forward to maybe meeting a bunch of you out there on the twenty seventh, which is week from this Friday, one o'clock shotgun, all the prelim noon, that type of thing out in Thomasville at Country Oaks Golf Course. I'll just give you this, if you never played Country Oaks, bring your three iron. It's all I'm gonna say. Okay, just trust me. Twenty seven past the hour, thirty six past the hour. Hope
that encouraged you. I didn't connect the dots. I had met Danny at our church months ago, and I knew that he played golf, and I knew he was pretty good. I did not know that he was working with John at Eddy's Land and Tree Service and and of course putting together this golf tournament to benefit something that I think is really important. And I think you can hear just in his voice the humility of lessons learned. And
I thank him for the courage of sharing. Right. It's not easy to talk about difficult times in your own life to thousands and thousands and thousands of people on a radio program. But my thanks again to Danny Francis. He did a great job. And you can just the humility that's over his personality and disposition, and just the gratefulness of where he is now versus where he was. It's very evident and it's cool. I hope that encouraged you.
Big stories in the press box. Uncomfortable segue, but segue. Nonetheless, that we need to make is another assassination attempt on Trump. I don't want to say that it's not a serious one, because anytime someone gets an AK forty seven within four to five hundred yards of a candidate for president and a former president, that's an attempt. Poked the muzzle through the fence of the golf course where Donald Trump owns. The golf course it is a Trump International in West
Palm Beach. He had a GoPro, he had a scope on his AK forty seven, he had a backpack, and he poked the muzzle through the chain link fence and Secret Service saw it and fired. I don't know if he ever got a shot off the gun shot gun shots that were heard might have all been Secret Service. I don't know the answer to that one yet. Other than this guy hated Donald Trump, according to his son. His son said that all reasonable people hate Donald Trump. I don't know if that puts the sun on the radar,
you know. I just I can't get my mind around that. I can, honestly before God tell you, I hate the policies of Obama and Biden and Harris and the Liberals and Democrats, but I would wish no harm on any of them. That's God's territory. That's just that's putting your soul at risk carrying that around, because hate only hurts you. We will not use the name of the shooter I will not use the name of the shooter son. The shooter's son, seemingly unaware that his dad had fifty pages
of criminal record. No, I didn't know, Okay, I guess you guys were real close, he says they were. But and then a pro Palestinian attacked a pro Israeli protester literally ran across the street, ran through traffic, attacked this guy, tackled him, dragged him to the ground started beating him on a cement sidewalk, and the guy pulled a gun and a discharged shot the guy in the stomach, the pro Palestinian and of course the pro Israeli protester who
was attacked. It's on videotape. You can watch it. It's everywhere. He's the one that gets arrested. I don't know what to say. Forty minutes after the hour, Doctor Joe camp standing by some healthy expectations. Next the Morning Show with Preston Scott hit that baseline. Oh yeah, uh huh. Forty one passed the hour, Doctor Joe Camps with me. Time for some healthy expectation.
Hey, how are you, Preston?
Well, I feel like I need to ask that of you as an FSU football level.
Well, you know, it's interesting that this is nature of Fribollation Month, and I thought, boy, my heart has fluttered a little bit over the past few weeks, so maybe this is an appropriate subject to talk about. But basically, it's an irregular heart rhythm that happens when the four chambers of the heart did not communicate basically with each other.
And so what it does is it creates what we call fribllation, and one of the issues with fribrillation is that it causes extremely high heart rate, certainly can't affect blood pressure, clock production can happen so that people are very very prone to having stroke. I've already experienced this in my family down in Gainesville. But certainly this is
a condition that does require medical diagnosis. And I think most people probably have somewhat of a feel for this, but certainly it's one of those things that certainly can can can be caused by a number of factors. And uh, a couple of the factors that I wanted to highlight this morning is that number one again, obesity, being overweight certainly can contribute to this. Drinking alcohol, particularly in bene
drinkers large amounts, drinking lots of caffeine. I worry about this one because sometimes I have drank lots of coffee in my lifetime, but certainly caffeine can potentially trigger this. And unfortunately, illegal drugs, and we read about this all the time. Amphetamines or cocaine use and those kinds of things certainly contribute contributed to this, as well as smoking. Now, fortunately,
treatments are pretty much available that certainly can help. You certainly want to thin the blood, so basically use blood fin is. You want to slow the heart rates, so you use things like beta blockers, and certainly if these things don't work, the cardiologists are very skill at mapping the heart, finding out the foe side that's causing the issue, and you can undergo either cardioversion or thermal ablation, so they actually kind of blat the area that's creating a
rhythmia within the heart. So this is at your fibrillation month. And when I was thinking about it, I said, maybe this is the time to talk to all of my colleagues and some of those out there. We certainly have had a dose or something we didn't expect, but we'll certainly we'll get through it one way or the other and look for a better day. But this is eighth
of months. The one thing I would say is that I think, particularly if you're over the age of fifty, you are to get your routine physical exams because these things can sometimes be uncovered and if treated appropriately, should not create a major health issue. So, h your fibrillation month. I just wanted to talk about it a little bit, give you a high level overview of this but certainly your primary care or certainly the cardiology folks know a
lot more about this and can offer you assistance. But being aware of this can be a life saving event. So that's my story this morning.
Preston, thank you, doctor Camps. As always, I appreciate the intel. All right, my friend, take care of youtobe. Bye bye. All right, doctor Joe Camps with us this morning. That's what we do. Put things on your radar, Let you think about it, meditate on it, talk to your physician, get that physical, get a little blood lap, get a little blood work. It'll help, might uncover some things. There you go. Sorry, forty six past the hour, come back suns of Thunder on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
All right, fifty one minutes after the hour. It is the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Great to be with you this morning, and next hour we will talk a little FSU football. Joining us will be irishafelivorchant dot com. He was there. I watched. I sent a couple of the kiddos to the game with our tickets. But yeah, I watched every moment of that football game. And so we'll we'll talk about all that. But that's coming up
next hour here on the program. But as we do on Mondays, take just a few minutes here and really direct our attention to the guys out there and stepping up, stepping up. If you claim I'm a Christian? Would anyone know it by how you live your life? But let's really start back home. Are you one of those do as I say, not as I do? Kind of parents? Are you using profanities all the time? Are you watching things that if your kids walk in the room, you
have to stop? Are you looking at things online that if your wife or your kids show up, you got to close the thing or shut the tab. I'm just hey, just us talking here. There's an old expression. Yeah, it's sort of right in there with you are who you hang with. Garbage in, garbage out. The things that you input into yourself is what comes out. Now, let's go to our scripture today where we kind of started the show. Who was James three p. Thirteen? It says who is
wise and understanding among you? So let me just say who's wise among you? Guys? Understanding? By his good conduct? Let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom? Does your conduct reveal God's presence in your life, yes or no. I've had to work on it with for example, on the road. Now, I've never been a guy to flip the bird. That's just not my mo. It's not how I ever conducted myself. But i will tell you that I get disappointed with the way some people drive,
how aggressively they drive, and the accidents they cause. I've had to work on this because I recognize that I'm recognizable. You know that the fact of the matter is that people know who I am. Here's the thing. God knows who we all are. And if you claim to represent His son and you act the fool, especially in front of your kids, your wife, your friends, your coworkers, what are you representing about God and his place in your life? And so I'm just I'm challenging you to take seriously
the charge of being an ambassador for Christ. An ambassador speaks on behalf of represents is what we're called to be for Jesus. And so let this serve as a little bit of a prodding, if you will, for those of you that go to church on Sunday and you kind of use that as paying your fire insurance premium. You know what I'm saying, you think that's going to
get you out of hell. I remember a story in the Bible that goes something like this guy said, Jesus, I did this, and I did that, and I said to everybody that this was in the name of Jesus. And Jesus looked at him and said, I don't know you. Oh wow. See he knows. He knows if you're playing the game. So if you're going to church and you're popping a bunch of beers in front of the kids at the at the you know, at church, who are you fooling? It says? It says in scripture to avoid
the appearance of evil? What are you doing? Don't make people lie about you at your funeral? You know what I'm saying. Come back, I rischepel joins us.
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Oh, this is gonna be fun. It's the third hour of the Morning Show with Preston Sky. Good Morning Friends, It's Monday, September sixteenth, and if you're a Florida State football fan, you might be wearing black. Today. We are joined by the managing editor of warchand dot com. Ladies and gentlemen, the one the only Irish Offel. Good morning, sir, How you doing, Preston, Well, that had to be fun to cover.
Yeah, it's amazing that it seems to be getting worse, not better. After scoring what twenty one points in the first game than they scored thirteen. Now they scored twelve, So maybe it's a countdown. I'm not sure exactly what's going on on that offense.
What stands out to you about the game? What stands out to you in the subsequent days about what the coach coaches have said.
You know, I think the biggest thing to me, you know, at the game was that there's no more trying to figure out what's wrong. You know. I think in the you know, Georgia Tech, you know, you start thinking, okay, man, it's a week zero game Ireland. There's a lot of variables here that you don't normally face. First game with DJU and they look, you know, obviously poor, and you figure, okay,
well maybe that's what happened. And then they go and lose to Boston College at home, and now you're thinking, okay, there may be real problems here. But then as I started thinking about it last week, I'm like, okay, well, you know, you're coming back from Ireland and you and you're maybe that game, maybe you lost that game and it beat you twice. You know, you came into the season thinking you're one of the best teams in the country, You're gonna win the ACC, You're going to make the playoffs.
You're zero to one. Maybe they had a tough time recovering from that and that beat them against Boss College, and now after about week you're like, no, this is just a bad football team and they do all the things that bad football teams do, and that is much more concerning because that doesn't get fixed quickly.
Coach Mike Norvell obviously is going to be very careful about what he says publicly. Are you hearing anything behind the scenes?
Well, I mean, I think he's got to be considering everything, but he's pretty he's he does not have a big circle in terms of what he discusses inside the team, you know, like if he's thinking about making changes to his staff or or even you know, major personnel decisions. I don't think everybody in the program is going to know that, and so I haven't heard anything directly, but I mean common sense tells you. You know, he's a bright guy. He's gotten to this point in his career.
This clearly isn't working. So during the season, I don't know how much there's that he can do early in the season in terms of a staff standpoint. Certainly as the year goes on he could consider making some changes, or the problem is, I don't know that there's anything.
You know, sometimes if you have a's say, a defensive coordinator who's not doing well midway through the season, but you've got a sharp, young defensive assistant coach, you'd say, Okay, let's see if this guy can call the plays that The problem really has been the offense, especially this pass game, and there's nobody Mike Norvell and this staff he's going
to turn the offense over to. So I don't think anything on the staff is going to change during the season unless late in the year he just wants to make a point that he's making a change. And then the only really change he can make on offense is at quarterback, and he has refused to address that when he's asked about it. He just talks about the offense
as a whole, not about dj ung Away. And you know, I gotta believe he's got to at least strongly consider making a move to Brockland, but there's been no indication that that's going to happen.
Irah, how much of the impatience, if we put it politely, of the fan base ends up coming back to the fact that we're not really dealing with collegiate athletics anymore. These are paid professionals in the high profile positions.
I think it's part of it. But listen, you know, I mean, you know, we can we can tell ourselves that we weren't like this as fans or media back in the day. But you know, we've watched quarterbacks get booed thirty forty years ago in college football. So but it definitely ramps it up a notch. And what it really does is, I think where the frustration really mounts
isn't about performance, but when it's effort. If you see a defensive end not playing full speed, if you see a receiver not blocking and you know those guys are getting money, or a quarterback not putting his body on the line, and you know that they're getting a large sums of money, then it becomes more frustrating because it's like, listen, man, you took all that money, you have to perform. That's where I think the most frustration is if it's just
a guy that makes mistakes. I think people can live with that, even people get paid make mistakes, But you can't have lack of effort.
Joining me Irishafel from warchant dot com, he's the managing editor. Subscribe you'll get great intel on FSU athletics, especially the major sports. And again that's war chant dot com. More to com Iris Chevelle with us for a couple more segments here from war chant dot com and Ira. Let me advance another thought. You know, dj Ujungala has always been a serviceable quarterback. Maybe not a highlight reel, but
he played well at Oregon State last year. Some would say that, you know, the handwriting was on the wall though when he got kind of lost his job at Clemson. But still he's not even playing to his own standard, whatever that might be. How much of this is just a misfit of a of a quarterback to a system and how much of it is the guys around him not doing much to help him.
I think it's a combination of both, you know, I think that I think I think when you look back at last year, the way Florida State's offensive line played, it did not play very well, especially as the year went on. And you know they went out and got
three new portal editions. Well none of them have had a huge impact to help this offensive line, but I'm guessing Mike Norval thought they would, and I think he thought he could change what they do offensively, so more of a run oriented attack and you know, kind of take shots with the passing game, but not necessarily be a quarterback that has to throw at thirty or forty times a game. And so but the problem is Mike Garvel completely misevaluated what this offensive line could be with
this running game could be. And then DJ doesn't seem very comfortable in terms of making all the line checks and reads. So you brought in a quarterback for one year, but you didn't really build things to his you know, talents, and I think you misevaluated what you had around him. So it's just been a complete mess. But you know,
I don't know that it's DJ's fault. I looked more at Mike Marvel that you know, you you thought you either thought this guy was going to work better in your system because your system was going to be better, or you thought you were going to turn him into a better quarterback, knowing some of your deficiencies. Either way, there's a misevaluation. And but no, he's not getting any help. Even in this game. There were a couple there were some nice catches later in the game, but there were
also some drop balls. And the offensive line's been terrible. So it's a common but I think the biggest problem was it was a bad fit.
Everyone would agree Mike Norvel has proven himself to be a very good coach and maybe a better person. Is that a fair statement?
Yeah, for sure, I agree with that.
Now, having said that, is there any chance that because DJ came in as basically he's what a fifty year senior and this is it for him? Is there a sense of loyalty here that he's just he feels a sense of owing it to DJ to let him stay on the field, even though that is not what's best for this team at this point.
I think it's possible. I think that happens sometimes with coaches, and there's two shining examples with Mike Norvell. You know, obviously, you know there was a lot of pressure on my Chris Norvel to make a change with after Jordan Trauss. After the twenty twenty one season, a lot of people wanted Norvelle to go get a transfer quarterback. There was not a lot of confidence in Jordan Travis, even though he had done some things in the last couple of
years to help them out. People wanted a quote unquote real quarterback and more accurate quarterback, and Nordelf stuck with Jordan Travis, believed in him, and it paid off anstibly for everybody involved.
Yep.
And then you know, I think Ryan Fitzgerald a placekicker. I mean, he was in a complete mess three years ago and it looked like I mean he had the yips. I mean, he couldn't connect on a thirty five yard field goal, let alone a fifty yard field goal. He stuck with him and now he's turned into maybe the best kicker in the country. So there are examples of that, And I think as a coach you always want that if you believe the kid can do it. But to
your point, you nailed it. At some point the offense is not moving and you know, we can blame everybody else, but the quarterback gets all you know, they get all the glory when it's good. They get most of the blame when it's bad, and that's where I think he has to make a change, just to let the team know he's willing to make a change and see what it looks like with a different quarterback.
Reading between the lines. What do you think the team is thinking right now?
I think they're lost. I think it's a it's you know, listen, the one thing I've learned through the years is if I've learned one thing about players is they know results more than anything else. And if a coaching staff is helping them win and get ready for the NFL and help them in their careers, they will love that coaching staff. If you lose a lot of football games, they're going to question just like everybody else, because they don't always
have all the answers. They just see the results also and they know it's going to affect them in the long term and it's and it's certainly not any fun playing this game right now. So I guarantee you they're going to have challenges right now keeping these guys together, because that's it's just human nature. If you're if you work for a company that was the worst in the in the industry in your profession, which is what Florida
State is right now, an offensive football. You're going to question the management, and I'm sure that's happening.
Hi, Racha Pelle with us one more segment. We're going to one more question about this weekend before we switch to the other side of the ball, and maybe I'll invert that a little bit when we come back. I saw a meme going around that said FSU's petitioning for a new one, one hundred and twelve team playoff. I'm not quite sure they'd make it at this point, but you never know. Sixteen passed the hour. Ira Chafelle back with me one more segment. All right, let's do this.
Let's talk about the other side of the ball. Yes, the defense seemed to play better. I thought the defensive tackles were much more assertive. But boy, Ira, it looks like a fire drill in the second and third levels between the linebackers and the secondary.
Yeah, you know, look, I mean Mike Norvell, I mean, excuse me, added full with the defensive coordinator when they've tried to play some zone in the past that has not gone well, and I think he's just pretty much determined to play man. But with some sort of zone concepts where they'll pass guys off to each other. So it's not like I've got the ex receiver and I'm
gonna stay with him no matter what they are. In those condensed formations and things like that, the dbs have to communicate linebackers about okay, if you know, if the inside guy is yours the outside guy's mind, and that's where a lot of the breakdowns are. And then in the wheel routes and tight ends with their releases, they just don't see those. And to me, I have to assume it's this defense is too complex for these guys. Now, maybe it worked last year, it worked well last year,
but these particular guys aren't getting it. At some point, you can't just be mad at them as a coach. You have to figure some things out scheme wise. And that's where I'm disappointed, because, listen, the scariest thing is I wrote it in a piece I'm posting today. You haven't even faced the best athletes you're gonna face yet.
So a lot of these plays that are going for fifteen or twenty yards, these passes to the backs or tight ends, they're gonna go the distance because you're gonna face better athletes as the season goes on.
Yeah, it's a little scary when you look at the schedule. The possibility is there ira for for what one two wins?
I mean, I will not pick them to win a football game again until they win a game. I mean, like I could. There's no way I could pick them to beat Cal this weekend. I mean, Kellick's are a good football team, and so yeah, on the road at SMU, how would you pick this team to go on the road and beat really anybody? So yeah, everything's on the table. There's no game I feel certain they will win other
than Charleston Southern at home late in the year. And I you know, man, Charleston Southern's gonna have eleven on the field on both sides of the ball. So it's not a sure thing.
And they're likely going to be playing with some confidence if we see unfold what we've seen so far, and you know what happens when teams play with confidence.
Well, I mean, there's nothing you could have other than confidence going into this game and then into a game against the Florida State team, because not only are they they really good at anything, there's nothing they're great at. I think they do have some talent on the defensive line, but other than that, nothing really scares you. And then on top of that, they make so many dumb mistakes. I feel like you would think, well, we'll just wait
it out and they'll make the mistakes. And you saw in that game and they fumble the second play of the game deep in their own territory, They muff a punt at leads to another score. They just they line up off sides on a on a punt. I mean, you know, you just they do all the things that bad teams do well.
Back in the day, there would be one approach, and that would be the coach would kill them, right, I mean, the coach would just make them miserable in practice and get their attention that way. That doesn't work very often anymore, and that certainly doesn't seem to be the personality of Mike Norvel. So what's your sense. What do you think happens this week in practice?
That's a great question. You know, the approach so far has been that we don't need to change everything, we just need to do things better. Is that fair? I'm sorry?
Is that fair?
Uh?
I mean I understand the approach. I think you know, again, as we talked about earlier, Mike Dorvel has a tendency to want to believe in players and assume they're going to get better. But I think it's it's foolhardy at this point. To me, you need to be giving way more guys opportunities than the guys that are playing right now. And you know, and again that stinks. That probably means you might lose more games, but it might give you a better chance in the future, because listen, this is
a team with a lot of seniors. And I know you don't want to give up on the season and you don't want to say that this season is a lost cause. But the reality is it's gonna be a lost cause if you keep doing what you're doing well.
And I've reminded a lot of folks Alabama's first on deck next year and you have you have the potential makings of a boat race if if you don't change some things right now and get better. So with that said, Ira, who's walking out of the tunnel is the starting quarterback this Saturday night?
I think it's a fifty to fifty proposition. Honestly, I'd like to tell you I'm sure it's gonna be brock Lan. I think it should be Brockland. But I also, as you pointed out before, Mike Rvel wants the best of these guys, and he's got a loyalty, you know's he's predisposed to be loyal, and I think there's there's a decent chance he sticks with DJ with Huncle, but I think that it's unfair to DJ too at this point.
I think DJ needs a break to let this offense and then maybe people realize, hey, it's not him if it doesn't work with Broclyn either. But you know, I would make the move, but I could not guarantee you that's going to happen.
Well, the one thing, I'm not a football coach, but I've watched enough of it to know that if your quarterback's running an option dive and he's not willing to take the ball and run, you don't have an option dive play.
Yeah, that is fair. I mean if there was a threat that, if there was a threat that you would keep the ball. And then sometimes he does keep the ball and that's and it seems like at the worst time, it's a mess. I thought he'd be able to read does plays better he is not, so it's just everywhere you turn it's been a disaster.
Well, at least we'll be together, buddy. As my dad would say, misery loves company. So uh, thanks so much for the time this morning. We'll talk again next week.
Thanks pressing taking.
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Another attempted assassination. This guy's going to spend the rest of his life in jail. And because he doesn't like Trump. Here's another interesting thing about his philosophy. He believes that we ought to be fighting with Ukraine against Russia. Trump wants to get us out. Sorry, I'm in favor of it. We don't need to be fighting that war. I'm not sure we're helping. I know we're bankroll and Zelensky, I
know he's doing well. I don't know. I just it's frustrating because I don't understand that level of hatred the shooters. The would be shooter's son said, my dad's a kind, loving man. I didn't know he had any weapons. Did you know he had fifty pages of a criminal record? How close are you? Son? Now? I would think that I would know if my dad had fifty pages of a criminal record. I would think that would come up in a conversation at some point, if he'd been arrested
that many times, had spent some time. You know, I'm just saying I think that I might know that. Yeah, lovely dad, Okay, you must love him a lot. You know so much about him, he said, Well, like all reasonable people, he hates Trump, just as answer this question for me. Why is Trump doing this?
No?
Really, what does he have to gain? He's been president?
Check?
I mean, if you're doing the ego thing, check what's left? Yep, you've been president. You own a bunch of great properties and businesses. The criminal stuff is a sham, but you're just constantly taking on attacks of the literal and figurative kind.
What's in it for you? Nothing? I guess he might really care about this country now, as we'll get to here in a moment, it would be great to pay attention to the national debt, and perhaps he needs to be talking about that, because not enough of you are. We're not talking enough about the national debt. We have to stop that going that way. It has to start going the other way. It has to We'll get to that next forty minutes past the Hot Morning Show with
Preston Scott. It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Yeah, a couple doom and glooms stories here. Jamie Diamond, who is the CEO of JP Morgan Chase, laid out at the Council of Institutional Investors in New York worst case scenario that he says is not off the table for the US, and he calls it the worst. He thinks this is worse than a recession, which, by the way, we've had. We had that. They kept moving the goalposts and changing the definitions, but we met and surpassed the
classical definition of a recession. He said, the worst outcome is stagflation. Do you know what stagflation is, Well, think of the words stag stagnation and inflation. Stagflation. It is a combination of the two. It is a combination of stagnation in the economy and inflation still happening at the same time, where economic growth slows while inflation and unemployment rise. Last time we had it in the country was in the seventies, stock market fell dramatically, retirement savings get punched
in the face. While inflation in August grew less than expected at two and a half percent. Remember it's already at an elevated level, and so it's almost like saying, well, we're not we're not going in debt by as much. We're still going in debt, just not by as much. It's just like that we still have inflation, it's just not at the crazy thirty percent level. If your inflation has been thirty percent over the last few years and now it's up two and a half percent, well, let
me just put it to you this way. That two and a half percent is much higher than it would be had it been at a lower rate. You just see what I'm saying. It's if the prices were lower, then that two and a half percent doesn't hurt as much. But we're already at thirty percent inflation on many different areas. But get this, our debt is over thirty five trillion, and the interest payments due in October exceed the cost of both Medicare and our national defense budget interest alone.
What do you do when you have to pay down debt I know that this is such a simplistic answer, it causes many of you to be dismissive of it. How do you pay off a high interest credit card? You spend less money, and you devote that money to paying down your debt. You spend less. Our government seems incapable. Republicans and Democrats alike don't understand it. And friends, it has to change because when we have to pay the piper, the bill that's coming due, we won't be able to.
Defaulting on your debts as a nation is not good. It's very very Let me borrow, let me let me kind of do this the way Kamala would do it. Not paying your debts is very very bad. It's our debt is a big debt, it's a scary debt, and not paying it is very very bad. How's that does that help? Forty six minutes after wrap up the show, next here in the Morning Show. All Right, Tomorrow on
the program, Doctor Bob McClure will join us. We'll have more on the absurdity the the latest attempt on Trump's life. Parker Shepherd will join us from Heritage Foundation. They've got a they've got a site dedicated to breaking down the inflation under Biden that we're going to talk about, just so that you can quantify it and direct others there. We'll have a manly minute more. That's tomorrow on the program. We close today with the United States Postal Service is
starting to roll out its new mail truck. They're going they're they're they're going all electric. And a lot of these new trucks are electric. They're they're really filled with technology and comforts, and I'm all for the comfort for the drivers. The grummings that they've been using. We're supposed to last twenty five years. They started rolling out in nineteen eighty seven. They've gone well past their twenty five years. But they're noisy. They're gas hogs nine miles per gallon,
very inefficient. One hundred of those things caught fire last year. So I'm all for modernizing, but going electric is just stupid. It's just dumb. They're made by Oshkosh Defense, based in South Carolina. You didn't think that was Wisconsin. Oh. Now they're purchasing these things at a rate forty five thousand electric, twenty one thousand other electric. The head of the Postal Service pledging to go all electric for new purchases starting in twenty twenty six. I can't even begin to get
my brain around how disastrousness will be the environment. Right, that's the irony of ironies, right, is that buying electric vehicles like this, where the technology is right now, is bad for the environment. You let me know when you need to get rid of yours, how that works out for you at trade in time. Let me know if you have the misfortune of having yours end up in a colder climate, how that works out for you traveling
any distances. And even if I only use it for commuting, preston, awesome, good on you Let me know what happens when you need to get rid of it, because that dirty little secret is already out and your depreciation is out the door. It's just nuts. But anyway, look, I think it's a cool concept. We're just we do not have the technology. We don't have the energy grid to power them all if we went all electric. They don't have the range, they don't have the capacity, they don't fill in the blank.
All right, anyway, postal service drivers there you go. I wonder, I wonder how long it takes before they recognized they made an error. I just keep thinking of paper bags, plastic straws. I just those kinds of things. Anyway, I'm sure we'll talk about it again. Brought to you by Barno Heating and Air. It's the Morning Show one on WFLA. All right, our verse today came from James Well, James three thirteen. That's where we started the program today. Big
stories in the press box. The shooter apparently he went to great lengths to try to take a shot at Trump. He didn't really succeed in that. But you know, there was an AK forty seven a scope and this time he didn't really get a shot at Trump. That's good. There are some similarities other than you know, the fact that he took a shot at Trump. To the shooter, he did donate to one particular Democrat. Cause that's meaningless. It's just a similarity. He hates Trump, okay, because that's
what all Yeah, his son said, all reasonable people. He's like all reasonable people who hate Trump. Yeah, because all reasonable people try to shoot and kill people they don't like. Of course, his son could be forgiven for the foolishness of his statement, because he didn't know his dad had fifty pages of an arrest record of a criminal record. I should say man with pro Palestinian pins shot after
tackling a pro Israel veteran Massachusetts. The uh pro Palestinian ran across the street, tackled the guy, started beating on him. Guy had a gun, he used it or it was discharged. And of course the good guy is the guy that got arrested, even though it's all on video. Venezuel and gang taking over now not just places in Aurora, Texas, Aurora, Colorado, but now Elpaso, Texas, Illegals committing more murders. James Earl Jones signed over his voice to Lucasfilms and an AI company.
Interesting there, We'll be back tomorrow. I have an awesome day.