Well, good morning, everybody. Welcome to Tuesday. On the Morning Show with Preston Scott. September the twenty fourth, man came in looking like the sheriff of El Paso County, Texas hose. Can you see he's got himself a little suit jacket on, got the straw cowboy hat. Man. He is looking like the sheriff. Anyway, great to be with you this morning, friends. We will update you on the latest on the storm obviously throughout the day, and it's as clear as mud.
There's just so much uncertainty that could have remarkable impacts on the entire region where this thing goes, and so we'll we'll get to all of that, but let's start where we do in scripture. Yesterday we were in Romans five, verse one, where it's started with therefour, and we went backwards and we talked about how Romans chapter four was
all about the faith of Abraham. I had mentioned it's the latter part, but actually the entire chapter is devoted to Abraham and his faith, and rather than go back through that, I wanted to go through another part of scripture to just illustrate the point of their four because it's really interesting In Hebrews ten, verse nineteen, it says, therefore, brother, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way
that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great high priest over the House of God, these are all connected versus. Here the translators put in it. Even though there was no punctuation in the original manuscripts of scripture, interpreters place commas and punctuation periods in places. Says, let us draw near with a true heart and full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience, and
our bodies washed with pure water. But there's that, therefore, so what's that? Tagging onto the Holy Spirit bears witness to us? After saying, this is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord. I will put my laws on their hearts, write them on their minds. Then he adds, I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more. Where there is
forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin. Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Holy Places by the blood of Jesus. And of course that's talking about the fact that when Jesus died, that veil that separated the Holy Place from the Holy of Holies was torn from top to bottom. Top to bottom is massive curtain. Holy Spirit did that to demonstrate this was not torn from bottom to top. This was torn
by supernatural forces where man could not reach. And it was a way to say, you don't need the high priests to go in for you anymore. Once a year. You have access to God any time you want, need desire, because of the blood of Jesus. When you receive that your sins are forgiven, your cleansed, they are no more. One of the things that a lot of people struggle with is they seek forgiveness and they can't forgive themselves.
If that's you today, I will remember their sins, their lawless deeds no more because of the blood of Jesus. So as long as you don't recommit when you say Lord, forgive me of filling the blank, and you mean it with a contrite heart, with a repentant heart, mind and spirit, it's forgiven. It it's done. Move on. Don't let that be your burden. God has lifted that through Christ. Ten past the hour, Take a peak inside the American Patriots Almanact. Next,
he's ose, I'm pressed. It's the Morning Show at Preston Scott inside the American Patriots Almanac. September twenty fourth Congress passes the Judiciary Act, established in the US Supreme Court and Federal Judicial system in seventeen eighty nine. Eighteen sixty nine, gold price's plummet, causing financial panic after financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk tried to corner the gold market. Nineteen oh six, President Theodore Roosevelt signs a bill establishing Devil's
Tower in Wyoming as the first National monument. Interesting backstory to that it was called Bear's Lodge for years, and it was encounters with Indians that caused the renaming to Devil's Tower. And what's it's It's known for being a very central part of the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Devil's Tower is the iconic mountain, if you will, that looks like it was created out of clay and
someone like dragging their fingers down it. It's got these ridges that go down it and Richard Dreyfuss is just like totally gaga over the thing. He's seen a vision, he had an encounter with a UFO. And yeah, it's it's an interesting movie, I'll say that. And and and of course, for those of you that are a little older like me, you remember the iconic song the notes from that which were it was turned into an actual almost top forty song, the music from that movie. I
think John Williams did the music. Of course, didn't he do every great score from the seventies? On John Williams, he's just like crazy skills. Brooklyn Dodgers played their final game at Evitts Field before moving to Los Angeles. That was in nineteen fifty seven. So there you have it. Yesterday, if you are on our TwixT page, you might have noticed yesterday I had I had a remarkable encounter of
my own. I guess they're called pea fowls, and the males are called peacocks, and the females are called p hens. I didn't know that. I thought they were all peacocks. No, no, And it's so interesting how I mean, I didn't know. I assumed that female peacocks gets female birds tend to be a little bit less brightly colored in nature. For example, look at a cardinal, the bright red cardinal, that's a male. The one that's kind of almost brownish is a female.
And so when I saw a peacock in my driveway, I've only lived there twenty plus, about twenty years, just under twenty years. I've seen deer, I've seen eagles, I've seen hawks, I've seen rabbits, I've seen raccoons party in my pool. I have never seen a peacock. And so I snapped a bunch of photos, put a couple up on my on the TwixT page, asking if anybody lost a peacock that lives in the area where I live,
because I thought it was a she. Why no train, no plume back behind, you know, the big old thing that spreads out. Okay, but it was brightly colored. The neck, a lot of the top of the body was blue, bright, bright, bright blue. I'm thinking, okay, here we go female. Look at that little color pn No, no, it's a male. What I did not know is that entire big plume of feathers that spread out in this crazy display. They
dropped those after mating season in August. So I had a peacock in my driveway and I'm like, well, so I got a little bird food out, threw a little bird food out. He was hungry ate some bird food, ran a little bit of water, created a little bit of a puddle in case he was thirsty, went wandering around for about half hour and went back into the green space behind I have a little greenway green area behind my home between myself and my neighbors, and a
hedgeline that leads to that. He just wandered around back there for a while. Then he walked down our driveway and walked down the street like he was catching a cab. It's crazy. I have to say, it was kind of thrilling to see an unusual something you don't expect to see. So maybe you can answer the question and email me the answer. Are there wild peacocks in North Florida? Or did this have to escape from someone that has one as like a pet. I don't know. He didn't freak
out when I went around him. I didn't get real close. I kept a distance, just, you know, to show my respect. But I'd love to know. Presdent Atiheartradio dot com seventeen minutes after the hour, back with more of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Yeah, there's a storm building out there in the Gulf. It is south of Cuba right now. It is sprung up off the coast of Honduras. It's organizing itself. Best way I can put it, there's no distinguished eye yet to this storm. Where that eye establishes
and what happens will be crucial. We'll get to that in a little bit, but we are we are keeping a close eye on it because a lot rides on the next twenty four hours, twenty four to thirty six hours. This is going to be a quick organized, quickly organized, and fast moving storm and then it's going to slow down and gain a little bit of strength. And so we'll unpack all of that for you in just a
few minutes here on the program. But just letting you know that we are well aware of what's going on out there and doing our very best to keep you advised so you can properly prepare. When I saw this story, my mind flashed back to the era of blue light specials. You remember those kmart. Kmart was the thing back in the day. Did you have you ever shopped at a kmart in your adult life? I can't. I can't. I
don't think you probably have. No. Definitely a lot in my childhood for sure, but in my adult life they were all gone by then. Right where you lived pretty much? Have you? How long have you lived in Tallahassee going on eighteen years? I believe, okay, about eighteen twenty years. Yeah, by then, I don't know that there was but one. And well I don't even think there was one. I don't think you had one to shop at.
If I remember correctly, there was, but it was gone pretty quickly when I got here.
Yeah, it's it's it's a shame. The last full sized Kmart. Let's listen to Jose rearrange the furniture in the studio. The last full sized Kmart in the country's closing. It's in Bridgehampton, New York. Twenty three hundred locations used to exist around the country, and then it hit bankruptcy. It got kind of absorbed into Seers and then it went through bankruptcy again. Kmart just got whipped by Walmart and it did not do anything. You know, Target distinguished itself.
Target existed for years. But Target, even though it's gone woke and politically correct, and it's killed itself it has maintained a little bit of market share because it anticipated where Walmart was going, and it positioned itself as just a little bit of an upper tier version of a Walmart, not quite as expansive in the grocery side, little higher end product line, not so much as say a department store like a Cohle's, but not a base level kind
of place like a Walmart. Target established a little bit of a niche, if you will. Kmart never did. It tried to go duke it out with Walmart, and it just was not going to win that war. Right now, there is one smaller Kmart in Miami, Florida, and it's the last remaining Kmart of any size in the country. That's kind of creepy Kmart going bye by. I don't know why that's it's not like other places, I guess, I don't know. Maybe it's because I remember the blue
Light specials were iconic. That would be a source of a skit for Saturday Night Live back when it was funny. Anyway, twenty seven, almost twenty eight minutes past the hour, come back. The big stories in the press box are next. Thank you, It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott all right, thirty six past the hour, Morning ruminators, thanks so much for
joining us. I'm going to do a little bit of a deeper dive into all of the storm related news developments in just a few minutes on the other side of the big stories in the press box. It is the biggest of the stories, but in that it requires just a little bit more time, and I'm not going to make it the big story all day long. I'm gonna just remind you it's out there because we just don't know enough yet. So I'll kind of give you a breakdown of that a couple times in the show today.
But the big stories in the press box, aside from the storm that is developing and organizing and we're trying to figure out what's gonna happen. And trust me when I tell you, I am leaving no stone unturned when it comes to getting as much insight as possible. We'll talk to Terry Smith, meteorologist from the Weather Channel Next Hour Live to get the most up to date information. The guy who I'm just I'm beside myself. Why are we using this idiot's name. He's caught, we know who
he is. Let him bask an anonymity, the other one shot and dead, and the old saying dead men tell no tales does pop into my head a little bit. This guy left a box with a friend months ago, and in that was a note, as well as some other things, and in that note addressed world. This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump. But I failed you. I tried my best, gave it all the gumption I could muster. It's up to you now to finish the job. I will offer one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to
whomever can complete the job. Now, this is a guy who has claimed in court proceedings he's got nothing. Whatever the bottom line is, it is abundantly clear now that was his intent. So many questions, but among them is not this man's name. I don't care and you shouldn't either. And at some point the mainstream media that oftentimes and again, where are all of the where's the outrage on he had an a case forty seven or something like it? Where is it? The left has not a damn word
to say about it because Trump was the target. Sorry, should have edited myself, But where are the lefties? They got nothing to say about that type of an assault weapon. See in assault weapons, whatever that is. I've got fifteen twenty bobbles in my studio that are assault weapons, especially in my hands. Anyway, they they don't have anything to say on the left when the target is a conservative in this case, specifically Trump. I got totally distracted there.
I've got other big stories. The Florida Sheriff's Association is opposing the marijuana amendment. You'd think looking at tv ADS seeing a couple of sheriffs in the state, that the sheriff Association must be in support of it. These must be their spokesman. Oh no, Gadsdon County Sheriff Morris Young. You gotta be ashamed of yourself. Brother. I know you. You're better than this, You're smarter than this. Or have you become lazy? You just don't want to deal with
the issue of marijuana. Here's what I know. One out of every four REX fatalities the driver of one of the vehicles with smoking weed. That's a fact. It's only getting worse as we've now introduced medical marijuana and made that legal. It's a bad idea. It's going to destroy young people because they'll have access to it, and young people on weed. Their brains don't develop properly. That's a scientific fact. It hinders the development of their brain. Literal,
the literal development of it. Vote no on Amendment three forty one minutes after the out still didn't get through. All fixed, All right, let me just go ahead and quickly get a couple other things. Oklahoma, since twenty twenty one, get this we mentioned in Arizona pulling over one hundred thousand off its rolls, Oklahoma has removed four hundred and
fifty thousand ineligible voters. In that number, almost fifteen thousand duplicate registrations, ninety seven thousand dead voters, one hundred and forty three thousand voters who moved out of state, and when they did address verification, one hundred and ninety five thousand inactive voters. You need ID to fly, you need ID to enter a courtroom, You need ID to buy alcohol, casha check and not vote. You needed ID to enter
the Democrat National Convention but not vote. And existing home sales dropped almost better than two and a half percent, and Motel six has sold to an Indian based company as in India, I think this sounds like this sounds like a firesale price to me, the entire Motel six chain for five hundred and twenty five million cash. That seems cheap to me. I don't know why, it just does. I could be wrong, but I mean, obviously it was an agrede to price right made them do it. All Right,
the storm, here's the deal. The models are suggesting. They've kind of come together that it's it's gonna wiggle to the east and almost follow the same path at landfall as Hurricane Debbie did in early August. I think it was just a little bit north of their Steenhatchie, north
of Steaenhatchie. From there, it's gonna just go north, as opposed to kind of wiggle across the state into South Carolina and then back up off the Atlantic and then strengthen a little bit and then smack back into the Carolina. This one's gonna go doe north. However, there are some that believe that this storm is gonna go the other way and move a little west, which brings Panama City, Port Saint Joe, Appalachicola into the direct path, with Tallahasse being on the right side of it, which is not
where you want to be. All that to say, this prepare as if it's coming, and if it's not, be grateful and then be prepared to help others. Right. We can't say with certainty what's gonna happen yet, and it might be just twenty four hours out before we really know, so I can only advise you so far. It's gonna be likely a Category three storm. It's gonna slow down in some models and hit at midnight give or take on Thursday. Other models show it hitting at five six
in the afternoon evening on Thursday. That's a big spread. That really is a big variable right now, So that's what we know. That's the latest forty six past the hour, back with more here in the Morning Show with Thruston Scott.
All right, so, ladies and gentlemen, we're in a hurricane watch. And for those of you that are not meteorologically inclined like I am, that means we're watching for a hurricane. Pre technical stuff. Huh. That's what you get around here. You get that kind of deep insight into things and stuff.
Yeah, we are, we're watching, paying attention, So you do your prep Remember, better to need and not have sorry wait no, no, no, better to have it and need it no, no, it's better to have and not need than need to not have. There we go. I knew, I knew, I'd just stumble upon it. There I saw this story on the ESPN website because as strange as it might sound, there's some really good content there. Because
they're so bad. I've talked about how if you like follow certain teams, and for example, as you well know, I follow them, the Minnesota Twins, the Phoenix Suns, the green Bay Packers because all of them have a connection to my dad and his broadcast career. And so let's just say, for example, it's football season, so it's the Green Bay Packers and it's news. You click to the news tab and you're thinking, all that's going to be there will be stories that have a connection to that
feature the green Bay Packers, players, coaches, the team. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no no. You get a bunch of useless nonsense. And everybody does that. I mean every team, it's not just the Packers, it's no matter what. So they don't really they don't aggregate stories just for what you're following. So they're just they're terrible when it comes to things like that. And then there's the writing, Lishiah Clarendon the wa this is the headline WNBA's first openly non binary player retires
now after I yawned because I just don't care. First of all, she was a decent player. Is she really going to be proud that her retirement announcement surrounds her being non binary, not her skills as a basketball player? The writer Katie Barnes, who in looking at her profile, and I'll go ahead and say it, her is all in on the alphabet movement. Los Angeles Sparks guard Lishia Clarendon, a leader in the WNBA social justice initiatives, the league's
first openly transgender and non binary player. Well, now that's an oxymoron. See that's bad writing. You can't be both. You might think you can be, But if you're non binary, you're not transgender, because transgender means you're the opposite of what you are biologically born. But if you're binary, you're neither. So what the heck? What are you? You can't be one and the other. You can be one or the other in your you know, your illusions of your mind,
you can be transgender. You can kid yourself into thinking you're something other than your biological sex. You can do that. I usually call that Halloween. But you know you can do that. You can dress up and be something else, but you can't be both. And then this announced their retirement, and of course I had to post something on the TwixT page for the writer that's just horrible grammar. Of course, someone chimes in and says, uh, it's been normal for years.
Uh no it hasn't. Yeah, we're here for you, keeping an eye on what is likely going to be Hurricane Helene. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott and Preston he The Natalie attired Jose. Can you see in Studio one A, I'm here in Studio one B. Terry Smith from the Weather Channel joins us. In just a little bit, we'll also have a manly minute in the third hour. Salnuzo joins us, we will be walking that tightrope reminding you that there is a storm organizing. It is going to
head in our direction. What we don't know is exactly where the the cone could be as wide as destined Pensacola, but probably not likely. The likely furthest west we're talking is Panama City. Good morning, Panama City, Bay County and the surrounding area. Hello, and to the east Steenhatchie, little north of cedar Key and Steenhatchie roughly the same path as Debbie. That's your cone. I can give you that much. Anyone who's lived in this area and have been through
storms knows from there. Everything depends on where that storm's hitting, specifically the eye wall, and whether you're on one side or the other of it. It can be bad on both sides, but one side is definitively worse than the other. So we're just all we can do right now is
wait and watch. Just like you, We're just making it a point of our day to watch all of the data, all of the apps, all of the notifications, everything, And as I said Terry Smith in a little bit as if you don't know who Kamala Harris is at this point, let me just help add a little bit more. You ever heard of the name Andrew Luster, victed serial rapist. He was convicted of eighty six counts of drugging and
raping unconscious women in two thousand and three. But thanks to Kamala Harris and her strong arming Proposition fifty seven in California, when she was then attorney general. She wrote it, she put it into place, had it signed, got it passed. He's going to be set free from prison soon. See. Conveniently, this type of crime raping an unconscious person wasn't listed among the crimes that were not going to be considered for early release. So it's considered for early release, and
he's going to be released. I wanted who Kamala Harris is. You just think of things like this. This isn't twenty five years ago, this isn't ten years ago. The bailing out of violent rioters that she encouraged her followers to give money to, and she allegedly gave money herself to to bail out people that committed crimes far worse than people are spending years in prison. Over January sixth, I'll point out this is who Kamala Harris is. I I have to be careful here. This is who some of
you are choosing to support. Let's take it a step further, shall we? Ten minutes past the hour Kamala in her own words and song. Next, lest I be accused of misrepresenting Kamala Harris's record, I'm not. Let's listen to Kamala herself. This is a clip from two thousand and seven. This one is Older speaking to reporters at a press conference about a law that was being introduced, one that she helped write.
Listen closely, responsible behaviors among everybody in the community, And just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn't mean that we're not going to walk into that home and check to see if you're being responsible and safe and the way.
You see, that's your affair. What did you say, We're going to require responsible behaviors among everybody in the community, And just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn't mean that we're not going to walk into that home and check and see if you're being responsible and safe in the way you
conduct your affairs. Okay, answer me this question. Is that closer to what the president of the United States in a constitutional republic would say or what a dictator in a communist country would say? Just I know it's a little sketchy, but let's again, I've given you what she said. Let's listen again.
Responsible behaviors among everybody in the community. And just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn't mean that we're not going to walk into that home and check to see if you're being responsible, safe and.
The way you conduct your affair. Let's not stop there. Let's go to Kamala at the border in twenty eighteen, where she joined in the singing down down with deportation, up with education. Kama is dancing, singing on camera, pumping her fist on beach. She got decent rhythm. Her husband just smiling haha. She's got her shoulders up and down, down, down with deportation, up up with and she's the one that now says she believes in securing the border. No, friends, please,
please don't buy this nonsense. You know, Donald Trump is one of the first presidents since Reagan that actually did what he said he was going to do. Kamala was asked in the debate with Trump, you say your values haven't changed, but every policy has. I'm paraphrasing what's up? And then she tossed a word salad. Are you going to believe her campaign rhetoric? But let me let me
use a more I guess relatable example. Someone's trying to get hired for a job in your business, and you sell whiche, you've got cash registers, and you sell widgets, and every single job they've had they got fired for taking money out of the till. They don't mention any of that. They say that they're they've evolved in their views of working for other people, and they recognize now that you know it's it's an it's important the job
of the clerk at the checkout. Are you going to believe them now and entrust them with your business or the track record of all of the work they've done where they've been dismissed from every job for the same thing. Kamala has a track record as a state attorney, as the Attorney general for California. As an elected member of Congress, she was the most liberal member of the United States Senate, the most she was further left than Bernie Sanders. And
she's trying to tell you she's as centrist. While she's remained silent. She says, I listened to it. She says, I am all in favor of fracking. In fact, well, funny you said nothing when Joe Biden killed our energy sector and has been dismantling it. They talk about fracking, ignoring the fact that the oil the infrastructure of the oil industry has been decimated under Joe Biden. It could take decades to ramp it back up. And so she's now pro energy, not for the ev mandate. That's all
she's been about seventeen minutes. As Terry Smith joins us next on The Morning Show with Preston Scott, twenty three minutes after, we're running a little bit late. So that's okay because it's my show and I can do that. Welcome back to the Morning Show with Preston Scott. As they running the program, please da have with us. She is our meteorologist here in the Capital City from the Weather Channel, Terry Smith, and also an FSU alum. Terry, how are you?
I am doing okay this morning, just sitting here and I feel like I'm watching a pot that's supposed to boil, because you know, we've been watching this cluster of thunderstorms in the Caribbean very closely all day Sunday, all day Monday. I wake up this morning and it's still that area of disturbed weather. It hasn't even organized yet into a tropical storm, but we've got our eyes on it. And here's the thing that is kind of hard for me
to wrap my mind around in some respects. And I've been doing this watching hurricanes and tropical systems for a very very long time. The thing that is most concerning for me is that we're going from zero to ninety and about forty eight hours with this thing. And what I mean is it's not even a tropical storm yet, but by Thursday morning, in forty eight hours, we're talking the potential of a one hundred and fifteen mile an hour hurricane just off the coast of North Florida. Yeah.
That's the thing that we've been trying to tell everybody is it's sort of be prepared because it's going to organize in a very short amount of time, and it's going to move pretty quickly. Unlike a lot of storms where we might have one two week notice, we got nothing much but a day, day and a half.
On this one. That's absolutely right, And so the idea of being prepared is the single most important part of getting ready for what may happen. Don't go, oh, I lived through Michael and everything will be fine. Don't think to yourself, I dealt with Idelia. Everything's going to be fine. This Every single hurricane tropical system, they're kind of like people. They all have their own personalities. They all have the things that aren't so bad, and then there's some things
that you don't want to mess with. So you need to be prepared. And the fact that this is a major hurricane forecast to become a major hurricane that's headed toward Florida, and we have those hurricane watches that are in effect from around Apalachicola south of Tampa, so that's the region that's most likely going to feel the direct impacts. This is going expected to become a big storm in terms of its circumference, so the area that gets the
rain and the wind and the storm surge. So because it's large, it really doesn't to me as a meteorologist. I look at it and I think, if I'm on the east side, or if I'm just west of the center, it's all the same. I'm still going to be dealing with some very heavy wind, with high waves, with water levels that are going to rise rapidly. Especially we all know that the Florida Big Bend area is a very
storm surge prone area to begin with. And now you're talking a rapidly moving hurricane with high surge, We're going to see impacts along the coast. So no, if you're supposed to evacuate, please evacuate if local authorities tell you to do that, and be prepared. Be prepared for the winds, the rain, possibly some flooding. The main thing is power outages.
I've seen this a lot this year, and this really does concern me personally that we get low end category one hurricanes that can knock out power in Texas for two weeks. So I want people in North Florida to be prepared for power outages, whatever that means to you. Batteries, extra food, extra medicine, gas in your car, that kind of thing. Be prepared to be inconvenienced. And if you aren't, throw a party afterwards. But get prepared now.
Terry real quickly, because I know you got to run. But just two questions. First, our listeners in the Panama City area, what kind of scale would you give them on be aware that this could possibly be an impact to them in a dramatic way.
So right now, the center of the storm looks to be to the east of Panama City, so the impacts may not be as big but I would say be prepared for tropicals storm conditions. Okay, so that means wins anywhere between forty to seventy four miles an hour and some heavy rain and some water level rises. It's not going to be as big as a hurricane. But they are under the hurricane watch in Panama City. No, I'm sorry, there's a tropical storm watch right now and the flash floodwatch.
Those are going to be the main concerns.
Last question, real quick. I've had people ask me already if they're asked to evacuate, which direction would you recommend, going east towards Jacksonville or heading west towards Pensacola.
Okay, this is because the local emergency management people know what roads are going to be open, what roads they might close. I'd say follow them. I'm not going to tell you which way to go. Personally, I'd say follow the direction of your local emergency management people.
Thanks so much, Terry. We'll talk again probably tomorrow. Thank you you. Bet Terry Smith with the Weather Channel and the latest information here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, thirty seven past the hour, running late, of course, because that's what I do. Morning show mainly minute a little bit, so i'll news the next hour, keeping attention clearly focused on what will be hurricane Helene just posted my visit with Terry Smith. It is on the blog page.
It is on the TwixT page, so you can link to it either place. And you know that information is probably going to be useful for another few hours before we get another set of updates. But it's there. The clip is there already. Look at us, the crack staff of the Morning show already cranking out a useful SoundBite for you to listen to the forecast Terry Smith again,
thank you from the Weather Channel. So we're keeping our eye on that and we will again give you a little bit more of an update here a few minutes. The would be assassin, that's right, he's calling himself an assassin. The guy who tried to set up camp twelve hours waiting for Trump to show up at the golf course that he owns. How did he know he's even gonna be there. It's not on the it wasn't on the list of official anything. How do he know or does
he did? He just take a guess. He's offering one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to anybody who finishes the job. He said it was an assassination attempt and talk about meditated. The note declaring that it was a premeditated attempt was dropped off months ahead. This was not some spur of the moment decision. Just say no. That's the Florida Sheriff's Association on opposing recreational marijuana Amendment. Sadly, there are a couple of rogue sheriffs in the state that are advising
you to vote in favor of it. They are wrong. They are wrong in every sense of the word, and the passing this would be a bad mistake. Look, just common sense, friends. Forget that I'm personally opposed to this stuff. It's just it's nauseating to me literally to have to smell it. Let's set that aside for a second. This will be by legalizing it so accessible to children and miners inside of homes that have it, they're gonna get it. They're gonna get it from their buddies who are a
little bit older that obtain it legally. It'll get passed down, and then it'll get passed down and it will get into the hands of the middle schoolers and maybe even some children. And here's the thing. The science is absolutely overwhelming. Smoking weed in miners, in children is disastrous to their brain development, as in, it can't be recovered to a fully adult brain. It hinders you. You drive under the influence. One out of four fatalities in Florida, the driver smoked
weed one out of four friends. What do you think happens when this thing? If this gets passed, and then what do you think happens to these children? It's not like, well, they'll stop and their brain will know this is the developmental time of a brain, and it will hinder it, it will damage it. It won't recover. You got it? You just you know?
No, no, no.
And Oklahoma, Oklahoma has removed since twenty twenty one, four hundred and fifty thousand ineligible voters. That's from the governor. By the way, it's not hyperbole. It's not just some myth. Four hundred and fifty thousand. What do you think is going on in states across this country? Come on, people, forty one past the hour, they being caught up just like that sort of forty three past the hour. I'm not caught up yet. We'll catch up here. Ose keep
me on time. Right, you have permission to keep me on time, Bill Gates. Netflix Show What's Next The Future with Bill Gates. Really, Okay, that's bad enough. Listen to what he had to say. Under the tax system, I would go for the wealthy, would say, have a third as much. Really, he said, the world would be better off if billionaires would voluntarily chose to give away more money. It should donate the money to help fight inequity. If I designed the tax system, I would be tens of
billions of dollars poorer than I am. The tax system could be more progressive without damaging significantly the incentive to do fantastic things. May I have a moment. First of all, I have here Bill an address, Attention Department G Bureau of the Fiscal Service, postbox two one eight eight, Parkersburg, West, Virginia two six one oh six Dash two one eight eight. See. Bill could contribute right there. He could give extra money right there. He could give it to the irs anytime
he wants. He could give it to charity anytime he wants. This is the thing about people like Bill Gates. They make those statements, but they sure as crap don't give their money away. And for those of you that say, oh, well, Preston, he's got a charitable foundation and he gives away all kinds of money, Well, let's just think about that for
a second, shall we. Bill Gates could have paid himself salary, could have paid ordinary tax on that salary, but instead he paid himself with stock options, which are what taxed at lower rates. So Bill Gates does everything humanly possible to avoid paying taxes. That's fine, as long as it's legal, that's fine. Here's the problem. Like all illiberals, he's not willing to step out and pay it himself. Bill, you
want population controls start with you in your own family. Bill, you think the wealthy out to pay more in taxes, how about you go ahead and stroke that check brother, Send it off to the irs, send it off to the Department of Treasury. This is so incredibly insulting for this man to be having he has the platform because he's wealthy. He would be irrelevant were it not for his money. Irrelevant because what he has to say is nothing.
The Morning Show with Preston Scott. I got a note here for those of you local just went by the Northeast Library to get sand bags plenty of sand, but no bags. So I guess for now bring your own bags, that's the word. I don't know if that's the routine. I'm very grateful. My house sits high and dry, so everything flows away and downhill from our home. We don't have anything running into our property. It runs away, and so I'm very very fortunate that way, I don't have
to do the sandbag thing. But that's a really it's a perfect lead in. Thank you Richard for the note and the advisement for all of you. I don't care where you're living. If you're in the broadcast area, the radio broadcast area of this station, you need to be preparing because you're gonna get hit with rain and wind
no matter what it's gonna happen. What we're waiting on is just exactly where, because I mean, look, if this thing becomes a category three and if landfall is Appalachic Cola or even a little further to the west, the area of the capital city is gonna get hammered, and it could be it could be a it could be a problem. So what we're saying, you know, Terry and I talked off air Terry Smith from the Weather Channel she said, we can't talk track really yet. We have
a window of where it could go. A cone if you will. She said, this is about preparation. She said, the area is gonna get hit. It's all about degrees in which the area is hit. Trees are gonna get knocked down, power is going to be knocked out. It's going to happen. It's just a matter of where this thing ends up, really going short of the hand of God literally blowing into the head of this thing and either dissipating it or steering it completely away from the area.
The area is gonna get hit more than likely. You're probably talking a seventy percent likelihood of this area being hit with a Category three. So you're saying there's a chance, Yeah, there's a chance. So that's where we are right now. Keep listening, stay informed, check the various apps that are
out there. I recommend windy dot com. Its track is based on the European models best I can tell, and the European models are now merging a little bit with the GFS, which is the global system, and the US models. Canadian has it more west. So just stay in formed. There's no reason not to be and get yourself a radio, get yourself the supplies that you need, and prepare as best you can.
Which leads me to manly minutes. Remember me by birth, man by choice.
Yeah, these are tips, strategies, virtue skills, ideals to teach your son now, sort of like the dude in Crimson Tide, Gene Hackman's character who ran the fire drill or ran an emergency drill during a fire on board the ship. He said, you know, I think chaos is something to embrace. I think these are great times to teach your son about preparing. Teach him how to prepare for something like this little checklist? Do we have this?
Do we have that?
Make him part of the process of checking for supply, so making sure things are battened down. Anything loose that could be picked up by a wind is put away, you know, putting water in places or going to the store with you. Make your son part of the process. Let him see you go through a little checklist. It's not just about teaching him how to prepare for a storm should he remain in an area impacted by these types of things. It's about teaching him the art of
preparation in general. This is a skill set that can be applied to so many things, something as simple as a gathering of friends preparing to passing an exam at school. Preparing back with our three sal News on deck here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, the almost every segment disclaimer. Yes there's a storm forming, Yes
it's heading our direction. No, we don't know much more than that, other than the window could be anywhere from five in the afternoon on Thursday in terms of landfall to midnight Thursday night. That's the variable. We're looking at a Cat three. We're following it. We've got our eyes on it. As we say, prepare doesn't matter. Prepare. We're going to get hit. It's going to get wet, Trees are going to be down, power is going to be lost. Prepare.
All right, Now we move into the third hour of the program, and joining me in studio is our friend from Consumer's Defense, where he is the executive director, Salnuzoh. Hello, good morning to you. How's life. Well, you know, I just went through my short list of things that I think the legislature needs to address. But we've got time for that. Sure the committee weeks Remind everybody now because we'll be away from the election cycle. The session runs
in what used to be the normal window. Correct, the session will run March April into early May. The committee weeks, there's an organizational committee week for the House after I think it's after Thanksgiving, and then they have a couple of committee weeks, an organization meeting for the Senate. The main thrust of the committee weeks where they will get to actual bill business is January into February, and then they'll launch it off the second first Tuesday after the
first Monday in March. I've always likened the legislative session and committee weeks and all of that to sort of like football in that the off season is when if you're going to make changes, you make it in the off season, because making changes in the season I e. The session a little difficult to a person listening out there that they want legislation considered, they want their lawmakers
to address something. Is this the most fruitful time of the year before committee weeks or is it committee weeks?
No.
I would suggest if you've got an idea for a piece of legislation, or an idea that you think could become legislation, you should be reaching out to your state representative, your state senator. Now, most of the districts in the state, the it's a foregone conclusion who is going to win now that we're past the primaries. There's only a handful of really really competitive districts where it could go either way.
But likely, and I'll go out on a limb on this, likely Alison Tant will retain her office as a state representative in House district I think eight or nine. Corey Simon's actually probably one of the more competitive Senate districts out there.
Yeah, the lives of Daryl Parks are taking hold.
I don't necessarily suggest that. What I would suggest is that the makeup of the district and the demographics of the electorate lend itself to a slightly more competitive district than I would otherwise hope for in that respect. But historically it has been a complete Democrat district.
Correct. Corey Simon flipped that as many think what you're saying now worked in his favor, that it was more diverse and more conservative than the district used to be.
Yeah, the two things being that Corey Simon, Senator Simon is an African American Republican. When they reapportioned that district. It moved into an area out west where you have more conservatives that were lending itself to him being more competitive, and then he was able to draw a significant percentage of votes in this community against Loreen Osley when he run to effectively flip it. It's still a competitive district
relative to others in the state. So yes, right now is the time where if you have an idea, you should be reaching out to your members. And you know, just unlike your member of Congress, your state representative, your state senator will quickly respond and meet with you about a particular idea. They are members of your community. They do not travel to Washington, d C. They don't they live They live in the community day to day. They're only in Tallahassee for the session and the committee weeks.
Good stuff, all right, We're gonna start digging in a little bit deeper. Next here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott, that sale news of Consumer's Defense, who's executive director. We talked about that just a couple of weeks ago, and of course you know that exploded your profile. Yeah, we had a little discussion.
We had some fun, and now it's I'm all over the place. Sure, Yeah, that's that's we're gonna.
Go with that, all right.
So you've picked on picked up a couple of issues that you think are are deserving of and will get some attention in the upcoming legislative session. Yeah, and one in particular.
Now, we have talked about this a few shows back, but I think it's absolutely worth bringing back up. And that's particularly because of the storm, but also because of some developments that have happened in the last couple of weeks. So in twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four, the legislature in particular twenty twenty four passed a series of reforms to condo structures, requiring inspections for older buildings I
think either twenty five or thirty years old. Now, it's important to note that a while back, maybe and I know it was in the Charlie cris Days, they rescinded the requirement to conduct these in depth structural engineering inspections. If the condo board wanted to forego them, they were costly, and if the condo association wanted to go without, they
said that, you're right, you can. You can vote to for go those In the wake of the Serf side collapse a few years back, the legislature decided, well, maybe that wasn't such a good idea, And so what's happening now is, as of January first, twenty twenty five, the requirement will go into place, and you have a lot of these, mainly beachfront, very old condo buildings structurally may not be in the best shape, and so they're going to have to expend a whole lot of money to
get these inspections done and then potentially have to go back and do repair, do repair, fortifications, all of the things that would prevent a tragic incident. Well, you also have in those structures and in those buildings a lot of people who have paid over time and have paid off their mortgages. They're unfixed incomes. There are largely occupied in certain areas by elderly retirees. Sure, and this is
going to be a huge financial hit. There's some data that have come out in the last month or two that in certain areas, particularly in South Florida, better than ninety percent of the new real estate listings are for these old condos that people are anticipating the fact that they will not be able to afford to live in those facilities any longer, because when they have to do five million dollars worth of repairs, they're going to have to assess every single resident of the facility, and so
that's just going to hit some people. So the governor saw this as a potential big challenge, and we already have kind of a housing challenge as it stands. So he had suggested that in light of this law coming online in twenty twenty five January one, that maybe the legislature should come back in a special session and figure out how to address something like this. That led to a very detailed letter from the Senate President, Kathleen Pasadomo
basically throwing water on that idea. Her conjectory of a special session, yes, and the idea of a significant amount of state help. Her point was, hey, look, these condo boards knew when they voted for the foregoing of these that they were putting they were sort of kicking the can down the road on anything that might happen. It's their responsibility. They should have been engaged. It was a very detailed letter, and she was very diplomatic in her
assessment of that. That also led to the sponsor of the bill Representative Vicky Lopez suggesting, well, maybe they need to come back, but it shouldn't be before January one. They need to wait until after January one. There is a lot in flux on this. It will absolutely impact the folks in Bay County and all of those condo complexes that are on Highway ninety eight and front be driven and all of those.
It's a pickle, and so this is.
Something where I'm paying a lot of attention to how they're going to navigate this moving forward.
We're going to chew on that pickle for a couple of minutes here when we come back. SALNWZO with us from Consumers Defense on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Sal Newsoh and I having a very festive, lively, robust discussion here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott off air, and just quick reminder, we have our eyes on the storm. It is deciding where and when, and we'll be following all of that. But we're talking about the condo associations
and of course the collapse in South Florida. It was a terrible tragedy. But let me be contrarian here. Sure, if we have all of those condo owners owning single family homes right next to the condo. Correct, they would not be eligible, or we would not be considering anything like this. We would be talking about your home. It's your responsibility. It's up to you to decide whether you want to spend the money to fix the peers supporting it,
or if you want to just take your chances. When the storm comes, it washes away, and you decide whether you're going to rebuildor you're going to sell it to the highest bidder.
Well, and you also have I mean, you have a combination of your own property insurance, what exists for federal Disaster Aid and state disaster rate if those were to come down. And I will admit I've never had to plug into any of those programs, so I don't know how much or what the value of them is to an individual homeowner.
But yes, you're correct, But the state wouldn't be stepping in to think about bailing me out.
No, And to be clear, I think one of the options that was floated, and I can't remember who who had mentioned this or where I read it, but was not necessarily a full on bailout, but where it would be kind of a granted program or something like that, but there could be a program akin to a low interest loan that the state provided a pot of money, so that if a condo association wanted to apply for this, if they had millions and millions of dollars that was
going to hit their residents, and they could prove a hardship, there would be some kind of benchmark to measure it by and some loans to where it wouldn't necessarily be an outright bailout, but it would.
Address I think the.
Political policy versus the public policy aspect of it. So in theory, I am one hundred percent with you. I'm generally a libertarian if you forego and I side kind of with KP on this, Kathleen Pasadomo, the Senate President, I kind of side with her in the sense that you decided as an association to forego this inspection.
Hopefully it took a vote.
Yeah, hopefully you took a vote, and you should have been prepared for that, and you should have been putting money in reserves or whatever. So there's a part of me that is very sympathetic and agrees with that completely.
There is a little part of me, though, that recognizes that this has a potential domino effect or waterfall effect, where it could be a more substantive problem for the States residents who aren't on the coast, should it collapse the system or the the economy of the housing economy account collapse in that respect. So you know there, I'm but I completely get and respect that position.
Yeah.
See see I And what Sal and I were talking about off air is this simple reality is that this is impacting primarily an older generation that has historically said in unison for decades, look at us. We give everybody everything in this country. We're given away a bomb of phones, we're given away, welfare, we're given away to have babies, we're given away and you're in you're opposed to all of that until this and this is still the government stepping in and giving money away.
Potentially, Yeah, but potentially, And we want to be clear, there has not been a an actual proposal.
Failery for us. This is kind of where these things happen.
Sure, And I can't remember who had written this book that I someone had given me a years back claiming that baby boomers have completely destroyed American prosperity through the very mindset that one of the mindsets that you're you're referencing, which is basically, we're all kind of a free marketer until we all want our little piece of whatever. Yeah, piece of whatever. And look, I am absolutely a little bit guilty of this at times myself. None of us
are perfect. I'm looking at this, yeah, especially with that cowboy hat.
Agreed.
Yeah, so I am looking at this through the lens of the political policy and the public policy kind of avenues or there's a difference. There really is a public policy on this has some marked differences from the political policy and what might be the most prudent thing politically for the legislature and the governor to do in light of I would suggest, in light of twenty five years or twenty years dating back to Charlie Christen.
Those decisions.
All right, thanks as always.
Gosh, three segments seems just not enough, I know, but we got a storm. We have a storm, and we will be back to five soon.
Thank you, sir.
Always a pleasure, my friend.
Sal News, Oh, consumers, defense, my guests. Twenty seven past the hour, Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, thirty five minutes past the hour, Big stories in the press box. Keeping an eye on the storm right now. We do not have many specifics other than there will be a likely category two or three storm. There's uncertainty over exactly where it's going to be. Most have if you were to put the cone, the infamous cone out there, Panama City to the far west of it.
Steinhatchie cedar Key is the most likely far east of it, And so where we are is kind of in the middle of it, and a very likely impact in our region where we will see some pretty dramatic effects. Consider this. We certainly had some impact from Hurricane Debbie. Debbie just crawled into Category one. This is looking category three. So even if it's to our immediate south and east, the spin up of it is going to be really impactful. And it's been a long time since Tallas he's been hit.
There are people saying it's never been hit. No, it's been hit. It was in the mid eighties, eighty five, eighty six. Anyway, other big stories in the press box this morning here on the radio program Money Talk. In just a couple of minutes, the suspect in the attempted assassination of Trump on his own golf course here in Florida left a note this was an assassination attempt. He further said that he failed. I guess it was one of those that the note was one of those that
it opened. If he gets arrested or something like that, I don't know. I tried my best. I will offer one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to whomever can complete the job. So not only did he have a firearm and was prepared to whatever extent you can call him prepared, he's now soliciting. So he's in trouble and he'll enjoy the rest of his life on taxpayer expense at a federal prison near you. I hope the mainstream media gains some sense of courage and quits using his name, but
that's not going to happen. I want to point out that the left is not talking about the banning of quote, assault weapons, and of course it's absurd anyway, right, we don't agree with that. However, it's about the inconsistency of the messaging. If the target had been Kamala or Joe, it would be NonStop at these we gotta get guns out of the hands of people, non stop. But as long as Trump's the target, it's okay as long as congressional Republicans at a baseball game or the are the target,
that's okay. Isn't it interesting how the outrage changes based on the target. Hey, Dems listening to the program, how sick is that? And don't tell me I'm wrong because I'm not. I'm right. I'm absolutely correct. Florida Sheriff's Association taking a position opposing recreational marijuana. Couple of sheriffs statewide, including Gaston County Sheriff Morris Young, are wrong and are saying, oh, you gotta vote for it. It'll reduce crime. No, no, no,
it will reduce nothing. Look at what's happened where it's been legalized. The black market explodes. Contrary to what you think, that's what happens. Didictions go up? Harsher drugs because it is a gateway. You're hurting children and miners because they get access to it because it's now legal. Not for them, But does that stop teenagers from drinking? You're making it easier only with kids and young adults. Their brain is still forming and it will never ever recover from the
damage that's done. And oh, by the way, right now, one out of four traffic fatalities. One of the drivers has weed in their system one out of four. Forty minutes after the hour, Money Talk, Howard Heisman is standing by next Little Money Talk. Investment advisor Howard Heisman with Enhanced Financial Services joins me a couple times each month. Securities and advisory services are offered through NBC Securities Inc. Member fenner An SIPC. NBC Securities Inc. Is a wholly
owned subsidiary of RBC Bank USA. Opinions expressed are not those of NBC Securities Inc. Or iHeartMedia. On appropriate matter, seek professional tax and or legal advice. Howard, the Fed cut the rates, Huh?
How about that? I pulled the trigger there?
That was sort of expected. But what impact will it have?
Great question? Well, first, let's address the fact that this is the first rate cut since March third, twenty twenty, right at the early stages of the pandemic. And so this ends the streak of four and a half plus years without a cut. That's the second longest everurbe or at least in the last fifty years. And that trail only the ten plus years that we went without a ray cut from December eighth to July of twenty nineteen. Now to address your question, I'd like to frame it
from an investment perspective. If that's okay, Preston.
Of course, great.
Let's look at because I went back and I dug up, did some analytical work, went all the way back to December of nineteen fourteen, World War One through current and when they first cut rates. The question from a financial investment point of view, if we're looking at the Dow Jones industrial average, is how was the market performing before
that first ray cut? And for me, the data I've used is if the Dow Jones had fallen by ten percent or more in the two year period prior to the first rate cut, the next twelve months, the Dow Jones on average was up thirty However, and I think you're going your listeners are going to see something that will ring a bell here. However, if the Dow Jones in the two years prior to the first rate cut had risen by ten percent or more, the return the next twelve months was a pretty meager two point six
percent on average. We certainly fall into that category because over the last two years the Marcus have been up, you know, twenty five percent or so.
Howard.
What's interesting to me is before this rate cut happened, with the elevated interest rates that of course cross all sectors of the consumer world, everything from homes to autos to obviously consumer credit borrowing is up and that just blows my mind.
Well, you gotta do what you got to do, and.
US consumers, as you just pointed out, have been increasing the borrowing on the credit card twenty five and a half billion to be precise, Preston, which is the most since November of two thousand and twenty two in any single month, and way above forecast. And that involves both revolving debt which would be credit cards ten point six billion added there, and non revolving debt such as auto loans or student loans, and that rose to a twelve month high in the month of July of fourteen point
eight billion. So I think it speaks to the fact that the economy is slowing in some areas. Housing certainly is slowing, and yet expenses having come down even though the rate of has subsided some over the last several months.
Great inside Howard, thanks for the time today. I appreciate it. We'll talk again soon.
Thank you.
Preston. Have great afternoon.
Thank you. Now Howard Eisman with us today on the Morning Show with Preston Scott, just running all the various simulations out there, and you know, I think that we're looking at a landfall in our region. My best gas based on all of the different different simulations I've looked at, is going to be somewhere north of cedar Key and stein Hatchie and somewhere to the east of Panama City. Panama City is kind of the outer part of the cone where it could go, but everything is dependent on
the weather. That is to our north, it's a it's I think it's a low front that is going to push down and how far it pushes down will determine the steering of the storm that's being formed. That's right now. You know, if I zoom in here, it's off the it's it's south of Cuba, and it's to the it's to the east of the Mexican Peninsula where it juts out there played to Carmen del Carmen, north of Van Douras at this point, but it's starting to organize itself.
The the winds are just about thirty four knots consistent on the north east wall of this thing. And so yeah, that's what that's what you're looking at. And so we're looking at an arrival between five and and midnight on Thursday, five in the afternoon and midnight. Depending on the speed, slow is bad. Slow means it's going to gain more strength. The offset, of course, is the speed. You know, personally, give me five o'clock in the afternoon if it's going
to hit, I want a little daylight at least. Storms coming in the middle of the night creep me out. They just do because you don't You just don't know what you're dealing with. And for me, you know, we we we've just we've got a lot of decisions that we'll be making around here on how we proceed. We will be covering this regardless. Technology affords us the ability to cover it in a myriad of ways. So just keep listening, keep informed, and of course tomorrow will update you.
Here on the Morning Show, brought to you by Barono Heating and Air, it's the Morning Show one on WFLA. We got to Hebrews ten this morning, and we started up in verse nineteen and then went backwards from there. Big stories in the press box. The would be Assassin number two says, this ow to settle it for the mainstreamers trying to downplay and deny it. This was an assassination attempt, but I failed, he wrote, and I will offer one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to whomever can
complete the job. That I and any idea of a plea or any idea of reduced charges. Because at the very least you've got an attempt at assassination and solicitation to commit a crime. I hope you enjoy the rest of your life in federal prison. The president of the Florida Sheriff's Association, Bill Leeper out of Nassau County, signed a note making it a clear, making it clear, by opposing the legalization and commercialization of recreational marijuana, we are
committed to safeguarding our citizens from various potential harms. What does it say when the Sheriff of Gadsden County, Morris Young, is in favor of the passage of Amendment three maris, I love you, brother, but you are so cosmically wrong. It's horrifying. One out of every four traffic fatalities involves a driver that is under the influence of weed. Imagine if it's legalized. I know, well you can't drive under the influence they are. They're doing it anyway. Now it'll
be legal and more, we'll do it Ogloma. Removing four hundred and fifty thousand illegal, ineligible, sorry ineligible voters from the roles since twenty twenty one covered a little more ground as well. Friends, We're going to do it again tomorrow and I hope you join us. Have a great day.