Wake up everybody, Why, let's wake up? Come on, come on, can I wake up? Climb, Come on, let's wake up. We can have a really well time together. Come on, everybody, come on, let's wake up. It'll be great fun. We'll be powashing everything, you know, just hanging out and talking about stuff. It'll be it'll be awesome. How you doing, friends, Good morning and welcome. He's Oseiah, I'm Preston. He's the hooded wonder man. I don't know. I don't know how in the world you manage with a hood over your
head and then earphones over the hood. You've got to have the volume absolutely booming on those things. Yeah, I mean, I could definitely hear I got them mooming. But it's a little chili. So turn the air conditioning up. Oh no, no, no, it's fine. Yeah. Helping yourself, stay away my Eskimo clothing. Yeah, he leaves a winter jacket in here, and uh and you know toboggan or you know, a little little beanie
of some kind to pull over his ears. And if he doesn't have a hoodie, and so he's he's always equipped for the weather system that he creates in that studio. What can I say, I'm a South Floridable, Yeah, which I don't understand. Why you keep it so cold. You'd think you're Grand Allen Grant. Grand Allen at least has some time spent living in the Midwest where it's cold in the winter, and so that's a preference for him. Well, well, I care more about the equipment and keeping the equipment
nice and cold. Try clip, It'll be just fine.
It.
Oh, I don't know seventy degrees versus fifty eight, But you know why quibble anyway, Good morning, friends, Welcome to the Wednesday program. Yeah, another storm for those in central Florida is bearing down on that part of the state. One of our kids is down there and he is in a in an area where he decided that it was best for him to stay because it's not a flood zone. He is well elevated. He's like flood zone E,
which is biblical. That's that's what that zone is. And he's like, you know, getting out and getting back.
Is just.
I'm just going to stay and I'll you know, I'm just prepared to lose power and deal with it. So we've spent the last you know, half a day just kind of advising on Here's here's some lists, here's some things that might be useful. Charge your phones and get some backup power available for that purpose. But anyway, yeah, millions evacuated. Well, I'll tell you what, God help anybody who tries to take advantage of this and breaks into
homes while people are gone. And I feel like God has special punishment for people like that.
But you know what do I know?
Let's start with some scriptures speaking of God Romans eight eleven. If the spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead, will also give life to your mortal bodies through his spirit who dwells in you. There's a lot said there, but let me get to what it really boils down to. Are you a Christian? And if your answer is yes, why would you say that it's yes,
you are a Christian. If you're a Christian for any other reason, then that you believe that Jesus died for your sins, your personal shortcomings and mistakes and sins, and that he died, but he rose from the dead and he now sits at the right hand of God. And you believe that with all of your heart. If it's anything other than that, if you think it's because you did this or you did that, or when you were a child you were dunked in some water, had some
water sprinkled, you're not there. If it's anything other than that, you're not there. So that's my challenge to you. Ten past the hour, open up the American Patriots almanact next on the Morning Show with Moah and him one point seven double USLA. All right, eleven minutes after the hour, And if the money maker sounds a little better today, it is. I'm not there yet, but I'm better and uh, just fighting off the crud. And I've got a regimen
that I use that is really good at that. But what I have as well as I have a secret weapon, and my secret weapon is something called throat Coat. Throat coat is an organic tea and it's called throat coat supports throat health and immune function lemon Echinasia. Now, this stuff is by a company called Traditional Medicinals, and it was shared with me by a colleague of mine that worked for Fox Sports. When we were we were doing a a basketball tournament where we were alternating games and
she said, I am I am dying. My my throat is killing me. Can you Because she's she's doing the game, she said, is there any way you can run and find this stuff? I'd never heard of it, but I found it, and she took a couple of glasses of this tea. She rocked out out the rest of the tournament. It was an SEC men's or women's basketball tournam I forget, which probably a women's because at that time they weren't
doing women doing the men's games. I did both. But anyway, it's got it's got stuff in it that you go. I mean, it's not the best tasting stuff on the planet. I add a little bit of honey, but it's got organic echinasia in fact echinasia perporeea root, organic licorice root, organic licorice root, dry aqueous extract, organic marshmallow leaf, organic marshmallow root, organic fenel fruit, organic orange peel, cinnamon bark, lemon peel, all organic organic lemon, myrtle. And there you go.
And all I can tell you is I have since learned that number one, this stuff works. It's incredible. If you have to do like a speaking engagement and you're fighting it and your throat's trouble. This can get you through throat coat and get it everywhere. And the brand name is Traditional Medicinals. And I have since learned that singers swear by this stuff. They'll like travel with buckets of this stuff. So it's a thing. And that's what I'm sipping on this morning, all right. I know it's Look,
I'm here to help. And we're getting into that season where I'm gonna be feeling just fine and you're gonna be struggling, and you're gonna say, what was that stuff talking? And I'll be here for you. Just know that. But I'm just getting I'm helping you get ahead of it here. October ninth, sixteen thirty five. Religious discent dissident, Sorry, Roger Williams banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. I wonder what he did? Could probably look that up. I mean, religious
dissident could mean a lot of things. Was he opposed to religion? Was he opposed to how they were teaching it? Because harris is a thing. I don't know. Seventeen eighty one. James Fortson, James Fortson, Sorry, can I just start over? James Forton held at the British ship Amphion where he refuses an offer of freedom if he'll go to England with the captain's son. Nope, said nope. There's a great story there. I've read his story. It's a fascinating story.
It's just one of those stories people don't know about. Joshua Stoddard, Massachusetts patents the calliope, new musical instrument played by the agency of steam or highly compressed air. Think circus when you think calliope, think that sound that you hear with a merry go round of the old days.
That was eighteen fifty five eighteen seventy six, Alexander Graham, Bell and Thomas Watson hold the first telephone conversation over outdoor wires, and in nineteen thirty six, Boulder Dam now Hoover Dam begins sending electricity across two hundred and sixty six miles of mountain and deserts to Los Angeles. And of course that is where the Decepticons are held. And I think every now and then, bumblebee, seventeen past the hour. I'll be back, sorry, I will be phone.
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Here we go and Iheart's radio station twenty two past the hour. Many of you visiting, perhaps you've stumbled upon us. We are part of the WFLA family. We're all just IHEARTWFLA across the state talk radio. So you find WFLA, you know that you're getting talk radio. That's what you get news talk, and that's what we have, news and talk, and I'm the talk version bringing some news sort of kind of. Look, I get it. You will be paying attention if you're here visiting the area and you evacuated
out you want to know what's going on. I get that. The iHeartRadio app is your friend. Just stream the station you listen to normally throughout the day. I'm quite certain they'll be in full time coverage as the day progresses and throughout the evening, into the morning and beyond. This is not going to be a good event, if for no other reason, the water don't know what the wind's
going to actually be. I've had proven my doubts over the National Hurricane Center's wind estimates over the last few storms. And I say proven because their own reports show that the storms were not nearly the strength from a wind perspective as we were told and have been told they were But it doesn't mean that those storms don't happen.
They do.
It's not global warming. It's called the climate, it's called earth. It's called what happens when you have summertime in this part of the world. It just it happens. And as our guest next hour will show, Scott Beacon of the Beeline blogger, he is the writer of the author of He's he's a data cruncher by by tradition, by by profession, and since retiring, he's devoted more time to blogging, using
data as his launching pad. And so he's he's looked at hurricane data and thought it would be good to talk about just historically where we are, because the news is going to sensationalize this dramatically, and and that's not to diminish the fact that there will be disruption, there will be flooding, there will be storm surge, that this is a storm that's going to bring problems. But I have maintained that that complete accuracy is required by the
federal government. But there's an alter there's an ulterior motive to the data that's being presented now. And so you have to go deeper in verifying things. It's not about well, look at the damage. Yeah, I get it, there's damage, there's the Helene damage, North Carolina damage. We get it.
But the accuracy of the report determines so much in the future whether people are going to believe them when they say what they say, or will they overtime go oh, here they go again, and then over time people just dismiss it and die as a result. That's a big deal. It's a very important issue. So I'm not majoring in the miners.
I am.
I am if anything, minoring in the majors. This is important. But while you are in the area, we will talk about other things today. We certainly will keep our eye on the storm. But we've got other big stories in the press box coming up in just a few minutes, Scott Beacon next hour, and then a bunch of individual stories throughout. If you're new to the program, we don't do this show like you might be used to where you come from. We do morning drive radio a little
bit differently. It's more of a long form listen with bite sized nuggets, meaning we think you can enjoy listening to the show for three hours and not get a regurgitation of the same stuff over and over and over and over all day long. We leave the National News the national host to kind of pick one or two
things and go at it. We cover a lot of different grounds, so it's more of an audio magazine format, and I think if you stick around, you'll find that in the course of the next two and a half hours, you've learned a lot. Whether you agree or disagree with my view of it, it doesn't matter. But you'll learn about stories that are out there that might be warranting your attention. Twenty seven past the hour, back with those big stories in the press box, next to the Morning
Show with Preston Scott Doufla. Yeah, one of our listeners. NBC News reporting that Milton's rapid intensification part of a climate fueled trend, quoting global warming is boosting the intensity of storms by providing the ingredients necessary for them to strengthen, including warm sea surface temperatures and high levels of moisture in the atmosphere. All right, okay, look, if you'll notice, you'll hear, you'll hear this hasn't been heat like this since.
Then.
There's a number there hasn't been storms like this since and there's a number. That's because we have endured storms like this for years, and in fact, the evidence shows storm frequency is down. Now you can be unencumbered by facts and go ahead and jump off the cliff of global warming all you like. But I'll remind you that Al Gore is certain settled science predictions inside his movie. Not one of them came to fruition, not a single one.
And in fact, shortly after we went a period of years without I don't think we even had one hurricane, we're back having some hurricanes. But if you look at it historically, the trend is down, it's not up. Here's the thing. At some point the conditions will be perfect for a horrible storm to hit somewhere. We live in a fallen world. Friends, I'll clean this up. Crap happens as a result. It's a bad storm that's coming to the Tampa, Sarasota Fort Myers area. It's back up to
a Cat five. They say, maybe it is, maybe it isn't. I don't know. I don't think it matters. Just remember the definition of a Cat five storm. CAT five is sustained wins at one hundred and fifty seven miles per hour or higher. Cat five is a bad, bad storm. But they've happened before. This is not new. They've happened before. A storm hasn't intensified this fast since, yes, since when exactly it's happened before. Now, I'll tell you what really is a big story. That's a big story. This storm
is a big story. Even though we're not directly impacted here in our region this time, this is a big story. We have friends, we have family, we have people that are here in town from that storm. We care about what happens to you. Let me tell you what's happening in North Carolina. We've got video from multiple angles of an unmarked military style Blackhawk helicopter. Did I mention unmarked? You know that's a violation of the FAA. The pilots
are wearing military headsets. According to the United Cajun Navy, who are on site distributing gear, they said two unmarked SUVs came by and shortly thereafter, the helicopter shows up and does a rotor wash. Now, if you don't know what a rotor wash is, it's when a helicopter comes down low enough and it's rots create that push and it's capable of blowing everything all over the place. According to volunteers working rescue and resupply operations in the area,
it destroyed a bunch of gear. That's a story. You combine that with FEMA and its lack of response, the federal government and its lack of response, and the possibility that this was an unmarked military vehicle of some kind, not vehicle, we unmarked military vehicles, and then the unmarked helicopter. We've got a problem. Forty one minutes after the hour, Big Stories in the press Box in the Morning Show
with Presto Scott. All Right, for those of you in and around the Capital City, bad motorcycle crash tying up traffic in all directions at Capital Circle Southwest and Pensicola Street, so just be advised. All right, that's Pensacola Street and Capital Circle. I'm just sending a note here, thank you for the call in. All right, there we go. If you have If you have an issue like that and you don't remember the phone numbered or the text for
our traffic department, you just send it our way, all right. Sorry, let me get refocused here. There is a campaign and this is from the Daily Caller spending money in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada. What do those states have in common, Well, they're called battleground states. What does it tell you when the Democrat Party is working with ActBlue.
I mean, that's one of their packs, and working with artists, the Artist United for Change pack spending one hundred thousand dollars on a hands Off My Porn campaign. Now, twenty states, including Georgia and North Carolina across the country have passed age verification requirements to access online porn sites like porn Hub. That's not the story. Here's the story. What does this
tell you about what Democrats are worried about. What they're polling is telling them about young men in these battleground states and what they're leaning towards. They're leaning to Trump. You don't go here running campaigns to protect porn, which is perhaps the largest online industry short of Amazon, in the world. You don't go there unless you are trying to specifically target a very very narrow demographic, young men.
I think it's hilarious, waste your money. The fact is young people are leaning into Trump because they perceive Trump correctly. By my Dad as an anti establishment candidate. Republicans almost hate him as much as Democrats do this time around, not so much because Republicans are smart enough to recognize the good that was done in his four years, and so even those most of those that have extreme animus against him, they're burying it. They view him as a
necessary evil at this point. Whatever. I just hope that Trump, if he wins reelection, I hope he goes in with a better set of advisors, not trusting anyone inside the Beltway, and with a demolition sledgehammer in one hand and a power chisel in the other, a pile driver, and really goes to work dismantling the size of this government. Forty seven minutes after the hour, come back a story which you just cannot make up. You will laugh, all right?
Got a note from text from a buddy. National Guard is allegedly taking responsibility for what happened with the helicopter. The North Carolina National Guard is aware of an incident involving a black Hawk helicopter during a delivery of generators at the request of local civilian organization to power their distribution outposts. Blah blah blah blah blah. While attempting to land rot awash caused items to blow away from the
local distribution set up by a group of civilians. The crew immediately identify the situation, aboarded the landing for safety reasons, departed the area. The incident's currently under investigation. Crew has been grounded. Blah blah blah. All right, and it goes on to say from there, Number one, why was the helicopter unmarked? That is a violation of the FAA. That's a massive violation. Friends, that's what that's what drug runners use,
that's what the government uses with covert ops. So that's problem number one with that explanation. Problem number two. Generators what little little mini ones. There's nothing, No big generators being brought in. And everybody that witnessed it and videotaped it, it's videotaped shows a pretty intentional rotor wash. Their items are clearly marked, they're visible. It was what you didn't notice, the crowd and all of the palettes of goods and
the setup when you approached. Now I call this cover. National Guard is falling on the sword for somebody. We'll see, if we ever get the names of the crew, we'll see. I'm not buying it. I'm not if for no other reason, the unmarked helicopter alone, all right, I said there was something funny coming here. It's funny because no one died and no one was hurt severely. There were a couple injuries. The HMNZS mana Wanui. That's a New Zealand warship. It's
actually a survey and dive vessel. It's one hundred million commission. In twenty eighteen, New Zealand lost the vessel. It ran aground, burst into flames and sank off the coast of Samoa. This leaves the Royal New zeal Navy with five five fully operational ships, because this one is no more. The Captain Yvonne Gray happens to be a transplant from the UK and the British Navy, and she happens to be a lesbian. Now was she given command for the sake
of diversity? Yes, New Zealand does these things. New Zealand is a woke country. It's a cool country, but it's woke. It's just she bragged about getting command. And this is an opportunity to take a ship still in its infancy. Further, the capability of that ship, you mean like running it aground, having it flip to its side and burst into flames. Okay, well you've proved it's capable of sinking. Funny how things work out. Morning friends, Welcome to the Morning Show with
Preston Scott. He's Osaia. I'm Preston and Ruminators. Good to be with you, Wednesday, October ninth. A lot of you from central Florida are up in the listening area, and of course we have folks listening across the country on iHeartRadio,
and we thank you for that. But it's funny. I started following this gentleman's work back a few years ago, and lo and behold, a listener of this show new personally Scott Beacon, the b Line Blogger and the website where you can find his work is bline Blogger dot blogspot dot com. And now Scott is a friend of the program. Scott, how are you?
I'm doing great? How you doing this point in, Preston.
I'm doing well. A couple weeks ago we were not so well. We were worried about what was coming our way. I'm curious you wrote about the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, but I'm curious why, what caused you to want to do some digging as you normally do and write.
Well.
I became a little curious and interested because I well remember all the media coverage and the things that went on in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and if you recall back to those days, it was just wall to wall media coverage, the cable news it was twenty four to seven New York Times, I think, went a week and almost every story on the front page was Katrina, Katrina, Katrina and the response, And as you recall, there was a lot of criticism of FEMA and President Bush as
to how that response was managed. And it just was kind of interesting when you look at the destruction and the devastation to the people, especially in the Appalachian area of western North Carolina eastern Tennessee, it was a very muted response, and I found that very curious and looking at what was going on and trying to figure out why is that. I mean, you know, part of it could be that, you know, New Orleans was an urban area easier to get coverage in there you have a
mountainous region. Was that the reason or was it a reason that the media was really trying to cover for the Biden administration and the muted response. I mean, we went through a period of time here. You know, I saw one summary it was probably a good five or six days that there was very little with regard to a federal response, you know, Biden that did not mobilize, even though they got the troops there at Fort Bragg that could easily come over there with equipment, et cetera,
and none of that was done. And it didn't seem to happen until Donald Trump went down to Valdosa, Georgia, kind of near you, and all of sudden it kind of got ramped up. It was just kind of been interesting.
Then Alejandro Majorcis Homeland Security director, announced that there just won't be enough money should another storm hit. They might be able to cover everything for this storm, but future storms are out of money. I think a lot of people, Scott were surprised that FEMA was underneath the auspices of Homeland Security exactly.
And you know, when you look at that, and that's something I looked in as well. You know, FEMA, I mean, FEMA has a budget of about thirty billion dollars a year. You know, put that in context. If it was a fortune five hundred company, it would be bigger than McDonald's. They've got fourteen thousand full time equivalent employees on the
payroll of FEMA. And then to say you don't have enough money, and then you find out, as the revelations continue, that they funded one point four billion dollars with regard to illegal immigration, settling, transportation, housing, shelter and grants over the last couple of years. And it just makes your
head scratch. You're saying, we're spending this kind of money on illegal immigration, which in some respect, the open border policy is a man made disaster, and you have a natural disaster which really what was FEMA was created to handle, and there's no money left. It really is almost unbelievable.
Scott standby Scott Beacon with us the Bline Blogger. More to come here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Hit 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. All right, eleven past the Hour with Scott Beacon and again his work can be found at Bline Blogger dot blogspot dot com and you will get some great data driven information and analysis and some opinion from Scott. Scott, I want to I want to expand a little bit because we've talked about over the last few days the money misappropriated by Homeland Security to shelter illegals that have broken into
this country. But you dug into releases by FEMA, actual releases that delineate where some of this money is gone in bits and pieces. Share some of that.
Well, there's a long list of headlines that I put in my blog, you know, with regard to you know, grants that were given to you to New York City or this place or that. I mean, it's it's been parceled out in a lot of different grants for community
of these who are receiving the migrants. I think I could go back in the history it started out and normally, let's say in twenty one twenty two, it started primarily in the border states who are really taking most of the pressure early on with the open border situation, and then it started moving to some of the Blue States as New York City, Chicago, et cetera, as a lot
of the migrants or illegal immigrants ended up there. So it's a tremendous amount of money when you look at it, and you know, I could see where are the citizens of these areas affected by Helene are upset because they're sitting there in dire straits and to find out that illegal immigration has really stolen that money in some respects. And this really goes to a point that I'd made
in my blog before. You know, when you look at the topic of illegal immigration, there's the initial effect, but then there's a compound effect that goes with that, right that we're going took with for years. And this is a certain a great example of a compound effect because you know, one point four billion dollars and in the defense of Biden administration, well that was in a separate account. You know that really wasn't taken away from the FEMA efforts.
Well, yes it is.
I mean, if you have a thirty billion dollar budget and you've siphoned off money to go to an illegal immigrant problem, that's money that should be there to help US citizens deal with the natural disasters. And the fact that it's not is a compound effect. And we see the same thing you know, with our hospitals, with our schools, with the sustainability issues that legal immigration just don't get talked about enough. It's affecting every phase of our life here in the United States.
Scott. We documented that in the wake of Michael, which was impacting not just us a little bit, but certainly our listeners. In the Panama City area directly, there were no concerts, there were no fundraisers, there was nothing made of it. Many of us believe that it was because it's a conservative, Republican part of the state that's even more conservative than the rest of the state. You look at the area to our east that has been hit
three times in sixteen months. No concerts, no fundraisers, no benefits, and so we've grown accustomed to certain areas not getting the favor of the Hollywood and the concert crowds and the muckety MUCKs because they frankly have overtly said they're not giving money because those are Republican areas. You pointed to that in your blog about a lot of these areas in North Carolina being Trump strongholds.
Yeah, exactly, that western North Carolina area in particular. I think you look at the numbers from twenty twenty of the twenty five counties that were declared the federal disaster all but two voted for Trump, and they actually provided him about a twenty five percent margin, So that translates into about two hundred and thirty four thousand votes, and he only won the state seventy four thousand, So you know,
that's a real concern. And when this initially hurt, was Heleia initially hit, and a lot of media coverage was of assvill.
Oh.
I've been to Asshl a number of times, asphil is a very liberal city, yep. And and I thought that maybe that would turn the tide a little bit here because that was kind of an epicenter. But it appears not. And you really see very little of people from Hollywood or anyplace else that say, hey, let's have a fundraiser for these people, because they're you know, there are a lot of the dire straits there.
But Scott, it's one thing for the Hollywood to thumb their nose at it. We're like, yeah, whatever. But when the federal government is not delivering aid and you can start to see the possibilities that it might be to somehow suppress the vote, that's alarming.
It is alarming. And and you look at the way FEMA is being managed. I mean I saw a story this morning. It's just as a head scratcher. But FEMA delivered to one community there greet palace of electric chainsauce. Okay, so electric chainsaw to a place that has no electricity. What does that do? And obviously you've got to know that, why do they have electric chain sauce? Well, that's green, right, we can't have a gas power chainsaw. We're going to
deliver electric power chain sauce. It's the height of idiocy.
Scott Beacon with us. We've got more to talk about when we come back. Sixteen past the hour. It is the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Back with Scott Beacon, the Beeline blogger, and he took on the topic of Hurricane Helene talked about the response or the lack thereof by the federal government, misappropriation of funding. But Scott, you
also broadened out a little bit. You went to the macro, which I loved because a constant theme around here is you always hear the expression we haven't had a storm like this since, and then there's a number, and we haven't had temperatures like this since, and there's a number. And those numbers are often numbers that go back to long before the industrial age of this country, long before we heard about global warming. Tell me what your data showed you.
Well, you're right, Preston. I mean you typically when you see storms like this, it's always, you know, unprecedented. We haven't seen anything like this in so many years, and it's all due to con climate change. But if you look at the area that we're talking about here with Helene that's both directly affected up around the Ashville, North Carolina area, you know, the evidence is they had similar flooding in In fact, some say it was stronger in
nineteen sixteen and again nineteen forty. Now I understand, you know people not many of us were around in those years and so people don't have that history. But the reality is they had just as severe a situations at that point in time as we're seeing today. So this really isn't unprecedented. And you look back to nineteen sixteen and what were the global carbon emissions at that point in time, I mean, what caused that flood? I mean, what caused the hurricane that dropped that amount of rain
back in that time. So you know, we keep hearing this that's unprecedented, and if you have you look at the data, which I've got a chart in my blog on this topic. It goes back and shows the hurricanes by decade. There is no real discernible change in the number of hurricanes by decade. In fact, you know, I think as you alluded to before, you know, you went how many years in Florida without a major hurricane over a decade? Now you're getting hit. But you know that's
you know, that's the weather. In fact, if you look at najor hurricanes, the data seems to indicate in the trend since eighteen fifties, at least since the nineteen thirties, the trend is actually down. There are many more severe hurricanes in the early part of the twentieth century than we've seen in the twenty first century. So unfortunately, you know, hurricanes, floods, wildfires, which we're seeing out in Wyoming and Idaho right now, it's a part of life. We're not capable of controlling
the forces of nature. I mean, that's been proven over and over again.
The thing that is.
Controllable or man made disasters like illegal immigration, and you know, that's really what we ought to be focusing on, is what we can really control and forget about things we can't control, like the climate.
You know, my worry, Scott is that the decision to I guess politicize weather is going to it at some point cost lives because people are going to disregard forecasts if they keep saying that there's going to be this, that or the other type of storm Category four, category five. It's like they continue to say that Helene was a Cat four storm. It just wasn't. There's no data that indicates it was a Cat three storm, and there's limited data to show that it might have been a Cat
two storm. But people will start to disregard these forecasts down the road if they find them to be false, and they will eventually disregard and then there's going to be a bad storm at some point and people are going to die because they will not believe what they're being told.
Exactly. And the same thing we're spending. They want to spend trillions of dollars to fight climate change, and that's taking away the amount of money that we might need to actually deal with van the deal with natural disasters that we would help people, and we're spending on frivolous things that really aren't going to make a bunch of difference in the long run.
Anyway, Scott beacon with us. Scott is a prolific writer, and I'll call him a researcher. You just love to crunch numbers, man, You love to dig into data. Tell us about the latest blog.
Well, I like truth. I mean, that's what I really wanted.
How dare you, sir, bring that word into my show?
And the truth is usually the data.
Yeah.
My lightest blog is up this morning is on the whole question of you know, taxes and the truth about taxes. And we hear so much about from Kamala Harris, for example, how she's going to solve all the problems by raising taxes on billionaires. And I really have the numbers there that kind of puts that in context and perspective. But it's really just a lie. I mean to put it bluntly, it's a lie. It's not possible to zoo what she's trying to do.
I can't believe you would say that there are people that would lie to us that are running for office. Scott, You're you're dipping to loads that, frankly, sir, are not becoming Hey, thank you, my friend. I appreciate the time this morning.
Okay, keep up the good work press and thanks.
I appreciate it. Scott Beacon the bee Line blogger. You can read about Scott. You can read all of his work just go to Bline Blogger all one word dot blogspot dot com.
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The Morning Show with Preston Scott and we are back doing what we do. Come and say samplified friends. It's Wednesday, October the ninth. Does the storm hit tonight? Does it slow down as predicted? There are the models that we pay attention to show early tomorrow morning it had slowed down to where it was going to be like eight am landfall, meaning the eye of the storm fully on land.
But it is since sped up a little bit, and now it's showing landfall at five am, which means this storm is going to be pushing ashore in the early hours of Thursday, according to the model that we use. Now there are some that say late tonight, it really doesn't matter unless we're dealing with tides, and I don't have the information on that. I probably should, but in that we're not in the direct area of it. I don't have it. But you know, if that storm comes
ashore in high tide, not good. Regardless of the rigging of the numbers that that are being released by the National Weather Service on wind speeds and so forth, it's still a bad storm. And that's what I hate about the position that people like me are placed in. Yes, it's a bad storm, but anyone who's lived in this area knows because we live around trees. That's that's our community we are. We are a tree lined community. We are not filled with palm trees and scrub brush from
from a beach. We are we are pine trees and live oaks, and that's what we're what we have here. Trees fall down without tropical storm force winds. If you have tropical storm force winds, you're gonna have trees knocked down. Stronger than that, you'll have more trees knocked down. But but a sustained wind of thirty forty miles an hour can push down trees. So you can't necessarily look at wind damage and say, well, see, there you go, that was a Cat three or four. It just wasn't a
Cat three or four. When Helene came through this one they're saying is a Cat five. It could end up being that. That would be horrible. I don't want it on anybody, But the data is clear. This this storm season is not what they said. It was going to be very active with lots of landfalls. It just isn't. It doesn't mean it's it's not a bad season. If anyone loses their life in a storm, it's bad. But it gets back to they make these predictions and then you don't hear much when they say that they were
when we know that they were wrong. It's like al Gore disappeared for eleven years when not one storm hit Florida, not one, eleven years, friends, and that was when we were told more storms, more violent, intense storms. It's just it's annoying to me that I have to play the role of adjudicator of some of this information and try to help sort it out, and at times I can look like I'm just you're clearly not aware that there
was a severe storm. Well, of course I'm aware. Tomorrow We're going to talk to someone in the middle of it in and around Asheville, my former producer, my friend David Allen. They finally have good sales service back. He's going to join me tomorrow. We're going to talk for a half hour, find out how it all unfolded, what he's seeing, what's happened up there, what's the sentiment of people? Why is the federal government dragging its feet in helping these people?
You know?
I had someone just write in. Richard wrote in. He made a fascinating point. How can FEMA be out of money when the fiscal year just started nine days ago? The federal fiscal years starts October first. I believe he said, how can they be out of money in a week? Now? Push away, back up. We know we don't have any money. We're on the credit card. But anyway, forty one minutes after caught red Handed? Who I'll tell you next? This
is the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Next hour. We've got a lot of different stories we're going to push through. So who was uncovered? Who was caught red handed? Doing what?
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A Fox News affiliate in Saint Louis caught Democrat operatives encouraging non citizens to vote. Saint Louis Fox affiliate investigating found flyers mailed to the workplace of illegal migrants that declared quoting the flyer stopped the steal by stopping Trump's allies. The flyer encouraged illegals to quote vote for Harris Walls
and pro worker candidates. Local business owner got wind of the voter fraud told Fox two News that the workers or Mexican migrants who are authorized to temporarily work in the US under an H two B visa. Labor laws allow migrants to have union representation, with the local owner informing the station that his employees paid dues to the union, which in turn paid for the flyer. Now, the president of Public Interest Legal Foundation, said the non citizens have
been registered to vote in Pennsylvania for decades. Pennsylvania had been registering non citizens by admission, this wasn't some conspiracy on the Internet. They admitted they'd been registering non citizens for twenty years at pen dot. It was a glitch,
they called it. New studies suggesting two point seven million non citizens could cast votes this November two point seven million, around ten percent to twenty seven percent of non citizen adults in the United States are illegally registered to vote,
according to the research institute Just Facts. Inside its report, the US Census recorded more than nineteen million adult non citizens living in the US during twenty twenty two, and that number has grown significantly ten to twenty seven percent of better than twenty million adult non citizens are registered to vote. I love it when I get the occasional email from someone saying, oh, stop spreading that nonsense that
our elections are compromised, Stop being stupid. Of course they're compromised. If one illegal immigrant votes, your vote is canceled. So yeah, our elections are compromised because non citizens are voting. What have we told you? The whole point of the invasion on the southern border is voting. Because Democrats are losing numbers. They needed more people to come into the country that will vote, hopefully for them. Forty six minutes past the hour.
We're gonna stay on this subject, but diversify just a bit. Weather Channel going through the animations of what happens with storm surge and flooding, and no, thank you. I am very very content to be high and dry thing, thank you very much. Yeah, you know, I love visiting the beach, I love visiting the coast, but that's just not a place I would love to live because of this right here, just the prospect of this it's just not appealing to me. But anyway, next hour, we've got a lot of stories
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I wanted to tag on to the story about immigration in the last segment and illegals voting, and there will likely be millions of votes by illegal immigrants in this country. It's just they're registered because there are places in this country that want them to be registered. That's why it happens. I've got surveying here that shows that there are pockets of people in this country that are just fine with cheating in an election if it helps the outcome in
favor of what they think. Anyway, I thought this number was remarkably low. Department of Justice revealing that alien respondents who failed to appear for removal proceedings is soaring it's on track to exceed one hundred and seventy thousand. Context, Even during the Obama years in twenty fourteen, HS removed
a little more than four hundred thousand. As recently as twenty nineteen, removals were three hundred and forty seven thousand, and so, yeah, one hundred and seventy Huh really a whole one hundred and seventy First of all, you really think someone who's in this country illegally is going to show up to voluntarily to leave. I'm shocked at the number. I'm shocked that the number is that high. Honestly, people
that show up to a proceeding like that. I would almost be in favor of trying to put them back home, but then let show them how to apply and way to fast track them into the country if they want to come here and they have reason to be here because they showed up for their court appearance, did something honorable. But this just shows that under Biden, they know we've got millions illegally here and they're doing nothing about it.
Back with our three of The Morning Show with Preston Scott, My friends, welcome Wednesday, October the ninth, and this is the third and final hour at least for today, of The Morning Show with Preston Scott. He is Jose. Can you see I feel obligated to say it that way? Jose? Can you see as opposed to Jose? Can you see I don't know Jose over there in Studio one A. I'm here in Studio one B. Good to be with you. Show fifty two fifty and I want to get right to it.
This is.
Fox News over the weekend, Trey Goudy's show, and he's got Kevin O'Leary, one of the sharks from Shark Tank on. Kevin's been very outspoken. You know, when you have the kind of money Kevin does. You just don't care. You're not worried about offending people. You're not worried about being politically correct or being trendy with the woke crowd. You just don't care. So they're talking about China and economics as it relates to the chaiicoms. This is fascinating.
The Democrats love to say the experts are critical of Trump's plans. I consider you to be an expert. So what are we getting if Harris wins? And let me also ask you about tariffs?
There are no experts. The only expert is the market. That's the expert.
It decides, It puts capital to work in every sector every year day on a risk adjusted basis.
The market is the market, and that's what's driven the economy for such a long time successfully. Taris.
I'm not in love with with the exception of China. I live dealing with China. They do not play with the level playing field. Don't give you an example, something very simple. Everybody knows.
TikTok.
Congress on a bipartisan basis said, look, it's a spy where and we want to shut it down January nineteenth, And it's an Act of Congress.
It's the demand of the people of America. They made that decision.
The Chinese came here, the Supreme leader who controls it, and he used our court system to sue us to litigate that from happening, suing the American people.
Do you think I can do that in China? Not a chance in hell. I can do that in China.
So I'm okay if he wants to use our legal system against us, but I have.
To be able to do the same thing. I want access to their courts.
I want access to their IP They have to pay the same price to list their companies that I I do, and they don't because they don't have the same compliance costs, and we should.
Kick them off the exchanges. I want to go to def Con nineteen against China.
I don't like tariffs against anybody else, but I want to bring them to their knees with a blowtorch to deal with us fairly.
And that's why you use tariffs.
You squeeze them because the Chinese only understand the stick. I've said at countless times they understand the stick. They respect the stick. Give them the stick and believe me after enough pain because their economy's got some fractures in it. They will say, Okay, just kidding, We'll play on a level playing field. I want heavy, heavy, heavy tariffs on China more than we have, even more because I live with it.
They steal our ip I can't say enough negative stuff. I'm sorry. I'm just telling the truth.
Trump was being successful in dealing with China. And here's the thing. People are all upset. We'se friends with the little dictator in North Korea who cares He's using economic sanctions to gain compliance. China does not have the capacity to consume what it produces. It's a communist wasteland. Granted unbelievable resources, beautiful country, but it's communist. They can't allow its citizenry to have enough capitalist wealth to consume the
stuff it produces. That will upset the communist apple cart. So China has to have America has to see. What China doesn't even understand about its own ambitions is if it took over the country America tomorrow, who's going to buy all their stuff? They can't consume eighty percent roughly of what they produce. We, on the other hand, can consume eighty percent of what we produce this just sin.
That's why people break into this country. As we joked about last week, They're not trying to break into Russia, They're not trying to break into India, They're not trying to break into China, for Pete's sake, not trying to break into Venezuela. They're trying to break into America. Now, ought to tell you something. Eleven minutes past the hour, speaking of China, Stay with me, all right. This is one of those little stories that I don't fully understand full disclosure, I just don't.
But I.
Get enough of this story to be able to say to you, I'm sharing it for a reason. I'm sharing it because while we play checkers under Joe Biden, China's playing chess. You've heard that analogy over the years. You know, we're playing checkers while they're playing chess. Yes, exactly right. China's building bases, China's expanding its reach, China's developing its navy. China has the corner of the world market of lithium.
China has the corner of everything as it relates to the back technology that we seem hell bent on driving ourselves towards. Literally, which makes us more and more dependent on China. Now a very ignored story. Here's the headline. UK hands sovereignty of Chagos Islands to China aligned Mauritius Chagos Islands. Now the US is going to retain control of Diego Garcia air Base in the Indian Ocean. But here's the deal, and I'm just sharing the story from
Epic Times. UK's agreed to a deal to hand over the sovereignty of the islands in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius. They say the status of Diego Garcia air Base is unchanged. Just hold on. That airbase was crucial during the Iraq War in two thousand and three. It's one of more than sixty islands in the archipelago. We've had a presence there since nineteen sixty six, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said on October third, quote, Today's agreement secures this vital
military base for the future, will strengthen our role. Blah blah blah. But not everybody agrees. The former British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly wrote, week week week labor lied to get into office, said they'd be whiter than white, and they wouldn't put up taxes. They said they'd stand up to the EU, they'd be patriotic, all lies you see it. It turns out that Mauritius, in the minds of most is a puppet state of China. How do you know?
Its relationship? Last month was made even closer when the Bank of Mauritius and the People's Bank of China signed a bilateral currency swap agreement. The two countries signed a free trade agreement, which came into force in twenty twenty one. The Prime Minister of Mauritius has been a leader of the militant socialist movement since two thousand and three. Mauritius is holding elections in November. By the way, it's a
beautiful place, absolutely dropped dead, unbelievably gorgeous. One of our sons spent time in Mauritius and it's just it's incredible. But this particular socialist movement holds forty two of the seventy seats in the parliament. Mauritius is a strategic place. And don't think for one second Diego Garcia is secure. This is a strategically important place and the UK basically
just sold it out from under us. That doesn't happen with strong leadership in the White House, sixteen past the hour, keeping you company as you make your way through your morning, hopefully keeping you informed, giving you a laugh here there continue to go huh, I didn't know that? Or can you believe that? Or you are so right, preston you know, any of those things are possible. Every now and then you might get the urge to throw a shoe at the radio, but that's okay too, We're here for you.
Kamala has been doing her best to play this interesting game of seesaw. She jumps on one side of it in, puts all of her weight there, and claims, I don't agree with what Joe Biden believes about the economy, the southern border, cars, telling you what to drive, firearms, none of that. No, no, no, no, I'm my own person. And then she'll go to another setting, read the room and decide, oh, I'm the last person in the room
with Joe. Any major policy decision that's been made in the last three and a half years, four years, you're looking at the person that had the last word with the President of the United States. That's me, Kamala Harris. Of course, she might follow any of that with a right anyway. So she's trying to, though generally distance herself. Why because the record of Joe Biden is incredibly unpopular
with voters. In fact, this is an interesting little factoid to just kind of hang on to the president's party whoever whichever has never, at least going back to nineteen eighty won another term in the White House. With so few Americans saying the country's on track the right track today, it's at twenty eight percent. Twenty eight percent, we're on
the right track. Now, I would personally back off and say where are the twenty eight percent that think that I've offered several Just one challenges over the last multiple years and not had one person willing to claim that they think we're on the right track. It's a country that think that Joe Biden's didn't just been great, that think the vaccines are awesome, that think social distancing and masking works. I mean, I can't find anybody to own it.
And so you know, the Just one challenge is issued where you have to come onto the program and use your full name, first and last name and own your opinion. And I've had one person call in and was being very sarcastic and was basically making a joke. They didn't really believe it was good. Whatever the issue was we were talking about at the time, just wanted to make the point that it was terrible and they were just trying to be contrarian and call in. But we've never
had anybody take the challenge. And it's not because we don't have people listening that don't agree with the things that we talk about on the show and the way that I express my opinion. We have lots of disagreement, but we don't have people willing to be courageous enough to own their opinions. The average party, the average sorry, when the president's party loses twenty five percent is far closer to today's number. And so the bottom line is
Biden's approval number sits terribly low. His policies sit terribly low. Kamala's out there in as many settings as possible saying no, I don't agree when she's holding these rallies, we need to do this differently and that differently. Yet she was on the View the other day and she produced yet another campaign ad for Donald Trump. Well, if anything, would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years.
There is not a thing that comes to mind in terms of and I've been a part of of most of the decisions that have had impact.
Nothing comes to mind I'd do differently. Okay, Now, look that's mostly the truth. Where she's being a little disingenuous is she thinks that we should go further, that Biden didn't go far enough. Don't doubt me, friends, do not. The record doesn't lie the most liberal member of the United States Senate when she was picked as vice president. The most liberal leopards don't change their spots. She is who she is twenty seven past the hour. Trust me.
Donald Trump approves of that message. Where does the time go? Ruminators, great to share this time with you. We always look forward to it and appreciate it so very much. Remember, the blog page is where you'll get You'll get some interviews, some of our conversation podcasts will migrate to the blog page. Now and then we have we have all the information on the latest project from the Mad Radio Network and
just some fun features as well. It's all it's all there, just some fun stuff we stumble upon and share and it's at w FLA FM dot com slash Preston or w fla Panama City dot com slash preston, a show and a blog so big we need more than one outlet. So it's a five, and then it's a four. Then it's back to a five. There are varying reports on whether that wind strength is accurate. It's it's a big storm. It doesn't really matter at this point, it really doesn't.
It's going to move into the Tampa, Saint Pete Clearwater area. What's interesting to me is this storm has taken a jog to the north according to our app now not a significant one, but it's significant in that well, now we're we're looking straight at Saint Petersburg and Tampa and clear Water. It it's deviated away from a direct hit. It's Sarasota. Sarah Sota is on the on the wrong side of it, mind you, but it's not a direct hit,
which is what it was in the previous tracks. So right now the app here shows it moving a little north. A lot of the forecasters are saying, if anything, it's moving a little bit south. We'll see it's gonna hit the area, and in fact, you're gonna likely see tornadoes break out in advance of this thing, because there is cooler air moving south, and whenever you have cold air
colliding with warm area, you have tornadoes. You have Saint John's County under some evacuations through I want to say Zone C or D.
What.
Yeah, this thing is going to pull a ton of moisture and in fact, if you back it out, remnants of another storm that sort of I want to say it was Leslie or something sort of fell apart. But what's happening is this storm Milton kind of forced it to break apart, and it's pulling moisture from it across the eastern coast of Florida. And so as it approaches later today and tonight and tomorrow morning. Right now, our app and I say our, it's the Windy app, Windy
dot com. It's my favored source because it's just been proven accurate over and over and over. Not always, but it's been proven accurate more than not. It's showing a slightly jogged north and the Jacksonville area is going to get hammered with almost like a tropical storm Cat one kind of scenario. If these wind ratings readings are correct. Either way, it's going to be a lot of rain, a lot of wind, a lot of stuff. So I'll just remind those of you that are listening from the
evacuated areas. You've come up from central South Florida and you're just you're getting out. I get it, You're here, welcome. I remind you to use take advantage of the iHeartRadio app. We as a company or kind of inside Florida. We're kind of like Florida is inside the nation, inside the iHeart world. In Florida. We cover this stuff. This is what we do, and we've got a bunch of pretty dedicated people that work really hard to try to get
information to you. And so the best advice I can give you if you are from central Florida you've evacuated, is pull out that app and zero in on the radio stations that you might normally listen to for information in your home area and just listen on the iHeartRadio apps. The wonder of that of the company that we work for, it's that we have this app that avails you of fifteen hundred radio stations across the country, and in a time like this, you get to listen to your station
if they're on the air, it's on the app. If they're an iheartstation and they're on the air, it's on the app. So take advantage, stay up to date, and if we can keep you company and just feed some information to you in our own way, we'll certainly do our best to do that. Certainly, tomorrow morning we will be armed with the latest information that we can tell you because we're family. We're Floridians, right, and I don't care if you're Democrat, Republican, Independent, I don't care if
you're Hindu, Muslim, or whatever. We're Floridians and we're gonna do everything we can to be a help. Forty one minutes after the hour, get back to some things out there in the news. Next, this is the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Yeah, if that storm is a Cat four or five, you're gonna you're gonna be without power in some parts some areas for a very long time. And so we are we are hoping for the best for you. This from Post Millennial. I believe it is
PM Media. Here's a headline Minnesota Somali's COVID two hundred and fifty million dollars COVID fraud scheme under Tim Walls worse than the United States. This is CNN report single worst COVID relief fraud in the United States occurred in Minnesota. That's when Tim Walls was governor. Fraud was born in the Somali community of Minneapolis, just as another Somali refugee who apparently public housing agency admitted this person stole millions.
CNN noted how the fraud has increasingly been identified with Minnesota. It's becoming the rule, not the exception. House Education and Workforce Committee has already subpoenaed Walls over his response to what has now been described as the largest COVID relief fraud generated in not just Minnesota, but the United States. Committee subpoena at Minnesota Department of Education, US Department of Agriculture.
At the heart of the scandal forty seven Somali immigrants who had been charged with theft of two hundred and fifty million dollars of your tax dollars. Now they call it federal COVID funding. Nan, No, no, your money. Government has no money but yours. So this is a theft of a quarter of a billion dollars of your money in just one incident. This is just COVID fraud. It's a phony. Somali charity called Feeding Our Future took millions in government money was supposed to assist children in families.
Instead it bought homes, cars, upscale clothing, travel packages. Walls took credit for being alert to stop the fraud before it could claim even more financial abuse. The problem is the Minnesota Department of Education actually made it easier to get away with the fraud. CNN cited a state audit that noted the Minnesota Department of Educations actions and inactions created opportunities for fraud. The Feeding Our Fraud Our Future fraud was hardly a solitary case. Thieves have stolen better
than half a billion in COVID relief. When you add all of it up, and it just gets back down to why this whole thing. It was a made up fraud. It was a made up epidemic. It was a flu season. It was a bad flu season that was made worse by vaccines that did not work, that turned recipients into magnets for viruses. The responses probably had more to do with the deaths of anyone than the actual disease itself.
The virus itself, and then the shutdown of the economy which precipitated the release of billions of dollars just was needless. It's just two hundred and fifty million. In this case, that's all just two hundred and fifty million. Next thing, you know, that'll be talking about real money. Forty seven passed the hour. Come back with a oh yes, sign me up for this. This is a very good idea coming. Sign me up for this. Apparently Sam's Club is testing
in Dallas. No checkout lanes. Let me say that again, no checkout lanes where the checkout clerks used to be. At this Sam's Club, they will have items that are online only. Items on display. So you go through the store, use the Scan and Go app, and as you put stuff in your cart, you scan it and it starts to keep a tally of what you're buying. And then you've got your your credit card, your debit card on file,
and you just you go. You paid for it. The online only stuff will be everything from a twelve foot Christmas tree or a five carrot lab your own diamond. You can scan the QR code and go straight to the items in the app, and I guess ostensibly that stuff then gets mailed to you ship to you whatever. Sign me up.
Man.
If I can go through the grocery store, hand me a stack of bags, let me bag it myself as I go and just walk out, no line, Yeah heck yeah. Now, of course there will be those that attempt to defeat that with nefarious means of fraudulently paying.
But still I am absolutely on board. Brought to you by Barno Heating and Air. It's the Morning Show one on WFLA. I don't look back at the program one hundred and eighty seconds or less. It's a cat right now, so say the National Hurricane Center. We'll be paying attention to the storm as always, keep listening for details and updates, and of course on your radio app wherever you call home, doal into that information station.
You rely on. That's iHeart and you will be able to listen to what's going on locally if you are in evacuee in our area. Helicopter with pilots wearing military headgear sabotaging Hurricane Allen recovery supplies at a North Carolina distribution site, allegedly the North Carolina National Guard taking responsibility for that. Doesn't explain why it's an unmarked helicopter that doesn't explain the rotor wash. Their explanation is not an explanation,
if you know what I'm saying. UK hands sovereignty of the Chagos Islands otherwise known as where Diego Garcia Air Base is located to China aligned Mauritius not a good development. Shark tank star Kevin O'Leary, mister wonderful says the US gotta be brought. Got to bring China to its knees with a stick, a blow torch, and he says, tariffs is how you do it. He said def Con nineteen. Actually it would be def Con one because the never Mind news station Fox affiliate in Saint Louis catching Democrats
are handed attempting to register illegals to vote. They're an estimated two point seven million illegals registered to vote across the country. Kamala on the View said yeah, I wouldn't do anything different when asked if she would do something different than what Joe Biden has done. And a one hundred million dollar Navy ship from New Zealand sunk by a lesbian captain in command of her first ship. Boy parking a car parking a ship trouble huh back tomorrow.