Welcome morning, friends, and welcome to Thursday. Already Thursday? How is it already Thursday?
I don't know, mister Preston. How probably because there's three days I've already gone behind us. I'm just saying that that that's why, because we had Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, so that would make that that's why we're already here.
Sorry, Alter Ego, there, Jose in Studio one. Hey, I'm here in Studio one B. It's show fifty two fifty one of the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Hello. Friends.
For those of you visiting evacuees, we're going to give you an update. I've got a buddy that is in Saint Pete. He's on the twentieth floor of a condo building that is a fairly new building, staying with family. He just was visiting his son and and so Yeah, Randy Breenan, many of you know, famous painter from our area. He and his wife Deborah are incredible painters. I have a couple of his works. Randy's gonna join us later
this hour and next hour. Just kind of I wanted an update what he experienced and then what he's seeing as the sun's coming up and so he's got a view. I mean, he's looking at where they play soccer right there. He's rowdy. The Rowdy's field is literally he can he could probably throw a baseball to Rowdy's field, Uh, to where the Tampa soccer team plays. But Tropicana Field has some damage.
Uh.
They were staging people there and part of the roof came off. But it's a fabric roof. I mean, I'm sorry, what do you expect if the it's if a win that strong, even tropical storm forest Winds gets a hold of it, it's gonna it's gonna do damage. But we'll update you on all of that, But stay with us. Thursday is always kind of a fund Today we'll also give you a live update from North Carolina. Another friend of mine, former producer of the Morning Show, David Allen,
will join us in the third hour. But we start, as always with scripture and proverbs.
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I mean, if you don't, if you're like I just don't know where to start reading the Bible. You know, John's always a good place to start. In the New Testament. You can always start at the beginning, you know. I warn people that if you do a beginning to end Bible. You're gonna get to Leviticus and almost want to scream because Leviticus is challenging, all right, it just is. I would always advise someone to make Leviticus one of your
last reads. But if you were intent on going from beginning to end, I mean, there are chronological Bibles, and chronological bibles are really cool because they organize things everything in the Bible in chronological order, and that's useful. It's not conventional because we're kind of used to reading the Bible a certain way. But another place to read the Bible is Proverbs. You know, some have said just read a proverb a day, because you know, there's I think
it's thirty one proverbs in there, so read one today. Proverbs, though, is cool because you can take a bunch of proverbs and assemble some pretty good thoughts on a singular subject. In this one though, Proverbs nineteen, verses twenty and twenty one, it says this, listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future. Many are the plans in the mind of man, but it is the
purpose of the Lord that will stand. You know, I met with a businessman yesterday who had a little rough patch, and the subject came up, Okay, how'd you skate through it? How did you survive? He said something very insightful, And here's a guy who's a very successful businessman. He said, I went and got advice from someone I knew who is a competitor, and he was willing to talk to me,
and he said, here's what you need to do. That's something First of all, I respect that admire that in that businessman, that he would go to somebody else, a colleague in the industry, and say, I need some out outside input here, I need some wisdom.
A lot of us don't seek that. You know.
I've been doing radio off and on, mostly on for the last twenty two years, but off and on since nineteen seventy seven. I've been in radio in some form or another professionally through much of that time. I still look around for people that do what I do a lot better than i'd do it, and just say, how are they able to do what they do so well?
And try to learn. It's a sign of wisdom to take counsels. It's where you gain it and glean it. But no matter what you think, you still run it through God's filter, because it's God's purpose that stands ten past the hour inside the American Patriots Almanac. We go next on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All Right, I recognize that.
Old Weather is airing, and my profound apologies for that. The region's gonna enjoy a beautiful day today. No chance of reigning today. Well, one big whoop eighty two fifty five for the low though it's gonna get chillier tonight. You can feel it in the air this morning, beautiful outside to me. But Sunday today and tomorrow and Saturday and Sunday on through next week, very limited chance of rain.
We're gonna have attempts in the low eighties, high seventies before Monday where it creeps back up into the upper eighties.
In the area. So there you go. There's thank you very much. I'm just I'm pointing at my green screen over here, and I look like I'm just doing this incredible stuff, and I'm actually staring at a monitor straight ahead of me while I point at the green screen. Green screens.
When you are in a newsroom and you watch the weather person, whoever he or she is, do the weather, you really respect what they're doing, because you know what they're riffing. For like three and a half four minutes, they're just riffing. They're just popping up maps and they're just talking. There is nothing on the prompter because their heads are turning all the time, so to keep an eye on it prompter, and plus the prompter operator has no idea what they're coming to next, so there'd be
that's like, that's folly. So it's it's a lot of fun though to see them point at a green screen and then you look on the monitor. It's like, oh, nah, that's cool. So green screens are very very cool. All right, Thursday, it's October tenth. US Navy Academy opens in Annapolis with fifty six students.
In eighteen forty five eighteen fifty the Chesapeake and Ohio.
Canal is completed operated along its entire one hundred and eighty five mile length from Washington, d c. To Cumberland, Maryland. Canals blow my mind. How they move ships from one place to another inland into big bodies of water, It just blows my mind. It's just to me, incredible technology. It's not quite up there with the phonograph record. Uh, A vinyl record is still one of the singularly most
incredible things. My brain can't get its mind around. I can't, I can't, I can't get my mind to grasp still how sound is pressed into the grooves of a vinyl record and then reproduced with a diamond stylus running in between it.
I don't get it. Well, but there's the little vibrat. Yeah, whatever you got Pavarotti, for Pete's sake, he got cellos and and and and violins and and violas and pianos and guitars and on coming out of a piece of vinyl with a diamond running in between it. Come on now, people, that's amazing. It really is. And there are there are many audio files that will tell you it is the most faithful way to play music. That is like it's its original a production if you will.
Let's see George Gershwin the opera Porgy and Bess opens on Broadway nineteen sixty two. The first aircraft, commonly called air force one goes into service. It's not technically a plane, you know that. It's the radio call signal for any air force craft where the president's on board. So if the air Force owned a Cessna one seventy two, and the president's on board. That's air Force one, just so
you know. And on this date in nineteen seventy three, Vice President Spiro t Agnew pleads no contest to a charge of federal income tax evasion and he resigns his office. M mm hmmmm, all right, sixteen past the hour. We're just greasing up the wheels of the program today. Don't you dare leave us?
All right? The waffle house index is indicating a pretty significant storm hitting central Florida. A lot of red on the waffle house maps. Now, in case you don't know, our old buddy Craig Fugate, who used to be the head of Florida Emergency Management got brought up I think it was by George w And took over FEMA for a good while.
And he's the one that came up with the waffle house index, basically saying, boy, if you see a waffle house closed, you know it's serious. Here's how the map works. If you see green on the waffle houses on a map, that means open, everything's cooking perfect. If you see yellow, it means that they're either on standby power or they're running low on some food items, so it's a partial.
Menu and they're serving, but they're just barely serving. And if it's red closed, there are a.
Lot of red dots on waffle houses right now in central Florida. We'll get to these specifics of the storm in just a little bit. There's some data that I'm not going to spend a lot of time on for obvious reasons, but we do have some information that we can pass along. We'll do that in a little bit, as well as a couple of advisories, especially for those of you that are our evacuees that happen to be listening.
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anytime you like. All the shows are on there, all of them, as well as our podcast that is The Conversations Podcast. So the show is podcasted Morning Show with Preston Scott and The Conversation Special Guests with Preston Scott that's also podcasted, so you listen whatever you like. We have some dirty details about what's happened, what went wrong with Red Lobster, Red Lobster's and bankruptcy, and the new CEO is giving an insight as to why he's blaming
the twenty dollars endless shrimp deal. Now, it was twenty based on where you lived. Sometimes it was more. Sometimes it might have been a little less a buck or so. Apparently what happened here is that back in twenty two, the Thaie Union group became the majority shareholder of Red Lobster,
buying forty nine percent. And what they did is they in essence turned these things into real estate ventures as well as lining their own pockets, and they made what was a every now and then the endless shrimp thing was in every now and then promotion. It was a couple times a year. They made it permanent and you had people bragging online of eating one hundred and forty shrimp and some ridiculous number like that, and it's like, godly,
let's go ahead and brag about being a glutton whatever. Well, apparently by turning the restaurants into okay, we now own the land you have to lease from us, that screwed over franchises. Secondly, they forced Red Lobster to buy shrimp from them.
That's what they are. They are a shrimp provider, the Taie Union. They are vendors for shrimp hence and live shrimp. So they kind of screwed over the company that they own, and that's what sent this thing head in the wrong way, and it's a dog on shame. Look seafood has never been cheap. It's always been a bit more expensive. You can obviously get it at you know, like here in town, the Southern Seafood Market is is a go to and
you get incredible seafood products. And depending on where you live, you might have access to even fresher seafood because you live right there by the docks and you can just go down there and get it. And there's seafood markets right by the docks. And that's awesome if you can do it. But that's what happened. So just explaining the whys and the whereforce. So far Red Lobster here staying open, although a bunch have closed throughout the state and throughout
the nation. Twenty seven past the hour, Big Store in the press Box. Next on the Morning Show with Preston Scott all Right, thirty five past the hour here on the radio program known as Common Sense, Amplify. Good morning, Friend, Steve Stewart in a little bit, Doctor David Hart's next hour. Randy Brenan though, will join us in about fifteen minutes from Saint Pete. He's there.
He watched the storm come in from the twentieth floor and watched it go out, and so he'll share what he watched happen. What he's able to see is the sun's barely starting to come up. And then next hour he'll be back and we'll get an update with the sun up what he's seeing. Amazingly, there are parts of central Florida that are with power. However, three point one million estimated without speaks to the importance in Florida of underground utilities.
If I were.
Any community in this state without underground utilities, I would be dogging.
My community to get that changed.
Power is everything, and there are places in Orlando, for example, never lost power now we said yesterday. In fact, while we were on the air, there were a few tornado warnings popping up. Understanding that the difference between a warning and a watch is that a warning says there's circulation, there's a funnel cloud, or there's an actual tornado. A warning says it's happening. Now, did it touchdown?
Did it not? Here are the numbers, thirty seven confirmed, up to one hundred and twenty five possible.
There was certainly wind damage from this storm. Tropicana Field. The trop lost part of its roof. It's a fabric roof, that's I mean, honestly, I'm not shocked by that. I was kind of surprised they were staging people line workers there, but there was a reason why they didn't want the general public to be inside Tropic Caana Field.
There you go.
Storm surge as of now up to ten feet on the west coast, up to five feet from Jacksonville to Cape Canaveral. The storm was whipping around and now is exiting Florida. It's going to go out to sea, and I look to see if it was going to do a U turn, and I don't see that in the simulation that I'm looking at with the model that we use, seeing that it's going to go out there to the Atlantic and it's going to get beat up and pretty
much dissolve. Goodbye, good riddance. There's still a possibility of a storm the rest of the rest of the season. The season does run through December first the end of November. Every single day that goes by the likelihood of a storm not forming. They can form off the coast of Africa, they can form, as we saw off the coast of
South America or Mexico. They can form, but the likelihood goes down every single day we get closer to November thirtieth, because cooler weather pushes down and the cooler weather is the enemy of these storms. Now, the cooler weather is the breeding ground when it shoves up against a warm, wet system for tornadoes. And you're going to likely find in this storm, as we predicted yesterday, that the most
serious damage. And we know that there have been some fatalities in Florida due to tornadoes and they just come with these systems. But if I'm the State of Florida, I make a major push to now underground utilities. I would think any new new development has to have them. You're in a peninsula, for Pete's sake, and every portion of the state is within what an hour, hour and fifteen minutes of the water. Yeah, you've got to have
underground utilities. But I would be pushing to retrofit and go underground everywhere that there's not second little tidbit for those of you that are evacuees and just something to file away. Big warnings are coming from the state CFO as well as others inside Florida.
If you own an ev.
And your car was left behind, get it out of your garage. Get it away from buildings. They're saying a minimum of fifty feet away from buildings. If floodwater got to your car, because salt water and these lithium batteries do not play nicely in the sandbox together, and the potential of an explosion of a fire is significant, don't start it up. Don't test if you got flood water on your batteries in your electric car, do not do anything with it until it's checked out by a certified
EV mechanic. Don't and even they might be wearing an asthmat suit when they check it out. Add it to the list. Just say in forty minutes past the hour, there is another big story we've got to get to.
We'll do that next.
Thanks for listening. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, forty two pass the hour. Another big story here and this one came yesterday. I didn't get to spend time the Daily Signal survey by Scott Rasmussen called the Elite one percent. It was a project from a polling firm called Napoleon Institute, and the research categorized Americans into several groups, but focused on the gap between a small subset of elites and the rest of the country.
The rest of the country was defined as main street Americans who represent seventy to seventy five percent of the population, as opposed to the one percent called the elites. Those in the seventy to seventy five percent. For this polling, they do not have postgraduate degrees, do not live in densely populated urban areas, earn less than one hundred and fifty thousand annually. That's how they've defined them based on their surveying. Listen to these results.
Members of the elites have favorable opinions of university professors, lawyers, union leaders, journalists, and members of Congress. Elites leaned strongly toward Democrat Party. Those who were Republicans tended to be much more similar to their partisan counterparts than to main street Americans. So Republican one percenters more closely aligned with Democrats than they do the rest of America. It's fascinating.
Elite insiders typically more socially liberal, less likely to trust citizens to govern themselves, intend to be far more trusting in institutions to make the right and right decisions for the country, more comfortable with censorship and regulating the lives of ordinary people. According from the survey, if a biological male identifies as a woman, just seventeen percent of mainstream voters believe that person should be allowed to compete in
women's sports. Among the elite one percent, twenty nine percent think they should. Only nine percent of voters favor regulation being developed by the Biden administration that would make misgendering a coworker a fireable offense. Seventy five percent of voters oppose that the elites are far more likely to announce their pronouns when introducing themselves.
When it comes to speech.
Voters, by a fifty nine to thirty four percent margin, believe that letting the government decide what counts as misinformation is more dangerous than disinformation. Among the elite one percent, the numbers are reversed. Fifty seven percent think letting the government decide is the is the lesser problem. Let the government be the truth detectors.
Seventy two percent of the elite one percent would prefer to live in communities where guns are outlawed. Most voters take the opposite view.
Seventy seven percent of the elites polled want to ban the private ownership of firearms.
And here's the one that I gotta leave you with. If their campaign team thought they could get away with cheating to win, seven percent of voters would want their team to cheat. Among the elite one percent, they supported cheating thirty five percent of them thirty five Well, if cheating is what's required, so be it. You know what it reminds me of.
It reminds me of Jonathan Gruber, the guy from MIT that designed Obamacare for Barack Obama. He was one of the chief architects. He said, I'd rather be transparent, but I'd rather have this law than not. I'd rather lie than have this than not have this law. That's the mindset we're dealing with here. It is a fallen, depraved mindset. And don't let yourself fall into that, don't you. I know some people that listen to this show are in the one percent. Don't you be them? Don't you do it?
Forty six minutes after the hour, it's The Morning Show with Preston Scott.
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All right, let's get right to it. Fifty one past the hour.
As I mentioned to you, buddy of mine, friend of the radio program. He and his sweet wife Deborah are incredible painters, and they just happened to be let's just go vacation down at Saint Pete in front of a big storm.
What do you say, Randy, Well, it wasn't quite vacationing, Preston, I'll tell you that.
The thing of it is, we've been down here probably for three weeks or so with our son Micah. He owns a home here and he actually we went through Helene with him. That was tough enough. We stayed here at the logistic in a second, but he's in a Zone B evacuation zone in the house and it's his garage got flooded with Helene and lost a couple of appliances. So once this storm started brewing, we decided we're going to stay and help him do whatever we can to
help them secure that home from any further damage. And we were doing that at the beginning of the week, and you know, vacillating back and forth about stay, go, stay, go. Well, our other son Jason, because of his business, he lives in Tallahassee, but he comes here almost every weekend. He has a lot of clients here and he has a condo, a high rise condo on First Street. Anybody of the listeners familiar with Pete, most of the go to places
are in downtown Saint Pete, right on the bay. If you look out our window of the condo we're in one on the twentieth floor, we can look right into the rowdy soccer stadium and they have a professional bucking here. And then our view is facing east across the bay. So any of the storms, the last two storms from the south, so that's kind of give me an idea of where we are. It's just starting to get light here. Micah decided to go out and walk around just see
what's going on. We have seen we don't have internet right now, but we have seen a picture that one of the cranes on one of the high rises here had actually blown off into the street and there were four cranes down here. So we don't know what signation is with the peat and we're up and about. We still have power, we don't have internet around Probably around eight o'clock last night is when things really started getting kind of kippy the way the wind was blowing here
almost all day and then into the evening. It was paralleling our our windows where we're miss.
Randy.
Randy, we're starting to lose your phone signal there. It's starting to chop out pretty badly. So we're going to try again next hour and uh and see if we can get a little bit better signal and get an idea of what you're seeing with your own eyes. But thank you very much for calling in, and we'll check in with Randy Breen and again that's next hour. He's down in Saint Petersburg and as you said, he's facing the east, so he's he's looking in the direction where
the storm has has now gone. And uh, so we'll get an idea of what he's seeing because he's looking in he's looking into the Bay, he's looking into Tampa.
He's able to kind of just give us an idea of what he saw.
But as you heard, there's certainly damage three point one million without power. He has power. What a blessing that is. And again new development underground utilities more than likely. And that's the thing I think that's the big takeaway for where Florida needs to go now is to retrofit older neighborhoods, especially up here where you don't need a tropical storm force wind to blow down trees to see limbs break off.
I mean, these are massive, old oak trees and limbs just give out and they fall onto a power line and you're done. And so underground utilities is the is where Florida needs to go. And I'm sure that's going to be something that'll be talked about, perhaps by local leaders, but certainly the legislature needs to make that a priority and offer some assistance to the communities to make that
happen where it's going to be most useful. All right, Steve Star on deck here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Breathe Preston Breed five passed the out Thursday on the Morning Show with Preston Scott osey over there in Studio one A. I'm here in Studio one B, and I am joined by.
The executive editor of Teleashi Reports. He is Steve Stewart.
Good morning friend, Good morning Preston. I got a guy my coffee and I'm sort of on the same level you are right now. So that's good. A little wild.
I've got caffeine free te but it's not helping. I'm still a little little juice here this morning. All right, Tiger Bay always a fun thing.
So we're getting down to the end here in November, the election's local races are now one on one, so you get a lot more clarity and things. The way this is supposed to work is, you know, journalists are supposed to raise questions and they're supposed to get answered and supposed to advance the debate and help out voters decide who to cast their vote for. Wait, you mean accountability. The media is supposed to be holding elected people or
want to bees count. So one of those stories we did and talked about here was the California cash that is hitting the coffers of Commission Mattlow's grassroots pack, you know, one hundred ninety five thousand out of two.
By the way, we are poking fun when we say grassroots, because there's nothing grassroots about it.
And we can. And so that came up at Tiger Bay. It seemed Tiger Bay is a it's a group of political interested people there walks. Yeah, they are, and I remember I remember going to that back when I ran for office, you know, fourteen years ago. So it's a it's a stop on the on the tour, and again it gets Dodamon Johnson was there with the Curtis Richardson. Curtis Richardson won with seventy five percent of the poll
vote there of the members. But more interesting was now we're getting to the point where you have to start answering questions because it's tough to hide in a primary behind in general election. And so the question of where the California money is coming from and what does it mean to your campaign? Were finally starting to get a little bit of clarity on that. And this is a guy in California who is very interested in our electric utility.
Okay he is? Or why wouldn't anybody in California be interested? Exactly where rates are skyrocketing. And if you go to their website to Green Avacy Project, their first their mission is to rapidly transition electric utilities to renewable energy, which is impossible. It is impossible here in Talasi. And it's again even if you start doing it, not even rapidly
but moderately fast, you're going to start increasing electric rates. Well, Diamon Johnson revealed this fact at the debate that you know, these people are just interested in a more environmentally friendly utility. Well what does that mean? And so they're either lying to this don or are they're lying to the voters because this guy's dumped in one hundred and fifty grand and if you go around and look at where his
fingers are, what other things he has touched. There's a utility in Texas where he supported a program where the utility takes control of your thermostat excuse me that take control of your thermostat and chain the change the temperature settings. Now, this is something this goes back to this whole smart meter thing that we have dealt with for years, right, and so carbon credits where you buy electricity from quote you know, uh carbon when win generated electricity. But this
is all moving towards increasing your electric rates. And so this is something people are going to have to be aware of. This can control, yeah, in control. And so again this is what they don't want to talk about. But it came up because Commission Richardson is getting more aggressive of pushing back on this thing, like you're taking money from developers. Well, the developers create jobs here, they pay taxes, they you know, they frequent restaurants and businesses,
and they donate money to nonprofits. How about California? You know, what do they want? And I think that's the question that we need to focus on. The second thing that Donavan Johnson talked about and Churris Richardson responded, is that you know they're talking about burying electric You tell everybody wants to do that. It's prohibitively expensive. Yes it is.
Okay, she's ready to start doing it. She wants to do it, which is a great idea as long as you identify how you're going to pay for it.
Curtis Richardson said, I am more than willing to talk about this, but this is we cannot afford this. And but again this opens up another line of what we're getting from the progressive side, and it's unfunded mandates, unfunded promises. You know, you go talk about she's gonna cut she's gonna roll back the tax increases. Well, where she gonna get the money to pay for the services she's going to want to increase firefighters starting salaries above what the
state says they should be paid. She wants now, she wants to bury electric lines. She wants to rapidly transition the electric utility into renewable energy.
I mean these she wants the school district to pay for fire service fees exactly.
This is so anyway, it's starting to come out now. The question will be are people going to be informed when they vote? And that's our job. See, friends, our job now becomes your job. You have to take what we're sharing with you and share it with your friends, both of them. Ten minutes past the hour.
Back with Steve Stewart of Tallahassee Reports talking about Tiger Bay. Did the subject of Dottenman Johnson contributing to her her husband's consultation with her campaign come up?
Well, no, and that was a story that we just we just published yesterday. But it's look, this is something I think again is sort of indictive of these professional politicians. Dotovan Johnson's, you know, been a part of the political class here since the nineties. You know, her and her husband have tried to get a CIRA grant over for over seven hundred fifty thousand dollars. They've asked for the
local government money. I was told the other day that Donovan Johnson was actually paid by the city to be a consultant for Anita Favors when she was a city manager. So when you start looking at these are people that hang around government, you know, and hey, that's there, that's
there's some people to do that. And so when you look over at the campaign expenditures and you see that, you know, right before the primary election, you know, they start stroking even numbered checks two thousand and one thousand dollars to her husband, not an LLC, not a campaign consult company, but to or a husband for political consulting. You know they gets is illegal? Sure, is it ethical?
That's a huge question. I mean, paying your husband in a little city commission race for political is he's professionally a political consultant? You know, this is an interesting topic. I mean, he doesn't have a business right, it's paid directly to him. And again it was paid at the very end. If you go back over the last ten years, he's been paid one time five hundred dollars as by
Jeremy mattlow Way. Yes, and so you know, and again if you look at the records on the Supervisor of Elections search database, it goes back to twenty fourteen, So that's the last ten years, five hundred dollars, and then all of a sudden there's three thousand dollars you know, check, so you've written from the campaign to her husband. You know, I looked around at the other campaigns. No other campaigns
paying their spouses. I mean, can you just imagine if may or Daily or somebody had paid their spouse five thousand dollars, you know, for political consulting or three thousand dollars. I mean, it just.
Chatally, I can't imagine it. But that's okay. It hasn't happened.
Anyway, so that it hasn't and so, you know, so this is a this is an issue we wrote about. It got a lot of traction. Again, I think it's a you know, why are you paying your husband? First of all, why did you do it at the very end of the campaign. I mean, if you're doing consulting, you've been in the race for over a year.
Let's let's talk about a story you broke, which is I think a fascinating story. The city moving money to well using money to move people out of the community.
It's a huge story. That's and you know, it's funny. It's so quiet about this story in terms of progressives responding to it. But the city had instituted a program which started happens by happenstance, but they have relocated over six hundred and fifty homeless people from Leon County back to where they came from. Now, just imagine this if over if there were six hundred and seventy additional homeless
people in this community right now. And the way this got started was the Host Team, the Host program which teams up Leon County sheriffs with City of Tallahassee officials. And you see the little cars they go around and they triage some of the encampments trying to get people to the right places. And I guess about two years ago a homeless gentleman approached officials and said, look, my family's contacted me. I need to be They want me home for a funeral of a loved one. He was
not from here. And so the gentleman that is responsible for this, Ron Burnett, got the approval from the city to buy him a bus ticket. And so he started thinking, well, there are people, there are a lot of people here that aren't from here, aren't from here, and they come here because of ads running in Portland. You know about it, And that's a true story. That is a true story about get to talla Hassee. Coarnity Center is a great shelter,
and so they started triaging these people. Most of the six hundred and seventy were sent back to locations because they want to be closer to family. They get here, they're disillusioned, you know. They go to the County Center, there's not room. Encampments pop up. But we need to redouble our efforts on this. You're getting people who are out of rehab that suddenly are saying, look, I want
to go back to rehab in Panama City. But the stories of how people get here, I mean there's stories of Panama City police officers dumping people to the Coarney Center, State of Missouri giving a bus ticket for someone out of prison to Tallahassee who happened to be blind, is wandering around the streets until people were able to help them. So this is something that needs to be focused on. And the story I encourage you to read. It's a detailed story.
And we've talked for a long time, Steve, about the county and the city just kind of putting their hands in their pockets on this and handing it.
Off, right, but they're doing it. This is Look, this was a program that was supported by City Manager Ris Code and it's continuing now. Who oh, by the way, friends is in the crosshairs of Jeremy Mattlowe and Jack Porter. They wont him fired.
Sixteen minutes past the hour, twenty two minutes past the hour with Steve Stewart, Executive editor of Tallasi Reports, and you've got it on the website, Steve. The charter amendments. A lot of people have written in and they've said, can you please offer an overview of the charter amendments that are on the local ballot and your thoughts?
Yep, you ready, Let's go all right. Number so, question one is shall the charter that city tow has to be amended to provide the members of the City Commission be paid an annual salary equal to the annual salary set by state law form members of the Board of County Commissioners. This is a pay raise. This is a big fat no for me. They roughly want to double their pay double. Well, they want to make it equal to the Leon County Commissioners, which they probably make too
much money. Also, listen to the City of Tallassee is a council former government. These five elected officials are supposed to be like board members. They're supposed to have jobs in the community. They're supposed to show up, and the city manager is supposed to run the operation. And what's happened now is this is starting probably about twenty years ago. You know, this has become a political position and it's just gotten worse. I mean, you look at the money
coming in from California. This is they're trying to take this national narrative and they're listen, the City Commission's electric utility picking up garbage, you know, paving roads, building parks, and we're talking about abortion politics. I don't want to give any of them raises. It should be a part time job. And we've gotten to the point now to where you're talking about professional politicians. You get even more if you do this.
So Charter Amendment one is about pay raises for the City Commission and the four commissioners because the mayor, if I'm not mistaken making that exactly the answer we would give would be no no on question one.
Question two Charterment expanding jurisdiction of the Independent Ethics Board. I am really down on all ethics boards at this point. This though, I'm probably going to vote yes on the issue here is expanding the reach to when city commissioners sit on boards outside of the City Commission Blueprint CRA.
The city attorneys reading this as no, they don't because the way it's constructed right now, it's city boards and they don't consider some of these other boards to be city boards.
Alvo, Yes on that, okay, but again I'm not sure that it's going to really matter. Number three chartermendment to resolve two candidate elections at the general election. This is a yes for me. This is when you have two candidates running in the county, they don't do it in the primary. They do it, and they just moved to November, right because you got a higher turnout, as you remember
what happened. And uh so in the city, what they do if you have two CANDIDATESY run in August and you can get as little as sixteen percent of the total registered voters and win a seat on the City Commission. And so what they're saying is this is a partial fix to that.
Well, but in that case there was more than two candidates, No exactly, but still if you will, yeah, if you're running, but if it is just two candidates, then whoever gets fifty percent, but it still boils down to you've got lower turnout and lower representation of the electorate exactly.
So it's a yes on this one. So we got no, yes, yes, okay. Chartermen Number four is to provide for period ac review of the Charter. Unlikely on County, the city does not have anything that organizes a tenure or a review of the charters. Whenever the city officials decide to do it. We've just had one. So what this does is codify that you can do it every ten years. Leon County Commission. Does that makes sense to me? Just you know, so we're a no, a yes, a yes, and a yes
on our advisements. Yes. Number five. Charterment two define the role of the Inspector General. This is really bureaucratic. This is goes back because of the Remember how we started. We because we were involved with the You might want to separate yourself from this, creating the independent ethics Board. And remember at the time the city commissioners did want to do that. They started their own ethics board in
the House. And then this got overridden because of the Charter Amendments seventy five and then they stacked it yeah, then they stacked it and all that good stuff. But but they want to create an inspector General, which others some other cities have. This is a little bit more of a financial oversight. They can you know, it would report directly to the City Commission. And they want to codify this in the charter. I'm gonna I'm gonna waffle
on this. I've got to do a little bit more research on this, and we could talk about this next week. I would say I would vote no on this right now, just because we're expanding government and government's reach. We've already got the Ethics Board. But that's a no with a qualifier. I may come back next Thursday and say, oh my gosh, this is the best idea since pay raise is.
You know, keep in mind, friends, that some of this I think is a legislative fix for the state to address. I think the state can put more teeth in the Ethics Commission. They backed it off. They just took some They kind of neutered it, and they need to change that. If you're going to have it, they need to have authority.
But we're moving in the direction that we are that we know that there's no ethics it's either law. It's either legal or not. I mean that's the way people behave these days. It's either legal or not. And we don't want to hear it. You know, we don't talk about ethics. The problem becomes when something that is illegal is intreated as unethical exactly, and that's a problem. Then you got to get into the legal process. Yes, thanks
for the time, Thank you, President Steve Stewart. If you want stories that no one else is covering, you know, like that homeless story and busting out six hundred and fifty some odd people in the last year and a half or two years, you're going to only find it in one place, Telascireports dot com. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Hi.
Big stories in the press box. And for those of you that just heard the national news, better than expected, right, all right, So we've got some flooding, we have some storm surge, there was some wind damage. There were clearly are bunch of tornadoes anywhere from thirty seven to one hundred and twenty five popped up through Florida yesterday and overnight.
Got this.
Post on X doctor Roy Spencer on Facebook Hurricane Milton wind speeds at landfall. Another case of exaggerated estimates. I went through all of the highest sustained wind speeds the National Hurricanes Center listed for several hours around landfall time. The average was sixty seven miles per hour. The average of the National Hurricane Center was one hundred and fourteen.
That's a forty seven mile per hour difference. The best position station was just offshore of Venice Beach, measuring seventy eight at landfall, which was forty two miles per hour lower than the National Hurricane Center estimate of one hundred and twenty.
That's good news, right, I mean, that's really good news. There are.
There are reasons that we should be concerned with the reporting by the National Hurricane Center in advance of these storms.
It's troubling. Could you say they're airing on the side of caution? Perhaps? Are they measuring wins at higher altitudes than what are practical for the arrival of the storm. Perhaps I'm not a meteorologist. Now I have sent detailed questions to meteorologists two forecasters, and I've not gotten responses
that satisfy me. And by that, I'm saying they're not really answering the questions, which tells me they have the same questions, but they're just not professionally going to put themselves out there and say that they have the same questions. They're not supporting the estimates, but they're not They don't come up with any explanations. So it is a problem.
My contention, friends, is that you know, we have storms, We're gonna have storms. But once again, the massive category five just it might not have been even a category three. If you look at the Saffir Simpson scale, those wind speeds, that's category one barely. If they're below seventy four, that's tropical storm. So we're now seeing a bit of a pattern here with the National Hurricane Center.
Man, I hate this.
I hate being the guy that the day after the morning of the storm blowing through, I'm here pointing out that, Okay, I'm grateful, I really am. It wasn't worse, but there are people dead because of tornadoes. And that was the thing that I told you I was most worried about. You know, storm surge is just gonna happen. It's not what they expected. Good, all right, we're good. And again, if we go benefit of the doubt, then we say, okay, we're going to scare people to get them out of
the way just in case, all right, whatever. I would rather just be honest with everybody and say, look, the wind speeds are this, we can't guarantee that they'll stay that low. We can't guarantee what the storm surge is going to be. We're suggesting this, be honest with everybody. Just be honest, because the credibility issue is going to come back and bite them in the butt, and it's going to kill people down the road.
It just will.
Forty minutes past the hour, that's a big story in the press box. Optimum health naturally is next time for some optimum.
Health naturally meaning yeah, drilling down to things and finding natural ways to address them instead of just going pharmaceutical all the time. Look, there's a time and a place.
But we are over medicated here and joining us as always is doctor David Hart's all right, doctor Herts. So there are a bunch of people out there going, what happened?
Howd my belly get so big? Well?
Yeah, you know, and we're always kind of consumed with the flat belly. You know, we want the flat belly, and you know, sometimes it's you know, it's fat. You know, it's no doubt about it. Sometimes we just got so much weight on us.
But sometimes I mean, doctor Harts, I haven't seen my knees, it's for forty five years.
I don't know what my toes look like. I know I got the but or I can't cut my toenails. But but anyway, yeah, sometimes it's you know, there's other things going on here. So what I want to talk about at this point is sometimes it's certainly it can be fat and a lot of the most times it is, but also can be bloating in your stomach. Sometimes you get a protruded to ab them in and it's it's not fat, it's just it's bloating and some of the
things that can cause that. And of course it can be also very uncomfortable and it can affect other things in your body.
Is there a way to tell the difference.
Well, yeah, a lot of times you can tell that there's just plain adipose tissue. Now you can get at post tissue inside your your mezzan kind with your body, which can protrude out. But you know, if there's not a lot of pendulous type of fat uh and and it's really really firm and also you might notice it comes up and down. You might realize that sometimes it's worse than others and i fat changes or if it's accompanied by a lot of flageless or gas or abnormal digestion,
that's that's usually really good signs. And and some of the things that can cause this is something as simple as just not chewing your food as well. It just it doesn't sound like very exciting, but it really happens a lot, especially in our society when we eat so fast, we're eating just you know, cramming things down and going fast.
Just sometimes that helps CLOrk acid deficiencies where you just don't have enough acid in your stomach, and that can be replaced by just getting some betane hydrochloride or hydrochloric acid pills at a health food store and trying those. Lactose intolerance people, a lot of people don't realize that they got problems with lactose and they need to stay
away from dairy. And also sometimes even lactose free things can cause it because it has caseine in it, which can also cause problems in the lactose free stuff doesn't take that out. Different food allergies can do some of this too too. You you can you might want to just periodically cycle out different foods out of your diet, especially like gluten, and just see if that doesn't help some of this. A lot of this happens with transient
times in your bowl too. You're supposed to be a limit stuff that you eat within twenty four to forty eight hours. I mean, I've had people and patience to have kept it weeks and as much as a month in their bodies and not leimonate. So I mean it needs to be transit time. That's usually you know, pretty quickly within a couple of days, and and this just builds up. And so also pancreatic insufficiencies can do this. There's something called pancreatic insufficiency EPI, and you can do that.
You can help that. We're just taking some good pancreatic enzymes, just simple things that you can get that aren't very expensive at all. And then imbalances of the microbiome too, you know, you get them balances of the bacteria and so forth that you probably need a comprehensive steel analysis, maybe a functional medicine integrated doctor to helping with that. And then cybo uh small testsine veacterial overgrowth syndrome, which is kind of along with the comprehensive steel analysis that
can cause bloating. And we've got tests that we can even do with the bread tests now think we can tell it. So there's things we can do. And these things not only can we just look like you're fat and you're not, but it can really affect your health. So I see this all the time. People try to lose weight, can't do it, and it's really coming from the God good stuff.
Doctor Hearts, thanks as always for the intel. We appreciate it.
Okay, Preston, have a great day, Thank.
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All right, fifty one minutes past the hour. Randy Breenan is a buddy of mine. I've known Randy for a very very long time. Knows family. He and his wife Deborah outstanding incredible artists. But for the purposes of why, I've had him call in a couple times this morning. He happens to be in Saint Petersburg in a twenty story condo and he watched the storm come in. He watched the storm go out. The sun's starting to come up, Randy, as you look around, what are you seeing?
Ah, you're right. The sun has risen, so that a new day dawning. What I'm looking at is very calm right now. As I said before, I don't know how much anybody heard, but there's a soccer stadium right in front of us. I see a few of the outlying structures around the soccer stadium are down. There's a little airport on a point here for small planes. It looks
like two or three of their hangars have collapsed. There's a yacht club off here to my left with several boats in the harbor, but I don't see too many of them with damage. Maybe a few masts are tilted over. Anyway, it looks from my vantage point not too bad. They'll see a lot of trees that it's kind of ironic. And one of the high rises across from us, there's the three palm trees up on the very top. They
must have a pool up there. And those palm trees made it through Helene and they have made it through this storm.
That's interesting.
Did you get any indication that there were tornadoes popping around where you were, because that appears to be what did the most physical damage. Was anywhere between thirty seven and one hundred and twenty five tornadoes popping up throughout the.
State right right we had. We had power all the time, so we were getting alerts from the Weather Service, and it looked like, if you observed it, most of the tornadoes were in the outer bands that were sweeping across central and the east coast of Florida where we were, which is very close. Of course, the eyewall passed right just barely south of us. We had no indications of tornadoes.
Of course, they can be hidden in the rain bands, but no, we have no evidence of tornadoes coming through this area.
I know that people listening that are from the area will know the answer to this question far better than I because I've only been in the Saint Pete area a couple of times in my life. But Randy, as you look around, is there much evidence of flooding that people.
Are going to have and have to navigate around in the area you can.
See, I think most of the flooding has been actually from the rain. I'm looking down a street that goes right parallel to the bay. There is water in the street where one of the canals kind of connects to it perpendicular. Sure, other than that street flooding at all, I don't see any. And of course, if you look at the dynamics of the storm, they were predicting there
could be catastrophic surge in Tampa Bay. I think the way the storm developed and actually came ashore, the bay was actually pushing out towards towards the end instead of in now. However, I do know there are neighborhoods that, no matter how the wind is going in this bay, because it's swirling around right, did get flooded. I just can't personally observe them right now.
Randy, thanks for being our corresponding here this morning, buddy.
I appreciate it. Glad you all are doing well. See my best to Deborah and the kids.
I will I will thanks pressing, thank.
You Randy bringing with us this morning.
And again he's just Randy and I have known each other since the late eighties and just a good friend and a dear supporter and encourager to me personally. And I know he's boys and I've watched them grow up and become just wonderful men, and he endeavor should be proud of their family.
But anyway, just there you go. There's somebody that's staring. He's got eyes on what he's seeing, and right now calm and so I would say to those of you, first of all, don't leave and go back until you get some form of all clear where your neighborhood is. You know, reach out, you know, look online to your Sheriff's department, disaster Florida disaster dot org, look for coast is clear, come on back announcements, because right now it's
all about getting everything back online. There are a lot of areas that have power, but three point one million are without. So just keep that in mind before you decide to get in the car and come back, because you remember the roads leaving, that's what you're going to have coming back. And so you know, if you can manage, I would because the worst thing in the world would be to come back and not be able to go home because you just can't get home, and then what
are you doing. You're trying to find a.
Hotel that isn't flooded or didn't have damage or anything like that. All right, when we come back, we're going to change gears. We're going to head to North Carolina. David Allen scheduled to join us next. All right, friends, it is the third hour. I am literally turning the page on the rundown. Osey's running the show in Studio one AM here in Studio one B. And as I say, turning the page on the rundown, there's somebody else with us that knows exactly what I'm doing, and that is
our former producer. He is our former boss, and he is our constant friend. David Allen joins us from North Carolina. Good morning, sir, How are you?
Good morning? I am. You know, the last time we were together, I got like two sentences in and I got cut off. Not from you, obviously, because I barely can get signal up here, but you know I did it on purpose so I could get bumped up to the eighth five spot.
Uh huh, you know how it works. Now you're p're.
Still, I'm I'm very I'm a commodity. Now I'm in.
Need your prime time, buddy, your prime time da Hey, let's go back. Let's do a little chronology here before we get to the status of things right now. First, give everybody just kind of a general view of where you are in the.
Region close to ground zero. It's fairview in North Carolina. Excuse me, technically where I am just outside of Asheville, just outside of Black Mountain, Swanonoah, which you know was was We are considered one of the harder hit areas. That's what I keep being told, that's what I've seen, although out of property, my wife Jennifer and I, oh, we're very blessed and didn't receive any damage. So that's where we are.
Let's go back to when what we knew is Hurricane Helene. The track had it and the National Weather Service consistently had the track go straight over Tallahassee. It did not show the deviation that would be really impactful because that deviation to the east is what brought the track of that storm to North Carolina. David, when did did you When did people in the area know that you had a severe weather event coming? Was it prior at all or was it when it happened.
I don't think I'm the right person to ask that question because I was having lived in Tallahassee, consider that a home away from home, and love you and your family and all the people there that I got to know so well. I was more concerned about you guys, and I was paying attention to your weather, not mine my fault.
Well, but again, the forecast didn't ever deviate. We showed, we talked about it heading east, we talked about it deviating. But all of the National Weather Service broadcasts all of the forecasts, and let's be honest, a lot of that, you know, is used by the local meteorologists in any area to kind of foundationally form their forecast. None of them had it coming your way to the extent that it did. So I just I'm not sure how much notice you would have ever gotten.
I wasn't really privy to that information. The last thing I looked at, I thought it was coming straight over you guys, and then straight for us.
You did think it was coming towards North Carolina then, because they originally had it going straight to Atlanta and not. Yeah, you'd have gotten rain, but you wouldn't have gotten the lion's share of it, which is what you ended up with.
See, I haven't. I still haven't been able to see any information, yea, because I have no internet and very limited cell service. If it weren't for the fact that I'm in Asheville today and I drove out of my little holler just to get a signal so I could talk to you. I wouldn't have the ability to do that, So I haven't seen any of the post hurricane information at all.
David standby.
David Allen with us this morning, former producer of the Morning Show program director for our station. But more important than any of that, he's my friend and he's there in Ashville right now. So we're gonna, like I said, we're taking this story chronologically. When we come back, I want to ask him, Okay, as this thing happened, just sort of how it all unfolded, and at what point was it uh oh to he and his neighbors ten passed the hour. It's the Morning Show at Preston Scott.
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David Allen with us from Asheville this morning. So let's go back to at what point, David, did you know you had something other than a little bit of rain come in your way.
That would have been at five am Friday morning. I think that was the twenty fifth. I don't know what date it is anymore. It was a twenty seventh, It was a twenty okay, anyway, it was a twenty seventh. I drive out. I have taken a job that requires me to get up early in the morning again, figure, and I'm driving out at like five am, and I have to drive through a river that didn't used to be there.
Oh no.
And I got through it and decided, yeah, it's time to go home. This is something you don't need to be out in now. Fast forward later the next day or three, when we finally got out, the path that I was trying to take was completely obliterated. Trees down, power lines down, totally cut off.
When you encountered that, did you know it was going to keep raining? We was there just there was just something inside that said, yeah, I don't need to go any further.
I knew it was going to be bad. There was no uh, there was no indication it was going to stop raining, but that much rain, it just kept coming and kept coming and kept coming. We lost power I want to say, six fifteen, six twenty that morning, what was.
Going on around you? You get back to your home, your property, What are you hearing, what are you seeing? Are you in touch with people? Kind of talk me through those hours and maybe the twenty four to forty eight hours immediately after that event.
Right, well, maybe it was the fact that I've been through too many hurricanes myself, so I went back to bed.
Why wouldn't you honestly, yeah, I mean, you've been through a hurricane. Whatever's right in a little bit, and you know when I woke up and the hill I will say this.
I will say this, during the night before all of this happened, before I got up to go to work, my wife and I were relatively awake throughout the night in spurts, because we would hear a transformer blow. Then you would hear a tree fall, and you're wondering, is it ours or are we now trapped? You know, we'll have to wait for light to assess the situation. And it just so happens that it was all up above us.
When you.
Saw the storm has subsided, but not the flooding. Right in that kind of how it works in the mountains, you've got the storm it goes through, but you're just at the beginning of the flooding, right.
Well, it's an odd situation because I've never it's rained a lot here, but never this much. And water began to pull up at our front step and it was rising like I've never seen this before. But it's going to eventually come into the house if I don't divert it, which I successfully did. But then soon after that it stopped raining. I went downstairs to get my generator out
and stepped into a foot of water. Oh wow, the basement, which is basically just for us a root seller, we have an old farmhouse that we live in, and stepped into a foot of water and all I'm like, well, let's see if I can jerk this thing out of here and get her working, and got it.
Was Was it floodwater from just rain accumulating there or was that water absorbing through the ground and coming up through the aquifer?
Both okay, I'm pretty sure. Yeah.
Yeah.
Where the water was pooling there at the front step, we that was going into the basement as well as the underground water. And fortunately, because it's a dirt floor, I went back the next day and it was all the water was gone.
It just absorbed right back down.
It did.
It did after it took my chainsaw with it.
David standby. David Allen with us More to come. He's talking to us from Ashville, North Carolina, identified as ground zero that and the area is surrounding.
More to come here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott twenty one past the hour.
I miss his glib, pithy commentary and I miss my friend being around. David Allen with us this morning from Asheville, North Carolina. And we will not explain why. But your car. You can't turn the power off on your car and you're with us sitting in your running car in Ashville. David, give me the.
What you're seeing now, what's happening in the region. How long is being is the estimate for any sense of normalcy?
Oh, we're months away from normalcy. Tomorrow will be the the fourteenth day. I'm without power and water and what has happened here with our water system? Now I'm on a well so when I get power back, I'm good to go.
Hopefully.
I don't think there was any damage. But the watershed as they call it here, is responsible for eighty percent of the water in Buncom County and surrounding counties. And the facility itself is good to go. It's running and it's fine. The pipe, the waterway that was buried twenty five feet in the ground was washed away.
Good gone night.
Yes, it is all gone. They have to they have to basically build the pipe and the road and everything else back to be able to get people water.
When we say they, when you say they, are you talking local, state, or federal or d all of the above.
Yeah, yes, that's That's what I've heard from broadcasters like yourself here in the area is that Army Corps of Engineers is in Paul, State, Federal, everybody's in on this and that that that that includes a lot of great local guys.
Let's set aside the great local guys, and let's zero in, David on one of the big stories emanating from the region, and that is the what what appears to be a very very slow response from the Feds to that region, and the political calculus is because that region largely supports and has supported Donald Trump.
Uh My thought on that is, I don't have time to think about it. I would I would say I couldn't care less, But that's not the truth. I rely on folks like you and the people listening to hold Biden and Harris and the administration accountable for stuff like this because we don't have time to worry and think about stuff like that. I'm here today trying to put generators together to give to folks who don't have power. Those are the things that we're busy doing, and we don't have time for that stuff.
How much outside help is coming in with things like you're talking about a basic.
Portable generator to help power some things.
A lot people are coming in from surrounding states Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and those states were hit as well, just like we were, right, but not to the magnitude I suppose. I can't really speak to that. I shouldn't because again I don't really have a lot of information coming into my phone.
What does the next what's the weekend look like for you?
Oh? A lot of grilling out.
Where do you get water from?
Luckily, the neighbor above me has a propane whole house generator and he's on the well and he has water, and so we've been very fortunate. We just drive up his driveway which is literally right behind us, and fill up some buckets.
Are you able to get out of the area, if for no other reason, just to go somewhere away from the damage and get a hot meal?
Yes, yes, we were able to do that one day this past week, and we've been able to get gas and go to the grocery store. And the thing is they've cleared the roads of most of the debris and hung the lines back up. We just don't have electricity coming through those lines.
The roadways in the area where you live and where you frequently are commuting to and from, are they there?
Are they gone? What percentage would you guestimate are usable? And percentage that's.
Not seventy percent that are usable?
Okay, there are.
Three different options for me to get out of well, four different options. If I'm trying to go to one side of the one side of town where I know everything is open and they're taking cards, now I have to basically go the long way. No better way to put it than you know on the radio than the long way. But one, two, three roads just in the past couple of days have been closed so that they can either do repair or they're impassable.
Well, David, thanks for making time for us and letting us intrude. And you know a lot of people very concerned about your welfare that knew you were relocated up there, and so a lot of folks still wanting to hear your voice and wanted to know that you, Jennifer and the family are doing well. So thanks for making time.
Absolutely not a pleasure.
Love you, buddy, Love you all right, David Allen with us this morning. Go ahead, you can leave now. Your car doesn't need to sit in idle. Haven't you heard about something called global warming? All right, so there you go, friends, He's doing well. And good breakdown of what's happened up there and the chronology of it all Morning Show with Preston Scott. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Yeah, good morning.
A big story in the press box this morning is a large storm hit the state. No doubt. I don't think it was a Category three. It certainly wasn't a four or five. They downgraded it to a three, so
at least we'll be spared the worst storm in a century. Nonsense, And I hate it in the sense that it makes it sound like I'm belittally in the fact that there was a storm and people lost their lives because of likely tornadoes, because we had a bunch of those, and we told you they were going to be a bunch of those, because you literally had the perfect recipe for that. You had colder weather on the top end from the north moving in as this storm hit, and so those
started popping up. Yesterday you have thirty seven confirmed. Likely that number is going to jump because there were one hundred and twenty five tornado warnings. And a warning means the likelihood of a tornado. It's not a watch, it's a warning meaning you know, funnel clouds and you know movement rotation observed and noted, and tragically, we do have lost lives as a result of that in some pockets
of the state. I've got an email here North Orlando, definitely rain not you know, there are tree branches that were down, but no damage locally. They were telling us to prepare like for an Ian. Folks were going nuts because Ian sat here for twenty four hours. Top gust reported on television was one hundred and five but no
sustained wins. And again, you know, I've said this repeatedly, and I just I think it bears, mentioning that if you look at the scale, sustained winds of seventy four to ninety five make a category one and I'm not sure we're there. That doesn't mean damage doesn't happen. It doesn't mean, you know, there's not a loss of life. There's flooding from rain and a little storm searge that it was not what was expected, and that's great, that's awesome.
You know, we want these forecasts of doom and gloom to be wrong. Right The problem comes when the government is losing credibility on multiple fronts. I had a listener point out I thought it was a really smart observation. You know, right now we have outlets saying that there are sixty plus genders and now somehow seventy mile an hour winds are category four storms.
And I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about Helen and the date. It's just the data is not there, and I just the National Weather Service, in the National Hurricane Center, they're underneath the auspices of Noah, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and they are They're trapped because they rely on professionals with the necessary instruments to tell them what has happened, and what has happened and what
is happening doesn't match what they're saying. And it's not that different from what are you going to believe your lying eyes or.
What they tell you. And so I'm not trying to create a controversy where one doesn't exist. I'm pointing out a controversy because it does exist. There's a difference, there's a.
Problem here, and you have to separate that we have a storm and we're grateful from the fact that, Okay, everybody was being told this was the storm of the century and it wasn't, and I'm grateful, but there has to be an accounting, especially now for what will be propagated, because I don't believe it was a category three storm at all. I know Helene wasn't a three or a four. I know that because the data from the National Weather
Service tells me that. This is where I love what I do and I hate what I do because I feel a little bit like a tattletale.
I don't like being a tattletale, but a tattletale tells the truth. True stinks sometimes this stinks. Forty one past the honor couple more things to talk about before we wrap for the day.
Now.
This note is lifted from a Fox Weather post. It looks like weather News category six needed on hurricane windscale due to warm in climate study. Says I promised I was getting away from this first.
There's a reason why there's not a CAT six. There's the reason is because if a CAT five exists and happens, there's nothing left.
So there's no point in a six. A CAT five levels just yeah, that's my point. The Federal.
Weather Agency, Noah, that studies atmosphere, and we used to be able to believe it.
You cannot. You just can't.
Because they are under orders. All you need to do is, you know, the guy who started the Weather Channel, so this global warming stuff is a front now he thought he sold out. He sold the Weather Channel years ago. He's just pointing out this is rubbish.
And they're and and so you these subtleties matter because they're they're staying with the fact that Helene was a cat for.
It wasn't it wasn't, It wasn't likely a two. It might not have been a one.
But because they stay with this, they're able to say, see, see even though when this is done you can rely on me to do this. We're gonna go back to the predictions of the year and we're gonna compare it. And then we're gonna go broad like Scott Beacon did, and we're gonna go We're gonna go big time. And see where does this stack up historically? How many big, old bad storms did we have, not saying that they're not it's a bad storm. People lost their life because
the tornadoes. Some might have lost their life because they're stupid. But we're going to compare. And the reason they have to keep inflating these numbers is because it's about control. They want to control you, and they're going to fictionalize these numbers even if the data doesn't support it. It's
not that different from this reality. Look how warm the climate's getting, and they forget to tell you that perhaps a majority of the temperature reading stations around the world are sitting downtown in various cities around the world, where asphalt is below.
And where air conditioning systems are running and generating tons of heat, and they're positioned right there on the rooftops with these commercial AC units.
That's a reality, that is a fact. Golly, this sucks. It really does. It annoys me to no end that I'm talking about this. I promise you in the final segment, I'm not gonna mention it much.
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I'll tell you what I know. I know a lot because I have a big brain. I'm just kidding. I don't know anything. I just share information that other people and then I.
Analyze that information with my mobly large brain. Anyway, today on the program, we talked about Milton, it is come, it is gone, Thank you. It was not as bad as expected. We talked about that there were tornadoes, there is loss of life, there is damage. They act as though Tropic cana Field's entire roof got pulled off. No, it didn't, at least the images that I have seen and have been shown.
Yes, it got damaged. It's a cloth roof, I mean, yeah, little duct tape. Take care of that. Imagine pulling that piece back and just putting some duct tape on it. We'll hanger that down with a little duct tape. Let's see that dude on the flex seal flex tape. Have that dude go up there with a piece of that flex tape. That'd be funny, be a great commercial. Lots of things to talk about tomorrow that we didn't get to today, and go back and check the podcast. Great
visit with David Allen. Got some timely updates from Randy Breening down in Saint Pete. David of course talking to us from Ashville, Doctor David Hart's some helpful information, and of course Steve Stewart from Tallashi Report. So busy Thursday will lead to a fun Friday. Maybe sort of. We'll see, but I can promise you this, we God willing will be here. Form whatever opinion you want from that statement. Have a great day.