Morning Friends, Thursday, January ninth, Morning Show with Preston Scott. I'm Preston. He is Jose resplendent in his brand new iHeartRadio longsleeve T shirt. Look at him flexing, posing, Wow, what a vision. Yeah, you know it's three XL and it looks great on me. He said, that's kind of worrisome. You're not. I was so stunned when you said I'll take the three XL. I'm like, dude, you're gonna swim in that thing. You are not a three XL man.
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No, Yeah, it's gonna shrink for sure. You're not a two XL man. Anyway, Welcome friends to the Thursday edition of the program. Let's start, as we do, with some scripture. This is One Corinthians fifteen fifty eight. Therefore, my beloved brothers, I'll add and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. Can I just zero in on one part of that? Knowing that in the Lord?
What does that mean? To a lot of people? The Christian world has had language a subtext, and it's referred to from time to time as Christianese. Christianese can be can be a little off putting. I'll give you. I'll give you a few examples when we're with people that may not really kind of get it, and we talk about things like the anointing, or we use and try to kind of talk about concepts that leave people scratching their head going huh, I don't get it. You know,
I'm just praying for a release from my church. What of release?
What do you?
Stop it? I just want to mess your hair up and just say stop it. This is one of those that I think a lot of people, even inside the church don't really know what you know, knowing that in the Lord your labors, what does that mean in the Lord? Well, if you go back to what Jesus said to the disciples inside the Upper Room, and I'm not talking about
the Last Supper. I'm talking about when they were locked behind closed doors because they were scared, they were killed, they were gonna get killed, killed, And so the night of the Resurrection, they're they're hearing these reports that Jesus is alive and they're like God, and so they're locked up and Jesus remembers shows up. That's when they become Christians. And he says, as the Father has sent me, I send you. And and when Jesus said that he's giving
delegating authority, they don't have the authority. They have delegated authority. Jesus is the authority. And so when this statement comes, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain, that speaks to why are you doing what you're doing. Being letting your work, your deeds, your words be done in the Lord means you are an ambassador of Christ. And what you're doing you're trying to represent God the best you can, knowing that not a one of us
is perfect. We fall short. Don't use that as an excuse, just as a point of grace and mercy. But when we do things in the Lord, we're not doing them for ourselves. We're not doing them to earn little brownie points. We're doing them because it's what God lays on our heart to do to help others, or to encourage others, or to just I mean, sometimes you don't have to say a word, just giving somebody a hug, look at them in the eye and saying I will pray for you,
and then remembering to pray for them. That's doing the work of the Lord in the Lord. Ten Past the Hour, back with the American Patriots Almanac and the National Day of Next on the Morning Show. Hey, the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Drinking my water my electrolytes. I gotta remember to s I gotta hydrate myself big this morning. Have to get a little blood drawn later on in the day. Doesn't bother me. I'm like, yeah, go for it,
big old veins, come on. But I try to make sure that I hydrate myself on such days because I have noticed that as I age, they have to thump a little bit longer than they used to. But yeah, so if look, you know, I am prone to eat while I'm on the air. I will drink beverages while I'm on the air. I violate all of the rules of radio decorum, and well not all of them, but some of them. And so I've got to remind myself. And I've got electrolytes in my water here, and so yeah,
my water's so good. Oh my gosh. You just you can smell my water from fifteen feet away if you've got a good sniffer, and it's just glorious. It just is. I've got raspberry lemonade right now, but it's water. There's no sugar, there's no calories, there's none of that. It's just loaded with electrolytes. And it smells like raspberries and lemonade. It's just glorious anyway. Today is January the ninth. Can you believe it's already the ninth? Eleven days? Eleven days?
Come on, we could do it. Seventeen seventy six, Thomas Pain publishes Common Sense in Philadelphia. I've got my Thomas Pain bobble right there, right, I could, I could. Thomas reached to me. I can almost touch my Thomas Pain bobble head holding up a copy of Common Sense. Seventeen eighty eight. Connecticut becomes the fifth state to ratify the Constitution. Isn't it interesting? Connecticut? When it's spelled connect to kit Connecticut. Those are things you have to do, remember how to
spell it right. You have to kind of say no, no, no, no, no no no, connect connect ticket Connecticut. Eighteen sixty one. The Union merchant ship Star of the West fired on in Charleston Harbor as it attempts to resupply Fort Sumter marketing the first shots of the Civil War eighteen sixty one. You ever been to Fort Sumter, Jose, No, sir, oh, oh, you need to go first. You ever been to Charleston? No, Charleston's beautiful. It's just it's a lovely, lovely community. Yeah.
I'm a Florida born I'm scared to leave Florida. I just love it. Okay, all right, I will one day loser. Nineteen thirteen. Richard Millhouse Nixon born in Yorba Linda, California, Boy, California. I spent some time praying for the folks in California this morning my way in, and I hope you are praying for them as well. Look, I don't unlike people on the left that tweet out and post things about someone losing their home that they don't like politically, and
they're like, oh, karma, you evil humans, stop it. See people on our side, we don't wish that on people. It's like, I can point to why this all has happened, and aside from the starting of the fire, which at this point appears to be a wildfire at this point may not be. But at this point I can point to all the reasons why this thing has gotten out of hand. But that doesn't mean I wanted it to happen to those poor people. I I don't care who they are. And that's the difference. Don't ever be that,
don't ever be those people. Huh. You deserve it, dudes and dude ats. We all deserve it. We all fall short, we all make mistakes. And you know, if you really track this thing down, it all boils back down to sin. Now, it really does. You're like, oh, stop, you're over spiritualizing it. Oh really, you think? So you hang on for a few minutes, as we go through things that have happened in California, you tell me, sins not at the root of this. Okay, on how this thing has gotten where
it has. I've got the latest numbers on all that. By the way, it is National Balloon Ascension Day. Well here's what I wonder. I wonder if tomorrow is National Balloon Discension Day. I mean, balloons go up, but if we're talking about, you know, a manned, piloted balloon you wanted to come down, So does that make tomorrow balloon dissent Day? I don't know. It is National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day, so all of you men and women out
there listening to the program. And I know you're there because I see your emails and I run into you, not literally, you know what I'm saying. Sheriffs, troopers, police, fish and wildlife, all of you. Thank you for what you do. We appreciate you. We appreciate you putting your life on the line. Apricot apricot or apricot apricots. It's one of those. It's National Apricot Day and it's National Static Electricity Day. I will let you figure that one out.
Seventeen past the hour. Yeah, yeah, we locked up the morning show band. He said, don't come out till you have a bunch of new bumps for the Morning show. On January first, they delivered seventies, eighties, nineties, thousands, boom dropping dropping, all kinds of beats. Hit it, I hit it. There we go. Now I got to show off with the work of the band. So, yeah, hey, we were just talking about oatmeal. He uh, he says, such a
good hearted guy. And he comes in this week and he starts the week by saying, you like oatmeal, Like, well, yeah, I mean I don't eat it every day, but I do enjoy oatmeal. I got this for you. It's it's a special kind of oatmeal. And I'm thinking at at huh hot coco. Yeah, I'm thinking he's got me some of that protein oatmeal, which tastes like yack. I mean it just the protein stuff generally just tastes awful. The
protein shakes, the protein things. Yeah, there's just something in it that's just But I like, I like, I like oatmeal, but I like I'm I'm old school. I like the maple and brown sugar flavored oatmeal, the instant stuff. Just give me that oatmeal really good for you. And uh and and it's full of water. That's the other thing. Oatmeal's actually a little bit better for you if you're if you're a diet type person and you're trying to
pay attention to your weight. And I'm you know, I put on probably six pounds during the holiday, which I'm not upset about. I'm okay, six pounds. That wasn't bad. And so you know, I go with a a very high density, low density kind of look at my food where I'm paying attention to the water content. And as an example, grapes are better than raisins, and oatmeal's better than granola, because oatmeal has water in it. Granola's just crunchy,
and I I'd eat both. But anyway, I tried that cocoa stuff and I was just like, yeah, you can, thank you, you can have.
All of this back.
And so he tasted it and he announces to me today I try that cocal oatmeal. I am waiting until the season is like over, and I'm buying all of it that's left over because it's a special edition kind of holiday release oatmeal, and I'm like saluting brother, it's all yours path. You're not gonna be I don't think you're gonna have to fight many people for it. It just it was a little too chalky for me. It
wasn't It wasn't. Yeah, anyway, you may not have cooked your right because it was nice and smooth and chocolate creamy. I might not have cooked it right. Yeah, instant oatmeal. That's like saying, dude, do you know how to cook toast? Whatever? Whatever. Anyway, I'm back to my maple oatmeal here in just a few minutes that I'll take care of in the break. Hey, I I have been telling you about the redesigned iHeartRadio app. It's spectacular. Let me tell you a little bit more
about the presets. It's it's taken inspiration. They took the presets directly from the from your car radio where you you preset your car radio to your favorite channels. But get this, you can pre set up to fifteen of your favorite radio stations or podcasts or playlists or artist radio stations and by that. For example, I'm a big fan of the band mercy Me, and I like the praise and worship of Hillsong, so let's use mercy Me.
I have a mercy Me playlist where I get a lot of mercy Me music, but then they they load it with artists like mercy Me, and so that's that. That could be one of my pre presets. The Morning Show could be one of my presets. The Haunted Cosmos or you know, Noble History or you know the different podcasts that I'll listen to because I love listening to podcasts while I'm working in my yard. I just I man, I'm all in the Rick Shields podcast Golfer from the UK that I enjoy because he's just a fun guy.
And so anyway, there you go. Check out the app, check out the presets, you'll love it. Twenty eight past the hour, come back with the big stories in the breast box, including an update of what's gone on in California. Let's get right to the big stories in the press box this morning. The latest on the wildfires in California.
As of right now, the Hurst Fire there are five is ten percent contained, the Lydia Fire forty percent contained, the Eton Fire no containment, Sunset Fire no containment, Palisades Fire no containment. So not one of them is contained past forty percent, one at ten percent, and the rest not contained at all. Five have died. Approximately two thousand plus structures have been burned to the ground and are gone. Twenty three or more school districts in Los Angeles County
are closed. I believe the number facing evacuation or having been evacuated is about two hundred thousand. People left their cars in the middle of areas to avoid being burned to death. Some of those cars are now destroyed because becaus they had to be bulldozed to make way for firefighters. We'll get into more of the specifics of what's gone wrong in just a few minutes. Mexico disperses migrant caravans heading to the United States. We talked about the immediate
reaction to Trump's election internationally. You may remember that Hamas was told you've got until January twentieth to release all the hostages. I told you shortly after the attacks on October seventh that I don't think many hostages are alive, if any. Now they've been bargaining with nothing. That's why Hamas has not cut a deal. That's something to pay attention to. But notice Canada is now going to change leadership in Mexico suddenly has decided it can do something
about those caravans. And that interesting. See when you threaten them and you tell the neighbors to the south, you're gonna pay this with pesos if you don't. And you tell the neighbors to the north, if you don't fix things up there, you're gonna pay for it with Loony's, the message gets sent. See. I have an opinion that people are over it in general, that I think we have been misled to believe that this country's far more
divided than it really is. I think that there are probably ten to thirty percent the nation that are just absurdly leftist, just I mean head in the ground you're yeah, almost irredeemably. And I'm not talking spiritually, I'm talking just philosophically irredeemable. Only thing that's going to change them is just an encounter with Christ almost in a you know,
an a Mais Road kind of thing. And yeah, but I maintain that that there's a good thirty twenty to thirty percent of this country that are a lot closer to where you and I are thinking than not, and pride just keeps them from just coming out and saying it. They just want things to just get better. That you know, the men playing women's sports and all of this catering to the fringes. They're just they they're over it. And I think that's a national I think it's an international.
I think people are over it. And that's why I think we're seeing this pushback to conservatism across the globe. We'll see and Joe Biden confirms he's considering preemptive pardons. Here's my question for you, and I'm going to just leave it right here, and we gotta we gotta move on, because I'm already late. If you did absolutely nothing wrong, why would you want one? Well, but they'll just prosecute
me if you did nothing wrong receiving a pardon. I don't know if you saw the two suspects and cases that refuse the pardon from the death sentence to life in prison, they won't, they won't accept it. They're trying to stop it because they're they're maintaining their innocence. They're saying, accepting the pardon it first of all, I don't want to spend the rest of my life in prison. Either I'm innocent now I don't know if they are or not.
That's not the point. The point is accepting the pardon all but submits it suggests that you or guilty of something. Forty two pasted the arm so cal Fires. What happened the Morning Show, Presston Scott. I've done a lot of listening to what citizens are posting, what they're saying, what they're saying in interviews, doing a lot of reading about chronology and what happened when, how did things get to where they are? Fires will happen, Lightning strikes, a spark happens.
Sometimes they're intentionally set absolutely, but sometimes just something that goes wrong. And so that's not the fault of anybody that a fire starts. It's not always the fault, but what's happened in California. The mayor of Los Angeles dramatically cut the budget just recently of the Los Angeles Fire Department. Water management has been mishandled in California for decades. To save a fishy, they got rid of dams to save fish. They put fish in front of their people. The underbrush.
I've told you about that for years, but that's now come out big with residents there and won't let us cut into anything down There are no prescribed burns. There's nothing that stops the tinder from developing. Do you realize that there are fire hydrants and Pacific Palisades that had no water. They went to hook up and there's no water. There was a fire just weeks ago in Malibu. They
knew the potential was there. Did they pre stage anything, did they move resources, did they start trying to figure out how we're going to put water in the lines. And then there's the fact that they don't have enough people fighting fires. You know why, because they decided to put somebody in charge of the fire department in Los Angeles that is a DEI higher. Now she may well have had the experience to be considered for the job. But here's the problem. Her focus. I listened to her interviews.
Her focus was DEI hires. Wherever there's a focus in DEI hiring practices, there is a lack of adequate personnel. You might have the numbers, you might not because, for example, the military, they can't recruit to the numbers they need
because people don't want to work in that. If you're going to fight in a fox hole, if you want to, if you're putting your life in the hands of the person on either side of you, you don't want someone on either side of you that's more worried about your skin color or your sexual identity, your gender identity at a given moment. You want warriors, You want fighters, and I tend to think that firefighters are kind of that same mindset. I don't care what you are, You just
need to be able to do the job. And we've seen across the country these DEI hires in certain key positions like firefighter, they come with reduced standards. They can't haul the same weight of a person out of a burning building. They can't do it. And so the head of LAFD has been focused on I listened to an interview just last night. Diversity, equity, and inclusion. Those were her words. This is a massive wake up call. It
didn't have to be this bad. Forty eight minutes after the end, in other news, just a moment away, now a few minutes away. Steve Stewart our first in studio guest of the Year, Steve Stewart Beck with US fan Tell last year, reports doctor David Hart's next hour Optimum Health. Naturally, we're gonna ask a question, does all this alternative health stuff matter? I mean, we're all gonna die of something, right, so what difference does any of this make. We're gonna
talk about that third hour. US Senator Tommy Tebberville, who oh, by the way, shared this with my wife yesterday. Town Hall pushed out a story yesterday Tommy Tuberville reintroduces measure to stop biological males from competing in women's sports, The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. And who's going to be on the show today? US Senator Tommy Tuberville, Because that's how we roll, bringing you the newsmakers. Yeah,
I love it, I love it. Coaches cool and yeah, just thanks to a listener who made an introduction to a press person or a chief of staff. I forget how it happened a couple of years ago, and here we are. Senator comes on a few times. Yeah, maybe maybe every month, every six weeks. Solid also in the news, California's on fire right now, So of course, what did Joe Biden do Yesterday? He gave another half a billion dollars to Ukraine and he's at a press conference with
Gavin Newsom, governor of California. He doesn't take any questions about what's going on in California. Instead, he told us that he's a great grandfather. Mister President, what kind of resources can be brought from the federal level to help here in California.
Well, I'm a great grandpa today, very happy that my granddaughter has a grandchild and has a child. Or so I'm a great great grandpapa. And did you know I have Harry Legs look bright in the sun?
If I passed the hour second hour of the Morning Show with Preston Scott and Preston's Ose. It is January ninth, eleven days we are counting down. Now, we're not counting up. We're not counting the days we're being held hostage. We're counting the days to freedom. On January twentieth is when it all changes. We hope for the better. Well it's
gonna be for the better, there's no doubting that. But as always on Thursday, we are meeting with Steve Stewart, Executive editor, Tallahassee Reports, the website Teleashreports dot com new paper out. Yes, it's gonna be a great year. Why because I'm not going to.
Be shackled by the elections and I'll be able to go out and do some reporting.
It's amazing how the electoral cycle does demand the attention, although it doesn't often get the attention it deserves from some of the legacy outlets. But for you and your team, it's yeah, it's just a lot to do.
And so now it's like, hey, we got a year with no election, so we can continue to inform and it's important.
See.
The thing is one of the things that happens and the way news is reported is people go on and they live their lives, and then all of a sudden, elections pop up and then everybody raises money and tries to fool the voters. And I'm convinced or i am dedicated this year to trying to get information out ahead of time so people know and so when things come up, it's not like a shocker.
This provides a really good launching pad for what we want to talk about first, because it's kind of that story that bridges the election season with news gathering. Right.
So, one of the things we saw during the during the election season was the meddling of people outside of Tallhassee, outside of Florida, and it comes from the progressive side of things, which is if you read the story that we have up on Tylas Reports now called Progressive Ponds, the man behind Mattlow's dark money. This is not unique to Tallasie. It's just that Tallassee has avoided it for
a number of years. And so the progressive movement, which got their foot in the door by getting Commission Mattlow elected, then all of a sudden became a target and hundreds of thousands of dollars pouring in from a billionaire out in California. I'm gonna mispronounce his name, Michael Kishnick, founder of the Green Advocacy Project, But that's just the tip.
Of the iceberg. If you read this article, you'll see that he's.
Been involved with a number of these initiatives which you're familiar with electing state attorneys that so George Soros site, he was on the board, you know, the Black Lives Matter movement, and so it's important for voters. Again, this is a seven hundred and fifty word article. You read it and you will understand the dynamics behind the progressive movement here.
And it was invited in town by elected officials and the head of the local Democrat party, no doubt. And I mean, you know, Commission Mattlow's one title hatsee Pack, which was supposed to be a grass you know, grassroots organisay. He bragged about the money it's going to be local, and he still does that.
And but again I think what's important now they didn't get the outcome they wanted when I say they the progressives, and so they've retreated. And what they'll do now is wait till the next election election cycle and then they will try to create these issues again to gain power. I think it's important that we educate and inform you know, what their mission was and what what you know, what they're doing.
We'll see it again in a week.
I mean, the Police Review Board is up for repeal because.
Of a lot of shenanigans and rhetoric that's gone on gone on around the country, and so the city is going to repeal the independence said's police Review board they put in a number of years ago, in part because
it runs a foul of state law. Correct, well, that's correct, But the reason the state law is in place is because you have these progressive activists that have taken these groups, has taken these review boards, which I supported ten years ago, okay, as a way to you know, provide some transparency to what's going on with one of the largest functions in local government, public safety.
But they've hijacked it and we saw it here. They appointed people who wanted to defund the police. And just last just last month, we had people standing up in front of the City Commission arguing about this repeal, calling TPD officer murders and these are supporters of Mallow and
Porter and nobody says a thing. And that's that's something that we're going to continue to report on mainstream media reports what they say, except for the rhetoric, and I think that needs it is something that needs to be U needs to be in front of people's eyes constantly of you know what their mission is and what their goal is.
All right, We've got more lots more to talk about. Steve Stewart with us. Subscribe great way to start the year. Make a pledge you're going to be better informed of what's going on in your community. And if you live in and around the capital city of Florida, you just go to Tellassie Reports dot com and subscribed and passed the hour. W f L A back with Steve Stewart of Tallahassee Reports and Steve, we were talking about the Citizens Review Board and what's going on there that leads
to crime numbers and you're tracking it like never before. Yeah, you know, I get excited about this. I'm a data guy because I hate to wait on you know, f Daly or the FBI to you know, scrub these crime numbers.
And so we've got this this thing that the TPD puts out every morning the media outlets, and so we started years ago, starting and put it in a spreadsheet. And so at the end of the year, on January first, we can just crunch the numbers and tell you exactly what has happened in terms of crime incidents over the last year. And obviously there'll be some revisions, but from a trend standpoint, it's pretty pretty interesting stuff.
You don't have to wait. Yeah, you know, twenty twenty three saw a spike, and violent crime is one of the issues. Twenty twenty two to twenty twenty three, one of the issues the property tax increases.
Increase was put in place to spend money on more officers, more technology. And you know, you often hear me say move the needle.
Now. Look, you know there's causation. But if you look at what has.
Been done here in terms of beefing up the public safety, the crime numbers, I mean, violent crime is down twenty percent. Crime incidents which includes AsSalt and battery shootings.
You know, and so you're getting guns off the street, right and so down twenty percent. So that's over twenty twenty three, and I think it's even blowed the twenty twenty two number. I'm going to go back and look at those now.
Property number overall numbers, and we're talking about incidents about three thousand instants down nine percent, violent crime down twenty percent, property down I think two or three percent.
The big issue there is auto thefts are still up. That's a trend across the country.
So this is all good news from you know, from a standpoint of quality of life crimes. Now, on the downside of the shootings, fatal shootings, there were twenty six fatal shootings.
In twenty twenty four. Twenty twenty three there were twenty four. Still an issue.
I always preface this by saying that most of these shootings are drug deals gone bad. To Mexic Domestic violence doesn't minimize them. But it's not home invasions. It's not somebody getting gas and getting shot, you know, at a gas stations.
Not random crime on the street. These are known people attacking people they know, and it is tough to stop that.
However, I mean, twenty twenty four saw two months with over four fatal shootings. We haven't had that happen in five years, and so that is that is an issue, and we're gonna try to track those and find out where those shootings occurred and things of that nature. One other interesting point is with the way we track this is TPD has beats that they released the date on. In other words, when an incident happens, they tell you.
What beat it's in. How many total I think it's eighteen total beats, and so you can look at the crimes and those beats, which we will do in the next month or so, which is almost like a zip code type thing exactly, except it smaller so give you a little more neighborhood feel, right. And so violent crime was down in every beat except one, and it was significantly up in one, which was Beat seven, which is the northeast corner of South Monroe in Orange Avenue, up
thirty five percent. Can you imagine if you subtract, if you took out that area, okay, which is just south of Capital City Country Club, that area there, I mean, violent crime would have probably been down forty percent. And so but you sell them and when you look in at data, you seldom see something that sticks out like that. But that is I mean that you talk about a roadmap to fixing or you know, to minimizing violent crime. Here you have it this area. So it seems like
you would just flood the zone. You know, well, and I think that's what you know Tallassi Police Chief Lawrence Revel. I think they're basically saying, yeah, we know where this is happening. Now they're trying to get the resources and the numbers of officers up to be able to attack it.
Now, and it will be interesting to follow that now. And I'm going to go back and look and see the history of that area. But again, when you when I look at numbers, a lot of times it's tough to look at them and see some difference or something or something that moves the needle that is moving the.
Needle that area.
And if you think, and again that is where we were going to do what five years ago, well.
They were supposed to be a police department development there.
People came out again part of the progressive movement objected to it because it was going to be racial profiling and absent that is where the crime was, is where it is, and you would have to believe that that would have an impact on that area. And so I think another decision that people probably are going to regret.
Sixteen past the hour, we come back. It's actually a perfect follow up the CSC, the Children's Services Council. We'll talk about it next twenty one past the hour. Steve Stewart with me from Tell Lasi Reports. I'm gonna throw a curveball here, Children's Services Council. How much money has been taken out of the local economy now from an
unelected taxi entity sixteen to twenty million, okay. And the reason why I asked that before we even go into this discussion, Steve, is because I think it's vitally important. You have used the term a few times this morning, but you have used it frequently when it comes to the Children's Services Council. Show us something that moves the needle, that makes an impact, that makes a dent. And I want to keep in front of our listeners sixteen million giver take out of the local economy. Now what do
we have to show? Right? And so I sat and watched a video of their last governing council meeting and it was a three min around the committee.
There's ten okay, they only have nine now I think they're waiting to fill position. But five of them are appointed by Governor DeSantis. And that's a whole nother story because that creates an interesting dynamic on a social welfare organization to have four or five conservatives or moderates, you know, asking questions. But anyway, I set through this and after the three hour meeting, because I have committed myself to covering this more. Now that this organization is a mature organization.
It is.
And the headline on our tiles reports newspaper is CSSE faces growing pains. And it's a bureaucracy that you know, was voted into reality. And it's a independent taxing authority. I get questions like, well, who do they report to? They're independent, it's ten governing council members. They don't report to the county, they don't report to the city, and.
They don't really report to the governor. No, it's the government council. Now, the Government Council has a lot of authority. And they had to get this. They had to get this.
Bureaucracy set up, and they had to appoint executive director. They had to get policies with those kays, yeah, and policies and procedures in place, and then they had to get a mission and then they and now listen, this is the first year they have put out six to eight million dollars in the streets on programs. A lot of it is dedicated to early childhood development. And right when I say that, my eyes just glass over because
what needl are we moving there? And when I say a needle, A lot of times you see in mainstream media. You see reports from these oh you know, you see rankings of states or counties based on how many kids there are that are hungry, how many kids are behind, you know, are not ready for school, you know in first grade, how many kids are homeless. See these numbers coming down from these reports. Those are needles. Okay, I don't want to spend eight million dollars and continue to
see those numbers not move. And so that's why we ask what needle are we moving? Well, to my surprise when I watched this meeting, is those are the questions that were being asked of this executive director, and the point being this, we've got everything in place, We've got money being spent.
Where are the results. Well, it's the difference between putting a target on the wall and aiming at it and just throwing something and then painting a target around it afterwards. We don't have targets. Well, and this is the thing. One of the members said, we need a roadmap.
Okay.
The executive director says, well, and you know, again to her credit, as I watched this, she's very qualified to do what she's doing, and she was very clear, you're not going to see needles moving for another year or so, and that's what and I said. But the member's response was, Okay, I understand, you got to get the money in there.
But what needs are we looking to see move right? And that's where it got a little quiet. And the follow up is, we need a roadmap. We need to know in a year this needle should be moving. What are we aiming at, Because I think a lot of conservatives who are against these type of programs or these type of taxes, their concern is that this money is just being given to nonprofits who are who you know,
it's almost like double taxation. You know, you've got a nonprofit with an administration, you know, funding giving it to another nonprofit this got overhead, who then gives it to, you know, an end service. What are we doing you know where it looks like we're taking out administrative costs twice. Yeah, so we want to see a needle move And so I think it's the groundwork has been laid that these the executive director and the CSC and I'm excited about this.
They're going to have to show some needles moving and it's not. And this was interesting too. Some of the more liberal members of the Council. What needles are you talking about? I mean, we're spending money. You know, we've given this nonprofit this much money and they've and they've touched this many kids' lives. No, that's not what we're interested in. We're interested in an independent measure. You go out and spend money. We want to see a needle move.
What's improving city of town? I see raise taxes for law enforcement. A year and a half later, violent crime is down twenty percent. Now you can argue what the cause of relationship is. But a needle moved. Yeah, okay, And so that's what we want to see with the Children's Services Council. It's a lot of money. It's eight million dollars a year. We could you and I with that money could make a needle move.
There's no doubt. And I'm not bragging, but you know, it goes back to again, it's foolishness to just throw money at just out there. And I'll tell you what I think. Some of them are hoping that something happens that they can take credit for.
Well, that is the other issue, you know, and that becomes the reporting and looking into these things. But I've always argued that it was.
It would have been better for the CSC to pick one issue that we haven't. And I'll give you an example.
There was major coverage of a thousand homeless kids Leon County schools.
Here you have Leona County Schools.
With an dedicated department that measures that there's a thousand kids that have problem with consistent shelter.
Okay, well, solve it. Solve it.
Yeah, give money to a nonprofit and then let's go back and look and see what the Leon County reports of the year. Of course we're down to six hundred. Now, okay, well, let's keep doing it.
But to spread it out over these these very ambiguous terms of you know, childhood development or mentoring, I think is it's it's going to be unmeasurable and well and sadly, Steve as I think both you and I know the real court issues. You can't throw money at. No I would agree with that. I would. I would agree there's a number there's a place that you get to where you can't throw them at it, money at them. But I think there are some issues in this community that
can be addressed till you get to that. Again, you know someone that is you know a kid that is homeless because the mother can't make a two hundred dollars a month payment on an apartment and gets evicted. That's something that can be short term addressed. Yeah, absolutely right, But I understand what you're saying about how the reason why she's at that real core? Right? Yeah, all right, good stuff is always see you next week, Thank you,
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With the numbers right now, show five dead. We have five fires now, not four, at least three zero percent contained, one, ten percent, contained, one forty percent contained as of a couple of hours ago. You talk to people that live in and around the area their start. See, it's a funny thing. People don't have anything to say about the leadership in California until it affects them. The uber elites in and around Malibu and Pacific Palisades and all that
that continue to vote for these people. They have nothing to say until they don't have what they need, and then all of a sudden, the blinders come off. I don't wish anything bad to happen on to anyone over there. But what's happened in in Los Angeles County, I don't know how much could have been prevented. I don't know. What I know is they cut the budget to the fire department. They cut the ability for them to have adequate water supplies for fighting fires because some of the
hydrants literally were dry. Nothing. I know that they hired a DEI fire chief that then put DEI as an imperative as a very important mission ie for the fire department, and they have inadequate numbers of firefighters. The firefighters are doing everything they possibly can with nothing. I mean, you've got residents in the area that are dousing everything on their property. They're putting water on their shingles, They're putting water on their siding, They're putting water on their yard,
their plants. They're trying to create a perimeter of their own. May not make any bit of difference with the winds that are blowing and the intensity of the heat. Show you the importance of the election in America. Not only do you have Justin Trudeau out in Canada that was a direct result of the election here in America, another direct result is that the Mexican government is breaking up
migrant caravans. Isn't that interesting? How they didn't do it for four years, Now suddenly they're able to do it. What's really interesting is they're relocating a lot of people to Acapulco, which has turned into a almost a slum controlled by the gangs, the cartels. It's a train wreck, and that's where they're putting these migrants. Maybe the migrants will catch word that they're not going to just come
walking into America anymore. But isn't it interesting north and south of the border immediate impact from the election of Donald Trump and Joe Biden's considering preemptive pardons. That's where we are right now with the big stories. Forty minutes past, doctor David Heart's standing by with our first optimum health Naturally.
Next the Morning Show, Preston Scott.
Time to feel better or is it joining us? It's doctor David Hart's optimum Health Naturally. I posed your question earlier in the show. Does it matter? Does it matter? All this alternative health, all these you know, different ways of approaching.
Things, you know, so I thinking about this us. In the other day, I heard a someone telling me they said, you know, we're all gonna die of somethings, So what difference does it make? You know? And I thought, I thought thinking about that, and I said, there's kind of a you know, provail a kind of idea about that, especially in some in some thoughts that you know, whatever happens is going to happen, and I'm just gonna do
whatever I can do to enjoy life. And and and I you know, there's certain there's certain you know, certain truth to that. But the bottom line is is by actually seeking an optimal health lifestyle, as I call it, it does produce au tremism out of joy. And and you know, medicines is reactive. It's not pro proactive or proactive.
It's it's reactive, and it's conventional medicine is anyway, and they do a great job being a reactive supply of healthcare that can actually get us out of real crisis problems. But it's just not proactive. It's not trying to keep us from getting problems. And this is becoming so much more evident recently with JFK Junior and all this information that's coming out. And that's kind of why I'm talking about this, because people see it and they say, well,
maybe I should do something about it. But is to really make a difference, And in my experience and what the research shows, it absolutely makes a difference. And you know, it's a it's a big difference between trying to you know, stay healthy, be healthy, live a long healthy life and trying to just you know, fight problems as they occur and just hoping you can get out of them once you get into them. You know, the body is kind of like a hard boiled egg, you know, once you'll
boil it, it's kind of hard. It's kind of hard to unboil it. And so being preventative and doing things ahead of time just really does It's very smart and it does work.
You know.
It's hard to look at things, you know, look labels on your food to choose the right stuff. It's hard to fight the cravings when you're hooked on sugar and you're trying to get off of it, and none of that stuff's fun. It takes a little time to get a little educated and to learn and to try to find out what's good and healthy, especially in this environment nowadays,
they're not really helping us do that. They're they're throwing you know, things into food and stuff forth, like we talk about in the segment and using names that we can't tell what it is. And you know, it is a little bit of a challenge to do that. Is it worth all that to do that? Is it worth to try to figure this out and try to navigate this toxic kind of world that they're creating for us and and the and the real answer that question is absolutely.
I mean, I've seen people with their health totally destroyed because of this, and once they get an opt them health lifestyle and start to get some information on what to do and what not to do and maybe some health of some people, it it changes their whole life and their whole destiny. And so if I can do anything this part of the year talk to people is encourage them to keep, you know, keep trying to learn what's right, keep trying to get the information on how
to live this lifestyle and do it. It will make a difference. You know, I don't know. Life should be like a light that burns really really brightly and then goes out. It shouldn't flicker and be something that we live on pain pills and be hooked to medicine as well as machines and you know tubes. The later part of our life, we should be something that's a bright
light that shines and then goes out. What we're doing is we're just sputtering and sputtering and spending many months of time and money and also just wasting a lot of our lives. So keep learning about the often lifestyle, you know, keep learning and keep listening to things like this segment other things that can get you information, and then follow through on it.
Do it.
It will make a difference and it will change your future and it can be changed.
Well, just listen to the guy we're talking to friends, he's two hundred and seventy four years old.
Well, yeah, I kind of all those.
No, I you're well, I mean, you know, you're preaching to the choir we've been. You know, my family, we've been very close friends for a very long time and it's made a huge impact in our family.
Well, it can change, and so I'm just encourage that people don't give up on it. Just keep going and you'll get some benefits from it, no doubt about it.
Talk to you again in a couple of weeks. Thank you, doctor Hearts.
I have a great day.
Pressure Thank you, sir. Sounds pretty good for man two d and seventy four years old, forty seven now he's just good guy. All right, back with more of the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
The Morning Show with Preston Scott on US Radio one hundred point seven Double UFLA or on Usradio DOUBFLA Panama City dot Com.
US Senator Tommy Tubberville will join us for two and a half segments next hour. Got a little extra time with the Senator coming up. He's in the news, perfect timing and one of my favorite guests because he's just he's he's just another version of the same spirit that I hear in Cat Cammick. Not going to play the games, not going to try to sweet talk anything. Here's the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Accept it. My kind of guy. That's what you get with coaches. You know.
He started as a as a girls basketball coach. He had a heck of a coaching career. He was successful everywhere. He's most known for his time at Auburn University, but in fact he's I remember one of our first interviews with him, I said, how'd you get elected in the state of Alabama, when half the state hates Auburn. He said, I remind everybody I helped them get Nick Saban. They got Nick Saban in response to the success we were having, So there you go. Anyway, he's a delightful man and
very principled, loves Jesus and does not mince words. So he's my kind of guy. I just have to share this before we give you a little road trip idea. Belgium warned citizens not to eat Christmas trees after environmentalist city hands out recipes. The Belgium Food agency just issued a seasonal health warning telling citizens do not eat your Christmas trees. A city Ghent, maybe it's Belgium's answer to Portland.
According to not the Bee, their city website started giving out recipes how to recycle your Christmas tree by consuming it. They said you could strip the needles, blanch them, dry them for stuff like flavored butter. Now they actually put out recipes like this, and the nation said, uh no, don't do that. Some of the Christmas trees are in fact poisonous. So bad idea. But let's give you a good idea. First road trip idea of the year. Keep it close to home and mirror, little little Vaca. My
wife and I went on. Took us about six hours to drive up to North Georgia spend some time in the Bavarian kalike village of Helen, Georgia. It's a little heavy on the touristy, but it's gorgeous to look at, fun to walk through. Even if only a few of the shops are actually worth buying anything. Because they're so touristy, it's worth it to make the walk up and down the street, the main street. They've got rafting in the area.
They've got a mountain roller coaster. We didn't do that because it was a little cold and wet, but it's Helen Georgia. I'm telling you it's worth it. And on the way up, if you want, you can take a detour stop at the Air Force Aviation Museum and Hall of Fame that's near Making Robin's Air Force Base. It's outside the base, so you don't have to worry if you conceal carry as I do. No issues whatsoever. And
it's it's incredible. You got a tens, you got B one bombers, you got B fifty two's, you got I mean, you've got all kinds of cool airplanes in and out. So yeah, check it out and check out a Helen, Georgia. And when you're there, check out the Babyland Hospital nearby, the Cabbage Patch place. All right, we come back, Senator Tommy Tubberville. Let's get right to a third hour The Morning Show with Preston Scott On Preston, he's ose it is show five, two hundred and ninety four, but who's counting?
And we are thrilled to have with us US senator from Alabama, Tommy Tuberville, coach, how are you, sir?
Good morning. You know I'm doing pretty good, a lot better than a lot of people across the country right now. But we're cold in DC. We were frozen, but we're just waiting for what eleven, ten, eleven, twelve days from now to get this nightmare over with.
Yeah, we changed from counting how many days we've been held hostage to now counting down to the days of freedom. I'm with you on that. You all have met recently with the President elect. How'd that meeting go?
Well?
I talked to him quite often on the phone, but he came in last night. It spent a couple hours with just senators alone. There's we only have fifty two right now. Jim Justice has not sworn in because he he's waiting until his governorship is over with next week, but we'll be at fifty three. But he came in, had a great talk. He obviously did a lot of talking early and then asked questions and let us ask questions.
And he's on a roll. I tell you what you know. I've played a lot of golf with him.
And last two years, I was the first senator that came out for him. Obviously, came in last night face to face with about half senators in the room that this time last year was not for Donald Trump number one. They didn't think he can win. And of course up here they think everybody thinks they know everything. But we needed a leader like him, and so he just opened it up. He said, listen, I know we've had this agreements, but we got all work together for the American people
for the next four years. We only got one more shot. He's exactly right. So it was good informative. He gave us his opinion on a lot of things that he'd like to do. We talked about the reconciliation that'll work itself out. But it's just good to have a leader, somebody that leaves in America coach.
You know.
One of the reasons why I'm so grateful for you to take time with us, and I said the same thing to Congresswoman Kat Camick, is you don't just feed us lines. You tell us the truth of what's going on, what your heart's telling you is going on. And I appreciate that, and our listeners appreciate that. So I say that in preface to asking this, do the rest of the Republicans in the US Senate do they get it?
Regardless of what they might deep down think of Donald Trump, Do they get the importance of the moment that we find ourselves in.
You know, I think most of them do, but we've still got ten or twelve that think that they're more relevant than they are. You know, the seventy seven million people voted for a change in this country and mandate, and I think they're they're still tugging against that rope saying, you know, you know what, we don't really want to lose our power. We want to we want to stand up to you know, to Donald Trump, because you know,
he's really not the guy we wanted. But at the end of the day, I think the people back in their state who they should represent. I represent people Alabama, and they told me, you know, whatever he wants to do, let him do it. And because what this group up here has been doing. And I've told I've told our Republican Caucus. You know, those of you that are not for Donald Trump, you know you, you know you've come a long way since I told you I was for him,
and now you're leaning his way. But what you've been doing up here for the last lot of you that are holding back against President Trump, they're the old guards that've been up here twenty five thirty years. What you've been doing ain't working, folks, It ain't working. The American
people are suffering because your decisions. Now it's time to get on a different ship and a different way of running the country, which is by leadership and by doing things for the American people and getting big government out of our life. And if we don't do it, it is our fault.
Now, is John Thune going to cut significant ties with Mitch McConnell enough to properly represent the Republican Caucus?
You know that was one of the first times that we had a group meeting with President Trump. Obviously McConnell was sitting back, you know, with the rest of US peons that are just just normal senators. He's not in the leadership or anything soon.
Set by President Trump. It was good to see that.
But you know, as I've told everybody, I think John Thune will be fine. He wasn't my first choice, but at the end of the day, you know.
He's a fresh breath of air.
Obviously, McConnell and President Trump don't get along, never have.
McConnelly is the.
Old school, you know, he's from the old regime that thinks that they know the right way. But that hasn't worked.
But as I've told.
President Trump several times since the election, you know, you're the leader of the Senate, you are the Speaker of the House.
Whoever we have.
There are going to listen to you, and if they don't, we'll run him out. And he understands that because he has a different way of doing things. You know, he's one of these guys, as usually said. You know, the Gulf of America, you know by Greenland straightened out, pantamof Canal bring in Canada, and you know what he did serious. Don't think he's not serious. You know a lot of people say, well, he's talking and the things that can't get done. Don't count him out, folks, do not count
him out because he's looking out for the future. He's not standing still and say listen, you know, let's just keep doing things. You know, with the greatest country on the face of the earth, if you're not growing, you're going backwards. He's exactly right about that. And so we've
got to grow. We've got to do things different for national security because let me tell you, China is buying up things all up into Mexico, all up into We've got Chinese ships and submarines all around in the Pacific close to California, in at the Atlantic, close to Cuba, close to Florida. We live in a dangerous time. And if we don't act like we are and continue to grow like President Trump says, we're going to be extinct.
US Senator Tommy Turberville where a senator stand by quick check of weather and traffic. Back with more The Morning Show with Preston Scott. US Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama with us this morning on the program, I'm going to read the headline from town Hall. Tommy Tuberville reintroduces measure to stop biological males from competing in women's sports. Coach. You may not know this. I shared it with Hannah. My aunt co authored Title nine and presented it to Congress.
She played a significant role in the passage of Title nine. And it's a matter of personal pride for me that my aunt was so significant in that because it's done a world of good for women and for girls and athletics. Thank you for doing this, But now do we have the resolve to pass it?
Well, your aunt opened the door for young girls and women in nineteen seventy two. It may be the best piece of legislation ever to come out of this hell hold up here we call Washington, DC, because most of what they do is is holding back people in this country. But your aunt was on top of it. It really understands understood at that time what it could do for men and young girls. But now this group they're all
against gender. They don't want women a part of anything because they want everybody to be masculine, and just kind of ripped the heart out of the opportunities for young women and girls. I'm for the third time since I've been here, opening up the Protection of Women and Girls Act and trying to get people to understand we have to keep transgenders out of women's sports and dressing rooms
and showers. And I'm telling you, I've got my first granddaughter coming in about a month, and she in no way she's gonna dress with a man or a young boy or participate against them.
This is just common sense.
But you know the radical left is they've lost it. And I think I can get it, hopefully get it past this time.
But who knows.
I got to have sixty votes in the Senate and you've still got a lot of people over there on the Democratic.
Side know that it's right.
But if they vote my way, then Chuck Shemer won't give them money to get re elected. It's all about getting re elected up here. It's not about doing the right thing.
But that's what the vote revealed, is that there are people that will you and I would describe as moderate Democrats. They voted for Donald Trump. They had to for him to win the popular vote the way that he did, and that they look at this issue. This is low hanging fruit, This is common sense.
Yeah, Well, next week on Monday, he's going to go back after being inaugraded. He will make an executive order saying no no more, no more transgenders and military, no more transgenders against in women's sports.
But the problem you have there is you have to make it a law.
Yes sir, If you just do an executive orders, the next Democrat president will change it back. So we've got to do a law here. Thanks for President Trump for what he's going to do for the next four years for this. But we were I'm going to be steadfast on this and if we lose this time, I'm we'll
bring it up again in six seven months. We're going to keep hammering it and we're gonna get this done for girls and women because it has opened up the eyes of a lot of people and give young people, especially young girls, that opportunity to say, look what I can do. Look a look at so and so. You know what they've done in sports or what they've done in business that are women, and give them that site of hope for the future.
US Car Senator Tommy Tuberville with us. We're going to break right here on time so that we've got a couple more minutes on the other side. Continuing our discussion next here on the Morning Show with Preston Scotten, just a few more minutes, we've got to cut him loose
to do another function with US US Senator Tommy Turberville. Coach, you made some comments about the All State Sugar Bowl and the decision by ESPN to ignore what's most important in the wake of that terrorist attack in New Orleans. Share a little bit about what you said and your thoughts there.
Well.
First, of all college sports, college athletics, college football is the number two rated viewed show during the year, behind the NFL, and when you get to the bowl games, they're even that much more. Bowl games really sell your sport because people watch teams that they don't normally watch all year long because the Bowls have been so popular
over the years. And then for ESPN and for Disney, after that tragic incident of terrorism in New Orleans, for fourteen or fifteen people and dozens and dozens of people got killed, their decision was we're not going to show the national anthem, but we're going to put All State on their CEO and let him talk about wokeism and DEI and everybody's got to come together and all this, and it just it's just typical of what I've seen since I've been up here in d C. With the
radical left running the show in DC and then watching things across the country happened day in and day out.
That was wrong.
That was absolutely wrong. I'm not playing the national anthem. We're all in this together, but they want to continue to divide us. So I came out of you know, made my statement. I've coached in the Sugar Bowl three times. It is a great game, a great atmosphere. But they
were afraid they were gonna make somebody mad. And that is absolutely the wrong direction that we should take after some act of terrorism, which, by the way, I will tell people what the Biden administration has done at the border. This is going to be not an every day happening, but it is going to happen very often in our country.
Be careful, be careful what you do where you go, because we live in a dangerous place now in the United States of America because of the antics of the Democrats in the last four years, you.
Know, coach in closing, it's interesting because ESPN and some of the main networks along with them had no problems showing US players taking a knee during the national anthem. They didn't care that we got mad about that, and I did.
They no, no, no, no, and that that kind of started it all, and they just kept kind of feeding us and feeding us all that nonsense. And again, we live in the greatest place ever. But they want to change it. It's not that they don't love America. They don't like America or love America the way it is. They want to change it to their way of thinking. And that's not how our forefathers saw it. That's not
our constitution. We got to give our kids and our grandkids a better opportunity like we all had, But they want to remain power. We need to give the power back to the people in this country. If we don't do that in this four years with Donald Trump, if we fight against him even as Republicans, and we hold him back to do the things that he should be able to do, we're going to have huge problems Preston in the next in the next generation of kids coming up, as we've had the last four years.
Coach, I promised to have you out on time, and I'm going to do it. You got five seconds left, thanks, so much for the time today. I appreciate it. My best to you.
I'd best thank you, thank.
You, sir. Coach Tommy Tuberville with us this morning here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. I promised to have him out at twenty five minutes after to the second to the second. Do you see what I mean when I say he's my kind of people, no nonsense, just good guy. And I found out had met has has met my father several times over the years when he was a younger coach, and makes me happy when I talk to people that knew my dad. You know, I've some every now and then someone says, you don't
talk about your mom very much. Love my mom. I've got I've got recipes, I've got a garden, I've got things all over that remind me of my mom. When dad was away three hundred days a year as a broadcaster, I saw my dad more on television than I ever saw him in person, not even close. Today, that would be an excuse for me to be some kind of degenerate. Oh, he didn't have a father at home. I had the
greatest childhood ever, other than my parents got divorced. That sucked, but you know what, it didn't scar me, was all right. My mom and I lived together, we were rocks, and I saw my dad as often as I saw him when they were married. I mean, so I don't have any tragedy stories growing up in a home that was separated by divorce. But the fact of the matter is my interest, my career, everything kind of paralleled my dad much smaller scale, and I'm really be very comfortable with all of that.
I don't think I would want the notoriety that my dad lived under and with.
But.
I think some of you know, when you've lost a parent and you talk to somebody that knew your parent, it just kind of it just makes your parent just kind of be a little bit more forefront in your memories and thoughts. And that's cool. It's cool that my dad has stuff on YouTube and my kids and my
grandkids will be able to see him forever. That's just what a blessing, right Anyway, Hope you enjoyed our visit with US Senator Tommy Tuberville from Love Baba Here on The Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Started counting his shows at the beginning because we weren't really quite sure how long he'd last. Yeah, now it's just turned into a thing. Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
All right, thirty six passed and the big stories in the press box. Joe Biden considering preemptive pardons. Huh, all right, we'll get to that. Karen bass I don't know if you heard Sky News trying to ask her, do do you have anything you want to say to your people? She's on vacation. She just stared straight down. She had nothing, literally nothing to say. Then when she did say something, make no mistake. Los Angeles will rebuild stronger than ever
right now. If you need help, emergency information resources, shelters available. All of this can be found at URL. Excuse me at URL? She just did a Joe Biden. She read from the note card, and the people that wrote her notes expected her to know the URL to give out. I'll just make one up for fun la helps dot org whatever I mean, whatever it is, so they write on her note card. All of this can be found
at URL. She just said, you arel, ohmg, this I started there because this underscoes something that residents are saying. Let me read the quote. The Santa Ana Wins aren't new fires in this part of California are not new. We grew up fighting them knowing what was going on. What is new is these decades of just terrible leadership, failure to prepare, insane regulations, bureaucracy. It's crazy, and it all came to fruition today. I wonder if they're going
to get it now. I hate what's happening to the people of southern California, even though they voted for the leadership that has been running their communities and their state for decades. They I don't want this for them. I don't want this to be the price, but this is the price they're paying. Neither you nor I can change that. Where they've spent their money, what they've spent their focus on. They defunded the fire department. The mayor slashed I think
it's seventeen million dollars from the budget. There are water, there are fire hydrants without water. But by golly, they've provided all that's been needed for illegals. I just needed but wanted. Five fires, three no containment, one ten percent contained, one contained. I think the number is better than two thousand structures burned to the ground. I watched video last night with my wife, it's it's an apocalypse. It reminded me of the opening scene from Terminators when when they
are just stepping on a fire destroyed city. It's just ash, just God, bless the firefighters, the people that are suffering. Forty minutes past the hour.
All right, this is going to be a journey.
I've touched on this question a couple of times this week upon learning that Mark Zuckerberg has decided that the content moderation, the censorship was too extreme, which, by the way, did it occur to all of you? I know it occurred to some of you, but did it occur to all of you that by saying the same instership was too extreme? He's admitting that there was censorship when he told Congress there was none. Thought there wasn't any censorship,
Mark anyway, Let by gods be by gods. Right, So I said, Okay, maybe we'll we're not rushing, but maybe we'll get back onto Facebook. But we've never been on Instagram. Now I looked it up because honestly, I know Instagram is a thing. I have people send me links to something on Instagram. My wife sends me little funny videos on Instagram. So I looked it up. Here's what AI says.
The point of Instagram is to primarily share photos and videos with friends and followers, allowing users to visually document their lives, connect with others, and view content from people they follow through a mobile app up focused on visual content like pictures and short videos. Essentially, it's a social media platform centered around visual sharing. So I asked a series of questions, and those questions were, for example, what's the main purpose photo video sharing? Okay, is there a
point to having Instagram? Well, in today's digital age, social media platforms like Instagram have become integral to how we share our lives, build our personal brands, and connect with others. Why is Instagram mostly used for social connection? It allows users to connect with friends, family, Da da da da. Okay, I've got an overview here, So here's my question for you. As always, it may have no impact on the decision
that I make with the staff of the show. Whose's looking at me like, huh you mean me?
Yes?
I do just two of us, but I want your input. You are our friends. I won't use the word followers because that just I don't know, It just seems creepy to me. It's not. It just feels that way. I know it isn't. So here's my question. Should we go on Instagram? Again? I'm not rushing to end any decisions because I want to wait and see how this fleshes out with Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook and Instagram and their branding. Are they in fact going to get rid of the
censoring or not. You have to remember I wear a deep scar from being reprimanded by my company, though they took it back sort of. I got to spike the football. I'll just put it that way. But should we go on to Instagram? And if so, with what what would you find interesting that would be worth it for you to quote follow? I don't know that I'll take your advice, but you might come up with the thing for us to do, because because I don't have a clue, I don't.
I abhor the idea of aiming a camera at me and saying anything, and so I have some ideas, but I don't want to share because I want to I want a completely unfiltered, uninfluenced set of ideas from you. So two parts, Should we go onto Instagram? And if so, with what what would you find interesting? President at iHeartRadio dot com. Just shoot me an email. I'm going to compile the emails. We'll talk about it as a staff.
I'll bring in the executive committee, the editorial board of the morning show, and we'll we'll see president iHeartRadio dot com. See man of the people right here, getting a lot of you got to go back to Facebook. Havn't gotten one person saying anything about Instagram. Everyone's like, I don't know or not, but see Instagram would maybe be an entree to the younger crowd, slightly younger than the typical demographic,
because I think younger people ought to be listening. I'm Uncle Preston, like Victor says, I'm that uncle that you actually want to talk to. I'm out the Crazy's the one you set in the corner and pat on the head and they give him. Make sure he's got a biscuit. That's Uncle Preston over there. Just give him a biscuit, pat him on the head, say hi, Uncle Preston, and walk away, just to walk away. I'm not that guy.
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