Good morning everybody, Thursday on the Morning Show with Prestin Scott and Preston he is Jose. It is January thirtieth. More on that date, in mere moments, we're going to end the month on a Friday that just somehow feels poetic. I like that. But then Saturday is my one of my son's birthdays, and that's always a special day. It show fifty three oh six. I wish it was going to be a happy show, and we'll do our best, but there is some very sad news to talk about
here this morning. But let's begin with our verse to try to I'll be honest with you. I think one of the sidebar benefits of starting your day with scripture is that it allows you some perspective for whatever follows, whatever happens throughout the day, And even if that scripture doesn't directly pertain to what you might face that day, it serves as a little bit of an anchor point that you can't get far from. And that's and that's Jesus,
God scriptures the Holy Spirit. And by anchor point, I mean just for a second, it's it's perhaps a not very poetic feeling sounding comparison, but if you have a dog on Alicia in the backyard, they can't go very far. They're always tethered back to it, a point in the yard and being I've always used this idea of being anchored in scripture. Author Max Luketo wrote years ago, anchor deep, so that as tides rise and fall, you don't get
pulled away. And I think just starting with God's word allows you to be anchored so that you just can't get pulled too far away from it. So you're having one of those days and all of a sudden, you just up, you're at the end, and you're feeling tugged, and you're tugging back to what you're anchored to. And that's God's Word. And so we begin here with Proverbs one seven. It says, the fear of the Lord is
the beginning of knowledge. Fools despise wisdom and instruction. Now, those of you, some of you know I have a vocational background as a pastor. And one of the things about that that verse is that fear of the Lord is oftentimes also interpreted as awareness. Awareness of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, And that would work as well, wouldn't it. You start to acquire knowledge and wisdom through
knowing God and his word. I think there's a place for fear as we understand that word in the sense of respecting who God is. You know, he's God. I'm not neither of you. He's got the capital G, no small G. And so anchor to that. Fools despise wisdom and instruction. How often did we as kids just kind of blow off what our parents said or what someone would say to us, We were fools. How often do our kids do the same. They're fools. Hopefully they learn,
Hopefully we learn. Anyway, there you go, starting the day again, rough day to day in the news, big story in the press box the plane collision with an army helicopter as it was about to land the plane at Reagan International in Washington. And there's likely no survivors of this. And member of the US national skating team were on board that plane. How many don't know who they were? They members of the team, where they in the training team, We don't know. We know a Russian coaching skater were
on board. The US Championships were just held in uh in Wichita, Kansas. In that flight was from Wichita, and so US Skating has confirmed they lost members on that on that plane. But we'll unpack all that ten past the hour, take a Peekins said the American Patriots Almanac. Next, it is Thursday on the Morning Show. It's the Morning
Show with Preston Scott. I'll tell you what the calendar is available for National Day, whatever day, I'll explain in a moment in history on January thirtieth, this is great. In seventeen ninety eight, a brawl erupts in the US House when Matthew Lyon of Vermont spits on Roger Griswold of Connecticut after an exchange of insults. Why you, sir, are portly you are? You're dense, my friend? Your wife is fat? Your close, sir, make you look like a bowery boy. Oh yeah, yeah. I'll be honest with you.
There's a little part of me that would love to bring back the days when you just insulted each other and then stepped outside and you know, someone grabbed a cane, someone grabbed the shelle ale and they just wail on each other. They spit in each face and duke it out, or go to the top of the hill and draw pistols. I mean, I just I mean, we're going to disagree, so let's shoot each other. That's most civilized time. Yeah.
Eighteen thirty five, first presidential assassination attempt. Richard Lawrence mentally ill man tries to shoot Andrew Jackson in the US Capitol. Oh, I shouldn't have mentioned the dude's name fell into that. Sorry. Eighteen forty seven. California town of Yerba Buena is renamed San Francisco eighteen sixties to the Union. Ironclad USS monitor launched at Greenpoint, New York. Eighteen eighty two. Fdr born in Hyde Park, New York. You know, it's interesting you
don't think about Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It's having been born in the eighteen hundreds. It just seems off, but of course he was. Nineteen thirty three. First episode of The Lone Ranger is broadcast on radio WXYZ in Detroit. Hile Silva Away, keep Mo, Sabby. Today is National Croissant Day. That's it. That's it. That's what I'm saying. Today is today. If you want to have a national day of fill in the blank, grab this one, man, because all you're
battling with is National Croissant Day. Do you eat croissants. Jose, Oh yeah, I love me a good croissant, Yeah, especially the one. Do you make them? Do you make bread? No? But I have tried making pizza. Yeah, yeah, Okay, it didn't go good. I'll tell you what. Making a pizza crust is an art, Yeah it is. And I've never found that people that make a good one want to share their recipe. They're a little protective of that anyway.
So you've but you like a good croissant, sure, I struggle finding good ones, and I know that you know, for example, Publics has a great bakery. They bake all kinds of stuff, but I've yet to find a freshly baked croissant. Costco has some pretty good ones. No, no way, no, I've never had one. I'm saying that based on I refuse to believe that something that's been baked however long before, because there's no way that they were baked like that day, right.
I mean, it's just I can't see that as being possible. I could be wrong. Costco is in the next segment, though, it's interesting that you should say that. But if you know where a good, fresh baked, flaky, airy croissant is, let me know, we'll get to the big stories in just a little bit. Crash of a military helicopter with a passenger airline or small regional jet. It surprised me that a jet that size was flying from Wichita to Washington, d C. That just seems like a long flight for
a smaller jet. But clearly someone was really wrong, some tragic mistake was made. And I've flown just enough as a pilot in the left seat. I'm not a pilot. I've soloed, but I've flown just enough to know that someone made a really bad mistake in this. One can't possibly know who. My guess is it's not the airline pilots. They were on final approach. How did that helicopter come into that space? I mean an army helicopter. Those guys are trained too though it was a training exercise, part
of the requirements flying at night. But there's not gonna be any survivors of this. Just may they rest in peace. I mentioned you know Jose brought up Costco. He was so focused he didn't mention till the break. I didn't know that they bake stuff right there at Costco. Go figure, man, you walk into BUCkies and They've got incredible brisket pulled pork turkey right there in the just gas station. You walk into Costco and they're baking stuff fresh color me shocked. Costco, though,
is facing not just the DEI stuff. And that's you know, that's one of the reasons why I'm just not gonna it's I'm not gonna be a Costco person. That's just not going to be on my radar. And I know you you are impacted by it almost everywhere. I get it almost everywhere. So as long as I've got a choice. But apparently eighteen thousand store employees may be striking nationwide. But here's the thing. They have two hundred and nineteen
thous employees in the United States. Those eighteen thousand are members of the Teamsters, and I honestly would tell them to pound sand see you, they are demanding more of the profits. See this is this is why follow my words here, because I'm not contradicting myself as a Christian. I hate the union. I love union members because of their people, but I hate unions. This is why they're accusing Costco of not sharing their profits. It's none of your business. No, it really isn't what the owners of
a business do. As long as your check clears, that's all that matters. Well, they should pay me more, well then quit. No, seriously, this is one of the biggest aggravations to me with unions. And because they won't make it easy for people to join the union. They're not allowing what's the term here, hold on, I gotta find it card check. So they're going to authorize a strike
the members and I'm like, okay, wait a minute. Eighteen thousand out of two hundred and nineteen thousand, so if they go on strike, that leaves me with two hundred and one thousand employees. I got this, It's all right, go right ahead, go right ahead. That's less than what is that eighteen thousand, two hundred and nineteen so that's what six percent, seven percent of the workforce?
Cool?
See you. I'm sorry. I would be like if you if you strike, you're fired. But sadly, some of these states are probably union states and you can't just do that, which is again another problem. But see when your name is when you're signing the check, you're not on the backside just endorsing it to catch it. When you're the one who signature's on the front of the check. You have a right to make a profit and return that profit to stakeholders, whether it's the other owners, whether it's
the investors of the company. That's your job to make a profit and you and you pay what you what your business model says you can pay. And if someone doesn't like that, they don't have to work there. You don't have a right to a job. Twenty seven minutes after the hoar Boy, Coxco's getting it on both sides.
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Seem sort of tell as her reports. Next hour also next hour, Animal Stories, road Trip, Idea, doctor edmore in the final hour our history segment. We have these these master ideas, master plans for what we're gonna do. And then he says, yeah, I'll do that later, and he just does his own things. So it's like, I'm just gonna sit here and go, okay, go ahead, talk about whatever you want. It's whatever. Uh. So he's he's got a he's got something inspired by recent events. How about
if we put it that way? Uh, the big stories in the press box just brutally sad p s A Airlines CRJ seven hundred regional jet flying from Wichita to Reagan National Airport in Arlington collided with a Sikorski H sixty helicopter. The jet was on final approach, relatively low, and it's on video. You can't see much because it's
at night, but it's on video. I don't know who messed up here, had a note from a former CFI said, the question being asked by professionals this morning is what caused the loss of separation between the two Yeah, did a flight controller loose track? Did someone's transponder not work?
Was?
I mean, clearly the jet airliner was on a final approach, so you can assume right there the transponders working, They've got it on on their systems in the tower, and somehow the helicopter ends up right on top of it or in it, or I mean, it's just sixty four on the plane, sixty passengers plus crew. According to US Figure Skating, several members of the team were on board that flight. We don't know if they were on the team,
if they were in the training team. The developmental camp was held in conjunction with the US Figure Skating Championships in Whichita I watched some of that, just a few minutes of it over the weekend, and so it's just it's sad, you know it. The fact that they're part of a team just allows you to put your arms around it just a little bit differently. But no matter what, there's sixty four people on that plane and maybe three on that helicopter that they're they're done, they're not coming home.
Just a just a sad, sad tragedy that, you know, one of the things that that you come to realize when you start going through flight training. And I really wish i'd have had the chance to finish. If I took it up again, i'd have to start from scratch because it had been so long. Now I can jump in the left seat of an airplane and probably fly it, you know, just a single prop type plane. Nothing, nothing complex.
But the fact of the matter is you learn enough to know that to me, short of mechanical breakdowns, which can be largely mitigated depending on your level of training and calm, usually when this stuff happens, somebody made a mistake, and I just I don't know if it's a combination of mistakes that were made. But you know, when your car breaks down, you pull over. And even though even in cars, though there are recks, you don't walk away
from right. But when you elevate that a few thousand feet up in the air, even a few hundred, there's usually no do overs. And they were the flight was nearing its end, and you just they talk about the moments after takeoff and before landing are the most dangerous in a flight. And there's a reason why forty minutes after the hour. That is the big story in the press box this morning on the Morning Show with Preston.
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Last time I flew, I was with my buddy Jeff Vickers at Southeast Hyper. What a good guy and great pilot. But yeah, it's it's sad. I still read the NTSB reports. I'm just I'm I'm still a guy who's kind of a flight junkie. I still look at the articles and Flying magazine. I read those accident reports because I'd love to learn why and what and and and I love
learning about the new technology and airplanes. I will flying an electric airplane is not going to be something that I would ever consider doing, and I think it's patently foolish, but at any time, right, yeah, it's uh, it's sad. You know. One of my one of my favorite flights is uh, when I was doing play by play for Fox, I got I got trapped in the back of an airplane, but sitting next to me was an airline pilot who is just there was they He didn't he didn't want
to be in the jump seat up front. He was just hopping a ride and we got to talking about flying, and I just sat there and listened, and it was just awesome because back then I was closer to my time flying regularly and so I was just all in it.
And man, and then I've I've I've had some buddies over the years that one in particular has flown for ups for his whole career, and those big cargo planes, those big boys overseas usually, and he said, yeah, they're working on on getting rid of us and going pilotless, and I'm thinking, oh, that's dad, would be a bad mistake. That's yeah. Anyway, fed Reserve yesterday paused interest rate cuts. It's the first meeting without a cut since July kind
of interesting. Three meetings in a row. They have cut the interest rate. Their goal is to get to two percent. It's remaining four and a quarter four and a half right now. President Trump said virtually at the World Economic Forum last week that he'll demand that interest rates drop immediately. You can't demand something like that. I mean, with all due respect, you just you can't. That said, I don't like how the FED operates and controls things in this country.
So there's this kind of weird dynamic there. And did you hear this story? A dude got arrested bringing molotov cocktails and at least one knife into the US capital with the plan of killing House Speaker Mike Johnson, newly confirmed Defense Secretary Pete Hegsith, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen. Now, to his credit, the guy turned himself in. He basically wrote a suicide note to a wife, a girlfriend. I don't know Judith, Dear God, I'm so sorry. You must understand.
I can feel myself dying slowly because of my heart. This is terrible. But I can do nothing while Nazis kill my sisters. What I love you? This is awful. I'm so sorry. I love you. Please stay alive. Heal you can, you are strong enough. Bleep them for pushing us so far. You don't deserve this. I'm so sorry for lying and plotting and lying. Please survive. He was also planning to burn down the Heritage Foundation. You might remember we had Hans von Spakowsky on the show yesterday
from the Heritage Foundation. We have people in this country, almost always, not always, almost always on the left that want to kill people because of their ideology. They want to kill people because Heritage Foundation writes papers dealing in facts that they don't like. Where does that come from? Could it be satan? Yeah, of course it is. But you haven't heard much about that story, have you? Not giving the guy's name? Poor guy mentally broken. But I
credit him now, seriously, I credit him. He said this, he was in his note. Apparently he was. He had articulated a desire to you know, suicide by cop To his credit, he came to and said, no, this isn't No, I'm not doing this. He wanted to. He planned it. He had the materials and more in his car. He had the Molotov cocktails in his hands on his body, but he stopped himself. Thank god, and you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna be praying for that guy. But the other side of this story is you didn't know
much about it, if anything, did you? Now why would that be because the targets were on the right forty seven minutes after the hour. Now, this story might slide by most people doing what I do. I mean, certainly the fact that it's a local Florida police officer, not local to us necessarily, but we're we're talking about Lady Lake, Florida. But because of what has happened over the last couple of decades here in Florida's capital city, this story stood
out to me. And with Steve Stewart coming up and just a few minutes, it will be apparent why years ago, under different management for the city, different commission, a commission that was fraught with corruption that was proven in court, people went to jail prison. I should say, they cut funding to police dramatically, and we paid for it. When you don't have enough officers, you can't do the routine stuff,
and that's why the fight for funding. Now we can argue and debate, and I don't think it's a real difficult debate about the need to fund law enforcement. It's the primary job of any government to defend its citizens, to tected citizens. That's that's rule one. But you have to allow police to have the numbers to be able to do the routine things like pulling people over. And we talked about how when you just do the simple things,
you get breaks on big things. Sergeant Michelle Bilbery with the Lady Lake Police Department pulled over a guy the intersection of US Highway twenty seven and four forty one and Rolling Acres Road in Lady Lake just because the plate on the car didn't didn't match, it wasn't registered to that car. Person that they pulled over was on the FBI's ten most wanted list and he was promptly arrested federal charges of child sex trafficking, state charges of
child rape. I won't go into the charges because they're kind of like the kind that make you want to find this guy on a purp walk and just end him. He's that kind of guy. He's been a fugitive since twenty twenty two, didn't appear at a court hearing in Franklin County, Missouri, and here he was in Florida. A child predator pulled over because an officer did her job pulling over somebody. The type of thing that when you don't have enough policing, you don't get the chance to
do as often as you need. Routine policing can turn into a real game changer. Back with our two the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, here we go. It's the second hour Thursday. Here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Jose Knnesse in Study one A, and I am here in Study one B, and I am joined by He is the executive editor at Tallassi Reports. He is Steve Stewart. Hello, sir, how are you good morning? Good, Yeah, got a lot of stuff for you today. Yeah, you do.
County Commission had a meeting and before you start, I want you to answer this if you can. The topic is affordable housing. As the commission discussed the issue, and you can tell us what happened and what their votes are. Did they define it? That is one of the issues with affordable housing.
And I think I think the nuts and bolts of the staff at the County in the city know what affordable housing is, but I think everybody else when you just hear that buzzword, Oh, we got to do something about affordable housing. And this is this has generated these activists, this group called the Capital Agency, a Capital Advisory Justice Ministry, a group called CAAGUM. They're very aggressive in what they
try to do. If you remember, they held some forms on the South Side where they put elected officials up on stage and make them answer yes or no, and if they didn't answer the way they wanted, they would boo them. And so it's a very aggressive group, but it's very organized, and so they came forward.
They were able to get.
The Leon County Commission to put this as an item on the agenda, and so this came up and they made.
A specific proposal. What were they seeking.
They want money to from Blueprint Infrastrate Ructure tax that is allocated to Leon County, which is about eight million. They wanted twenty percent of that money to go to a program that is being done in some other parts of the state that buys land and then builds affordable housing.
So it's about one.
Point six million dollars per year that they want to go toward this program. But again under what definition, Well, they want to buy they want to buy land and then subsidize the rents for very low income people to live there. And again this is all this is being done in a couple other locales here in the state, town homes, duplexes, apartments, apartments. But the problem with this and it failed five to two. David o'keef voted for it,
and so did Commission Bill Proctor. The reason that again, remember you're talking about all Democrats on the Leon County Commission, and the reason that failed was two reasons. First, Vince Long, the County Ministry runs a pretty tight ship, and what you're not going to do is outside of a budget process, move one point to TX million dollars somewhere else. That money is already being spent on repaving roads here in
Leon County. So just to have a proposal that just, you know, in the middle of a process moves that money out is not going to happen.
Isn't it fair to say that such a proposal is well outside the scope of historical uses of blueprint tax money.
It is historically, but it is being done in other locations. I mean, it's not against the law that has set up the blueprint tax.
Okay.
So the second reason why it didn't pass is because what they're asking them to do by land is not what we need. The problem, evidently in affordable housing is is matching up developers with financing. In other words, I was told by an elected official that they've got five hundred thousand dollars looking for a home to help finance
affordable housing. And the point being this is there's state programs and federal programs that will allow developers to get incentives to so they can build affordable housing and then subsidize rents. That's the issue, and it's matching up developers with financing. It's not acquiring land. Doesn't that hurt the private sector and the rental market? Yeah, listen beyond what
we're trying to do here in terms of address this vote. Yeah, the affordable housing runs the gamut of issues, because affordable housing is an issue along all stratas of income, sure, right, And so what they're trying to do here is deal with very low income and low income people, people who are you know, single parents with three kids and a thirty six thousand dollars year job. You know, they pay
you know, fifty percent towards rent. And so they're looking to address those type of issues, and it's not it's not easy. And if you look at this debate that they had, and again this is not an ideological or a political vote, because they're all Democrats. They all want to help. But this goes to show you how difficult it is to address this problem. It's very difficult to define and then there's so many different approaches to deal with it. And the city and county are already building
affordable housing units right now. So anyway, the vote I think is instructive on where the community is on this.
They're trying to.
Get some things done, but it's not an easy fix. Does it end there for now? Yes, what happened. They did vote six to one to come back during the budget process and see if they can find some money to, you know, address some of the concerns that these activist groups have to.
Spend, to spend even more money than what they're already exactly. Okay, Ten past the hour, More to come with Steve Stewart. Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Eleven past the Hour. Steve Stewart, Executive editor of Tallahassee Reports. Subscribe, Get it Tallahassee Reports dot Com. Three Things, Three things
on the economic side, two good one not so good. Okay, airport numbers came in and again this is all information that we're getting from the ground of It doesn't go up to some federal department or state department.
And get massage and sent back down to us. And that's why it's sort of like the crime incident data. We had that crime incident data for the year like after a week after the year and so we you know, and it was consistent with what TPD had. Crime was
down fifteen violent crime down fifteen percent. So airport, you know, a challenging year for the airport with Jet Blue pulling out, Silver Railways declaring bankruptcy, but passenger traffic for the year is up like thirteen percent, nine hundred and sixty five thousand passengers through the gates, which was up again, like I said, over twenty twenty three, headed up for the million mark as worthy as their goal. In addition, the
city retreat addressed the airport. They're looking at these minimum revenue guarantees again and we can talk about that at another time, but that is something other communities are doing. So it's a it's competition for these smaller airports that you know had these problems keeping air carriers, and so anyway, that's a positive thing in terms of the passenger traffic
given the negative headlines that we've sold last year. The second thing, the county had a retreat and they dealt with some different issues, but they also had a segment where they dealt with a local economy and some information on Amazon. The impact of Amazon in this community is not being written about enough, and we're going to deal with that in the next edition of paper edition of
Talles Reports. But Keith Bowers talked about nineteen hundred and seventy jobs that Amazon has created here in Leon County. Keith Bowers is he is the director of the Office of Economic Vitality, averaging forty one thousand dollars a year. And then obviously the benefits that we've discussed before, health benefits, education benefits. Again, forty percent of those jobs are from low income zip codes and so very good news on
that front. In addition, I don't know if you remember, there was a debate about trying to get a trying to get a bus stop at that area to get people out there didn't work out with the city, but so Amazon private company got their own shuttle service and so now they're showing workers I think one hundred and fifty unique workers back and forth to Amazon.
So anyway, that is, uh makes perfect sense.
Yeah, I mean again, private sector not waiting for government to solve an issue, right, and so anyway, I thought that was good news. Now on the downside, single family residential permits, which is obviously we've got a housing issue in terms of pricing and supply and demand, a little landlocked yeh, little little man. And this is what this shows. I mean, it's up and down annually. The number of permits, Oh, twenty twenty four is five hundred and fifteen single family
residential permits. The year before was six hundred and ninety two. That's down like twenty five percent. And look, there's a lot of mitigating factors on housing prices, but you gotta think that, you know, the lack of new housing is having an impact on pricing along with the other issues. And so we'll have a story up about that and how over the last few years that were really down
in that area. In addition, I understand, and I haven't looked at this in detail, is that if you look at other counties, comparable counties were way down in terms of the.
Number of new houses that were.
Building, and so you know, sometimes you get you get sort of and even I when you hear people talking about you hear a lot of people talking about being very negative on some of these new developments Wilane Plantation, Canopy.
You know, Willanie Boulevard, some of the developments in the northeast. And you look at these numbers and you I harken back to the days when I was years ago, when we would talk about economic growth and somebody said, well, you know, there are a lot of people in this community that just don't don't want growth, and I think, you know, that might be the case, and so you're always battling. But this is this is not a good number, and it has the if you look back in the past, it goes up and down.
So based on that, this year should definitely go up. But it's a pretty big drop when you compare it to twenty twenty three.
Steve Stewart Withers from Tallassi Report. You just go to Tellassireports dot com to subscribe. Steve Stewart with me here in Studio one B from Tellassi Reports. We're gonna do an audio rorshack. Okay, that's hey, that break was a segment. Well it was, and it could have been aired. But let's do an audio rorshack test. Okay, I'm gonna just say a word, and you tell me what comes to mind. Transparency city government. I didn't say lack of No, there are a couple of topics here on the subject.
Yes, So I wanted to touch on the Leon County Serf's office decision to quit publishing booking reports. Every morning they would publish a booking report with a lot of information, but it would also have bug shots. They have their stated reasons for ending it. Well, well, there's this has been a controversy for a number of years because a lot of the local TV stations just take this information and PLoP it up on their website and so there you are the people that were arrested not foundly guilty.
And so there's been some court cases around the country where people have sued because they've been arrested and then they've got their mug shot there and then oh, we made a mistake, you know, and there's no charges file or the charges they're dropped. Well, then guess what happens with you? Well, the social media, you know, twenty years ago, nobody knew. But now with social media, you got you got people that don't like you. They go find your mugshot. So this was it can be a real issue and
I can see it. So they've view so Leon County Sheriff's off has used this decision to go ahead and stop releasing the mug shots. Now, I was contacted because I'm a remember the media by their media person, and you know, I said, listen, I understand that, I said. I didn't publish it anyway, I did look at it on occasions. I said, but you know, how about sending out some more information that is, like you know, TPD sends out these daily reports, and I'll be darn if
they are not now starting to send out more. We're getting more information. They cut out the mug shots, but they're actually sending more information on a daily basis than they were before. So I view that as a net win. Okay, so we'll take a we're gonna take a look at the data they're sending out now, which again.
Because a mug shot and when it's all said and done, doesn't mean a thing.
No, I mean it is, it does not. I mean, they're still releasing the actual arrest with.
The names, but not the mug shots.
Gotcha, okay, And so that's the first transparency issue. The second is the Children's Services Council. Now I have promised and said on this show a couple of times that I was going to spend more time covering the CSC. I don't know that I'm going to have the time to do what needs to be done, because you know, they had a meeting about how they're going to try to measure their outcomes, and it is.
Going to be they have so many different programs.
That they're spending you know, a small amounts of money on well, when I say small, you know they're bringing in eight million a year. And so they are they are partening with groups where they're spending two hundred and eighty thousand dollars to feed kids, five hundred thousand dollars for after school programs. It is going to be now, it is going to be a nightmare to try to track the outcomes to the point that we would see a needle that would move because to me, all of
this is a band aid. It appears to be, and it's unfortunately because now what I think is happening is I think that and this is a personal opinion, is I think that the director has sensed that people want to see outcomes and now they're just going to throw a bunch of information at people and.
Let them figure it out. Oh, I'm giving you information.
Look, we've done this, We've done that, and it and I think at the end of the day, we look at airport, we see traffic go up, we look at crime incidents, we see crime incidents go down, we look at permits, we track that because there I don't think there's ever going to be a measure anything close to that with regards to the CSC money.
That's just my initial impression.
Will follow it throughout the year because they are going to to try to convince the voters that they are moving a needle. But it's it's going to be so in a credit to the council because they have elevated this to the point where it has to be addressed, and it's not just about where they're spending the money. The council says, look, we want to know we made a difference. In other words, are we replacing money with these nonprofits.
Who are already doing this. It's just going to be so tough to follow Preston Steve. I still struggle fundamentally with the idea that is it, how is it legal for an unelected body to be handed the power to levy tacks? Because as it was passed in.
The state legislature, there is a law that says that it is passed that allows this group to do this, and it was it was passed a number of years ago. It's just like cras community redevelopment agencies that have been.
But those at least are attached to elected bodies. I get that, that's a good point. I'd have to go back and look if there under any other this is an independent taxing authority, and that's I just I don't know. That's a tough tough bridge to get across when you talk about unelected officials. Now the good news, and we've talked about this in the past. Yeah, the council is.
Made up of a very you know, the governor appoints five members and then there's five members from the local community. So the reason why we're having this discussion about transparency and about accountability is because of the structure that's set up.
So anyway, I'll continue to report on it.
We're going to cover the meetings, but it's gonna I think it's gonna be very tough to get to where we want to get.
In fairness, I want to just let everyone know, in case you were not aware, I opposed this from the get go. I think it was a bad idea, it was unnecessary and as we've learned, it's sucking millions out of the local economy and for no discernible, measurable result.
I was against it as well. And the thing is, now that we have eight million dollars, let's let's attack a problem and fix it. And that's not I don't think that's where they're head it right now.
Thanks as always, Thank you, Preston. All Right, Steve Stewart, Tallahassee Reports again, Tallahassee Reports dot Com. Alright, Morning show with Thrustin Scott. It's Thursday, busy day, always here on the radio program. And of course the big story in the press box that you heard in the national news is the the collision. It's hard to say over the skies. It was on approach a American Airlines Regional Service PSA Airlines CRJ seven hundred. If you if you fly, you'd
recognize it. You just It's a standard regional jet departing Wichita, Kansas, arriving at Reagan last night. Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC. Very busy airport, military routine flights around it all the time. Unfortunately, the the military helicopter, a Chinook H sixty, is not Chinnook. A Sikorski H sixty collided with it. And we really don't know more at this point. But there is a press conference going on right now. We'll join it live.
The FAA, along with the White House, President Trump, local, state, and federal partners all working together on this incident. In unison. I couldn't be prouder of this team has been assembled, working tirelessly. Mara, I want to thank you specifically for your work. A few details I'd like to give all of you, and some of you reported this but last night. If you live in the DC area, you would know that this was.
A clear night last night.
The helicopter was in a standard pattern. If you live in the DCRE, you'll see helicopters up and down the river. This flight pattern is seen oftentimes when you live in DC. This was a standard flight pattern last night as well. The American Airline flight coming into land was in a standard flight pattern.
As it was coming into DCA.
So this was not unusual with a military aircraft flying the river and aircraft landing at the and again if you live in the area, you'll see that frequently with those two aircraft working together. As many group reported, we have located the two aircrafts. The fuselage of the American Airline plane was inverted. It's been located in three different sections. It's in about waste deep water. So that recovery is
going to go on today. As that recovery takes place of the of the fuselage of the aircraft, NTSB is going to start to analyze that aircraft, partner with the FAA with all of the information we have to get the best results possible for the American people. I would just say that.
Safety is our expectation.
Everyone who flies in American skies expects that we fly safe, that when you depart an airport you get to your destination. That didn't happen last night. And I know the President Trump, his administration, the FAA, the DOT we will not rest until we have answers for the families and for the flying public. You should be assured that when you fly, you're safe.
Thank you. That's the voice of Sean Duffy, the Transportation Secretary, newly confirmed and of course, what a disaster to walk into your first week on the job. Additionally, several members of the US Figure Skating team were on board that flight. They had been competing in Wichita, Kansas, where the origination of this flight took place. It was also where the National Development Camp was being held in conjunction with the US Figure Skating Championships. It was televised all weekend on NBC.
It's a big deal, is where your Olympians come from. And so we don't know what members, we just know US Figure Skating has confirmed that several members of the team and coaches, families, that kind of thing were on board forty minutes past the hour. The big story in the press box here in the Morning.
Show doing it his way like old Blue Eyes, except he has a little more hair.
The Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, let's rejoin that press conferences Chief John Donnelly with Washington DC Fire and EMS detailing rescue efforts or recovery efforts at this point.
These bodies and these people with their loved ones, and we will continue to work to find all the bodies and collect them and reunite them with their loved ones. We should also acknowledge that the Virginia Medical EU DIAM and the Army Medical Examiner are involved in this operation and a very important part of getting people identified.
So our hearts are certainly with all of the crew and American Airlines, and we'll hear from the CEO.
I say.
Thank you, Mara, good morning. I'm Robert Eis from the CEO of American Airlines. I want to express my sincere condolences for the accident that happened at DCA last night. We're absolutely heartbroken for the family and loved ones of the passengers and crew members, and also for those that were on the military aircraft. Our focus right now is doing everything that we can to support all of those involved and also the PSA Airlines team. This is devastating,
it's we are all hurting incredibly. We urge any family and friends looking for information about their loved ones to call our designated helpline, and that's one eight hundred six seven nine eight two one five one eight hundred six seven nine eight two one five but here's what I
can share at this early stage. American American EGLE flight fifty three forty two, operated by PSA Airlines, traveling from Wichita, Kansas to Reagan National Airport, was involved in an accident just before nine pm local time on final approach into Reagan National it collided with a military aircraft on an otherwise normal approach. At this time, we don't know why the military aircraft came into the path of the PSA aircraft. Flight A CRJ seven hundred was under the command of
four crew members. They carried sixty passengers, as you know, for a total of sixty four people on board. In addition to local resources already here in DC, American Anallies has activated our care Team and that's a group of specialists that are trained to support these types of responses.
These team members are on site are arriving soon. And additionally, we have members of our go team that are on the ground here in d C and they're being deployed with resources to do everything that we can to take care of the needs of the families and the loved ones of the passengers and crew members, and that is our sole focus and we're so grateful for the first responders.
They've been working through the night, courageous efforts. But we're actively working with local, state and federal authorities on emergency response efforts and closely with PSA Airlines as they cooperate fully with the NTSB on the investigation.
That's Robert I, some CEO of American Airlines talking about the aftermath of what happened and the uncertainties what they do not know. What they do know is at this point, twenty seven bodies have been recovered from the aircraft and one from the military helicopter US Army Sikorski H sixty.
Is.
For those of you that are aware of such things and care, there you go, just a tragedy. And so it's just we're just going to kind of keep our eye on ears on what's being said. But at this point, I'm guessing there's not much more until we determine, Okay, how did that helicopter end up, because again, you know these airplanes, these airlines, there are specific glide paths into the airports. That's it's just common practice. You just you don't get into that that glide path, you just don't.
And so what happened? Did something distract the pilot of the helicopter did what were they just not aware of the plane's arrival? I mean it was night, right, you know, they just they didn't know. Did air traffic control drop it was a transponder not working? Did they not know the helicopter was out there and therefore didn't know to even say anything to steer them clear. It's just there are things we do not know yet. And as Sean Duffy said, the new Director of Transportation for the United
States government, we'll figure it out. Forty seven minutes after the hour, it is The Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, a few other things. President Trump yesterday signed the Lake and Riley Act. Very emotional time for the family Donald Trump. There were some questions that popped up afterwards. He was polite to the media but said, this is not the time. I don't really know what the questions were. I suspected they were not necessarily related to the Lake
and Riley Act. It might have been to do with his executive orders as it relates to illegals. But he just said, thank you, I appreciate your question, but not now. Decorum, and I'll be honest with you. That's usually not something that you have coincide with Donald Trump. He is so measured in this term, calculated even That's why it's a little surprising he made a nomination for deputy secretary of the Department of Education, which I think most of us
agreed can go. And again, I do not favor the plan, and I'll talk more about this perhaps tomorrow. I do not favor the plan of just whacking departments and sending people out the door without a job, as even though you look, this is the federal government. It is a long standing mess created by Republicans and Democrats alike. But they're human beings that have these jobs, and you don't
just throw them out. I think you have to be very systematic and smart about building your private sector opportunities, gaining reinvestment in the country, repatriating, and then saying we're going to give you six months, We're going to give you a year to find other work, and then we'll be getting rid of the Department of Education as an example, it will be no more but red flags on a nominee.
And we'll get into this. I want to say it's a doctor Patricia Schwinn, a doctor Swinn She's got a very sketchy background with some extreme like positions on books and libraries and all of that. And she's worked in Tennessee, and she's worked in Florida, and there are some real concerns over her nomination to be Deputy Secretary of the Department of Education. It's one of the few appointments or nominations that Trump has made that has caused me to go, wait,
what I mean? I admit I did it with Matt Gates. What And Pam Bondi's a better choice in some regards the where she is on you know, it was pointed out by Lee Williams. Pam BONDI was not strong on the red flag stuff, but she was doing what the governor wanted done, and that was Rick Scott at the time. And I think Rick was wrong on that we need full open carry. But but let me get back to I think there's a way you do what you do.
And that's that's one of the things that I think we need to be very mindful of, is be smart in how we shrink the size of government. Use a scalpel, not a chainsaw. But I understand the argument for the chainsaw. I do. I absolutely do. All right, we come back. We're going to change gears once again, and so what we do on this program. We got a history segment coming up. Doctor Ed Moore will join me, and I
can't wait to hear what he's got to share. He's got probably eight pages of notes and we'll see if he can get through the first one. That's next hour, three Thursday, January thirtieth, Show fifty three oh six of the Morning Show. Welcome to the third hour of the Morning Show with Prustin Scott. Fast moving Thursday, and it's January thirtieth already. Thankfully, I'm no longer counting down the
days that we are held hostage. We are liberated from that, and so we now move forward and we are joined each month by doctor Ed Moore and a little more history. Hello, my friend, how are you.
I'm good, I'm good, But you just said, you know, we're January the thirtieth. My daughter posted up. I thought it was hysterical. How many more months are there in January? Was her comment. It just seem and it does when you sit and reflect on it. So much has happened in the month of January this year that it can't have all been done in just thirty days.
So much has happened in ten days. Oh yeah, I mean it's crazy. But I joked about the fact that you got eight pages of notes and will you get through one? And the fact of the matter is you have eleven you said thirteen. Actually that cut very good. I didn't want to short change you.
There probably eight or nine that we won't even look at.
Well. Earlier I talked about the fact that we have this idea of what we're going to do, and then you inevitably say yeah. But and this is a yeah butt segment. Yeah it is.
And it prompted me, as I've said before on this show, that I start researching something and then some little tidbit over here attracts my attention, and so I'm swimming over in this pond for a while, and then I go deep water and keep going. And I that'd be an interesting topic to talk about.
It, and he drags me along because I'm on the other side of the leash. Go ahead, there you go.
I thought it'd be interesting to talk about. You know, President Trump is signing all kinds of executive orders, and one that he pretty much surprised everybody with was the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico calling the Gulf of America, and nobody would have forecasted that being an issue. But I thought, well, I wonder how it got its name, and where did all this come from? And how rigid is it? And where is really the golf? You know that's me, my squirrel, yep, yep. And the history on
it is really fascinating. I mean, it's obviously it's about three hundred million years old, and it didn't probably have a name for most of that time. Like my notes. You know, you'll never get to that, but it uh, you know you'd call it what you won't and uh, you know, so he is I.
Mean he at least our portion of it?
Well, or how we I mean, when you think about the ramifications of that, if you rename something anything geographically, you know all the topographers, and you know that this map company and that map company, and you.
Yeah, I got my world map back there.
Go relabel it. I mean, all of these kinds of things. And uh, one of the interesting little tidbits I found was like Google, if you do a Google search, what their decision was on that And now, technically, based on the Department of an Interior and what goes on in the US government. It is now the Gulf of America. They're going to use that. They don't have to have legislation, No big deal. He's on it. You know. It's the old Obama. I've got a pen, you know, I can
make it happen. Well, that's true. So it is that. So if you Google search going forward, I don't know if they've made the technical changes now. Depending on where you are, when you ask the question, what is this body of water called, or however you phrase the question, it'll give you a different answer. I mean, if you're sitting in Tallahassee and you Google search it it's.
Goulf of Florida.
Well, yeah, it has been called that. I mean. So you know, it's had a lot of names going through time, and it's a on the history hook for why I've sitting in this chair going over history. It's had an amazing number of names, and since fifteen early fifteen hundreds, it's been called all kinds of things, depending on who's doing the naming.
So that's where we're going today. Yes, sir, I love it. I love it. Doctor edmore with me this morning just about ten past the hour, get a check of weather and traffic. Now it is the Morning Show with Preston Scott with Doctor Edmore. This is called more History, and we'll be right back.
D from the spin. Don't know what to believe? Clear the fog. The Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point seven w f LA. Doctor Edmore with me a little more history here on the Morning Show. We take some time once a month to invest in a little bit of a history lesson and in this case just kind of a funny little sidebar story on the Gulf of Mexico now the Gulf of America.
And it was I mean, where did the when when did this trail start? For you?
Uh? Going back how far? Talking about the name? Yep, as soon as President Trump said.
We're going to call this the golf But where did you find its first iteration of its name?
Oh? You can go back to basically the Spaniards exploring. But bureaucracy is involved in everything. I mean, I get humor out of this. There's actually a federal body in our government called the Board on Geographic Names, established in eighteen ninety. Okay, that's how long it's been around. They probably don't meet very often because there's not Now they're scrambling. Hope, we we got work to do it, but.
We're not discovering anything new anymore. I could get it. Back then we were moving west.
Right, Yeah, yeah, a lot of new territory, new expansion. But they actually created a board. You see four guys sitting around a table going, Hey.
What we're gonna name this? I want to be on that board.
Yeah, well, yeah, I don't know. I don't know what the perks are, just to say you got it, you're on it. And there's also in the Secretary of Interior there's a Geographic Names Information System, So I mean where I tech on this stuff? Now?
Okay, so the.
Name changing happened in a hurry laughably. Mexican President Claudia shinbaumb Pardo, that's the President of Mexican now. She suggested that it shouldn't be called the Gulf of America, that we should rename most of America is Mexican America, because there are maps pretty much that show you know, actually, and if you went back even further, most of it was originally called Old Spain. I mean so because the Spanish were coming. When you start researching this, you find
all kinds of conflicts that occurred. I mean the first people going into Mexican you know, when the Spanish came over here. First they conquered Hispaniola, which now is no at the islands called Hispaniola, but it's the Dominican Republican Haiti. Two countries on one island, right, they call it Hispaniola.
Then they moved from there and they conquered Cuba, took over Cuba, and then the Hernando Cortes they call them Hernan Cortes, and a couple of other Spanish guys trying to gain favor, wanted to go further and they discovered the Yucatan. Well, if you look at the map, the Yucatan Peninsula really sticks way up into the Gulf of Mexico and where the Gulf of Mexico slash America is growing up. I always thought it included basically the whole Caribbean.
On old Spanish maps and some modern maps they call that whole basin, that whole entire area the American Mediterranean Sea. Said that takes in all of the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. So you start arguing about where were you really talking about which countries are on it. All those countries below Cuba are not in the Gulf of Mexico, and the northern part of South America would not be classified as being in the Gulf of Mexico. Really kind of is just Mexico, the United States, and then the
top of Cuba. Everything in there is what they're referring to and now going to be called the Gulf of America. So a lot of arguing back and forth. But when they conquered Mexico, they discovered another civilization that they had no idea existed, that was fairly modern and buildings and a lot of gold, and they got gold fever, which created all kinds of traffic within this gulf and why things started being settled. The time frames are huge when you look at the time frames, it might be from
fifteen twenty to fifteen fifty before towns are established. But they had to start establishing towns all around the Gulf of Mexico because they would have shipwrecks, a lot of shipwrecks, a lot of hurricanes that would take ships down full of gold, and in order to do rescue and salvage operations, they couldn't go all the way from Havana, all the way from Mexico, so Mississippi where Ocean Springs, Mississippi is.
They've created a little settlement there, Pensacola Settlement there. Both of those settlements were older than Saint Augustine, but Saint Augustine gets to capture the name the oldest permanent settlement because they stayed there and it grew from that. It's really growing now. But back then it was not much there and all those others kind of came and went. Pensacola was there then, it wasn't there. The fort closed. It's a lot of changes that go on during this
time frame. Add the French to the mix.
We always add the French to the mix.
Yeah, they came in. They settled all around Pascagoula in that area and the Pensacola against so then the English came in. So it's been a mess. It's been. I can go over the list. I'll find it and go over the list of what this thing has been called. It's incredible.
When we come back more on that list with doctor ed Moore here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott, I almost feel bad. Thirteen pages of notes and he said, I'm not even through my first.
Yeah, you can keep making fun of me.
I almost feel bad.
Well, I've talked about different things. Maybe that might be on another page somewhere.
You know that it could be. All these years and you still just do all this digging and you end up leaving with all these extra pages. I said, write a book, man, write a blog.
Well, when miners dig for gold, they take out a lot of rock and dig a big hole to find a little piece of gold.
Well done, okay, well done? All right.
So the names, well, it's the way my mind works. I started thinking, Okay, are there other bodies of water anyway around the world, or countries or anything that the names are in dispute? Okay? And what came to mind was, remember when the Brits invaded invaded basically Argentine territory, the Falkland Islands. The Argentines called it Las Malvinas. It wasn't Falkland, that's a British name. So they kind of still argue about that. You go to the Sea of Japan, everybody
calls this from the US calls it the Sea of Japan. Well, Korea is on one side of the Sea of Japan. They don't like it. They want to call it the East Sea, okay, in Korean, but they actually even have a society for the East Sea in Korea. And there's a lot of animosity when you look back back to the Gulf our Golf, you know, the English came in, the French came in. They're you know, not battling over the water, but battling over the lands around that water. Well,
the Korea and Japan when you get to them. Japan invaded Korea in about nineteen you know five around there until the end of World War Two, they ruled Korea. Japan ruled Korea.
Much like and not necessarily nicely.
Not nicely, that'sn't well when you could do a whole another story on that them. I did a bunch of work in Taiwan, and Japan controlled from the eighteen nineties to nineteen forty five Taiwan nicely. I mean they did some bad things, but not like they did to Korea or the Chinese.
Right.
They treated Taiwan differently. It was maybe as it was their vacation spot, and they built road systems and schools and did I mean they really developed Taiwan a little different than their attitude towards Korea and China, but huge dispaate dispute there. I talked about the fault. The South China Sea, pretty big body of water, bigger than the Gulf of Mexico. China calls it non High, which means south Sea.
Pretty simple, but they dug deep on that one, didn't.
Yeah. Yeah, it's called the West Philippine Sea by the Philipinos. It's called Indonesians call it the North Natuna Sea and Vietnam.
Does that mean there's no tuna to be found there?
Tunas?
Okay?
And then the Vietnamese call it Biendong, which means east sixty.
Hey, hey, hey, they'll.
Get a little bit. And all of the islands and the bays and the coves and everything that are part all around all those islands in the South China Sea all have multiple names.
Oh well, you got two minutes to tell me about the Gulf of Mexico.
Yeah, we'll get there. There's twenty three sovereign states within what's called what they talked earlier about the American Mediterranean Sea, twenty three different countries. They can all call it whatever they want, basically, the way these things are done. Sure, so you could have twenty three names for the Gulf of Mexico. There's fifteen dependencies that are lie within that body of area and then eighteen marginally named seas, which took me to go, Okay, what is the sea?
What is a bay?
What is a gulf? And when you read up the definitions they kind of bleed over where it's almost like we're not sure you can call it what you want to. You know, it's surrounded by land, Well, it's the Gulf of Mexico. Really surrounded by land. No, does it have land on three sides? No, not really, they use it anyway, So then that's what kind of does sort of but you know, there's I mean, if you were to.
Put it on a compass, it would have you know, roughly two hundred and seventy degrees.
Yeah. Well Mexico and the United States, mostly Florida. Yeah, I mean our coach is bigger than all the Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas right, all have borders there, so you know it's but it's also Mexican. The Mexican bordering the Gulf of America is about thirteen hundred and seventy miles, and US territory bordering the Gulf of Mexico is about thirteen hundred miles, so it's almost exactly the same. So you're looking at me with this strange.
Look, Well I keep I keep waiting for all the names, and you're out of time, out of.
Time, Oh well, save the names for another day.
That that's our invitation to read the blog.
Yeah, it's been called so many things. Benn, who was doing the calling, that's my basic point of Ingris called it one thing. The Mexican people, the Spanish people, the French, everybody had a different name for it. Explorers all called it something different, Spain called it something different.
Well, it's going to be the Gulf of America because Google says, so if.
You're if you're googling in Florida, you're a googleizer from Florida, you're going to get Gulf of America.
What about if you're googling in Texas.
Probably the Gulf of America.
Yeah, and that's all that matters what we think here in.
America at the wall. When they finished the wall, it would keep that information on one side, and you go right across, go to Warrez and they're going to tell you, no, it's a Golf of Mexico.
Well, of course, there's no reason to go to Warrez. There's no reason to go to anywhere in Mexico.
Now right now, I wouldn't be doing it.
Be well, thank you sir.
Yeah, it's entertaining.
Always doctor ed Moore with me a little more history here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Thirty six past the hour one Show with Preston Scott. We are we are learning more and more. You know, how in the world did that How did that helicopter not know about that plane? The you know, you can listen to the back and forth and the helicopter's on there.
He's they they're they're clearly on the transponder because the flight controller the tower is is telling them, hey, are you seeing that CJ and and and telling him to go behind him, and you know, more than one person's out there saying that looked like he flew into it. So we're going to have to start figuring it out. We'll need to know the profile of the pilot. If it was a training flight, was there a trainer on that Sikorski Army helicopter, If so did the trainer distract
the pilot? What was going on? What's the background of the pilot. In my mind, this all now revolves around because now there's clear communication between the tower and if you're not so collision last night, shortly before nine pm, at final approach at Reagan National Airport, a regional jet CRJ seven hundred carrying sixty four sixty passengers, four crew, collision with a Army helicopter and it's the Army helicopter
that collided with the jet that was that. There are no survivors so far, twenty seven bodies recovered from the plane, one from the helicopter. But there is audio. There's even a little video of the collision, but you can't see much because it's dark in its distance. But you start to now you zero in because there's clear communication with the helicopter. It's not like they didn't know the helicopter
was there. So the flight controller the tower is telling the flight controller, you've got a flight on final Da da da da da. And so now, as an investigating kind of my mindset immediately goes to, Okay, we know the pilots of the jet didn't make a mistake. We know that they are on final approach. You're flying those regional jets in and out of busy airspace. You're there are no mistakes there. I mean, they just really aren't.
You know a lot of that stuff is is computerized to the point where you know they're on a glide slope, they're kind of locked in, and I mean the front light is on there there, they're seconds from landing. So if the flight it's the flight, if the tower is communicating with everybody, and it was, and the jets on final and it was, then the the component here that is the one that is the most with the most variables, is the Army training pilot. What's going on there? So
now we have to focus in on. If you're the investigative team, you're going to be focusing in on who was on that helicopter, their background, their personal life, their mindset, the training, previous airtime, all of these things. Is there anything in this pilot's background that would open the door to an intentional flight path into that jet? I pray not. I mean, seriously, I hope not. You've got probably sixty seven sixty eight people total dead here. That's not going
to change. What changes is confidence in the flying public. What changes is what's going on in the military based on what they learn, so they need to learn it. I pray this was not anything intentional, that it was truly a mistake that led to an accident. That's an accident. I hope that was a crash. That was an accident. I hope, I hope it wasn't intentional. I'm not here to fan any flames whatsoever. I'm just pointing out that right now we've got three components, the tower, the jet,
the helicopter. The jet and the tower. To me, already early I removed them from where I'm starting my investigation. I'm starting my investigation with the military side and what in the world that pilot was thinking or doing. All right, I'm going to read a parts of an article here that was sent to me from a listener of the program. Here. Certainly that jet was packed with members of the US
figure skating national team and community. There were others Yevgeni Shishkova and Vadam Naumov, who were world champions scroll down here world champions in Paaris figure skating in nineteen ninety four. They were among those on board. They were They live in the United States and trained skaters here and ostensibly are part of the US team by as being a coach or coaches. Apparently, their son, who competed in the
US Singles, was on board the plane, that's initially reported. However, US figure skater Anton Spiridonov said he left Wichita with Maxim on Monday. He said he wasn't on the flight. People I knew were Maxim was not on board. He left Wichita on Monday. He was at the airport with me going through security at the same time. Yeah, I mean, it's just it was a clear night. On truth social Trump said the airplane was on a perfect routine line
of approach. Helicopter was going straight at the airplane for an ex standing period of time. It was a clear night. The lights on the plane were blazing. Why didn't the helicopter go up or down or turn?
Ah uh.
Man. I was talking with doctor Moore. He's flown in and out of out of Reagan countless times, countless times, he said. He said, there's just there's no explanation for this. He said, there's always military because there's military bases all around the area. He said, there's just it's routine flying in and out that military is around and you see stuff like that. But he said this, just this is weird. I told him this is going to test the transparency
of Trump because there's a fault here. There is fault, and it's going to be uncomfortable. This sucks, just does forty six minutes after the hours morning show, standing by. I may, I may, I may hurt myself by saying this, but I am. I am standing by, ready to uh get my progresso soup drops. I hope it does if I get at him, I hope it doesn't go as bad as it did for this guy in Georgia, Sylvester Franklin of Savannah. He he ordered a drill, except that
what he got was a picture of a drill. Seriously, see this is this is why you don't use places like Ali Express and there are other onliners and you know what I'm talking about, these third party kind of brokers. You know the old adage, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true. So he thinks he's buying a drill, and unfortunately what he got was a picture. Seriously, he got a printed
picture of a drill. Spent forty bucks he's gone to the news with it just he said, yeah, my embarrassment. But it's only forty bucks, he said, I want, I want, not just me, but others to learn. He uh paid twenty two to forty seven for a pressure washer and he got a screw as well. Literally just a man. I got nothing. Brought to you by Baron No Heating and Air. It's the Morning Show one on WFLA. Oh man, Yeah, I got nothing. I can't.
Uh.
We started our program today with Proverbs one seven and talked about the distinction between fear and awareness that perhaps that scripture speaking both. But that's where we began the day. Our big story in the press box, obviously the crash near Reagan National Airport. Listener pointed out one of the considered one of the more dangerous airports in the world,
probably because of that proximity. Though I can't say that there's a bunch of wrecks and crashes that I've heard about, but it could be just simply because of proximity, which happens at any busy airport, but in this case it's multiplied because you've got so many military installations nearby. But members of the US figure skating team were on board, a lot of them, and so you've got family members, you've got children that were on board that flight, and
it's just it's a tragedy. Now we've got to figure out why it happened, and that is going to be I personally think it won't take long. We'll see, but
I just don't think it'll take long. A local police officer in Florida, in Lady Lake, just paying attention, pulled a car over for not having a plate that matched the car, and inside was one of the FBI's ten most wanted fugitives, a child sex trafficker, a guy who sodomized children, and why he was allowed to show up at a court appearance when he was facing charges of child rape. So we're going to just let him go to show up. Sorry, that's a whole another side of
that story. I didn't even talk about. This is like bonus content here. I didn't even talk about the fact, why in the world was this guy not in prison or in jail waiting fed didn't raise or lower interest rates. Did you know about the guy who was charged trying to carry molotov cocktails and knives into the Capitol to kill house Speaker Mike Johnson, Defense Secretary Pete Hexath, and Treasury Secretary Scott bessened he turned himself in. He didn't try,
but still all right tomorrow. Matt Staver of Liberty Council your calls during What's the Beef? Friends, have an awesome day.