Good morning everybody, and welcome the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Five passed the hour and he's Jose still getting it out. He's a man just coming strong, no matter what pain is in his face. It's great to be with you though. I'm Preston, and as always, we start with some scripture and then get to what was making me chuckle. Romans won.
I was talking the other day about nature and God revealing himself in creation right, and I mentioned that I just I despise people with their speakers on their golf carts on golf courses. I just it's just it would be the same to me as going into Redwood National Forest or Yosemite or anywhere and listening to a boombox. It's just to me, it's so offensive. Man, lock yourself in your car and go crazy as long as your
subwolfers aren't near me. But I wanted to go dig into that scripture a little bit because this is really a powerful principle. In Romans one, verses eighteen nineteen and twenty, we're talking about God not liking unrighteousness, and it says for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. But now we get to the real
meat here. For what can be known about God is plain to them, to who, to men, to you, to me, to mankind, because God has shown it to them. Listen now, for his invisible attributes, namely his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived ever since the creation of the world in the things that have been made, so they are without excuse. This is like to me fundamentally real, simple, And some of you are going to dismiss this, perhaps
without any pressure from some device. Make a rock, just make one, make a blade of grass. With all of our wisdom and science and technology, we can't do these things without some form of what God made in the mix. In the mix. Can we grow grass under artificial light, Sure, but you still need the seed, You still need the stolen, You still need the sod, You still need what God made. Can we mingle the two and create hybridge, Sure, but
you still need what God made. We can't make it without the fundamental building blocks that God put in place. And so no matter what, you're still stuck with this single thing. Well, so, how did all.
This get here?
Well, it evolved really from what how did that get here? You still are stuck with yeah, big bang, Okay, how'd that happened? Where did the material come from?
That?
All the planets spun out and the earth just happens to be where it is, tilted at the perfect angle, offering us the seasons of the of the year revolving at a perfect distance from the Sun. To support how I'm just saying it. It takes more faith to believe that this was some cosmic accident than it does to believe God created the heavens and the earth. Sy ten past the hour, go inside the American Patriots Almanac, next DUBUFLA.
All right, eleven almost twelve past the hour. Here what I was giggling at at the start of the show, I told them say, we have Alexis scattered around the sales pit that I refer to as the bullpen. And and no not because not for that reason. It's that's baseball parlance. I'm not referring to anything else. It's just where you know, in baseball, the bullpen is where the pitchers warm up. But that anyway, I'm not talking about baloney.
I'm talking never mind. So we have Alexa's back there, and they're playing one of the radio stations, but it's not ours. They're playing one of the music stations. And so I just every now and then I just get this urge to be an idiot, and I walk back there and go hey, Alexa, and all the music stops in all of them never mind, and I just walk away. It's just messing with it. I've been trying to come
up with a way I was good. I'm thinking of doing an Alexa feature or a serie feature, something like that. I don't use Siri, but anyway where I just ask a question every week, just for fun to see what comes out. I haven't ironed all that out yet, but I'm I'm working on it. I'm just I'm working on it, all right. So today is Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the Constitution. Seventeen eighty eight, Union wins its first major victory in the Civil War with capture Fort
Hood on the Tennessee River. In eighteen sixty two, Alan Shepard hits three golf balls on the moon. In nineteen seventy one, that's Apollo fourteen, blizzard of historic proportions leaves the mid Atlantic States buried under two to three feet of snow. Can you imagine we had three inches two to three inches? You imagine two three feet? And it was on this date in nineteen eleven. Ronald Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois. So, in honor of the Gipper.
I tell you I feel a little bit hear like the man who was a farmer that was driving his horse and wagonto town for a load of grain that had a head on collision with an automobile and later followed the usual legal procedures with the insurance company and all. And he was on the stand and a lawyer said to him, why you were there at the scene of the accident. Didn't someone come up to you and ask you how you were feeling, and didn't you answer that
you never felt better in your life? Well, he said, I was lying there, and he said a car came up and a deputy sheriff got out. He said, my horse was neighing with pain and kicking, had two broken legs. The deputy sheriff put the gun in his ear and put the horse out of his misery. He said, my dog had a broken back and was whining with pain, and he went over did the same thing there and shot him. Then he came over to me and said, now, how are you feeling.
Oh, in honor of the Gipper, I need to pull out some Reagan jokes and do just that. I played one just the other day and and I don't know if you if you heard the segment, but it's just classic Ronald Reagan. And he told a story about cats, kittens and little boys selling kittens out in front of the the Democrat National Committee conference, the convention. And Reagan tells the joke, and he said, you know, Democrat kittens for sale. Democrat kittens for sale. And then two weeks later,
same kids out there selling Republican kittens. And a reporter that was at both walked over to him said, hey, two weeks ago you said those were Democrat kittens, and now you're saying they're Republican kittens. What gives He said, well, it's two weeks later. Now they have their eyes open. By the way, today is National Optimist Day, so half full not half empty, National Chopsticks Day. There go, Jamie, go for it. My son Jamison is so adept eating with chopsticks. I don't know how he does it. I
mean he has like professional chopsticks. Like if you get him in the right situation and give him advanced notice, he might sit down at the dinner table and when the meal comes out, he might go into his the breast pocket of his jacket and bring out this case and you're like, what is that? And then you hear the zippers and then he pulls out his professional chopsticks. These are not for rank amateurs. Today's also National Frozen Yogurt Day. And yeah, so there you go, seventeen past
the hour. I've got a buying suggestion for a little side hustle next channeling a little inner Yosemite. Sam Peoples is sometimes so stupid. Chilean nationals arrested for breaking into Joe Burrow's home quarterback Cincinnati Bengals. They get pulled over and they start they start dancing, Uh, we're we're we're heading to Florida. Cop says, uh, you're going the wrong way. That's the other way, and the questioning is just brilliant.
And then they're noticing the police are noticing the highway patroling or whatever, noticing that they're wearing you know, Bengals gear and uh. Inside the vehicle shows more memorabilia from Joe Burrow's career at LSU. They get their phones and they see the photos of them wearing his jewelry. People is so stupid sometimes, all right, I said, I was
going to give you an idea. I have long thought about doing this, but frankly, I think you have to live in certain places for this to be a worthwhile endeavor. Metal detectors, which, by the way, people that use them are called metal detectorists. Now, I think that sounds dumb. I think they should be called wait for it, metal detectives. That's excellent, don't you think that, I mean, doesn't that work better than detectorists? What are you? I'm a metal detectorist.
You sound illiterate, even though it's probably just fine. I'm just saying a metal detective now, that sounds cool. But I've long thought about getting a metal detector and you now and then we'll see one walking them back and forth along a beach. I love the stories when someone finds like a ring and they go about trying to find out who owns it and returns it to the person because somebody lost that. I mean someone didn't just
take it. Well, maybe somebody did. I don't want to marry you anyway, throw it out there in the ocean, and then it washes back ashore. Maybe that happens. But I love the stories and we've done them from time to time, where someone finds something and returns it to the owner, like a ring like that. But in this case, the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands announced a discovery of two metal detectives. They found four hundred and four
silver and gold coins dating back to Biblical times. Forty two British coins minted between five BC and forty three a D. That is the time of Christ. Made of gold silver copper. On some of the coins was inscribed Cunobeline, the British king who ruled from nine to forty three a d. Two hundred and eighty eight coins were Roman minted between two hundred BC and forty seven AD, the
some dating back to Emperor Claudius. Some of the coins never circulated, brand new minted, perfect condition coins, two of them same stamp, unused, no signs of usage, were just found. Officials explained that that the time the coins were minted, Roman troops had begun sailing across the North Sea to conquer the Britannic Islands. They think the coins belonged to Roman soldiers who brought them back after a mission in Britain. What we now know is Britain. No word on the value.
But yeah, and I don't know where they were found. I don't know if they were like in some countryside area. And you know, some what the potential.
Amp doesn't it make you want to just get a metal detector and.
Goooo whoop or.
Do do do do do boo boo boo boo boo boo boo. Then you go back to where it was going.
Do do do do do do do do do do do do? Agnes, bring the shovel, Biff, bring a trowel.
I mean crazy, crazy crazy anyway, all right, we got big stories and they've changed since I came in this morning, and I'll explain why in mere moments, do not leave us. It's Thursday on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Yeah. I had all my big stories picked out and then the weight of the whining and screaming I mean screaming by Democrats over the the shutdown of the US AID. I mean screaming ranting United States Agency for International Development USAID.
We've had senators over the years, usually from Oklahoma, highlighting the absurdity of what we fund. Fifty one Sorry, back up here, let me start from here. We sent tax dollars to make sure Ukrainians went to Paris Fashion Week. We sent twenty million to create a sesame street in Iraq. We provided millions to farmers in Afghanistan to help them grow food, except they grew poppy and increased poppy production to create opium production. In fact, opium production nearly doubled
because of us, because of your tax dollars. Two million dollars spent to fund Moroccan pottery classes and promotion. Do you realize that Morocco has for thousands of years created pottery and we're gonna teach them how? I mean, there's Moroccan pottery that they say dates back to six thousand BC. But of course we needed to send money for them to have pottery classes. We funneled nearly one million into bat research at the Wuhana Institute of Rology, and I'm
sure that's scratching the surface of that amount. Spent two million dollars promoting tourism in Lebanon the State Department had declared Lebanon as a state not to travel to due to crime, terrorism, civil unrest, kidnapping, unexploited land mines, and the risk of armed conflict. But we spent two million dollars promoting tourism there, one point five million dollars to
advance diversity, equity and inclusion in Serbian workplaces. We spent seventy thousand dollars on a production of a Dei musical in Ireland, forty seven thousand dollars for a trans opera in Colombia, thirty two thousand dollars for a trans comic book in Peru. I'm sharing this with you so that you do not lose sight of what we're doing with the Department of Government efficiency and why we elected Donald Trump.
And when you look at the reaction of Democrats, you see how absolutely determined they are to keep the size of government as it is and then grow it. This has to be done. Government must be put on a diet. It is grotesquely, insanely obese, and it is costing you and I forty one minutes past the hour. That is the big story in the press box.
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Have you seen the video. I'm gonna dig it up and if possible, post it on my blog page. Brandon Wright, if he hasn't been fired, it's imminent. He is was Platform services manager for the Department of Homeland Security. He was videotaped by undercover citizen journalist reporters for Keith Media Group OMG, openly saying that the department will defy newly appointed DHS chief Christy Nome. Let me just read some of what he said. Because these videos are not really
air worthy. You can watch them and it they'll subtitle it and it all makes sense. But Christinome, I bleeping hate her. The secretaries can set the priorities for the department, but they can't actually tell us what to do. We don't agree with those priorities. There's a lot of room for interpretation in terms of how we interpret what those policies are. By the time the actual marching orders get to me and below, we can filter it in a way that steadies the ship. Christy Nome doesn't know bleep.
This is how deeply entrenched this is. Now here's my suggestion except whoever wants to be bought out of the federal government and then people like this and anyone who thinks this is what you gotta do, they're fired. They are fired with cause there are all kinds of people that would love some of these jobs, and likely you don't need as many of them. According to the Department of Homeland Security, Secretary Nome is not seeing the video
in its entirety. This type of behavior will not be tolerated. This person has been placed on leave and is under investigation. Senior official also said the termination of this official is imminent. This was a couple of days ago. Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. People can't help it. This guy was teed up and he absolutely it's like the Planned Parenthood people. I don't know if you heard
Matt Staver check out the Conversations podcast. He talked about a doctor receiving a part and that part was a beating heart from an aborted baby, still beating. That doctor testified against Planned Parenthood under threats by the California officials to lose their license, etc. And they're like, I don't care. Planned parenthood officials admitting on camera in what was and and it was allowed because it was in a public place. You're sitting in someone's office, eh, in California, can't record
him having salad. And that's the thing. They're having salad. And they're talking about babies having their their organs harvested and selling them anyway. I don't want to get sidetracked here. This is what Trump is facing. This is what his administration is going to be facing. It's not just the elected officials, it's everybody underneath. It's the bureaucrats, it's the it's the workers that think asks, screw her, will do what we want. Mm hmm. This is this comes because
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In the wild or in our homes. We love them Critters, large and small. Time for another edition of animal Stories on the Morning Show with Dreston Scott.
This story has so many layers to it. We are We're in Houston and evidence storage lockers are being decimated by drug addicted rats. Police and city officials say that drugs being stored in evidence lockers are attracting rats that feed on the illicit narcotics, and then they start going crazy and ravaging anything and everything else. And then because they're looking for more drugs, said, we got four hundred pounds of marijuana and storage that the rats are the
only ones enjoying. They have hired exterminators to no avail. So they've had one active case where rats have eaten some of the evidence. They got into a bag of hallucinogenic mushrooms. Now what's missing here is the follow up has to be that the commissary and the snacks sold in the vending machines are all being decimated. You know, all the doritos and chips are gone. Man, they are gone. Animal stories. Gotta love it. We come back. Steve Stewart
will join us. Remember now, if you don't know anything about the Fair Tax third hour, I've got the Chairman of the Board and the President of Fair Tax Dot Org Riley Gaines. Yesterday we got Steve Stewart. Today we had JD. Johnson yesterday. Come on, we just we go cat camick you as Congressman, and today you're gonna learn about an option for taxation that makes a lot of sense because we do it here in Florida. Here we go. It's the second hour already. Man, I don't know where
the time goes. It is Thursday, February of the sixth show, fifty three to eleven. I am Preston. He is Jose and this is Steve Stewart, the executive editor of Tallassi Reports website tallassie reports dot com. Hello, my friend, good morning. How are you. I'm good.
I'm always a little more on edge when we do a newspaper. So we just sent a newspaper in this morning to be printed.
It'll be in mel Why are you on edge, man, because I get you're an old salt at this.
I get up at four point thirty to make sure i've speller Welcome to my world. I know I couldn't do it. So you go back through and yeah, you know, make sure we get all.
Those so you don't trust the software. Huh, No, we do that, but yeah, we do that. Also, Hey, I mentioned the I talked a little bit briefly about Leon County Commissioner David O'Keeffe trying to create once again uproar over the immigration thing. And I mean a handful of people were protesting. It's whatever.
Yeah, I think one of the and I've talked about this, and you know, this issue what is happening in our media landscape is right, they want to take extremes and they want to divide our community. We've talked about this with the progressive movement. They come in. It's they don't want to solve problems. They don't. They don't, they don't want to say, yeah, you know, we do agree on these things, but we got to deal with this. They just want the extremes.
And but a majority of Democrats think the immigration thing is ridiculously broken.
No, I totally agree. And so you look at Superintendent Hannah came up at the school board meeting because everybody's worried about, you know, ice showing up at schools, and I think Superintendent Hannah put it in a pretty good context. This is more about criminals than it is about five
or six year olds. Yeah, and when you hear that, but then when you tune in and you see the news coverage that puts the you know, obviously some news outlets are looking for clickbait, so they go and find people that.
Are dozens of protesters.
But the point on this is what happened what you know, And again I know this is why we exist thoughtful debate about this issue. Okay, there are it's not just about immigration. There are a lot of different nuances with different things. I think that we would get com ninety five five percent agreement that violent criminals who are here illegal should be deported. People that have committed violent crimes and are not citizens. I can't think of anybody that
would disagree with that. Then you move to non violent, well, you know, nonviolent, you're talking about UIs, you're talking about drugs. I think you get a fair amount of people that would agree that, yeah, they need to be deported. Now, when you get to families that have been here for ten years, you know, and have two young kids and are working, you know, you can debate how are you
going to deal with that? But to put it under this broad umbrella of everything that is being done at this point is just some kind of you know, crazy right wing conspiracy. It's just it's not responsible journalism to do it that way.
It's also patently inaccurate because they are falling for the conflation that always occurs on the left. Steve, and it started years ago trying to merge illegal immigration with immigration.
No exactly, And I think one of the things is, again it's about the immigration system being broken, and since how you're dealing with that and we're way past that. That's a national federal issue. But here in the local government are when you have people like David O'Keeffe who who all but said, we want to make it as difficult as we can for federal He.
Wants to use tax dollars to hire county attorneys to defend them.
Yeah, I think that that is. And look, one of the things that we're going to talk about the county retreat and the next segment. One of the things I've noticed is there are there are venues where people make political statements, and then there are venues where you actually deal with the nuts and bolts of local government because the cameras aren't there and everybody sort of knows that
this is what it's for. You know, these commission meetings during unagended speakers and commissioner time is where a lot of political statements are made. Okay, because that's what that sort of has become. But when you start talking about behind the scenes, you know, county retreats, staff meeting up, these things don't even get legs. They're not even they're not given any kind of priority. No breathing room, no
breathing room. Okay, so it becomes a political issue. Look, you know, it's like when you jump a fence trying to protect a tree from being cut down.
I mean, no one would do that. I mean an.
Elected official that you gotta go. You know what I initially thought of is he's got to go back and set up on a dais with other elected officials. And I mean, really that's what you're doing. So anyway, but we're gonna keep We're going to try to make this issue. The degree that it becomes a local issue, well i'll tell you what decides. You know that everybody understands the nuances of it.
According to Ice and local authorities, members of that gang trend Deagua, we're arrested here in Tallahassee. So where's the end of story exactly, It's just it's an issue. Right. Ten past the hour More Steve Stewart.
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Twelve past the hour. Steve Stewart, tell as your report, subscribe. This is where you're gonna get information. You're not going to find anywhere else tele Astareports dot com, which is why we dedicate a half hour to this each and every Thursday. Steve, you mentioned the County Retreat. What they get done.
Yeah, so look a couple of things. I've been attending some more of these meetings and sort of just observing things, you know, and then you go and look one of the things. And this is when I first came to Tallahassee. I was at a press conference in like nineteen ninety okay, I was an intern in the legislature, and then I was at a press conference. And then the next day I read a story written about that press conference and I was like, really, because I wasn't the press conference
I was at. There was things left out.
You know.
That's when I was first noticed. To me, you know, there's a little bit of a jump there. I think we're getting that in terms of what's going on in the community. I think that the news media is focused on so many other things clickbait that they're not really reporting the nuts and bolts of what's going on in the community. And I think there's some good things going on. And I think the retreat, like I said previously, is where David O'Keefe or whoever. They're not going to make
these outlandist statements or address these controversial issues. This is where, look, we got to deal with things in our county that we got to deal with. And so what I thought is they've got this very organized plan. Vince Long is very organized and how they address these issues. Yes, and so they came out to retreat. They said, we got new strategic initiatives. That's a good way for the upcoming year. Okay,
we want to adopt these initiatives. That's a good way of saying, these are the problems we got to address next year. Very little reporting on that, Okay, So what I thought I'd do is go through that. They have them in four different areas, okay, okay. And on the economic side, they talked about leveraging and this is this is gonna be a little bit in the weeds, but they're talking about leveraging. A conference that is coming to
Tallehaseee in February four hundred companies. The name of the conference will put you to sleep right, Motor Drive Systems and Magnetic Conference. This conference was originally oh I'm sorry, was held in It was held in Orlando. Now it's being held here, okay, And I mean there's four hundred different high tech companies are going to be in Tallahassee. Okay, and so I think that's a very big deal. It's a big deal. We're going to write some more on it.
We have an article in the newspaper product, but that was under their economic initiative is to try to leverage that when that happens, you know, exposed Tallassee to these companies, and so I thought that was interesting.
The other on the.
Environment side, we hear a lot of talk about the environment. So the issue that they're dealing with is at the Mikusu Greenway, the flooding out there. They recognize this as a problem and they're hiring an engineer to try to figure this out. Okay, this is something that has come up over the previous year and the unagended speakers. So the county is acknowledging, we got we have to deal this is something new.
We got to deal with.
Quality of quality of life issue the one Now there's more than these, and we've got this in the newspaper, but I'm just highlighting some Pedestrian safety was an issue that was addressed at the city. It is one of these new initiatives that the county wants to address. We see that they're going to be rolling out, the city's rolling out the speeding, and the school'sone cameras. I think this is an issue that then it goes back to a lot of things we talked about, you know, phones,
people driving. This is post COVID environment where police officers were not pulling over, enforcing traffic. So I think we're starting to see from the data a couple of years ago the result of that, and now I think it's getting the attention of local government and the camera side of this is so it's so interesting to me. One of the last things was governance the categories, and one of the initiatives is we got a problem with graffiti littering and we need an ordinate to try to deal
with that. And they're actually talking about using cameras to try to enforce this. Can you imagine fifteen years ago using cameras to try to from a public safety or a law enforcement standpoint, we are there and I got to tell you, I think I'm all for it.
This just in Steve Stewart is big brother. I want him in the classrooms. You know that you're the one that wants him in the classrooms. President, right, I certainly do, but not live streaming sixteen minutes past the hour. More to come with Steve Stewart. You heard him. There's a paper coming out and you can get it. Still have boxes around town. Yes, how's that going? You know, it's settled down.
The election season wasn't good because there are people stealing papers and they didn't want you know, they didn't want the people seeing the you know, the device of comments made by some of the progressive But it's settled down and it's working. We're going to make an upgrade here in the next week on a couple of things. And we've got some more bus prevention. Hey, we're gonna put some cameras out.
Let's talk a little bit about some of the local job numbers. And I want to get your thoughts on Regal Movie Theater being snatched up by fs U. Yeah.
So the job numbers, as we do, we follow the monthly numbers from the FEDS, the Department of the Labor, and it wasn't a good year for jobs. They're gonna there'll be a revision, be a revision in February of course to sort of get the numbers all lined up, but the monthly numbers are in for the year, and we lost jobs based on those Leon County in the last year. So there's fewer people working in December of this year than there was December of last year.
And you can see it's kind of staggering given the impact of Amazon.
But you can almost see the over a year ago and a half ago, you can almost see the increase to that level. Sure, so fewer people in the work force also shrink, and so we'll to you got to keep an eye on it because you know, one of the things that we reported on previously was the major drop in single family residential permits, which is a leading
indicator of sort of where we're going. Yeah, and that's been trending down for the last three or four years, which you know, you build a home, it's not just the person that buys it. You got to fill it up with things. You know, there's workers. So when that stuff is not happening, you're losing jobs. So yeah, that is a little concerning. So, yeah, permits and jobs not positive.
Which I think is a little bit funny, is that the airport, which had a lot of bad news over the year in terms of air Last year, in terms of air carrier air carrier news, they're up to twelve and a half percent more passengers than the year before. So it's sort of interesting to see that dynamic.
So I don't know what is.
Very complicated to try to figure out where that all fits in. Right after this, I'm going to a little presentation from an official at the Federal Reserve about some looking at the economy over the next year or two here, so I'll be able to report back on that. As far as FSU, you know, I read they posted a pretty good article on their site. FSU did on the about the regal theater, you know, and it harkened back to the days, Hey remind everyone where it is. It's
right by Governor square Mall. FSU four million dollar investment basically, so it's like a company coming in and buying this and going to turn it into something else, right, And so it harkened back to the days of ten twelve years ago when when I was running for office and there was these silos, and you know, FSU was doing this, and the city and the county was doing this, and people why can't we get on the same page. And for some reason they're in local government. There's some barrier
to fully embracing the impact of FSU. I don't know what it is. I don't know if it's been here for years or whatever, but we're starting to see things that are just it's sort of the magnitude of their force. Okay, you look at Gain Street, which was a good collaboration and a lot of people's minds of how that came out. But you look at the business school moving up towards downtown right across from the Civic Center. Oh, look who
owns the Civic Center? Years ago FSU bought that, and so they're starting the the the impact of FSU jim Ran Downtown Institute building right there. Now you see the Regal Theater. It's like now FSU is into the community. And part of the the issue was you have a lot of these students that come to school at FSU and never get a dose of what tal as he is and just leave because they're just here to go to school. I think this is starting. It looks to me like it's starting to change, or at least the
environment is definitely changing. Are we going to be able to keep these, you know, some of these kids now, because you know, if you're if you're in the department, the Motion picture department, you're going to be traveling across town. You know, maybe you're going to be going to an event in jim Uran Institute downtown. And so I think this is all good. The thing I'm not sure about, and again this is just me. I'm not sure why we're not embracing this more.
We meaning we city government.
Yeah, don't.
I don't know if they're because look, we talked about this during the break. Opening Nights I stumbled on when I do research looking at things.
Opening Nights is an.
Arts cultural event here that is a big deal. Started in nineteen ninety nine about a half the year, runs from September to April, and I was looking at the sponsors of that event. I mean it looks like that if you didn't have FSU here, those would be the sponsors of a performing arts center type of program, right, I mean, big names, a lot of money obviously, And also Opening Nights you start thinking, well, you know, Ruby Diamond is where they do a lot of the shows,
but they're all around town. They're Goodwood Museum cascades at the Amphitheater Tallas, the State College and their auditorium, And so again, I think that it's important for us to recognize and sometimes we don't the full impact of FSU's imprint. And yeah, maybe there are people behind the scenes that do, but I don't know that. I think a lot of people get territorial.
Do you think it's it's in part as well due to fear of well, we got to do something then with fam you and famu's impact isn't as dramatic. You know, that could be. It's there, but it's not as dramatic.
You're picking winners there, right because and I and I think also too f SU, you know, there's a national institution, so sometimes maybe they forget to treat some of the locals as like, you know, with the respect and you know, the consideration that probably they are due. But again it's a I mean, it's a huge operation.
Yeah, I mean, but I could sit and just on the other side say, well, you could say the same about FAMU. It's one of the leading HBCUs in the nation. Well maybe we need to look at their impact also, Yeah, I think that's that's my point. I think it's I think that's some of the reticence. That's my That would be a guess for me.
Okay, anyway, that's a that's a present's got my view or not good to see, right, Thanks press Steve Stewart of Tellaser Reports tellasser Reports dot Com.
As I mentioned last hour, big stories in the press box here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott have changed, had a whole paper clip full of them. And then I started to see the amount of money spent by the US Agency for International Development otherwise known as USAID.
I'm sure many of you knew. I just heard bits and pieces of this, but Steve and I were talking off air, and since twenty twenty one, when Joe Biden took office, the federal government has spent twenty six million of your tax dollars on subscriptions to Politico eight point four million in twenty twenty four alone, twenty six million dollars on subscriptions to Politico. Oh but let me get to the coup de gras. Ready, everybody listen. It may or may not have been a coincidence that Politico staff
didn't get a paycheck on Tuesday. They say it's a technical error. Employees were eventually paid Wednesday morning, apparently, But isn't that interesting? Trump takes office, the spending stops, and suddenly they struggled to make payroll. I guess they didn't transfer I had enough money out of their savings account to cover payroll. I don't know. It's just crazy quirk,
remarkable coincidence. How about one point five million dollars of your tax money going to advance DEI in Serbian workplaces, seventy thousand for a production of a DEI musical in Ireland, forty seven thousand dollars for a trans opera in Colombia, thirty two thousand for trans comic book publication in Peru. By the way, this under the auspices of the US Agency for International Development. These horses think that that's development. Here's the thing they do. They do think the advancement
of DEI, otherwise known as bigotry, his advancement. Twenty million dollars spent to create Sesame Street in Iraq. Well, of course, wouldn't you sign up to give money for that cause? Sending Ukrainians to Paris Fashion Week? That's exactly what you do for a war DRN country. You get a handful of folks out and give them some time in Pali. Huh right, nothing like recharging the batteries farmers in Afghanistan to grow food. We sent millions over there, except they
didn't grow food. They grew more poppies and produced more opium. In fact, the amount doubled under Joe Biden. How about this two million dollars to fund Moroccan pottery classes and promotion. Forget the fact that people in Morocco have been making pottery for six thousand years.
We need to teach them how.
You're saying it's not being handed down? Uh, this is ridiculous. And this is the Morning Show with Preston Scott and Democrats are screeching about this. WUFLA. Next hour, Stephen Hayes affairtax dot Org cannot wait to share with you the concept of a fair tax and do we have a chance. Do we have a chance to change the tax system here in this country? That's coming up next hour, But first let's talk about our four legged friends with doctor
Steve Steveson of the Bradfordville Animal Hospital. Hello, my friend, how are you?
Hey, prest I'm doing great, How are you?
I'm terrific? I'm curious, over the years of your practice, how often have you found things that don't belong in the stomachs of pets.
And that's a very common occurrence, you know, I wouldn't say it's every week, but at least once a month. It's not a couple of times a month. We have someone come in that has eaten something they shouldn't have, whether it's an object like a rock or a stick, article of clothing. We just see this all the time. It's very very common. Sometimes they come in they've eaten something just recently, and we can induce vomiting and bring it back up if it's safe to do so. Other
times it's been in there for a while. The doll comes in it's been vomiting for two or three days, or the cat, and it's a little more serious to go in and retrieve those items. They're actually one of the veterinary journals has a contest every fall, and the title of contest is they ate what And so they get people submit X rays and pictures of what these dogs have eaten, and then they they rank them, you know,
give them awards for what they've eaten. So kind of interesting this past fall there was one of a dog that ate a spoon like a kitchen spoon, you know, off your dining table. And so there's radiographs X rays of this dog with the spoon sitting right there, obviously prominently in its stomach. You know. There's another one a dog that ate one hundred hair ties. You know, we've seen dogs eat a number of hair ties before, but one hundred is that's that's quite impressive. All these dogs
came out find all had great outcomes. But it's pretty interesting what a dog will ingest.
Are there certain are there certain breeds of dogs steve that are more inclined to do that than others.
You know, we see all breeds pressed them. But interesting in this article there are definitely bulldogs, Prince bulldogs and English bulldogs are overrepresented in this article over there. If that's the true across the country or not, it was kind of interesting. So, yeah, they'll eat just about anything if they have the opportunity.
And that's how their faces got the way they are. They just smashed their face down to grab something and over time that's how we've got that pushed in face.
Well, you know, they had met another dog on here that ate a lug nut. The guy was changing his fire in his driveway and turned around the dogs picking up a lug nut, and the dog ran off into the yard. They assumed the dog dropped it, and they're trying to put the tire back on the car and can't find the last lug nut. And they're scouring the yard and the grass looking for it and can't find it. So they finally took the dog into the veterinarian, took an X ray and there it wasn't the dog's stomach.
So doctor Seemerson tell me this. Obviously there's a moral to this story, and it has to be be careful what you leave around your house, right.
Absolutely, dogs like to pick up anything and everything and feel it and taste it and rolled around their mouth. They're more likely to swallow it because of that. So if it's the right size, be very very careful. You know, all kinds of kids' toys. We had a dog one time that came in it eating a little toy frog, and on the radiographs you could see the frog sitting in the dog's stomach. It was clearly sitting there, you know, so we knew where it was right away. So sometimes
it's identifiable very easily, so be very very careful. On a more serious note, Preston, one thing that dogs will pick up and eat are coins, and a lot of coins will create some jay upset and they can't. Yes, they will create problems. But a penny, you know, pennies nowadays are not copper. They're made out of zinc, and dogs will get a zinc toxicity if they eat a penny,
and that becomes that becomes a life threatening problem. And so be very careful about where you put your coins and what your dog puts in their mouth.
Yeah, and that's not just around for your dog. It's anything that you just you know, leave on a parking lot or a sidewalk or something like that. It can really harm another dog.
Yep.
Absolutely absolutely good.
Stuff, doctor Steverson. Fascinating topic and uh, something that we've got to think about now causes you know what it does, It causes us to have a pause for a thought.
Exactly, very good.
Thank you, doctor Steverson. Okay, thanks doctor Steve Steverson with the Bradfordville Animal Hospital. Twice a month we do Pause for Thought on the Morning Show with Preston Scott to see what we did now we're giving that guy a bonus who came up with that? Oh wait, that was me.
This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Next hour, we're going to talk about the fair tax, any Eddie what it is in many respects. That's how Floord operates without a personal income tax by using a consumption tax.
It's brilliant. It's the best way to fund government because you control your own spending. They can't just take See that's what happens with you and me and what you're going to learn about the fair tax. But I don't want to get sidetracked here. If the government wants more money, it just takes more money. What do you do. You have to get a second job, you have to cut expenses. The government doesn't do that, It just takes. It is immoral,
It is wrong. Joe Biden in twenty twenty three made nearly nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars in what are called improper payments. This is why, and that's from the Government Accountability in Office. That's the GAO two hundred and thirty six billion dollars in improper payments throughout seventy one federal programs. Some of it's fraud. Some of it's misallocation, some of it's sending it to the wrong people, some of it's sending the wrong amount. Maybe it's with a
wink wink and a nod nod. Maybe it isn't. But that's a quarter of a trillion dollars. Friends, how many tax how many people do we have working in this country?
I mean, that's that's money that you and I pay.
That's being just tossed out or burned. That's absurd. Okay, I gotta stop there. Give you a road trip idea. Haven't done this in a couple of weeks on the road again. Here if you're driving to the southwest, and I mean the south southwest, especially now that the border is kind of filed up Bisbee, Arizona, and and inside Bisbee, Arizona, you're gonna see the historic part of lowell Erie Street.
Thanks to a dead kid, a group of volunteers and visitors, you can get a taste of America sixty years ago in this town. Classic storefronts, a hat shop, a Harley Davidson repair shop, a show gas station complete with the original gas pumps, police department, movie theater, hand painted vitage signage, a greyhound bus vehicles that date back to that era. It's off Highway eighty about one hundred miles southeast of Tucson. It's only nine miles from the US Mexican border. It's
something called the Lowell Americana Project. And if you've never seen the pictures of the place, the pictures will say to you, oh, I gotta go. So if you're making a roadie, we once made that trip down down the southern part of the United States, cross in Arizona. It is. It's fascinating, absolutely fascinating. The backstory of Lowell is pretty cool. There's your road trip suggestion. We come back Stephen Hayes FairTax dot Org. He's the chairman of the board, he's
the president, but more importantly he's our guest. This is a possibility of changing our tax system. Find out more in the next hour of The Morning Show. If I passed the hour, it's our number three, The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Good morning friends. I am Preston, He's Hose. It's Thursday, February sixth Show, five thousand, three hundred and eleven.
Whether you're listening to us on Trustrial Radio or iHeart, we thank you in ruminators round, your listening source, whether it's your Alexa, whether it's Siri, whether it is your phone or your smart speaker, which is really smart, if it's listening to this show, or if it's the old school radio, because you're going to learn something. I am thrilled to have with me. Steven Hayes. He is the chairman of the board and the president of FairTax dot Org. Stephen, welcome, how are you.
I am so happy to be with you. Precedent. It's a wonderful day. Thank you.
I am. Let's for the uninitiated. I have been aware of the Fair Tax since I started this program back in two thousand and two. Give everybody an overview of what the fair Tax is.
Well, what we have with the Fair Tax is a national retail sales tax, like a state sales tax, but a national retail sales tax. That tax is new retail goods and services, and it replaces eliminates the income tax both personal and corporate, the estate tax, and the gift tax, and it funds social Security as well, so we no
longer have a payro tax. So the Fair Tax a retail sales tax where you decide what you buy if it's a new good, you pay the tax it replaces and eliminates obviously at that point the irs because it is collected by the states. So it's a method of funding the government that's both fair and it gives us back preston our freedom to decide how much tax we want to pay, not what some Washington bureaucrat says we should pay.
I have I'm sorry, go ahead, go ahead, no no.
Finally, there is a family allowance which allows this year, a family of four to purchase forty four thousand dollars of new goods and services in an annual basis with no fair tax. So we've given people who were paying on that forty four thousand about thirty five hundred dollars of tax, so security tax. We're now giving them their entire paycheck, and they decide how much tax they pay.
That basically rolls into what you refer to on the fair Tax website, which, by the way, friends isfairtax dot org as the annual prebate check explain that because a lot of people think, well, this is just another scam, but now this prebate really levels the playing field.
It really does. And what happens is that every American or a resident legal resident thank you with a valid So security guard is entitled to file with the Social Security each year for this family allowance. Social Security Administration, which is great at sending out money, is then going to send to every person who filed and a check each month to cover their fair tax cost up to
the poverty level. So, as I said, a family of four is going to get a check each month that covers about thirty six hundred dollars a month of spending. So they go to the store, they pay whatever it is they're buying, if it's a new let's say it's groceries, they pay for all of that, and they pay the tax at the store, but they've already received the first
of every month the amount to cover the tax. So it's basically a floor that protects against lower income people being jeopardized by the fair tax.
Because more of their discretionary income goes to the basic necessities. And so by my math, if it's about seventy three hundred for a family of four per year, which makes it about six hundred and ten dollars a month that they would be receiving.
Back, that's that's very close. Your math is right. On and that allows them to do it. But the other part of this is is if they choose to not buy a new car, for example, they're not going to pay the fair tax. So and most people in that financial situation aren't always buying new products. And if they don't buy a new product with some of that forty four thousand, then that extra prebate just becomes extra income to the family.
Joining us on the program is Steve Hayesfairtax dot Org. I want to point out folks as we go to break that covers Bill Gates Elon Musk. Anybody gets the prebate. It's not just it's for everybody, but we know that people that have more affluent funds, are more affluent in their income, are going to buy more stuff. That's just the way it works. More with Steve naxt ten past the hour, I go to take advantage of every moment I have with Stephnhayesfairtax dot Org. He's the president Chairman
of the board. Stephen I have long argued to people that businesses don't pay taxes. People do. Consumers do that When a business a corporation is taxed by the government, because we want them to pay their fair share. They just pass that on as a cost of doing business. Talk to us about that and those embedded taxes that are in the things we buy. What happens under a fair tax system with those taxes.
Well, they go away. Basically what we're looking at here, President, I think it's something that all of your listeners and all of us need to look at. Our first goal is to eliminate the income text, as President Trump has said repeatedly, and get rid of the irs. And the way to do it is very important though, because if you have a business and they have thirty employees, they're paying seven point sixty five percent of their wages to
the federal government and pero taxes. Right, all right, that's just another, as you correctly pointed out, another cost of doing business that gets added into their total cost of operation. And when they sell their product, they have to make a profit to stay in business. I'm like many people in government think, and so they frankly have to raise their price. So all of us, when we buy their goods,
are paying them back for their Social Security tax. That's just one example, and you multiply that by the impact it has on every step of production, and you see that the average product that we buy at the store on Amazon has been increased by somewhere depending on the product, you know, twelve to fifteen percent, as much as twenty five percent because of all of the taxes in there. With a tax not on income, like the fair tax, that can be pulled out and will be through competition.
Not that people are going to want to reduce their profits by keeping that money, but because you're going to have to in a competition, other people are going to force them to bring the price down, and so you're going to find yourself in many cases pain again depending on the product, ten to twenty five percent less for the same product because of the income tax problems.
So whatever a fair tax would be, so whatever a fair tax would be in essence becomes generally speaking a bit of a wash. Those taxes roll away, but you're in control of it at the store, that's right.
Yeah, And there'll be something some people, if you go to a famous surgeon, maybe not going to reduce their price, even though they could probably by twenty five percent or more.
But almost everything else that we buy is going to come down just because it costs less and there's more profit, and you're going to see a huge growth because another problem with the income tax is that is not compatible with our international worlddred and sixty four nations except US have a tax that like a value added tax or a form of it, that is rebated at the border
when the export. So a product that costs a dollar in France comes over here with twenty cents of that dollar paid back to the exporters, so it can compete unfairly against American products. One of the largest reasons why you have so much production overseas is not because the
cost of labor is less. The infrastructures are usually worse, so it costs more to produce, but they get that extra twenty to twenty five percent credit when the expot That's why you have US companies producing things overseas to bring back here because it's cheaper.
Steve standby, we got to take a quick break. We got more time to come Steve Hayes with us. FairTax dot Org is the site to learn more. More to come here in the Morning Show with present Scott the final segment with Stephen Hayes. He is chair of the board of directors. He is the president FairTax dot Org. My guest for a few more minutes, Stephen, would it be fair to say that Florida is, in essence a small example of how a fair tax works.
It is totally fair and very accurate because what you have is a state that funds itself off lots of sources, but primarily through a state sales tax, and it basically shows that you do not need an income tax. And that's why there are twenty four states that have announced that they're going to work to get rid of the income tax. The reason is not because the politicians want it.
They love income taxes, but the reason is that they have to be competitive with other states, and they're getting their head handed to them by states who do not have an income tax, like Florida, like Texas, like Tennessee is boning when they eliminated their income tax. So the signal is out there. You've got all of these states announcing that by such and such a year, they're going to be a no income tax state. It's very obvious to people that think about it, and it should be
obvious to people in DC. But there's lots of reasons. It isn't that they don't want this.
You know, one of the things that we talked about in the break Stephen, is the fact that we have We've got a lot of people that visit Florida. It's a tourism state, and those people that visit are helping fund all of the infrastructure improvements, everything that needs to get done in government and otherwise by visiting here. And the same rule would hold true with the fair tax. People visiting this country from abroad, those that are even here illegally would be paying taxes.
Well, they would be paying taxes. And the people that are here illegally and the people who are doing illicit activities like drug dealing and other types of crime who don't report income obviously are going to pay taxes. But even more so, it's actually going to be an inhibition on immigrants coming here because they're not going to be eligible to receive the family allowance, So they're going to be paying the full amount of the fair tax, not cushion like if they were a legal resident. So it's
going to cost them more to be here. It's going to be i think a disincentive for a lot of those people to come over here. So combine that with the fact that you're picking up taxes from people like the wealthy who generally we saw those lead tax returns. They don't pay tax, but boy, they make big purchases, They're suddenly going to be paying taxes on what they buy.
And we're going to see a change in all of our economy and our freedom is going to go off the charts because we're now back in charge.
Steve A'swithfairtax dot Org. Steven, let me ask you this. One of the arguments is, well, let's just do a flat tax. Why not just go.
That route because it will stay flat for maybe two hours before things come in, just like before our original income tax in nineteen thirteen was a flat tax. And basically now we're going to have well, we need to do this, we need to do that, So you're going to have all of these amendments come in. It may take a couple of years, but it'll be so to
resemble what the mess we have now very shortly. So it's just not sensible and logical to think that people who love the control and income it gives them of the income tax itself, are going to not go back to that same thing and take all of the money from special interest to put this benefit in or that benefit in, that all goes away with the sales tax.
The fair tax is very open. Everybody sees the amount of tax the government's taking from them, and you're going to have people very upset, even more than they're upset about some of the money that's being paid to foreign governments or foreign countries, because they see how much it affects them. On a napkin, they can see what the Defense Department costs them a year in terms of the percentage of the fair tax. You can't do that now. It's all hidden from us, so it becomes very obvious.
And that fact that it's hidden is one of the things that terrifies Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill. They don't want people to realize all of the taxes, their pain, and the cost to them from having jobs moved overseas. All of that goes away with the fair tax.
In closing, what are we looking at to get this across the finish line? Trump has announced his intent to at least consider options. But as you say, the lawmakers are going to pose this on both sides of the aisle. What would you advise our listeners to do to help this effort?
I think what should happen with all of us is that we should focus on calling up our members of Congress and saying, are you in favor of elimination of the income tax and the irs? Let's get that over the line. Let's put them on a spot where they have to say yes or no. They can't say well the fair tax or the VAT or no, no, no no. First question, do you favor eliminating the income tax and the irs? And if not, why not? Because we do?
And just demand that over whether they're liberal conservative, who cares demand that? And once we get to the point where people see they've got to do something to get rid of the income tax, that's when we then shift to focusing on the alternative. We thank the fair Tax for all those reasons we've discussed, is the best alternative, and that's what we need to do. I think it's two steps, get rid of the income tax, the irs and then put in the fair tax.
Steven, thanks for your time this morning. I appreciate all that you're doing. Let us know how we can help Preston.
You're helping a lot. Thank you so much.
Thank you, Sir Stephen Hayes with us again, Chairman of the Board and President FairTax dot Org. It's the Morning Show with President Scott. Let me pull together some ingredients from this program and make a meal. We talked about the waist, the millions and millions and millions and billions and probably now trillions of dollars that have been just urinated away, thrown out, the car, flaming on fire by government that has zero control. It's like putting a box
of chocolate in front of me. I cannot just eat one. I can't one potato chip. I dairre you. And that's our government. And as long as they have a lever to take money from you and I, they will. We got a call during the segment with Steven Hayes from Fair Tax to or from someone saying it's a pipe dream. No sir, the pipe dream is staying in this state, not meaning Florida, but in this condition where we continue to turn over the money we earn to a government
that doesn't care how much they take. If you live in Florida, you are living in a tax state, done with a consumption tax.
This isn't hard.
This is about will, the will of people to say enough. I feel like Colin Stephen back and saying, man put me on shows for you. I'll be your spokesman. I'll do this, I'll kill it for you every step of the way. And they've refined their arguments. Look at again. I made this argument with Stephen, but I'm gonna make it crystal clear. There are things we're not being taxed for because people that visit our state from other states
and from around the world are paying those taxes. Our level of taxation can remain lower because others are here contributing. The same thing would happen across the country. Imagine no income tax at all, no payroll tax. The cost of you if you own a business, you can now restructure your pricing by lowering it at the very at the minimum of whatever your labor costs are going to be lowered, which is roughly seven what seven point two percent something
like that. You're you're going to lower your costs in labor right there. Whatever you buy to produce, whatever you produce, you'll be paying taxes on that. But those taxes you don't have to add taxes to anything because you won't be paying taxes other than what you consume. All of the embedded taxation can be lifted, and if it's not as Steven points out competition because someone out there is gonna make that widget and they're gonna say, you know,
let's lift the taxes out of this. People are gonna pay the tax when they buy it. It's not a cost we have to worry about anymore. We buy it on the front end. We don't have to embed it the same way. It's different. It's it's in essence a wash. Yes, they pay taxes as they purchase something, but now they don't have to add it to when they sell it,
so it's a wash. Anyway. If you think it's a pipe dream, I can only tell you you're stuck in a nightmare and you're under the impression that you have you just have to you just have to give the government whatever they say, the government of the people, for the people, by the people, here to people. Forty one past the hour, the FCC is taking on. George sorows. Yeah, this is like happy, happy, joyful, joyful news to me.
FCC now looking. George Soros has acquired a stake of more than two hundred Odyssey radio stations across the country. Soros and a group of others, but he's backed it. Among those stations, KCBS and San Francisco. Now that's interesting to me. But the FCC is looking into revelations that KCBS seven forty am revealed live locations of undercover ICE vehicles and agents conducting deportation operations in San Jose. They tipped off the illegals. They've sent a formal letter of
inquiry to the radio station. FCC's do an investigation Enforcement Bureau proceeding. The station, which is licensed to operate by the FCC, is violating terms of their license, which requires that they operate in the public interest. They're going to argue that they were. The letter notes that ICE agents were operating at a time in an area known for violent gang activity. We have a new sheriff in charge of the FCC, Brendan Carr. He said, We're going to
hold broadcasters accountable for complying with their public interest obligations. Friends, this is just the beginning of what George Soros is going to do, and this is why his purchase of these stations is being investigated now, same topic, longstanding burr in my saddle. They are doing an inquiry on whether NPR and PBS violated government regulations with its use of sponsors.
See I've long complained, and a lot of US for profit companies have long complained that these public broadcasting outlets are using taxpayer funding to work against us, that they do have in fact de facto advertising. And so what they're looking at is in a letter written to NPR and PBS, whether they violated regulations by airing information about financial sponsors, which car claimed would be considered quote announcements
that cross the line into prohibited commercial advertisements. To the extent that these taxpayer dollars are being used to support a for profit endeavor or an entity that is airing commercial advertisements, that would further undermine any case for continuing the fund NPR and PBS with taxpayer dollars. See I think that, for example, that the local affiliates of PBS NPR should not be included in radio or television ratings. Have no business being there. It's an unfair playing field,
and they're using tax dollars. Those tax dollars go away. I wonder how much how much the private sector would stroke checks to keep them afloat. But see they are, they're they're they're helping float that boat. But are they getting ads in return? They're not supposed to But if they in fact are hello elon forty seven minutes past the hour we come back. Something lost has been found. This is so cool, you've probably never heard of it.
The Heart of Lincoln nineteen fifteen silent film about Abraham Lincoln. It was directed by Francis Ford, who also starred in the movie. Ford's younger brother, John Ford, went on to win four Academy Awards for Best Director for the nineteen thirty nine film Young Mister Lincoln, which starred Henry Fonda
as Abraham Lincoln. It was lost to history. It's one of seven thousand movies silent films that archives say gone until Dan Martin, an in turn at Historic Films Archive in Greenport, New York, was sorting through boxes of donations at the warehouse. He found the only known copy of the movie in pristine condition. So the film has been cleaned and digitized by an archivist, and now the only known surviving copy of the Heart of Lincoln is safe
and has been preserved. That's almost biblical. What was lost has now been found. We were blind to that movie, but now we can see or something like that.
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It's the Morning Show one on WFLA. Now, seriously, how cool is that? Right? Love stories like that? I really do fascinating. Could you imagine kids just rummaging through? He gave an interview and he said, when you I mean I want to be an archivist? He said, to have been interning and to be rummaging through and make a find like this. He said, this is a dream. You imagine he's looking and he's like, what's this? Gets the film out, holds it up against the light. WHOA, whoa,
what is it? Hold on here? Now? Crazy? You just never know what you're gonna find where I'm going up in my attic this morning. Today we started with Romans one, verses eighteen through twenty. Had a little talk about that today's show, I can summarize it. Great visit with Steve Stewart. Great visit in our Pause for Thoughts segment on things that dogs and some cats swallow. Learn from that people that own dogs and cats keep stuff away that they can swallow, because they will and it will cost you
lots of money. We talked about wasteful government spending. If you don't give them as much money to spend, they can't waste it. On stupid stuff, right, I mean, isn't that how your budget works. If you don't have much money, you don't buy the stupid stuff. You got to buy the necessities. So one of the ways to do that is to invoke a fair tax. This is what you live off of, good luck, that's what you do. So we talked about the fair tax. Learn more at FairTax
dot org. And then call your member of Congress and say time to put an end to the irs, and time to put an end to the income tax. Talk to you tomorrow.