Well, let's go ahead and get started. Children. Great to be with you this morning on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. I'm Preston. He is Jose and Happy Thursday. We're almost at the end of February. You know what this means, right, We're almost at the start of March, and before you know it, it's Christmas shopping season and I'll be taking my decorations out and decorating my house.
Oh my, Let's start with scripture Revelation four to eleven, says Worthy, Are you our Lord and God to receive glory and honor and power, For you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created. Let's take a second and reflect on that. All of my life, I have had an incredible appreciation for God's creation. I have been in awe at a rose. My mom used to have a rose garden, and as a result, we have one at our home because it's just it makes
me think of my mom. And the roses we have are intentionally selected to be fragrant. They are spectacular. You can sit in a chair in our backyard and smell the roses from twenty feet away and you just stare inside a rose and you just go, how is that an accident? How is it that the birds in my yard are just and they're so different, similar but different. The colorations are so precise on many of them. How does a blue jay look like that? How does a
cardinal look like that? How is it that an oriole looks the way that an oriole looks, or that a bald eagle looks the way that a ball? How is it that animals look the way that do? How is it that grass is just that, it's just beautiful? And then you look at people and how unique everybody is. Worthy are you our Lord and God to receive glory and honor and power, For you created all things, and by your will they existed and we're created. Friends. You
were born because God willed it. So yeah, but you don't understand the circumstances. God does. And God said that I'm the author of life. This is a word of encouragement for anyone who looks at their past and says I was an accident or I shouldn't have been or whatever. No, no, no, no, God uses people to accomplish his purpose. You were created by God and you have a purpose. And if you ever question that, just take a just take ten minutes
and read Psalm one thirty nine. Just get a dose of what God thinks of you, because it's pretty awesome, it really is. Today's program will be busy as it tends to be. On Thursday, doctor ed More will join us. We're going to talk about presidents in history, but not the winners, the also rans who lost presidential elections along the way. Whatever happened to them. Doctor David Harts joins us, Steve Stewart joins us, and I've even had stories added to the show this morning to stay with us. It's
gonna be great. It's The Morning Show with Preston.
Scottfla twenty seventh of February.
I've got a look. Does my American Patriots Almanac have a twenty ninth of February for those leap years? No, it doesn't. That would be kind of a fun little segment of history. What's happened on leap year when there's a twenty ninth of February. See, that's like perfect to do something that would be commemorated every now and then. What is it? Is it every four years we get a February twenty ninth? Is that the way it works. To be honest with you, it's a mystery to me, sir.
I think it's every four years. I could be wrong, but like, if you didn't want to celebrate something every year, but just every now and then, that's like the perfect day. We need to make it up. We need to make a point of coming up with something for February twenty ninth the next time there's a February twenty ninth. I don't know what it'll be, but we need to come up with something. It can't be something like ridiculously, because you'd want to do that every year, right, it has
to be something somewhat frivolous. I'm just saying I don't. I'm not. We'll think about that. We'll talk about that at some point. That would be a fun segment. What could we do? What can we celebrate February twenty ninth? Whenever it comes around, someone's gonna tell Jose right now. We got to call how often February twenty ninth rolls around? Someone's going to tell him right now? It's the twenty
seventh though. Today. In eighteen twenty seven, revelers dance through the streets of New Orleans, mark in the beginning of the city's Marti Grass celebration. Mobile, though is the first to celebrate Marty Grass seventeen oh three, Just Saying eighteen sixty, New York City Abraham Lincoln gives his Copper Union speech, which helps him gain national recognition as an opponent of the spread of slavery. Republican nineteen fifty one. The twenty
second Amendment limiting presidents to two terms is ratified. In nineteen ninety one, George H. W. Bush, President announces the end of the Persian Gulf War against Iraq Saddam Hussein. The problem is that he did not He did not let us finish the job, and it led to problems later. But anything rate there you go. Today is National Small Dog Day, Pokemon Day. It's Pokemon Day, National Retro Day, very cool, National Toast Day. You know what that toast
is underrated? Just a piece of toast with a little butter on it. And then you go from there. If you want to do a little little grape jelly or you know some preserves you want to do, just have butter on toast. Toasted bread is it's I can't explain. There are some sandwiches that the bread needs to be toasted. There are other sandwiches the bread does not need to be toasted. In fact, it kind of takes away from the sandwich a little bit. But toasted bread is thank you.
Today is National toast Day. Did someone tell you about leap here? Is that why the call came in?
Yes, he was just explaining, you know, it's every four years, and then it skipped every four hundred years, and then his anniversary with his first date with his wife is on the twenty ninth, so.
He's only had like a quarter of them that he actually has years in the thing. Yeah, yeah, okay, so it is every four years, yes, sir, all right, so we need to know when the next twenty ninth is, And I think that was Craig who called in. Craig, feel free to call back and tell us when the next one is and we'll come up with something other than Craig's anniversary of his first date with his wife. That. I mean, God, bless you Craig for you all having that.
But and you surely have got to be celebrating that in your own fun way. I mean, that's got to be hilarious. Every four years. I mean, if it's a thing where you do a gift because it's the anniversary of your first date. Man, you are cruising because you only have to buy something every four years. You only get a car and every four years. That's awesome. If I mean anyway, we will revisit that absolutely. Sixteen past the hour, I'm gonna share something from the Jerusalem Post.
You must here. Actor Gene Hackman died yesterday. He and his wife and their dog died of carbon monoxide poisoning in their home in New Mexico. They were found dead. I don't know it, just that seems so peculiar. Now, no foul plays expected, but I'm not going to rule out something else. His wife was significantly younger, about thirty years younger. Hackman was ninety five. I believe. What a
brilliant actor. Oh my goodness. I can't think of many movies he's been in that I don't think are just spectacular. In fact, he was a lead in the movie that led to our guest last Thursday, Jerry Mitchell, the guy who wrote the book Race Against Time, and he talked about going to see the movie Mississippi Burning. That was Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe. I mean he was just iconic in so many roles Crimson Tide. He was hilarious in the original Superman movie with Christopher Reeve as a
Lex Luthor. Lex Luthor. I said it the way his henchman said, mister luthaw anyway, brilliant actor ninety five, though, had a good run. I just wonder was it just an accidental thing or did they just decide. I don't know. His wife was a brilliant concert pianist. And again, I mean she's in her sixties. I don't know why she would be part of if they were, you know, because that happens. Sometimes couples just decide they want to end their lives together, and I personally, I couldn't do that.
I think that's sad. God wills those types of things. And speaking of let me read this headline from the Jerusalem Post. Now, this is an opinion piece. God changes AM to PM. Terrorists can't account for divine intervention. Here's the subpl headline. What they didn't plan on was the factor of divine intervention that was at play, providing that the God of Gideon is still the same God who
continues to intervene on our behalf today. Now This piece is written by an editorialist, and she writes in the very beginning the words in the headline are not mine, but of Amjad Taha, a United Arab Emirates journalist and political strategist, who was commenting on the failed terrorist plan to cause massive casualties on five Israeli buses on February twentieth in Batyam and Holand south of Tel Aviv, after timers were apparently set to detonate them at nine or
ten at night instead of twelve hours later in the morning. Bombs exploded and destroyed three of the empty buses and were found and diffused on two others. Taha posted on Twitter, when God chooses to protect you, he bends time itself, turning AM to PM. Was it divine intervention or sheer
blinding them? Palestinian Islamis terrorists from the West Bank sought to bomb for set the bomb for PM instead of AM, an attack meant to slaughter Israeli women and children during morning rush hour, only to detonate it in an empty parking lot. A mistake or a miracle? The observation is astounding. Listen to this, but not as much as when twenty fourteen. Even Hamas acknowledge quoting their God changes the paths of our rockets in mid air, when people in other countries
and even terrorists stayed the obvious. It makes you wonder why these terrorists continue to play in their next moves to eliminate the Jewish state after seeing miracle upon miracle by a god who is obviously fighting for us, thereby choosing a side. Yeah, well, such events may seem like modern day phenomenon, things like this have happened thousands of years ago. One such story and they go into the Book of Judges centering on Gideon and the fight against
Midian and the Ammelic ammal Lekites. I've always struggled saying that as often as I've read that, I always anyway, what an interesting perspective. Remember we talked about that story briefly, the bombing and it's like empty buses. What's that about. It reminds me of a scene from Monty Python and the I want to say it was the Holy Grail.
It could be where they had the Trojan rabbit, where they they pushed the wooden rabbit up to the gates of the of the fenced in the walled in castle and they're out in the woods laughing because oh it's working, it's working. They're pinging in the Trojan rabbit and they go in and they're pulling it in and they close the door behind him, and then they're looking at each other and go, uh oh, we forgot to get in.
It's just like did you guys? Or did god? Twenty seven minutes after the hour Big Stories in the press boxer. Next here on the Morning Show with President Scott 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 get to the big stories this morning. Allegedly. Now the story, of course, is written to make you
think that this is some massive movement. It's not. Consumers are planning a one day economic blackout on February twenty eighth. Here's what to know. And this, of course from Gannett, which is just some consumers, is what I would have written. But it's consumers are preparing a twenty four hour economic blackout. It's one of several boycotts planned by a group of consumers or activists to protest what they call corporate greed.
Companies that have rolled back their diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and President Donald Trump's efforts to eliminate federal DEI program since taking office. So immediately, here's what my mind says, Let's go shopping tomorrow. No, seriously, this is what you do. For example, they're targeting Target, and of course Target is one of several companies rolling back some of the DEI stuff. I'm all in favor of heading to Target and buying
some stuff. In fact, Amazon will be targeted, and then Nesley will be targeted, and Walmart will be targeted, and so tomorrow is some kind of you know, let's start this type thing focusing on boycotting Target. I guess, and that boycott started like February first, because some black pastor and somewhere is upset about something. I don't care the faith community planning a forty day faster boycott of Target due to its retreat from DEI efforts. What faith community
is that? Because DEI is bigoted and racist. Anyway, Let's just let's just know this first. There are a couple things you can do. One, you can go shopping. Just make sure you do some shopping tomorrow and go to the bigger stores that are targeted, or we can just do what we do, whether it's shopping day or not, and see how insignificant this boycott is. See. My contention is that the people that believe this crap are so
small in number it's irrelevant. And that's why businesses shouldn't That's why bud Light should never have gone with Dylan Mulvaaney. Don't cater to that absurd, minuscule crowd of people that are mentally ill and believe in transgenderism. It is a minuscule number. Now, those people are important in the eyes of God, but from an economic perspective, they're not. They are not remotely important. Second big story Jeff Bezos, owner
of the Washington Post. He's the founder of Amazon. I'm writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages. We're going to be writing every day and support and defense of two pillars, personal liberties and free markets. Will cover other topics, of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others. I am of America and four America and proud to be so. Our country did not get here by being typical and a big part of America because success has
been freedom and the economic realm and everywhere else. Freedom is ethical. It minimizes coercion and practical, it drives creativity, invention, and prosperity. Resignations are taking place at the Washington Post over this. What's ironic is posts by some are massive encroachment. By Jeff Bezos, I guess it's clear that descending views
will not be published or tolerated. Oh, the irony of those words coming from someone that has been part of the media's censoring of opposing views and descending thought for Oh, I don't know a couple of decades. I love it. Forty past the hour talk for a second year about the spending bill. Thanks for listening. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All Right, the spending bill that got passed has got flaws in it. There's no doubt about it.
Now they're spending that has to happen, right, I mean national defense. But there's so many things that don't need to be in a government budget. But I told you this was going to be a difficult process to weed through all this. But here is the flaw in Trump's planning so far. The budget forecasts a two point eight trillion dollar deficit and it remains consistent for the next decade. If you follow this budget out, that's not acceptable. It just isn't. We cannot and this is not about perfect
being the enemy of good. We cannot spend more than we take in. That's the problem with this budget. I'm just keeping it real, friends, this is not acceptable. But they passed a budget and we're two trillion dollars in the hole in this budget times ten. That's twenty trillion more in deficit spending over ten years. That's not going to get it done. I understand it would be infinitely worse under Democrats. I don't care. It's not good enough.
I want to see at the very least zero I would rather see a surplus that starts paying the debt down. Our debt payments are going to eclipse our ability to pay now inside the budget, it's worth remembering. I listened to an outstanding interview with Brian Kilmead and Mark Rubio. I would love to say that we're going to have a shot at getting the Secretary of State on the show, because we've been friends since two thousand and two, since
I started this show. But I'm not holding out hope for that I'm going to hope for the best, but we'll see. If I were to get him once a year, I'd be thrilled. I'd be thrilled. Keep in mind, Rubio has passed unanimously. He got every vote. House Democrats and or Senate Democrats and Republicans say yeah, he's a good choice. Sweet. He made a great point though, he said, we have to deal with a few things in our national defense. One is that China is building ten ships for everyone.
We build China's to a certain extent, prepared to park a bunch of nuke's subs off our coasts and lose everybody on those crews. They don't care. Now, it's the calculations a little different because they don't want to damage infrastructure of this nation. And their population has gotten so fragile because they got so many old people, and remember that policy of limiting children, So they've got a real population problem in China. But anyway, we'll talk with the
cat Camick about this hopefully next week. Forty six passed the hour more to come in some sounds, you must hear WFLA. It's not inappropriate for Pam Bondi and Cash Ptel to look into wrongful prosecutions. And I want you to listen to what General Mike Flynn had to say. Flynn, you may remember, was framed. He believes he was pushed into, in essence, a plea deal wrongly because he was painted into a corner and had nothing else to do by Obama,
by Clinton, by Biden, and by James Comy. Comy tried to come off as oh, he's he's just looking out for America type thing. Listen to what this is a retired general. It's Benny Johnson's show, and this is Mike Flynn and what he had to say.
We got whistleblowers coming out of the woodwork, and we're funneling it into the right governmental offices to do the right things. And let me tell you, these people are busted. And so for Jim Comey, that's what I said earlier. Jim, if you get if you get this message, start thinking about what you're gonna what you're gonna give up, because you're gonna give up some of your freedom, because you're you're gonna go to jail. You you must go to
jail because of what you did. But maybe they'll cut you a little bit of a deal and they'll put you in a you know, in a in a in a softer in a softer prison for a shorter period of time because you you're able to you know, to give up some some uh some evidence on some of these other people who are even more deeper than you involved in this. Because Jim, you know exactly who I'm talking about.
Okay, Jim, if you get this message, get ready, you're going to jail unless you give up someone bigger and deeper in this than even you and Jim, you know exactly who I'm talking about. This is a guy who, prior to all of this unfair, unlawful prosecution, had impeccable reputation. There are some nervous people. We got to get the truth out about Epstein. Let the chips fall where they may. Whoever needs to pay the price pay it. This is how you restore trust. You clean it up. You clean
the closet. You don't hide it, you clean it, pull everything out and you clean it. That's what you have to do. And this is just the start. It's going to be interesting to see their books written about the
framing of General Flint that detail everything that happened. By the way they're now learning why they can't just start the Keystone EXL pipeline because the company TC Energy that was contracted to do it when and by the way, they're still trying to get fifteen billion dollars owed to them because the US government, through Joe Biden, canceled the contract a contract. They spun off their pipeline business to south Bow Energy, and so Keystone said, or the company
TC Energy said, sorry, we're out of that business. We can't do it. So Trump's out there trying to find somebody to take the project on. Now it will be fought tooth and nail, but it would have brought in billions in revenue and thousands of jobs. But anyway, just an update. It's not as simple as now up in your fingers, because again I told you this is going to be difficult. All right, we come back. Steve Stewart joins me from TALLASI Reports. Get a look what's going
on here in the local community of Florida's capital. All right, let's roll into the second hour here Thursday, Busy Day on the Morning Show with Preston Scott Februe of the twenty seventh He's OSEI, I'm Preston and this is the executive editor of Tallassi Reports. Or wait wait, wait, wait wait, I actually should say he's the father of the twenty twenty four Miss Volleyball for the state of Florida, and that's Kate Stewart. I appreciate that, right, Yeah, congratulations to
your daughter. It was the Florida Dairy Farmers.
They did it upright, and so they had the big blow up cow and the milk toast and so the coach also won the five A class thing, but Kate was won the Miss Florida Volleyball. Say, anyway, he has been good time.
She's worked hard, and it's nice to see hard work rewarded.
You know, they do this for a a lot of different sports, and it's great to see somebody that's still recognizing high school athletes.
Yes that I mean, it's it's important.
It's an important part of the life for these students who put their time into this and there's a lot of people that do that.
Let's let's use that as our segue and stay with schools and students and the latest with the county.
Yeah, so they Lynn County School Board had an interview in a meeting this week and some of the notable things that came out of this first rezoning.
They went ahead and improved the rezoning.
That is affects Riley Elementary, which was at capacity. It's going to affect two hundred and six students. They're going to move them to other elementary schools.
Does that solved the vacancy issues in these other schools? Just two hundred students spread around a few schools. I think it buys them some time. There was talk a year ago about possibly closing. Well, there was never any talk. Alvi Smith brought the fact.
Up to look, this doesn't look very efficient, so this will make it look a little bit more efficient. We'll see how you know, the parents accept this rezoning is always difficult from a.
Transportation stamp, sure it is, you know. So that was that was voted.
There was also an issue on the new football coach at Leon High School, who is Ricky Bell, who we both know he is going to go in He's going to volunteer. However, his son is the ad at Leon High School, and so Superintendent Hannah apologized to the school board for not being not doing this sooner, but they were going to waive the methotism policy so that he could coach the football team. This doesn't involve money, it doesn't. I mean, he would volunteer to do this.
And it's not about him being he's competent to do the job.
No, they can't find anyone. And this is and this is one of the and this is the reason why I want to talk about this. First of all, I think, I think kudos to mister Bell for stepping up, because this is what he's doing, is stepping up where there is an issue.
He loves Leon High School. He's been involved in the community. His son quarterback there, right, and he cares. And I mean I like Ricky very much on a personal level. But if I set that aside, the fact of the matter is he has he has stepped in where they didn't have anybody willing to do it.
No, exactly, And so I think again, so they have They've been transparent about this. Yeah, there is an nepotism issue. We're waiving a policy and this is why. And I think that is a bigger issue. You know, with public schools, not only in Leon County but everywhere, is trying to find coaches that want to put the time in to work with kids, and it is it's it's becoming more and more of a problem. And it's a reason why kids would leave public schools. They would go to other
schools because of sports programs somewhere else. And I think it needs to be addressed here. They're addressing it, you know, with a volunteer and and but it is it's a it's a big issue.
Another thing. Go ahead, well you you your daughter just played played sports, right, Okay, what's the solution to this? Are they going to have? Are high schools going to have to be forced to take a model similar to what colleges are and in essence find ways to fund a coach.
There's no doubt about it. I mean, listen, when we were in high school, it was the you know, the social studies teacher was the volleyball coach. Well that's sort of what we have at Child's in volleyball. But there's not other teachers stepping up.
Is it the money? Is it the time? Is it the bureaucracy? I think it is. I think it's all those. I mean, if you look at it, the money, it's not worth the money now that they're paying.
It's more of a stipend, right, And so you get somebody from the outside. If you don't have somebody on campus that has qualified the stipends, not enough, not at all.
No, and so it is. It is a real thing.
The thing the problem I have is that you hear all these commercials about the importance of extracurricular activities and in the life of kids, and we don't spend any money on it.
I mean, so you're talking to somebody and you're probably in the same boat. When I was in school, Steve, I didn't have to go do fundraisers. I didn't have to. I mean, we had tennis, shoes, uniforms, warm ups, we had travel, everything was paid for. The parents just threw the party at the end of the year.
Well that's not the way, that's not the way it is now. And then the last thing is there this again sports. There's a major fight during a middle school basketball game between Cobbs and Them's. Five kids have been suspended and a coach has been I think terminated from what from what was reported. So anyway, that's the Leona County School update.
Ten passed the hour more. Steve Stewart next on The Morning Show with Preston Scott. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott Steve Stewart with us from Tall Lastie Reports. Remember, subscribe, get the paper, you can get it delivered and support independent journalism. You've got some crime numbers up on the website right now. Yeah.
One of the things that we that we do Tiles Reports, that I'm proud of and it's original reporting, is looking at the crime numbers. We take the TPD incident reports that are filed every morning, put them in a spreadsheet and let you know where the trends are going. The process or the procedure that we do last year showed you know, fifteen percent decline in violent crime and that was consistent with what TPD reported at the end of the year. So what we're doing, I think you know,
is shows the trends and where we're headed. The numbers that came in for January, I had to really.
I did the same thing you did. I wanted to look at them twice. I had to do a.
Double take, and I actually had to call and make sure the numbers were correct. You know that we were getting because I went back through them. Major dropping crime in January when you compare it to last January, forty percent drop in total incidents violent crimes down thirty percent, property crime, auto theft, auto burglary, residential robbery, residential burglary,
not robbery down forty nine percent. And it's just the numbers are shocking to see because what we were and we also add a paragraph in there about fatal shooting because those are the ones that dominate the news, of course, makes you.
It gives you this idea.
When you see two or three shootings in a month, that wow, crime is out of hand, And if you look at the nuts and bolts of crime, you can see that they're clearly not. But even on the shootings, the fatal shooting side, last year at this time we had about we had eight fatal shootings. Okay, now we are at about three or four, so that is even consistent.
With sort of what we're reporting.
And you know, again trying to understand why, because you're coming off of a year where it was already down, so it's even down more. I'm convinced the real time crime center has been the tax increase that was passed, the money that went towards hiring more officers and more officers on the street, and there's more money in the real time crime center and the way this is working is there are so many more cameras and license plate
readers out in the community that people don't see. But I think it is starting to have a deturn effect because what's happening is people that perpetrate crimes are being caught so quickly. And I want to give you a quick example. Last week, there was an auto theft. Someone pulled up to a gas station, left the car running to go in and pay, came out, their car was gone.
Okay, they call.
The police Department. TPD shows up, gets the tag number, they send it to the Real Time Crime Center, who puts it.
Into their computer.
And what that does is the license plate readers around town are looking for this tag and within a half hour they had a hit on where this car is. And this whole event took four hours and it's over. They get you know, they capture the person's sold the car. So when that gets out in the community and people see that that's happening, that is a deturn effect.
Well, and not just that you're not tying up investigators trying to track that thing down for however many days, weeks or months that's done.
That could have normally taken weeks to find out where that car is and.
It is done.
And so again I'm ex you know, twenty years ago and I've probably been against all these cameras out, you know, but now I guess I'm older. And you see people the way they drive. I mean, we've got the speed detection that's going to be online here soon. You see the way people drive and the way they just don't even want to follow basic rules. Something's got to be done.
And I think that that now it was sort of this approach and this real time crime center is being used in other cities, but this is this is powerful stuff.
I have a suspicion, Steve though, that if you really go back and dig into a bigger picture view of this, that the city underfunded. We talked about it police for years under Anita Favors Thompson, and as that started to change, we started to get a better hand along crime. Yeah, funding matters, it does.
And I think again, more police officers I do not want to, you know, minimize that are on the street, and they're still hiring more. So I think this is hopefully this trend will continue because it's a great story.
Joining us. Steve Stewart from Tallassee Reports. More to come on the Morning.
Show twenty one minutes past the hour.
Here on the Morning Show, Steve Stewart is my guest. He is the executive editor of Tallahassee Reports. And one of the stories that you've got that has prominently been featured is Jeremy Mattlow is kicking around the idea of running from mayor. Huh.
You know, I don't like writing stories about this this early, but my phone started blowing up, you know, last week, and I made some phone calls and I got comfortable with what was going on, you know, to report this, and you know, and it's it's distressing on a couple of different levels. I mean, we're not even a month and a half away from Jeremy Matlow closing down this pack that took California money and attacked people personally, and you know, and I knew something weird was up when
he tried to name this building after Curtis Richardson. Sort of the awkward approach of trying to, you know, rehabilitate so quickly. Sometimes there has to be there has to be time cooling off period and maybe some actions without looking to be you know, but it's just it's almost like he doesn't know how to do this and he's been told to do this, and so then we get word that he's going around, you know, saying listen, we
don't want to fight anymore. You know, when I told you you were corrupt, I didn't really mean that, you know.
Can we make your words not his? But but no, let's document that he has routinely attacked local business and has made that very clear by his unwillingness to attend conferences and so forth of local business.
Leading the whole progressive movement is they will go to they'll go to left wing conferences, but they won't go to conferences that are addressing issues with Tallahassee. And the rhetoric is just so far away from the action.
What is reality? You know? And and and we're not and you don't even.
Talk about the law enforcement angle here where you know, he pushed us planning evidence fake.
News for a year, which is.
You know, which was detrimental to everybody that wears the uniform. And so all of a sudden now instead of just saying, look, we lost the election, we need to buckle.
Down and figure out how we can do some things right for Taalosi.
Or maybe I was wrong about things, right, and so he just pivots right to you know, wanting to run for mayor and so anyway, I think it's important that people know this was a story that if you you know, if you look at the social media engagement people are interested in. I mean over one hundred and ten comments on the on one social media platform, not you know, again, not promoted financially, it's just organic people wanting to comment
on this. So I think it's it's important that we keep an eye on what he's doing because he has an impact on our community.
I mean, it's uh, business leaders need to remember that he has been among two voices that have been anti local business development.
Yeah, and not only that, but you look at just the tone. I mean every time something there's an issue, if you look at the airport issue that we've had with a couple of carriers leaving, you know, the progressive movie comes up and just trashes the city for this. Now, look, there's problems, but what happens is this gets out. I mean, look, there are conferences where people go and cities talk and hey,
you know what's going on. So you got to like to leader trashing your community on law enforcement, economic development, you know, and so it's not healthy. The point is, and look, I'm the first one to say this, you can have policy disagreements.
And you can have very.
Stern policy disagreements. We've seen this, We've seen people do this. But this type of approach, I think it has been voted down a couple of times. But the pivot to try to just get right back in the political side of this, I think is is bad and I think it's it's bad for the community.
Now.
Having said that, the reason this is happening is because Mayor John Day is not publicly confirmed what his intentions are in terms of running, and so when you leave this vacuum, you start getting this leads to people getting distracted from doing the day to day business of governing and saying, oh, wait a minute. You know, Mayor Daily's not sure. You know, we haven't really heard what he's going to do. The rumors are he might not run.
So you get half the county Commission interested in running for mayor, you know, and then you get these political parlor games going around instead of focusing on the nuts of bolts of what's going on. And I think, you know, that is probably the most distressing part about it is you get through this election cycle when you think, all right, here we go.
And so anyway, that's where we are on this.
It'll be interesting to see what happens and how the business community and others react, because listen, we heard last year there were people that when Jeremy Mattlow and Jack Porter entered the public sphere, they were viewed as people who were going to be transparent, they were had independent thinkers, and it turns out that that's not who they were.
There are people that donated.
Big money to them and now have completely said, look, this is not what we're looking for.
Which is why he had to get outside money to fund his pack exactly. And I mean they're more interested in promoting an ideology than promoting what's right for our community. And again I say this, we can have disagreements, but the rhetoric, the rhetoric about infrastructure development, developers, law enforcement is just it's been over the top. And I thought it was going to be done for a while and we'll see, maybe this won't get traction. Well it's not
been productive. Yes, that's a good way of putting it, all right, Steve, Thanks, thanks, all right, twenty seven past the Hour Steve with me from Tellassi Reports again. Subscribe. Just go to Tellassireports dot com sign up and support the work of investigative independent investigative journalism. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
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Oscar winning actor Gene Hackman found dead with his wife and their dog. Carbon monoxide poisoning is the suggested cause of death. Don't know how or why, there's just not a lot known, but apparently yesterday afternoon Santa Fe New Mexico classic pianist Betsy Arakawa, his wife of many years. She's significantly younger than he by thirty two years. He
was ninety five, she's sixty three. One oscars for the French Connection epic movie Just And those are the days that they did chase scenes with cars and no special effects, still considered one of the greatest car chases ever in that movie. He won an Oscar for That, won an Oscar for Unforgiven. With Clint Eastwood, he's been heroes, he's been a hero, he's been villain, he's been you know, everything,
comedies and serious dramas and parts. And I still thought he was so good with Denzel Washington and Crimson Tide, such a good movie. But at any rate, sad consumers planning a one day economic blackout because of DEI. Now it's there are several of them coming, but apparently a big ones tomorrow. And so here's my message, shop, go buy stuff. I've decided that's the way to go. When when the uber extreme minority, I mean, it is so deflating to these people. I'll go ahead and tell you
over the years I've faced it. I've had I've had people go to clients of mine saying there's gonna be a there's going to be a boycott of you if you don't disassociate yourself with Preston Scott. And my client said, Pound Sand it is so deflating. They've got this boycott plan and they're going to show these companies like a Walmart a target. They're they're getting away from DEI, maybe
not fully, but they're pushing in the right direction. And so what's happening is they get these little fringe groups organizing a boycott. And if you remember when we argued on the whole bud Light thing with Dylan mulvaney, why would you market, using a trans person to a market that is less than one tenth of a percent. Who cares whether they like you or don't. First, there's this reality they will never like you, they'll never be your friend.
Don't try. But imagine now you've organized this boycott for February twenty eighth, and sales are up. Sales are up because people like you and me go shopping. They got a little one percent to up instead of a half a percent tick down or whatever. It goes up. Now you're organizing that boycott. Okay, let's find out how'd sales go. Wait, wait, they went up. They why because the majority of people find DEI offensive and companies that are pushed away from
it should be supported. It's that simple. Second big story. Jeff Bezos announcing the Washington Post is going to take a direction where they will write in their editorial page in support and defense of personal liberties and free markets, and staff members at the Post are going nuts. So I guess, I guess dissenting thought isn't welcome anymore. Bezos is like, look, we're going to write on these two things, these two principles, because the rest you can find it
all over the blogisphere. This is what we're going to do. And so he went to the opinion editor and he said, would you like this to usher this in and are you are you able to be in full support? He resigned, So Bezos said, I'm sorry he did, but that's fine. We'll find somebody else that will own this. So what you're going to be intolerant?
Now?
Oh, you mean like the post has been for how long along with all the other major mainstream media outlets that hammered anybody on being anti global warming, anybody that was anti COVID, that didn't believe in the vaccines. You know you mean that kind of dissenting thought. Spare me forty one minutes passed the hour. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott right, forty two passed the hour. Doctor
David Hart's unable to join us this morning. Gives me an opportunity to finish the conversation we were having the other day about female drivers, and I'm going to broaden this a little bit to just drivers in general, although this tends to happen a little bit more with women. But let me just let me take it off of the shoulders of ladies and let's just rest this on
the shoulders of all drivers. A little spatial awareness, a little awareness of what's going on around you, whether it's at a stoplight or at a drive through, shrink the space.
The exception is on an incline. On an incline, it's always wise to give some space between you and the car in front of you, if by chance they're driving a manual transmission, and even some automatic transmissions are such that when the foot's taken off the break, they'll slide back just a little bit before moving forward on that
transition from break to accelerator. But certainly, unless someone's really skilled like me, with a manual transmission, the transition from break to clutch to accelerator can be such that there'll be a little bit of a drift back. So on an incline it's absolutely appropriate for a little bit of space, but most of the time we don't have that. Certainly
at drive through is we don't have that. And what we face so often is just in consideration, because you'll see the car in front of you and they've got a car and a half of space or two cars of space between them and the car in front of them. Why, because what it does is it keeps people behind you from being able to move into the turn lane, and so it blocks the through traffic. Sometimes sometimes it's just
getting one more person through that stoplight. Sometimes it's just a matter of courtesy so that, for example, at the drive through, someone else can order their food and have it ready. I don't know if it's if drivers just think that their car just is so incredibly special that it can't be within six feet of another car. I'm guessing they're the same people that park in two spots at a parking lot that just take up They park almost intentionally taking up two spots. It's just inconsiderate. Is
it the end of the world. No, of course not. It's just inconsiderate. It's rude. And so I'm just trying to bring awareness to the fact that there are things that that we do and we're not even aware that
maybe that we're doing them. Sometimes I think the space is because people are busy on their phones and they're worried that they're going to kind of drift as they're reading their phone, and so they have a little space to kind of go, oh and stop their car if they don't have to break fully depressed, I don't know, I don't know what the reason is for this, but just a fyi, you know, shrink the space, okay, be
considered of the people behind you. I remember telling my mom once she said, I never gotten a car wreck. I said, did you ever look in your room of your mirror and see the ones you caused? Loved my mom? Loved my mom. Terrible driver, terrible, terrible. I felt like I was taking my life in my hands riding with her, and she was right, she was never in an accident. But I promise you she caused them road trip suggestion
just minutes away. Now, I'm not going to suggest that this was pushback, but we've had a few callers say that their companies are teaching or telling them to leave space to avoid if you're hit from behind, there being kind of the accordion effect, and you know where one car gets pushed into another car, into another car, into another car. Yeah, here's the thing that all stems from bad drivers, right. I mean, if we go about and
you know you gotta do what you gotta do. If your boss is telling you you have to do this for insurance purposes, so be it. But here's the thing. Imagine if that's how we're going to go about driving. First of all, I would love to see a space that's appropriate while you're on the interstate going seventy or seventy five. But if you put appropriate space between yourself and the car in front of you, there someone's going
to cut in front of you. So it's just this is a result of all of this is a result of people just not paying attention while they're driving being bad. What I'm saying is at a turn signal, imagine if everybody gives a space of a car in front of them, you're doubling the amount of time it takes to get through a turn signal, at least because you're getting half the number of cars through, maybe a little less than
half or a little more than half through. But now if the first car and then there's a car length between that person and the next car, and then a car length between that person and the next car, you see what I'm saying. You're shrinking the number of cars in that for that turn lane. Hey, you know, people are gonna do what they're gonna do. I'm just offering
you my view of it. My view of it is in consideration, and I understand all the reasoning and the excuses, you know, not wanting to be in a blank, blank wreck and all that. I hate to tell you if someone if someone hits your car going forty miles an hour, you're gonna get pushed a head into the car in front of you anyway, But you do you and I know that we all will do what we do. I'm look.
I started the campaign of when the lights are out, It's a four way stop in two thousand and three, I think the second year doing this show, when the light it's a four way stop? How often do we see people that actually do that? Instead it's a free for all. Once a car goes, everybody behind them goes, and the people on the cross streets are like, hello, what about us? When the lights are out it's a four way stop. I don't know what to tell you. I don't know what to tell you. Here's what I'm
gonna tell you. It's time for road trip Suggestion. We're working from Florida out and it's the Discovery dot com blog on the best road trip in each state, and we're going to South Carolina. We're working our way out Florida, Georgia, Alabama. Now we go to South Carolina. Take in the sites with a low country drive along the South Carolina coast. We're talking Charleston to hilton Head. I've bragged on Charleston. Charleston is an awesome city. Love Charleston. Love everything about Charleston.
Love the way it looks. I love the architecture, I love the history. I love that it's right there on the ocean. I think it's it's just spectacular. You've got cobblestone streets, You've got the Antebella Mansions, the historic District. Hilton Head is to the north. The road trip highlight. Take a thirty minute detour north of downtown Charleston to see Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, the most visited plantation in
all of South Carolina. Magnolia Plantation and Gardens. Come on, there's your road trip idea in case you're gonna get out into a little wandering, just saying whether it's spring break, summer, plant and seeds. That's what we do. Come back. Doctor Edmore joins us history, Who lost presidential elections and what
happened to them? Next, told you it was a busy Thursday in the Morning Show with Preston scuy and Morning Friends thanks for joining us this morning, and it's time joining us in studio for our history segment, a little more history, Doctor Ed Moore.
Good morning.
How are you.
I'm pretty good.
Let's not get sidetracked on trivial chat, because you've got fourteen pages of notes and we need to try to get through one.
Yeah. Actually, I'm only going to really focus on two pages. Okay, okay, I've got a lot of pages. But you know, you and not even talking about this for a while, talking about people that run for president and then you never hear of them again.
Yeah, because they lost.
But it's an interesting phenomenon in the United States. You can rise up so very high in the political world, yeah, and then disappeared.
Well, it's like it's no different than any other thing where you come in second. Who was in the Championship series of the World Series?
You know? I mean it's boxing is probably the only sport where you know who the guy is laying on.
A probably so probably so some of you.
Forgot who was in the World Series last year. I have no idea.
So before we begin, what drew you to this starting point that you've chosen.
I think it's probably in the history of presidents. There's four five that were really change agents that changed how we went about doing things. And of course, to me, this one current one is trying to be that phenomenal change agent. And we'll see history real show whether he's successful. FDR. Probably that's the most to me, the most significant. Twelve plus four months five months of being a president. He
got elected four times. I mean that in itself, so the rarity, but it's so much change during that time frame as to how we viewed the presidency.
And you know, he.
Had four different elections where he ran against somebody, and he had four different primaries where people were running against him. A lot of politics went in there, but most of the stuff he was for I would not agree with now in retrospect. But as I often say on here, we have to look with the eye of being there then, not now looking back, going oh, that was, you know, just a phenomenal period and of a very unique human being. Although a lot of the little things about him came
from a wealthy New York family. Gee, who's that sound like We've got one of those now, a wealthy New Yorker. We haven't really had New Yorkers involved in politics for a while, but it was very dominant back in the twenties, thirties and forties. Trump now, I guess he's a Floridian, but most people perceive him to be a New Yorker. Sure, And so there's a lot of things in common between
the FDR era and the Trump error. Now, going back two terms prior to this, when he was serving, a lot of big changes, monumental changes in how the American public views views DC, what's the role of government, and the battles that went on there. I mean FDR ran against Herbert Hoover, a sitting Republican president who had botched things up to a degree. Coolidge the eight years of Coolidge might be eight of the most successful years for
a president in history. And then the economies go sour. Well, there's a lot of economists will tell you that president has some influence over but things are going to happen. They're going to happen, and they happened bad on Hoover. I mean, Hoover had been in for a year and we got the Great Depression. And so his term he's battling and coming up with ideas. And when you read through, and I encourage people to read through, all this stuff.
The people running the FDR campaign against Hoover were accusing Hoover of being pinkish liberal, leaning towards communism, too much big government. Oh amazing, that's how the campaign rant. And then afterwards what FDR proposed in his first hundred days and all those were a lot of the things that he was trying to do that Hoover was trying to do but couldn't get done. FDR got him done, even though he was pointing fingers out. I'm saying he was
pretty light on the Americanism. It's a weird phenomenon that occurs in history.
Doctor edmore with me. We're talking about elections gone by and losers, not just the winners. Here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Look at me, we're on time. It means we have more time. Doctor hitmore with me this morning here on the Morning Share with Press. It's got a little more history. So we start with FDR.
Yeah, and FDR got elected in thirty two R thirty six forty.
Is it safe to say he got elected because of the depression?
Initially? Yeah, I mean, Hoover's numbers were terrible. Was FDR got ended up even as bad as it was. Shows you that we've been essentially a two party system for a long time. FDR got fifty seven percent of the vote, fifty seven point four percent of the vote. Hoover got thirty nine point six percent of the vote. Now that's kind of a landslide by modern standard sures, but it was still Hoover got a respectable amount of the vote, and it was his party they put him in there.
FDR had been governor of New York in twenty four I think twenty four and twenty eight. I think it was twenty one. FDR got diagnosed with polio. He's thirty nine years old, ended up coming to Warmstrings Georgia, bought all that there and donated it, and Battle of Polio came back in the twenty four which was only three years later, and gave a nominating speech for Al Smith, the Democrat. Most people don't know who. Al Smith ran for president twice and you know, lost both times. But
and then in twenty eight he nominated him again. And Roosevelt won as governor of New York in nineteen twenty eight. So by nineteen thirty two he had been governor of what was then the largest population state and had a record to run on, and as governor of New York he got more liberal. Prior to that, he was a businessman. He was, you know, pragmatic, very kind of pragmatic, and even later on he was he was pragmatic, but circumstances drove him further left. He did all kinds of things
he's in there that I found fascinating. I mean, we hear about packing the court. You know, there's an old adage of a switch in time save nine. Because he was losing all his new deal stuff as one hundred days stuff. Supreme Court was knocking it all down. They didn't like it. They thought it was unconstitutional social security, they thought so security was unconstitutional.
It probably is.
And they flipped two votes, just two votes on the court instead of packing the court. Interesting idea to pack the court. What he wanted to do is every Supreme Court judge over seventy if they didn't resign, you would appoint sort of a Supreme Court justice in waiting that would have full voting power and all that, but not really be a full It was a really weird deal.
Congress everybody thought it was horrible idea. I mean, it was his first major loss other than losing those court cases, but by bullying and badgering his way, similar to what we tend to see now. I think if he went back, probably Trump probably read a lot of fdor bios and stuff to figure out how to do these things. How do you push them real hard to get them to do what you want to do? Court flipped put all
kinds of things in. But when he ran in thirty two as as governor of New York, he ran in a Democratic primary against people Al Smith, who knew of you'd heard of, but John Nance Garner. Most people really haven't heard of John Nance Garner. He ended up being Roosevelt's vice president for two full terms. He was a
big politician from Texas. Now, when else in our history have you seen a Northeastern Democrat deciding to run for president and picking a Texas semi conservative Democrat to run on a ticket because I'm familiar Kennedy Johnson, same kind of deal. That's how all this politics used to work. It was the same thing over and over. John Nance Garner ran for president and then got picked as vice president. He got eight percent of the vote in the primaries.
That was it. Al Smith got fourteen, Hamilton Lewis. You ever hear of Jay Hamilton Lewis, never heard of nineteen percent? FDR got forty nine point four percent, didn't get a majority, We got enough to run and then he beat as I said earlier, he beat Hoover fifty seven to forty basically, so a lot of turnover. Then in thirty six the primary FDR and the primary's got ninety three percent of the vote. So he co left and brought everybody together and the next term to run for his first reelection,
got ninety three percent of the vote. In the primaries. There's always somebody run against him. Upton Sinclair, You ever read Upton Sinclair, a famous muck raking journalist from that era, wrote what was it about the meat packing industry?
He wrote, I'll take your word for it, Upton.
Now that sounds that's just not a name that calls out to the public like this is a great guy, mister, Upton Sinclair. Henry Breckenridge Breckenridge kind of a well known Western name. Politics in those days in the United States were east of the Mississippi. Herbert Hoover was the first president from west to the Mississippi. He was the very
first one. Prior to that, whatever happened predominantly in the northeast and then the South would have their own way of things after the Civil War and right up until nineteen sixty five or so. But you had these people like this FDR then in that general election beat a guy named alf alf Landon not alf the pubbeh and beat him sixty one thirty six percent. So he was very very strong politically nationally by nineteen thirty six.
We're going to have we got one more segment to go. Doctor ed Moore is now realizing that he will get through quarter of one page of his notes as we continue here in the Morning Show. Preston Scott twenty two minutes past the hour joining us Doctor ed Moore, and we're talking about I thought I knew what we were talking about.
Well, I always go off on these squirrel I get down the different rabbit ball in my mind starts going in a different direction.
We're talking about doctor Moore.
Just off the air. We were just talking about similarities between then and now and how we get into world wars and the person that's we don't we tend to elect presidents generally on domestic issues and the people running against them. Generally, they all have their little flag there, carrying on some particular domestic issue, when in reality, what affects us the most and increasingly so, would be the international issues and trade relations. You're doing terriffs, now, Roosevelt
was huge on terrafs. Smoot Harley terrorfact put us. It basically drove us into depression. It was a tariff war with all the countries we traded with. We're doing it again, but nobody paying attention what happened when we did this the last time. How you know, they just now we're going to do it a minute ago. Off the air, we're talking about alliances and how alliance has changed. When Roosevelt came in later in his term, the big alliance was between the United States and Russia that then became
the Soviet Union, and England played a major role. You know, right now the three largest countries in the world population wise are India, China, and then US way down smaller than those two big countries.
But ironically China has a population problem.
Yeah yeah, well they're not replacing themselves, but neither is the West. I mean, we can do all the show on demographics, but the Western world's so called Western world in the United States isn't replacing as though Chinese is worse. They're down to like one point two or per couple, but most of the West is under two per couple. Where that's why immigration becomes an issue that we're not
talking about. We talk about the politics of immigration, but not the reality of immigration and who do we need and why do we need them? So hopefully we'll move to there. The world's largest economies now are US, China, Germany, Japan, and India. Okay, economics are going to drive the future.
When Roosevelt was in there, why I picked him as a center point that will move from that to people that run against him and lose and behind the primaries is it was a major transition for the United States from an largely agricultural company country benefiting from the Industrial Revolution. I mean, we started to have wheels and motion rather than horses and all of that. But World War One, which maybe down the road we'll talk to some about
War one, occurd there were horses in the battlefield. Yeah, there were carts and running guns around the world hadn't advanced that much in the teens, but by the time Roosevelt came in in the thirties forties, the world had changed completely. He grasped that he understood that, and the alliances that were formed the rebuild after World War Two. Roosevelt was dead by then, but a lot of the stuff was put in place. I'm sounding like a Roosevelt fan.
I don't like his politics. I didn't like his philosophies on a lot of things. But when you look at the things he put in place during his twelve years in there, not twelve, but during the timeframe he was in there, it made for a modern America. When he came in, we were not ready for that. We were largely rural country and the states were doing all kinds of different things. He cemented the modern version of what
our country would be. And the people that ran against him ran against him as being too liberal to conservative.
I mean, it was all over the place.
Next time we'll talk about those people and what they had to say and then where they disappeared to.
Yeah. If you talk to people that were parents during the depression, like my grandparents, Roosevelt was a hero in every way, shape and form.
Yeah, Yeah, they because they saw how about it could be and how bad it had been. In the late twenties, early thirties, it was really bad. We lament our economy now when we have little dips in recessions, nothing like nineteen thirty to thirty two, America.
Thanks for coming in. It goes too quick, it always does. Doctor Red Moore with us on The Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Remember the days when times were good and life was simple. He still lives there. The Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point seven w f L A.
Big stories in the press box and recognizing that they can change. Oscar winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife and their dog found dead in their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was ninety five. He had a good run. Don't know if it was intentional. That's just an unusual situation. You hear carbon monoxide, but at the same time, you know,
accidents happen, don't know. Jeff Bezos announced a new direction for the op ed page of the Washington Post, saying we will write about two things, personal liberties and free markets. And of course there's a massive revolt going on at the Post. He said, I offer David Shipley, who is the opinion editor, whom I greatly admire, the opportunity to lead this new chapter. I suggested to him that if the answer wasn't bleep yes, then it had to be no.
After careful consideration, David decided to step away. This is a significant shift. It won't be easy. It will require one hundred percent commitment. I respect his decision. We'll be searching for a new opinion editor to own this new direction. One of the writers I guess for the Post posted massive Encroachment by Jeff Bezos into the Washington Post opinion section today. Massive encroachment. The guy owns your newspaper, He literally owns it. Do you see how this attitude of
the left is crystallized in these circumstances. How dare you, sir? Dare me what? I own the company? What are you talking about? Encroachment? It's my company, I own it. It's why I never suggest people that are entrepreneurs take their business as public, because then you have boards of directors and you end up being like John Matter or whatever his name is. Papa John's ended up out of his own company. O'Keeffe Media Group. James O'Keefe Project Veritas ended
up out of his own company. I just I know there were issues with with John Schnatter. It doesn't matter to me. What matters to me is it's about it's your business, but makes clear that dissenting views will not be published or tolerated. Here, Oh pound sand brother, what are you talking about? You guys have been the arbiters of not allowing dissenting views and different speech. That's just that's comical to me. Consumers planning a one day economic boycott.
Consumers see USA Today, Here you go, newspaper, great example. Consumers are planning no a small sub section of consumers that believe in DEI, that one bigoted quotas involving transgenderism and race to be the primary driver of hiring policies and business philosophies at a given business or organization. That's what DEI is, diversity, equity and inclusion. And the irony is, of course, inclusion doesn't include this or this right, That's
the thing. When they say inclusion, it's not it's exclusion. And so there's this consumer boycott. And that's why I'm telling everybody just go out and go shopping spy stuff. Let's see prices sales go up for one day so that the organizers of the boycott go, so how the boycott worked at we put it down in it didn't we? And they go, sir, Sales went up three percent? What yeah? See?
That doesn't happen when conservatives boycott things because the people that buy to support it aren't large enough in numbers to make a den anyway. Forty minutes past the hour, A real bad idea coming up next. I watched this video. I can't play it because it's just there would be too many edits, and I just I don't want to deal with it. There's times I'll put up with all the beep beep beep, but there's other times it's like it's not worth it. Sarah c Roberts on TikTok shared
on video herself. She's recording herself and this is the danger, pointing the camera at yourself. We need to x him Musk by mean by X, I mean formally known as assassination, and it's warning from the FBI is going to bleeping show up arrest me. You don't have enough people to even investigate me at this point. I haven't filed my taxes in like eight years, yet nobody's come for me. So I'm going to bleeping say it, let's assassinate some
bleeping bleepings. Well, she's actually likely going to be getting a visit from the FBI, as it turns out, because her video captured the attention of the federal government. That's bad news for at Sarah C. Roberts ed Martin, US attorney for Washington d C responded on x saying talk soon. She's deleted her entire account following the viral video, And like I said, I looked at the video and was
just dumbfounded. As a general rule of thumb ladies and gentlemen, calling for the execution of people, let alone people working in the federal government, is a pretty good way to get in trouble. And that's likely to be even more true when the person you're calling to get murdered is in the president's inner circle. But this is where we are today. Steve Sewart and I were talking about it in the second hour. Healthy debates, differing opinions, that's fine,
but the leap to kill them, just kill them. This is not one of those countries, or is it? And if it is, is it because of the left exclusively? See? I think so, I think that that, and and that's why I think moderate Democrats are pulling away. She's going to get visited by the fads. And there's no claim that can be made that she's being targeted now because of her political beliefs. No, she called for the assassination
of somebody. And oh, by the way, let's go ahead and look at those tax records for the last eight years.
Ms.
Roberts. I don't know how many how many times we need to see or hear stories to learn lessons about being care for what you post online because someone's screenshot in it always always forty six minutes past that. I've got a story that just defies well everything. Oh my goodness, I forgot Gene Hackman in the movie Hoosiers, epic movie about Indiana basketball based loosely on a true story. But yeah, that's just that hurts my heart. I'm gonna go watch
some Gene Hackman movies. I'll bet you I have a few in my library. I got a DVD library. This is horrific. Hey, we're gonna end with the story. That's it's it's it's not it's just unfortunate for travelers in this case. One in one set of one set of travelers, a couple, Mitchell and Jennifer, were flying from Melbourne to their dream holiday in Venice. They're going from Melbourne, Australia to Venice, Italy a for a great, a great vacation,
a dream again. So they're on holiday, as they say, overseas and on their long flight on Qatar Airways, lady got up from her seat to go to the restroom, went to the restroom, walking back and dies in the middle of the aisle. And that's terrible. The crew tried to revive her. That was it. She's done, very overweight woman and whatever. They propped her up in the seat next to the couple and they had to go four hours ride next to this dead lady. This is like
some weird version of Weekend at Bernie's. That's unfolding here. I mean, do the flight attendants actually go down the island and stop at their island and say would you like a soft drink? Peanuts chips? She's sleeping, I mean, what how do you the ladies just beside herself still, she said it ruined our trip. She said, we tried our best, but she said it was traumatizing. She said, and the airline has not even reached out to us. Apparently it was kind of a connecting agreement between Quantas,
which is the big Australian airline, and Qatar Airlines. And you know a lot of those Arab airlines have incredible reputations. I mean, Emirates Airlines. We they have a reputation for incredible service and the appointment of their planes. But it's still could you imagine? Could you imagine? Well? I mean, I guess the bright side is you would have a very quiet neighbor on your flight, right, you wouldn't be bothered with questions about what do you do for a living?
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I mean, my gosh, started the radio program with Revelation four to eleven, and it's just a really cool verse from Revelation. It's not one of those verses that's all apocalyptic. There are plenty of those. It is cool. U tough to rebound after that story, isn't it. I mean, it's just who you just want to splash a little water in your face, talk about sports? What something else? Anything else? Uh?
Consumers planning a one day economic blackout tomorrow whatever consumers A minuscule percentage of people upset about the rollback of DEI at a handful of outlets and locations. It's like, you mean, there are people that actually DEI is a really good thing. How foolish are those people? They're not that many that think that that's a thing. But I'm saying, go to the store and go shopping tomorrow. That's what I'm saying. Jeff Bezos announces a new direction for the
Washington Post. It's refreshing, but a lot of Post employees are quitting over it. That's good, Really, that's good. It's your paper, Jeff, do your thing. Trump wants the Keystone XL pipeline to restart, but there's a problem. The company that was doing it sold off that business. I got out of it when we renigged on our agreement. Tomorrow. Lee Williams, the gun writer, and your calls during What's the Beat, have a great day.