Ep. 5179: Alan Tenta From "Alone" Interview

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Thursday. June 13th 2024. Our guests today include:
- Steve Stewart from Tallahassee Reports
- Dr. David Hartz with Optimum Health
- Alan Tenta, season 10 winner from "Alone"

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Episode Transcript

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Good morning. Welcome ruminators, ladiesand gentlemen, boys and girls, males
and females. Thanks so much forwaking up and making us part of your
morning. Bright Adam Bushy tailed herewe are the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
I'm Preston, He's Jared. Andyes, we have we have.
We have developed a tag team kindof approach to the program on the interim

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basis here as we as we hopefullyare moving towards our permanent replacement for Grant,
hopefully not interim much longer. Yeah, yeah, I bet, I'm
so sorry. I just every timeI see you and John, I just
and it's not like anything I canabout it. I just I feel bad.

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It is what it is. ButI appreciate you. Let me just
say that on the front end,thank you for being you. We can't
let down the listeners, man.I appreciate that today's program Thursday, and
that means busy day. I am. I am so beyond geeked up for
today's program. You know we've gotWe've had presidential candidates on the show over

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the years. Senators, governors,governor's sitting right right here, right here
in the studio, Members of Congressnoted attorneys like Alan Dershowitz, who sat
next to OJ Simpson in the trial, and I asked him, do you
think he did it? Asked him. I asked him, uh huh.

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But I have never been as geekedas I am for today because I've got
Alan Tenta on the program, andyou're like, who He's the season ten
winner of a loan History Channel bestshow on television, and I have been

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trying for probably ten years to getsomebody from that show on my program.
All of the Roulette Wheel, theslot machine, whatever you want to call
it, the blackjacked, it allturned up for me for some reason.

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Two weeks ago, I sent thisridiculous email. I just went to the
History Channel website and I started digging, and I eventually got to A and
E's website, and then I gotto the corporate website, and then I
got to the media relations website,and I copied and pasted in an email

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every name on the list, everyname, like eight people, the vice
president, the president, the assistantvice president to the president. I mean,
it's just crazy. And I geta note that day I'm your person.
Sometimes you got to cast a widenit whooh son, and so we've

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got the winner of the last season. The new season starts tonight, and
we've got the season ten winner ontoday. I'm excited. What I just
I am? I'm not going tohave enough time. My problem is going
to be that, not because I'mstarstruck. I mean I had a feeling

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Alan would do well last year.You kind of get a feel early on
who you think is best equipped.And I've been surprised a few times,
but normally my wife and I haveit pretty well narrowed down to the two
or three that we think are goingto make it the longest, and we're
usually pretty spot on. And Ihad high hopes for Allan. But I
hope that when the time comes,I'm not just stupidly brain cramped and I

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don't ask questions that are meaningful toyou because I know this show so well.
It's like the violation of my ruleon authors, where I don't read
the books because I don't want toknow things that you don't know. I
know everything about this show, Imean everything. I have faith in you,
pressed and you're a professional. Idon't know. I don't know all

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right, Mark six thirty one throughthirty two said this, and he said
to them, Jesus, come awayby yourselves to a desolate place and rest
for a while. For many wherecoming and going, and they had no
leisure even to eat. And theywent away in the boat to a desolate
place by themselves. Here's why that'ssignificant. If you go back and listen

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to the devotionals this week at thestart of the show. And I didn't
pick this, this is These arejust the scriptures that are popping up in
a couple of different devotional guides thatI have on my phone. There's a
theme building. I didn't organize it. I didn't plan it. Here's the
theme get away. And you cando it in your backyard. You can

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do it in your home. Youcan do it at a break at office.
Spend some time and be quiet beforeGod. That's it. Be still
and know that He's God. Thisverse, Jesus is speaking to the disciples
and saying get away. And asI looked at that scripture today, I

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was like, Wow, God's sayingsomething this week to us. He's always
saying something to us. But youknow what I mean. I mean,
there's something here. So I'm justI'm challenging you ten minutes past the hour.
Inside the American Patriots Almanac, wego. You can tell them fired

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up. Look at me, man, I've been up since four am.
I woke up at like three andI was just thinking about today. Ah,
it's a great day. It's Thursdayon the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Senseay of sensibility, communicator of commonsense amplified. It's The Morning Show
with Preston Scott. Deep dive.One of this country's greatest patriots was a

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Frenchman. A French nobleman born toimmense wealth, the Marquis de Lafayette,
disliked court life and longed to fightfor liberty. When he was nineteen years
old, he bought a ship andset sail from France to join the American

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Revolution, arriving in South Carolina onJune thirteenth, seventeen seventy seven. Show
of hands. Who knew that?You know the name? You know he
was part of it? Perhaps?Perhaps? But did you know at that
young of an age. I didn't. Nineteen he obviously prior to that,

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he made the decision. He'd heardabout what was going on in America.
He's he's in a life of privilegeto the extent that you're saying, I
mean, he's in a whole notherworld. It would be like Baron Trump

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saying, yeah, I'm enlisting,only I'm enlisting for some other country,
declaring that quote, the welfare ofAmerica is intimately connected with the happiness of

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all mankind. By the way,know any nineteen twenty year old saying things
like that. Lafayette volunteered to servein the Patriot Army without pay. He
fought beside the American troops, sufferedwith them at Valley Forge. I have

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two letters in my study from ayoung man that served at Valley Forge when
he was sixteen. George Washington becamelike a father to Lafayette. Lafayette named
his son for Washington. After theRevolution, Lafayete sailed back to France twice.

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He returned to America to see hisold comrades. The second trip came
in eighteen twenty four, when hewas an old bent man. He traveled
from town to town and everywhere crowdswelcomed him as a hero. At one
reception, a story goes, anold soldier in a faded uniform approached the
Frenchman over his shoulder, he carrieda tattered blanket. He drew himself up,

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gave a salute, and asked ifLafayette remembered the snows of Valley Forge.
Lafayette answered, I shall never forgetthem. One bitter night, continued
the soldier. You came upon ashivering sentry. His clothes were thin,
he was near frozen. You tookhis musket, and you said, go
to my hut, get my blanket, and bring it to me while I

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keep guard. The soldier obeyed yourdirections. When he returned to his post,
you took out your sword and youcut your blanket in two. One
half you kept. The other halfyou gave to the sentry. Here,
Lafayette is half of the blanket forI am the soldier whose life you saved.
Wow. That's incredible. That's that'sthat's that is so oh my goodness.

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Can you see it, I mean, can you picture it in your
mind, this old man walking upto another old man saying thank you,
Oh my goodness. All right,So that was on this date in seventeen
seventy seven that Lafayette de Lafayette arrivedin the United States. Eighteen oh five,
Lewis and Clark expedition reaches the GreatFalls of the Missouri River. Nineteen

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seventeen, US troops sent to fightin Europe for the during World War One,
departed from New York Harbor sixty seven. Nineteen sixty seven, Lyndon Johnson
nominates Stirgod Marshall to become the firstBlack Justice of the Supreme Court, and
in nineteen eighty three, the probePioneer ten becomes the spacecraft to leave the
Solar System nineteen eighty three. Wowsixteen almost seventeen minutes now past the hour.

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Speaking of wow La at WFLAFBM dotcom, on your phone with the
iHeartRadio app, and on hundreds ofdevices like Alexa, Google Home, Xbox
in Sonos, and Iheart's radio station. Little follow up here. Pioneer ten's

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last received signal was on January twentythird, two thousand and three. It
was seven point six billion miles fromEarth, took eleven hours twenty minutes to
reach Earth, and it has notbeen heard from or contacted since it was

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originally designed for a twenty one monthmission. It carries an aluminum plaque with
diagrams of a man and a womanin the Solar System and its location relative
to fourteen pulsars in case intelligent lifefinds it. But I'm here. There
could be other intelligent life out there, Preston. Oh okay, yeah,

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so I was just curious about that. Okay, this is craziness. I
was just for obvious reasons. Iwas drawn to this story, and craziness
is probably not quite the right adjective. Experts in Germany have uncovered a deciphered

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manuscript that has been determined to bethe oldest record of Jesus's childhood. CBS
News reported on this It's now beingwritten about in multiple Sits sixteen hundred year
old document was being stored at auniversity library in Hamburg, Germany, for
decades. It was ignored until acouple of professors from Germany's Institute for Christianity

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and Antiquity and Belgium's University of Liegelooked it over and they they said it
was the earliest surviving copy of thequote infancy Gospel of Thomas, which offers
a detailed descriptive child of Jesus christchildhood. In a news release, they

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said the Paprius contains anecdotes not foundin the Bible, but one that would
have been available and shared during theMiddle Ages. Words on the document reveal
a remarkable miracle Jesus performed as achild. I'm going to get to that
in a second, because it's kindof funny. When the professors were looking
at the paprius, they said itwas a neglect for so long because researchers

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had considered it insignificant. However,new technology enabled the two men to translate
the language on the document and compareit to other early Christian texts, quoting
them. It was thought to bepart of an everyday document, used as
such a private letter, shopping list, et cetera. We first noticed the
word Jesus in the text. Then, by comparing it with numerous other digitized

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PAPRII we deciphered it letter by letterand quickly realized that it could not be
an everyday document. And in itI'm I'm just reading a story, okay.
In the Gospel of Thomas story,which of course is not in the
Bible, the five year old Jesusis playing in a stream, molding twelve

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sparrows out of soft clay in theriver bed mud. His father sees what
he's doing and scolds him. Iguess ostensibly because he's getting dirty. I
don't know. I mean, comeon, he's a kid. And Jesus
demands to know why he's molding clayon the Sabbath. Jesus responds by telling

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the clay figures to take flight asliving birds, and they obey. He
performs a miracle at five. Now, look, I'm not saying it happened,
but I'm not saying it didn't.He's he's the son of God.
He's God in the flesh incarnate,and he was teaching in the synagogues before

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he was thirteen. Do you thinkfive year old Jesus ever said to Joseph,
you're not my real dad. Idon't think so. I don't think
so. I mean, remember,now, Joseph got word of who Jesus
was with an angelic visit. Hewas told, hey, look you're going

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to be doing a good thing here, and and so he and Jesus's mom.
I mean, they knew the sonof God is here. What do
you do with that? Is thereanything I can teach him? It's like
Stepdad of the year, decade,century, millennia, ever ever ever?

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History? Wow? Yeah, twentyseven past the hour. It's a story
that's out there. If you wantto read more about it, there's all
kinds of stories to check it out. Back with the Big Stories in the
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is the Morning Show with Preston Scott, Steve Stewart. Next Hour, doctor
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Stories in the press Box brought toyou by Creative Grove of Creative marketing and
digital expertise. Quick reminder if you'renew to the program, the Big Stories
may or may not be the storiesthat are making headlines across the country.
Sometimes absolutely, other times not somuch. Because I defer I have three

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buckets, things that you're talking about, things you will talk about, and
things you should be talking about.And I defer to that one. I
approach this program with the mindset that, yeah, everybody's talking about that.
I get it, and they're justtimes that I have to kind of bow
to that. But there are otherstories that just you just need to know

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about and need to be thinking about. Florida's budget has been signed for the
twenty twenty four to twenty five fiscalyear, which begins July one. It
is less than last year's budget.How many governments say that, Yeah,
we've cut our budget from a yearago. There's a seventeen billion dollar surplus.

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Putting into emergency reserves. As partof that budget, line item vetos
added up to a billion dollars thatwas cut out of that budget. Since
Dessantas has become governor, we havereduced the taxpayer debt of this state by

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thirty six percent, or six pointthree billion, and we're paying down another
half a billion. We'll talk toJimmy Patrona's CFO of the state tomorrow about
that. More money for education,money for the renewed Florida State Guard,
money for corrections, which is verysignificant. We're finally, under the leadership

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of this governor, the legislature andCorrection Secretary Ricky Dixon really pushing hard.
We're getting funding now for people thatare going to be back in our communities
twenty to thirty thousand every single year. They're coming back, Are they ready
to be successful. Are there thingsin place to help them be successful?
These are things that matter to theoverall success of this state, all of

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it. And so well done legislature, Well done governor. Obviously, when
you cut stuff from a budget,there's people that are ah Man, I
looked at the cut list for thingsin the local area. I get it.
I think I understand why they werecut. Some of them may be

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a little bit more painful than others. The Federal Reserve will keep interest rates
at a twenty three year high formost of the year. There's a chance
they might do one cut. Butas of right now, quoting them,
inflation is elevated. Economic outlook quoteuncertain, and so they're not budging.

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It tells you Bidenomics continues to failus. Duh. And then I thought
this was interesting. Have you knowanything about Argentina's I guess President Javier Malay

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he's draining the swamp. He isannounced another fifty thousand positions from government getting
cut. Twenty five have already beencut. He is he is cutting the
size of government, he's cutting thescope of government, he's cutting entitlements.

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And when he took over, inflationwas three hundred percent. It's down to
eleven for the first time the countryposted a surplus since two thousand and eight,
and he blames the bleep leftists forthe problems that he inherited. It's

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just worth noting conservative principles always workwhen they're properly applied. Always forty minutes
past the hour some for your information. Coming up next running Joe at Preston
Scott's What You Do with Freedom onUS Radio one hundred point seven w u

(22:00):
f L. A US Open golftournament beginning shortly in about just a few

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minutes. Some Floridians local from Tallassee, Parker Bell te and Off at six
fifty six on the first t he'llbe joined. He's a Florida Gator even
though he's from here. He wentto the University of Florida. Frederick uh
chet Trup will be in the samegroup with him, te and Off and

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then later today Luke Clanton f sU golfer as well, another one with
chet Trup. I always mispronounce hisname. He's He's I think from Norway
and it's k j E. Tt Are you He and I had to
do a deep dive because I'm doingthe news now, and so name pronunciation

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is like a huge thing to me. I get I get stuff wrong all
the time. When you exteporaneously talk, you just you fumble stuff. It
happens. But with news, youreally I try to really get it right.
Figuring out how to say the kJsound at the beginning of a name

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Norwegian style, and it took mesome studying. Literally I had to.
I had to go to sites andthen translate the site with an online translator
to English to figure out what they'resaying and the kJ sound in that where
he's from is it's not jet trip, It's not jet trip, it's chech

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jet trip. Who knew, man, I've been saying that poor kid's name
wrong in my head for four years. I'm sure he's used to it by
now. I guess really good Golfer, good kid. And of course Brooks
kept GOA and Fsu. Golfer's kindof forgotten Fsu, except now he's apparently
warming back up, so good forhim. Brooks has come back around.

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He kind of he's an aloof guy, and he kind of to Fsu.
But now he's been a really coolalum to the team and to Trey Jones
and FSU in general. So that'sgood. So I wish him all well,
I'd love to see Parker play.Well, he beat Sergio Garcia in

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a playoff to get him the thing, and Sergio Garcia is no you know,
I mean, he's kind of alegend. But Garcia got in enough.
Guy's dropped out that he got inas an alternate. That's not the
FYI for the segment. They forthe segment is the Supreme Court is not
going to consider a challenge to JoeBiden's executive order, which directs federal agencies

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to use government funding and resources forvoter registration. That's not the role of
the government. But the Supreme Court'snot going to take up the challenge,
which is brought by Pennsylvania lawmakers,and a judge originally kicked it out saying,
you have no standing. Oh,I hate those words. I hate
those words. You don't have standing. Whatever. But the Supreme Court's not

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going to take the case until Septemberthirtieth, which means they're likely not going
to have a decision in time toaffect the election. And that's a shame
because this benefits the cheating. Lastly, and this is just a one of
the research assistants. In fact,the research assistant supervisor sent this story to

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me. The New York City Audubonhas changed its name because ornathalogist and illustrator
John James Audubon owned slaves and wasan anti abolitionist. He did not want
to end slavery. Okay, likea bunch of people. That was wrong.

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Man. We took down statues andpaintings and named name names of things
for people that were that were perfectand blame or had sinned sorry of some
kind. Nothing would be named nothing. And I guess that's okay, fine,
take names off of it, allnames everything. Nothing's named for anybody,

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because everybody's got shortcomings in their life. Everybody's screwed up. It's the
New York City Bird Alliance. TheNational Audabond Society voted last year to keep
the name good on them, butindividual chapters in late here's the Who's Who
New York City, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, among other cities, have

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said, we will no longer becalled the Audubon Society of whatever. We
will not be affiliated with that.Okay, hope you feel better. Forty
seven minutes past the hour and wecome back I'm going to tell you the
significance of one hundred and twenty morningdrive version of an audio magazine and keeping
you company as you prepare for yourday. It's the Morning Show with President

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Scott. US Open underway. Heinhurstnumber two a devilish golf course. I

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think the designers Donald Ross and takea bowl and turn it upside down,
and those are the green complexes.If you hit it too close to the
edge of any of those bulls,it's gone. It's gonna just keep on
rolling. And it has no rough. It just has these waste areas with

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wire grass and all kinds of othernative grasses, and it is going to
I will I will put the cut. Depending on how how sadistic the USGA
gets. I'll put the cut atfive to seven over, I'll be shocked.

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If the winning score approaches eight ornine under, I'll be shocked.
But anyway, Father's Day weekend isa beautiful thing. The US Open.
Mmmmmm all right. The significance ofthe number one hundred and twenty. If
you can envision this, that isthe number of gas pumps at what is

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now the largest BUCkies in the world. It opened in Lulling, Texas,
seventy five thousand square feet inside theactual store, restaurant, tourist destination,

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and one hundred and twenty gas pumps. I just think about the line to
get in and out of the place. But BUCkies does what they do there,
They've got it down. I'm surethey have to have extensive market researched

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to put in a location of thatsize. Is there really a demand for
one location with one hundred and twentypumps? Yes, I ten east of
San Antonio. Now, if youknow, you just I ten Jacksonville can
take you all the way to theCalifornia coast. You don't have to get

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off once straight across the country.Just I've made the drive from Arizona.
It's just it's like, no needfor a map, just keep going straight.
Yes, and Texas is the acrossthe state. East to west is

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the longest drive in the world,which is why I think last time I
checked, the speed limit was likeeighty or eighty five in parts of Texas.
It's just yeah, we're still inTexas, Still in Texas, Still
in Texas. It's just time.Oh, it's several hours to get from
one into the other. Oh,it takes the better part of a day.

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I mean, it's it's a goodtwelve hours from one side of Texas
to the other. Maybe ten.Anyway, I just thought it was worth
mentioning because there are people that justlove going to BUCkies, and my wife

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and I we are among them.I've not been to many. My wife
stops on trips she makes frequently.In fact, she has it mapped out
to make two stops on her driveand they're both at BUCkies. But I
will tell you the barbecue brisket thatis otherworldly. Their food is really good,

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but the brisket is next level,best brisket sandwich I've ever had in
my life. And they do itall right there, All right, let's
come back. Steve Stewart joins usfrom Tellassi reports no shortage of things to
talk about there. In hour twoof the Morning show, we having a

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moment to lose ruminators. Five pastthe hour, Thursday, June thirteenth.
It's not a unlucky day. It'sa lucky day. You're lucky to be
listening. It's gonna be a greatday here on the program show fifty one
seventy nine. Jared over there runningthe show, and I am joined by
Steve Stewart. He's the executive editorof Tallast Reports, the website Tellasker Reports

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dot com. Ello, sir,good morning, Preston, how are you
good. We mentioned last week thatI think wasn't it Thursday that you announced
that a city commissioner had formed apack? Or did that story break just
after that? I think it brokejust maybe just after that or write around
that. But has it ever hadin the history of this city? I

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mean, political action committees have becomea thing, but do we know of
any other time where a commissioner hasput together a pack to attack another commissioner?
No? I mean I talked toyou obviously, we've been involved for
a number of years. Don't everremember that. I've taught to some political
observers who've been around for a while. No, this is the first time

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it's ever happened. And I thinkthis is this is instructive on where we
are on the city commission, andthis is a battle and we you know,
it's so funny because when when theyhad the mayor race two years ago,
one of the headlines in our newspaperwas progressives plot control taking over a
city commission. They continue to dothat and this is not a battle between
Republicans and Democrats. It's a battlewithin the Democratic Party. And the problem

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with that is is that you know, conservatives and moderates look and say,
man, I don't like any ofthis. I mean, you've got the
ones, you know, the majorityof the City Commission or you know,
they voted for a tax increase,right, a property tax increase, and
you're like, man, I'm notgoing to vote for them. Well then
you look and you've got the progressiveswho are you know, appointing defund the
police advocates to the citizens review boards? And it's just like, where do

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I go from here? It's bestto look at it from that lens.
And I think Commission Mattlow is helpingout. He's helping people understand what's going
on now, crystallizing it. He'sChris. It is the progressives against the
moderate liberal Democrats, and people aregoing to have to be very attuned because
what's going to happen is you've gotto look at the issues, the policies.

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But then you've got to say,listen, do we want to head
down this road of progressive policy makingwhich we've seen in other cities that the
state of Talhase has sort of beenable to fend off because of our unique
character here from a demographic standpoint.I'm not releasing until I give the candidates
in the various races that I wantto talk to a chance to respond.

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But I had a very long sitdown with dot Edman Johnson yesterday. It
was a good visit we had.It was very cordial. She walked away
saying it was a very fair visit, and I'll share all of that.
But one of the things she highlighted, Steve was the lack of civility in
the city commission. And what's interestingis I pointed out that, yeah,
it goes across all of it,but somebody that's supporting her is now using

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a to attack another commissioner. Right. I just wonder how that's going to
square with the idea and the messagingof civility. Right. Well, the
whole point on the civilia though itis one sided. It's a one sided
issue in the sense that it's theprogressive supporters that are making it uncivil,
and they're doing this to get attention. They've learned how to do this,
and social media you can get upand and make these outrageous statements, somebody

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puts them on social media and theyget you know, they get promoted that
way. But what you have nowis you have Commission Mallow. And this
is what is the dangerous part ofthis. His Commissioner Malow was the long
elected official that pushed this planning evidencefiasco against law enforcement that really resulted in
nothing, just sort of went awaybecause after the jury actually heard the facts,
they understood that it was not theway was portrayed by Commission Mallow during

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before, during and after the trial. So now it's like he's just trying
to get things to stick, toget control of the City Commission. And
now he starts his political action committee. As of yesterday, he's the only
one that's donated money to this.But remember two years ago money from California
came in, yeah, you know, fifty seventy five thousand dollars to try

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to help the progressives take control ofthe City Commission. That's what it's about.
And what's going to happen now isyou're going to have to the voters
are going to have to weave theirway around these issues. As you know,
and we'll talk more about this ina little while. With the media,
but they've got to figure out,Look, you know the property tax
increase. We hired more police officers. So am I upset about the property

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tax increase to the degree that I'mwilling to give Commissioner Mattlow, who obviously
is infatuated with having control of thecity commission and attacking police exactly, And
I want to point out that largeparts of this community that are primarily minority
parts of the community, zip codesthat are a little economically challenged, they

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want more police. They do.And it's and that is the again,
though, what they're going to comeout to moderates that conservatives say, you
know, these guys voted for attackincrease. Well, the rest of the
story is they hired more police officers, and now voters will have to make
the decision. Right, they're goingto say, hey, we don't want
the tax increase. I think bothyou and I come at it from the
position of they didn't need to dothe tax increase, but they did not.

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But exactly, so what is thealternative? And so the other part
of this is you said, well, how progressive can they get? We
talked about the planning the evidence.Jack Porter was the only commission to vote
against the Amazon project, and shesaid after they hired fifteen hundred people,
she said she'd vote against it again. So that's what the progressive policies you
have to be worried about. They'reobviously not going to talk about that in

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the campaign trail. We're going totalk more about campaigns and qualifying. Next
ten past the Hour, Steve Stewartwith me is Tallasireports dot com. Guy,
do what you're talking about, whatyou will be talking and most importantly,
what you should be talking about.It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott

(38:05):
seems to Wart with me from TallasReports. So the qualifying window ends to
Marday, it does. Yeah,and I don't I don't know that we're
done. I got I got asneaking suspicion that there are going to be
some last minute entries. We'll see. I could be wrong. I mean,
you've run for office. But moreimportantly, you've covered this for a

(38:25):
long time. Is it too lateto get into a race, not in
a local race, with the waysocial media is now? Really? Yeah,
Okay, it's not not at all, because I mean primaries are in
August. Primaries in August, butpeople once and a half away. Look,
people aren't paying attention right now,so it's it's I think that it's
uh, it's something that can happen. Look, the qualifying period is where

(38:46):
you actually have to write to checkand decide what's going to happen. Let's
look at a couple of races.So let's start with the Northeast uh Leon
Kinty Commission. There are a coupleof seats that are that are up and
their opponents Northeast, Brian Welch,who knocked off Brian Dolge, is running
for a second term and he hasa challenger that Ray Isaac Monteo, Mantiya

(39:07):
Mantia. Okay, I've been towncingthat wrong, Mantia. And so if
nobody else gets in that race,there's only two people in that race.
That moves to November. Okay,so there will not be a race in
August. Now, if someone elsewas to get in, like before tomorrow,
then they would have a they'd havea race in August. Because it's
nonpartisan, it wouldn't matter. Noneof that matters. However, Now,

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so that race, both of themhave raised over one hundred thousand dollars for
this district race. They're both goingto get their message out. The only
difference would be if it's going tobe in August or November. If it's
in November, the dynamic changes becauselisten to the northeast, that's where a
lot of Republicans live, and theydon't Sometimes they forget the August twentieth race,

(39:51):
you know. And I remember afterI lost once in you know,
the primary, and I ran itto somebody in September. I'm gonna vote
for you, I don't think so, so not me or not so.
Anyway, that's going to be aninteresting race to see. And again,
if one person was to get intothat, it would change the whole dynamic
and move it back to August.Right now, that's in contrast to the

(40:15):
City races, which are they havemore than one Canada in each of the
two races, so they have morethan two. Yes, I'm sorry,
they have more than two. That'sthe key, right, And so they
were going to be in August.But with the City, even if it
was just two, they would runin August. And that's what's on the
ballot to move that. So ifyou only have two, you moved to

(40:35):
November. But anyway, so theCity race is what will happen If you
don't get fifty percent in August.The top two go to November. So
it's very important that if you're interestedin city races, and I you know,
I'm convinced that some people don't evenknow that they live in the city
because if you look at the Northeast, the way they have jerry mandered and
included certain neighborhoods in the Northeast,I really do that some people aren't even

(41:00):
sure that they live in the city. And I mean the city limits now
stretch all the way to Bannerman Road. Okay, yeah, their pockets.
It's it's crazy. It looks likea piece of puzzle exactly. And so
you have a vested interest in votingin August. I mean, there's going
to be right now, it's likearound seven eight candidates and we'll figure out

(41:21):
on Friday to vote for. Soyou've got to figure out which ones to
vote for. You're probably with thatmany candidates in each of O's races.
It's probably going to go to November, and then obviously the dynamic will change.
For example, when we had themayoral race, there's three candidates.
Christian Doser actually got more votes thanMayor John Daily, but did not get

(41:42):
fifty percent correct, and then inNovember Mayor Daily was able to win.
I think you got fifty two tofifty three percent of the vote. So
the elections are very different, themakeup is very different, and so there
are a lot of people that wantto win in August because if they get
to November, the whole electric changes. Are you going to put a paper
out that puts a large map showingthe city and what encompasses the city,

(42:08):
and yeah, that'd be a goodidea. I mean, we're going to
cover the two city races are hugeanyway, so I mean we're going to
have really good covers of that andwe will let that's a great idea.
We will show where do you live, like a double truck two sides,
you know, I mean literally openit up. If you live in this
area. You're voting in the city, right and again it's all one district.
Yeah right, And so it's it. But the August are important races

(42:30):
because that's where you have your choicebecause it's going to get narrowed down to
two for November. Good stuff,all right, More with Steve Stewart next
on the Morning Show with Preston Scottus LA on your phone with the iHeart
Radio app and on hundreds of deviceslike Alexa, Google Home, Xbox,
and Sonos and Ihearts Radio. Seasontwenty one minutes twenty two minutes past the

(42:54):
hour Morning Show with Preston Scott,Steve Stewart with me, Executive editor of
Tallahassee reports the website where you cansubscribe and the reasons to subscribe are about
to become even more numerous. It'sno surprise, but locally we are bereft
of media that want to be anythingbut buddies and friends with the elected officials,

(43:20):
and so we're not getting things covered. Well it's not just elected officials.
And this is where I'm sort ofat the end of my rope here,
and I know this segment's going tosound of self serving, but the
local media now has really adopted what'sgoing on nationally. They've divided, they
decided to get into camps. UnlikeNashville, where conservatives liberals can find news

(43:40):
that they want to reinforce what theythink, okay are they can research the
truth locally. What we've seen nowis local media outlets, which you know
there's talas reports Talis Democrat Capal Outlook, you look at TV stations, you
look at DXLWCTV. They the evidenceis they're not interested in writing about what

(44:06):
these progresses are doing. Now.I don't know if they're afraid of them
like some you know this and thecouncil culture is big here. You know,
we've seen Commission Matt Lego after arookie police officer on a you know,
on a fake news story. Andso the apathy from business communities they
don't want to speak out because theydon't you know, they don't want to.
They don't want to have their pictureplaster on social media and called a
racist or because they support districts orwhatever. Okay, And so the local

(44:30):
media is participating in this. Imean, we've talked about this story with
Biomission. Biomission. They won't askquestions, Okay, Commission reporter it you
know, it's taking these trips tothis to this left wing group, and
she's not reporting who's paying for it. I just imagine, okay, back
in the day, if there wasa city commissioner, or even now,

(44:52):
if it was say may or JohnDay taking a trip to a conference on
economic development and a developer paid forand he didn't disclose it. They'd be
all over that. Nobody's asking questions, okay, and there's opportunities, and
I'm talking about from radio stations tothe print media. They just are protecting

(45:14):
the Progressives. It's not that theydon't know about the story, because they
clearly know. It's just like thispolitical action committee that Commission Mattlow has started.
This is a big story. Sureis find it. It's you know,
it's Jeff Burlow buried it in acampaign story about you know, fifteen
other things. This has never happenedbefore. Okay, and so why is

(45:36):
this happening? And you know,why is he creating this PC political action
committee? Is not covered. Theyare not asking the questions. Now again
we don't. I've got to redoublemy efforts, okay, to get the
message out there because they are notThey will not talk about what their mission
is. And I go back toCommission reporter. Why isn't she talking about

(45:58):
this group. She's been visiting thegroup for the last three years. Local
Progress which is a far left winggroup that advocates for defunding law enforcement,
advocates for getting rid of cars,no growth. Okay, you know,
establishing bureaucracies within cities to take careof illegal immigrants. Why is she not
talking about that. There's nothing onour social media. Yet we're paying part

(46:21):
of the freight for her to goto these conferences and that's not covered anywhere.
Preston. It's alarming and it goesto show you when you read about
these studies that show, as youknow, as the reporters are, local
media becomes co opted or bought out. You see that leaders have no they're
not held accountable for anything. Now, the bad news here is there's not

(46:45):
a lot of options, and that'swhy we've got to redouble our efforts and
we've got to make sure people understandwhat's going on, because there's no doubt
that the reason why Commission Mattlow hasstarted this Political Action Committee is to do
what he did or tried to dowith this police officer, is to promote
this information because all he's interested in, he's not interested in in Tala hassee.
He's interested in getting controlled of thecity Commission. He's not interested with

(47:07):
working well. His statement on thePAC the Pack illustrates that he says that
the negativity is coming from the progressiveside or the conservative side or the other
side or whatever it is. Yeah, and I mean they are they're arguing,
you know that every chance they get, they dingleaw enforcement. They you

(47:27):
know, they vote. I mean, commission reporter voted against the Amazon project,
and then after it hires fourteen hundredpeople three or four hundred from the
poor zip code in the state ofFlorida, she said she'd vote against it
again. Now, I don't evenknow that that's been covered. That's we
did a story on that. ButI'm telling your listeners have got to pay
attention to this. And there's notany easy votes here because this is this

(47:51):
is a fight for control of theCity Commission among Democrats. We don't have
a dog in the fight, meaningthose of us who are more moderate,
right of center or conservative, wedon't have a dog in the fight.
But we will determine what happens.But what's interesting about this is the progressive
element. They are not shy aboutattacking their fellow Democrats, right, okay,

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But the moderate to liberal Democrats,they they're not sure what to do.
They're because they're not they're used toattacking Republicans, right, which is
easy to do. That's in theplaybook. Oh you know, is a
circular firing squad. So now they'renot really sure what to do. But
the Progressives, the one thing theyhave going for them is they know what
their mission is and they're going afterit and they don't care who they attack.

(48:37):
Truth be darned. All right,thank you, thank you pressing Steve
Stewart, whether us, tell usyour reports website, tell us your reports
dot com. Two mayor of Realville, dispensing information at the speed of sound,
and if you're lucky, he'll bewearing his Clark Kent glasses. Today
The Morning Show with Preston Scott AlanTenta, season ten winner of Alone,

(49:24):
joins us at the top of thehour. Half hour from now. Cannot
wait. The season eleven premiere istonight nine o'clock Eastern, eight o'clock Central
on the History Channel. Really reallyfired up about that. Great to be
with you this morning. I'm Preston, He's Jared and yeah, but I'm

(49:45):
still getting emails. Of course,people miss the announcement. Grant is no
longer here with the show. Hemay pop in from time to time to
fill in or I don't know,do a cameo or something. But but
Grant is simplified his life a littlebit. He's a new dad and his

(50:05):
daughter turns one and in a weekor so, and just he has a
full time job. This was apart time job for him, and which
makes me sad, but that's justthat's the way it is with iHeart right
now. And so he needed tocall something from his life and this is
what had to go. And sohis last his last show was the final

(50:30):
day of May. And and sowe are we are moving forward with we
hope a new producer will be intow perhaps as early as Monday, but
more than likely later. A shortweek for me next week. I'm taking
a little time off later in theweek. But anyway, big stories in
the press box. Grove a creativemarketing and digital expertise, are proud sponsor

(50:52):
Fed Reserve, keeping the interest rateselevated at a twenty three year high.
They're not going down. I willbe shocked if they go down. To
me, the only way they godown is if Trump wins the election and
there's some kind of market force reactionto that. Because the economy is bad

(51:16):
and the Fed knows it, andthey can't maintain any level of credibility by
lowering interest rates because it would bean absolute payoff to try to Biden,
and so they're not. They callthe inflation elevated and the economic outlook uncertain,
and I think that's being kind otherbig story in the press box,

(51:37):
we talked a little bit about Argentina'sPresident Javier Malay really draining the swamp.
I would dig a little deeper intothat Story's he shows up at rallies sometimes
with chainsaws. He carries a chainsawwith him to illustrate the cuts in government
that he's bringing. And he ismaking massive cuts and Argentina is economically turning

(52:00):
around, which is significant. It'sit's hugely significant. And maybe the biggest
story is Florida's budget has been signedby the governor. He brought the veto
pen to about one billion dollars andthe budget ended up at one sixteen five

(52:22):
one hundred and sixteen point five billion, which means it is a cut from
last year's budget. So austerity isstill part of the landscape in Florida.
That's good. We're adding seventeen billionsin surplus reserves and we're paying down debt.
Since Royn Desandas took over as governor. We paid down thirty six percent

(52:43):
of debt. And how many stategovernments can say that would? I would
venture very very few. So allthat's good news. All right? Forty
minutes past the hour, come backOptimum health naturally. Doctor David Hearts joins
us next here on the Morning Showwith Preston Scott. Wow World, consider

(53:07):
him your truth detector. The MorningShow with Preston Scott on News Radio one
hundred point seven WUFLA. Forty oneminutes after the hour. Time to feel
better, my friends, joining usDoctor David Harts, Hello, sir,

(53:28):
how are you? And good morningPreston. Doing well? We are.
We're going into a topic that Iwould never put the words together. Sign
you sitis and chronic well, theycan be chronic sinus siduss. There's no
doubt about it. Really about thirtythree million people that suffer with sinus infections

(53:52):
and sometimes they come and mostly medically, they're treated with antibotics and and histon,
the congestics, nasal sprays, andmany of them go away, some
definitely go away, but then there'sa large percentage of people end up with
chronic problems with their sciences. Theproblems come back the symptoms come back.

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Sometimes they're put on multiple different coursesof antibotics. And in years and years
ago, about twenty years ago,Mayo Clinic did a study and published some
papers on the fact that the standardway we usually go after these particular problems
in medicine by doing after bacteria isand always the way. Sometimes it's actually

(54:37):
a fungus that's doing this. Andthen there's been after some of these studies
done, there's been some kind offighting and liture about this. But in
functional and integrative areas of study thatwe work in, we find this happens
quite frequently. In fact, MayoClinics says it's about ninety percent at one

(54:59):
point. They believe in some ofthe studies they had that they found antibodies
to specific types of fungus in alarge percentage of these people, and one
of them is an alterra altanada.It's called it's a specific fungus and mold
that is very very common in householdsand in air conditioning ducts in different areas

(55:22):
that we find and just treating themwith antibotics doesn't get this, It just
doesn't help it. So part ofmy idea this morning is just to put
this idea out to people with sinusproblems that just aren't going away to maybe
get it checked a little different way, because by just going after that same

(55:43):
type of antibotic type of a process, it doesn't seem the beginning these problems.
So you can't do anybody testing forthese particular molds, and it's more
specialty tests and have to kind offind somebody that's in alternative integrative functional medicine
types sort of person and our peoplein town like that, and unfortunately this
one might need a little bit ofextra professional help to kind of narrow it

(56:07):
down if you really want to.There are some different things you can do
just naturally. You can actually buyon the internet specific types of nasal sprays
and try them. One of themis ACS Nasal Extra Strength, which ACS
Nasal Extra Strength. They'll say thattwice. You can get it on the
internet, just over line and it'sall natural and it does seem to help

(56:28):
with things like this. But alsogetting these tests for these antibodies and IgE
airborne environmental and inhalins, and alsogetting food allergies sometimes can affect this and
they're just not tested for because wekind of get into a corollary of treating

(56:51):
just with antibiotics, and antibiotics inand of themselves, though they can handle
certain things and do it very well, targeted too many antibiotics, we've learned
the hard way is really bad.Well, it can it can show the
biome and the gut and cause immuneproblems and so forth like that, and
there's no doubt about that. Andthere's been a tremendous move within medicine,

(57:14):
you know, which is really greatover the last maybe ten fifteen years to
decrease the use of antibiotics yep,using only an emergency almost type situations,
that's correct. And then when youget into a chronic problem, with something
like a chronic sinus problem and they'reused consistently, then we can get into
trouble. So it's always good.And what we always trying to go for
is getting into the cause of theproblem. So if something's not going away,

(57:36):
then we need to look a littledeeper see what we can find out
something different. Good stuff, DoctorHearts, thanks for the time today.
We'll talk again soon, Okay,Preston had a great day. Thank you,
sir. Doctor David Harts with usforty six minutes after the hour Getting
Closer. Morning Show with Preston Scottlock a bike with one of those bells

(57:57):
and a radio just like the seventies. Yeah, I traveled with a radio
taped to my bike. This isthe Morning Show with Preston Scott. Road

(58:25):
Trip Idea. Now, remember weare in summer and I'm focusing on trips
you can take in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, maybe Mississippi.
And today, my friends, wetake you to the Everglades and our

(58:49):
suggestion is the skunk Ape Research Headquarters. It is you take seventy five and
then it crosses across the Everglades andyou take you take I think that's twenty
nine south, or you can takeseventy five and branch off and take forty

(59:15):
one and forty one will take youto the skunk Ape Research Headquarter. And
it's in a Chope, Florida,a chopee if you're not sure what the
skunk ape is. That is theFlorida term for bigfoot yetti sasquatch or sasquatch.

(59:40):
And this is actually named one ofthe best roadside attractions in America.
It's like in the top ten.It's crazy and they have an exhibit.
There are guided tours. They'll takeyou out on the water. You can

(01:00:01):
go fishing. I mean, it'snot fishing for although I guess you could,
but it's a thing. And soyour suggestion is the skunk Ape Research
headquarters. And it's a drive now, I mean, you're you're going down
there and you can the best partof making this trip is there's so many

(01:00:24):
things that you can stop and doon the way there. On the way
back, you can go to otherplaces from there. They do have a
camp adjacent to the to the placeyou can you can camp there if you
dare anyway, speaking of camping,Tonight is the season premiere of a loan

(01:00:54):
season eleven. I have watched everysin Goal season. First of all,
you have to understand I have apersonalized photo from Less Stroud back here.
Less Droud is survivor man and hedid seven day challenges, three day challenges,

(01:01:20):
different things where he would put himselfin these extreme situations and then show
techniques of survival. We've had Lesson the program multiple times over the years.
It's been a while because he stoppeddoing the show, but alone took
the concept. I don't know ifit was shaped by Less's success and what
they did, but they took itone better. And I say that because

(01:01:43):
what the History Channel came up withwith a loan is a program where ten
proven survival experts. Now some doit professionally, some teach others. In
the case of Alententa, who willjoin us in just a few minutes,
they taught high school kids in ahigh school about outdoor survival and outdoors.

(01:02:07):
Some come with a totally different skillset from others, but they prove themselves.
They're picked for the show, theyget to select their items. We'll
talk about that. And there's alocation and they're all taken to remote parts
of a location where there's no otherpeople, no other humans. The Alone

(01:02:28):
staff sets up a base camp withmedical experts and you know, producers and
camera people that are there when theydo medical checks. But the show is
unique because these ten people are droppedoff with camera gear and their gear and
there's no camera crew. There's noone documenting anything. They document it themselves.

(01:02:49):
It's just them and whoever stays outthere. The longest wins and the
prizes have been anything from I thinktwo hundred and fifty to five hundred thousand
to a million. They did aone hundred day challenge that was a million
dollars, I think. But they'rein very unforgiving parts of the world.
And so we're going to talk tothe winner of last seasons Alone. He

(01:03:15):
was the one of the guys wesingled out right away as having a great
chance of winning. We'll talk aboutall of that, and I cannot wait.
This is going to be so muchfun for me, and I hope
you'll enjoy it, and I hopeyou'll watch because I think it's the best
show on television and I think there'sa big distance between it and Second.

(01:03:38):
It's real, it's good, it'sfascinating, it shows ingenuity and grint and
I can't wait. Next five minutespast the hour. It is the third

(01:03:58):
hour of The Morning Show with PrestonScott Sho soh five and seventy nine.
Great to be with you. Weappreciate you joining us, whether it's on
terrestrial radio or iHeartRadio all throughout thecountry around the world. And that is
Jared running the program and I amso I'm like such a kid right now.
Joining me on the show is seasonten winner of Alone, Alan ten

(01:04:23):
to Alan, Welcome to the show. How are you, sir? Well,
I'm pretty good, but you knowwhat, I live in mountain times,
So it's six o'clock in the morningright now, so home, We've
been awake for both five minutes.So I'm a little sleepy dude. I
will take what I get, andI'm grateful that you were willing to wake
up early for us. Does itkind of stir something that you know that

(01:04:45):
the new season is going to startbeing shown to people across the country and
around the world today, I mean, does this evoke a lot of memories?
Absolutely? Yeah, Like I wastalking about that with my wife yesterday.
It's it stirs up a whole newstring of emotions because almost exactly a
year ago, while it was Juneeighth for me last year, you know,

(01:05:08):
and you wait a long time becauseit's filmed so far in advanced and
you have to you wait, youknow, almost an entire year before it's
actually aired. And yeah, there'sjust that weird feeling of excitement and because
you have no idea what the editis. You don't know what they did,
you don't know what story they're goingto tell, because we filmed,
you remember, we filmed eight hoursa day and uh, and they take

(01:05:31):
you know, we have no ideawhat footage they're going to take from that
eight hours or what story they're goingto weave for you, you know what
I mean, Like it's all legit, but they can definitely take certain aspects
of your of your experience out thereand kind of you know, knit a
story to to suit whatever kind ofgoal they had in mind for you.
So so a little bit nerve wracking, Alan, I could like dominate your

(01:05:56):
day because I would. I wouldpay money to sit and just talk with
you about this whole experience, becauseI've been fascinated with this show since it
started. But I'm going to breakit up into three parts. Tell me
about your decision. What what causedyou to say I want to try out
for this. Well, it wasmostly the people around me. I'm an

(01:06:17):
outdoor education teacher at the high schoolin my local town here in British Columbia,
Canada, and I teach outdoor educationto a group of kids and every
Friday, we used to do carvingskills, like we were working on a
walking stick and they implement all thebushcraft carving skills onto that walking stick and
they can take it home at theend of the year, and while we

(01:06:39):
were watching Sorry Why, we werecarving a stick. I used to put
on old episodes of A Loan onFridays so they can, you know,
watch old episodes while we're doing alittle carbon It's just a good relaxing Friday
activity. And the kids started saying, mister Kenta, you should apply to
that show. We do a lotof these things, you know, we
do shelter, building, fire starting, a lot of things that they are

(01:07:00):
doing on the show. And eventuallyI just h and my sister in law
actually sent me the application email.It's just like to do a casting call
once a year. He was actuallyon Facebook that she sent it to me.
And I just sent this a littleblurb of an email. It was
literally four or five sentences, andthat led to a larger application, and
then that led to an interview andcasting videos and it just and the whole

(01:07:24):
process of the application went for probablyfour months. So I just kept on
moving on to the next step.Somehow. When you got word you were
selected, what was your reaction,what was your wife's reaction, your family?
Well, I was driving at thetime, I remember exactly it was.
I was on the Cocahalla Highway goingto Vancouver, and I got a

(01:07:45):
phone call and the call displace saidNew York, and I knew right away
that this was whether this was ayes or a no. I pulled over
and obviously it was a yes.And was just pure excitement because there's so
much waiting during the application process.You do one thing and a new wait
another two weeks before hear you doanother thing and new, wait another two
weeks. So even though it waskind of it was fun and exciting,

(01:08:08):
it was stressful waiting and knowing becausethere's so much preparation that it goes into
it right. But I know itwas pure elation. I was very excited.
I wasn't nervous yet. I wasjust more Wow, this is the
end of the process. How exciting. I can't wait to start my preparation.
Alan ten to with us. Hewon Season ten of a Loon.

(01:08:30):
I mentioned earlier in the program thatwhen my wife, my wife and I
watch it every year, we kindof narrow it down right away when we
see the ten who we think iskind of made up to be a finalist
and make it to the end.Alan was one of our picks. I'm
very proud to say that I didhim early on. We've got more to
talk about the ten items. Igot to get to that next on the

(01:08:51):
Morning Show with Preston Scott and Joe. With Preston Scott, they're gonna get
knock knock, Who's Nash On wFLA eleven past the hour, continuing our
discussion with Alan tent to season tenalone Tonight, season eleven debuts. How's

(01:09:15):
that for timing nine o'clock Eastern,eight o'clock Central on the History Channel.
I will be I can't, Ican't wait for the new season. All
right, the ten items, everybodygets the same basic kit in terms of
cameras, batteries, emergency gear.Right, yeah, and then the ten
item list take me through without goingthrough the whole thing. How did you

(01:09:41):
decide what ten items were going tobe chosen based on your experience? Allen?
What what was the criteria? Well? I knew that my two passions
and things that I'm on the beststat are are bowl hunting and fishing,
So obviously I was gonna take myarchery equipment, so along my it's got
to be a traditional boat, eithera long bow or a recurve. I

(01:10:04):
shoot a long boat, and you'reallowed to take nine arrows and that's that
counts as one item. And you'reallowed three hundred yards of monofilamon fishing line
with twenty five just bare hooks,and you have to make your own lures
and whatnot out of those. SoI knew those two were coming with me
hands down, and I brought anaxe because you know, I had a

(01:10:27):
saw. But the only really reasonI brought an axe was in case I
made it to freeze up, i'dbe able to chop through the ice to
ice fish, because I remember aprevious season a character named Winnie. I
don't know if you remember her.She didn't bring an axe, and I
had seen in my mind of hertrying to break through the ice with her
saw, and she just couldn't doit to ice fish. So I said,

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man, I got to bring anaxe for that very reason. Obviously,
I brought a sleeping bag, apot for cooking I bought. I
brought eleven in multitools. There wasa knife employers on there. I really
wanted the multitude because making snares andmaking krishing lures with my with my snare

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wire, I really wanted to beable to cut the wire easily with my
players. Alan, Hell, howimportant you've mentioned a previous season watching what
other contestants did. Had you watchedall of the previous seasons and how much
did that influence your choices? Well, I watched most of the seasons.
There's a couple that I still haven'tseen yet, but I'd say I've may

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have only missed one season just notmaking the same mistakes that some previous contestants
made. And the big one forme was, I mean, how often
have you have we seen past contestantsbuild massive cabins, put all their energy
into building the shelter, and thentapping out shortly after the build a shelter

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because they exhausted themselves and didn't putfood procurement as the number one goal.
That was one thing, and justsome some of the old players that had
such a positive attitude, and Isaw how that was so important not to
let your mind go to those darkplaces. And yeah, so I kind
of my brother directed me towards alittle bit of meditation, just just very

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basic meditation to to help keep apositive mind frame, because when your mind
starts going dark, you start convincingyourself with reasons you should hit that button,
because you got to remember, you'vegot a button on your hip on
a little on what's called the yellowbrick. It's going to be with you
all the time, with a gohome button all the time. So if

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your mind isn't positive, it's itwould be really hard to resist hitting that
button, you know, because it'sthere all the time, and when it
starts getting late in the game andyou and you're hungry and you're cold,
and it's really easy to convince yourselfto hit that button. Of the list
of items that you were allowed tobring that you chose what one proved to

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be the most important. Well,it would have to be the fishing equipment,
because without the fish, I wouldn'thave been able to sustain myself because
I caught well, I think Icaught roughly an estimation, probably over one
hundred pounds of fish. Wow,with that fishing line. So and the

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fish out there were big, soit didn't take very many to catch one
hundred pounds because the average size isprobably between three to six pounds. Each
fish I caught, I think it'sone of about eight pounds all intent to
with us, we got one moresegment to go kind enough to carve out
some time. The season premiere ofAlone on the History Channel is to night,

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nine o'clock eastern, eight o'clock Centralon the History Channel. And one
more segment of all intent to theSeason ten winner next year in the morning
show left La on your phone withthe iHeart Radio app and on hundreds of
devices like Alexa, Google Home,Xbox and Sonos, Yes and iHeart Radio
station Alone the season premiere tonight,season eleven, nine o'clock eastern eight o'clock

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Central on the History Channel. Seasonten Winner, how about this, Kirby.
Shout out to you, Kirby forhelping make this happen. I appreciate
you so very much. Alan tentto the season ten winner with me this
morning, kind enough to wake upreal early in British Columbia to join us
this morning Live, Alan, wasthere a moment you talked about You've got

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that button on your hip at theentire time you're out there. Was there
one moment when it could have goneeither way that you managed to push through
that you can share? Uh?Yeah, there was one moment. I
don't remember exatly what day was,probably around day fifty. It got extremely
cold. I mean we don't knowhow cold it is because we have no

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way of knowing. But I wokeup in the middle of the night and
I was shivering uncontrollably in my sleepingbag and my tepee, and at that
point that I'd probably lost seventy poundsand I had just no way of staying
warm out shivering. The inside ofmy sleeping bag felt like the inside of
the freezer I put down. Iput on all my clothes and cleaning my

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winter jacket, squeezed in my sleepingbag, and I shivered through the night.
And there was a point where Iwas actually worried about my life that
one moment, because I was socold, and there was like three or
four hours still morning when it wasstill would warm up, and I thought,
I thought it was getting hypothermic.And even if I did tap out
of that moment, they wouldn't havebeen able to come and get me until

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morning. So I pushed through andI solved that problem. They didn't show
it, but I had to heatup hot rocks every night and throughout the
night to make it through the lastsixteen days or so. And I had
a hot rock on my feet likethese are boat and ball sized rocks.
I'd heat up on my fire.I put one of my feet, one

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between my legs, and one onmy chest, and every three hours I'd
wake up, light another fire,heat the rocks again, put them back
at my sleeping bank. And that'show I made it through the nights for
the last sixteen days. You mentionedweight loss give the before in the after,
So I went in at two fiftynine and I came out at one
point eighty one, So that's seventyeight pounds. If my mouth is right,

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when you realize that you'd won,because you have no clue when or
if anybody's tapped out, you justyou don't know. You can kind of
guess, well, we've got somepeople gone by now. But when that
reveal happens, describe that moment,Well, they lie to you. They
told me we were having a medicalcheck. I hadn't had one in about

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three weeks, so I knew thatI was I needed to have the MET
check soon. And the helicopter Iheard the helicopter lad and the MET team
came up in there. You know, they took my blood pressure, I
mean, and there was a blizzard. If you watched the last episode,
there's a snowstorm, and they're askingme questions, and the producers are really
good asking you a question that theyknow are going to be emotional, make

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you emotional. It was my Iwon on November nineteenth. It was my
dad's birthday on November eighteenth, andhe passed away in twenty thirteen, so
he had asked me a whole bunchof questions about me, all emotional.
And right after that, I wastalking about Doritos, how I was having
all my food Fanta season, andthen all of a sudden, my wife
tapped me on the shoulder. She'dbe waiting on the beach the whole time,

(01:17:25):
and told me I'd won. Andman, what an incredible moment.
When my wife and I still watchedthat scene, we still get very emotional.
It's pretty powerful. And then thereare all of the students that you
have taught. Tell me the aftermathwith those kids, Oh, they were,

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they were pretty excited. Unfortunately,it's summer holidays when I won,
right it was right August, andthere is no school, so everything kind
of died down because it wasn't foryou know, quite quite a few weeks,
three weeks or so, until Isaw the students so they had all
got a chance to kind of getover the excited. You know, I've
seen most of them in town andwhatnot previously, but no, they were

(01:18:08):
pretty excited. They were pretty excited. It would have been better if the
school was actually going on and Ilike showed up to class the next day.
They all knew I was on theshow, but they obviously no one
knew how I did until it endedon August seventeenth last year. Over the
years, we've seen some shows wherethey bring people that came close back together.

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If they ever offered you an opportunityto do this again, would you
absolutely yes, as long as it'ssoon, because you know, I'm no
spring chicken. I'm not getting anyyounger. I'm already the oldest personet to
ever win at fifty two, soyou know it's going to happen pretty quick.

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You know, things aren't getting Myknees aren't getting any better. If
you did it again and it werein a cold environment again, what would
you do differently? If anything,I'd build a smaller shelter so it'd warm
up more easily, and I'd buya much better sleeping bag. Yeah,

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I'd get a minus sixty rated insteadof a minus forty. My sleeping bag
was my weakest item. It didn'tkeep me warm very well. The nights
were a real struggle. Alan,proud of you, brother, as just
someone that admired the grit and thedetermination and the skills required to make it
through it. Man, it's adelight to have you on the program.
I count this a high mark forme and I've done about eight thousand interviews

(01:19:34):
on this show. It's really coolto have you on the program. And
I wish you nothing but the best. Hey, I appreciate it. Thank
you very much, sir, Thankyou. Alan tent To with Us Season
ten, Winner of a Loon Seasoneleven, debuts tonight on the History Channel
nine o'clock Eastern, eight o'clock Central. And yes, I will be talking

(01:19:58):
about it. And it's past thehour of the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Subjects will just make you furious.Don't worry. We're here to make
it all better. There you go. Yes, it's okay, Yes,
this is the Morning Show with PrestonScott. Man, I needed that,

(01:20:25):
Jared said, A smile never leftyour face. It's true. You're like
a kid on Christmas. Yeah,buddy, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah. And here's the thing.This week, I have been doing political
interviews and God bless them, anybodyyou run for office, it's like going

(01:20:45):
on alone. I mean, you'rein a combat zone. It's just it's
tough. But doing interviews with peoplethat want to win office. And so
I've been here, you know,I get here about four forty five or
so. I've been leaving between twelvetwelve thirty one one thirty. Yesterday I

(01:21:08):
left at one thirty. My voiceis just dragging, and you're like,
you're you're out there going and it'sfair. You're going, oh poor you.
I get it, I get it. I'm just saying I'm going to
be here a while today doing theother production stuff that I have responsibilities to

(01:21:29):
do, and finishing my my thankyou card, specialized audio and all that.
That interview with Alan Tanta just liftedmy spirits because I am such a
fan of the show. The menand women, yes women that are on
this show have such skills. Theyare so good at problem solving. Now,

(01:21:56):
there are a few contestants over theyears that I've gone, your kidney,
you're not doing that, No,oh don't don't, And you did
dah but there's some ingenious stuff andthe way people approach it the challenge is
so different, and I love it. I love problem solvers, absolutely love
problem solvers. Find it, finda way, and I love it anyway.

(01:22:21):
Big Stories in the press Box broughtto you by Grow a Creative Marketing
digital Expertise. Big Story in thepress Box. I love that interview.
It was great, it was terrific, and it's going out on the Conversations
podcast today. And yes, yes, thank you Alan. That applause from
the studio audiences for you. Theeditorial staff of the Morning show, they're

(01:22:45):
down the hallway just muttering to eachother because they're normally just they're just like
looking for something to slam me on, and so they got nothing today.
They got nothing. Anyway, Thankyou again. I yeah. Governor de
Santas signs the bill that is thebudget. It is the thing that constitutionally
has to happen, and so itis done. It was signed yesterday on

(01:23:11):
the twelfth of the month, whichmeans lots of time to get everybody ready
to go in the various agencies affectedone hundred and sixteen billion, one hundred
and sixteen point five billion. Weare putting more in emergency reserves. We
are paying down debt. We don'thave much, we're paying it down.

(01:23:35):
We paid down thirty six percent ofdebt under Governor Desandas and our budget is
less than it was last year.And I keep saying it. How many
states can make these claims? Anyof them? And oh, by the
way, with no state income tax, thank you very much. This all
of this buttresses several points, threeof them in particular, one the importance

(01:23:58):
of a balanced budget Amendment two,the importance of no personal income tax.
People thrive. And you can doit with a consumption tax. We have
a consumption tax. It works.You determine your own level of taxation by
the stuff you buy. How brilliantis that? And we've been talking about
it for twenty two plus years onthis show. Third part time Legislature.

(01:24:24):
They come around now their meeting andthey have committee meetings at different points of
the year, but they're only doingthe business of making laws and passing legislation
for two months. We benefit fromthat. Other states the nation can learn
from what Florida is doing. Weare the ultimate Petri dish of how to

(01:24:45):
do things right. Tip of thecap some did you know it's next on
the Morning Show with Preston Scott.I do what you're talking about. It's
the Morning Show with Preston Scott.Did you know we talked about Al Jazeera's

(01:25:17):
partnership with Northwestern University and the Schoolof Journalism there. Northwestern has a campus
in Qatar, and I think thenumber is sixties seventies. Eighty percent of

(01:25:38):
the guest lecturers on that campus hateIsrael and spread propaganda anti Semitism and so
forth. Now we find out thata journalist for Al Jazeera, Abdallah al
Jamal, a journalist with Al Jazeerz Era, was holding hostage Israelis in

(01:26:04):
his home. He was killed inthe rescue. The journalist Gaza based reporter
and photojournalist. And I'm wondering,why in the world is Al Jazeera allowed
in this country? Why would youallow a propaganda machine for terrorism to operate

(01:26:32):
in your country, to have spaceon cable networks, to have space to
propagandize people in this country. That'sit. Did you know? Did you
know about that? Did you knowabout the journalist that in fact was holding

(01:26:57):
hostages? Now he's with his virginsnow Biden Harris regime shot down a twenty
four billion dollar pay raise for enlistedtroops after spending seven times that on Ukraine.

(01:27:23):
I look at our enlisted the waythat I now understand that we've watered
down the enlisted. What we've donewith going woke in the military has compromised
our fighting forces. There are somebrave men and women serving and they're awesome,

(01:27:49):
And there are people leading them thathave no business leading them up the
chain. Not many at the chain, but they're beholden to what people up
the chain are telling them. Theyhave to teach and have to do,
and some of the courses these peopleare taking in the academies. And I

(01:28:10):
mean, we're not preparing a fightingforce. We're preparing people to argue for
inclusivity, equity. But to thinkthat we have spent seven times more money

(01:28:31):
sending it off to Ukraine than wewere willing to spend paying the men and
women still signing up to serve ourcountry and defend it. Sweet God,
forgive us unbelievable, just unbelievable.Tomorrow in the program, Jimmy Petrona's CFO

(01:28:53):
for the state of Florida joins us, we'll have what's the bee if your
calls we will not be doing thebest and worst. I will not and
we won't have a good news segmentbecause we'll have the CFO. He was
available at eight thirty five, soa little shifting. But when I get
a member of the Florida Cabinet available, boom, we're gonna We're gonna put

(01:29:14):
him on the show because we areFlorida centric and I feel as though there's
a great responsibility on us to keepyou aware of the things going on around
you, where you live and whereyou call home. So that's tomorrow on
the program. But we will doWhat's the Beef. We have a bunch
of other things. I'm debating onopening up the phone lines before What's the

(01:29:36):
Beef and getting your thoughts on acouple of subjects, just kind of kind
of weigh and measure that and kindof see where things are by the end
of the day. Forty six minutesafter the hour, one final segment to
go here in the Morning Show withPreston Scott. All right, this segment

(01:30:04):
would normally be in the first hourbecause it's an auction and you know my
obsession with auctions. But it's notthere because I wrote in the rundown nope,
this is it's an auction that I'mtalking about. But nope, no,

(01:30:26):
no, no, I hope noone buys it. It is it
is, it's it's just well,let me just tell the story. January
sixth, nineteen ninety four, NancyCarrigan was assaulted after a practice session in

(01:30:50):
the ninety four US Women's Figure SkatingChampionships. A dude named Shane stant took
a baton and attacked her. Theinjuries cost her a chance to compete in
the event. She did recover intime to compete in the Olympics. I

(01:31:11):
think she won a bronze medal,I want to say, but it was
quickly determined by a lot of folksthat Tanya Harding, who won that championship
that that time, not the Olympicgold medal, the US Championship, that
her husband at the time, JeffGaluley, had planned the attack. And

(01:31:39):
I think it was pretty much determinedthat that's exactly what happened. Harding claims
she knew nothing about it. Okay, Well, the outfit she wore on
the ice the day after the attackand during the ninety four Olympics is up
for auction. Leland Summer classic auction. Starting bid is three thousand. They

(01:32:08):
think it'll sell from up to fifty. I'm saving this story because I'm hoping
it doesn't sell even for three Dothey think there's some figure skating super fan
out there with a budget for that. The notorious nature of it being Tanya
Hardings and that people are obsessed withweirdness is what they hope. I hope

(01:32:34):
it doesn't get three grand. Ihope it just sits there. That's me
though. I think Tanya Harding isa tacky, classless person, and I
think she was absolutely involved in whathappened to Nancy Kerrigan. But we'll see.

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I mean, people will buy anything, right, So who knows?
Brought to you by Barono Heating andAir. It's the morning show on on
WFLA. Time to look back atthe program in one hundred and eighty seconds
or less. I talk to aloan Season ten winner, Alan Tento.

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I almost feel like just walking offthe show right now, even now you
have a big smile on your face. I just feel like there's nothing more
I need to say. But Iwill, because that's what I do.
I talk for a living Florida GovernorRound de Sandis reduces Florida spending in a

(01:33:42):
new budget, retains surplus key investments. Well done, Governator Florida. Florida's
showing how to run things. FedReserve illustrating that the federal government hasn't a
clue. Interest rates remain at atwenty three year high. The Fed is
not lowering rates. They can't.Inflation is still high, and the economy

(01:34:05):
is well, they say, uncertain. Now the economy's trash. Argentina's president
is figuring out ways to drain theswamp. Biden administration being pushed to revoke
Al Jazeera credentials. How about wekick them out of the country, forget

(01:34:27):
credentials. Just you're out, boothim, put them on a plane one
way. See you you want tothis In response to learning that an Al
Jazeera journalist had been holding hostages inGaza, his terrorist Biden Harris regime shoots

(01:34:51):
down twenty four billion dollar pay raisefor enlisted troops after spending seven times that
in Ukraine. BUCkies opens its largeststore for ever, seventy five thousand square
feet, one hundred and twenty gaspumps. And yes, we talked with
season ten alone winter Alan Tenta onthe program. It's coming to The Conversations

(01:35:15):
podcast if you missed it back tomorrow. Can't wait