Ep. 5355: Terrifying Tariffs Terrorize Totally.

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for  Thursday, April 10th

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- Dr. Matthew Zaide




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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Born of Friends, Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, Males
and females only, Ruminators one and all Welcome. Thursday, April
ten on The Morning Show with Preston Scott More. On
that date, in Mere Moments, he's Jose who is doing

(00:32):
his very best impersonation of a spaghetti Western star in
a Clint Eastwood movie. Now he swapped out his uh
look kind of a faux alligator hat, kind of cowboy hat.
And that's faux alligator is a real alligator, which is
it's actually a cow Okay, well, it's got an alligator

(00:54):
kind of print to it feels like it looks like
just because it's old, you know, Okay, Okay, Wrinkley huh
like me? So yeah, he's he's got this cowboy kind
of ish thing. He's got his beige duster on instead
of a black one. A black duster would probably make
him look like he's ready for the matrix, and cops

(01:16):
would be having their hands on their firearms when they
when he walks by. But he's traded out as cowboy
had for his make America Great Again hat, and he's
standing by there in Studio one. A. Let's let's begin now,
our look at scripture. And what I'm gonna ask you
to study today is Matthew twenty one. Now I don't

(01:44):
want to I'm not gonna read verse for verse through this.
I'm going to focus on this. Matthew is recording here
these events in a very specific way. And what's important

(02:05):
to note here is his account of this is different
slightly than the accounts written by Mark and Luke. Remember
Matthew's one of the twelve disciples. Mark and Luke were not,
and so proximity matters. Matthew's recording Jesus saying to them,

(02:33):
go into the village, and you gotta really focus here.
In Matthew twenty one, verse two, Jesus says to them,
go into the village in front of you, and immediately
you will find a donkey tied and a cult with her.
Untie them and bring them to me. And then he

(02:55):
goes on ahead, and Matthew writes, this took place to
fulfill what was oken by the prophet. The prophet by
the way Zechariah Zecharia at nine to nine say to
the daughter of Zion, behold, your king is coming to you.
Humble and mounted on a donkey on a cold and
the full of a beast of burden. So what I

(03:17):
want you to focus on, because Mark and Luke don't
reference the two. Clearly, Jesus is speaking even prophetically himself
while fulfilling prophecy. A lot of people will say, we'll see,
Jesus could have just said, there, grab that donkey, and

(03:39):
I'm going to fulfill that prophecy. But I want you
to consider the importance of the words Matthew chose to
write here. Jesus is on a trip. He's making his
way to Jerusalem, right he says, go ahead of you,

(04:01):
go ahead of us where we are, to the village
up ahead. You're going to find a donkey there with
a colt. He wanted them both because if you bring
the adult donkey, then the colt starves. So he brings

(04:21):
them both. But here's what's significant. It was the village ahead,
not the village behind. Jesus knew, just as Zachariah knew,
there would be a donkey that had a new colt
and they would be together in the village ahead. Jesus

(04:44):
knew it was up in the village ahead, so he
sent them ahead and they came back the significance of
the donkey. I'll get to tomorrow. But what I want
you to focus on is I want you to grab
hold of the prop see of Zechariah that Jesus is
fulfilling without ever laying his eyes on the village ahead,

(05:07):
because it's ahead. He hadn't been there yet, he hadn't
arrived in the village that was down the road. He
knew because he's the son of God, He's God, he knows.
It builds your faith. The prophecies that Christ fulfilled build

(05:28):
your faith. Ten past the hour, It's the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

(05:52):
Inside the American Patriots Almanac, April tenth. In sixteen oh six,
King James, the first of England charters the London Company
to establish settlements in North America in sixteen oh six.
Now I know we had We've had explorers going around
the world for years, I mean, fourteen ninety two, for

(06:16):
Pete's sake, we got boats on the high seas worried
that the earth was flat and we were going to
fall over the edge. And I'm just thinking to myself,
what type of sand does it take to be a

(06:38):
captain and to be on the crew of a ship
going across and you're navigating by the stars or whatever.
I mean.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
I just.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
Tip of the cap to all you, the ancestors of
all of us, for their collective bravery. Seventeen eighty one
in South Carolina, young Andrew Jackson, part of the Patriot
Militia ambushed by the British. Eighteen forty nine, Walter Hunt
of New York City patents the safety pin a very

(07:14):
underrated invention. It makes me wonder did he think of it?
Or did he come upon it by accident? In other words,
if you look at the construction of a safety pin,
it's a long piece of metal. It's a paper clip, right,

(07:35):
only wound more tightly where it has a little bit
of a spring effect. And then you've got the obviously
the tip of it that's sharp, but you know that
spring action that's in there, and it kind of latches
inside the little protected sheath. Did he come upon the
general idea accidentally that it springs up in anxiety? Oh,

(07:59):
I wonder what I could do with that? And then
he I'm fascinated. I would love to be a fly
on the wall at these moments of inspiration where someone goes.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
Right again, I'm easily amused. I know, I find things
like that just ridiculously interesting. Nineteen twenty five, The Great
Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is published. And on this date,
in nineteen forty two, the Batan Death March began, ninety
mile forced march of Filipino and American soldiers on the

(08:36):
Batan Peninsula. A pow camps. Yeah, boy, And I spoke
to a survivor, a guy who made the march. How
do you know he's in photos? Crazy? Today is National
Erase Self Negativity Day. How about you just read the Bible.

(09:04):
You'll just you'll life changes if you just pick up
God's word and if you actually take the time to
read it, not just hold it. Okay, it's a start, though.
I'll grant you that National Farm Animals Day, National Cinnamon

(09:25):
Crescent Day, a cinnamon crescent roll. Really, oh man, if
you're gonna do that, just go get a cinnamon roll,
cinnamon crescent roll. Nah, oh, go all in National Siblings Day,

(09:45):
National Encourage a Young Writer Day. That should be every
day anyway. I'm just sharing just hey, hey, hey, I'm
the messenger. That's it.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
When we come back. A couple of announcements including, oh,
what's going to happen tonight on Wheel of Fortune?

Speaker 2 (10:10):
No?

Speaker 1 (10:10):
Is it back with more worn to show with Preston Scott.

(10:34):
All right, quick reminder here that the Capital Conservatives will
be meeting on Tuesday night Elks Lodge on North Magnolia
and John Daly, the Mayor, will be there. I'd be
curious to get his thoughts on Jerry Mattlow announcing that

(10:57):
he's going to run for mayor. Some of you are like, what, Yeah, Yes,
the progressive one who wants to turn Tallahassee into Portland
of the Southeast is running for mayor. It's an opportunity
for this city to move on. Wish Jeremy nothing but

(11:19):
the best with his business enterprises, which is so ironic
considering he hates businesses. This is weird. He runs a
very successful business, though it has had some health violation
problems that have called the restaurant to shut down at
least one location. But I'm sure they've got all that corrected.
But now we just we don't we don't need that.

(11:43):
But at any rate, back to Capital Conservatives. They're also
going to be honoring Tyler McAdams Tallassee Fire Department. He
rescued a woman from a burning car back just a
few weeks ago, and so they will honor him as well.
But it's an opportunity for you to ask some questions,
listen to the mayor talk about things going on in

(12:05):
the city. And the meeting is at the Oaks Lodge
on North Magnolia. The dinner's at five point thirty, but
you got a reserve for that and we'll just I'll
leave that for the membership to enjoy the dinner. You
go on at about six or six fifteen for the
program and that's no charge, So there you go. But
you can be a member and we're going to work

(12:25):
on improving the membership base of Capital Conservatives in the
days to come. All right, twenty three almost twenty four
minutes past the hour, and tonight is yet another night.
It is iHeartRadio week all week long on Wheel of Fortune.

(12:46):
You can hear it in the back of your head,
Will of Fortune. And we all watched the Wheel of
Fortune when it was on daytime. You'd be sick and
you'd watch the Wheel of Fortune. Right, everyone's done that
at least a few times. You watch Wheel of Fortune
and prices, right, and it's like that's like when you're

(13:07):
homesick nursing a little chicken noodle soup. Those are your
go tos right there, great play along at home games.
What's really fun about this is we're teaming up with
Wheel of Fortune to give away some amazing prices every
day to home to home viewers. All right. It's not

(13:30):
just being highlighted for the contestants that are there, it's
being highlighted for you. So check out the wheel tonight
because you can win tonight. I'm telling you. If you're
an audio file, this is like, this is promised land
type stuff for you because the wheel's given away an

(13:54):
unforgettable trip to Las Vegas and the iconic iHeartRadio Festival.
So get your mind around that. You will be a
guest at the iHeartRadio Music Festival if you win, and
the only way you can do that is by watching
tonight Wheel of Fortune. So check it out and I

(14:18):
will drop again the I think ultimate piece of Wheel
of Fortune trivia in that this is the first time
ever this week that a lowercase letter has been used
on Wheel of Fortune. The lowercase I in iHeart just

(14:39):
saying that that would be a reason alone to watch Wait,
a lowercase letter, and it's one of those It's one
of those little, odd trivial things that as you think
about it, you go, oh, you know what is right?
They're all uppercase until this week the lowercase I and

(15:05):
iHeart And of course it's it's always good practice to
get used to saying, you know what, he's right? Think
it just it helps around here. I'm just saying, so
check it out. We will fortune tonight as iHeartRadio week
continues and it will continue through tomorrow. So we'll tell

(15:27):
you about tomorrow's prize a little bit later on in
the show. Busy Thursday. Of course, in the final hour
of the show, we're going to take your calls and
we're gonna get your thoughts on all of this tariff stuff.
Where's your mind right now? The markets rallied yesterday and
I think there's something deep in that, but we'll see,

(15:49):
we'll see what you think. Twenty seven minutes past the hour,
the Big Stories in the press Box. Next here in
the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
M h.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
Thirty five minutes past Steve Stewart a little bit. Dr
Matthews Ataman in this morning for doctor David Harts. Played
golf yesterday with doctor Hertz, had a delightful time. It
was just a beautiful day. He's just he has to
travel today and doctor Zaidaman is always kind to come
in and uh fill in. And so today we will
talk about fluoride. A lot of a lot of buzz

(16:38):
around fluoride in water in dental treatments. Is it good
for you? Is it bad for you? What? What? Why? What? Why?

Speaker 2 (16:46):
Why? Why? Wo?

Speaker 1 (16:47):
So we're gonna talk about that, and then in the
third hour we're gonna take your calls on what is
still the big story in the press box, and that
is tariffs. Want to get your thoughts, just what is
your mindset about all of this. Feel free to say
I think it's stupid. I think it's reckless and dangerous.
If you believe that, trust me, I am not going

(17:11):
to attack anybody for their thoughts. I may nudge, I
may say so tell me more. But this is really
this is gonna be your chance to talk. And for
those of you the saying I thought you had correction,
Secretary Rick Addxon scheduled I did, But it's the legislative session.

(17:32):
He is the head of an agency that is one
of the single most important agencies in the state, if
not the most, because it's corrections. And so he is
having a sit down meeting with some members of the
leadership of the state legislature today and he very, you know,

(17:56):
overly politely, said I'd be happy to do this segment,
but I really love to prep for the meetings and
we can talk whenever it's convenient for you, next week
or beyond. I said, dude, that is the priority. You
speak to leadership, don't worry about us. We'll be fine.
And so we're gonna we're going to open that segment

(18:18):
up and just ask you what your thoughts are on
the tariffs. The President is smacked China. I mean we are.
We are talking A major tariff has been placed on
China because China retaliated, and so now there's a one
hun and twenty five percent tariff on China. That is

(18:41):
a more than doubling of the cost of things coming
in from China. Oh well, now here's the good news.
And this is this is a little bit interesting, not
a little bit a lot. The President and his team

(19:06):
have China kind of in a corner. Now, why because
the president has paused the tariffs. He's placed everything at
ten percent for ninety days while he negotiates with seventy
five countries that are coming in to negotiate. That's why
the stock market rallied yesterday. It rallied because he put

(19:28):
a pause on the tariffs from all of these nations
that have said we'd like to negotiate, and they did
not engage in any retaliatory tariffs. In other words, the
president's goal was to bring people the negotiating table to
get a better trade agreement with America. And each nation

(19:50):
is different and it's working. And what this does is
it now brings seventy six nations, the America, the United
States of America, and these seventy five nations now are
getting on the same page, and China is becoming isolated.
This is bad for China. Now tomorrow on the program,

(20:12):
I'm gonna share with you what Kevin O'Leary had to
say about China. And this is a guy that does
business in China, and so this is a very significant development.
And now there are other there are some other big stories.
I'll get to those next forty minutes past. I'm determined
to be disciplined today we'll see how the lot of

(20:34):
that lasts.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
Doing it his way like old Blue Eyes, except he
has a little more hair. The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
Got a blog up on every hole of Augusta National.
It's it's really good. Scotty Scheffler breaks it down Part three.
Tournament yesterday was just adorable. It was just the little
ones running around hitting golf shots or kicking the ball
or running through the sand traps. It was I mean,

(21:18):
it's just such a cool day. And and anyway, I
grabbed the photo of Scotty with his h with his
little one, his little toddler. That just captures who he is.
But the video is really good if you're if you're
a golf nerd or not, that's fine. This week might

(21:38):
not be interesting to you, although I contend that the
Masters is one of those rare events in golf that
transcends if for no other reason, because it's just gorgeous.
And I've got a blog going up tomorrow about the
effort to keep the grounds the way they look. It's

(21:59):
it's can considered the most beautiful golf course in the world,
and among the most beautiful grounds anywhere in the world.
But the work that goes on. To keep it that
way is just mind numbing, it really is. So the
other big stories. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has cleared

(22:23):
the way for the Trump administration to resume the mass
terminations of new workers, the effort of the Obiden administration
to expand government. Nip it in the bud, do it
a little bud nipping little Barney fife them there, And
so that's big. They lifted a court order requiring twenty

(22:45):
agencies to reinstate newer workers that have been fired. Court said,
now you didn't. You had no standing in them to
make that decision. So yeah, good, it's a big that's
a huge win. And this is equally big, if not bigger,
the zero tolerance firearm rules. We've talked about it with
Lee Williams. We've talked about it with Charlie and JD.

(23:09):
The fact that ATF was shutting down gun shops all
over the country over one mistake. Now I won't go
into the details of it here. I'll get into it
maybe next hour, but suffice to say the Department of
Justice is rescinding it. We're done with that nonsense. And

(23:33):
so that's really good news. And I'm sure that'll be
something that we'll touch on with Lee Williams. In a
couple of weeks. Grant Allen sent this to me and
I've not heard of it. You ever heard of Ridge Runner? Yeah?
Me either. This is an effort across the country. Let

(24:01):
me just read one of the posts on X on Friday, USA,
Ridge purchased a very special farm that I'm thrilled to
now announce. I love everything about the five four hundred
and fifty acre farm, but most of all, I love
how it will provide a miniature demonstration of our charter
community model. What they're doing is they are bringing back

(24:28):
the concept of old English villages in rural parts of
America where they buy large plots of ground and black
Rock's not going to build one hundred and fifty homes
and put a cell tower there. These are homes that
will revolve around agriculture, in this case farmland for cows,

(24:49):
beef cows. And they'll recruiting people to create a village,
people that want to live there, put roots there, and
to run a business there. And they're looking for people
that want to invest in that type of thing. Two
thirds of their inventory has already been sold. It is

(25:15):
the concept of a thoughtful, regionally distinctive neighborhood, to draw
on old, beloved models of the old English rural villages
of a time gone by. Americans are ready to build
truly great American things together. One of the guys that's
moved to one of these developments is a guy who

(25:37):
is who left literally six or seven generations of land
in Minnesota because the state of Minnesota decided to put
a bullseye on Christians. So he packed up his family,
sold his land, and left and he's establishing new routes.
And these are neighborhoods. These are areas, developments, large plots

(26:01):
of land that will be sprinkled all across the country.
You remember that line we talked about. You might have
missed it. I hope you go back and listen to
the show where we talked about the dividing line of America.
That's not what you think, because this is an establishment
of things that that dividing line has that is leading

(26:24):
to abundance and happiness and family and the love of
God and affluence, relative affluence. So look it up Ridge
Runner and online. It's you can find them on x

(26:47):
at USA, Ridge at USA, Ridge forty seven past the hour.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
Thanks for listening. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
We've used a lot of descriptives to grasp hold of
the amount of money that you and I give the government, sorry,
that the government takes from you and I. The money
that's given is the money that we give them when
we purchase things. We accept that there's a gas tax,

(27:30):
we accept that there are are taxes on certain purchases
that go to government entities, but let's face it, the
bulk of the money is money taken that the federal
government spends. And I've used the imagery of having a
stack of one hundred dollars bills just lit on fire
and thrown out the back of a convertible, just burning money.

(27:58):
To those of you that get by paycheck to paycheck,
I really want you to grab hold of that image
that you have handed over a couple of one hundred
dollars of your paycheck. Which, boy, would a couple hundred

(28:19):
dollars make a difference in your next two weeks to
have that to put into savings, or to buy a
little something that you need, to get a repair done
on your car, to get a nice gift for one
of your children. I mean, the list is endless. Get

(28:43):
ten issues for your growing kids, I mean, whatever. And
I just want you to imagine that that two hundred
dollars that someone in government is just looking you square
in the eye, and they take those twenty dollars bills
of them, and they're staring at you, and they're tearing
it up, throwing it in the air, tearing it up,

(29:07):
and they're just looking at you. And then about halfway
through they decided, I'm not gonna just keep tearing it.
I'm gonna pull out a lighter. And they're just looking
at you. They're just staring at you, and they go
and they burn it. And as they burn it and

(29:28):
hold the very tip of those twenty dollars bills that's
not burning yet, fanning the flames a little bit, a
little smile comes across their face. You might think that's
a little extreme, is it. Federal agencies spent four point

(29:54):
six billion dollars on furniture for empty buildings during COVID
one hundred and eighty two thousand dollars on plexigat plexiglass
panels for IRS officers offices because of the stupid COVID

(30:15):
stuff and they weren't even working there. Two hundred and
thirty seven thousand dollars for solar powered picnic tables, because,
after all, why wouldn't you want a solar powered picnic
table at the CDC? Seven hundred thousand dollars for one

(30:41):
regional conference room at the Securities and Exchange Commission in
New York. FEMA got two hundred and eighty four thousand
dollars of high end modern Herman Miller furniture for their
conference room. This is an insult to every single one

(31:03):
of you that has an induction on a paycheck. We'll
talk more about this in the days time. Five minutes

(31:25):
past the hour. It's Thursday on the Morning show. It's
April to tenth. We're already into double digits here in
the month of April. Can't believe how fast it's already moving.
By almost a third of the way through the year
at the end of this month. That's crazy. Hose's over
there in Studio one A. I'm here in Studio one B,
and I am joined by the executive editor of tell
As Reports, Steve Stewart. Hello, friend, how are you doing

(31:51):
pretty good? You're crunching a lot of numbers all the
time around there, and one set of numbers that I
think people are going to be interested in. We've heard
about the speed zone cameras, and I think you and
I would both agree that curtailing speeding at these school
speed zones is really important for the safety of the kids.

Speaker 4 (32:12):
Yeah, you know, it's probably has a correlation to the
older I get and the more I drive.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
And you know, look next to me, red light. You
are getting older.

Speaker 4 (32:19):
Yes, I am, and I am driving a lot. And
when I this week, I saw a guy who had
his phone connected to his steering wheel as he was
driving down to Interstate at seventy five miles an hour. Okay,
so anyway, yeah, the speed zone tickets. Real quick before
I tell you how many tickets were issued in a
week at two locations.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
Yeah, hang on, hang on, let's turn this into a contest.
I want you to just think about it. Two locations
in the city speed zones at schools, two different schools.
So the question is how many tickets were given away
in two weeks one week, one week, in one week,
So just get a number in your head as you continue. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (32:56):
So this program was put in place by the city
and they've obviously got it. They've got the nults and
bolts done, They've got the infrastructure up well.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
The county.

Speaker 4 (33:04):
On Tuesday they had a meeting and they also voted.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
I watched this.

Speaker 4 (33:08):
I thought there may be some pushback, but it was
overwhelming seven zero. And like they want to get these
cameras or the video speed zone cameras up in schools
that are in that are on roads regulated by the county.
So I mean, you know, there could be I guess
thirty five to forty cameras up before this is all
said and done. And again the driving that I've seen

(33:30):
around town day where I'm all for this.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
I think they should just put these things everywhere.

Speaker 4 (33:35):
And either this crossing guards are geting to get They
get a percentage of the money. This is supposed to
be a revenue neutral type thing. They've got it divided
up where the money goes. Nobody's paying for this to happen.
Crossing guard fun gets like five or ten percent of
the ticket money. So if it continues, they volunteers or
they paid a stipend, they get a little bit of

(33:56):
a I think they get paid. I'm obviously not much money,
but I think this is something that is supposed to
help out with that, and if if people don't slow down,
there may be more and more people to make to
be crossing.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
Guards because go ahead. So yeah, so.

Speaker 4 (34:15):
It may become an economic driver, right right, So the
one week and we got this yesterday from TPD at
the two locations which are Carrie Forest four lane highways
with em if you do the speed limb on Carry Forest,
there are people going to be right behind you, you know.
And so I'm not as familiar with Tharp and Martin
Luther King, which is right at the corner there at.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
Now may I ask are they enforcing this strictly during
the days when the lights are flashing, or during the
time the lights are flashing or at all times.

Speaker 4 (34:44):
All times when school is in sessions. So even when
it's flashing, obviously that's a note. But the other thing
is when it's not flashing with they're in session, it
is also on. So five hundred and seventy four tickets
given two locations over one week. So if you look
at that's like fifty seven if you divide it up

(35:06):
into days by the location ten days, you know, it's
fifty seven tickets a day of people going. Now this
is not this is ten miles. This is eleven miles
over the speed limit.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
Yeah, because the grace is ten right, So on for example,
when the lights aren't flashing, but that's also trusting your
speed speedometer exactly.

Speaker 4 (35:25):
The on Carrie Forrest is speed limit, there's thirty five
if the lights aren't flashing, so that means that you're
doing what forty six?

Speaker 2 (35:35):
You know.

Speaker 4 (35:35):
And so anyway, we'll see what the I would imagine
on these things that they have probably a huge impact
on the behavior in that area.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
Actually, as I'm thinking about it, I'm not sure that
the speed limit is in thirty there.

Speaker 4 (35:50):
Yeah, I thought I checked that when we could the story. Yeah,
But either way, so we'll be it's gonna be interesting
to see what happens with the numbers. I hope that
they would go down and then people, you know, would
start understanding that they're just flying because, as we talked about,
traffic enforcement since the COVID pandemic has been non existent.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
So if only five to ten percent is going to
the guards and their fund, where's the other eighty five
percent going to? What these tickets got to get reviewed?

Speaker 4 (36:18):
You know, the vendor has they're go to the vendor
that is providing the service.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
So no money to the to the city or the county.

Speaker 3 (36:24):
Huh, that's what they say.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
We'll keep an eye nothing for the Christmas party. No,
we'll see okay, all right, Ten past the hour More
with Steve.

Speaker 3 (36:30):
Stewart, The Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio
one hundred point seven WUFLA.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
Steve Stewart and I commiserating on our toll road travels
over America and uh he publisher editor, sorry, executive editor
of Teleasireports dot com. The publisher desk is elsewhere. Let's transition.
Let's stay with the city. There's there's been a little
bit of a of a I don't know how you

(37:16):
would describe it, but two predictable city commissioners, Commissioner Jacqueline
Porter and Jeremy Mattlow taking issue with the city signing
on to cooperating with ICE. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (37:29):
This this, and we've got an article on our newspaper
that went out this week and detailed I watched the
meeting and so it's a very specific.

Speaker 3 (37:39):
You know, this is follows.

Speaker 4 (37:41):
This national narrative of trying to oppose anything that has
to do with any you know, any type of immigration enforcement.
And so the two eighty seven g is an agreement
that is trickled down to local governments, counties and cities
where they are being required to cooperate with home owned security,
homeland security, and ICE and the enforcement of immigration laws.

(38:04):
And clearly, you know, the election of President Trump, this
has filtered down pretty quickly. You're in a state like
Florida where they've passed a law that is required municipalities
to basically cooperate, and so everybody's pretty much got on
got on board with these agreements. And like the Leon
County sheriff had already signed the agreement years ago. They

(38:25):
were as the facilitator of the only jail in Leon County,
had agreements for you know, to help detain legal immigrants
which were arrested. So what it's happened here is the
city reaches Goad and the police chief looked at this agreement,
they vetted it through legal channels of the Association of
Florida Police Chiefs, and they decided it was the right

(38:47):
thing to do, and they signed off on this agreement
without taking it to the city Commission.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
They viewed it as their job to do.

Speaker 4 (38:53):
They signed these memorandum of understandings all the time, and
so Commissioner Mattlow and Commissioner Pporter took exception to that
and or peppered the the city manager with questions. And
then at the meeting, Commissioner Mallow was really concerned about
the resources being diverted from, you know, the public safety budget.
Chief Revel said, look, this is one police officer that

(39:14):
was already doing some of these tasks. They're going to
go through forty hours of training. No money is being diverted.
We're going after felons that are in this country illegal, illegally.
We're not going around knocking on doors. And so it
was a very concise and very instructive response, and so
Commissioner Mallow didn't have much left to say on that. However,

(39:37):
Commissioner Porter, you know, was more interested in fighting about
why did we sign this?

Speaker 1 (39:42):
Are we legally obligated to sign this?

Speaker 4 (39:46):
And the city attorneys said yes, city attorney yeah, I said, listen,
it's not clear because this is a new direction. But
the city attorney said, look, clearly, Governor of Santis and
his executive order is interpreting this as you have to,
you know, legally cooperate, and.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
She didn't like that answer.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
You know, she.

Speaker 4 (40:08):
Actually started a pretty a brewha there and accused the
attorney and not telling her that in the briefing. That's
not what you said in the briefing, and you know,
and she was very clear looking. I'm sorry if you
misunderstood me, but this is where we are on this.
And so again, this is a reflection of what you
would get under progressive leadership at the City Commission.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
This would not.

Speaker 4 (40:27):
And the point on this is this is very you know,
the prudent thing to do. Okay, do you want to
fight this in a court of law with a Republican
governor who you know, gives you a lot of money
to get things done and has a lot of regulation
over what a city does. Do you really want to
do that?

Speaker 1 (40:45):
We saw this with the school board. I kind of
hope they do. Yeah, no, I do because Steve, the
majority of people in this community, though they are left leaning,
agree on the issue of illegal immigration.

Speaker 4 (40:56):
And this gets back to this whole area of promoting
an ideology instead of looking the nuts and bolts.

Speaker 1 (41:01):
Chief Frevll clearly said what most people agree with.

Speaker 4 (41:04):
We're going after felons or people who are violating the law,
you know that are in this country illegally. There's a
lot of on the continuum in terms of this immigration
enforcement we could talk about, but to just take to
take the man at his word and say, look, this
is what we're doing.

Speaker 1 (41:22):
But they want to take they don't have time to
do anything else, Steve.

Speaker 4 (41:25):
They don't and this is again it's a political opportunity
to try to divide the community.

Speaker 1 (41:29):
And so anyway, that's where we are on that. Well,
the motion was made to have a discussion and it
was defeated. And it's important to note those numbers. It
was three to two.

Speaker 4 (41:40):
Porter wanted to go down this legal rabbit hole and
try to oppose this, and the motion was it was
voted against. It was three to two Matlow and Porter
wanted to go down that road. The other three did not.

Speaker 1 (41:51):
That's math that'll come back in the next segment here,
Steve Stewart, Executive editor, Tellassreports dot Com twenty two minutes

(42:16):
past the hour. Steve Stewart, Final segment. Time moves when
you're having fun.

Speaker 4 (42:20):
Yes, real quick crime numbers and we didn't get to
spend a lot of time. It's down and continue to fall.
It's amazing to tie the incidents that we're tracking again,
not categorizing every crime that takes place. We're looking at trends.
Fatal shootings are down fifty percent compared to last year.
So everything's headed down, which is a good quality of
life measure, but for however long we can hold on

(42:42):
to it, exactly cameras cameras the TMAH issue. So we
want to sort of tie this together to give up
some people a lot to think about here. So the
city was supposed to approve the government structure change that
was put on the desk of the city, which didn't
get a lot of talk. Initially it was like, you know,
they're trying to sell the hospital.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
That was the pr move.

Speaker 4 (43:04):
But there was a seventeen page document that had a
lot of changes the bylaws. The city which owns the
hospital land assets and is leasing it to a nonprofit
to run for a dollar a year. So this government
structure change is pretty significant from the eyes of the
leaders the City of Tallahassee. And so they that's the
last meeting. They said, look, we've got to asked these questions.

(43:27):
Will we'll take this up again in April at our
next meeting. Well, now they've pushed it back till May
and they've asked for a lot of documents from the
they being in the city and this, right this raises
the questions of accountability. You know, the TMH is again
a nonprofit, billion dollar operation, and so these documents, obviously

(43:51):
they'll become plubolk records. And so this may be the
first look that we really get into a deep dive
of an asset, this community asset, that we start you know,
asking questions about accountability and things like that. So this
is going to be in the news for the next
you know, a month or so, but there is a
put it which impact will go along beyond that. It's

(44:11):
going to go along beyond that. And look, the political
side of this is that we saw Commissioner Mattlow defending
TMH going after Mayor Daily even before the meeting. You know,
Mayor Daily is trying to basically set up to sell
the hospital to FSU. The meeting, there was never going
to be a vote on selling the hospital. And besides that,

(44:34):
Mayor Daily doesn't have the power to do that. It
would take a majority on the City Commission. So this
is where it turns political. We're going to have a
mayor race in a couple of years, and you know,
all indications the Commissioner Mattlow wants to be mayor. Allegedly
he announced it on a program with Sean Pittman. Yeah,
and he's he's waiting around to see what Mayor Daily
is going to do. Mayor Daily is not going to

(44:55):
show his cards because if you say you're not running,
he become a lame duck.

Speaker 1 (44:58):
So he's gonna wait, you know. And so this is
what we're going to be mired in. And so this
is the politics.

Speaker 4 (45:05):
TMH is a huge part of the community, a lot
of influential people on the board.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
A lot of money. Is it fair to say aligned
with Jeremy Matlow. I wouldn't say that yet.

Speaker 4 (45:16):
I will say that Commissioner Batlow's clearly trying to take
advantage of whatever, you know, whatever position he can.

Speaker 1 (45:24):
Well, it's appropriate for him to be near the hospital
because he's on a rehabilitation tour's that's yeah. I mean,
so we're going to see how this works.

Speaker 4 (45:32):
I mean, he's tried to take over the commission with
the you know, by going after his colleagues and going
after the chamber and calling everybody corrupt.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
And now he's sort of he's changed a tune, his tune.

Speaker 4 (45:44):
And I think that this TMH issue, which they came
out very strong, that the city was trying to sell
the hospital billboards videos, and they're very clear and they
were not happy how they were treated.

Speaker 1 (45:56):
And so there's going to be more on this.

Speaker 4 (45:59):
We're going to have to look at the politics behind
this because TMH has operated pretty much every year they
put up board members and it was sort of just
a routine vote by the city commission. I think that
the community and I didn't know the extent of the
interest that the city has in the hospital.

Speaker 1 (46:16):
And the research that we've done this, I think it's
eye opening to everybody. Yeah, but this is not uncommon.

Speaker 4 (46:20):
I mean, there were municipalities that started hospitals in the
fifties and sixties, and the growth in the healthcare industry
has resulted in this in a number of different areas.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
And so we'll get some of that information out. Also,
it's interesting because even though Commissioner Mattlowe owns his own business,
his pizza company and restaurants, and you know, I obviously
he's in favor of his own business, he's been painted
as and I think fairly so as being kind of
anti business, anti development, and he's partnering up with one

(46:52):
of the biggest developers around in TMH.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (46:56):
Well again, I think that this when you start looking
for consistency. I think this has always been the thing
with Commissioner Malow that went beyond his initial run where
everybody thought he was a little independent, is that he
just he just wants to be in charge. He wants
he wants to have control of the city Commission and
this I think is an indication of what he'll do
to get there.

Speaker 1 (47:15):
So we'll see how the politics developed. Thanks for the time.
Thank you, Preston. Steve Stewart with us from Telaski Reports.
You're not going to read about stuff like this anywhere
else but tellassireports dot com. It's the Morning Show with
Preston Scott. Makes you want to ride a motorcycle down

(47:45):
an airport runway, doesn't it? Thirty five minutes.

Speaker 3 (47:52):
That's the hour.

Speaker 1 (47:53):
Good to be with you this morning. We're going to
take your calls next hour. Big story in the press
box the tariffs. H Trump is pausing the tariffs for
ninety days and lowering the reciprocal tariff during this time.
Period of ten percent also effectively immediate, effective immediately, And

(48:16):
now I don't I thought I had an understanding of that.
Does that mean we're keeping it at ten percent across
the board or are they getting rid of that altogether.
Either way, they're going to negotiate with seventy five different
countries that have asked to negotiate and did not retaliate.
China retaliated, so Trump hit them overnight. It's like we're
talking about a war, and we are. It's a trade war.

(48:41):
And so now, quoting Scott Bessant, as I said a
week ago, don't retaliate. China kept escalating and escalating. Now
they have a one hundred and twenty five percent tariff
that will be effective immediately, quoting Trump, based on the
lack of respect that China has shown to the world's markets.

(49:02):
See that's brilliant world's markets, not just the United world's markets.
I'm here by raising the tariff charge to China by
the United States to one hundred and twenty five percent,
effective immediately. At some point, hopefully in the near future,
China will realize that the days of ripping off the
United States and other countries is no longer sustainable or acceptable.

(49:24):
Carolyn Levitt put it this way, many of you in
the media clearly missed the art of the deal. You
clearly failed to see what President Trump is doing here.
You tried to say the rest of the world would
be moved closer to China, when in fact we've seen
the opposite. And that's what's the important takeaway here. The

(49:44):
those seventy nations, those seventy nations now create a situation
where the EU has to be very careful. I'm going
to say it again, and it's interesting because I listened
to a real strong rant yesterday and time doesn't permit
me to play it today, but I will tomorrow. Tomorrow
is gonna be a fun day on the show with

(50:06):
a variety of things that we're going to talk about
and the sound that I'm gonna play. But I said
to you, the US is holding the cards. It may
not look like it to you, but they are holding
all the cards. And it's sort of like a game
of seven cards, stud. And if you're familiar with the
game seven cards, stud, you got a lot of cards
up on the table, and so you know what's in

(50:26):
your hand, but you also know what's you get a
good feel for what's out there, and the US is
right now holding the cards. It really is. It's still
a game of poker. There's still a little bit of

(50:50):
but anyone that plays cards can tell you that a
good card player works the odds in their favor. They
know when to fold, like the song says, they know
when to hold, They know when to fold, they know
when to walk away. China right now is playing a
game that it does not hold enough cards. Why it

(51:12):
doesn't have First, it doesn't have the population. They don't
have enough young people. They're tapping out age wise, their
populations literally dying off. They're a victim of their own
population controls. Secondly, they can't consume what they produce. They
can't They literally can't buy it. They don't have the money.

(51:35):
The people that live in China are paid such little money.
There's some movement there over the years from what it
used to be, but they've still maintained a communist, state
owned approach to things, and so they don't have the ability.
We are not nearly as dependent on China as China

(51:57):
is on on us, and it sounds weird to think
of it that way, but it's true. The Peel's court
clears Trump administration resume mass terminations of newer workers, and
the Department of Justice has repealed the zero tolerance firearm rules,
which is great for gun stores out there. So those

(52:18):
are your big stories in the press box. We come
back doctor Matthews Adam and joins us Optimum Health Naturally on.

Speaker 3 (52:23):
Deck Radio one hundred point seven double USLA.

Speaker 1 (52:35):
All right, let's tackle a topic that is it's kind
of been in the news of late. Having been in
my dentist office just yesterday for my semi annual cleaning,
I've learned that it's a topic inside the office. Is
there and joining us doctor Matthews Adaman with North Florida's

(52:57):
Spinal Wellness Optimum Health Naturally. Doctors. Ait a minute, how
are you, sir?

Speaker 5 (53:02):
I'm doing great press and how about yourself?

Speaker 1 (53:04):
I'm doing well. I was fascinated to hear the discussion
at the dentist office on fluoride use and whether they're
going to continue the treatments, not continue the treatments. What
are we learning about fluoride right now?

Speaker 5 (53:16):
Well, yeah, you know, both Bobby Kennedy and our Surgeon
general here in Florida, Doctor Latipoe have publicly come out
against putting fluoride in the water, and I think it's
so important. Before we get into science, did get a
quipped history of how this came about. Early nineteen hundreds
of dentist in Colorado Springs essentially noticed that his patients

(53:37):
were having less rates of cavities and what they found
was there was a higher level naturally of fluoride in
the local water there. So fast forward to the nineteen
thirties nineteen forties in Grand Rapids, Michigan, they basically did
an experiment where they put fluoride artificially in the water
and they did see a decrease level of cavities. Now,

(54:00):
you know, those are observational studies and those aren't the
greatest quality of studies, but that's what we decided to
basically go put this across the country in the water. Now,
don't get me wrong, cavities are a huge problem, sure,
especially in children. It's a major health issue. But what
we know about floor right now is that it only
works topically. We used to think that maybe it works systemically,

(54:20):
so we can absorb it through the gut and it
affects the teeth, but that's not what happens. In fact,
in Dennis's Fiddle schools now they teach that only topical
application has an effect. In fact, JAMMA, which is the
journal of the American Medical Association, came out with a
meta analysis which they study of the studies, highest quality studies,
and they show that putting floor in the water only

(54:41):
decreased cavity one quarter of a cavity per person, not
one cavity per person, only one quarter of a cavity
per person.

Speaker 1 (54:49):
So the other three quarters of the cavities.

Speaker 6 (54:51):
There, that's right.

Speaker 5 (54:54):
So that doesn't seem very effective to me. I don't
know about you, but so the next question comes to me,
is harmful. In twenty nineteen, they did a study of
pregnant women, over five hundred pregnant women and followed their
children up until they were about three or four years
of age. And what they did is they measured the
fluoride level in the pregnant woman's urine and then tested

(55:14):
the children's IQ when they're about three or four years
of age. Now, what they found was that the IQ
was decreased in the women who had the highest level
of fluoride while they're pregnant, at the same level that
we see in lead toxicity. Wow, one more time on
Allen they saw a decrease in IQ on the women
with the highest fluoride levels that was on par with

(55:37):
lead toxicity. So that's a major concern. Then in twenty
twenty four Tells in Human Services they didn't release this voluntarily.
They are actually forced to release this through a Freedom
of information act by a judge and they confirmed that
exposure of one point five milligrams per lead of fluoride

(55:58):
is associated with decrease IQ in children. Now the counter
argument's going to be, well, like for Leon County example,
we have about ero point seven milligrams per liter of
fluoride in the water. But it's accumulation, so you get
that when you drink water, you get that, when you
make your coffee, you get that, when you you know,
boil your pasta and water, the you know, energy drinks

(56:19):
and soft drinks we get in the store, they're not
taking the fluoride out. So to me, that's a major
major concern. So if you want to use fluoride and fluoride,
does you know when you use it topically it is effective.
We need to use it that way, use it through toothpaste,
use it through mouth washes. But to me, it makes
no sense to put it in the water when one
it doesn't seem very effective that way, and two it

(56:41):
seems like there's a lot of evidence that it's hurting
our children's neurodevelopment.

Speaker 1 (56:45):
Doctor Zanamin is, now, is there any indication that the
filters that a lot of people have that they filter
their water through does it remove the fluoride?

Speaker 4 (56:54):
It can?

Speaker 5 (56:54):
I would say the best way to do it if
you want to make sure you're not getting any is
reverse osmosis. That is going to be the most effective
way to get rid of the fluoride and other chemicals
in your water. Now, if you want to have a
natural alternative to it, there actually is really good substitute,
and it's called xylotol, and that's you know, that's spell
kind of like xylophone x y l I O L.

(57:16):
And that's a naturally occurring alcohol sugar, not the kind
of sugar that's gonna raise your blood sugar, which is great,
but it has been shown in studies to decrease cavities
by thirty to sixty percent. Again, you do have to
use it topically, but it's in guns, it's in mouth watches,
is in toothpaste, all those kind of things. So there
is a really great alternative. And again I can't stress

(57:38):
enough you're gonna use fluoride, you know, Like I said,
it can be effective, especially have a history of a
lot of cavities or kids have that kind of history.
But please do the top league. Don't ingest it to me.
There's just a lot more risk than reward.

Speaker 1 (57:49):
There, good stuff, Doctors Adaman. I appreciate the time this morning.

Speaker 5 (57:54):
Always a pleasure to be on with you. Bresden.

Speaker 1 (57:55):
Thank you, sir, Doctor Matthews Adaman with me here on
the Morning Show with Prestin Scott.

Speaker 3 (58:05):
On News Radio one hundred point seven double USLA.

Speaker 1 (58:25):
Fifty two minutes past. You know what I think I'm
gonna I'm gonna turn this around a little bit, and
I think we're going to talk about a road trip
now called an audible at the line of scrimmage there,

(58:47):
all right, let's let's consider a roadie for the summer perhaps,
or if you're just out and about, you're at that
stage in life where you are rambling people or rambling
man or rambling woo man, then here you go. We're
working our way out from Florida and North Carolina. Now

(59:09):
this one comes with a caveat backtrack off of what
I said about a roady this summer. This is one
you're going to want to take maybe in the fall
or later, because the North Carolina recommended rody as the
Blue Ridge Parkway and it was damaged severely during the

(59:33):
aftermath of Hurricane Helen in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Appalachian
beauty that is. But the Blue Ridge Parkway is four
hundred and sixty nine miles and it stretches through the
neighboring states in the region. But the North Carolina leg
is incredible. Now I just pulled up an updated story

(59:58):
from The Mountaineer that is literally five days old, and
they are working on eight different locations and they expect
late summer early fall twenty twenty five for the work
to be completed. So the damage is going to be
hopefully fixed and corrected. They are working on all kinds

(01:00:22):
of facilities and so forth. But let's go back to
the road trip in general. What I did not know.

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
Is that.

Speaker 1 (01:00:30):
You're going to see some of the world's oldest mountains,
including Mount Mitchell, the highest peak in the Eastern United
States is there, and Lynnville Gorge. It's along the Blue
Ridge Parkway. It is the deepest gorge east of the
Grand Canyon, is along that parkway. So just saying, some beautiful,

(01:00:57):
picturesque places, and there's your road trip suggestion, the Blue
Ridge Parkway. Upon completion of repairs. Don't do it before,
you'll just be miserable, all right when we come back.
And even now, the phone lines are open, call screeners ready,
phone lines are open. Eight five zero two zero five

(01:01:18):
to BFLA, And I'm asking simply, what are your thoughts
on the tariffs? Do you like what the President's doing?
Do you not like what the President's doing? Does it
make you nervous? What are your thoughts on what needs
to happen, if anything? Are you one of those that's like, hey, man,

(01:01:39):
it doesn't affect me, even though it does, but your
position is it's just that's out of my world. I
want to hear from you. The entire world is focused
on tariffs. And I mean literally, it's as if we

(01:01:59):
suddenly are looking at a gaping wound that needs repair
and no one knew it was bleeding. So we're taking
calls eight five zero two zero five WFLA eight five
zero two zero five ninety three fifty two. I want
your thoughts on this, and yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna

(01:02:19):
nudge you. You need to have some thoughts on this.
Do you like what's happening? Do you do you not
like it? I'm this is not about picking a fight.
I want to hear from you. Next on The Morning
Show with Preston Scott. Five Past the Hour, Third hour

(01:02:49):
Morning Show with Preston Scott. Good morning friends, Cruminators. I
need you well, I want you. I want you to
call in now. I have a paper clip full of
material here. But what I'd love to do is I'd

(01:03:11):
love to hear from you and get your thoughts on
the tariffs. You could call in and say, I don't
really know much about it, but here's what I think
I know, and your impressions of what's going on here.
It is the inescapable story of the news for the

(01:03:32):
last two weeks. Yeah, there are other things happening. We've
documented that stuff, but this is the mother of all stories.
And so I just want to know what you think.
Are you a fan of what's going on? Are you
not a fan? Do you think that we've missed the
boat and should do something else eight five zero two

(01:03:55):
zero five WFLA. Steve has been very patiently waiting. Good morning, Good.

Speaker 7 (01:04:00):
Morning, Preston. You know, it feels good that be wanted,
so thanks for saying what you did. Hopefully other people
feel the same way when it comes to the tariffs.
I've got two things that I wanted to bring up.
The first one is something that nobody is talking about
that it seems like I've caught wind of this on
x okay, that there's a second dary game going on here,

(01:04:21):
and it's a long term play as it relates to
our national debt and the restructuring of that interest rate
that's going to come due in about nine to twelve
months from debt that was incurred, you know, several years ago,
and with interest rates where they're at, it's going to
cause a huge increase on our debt servicing for our
national budget, and that a lot of the things going

(01:04:42):
on right now are actually a play to get those
interest rates down so that we're in a better position
for negotiation and debt payments here in the next year
or so.

Speaker 1 (01:04:54):
Many people are talking about, well, no kidding, Steve, that's
the first I've heard that, And so thank you for
bringing that up, because that's a I mean, just cognitively,
that makes a lot of sense to me, how about you?

Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
It does?

Speaker 7 (01:05:09):
So I just want to see more analysis on that
sort of thing of Okay, you know, what could happen
in a you know, in a good or negative way,
and what are some of those signals that would actually
help us, as you know, the standard public, to understand
what's going on. The second thing that I am curious about,
and this just goes to my lack of knowledge about
long term economics and things, and maybe other people are

(01:05:31):
thinking the same way, is that a lot of the
criticism against tariffs has to do with you know, this
spood Holly PARAFAXX back in the nineteen twenties and thirties, right,
and the fallout that occurred from that. I would like
to know what were the conditions of those of that
timeframe versus the conditions today? And are we talking about
apples and oranges?

Speaker 1 (01:05:51):
I read it, and it's funny you say that, and
I don't really have the opportunity to go into a
lot of detail at this exact moment, Steve, Thank you
for calling, But what I will tell you is I
read an analysis of that very question, and though they
didn't use apples and oranges, that was the conclusion. Totally
different set of circumstances. I did go into depth about
that sometime last month when we were discussing the whole

(01:06:14):
issue in general, and so yeah, there really was most
of the economists that were weighing in on the article.
We're saying, yeah, it's not a fair comparison in any way,
shape or form. But thank you very much for the
phone call. Eight five zero two zero five w f
l A. Let's go to John.

Speaker 6 (01:06:30):
Hi, John, Hey, good morning.

Speaker 8 (01:06:32):
I pressing.

Speaker 3 (01:06:34):
On the surface level.

Speaker 8 (01:06:36):
I appreciated Terris because the political elite and the leftists
are upset about it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:43):
So if they're mad, it can't be wrong.

Speaker 8 (01:06:46):
Yeah, it can't be bad if they're getting their drawers
in a twist about it. But what's amazing to me
about these people in a head snap can can equate
hire terrrists to hire calls for goods, but yet they
can't figure that same equation for higher corporate and business taxes.

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You see what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:07:09):
I'm not following you. Go ahead.

Speaker 8 (01:07:11):
When they they want to harp, they want to raise
business and corporate taxes and don't think that that's going
to increase the cost of products. But yet they can
instantly see where the terence being raised is going to
cost the cost of products.

Speaker 1 (01:07:27):
You see what I'm saying, absolutely, yeah, and they should
be called out for that.

Speaker 8 (01:07:32):
Yeah, and uh, but it doesn't you know, it may
be paid. I mean, I can't tell you right now.
I can't point to anything that's saying, oh, yeah, this
has cost to me anymore. Everything is expensive still, and
I've got hope that it's all going to straighten out.
And if you know, if peeling the bandage off and
feeling the scab off for a few months, you know,

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gets things turned around. I'm I'm I'm glad for it. Uh,
But right now in my life, what needs to happen
is fuel price needs to come down.

Speaker 1 (01:08:03):
Agreed, John, Thank you, And I'm under the impression that
the downward pressure on pricing of power is already underway.
But appreciate you calling him, Bob Richard. You will be
next a quick check of weather and traffic on the
Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (01:08:24):
Communicator of common sense amplified. It's the Morning Show at
Preston Scott you know that first call on tariff's debt restructuring.
I'm already I'm already reaching out to our friends at
Heritage Foundation. We're going to get an expert on tariffs,

(01:08:48):
and we're going to broach that subject and we're going
to get somebody that can tell us if that indeed
is a potential action that's being looked at in the
midst of all of this. They are as plugged in
as anybody I know. Let's go to Bob, who's standing
by and has been very pacy. Good morning, Bob, Hey.

Speaker 2 (01:09:09):
Good morning Press, and thanks for everything you do and
thanks for you and Jose for being there. You're doing
a great job. Thank you. First off, and the same
thing is, I think we need to trust Trump. He's
all the America first, he's been elected. He knows a
lot more about all this stuff than we could ever
help them know. And he's in the middle of it.
If you've ever read the Art of the Deal, you'll
know that he can connive and he can get things

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done and make things happen. He's made enemies by being successful.
He gets other people around him because they just want
to drag their feet. They don't want to fix anything.
They just want to prolong it and say they're going
to fix it. But and I agree with the other
caller where he said, if we're making the left upset,
we must be doing the right thing. And that's absolutely
that's truth. I mean, you can see their hairs on fire.

(01:09:53):
But I think the Trump's got a handle on it.
The stock market is going to be okay. Just hang on.
Just you know, it's all on paper. If you don't sell,
you don't lose, So just hang in there. It always
comes back. If you watch Fox Business Channel and you
can see what they're talking about, all the puns they're saying,
just hold tight, we'll be back. Everything's going to be good.

(01:10:13):
Everybody's smiling again soon. But America first, come out. Let's
get it done.

Speaker 1 (01:10:18):
Thank you, Bob. Appreciate the kind words and the words
of encouragement to everybody else out there. You know, John
was making a point. I want to circle back to
that Richard stand By. He was talking about the fact
that the left whins and complains about these tariffs and
how their attacks and how they're going to add to

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the cost of Americans, and some of that is true,
but they don't acknowledge that when they want to quote,
make it fair and that corporations need to pay their
fair share. That's a tax too. The tax on those
corporations is a tax on Americans. See, they don't want
to acknowledge that. See don't have a problem acknowledging that

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these tariffs, Yeah, they had, they had costs. Sure, now
some businesses are going to do their best to not
pass them along. Some businesses have no choice. Okay, I
just want the playing field fair, and that's what I'm after.
Let's go to Richard. Hi, Richard, thanks for staying with.

Speaker 6 (01:11:19):
Us morning, Parson. How are you, Sarry good?

Speaker 1 (01:11:22):
Tell me what you think about all this.

Speaker 6 (01:11:24):
I agree with President Trump owner tariffs, Okay, he Thankfully
we have a businessman that's running this country that knows
what he's doing. Uh And and I know you said
several times, don't worry about the stock market. It's going
to come back, and it will. What happened yesterday it did. However,

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I've been in the car business most of my life,
and once again they've done it again. They're starting to
sell these cars at cost and that's not going to
help me out. Yes, we'll sell cars, but they've freaked
out too early and I'm you know, it just happened.

(01:12:09):
Eight was a big you know, that was huge in
the car industry. We're gonna sell a buck to used cars.
There's no doubt about that. The cars we have to
do is we have. There's no tariffs on them. There's
not gonna be any terrifts for ninety days. And it's just,
you know, from my industry, it's just they can't make

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their mind up on what they're doing.

Speaker 1 (01:12:32):
Richard, Thank you appreciate the insights. See that's what I
was looking for. I want to hear from you about this.
We could. We've got one more segment we can take
calls your reaction to the tariffs. I think Richard made
it a really good point there when he talked about
the industries out there reacting versus responding. We've talked about

(01:12:54):
it for years. There's a big difference between those two words.
I'm asking your reaction or response eight five zero two
zero five w u FLA featuring your call The Morning

(01:13:24):
Show with Presdent Scott. I'm President the Jose and we
are talking about the tariffs. I want to get your thoughts.
I want to know what you think about what's going on.
And we've got just time for another couple of calls.
We'll get back around to a couple of big stories

(01:13:45):
in the press box. In a little bit house, Republican
Derek Van Orden of Wisconsin, former guests of The Morning Show,
said that, quoting three out of five rows of beans
go to China, we have to we are in the
process of changing the global trade markets and our farmers

(01:14:05):
will be made whole. And he said, we've got to
get this right. And so we're just we're fielding some
calls asking your thoughts on the tariffs, good, bad, are indifferent,
not here to offer any kind of rebuke or correction

(01:14:27):
or I just want to get your thoughts on it, John,
thanks for calling in.

Speaker 9 (01:14:31):
Hey, press and I sent you an email with a
link to a website called Covid and Coffee. I don't
know if you've ever seen it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:39):
Yeah, I get that. I get those every day.

Speaker 2 (01:14:41):
Okay, Well he has.

Speaker 9 (01:14:43):
Yesterday's was a brilliant explanation of Trump's art of the
global deal and what he's using tariffs for and other things.
Tariffs are are like a quick hammer to get people
to the negotiating and he's going after so many other

(01:15:03):
things I mean, think about it. Vietnam, they said we're
going to go to zero tariffs, and he said, that's nice,
but it's not enough. So I think, you know, tariffs
are great, and that's just my opinion on it.

Speaker 1 (01:15:17):
Thanks very much. I appreciate the call, and I appreciate
you sending me the link. Let's go to Pedro, who
is standing by. Good morning, sir, Good morning.

Speaker 10 (01:15:26):
Well I think I give you about a month ago
a call Preston on the beef and tariffs and comparing
the numbers between Mexico and China and I mean in
Canada and how much they dependent on us versus how
much we dependent enough on them? And uh yeah, I
think one hundred and twenty five percent to China.

Speaker 9 (01:15:47):
It's not enough.

Speaker 10 (01:15:49):
Give it, give it above above five hundred's that's my number.
And we have to make these people pay for the
while they did to the world with COVID. They you know,
it's not enough, it's not enough. They they they deserve

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more than five.

Speaker 1 (01:16:12):
I it's interesting, Well, I I think those are two
separate issues. I think making them pay for COVID is
one thing. I think a balanced level ground on trade
is another. I'm not personally in favor of mixing the two.
But I understand your sentiment there.

Speaker 6 (01:16:32):
Yeah, no, I totally agree with you. I will go
with that.

Speaker 10 (01:16:35):
That's even better. But yeah, it's it's good to see, uh,
who's on our side and who's not, and it's it's
just give it time, guys, give it time.

Speaker 1 (01:16:46):
Thank you very much, Pedro, appreciate you calling in. That'll
do it for the calls. I got an interesting uh
link here from Ben and let me just pull up
the story here. Euro strengthens as EU delay retaliatory tariffs
against US by ninety days in response to Trump's pause,

(01:17:08):
the head of the EU saying, we want to give
negotiations a chance. Smart people, they're reading the room. How
often do we talk about the need to read the room.
I've been painting pictures today with words. That's kind of

(01:17:28):
what I've been doing. You're having this massive ballroom and
someone walks in, and everybody goes there but your table.
All of a sudden, you're at table thirty four, and

(01:17:52):
every other table in the room has gotten up from
their chairs and moved over to sit at this large
table and talk with the guest of honor. The person
who called the party together. You're still at table thirty four.

(01:18:12):
You're looking like the proverbial brown shoes in a room
full of tuxedos. You feel silly. That's the Euros right now.
Seventy five countries coming to negotiate. They're sitting at table
thirty four. They're looking around the room, going, uh, we're

(01:18:34):
about to be left out of the party. Party has
been moved over there to the big everyone's they're not
in different they're all on one table. We're sitting here
at table thirty four. We look like stooges. And so
they take their napkins off of their lapels and they
put them on and scoot their chairs in and they

(01:18:56):
start mixing and mingling with the rest. That's what's going
on right now, twenty eight minutes past the hour.

Speaker 3 (01:19:12):
It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 4 (01:19:24):
Uh huh.

Speaker 1 (01:19:30):
Yesterday, as Trump paused and announced that seventy five countries
were sitting down to negotiate, isn't it interesting? And I
may be, and it would be fair to accuse me

(01:19:50):
of oversimplifying, no doubt about it. But I might not
be either. Isn't it interesting that the world markets reacted
the way they did obviously the US markets, which if

(01:20:10):
you think about it, they regained almost everything that had
been ground away in the previous days, biggest day in
five years. But China was not part of it. I
think that's a fascinating point to consider. The stock market

(01:20:39):
rallied without China being part of the deal. It has
been suggested that Trump is bringing the world in and everyone.

(01:21:02):
It's like you've got a bully and someone's standing up,
and then everybody who's been bullied all these years finally
has somebody advocating for them and they join. The United
States is not the only country being screwed over by China,

(01:21:23):
and the isolation of China in the world economy is
cataclysmic to President g. Trump has framed this properly as
China's unwillingness to compete fairly in the world market. China cheats,

(01:21:45):
China steals, they steal patents. Patents mean nothing to them.
Trump has suddenly, by standing up to China, brought everybody
that's been screwed over by China over to his side.

(01:22:07):
And now with the latest news that the EU is
saying time to negotiate, now you've got the entire European
Union plus whatever makes up these other seventy five countries.
You've got a massive now opportunity to stare down China
without firing a shot. Much has been said about China's

(01:22:30):
desire to take over the United States without firing a shot.
They just want our resources, they want our infrastructure, and
right now, look, we have no interest in taking over China.
There are wonderful people that make up the land of China,
clearly hardworking, but they don't know any different. They don't
know capitalism, they don't know freedom, they don't know any

(01:22:52):
of these things. They're ideals, they're dreams. They're things that
maybe they've had smuggled to them and in some little
form or another. But the fact that the market's rallied
without China being part of the pause is significant. What

(01:23:13):
does it tell you about what the markets are really
thinking about all of this? It tells me the reset
was absolutely positively needed, and the market knew it, but
they didn't want to say anything about it. By they,
I mean collectively as an entity. You know, I don't

(01:23:38):
like when Trump brags on himself. I I you know,
I will occasionally do it around here because I just
am doing it almost to poke fun at myself. It's
almost satirical when I do it, because I know it's
just the opposite when I think I have some great
insight every now and then, maybe sort of kind of

(01:23:58):
but no. But I'm okay with Trump saying no other
president would have done this. He's right, He's right. Forty
one minutes after the arm talk about some other things
as we get towards the end of the show, The.

Speaker 3 (01:24:19):
Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred
point seven WFLA.

Speaker 1 (01:24:32):
I don't know what this says that I can maybe
repeat on the airwaves and be as christ Like as
I should be. I don't know if you know the

(01:24:54):
story of what happened in Frisco, Texas at a track meet.
Seventeen year old Carmelo Anthony, a student at Centennial High School,
fatally stabbed a fellow competitor in the chest at a

(01:25:18):
multi school event. The victim asked then tried to push
Anthony out from under the Memorial High School track team tent.
Witness statements and recently released police reports indicate that Metcalf's

(01:25:40):
twin brother Hunter, held his brother as he bled to death.
The suspect tossed the bloody knife into a nearby set
of bleachers, where officers later recovered it. When law enforcement
took him into custody, he claimed I was protecting myself.

(01:26:03):
He put his hands on me. I'm not alleged I
did it. Another officer wrote that Anthony made another spontaneous
statement and asked if what happened could be considered self defense.

(01:26:27):
The narrative being spread is false, un just, and harmful.
The Anthony family's statement claims, as a family of faith,
we are deeply grateful for all of your support. What
support is that they've raised almost three hundred thousand dollars

(01:26:50):
off of their sons stabbing a kid in the chest
and killing him. His attorney claims that he doesn't have
any reason to think it wasn't self defense at this time.

(01:27:11):
I know that my client said it was self defense.
I don't have any reason to disbelieve that, but I
need to develop facts, talk to people. He's doing his job.
I don't have a problem with that. But look, and
he's entitled to his day in court. But there's nothing

(01:27:33):
corroborating that he should have been in fear of his
life in any way, shape or form from a shove
I guess my question beyond that there's no evidence or

(01:27:56):
suggestion that there's no statements made by any witness that
Metcalf had previously bullied Anthony, that he was armed, he
attempted to use any kind of illegal force. Witness accounts
appeared to suggest that Anthony was the provocateur who deliberately

(01:28:17):
camped out under a rival high school tent. And oh,
by the way, brought a weapon to a sporting event.
Who does that? Who brings a knife to a track

(01:28:37):
meet as a competitor? And now the family's raising money
off of this. Forty seven minutes after the hour Morning

(01:29:02):
Show with Preston Scott A couple of nights ago, we'll
close the show with this on Hannity, a Hannity town
hall with a group of Republican senators from the United States.
Senate Hannity Tea's up the current state of the Democrat

(01:29:26):
political apparatus, and so we begin, what do you think
of the new leadership? Jasmine AOC and Bernie.

Speaker 2 (01:29:36):
I consider Congresswoman Okashi of Courtdez to be the leader
of the Democratic Party. She's entitled to her opinion.

Speaker 9 (01:29:44):
I'm entitled to mine.

Speaker 3 (01:29:46):
As I've said.

Speaker 2 (01:29:46):
About her before.

Speaker 7 (01:29:47):
I think she's the reason there are directions on a
shampoo bab.

Speaker 6 (01:29:55):
Our plan for.

Speaker 3 (01:29:55):
Dealing you've heard of that out we got to hurt.

Speaker 6 (01:29:58):
Our plan for.

Speaker 1 (01:29:59):
Dealing with her is opera call operation let her speak. Oh,
John Kennedy, he rubs some people the wrong way, and
I don't get it because I love the meandering way.

(01:30:19):
He just what he's doing is he's just sort of
sweeping a little there, sweeping a little there, sweeping a
little there, sweeping a little there, and next thing you know,
you've got it all in the corner and you got
nowhere to go. And then comes the question, it's just
it's I think it's great theater and I think it's

(01:30:43):
it's genius the approach that John Kennedy has in how
he conducts himself. And I love every minute of it.

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Speaker 1 (01:31:04):
We started today. We talked about the prophecy of Christ
and his fulfilling of one prophecy from Zechariah nine. Zechariah
nine to nine. So there's your reading first half of
Matthew twenty one and Zechariah nine verse nine, which is

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we focused on just how remarkable the fulfilling of prophecy
is as we set up heading into the Holy week
for tomorrow Palm Sunday. We'll talk about tomorrow on the show.
Big stories in the press box tariffs, tariffs, tariffs and tariffs,

(01:31:45):
and we talked about tariffs too. We took a bunch
of calls on tariffs. Some interesting thoughts. In fact, one
that has already prompted me. I am getting an expert
from Heritage Foundation to talk about tariffs and the relationship
to the negotiating to our national debt. I'll be honest
with you. If we're looking at a refi of our

(01:32:07):
national debt to begin to create room to take it down, Okay,
I will accept that as a start of the plan
to reduce the debt of this country. We've got to
be decisive and lower the debt and over time pay

(01:32:28):
it off. It won't happen in my lifetime. It could.
It could, we could go on a diet, but it
likely won't. Too much political capital will be expended. But
interesting that the stock markets recovered yesterday with no sign

(01:32:51):
of China in the picture. Isn't that interesting? Even with
the tariff sitting at one hundred and twenty five percent
on China. The stock market so buoyed by the conversations
with seventy five other nations and now the decision of
the EU to say no retaliatory attack tariffs. Let's negotiate.

(01:33:12):
That's huge appeals court cleared Trump administration or zume mass
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A great day.