Ep. 5360: U.K. supreme court; Men can not be women.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Good Morning Friends, Thursday, April seventeenth, on the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. I am Preston, he is Jose and
good morning. What a show. Just wow. I'll get to

(00:33):
that in a few minutes. Today is Thursday, and we're
looking at the events of Easter Week in chronological order
to try to bring some context to what Jesus did
for you and me yesterday. I recommended you just sit

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and consider what kind of day of rest you would
have if you were facing what Jesus knew he was
going to face, and that is that in two days,
though he also knew the end result. And just think

(01:19):
about this now. Jesus knew he was going to die
of very painful death and more on that in a moment.
But he also knew I'm going to have the last word,
and so there's a tendency for you and I to go, well, yeah,

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it was terrible, but he knew what was going to happen.
He knew he was going to win and going to
be resurrected. And don't we now think about it, don't
we know that? That's what faith tells us. That's why
we live by faith because we know and so what

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that should do is remove a little bit of that fear.
In Luke twenty two, I chose Luke, even though it's
written of in all four of the gospels. I just
I like this. Then came the day of unleavened bread,
which the passover Lamb had to be sacrificed. So Jesus

(02:26):
sent Peter and John, saying, go and prepare the passover
for us that we may eat it. They said to him,
where will you have as prepared? He said, behold, when
you've entered the city, there's going to be a guy
carrying a jar of water. He's going to meet you.
Follow him into the house that he enters, and tell
the master of the house. The teacher says to you,

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where is the guest room where I may eat passover
with my disciples? And he will show you a large
upper room furnished. Prepare it there. Now, just for a second,
how cool would it be to find that room? Now?
I mean now, if and maybe there is some a

(03:14):
place that claims that, But could you imagine sitting in
the room. We're going to take an extra minute here.
So it goes on and says in verse fourteen Luke
twenty two. And when the hour came. He reclined at
the table, and the apostles with him, and he said
to them, listen, I have earnestly desired to eat this

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passover with you before I suffer. I earnestly I want
to do this. I have been looking forward to this
what he goes on, for I tell you I will
not eat of it until it is fulfilled in the
Kingdom of God. And he took a cup, and when

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he had given thanks, he said, take this and divide
it among yourselves, For I tell you now, I will
not drink of the fruit of the vine until the
Kingdom of God comes. And he took the bread, and
when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave
it to them, saying, this is my body which is
given for you. Do this in remembrance of me. After

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they'd eaten the bread, this cup is poured out for you.
It's the new Covenant in my blood. Elsewhere it talks
about him giving thanks. And what I want you to
consider is, this is God in the flesh, and he's
looking across all of eternity, and he's giving thanks for

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the fact that you that you have the choice to
receive salvation and grace and mercy. You have that choice,
and he gave thanks for you. He gave thanks that

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because of what he was about to do, it was
going to be enough for you. He looked across all
of eternity and he gave thanks for you, that the

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work he was going to do was going to be
enough to wipe the record clean for you. Add all
this up, I can't wait to do this, and then
to give thanks that his body was going to be broken,

(05:44):
that his blood was going to be spilled because he
knew what it was going to do for you. Next level,
Next level love. M Thursday, Holy Week. We have nowhere

(06:09):
to go but down from here. It's The Morning Show
with Preston Scott. April seventeenth, American Patriots Almanac. Fourteen ninety two,

(06:31):
Christopher Columbus signs a contract with Spain. He played soccer
for five years for the national team before moving to
the Premier League. Just went by the name Christophe okay No.
Had a commission to seek westward routes to the Indies.

(06:53):
Put it he miss up there. Fifteen twenty four, Italian
navigator Giovanni di Varazano, exploring for France, becomes the first
European to sail into New York Harbor. Right, So here's
another Italian, another Italian navigator there. He thinks he's going

(07:16):
to France. He ends up in New York. Ah, all
these Italians getting lost out there. Sorry, Virginia seceeds from
the Union. In eighteen sixty one, I declare. Nineteen sixty one,
twelve hundred American backed Cuban exiles launched the Bay of

(07:39):
Pigs invasion, failed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro's communist dictatorship.
How did we let Cuba become commie rich? How did
we do that? Ninety miles off our court? How did
we let that happen? And we've been paying for it
ever since. The only good thing about it is they

(08:03):
got really cool nineteen fifties architecture in cars because they
can't afford anything else. Stopped right there. Nineteen seventy, Apollo
thirteen astronauts returned safely to Earth four days after an
on board explosion crippled the spacecraft. Still the most successful
failure in the history of the US space program. Incredible,

(08:26):
really incredible. Today is National Crawlfish Day. Incredible a crawfish bowl.
I'm not the biggest fan of crawfish. I'll be honest
with you. There's second about there's something about sucking the
juice out of the heads. That's just like I'll do it.

(08:53):
But they're a little gamier than I prefer shrimp, crab
and lobster. What can I say, I'm a snob. National
High Five Day? Are we gonna have a National knuckle
meet Day? You know that we've gone from high fives
to fist bumping knuckles. National Cheeseball Day, underrated side dish
at any gathering crackers with a cheeseball covered with sliced almonds,

(09:19):
just the thing of beauty. National Ellis Island Family History Day,
Get to Know your Customer's Day. And my favorite, National
Haiku Poetry Day and so in honor of my sweet wife.

(09:39):
Haiku in English Haiku poetry English haiku poetry is kind
of butchered because they just mess up the syllabic makeup
of it. It's three lines five seven five. Everyone had
to do this in school, didn't didn't you? I mean,
are they not doing that anymore? But I I came

(10:00):
across here we go white Caps on the Bay, A
broken signboard banging in the April wind. I remember first
hearing haiku and I just laughed out loud. I was

(10:21):
so irreverent as a student. My teachers loved me because
I made them laugh, and I was I was always
a conversationalist with them, and and so I just I
just remember hearing something like that and going, what it

(10:41):
doesn't even rhyme, man, that's not poetry. And that's but
that's haiku. It is non rhyming intentionally. But the key
is the syllables. Five seven five. That's what you can remember.
Haiku is five seven five. You're right, five seven five.
It doesn't matter what it is. You'll cause somebody to go, whoa,

(11:03):
it's deep, man, because it's five seven five. Doesn't have
to make any sense at all. Just five seven five
white caps, And it helps to say it like that,
white Caps on the bay, a broken signboard banging in

(11:24):
the April wind, right. It just works. So anyway, I
might do haiku all morning long, but I probably won't
seventeen minutes. I don't want to work that hard. Seventeen
past the hour. It's the morning shit with Preston.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Sky Matsuo bashok.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
The old pond, an old silent pond, a frog jumps
into the pond, splash, silence.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
Again. That is considered a classic haiku poem, sir, one
of the ten best right there, right there, that's sitting
at number one from the seventeenth century. This is more
my style. This is something I might have written, Okay,

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and I'm serious. I'm not trying to make myself an
equal to Katsushika Hokusai. I'm not. I am nowhere near
the cat man. This is nineteenth century and he learned

(12:56):
from Basho. But this is what I might have written,
just thinking about how I would have labored. Because see,
I wrote poetry poetry, I wrote satirical poetry, and unbeknownst
to me, a satirical poem that I wrote when I
was in fifth grade was entered by my teacher indu

(13:17):
way contest, and I won the state contest for satirical poetry.
As a fifth grader, I was writing about Watergate. I
kid you not. I had no idea mister Keasling submitted
that thing. But yeah, anyway, so I'm thinking everything's got
a rhyme. So this is like torture to me. Now

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this is number two on the list of ten greatest
haikus out there. According to some I write erase, rewrite
erase again, and then a pop blooms that would have

(14:04):
been what I might have written, huh huh again, and
then again I write huh it's pretty outside there you go,

(14:29):
five seven five or whatever. Hey, put this on your calendar.
National Day of Prayer coming up May first. It's a Thursday,
it always is, State Capitol eleven thirty to one fifteen.

(14:49):
There will be a simultaneous Bible reading at the historic
State Capitol on the twenty sixth, the week from Saturday.
They're going to read the entire Bible in an hour.
Oh my, someone's reading. Whoever gets a sign Leviticus, you go, you,

(15:15):
you will get an extra crown jewel for that one.
Because reading levitic Is out loud is just I mean,
reading Leviticus is tough. It's a tough study. It's a
tough read. But to sit to read it out loud,
it's right up there with some of the books of

(15:37):
the Bible that start with genealogies, where you're reading like
a thousand names. Oh you're dedicated. I admire you. But
the National Day of Prayer, you're welcome to come out
there worship eleven thirty to the noon prayer service from
noon to one fifteen and then the Bible reading ten

(15:58):
to eleven on the twenty s with a time arrive,
time to arrive at nine thirty to ten. You get
your scripture assignment. And I love it. I love the
concept man, because you speak God's word, You're clear in
some spaces and it's and let's face it, it's you know,

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it's up on one of the highest points of the
of the city and that has some spiritual value to it.
So Pam Olson, Executive Director, Hilltop House of Prayer, Tallahassee,
President Florida Prayer Network, well done, as always, twenty eight
minutes past the hour. I'm telling you big stories. On

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top of big stories. We're here to make it all better.
There you go, Yes, it's okay.

Speaker 4 (16:49):
Yes, this is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
Huge stories, huge, big stories in the press box this morning,
Thursday on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Good morning,
he's jose got the do rag going today? All right?
Left mine at home trying to make up for a

(17:21):
very subpar early two hours yesterday. First two hours yesterday
were just brutal. I don't often have bad to bad
back to back. See look at that. Look at that.
I start thinking, okay, this is better, and then I
butcher something just like that. I'm just I'm not talking, okay,

(17:42):
I'm over that. Big stories. Today, the United Kingdom Supreme
Court has ruled transgenders are not women. One of the

(18:07):
most progressive nations in the world has said, yeah, now
this is too far. Don't think it doesn't matter. This
is a massive ruling. But here's the inside little nugget.

(18:31):
I'm reading an eight page article about the ruling, all right,
and they've got reaction from the typical places and the
other This is chterrible. This is horrible, says Alice al
Slash Alice right, whatever. But here's what's great. I didn't

(18:53):
know this. I suspected it might be the case. Have
you ever heard of the lg B alliance? Now look,
in my worldview, it's still wrong. But did you notice
what's missing? LGB exactly, there's no T in this group.

(19:23):
And I ain't talking darjeeling delighted with the monumental ruling.
This is their spokesperson, hoping that the judgment means the
UK will now quote lead the world back to sanity

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over conflation of sex with gender identity. Thank you. What's
interesting is apparently, listen, listen, listen, this is nuts. Lesbians
have been felt threatened by transgenders, transgendered women, i e.

(20:09):
Dudes claiming to be women wanting to engage in lesbian relationships.
They're like, no, lesbian relationships are between two women. Now,
I'm not defending that. What I am pointing out is
the schism that now exists within the movement. But can

(20:37):
I have a what what for the United Kingdom Supreme Court,
which finally said no it was a suit filed by
four women Scotland, the Scots. The Scots of course led
the charge.

Speaker 5 (20:57):
Shouting freedom from the Hillsides Man wedding kilts is fine,
but there's stuff under that.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
Trump signs an order barring illegal immigrants from receiving Social Security.
Here's my editorial comment. Ready, ready, duh. There's the deep
insightful analysis of that one, duh. And then there's the

(21:35):
I think this is huge little local love for Florida
A and M University, they hired Charlie Ward as their
head basketball coach. Charlie's been coaching boys basketball Florida High.
He's won one or two state titles, maybe maybe more.
I don't know. He's been there seven years, NBA first

(21:58):
round draft pick, Heisman trop in football. I mean, what
an amazing athlete. He doesn't do this for the money.
He's not getting paid much. I mean, he's getting paid
peanuts compared to most college programs. But FAMU hasn't had
a winning season in eighteen years. Charlie is going to

(22:21):
change that. I will bet within two years. I'll bet
within two years. Now, you have to understand they have
to take games to make budget where they're likely going
to get beat their pay games where they go on
the road, there's somebody's you know, win on their calendar,

(22:43):
but they get money, so they have to take certain
amount of games. So there's certain losses they gotta take.
But dominating their conference getting back in the NCAA tournament
pretty cool, Pretty cool, very cool for FAMU. Go Rattlers.
Forty two past the hour, really late, Sorry, but that
was worth it. Won't admit it all right with the

(23:07):
story of the United Kingdom Supreme Court, and again this
is huge because this is like, this is the first
meaningful court ruling anywhere in the world that I'm aware of.

(23:32):
That says to this delusional movement. No one of the
respondents said, reality not paperwork. We still have people being victimized.
What I want you to hear. I'm going to read
the remarks of Mainz Governor Janet Mills, and let me

(23:55):
just say up front, I should not know her name.
The fact that I know the name of the governor
of Maine, there's just something wrong with that. If you
live in Maine, you should know, even if you're maybe

(24:15):
a neighboring state maybe, but Florida. Why should we even
know this woman's name. That's how outrageously foolish she is.
She's so ridiculous we know her name, and honestly, that
offends me. For decades, first as a district attorney, as

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Attorney general, now as governor, I have fought tyresly for
the rights of women and girls, for the health and
well being of children and families, and defending the constitution
of Maine and the Constitution of the United States. My
administration and Maine's Attorney General will vigorously defend our state
against the action announced today from the defender Department of Justice.

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As I have said repeatedly, this is not just about
who can compete on the athletic field. This is about
whether a president can force compliance with his will without
regard for the rule of law that governs our nation.
I believe he cannot. This is the detached from reality
sickness that comes with this. This is demonic. When demons

(25:30):
get a hold of people's brains, they can't think clearly.
She's trying to position this is federalism states right. No, no, no, no,
This is about protecting women and girls. The Supreme Court

(25:59):
has to deal with this and nail it down once
and for all, like they've just done in the United
king I can't believe I'm saying the United Kingdom did
it right, but the Brits got it right. Forty six

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minutes past the hour, now officially caught up, come back,
talk about bullies. It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Director of Federal Housing Finance Agency William Poulty has sent

(26:43):
a letter to the Attorney General Pam Bondi dealing with
New York Attorney General Leticia James. This is really going
to be good. You may recall that Leticia James was
along with working with Alvin Bragg literally making things up
to try to get Trump in court, and they found

(27:06):
him guilty of and if you look at it, of nothing.
They recreated laws that are not on the books. They
found him guilty of things where there are no victims.
There are no financial crimes of any kind. But some

(27:29):
of the accusations made will ring really familiar here. George
Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said, this is a
person who prosecuted Trump for everything short of ripping a
label off a mattress. Among the charges that were brought
in New York making false or misleading statements to financial institutions. Really, now, listen,

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remember just hold that thought. The director of FHFA said,
the property in Virginia that James allegedly claimed as her
principal residence, what, She's the Attorney general of New York.
How can she claim a principal residence in Virginia. Let's

(28:23):
hold that and a property in New York she claimed
as a four unit structure instead of five, which he
said could mean she was able to get different, more
favorable loan. Spokesperson for James said that she will not
be intimidated by bullies. Well, here's the problem. Apparently she

(28:51):
made several demonstrable in writing authentic false statements to change
her financial conditions to get favorable terms on a loan.
Let's go back to a post she made on her
Attorney General X page. Donald Trump lied about his net
worth on his statements of financial condition to get loans

(29:13):
for much better terms than he should have. That was
her accusation of Trump. Now let's all put this in
a nice bow, shall we do? You remember what I
have told you for twenty two years, because I didn't

(29:34):
say this the first year I did the show. I
started saying this the second year. About a liberals, they
do what they accuse others of doing. They are what
they accuse others of being. Letitia James Trump lied about

(29:54):
his net worth on his statements of financial condition to
get loans for much better than he should have. That
was never an issue because, as was testified in court,
he actually undervalued his net worth, he undervalued his properties.

(30:21):
And oh, by the way, he paid everybody. He paid
everybody back. No one came to court saying he didn't
pay me. However, here we have written statements that she
has signed showing falsification. Oh you just some days in

(30:50):
my world what I do for a living. Here the
stars just line up. It's one of those days. Steve
Stewart comes up next in the third hour, Richard Stern
with Heritage. We will we will offer you Cryptocurrency one
oh one, A class on cryptocurrency. All that and more
coming today on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. It

(31:14):
is the second hour of the Thursday edition of the
Morning Show with Preston Scott and Preston. He's Jose do
ragging it up over there in Studio one A. I'm
here in Studio one B whearing. His do rag is
Steve Stewart. He's the executive editor of Tellassie Reports. I
love painting a picture on the radio that is completely
and totally false. But people now have this vision of you,

(31:37):
Steve wearing a do ragon. It's brilliant. That's just last week, right,
a couple of weeks. The battle between the city and
Circle K and A subdivision is getting intriguing. It's very
and it's very instructive.

Speaker 6 (31:54):
Too on what the power the local government has and
you know the things that they can do. So Canopy
development for those who aren't up to date on this, uh,
you know east of town, northeast of town, nice development
selling homes, you know, mixed juice. People bought homes in
you know, very expensive homes, five hundred thousand oars homes,
and they found out that one of the plots of

(32:16):
land there is going to be a circle K right,
and it is close as from what they say, sixty
feet to homes. Now, if you go to Klarna States,
you can see Circle k's and you know, within the neighborhood.
So this is not a not quite that close. But yeah,
there's some if you look at it, there's some zero
lotline homes, but they're near, they're near, so anyway, but

(32:38):
the problem here is that that it has a bad
look since the pandemic. These convenience stores, a lot of
convenience stores, not just Circle K have become you know,
infested with other you know, crime is rampant some of
these places, and so people don't want gas stations right
near their homes. They don't seem to want, especially in
Canopy with the new home spending a lot of money.

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The problem is started here because the city has allowed
this to happen, and they actually admitted city commissioners were
shocked that there was a gas station that was allowed
to go there. But it was allowable within the regulations,
and so there was actually no legal recourse to get
them not to build it. They got they have followed
all the laws, all the rules, got all the permits,
and so they've tried to get them to swap the

(33:22):
land with the city to another location. They've tried to
right the circle k is not budgeting, they don't they
want a store there. And so the last threat was
imminent domain, and so the staff what they did is
they sent the staff to go back on Eminent domain
is a major undertaking because you're taking someone's property. Now
you're paying them for it, but at the same time

(33:45):
you're taking it. And so to give you how rare
it is, the city over the last thirteen years has
only had to use this five times. So city came
back and said, look, we don't see a public necessity
to do this eminent domain. And so now it becomes
a political issue. So last night, you know, twenty speakers
from the Canopian neighborhood, and you've got the politicians sitting

(34:06):
up there who have already admitted that they shouldn't be there,
that this was a mistake by the city. And so
they voted four to one with Dine Williams Cox voting
against it because of it made a very good argument. Listen,
you know, this is a really high hurdle. We're taking
someone's property and it's going to cost millions, and she's

(34:26):
probably right. So they're going to come back with a
resolution at the next City Commission meeting to move forward
with emin at domain.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
They're going to get an appraisal.

Speaker 6 (34:35):
And I think what they're doing here is trying to
put pressure on Circle K.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
Let me ask you a couple questions, because you're more
knowledgeable on this than anybody that I know that's not
involved in the deal. Number one, how bad is this
that the city has admitted now to the mistake. Doesn't
that create a legal hurdle for them that they said, well,
it's our mistake, But how does this hurt moving forward?
Is the city's word any good? Well?

Speaker 6 (35:00):
I think, well, again, it's not about the city's word,
it's about what was in the rules. So they're now
moving forward to change that loop that you know, that
loophole that allowed a gas station in this neighborhood near homes.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
So going forward. But but my point though, is they
it's it's legal to be there.

Speaker 6 (35:16):
It's allow exactly, so from an eminent domain standpoint, and
the attorney is, like, you can tell she does not
want to move forward with this because the first thing
I'm going to say is, look, they're just using the
eminent domain because they made a mistake, and that's I
think court Well, I don't think it'll ever get there.
I think that this is really I think this is
political in the sense that they're trying to show them,
they're trying to show the neighbor the residents that they're

(35:36):
going to do something and they're going to take this
as far as they can. And there's a lot of
things that you can do. There's a lot of steps
with them the domain before you file something in court.
There's an appraisal, there's no negotiation under the threat of condemnation,
all kinds of things you can do before you actually file.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
I will bet you that nothing gets filed and circle
K builds or doesn't build. I don't know about that. Well,
what's your hunt. I think they will, so do I
Ten Past the Hour More with Steve Stewart on The
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(36:27):
Executive Vetitor Tallaskan Reports. Always remember you can subscribe and
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to your mailbox at Tallaski Reports dot com. All right,
so we've got the possibility of a of an interesting
fight for some land inside a subdivision. That kind of
leads us well to another major part of their discussion,

(36:49):
which is a look at the twenty twenty six fiscal
budget and what's being proposed.

Speaker 6 (36:53):
Yeah, they had a budget workshop before the meeting on Wednesday,
and you know that sounds like you can be boring.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
Mean, there are the things that are that affect your wall.

Speaker 6 (37:00):
Oh yeah, moving forward, and so a couple of things
that they discussed at the budget workshop. First of all, crime,
They talked about the different things they're planning for twenty
twenty six.

Speaker 1 (37:10):
But what they did is they talked about.

Speaker 6 (37:11):
Where their crime numbers are two months into the year,
and I'll be darned if it doesn't really match what
we've been reporting. And so that really gives us a
lot of confidence in what we're reporting in terms of
the TPD incidents down forty percent in the first two months.
Now we've got data for the first three months, it's
down about forty percent, even you know, a quarter of
the year gone, which is an amazing feed is not

(37:33):
getting enough coverage, you know, and again that's violent crime,
total crime incidents. They owe it to obviously the more
police officers that they hired last year, the technology that
we've talked about repeatedly on this show. They also add,
and this is could be a little controversial, the amount
of money they've spent on some of these quote social
programs or soft programs, a lot of money. And we've

(37:56):
got a story up that details where the expenditures are,
you know, the last six years, fifty million dollars and
you know, neighborhood development in the areas where they're you know,
crime is high tempo program and you know there's probably
some impact, but it's a lot of money. And so
i'd encourage people to read that article. But I thought,
again gives credibility to what we're looking at. If you

(38:17):
look at the budget, the general fund budget, which is
what funds all municipalities, the number one priority or the
number one thing they spend money on is public safety.
And so that's really one of the boxes you want
to check. And so I think that that is a
that is.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
Are they getting impact for their investment, and it would
look like they are exactly now, fire service fees are
going to go up as a question of how much
twenty to twenty five percent. Why they're high. They've got
a new they got a new fire station.

Speaker 6 (38:42):
They're putting their building which will come online south side
of town, I think near Fort Braden.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
Twenty five firefighters.

Speaker 6 (38:51):
They're going to have to hire another twenty five personnel
to meet some kind of accreditation, so they're going to
be hiring fifty new personnel over the next year.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
Helped me out with something here that's not a blueprint
project building the fire station. No, not at all. Okay. Secondly,
is that not something that you have kind of a
sinking fund for, Well, this.

Speaker 6 (39:13):
Is in the fire Services fund is where they do
all the capital expenditures and they pay the operation expenses.
So that's a fund that's separate outside of the general
fund the county country.

Speaker 1 (39:21):
They didn't anticipate that they were going to build this,
Oh no, they have, but a twenty to twenty five
percent increase tells me they didn't anticipate that.

Speaker 6 (39:30):
I think they didn't anticipate a lot of things in
terms of a cost, and that nature and so again,
so this is going to be a big hit. Now
this is outside this There's been a lot of debate
about the Fire Service.

Speaker 1 (39:40):
Fund just to but look, it's going to go up.

Speaker 6 (39:43):
It's separate than your property taxes. Yeah, and so that
is that's an issue to keep your eyes on.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
The other thing.

Speaker 6 (39:51):
So the other second big thing they spend money on
its parks and recreation. And they're hiring about twelve new
people in that in that area. So you're hiring twenty
new police officers, fifty firefighters and it looks like twelve
more people in parks and recreation.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
Did I see that right? They have one hundred parks
to maintain.

Speaker 6 (40:07):
Yes, that was one of Mayor Daily's big issues is
to get to one hundred parks. We have one hundred parks. Okay,
you might want to look at some of the definitions
of a park.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
Yeah, I was just good. I mean that just hit
me really weird.

Speaker 6 (40:21):
Yeah, a lot of I mean that's one of the
things we're famous for as parks. So anyway, one hundred
of them. The other thing on that is what was
added in this budget workshop is that the things that
are happening in state legislature relative to property taxes. The
increase in the taxes emption and also all the other
debate over taxes could obviously have a huge impact on

(40:44):
what happens here locally.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
When we come back, the most discussed topic in my
email box relative to local governance TMH. We'll get to
that next. They're selling Steve in the break more email

(41:08):
has come to me, and it's more all the time.
As the relationship between Tallassee Memorial Hospital, the City of Tallahassee,
and potentially Florida State University becomes more public, a lot
of questions. Yeah, and so two things here, let's do
with two bites.

Speaker 6 (41:28):
First of all, one of the things that I'm looking
at is trying to go to look at other municipalities
and how they have dealt with these transfers. You do
compare and because this is not unique, I mean, back
in the fifties and sixties and seventies, towns had hospitals,
they managed them. And so we're looking at Greenville, South Carolina,
and Tampa General Tampa. The city of Tampa started a hospital,

(41:51):
they owned it, they managed it, you know, and then
the city got out of it, turned it over to
the county Hillsborough County because that's a big county.

Speaker 1 (41:59):
You know, Tampa's was the city and.

Speaker 6 (42:01):
Now there's no policy, there's no local government involved with
the management of Tampa General. It's a nonprofit, okay, all right.
And what is interesting is they created what they did.
They started doing what's going on here with FSU and
TMH in nineteen seventy. With the University of South Florida,
they started having agreements because of the med school there,

(42:22):
and they created this relationship that has grown since then
and has benefited the community tremendously based on the things
that you read, to the degree that in twenty twenty three,
USF got the distinction of being invited to the AAE,
getting THEAAU accreditation, which is the Association of American Universities,
which is what FSU is now after only three colleges

(42:45):
universities in the state have that designation University of Florida,
University of Miami, and University of South Florida. And so
if you look at that model down there, there's two
things that you see. There's no local governments involved with
the operation of that relationship and USF does not own
the hospital, but they just signed another agreement in twenty

(43:08):
twenty four that even tightens what they do, and it's
it's moving forward obviously successfully.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
They're getting research dollars.

Speaker 6 (43:15):
They've got the AU designation, which isn't within Florida, this
is a national.

Speaker 1 (43:18):
Does a county own the hospital, No, it's a nonprofit.
It's a nonprofit. Counties out of it, cities out of it, right,
and so so anyway, that's a very interesting model.

Speaker 6 (43:27):
And if you pivot to where we are here, we've
got the city still ratifying board members for TMH. We've
got this debate about who's supposed to own the who
wants to own the hospital that it might be for sale.
Clearly FSU was in the running for AU when it
was when it was given to usf they wanted it.
They still want it, and and that's alaudable goal. I

(43:51):
think it's part of the reason why they're doing the
hospital in Panama City because it will generate more research dollars.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
And so.

Speaker 6 (43:59):
Those are the things I think everybody needs to consider
now when you start looking at what happened to the
City Commission meeting last night.

Speaker 1 (44:04):
I watched it.

Speaker 6 (44:06):
You know, this initial pr campaign by TMH really was
very intense, but it is settled down and now there
are some real questions to be answered.

Speaker 1 (44:17):
And remind everybody the point of that campaign was to communicate.

Speaker 6 (44:21):
What the hospital was not for sale, okay, and this
was sort of jumping the shark on that idea because
the idea it was, it was included in the agenda,
and I have criticized the city for not making sure that,
you know, Mark O'Brien should have never been surprised what
was in the agenda when it came out.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
That's a that's a mistake.

Speaker 6 (44:38):
However, to argue that the hospital was for sale at
that meeting or was close to being for sale again
was a was a pr move to shore up what
their position is. But now that is it's sort of
like the fog of war that started, you.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
Know, and people didn't know what was going on. They
didn't a lot of.

Speaker 6 (44:55):
People in this community didn't even know the city on.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
The hospital, the assets.

Speaker 6 (45:00):
And so now that's sort of settled down, and last
night there was a very intense discussion about a lot
of things in terms of numbers, you know, where does
the city fit in. Why weren't we at the table
with this discussion about TMH and and the Panama City Hospital.
So it's gotten. You know, after the pr was fired out,

(45:22):
its settled down to a very intense discussion of Look,
there's some serious things to be answered here. And the
things I'm saying, and you know, I still have some
research to do on Greenville, is that the role in
the city needs to be minimal, if at all. And
then the second part of that is is we need
to figure out who's going to hold TMH and FSU accountable,

(45:44):
because look, TMH is a billion dollar operation right now,
and that's money coming in a lot of FED money,
a lot of Medicaid money, a lot of insurance money.
But at the same time, you know, where do you
there's no elected officials? You know, the board gets appointed
and it's all sort of done, you know, under the table.
You call it a community hospital. But do we really

(46:06):
get a report? You know, do we get every year
get a report and somebody talks about what's going on
and what we could do better?

Speaker 1 (46:11):
We don't.

Speaker 6 (46:12):
So I think there's a lot of things to be answered,
and that's where the City Commission was yesterday. I don't
see the rhetoric. I didn't see the rhetoric at that
meeting that we saw four to five weeks ago. So
it's becoming a much more serious discussion. And so there
are some serious questions that are going to have to
be answered relation in relation to finances, relationships, and where

(46:33):
the city fits in with this, and it's going to
be interesting to report on and it really is going
to determine how we move forward in this in the
healthcare industry.

Speaker 1 (46:42):
Glad you're there asking questions or at least listening to
what they're saying. Well, thank you, President, appreciate it. All right,
Steve Stewart with me, tell ASTI Reports. Remember you can
get this information delivered to you at Tallassireports dot com.

(47:10):
Pause for thought in just a few moments. Some tips
for your pets, very seasonally important tips, I might add.
And then in the third hour, Richard Stern from Heritage Foundation,
We're gonna dive into cryptocurrency because I don't get it,

(47:31):
and I know I'm not alone. I just feel like it,
but I know I'm not. Welcome to the radio program.
Second half of the show, Big Stories in the press Box,
Charlie Charlie Ward sources saying that he will be the
head basketball coach at Florida and Florida A and M

(47:53):
University board of trustees meeting yesterday allegedly to talk about
the contract, supposedly a multi year deal. What a great
hire if Charlie Charlie I will I will almost guarantee
you this. Charlie is doing this because he thinks he
can make a difference and impact that school in a
very positive way. For christ Charlie is one of the

(48:16):
most solid men ever. He's just quiet. He is as humble,
and I mean this charitably. He's so humble. He's a
terrible interview because he just doesn't like talking about himself period.

(48:40):
Heisman Trophy winner Florida State, obviously legend first round draft
pick of the New York Knicks in the NBA draft
played how many years, total goodness, gracious Nicks, San Antonio Spurs,
Houston Rockets, but the Knicks. I still remember the headline

(49:03):
when the Jets and the Giants were terrible at the
same time. Someone wrote in the New York Times headline,
or maybe it was the New York Post, the best
quarterback in New York is playing point guard for the Knicks.
They're referring to Charlie. Donald Trump signs an order barring
you illegal immigrants from receiving social security. Thank you, just

(49:27):
thank you. How sad is it that it requires an order?
How are they even getting these these benefits? How is
it possible? And for all of you old folks on
social security that are getting your panties in a wad

(49:49):
over the fact that, oh my goodness, look what he's cutting.
He's not cutting. He's saving. He's saving social security for
you and to whatever extent it will be there for me.
So just stop it with the the fear mongering and

(50:10):
falling for the the oh cud he may cut our benefits. Well,
you might get hit by a car tomorrow two, okay, whatever,
it's just silliness. And and I know for most of
you you get it, but some of you you don't.

(50:30):
You've got those Biden Harris stickers on your car and
and and you give yourself away by by saying coexist
and on your bumper stickers too. You just it's it's
it's incredible, and it's why. Oh, by the way, this Carol,
Carol Devane, who's like chief fearmonger of the state of

(50:53):
Florida right now on old people and social security, it's
why she will not come on this show. I've invited her,
she won't come on the show. She won't return it nothing.
Why because she doesn't want to be called out for
being a fearmonger. Because that's what she is. She's stirring
up people and there's nothing to it. Everything being done

(51:17):
by by Doge and the President right now is to
save social Security. Sorry, it's Tad do Vent just a moment.
And then there's this. The United Kingdom Supreme Court has
ruled that men who identify as transgender are not women.

(51:38):
Thank you, oh God, thank you. Now. There's a lot
more to this story, but we'll stop there. Forty minutes
past they are. I gotta stay on time this Morning
Show with Preston Scott at Preston Show with Morning Scott.
What cryptocurrency one oh one coming next hour? Cannot wait?

(52:13):
Give you road trip ide in just a few minutes,
but first, making me nervous like a long tail cat
in a room full of rocking chairs. Here he is
doctor Steve Steverson of the Bradford Lamal Hospital. I thought

(52:34):
I dropped, Yeah, I thought i'd drop a little cat
humor on you there all right, so we know the
temperatures are creeping up. We're going to be in the
mid to high eighties by the end of this week,
if not even today. So let's talk about warm weather
in our pets.

Speaker 7 (52:50):
Absolutely pressed, and this is a huge topic that we
see every year. We see pets come in that are
suffering from some sort of heat related issue. So this
is never gonna be uh not set often enough. You know,
when it's warm outside and our pets are, we think
it's warm on us, even warm on our pets because

(53:11):
they typically have a nice, good hair coat that makes
sure it's even warmer for them. So you've got to
be very very careful with our pets and the heat
that's coming this summer.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
You know.

Speaker 7 (53:19):
The first thing I'll say is make sure if you're
gonna go out and about and run some errands, you're
going in and out of your car, running in the
store and back to your car and whatnot, leave your
pet at home. Don't take them with you in the car,
thank you. Yes, the most common reason we see pets
come rushed into into our hospital or to the emergency
clinic on emergency with heat related problems is because they

(53:39):
were left in an automobile unattended. So don't take your
pets with you when you're running about town. When you're
running around town, make you're making your trips and things
like that. At home, always make sure your pets have
an unlimited access to fresh water. Probably a tip proof bowl.
It's a good idea. There's some bolts have a wide
base to them so that the dog can't tip it

(53:59):
a over. That's very important. We've had pets come in
where they an are left for the day and then
the dog tipped the water bowl over outside. They had
no water all day long, and that really adds to
their heat stress. To make sure they aughts have access
to water.

Speaker 1 (54:12):
Doctor Severson, please remind our listeners about a simple biological
reality about our dogs. I know, and I'm not sure
about cats, to be honest with you, but as it
relates to dogs, they don't perspire like we do. Talk
about how they cool themselves.

Speaker 7 (54:29):
Yep, that's exactly correct, Preston. Dogs don't sweat like we do.
So dogs you lose all their body heat primarily through
convection from their mouth as they pant, that tongue hanging
out and all that moisture exchange as they breathe. That's
where they use their that's where their heat exchange comes from.
So they need to have shade, they need to have
moving air so they can breathe and stand in front

(54:51):
of that fan, stand with the face and the fan
factically sometimes with that moving air to help cool them down.
So that's a very very good point, Preston. Eep them
off a hot asphalt. That can really add to their
heat stress if you have them out walking on hot asphalt,
so you want to definitely definitely avoid that as well.
Never exercise with your pet in the middle of the day.

(55:14):
Make sure if you're going to exercise with your pet,
do it the ideal time, Preston is early in the morning.
That's when it's the coolest. That's the best time to
exercise with your pet. And even then in the heat
of the summer early in the morning, make it short,
frequent trips or intervals with brakes in there for your
pet to make sure they're not getting overheated. So take
frequent breaks when you're working out with your pet.

Speaker 1 (55:36):
And if you're going on a walk, I would imagine
bring some water for your dog, not just for yourself.

Speaker 7 (55:41):
Absolutely, that's a great idea. Bring water for yourself for sure.
Bring lead for your pet is even more important because
they need that moisture to help keep them cool.

Speaker 1 (55:49):
What about cats?

Speaker 7 (55:51):
So interesting, Preston Cats can also sell a meat stroke.
Usually with cats, it's when they are left in an
enclosed environment, so you're just not outside for them. But
if I left inside the home and the AC's turned
off because you're gonna be gone for a few days
with your cat's at home with the oh, they'll be fine.
They've got some food and they got a water bowl.
They'll be fine. But I think it's really hot inside.

(56:13):
That can be a serious, serious problem for your cat.
You know. Look, I was reading an article the other
day and they said the number one presentation for a
cat with heat related stress is being left unattended in
an RV.

Speaker 1 (56:25):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (56:26):
So your traveling with your pet in an RV, yep,
your cat. You think it's gonna be fine. You're gonna
run and toward the city for the day. You leave
your cat in the RV with no AC on, and
you come back to cat that's in distress because of
the heat that's built up in that RV. So that
was a very interesting article to read. For cats, that's
the biggest problem is an enclosed space with no air conditioning.

Speaker 1 (56:46):
All right, next time we visit, we're going to talk
about what to do if and so, but we're hopefully
going to prevent all that stuff. Doctor Steverson, thank you.

Speaker 7 (56:55):
Sir, wife before to talk to you next time.

Speaker 1 (56:58):
All right, Doctor Steve Stevers with the Bradfordville Animal Hospital.
Listen to the tips. It will keep your pet safer, healthier,
and oh yeah, alive. Forty six minutes past the hour,

(57:38):
just a reminder. Had a visit with Steve Stewart about this.
Donatelifeflorida dot org is the website to register to be
an organ donor fifty percent below the need of what
we have here in the Sunshine State. And what if
that were I mean some of you may be on

(57:58):
the list. We might have listeners on the list of
needing organ donation, and what if it were you. It's
how you can really make a difference in somebody else's
life when yours is ended. I mean it's painless, right,

(58:23):
so think about it. Donate life Florida dot org, I
believe is the Did I get that right? Donate life
Florida Life. I'm such a bad typist. Yeah, that's it.
Donate life Florida, Dot Org. I'm a great typist, and

(58:45):
so please there's a massive waiting list of people. And look,
you never know, as we talked about yesterday with Ron Sachs,
you know, the chassis might get worn out, but parts
are still good, and that could be h that could
make a life changing, literally life saving difference in other

(59:11):
people's lives. Road trip best road trips ever, best road
trips in the fifty in the fity, the fitty States.
And we're working our way out from Florida and we're
up the east coast and we're into Virginia. Now here's

(59:34):
an interesting thing Virginia. For all of you Whinos out there. Sorry,
wine connoisseurs, Virginia comes in number five with the most
wineries of any state in the nation. I didn't think
that Virginia, huh. I thought, no, not not up there,

(59:59):
it's too too cold. But no, nope. You couple this
with the scenic Shenandoah Valley on the western side of
the state, and you've got yourself quite the road trip
if you are into that. Now, that's one thing if
you're a wine connoisseur. Eh uhh, Yeah, that's one road

(01:00:22):
road trip idea all right, just put together. There are
there are actual road trip suggestions to hit all the wineries. However,
I suggest doing a history tour. Virginia is loaded with
history and places to visit, and so I strongly recommend

(01:00:50):
you map out a history tour. I've I did two
history tours with some of our kids, not all of them,
but some of them. Because they're spread by years, there's
a gap there. And so with the youngers we did
two part history trip, and in one of them we
spent a good bit of time in Virginia. And it's

(01:01:12):
just it's spectacular the history in Virginia. Now there's a
little bit of woke that she got to deal with
here and there, but you can't you can't ignore the
history found in that region. And I'm sure it's going
to come up in some other road trip ideas, but

(01:01:33):
Virginia is my suggestion. If you're going to make a
roadie and you want to combine it with some educational value,
there you go. All right when we come back. You asked,
and I mean a lot of you asked, So I'm
right there with you. I got nothing on cryptocurrency. I
don't understand it. I don't know how you invent a currency,

(01:01:56):
How do you do that? What makes it tricky is
it's not from the governm, which in the minds of
many makes it incredibly cool and useful. That's next cryptocurrency
on The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Yeah, I'm stalling.
We are into the third hour here of the Morning

(01:02:16):
Show with Preston Scott, How Are You Friends? Show fifty
three sixty, and this is what happens in live radio.
We are desperately trying to get through to Richard Stern.
His phone line is busy. Now, that could mean any

(01:02:37):
number of things. It could mean that he is on
another interview and it's taking too long. It could mean
that he's ordering breakfast and he's forgotten that he has
an interview with us, though I confirmed yesterday. Or it
could be that he's listened to the first part of

(01:02:57):
the show and just does want to talk to me
like that. Guy's a lunatic. He doesn't know anything about crypto. No,
I know nothing about crypto. I have notes here, and
I mean I have dug back to a column written
by a colleague of his at Heritage Foundation. He may

(01:03:18):
not even be there anymore. Steven Moore, he was a
senior visiting Fellow of Economics, which tells me he may
not be there anymore. But he wrote a commentary in
twenty nineteen entitled Who's Afraid of Cryptocurrencies? And my answer

(01:03:40):
to that is me, So if you continue to try
dialing him, who's a dialom one another line, because I've
sent our hotline to them to try to get him
to call us. At this point, I'm a little perplexed
by it, but I will tell you, and some of

(01:04:03):
you you have my permission to laugh and mock my
lack of understanding knowledge, my ability to get it, because
I don't, But I understand the idea. What I struggled

(01:04:25):
with early on is probably what some of you, though
not all of you, have struggled with. How do you
invent a currency? I mean, what what creates value in something?
And when it was brought to my attention that the
money that you have in your let's say you have

(01:04:48):
cash in your pocket, You've got dollars, you got a buck,
you got you got a couple bucks, you got a
five to ten, maybe even have a Benjamin in there,
you got a hundo. What gives that value are two things?

(01:05:09):
Belief and demand all currency is easily described as meme currency.
You have a piece of paper, albeit a very good

(01:05:30):
and unusual piece of paper, and the reality is that
that creates the baseline of understanding here for crypto. The

(01:05:53):
global crypto market has endured for more than fifteen years.
And again I don't understand how you just make up
some money and it's an assigned value to it. But
we're gonna try to get some answers to all of this.

(01:06:14):
It's ten minutes past the hour. We've got Richard Stern
on the phone line. We're gonna get back to him
next ten past the hour. Check a weather in traffic
on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. I'm stalling again.

(01:06:52):
I've read a couple of different things. I've tried to
get my brain wrapped around crypto. I'm sure some of
you have have. It's a fifteen year market, but it
has been accelerated by Donald Trump. Trump has placed a

(01:07:13):
lot of emphasis on cryptocurrencies, to the extent that he
granted a full pardon to Ross Olbrich. He's the founder
of what some describe as a dark web marketplace that
allowed anonymous purchases in bitcoin. He's considered a bitcoin pioneer.

(01:07:40):
He was considered a political prisoner by a lot of people.
He was serving two life sentences plus forty years until recently.
To sum, the entire crypto industry is nothing more than

(01:08:01):
a digital tulip mania. Now, that term is a term
that refers to the three year period in Dutch history
when the price of a tulip bulb soared before collapsing.
To critics, that era of Dutch history foreshadows the future

(01:08:24):
of crypto. The problem is that, unlike tulips, according to proponents,
the crypto industry is is on very firm footing. It's

(01:08:50):
driven by Crypto is driven by bitcoin, which is out
there fifteen years, three full four year cycles. The floor
price of bitcoin has been increasingly higher. As a digital asset,

(01:09:14):
Bitcoin has an array of unique features, say proponents, A
decentralized network, immutability, security, a finite supply, which is apparently
key to this whole thing. It's what creates value of gold,
a finite supply. There's just so much of it, and
it's why when dollars are printed, it devalues the dollar.

(01:09:38):
You're just printing more of it, so it doesn't have value.
Because the values found in its scarcity, the limit now
what I've never been able to understand, and I apologize.
I can't apologize enough that our guests crashed and burned
on us. It's just yeah. But the reality here is

(01:10:08):
cryptocurrency is noteworthy and to many very important because a
government isn't involved, a government isn't controlling it. And so
I will tell you that as I've read more, I don't,

(01:10:29):
for example, I don't understand what gives value to this
where now it's accepted as payment. I know that some
cryptocurrencies attached to the dollar bill that it has value
that's attached to the dollar in some way, shape or form,
much like we, you know, used to place incredible value

(01:10:52):
on the gold standard, right, But I don't understand, and
I can't even begin to apologize for the fact that
our guests just washed out on us, and I've been
left hanging an ergo you have to. I will try again,
just not today. Sixteen minutes past the hour, We're going

(01:11:12):
to move on to other things. It's the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. Finally we're able to We have no idea.

(01:11:38):
I'll just say God didn't want us to talk to
him because we called six eight times, and he was
patiently sitting by his phone waiting for us to call.
So somehow the line didn't go through. You know how
many interviews we do, we don't have that problem. And

(01:12:04):
so my guess is there was just something in the
phone exchange that didn't work. I don't know if we
were given the wrong phone number to call, but yeah, sorry,
it's it's it's annoying to me. I can't even imagine

(01:12:26):
how annoyed you are, because some of you might have
been like really looking forward to to learning more about cryptocurrency.
Do you know anything about cryptocurrency? Have you ever dabbled
with it?

Speaker 7 (01:12:39):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (01:12:40):
No, I I know a little bit though. I have
a really good friend who you know, we call him
the crypto Guru. Really, he's very knowledgeable. He's was very successful.
But you know, it's like anything else, it's a gamble.
You know, you can't lose you know, a lot of
money in it.

Speaker 1 (01:12:57):
But but I have slight How do you lose money
in something that's a currency. Well, it's kind of like
it's a lot like the stocks. Yeah, but that's not
a currency, right, right? You can sell stock for currency.
And see, this is we're driving at why I wanted
somebody on this show to explain this, because you know,

(01:13:21):
if you buy a stock, you sell it for currency.
So for example, if they said you can buy a
stock and sell it for a cryptocurrency, I'd be okay,
And that's fine because I can take that and spend
it and so forth. I don't understand how you're investing

(01:13:43):
in crypto. If you can, you still have to convert
it to cash. So it's not a currency, see what
I'm saying. And I hear you because that's what some
people say. You know, it's been a great investment for me,
or well, then it's not a currency. It has to
have like you said, it has.

Speaker 8 (01:14:02):
To have that, you know, the the people wanting to
buy it, you know, the.

Speaker 1 (01:14:06):
There can only be so much of it there can be,
and it has to be limited. And I guess people
buy and sell it for what I mean. I just
this is my conundrum with cryptocurrency. And and and I
know some of you are like, I've got wait, Lane says,

(01:14:33):
you will never understand bitcoin with that attitude. We've gotta got.
Lane's read some books on it. He said, I know
more than you though, which again I'm laughing at myself.

(01:14:53):
It's I think where I'm at is where probably a
majority of people are at with this, only they don't
just humiliate themselves and explain what they don't know. That's
what I do for a living. I do it all
the time. I routinely explain what I don't know, but
occasionally I know what I do know. But there are
conundrums inside cryptocurrency, and I'm conditioned by the fact that

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I've lived my entire life under a government controlled currency.
I do own certain commodities, but all of those commodities
convert to a currency. Those commodities could have value, if
you will, if everything crashed, then the price you know,

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you hear people say gold, and that always holds value
because if the dollar crashed, gold would be what I
would buy and sell with, and people would literally be
chiseling off of a gold quarter or gold coin or whatever,
or a gold bar, and they would be bartering with that,
I suppose, weighing it, measuring it. Crypto appears to be

(01:16:07):
in that same place as gold, is that it has
this intrinsic value because they say it does. And I
think that's my biggest stumbling block, because someone says it
has value, and because others believe that and they put

(01:16:29):
money behind that, I guess it does. But yeah, Laine,
you're right, I may never understand crypto. I may not
for the same reason why there were certain principles in algebra.
I just threw my hands up and said, nope, nope, nope,

(01:16:52):
don't get it. Don't understand it. You can draw it
on the board all day long, it does not intellectually
makes sense to me. And maybe crypto is on that
side of my brain where math is. And it's funny
because there's certain things in math that I absolutely grasp.

(01:17:13):
I grasp the concepts. I'm a statistics nerd statistics, I'm
down with geometry. I'm kind of there with you on
that too, But oh my gosh, crypto just eludes me,

(01:17:33):
and it really sucks. I'm no further along at this
moment than I was a half hour ago. I am
so sorry. Twenty seven minutes past the hour, get back
to what I do and know a little.

Speaker 4 (01:17:47):
Something about next the fastest three hours in media, And
don't be surprised if you have a chuckle here and there.
Just like that, It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:18:22):
Okay, it's thirty six minutes past the hour tomorrow, the
Best and Worst? What's the beef? I've got a note
or two to share, good and bad. Yeap, the Best
and Worst? Got good news segments, some headlines from the Bee,
and and a new maybe new feature that will do

(01:18:47):
just when the right story hits. I just suddenly have
two of them, and it's called what would you Do?
I'm gonna present you with a scenario from the news,
and I'm going to ask what would you do? So
that's tomorrow in the second hour, five past the hour,
seven o'clock Eastern, six o'clock Central, what would you do?

Speaker 9 (01:19:09):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:19:09):
What kind of scenario am I gonna hand you? Literally
right from the news, not inspired by news? No, no, no,
right from the news. We'll share a story and then
we'll say what would you do? Oh, it's gonna be
so good. Yesterday, while I was preparing for the show today,
I just I got these two stories boom boom like that,

(01:19:32):
and they were like they weren't the same, but they were.
They brought about the same question what would you do?
And I just started laughing because I was like, oh, yeah,
this is a segment, This is a feature that we
will do again and again and again because it's too good.
Big stories in the press box. God saved the king.

(01:19:56):
It's the only thing I can think of, do you
un Kingdom Supreme Court has ruled transgender men are not
women and obviously vice versa. There are those that will

(01:20:18):
scoff at that, but among those that are not are lesbians.
Lesbians in the UK are celebrating this because, believe it
or not, there's been a split the LGBTQ plus is
just LGB in the UK within some they want nothing

(01:20:39):
to do with the transgender movement because listen to this,
trans men, we're trying to pass themselves off as lesbians,
which means men were trying to hook up with women,
but by pretending to be women. They're like, no, we

(01:21:00):
don't like you. Now again before God, it's all it's
any other sin, like lion or whatever. It's sin. But
it's so interesting that there's that distinction inside that community.

(01:21:21):
Enemy of my enemies, my friend. It's just you know,
aliens versus predators, LGBTQ versus LGB. Is it who knew?
But don't underestimate the importance of this ruling. It is

(01:21:44):
it's not huge, it's huge. This is massive. President Trump
speaking of huge, signing an order barring your legal immigrants
from receiving Social Security. Okay, and I mean, yes, he

(01:22:05):
had to do that, but it's like, really, we have
to now have that law. It's like, you don't bring
your dog into church? Can you believe we have to
say that now? No, social emotional support dogs are not
dogs you can bring into church. That's why you're in
church for emotional support. So you don't need to carry

(01:22:30):
your dog everywhere with you. I need a pet. No,
but come on, we now need guidelines for that. Really.
Final big story in the press box Charlie Ward reportedly
going to be the new basketball coach at Florida and

(01:22:51):
Florida A and M University. I've struggled with that all
morning long. I just got too excited about saying Charlie
Ward is the head coach. Charlie. I don't know Charlie Well.
I've interviewed him a couple of times, and only twice
because he's a terrible interview, because he's the most humble
man I've ever met. I'm not kidding that. This is
not backhanded praise. This is sincere praise. He is so humble.

(01:23:17):
He detests talking about himself, and so I don't interview Charlie.
He is an incredible man, loves Jesus head on straight.
He's been coaching young people for years. I think he
looks at FAMU and says, I can help, and you

(01:23:38):
know what, they'll be ballers. He will get guys to
sign because he's a former number one choice in the
first round draft choice in the NBA and played years
for the New York Knicks. There will be kids that
say I want to be mentored by him, and think

(01:23:59):
of what they're getting. Not just a Heisman Trophy winner,
not just an NBA first round pick who played years
at a very high level, but a man who loves Jesus.
Is a black male role model as a father, as
a dad, as a husband. He is, Oh, this is

(01:24:19):
so good forty two minutes past the hour. Oh the
fun doesn't stop here.

Speaker 4 (01:24:32):
Find more on his vlogbufla FM dot com keyword preston.

Speaker 1 (01:24:43):
All right, this little story is going to extend to
the final segment, in part because I'm running late, but
in part because I planned it. Senator Chris Van Holland
from Maine is found himself in l Salvador. Let's listen.

Speaker 10 (01:25:08):
I just landed at the airport in San Salvador a
little while ago. I'm now en route into the city,
looking forward to meeting with the team from the American Embassy.
And I do want to thank our Foreign Service officers
and the whole team at this embassy and embassies around
the world for all the good work they do on
behalf of our country. I'm proud to co chair the

(01:25:30):
bipartisan Foreign Service Caucus that stands up for the men
and women who are serving our country overseas and at
home in the State Department. After that, I hope to
meet with some high level government officials from Al Salvador.
As I've said before, the goal of my visit is
to talk to people here about the release of Kilmar

(01:25:54):
of Grego Garcia. I told his wife and his family
I would do everything possible to bring him home.

Speaker 1 (01:26:03):
This was a wasted trip. They would not let him
see him, nor should they. It's so interesting that his
wife I want to see my husband. I want him home.
This is the same woman that filed two protective orders
against her husband for abuse. I think more disgusting than

(01:26:29):
all of this is that Chris van Holland I was
in touch with his wife, his family. Maybe that's why
Rachel Morin's mom is on television and going to White
House press briefings pointing out he never once reached out

(01:26:53):
to her. She lives in Maine, her daughter was brutally
murdered by an illegal immigrant. Not this man. This man's
with him as thirteen. He's part of a whole syndicate
of murders and rapists and thugs. But Chris van Holland

(01:27:17):
has the gall to pack up and grandstand and fly
to El Salvador to try to bring this MS thirteen
freaking terrorist back home where he belongs. It's it's staggering

(01:27:43):
to me, sorry, not main and Maryland. It's staggering to me.
And Rachel Morin was murdered in Maryland. That this guy
has the the stones to do this, this grand standing trip,
knowing that he never made contact with the family of

(01:28:06):
Rachel Morin. This goes back to see never pass up
an opportunity to learn. This goes back to when I
told you Democrats care more about getting illegals into the
country and voting than they care about any collateral damage.

(01:28:28):
The death of Rachel Morin was terrible in their minds,
no doubt, but it's just one of those things that happens.
That's why they're dismissive of it. That's why they didn't
reach out. But losing a voter, losing an illegal immigrant,
oh my gosh, we must fly there. They didn't even

(01:28:52):
have the decency to reach out to this woman's family
who was viciously murdered. Democrats, save yourselves, get away from
this party. They're sick. They are sick. Forty seven minutes

(01:29:15):
past them. Let's end this entire sick and twisted ordeal
of Chris van Holland, who, it's disgusting, by the way,

(01:29:41):
wouldn't vote for the Lake and Riley Act. Let's let
Carolyn Levitt sum that's up.

Speaker 9 (01:29:48):
Nevabrago Garcia in MS thirteen l Salvadorian, a legal alien
criminal who is hiding in Maryland, has been nothing short
of despicable. Based on the sensationalism of many of the
people in this room, you would think we deported a
candidate for Father of the Year. That's because unfortunately many
in this country care more about this quote unquote Maryland father,

(01:30:10):
a legal alien MS thirteen gang member than a Maryland
mother and an American citizen who was brutally murdered at
the hands of a different illegal alien. Of course, I
am referring to Rachel Morin. And if you didn't see yesterday,
a Maryland jury found illegal alien victor Antonio Martinez Hernandez
guilty of murdering Rachel Morin in August of twenty twenty three.

Speaker 1 (01:30:35):
Talk about tone deaf. Right after a jury verdict, this
guy flies to El Salvador to try to rescue an
MS thirteen gang member. By the way, the officials the
government of l Salvador laughed at him, so he probably

(01:30:58):
flew over on our twn dollars, thumbing his nose at
the victims, the countless victims around this country of the
illegal immigrants that have committed heinous crimes. And it's unfair
to the illegal immigrants that are just trying to make
a living but still entered this country illegally. But the

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fact of the matter is this is this reveals the
priorities of the left.

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Speaker 1 (01:31:34):
It's the Morning Show one on WFLA. The end, how
I started. Even with all of that, Jesus died for
Democrats too, because Democrats are no different than Republicans or
independents or anyone else. We're all sinners, we all fall short.

(01:31:58):
But I'd like to think that people that truly know
and love Jesus, when they make a mistake, are repentant,
are convicted of that mistake and say, yeah, I need
to do better, and I'm sorry. You sort that out. Democrats,

(01:32:21):
on why you remain members of an organization like this,
that believes this, that supports this, that codifies this. Tomorrow
we'll do it all over again. Lots of great stuff
coming on tomorrow's program. I cannot wait till then, my friends,

(01:32:44):
have yourself a great day, spend a little time in
maybe Luke twenty two. Just say it.