Ep. 5597: Democrats Hate Their Cities and Constituents.

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And it takes you that morning cup of coffee. It takes you maybe an hour and a half or two hours before you start to kind of feel awake. Or are you, whewoo! Let's go! You just, you're up. You're ready. I am, when I first wake up, I'm, my routine is so... locked in at this point when i first wake up 60 seconds i can be ready to rock i i can be let's go my wife marvels at it and maybe at times dislikes it intensely um but yeah i i always wonder because i try i try so hard to just find that sweet spot and not be hey good morning how are you and not be hey yeah because that would like if you're a person that's slow waking up the last thing you need is me screaming and yelling and being a jerk you can wait a couple hours and handle me being a jerk then but not not not not right out of the box so i try to thread the needle That's what I try to do. Walk that fine line. I wonder how many other analogies I can come up with. All right, scripture, Acts 238, set the stage. First, Luke is writing. Luke, a physician, a doctor of the times. Very detailed. He wrote the book of Luke. He wrote the book of Acts. And these books... have great detail, although there are things that stand out to Luke that appeal to probably his intellect as a doctor, but there are other things that he doesn't so much gravitate to that the other gospel writers write about. But when you get to to acts,

His narrative is very specific. And in this case, he's writing down the words of Peter. Peter was giving a sermon to a crowd of people. And Peter, remember now, this is Peter who would deny Christ on the night of his arrest. He denied him. Just as Jesus said, Peter, I love you. But you're going to deny me. And of course, Jesus went out of his way when he was resurrected to go to Peter and say, Peter, brother, I love you. I got you. It's all right. Peter is one of the men who couldn't pray for one hour. Then they're praying for days without ceasing. Why? Holy Spirit. Peter addresses this. Peter said to them this massive crowd, repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. He didn't know anything about that until the night of the resurrection. He knew nothing about that. But you can hear the words of conviction. And I don't mean conviction in terms of... You know, when we feel convicted of our sins and our mistakes, I'm talking about conviction as in belief. His determined belief because he had seen Jesus resurrected. And he is just throwing it down. I love this. I love this account. read the book of acts read chapter two with with the perspective of look who's talking and look at the confidence he had to have restored to him by jesus because of what he had done 10 past the hour it's the morning show with bresden sky

12 past the hour. I was just looking to the video, Jose is looking at the video, of Marco Rubio playing DJ at a family wedding. Just saying it could happen. My son's getting married in a few weeks. Might find me spinning the flat discs. No, they're not. It's different today. I wouldn't know the first thing. If you gave me the old school technique turntables with the pitch adjustments and vinyl, 12-inch vinyl records, you would be stunned at my skill set. Wouldn't take me long to get it back. Back in the day. I was in charge of Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and parts of Texas. I was a regional programming, whatever you call it, for Gilbert Robinson, which is a chain. It owned a chain of restaurants called Hulahans, and I was over an entire region of the country. And I would be, I was a DJ inside these restaurants. And I would teach others. And I would program the music. And I would, you know, pick and select. And, um, but those were the days where you, it was not digitally matched. It wasn't any of that stuff. It was you had to, you had to adjust the pitch of the, of the music. And then you, you'd have to nudge it ever so slightly to get it to its normal speed. in order to segue to the next song or you needed to nudge it up or down to go to the next song it was just and it was so much fun because you had all these different genres of music because we specialized in catering to everybody we had we had what was hip hop of the time it was you know, kind of urban funk kind of thing. And then there was rock and then there was 50s and 60s. And then there was the disco music of the time, the dance music, country Western, and then you had to slow stuff. And your job was to turn the dance floor over to always have new people coming on to the floor. And so you would do these sets and you'd turn them over and all that. So, you know, I'm just sharing because Jose laughed at me. when I when I talked about the skill set I used to possess he just laughed like he couldn't imagine that and you couldn't imagine well actually I can you know you can't now I see where Jameson gets there no you can't you can't you can't imagine it you just can't it's not possible 1861 May 6th, Arkansas's Seeds from the Union. You'd learn more about me than you ever wanted to know listening to this program. And I'm sorry for that. 1896 on the Potomac River, Samuel Langley demonstrates his aerodrome. The world's first mechanically propelled heavier than air machine driven by a small steam engine. The unmanned craft flies three quarters of a mile. That's before the Wright brothers.

1937, the German Derigible Hindenberg explodes, killing 36 of the 97. Have you ever seen the video of the Hindenberg blowing up? I don't know if you had the same reaction. Here's my reaction. How did anybody survive that? People survived? I just said it. 36 of the 97 died. So more than half survived. John Steinbeck wins the Pulitzer Prize for Grapes of Wrath, 1939. And in 1941 in Riverside, Bob Hope performs his first show for U.S. troops. I really, it saddens me that there's multiple generations now that I have no idea who Bob Hope is. Ah, he was funny and entertaining. Really, really cool stuff. Real quickly here. National Interpreter Appreciation Day, National Bike to School Day, National Nurses Day, National Krip Suzette Day, National Skilled Trades Day, and National Beverage Day. So there you go. Come back and I will tell you about Apophis. Huh?

We need a movie called Apophis. APO, P-H-I-S, Apophis. That is the name of an asteroid about the size of the Eiffel Tower. expected to come unusually close to Earth in 2029. But there's no risk of impact. It will pass around 20,000 miles from Earth's surface on April 13, 20,29, closer than many satellites in orbit. Did you know that? That makes me wonder, will it hit a satellite? It's potentially hazardous, made of leftover raw material that was never part of a planet or moon. Or so you think. Quoting from the story here, NASA, the source, when it was discovered in 2004. It appeared Apophis might impact Earth in either 2029, 2036, or 2068. Since then, astronomers have closely watched Apophis using optical telescopes, ground-based radar, allowing its orbit to become better understood. No risk of Apophis impacting Earth for at least 100 years. And then, I hate to tell you, but Bruce Willis will be dead. And then what? Robert Duval's already gone. He can't fly the spacecraft in there and blow it up. Now, those are the two movies. Deep Impact, which I thought had a great cast. A little syrupy, but it's okay. It was a good movie. I thought it was a good movie. Robert Duval, Morgan Freeman, Elijah Wood, Lili Sabisky, a little cutie. And... Who else was in that? I think Maximilian Shell was in there, I want to say. And then there's the one with Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, and, of course, Bruce Willis, Armageddon. They think that I was fascinated by the fact that they said they wanted to better understand.

this asteroid and that it will be visible apparently weather permitting in the eastern hemisphere without a telescope or binoculars now that's crazy how do you see something 20,000 miles away without a telescope or binoculars but I'm sure there will be a lot of news about this when it gets a little closer to I plan to be on the air. Now, you know, who knows what God has to say about that or my bosses, but I plan to be here. And it would be fun to say, yeah, remember when we talked about Apophis? We talked about this. Have you ever seen anything like that in this? I mean, we've all seen a falling star, shooting stars, that kind of thing. But I can't remember ever seeing. There was a time when I lived in Arizona because we lived up on a mountain. We lived on the north side of Mummy Mountain. Mummy Mountain is opposite of Camelback Mountain. And anyone that's familiar with Scottsdale knows exactly what I'm talking about. We were on the north side. We were one of the higher houses up on Mummy Mountain. And we had an open backyard. And, you know, there are no trees. You're on the mountain. And there was a time period where I was really into stargazing. And I had a telescope that was pretty sporty. I still remember seeing Saturn for the first time in a telescope. Jupiter was easy. Saturn was hard. And I remember when I saw Saturn, it freaked me out because of the rings. And it just, it was so surreal to see it with my own eye, not a picture, not an artist rendering, but to actually see it. And you know, you look at this and you look at this story, they want to better understand its physical properties. Here, let me help you out. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

I don't, I mean, I understand the desire because that's, God created us with a desire to understand. He also created us with a desire to worship, but that's another story for another time. But anyway, so we're in no danger, but it's out there. 27 pass. Big stories in the press box have a theme. See if you can figure it out. I won't tell you what it is. Hey, it's Bubba Wallace from 2311 racing. You know what feels like forever? sitting on a plane waiting for takeoff. Good thing, I've got Jumba Casino. With daily boost and social casino games on tap, this is a kind of fun that makes time fly. Why not turbocharge your downtime? Play now at Jumbacasino.com. Let's Jumba. Sponsored by Chumba Casino. No purchase necessary. VGW Group, Ford, where prohibited by law, 21 plus, terms and conditions apply. All right, I gave you a challenge. And the challenge is, what do these stories have in common? Story number one, Wisconsin's governor's race. You got to love it. Here we are in Florida. And one of the big stories of the press boxes, what's going on in Wisconsin? And it has nothing to do with Green Bay. Green Bay politics, they're sad, it's terrible, they've ruined the city. The only thing keeping that city afloat is the Green Bay Packers. But the race for governor, I didn't know this. I knew Trump won Wisconsin. Did you know that the Wisconsin legislature is controlled by the Republicans? Not the governor's office, though. Now, the Republicans are rallying around Representative Tom Tiffany to be the next governor. Democrats, it's going to be a brawl. But guess who's entered the race? You don't know the guy. He is the owner of Managua Brewing Company, a guy named Kirk Bangstad. The guy has a record. He's been arrested. It's not the end of the world, but this might be. He published the phone number of a secret service agent who reached out to him. Why would a secret service agent reach out to him? Because he offered free beer to anyone who assassinated Donald Trump.

That's the state of the party in Wisconsin. Now, here's my question. How is he out of jail? Why has he not been arrested? I mean, you can make light of that. But what is the difference between saying, I will pay for someone to kill Trump versus I will offer beer for life, free beer for someone to kill Trump? What is the difference? It is the offer to reward someone for a contract killing, right? Maybe I'm over analyzing this, but that would seem to me to be the case. Anyway, story number one. Story number two in Virginia. A Guatemalan national in this country illegally, Walvin, Victor Hugo Garcia.

Arrested on felony charges of rape of a child under 13, aggravated sexual battery of a victim under 13, use of computer to commit sex offense with a minor, and distributing drugs to a minor. He had an ICE detainer, and they released him. Virginia authorities released him. He showed up for his court date and ICE arrested him in the hallway. That's a sanctuary city. That's a sanctuary state. How do you reconcile that? How do you reconcile the fact that he raped a child under 13? and was released because they don't want to cooperate with federal authorities. Forget that. They released him. How do you let the guy even walk out of the, out of the courthouse? And then in Seattle, 77-year-old man got off the bus, did nothing, just got off the bus, and was beaten. One of the two, Ahmed Abdullah Osman. A second suspect has not been caught yet, apparently. But no one helped him. This is Seattle. No one helped him. No one helped him get up after he had been brutally beaten. And the mayor, Katie Wilson, the socialist, she wants to remove all the cameras. And the cameras are the only reason they caught this guy. She wants to remove all of them because they're threatening to people that are in our country, that are migrants. So let me end the way I started. What do all of those stories have in common? 41 minutes past the arts, the morning show with Preston Scott.

Come up with your answer? Democrats. The liberals. Barack Obama out there praising the virtues of Zohran Mamdani. He's an extraordinarily talented man. Don't know if you saw the internal battle that is now broken out publicly in the Supreme Court. Justice Samuel Alito had enough. He was over it. And so he blistered Ketanji Brown Jackson Ketanji Brown Jackson. The ruling 6'3 last week on, maybe it was two weeks ago, on the congressional maps in Louisiana. Well, if you did not know this, normally there's a 32-day period before the ruling is handed down and then put into effect. Hey, guys, it's Ryan. I want to tell you about my new pastime, Chumba Casino. Chumba Casino has been around for over a decade delivering the most fun you can have online. Play social casino-style games for free, anytime, anywhere. So sign up at chumbac casino.com. No purchase necessary. PGW. Boy, we're prohibited by law. See, terms and conditions, 21 plus. Kind of 32 days. before it's sent down to lower courts. But that rule is flexible. And it is primarily intended to allow for time for petitions, rehearing, petitions, et cetera. But it's not expected in this case. It's not going to be retried. It's done. And so Samuel Alito and the court decided that. Because this has to do with an upcoming election, they expedited things and put the order into effect pretty much immediately. There was one dissent. Think about this now. One out of nine. So of the activist judges, only Ketanji Brown Jackson had a problem with this. The others didn't. And she came out and said,

53 pass. Got to help some senior adults beat the heat, and we need you to step up. As you always do, it's time to start buying box fans. Now, if you're listening to us in Tallahassee, here's what you do. Buy one or more brand new box fans, leave them in the box, and take them... Monday through Friday, normal business hours to any First Commerce Credit Union Financial Center. First Commerce, man, they are such good friends to the community, and they have stepped up to make their centers in the Tallahassee region drop-off centers, drop-off points. We're partnering with elder care services here in Leon County, and we're going to distribute those fans to those who need them. Senior adults, fixed income usually. They could just use a little help, keep an air moving through their homes, so they don't have to run their air conditioning as much in the summertime months. It's a huge deal. Our friend Jared from... I heart who comes in and fills in occasionally for Jose works on our rock station. Good dude. He brought the idea to us a few years ago and I was like, man, sign me up. Let's do it. Let's do it. And then we spread it into Panama City, got some help from our friends, Shane and Tess over at WPAP. Those of you listening in Panama City, you go to any Ace hardware store. And. You can buy your fans right there at Ace and just leave them. And we're partnering with the Bay County Council on Aging and they'll distribute them throughout Bay County. So any Ace Hardware store in Bay County. And so let's start buying those box fans. You can buy as many as you, buy and donate as many as you want. And it will make a difference. It will absolutely make a difference. Tomorrow is National Day of Prayer. Tomorrow's the day. Rain or shine. We're going to be out there. Pam Olson, organizing the event as always. It is the first Thursday in May every single year by proclamation. And it's going to happen across the country. I just love the cascade effect of prayer waving over our nation. And so we're going from noon till 115 in prayer. The music starts at 1130. And again, rain or shine, come out, make a statement. It's not about being seen for the sake of being seen. It's about being encouraged and encouraging others, showing that the body of Christ is going to be praying for this nation. It is not a political rally. This is a time of prayer. And so I hope you will come. I will be there. rain or not, I will be there. And I hope that you will join me. Tomorrow on the program, I am going to do a segment. I'm going to do a teaching on prayer in the third hour of the show tomorrow. So I hope you join us for that. Back with Hour 2.

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in that it might explain why Democrats won't support this. Now, I don't think it takes research and analysis and data, but let's go ahead and humor the idea and go ahead and give it a listen. Now, the SAVE Act... would amend the 1993 National Voter Registration Act, and it would require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote and voter ID to cast a ballot in federal elections. That is the lowest of low-hanging fruit. A super majority. 83% of Americans believe it, if not higher. including a super majority, over 70% of blacks, Hispanics, I mean, Democrats. This is not just a survey of just Republican voters. Republicans are almost 100% behind this thing. But what's interesting is analysis by Yale Law School professor Ian Ares and Yale Research Fellow Jacob Slaughter. They did some digging. The op-ed suggests that Democrats are opposed to the common sense integrity measures because it would endanger New Mexico and turn battleground state, Nevada, into solid Republican territory. They explain in the op-ed that they estimate at a national level, 89% of Democrats, 90% of Republicans hold qualifying citizenship documents. They say the difference isn't statistically significant, except for the fact that the 1% difference could be state flipping in certain places because the 1% is not uniform in every state. Because of the composition of the electorate varies across states, national parity masks meaningful state-level variation. If you look at state-by-state, they're writing this, the bill may significantly advantage Republicans in a few key states. They estimate that Democrats are 13 percentage points less likely than Republicans to hold qualifying registration documents in New Mexico. 13%, not one, 13. And so the shortfall means that it could flip New Mexico, where Republicans already have a 3.3 percentage point advantage. Nevada, a battleground state. Democrats are 5.3% points less than Republicans to have the required documents. So they write overall nationally, eight of the 15 swing states show rightward shifts and the only significant statistically results favor Republicans. So if you do a deep dive into the numbers, which I assure you the Democrats have done,

They're opposing this on just that raw level, but deeper we know they want and need illegals to vote. They're counting on just overwhelming the ballot box with the illegal votes with the idea, well, they can't throw them all out and see what they can get through. I'm telling you, that is absolute. But I thought that was an interesting statistical deep dive into the numbers from a couple of guys that seemingly don't have any chips in the game that are just explaining. So there you go. Ten past. Come back in a moment of vindication for yours for you. Where's Nancy Guthrie? Just saying, where's Nancy Guthrie? How can we not have found that woman? Anyway. Yesterday on the program, I did it again. I relied on a piece of sound. That was only one channel. And because of the way that our board is wired up, I cannot play a single channel. It doesn't output in mono as it should. And so I couldn't play it. But that's okay. I performed due diligence and found it. This is U.S. Congressman Brandon Gill of Texas questioning a pro-abortion law professor. from American University, Washington College. Her name is Jessica Waters. And she was there testifying on behalf of reproductive health care. You're an advocate for abortion for abortion policy. What's your favorite type of abortion? I am an advocate for patients having access to the full realm of reproductive health care. Do you have a preferred method of abortion that you like? I do not. I mean, read through a couple different methods, and I want to get your take on how much you like these. The first type is called a suction abortion. This is when the cervix is dilated and a strong suction 29 times the power of a household vacuum cleaner, tears the baby's body apart and sucks it through the hose into a container. Do you prefer that method? I stand by my former testimony. That sounds kind of gross, doesn't it? Sounds pretty gruesome. Do you agree? I stand by how I answered your question fully and accurately. Okay, what about this one? This one is called delation and curatege. After delation of the cervix, a sharp looped knife is inserted into the uterus. The baby's body is cut into pieces and extracted often by suction. Do you prefer that method?

What I believe we are here to talk about today is the Face Act. We are not here to talk about the legality of abortion advocate. I'm asking if you prefer the deletion and curatege method. I am access to reproductive health care advocate. You don't want to talk about abortion itself. Why is that? I would prefer to talk about the reason that the committee called the hearing. Is it because it's uncomfortable to talk about? It should be uncomfortable. I would prefer, if you would let me finish my statement, to talk about the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, which is what I was asked to come back. We're talking about what that access gets. How about this one? It's called delation and evacuation. Forecepts are inserted into the uterus, grabbing and twisting the baby's body to dismember him or her. If the head is too large, it must be crushed in order to remove it. Do you prefer that method? I would prefer to talk about the reason the hearing was called and the basis of my expert testimony. It's uncomfortable to hear this, isn't it? It is. I think it is because it's barbaric and evil. How about this one? It's called the saline injection. It's when a 20% salt solution is injected through the mother's abdomen into the baby's amniotic fluid. The baby's skin is burned off. The baby ingests the solution and dies of salt poisoning, dehydration and hemorrhaging of the brain. Do you prefer that method? I would prefer to talk about the subject of the hearing. This is the subject of the hearing. This is about protests outside of abortion clinics. I'm asking you about abortion. I stand by my prior testimony. Okay. I wouldn't want to talk about this either if I were you because it is barbaric and evil. A lot of discussion over Representative Gill's questioning. It is interesting how opponents of protecting babies. They have no interest in talking about this. That is why they went nuts when Planned Parenthood went on the record by way of hidden camera, but they were recorded bragging about organ harvesting over salad and lunch. Killing babies for profits, for profit. It's, it's. It's not at all surprising. She got worse and worse as she went on. At first she was smirking. She wasn't smirking by the end. They want no part of discussing how baby's lives are ended. And for those of you, and I know some of you are very, you didn't like hearing that. That's okay. You needed to hear that. You need to hear what happens. 17 minutes after the hour. I know for many, you count on us doing what we do at the same time.

It kind of helps pace your listening. And so you're used to the big stories in the press box at the bottom of the hour after the news. But today we've got CFO Blazingolia joining us, the chief financial officer for the state. I have requested some time with him. It's my request. I want to ask him about how things are going in the setup from perspective of counties, cities, spending levels, and property taxes. And then I want to ask him about we had discussed the possibility of looking into schools, school districts, and they're spending because they're getting state money and I think wasting it. At least I know this one is. They're talking about raising taxes here and it's unacceptable. I'm not talking about the quarter cent sales tax for infrastructure. I have no issue with that. I have a big issue with raising the millage. Huge issue. And so I've asked the CFO to come on the program to discuss that. So he'll join us. So big stories in the press box here and now. DHS had to wait and hope that Walvin Victor Hugo Garcia, a Guatemalan illegal in our country, showed up for his court date. unbelievably he did. And so they were able to arrest him. You see, he had been released because in Virginia and Fairfax County, they have sanctuary policies. And so they released him from his charges, said, you need to come back to court. He was charged. with felony charges of rape of a child under 13, among other things that I won't go into. They released him. They released him. Thankfully, he showed back up and ICE was able to arrest him. He had an ICE detainer, but they don't cooperate with things like that in Virginia. I can't, I can't, why is it taking the citizens of Virginia this long? Why are they not recalling the governor? They should be, there should be a petition to recall. The state is being destroyed. I won't go there. There are places in this country. I will not go. That's one of them. In Seattle, another place that I will not go. And it's beautiful. I've been there. Ahmed Abdullah Osman and someone else beat a 77-year-old man getting off a bus. Why? Because they could. No one helped the man. No one helped him get up from the beating. He was viciously beaten. And it was captured on security cameras in the area. But the mayor of Seattle, Katie Wilson, CCTV puts refugees at risk, so she's getting them pulled. The only reason this guy got caught is because of those cameras. She wants to remove them all. Final story, Wisconsin.

One of the candidates for the Democrat primary just entered the race. Managua Brewing Company owner Kirk Bangstad. He has a record, but he also was contacted by the Secret Service. He promptly put the phone number of the Secret Service agent online so people could harass him. Why was the Secret Service interested? Because he posted an offer of free beer if Trump is assassinated. How is that not a contract killing offer? And I know the argument is going to be, oh, no, no, no. He was just offering free beer if Trump was killed. Yeah, what's the difference? 27 past the hour. What are those stories have in common? Democrats. Hey guys, it is Ryan. For years, Chumba's been set in the bar for online social casino fun, and it just keeps getting better. With new games released every week and daily bonuses to collect, the fun never stops. So claim your welcome bonus now at Chumba Casino.com. No purchase necessary. VGW. Boy, we're prohibited by loss. In terms and conditions, 21 plus. They're going to get a... I'm just... We, we... Knock, knock, knock. Who's there? On WFLA.

Good morning, friends. Welcome. We are at the halfway mark of the morning show with Preston Scott. It's Wednesday, show 5597. He's Jose. I'm Preston. This is state chief financial officer, Blazing Goli. Blaze, good morning. Welcome back to the program. How are you, sir? Good morning. Great to be here. Thank you for having me. Tell me kind of where we are. The last time we visited, we were talking about what you'd learned going across the state of Florida talking with cities and counties looking at their books. What are your recommendations going to be to the governor to the legislature as it relates to the property tax based on what you've learned? So two-part question there. The first part is I would say that we are seeing this across almost every government. If you compare the 2020 budget to 2026 budget, the budgets have grown and property taxes have grown way past inflation and what population would demand. They're taking all the extra money, blowing it, wasting it, excessly spending it, and expanding government and making it harder to cut because they're increasing government. They're adding new government employees. My suggestion to the governor and to the legislature isn't necessarily specific, although I still believe that there is enough room there to eliminate property taxes on homestead of properties altogether. I think the numbers work, especially if you phase it in over a couple of years. But what the legislature has to do is to have to put the most aggressive property tax cut on the ballot that's... still takes care of our first responders and is able to get 60% passage because it's a higher bar, as you know, for a constitutional amendment. But here's the deal. We keep on talking about affordability. It's almost become a talking point. It's almost become cliche, but very few people are actually drilling down and actually trying to deliver on affordability here in the state of Florida. And the easiest way to do that is to reduce people's housing payments. housing payments. The easiest way to do that is the reduce people's property taxes. One of the things that I've observed when discussions like this happen in communities, whether they're run by Democrats or Republicans, is oftentimes, Blaise, elected leaders use the projects, the programs that you're talking about. They'll use access to parks. They'll use law enforcement and first responders as their scare tactic to get people afraid. How do you counter that? By telling them the truth, they're telling them that, you know, when you run an exercise of how much money the government should have spent and how much they actually spent, it becomes very clear. So by our calculations, when you are taking a budget in 2020 and you increase it every year organically to find out what the budget should normally be, you're increasing it by inflation. So you're counting the extra cost of things. When you're increasing by population growth, you're accounting for the extra people. You're accounting for new first responders for keeping the programs that you actually have. But when you show them that, if you would have spent all this extra money that you could have still had those programs, given raises, hired more people, that's when people start getting angry. And that's what we're showing. And that's why, quite frankly, why I'm getting huge pushback from government. Now, the taxpayers love me.

The taxpayers are saying, thank God somebody is saying what we're not able to say. But the elected officials, whether that Democrats are Republican and especially the government bureaucrats, they don't like me because I'm shining a light on what they're actually doing. Well, and you know that if this becomes a constitutional amendment, you'll probably have this strange bedfellows of Republican and Democrat community leaders in counties and cities joining together to promote and try to kill the thing. Who's on the other side? Who's going to be promoting the passage of something like that? I think the governor and I will be leading the charge on this as long as it is, you know, very aggressive and it actually offers substantial relief. And you'll have some third-party groups out there like AFP, like JMI, like Florida Tax Watch, taxpayer advocates. But here's the thing. And you made a very good point. They are going to push back. What government is going to do is government is going to run a PR campaign, a political campaign against the taxpayers who are actually funding the government. And this is how insidious it is. You know, a portion of your tax dollars that you personally are paying, Preston, is going to into the pot of money in government. And they're turning around and giving it to media companies, the lobbyists. And they are lobby against you, the person who's funding government in the first place. Joining us on the program is state CFO, Blaze and Golia. He always makes himself available. I greatly appreciate the time. Blaze standby, we've got another topic. It's something we brought up the last time we visited, and that is school districts. Now that we have a proposal here in Leon County to raise the property taxes, we'll get the CFO's thoughts on that next.

I've been very, very, very pleased with the work Blaze and Goli is done as state CFO. And Blaze, the last time you were on the program, I mentioned the possibility of school districts being in your purview because they accept state money. First, have you decided whether you're going to have a deeper look at the books? And maybe you've already done that. But Leon County School Board is advocating. actually raising the millage one mill despite having more money every year due to property valuations and they have hired too many administrators they're losing population they refuse to close schools what if anything can a CFO's office do on things like this We can call BS on them. And this is what we're doing. So to answer your first question, we have already asked some school districts before data. We are actually, we've retrieved some of the information. We're crunching some of the numbers. But our assertion is correct, is that the growth in the budgets on the administrative level is growing much, much, much faster than what we're seeing in terms of the money that's actually going into the classroom. So we have the same dynamic that we have with local governments. They're just taking the extra money and spending it, which is a little bit, but it's a little bit different because the general government serves general taxpayers, the school district serves students. But what's happening in this dynamic, and it just blows my mind that we have universal school choice in the state of Florida. So you have these students that are not going to traditional public schools and going to charter schools, private schools. But what most people don't know is that a portion about a tenth of the funding that is supposed to go to the student actually stays in the district. So if you, just for argument sake, if you have $10,000 universal school choice, you know, and you go to a charter school, 9,000 goes to the charter school, and 1,000 stays with the district. So you have the dynamic where districts actually have decreasing populations, but they have more money than they should have. because they're still getting a cut of the pie, if you will. And these budgets are just, so you, the budget, they've never gotten around to actually right-sizing the district and right-sizing the schools. They just kept all the overhead, but they lost a lot of the money. And it's amazing to me that they are actually going to put a tax raise question on the ballot. alongside a tax cut question. Looking for a little Hollywood-style fun? Check out Ryan Seacrest 10K Ways exclusively at Chumba Casino. There's 10,000 ways to play. Get spinning for free at chumpacasino.com. No purchase necessary. VGW Group. Voidware prohibited by law. CTs and Cs 21 Plus. Sponsored by Chumba Casino. on the ballot in via constitutional amendment how is that going to work these people are actually tone deaf i'm very happy that at least two school board members are raising objections in leon county and questioning what the uh the administration is doing um but looking to raise taxes instead of uh cutting costs well it's i'm just i'm wondering where is the fiduciary

oversight in all of this. If they... Come on, don't make me laugh this early in the morning. There's no fiduciary oversight in government. Well, I know that, but... It's way too early for belly laughs. But that's what you're bringing to the table, Blaze. You're forcing people to look deeper. And sadly, what people that are paying attention here in Leon County are concerned about is... They've lost 12 to 14% of the student population, but they've increased the number of administrators on a district level. And the math, they're just saying, yeah, we know we've lost all these students, ergo all the money goes with them except that 10%. But we're just going to make up for it by paying for it with more property taxes. And people will go along with that. Isn't math a wonderful thing? You know, the last time I checked, the people on the other side of the aisle said that we have to believe in the science. Math is a form of science, but they don't believe math for some reason. But you're 100% right. So is there anything that the state can do to prevent them from even putting the tax increase on the ballot? when we know unfortunately they have the legislative authority to do that but you know it's i don't see how something like that is going to pass when a tax cut is on the ballot so let me ask you this by just a rhetorical question yeah if we had a question on the ballot to eliminate property taxes on homestead properties altogether which means that they could not um go to the voters and ask for additional millage how would that actually work You're going to reduce it. You're going to eliminate property taxes, but then add property taxes. You can't do that because the Constitution would say that you couldn't. It'll be interesting. I can only predict how they're going to package it here in Leon County for the school district blaze. And what they're going to say is this is for the teachers. And because they've been poor at using the money of the state allocated for teachers, they've not gotten it to the teachers. They're going to get the taxpayers to pay for their mismanagement. Here's a dirty little secret precedent. This is what the school districts across the state of Florida and quite frankly across the United States don't want regular taxpayers to know that there is enough money in their budget to actually cut costs and cut taxpayers, deliver a world-class education, and at the same time give teachers raises. The teachers should not be angry and frustrated at the taxpayers and the state government and the governor and me. What they should be angry at is the administration because the governor is 100% right. We've given the money to the districts and for years they haven't been giving it to the teachers. Then we change the law and say, hey, when we give out bonuses, when we give out raises, it goes directly to the teachers. It actually circumvents the union, circumvents the administration. They still find ways to play games with it. This is a political game that they play to try to give the impression, the appearance, that they don't have enough money to pay the teachers. And the teachers should be angry at the administration, not us. Yeah. Sadly, the local union is siding with the district and demanding the property tax increase. But that'll be a fight. We'll keep fighting the...

best we can. Blaze, thanks for the time this morning. I appreciate it very much. Anytime. Blazing Goli, State CFO, Florida. Our guest on the morning show with Preston Scott. Next hour, J.D. Johnson will join us from the talent training group, and we will talk about a lot of stories. I've got a ton of stories that have been in the news that I've been saving to discuss with J.D. And there are things we can learn from. 100%. But first, it's time. We look forward to it now, don't we, each and every Wednesday? Another edition of No Way, Jose. Brother. Good morning, everybody. I come with some very... It's a little scary. It's not very scary. It's just a little bit. Okay. Now, I get all my tech information from the tech guy from Fox. He does great, great reporting. Cyber guy? Cyber guy, yes. Yeah, yeah. Cyber guy. So apparently there is a robot. It's called G1 humanoid. For now, I guess. But the robot performs highly advanced movements on wheels, rollerblades, and even ice skates. No, you can ice skate. That's not the, yeah, that's the tip of the iceberg. No, no pun intended. It demonstrates smooth balance, spins, and clean flips. Who makes this thing? It doesn't say really, I believe it's a Chinese company called Unitree Robotics, I believe. But then there's another robot, another humanoid robot. Stick with me here. Its name is Lightning. So it has a name. His name is Lightning. Built by Honor. One a half marathon. This is the last name McQueen? Should be, because he won a half marathon in Beijing with a time of 50 minutes and 26 seconds, beating the human world record by nearly seven minutes. So I take it, and this is just my thought, right, because the cyber guy gives us these interesting stories. But my opinion is we're going to have... ninja soldier robots here pretty soon you know what that tells me shotguns with slugs slugs baby they are they they are on a roll and i'm afraid america's not keeping up i mean wow do we have anything close to ninja robots owen wilson wow wow yeah yeah yeah yep yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

I carried the interview with Blazing Goley a little long. Look at it this way. You've got some stories for next week already nailed down. J.D. Johnson in the Wings joins us next on the morning show with Preston Scott. We're going to help you get... I mean, look, we could be dealing with robotic armies, right? Telling you shotguns with slugs. Tyler Reddick here from 2311 racing. Victory Lane? Yeah, it's even better with Chumba by my side. Race to ChumpaCasino.com. Let's Chumba. No purchase necessary. VGW Group. Void were prohibited by law. CTNCs, 21 Plus. Sponsored by Chumba Casino. Five minutes past the hour. This is going to be a good one. It is time for our personal defense segment. We do it the first Wednesday of each month. And joining us this morning from the Talon Training Group co-founder of the Talon Training Group and co-host of Talon Outdoors. He is J.D. Johnson. So what would you use to shoot a robotic soldier that was an aggressor against us? If I could get it, some type of probably API round. Describe. Rifle round that's armor-piercing incendiary. The stuff we used to shoot down Japanese zeros from World War II, 50-caliber API. Would it require a 50 cow to? No. They actually made those rounds back then. They made them in 308, or excuse me, not 30-alt-6. I just took the turret off our Toyota Sienna. Dadgummit, you better get it, break it out of mouth balls. Yeah, I'm sure there's 308 rounds that do that. So my default idea of shotgun slugs basically useless. Yeah, against armor because you've got to assume they're probably going to armor plate them with some metal, titanium, something like that. Unique, that would be. Slug would be like going up there and hitting it with a big hammer. I want to poke a hole in it and set something on fire or Friday electronics. Let me take advantage of your knowledge of this type of thing. It wasn't on the discussion list here we were going to have, but being idiots that we are, here we go. You were just giving me a history lesson on how these API rounds were developed and why. Yeah, during World War II, when the Japanese in Pacific Theater, the Japanese zeros. We had a difficult time shooting them down, even though our pilots knew they were getting hits, right? What they found out was they, I think they captured a zero. They found out that the Japanese planes didn't have self-sealing fuel tanks like ours do. Okay. Ours did. So they switched the ammunition that they were shooting at them over to an incendiary round. So the round itself, the bullet itself is...

I think treated with white phosphorus or something like that. And it was actually a little ball of fire. And when it would hit the plane, it would poof one round through the gas tank and the plane's on fire and headed into the water. Yeah. Or in the case of the Japanese, into a ship or anything they could find. Yeah. And so that technology has been around since World War II. Yeah. Yeah. Is that a technology that improves or does it just simply spread to other rounds? Yeah. Well. You know, you look back through throughout history. Anytime there's been any kind of major war conflict, whatever else. Yeah. During the Civil War, 1860s. You know, we went from at the start of the Civil War, you had muzzleloaders, percussion caps, soldiers firing three rounds a minute if they were really well trained and very good. To by the end of that conflict five years later. You had self-loading or you had repeating firearms, metal cartridges, metallic cartridges, very similar to what we had today where a soldier could fire eight or nine or ten rounds, depending on the gun, eight or nine or ten rounds with a lever action or some type of a different. It's just always spawned innovation. Anytime we've had warfare, it has spawned leaps. and super fast innovation. Medical field gets better from treating combat wounds. The ability to the gun technology gets better, the weapon technology, the surveillance technology gets better. You just have these leaps and bounds of technology that always happen during warfare. And what we're seeing right now, it started with the kind of the Ukraine-Russia war. It started with a movie I Robot. Don't kid yourself. That one too, yeah. That was a good movie. But self-driving cars. I mean, look at, did you ever think? I never thought we'd have cars that you could just get in, push a couple buttons and say, take me to the house. That's common now. I've got someone who told me that they know a couple that literally drove across the country and never touched the steering wheel. That doesn't surprise me. It horrifies me, but... Well, there's some things to be scared about, you know. I'm with you. I saw Terminator 2. You know, I saw that movie and Skynet and all this other stuff. Now, if we could make the illegals that are driving trucks, if we could create hands-free devices for them, then I'd feel a little safer on the roadways. Well, you know, we're there. That's the crazy thing is we're there. I mean, we joke about it, but... I got a 9,000-pound truck out there. I get on the highway. I push a couple of buttons, and I can essentially just kind of hang one finger on the steering wheel to let my truck know I'm still there in the passenger or in the driver's seat. And it'll take me down the road, but no problem, as long as there's lines painted on the road, you know? And it listens to him breathe because if he stops, it drives him to the hospital. Yeah, it's looking at you to make sure your eyes are on the road. You can't be looking at the phone. When we come back, we're going to go straight to the news and some stories and get some thoughts. It's personal defense with J.D. Johnson of the Talent Training Group on the morning show with Preston Scott.

Back with J.D. Johnson. Talenrange.com. Go polish your skills. Learn. Get your concealed carry. Again, it's talonrange.com. I asked you in the break about this. We've had now three, four attempts that we know of on Donald Trump, the last one at the White House Correspondence Dinner. Did the Secret Service do much of anything right other than get the guy down? And maybe that was even Capitol Police that did that. I don't know. Yeah, that was that was the right thing. I mean, they did the right thing there. Of course, that was a very different, very different attack. The guy went commando style. Yeah, he just ran through him. He just said, I'm going to run, and I'll tell you, that's the hyperaggression like that is hard to stop because that's not what they're looking for. That's not what they're expecting, and it's not what they're looking for. That'll be what they're looking for now, you know, because I don't know that we've ever had anything like that. So the guy was smart in his plan, if you will. And he didn't get shot. It's a, it's a very difficult, that's a very difficult thing because it's because of the processing. time, I was impressed with the Secret Service agent that managed to get his firearm out and at least fire a shot. That was pretty impressive. The speed and with considering the speed in which the one that we see on the tape that was able to draw out of his coat. Right. That was it that man has practiced. That was impressive because it's you're talking about a really fast reaction and recognition time. with that happening the way it did. Now, the question really is that you're asking is, what was going on off the camera that we didn't see? I look at the guy running down a hallway and thinking to myself, how did he even get a running start? Well, I mean, it's really based on how far apart their layers of security were. You know, did they block off the whole street or two blocks of the street or did they block around the building or everything was. There was nothing around the building. It was internal. So I don't know. I hadn't looked at it. And then we found out from the correspondence that they weren't even checked. They weren't even asked for identification to enter the ballroom. And I'm, you know. I find that hard to believe. I mean, and that's unanimous. I mean, that's, they were all talking about that. And so my question now becomes. At some point, do you just step back and go, are there enough people that want to see this man killed that they're just creating these opportunities? I mean, yeah, you could, you could, that's a valid question. Because I'm, you're a professional in this world. I'm not.

I probably know a little bit more because of being around you and Charlie and picking your brain and asking these questions for these years than maybe an average person might know. But I'm a novice and I just step back and I think to myself, This is sophomoric. Yeah, well, so here's another thing to think about. And I'm not advocating for higher taxes to fund more, but you could have manpower shortage issues. You could have manpower issues, funding issues, whatever else, because these things are super expensive. Yeah. When you're talking about you have to take the factor in the salary of those secret service agents, the equipment, the time, and all that. So you're talking about man hours and. They don't get paid, you know, they're not $50,000 a year employee. They're probably closer to $150,000 your employee. So you're talking about paying all those people to be there, covering every entrance, holding every, it's not just putting somebody on the door, it's holding that space. Well, it's the magnetometers or whatever they call those things. And that's where you get, that's where you hire a security person for a lot less money that can run a wand. You know, you've seen the pictures of the people standing up against the wall that took off running. And that was probably what they were doing. They were probably like the TSA people that were checking stuff. But it is a huge undertaking, a protection detail like that. And they probably, you know, I don't know, they may have let their guard down thinking, okay, well, this is going to be a fun night and nobody's going to do anything crazy here. Somebody did something crazy. Thankfully, unsuccessfully. Yeah. amazing no one got hurt in reality other than the guard that had the bulletproof vest that took a shot and lived to tell more to come with jd johnson again stories from the news i asked him about harry dresden some of you know this story i'm going to show it to him next

21 past the hour, J.D. Johnson with me from the Talon Training Group. I just introduced him to Harry Dresden. And those of you that listen to the program, you remember me talking about this story. I can't play it because it's profane and vile. Very violent guy tries to, he broke into a man's house. And I mentioned that in my mind there were at least two opportunities that a homeowner that was prepared to defend with a firearm could have dispatched this guy. You agree? On the front porch. Yes. Yes. Absolutely. It speaks to the need. In Florida. Fair enough. It speaks to the need to be prepared because there's no way this homeowner, he didn't recognize him, he didn't know him. Turns out he lived right behind him. But you never know. You never know. And so when you talk about defending your home, this guy first tried to kick in the door. Yeah. Is that reasonable to defend your home? Absolutely. In Florida, Castle Doctrine basically says entering or attempting to forcibly enter allows you to use deadly force in your home. Or in your vehicle, if you're in your vehicle. In your conveyance. Right. In your conveyance. He attempted as well. He used the chain and started hitting on the door again. Let's go to the technical part of, okay, you've got someone that is trying to break into your dwelling. Talk us through what you should be doing. At the first sign, you should what? Pick up your phone, dial 911. You don't have to talk if you can't. If you can't talk, just leave the line open. That's the first thing. Get help coming. Would you advise, like, leave it open if you have a cell phone, put it on speaker, and yell to them as you're dealing with whatever? That would be if you can think to do that under that kind of stress. Absolutely. And I'm presuming the first thing would be to arm yourself. as you're dialing 911. Okay. You need to be doing both of those things as soon as possible. Let's talk through the actual positioning of, okay, we've done that. We've armed ourselves with whatever and we've got law enforcement on the phone. Do you stand in front of the door? No. Absolutely not. Bad place to be. Doorways are called fatal funnels in my world. Okay. And that's somewhere you do not want to be. Off to one side of the other, behind some hardcover if it's available out of that door. Let's look at this situation that we just watched. He's attempting to break through a wood door. It to me didn't look like one of those hollow cord doors at all. It's an exterior door and it looked like a wood door. If you're going to fire to defend yourself, don't you have to get in the doorway? No, you could step off to one side of the other, but you don't want to be standing right there in that bracket, in that door, in that threshold. Okay. You may have, you can step back. Distance, if you have a firearm distance is always your friend over someone armed with a knife or somebody trying to, distance is your friend. Especially if you train and you're capable of hitting a target from seven or ten yards away.

I've seen stories over the years, JD, where people, because it's our nature, to want to not have that happen in our home, they want to take the fight out. You got to clean up and shoot through the door. I mean, I've got to buy a new door. And that's what a lot of people, and I've just, I've seen the stories. Yeah. They just instinctively throw the door open to do whatever they're going to do to engage the threat. That's probably not the smartest thing to do, though. Probably not. You know, but here's the thing. You don't also, you don't want to have to hurt somebody if you don't have to hurt somebody. Sure. So if you can keep him outside, let him throw his temper tantrum and scream and cuss and yell and beat on the door, you know, eventually he may get, if he can't break in the door, he may eventually go away. So if we can, if that's going to happen, that's great. I probably wouldn't pull the trigger through the door until, unless it looked like they were fixing to get through the door or they were armed and had the capability of going through the door with a with a projectile or something. In this case, the homeowner had his wife and child hiding. He was coming back to the home. And eventually the guy got in the house. He got in through another door somewhere else and was confronted by the husband with a shovel, a snow shuffle. If you're that homeowner and you are armed with a firearm, not you because you're a professional, but the average person that you deal with at Talon Range, would you have instructed them? Would you have advised them? Would you have if you are that person? Shot that guy through the door? Me personally, I probably wouldn't have. I probably would have waited until he breached the door until he got in. And he eventually did do that. Then game on. Then it's absolutely time. Are you justified? Would they have been justified in that situation and shooting him through the door? Yeah. Absolutely they would have been. uh by florida law now like i said they got snow shovels they probably ain't down here but uh so uh but yeah i just uh absolutely justification if that was to happen florida the minute he tried to kick the door in when we come back we're going to talk about another scenario well actually three of them that have one common ingredient and we'll talk about that next here with jd johnson of the talent training group on the morning show with preston scott

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don't get any closer. What do you want? As needed, use the vehicle between yourself and that person. Absolutely. Anything. It doesn't have to be a vehicle, a trash can. It can be, you know, the gas pumps, whatever. You may look like you're doing ring around the rosy with somebody, but keeping that object in between you is a good thing. Do the laws now, as they exist right now in Florida, which allows for open carry now? Does that change things with regard to what used to be called brandishing a firearm where if you're feeling awkward, someone's not obeying your request to please keep a distance? To lift up a shirt, a jacket, a hoodie, and to just be more prepared. You have to keep in mind that the statutes right now have not changed. The old statutes are still on the books. Okay. The open carry was decided by a court decision. So they still need to go back and address the statutory language and all this stuff. So I don't honestly know. If it turns out that, you know, it really boils down to what's the state attorney in your district going to charge. I would still say if you pull your shirt up and say, I've got a gun and you're threatening somebody, you're the aggressor. that's still going to be considered brandishing or assault or whatever. You're showing the means to do harm to somebody. If you're defending yourself, that's going to be looked at in a different light. But you need to be the one calling 911 when the event is over. If that guy goes, oh, I picked the wrong person and leaves, you need to call the police department file a report because they're likely to go file a report and you don't want to get in trouble for that. So you need to be one telling the story. Don't just... Oh, well, that worked well and going about your business. Sure. I'm saying? So, you know, things will change in the very near future. They have to go back and address some of the language in the statutes because you've got a conflicting court decision right now. More with J.D. Johnson of the Talent Training Group next on the morning show with Preston Scott.

Final segment here with J.D. Johnson of the Tallinn Training Group explaining how football training used to be done in the great city of Chattahoochee. Yeah. Tackling used tires from... Downhill used tires. They'd roll the tire down the hill and you'd run up the hill and meet it halfway. Yeah. Let's talk about a couple of heroes in what they did right. Pauls Valley High School in Oklahoma and Pauls Valley, Oklahoma. A former student, 20-year-old young man comes in with a firearm loaded, looking for somebody to shoot, and the principal Kirk Moore got the drop on him. Yeah, that was an awesome reaction, selfless hero behavior right there for sure. Absolutely the only thing he could have done, and that probably saved his life and a lot of other people's. If he just stood there and had a discussion at some point, that kid went there to, that kid, he's a grown man, that man went there to do harm, to probably harm a lot of people. If I remember correctly, the principal came out of a door that was closed and kind of surprised him. And that goes back to something that we have talked about time and time again. Bad guys have a plan. And if you can change that plan, you can interrupt the plan, you can, yes. Then they're reacting and are delayed. Yes. If you can turn the Udo loop, the, it turns. Explain that. Observe, Orient, decide, and act. We do that every day throughout the day. We do that. And we have to change when something, when our observation and orientation during the decision point, if something changes with the observation and orientation, you have to make adjustments. It comes from the fighter pilot world. Same with a gunfight world. But yeah, he made that guy's plan got interrupted dramatically. He wasn't expecting to be confronted out there in the lobby of the school. So now he's like, okay, well, now I got to deal with this before I can go do what I came here to do. He was, you know, he went there with the best of hope that he could just walk in and start shooting people, I'm sure. He had a plan who he was going to shoot first and where he was going to go second and so forth and so on. And the interruption of that and that guy. becoming aggressive, the principal making an act of aggression made him absolutely change his plan. He was absolutely, I guarantee you that thought never crossed his mind that Uncle Bob, the principal was going to charge him and tackle him and pin him to the floor. Form tackled by an overweight principal. Yeah. And one though, that like you said, selfless, I've not seen any interviews. I have no idea if Principal Kirk Moore had thought about what would I do if? But I know this. Hey guys, it is Ryan. For years, Chumba's been set in the bar for online social casino fun, and it just keeps getting better. With new games released every week and daily bonuses to collect, the fun never stops. So claim your welcome bonus now at chumba casino.com. No purchase necessary. VGW. Boy, we're prohibited by loss. See terms and conditions, 21 plus. The idea that you're hitting on here is if you can think about what your reaction might be, the point of doing something if it comes to it.

Other than standing there and dying, yes. Well, whatever advantage you're going to have, you're going to have at that moment in the decision. Yep, absolutely. Absolutely. You've got to recognize the threat. Do something. Do something. You know, standing there and dying should never be a choice. To that end, your thoughts, last time we had our group together and went to the range and did a little shooting. A little training, I should say. We elevated our heart rate. We had guys do some jogging in place. Some guys did some burpees. And then went and worked on their shooting with an elevated heart rate. Is that a wise thing to do? Yeah. As long as you're physically able to do it, it is because when you... When you encounter a real situation, your heart rate is going to be elevated whether you want it to be or not. Right. It doesn't, it doesn't, physical exercise doesn't really duplicate the stress, the chemical dump that you get under a stressful situation, but it's as close as we can get without putting ourselves in a life or death situation. Yeah. The immediate. chemical cocktail that's released in the in the in the when the fight happens or when a incident happens it's really hard to duplicate through physical through physical exercise but it's the only thing we can do so if you're working at the range for personal defense purposes not just plinking for fun and shooting paper targets which is fine Do something now and then to change your physiology. Yep. Absolutely. Get your heart rate increased. Get your breathing rate increase. Jumping jacks, running in place. Pushups, whatever, whatever you feel like. Thanks as always for coming in. My pleasure, sir. A lot of fun today. Yes, sir. J.D. Johnson, Talent Training Group, Talenrange.com.

Always have a good time chatting with JD and or Charlie doing our personal defense segments. They're my boys. Love those guys. They're just good guys. And hopefully you learn through this. That's the whole point is to not just discuss the things that have been in the news, but for us to just extract what we can out of all of those stories that could be helpful. And hopefully we did that. Box fan drive underway. Panama City area, Ace Hardware Stores, Bay County. Buy your fan or two or five or ten and leave them there. And they will make sure they're working with the Bay County Council on Aging. And here in Tallahassee, buy your fan wherever you choose and drop them off at the First Commerce Credit Union Financial Centers. And we are, again, we are going to work with elder care services here in this region. And so between the two areas, And our friends at the other iHeart radio stations, we're hoping to get a few hundred box fans out. And, you know, if you start adding it up, we're picking off a few hundred every year. Wouldn't it be great if a year from now we only had to do a few because everybody's got one? I mean, that'd be awesome. So you helping out will make a difference and we're doing it through the end of the month. Brought to you by Barrono Heeding and Air. It's the morning show 180 on WFLA. Started the radio program with Acts Chapter 2, verse 38. And that's where we began the radio program. Remember tomorrow, National Day of Prayer. I'm going to take some time in the third hour tomorrow. And yeah, I'm going to talk about prayer. I know, I know. What? What? Yes. I'm going to. I'm going to do it. It's the first thing that we should do in response to. Yeah, there's situations we were talking about. Lord, give me discernment. Give me wisdom. Make me aware of what's going on around me.

We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers. And those principalities and powers sometimes to use flesh and blood. And so you need to have awareness of what's going on around you. Big stories in the press box today. We just, we gave you three stories that all came to one conclusion. People on the left side of the aisle that support the types of things like, oh, I don't know, free beer for the assassination of Trump. Or let's beat up 77-year-old senior adults and let's not put security cameras up to make things safer. Let's remove them because they're not nice to immigrants. Or let's just release and let walk someone who has been charged with raping a child under the age of 13, which is what happened in Virginia. We talked about three stories. What do they have in common? Democrats. I know. I know. Right? Let you listen to Brandon Gill's congressional representative from Texas question a pro-abortion law professor. She didn't like the questioning. Washington Post explained why Democrats in an op-ed explained why Democrats might not be supporting the SAVE Act. Supreme Court Justice, there's a rift. Eight to one. The one. Ketanji Brown Jackson Ketanji Brown Jackson. She's not qualified. Shouldn't be there. Shouldn't be there. Tomorrow, Steve Stewart, pause for thought segment, road trip idea, and how to pray on National Day of Prayer. Friends, thanks so much for listening. I really love sharing time with you. Have a great day. Hey guys, it's Ryan. I want to tell you about my new pastime, Chumba Casino. Chumba Casino has been around for over a decade delivering the most fun you can have online. Play social casino style games for free, anytime, anywhere. So sign up at chumbacasino.com. No purchase necessary. VGW. We're prohibited by law. See terms and conditions. 21 plus.