Ep. 5642: Minne-Sorta Strikes Again.

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and welcome Thursday here on the morning show with moi. Wouldn't that be a great title? The morning show with moi and you? I can't do much beyond that. Sorry. He's Jose. I'm Preston. Good to be with you. It's July 23rd show 5642. Fighting just a little bit of a summer cold again. thanks to somebody that I won't mention. Although maybe I already did. No, I think I've got the worst of it beaten down here, but I might get a little stuffy over the next day or so. But I think I'm going to be all right. I'm certainly not going to be taking time away for this. I will be off on Monday, though. I'm just warning you. No show on Monday. It's going to be fill in. Grant's not available to us. And so it's just whatever. Whatever they tee up, that's what you're going to get. But what you're not going to get is what we're going to do right now, God's Word. Because we're about the only ones in the world on secular radio talking about Jesus. It happens some. I mean, it does. Glenn talks about Jesus a little bit. Maybe more than a little bit. But we do a little Bible study to start the show. We're in Deuteronomy 11. Listen to this. Moses quoting, quoting Moses here. See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse. The blessing... If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I commanded you today, and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, and turn aside from the way that I'm commanding you today and go after other gods that you have not known. What I love about that is it has changed not one iota. The coming of Christ, the advent of Jesus, did not change that statement.

You have a choice. Blessing or curse. It's up to you. Once you accept the idea that we are born into this world with a sinful nature, and it's so hard for people to gather that. It's just, it's like, We see a baby and we're just, oh, precious little child. And then there's that moment where you ask them something and they lie to you. And you're like, where did that come from? Did you eat that? Yes, you did. And you know they're lying. You didn't teach them to do it. They've just, it's in our nature to just take the shortcut, to go the other way, to go against, to be deceitful, to be human. It's, it's human nature. That's human nature. Moses said to the Israelites, you have a choice. You can remember everything that God has done for you, how he's proven himself time and time and time again and walk in the blessing by simply being part of the family and following the rules or not and live under the curse. And the curse is not walking in that blessing. It's... It's falling in line with your sinful human nature. It is the law of sewing and reaping. It is, it's just, there you go, okay. You know, I mean, you, you, you have a choice today, friends. This or this? I think sometimes we struggle because in our mind we want it to be so complex. We want it to be like school. I do these things and I get this reward. I get this grade. I get that sticker. I get these points. No. It's not how it works. Grace says come. Walk in the blessing of being a child of God. It's up to you. 10 past the hour. Morning show with Preston Scott. They're going to get a... I'm just... Knock knock, knock. Who's there? On WFLA.

deeper dive today's kind of our history day anyway dr edmore will join us we'll talk about president martin van buren what do you know about him other than that there are roads named after him there are a handful of roads named after him across the country road at phoenix one of the one of the main roads running east and west in phoenix is van buren In 1884, Ulysses S. Grant, former General of the Union Army and President of the United States, suddenly found himself penniless and humiliated. His brokerage firm, Grant and Ward, had collapsed with the discovery that his partner, Ferdinand Ward, was a crook and had stolen investors' money. Grant, who was 62 at the time, an honorable and beloved man, was devastated. It got worse. That fall, he consulted a doctor about his nagging soreness in his throat. The expression on the specialist face told Grant the news. Is it cancer? It was. Grant quickly made a decision. He had never wanted to write his memoirs, but he realized that would be the best way to provide for his wife, Julia, and his family. If the book sold well, they would have some financial security when he was gone. His friend Mark Twain. agreed to publish the work. So Grant started writing in a race against death. My family is American and has been for generations. In all its branches, direct and collateral, he began. The Grants moved to the Adirondack Mountains, hoping the mountain air would make him more comfortable. Every day he sat on the porch, propped in a chair, barely able to even swallow, suffering from intense pain in his throat, but writing. He wrote mainly of his military career, but also of his confidence that Northerners and Southerners would once again be fast friends, quoting, I cannot stay to be a living witness to the correctness of this prophecy, but I feel within me this has to be so. Grant finished his manuscript on July 18, 1885, five days later, on July 23rd, today's date, 1885, he died. Five days later. The personal memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant was a huge bestseller, providing large royalties for the general's widow. Written in clear, unadorned prose, it remains a classic of American literature. So, if you are a history buff and you've never gotten that book, there you go. Written by the man himself. It is one of the best History Channel miniseries out there. I've got the DVD on it. It's tremendous. It shows his tactical genius, his daring, which was responsible for the union win in the Civil War. It was Grant. What else do we have? 1715, Massachusetts authorizes the building of the Boston Light, the first lighthouse constructed in America. And in 2000, on this date, Tiger Woods won the British Open at age 24, becoming the youngest golfer to win the career Grand Slam at the age of 24. He'd won all four of the majors. Amazing. Great golfer. Hope he can pull himself together. Maybe hire a driver. Just saying. Today is gorgeous Grandma Day. Let me just stop the press right there. Here's all you need to. Take a picture of my wife.

Boom. You'd go, she's a grandma? Oh yeah. She's sporty. She is a gorgeous grandma. Today is National Vanilla Ice Cream Day. You know what's great about vanilla? An unheralded quality of vanilla ice cream is its versatility. Vanilla ice cream goes with almost everything. I honestly, I can't think of many things it doesn't go with. Go have a dessert somewhere, whether it's a Brookie, whether it's a big chocolate chip cookie, a molten cake. What are they doing? They're putting vanilla ice cream on it. Hot apple pie? Vanilla ice cream. It's just vanilla ice cream. It's just, it's perfect. It's National Refreshment Day, National Lemon Day. So there you have it. We come back. I will inspire you to go digging through those thrift stores. Morning show band back in the studio recording some new music that will be featured soon here on the morning show band. I was so happy with the work that they did for the new bump music for the new year. That was like, get back in the studio, Skitch. Wait, what's his name? Iggy. Skitch, Iggy, whatever. I say, get back in the studio. Get the boys back to work. Come on. Let's go. And so some new tunes will be coming out soon. I am, I don't do it. I don't go to thrift stores. And you would think with the amount of time I spend on this show talking about it, that I would be at flea markets, thrift stores, and, you know, garage sales, yard sales. I don't. I should. Because this kind of thing just fires me up. And it ought to, this ought to fire you up. Guy in Oregon. Teenager. Previously found a t-shirt that was signed by the band Nirvana. And he sold it for $250. Got it for like a buck. He has beaten that big time. He's in an Oregon thrift store. And for three bucks buys what looks like just a cool, you know, Los Angeles Lakers warm up. And it's personalized. It's got a name on the back of it. The name is Chamberlain, as in Wilts Chamberlain. It was the warm up. of Wilk Chamberlain, the actual one that he wore. Wilp the Stilt, NBA Hall of Famer. It was his personal Los Angeles Lakers warmup, and this kid bought it for three bucks. Now, it got sold by Sotheby's.

That tells you something. It did not receive the, it did not get to the value that Sotheby is placed on it. But when you're buying something for three bucks, your reserve is probably 20 bucks. Because he's going to make that, right? What does he care about Wilts Chamberlain? He's a kid. He's a teenager. He doesn't know anything about him. Well, there were 48 bids. This was the warm up that chamber. Hey, everybody, Lady Luck here, and we're celebrating America's 250th birthday. Now, all summer long, I'm going to be celebrating by playing on SpinQuest.com, which is an American-owned social casino. It obviously features over a thousand slot games and live blackjack, live craps, live bubble craps. Head on over to SpinQuest.com. Get yourself a $30 coin pack for just 10 bucks. SpenQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Avoid where prohibited. Visit SpenQuest.com for more details. In the 1972 NBA finals where the Lakers beat the Knicks. This is historic memorabilia territory that he found in an Oregon thrift shop for three bucks. I can't even Look, I have some pretty cool memorabilia tied to my dad. And while I did not get autographs when I was a kid, because these were my dad's friends. And it was just sort of uncool to do it.

But I do have some things. For example, I have a photo personalized to me from Bart Star. I have photos of my dad on the field with Bart. I have photos of dad with Vince Lombardi. I have some great FSU memorabilia. I've got some stuff. I've got signatures of Hall of Famers on a football at a fundraising golf tournament that my dad got and it's it's locked away and it's deflated it's just because the the bladder of the football has failed and i've i've come to realize that you just don't fix it you leave it you just you leave it as it is 100% original but the signatures are there you can see it i mean it's it's amazing but even with that i know that this is like this is next level so what do you get $90,000. His $3 thrift store purchase won him $90,000. Now, it was expected to go between $150,000 and $250,000. And honestly, he probably could have gotten that if he'd have held out for another auction. found a different group of buyers. It's not that Sotheby's is a bad auction house, not at all, but auctions are a little bit of a roll of the dice in and of themselves. Still, does it make you want to head to your local thrift store? I'm like, yes!

Still serving as the mayor of Realville and dispensing information at the speed of sound. It's the morning show with Preston Scott. Time for the big stories in the press box. For every one thing that Donald Trump administratively does as President of the United States recommends, ask for that causes me to go, hmm, I'm not sure about that. There are probably 10 or 15 things that he does that I go, well done, sir. Here's one. He has announced a 100% tariff on generic drugs in 28 that would expand to 200% in 2029. Now, it should be said, that will be after he's out of office. So it can be erased. But the first reaction to that is, wait, drug prices will skyrocket. This is where you go deeper. Why is he doing it? Let me quote, this is done in order to re-shore, reshore generic pharmaceutical production into America. with the penalty to those companies that decide not to build plant and equipment within the stated period of time given to them. The objective of this policy is to protect the people of the United States. The policy on patented, branded, or innovative drugs, which has been so successful will remain as is. Pharmaceutical facilities are being built at a level never seen before all over the United States. 90% of drugs dispensed are generic. Trump is going back to what happened during COVID, and he's saying, we are not going to be held hostage with all of our pharmaceuticals being made in China. So pharmaceutical companies, you either build factories and create these medicines here in America, produce them here, or you're going to pay double. Your prices are going to double or triple. It's bold. It's brilliant. It is no different than the issue of food security. If we can't produce our own food and not have to rely on global markets for things,

We are more secure. We have to produce, sorry, we have to produce our own food. Food security is national security. Medicine, pharmaceutical security is national security. Second big story. Five House Democrats voted with the Republicans to support. a ban on biological men competing against women in sports. Now, it's strictly limited to schools connected to the Department of Defense. It was part of a defense appropriation, the National Defense Authorization Act. It was an amendment put in there by Nancy Mace of South Carolina. Here's what matters, though. Only five. Only five Democrats recognized that men should not be allowed to compete against women. That is a stinging indictment of how far the Democrat Party has gone in mass. You can't just blame this on the socialist, communist, Marxist flavor of the month. This is extremism. That is, they are, they are. locked together. Not 100%. Five of them said, no, no. No. I just thought five. Yeah, just five. Those are your big stories in the press box. 40 minutes past the hour. Morning Joe with Preston Scott. Go ahead. Make my day. On News Radio 100.7. WFLA.

Friends at Liberty Council sent out a note. Says, raised in a Muslim home in Turkey, Isaac Alba, Abla, was brainwashed as a child to believe her greatest purpose was to become a suicide bomber for the Islamic faith. The man to whom she was eventually given in an arranged marriage redirected her path a little bit. explaining she didn't need to blow herself up to accomplish jihad. She could spread stealth jihad by normalizing Sharia in America. She has partnered with Liberty Council and is working now to expose what's going on inside. She got out. She was raised to become a suicide bomber. Her husband redirects her. Her husband told her, we can first invade America, invade with Muslims with our ideology, so we can start doing economic jihad, educational jihad, media jihad, political jihad, population jihad. Remember I talked about what's going on in Tampa? Remember I pointed out what's going on in Clarkston, Georgia? What's happened already in Minnesota, in parts of Ohio, in Michigan, in Texas?

She was instructed to blend into the society, into the culture. They will never doubt you. She was told that they would not start with the killing and bombings that would come later. We have to start invading the Western world, he said. And how do we do that? Through economic jihad, population. We go populate those countries. We populate America. We send students, which I'm sending students. With my first husband, radical Muslim man, students to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, so they can graduate from Kay Ivey League schools. They can become people of power in the United States. It is better for us to look modern westernized so they will never guess who we are. She says Muslims are required to believe that Sharia law is supreme to any legal system in any country. Listen, under the Takia law and Sharia, we can lie, we can cheat. Where have I heard that before? This is an Islamist raised to engage in jihad. That is explaining the rationale behind El Tukia. And I want you to step back now and take a look at candidates, for example, the leading candidate for the U.S. Senate from Michigan, he's a jihadi. People of power. Mayor of New York City, he's a jihadi, people of power.

who, by the way, dropped nothing but expletives about Zohran Mamdani, although he loves him. It just, it illustrates the foul-mouthed nature of these illiberal lefties. They can't talk without using profanities, but that's a sidebar story. Their ideology is dangerous. I'm just pointing it out. I'm just pointing out what's out there. And then this story here, interestingly enough, a Turkish migrant living in Germany, 29 years old, refused to sit next to a woman on a flight because of Sharia law. When the flight attendant came over and said, I'm sorry, there is not another seat, you have to remain here. He punched, slapped her the flight attendant in the face. Now, the good news is the German federal police arrested the guy. And while he was under arrest, he then promptly insulted the officers in Turkish, not realizing one of the officers spoke and understood Turkish. Sharia law for now has zero legal standing in Germany. That's not the case in England. That's not the case in certain communities here in America. Now, sure, it's a little under, but here's what happens. In small communities where Islamists are taking over, they just defer everything to their own internal tribunals. Legal proceedings, they don't need them. They settle things among themselves using Sharia. And Lord help the person that's in that community that goes against it. That's how it works. Fear. Intimidation. I'm going to continue to point this stuff out. It's happening all over the world. Islamists have a fatalistic view and believe that it is their responsibility to usher in, in essence, Armageddon. You just need to know and understand. Islamists, people are not our enemy. Their ideology is. The ideology of Islam is an enemy. It is an enemy of this nation. It is an enemy of God. It is an enemy of human rights. It is an enemy of our Constitution. It is an enemy. It cannot be accepted here in America. Period. End.

Morning Show with Preston Scott. You're mocking me, aren't you? Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. On News Radio 100.7, WFLA. Steve Stewart, Tallahasseur reports, joins us in just a moment or two, or 10, 13, 13 moments. Just put it on your calendar if you're here local. Capital City, Tiffany Hill. Edmund Johnson, and incumbent Diane Williams Cox will be speaking to Niba. Nieba. On Tuesday, City Commission seat five candidate forum. Capital City Country Club, doors open at 1130, forum begins at noon. So there you go. You might want to check that out. Talassey Reports is pushing out information about all the candidates so you can have an informed choice. You know my feelings on these races. Anyone but Matlow? ABM. ABM. Which you could take a lot of different ways. I'm just saying. Now, I would probably throw my support behind Daryl Parks. I think Daryl's the most practical choice. He separated himself from Ben Crump quite a while ago. He's just not in that world. He's released several position papers that I personally think make a lot of sense. And he's not Matlow. Lorraine Osley, in my mind, is not, she's nice lady, has a good heart. I can't get past her antics in the state legislature. Gay, gay, gay, gay, gay. You might call that skipping through the hallways. when there was that ridiculous don't say gay rhetoric that the Democrats were throwing around she was part of that she's I personally don't think she's really capable of being the mayor again nice person means well but I think we need a little more substance in that office And of the candidates, I think Daryl Parks is far in a, far in a way, the most prepared. I think Diane Williams Cox should be retained in her seat. I think we have a chance to really see things transform. I really do in a positive way. This is a very important election. Amendment 3, I think, is dead on arrival. I don't think it has a chance. I doubt it gets 50%. Forget whatever plans you have this weekend because you're staying at home and playing on SpinQuest. And there's never been a better time to sign up than right now. New users get $30 coin packs for just $10. All the table games you love with hundreds of slot games and real cash prizes. That's at SpinQuest.com. SpinQuest.com. SpinQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Avoid where prohibited. Visit spendquest.com for more details.

And it needs 60. The forces against it are too big. And I think it was by design. I think Danny Perez was responsible for the watering down and for it to be nothing like what Ron DeSantis wanted done. Ron DeSantis is supporting it, but he's not. You know what I mean? I mean, he said, I'll vote for it, but it's not what we asked for. And it's not. It's not even close. It is full of problems. It does have problems. I'm going to be pushing the legislature next year to take a very different view of all of this and move in a slightly different direction to get to where we own our own property if we've paid off our mortgages. That should be a fundamental right. And then you move from there. So we'll talk more about that. The estimates that are out there indicate to me that the removal of the property tax is doable. Counties are hit harder than cities across the state. Counties are hit harder than cities. But I believe there's money in state revenues to take care of that. for no need of any additional taxation. It's going to require putting caps on what cities and counties can spend, though. And don't you think that's what we should be doing? Saying, here's your allowance. Spend it wisely. We come back. Steve Stewart will join us. Tallahasseur reports next on the morning show with Preston Scott.

Five past the hour, it is Thursday on the morning show. July 23rd, show 5642. Not that anyone's counting. And joining me in studio, as he does each and every Thursday that we're on the air, at least. Steve Stewart, the executive editor of Tallahasseur Reports, the website Tallahasseur Reports.com. Steve Stewart, how are you? I'm good. How are you doing? You know, I'm doing well. It is the season of campaigning, and there's no shortage of issues to talk about. Let's start with the schools. Yeah, actually, this is a non-campaign-related issue, but, well, and, you know, in a way, it's going to be on the ballot, the property tax. I listened to, I was traveling this weekend, so I got to listen to a couple of meetings, you know, while I was staring at the I-75. And when you listen to me, you get so much more information. But the school board had a lot going on. First, kudos their grades came in i got to i got to dig through them they're going to be in the news our next print edition uh a lot of improvement in school grades um the district got a high b not far from being an a I know everybody sort of sometimes just rolls their eyes at these school grades. But they're objective, if nothing else, right? Yeah. And, you know, they've started this new, they're called fast testing where they're trying to get the, instead of the test taking so long, trying to get quick snapshots of what's going on. And so they spent a good, as you can imagine, a good few minutes talking about historic achievements and talking about their investment in pre-K and how that's... resulted in this. The key on these grades from what I've read is that you want to see this sustained. And so we'll keep an eye on. But again, there's some movement there. So that was discussed at the meeting. A second topic, which is on the other side of this, had to deal with discipline. A couple of years ago, the school board put in this new discipline matrix because there was some questions about consistency of how discipline was implemented. And so they've tried to sort of rein in how that's being done. And it's resulted in the last couple of years and out-of-school suspensions really going up in a number of schools. The expert on that said, look, we expect, since we've asked them to be more stringent and to follow these rules across schools, we expected to see this increase. Sure. They're hoping that that will be headed back down because now the messages have been sent. Right. We'll see if that happens. I think that that was. It was interesting to listen to the reasons why. Again, this is very school specific, though. There's some schools where it was clear that this was not being implemented. And we've seen that in some of the teacher comments on social media and people leaving, saying the discipline in the classroom was a little bit out of hand. Again, this is sort of kudos to getting, you know, moving past the, we'll let the principals do what they want to do and saying, look, we've got to get a hand on this. Yeah. They've sort of. They put out this matrix. And so we'll keep an eye on those results. Something else, which is interesting and you won't see reported anywhere else, is that obviously the school system has a big IT department because of what they have to do. They have to keep everybody online. And so they were looking at moving. They've got they're in a building as the school board headquarters, you know, is in buildings that were building the 50s. Yeah. Over there on Pensacola Street. So they were looking for a new building for IT and they've got a possibility.

on one on the Northeast, but the discussion Preston came up about looking for a new location for the district offices. I don't know when's the last time you've been out there. It's been a little while for me, but it's last year. Yeah, it's a it's a hodgepodge of offices that are very old. And so there became this discussion about moving the headquarters. And, you know, the first thing I thought about, you probably have about 700 employees out there is, I mean, move downtown. We get people actually, you know, because there's a lot of commercial, right now commercial real estate is down, a lot of vacancies, especially in the, you know, in the urban area. And so that was, that was another discussion that was had. And then the last thing is on the budget issue. You know, the homestead property tax issue is not going to affect schools. That was one of the reasons for putting the property tax on the ballot. So now. You know, they're trying to look for other areas that they can talk about. Teacher salaries is one. One that came up was reserves. They have sort of depleted their reserves. And Alva Smith was arguing that we need to get back on a plan of making sure that we have sort of a rainy day fund. So you probably will start hearing more about that in terms of that being in support of this new tax increase. Not the renewal of the... Yeah, we're going to have to spend some time after the primaries. differentiating between these two different issues. Because that won't be on the ballot until November. Right. So we'll have time. More to talk about with Steve Stewart next on the morning show with Preston Scott. Remember, wherever you travel, across the fruited plains or around the world. You can listen to the morning show with Preston Scott for free on the IHeart Radio app.

11 minutes past the hour, the morning show with Preston Sky. You know, just to, just to, I don't know, burst the balloon out there that says, I can't play well with others. It should be pointed out. Steve Stewart does a radio program for a different radio station. And I have Steve on because we've had a longstanding friendship, and I think it's useful. He has far more tolerance for talking to some of these people than I do. I won't put them on the air anymore because they're liars. And so I just won't do it. But you've had a chance to sit down and talk with the mayoral candidates, specifically Jeremy Matlow. Yeah, so let's reset it real quick. Just a couple of things. You know, there are a lot of the forums have taken place. Very disappointed in the questions, how they're being. There's not a lot of opportunity or follow-ups. They ask, you know, what do you think? If you were trying to treat, would you be, you know? I mean, it's just, it's a little more detailed than that. You have to be old to understand that question, huh? But anyway, you know, I said it's like, you know, there's no follow-up. There's no specific questions for candidates because everybody has their different issues. But like for Neva example, you know, there was a poll there. Darrell Parks came ahead. I think he won 51% of the vote. Which runs against some of the polling that's out there, which is interesting because if you sit and listen to them, it's not close. Yeah, the next. The next group of polling, which came from out of town, but it's called St. Pete Poles is a statewide website or blog news. But she's got a pretty good reputation for getting this plus or minus five points. It shows that Laurent Osley's ahead 29 with Malo, 24 in Delaware Parks around 15 or 16. And so, and again, that's plus or minus 5%. It's a month away from the vote, although we started absentee ballot voting. And so, look, the race is starting. What's going on, everyone? It's Bluff here, and we're driving through the States in the BluffMobile, and the best thing that we can do is play our favorite casino-style games on SpinQuest. They have over a thousand games, including Live Dealer Blackjack and Crops, with tons of slots and unlimited options. You can get a $30 coin pack for just $10 for new users. Sign up today. Go to SpinQuest.com right now. SpinQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Avoid where prohibited. Visitspinquest.com for more details. to sort of solidify. And at this current point, I will tell you that, you know, that Commissioner Matlow is the much better campaigner. But, you know, and that's not a surprise. He's been in office for eight years. And he's been campaigning against his colleagues for years. Exactly. And so, you know, the problem here, I think, is, you know, and when I ran for office, if you're running against an incumbent and you choose to run, you're running because you disagree with them on something. So you need to highlight that disagreement. I expect we'll start to see that, hopefully before August 18th, but we'll see. Now, on the, you know, on the Commissioner Matlow thing, you know, he was not going to come on our show. He sort of has dissed the Northeast because he thinks I'm biased and the, you know, I report things that nobody else reports. So he doesn't like that. That's biased then. They've called me a racist. However.

The later, you know, when he embraced the Zohran Mamdani, Zohran Mamdani mayoral endorsements up in New York, he put out a video and then talked about how the Democratic Party was about to change and that, you know, these policies, you know, these are policies I'd implement. All we did was put it on the headline of our newspaper. And again, the headline is true. And we posted it on, you know, we sent a newspaper out, posted it on social media. And he just, I mean. went crazy and he didn't receive it well and i didn't understand that i mean that was one of the i mean it's just he proudly embraced it yeah so anyway i think he's he figured he had to come on the show to try to minimize this and he did he came on we had a good back and forth uh i i think two things i understand he knows the issues he knows how to carve out the the community you know the northeast doesn't like storage buildings going up on thomasville road so he's gonna he's gonna put an end to all that which of course he can't right so he's he's very good at that um i think on the uh on the Zohran Mamdani issue It's clearly, and you've seen this because you talk about it every day, there's this fight going on in Democratic Party. The socialists are coming in, the Democratic Socialists, and it's happening here in Tallahassee. Of course it is. It's been going on for years. We're the only one that reported it. They want to hide it because they don't want that debate to break out. And for some reason, the candidates don't want to talk about it either. They're all Democrats. And so, look, you know, it is happening here. I think Commissioner Matlow. is got socialist sympathies. What implications are that for being mayor? I asked him that. He obviously downplayed it, but it's going to be up to the voters to sort of decide that. And so, you know, we've got to buy information in our latest print newspaper and we've got stories up that we'll be talking about these things. So you've got to follow that. But that's clearly, you know, that's clearly the race right now is to keep an eye on, which has national implications because they want a socialist mayor. In Tallahassee. Heck yeah, the state capital. Exactly. Yep, just like they did in New York and just like they did in Seattle. And the list goes on from there. Hey, I always remember this. When it comes to an incumbent, there's what they say and there's what they've said. And what they've said is on the record. And that's the thing that you can always rely on. Remember, Tallahasseur Reports.com. More to come.

On your phone with the IHeart radio app and on hundreds of devices like Alexa, Google Home, Xbox, and Sonos. Dude! Yes! And IHeart's radio station. Final segment here with Steve Stewart, at least for today. We'll be back next Thursday. Tallassie Reports website. Subscribe, get that paper delivered. Talasca, it still makes me happy to hold a newspaper. I like holding a newspaper. Subscriptions will help keep us getting this out. So it's only $50 a year. And we're trying to, and we are building that. We updated our website. But, you know, if we can just get more subscriptions, we can get to a weekly newspaper. And it's something that. Look, we need it. We just talked about, Commissioner Matlow saw that headline. It has the print, there's still an area, especially locally, where print has an impact. And so, anyway, we need all the help we can get. And it's amazing what happens when objective, data-driven, fact-driven reporting takes place. It just, it acts as a light. It acts as a disinfectant. And people can try to run from it, but the facts are the facts. And facts are, as John Adams said, stubborn things. Right. And the last thing on this, you know, we talk about media bias. The biggest bias in media is what is chosen not to report. Yes. And a mission. You can say, oh, you know, all my stories are factually correct. Yeah, but you didn't report on this. And so that's the other thing that Talas reports brings to the table. C3. Yeah, C3. Look. We just published a newspaper and we've got it up online now. That's Matt Lowe's old seat. Yes, it is. 1,500 word story. There's six candidates. This is going to be the toughest for voters in the primary because it's just, you know, who do you vote for? We've got it laid out in the newspaper and online. I see it as two groups. There's the, there's this sort of progressive slash socialist group. Yep. That includes, and that includes Max Hurley. PJ Perez, which is the Matlow sort of candidate. And, you know, his name is, I think is Darrell, his name is Darrell. I'm sorry, I'm forgetting the name. That ticks me off. Sorry about that. But that's the, you'll look it up here real quick. Top. There it is right there. Yep. I got it here. I've got your back here, buddy. Yeah. But. The other three are more moderate traditional Democrats or once Republicans. Taliesia Edwards? That would be Darryl Alfred. Darry Alford would be the one that's in the progressive slash socialist category. Okay. The other category would be, like I said, is more moderate or traditional. Mainstream. A lot of Tom Dersopolsky, Norm Roach, Talithia Edwards. Okay. Two of them are independents, registered as independents, but they've been either Republicans or Democrats. Talithi Edwards is a Democrat. But, again, if you look at how they are answering some questions, they are much more measured in that than they are, for example, you know, somebody to give, somebody that gives Reese Goad an F.

It's trying to make a political point. There's not a lot of thought in that. I mean, this guy's been there for nine years. He's run a billion-dollar institution. You may have some quabbles and may even want to give him a C or something, you know. But an F, it sort of mirrors what Commissioner Milo. Where did that come from? It came from PJ Perez. It was a D or an F. But what I'm saying is, where did that thought get planted? It's not unlike other comments, other candidates have made that were factually untrue that you've talked about. you know that came from somewhere else. Right. And so the point on this race is I think you've got to look at the answers and see if they're extreme or if they're like moderated in the sense of, you know, look, the academic medical center is going to be a benefit here. I'm not thrilled with the process versus versus, you know, I'm afraid that Ron DeSantis is going to take over our hospital system and that should have stayed at a community hospital. I mean, those are two different answers. right and it tells you i think about where they're coming from that's how people are going to have to judge this race so i'll i'll talk more about this but that is uh the two groups that i have um and then you have to go from there this is very difficult in the primaries because it's low turnout anyway and you know um the northeast a lot of them aren't interested as much in local politics it's more driven by state and national The good news is they vote on issues. I mean, they're not necessarily on party because there's not Republicans running. The bad news is you've got to really try to get that information. And I'm trying to be as helpful as I can on that without actually endorsing candidates. And I think these two groups on this seat is what you got to sort of look at and start digging in from that way. For those of you that have written me saying, where can I get information on the local candidates? And I keep telling you, Tallahassellports.com. There's a breakdown of the races. There's a breakdown of the candidates. It's based on what they've said, what they have spoken about, and in the case of an incumbent, their record, what they've, you know, Diane Williams Cox, Jeremy Matlow, what their record is. And so it's there. The information's there. And I'm going to say one more thing, Steve. To those of you that choose not to vote in the primary, just remember on some of these races, if you choose not to, you may never get to vote on that race. Right. These are nonpartisan primaries. Over 50% will decide a race. And that could happen in maybe one of the three. Yep. And then the top two will go to the general. Yeah. So don't expect it to be a general, though, because if they get 50 plus one, it's over. Exactly. Thanks. Thank you, President. Steve Stewart, Tallahasseur Reports website, Tallahasse Reports.com. Subscribe and support independent journalism.

Unlike a lot of talk show hosts, he's admitted to be wrong. That's when he thought he was wrong, but in fact wasn't. It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott. We still got a few things to iron out around here. It would appear. Sorry. I guess you didn't get local news. You got some I heart sports thing. We're figuring it out. Okay? It's a work in progress. What really matters is I'm here. That's what really matters most is that I'm here with you. Jose's running the program and you can take a deep breath and know that everything is okay because we're here. Even if things are just jacked up everywhere out, we're here. It's going to be okay. It's okay. I've got two paper clips. And when I say paper clips, I'm talking about the jumbo kind. You know, the really big ones, which means there's lots of information. We have road trip suggestion coming up in just a little bit. Came from a listener. There are five Democrats in the House that believe biological men should not be allowed to compete against women in sports. Five.

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Validating your feelings or perhaps helping you come to terms with the fact that you have been wrong for so much of your life. It's the morning show with Preston Scott. Time to get you feeling better. The whole point of these optimum health naturally segments over the years with Dr. David Hartz. is finding the root cause to things and finding ways to address health concerns without a pill, meaning medication, you know, put a pill on it. That's a Band-Aid. Dr. Hartz, good morning. Welcome. Good morning, Preston. Arteries are always a challenge. I know of somebody that had to have emergency surgery in another state while they were vacationing arterial problems. Are there things that can be done to address the hardening of the arteries without some of the typical protocols? Well, you know, with Lindsey Graham, Senator Lindsey Graham, recently having... a dissection of his aoric aorta, which is really coming from acidosis, has kind of highlighted this again recently, and it's a kind of a real... sleeper type of problems because it can build up and we don't know. Nobody's really measuring this. There's a way that people have been using it because atherosclerosis leads to accumulation of fat cells which do calcify. And as they calcify, you can pick them up on different types of x-rays, which are actually done locally around here. And you can get calcium scores, which gives you an idea how much calcium is in your coronary arteries, which can give you some idea about the... Athorosis. But what is really interesting is there's a couple things that, two things that I can talk about this morning that actually can affect this, which are natural. One of them is taking K2. It's been shown that vitamin K2 will lower the risk of vascular damage and actually decrease these calcium scores up to 37%. And actually, after 12 weeks, that's after just a small period of time. And then after 12 weeks of it, it can actually decrease them up to 53%, which you believe actually has effect upon the accumulation of the plaques also. which is really huge. I mean, it's just a simple vitamin. And it's amazing how many of these things, when we research them, actually change things that can make a major problem in our health very quick, and we don't know it's actually building up.

Another thing that you can take also is this sounds kind of wild, but it was researched about over 20 years ago in Israel. They did it, and this study's been just kind of buried. Nobody's done anything with it, which doesn't surprise me. But the simple pomegranate seeds of pomegranate and the pomegranate juice. When they actually use this and tested it, they did a really good study on this over a period of time. See, the problem with oxidation of LDL, the LDL that they measure in your blood, it's the bad LDL, what happens is when it gets oxidized, then it causes the calcification as well as the atherosis in our arteries. And this pomegranate goose, when it was taken and done from crushed seeds. Hey, everybody, Lady Luck here. And we're celebrating America's 250th birthday. Now, all summer long, I'm going to be celebrating by playing on SpinQuest.com, which is an American-owned social casino. It obviously features over a thousand slot games and live blackjack, live craps, live bubble craps. Head on over to SpinQuest.com. Get yourself a $30 coin pack for just $10. SpenQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Voidware prohibited. Visit SpenQuest.com for more details. It actually decreased this oxidation, and that also led to up to a 44% decrease in the lesions of acrosis in the arteries. from something as simple as this. Now, it was a specific, and there's several substances that can be antioxidants like this that can do it. But anything that we can do that decreases oxidation, decreases the formation of these atherosclerotic plaques. And so that's why eating, right, going after things that are antioxidants, staying away for things that produce oxidation in our body is so important. And, you know, nature and the one who created all this, Put it into the nature that if we use it correctly, it can be very, very effective. Now, you can usually do this by having a good cup of pomegranate juice. I mean, a solid, I mean, this is not diluted. This is strong, you know, just the juice of the pomegranate, or you can get powders where you can actually put it into smoothies and so forth like that. And it does make a difference, and the research shows it. What about K2 real quickly? Where are sources for that? You can get it anywhere. I mean, it's a supplement that you can get it anywhere. And it's usually about 180 micrograms per day. And you can get it in the supplements. And it comes with, you know, D2 and K3 are the two. I mean, KD3 and K2 usually come together when you, and you should have. If you take it with K2 also. And also calcium. If you're taking calcium supplementation, you need to have. the D and the K2 with it. You don't want to take calcium by itself because it can actually increase the calcium flax in the arteries. We have the K2 with it, it can actually decrease it. So you don't want to be taking calcium. But are these supplements synthesized? Are they synthetic, rather, or are they natural?

These are more synthetic. To get them at the doses to be therapeutic, you'd have to have them kind of synthetic. But, you know, as long as it's done at the right doses, it's effective. Of course, if you can get it, you know, naturally it's always better. But K2 is hard to isolate in a, you know, significant amount by itself. I got you. All right. Dr. Hartz, thanks very much. I appreciate the time. Yes, have a good day, Preston. Thank you, sir. Dr. David Hart's with us on the morning show with Preston Scott. I am fair. I am good. I'm a happy example. Glenn is on 9 to noon. I am stronger every day on WFLA. Time for On the Road again. Brought to you by Trail and Ski, get cured up for your next adventure. Trailer and Ski, you're camping and hiking headquarters in the Esposito Shopping Center. And I have a great suggestion that came from a listener. And if you have, by the way, a suggestion, just send me a note, pressing at iHeartRadio.com, put O-T-R-A on the subject line or road trip, something like that. But this came from Bobby, said, Rodi's suggestion, Pensacola. They have practice days for the Blue Angels. It's pretty much free to see. You just can go to the base or find a spot on the beach near the base. There you go. Well, okay then. So I went and looked this up. And lookie here, my friends. Scheduled practice. They had one scheduled for yesterday, but they've got one scheduled for the 28th of July. And then on August 26th, and there's an autograph session with the pilots inside the museum at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola afterwards. And the practice occurs. at 10.30 in the morning. So I'm just saying if you're, look, the kids are going to be back in school, so maybe the 28th is the one to go to. No autograph session that time. The next autograph session is in August. But if you're looking for something to do, there you go. Little roadie to Pensacolin back, no problem. But if you're a homeschooler. Or your kid's school starts a little later. I'm just saying August 26th. Come on. A little autograph session with the pilots. See the practice session up close and personal? And yes, you can go through the West Gate. Visitors without military ID can usually enter the base about 9 a.m. Bill Gates to the flight line open at 9.30. It lasts about 45 minutes to an hour. And so arrive early if you want to see it from the base. I'm just saying. Good idea. Bobby, come on. Bobby, you're going to be my travel agent, man. My booking agent. Great suggestion for a road trip. Again, brought to you by Trail and Ski.

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Thursday edition of the morning show with Preston Scott. I'm Preston. He is Jose, and this is our resident historian. He used to be, you know, he used to be the president of the independent colleges universities of Florida. And he's written books and all that. But really what is at the top of the resume now is resident historian of this fine radio program. I thought it was African Big Game Hunter, but no. Whatever. I was joking with Ed. He's got his faces on wanted posters being the animal kingdom in Africa. When they see him, they run. That guy, he's back. I have teased the fact that we're going to talk about the guy who actually started the co-founded at least the Democrat Party, Martin Van Buren. Hey guys, Lady Luck here. Are you going on any road trips this summer? I know I'm going to be going on a bunch of road trips. And being that I'm going to be passenger princess, I love playing on SpinQuest.com. SpinQuest has all of my favorite slot games, live blackjack, live craps. Head on over to SpinQuest right now and get yourself a $30 coin pack for just $10.00. SpinQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Avoid where prohibited. Visit spinquest.com for more details. Other than that and having magnificent sideburns, what do we need to know about Martin Van Buren? They called him the Red Fox because he had red hair before it all went white. Yeah. And those big, bushy sideburns. My goodness. He's fascinating. I really encourage him. Put him in some context, but who was before him, who was after him? Well, Andrew Jackson, and it was his ally, and Andrew Jackson actually picked him in 1828 to run with him as vice president. Contrary to where we are now with where the Democrat Party is back then, they were the conservative party. They really were. Go figure. Well, it's an evolutionary period. If you think about that, the Constitution of the United States in 1789. So you're not talking about that much after. They were still crafting and creating what government was going to be and how it was going to be during Martin Van Burence time. He was a single term guy. He only served one term. William Henry Harrison was after him. Andrew Jackson was before him. And it was a huge transitional period in American history of what kind of government were we really going to have? What was the federal government doing? And you think about this being, say, around 1830 or so, Civil War began in 1860. Regional differences, a lot of stuff was still being states' rights and states would decide. States were still pretty much electing who went to the U.S. Senate. I mean, you didn't run statewide to be a U.S. Senator, your legislature. So these kind of guys, if you read about Martin Van Buren, shrewd political sense and a very good backroom manipulator. He sided with this guy when it was to his advantage and this guy he knew how to play that game. He got himself behind major issues. I mean, back in those days, the construction of the Erie Canal was a big deal.

the governor of new york dewitt clinton that was a big project for him martin van buren was opposing do it clinton all the time on stuff but on that project he really helped him out and made it happen he was a guy that you went to if you wanted to get something done uh he was a good example of how manipulative he was he ran for governor of new york uh in well 18 well 18 28, uh, ran for 27, ran for governor in New York and served as governor for less than three months because When Jackson came in, he wanted him to be the Secretary of State. And he knew that when he was running for governor, that if that happened, he would probably go there. But he ran for governor, so he maintained a position of power. The more I read about this guy, the more fascinated I was by his political acumen, sharp, sharp guy, figured out how to get things done. played both sides very well. We don't have anybody like that now. Before we get a break here, how much based on your study was he impacted or influenced his actions as president? by being the first natural born American to become a person. Yeah, I was it. Joe Salee, I think it's called By Birth. We argue now about birthright citizenship. And technically, he was the last one to have birthright citizenship for Great Britain. Because when he was born, Great Britain still control the colonies. So he could have just gone over to England and been a citizen over there. We talk about all the time how, well, Europe doesn't have. Nobody has birthright citizenship. Did you watch the World Cup? Did you see who played for who? I mean, you got all these people whose families are from all over the world. And because they ended up in France, their kids are playing for France. They're from an African country or one of the islands. We train the world's athletes here in America anyway, so it doesn't matter. Well, they train better athletes for soccer over there than we do. But he's a unique kind of guy. He was the last one that could have been a British citizen, easily been a British citizen. He, I lost my train of talking about soccer. But being naturally born in America, did that impact him? As a president. That he was an American. Yeah. Oh, yeah. He was, he is the beginning. Andrew Jackson sort of laid the seeds for presidents that identified themselves strongly as Americans. Okay. We give the founders a lot of credit for that for crafting and creating and rebelling and all of that. But then there are a series of guys that.

You know, the foundation was laid, but they were putting the walls and, you know, they're organizing the house. And Martin Van Buren was really the first one. You talked about creating a two-party system. He was the one really that made that happen. More to come with Dr. Ed Moore, our resident historian, a little more history on the morning show with Preston Scott. Welcome to the morning show with Preston Scott, guaranteed human, and covering what you're talking about, what you will be talking about, and most importantly what you should be talking about. Count it out. Okay, here we go. Dr. Edmore with me this morning here, and we are talking about the presidency and the person known as Martin Van Buren. And we were talking about the fact that he was the first president that was American-born. But it's so interesting to me that even though he was, English was not his first language. No, no. His family were from the Netherlands. I think it was grandparents had immigrated over and settled. If you look on a map where the Hudson River goes up, it's about the third county north of Manhattan. Kinderhook. Henry Hudson had named this area Kinderhook. Because when he sailed up, and that's about as far as he sailed up that river, and they named the river after him. Not too bad. No. Now I've got to start going in rivers. More river, more river. More river. But. Indian kids would go on the bluffs and watch his ship sailing up. It was because they had never seen it. You had to put yourself in that mindset. They had never seen anything like that before. And here's this giant ship to them. Yeah. And so Keender in the Dutch as kids or children, Hook was, it was like the... Kids Bluff or, yeah, in their translation. It wasn't a bad golf shot at that point. No, no. I would have put it in the river myself. So his family, his dad was an innkeeper and a tavern. So you think people think now in political divide, New York, they must have all been liberals and they're, you know, city-fied people. He was more akin to Andrew Jackson in terms of his upbringing other than... Humble. Well, just regular kind of part. He grew up in a tavern. But doesn't that speak to what made America, even at that stage, so unique? It wasn't a caste system. It wasn't where you were born. There was opportunity. Yeah, you have the intelligence, the ambition, and the ability to put some sweat in. You could do anything you want. And we're still there, even though if you watch the news, they'd...

think, no, we're not. We're still there. You can still do that. This is one of those kind of people who did that. He just emerged out of this area, got involved in politics and learned early on how to play the game. There was a Sylvester family where prominent lawyers in the New York area during that time. Well, he studied for the law. They didn't go to law school in those days. He studied for the law with the Sylvester's. Well, the Sylvester's were big federalists. Martin Van Buren wasn't a federalist. He was more of a... Oh, I've had no luck lately. Wait, lady luck? Brett Ski, I got you. I've had so much luck on SpinQuest.com. They have all of my favorite games, slot games, live blackjack craps, and bubble craps. You can even get a $30 coin pack for just $10 bucks. $10 for 30. I'm headed over to SpinQuest.com right now. SpinQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Avoid where prohibited. Visit spinquest.com for more details. States rights guy out of New York. Nowadays, you look at that and go, nobody. Nobody's going to be like that coming from New York. He was. This is his upbringing. They wanted to have opportunity for other people. During his time frame, it was the first universal suffrage for white males. Prior to that, you had to be a landowner in order to vote. I mean, they were pushing to democratize America. Little seeds were being planted every day during that time frame in our country. I'm hearing music so we're almost south here, but I've got to tell you that there were a lot of controversial stuff happened in that one four-year term when this guy was president. We're going to touch on that, some policy things, and more next. Martin Van Buren the topic, Dr. Ed Moore, the presenter here on the morning show with Preston Scott.

UFLA on your phone with the IHard radio app and on hundreds of devices like Alexa, Google Home, Xbox, and Sonos. Hey, so here we go. An IHearts Radio Station. Final segment with Dr. Edmore this morning, a little more history as we talk about Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States. What stands out from a policy perspective? And you talked about some of the controversies of his four years. Well, even prior to his four years, we were talking all fair about this guy. He was a governor of a state. He was a U.S. Senator from the State. He was a legislator. He was Secretary of State. He got appointed by Andy Jackson to be Secretary of State in the first term. They got nominated to be ambassador to Great Britain and had his rival John C. Calhoun torpedoed that in the Senate. and Calhoun was vice president for Jackson at the time. Jackson looked at that, and oddly a guy from Tennessee decided a guy from South Carolina was troublesome and a real pain in his rear end. I'm going to get rid of this guy. I know. I'll pick this guy from New York, so Jackson made him his vice president during Andy Jackson's second term, and he elevated it up. He... engineered all kinds of new things that is how government is structured. Andy Jackson, everybody's heard about the kitchen cabinet. He had a kitchen cabinet that were informal advisors. Martin Baron Buren came in and said, no, we're going to have formal cabinet meetings with the heads of the departments who are going to come. He was the first one to do that. He saw all the parties that were going on. There was the anti-Masonic party. There were all these fringe groups going on. He found that to be discomforting and troublesome, and he pushed real hard to create the Democratic Republican Party. And the federalists. Oh, the irony. Yeah. And the federalists became the Whigs. And for about 30 years there, time frame, you had to went to a two-party system with other parties trying to break out. And Van Buren later in life actually tried to form this other party because he didn't like what these guys were doing. He was meddlesome and interesting. When you start reading a lot of the details, some of the weird things that happened during that time frame up until while he was president. I mean, you think about the Trail of Tears. that occurred. In 1830, the Congress passed to remove the natives. Displace in the Indians from the lands. So 4,000 Cherokee died in the Trail of Tears. Not a proud part of our history. Right. And.

Guys like Van Buren saw that, and we have to be better than that. I think more I read about it, the more impressed I am with his motivation. He had a clear motivation. We almost show you how little power the United States had in the world affairs. The annexation of Texas. We wanted Texas. Texas at this point was a republic of Texas. It had broken away from Mexico. And people in Texas wanted to become part of the United States, and some of them didn't. It was highly controversial. But we didn't move on it, and Van Buren and Jackson, they never moved on it because they didn't want to go to war with Mexico. Now, think about it in modern and time, through, we didn't want to go to war with Mexico. Oh, my. On the north, there were boundary battles in Upper New York State. Across the border, there was really a civil war going on in Canada. The Quebecians and the Ontario people, they didn't get along French and the English, and there was a civil war going on. And we had people from Buffalo that formed a militia that wanted to go across and help and get involved in the... Van Buren put a stop to that. on the New Brunswick main border that was battling and fighting going on and arguing about where the borders should be set. Loggers were going in and cutting. The Canadian loggers would come into Maine and cut down trees, and then those guys would go into Canada and cut down. You think of the logging wars, huh? It was logging wars. They had names that. That was a Roostock War. I mean, they all had little names for it. But. Nothing was set, nothing was fixed in place. Guys like Van Buren came in and just calm things down and established mechanism. Every state used to print, not every state, but a lot of states used to print their own money, okay, during this time frame. So we moved to unified treasury, and that was a huge battle. Andy Jackson started that, you know, with the Second Bank of America fighting and that whole issue we talked about before. But you imagine you're converting gold and silver, which people carried into paper money. Well, I'm going to get Ohio paper money now. It's not any good in New York. What am I going to do? They created a unified treasury system. during Martin Van Burence time. Would it be fair to describe him as an opportunistic pragmatic? Yeah, well, opportunistic in the pejorative. Probably not. In the creative sense. That's what I mean. Yeah, in the creative sense. Just seeing an opportunity and being practical about and pragmatic about how to attack it. Not being there and knowing them personally, but I... You sure? Yeah, I'm feeling... It's hard to feel that way. But my sense of him was he would see a problem and want to fix it. Yeah. He was that kind of person. He was inquisitive and like, why are we arguing about this?

And when he was in Congress, when he was in the Senate, he was the guy that moved around and created coalitions on issues, around issues, things like building the Erie Canal or not to build the, those kind of things. He would find a solution and then get it done. Unique kind of person. Did he do that as president? Yeah. Oh, yeah. You couldn't cast him as he's a hardline this or hardline that. He was more a problem solver. the way I would describe them. And, you know, I always look at this and go, where are we today? And using today's values, try to evaluate what they're doing. And we don't have people like that now. And if we do, we cast them aside because they're problem. You know, they're not with Trump 100% of the time. Yeah. Or they're not the other side and the other side so messed up right now. Who knows? But then it. People are still trying to figure out who they were and what they're doing. But you think this guy, a guy from New York partnered with Andy Jackson from Tennessee and the image that we have of Andy Jackson and we ignore Martin Van Buren. He was the worker B. He got stuff done. And Andy Jackson saw that. He was sharp enough to see that and bring that guy into B as vice president and basically anoint him to be the next president. I mean, that's how that all happened. And when you look at how the... how regionalized the U.S. was at that point in time. This guy, per small fee, he got Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York, the bigger states to coalesce and support him. Who does that now? Yeah. We need more people like that and not condense somebody that's trying to be a problem solver unless they're reaching in your pocket to solve the problem. He didn't seem to be that kind of guy. Let's raise a whole bunch of money and raise a lot of taxes. Let's find a way to get this done. Kept us out of war. And back in those days, Great Britain still was the big guy on the block. We didn't go to war with him. We had enough breathing time after the war of 1812 to grow and be who we could be. Nice. Good stuff. Thank you. Thanks. Great to be here always. Dr. Ed Moore, Martin Van Buren, our topic here on the morning show with Preston Scott.

Your Sense of Sensibility. Communicator of common sense amplified and guaranteed human. It's the morning show with Preston Scott. Final half hour here on the program, Minnesota. Minnesota strikes again. We'll get to that in a few minutes. But what is John Thune doing? He's partnering with Democrats on appropriations bill instead of supporting what's come out of the House. He's stonewalling it. He doesn't understand. Democrats want a government shutdown. It benefits them. John Thune is personally dividing the Republican Party, and he's the Senate majority leader. For now. I mean, you know, if you look at the generic ballots, Democrats are dominating. I'm not sure that it's all accurate, but it's enough of a wake-up call that the GOP ought to be paying attention, but they don't. I've been saying it forever. I can't, look, I can't get the chairman of the Republican Party of Florida to wake up from his dissantis. you know, coattail running actions to recognize there's no messaging supporting the principles and ideals of the right. And it's not happening in Florida, and it's not happening nationally. This is where they just, they don't, and it has me wondering, and I know some of you are going to jump on this, it has me wondering if the Republican Party. Forget whatever plans you have this weekend because you're staying at home and playing on SpinQuest. And there's never been a better time to sign up than right now. New users get $30 coin packs for just $10. All the table games you love with hundreds of slot games and real cash prizes. That's at SpinQuest.com. SpinQuest.com. SpinQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Avoid where prohibited. Visit spendquest.com for more details.

of Florida, of the nation, if they really even care. Or if it's just about just stay in power. Just take whatever breadcrumbs come your way and just stay in power. I could make a pretty big argument on that front, but anyway. President Trump, there are things he does shake my head. There are a lot of things he does that I'm 100% in support of, and this is one of them. He's going to impose 100% tariff on all generic drugs starting August 2028. He'll still be in office. Why? Because he's forcing pharmaceutical companies to move their production here to avoid the tariff. I think it's brilliant. It is national security. We should have learned that in COVID. He's following through. Good. No one else has the courage to do stuff like that. He gets it. I am 100% on board with him on that. Those are some of the big stories in the press box. When we come back, we now call it Minnesota. Guests, the other shows can't book, topics they won't talk about and guaranteed human. It's the morning show with Preston Scott.

If you're not aware, some time ago I renamed the state of Minnesota. That's what I do. I just, I call them ill-liberals, not liberals. I call them Clantifa, not Antifa. I just, I come up with better names. And it's now Minnesota. It's sort of Minnesota. So I call it Minnesota. Sort of. Only in Minnesota can this thing. No, I say only, but let's just say Minnesota is on a run here. They're on a hot streak of stupid. The city of Guy Benson lies west of the Twin Cities as the crow flies. And a federal lawsuit has been filed by the Center for American Liberty on behalf of Brian Conwell. Brian was and is protesting quietly, holding a sign against abortion. He's on a public walkway. He's not. Talking to anybody that doesn't talk to him, it says abolish abortion to the glory of God. And he holds the sign. And if somebody comes up and engages, he talks with him. And he talks. He doesn't yell, screen. But he's just there. Well, the city of Guy Benson decided that you can't do that. And so they sent police officers there, and they've got the video. And they asked for a $20 fee for him to speak.

And even though the sidewalk, the farmer's market where it takes place, the parking lot is all open to the public. City officials and police asked him to leave or pay the $20 fee. Can't do that. It's public property. Can't charge people for their First Amendment right. And so he refused to pay a vendor fee for non-commercial speech. He's not selling anything. And so police cited him for criminal trespass and said if he comes back, they'll do it again. And now he's facing 90 days in jail and $1,000 fine for each citation. He says in the video, well, legally I can be here and that's the whole thing. And so I can't be cited. So unless there's a crime being committed, why am I being cited? Police officer stuck. Listen to what he says. To be honest, man, I want clarification too. There are crimes of trespassing and there are crimes of disorderly conduct, but you also have your First Amendment right. So we've got to try to figure that out. I know what you're doing. I get it. I'm glad someone out here is doing it. Uh-oh, that's going to get him in trouble, that police officer. But here's the thing. We're now having to go to court because some guys just quietly standing there. He's not doing what some do, scream and yell. And if someone comes up and talks to him, he just engages. He talks. This is where we are. In England right now, if you bring a Bible into a hospital, you can be thrown in jail. In Canada right now, they are close to banning the Bible as hate speech. It is like a number of other things that we are discussing on this program. Ignored at your peril. You can easily dismiss it and say, well, that's Minnesota. We're in the free state of Florida for now. One election here. One election there. This seat on a city commission, that seat for a mayor's office, this congressional seat, this district seat in the state legislature, that's how it changes. One step at a time. Vigilance, my friends, and the only way you can remain vigilant is to know. That's why we're here. And finally next on the morning show.

Friday's here already. Yeah, tomorrow. Friday in the morning show, that means what's the beef? It's been a couple weeks. Give you a chance to unload. We're here. We're here. We're ready. Jose wears his bestest suit for the fire that comes his way on Friday. On Fire Friday. Got animal stories, best and worst of the week. Good news. We got a couple good news stories that are just, yeah. Yeah. America. Good stuff. People doing good things. Some headlines from the B. Before we go, just figures. Weeks after the Obama Presidential Center, star-studded opening in Chicago. One of the subcontractors that's been stiffed nearly $4 million. Adamson Plumbing Contractors. You do know that the Obama Presidential Library Center, whatever, has stiffed millions of dollars worth of contractors, contracts. Just not paying them. Not paying them.

So what he's had to do is he's had to lay off almost 30 people and shut down, all but shut down his business. There you go. That's the legacy of the left for you. That's it. Right there. Destruction. Economic destruction in the wake of this is what they do. They're like locusts. And nothing's left. Nothing's left. But boy, they've got a symbol to the man. They've got, they have got a, they've got quite the building there. Ugly as can be. I mean, that thing's ugly. It's killing the neighborhood. It's going with outpain. It's, and you don't hear anything from Michelle or Barack about that, do you? Oh, well, you'd think we're getting ready for What's the Beef, wouldn't you? Brought to you by Barano Heeding and Air. It's the Morning Show 180 on WFLA. Started the radio program with Deuteronomy 11 versus 26, 27, and 28. Really, 26 and 27 is where we focused. Big stories in the press box. Dems, five Democrats joined Republicans. on banning men from competing against women in sports at the Department of Defense run schools. This is not what needs to happen yet, but it's a step. But here's what it is. It is also indicative five Democrats, five out of 208. that were able to vote. Five said men shouldn't compete against women in sports. Five. Five. Let me just do just a quick little something here. Uh-huh. Why am I? Hey. That's, that's, that's, that's like, that's two percent.

Trump announcing 100% tariff on generic drugs in 2028, 200% in 2029. If the pharmaceutical companies producing these generic drugs don't move production into the United States. Simple. Just move it here. It's brilliant. It's brilliant economically for the nation. It's brilliant from a security standpoint. Remember COVID? Remember stuff wasn't coming because it was controlled by China? Uh-uh. Cannot let that happen. It's a brilliant move. I know that the headline causes people, drug costs are going up. 2028, they got time to move their business. They had two years to move their business here. Just create some production right here. John Thune, once again, proving that he is needing to step down as leader of the Republican Party in the U.S. Senate. Minnesota making headlines again. Talked about the impact of Amendment 3, which I think is going to fail in the Sunshine State. It's a shame. And a lot more. Tomorrow, we'll do it again. Until then, have a great day, friends. Hanging out at the pool is great. Relaxing and playing Vegas-style games on my phone at the same time. Drink in one hand and a blackjack in the other. It's all at SpinQuest. Over a thousand games including your favorite slots and table games. Be cool with this summer special. New players get $30 coin packs for 10 at SpinQuest.com. SpinQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Voidware prohibited. Visit spinquest.com for more details. You know what your customers are doing right this second? The exact same thing you are, listening to me, which, let's be honest, is kind of flattering. But my point is, ads on IHeart Radio actually get heard. In the car, at the gym, on the couch, while people are walking their dogs. Who's a good boy? Who's a good boy? You're a good boy, that's right, you're a good boy. So why not make the next ad about you? Get started today. Call 844-844-Ehart or go to IHeartadvertising.com. That's 844-844-Ehart or IHeartadvertising.com.