12 Days Of Preston, January.

month at a time. So each show in the Twelve Days of Preston will tackle one particular and this being the first show, we will tackle the month of January, so we'll get to that. We'll unpack all of that with some interviews that I think you'll enjoy and try to keep you company while we are away from doing live programs and just reflect back on a very very tumultuous twenty twenty four. But as always, we begin with a verse of scripture, and I'm going to go with

what I think is probably the best known. It's certainly the scripture that everybody holds up at the athletic events.

Right you remember the guy with the rainbow hair who used to hold up the John three point sixteen and uh, what man, what a what a warrior for the cause, right and uh, and there are actually people I've seen it more and more frequently in recent years, and it's like folks are starting to pick up the the idea that maybe this world needs a little bit more Jesus well, and we know the answer to that is a lot. But we're gonna look at scriptures in light of the

season that we're in, and this season is advent. An advent means the coming of Jesus. And John three point sixteen the most famous passage of all scriptures probably is I think appropriate to kick off our twelve days of preston. It says, for God so loved the world that he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. I have always, always, I have always used that verse as kind of my inspiration for giving at Christmas time. I love giving Christmas

gifts at Christmas time. It brings me joy to give to the people that are close to me, family and a few friends, and to bless them. And it's out of a heart that I hope is forged after God's. God was the ultimate and is the ultimate first gift giver. He loved you and I so much that he gave his only son that whosoever believes in him should not perish,

but have eternal life. And I want to zero in on that whosoever, because friends, that is every single one of you, no matter what you may think about, your destiny is determined, and you have no say in the matter. You have all the say in the matter whosoever believes in Him. And so perhaps the greatest Christmas gift of all for you this year would be a decision to embrace that original gift that God gave. It is December nineteenth, and so we will do what we always do. Look

inside the American Patriots Almanac. You know a few people realized at the time, but the issue of Popular Electronics magazine that hit the news stands in the Lake December of nineteen seventy four marked the beginning of a modern revolution. On the cover, beneath the headline World's first mini computer Kit, sat a photo of a plain looking box covered with

rose and switches of lights. The machine was the Altaire eighty eight hundred, and for about four hundred bucks, anyone could buy the kit and assemble it them assemble it themselves. It was the first truly personal computer to come to the market, Thousands of hobbyists rush to place orders. In Boston, a young computer programmer named Paul Allen picked up the magazine Ran Too his friend Bill Gates, a student at Harvard.

The two had been computer enthusiasts since junior high school and a dream of making their mark in the game. Look it's gonna happen, Alan said, waiving the article. I told you this was going to happen, and we're going to miss it. Gates decided to leave Harvard and start a software company without and they wrote a program for the Altair and Microsoft Computers. Microsoft Corporation, if you Will

was born. Meanwhile, in California, at the same time, a twenty year old Steve Jobs and his friend Steve Wozniak wanted to build their own small computers. Jobs sold as Volkswagen Van Wosniac sold as scientific calculator to raise the money to start Apple Computers, Inc. In nineteen seventy six. They assembled their prototypes and Jobs family garage. Early Apples were among the first personal computers. Nineteen eighty one, industry giant IBM introduced its own personal computer, the IBM PC,

run by Microsoft software. Other companies followed suit. By the mid nineteen eighties, the American bred personal computer revolution was poised to change the world. By the way, it's noted that a lot of people advised Gates not to leave Heart, but he did not share that opinion, so he did. Also on the date December nineteenth, seventeen thirty two, in Philadelphia,

Benjamin Franklin begins publishing Poor Richard's Almanac. In nineteen seventy seven, George Washington's Army enters Winter Camp at Winter Camp at Valley Forge. In eighteen seventy one, Mark Twain receives the first of three patents who Knew for improved suspenders. And nineteen ninety eighth US House impeaches Bill Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice. Andrew Johnson was the only other

president at the time to be impeached. And so there you have it, this date in history, December the nineteenth from the American Patriots Almanac. Now, let's kind of set up where we're going here. For the rest of the show, We're going to bring you some interviews that I think are noteworthy from the month of January. Again, this is January twenty twenty four. Recapped and brought back to you.

And so we'll share entire interviews, editing interviews of some comment here and there and let you just kind of go back in time and think about what a year it was, the year twenty twenty four. This is January and show number one, day number one on the Twelve Days of Preston, And we're back the Twelve Days of Preston. Thanks so much for joining us. We are going back

through the month today of January twenty twenty four. And even though we are at the end of the twenty twenty four football season, we were in January talking about the end of the twenty twenty three football season, and it was a very big deal. In fact, it was one of those rare occasions when sports crossed over into news because the Florida State football team got left out

of the College Football playoff and then played Georgia. FSU was not the FSU team that played in the regular season, and even not the same team that played in the ACC championship game. And I talked with the managing editor of war chand dot com, Irishchafell, about it all. Did it take you a while as an even as an objective media guy, but still a fan of FSU to get over what happened on at the Orange Bowl.

And uh, you know, December was a terrible month for Florida State in a lot of different ways, Florida State football in a lot of different ways, and uh, you know, I just felt like they had the kind of as one of those just take the medicine, get it over with and move forward. So yeah, it was disgusting to watch, but you know, even as soon it was over, I felt like, Okay, at least now they can start moving forward.

I mean there are guys this this bole season who didn't even decide yet if they're going to come back next year, but they said, I'm still not playing in the bowl game. Like I may come back next year, but I'm not playing in the bowl game, which is a whole different animal. But yeah, I mean, there's a bunch of guys that opted out that I think are not going to be might not be drafted, might be drafted late in the first round, or might be late drafted late in the draft. They were not risking a

lot of money by playing in that game. I just think it was it was a perfect storm where you had a team that all year was focused on one goal, which was well two goals, winning the ACC. I think the big goal was getting to the playoff, and they felt like they went undefeated, they would do that, and

they went undefeated and still didn't get in. And then several of the top players were you know, as soon as that was decided, the team knew that Keon Coleman and Jared Verse and you know, probably Trey Benson, a few guys were definitely not gonna play, and you already had lost Jordan Travis, and I think that just led to a kind of a cavalcade of guys saying, you know what, you know this team isn't gonna be the same, so I'm gonna go ahead and start getting ready for the draft.

coming back for. And then you had the one year players, you know, the Keon Coleman's and Braden Fisks and some of those guys who were only here for one year. So I think it was a combination where you didn't have you know, a lot of the guys that you know, some of these other schools maybe had invested four or five years in their program and and you know, they weren't there just for this one big run. I just think it was a unique situation.

get it. But the players decided that they wanted to be more treated like a pro and il money and so forth, right, So why don't we just sign them to a contract. And this would be across the country that to play a scholarship sport, in any sport, you sign on to play for that year, whatever games that entails. If that's a bowl game, it's a bowl game. If

it is a playoff, it is a playoff. And whatever we need to do, whether it's an insurance thing for an NFL bound player or an NBA bound player, or whatever the sport might be, we sign into a contract because if we don't do something. The expanded playoff to twelve and I think eventually sixteen teams is not going to matter because outside of that, those Bowl games are going to be meaningless exhibitions. Why bother play them?

it's all going. I mean, I think if you talk to people inside the sport, I don't know if anybody knows exactly what it's going to look like in a few years, but everybody I talked to who seems to you know, who's really plugged in, believes that they're going to go to a point where there's real revenue sharing and it and it changes from this payer play model, which is it is right now where you have these schools coming up with these you know, basically what used

to be under the table deals now are over the table deals. You get people to come to your school. What's going to happen is the TV contract is going to get split because some of some of these court decisions that are coming down the pike. And so, say it's one hundred million dollars that goes to a conference, you know, a big portion of that's going to start going to the players. And if that happens, then you that leads to, you know, collective bargaining and things like that.

So it may get to that point. But you know, it is ridiculous what's going on right now with the bowl system. But I don't think there's a solution until something like that happens. So I think you're probably on the right track.

they'll do anything. They don't care if fans go. They just want programming during that month to go around the NFL schedule. And so they've got what they wanted, you know. They they've they've they've they've created this situation where the Bulls are meaningless. They wanted to play off, they wanted all these other things, and so now you know, again, to me, I don't have a lot of sympathy for the Bulls because they've they've taken the checks from ESPN

and let ESPN just bastardize the whole system. And so you know, they are they're at where they're at. But I agree with you for the for the good of the sport, you know, because you know what happened. You know, I don't know if I've seen FSU fans as mad as I did in the week or two leading up to that game, and the anger went away from the playoffs snub to frustration about this team and the fact

that all these kids weren't going to play. And so so I get that, and that's a that's a problem that they can affect it, you know, not just the entire sport, but obviously each individual program.

And when CBS bought into sports Line, CBS made sports Lines sell off all their gambling information and they created a news site called Vegas Insider, which I actually ran as gambling site, gambling information site because CBS couldn't be affiliated with gambling. And that was you know, I mean, it's in our lifetime. It was only thirty years ago.

It wasn't like it was one hundred years ago. And then we went from that to at some point we can advertise draft fantasy information on television to some point, no, we can provide all gambling information. And so now where ESPN is is in bed with a sportsbook. I don't know, it's incredible how we've gotten here, but you're right, I mean, it could lead to all kinds of questions and problems.

to get away from one another. Small tribes, runaway slaves, outlaw type whites that went there. The Gullahs from the Carolinas would come down, mixed race, and then over time they just started calling them. They got more organized, started calling the Seminoles the Indians that were here. Prior to that though, the Natives were various tribes that were in the area, a lot of them that were Creek from the Creek coming down out of Alabama and the Red

Stick Creek tribe. The Creeks had two different tribes, but the Red Sticks came and really were strong in this area. It was a very settled area. You can go down off of Myers Park and to the east of Myers Park back in a street or so, right off a Lafayette Street. There was a state park in there that's tucked in there. That's only a five acres or something that was part of the original it's Governor Martin way back in eighteen hundreds had a house there and it's

a little small area that was a settlement. There was a settlement up on the top of the hill the grassy area where the capital ended up being. And then there was a settlement that the Spanish ended up building the mission that's out on West Tennessee Street, and there's a hell of a museum there that people how to go visit. There was a lot of activity in this area, and most people aren't aware of that. They just thought, oh, well,

they decided. I mean, the myth is that two guys, one from Saint Augustine and Governor Duval had these guys they wanted to create a new capital. They used to rotate from Pensacola and Saint Augustine in the early days. That's a long way to go between the two spots. You've all heard the term manifest destiny, you know, it's what they created back then. It was a marketing tool to say the United States should be from sea to sea. It's sort of like with the Palestine. People are trying

to use now the Palestinians from the river to the sea. Well, we wanted, we wanted to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific. I think do way I read it. This area and the establishment of Tallahassee as the capital was sort of the lynch pinned that occurring Florida, East Florida, West Florida where Spanish controlled this Spain control that in West Florida really went all the way kind of to the sabine Aban River, however you pronounced it way over

in Louisiana, Texas border mobile. All that was part of West Florida and East Florida kind of went from the Perdido River. Perdido was in west I'm sorry, maybe the Apalachical River east and the Spanish were only only really

in Sant Augustine. And the reason they were interested in settling here, and I'm talking three hundred years roughly three hundred years before Tallahasse got founded, when you had Panfilo Denvez and Hernando de Soto came through this region, settled here for camped here, destroyed the Indian villages that were here at an Haiko, which is the one that was down by Myers Park, wiped him out. When DeSoto got here, they had about two hundred and fifty buildings in their settlement.

That's how big the Indian settlement was that was here. So there was a lot going on here the US. Andrew Jackson, who was you know, he was such a sterling soul, would just come down as a general, come down and just kill a bunch of people, you know, he raided. He took Saint Mark's they hung to British officers. The Bretz head of Fort There came in and hung two of those guys for disturbing the peace. Basically a lot of crazy stuff going on. They decided to negotiate

with Spain, who was at war. You want to go global. Spain was at war with France and called the Peninsular Wars. They decided to negotiate with Spain. Spain needed money, so for five million dollars, basically they settled off that they seeded East Florida the United States, and Tallahassee would have been on the border East Florida, West Florida, then the west part what they call West Florida. Spain didn't ced it to the United States, but basically just sort of

gave it up. And during that time frame there was a rebellion. There was a Republic of West Florida. There was the Muskogee Republic. I think this the Indian tribe created tried to create a country. All kind of flags flew over the Panhandle of Florida during that period of time. Critical element though in the it was the Adams Ownest Treaty and it was John Quincy Adams, who was Secretary

of State under Monroe and the negotiator for Spain. Spain seated everything east of the Sabine River, which border is the river that goes between Texas and Louisiana. And if you look at the map and kind of go ziggi zag up towards the northwest up to the forty second parallel, which became Oregon, it was the Oregon Territory. United States boom got all that land. They had already done the Louisiana purchase, but that only took basically what was the

Missouri territory. We now went all the way to the Pacific, and then they created We're going then against the British and the Russians who also wanted that territory. Tallahassee got established because of the necessity of not having meetings of government officials in the Florida Territory one year in Saint Augustine, the next time in Pensacola, and going back and forth. That's not an easy transit. Now. It was horrible back then,

absolutely horrible. So Governor William Pope Duval appointed two commissioners, John Lee Williams of Pensacola and doctor Williams Simmons of Saint Augustine to try to find a new spot. Well, doctor Simmons came across and went to Saint Mark's at the fort there and waited for John Lee Williams. And you can listeners can go online if you google John Lee Williams journal. He kept a pretty meticulous journal of his travels together here Pensacola to Florida. If you've driven it,

you've crossed a lot of rivers. There's a tremendous amount of rivers, and when you don't have really accurate maps, specific maps. He sailed here. He didn't take a horse or a buggy or anything. They took a small sailing craft and tried to make it from Pensacola. And the journal is fascinating. I think when you read it, you didn't say it for sure because they didn't know. I think they got hit by a hurricane at one point.

He talks about what was going on and how damage everything was and they had to shelter, and he probably got hit by a severe tropical storm or a hurricane that knocked him out. And the journal goes step by step he's stopped and in the destined area. He stopped at Port Saint Joe area. He stopped in Panama City area and talked about trying to stay inland behind the

Barrier islands, and yeah, I mean it's it's tremendous. He camped at Saint Vincent's Island, camped on Saint George Island, worked his way, then tried to go inland for a bit and had to come back to the boat. He built a raft at one point to get across what he thought was the Oak Lockney Bay, but really was Apalachicola Bay. And you know you're reading all this, I've

been to all those places, so it's very fascinating. When he finally got to the fort at Saint Mark's River, at the bottom bottom of the river there where the two rivers come together, excuse me, Doctor Simmons was what had been waiting for him for two weeks, fourteen days, sitting waiting. So he made it always from Saint Augustine to there, and then had to sit there for two weeks. And then they had heard about this grassy area and this open area. The two of them decided this area

right here is the perfect spot. And when John Lee Williams wrote to the governor. He told him they decided the spot, but they really hadn't made up their mind yet exactly where to.

of January. This is our look back at the year twenty twenty four here on The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Kind of a recap of the big stories, the interviews, the things that we talked about through the course of the year. And in this segment, I'm going to share an interview that, though brief, was special to me because it brought back memories of my dad. Now, to set this all up, I've got to go back to nineteen fifty three because that's when my dad was doing football

for a network. You likely haven't heard of, called the Dumont Television Network. They were the first to do NFL broadcasts coast to coast, but they weren't well known because they didn't have a whole lot of cities with affiliates. Well, it was in nineteen fifty six, three years later that my dad went to work for CBS Television. Now here's a little known fact about doing the NFL on TV. In the early days of television, announcers were assigned to teams.

They weren't the national broadcast team that we would eventually come to know and know to this day. They were assigned to individual teams, and my dad, being the newest guy at CBS, got what was considered to be the worst team in the league because the new guy gets the worst, right, Well, Dad was assigned to the green Bay Packers, and again this was nineteen fifty six. Green Bay wasn't very good. We lived in Pittsburgh at the time, or the suburbs of Pittsburgh. I wasn't even born yet.

And in nineteen fifty nine, three years into my dad's tenure as the TV announcer for the Green Bay Packers, a guy got hired as head coach named Vince Lombardi, and everything changed. The Packers started winning games, started winning championships, and when the first Super Bowl came around, my dad was on that broadcast. He was the play by play voice in the first Super Bowl representing the green Bay Packers because the Packers were playing the Kansas City Chiefs.

He was also the announcer in the second Super Bowl and a couple of subsequent Super Bowls. After the second Super Bowl, they went to what they do now, the national team, and my dad was the number one lead national announcer for CBS Television covering the NFL, But those early years it was the green Bay Packers. Dad's affiliation with green Bay so strong that he was inducted into the green Bay Packer Hall of Fame. One of the

players he broadcasted was a guest on My show. And here's my visit with Hall of Famer Jerry Kramer.

the heck of a football player. And he started to walk away, and he got three or four steps away, and he stopped and turned around and gave me kind of a Mona Leasha's smile and said, your cans if you will? And I said can what if I will? Want finished the sentence? What are you saying? What are you trying to tell me? He just gave me that smile and walked away. And the more I thought about it, the more I knew that he was putting the burden on my map. It was my actions and my intensity

that would make me a football player or not. And so I began to learn about football and emotions and how they went together.

So he was a very bright human being, a very effective human being.

of the philosophies as much as a job. But I used the philosophies and I lived by it, and they made a difference in my life, and I think they'll make a difference in any life. There's a fight to say for achievement, for success, for winning that there's ru in sweats and tears, and if you want it and want it badly enough, it's yours. You couldn't have it if you will.

and it shouldn't have counted. He'll simply say that he anticipated the snap quite well. Bottom line is it was a great block and it decided the game. Very few people know that that game was so cold that officials didn't use whistles for almost the entire game. Early on, when they put those old metal whistles in their mouths,

it would stick to their lips. It would freeze instantly, and they would when they pulled the whistle from their skin from their mouth, the skin from their lips would come off, and so they did away with whistles for almost the entire game. That's how cold it was. And my dad was broadcasting that game as well. It's known as the Ice Bowl. You know, there's Green Bay Packer teams that shape the life of Jerry Kramer and Bart

Starr and Willie Robinson and so many other players. Max McGhee and Donnie Anderson and Ken Bowman, and I mean the list goes on and on. They will credit the old man, Vince Lombardi for their successes in business after they left playing football. Hope you enjoyed the interview, and I hope you enjoyed the first hour. We'll be back with our number two, the Twelve Days of Presston. Let's get right to it. It's the an hour, Day one, the twelve Days of Press in the month of January.

We go back to an interview with Robert Herjievek in town for the Power Forward Speaker series by First Commerce Credit Union from Shark Tank.

your kids, you get to do all these things. The downside is you got to wake up early, you got to work later than most people.

you're there. So the first thing the intangible is you got to get our attention right like, you got to you got to be exciting, you got to be interesting, you got to be different. That doesn't mean you need a pony and a hula who, but you got to get our interest.

Get us excited, get us bidding, and all the power transfers to the person pitching.

It all depends on the situation. I think the challenge is we all know each other really well, and we're always trying to be unpredictable.

in general. And I've never met somebody really successful who doesn't love what they do and doesn't want to do it all the time and doesn't want to talk my ear off about it. And I think that's the great thing. Right Like, I'm in the computer security business. I love that business. I'm doing it for thirty years, and I think you'll find the same with Sharks. I mean, gosh, get Mark talking about basketball, and that's going to be a very long dinner.

bigger than me. And you know, I think part of the challenge with being an immigrant like I am, or coming from a poor background is you're limited by what you think you can achieve, and there's always this element of you want to do great, but you want to protect your downside. And you know, Cuban always talks about this and says that everything he does he believes he's

going to win one hundred percent of the time. And I think like that now, But when I was younger, I would be thinking like, yeah, I want to win, but I really don't want to lose. And I think it's just that belief that the world is a wondrous place. And you know, if you want to own a basketball team you can one day. If you want to buy a jet one day you can. If you want to get a better education for your kids, you can. You just got to add that that is the core of every great business from.

never too early to talk a little political. The first ad for Joe and Kamala the Resident and Vice Resident of the United States being released and it will begin tomorrow. What's significant about that. Tomorrow's January sixth. So they're running these ads in full in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Shorter versions will run elsewhere, but the full

sixty second ad will run in those states. He will highlight the existential threat our country's democracy faces from MAGA extremism that now defines the Republican Party. Crazy. Joe says, I've made the preservation of American democracy an essential issue of my presidency. There's something dangerous happening in America. There's an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs in our democracy. I'm just going to point out to you. I should need to do this, but I feel like

I do. I need to remind you we are not a democracy. We have never been a democracy. We functionally are acting like one. It's kind of taken on, but that's not what we are. He's gonna it is exactly the tactic of the left. They try to think and treat people like they're stupid, and they repeat lies often enough that people begin to believe them. Immigration versus illegal immigration. They just want to end all immigrants. No, we want to end the illegal immigration. But that conflation works. It

happened with COVID conflation. Well, it's the same as any other vaccine children get. No, it's not the same. They're totally different. This is the same thing democracy, democracy, democracy wrong. Constitutional republic, constitutional republic. We are a constitutional republic. Second big story in the press box. According to a former CIA analyst, doctor John Gentry, now a professor at Georgetown, spent twelve years. He said that the Intel agencies are

going to help Biden. They'll do what they can to help Biden beat Trump. Why. Well, because the deep state wants to keep a Republican from winning. They like the way things operate with Democrats. Honestly, that should be one of the biggest talking points because that cuts across the political spectrum. Only the weirdy weirdy weird extremist lefties like the CIA and the intelligence community to be in your business, to be spying on you. And so the prediction is

they're going to do what they've done previously. They're going to do what they can to help. And then lastly, this was just hilarity. The Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorcis is attributing to climate change the historic migrant surge into the country. It's climate change that's what's driving everybody to the United States. We'll have more on climate change in just a few minutes a visit with someone who's

kind of an expert on the subject. But we transitioned and talked about the calculus of this campaign and election season, especially in the House of Representatives. Bill Johnson, Republican from Ohio in the House, confirmed earlier this week that effective January twenty first, he is leaving Congress. He's going to be the president of Youngstown State University. Isn't that where Jim Tressel is currently president or was was retired? He retired how long ago?

But Representative Brian Higgins of New York is leaving in February allegedly now he might get pressured to change his mind. Some money he'll show up in his savings account and he'll be asked to stick around. Probably, But if he leaves, that brings the margin back to three. Keep in mind, Kevin McCarthy step down the end of the year. Yes, good bye. It's kind of like the movie Tombstone, Well Bay,

Curly Bill brocious to Kevin McCarthy. Yeah. Representative Mike Garcia of California said, between God, gravity and indictments and retirements. We're one day away from losing the majority depending on what happens. That's the importance of the upcoming election. Another story that I thought was worth pointing out ramsen Kadirov. He's the appointed leader of Chechnya. Putin put him in power in two thousand and seven, and so he is.

He's going after anybody helping Ukraine to the extent that he told security commanders if someone infringes on public safety, an officer or a tourist, and if we don't even find the offender, we won't keep looking for them, but we will definitely find their relatives, as is customary from time immemorial immemorial. That's I mean his words. If one of the relatives has done wrong and the criminal cannot be found, their brother, their father would be killed. Thus

our blood feud will be repaid very quickly. Otherwise, a person kills someone and lives with impunity, and their relatives start renouncing them, and so he is, he's And I've got to finish here so that I can make the point I want to make here. No relatives renunciation is effective until we kill someone from their family and take the right of blood feud. These are Islamic extremists that Putin's in bed with. And I just want you to

get your mind around the way these people think. And I'm using people with air quotes because I don't necessarily think they are. I know that God loves them, That's why he's God. And I'm not because I struggle with that, but I know that God does. But here's the thing, this is how they think doesn't matter the wrong. I mean, people have members of their family that are ridiculous. The way this guy thinks, Well, we'll just kill dad, mom, brothers, sister, wife, kids.

If we can't find him, that's fine, we'll kill somebody else who's done nothing. Time for another edition of stupid criminal Stories. My man Dwayne Walden fifty seven, church pastor and husband of LaToya Gladney, manager and training at a Donald's in North Carolina. She told police her employees were disrespecting her, so she called her husband. He showed up, walked into the kitchen, and began punching Theodore Garlington in

the face. He then wrapped his hands around Garlington's neck and began pushing his head toward a deep friar as one naturally does before he could be pushed into hot oil with his face in the oil, good employees interceded, pulling him off. The victim. Garlington suffered a large contusion to the forehead and the right eye, along with scratches on his neck. So he was the pastor, the good pastor with man. Can you imagine being baptized by this guy,

my man, that's hilarious. Yeah. So the good Pastor was a rested for assault and his trial scheduled for later this month. Sorry, it's not Walden, it's Wading Dwayne Waden. He works as a semi truck driver and his pastor of Elevated Life International Ministries. I wonder if that's going to continue.

Wrightstone is a geologist by trade. He's an author Out of Necessity, and we talked to him in January about his companion book, a follow up book to Inconvenient Facts, called Convenient Warming. Greg is of the opinion that we are in fact warming, but it's not man made. It's the climate being the climate. He further asserts that the warming is actually good for the planet, and he has the data to back it up. But we talked about the need for the second book.

the twenty first century. It's the story of a thriving Earth. It's completely an opposition to what we're being told. We're being told regularly in new on uncertain terms that we're going into a climate crisis, a climate disaster, that rising seas will swallow islands and heat waves will increase and people will die. And boy, just as you look into it in each one of these allegations, if you actually

look at it, just the opposite's happening. It's you know, I've got the book in three sections, and the last section is life is good in getting better, and I start with my quote from Frank Sinatra, the best is yet to come. And that's what we see. It's it's hard, it's hard to argue about this against this because the facts are stark and uplifting actually.

was some twenty five years ago. It occurred every single year at that time because it was a lot colder. And so we can look at historical data like that to say, yeah, maybe they've got the degrees off by five tenths of a degree or something. Maybe we don't have it exact, but there's no doubt in my mind that we are warmer today. And even just taking the data that they're using, we've warned all about a degree since eighteen fifty one degree centigrade and that's not too

alarming to me. And again I look back at another section of the book. I look at human history, equate human history to temperature history, and find that the warmer periods were warmer than today, and all of them were hugely beneficial.

was half the population of Iceland perished. Third of the population of the world died during that time because mainly of cooler temperatures. Because they had each of these cool periods like that we're associated with crop failure, famine, pestilence, and nasty population and these were horrific. No, no, no, history, he would call me, and he does call me a

science denier. I would call him a history denire because he's denying what history actually tells us about warming and cooling, and that is that we should welcome the warmth and fear the cold again. It's just opposite of what we're being told.

That tells me that global warming saves lives. And you know when you say that people's heads explode, you can't say that, Well, yes I can. And the facts, the facts corroborate that that global warming, another degree or so of warming, it may save millions of lives from premature deaths related to cold, and again these are things, these are things, you know, say it once more. We should welcome the warmth and fear the cold. And that's what history tells us, that's what the science, effects and the

data tell us. It's completely I don't know why these people are doing this. Basically, your listeners are being lied to on a daily basis about a climate change and the dangers of a moderately warm climate. They're telling us, aren't they, Well, we can't get a degree. You probably heard of a degree and a half warmer and then it was the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Well, we've

already warmed up one point two degrees. What they're warning us about is three tenths of a degree integradeed warming. That equates to half a degree fahrenheit. If your studio went up or down half a degree while we're talking, you never notice it. It wouldn't trigger the thermostats. And if you're that worried about half a degree fahrenheit of warming, it just moved nineteen miles further north and your average

temperature will fall by half a degree fahrenheit. It's just when you look at it and things like this, they're saying, we go you know the world's going to come to an end because half of uria warming. It's ludicrous, isn't it when you look to put it in that in that context?

month of January. Here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott back with the twelve Days of Preston the month of January in twenty twenty four. We're looking back and we're going to get to one of my favorite guests from the Heritage Foundation, Hans von Spakowski. He's a constitutional expert, and we turned to Hans when we've got big issues to discuss, and right there starting the year, we had a massive case to get some insight from Hans about I have been waiting to talk to you since I

saw the decision by the Supreme Court about Texas. Explain what you can explain about this. I just got an email from somebody saying, look, there are no notes on this because it wasn't really a constitutional ruling. They just stayed a lower court ruling. But Texas is saying, forget that we're putting wire up anyway, help us make sense of this from a constitutional perspective.

video showing them doing that. Texas actually sued the Biden administration for stealing property and conversion, the reason being the barbed wire was put on state property, state property or private property where the owners had said, sure, put this up. There was an injunction issued by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals telling the Biden administration that they couldn't destroy this wire while the case was on appeal, and the Biden administration filed an emergency request with the US Supreme

Court to dissolve that injunction. Supreme Court said, yeah, there won't be an injunction in place while it's on appeal to two sentence order. So yeah, the bid administration may have won this round, but the battle is still going on and that's in the lower course. Now here's the most intriguing thing Preston about this. All all that meant was that there's no order in place preventing the Biden administration from cutting holes in the fencing or removing it.

But there was no order put in place preventing the State of Texas from continuing to put down the wire. So all these people who say that Texas who Texas Governor Greg Abbett is going to be violating the law if he continues to put down they're just wrong. Now he can put up as much wire as he wants. It's going to be a race between Texas putting up the and the Biden administration going in and removing it. But he's not violating any court order by doing that.

think this is such an look. Don't get me wrong, Don't think that I am defending what they did. I think it's in line with their procedures, but I think this is an extraordinary circumstance, one in which they should have allowed the injunction to remain in place while the case is on appeal, because without it in place, the Biden administration has made it clear they would do everything they can to make sure as many illegal aliens as possible get across the border. Let me just say you

one thing about this incident. Texas had video not only showing border patrol agents cutting holes in the barbed wire, but then putting out a rope ladder, a rope ladder through the hole to help the illegal aliens climb up the bank and into Texas. And there's video of a border patrol boat out in the middle of the river where all this is going on. And are they doing anything to prevent the aliens from getting across. No, they're

just sitting there passively watching these aliens come through. And once they're through the hole, do you think the border patrol agents escort them to a processing center. Why No, they just stay here. Head down the road. You should stop at this processing stone, and.

that many people across the country are having. The Left has been trying to quote delegitimize the Supreme Court and basically ignoredge rulings and say, yeah, whatever, we don't care what the Supreme Court says. We're close to seeing that on the other side of the isle with rulings like this, aren't.

these issues. The Biden administration does that all the time, Like the President just announcing that he's going to forgive even more billions in student loans after the Supreme Court told him you don't have the power to do that.

That's that really hasn't happened in our history that I know of, and that's just another reason why we're in a situation we are. People see that there is now a two tiered justice system and whether or not you're prosecuted depends on which political party you're at.

wrapped into one. This is our Christmas gift to you since I'm on vacation crazy right, Yeah, anyway, since we're chronicling what we discussed in January of twenty twenty four, I had no choice but to talk about January sixth, right, you know, since since Joe Biden and Democrats have made such a big stinking deal of commemorating January sixth every year, trying to tell you awful anyone is it supported Donald Trump,

MAGA extremists. There's been an investigation going on into the investigation of January sixth to see Republicans now currently control the House. And to be honest with you, you know, we many of us voted for Donald Trump in twenty sixteen because we knew that the Supreme Court was vital and as rotten as some Republicans are. You might consider that we need to keep Republicans in charge of the

House and then take control of the Senate. It for no other reason to keep digging into the misdeeds of Democrats as it relates to January sixth alone, Representative Clay Higgins, who is a FORMERLO He's from Louisiana, quoting, we believe that there were easily two hundred FBI undercover assets operating in the crowd outside the Capitol, embedded into groups that entered the capitol or provoked entry of the Capitol. We

believe two hundred is a conservative number. He makes several points, among them, how did people know how to get to Nancy Pelosi's office? There are no signs. How did people know how to get where they were going? He said, if you look at the video, there are people already inside that seemingly guided them. We've already told you the video of doors being opened, Capitol guards, Capitol police almost escorting people around. You know, the infamous Viking's Jacob Chancelly

is yep, you know, I mean literally guiding him. But in the video you notice some other things. You noticed highly trained police professionals firing off gas canisters where police are gassing their own people. What that did is it caused them to fall back, so the crowd advanced. Then they gassed him again, unbelievably, tear gas canisters you watch it on tape, fired again, and then they had to

retreat again. Then there was Ray Apps, who, ironically, not only the night before, is on tape telling the crowd what they need to do the next day. But at every single flash point he was there, and he seems to be interacting with a handful of people, whispering into ears and on and on the video you see him escorted away. It looks to me like he's escorted away by by law enforcement, but he wasn't arrested. Claims he's been driven into hiding by death threats, pled guilty to

misdemeanor charges. Now what have we seen about those kinds of charges? What has happened to people? Keep in mind, Ray Apps is on tape, very visible at every single flash point in this entire episode. You could say that he was kind of leading the charge without going beyond barriers. He walked away surrounded by people that were escorting him through the crowd. That's visible on the tape. No jail time, no restrictions, maybe one hundred hours of community service. I

would call that a slap on the wrist. If that, maybe it's more a pat on the back. Job well done. Then there's this the family of Ashley Babbitt, who, by the way, full disclosure on that video. You see her shot and killed, but you see what happened. Her family suing the government for thirty million dollars in wrongful death lawsuit. In the lawsuit, her family said she was unarmed. True, her hands were in the air when she was shot by Capitol Police Lieutenant Michael Byrd. That's also true, she

posed no threat to the safety of anyone. They claimed she was ambushed, Bird was not in uniform, did not identify himself as a police officer, and did not issue a warning before opening fire. All of that, based on what I saw and listened to, is true. What have we learned over years from Charlie and JD on this program about use of force that you have to have you have to be threatened, there has to be an imminent threat. Police have to have a reason for deploying

lethal force against somebody. Maybe there's going to be an effort to explain this away, but to me, the big stories in the press box warrant your attention because in my mind, this is another reason why we need to make certain that a Republican wins the White House, because these people should be pardoned. There's a handful that might need prosecution based on the video that I've seen, and

might deserve sentences a handful. But they're bragging right now that over eight hundred and some odd have been convicted. They're still arresting people and this will go down. Is one of the most shameful episodes in American history. And it's not January sixth, never ever, does it get old talking about the injustices of January sixth, and that has nothing to do with that rally. Trust me. Yeah, there were some lawbreakers, but yeah, Vivek Ramaswami made a bit

of a name for himself. At the very least, he's a pretty good apologist for conservative values, and he dropped this bomb a few days back. Campaign stopped Washington Post. Merrill Cornfield asked the question, I'll tell you what the question is because you can't hear it real clearly. Do you condemn white supremacy in white nationalism? This is epic.

Institutionalized racism is institutionalized racial discrimination that we see that doesn't come from somehow discriminated against people on the basis of some tenetive white supremacy.

month of January twenty twenty four. Now you might recall, because it is an election year, the legislative session is bumped up quite a bit, and it started in January, and I thought it was appropriate to have the Secretary of the Department of Corrections, Ricky Dixon, in studio for

a long sit down. We spend a lot of time talking about corrections in all of the various issues on the radio program, and I thought it was really helpful to have the Secretary explain a lot about how corrections works. And we started with the fact that it is the Department of Corrections and not the Department of Prisons.

you know, what are you doing. You've got to focus on programs you can scale up and have the greatest impact with the greatest number of people, and tie those programs to real jobs. And so that level of sophistication in the past, probably in a lot of other states,

and in Florida as well. I'm not sure was there we had various programs we'd offer, but I think we're moving in a direction with the support of the Florida Foundation for Correctional Excellence, and just a real shout out to you and those other board members that are on

that board. I appreciate the intellectual level and the business experience and that they bring, but we're trying to, you know, take our level of operation to a new level in terms of really identifying the program needs relative to the job market today, relative to the locations geographic locations these individuals are going to and to make our system work to complement those employment needs and instead of work against it. SOT A lot in that area is being done.

That's or live. That's at the you know, the very the root of that being successful for Florida, for our state. And I think in the past with various leaders, there's not necessarily there's always been that appreciation of law enforcement and their role and the judiciary, but the back end of this criminal justice system is corrections. We're the receiving

back end of that. That system and the corrections has to be supported for us to be successful with all those things for public safety in Florida, not only and I think here's the missing link, and I think we're doing better at educating and speaking about it more. But it's not just that they're safe while they're in our custody, because some are there for two years and some are there for life. But as you mentioned over twenty thousand,

a year getting out. That's a staggering number. Yeah, over eighty percent of those in our population right now we'll be back in the community one day. So recognizing that whether you do it, you know, for the sake of the individual's second chance or not, let's do it for public safety, because if they come back, there is a victim most often tied to their return to prison.

You know, we went from if I look back through or four years, staff were around thirty three thousand dollars a year and up to almost fifty now you know, close to that. So that's made a remarkable improvement at our ability to recruit and retain sure staff and I can tell you and we'll get into other things related to re entry. I know, I know later in the show. But it's kind of like Maslow's hierarchy of needs. It's hard to concentrate on self actualization if you're looking for

food and water. Now, that was kind of us. We were trying to do a good job with education, programming, all these other areas that are important, but we were, you know, dying on the vine in terms of staffing, and you know, especially following COVID and some of the impacts that this profession and others were having in general. So our recovery in that area is first and foremost

important to be successful in every other area. So going so, getting that the significant pay increases, becoming competitive with other law enforcement agencies and other employers in general in the various areas of the state. Well on our way to recovery. There was a time we had about six thousand vacancies. We're down to just over two thousand right now, so

that's a significant down fast. Now, some of that was due to we forfeited some positions due to the population draw it, but most of that is recovery and that again is a credit to our lawmakers recognizing the need to take action in that area and restore the system, and their good work is paying huge dividends for us.

are we going to do about it? To me is that the fundamental question that corrections is charged with answering it really is.

A lot of states solely categorize on escape risk, violence risk, and things like that, and we still do that too, but we put a very remarkable impact on their behavior. So we focus a lot on their behavior, and we you know, I brak a lot about our incentivized prisons. We're up to by eight of those now, where we take individuals who have gone two years without a discipline air report and we put them with like minded individuals

that want to focus on education and self better better. Right, So that has worked remarkably well on that side of the house. But what will happen if you do that is you'll leave behind in these other prisons a more

dangerous individual. And so we the other the counterbalance to the incentivized was we determined that we were going to remove those that distract others from doing well, those that create violence, those that kind of call the show, so to speak, and we were going to identify them and put them in a location altogether.

are fencing, our metal detectors. So we hardened that prison for a hardened individual. And the message basically is if you get selected to go here, you're going to be there for a long time, at least a year to two years, maybe more, until you cooperate with the programming and not just any programming, programming targeted to their needs, anger management, those type of needs that aren't met, and those individuals selected to be there.

with Preston Scott. You have probably come to realize this guy is one of the best of any guests out there. Is why Glenn Beck has him co authoring all of his books. He's Justin Haskins with a Heartland Institute website Stoppingsocialism dot com, and we talked about some very important polling. Justin had a hunch and he wrote the poll and it was conducted and the results were well alarming. Last

time you and I talked, you broke some news. There was a new poll that was released by Heartland Institute that you wrote. It was a poll done with Rasmussen. Tell us what the reaction first, reset what the poll basically told us, and reset the reaction.

where they're no longer a permanent resident. Now, you would think that a lot of people, whether they committed fraud or not, would not answer that question yes, even if they did commit fraud, because who's going to admit to doing fraud. But what we found was that an incredible amount of people overall, about one in five mail in ballots that we asked, said that they committed at least one kind of fraud, and the numbers actually higher than that.

Were still digging into the data because it's conceivably possible that a person answered yes to one question and then maybe answer just to another question, and it gets complicated. But the point is it's at least one in five, and it could be even higher than that, could be one in four or more, which has an incredible impact on the way we think about the election. So the reaction to it has been just absolutely incredible from people

on the right. Of course, people on the left have mostly just completely ignored it, they don't want to talk about it at all. But people on the right, politicians President Donald Trump, for example, states across the country of lawmakers now taking a hard look at that, including there

in Florida. What to do about mail in balloting, because this poll is probably the best evidence we have that widespread voter fraud did happen in twenty twenty, because this comes directly from voters saying, yeah, I did these things and it probably did impact the election.

Another really crazy thing from the poll. It didn't get as much attention, but we asked people if anyone offered you money to vote, money or a reward, and eight percent of all voters, not just mail in ballots, but people who went to the polling places as well, eight percent said that they were offered a reward to vote, which is pretty stunning when you think about it, because eight percent of one hundred and fifty nine million ballots

is a massive number of people losing over ten million ballots.

between Trump and Biden in the popular vote. So, and just to keep it, you know, not that I need to remind people, but in the key swing states the election was decided by in some cases ten thousand votes or less out of three million ballots, so fractions of a percentage point. So this could have had a massive impact on the outcome of the election.

excuse for doing it. Okay, So that that used to be the norm, and it is the opposite has happened now the norm is become you just get to cast mail in dollars no matter what, or you need to have people use a notary when still when signing a mail in ballot, so that there's an objective third party who's signing off on this saying yes, this person who's signing this ballot, it really is the person who is

supposed to be signing the ballot. And only three states have that requirement Mississippi, Missouri, and Oklahoma.

this a massive issue. He's talked about this specific poll numerous times now since it came out, And so there is some movement. But the mainstream press, other than one article in the Washington Post, which essentially completely dismissed the whole thing, there really has been no mention of it at all from the mainstream press. And I'm sad to say this because I write for Foxnews dot Com a lot and I love Fox News. But Fox News basically other than Jesse Waters did it talked about this on

one episode of the show. Nobody else at Fox News, to my knowledge or on their website, has mentioned this a single time.

That's definitely what they're doing. And I think that I think what every leader in the Republican Party needs to understand is that they're also afraid of bad press and the media and everything that if they if they don't do a deal, and they don't they don't work with the Democrats, they're going to, you know, look bad. It's going to hurt them. It's not going to hurt you. They are the mainstream media already hate you. They already do NonStop bad press for you. It's that doesn't matter.

Stand up for what you believe in and it will work out in the end. That's what I think. They absolutely have to do this. But you see Republican after Republican after Republican play this game when they get into a position of leadership. It's a huge mistake. It never works out. Even Mitt Romney, if you remember when he ran for president, he is and he's essentially a Democrat or you know, as moderate a Republican as you could find.

They trashed him too when he was running for It doesn't matter, you know how moderate you are, So stand up for what you believe in and it will work out.

known as the Twelve Days of Preston. Now I've mentioned the frequency of some of our guests. We try to book great guests every month, and this is definitely one. We started getting Lee Williams on the program a couple of years ago. He's called the gun Writer. His work is found at the website The gun Writer dot substack dot com. Sign up for the email. You will love the material you get. It's all about the Second Amendment

and this was our January visit. Sadly, as I read your latest piece yesterday, I squirmed a bit in my chair. Preventing Private Paramilitary Activity Act of twenty twenty four. What in the world.

techniques or training to engage in such behavior. So we post a question, what are harmful or deadly paramilitary techniques? You know, is this CQB, is this movement on the range transitioning from my carving to my pistol malfunction, drills off and shooting, or just punching holes in paper. The authors of this bill, Jamie Raskin from of course Maryland, he's leaving that up to the federals and the prosecutors to determine what that is. So basically it's whatever they want.

And if you violate this bill first time, you're looking at a year in jail. Repeat violators two years. If there's anybody hurt five years. If a death occurs, it's a life sentence. So they also of course added a porfeiture clause. They violate this bill that can take all

your guns a year. It's clear they're going after training and they're trying they're trying to correlate, you know, the January sixth, they use that to try and sell their bill, and they mentioned the oath Keepers and the Proud Boys. You know, first of all, militia used to be a holy thing everybody when the Founders were there, every able body had to be a part of the militia. And now they've they're redefining that to make it something nefarious

to go after training. And it sucks because this could actually get through if they sell it correctly.

punch holes and paper at a flat range. All of this is going to be at risk if this goes through, and you know Biden wants it, and you know Rasking is no fool. I don't agree with his politics. He is a very smart character. So I hope this could easily clear the Senate. I hope it doesn't clear the House.

to do. So it scares them. Where the instructors of this in this company, if this goes through, would be one over a zealous prosecutor away from being charged, as would anybody that would go to take one of their courses. So we wanted everybody to know about this abomination.

and firem outside of your home or self defense. If you want to to gate a second a member of related law, you have to find a corresponding law from the era of the Founder's Great Decision. We had no idea how intense the backlash would be. We had lawmakers in blue states and nationally sponsoring and introducing and getting signental law laws that they know don't pass, the Bruin tests that they know are unconstitutional, and the creativity. No

one had any idea. I mean, my god, in California they tried to They put a separate bill into further criminalize thirty round and standard capacity magazines by saying if you have thirty rounds in an AR and AKMG, that violates their local laws on gunpowder storage. I mean, that's pretty creative. So we saw the absolute craziest crap from across the country. We had no idea we would see it.

We look forward after Bruins and doings, finally doing some open field running being the Second Amendments Foundation that I work for, and you know, we're spending a lot of time on these unconstitutional bills. I think at some point the judiciary at the federal level is going to be a little angry and start slapping some of these down. These are frivolous lawsuits, the frivolous laws that they're passing that they know damn well or unconstitutional.

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