Welcome to another edition of the Twelve Days of Preston. Good Morning Friends. I'm Preston Scott. Happy New Year's Eve? Do you say? Is that what you say? Do you say Happy New Year's Eve? Or do you just It's New Year's Eve and then you wait and say Happy New Year?
I don't know.
You might be well, why are you playing Christmas music still? Because I can, I choose to. I never tire of Christmas music. I will work in my yard at different times of the year and I will just put on North Pole Radio from my Heart Radio, and I will have that app on and I will be playing Christmas music because it makes me feel happy. I'm not always happy when I'm working in my yard. I usually am, but I'm not always happy, so this just lifts my
spirits anyway. Great to be with you. I'm Preston Scott and this is our gift. If you've missed the previous eight shows, you've missed three quarters of the year because what we're doing in our absence, we're not doing live shows right now. We'll be back with live shows next week, but what we're doing in our absence is we're leaving this gift to you. The Twelve Days of Preston where we look back at the year twenty twenty four in
basically chronological order. Now, within a given month, some stories might bounce around a little bit, but generally speaking, we unpack the year in order. So, for example, this is the ninth day of the twelve Days, which means it's the ninth month that we cover, so the month of September. So as a result, we are we are going to take a deep dive into what we were talking about just a couple of months before the election, and it just sort of helps reset the brain a little bit.
What we were thinking then, the stories that were in the news, what kind of interviews I did in the month of September. It's sort of going to be a grab bag of a lot of different things. A few segments were thrown in, but we always start the program with some scripture because I am a big believer in starting your day praying. It's honestly, it's a discipline I acquired over time. You know, when I was vocationally a
pastor for twenty plus years. I mean, that was just so much a part of my routine that I did not have, Like I'm starting every day with this because it was part of my day to just spend some time praying and to spend time reading and studying and preparing messages and teachings. So when I left Vocational ministry, it was kind of in a weird way. It was a new discipline for me to have to acquire, and I didn't acquire it right away. It took some time.
And so I carve out my drive to work as that's just kind of my time with God every morning. And I felt it was important for me to sort of challenge you to start your day that way. And so that's what we're doing here. We're starting the day together looking at God's word. Kind of a devotional here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Now with this particular verse. We're in First John four, verse sixteen, one little verse. So we have come to know and to
believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in Love abides in God, and God abides in him. One of the things that happens in a secular society is they want to try to it wants to try to kind of water down and negate God's word a little bit. And what's happened is we have blurred and muddied up the meaning of the word love. I can't tell you how many people have tried to
use that to justify sin, not judging others. Well, if you spend any time in scripture, you know you're supposed to judge others, not eternally, but you are supposed to judge. Okay, they say they're a Christian. Are they cheating on their spouse? Do they lie? Are they profane? Are they drunk all the time? I mean these are indicators of maybe a life that's not surrendered to God. And people today try
to take God's love and say God loves everybody. Yes, God does love everybody, but he loves us too much to let us stay the way we are. We're challenged to be different. We're challenged to be more like him. We're challenged to conform to his standard, not him to ours. And so this scripture in one John four talks about a God of love and understand that. And this is something that parents can absolutely relate to. When you discipline your child, do you love them? Are you not disciplining
your child out of love? Disciplining your child out of anger is a mistake. Disciplining your child motivated by love is love. We've termed it tough love, saying no to certain things, making sure that there's a consequence to a choice in other occasions, because you're teaching you love your child to teach them God loves us the same way. We're in fact modeling God's love because God does discipline us,
and he does so out of love. Now, one of the things we also do is we start each show we go into the American Patriots Almanac, and if you can believe it, this is our last entry of the year. At tomorrow's show, we flip back to the beginning of the book, but here it is December thirty first, eighteen seventy nine. Thomas Ederson Edison gives the first public demonstration of his incandescent light bulbs by lighting up a street
in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Nineteen oh seven. A giant ball is dropped in Times Square to bring in the new year for the first time. Nineteen twenty nine. In New York City, Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians introduce Americans to the custom of playing old lang zine. On New Year's Eve nineteen thirty five, Charles Darrow of Pennsylvania
patents the board game Monopoly. New Year's Eve brought us Monopoly come on, and in nineteen ninety nine, on this date, the US transfers full control role the Panama Canal to Panama. I don't know about that one, but we did it. So that's that's the way it is. All right, friends, we are we're going to begin unpacking the New Year's Eve edition of the Twelve Days of Preston. This is show number nine, the month of September. One hour at a time, we're unpacking the year that was, and in
this case, the month that was September. It's the Twelve Days of Preston. Stay with us, lots to relive as we recap the year twenty twenty four. Here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott, and we're back with the Twelve Days of Preston. One of my frequent guests, usually talking about legislative matters for the state of Florida, Sal
Newso of Consumers Defense. Now you might remember Sal was with the James Madison Institute, but he's now executive director of Consumers Defense, and we had him pop in to talk about Consumers Defense and what it does and how you should be paying attention.
I've been great, super busy, glad to be in talking about something other than the state legislature.
Yeah.
Let me you know, I went deep dive in my analysis and I said, you know, Sal's executive director of Consumer's Defense and it's all about defending consumers. How'd I do real deep there? How to do? You nailed it at show over mission statement? Right, walk off solid. Now let's break it down. Sure, because we've only given a brief overview Consumer's Defense. If you were to describe to people, Okay, here's what we are dedicated to do. Yeah, what is it.
Well, we're a nonprofit policy organization. We are the nonprofit policy arm of an organization called Consumers Research, which is the oldest consumer protection group in America. It's not a government agency, it's a nonprofit what they call a five
oh one C three. And our mission collectively is to work across the United States and at the state level, because, as I've mentioned to you many many times as we've unpacked Florida's legislature, the state legislatures are the institutions with the most pronounced impact on individuals' lives, and so our goal is to advance policies that protect consumers, markets, and economies in the economy from basically the worst ideas of the left. And the way that we do this is
there's five basic strategies. So there's research, policy research, there's policy advocacy, and then there's grassroots engagement kind of activating people at the ground level to be a part of the solution. There's media engagement, which this is absolutely a part of. And then there's litigation. And I'm not an attorney, so there are folks that do that, but those are the five avenues in which we kind of operate.
Do you zero in on, for example, Florida would make sense one of the largest economies as a state in the world. Yep, Texas would make sense in California, New York, Illinois. Do you focus on the big states? Are are all fifty important?
I would say it's an amalgam of the big states where we are either doing our best to advance good ideas or try to beat back really really bad ones. And then there are the rest of the states where you've got either a Republican trifecta where you've got a Republican governor and a Republican legislature, and there's more of an environment in an atmosphere to advance some good ideas. So we're doing a lot in states like Oklahoma and in Kansas and in Ohio and others where the landscape
works to advance some good policy. And you know, namely, we've talked about ESG on the show many times.
Sure, the focus of both.
Consumers Research and Consumers Defense probably over the last three to five years, has been in combating ESG at the state level.
I want to talk more about that with me sal News, executive director Consumers Defense, and you can find out more just Consumers Defense dot com. And I'm going to even ask him how you might make a difference in linking up with what they do, how you can help advance the cause, because trust me, there's a cause. Has the urgence of ESG as a really big deal taken anything away from what you'd otherwise be doing, You know.
It's a good question, And honestly, I don't know.
I was brought in because the threat from ESG and the momentum it had gotten over the last three to five years had gotten so strong, So I'm not sure, but I would really call ESG, which the letters stand for Environmental, social, and governance right, And I would say it's been the least known and least understood type of scheme that the left has used, and it's really undermining the constitutional process.
Well, because people hear the letters and then they hear what the acronym stands for and they go, I'm out. I'm out. That's more than I want to be involved in. I'll let other people deal with that. And I think the average person checks out. But that gets to the next level of my analysis of consumers defense. And I said, when it's all said and done, you are protecting a consumer's wallet. Yes, absolutely, And so explain how ESG is
attacking attacking a listener's wallet. Well, first off, I would say the idea of the concept is it's a way for the left to advance the policy objectives that they have without going through that pesky process known as making laws and generating reforms. So the way that this works is it's an alliance of sorts. It's an alliance between large asset management companies and big banks and the left. So on the asset management side, you have these huge
companies like Blackrock and Vanguard and State Street. You've probably heard those names before, if you have a four toh one K or if you have a pension program. So Blackrock is the largest asset management company in world. You give them your money to invest for you if you have a four to oh one K, or if you're in a state pension program, and their goal is to generate returns. Now, they currently have over ten trillion dollars
in assets under management with a t trillion dollars. So what they do is they have partnered along they have partnered with big banks, and in a lot of cases they own a share of these banks, and they're able to exert control over corporations and ultimately all of us in ways that are completely outside the realms of what should be allowed in a free enterprise or free market economy.
And there's a number of ways that it works through either the E or the S or the G and N. Doesn't it add up to bullying though, yeah, it absolutely is. And so if you look at the E the environmental you have the left goal of enacting the Green New Deal. It's a goal morally and economically bankrupt, and it never gains a whole lot of traction in a substantive policy debate. So you enter Blackrock into the equation. Now they should make their money by investment decisions based solely on risk
and reward. What's going to generate the most profits for my four one k. Instead, what they're doing is they're investing your money, my money in companies based on a scoring system that will rank this company on how well it kind of how well it operates in a climate change battling scenario. Are they carbon neutral or buying carbon credits?
Or do they have a diversity equity and inclusion policy, And they're basing investment decisions on these completely non investment related factors.
And when it comes to the diversity, equity and inclusion component, it means it affects like, for example, company a better have in their down line, some DEI com companies that have hired broadly and all of these things. It doesn't matter whether they're efficient, it doesn't matter whether they deliver their products effectively, It doesn't matter if they make their
products well. What matters more is that DEI score right exactly, and so it impacts bottom line profits because they the company may stink because they've got bad suppliers, but their suppliers have DEI going for them, you got it.
And here's another way where it fits in, because we haven't yet tied in how the banks function in this equation. So the best way to do it is with an example. You've got a kind of a canary in the coal
mine situation coming up with farmers in agriculture. Farming requires a lot of banking capital, loans, bridge loans, lines of credit, and in Europe you have banks lending money to farmers and ranchers and setting the interest rates not on the risk factors, but on if one rancher has more cattle because cattle emit methane which causes climate change, or incentives you get a better rate if instead of buying the
diesel tractor, you buy an electric tractor. And if you talk to a farmer, they will tell you that electric tractors are one of the stupidest ideas you could have in agriculture.
I feel as though with consumers Defense, you are facing in a way what I face, and what I face is people not taking ownership of the issues and the knowledge that goes with those issues and making it their own. But just sort of I'll listen to Preston, I'll listen to Clay and Buck I'll listen to Glenn. We'll let Consumers Defense and Justin Haskins, We'll let those people fight
the fight on ESG. Boil this down and distill it to where what should people be doing or be aware of that they can actively maybe even participate in to make a difference.
And that's really probably the most important question on ESG because of the fact that it's so wonky, it needs a lot of grassroots engagement to really move the needle and get it to the top. I would suggest a couple of things. One is, individually, if you have a four to oh one K, if you're in the private sector and you have investments mutual funds, look at where those funds are going or where those moneies are going.
If you see the name black Rock, Vanguard, or State Street in your portfolio where your investments are, you might want to start asking more questions about what are the underlying investment strategies of those funds and make informed decisions on where your own money is going.
Sal Newzoh, my guest executive director, Consumer's Defense. You find them online, back with more of the twelve Days of Preston here on The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Years ago, I decided, along with Charlie Strickland J D. Johnson of the Talent Training Group, that we needed to spend some time talking personal defense, and so we do. Let's go back to September here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. It's the Twelve Days of Preston and I am joined
by once again three in a row. Wow, how you doing?
J D.
Johnson with me, co founder of the Talent Training Group. I'm good her.
Are you you know this?
You know the old word, the saying better than I deserve? Yeah, beautiful day. Yeah, yeah it is.
It's it's it's my time of year coming.
Man, We're getting there. Boy. I felt it a couple of weeks ago, a little coolness in the morning, and uh yeah, I can't wait for the weather to change. But I know it's also going to be another probably a month and a half or two months. But I'll take a little taste, a little taste here and there. It's not bad now, it's the weather change. Bring about what what? What are the seasons you are most looking forward to? Dove or deer or yes, yes, anything everything.
Have you ever gone hunting for bear? No? No, desire. No, because it's not a food source. There's no point.
Yeah.
I've talked to a lot of people that hunt bear and eat bear, and about half of them say it's a horrible, nasty, greasy whatever they've ever had, and then oh, it's good, and I just I don't know, I've been mad enough at bear's for destroying like local locally here, trying to hunt in an environment where there are bears living. They destroy anything they can get to, tree stands, seats off of four wheelers.
Where they can smell something, right, yeah.
Or the salt or well, I don't know they I had one just completely destroy a climbing tree stand that I left hung on the tree.
And you're talking about a black bear.
Yes, And theaters, corn feeders or you know, deer feeders, they will destroy. They're just very destructive. And I don't know if it's them just playing or they're mad or what.
But anyway, now, later at the end of the show today, I'm going to describe how I ruined the ultimate final episode of A loan for my wife that we record and watch, and we've watched the whole season. Do you ever watch alone?
Yeah?
I love it. I think it's the best show on television. Have you ever thought to yourself if you're in grizzly bear territory like they put these people sometimes, if you had an encounter with a grizzly bear and you shot the flare and you did the spray, and you did everything you could, what would you do if it didn't work?
I don't know, but clean up all five. I honestly, I don't want to be in grizzly bear territory without a pretty good sized fire arm.
Yeah, just say it. I just I look at these guys and they've got bows and arrows, and there are in some of these situations, like this last episode, they were allowed to hunt bears if they had a bear. But I'm thinking to myself, how are you going to kill a bear with a bow and arrow? Oh?
Yeah, you can do that, but they get mad.
If you miss, if you hit the wrong.
Spot yeah, or hit the wrong spot.
Yeah. But you can kill with a bear with a bow and arrow.
Absolutely. Absolutely. My nephew goes to Montana Tech. He's going to mining school, and he's.
Gonna be able to teach him about that stuff. Well.
He's also a big fly fisherman. He troutfishes in the streams up there. So he carries a he carries a glock glock model twenty ten millimeter. Uh, they just had at Montana Tech. They were having they put out a warning to all the students one of these, like you get the active shooter notifications in college campuses and stuff for bears on campus.
Well, a ten millimeters stop a bear.
Oh yeah, that is probably one of the most popular.
Versus a three fifty seven or forty four.
It's more powerful than a three fifty seven, little less power. Yeah, with the right with the right load in there, it's very much capable of that.
Yeah, I'm with you, speaking of loads. If I ever saw Yeah, clean up ale five like a six in aisle six as well. All Right, we're gonna come back. We're gonna get the more serious things in the news, and it's our personal defense segment. Jad Johnson he's co host of Talent Outdoors, which you can hear on this fine radio station on the weekends on Saturday and you can subscribe on the iHeartRadio app. Thank you very much, and of course the co founder of the Talent training
group More to Come. He is Jad Johnson and one of the two experts we rely on to talk personal defense here on the program, and JD and I were talking before the hour about the shooter in Nashville who will always be nameless in my world, she identifying as a He wrote this massive, ninety page manifesto, and quite candidly, I'm fine with investigators looking inside of that. I don't
care myself at all. Doesn't matter to me, So I'm not going to really reference any part of that manifesto other than it speaks to the mental illness that I believe people in that situation find themselves in. But let's back up and go big picture. What are your thoughts on where we are overall in the state of Florida with school.
Security much better than we were Marjorie Stoneman Douglas. We've come a long way because of a lot of the findings of the U of the.
Group that.
Studied that, the commission, the commission made up.
Of parents, Yeah, And what's said is there are some that were part of that that have tried to go on an anti gun crusade. But the findings of.
The commission, yeah, was not the findings of the cast exactly.
They've tried to parlay that but even even the state legislature doesn't have it right yet.
No, they're not take correction necessary, you know with So what are we.
Doing better and what needs to improve?
Well, what we're doing better is we have we have more armed people, more armed and trained people in the schools in different school districts, different counties are doing different things.
Are they doing different levels of protection?
I wouldn't say different levels of detection, They're going about getting guardians in the school in a different way. Depending on where you are. In Leon County, you have hired security people, hired police officers, hired school guardians in the schools here.
Do we have enough?
Probably not, because that limits that is expensive. That is a very expensive thing when you're paying somebody, you know, X amount.
Of dollars per hour to be there.
They have training and equipment, all that stuff. So that's an expensive way of doing it. Some of the surrounding counties, and I'm not going to name them, but I'm very familiar with them. Some of them are doing what the Guardian program to me was really about, when that was taking non instructional personnel at the school, training them and allowing them to carry a firearm in the school. And it may be it could be an administrator, it could be a janitor, it could be a maintenance guy. It
doesn't doesn't really matter. It's just their school employee willing to go through the training and carry.
There are some school districts I believe in North Carolina that have gone to putting inside a lock box throughout their schools ar fifteens.
It ain't just in North Carolina, okay, but but.
Where they have. And then there are our staff members, including instructional that have gone through training that access that firearm if needed. Correct you like that plan breaking in case of fire Yeah, exactly, Yeah, I do. I do, because you have no way of predicting if someone's willing to do this very heinous act of going into a school.
And shooting our children. There's no way of predicting what they're going to choose as a as a weapon.
Would you would you make the argument in favor of because I know at Talent Training you have in fact trained many teachers that are in various school districts in the surrounding area. They come, they're members, they're part of and they take training seriously. Would you be in favor of instructional personnel being allowed to carry. Yes, absolutely, I would.
I personally know some of the teachers at my kids' school, and I would be very very happy to know that that person had a means of defending my child, because if they don't have a means of defending my child, they're just another victim.
Or to come of my conversation with Jade Johnson of the Talent Training Group here on the Twelve Days of Preston. If you're just joining us to New Year's Eve and we are sharing the best of September twenty twenty four with you here on this edition of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. We'll be back with live shows next Monday. Stay with us. More to come with Jade Johnson. Welcome back to the Twelve Days of Preston the month of September on the Morning Show with Preston Scott, and we're back.
Had to do my homage to Charlie there. JD Johnson with me of the Talent Training Group, our personal Defense Savement. We picked stories out sometimes we just get to talking about different things, like we did Bears in the first and look, I'm a Packer fan, so talking about Bears in a demeaning way just comes naturally to me. Sorry, we look at stories in the news, and in this case, there's so many different rabbit trails we can go down.
Another shooting in California, high profile person Ricky Pearsall, a wide receiver, played at the University of Florida. A lot of listeners in the program gave fans they'll know the guy, great wide receiver, first round pick of San Francisco in the recent draft, and he got shot. He's lucky to be alive in a robbery attempt. They get into a scuffle. It's the afternoon Union Square, very highly populated area, though not as much as it used to be. He decided to fight.
Though, Yeah, and I don't I don't know that I own any any material object that's worth hurting somebody or getting hurt over. You know, it's different defending. You know, if probably you know, the article said, look like he might have been wearing a roll legs. That'll get you robbed in a lot of places. You know, you're wearing wearing expensive you know, if you don't know, if you looked at the cost of roll legs as lately, but
oh my gosh, you a ten thousand dollars watches. Put on the Cassio, Yeah, put on the put on exactly, G Shot, put on the g Shot Kid or the Samsung Watch or whatever. Know, when you're out in public, maybe I don't, I don't know.
But when you're confronted by somebody with a gun again and you don't have a gun or any other means of fighting back other than getting you don't want to bring a fist fight to a gun fight, you know kind of thing.
Give them the watch man, get insurance on it, give them the watch. Avoid the conflict if possible. You know, the time to fight is when you have no other alternative. It's the bottom line. And it's not that I'm vehemently opposed to violence. I'm pretty good at violence, not opposed to it. But there's a time and place for it. And and you know that the money in your wallet might not be worth it JD.
Is it too simplistic to say you resort to that when the odds are in your favor absolutely, or your life is in jeopardy, or the life of a loved one.
Yes to both that that's it, I mean yes to both. You You if you don't ever want to get into if somebody has already got gun in their hand and you do not. U that is a very difficult situation that you're in compliance and compliance even if even if you're carrying, they've got the drop on, got the drop on you, just like you see in the old cowboy days. That's that's you know, Mexican stands off. Standoffs as they call him in the movies, is not a good situation.
It's even worse if you don't have your gun out. I mean you have to. You know, discretion is a better part of valor at that point. So you know, there's there are some distraction techniques that we teach and they may or may not work. You know, you may get lucky, and there may be the environment may give you a distraction that that allows you to to even the odds or to turn the situation around. But there's times when you just need to comply, you know, as opposed to getting hurt live.
He's lucky for another day. Yeah, he's very lucky.
Get shot in the torso getting shot in the chest and surviving.
Uh, he's lucky. It went through the side a little further away from his heart. Yeah, it just went through a lot.
That's just good. Lord looking out for him. That's all that bowls down to.
Wherever you may be, from Florida Sunshine State to California. I scratch that. California is hopeless. For the rest, We're your Morning Show, The Morning Show with Preston Scott. He co hosts Talent Outdoors with Charlie Strickland and is the co founder of the talent training group JAD Johnson. Our final segment here, let's take that story and parlay that into maybe some training advice. I mean, I think we all sort of systematically train at the seven yards and
take our time and look at the paper target. But most of the time, when these things happen, that's not the way it's going to unfold. Correct.
The vast majority, it's going to occur within armstrange, within the personal distance.
How do you safely train or that kind of thing? And what would you advise people to work on?
Well, the biggest thing most people need to work on because we in Florida have to carry concealed. There's no open carry. And I'm really not an advocate for open.
Care even if we had it, even if we had from a tactical perspective, because why.
From a tactical perspective, because it's too easy for somebody to take your gun away from you when.
You're not paying attention.
There's somebody that carried a gun openly for twenty seven years. It was constantly on my mind about my body position, and even though my gun was in a security holster, it was a constant thing.
I mean, you could be a magnet for a bad guys just looking for a gun.
Absolutely, especially in the Citians. Yeah, depending on you know. And I go to places where open carry is prevalent, and some of the way I see people carrying guns, it's just ridiculous. You know, no security holster, no no snap, no lock device on the holster or anything. So back to what I was saying, if you're carrying concealed you need to practic just drawing and firing from concealment however
it is you carry. That's the big thing. Is getting your clothing or your garment or whatever device a bag, however you're using it, you need to be practicing that way. See people all the time, they have will carry, they have a carry system that they're using, they're comfortable with. They show up to the rain to trage and they're to train and they're wearing outside the waistpan magazines exposed in a mag pouch, more like a duty duty belt that a police officer would wear. Well, the shooting part
of the training is great. The getting to the shooting part of the training is not so great because they're changing the system that they're used to carrying. So that's the first thing, and a lot of that can be accomplished. Empty gun, dry fire practice at the house, Dry fire training at the house. The second one is you can
some kind of a distraction technique. You have something in your hand, you know, somebody asks for your wallet, don't necessarily always hand it to them, Act like you're scared, Try to maybe drop the wallet, make them, you know, they may make you. If they're smart. The bad guys are smart, they may make you. They may step back. If they're well trained, they may step back and make you pick it up and hand it to them again.
If they're trying to rob you of your wallet. So but if they're not, drop it, make them bend overlook away, pick it up. That may give you an opportunity to escape or fight back effectively.
Would you advise escaping if you can.
I'm willing to, you know, throw the wallet on.
And take off. There's some couch commandos listening right now, and they would say, okay, good idea. We'll throw them the car keys, We'll throw them the wallet, and when they turn to get them, because they're not sophisticated, I'm going to draw a fire. Okay, if they've got a gun, you're legally entitled to do that. That's the way you want to go. Absolutely, you are. You're still right then?
In a fifty to fifty gun fight, sure, and that's that's a highth percentage chance of losing.
That's not odds in your favor yet, correct? Correct? Correct?
You know?
I mean if, like I said, getting away, getting away unscathed, this should be the number one goal, not not necessarily winning the scenario.
Let me ask you this, at the range, what's the safest way to practice where you're not fully presenting your firearm, but you're shooting right out of the draw, not necessarily aiming, but close quarters right.
Well, that's that's what we call the close quarter retention position, where your elbow is basically your arm is in an L shape of an L with your with your gun oriented towards the target, not presented out in front of you, the close quarter retention position. The gun's kind of your gun and your arm are tucked in towards your body and you're oriented. You can you know, we we tend to aim with the whole center line of our body.
H So if you bring that gun over to the center line of your body and square up on the target, chances are you're going to hit that target at at three feet right. Absolutely, if you've ever practiced that way. It takes a little bit of practice to lock your elbow locks.
W's the safe range distance at a paper target contact, Okay, So you can be as close as you need at the gun range to a paper target absolutely. Okay, there's a.
Little to no chance of anything going wrong, so that maybe you'll feel the concussion. Sure, we train at arms length the way when we're teaching that close quarter stuff, you can reach out with your arm and touch the target.
Jadie Johnson of the Talent Training Group, my guest, as we wrap up the first hour of day number nine of the twelve days of Preston, we will be back with the second hour next here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. I thought this was a perfect way to welcome you back to the second hour of the Twelve Days of Preston. This is the ninth show, which means we're chronicling the month of September in the year twenty twenty four. And to follow up on my conversation
with JD. Johnson, here's a segment portion of the Big Stories in the press Box. The other big story in the press Box. I don't know if you've seen the video. Man wearing a Palestinian pin, Newton, Massachusetts, Thursday evening, group of maybe ten or twelve pro Israeli protesters. So he charges across the street. So unhinged is this. It looks like he's maybe of that ethnicity Palestinian Middle East, and starts attacking a forty seven year old guy named Scott Hayes.
This guy starts shouting, you know, shouting things at him, screaming profanity's middle finger, on and on, and then he just can't take it anymore. He runs across the street and starts attacking this forty seven year old who by the way, was an Iraq war veteran carrying an American flag, and I mean starts beating him. The guy pulls his gun. The veteran. It's I don't know if it was intentional or in the force in the in the in the scuffle, gun was discharged, shot the guy in the stomach. He's
serious injuries. They arrest the Iraqi war veteran, even though the district attorney says, there's a lot we've got we don't know yet, and and so why are you arresting There's video the entire encounters on video. The dude charged across the street, tackled him, threw him onto the ground. He's on a cement sidewalk. I would think that's imminent threat, bodily harm. I don't know what the laws read in Massachusetts, but he was legally entitled to be carrying a firearm
and they arrested him. Crazy. This may be the most important self defense case that is gonna end up going to trial if they go ahead with charges, if they don't dismiss them, because the arrest in and of itself shows a presupposition that attacking someone what you disagree with is okay. That I mean, retreat was out of the question. He was tackled and thrown to the ground. This is a case to pay attention to. I'm just elevating it
onto your radar, because this matters. All right, we come back more horrifying news of the damage being caused to this country and to families in this country by illegal immigrants that are bent on violence and sadly, in another case, murder. That story's next. We're here for you, We're here with you. We're here because of you. M Do you ever think of that? Anyway? I hope you had a nice weekend.
It's rain Can we get just a little sunshine, please, just a little bit of sunshine maybe sometime this week. I gotta get out and mow my grass. It's just brutal, but it's it's good for the aquifer. All this rainfall is good for the aquarifer. All right, we have said, and this is something that is so very important for you to just remember as you discuss this with other people. These are the issues that are at stake in November. It's not a threat to democracy. We're not protecting We
don't need to protect democracy because democracy is bad. We're a constitutional republic. Democracies run people over and turn to socialism. That's what happens. We are we are battling against a set of policies that are systematically destroying your life, your quality of life, your chance at improving your quality of life. Because what all liberals do is they cut all of the wrungs out of the ladder. You can't climb any
higher than you are. You're handed a ladder based on where you are, and that ladder goes no higher than where you are. That's it. That's the way it works. There's no upward mobility. And we have people coming into this country that for them, a socialist life in America looks awesome. Poverty in America looks amazing compared to where they live. But here are the consequences. And I've pointed out time and again examples from the news time and again.
This is all acceptable to democrats. For example, you don't know the name of thirty four year old Julio Cesar Pimentel Soriano. You don't know who he is. I mean East sounds like a cheese right, Oh no, no, no, He's a Dominican wanted in his home country for a murder in twenty nineteen, who has been arrested for the brutal murder of a family of four in Upstate New York last month. The family, the Ubaldos and their two children four and two, found brutally murdered, and then he
set fire to the house. Allegedly entered the island of Puerto Rico illegally, obtained a fraudulent New York identification. With that identification, who's free to travel from Puerto Rico to the United States mainland here illegally. My guess is somehow his ethnicity allowed him to curry favor with his family, and then he turned on them and killed them. That's
my short version of what I think happened here. Now, first of all, I would find out where he got that identification, and I would make sure that I would go to Puerto Rico and I would ruin that person, and that person would be up for charges of murder as well, because he's responsible for that person getting for this guy getting into the country. But here's somebody illegally here because we have poorous borders, we are understaffed, we are overwhelmed. We might have caught this guy trying to
enter in with fake documents. Have we not been overwhelmed? Maybe not, But to Democrats, this is acceptable for the greater good, which is elections. We already know that there are people registered to vote illegally. We know that the stories are popping all over the place. You've got the Venezuelan gang that we will just I'm not even bother mentioning their name anymore, not because I can't pronounce it,
but because why give them publicity? Already taking over buildings in Aurora, Colorado, now they've taken over a hotel in El Paso, Texas. MM acceptable collateral damage. This is how democrats think about things in general. Yeah, there'll be some people hurt, but it's for the greater good. Back with more of the Twelve Days of Preston on The Morning Show with Preston Scott. No time to waste the twelve days of Justin the month of September, my guest from the Heartland Institute was Justin Haskins.
Good morning, it's been a while. I've missed our morning chats, our five am morning chats for me, I've missed them.
Yeah, how in the world do you function without starting a day with with with me? I don't know.
I don't I function one day a month at best.
Thank you, Thank you, sir. I appreciate that. All right. I gave you the mission and it's it's a daunting one, because I think there are likely so many consequential things that will be impacted by the November fifth election between Donald Trump and now Kamala Harris. First of all, are you going to watch the debate?
I will watch it. I probably won't watch it live, but I will watch it.
Yes.
Can I ask you what you would be looking for by watching, because I've been obviously I'm going to be in bed, sleep and getting ready for Theamar Show, but I'll watch it as well at some point too. But what would you be looking for?
Well, to be totally honest, and this probably sounds pessimistic, but I have a theory about presidential elections, and they don't necessarily apply to all kinds of elections, but presidential elections. My theory is that the more likable candidate wins the
election almost every single time. And if you go back through the history of presidential candidates and you really think about each of the candidates' personalities and how they come across the people compared to their opponent, the rule almost always plays out that way. The more likable candidate went. And so I think what I'm looking for tonight is who comes across as being more likable, which really is
not what these debates are supposed to be about. But unfortunately, I think that's how a lot of people in the middle and there's very small group of people in this country who still don't know who they're voting for. I think that's how a lot of those people ultimately make their decisions, not even consciously, but I think they make it based on who they like personally. And that's going to be a big factor, I think in this debate
and for the rest of the election. But this is really the only time maybe where we see both of them on the same stage at the same time, giving people the ability to really compare the two. And so that's the thing that I'm looking for. Who is more likable?
I offered last hour justin that Tulsea Gabbert has been working with Trump. We have no idea who, if anyone's worked with Kamala Harris, but I suggested that if he listens to her advice, does not get personal focuses strictly on the issues and the policies of Biden Harris, and does not personally attack Kamla, he will win this debate hands down. With the independence.
I think that's one hundred percent right. I think the rules that they have for the debate no, essentially their mics are turned off. They're not allowed to interrupt each
other in real time. I think is absolutely huge for Trump because I don't think he can help himself sometimes in these situations that helped him huge, which is so ironic because I think the left is the one that really wanted that initially with Joe Biden, and it played to Trump's advantage last time big, in a huge way, and this time it'll be the same thing does if he's not rude, if he's respectful, but he is firm and clear about what he wants to do, and he
stays focused on how he's going to fix the mistakes, the broken economy, all of the problems, the embarrassing things that have happened overseas, the dangerous things that have happened overseas and with Russia and Ukraine and Afghanistan, et cetera, and that all of that stuff is the result of the Harris administration that they're both to blame for it.
I don't know how he could lose, truly, but if he gets sucked into these personal attacks and things like that, I think he'll come across as being a lot less likable, and I think people are looking for a reason in the middle to vote against him. I think he needs to avoid that trap, and Kamala Harris is going to do everything in her power to try to pay him into that.
Justin I tasked you with coming up with three things that were you think most consequential that will be determined by this election, whether it's Kamala Harris or Donald Trump. And we understand Congress plays a significant role here, but just looking at the White House, what are the top three issues you think that are going to be impacted dramatically by this election.
Yeah.
So the first one's easy. Supreme Court justices.
This is huge. This was the most.
Important thing that Trump did in his presidency. Supreme Court right now controlled by conservative leaning justices. Not all of them are true conservatives. I think he could say, but six six ' three. But there are the two oldest justices on the bench right now are Alito and Thomas, who are the two best justices that we have.
Yep.
Thomas is seventy six, Alito seventy four. So if those two turn to the other side, if they leave and they're replaced by two far left wing liberal activist judges. Now all of a sudden, that six ' three majority for our side flips to a five four majority for
the other side. That's a huge problem. Not only that, but there's been a lot of talk about the left trying to pack the Supreme Court, and I think that if they get enough votes in Congress to do that, and they have the White House, they will pack the Supreme Court. And now I don't even know if you have a country in the wake of that, So I would say that is is number one.
Justin let me let me let me follow up on that. Does Trump need to do a better job of the vetting process? Should he fill vacancies? Now? I personally think if he doesn't win, Alito and Thomas are going to hold out if they can, for another four years. But that's just that's a guess if they can. But he's got to do better at picking true originalists than he did the first time around.
Yeah. Absolutely, It's all about who you're getting your advice from. And I think unfortunately some of the justices that he picked last time around, you know, are not true originalists. And I really don't understand why Republicans have had such a hard time picking good Supreme Court justices in my lifetime, but they really have struggled with that, YEP. And really what you want is someone who's just like Alito and
just like Clarence Thomas. That's what you want, and so you need to find advisors who share that vision and who will pick people just like that. But because I don't think his picks the last time around spectacular.
Now if we get to a Trump presidency, will visit again about who might be good candidates. But for now, let's go to number two.
YEP.
Inflation, the economy, the value of the dollar, all of that stuff. I mean, the Harris Biden administration has been catastrophic for people's wallets. I think anyone with common sense knows that, whether you're a Republican or a Democrat, historic levels of inflation stuff we haven't seen in forty or fifty years. CPI, which is not a good measure for inflation because it underestimates inflation, is up twenty percent, thirty
percent over just a few years. And so we're talking about everybody being poorer than they were when we started because wages have not kept up with that inflation. Kamala Harris has no plans that will help deal with that issue. All she wants to do is spend increasingly more money. She's even worse than Joe Biden historically when it comes
to spending. As a reminder to people, she co sponsored co sponsored the AOC Socialist screen New Deal, not the Joe Biden version, the AOC version, the one that cost ninety trillion dollars, that had every crazy policy in the universe, and it including wiping out all the cows, by the way, that was part of that that policy, I mean, just absolutely crazy stuff. She is a socialist candidate by all measures.
She's a social candidate, and so I think if she becomes president of the United States, expect more spending, expect more debt, and as a result of that, more money printing and less value for your dollar. The third item, all right, number three is a little more complicated, but favorite issue of mine. ESG laws, come on law, I got to fit in and every time.
Absolutely Yeah.
Social credit scoring system. That's what ESG is, Environmental social governance metrics. It's a social credit scoring system, a left wing and that they've been pushing all over the world, trying to transform society by transforming corporations and businesses and how they act and behave through the social credit scoring metrics.
One of the biggest ways that the left is doing this is through banking, So banks use these social Most people don't know this, but a lot of banks already use some version of social credit scores to screen out certain kinds of businesses to eliminate certain what they call reputational risks, which are really just conservatives involved in activist groups and things like that that they don't like. They started banking conservatives and everything. So this is all part
of this ESG movement. Well, Donald Trump has been a champion of that issue for a long time. He's promised to stop that through federal regulations, stop banks from using these ESG scores. He's a big champion of it, and I think that Ron de Santis, of course, with Flora, probably the nation's biggest champion of that if Florida has one of the best anti ESG laws, actually the best anti ESG law in the country. But Trump is promising
to take that to the federal level. When he was president, at the very end of his administration, he did put regulations into place to stop this, and then when Biden came into power, one of the first things he did the very first weeks he was in office was eliminate that regulation that Trump had started to put into place, and so that's a huge, huge, huge thing.
Do you realize how much we've been spared with the recent election? Well? Maybe always love justin having him on the program. All Right, we will be back with more of the Twelve Days of Presston. I knew him from his work during COVID as kind of an anti voice out there, doctor Marty McCarey from Johns Hopkins and little bit we know when we had him in September that he would be chosen by President elect Donald Trump to serve on his cabinets. But it was great to have
him as a guest. You have panned a recent op ed in The New York Post, and it's so ironic because it's been a topic on the show of late, the importance of trying to get cell phones out of public schools and out of kids' hands as much as possible. What is your kind of motivation for pushing this so hard?
Well, the average teenager gets two hundred and seventy three text messages or notifications in a day, and when they're in the classroom. They are saying in these studies that have just come out that they're being distracted by their phones and their notifications. And remember, these big tech companies have made these apps and phones by design to be addictive, to grab the tension of a kid and hold on to it as long as possible when the kid is
supposed to be learning. So we've done tremendous damage to children during COVID prolonged school closures, all those COVID restrictions that resulted in massive learning loss. Brown University study just came out. It found that on average IQ has gone down twelve points. We're doing a tremendous disservice to children with these traconian policies, and so one thing we can do, it's not a sober bullet, but one thing we can do is to get rid of these distractions during class.
One of the things that's interesting is there are a couple of districts inside the state of Florida, doctor McCarry, that have gone this route. They have banned them, and not just banned them in class time. They can't take them out in between classes, they can't take them out
in the lunch room. And the reports are overwhelmingly positive re engagement of the students just talking to each other, and better behavior and less bullying because they're not setting kids up to get videotape of a fight and posting it online.
Well, that's right. We're seeing the human connection restored in school districts that are banning cell phones. We're seeing kids now grow up with less impulsive behavior. You know, there is a group of parents out there, and God bless them, they are doing the right thing. And they are saying, I don't have to give my kid a phone when they turn ten, I don't have to give my kid a smartphone. I don't have to give my kid an account on Instagram or snapchats. And these parents are doing
a great service to the future. My sister is one of them. She's got her two young teenagers raised beautifully, no cell phones, no added sugar, at least in the first four or six years of life, in the formative years when they're is developing, and these kids can shake your hand and look at you and talk to you, and so I think kids are hungry for a human connection.
I'm just curious, is there any level of consensus when this kind of technology ought to be in the hands of kids. I know it might be there is no one size fits all, its maturity levels and those kinds of things. But from a scientific perspective, is there a spot where you kind of feel like it's safer for young people to have this stuff?
I don't think we have good evidence or data on that particular question. Parents ask it all the time. Sure, I tend to think once a kid has a real enjoyment of hobbies and other activities, you want the kid to be addicted to something good, right. You want them to be addicted to sports and family time and healthy foods and spending time with others and community service. So everyone has their thing that gives them a dopamine rush.
Everyone essentially has an addiction, but you want it to be the good things, to exercise, to positive things.
You know.
The other thing about banning cell phones in school, which has been positive, is it's addressing this mental health crisis. One study found at two thirds of kids in America today report being addicted to their phones during class, and forty four percent said that their phones make them anxious. We've got the most medicated population in the history of the world. We've got epidemic levels of anxiety and depression.
So why are we giving them actively giving them the cocaine for their addiction and ignoring the fact that this is something that we can control when they're in a public school on task payer dollars with the purpose of paying attention to a teacher.
Yeah, it's I hate saying this stuff as the old guy, But how do we do it right? I mean, how did we manage to not talk to mom or dad fifteen times a day, or get text messages or phone calls or look at stuff? How do we manage?
Well?
Yeah, I mean people are saying, well, they might need their cell phone for safety. Well, I don't know of any example where a cell phone in the classroom has saved the kid's life. Maybe it's possible, but what's killing kids is the mental health epidemic. We've got escalating rates of suicide, depression, anxiety, and so we can't ignore that fact. If you look at the data, it's pretty compelling. Kids are basically crying out for help. They've had terrible learning loss.
Not really as much in Florida because they didn't fall for the prolonged school closure gimmick, but nationwide, this is something we're starting to see states do in school districts implement it's working. The results have been very positive.
I believe COVID really damaged the credibility of the medical profession, and I don't know if it can be repaired without an admission by the medical profession that it was wrong and how it conducted most everything and advised during that period. But what was your purpose in writing the book and what's it about?
Well, first of all, I agree with you. We have not seen any humility from our medical establishment nationally, and I can.
Tell you its a doctor.
Humility is the most important thing in being a doctor. But COVID was a snapshot. It was actually a peek into how a broader, arrogant medical community functions. You saw the same hubris and arrogance that resulted in them getting the low fat diet and food pyramid wrong for sixty years. They ignited the opioid epidemic with the dogma that opioids were not addictive. They ignited the modern day peanut allergy epidemic with the dogmas they should avoid peanut butter for
young infants. They have created some of our modern day health crises, and right now we're dealing with a chronic disease epidemic. Half of our nation's children are abese or overweight, a quarter have diabetes or pre diabetes, and autism goes out fourteen percent a year every year. I mean, who is stopping to say, what's going on? What are the root causes? We've poisoned our food, supply engineered highly addictive
food ingredients. We liberally go out mental health diagnoses. We've got the most over medicated population in the history of the world. We're converting America's children into a generation of patients, and then we blame them sometimes for being sick. We have got to get rid of this hammer lock that pharma and big food and big egg have on health. We've done a terrible thing to doctors in this country.
We've told them diagnose in medicaid, diagnose and medicaid, And we're going to give you a coding book, and we're going to ask you to write notes, and you need to be busy billing and coding, and we're going to measure you as doctors by your throughput. Well, guess what, a third of them are burned out. We have the highest suicide rate of any profession. People hate this system.
Patients hated, doctors hated. We have the most over medicated population in the world and the thickest population in the world. What are we doing. We've got to take a step back and ask the big questions, talk about the root causes. Maybe the NIH needs to study food is medicine instead of back coronaviruses in Wuhan, China. Maybe we need to talk about school lunch programs instead of just putting every young kid on ozepic when they're overweight. Maybe we need
to talk about treating diabetes with cooking classes. So we have a movement now in medicine to talk about the underlying gut health and environmental exposures, and the role of pesticides and healthy foods and avoiding seed oils. All of these new areas of scientific research around health, not sickness, but around being healthy that people need to hear about. They have been in the blind spots of modern medicine,
and that's why I wrote this book, Blind Spots. I want people to know the truth about health and when medicine gets it wrong.
Can't wait to see your Christmas card list. Doctor McCarey, thank you for the time. You are welcome back anytime you. Let Brendan know that, and I'm going to do the same. But thank you so much.
Great to be with you.
Thanks Preston.
Back with more of the twelve Days of Preston on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Well, we're going to end this hour with a go to I always turned to the Heritage Foundation and they've got a really cool and interesting website and it was developed by a guy named Parker Shepherd, and it has to do with your personal economy and I'll let him explain.
Yeah, Preston takes a lot. I mean, it's always a bit of mixed emotions when people use this tool that helps them calculate their personal inflation rate, and they they're both like surprised and shocked and disappointed when they see the results. So we know that inflation has been like the primary economic issue over the past four years, but people really don't have this hold on it because it's just kind of this thing that's happening in the background.
They look at at reports coming from the government and so like the last CPI report said over the past year, prices went up two and a half percent, and they're like, no, that doesn't seem right. I go to the store. It seems like prices are going up much faster than that. So you know, most people don't spend what is in that average CPI bundle, and we've made this tool so that they can figure out if you're not buying the average bundle, what is your inflation rate could be different.
So you can put in your budget. You can do groceries, restaurants, your rents, a couple other bills put in there, and you tell us exactly what you're spending and you will get a customized inflation rate. This shows just how much the cost of living has gone up for your spending over the past couple of years.
See, that's the thing I was just talking about it in the segment before we met here Parker, is that the big challenge for so many people is personalizing what's going on in the economy for them. And it's so difficult, I think, for people to understand how Washington is impacting their wallet.
Yeah, it's I mean, it's the really scary thing about inflation that it's this it's almost undetectable. When the government taxes you, when they send you a form you have to fill out, it's in the irs every year you know what you're paying in income taxes. But the way that inflation works is this. It happens when the government spends too much and they need to print money to pay at the difference, and so you don't notice that the government has printed more money, which increases the supply
of money, which makes each dollar worth less. So you don't really notice when they reach into your pocket and take the purchasing power because those dollars, you still have the same number of dollars. It's just that each dollar doesn't buy as much when you go to the store.
Well, yeah, it's like a double barreled shotgun. You've got the actual inflation, and then you've got almost this little subsidiary of it called shrinkflation, where you're paying the same but you're getting a ton less product.
Well, it's another way that companies try to make the price changes not as apparent. If you go to this door and you're still used to buying like your five dollars for for a box or something, and then the same box as five dollars, but it's it's twenty percent smaller. That doesn't hit you right over the head. In the
same way, you have to pay attention. You have to notice when things like they used to be like twelve slices in a packa cheese, and now it's eleven, and they keep cutting it down a little bit every time that that gets incorporated into some of the statistics on quality.
So it's still twice the same per like per weight, but it doesn't register with you if you go in and use to saying like, okay, well it's the same price for me to get out the door, that that inflation doesn't really hit you until you see it all compiled.
All at once myinflation dot com. It's as simple as that, and you can go as detailed as you want to go and determine just just the real inflation that is impacting your wallet. Parker, You guys at Heritage generally don't do much without trying to get this in front of members of Congress. Have you gotten any reaction that you can share from anyone in the House of the Senate.
I know we've had very good feedback coming from Rand Paul and Mike Lee that have seen seen the results coming out of our tool, and they were kind of shocked by it as well, and they thought that it was something that their constituents needed to see, just because it really is for most people that are struggling to go paycheck to paycheck just to keep their heads above water, this inflation is something that it really sneaks up on you and you don't really see how much your cost
of living is going up over time.
Yesterday, Parker, we talked about a story Jamie Diamond talking to investors in New York. Of course he's the CEO head of I think it's Chase Morgan. He talked about the worst potential scenario facing this country is stagflation. Can you delve into that a little bit and how that might connect to what we're talking about here.
Yes, if you go.
Back to old economic theory, used to say that there was a trade off between inflation and unemployment and it was just up to the government to pick and choose between the two. But we ran into this problem in the seventies where it broke the theory. He saw persistent high inflation and high unemployment at the same time, and that happens whenever there's any kind of restriction on the supply side of the economy, on firms' ability to go out there and produce. So if the government is running
giant deficits like it is at the present. That's putting more money in the hands of people to go out there and buy things. But they can't buy things unless firms are figuring out how to produce stuff. And right now firms are struggling under the weight of regulations, under things that where the government is getting more involved trying to make it difficult for them to create things for
people to buy. So when you get this squeeze coming from the supply side, but a juice coming from the demand side, you can see you get a potential stacklationary environment.
If you were to put on your you know, your your turbine and do a little crystal ball for me. Is there any scenario out there that begins to push this back or are these prices kind of here to stay now and we now have to just strengthen the economy so that more people can afford.
It Now, I really don't think that you will see prices come back back down to where they were prior.
To the pandemic. Effectively, all of that pandemic spending went out the door and uh and the government made no effort to trend spending elsewhere to try to pay for it. So Effectively, that burst of inflation was was the inflation tax that was taken from everybody's savings and used to pay for all that pandemic spending. Uh.
You know, the best we could.
Do would be some kind of a return back to stable prices, just on the on the new path that we've got, having people's earnings catching up to view this new established price level.
But people's earnings have to be done through the marketplace, not through government pressures, which sadly we're seeing because puts inflationary pressure back on the market.
No.
No, you can see things like California was recently putting in a new increase in minimum wages, right and and right. The spending side, the demand side of the stuff that comes after the fact money isn't isn't real, So you can kind of you can always like create more, you can create this legislation, but you can't go in the government can't pass a law that makes somebody create more
more value. So when that happens, if you just make the minimum if you raise the minimum wage without making people more productive, that sets up this that shifts the ladder, and so all the all the wages eventually will shift and you end up right back where you were before, after inflation comes in and cuts away at the mandated increase.
All right, that wraps up the second hour of the Twelve Days Oppression. If you're just joining us, we're resetting the year twenty twenty four in kind of a best of format, but chronologically. And so it's the Twelve Days of Preston. This is day number nine, which means the month of September, the ninth month. Now it's also New Year's Eve. So I just want to caution you, don't be stupid. You're a ruminator. I need you in my audience for the coming year. We sho by the way,
it starts tomorrow here with another best of show. Anyway, enjoy smartly. All right, this New Year's Eve, we will be back with our number three of the Twelve Days of Preston.
Stay with us, Welcome back to the Twelve Days of Preston.
And this is day number nine, the month of September. And in the month of September, we knew pretty early on it was going to be a long, long year for Florida State football. And each and every week, well most weeks, we talked Iraschaffelowarchant dot Com, and in this particular week, it was after a particularly ugly game at SMU.
Yeah, I mean that's probably up there with one of the all time just terrific performances. You know, I think you look back at the thirty and nothing Away Forest, you look back to a couple of Willie Tagger's games, the Louisville blowout to Lamar Jackson's. There's a growing list of ridiculously bad performances, and that one's certainly up there.
Ira.
I'm looking at the schedule right now, and I do not believe we are overstating it to perhaps suggest there may not be but one game, as you mentioned a couple of weeks ago, left on the schedule where they might be the favorite.
Yeah. No, I mean we'll see what the Florida I think. You know, UCF just got blown out by Colorado, and I think they might be favored against Florida this weekend. So so Florida's running neck and neck with the Knowles. But yeah, other than that, it's probably Charleston Southern. I mean, North Carolina is not good, but they certainly have looked a little bit better than Florida State. Duke's undefeated, So yeah, it's a they're gonna be a huge underdog in several of these games.
Give us a fans guyde to how we should be thinking right now. I mean, this season is a bust, but I can't help but wonder big picture, this is now at a point where Mike Norvell might be in a little trouble mighty not.
Well, he's not in trouble right now. I just don't. I mean, he's got seven more years on his contract. They're paying ten million dollars a year. You know, just think of the hand ringing that in the uh, just the difficulty they had to pay off Willie Taggart five years ago and that was eighteen million dollars. I mean now we're talking about a multiple three or four of that. So I don't think he's in danger right now. But the problem is that the task gets tougher and tougher
the longer you go. I'm actually posting a column on our site this morning that you know, one of the things he did when he came in, you know, to four to stay five years ago, is he cleaned up the lack of accountability. He ran some players off, he made drastic changes and what was expected, well, that's one thing. It's easy to do that when you're in the new sheriff in town. It's harder when you've built this, you've
created this, and you've allowed these problems to manifest. And so you know, he owns all of this, and it's harder to fix your own mess than it is to clean up somebody else's. And so I think the odds are probably against him turning it around. But the bottom line is he has some time to do it, because you know, the reality is they he does have a seven more years on his contract.
Could it be argued that the team is getting worse because, for example, the defense we thought was kind of a bright light, but that took a big backwards step this past week. You could blame some of that on the offense's inability to do anything for any sustained amount of time. But now you're seeing undisciplined play in the only area where it hadn't existed in that special teams because there were two calls against the Noles during special teams during punts that were just egregious mistakes.
Yeah, no, you're one hundred percent right. Now, they're definitely getting worse. You know, the cow game, the last two games, the defense had shown some light and you felt like, Okay, if they can keep doing that and you can just figure out something on offense, this team, maybe he could win some of these games here in the last half of the season. But once the offense is just continuing to not just play poorly, but you know, giving up touchdowns.
I mean, they gave up pick six. They basically gave up another pick six. You know, it only took you know, player too after the interceptions underscore, and so, you know, the defense, like you said, they they're kind of you know, they're only gonna play hard for so long. So and then the special teams having those disasters. I mean, you just cannot have penalties that erase a sixty seven yard punt and then allow the other team to retain possession
instead of trying to punt. And you know, that's what there are. They're just an awful football team right now. And to me, you know, I think there's gonna be plenty of time to really, you know, to your question, there's gon be plenty of time to reflect on all the things that went wrong to get into this situation.
But right now the most important thing is Mike Norvel has to take a critical lie to this team, this program and make drastic changes because this is not this is not a situation where you're going through some growing pains because you have some young players in key positions. You know, this is the program has gone off the track.
What do you make of the I guess stubbornness to put DJ in situations where he is no going to succeed, you know.
Honestly, it's it's kind of inexplicable. Now. Part of it is I would say that, you know, I've seen DJ run at other times and practices, you know, different situations where he looks more athletic than he does on game day. I don't know what it is. I don't know why he seems to be running in his low emotion on game day, but we've seen enough to know that that's what it is. Now he is two hundred and fifty pounds, and I get the idea coming into the season, this
was something they wanted to do. They came into this offseason and in preseason thinking that if they got in a short yarded situations, certainly down by the goal line, the DJ at six foot you know, three six foot four to two hundred and fifty pounds would be a weapon in those situations, but it hasn't played out that way in the first five games. It certainly has not
looked like that at any point this season. So calling it the first time, okay, fine, like you said, and if it was blocked properly, Lawrence Tofield's a fifth year senior. You need to be able to count on him to make that block. He whiffs on it and it ruins the play, But then to call it again was just it's inexplicable. And you know, listen, Mike Novel's gonna have to make a lot of the decisions at the end of the season, one big one about players and about coaches.
One big one is about whether or not he needs to be the offensive coordinator, the play caller for this team. Because this offense is as bad as some of the personnel deficiencies are, there's no reason that they're playing as bad as they are. There's more talent than when he's getting out of it.
What does Mike Norvel and the staff have to do to just get through the year.
I think they you know, listen, I just think they have to be honest with themselves. You know, one of Mike novel's greatest qualities. I really believe this is he does want the best for every player on his team, from the grow the five Stars to the walk Ons. I mean, he wants them all to succeed. But at
this point he needs to take a critical eye. He and his staff need to take a critical eye and say, Okay, which players are part of the solution going forward, and if they're not part of the solution going forward, then they have to be seen as part of the problem and he needs to move forward. You know, I got going into this game. I felt like the SMU game was the last chance for them. If they were going to make a bowl game, they absolutely had to win
that game and continue showing progress. And maybe you could be Duke in Carolina and Charleston Southern Florida. That would give you six wins and now now you at least could go to a bowl game, which would be nice for a lot of reasons. But that's pretty much off the table now. So to me, it's it doesn't have to be the complete youth movement. I'm not saying you bench everybody that's a senior or a fourth or fifth year junior, but if they're not part of the solution.
Then they need to not play and I think it needs because you need to send a message that you're only going to play guys who are gonna do everything, you lay it all on the line and give you everything they've got. And right now they're playing a lot of guys that aren't doing that.
Yeah, I was just gonna say, even if they're not necessarily part of the long term solution, they have to set an example that they're going to get playing time based on effort.
Yeah, I agree, I'm percent And then to me, that's going to be difficult. Again, it's one thing to clean up some mails's mess. It's a lot harder when you brought these players in and you've accepted how they practice and performed for the last you know, two, three or four years, and so it's on you as much as it is on them. But for the program, for the health of the program, he has to put his foot down at some point.
Well, we know at this point the decision by FSU head football coach Mike Norvel was to make some changes, and so he did before the end of the season. We'll see how it all pans out. What I do know is we have more of the Twelve Days of Preston still to come on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Welcome back to the Twelve Days of Preston. This is the month of September, the ninth of the Twelve Days, and it's Christmas Eve.
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We're always trying to look out for you, and sometimes I come across stories that just, yeah, really force me to have to dig deep to find diplomatic ways to offer some thoughts on some things that impact your life every day. If you were to rate your trust of the medical profession in general on a scale of one to ten, ten being one hundred percent trustworthy, one being not trustworthy at all, where would the medical profession be in general? Second layer of questioning would be where would
you place your doctors. My hunt is that you would give a fairly low ranking to the medical profession in general and a much higher ranking to your individual personal doctor. That would be my hunch. I've shared with you how COVID and the subsequent years following, and now here we
have the big pharmaceutical companies back out. They're pushing vaccines all over again, which are not vaccines, they're shots, and I cannot I can't possibly get my brain around why anyone would trust these shots given what we've seen, what the science set has been released is showing us about the adverse effects of these shots. But let's go back to the broader topic, because I've said and said throughout COVID that the medical profession as a whole is going to have to do a lot of work to regain
people's trust. And I believe that one of the most important things they have to do is say we were wrong and we're sorry. That's not going to happen. So then it falls on you to make sure that the doctors that you rely on are able to give you appropriate science based advice. And I can't tell you how to do that. I can only tell you that that's what I've done. I've interviewed my doctors, I've had very candid,
direct conversations with anyone speaking into my life. Anyone who listens to this show knows my feelings on certain subjects. But I wanted to take this time this morning a couple of segments to bring up the topic because here's where we are in America. In Europe, major medical groups are erasing women in new guidance as it relates to irregular heart rhythm and stroke. I mean this literally erasing women as a group and replacing women with this absurd,
mixed up, woke, politically correct nonsense. And I'm gonna detail it in just a moment. I'm gonna get into the journal of the American Medical Association the European Society of Cardiology, and we're gonna look into just briefly surface level, but important, surface level stuff that hopefully informs you as you move forward in your in your health decisions, in who you
trust for guidance. There there are some awesome doctors, physicians, surgeons, specialists, absolutely, but you best be aware that this is what is being pushed by these giant associations. This is from Just the News. It's a piece written by Greg Piper. Doctors already struggling to consistently use their patient's preferred gender pronouns and account for sex based differences in treatment for those who present as the opposite sex are facing potentially greater confusion.
Courtesy of American and European medical groups, The American Medical Association's Manual of Style Committee is accepting feedback through the month's end on draft guidance on reporting gender sex, gender identities, sexual orientation, and age in medical and scientific publication, following its similar guidance for inclusive language on race and ethnicity three years ago. The draft guidance includes twelve different variations of gender alone, starting with gender itself with rungs, which
runs fifteen sentences and half a page. Each page features the header do not cite, do not distribute. Despite the Journal of the American Medical Association seeking public comment, the European Society of Cardiology erased women as a group at elevated risk for strokes and its vitalized guidelines for management of atrial fibrillation in a regular heart rhythm developed with the European Association for cardio Thoracic Surgery, released at a
recently concluded ESC Congress in London. Female sex, it states, is an age dependent stroke risk modifier rather than a risk factor per se. The inclusion of gender complicates clinical
practice for both healthcare professionals and patients. It also emits individuals who identify as a non binary transgender who are undergoing sex hormone therapy, what so doctors who should be relying on these medical associations, and anyone who signs up and follows them follows their guidance is thereby relegating women to casper the friendly ghost status in deference to twelve
different gender expressions. Instead of simplifying male female men women, they have chosen to just eliminate women from the disc ushion. So it's to not offend the person that's sitting across from them. Let me tell you something. If a doctor is not capable, someone's sitting here, I'm doctor Scott, and this person is a biological male but wants to be considered a female. I don't give a ratcher in what they want to be considered. I'm not talking to them
about a menstrual cycle. I'm not talking to them about the dangers of pregnancy given their health, and that they should go on birth control pills. I'm not discussing with them that as they are growing, their hips are growing wider because they are created to give birth and their are at greater risk for knee and ankle injury. Because
there are men, they're males, they're dudes. But we're now entering a world where the guidance given to medical professionals, And keep in mind, we have young people going through medical school now that believe this stuff that believe in gender fluidity, that believe in well, I think I'm gonna wake up today and be a male. I think tomorrow will be a female. You know what, Wednesdays are always crazy, right, I think I'll be gender fluid. I'll just change throughout
the day. What doctors should be saying is whatever I'm going to advise and treat and counsel you based on your DNA and your biological sex. Thank you very much. The rest take it to doctor Schwartz, who's your psychiatrist? Take it up with whatever is your mental health professional. See is this is this is where we are. This is happening. Women are being erased. Look at what's happening in sports. Look what's happening in high schools, middle schools, colleges, universities.
Look what's happening at beauty pageants. Women are being erased. Now we have I mean, the Journal of the American Medical Association is is jumping on here with this more to come on the twelve Days of Preston. Here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Gotta move fast. Here one of my regular guests, doctor ed Moore, with a little more history. Let's start out.
We're talking about Florida, just how Florida has grown. So I'm going back to the original kind of We'll talk a little bit about how Florida becoming a state in eighteen forty five and all that, but just growth in this state. So many people are new here, they don't understand how Florida has grown. I mean, I've been you know, I've lived out of state for a couple of decades, but spent all my childhood down here and most of
my senior adult life. I've been back twenty five years, and this state has changed dramatically, and yet it's still one of the least government intrusive government expenditure states, even as big as it is, which is really quite remarkable. You can only go back if you only go back to twenty ten, Okay, which is just twelve fourteen years ago. But on a they lag about two years when they start doing population esimate. So over those twelve years, Orange County.
Now if you drive through Orange County you understand this. But Orange County has had the largest growth in those twelve years. Over three hundred thousand more people move just into that county. Our neighboring county, Gasden County, lost the most people. They lost forty four hundred people roughly in those twelve years. People moving elsewhere. There's changes all around. But we tend to think of all growth. But you're in a county like Gasden, if you lose four thousand people,
that's a big chunk of your small population. What does that due to the local economy. So it's Florida is a kind of a microcosm of the rest of the country, several different types of states, if you will, If you've gathered up the various counties together, it's very different, a lot of changes. Florida grew from eighteen point eight million people in twenty Tenkay, it grew eighteen point eight million more people in those twelve years. That's a lot of people.
That's a lot of people. That's roughly a million and a half a year.
That's bigger than more than half the state. Okay, that's just our growth we got. Right now, we're probably over twenty three million people. But in twenty two when they did the population, it was twenty two point two million people. Huge growth, eighteen percent growth. During that time frame, the United States grew seven point seven percent. I guess if you could count all the legals, it'd probably be even more so.
But oh, we probably are counting them. But never mind.
Ye, Florida has changed during that time as well. In twenty ten, we were fifty eight percent white and twenty two we're only fifty two percent white. What grew Hispanic population. Black populations in Florida didn't change at all as a percentage of the total population during that timeframe. Even though there's growth, it's a percentage of what your share is. Florida has been a big part of the US history a long time. We'll talk about the eighteen seventy six election.
We've talked about that before, and the role of Florida played eighteen forty five when Florida became a state where players we're bigger players now than we've ever been on the national stage. In those changes too as well, the changes of who lives here changes sixty five and over as a segment of our population, there's a back in the seventies, everybody thought this was retirement heaven and that's why they came here. Well, we're kind of back to
that again. In those same twelve years, we went from seventeen percent to over twenty one percent of the population. Being over sixty five, and every other age demographic age group shrunk as a percentage of the population. They all grew, but they shrunk, and the school age population under nineteen went from almost twenty four percent down to twenty one percent.
Now you think about the implications for public policy and what the legislature does and how they spend their money, it lags a little bit because all that information doesn't get captured. But where the state spends its money in large part is driven by who lives here. And going forward, we're going to probably see a lot of changes. We're seeing changes in voter registration. The people that are moving here Republicans an now or the other day a million and thirty thousand, yep.
That and growing.
And the Republicans were getting elected in the past even with that happening. But that's because they are huge independent votes and the old blue dog, the yellow dog, whatever were on a kind of dog used to vote conservative as well. I started working in this process first in nineteen seventy two, Democrats dominated the back row of the legislature in the House was Republicans. There were thirty thirty four of them out of one hundred and twenty. Now
it's the opposite. And people go, oh, that's because of apportionment and all of that reapportionment.
No nonsense, it's population driven.
You know, you can draw maps anyway which who you want, You're still going to come up with numbers like that.
It's also good policy. That's bear fruit.
Yeah, the US changes. Texas has had the largest growth in our country. And we'll talk probably the next time or a time after on that expansion out west, but four point eight million new people in Texas during that time frame. Illinois, surprise, had the biggest decline in population. They've lost about a quarter of a million people. And that's continuing. The people that are coming here, and I don't think it's going to change.
They're still voting, mind you folks, but never mind, Well they're voting, but they're still on Illinois.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Well that's the plus, the plus the dead people. Yeah, they have a they have a pull center out in the cemeteries.
Uh.
Biggest county growth in the whole country's you're familiar with Arizona. Americopa County added seven hundred and twenty six thousand people. One no county in that same.
Time, oh, Ian one little County.
La County, La County biggest drop in number of people. And so when you look at the real numbers and you think, well, I'm not surprised at that. You know, that's what's going on out there. Big growth has happened in Florida in spurts. If you go back, I'm looking at my notes here eighteen forty to eighteen forty five. Florida became a state in eighteen forty five, but the eighteen forty census, when they ran the census as a territory, there were an eighteen forty fifty four fifty five thousand
people in Florida in the entire state. Half of them were slaves. I mean, so you're talking about twenty six twenty seven thousand free landholders. By eighteen forty five, the number was up to eighty seven thousand people. So what's that thirty three thousand growth as a percentage, A huge bump, but still only eighty seven thousand people. I mean, Leon County has well, you have three hundred thousand people. That's
not real huge thirty nine thousand of those eighty seven thousand. Though, in eighteen forty five when we became a state, we're slaves, and there were one thousand free holders or free slaves. I'm sorry, So Florida talk about change, I mean, find someplace else that change that dramatically. Except for when we talk in a couple of months about going west, we really no population to boom. We've got people, how do
you deal with that? Those are the real huge public policy issues that government faces, even when it's inadequate, you know, talk about change. I mean, I'm always fascinated by Florida and how much it's changed. Of If you go back to eighteen forty six, Florida had three we're just talking off air, three electoral votes. We have thirty now, I mean I have ten times the amount and probably should have more. The next census, we definitely will get one
or two more congressional seats. Florida has played a pivotal role if you go back to the Hayes Rutherford Hayes, who became president as a Republican in eighteen seventy sixth election, ran against a guy named Sam Tilden. Tilden was winning one hundred and eighty four to one hundred and sixty five. Most people don't understand the electoral college. It's kind of complex legislatures used to drive that whatever the popular vote was in the state really didn't matter as much. They
would tend to go with it. We experienced some of that here in Florida and the conversation in two thousand that the legislature could have gone, no, we're going over this direction. They could do what they want. That's very clear in the constitution. Tilden was winning. He had one hundred and sixty five votes, twenty Electoral College votes. One was from Oregon that could have gone either way. It
didn't really matter. But Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana, three deep South southern states at the time, think of this is eighteen seventy six, post Civil War, reconstruction's going on. Three states got together and decided, brother, for days, you're gonna use the Republican it was at the time they were pushing reconstruction. We will end reconstruction. Bingo Hayes gets
twenty votes, so he goes from losing to winning. He needed one hundred and eighty five votes to He ended up winning one hundred and eighty five to one hundred and eighty four, and reconstruction ended.
Doctor Ed Moore with a little more history, and we'll be back with more of the Twelve Days of Preston. Can you believe we're at the end of the year twenty twenty four? Oh, my goodness, gracious, twenty twenty five is around the corner. Literally tonight. I guess it is New Year's Eve. You're listening to the Twelve Days of Preston. Now, if you're just joining us, what the heck. We're in the last segment here. Now, don't leave, because it's gonna
be worth your time. But we've spent the last several days going through the year twenty twenty four. The Twelve Days of Preston refer to twelve shows that recap the year, and each show corresponds to the month. So for example, this is show number nine, so it is the ninth month,
and that's the month of September twenty twenty four. We're talking about the various stories that we kicked around, the interviews, the guests, the topics, and as we end the show, I thought this was a fun segment to kind of end with. You know, social media has transformed life for good and bad. It's ironic to me that social media has led to a culture, a generation that is the most unsociable ever, staring at their phones and not looking people in the eye. But it does provide some good content.
And here is a segment that I think is worth sharing, especially looking back now that we know the results of the election. We know Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris, but this was a special segment that we introduced, played a little sound, and as is often the case, it had kind of an effervescent lead in. So let's go back to September here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. One of the research assistants of the programs shared this
with me. It has been briefly edited for time. It originated on a website on YouTube, a channel called Look and Live. It's a Christian channel, and it's just got to compilate of different things. This is a guy who's got a TikTok presence and apparently took a question from a young lady, and that question is at the front end, why are you voting for Trump?
All right, young lady, I'll be happy to answer that for you as somebody that is a former Democrat. I'm a two time bone cancer survivor. I voted for Obama Biden in two thousand and eight based on Obamacare. And then when Obamacare was implemented, I promptly lost my insurance. I could not keep my plan, I could not keep my doctor. That put me in a tel spin of losing insurance. And then on top of that, I got penalized for not having insurance that I could no longer afford.
Now that was pre Donald Trump's political career. That had nothing to do with Donald Trump. That had to do with the Democratic Party leaving me behind even though I voted for them. Now, come along to twenty sixteen. Donald Trump campaigns on getting rid of the penalty for no insurance, and he did that helped my family out in me specifically. Then he campaigned on tax cuts. He did that. I got a tax cut, My employer got a tax cut. My employer then gave all two hundred thousand plus employees
raises because the tax burden on them was less. Ironically enough, that company was Costco, a very liberal company that backed Hillary Clinton in the election. Not only did they give all employees raises, which mine was three dollars an hour.
Back in twenty eighteen, they raised the minimum wage from twelve dollars an hour to fifteen dollars an hour because they specifically said the tax breaks Donald Trump delivered on that, and there wasn't a single Democrat that voted for you and I to have more of our own money we earn. One of the people that that cast to vote no was a Senator from California named Kamala Harris. Did not get into any new conflicts our president set foot in North Korea.
I don't know if you know how big that is.
But the one thing I want to ask you is this. You look young, which means you're probably still on your mom and dad's insurance, so you've never had to face that dilemma as a parent or as an adult. Also, you probably don't own a home. And if you don't know the difference between a sub three percent mortgage rate versus a nearly eight percent mortgage rate under Biden, then you simply don't understand why anybody could ever vote for
Donald Trump. To me, since I know how that works, my bigger question is why on Earth would anybody vote for Kamala Harris Because she's sitting here saying no tax on tips, but yet in twenty twenty three, her and Biden passed a bill and she was the deciding vote to make this a bill where you had a new way of reporting taxes on tips. And they also were going to hire eighty seven thousand new IRS agents to audit us to make sure the government got more of
our money. That's why I'm voting for Donald Trump because he has a history of doing what he says, versus Kamala Harris having a history of saying and not doing anything about it. That's why I'm voting for Donald Trump because of the history we have to look back on. A good economy, good job growth. America was doing great before pre COVID. No COVID would have ruined any president. I don't understand why anybody would vote for Kamala Harris. Can you for that one for me?
Yeah? Can you think of And I recognize that I'm speaking to some folks even right now, and you voted for Kamala Harris. You couldn't bring yourself to vote for Donald Trump. I will tell you, I have no idea. Why. See, when I'm voting in a primary, I vote with my heart. I am digging in for the person I think is the right person for the job. And then you get to a general election and you've got this person or
this person. Oh we can, we can hope and dream that a third party candidate is going to get elected, but it's going to be in your dreams, and what you inevitably do is help someone you really don't want get elected. Now, thankfully that didn't happen in November. You know, now, we'll certainly get to November in a couple of days. But boy, that particular piece of sound was a really nice explanation of where I felt the country was going.
And when I started to hear from people that I have a lot of respect and admiration for tell me that they thought Trump was going to win the popular vote, I was feeling more and more at ease. But when it was all said and done, it really while it matters in the big, big, big picture, God's on the throne, right, We're not electing a pastor in chief. We're electing a commander in chief. We're electing somebody who we think is the best of the people that are running to take
the job. And thankfully this country sent a mandate that it was not going to be Kamala Harris. I still understand why anyone would vote for I'll be charitable and stop. There we are. We're going to be back tomorrow, New Year's Day, with day number ten of the twelve Days of Preston. As we recap the month of October. Remember it's New Year's Eve. Everybody, be safe, be smart, and in advance. Happy New Year,