Ep. 5111: State of the Union Reax

Hey, good morning friends. Nine minutes past the Allen great to be with you this morning on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. That's Grant Allen. I am Preston and we go to Luke twenty two and in Luke we have the story of the Last Supper. And what's significant about that that ties into where we started with the song by Matthew West. And the key to that song is me on your mind. That Jesus did what he did with you

and me on his mind at the Last Supper. Jesus lifted the cup and gave thanks, and he did that with you and me on his mind. Ten minutes after the hour. That's how we'll start. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Tons and tons of little stories and features. It's gonna be a good show today. They always are, at least we try. We try our best to make them good. But this segment of the program show fifty one to eleven, Friday

March eighth, is our trip back through history. Not a lot happened on this day, but we're gonna do a little bit of a deep dive into and just illustrate how life works sometimes going backwards. Nineteen eighty three, March eighth, in Florida, the Gipper President Ronald Reagan refers to the Soviet Union as an evil empire. M hm, that's how it went down, and

boydd things change. Reagan knuckled down on the Rooskies and they broke. Sadly, we've had too much weak leadership on both sides of the aisle since Ronald Reagan. Nineteen sixty five, first US combat troops arrive in South Vietnam. When Marines land near Dnang to secure an airbase eighteen seventeen, it's to go all the way back to eighteen seventeen. New York Stock Exchange is formally chartered, and in seventeen ninety six US Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the

Congressional Act for the first time when it upholds the carriage tax. Taxes have an ugly history in this country. I mean, when you think about it, it's what led to the Revolution, and here we are one of the most ridiculous taxing levying mechanisms in the world. Is the United States government anyway?

Well, there are others that are worse, but the strength of America is its ability to produce and to consume to create a quality of life, and tax policy has a lot to say about that, and unfortunately we're on the wrong side of tax policy. But it was also on this date in eighteen eighty seven, that six year old Helen Keller spent the day getting to know her new teacher, Anne Sullivan. Helen was not even two years old when she came down with an illness that robbed her of her sight and hearing

for the rest of her life. Get a hold of that for the next few years as she grew up. She would later write wild and unruly, giggling and chuckling to express pleasure, kicking, scratching, uttering, the choked screams of the deaf mute to indicate the opposite. When Anne Sullivan arrived from Boston and moved in with Helen's family, determined to help the girl break out of her lonely world of darkness and silence with determination and love, and taught

Helen to spell words with her fingers than to read and write braille. Eventually, Helen learned to speak and devoted much of the rest of her life to her student. Listen to what happened. She graduated from Radcliffe College with honors. She would give lectures around the world and write books that sold all over the world, start in a movie about her own life. Met every president from Grover Cleveland to Lyndon Johnson, received countless awards, Francis Legion of Honor

to the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom. She would swim, ride horses, bicycles, play chess, go camping, ride in an open cockpit airplane. When you start to think that life is tough, perspective comes when looking at a life like Helen Kelly and realizing you can, just you can, You can do it. Sixteen past the hour, come back and dive into the world of food. Yes, no, I didn't watch the Date of the Union speech. Are you kidding? I needed to be able to sleep.

I didn't want nightmares. I did catch portions of it when I came in this morning. I looked at his speech. I looked at the response by Katie Britt of Alabama. Delightful, young lady. But look I thought it was a little cringey myself, as kids like to say today, I just it was a little overly baked. And I think she handed the left and opportunity to just call her a typical Karen, and it was it was just too kind of thing. It just it just was weird to me what

she said on the money across the board, but delivery was just. And I think she's a delightful young lady, and I think she's smart, and I think she's an outstanding she's a she's a I think a legit, god loving, god fearing conservative woman. I'm not sure she was the right person to deliver that speech, however, we'll get to all that. I came across this story. It's it's it's a little thing that's gone pretty heavy on on X guy posted a receipt from five Guys. Five Guys burgers and fries.

Now context is required. Five Guys has always been overpriced, with one exception, the Cajun fries worth every penny. Oh, I have to say, they are incredible. Now. They dump an obscene amount of fries. They'll take this thing and they'll fill the little holder and they'll just keep dumping and put it in a bag. And it's just like and they call that a small Yes, it's just it's enormous. And those fries, Okay,

I'm sixty three. I will not eat those at nighttime. I will eat those at daytime, at lunch to give myself a little time to work through those things. They are so good. I gotta give them that. But that hamburger cheeseburger that they make is so obscenely overpriced for what you get, well the receipt with with a little bit of a tip, and I mean a standard tip that you would give twenty four bucks for one person. My gosh, yeah, no burger at cheese, bacon, cheeseburger twelve forty nine,

regular soda two eighty nine, and the small fries five nineteen. Eh. And people are just I mean, it's it's a it's a viral thing. But again it's always been overpriced. The thing is, I just I can't bring myself. I could go in there, buy a burger from somewhere else and get their fries. I know, I'm I'm paying double what I

should pay for those fries. And so we'll see, you know, because these places are here hitting their their I think a word you like to use their rubicon, they're they are they're hitting a point where people are just gonna ignore. And I've shared the story if a business becomes whited out to you where you just don't see it. It's not there. You know, the signs there, the building's there, but you don't see it because it's just it's you. Just you're just you drive by it. It's just not a

it's not a consideration. That's a very dangerous place to be. You're dead to me, exactly. Yes, Grant Allen's back, ladies and gentlemen. And then there's this Oscar Meyer is going into the meatless world. No, they are going to release later on this year a plant based hot dog and

sausage called Not hot Dogs and Not Sausages. Wow, original naming. All I'm gonna say is, unless you have to look, I know of people that have like legitimate there's proteins in red meat that their body reacts terribly to. I'm not talking preference. I'm talking it's a thing. It's a wiring thing in their body, and they can't eat red meats, and so they have to eat poultry and they have to eat fish. If you're in that category, you know what, I get it, and I'm glad there are

alternatives for you. But for the rest of you, Sweet God Almighty, please don't give in, don't buy this stuff, don't do it, don't do it, And that parlays into something we've talked about with Peter Schweizer. We talked about with Tommy Tuberville, the importance of not allowing our farmland to be bullied into oblivion. It wasn't Peter Schweizer, it was Tommy Turberville,

and it was a cat camick. It is so important that you need to if you've got land, start raising beef cattle of them, twenty of them, start doing it. We got to push back on this. We gotta get meat back onto the plate. That's how God made us. Twenty seven minutes after the hour, back with the Big Stories, Welcome to the Morning Show. Preston Scott. All of a sudden, I want Troy Hawk of

the Greeter's guilt out of all of our breaks. You're resplendent in that scoff, a veritable corner copy of common You, sir, have the look of a determination, be about your day and be successful. That guy's awesome. You gotta find him on YouTube or wherever he's at. I don't know. He's probably got on Instagram and everything out there. Just don't go to TikTok, I beg you Morning show with Preston's got big stories in the press box, restore carpet care and tile. Some of you like, what are you

talking about? The Greeters Guild. This guy gets hired by companies or he volunteers and he shows up at big events and for businesses to just greet people and to thank them for shopping or whatever it might be. It's the guy's awesome. He really is quick witted and very insightful about just he just eyeballs people and then drops compliments. He just compliments people. It's really fun Troy Hawk and it's the Greeters Guild. Anyway, Okay, did you watch or

hear any of the State of the Union. I'm just I was just now getting caught up in the commercial break we just finished. Is there a State of the Union that would interest you? Like? Did you watch Trump's? Yeah? I did, Yeah, I would watch when he was president. I did watch his. I'm just about to Democrats don't even didn't even want to watch Biden. I'll be anxious to see how many people tuned in. The media, of course, is fawning over every word. If the guy

didn't wet his pants and put his pants on backwards. They're going to fawn over him. They're going to just be Oh, he's he's invigorated. Is yelling at the top of your lungs like a demagogue? The new tactic of the left is that I don't know what you mean by that. Yeah, yeah, hey man shut down? Yeah, because he just he's yelling. Yeah, Like is that just his personality? Is that anger? Is that old age? Is that I don't Some of his comments, my predecessor and

some of you here seek to bury the truth of January sixth. I will not do that. This is a moment to speak the truth and bury the life eyes. This coming from the man whose leadership in the house buried the truth. They wouldn't allow the release of the tapes of the security cameras of what happened. This is why I won't listen. It's it's why you don't listen to your child when you saw them on the video camera and take the cookies. You don't need to listen to them lie to you. You just

don't. I I inherited an economy that was on the brink. Now our economy is the envy of the world. I have is he doing. Fantol got a little taste of the cartel's finest. Huhs, China's finest. I'm we learned from Peter. It's not it's not the cartels, it's China. That is true. China, boy, can we bring that back China? Yeah, I'm a leave that to you. Every time we need to say the word, I'm just gonna que you and you go just say China just

the right amount of nasal. Discuss the annual tax credit he's going to give Americans for the next two years to help bring their mortgage rate down. So he created the conditions that caused interest rates to skyrocket, he did. You can blame it on COVID all you want. It was the reaction to COVID that was the problem and the length of that reaction. But guess who pays for that annual tax credit? We do went on to tout his student loan

cancelation benefit once a twenty five percent tax for billionaires? Does that mean on top of what they're already being taxed? That's obscene. We're in a stronger position to win in the competition against China than anyone else for that matter. So we're positioned to beat China and Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Biden was heckled by uh, some Republicans chiding him to say the name Lincoln Riley. He couldn't say it. He said, Lincoln Riley, and

Lincoln Riley an innocent young woman who was killed by an illegal. That's right. That drove the progressives nuts that he said illegal. Omar tweets out, let me be clear, no human being is illegal, that include in the womb Omar. Huh, I'm in that annoying mood today. I just am. I see Ilhan Omar, and my desire for deportation just goes up each time, right Like I hear them talk and I'm like, you know what I think. I think we ought to send her to Jana. That's what

I think we ought to do. Uh what else? Oh? This stood out? Democrats and Republicans wore pins and stickers in honor of the Israeli hostages. Cool remember them the squad. The Progressives wore scarves in the Palestinian black and white colors to symbolize Palestinian solidarity. They can't, I swear go ahead. These rubes care more about virtue signaling for something other than Americans dying. It's not just that, though, Grant, They're not only that, they're

they they ridicule, they mock anyone who dares lift up American symbols. Right, It's like, who the crap are you? How'd you get in this country? There are new monuments that are being put up, like the like the Ukraine pins and all of these different scarves. These are our new monuments while they're tearing down statues of Washington and Jefferson as we speak. The revolution has been underway for a long time. The new monuments are here. We

spoke on Thursday yesterday with Peter Schweizer. It was an epic interview, it really was. Peter is always good. I'm like, you know what, I'm the person that it's holding on the back of the motorcycle with the guy who can really ride it. I'm just I'm just hanging on the best I can. Peter is so good. And guess what happened yesterday? TikTok users virtually bombed the US capital texts, emails, phone calls. Exactly what Peter

was talking about, the Chinese influence using TikTok. I'm going to be abundantly clear. Get it off your kids' phones. They received messages from alleged kids saying they'd killed themselves if they banned TikTok. And that speaks to what happens through these little hits that TikTok offers. Notice the campaign that's out there. Did you see the doctor doing television ads for TikTok talking to his son killed by a drunk driver. And he makes these videos to try to save kids

lives virtuous, no doubt about it. He doesn't get it. He's actually creating a bigger problem drawing kids to TikTok. TikTok is out there right now trying to say we're not bad, We're fine. Listen to the interview with Peter Schweitzer and get TikTok off of your phones and your kids' phones. And oh, by the way, layoff surge to the highest levels since two thousand and nine last month. It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott's. Congratulations to

FSU women's basketball advanced in the ACC Women's Tournament. Their opening game was in the second round. They got a first round five, so they played tonight against the three seed Syracuse, twentieth ranked team FSU fully capable of winning the ACC title. They just have to shoot it well. But that could be said about a lot of teams. Now there's some teams that don't have to shoot it well because they're just so physical and can rebound. In the women's

game, you know, rebounding and getting extra possessions is very important. I liked I coached a woman's basketball game, a girls basketball game years and years and years ago when the girls varsity coach had to be out he was ill or something had come up, and so I coached the girls team as well as the boys team, and I enjoyed it because it's very simple coaching to me, and that's not to diminish the skills, because we had one of

the most talented girl basketball players I've ever seen in my life on a high school level when we had our teams together, and so she made things pretty easy. But I just find that, you know, force force players to their weakend, box out, limit turnovers. You're gonna win the game. Make your layups. You know you're you're gonna get layups, make them and

uh. Anyway, and then we were talking f SU baseball. My goodness, link Jared, what a difference a year makes of getting things, players, everything, and of course a lot of fun for me personally to uh to see the success of of Drew Farrow. I've known Drew since he now I have not talked with Drew in years, but I'm good friends with his dad, Adam Farrow, and his mom Christy, and know all of his

sisters. They I just I was around Drew when he was a little guy, and it's just cool to see him have success as part of this team. So that's a lot of fun. I've got two did you know? Segments on the show today. Here's the first one. This comes from a listener that I'll simply say has proven over the last decade to be well connected. Have you heard anything about an Iranian assassination assassin sneaking into America currently in

Miami looking for President Trump? Friend retired from the FBI office in Nashville told me about this. He also said the FBI currently knows about it and is refusing to act in a diligent manner concerning this. You heard anything about it?

No, Well, if we're talking about it on the radio seemingly that's a good news then, right, because it's just out in the open or it's like I'm not like, well, I mean, I'm just I'm saying it because it's sure ought to be there, right, So it would it surprise you to learn that there's something like that going on and the FBI is not going to give it much attention? Oh me either, Yeah, not surprised one bit, because right now Donald Trump is is poised to win by

what I'll call a presidential landslide, and it has to be. Just don't forget that. It has to be. And we'll get more into voting with your head and not your heart and not your your virtues. You got to vote with your head in the upcoming general election. Did you know Harvard has finally dropped the vaccine mandate, but a shocking number of colleges still require it. I'm not going to be surprised if those stay on forever. Actually,

I don't know. It just feels like something that's now. Dut that one up to the list of requirements, I guess, And I'm calling a personal injury attorney. If I was forced to get the vaccine, Boy, wouldn't that be hilarious? If I were forced or I lost my job as a result, I would be hiring a personal injury attorney. I think the evidence is out there. And again the simple argument Occam's razor is all there. The vaccine doesn't stop the prevent in any way, shape or form. And

then this, did you know? The National Institutes of Health has awarded two hundred and fourteen thousand dollars for researchers to create transgender voice training in an app. Oh gosh, two hundred thousand plus of your tax dollars are going to create transgender voice training. Key fact. The study aims to address voice dysphoria. So now we're we're all guilty of or or promoting voice dysphoria. Whatever. Here it is the second hour I want to show with rust. It's

got Grant Allen over there, looking very summary, very spring like. Feeling it too. Yeah, yeah, it's just nice. Yeah, throw on different arrangements that you haven't done in a while. Yeah. The wardrobe definitely gets a little reboot. I have yet to come up with a system because I just I need to and my wife is going to just go, no, you're not. I need to move some clothes out of my closet. I just need to thin things out. I'm a real simple conservative dresser generally

and anyway looking nice. Thank you. It's Friday, which means What's the Beef comes up next hour later this hour, We've got some animal stories. We'll get you ready for What's the Beef? Another edition of Did You Know? Part two this morning, and then a story from me my life you can always learn. I'm going to demonstrate that to you a little bit later on in about fifteen minutes. This comes from Scott Beacan the Bee Line,

who I learned inadvertently is an occasional listener of this broadcast. So Scott, if you're out there, thank you. I really appreciate the work that you do, and you're welcome to come on the program anytime you want. I'd love to hear from you at Preston at iHeartRadio dot com, because I'm a

great admirer of the work. Five facts from February. So February facts, five of them real quickly in December twenty twenty illegals released by US Border Patrol seventeen December twenty twenty three, one hundred and ninety one thy one hundred and twelve lovely. Somehow Trump was able to deal with those attempting to cross the border and claim asylum. Right, Scott, that's a great point. He figured out a way to do it. They weren't just released into the country.

Andy McCarthy pointed out that the president always has had and has the authority to deal with the problem at the border. Don't need an Act of Congress. You have the authority to deal with it. And McCarthy cites eight US Code one one eight two f United States population increase. The US just had the largest increase in population in one year in the nation's history. What's interesting is that that is at the same time as low fertility rates. So what

does that tell you? M births minus deaths plus legal immigration plus illegal immigration, and that estimate may be low. I mean, how do you add almost four million people to the population in one year without creating problems? And it's not through childbirth. Just saying Fact five islamophobia. He writes, in nineteen ninety there were five hundred thousand Muslims in the United States. By two thousand and one, nine to eleven, that number had risen to one point

one million. Today that number is four point five million. At the same time, the Christian population in Iraq has almost disappeared from one point five million to one hundred and fifty thousand. Is it Islamophobia or christian phobia that's at work defund the police in Portland. He just looks at the murder numbers here, and the murder numbers have exploded since the Black Lives Matter movement of twenty twenty. Defund the police, increase in murders in Portland, it's undeniable.

The chart is it hugged the line until they defunded the police, and then it exploded. And then this self esteem. We hear so much about white privilege, you would think white people would have a self esteem that's off the charts. You would also think that blacks have the lowest self esteem due to

systemic racism. However, the opposite is true based on data and he and he came across this this chart, and it shows that the the way people see themselves, that the people that see themselves the most negatively are white liberals. They're the only outlier. All other demographic groups in this surveying be curious about like white conservatives, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, non liberal whites all in the positive in like in group positive feelings. Yes, yeah, and

the only negative group is white liberals. They project their misery on the rest of us. Ten minutes after the hour and we got back. Did you know Part two? Twelve minutes past seven in the Eastern Times on six in the Central Get a mates. Did you know that yesterday New York Attorney General Letitia James at a New York Fire Department promotion ceremony was booed and drowned out by chance of Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump. So when's the Trump Manhattan

rally. I saw the rumors floating around about that one. She goes, come on, we're in the house of God. Simmer down, Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump. I love it. I just I just that is good. Remember I said yesterday, the FDA has to balance the scales. It's like the FBI does, the Department of Justice in general. They have to balance the scales. They have to do some things the FDA does to try to garner some trust by being the watchdog the FDA supposed to be.

Now CNN's reporting that the Food and Drug Administration has expanded its investigation into tainted cinnamon products. You may or may not recall that cinnamon apple sauce pouchers pouches were recalled. Back in October Wannabanna, Schnucks, and Weiss brands flavored with cinnamon imported from Ecuador. There were four hundred and sixty confirmed and suspected cases of lead poisoning and they've narrowed it down now to the and so now the

FDA is issuing warnings on ground cinnamon products. So these are the brands to be aware of if you have them. And again this is there are lots in all of these, so you're going to have to do the digging on that part. But these are the brands. La Fiesta, Markham MTCI sold at SF Supermarkets, Supreme Tradition sold at Dollar Tree, and Family Dollar l

Chalar sold in Baltimore. Some of these are very localized. But apparently there is an issue with cinnamon, ground cinnamon now having led somehow in them. No word on how that came to be, what the issue where it arises from. I'm just putting it on your radar. And the last did you know Jake Paul is going to fight Mike Tyson. Oh yeah, what July twentieth at and T Stadium in Arlington. It'll be the main event on a car that will air in Netflix. I mean, I mean, Jake Paul's

not a weak guy. No, But what's Mike Tyson's current He will be fifty eight at the time of the fight, That's what I'm saying. Like, remember the exhibition with Roy Jones Junior. Yeah, it was a draw November twenty twenty. Yeah, I mean he was in good shape. Then. I've not seen Mike Tyson looking chubby. No, And Mike Tyson is a different version of a George Foreman. George Foreman was known as having heavy hands when he was winning fights as an as a forty plus year old,

big overweight guy. Because he had heavy hands. I'm guessing if Mike Tyson were to catch Jake Paul with one of those punches, just one, he will knock Jake Paul into Last week that said, that's gonna be an interesting little exhibition fight. Be curious to learn more, But here you go when we come back, a lesson learned. I think one of the most important things at we as we age is to continue to learn, to continue you to grow, to continue to stay active. Then I don't mean changing the

channels more often. I'm talking about getting out, whether that's shooting some hoops, playing some tennis, playing some pickleball, playing golf, working in the yard, whatever that is. You know, I'm fortunate because I'm always stretching my brain. While I'm very opinionated, it does being opinionated does not mean the learning stops. The learning continues all the time. Obviously, I'm a big believer in spending time in God's word and the importance of ruminating on what

God has to say about life. My life, a life found walking beside beside Jesus, very very important. Now, the other morning I was I was taught a lesson in a very unexpected way to show you that you never stop learning. As you all know, it's pollen season. I don't have to remind you of that. My wife yesterday morning had to run an errand that required her to use an old van that we keep for purposes like this. It's a car that we keep for sentimental reasons. She raised two of

the boys in that car. Bought it new in two thousand and is response for nearly every mile other than the miles I put on it, three hundred and forty one thousand miles I think at last check, and it looks and runs incredible it's incredible. So we keep it because it's a minivan and you can pull all the seats out of it and haul all kinds of stuff. You can haul boxes in it. She needed the haul some stuff and so

we had it loaded up, but it was covered. I took the car cover off of it, so it was covered in pollen, and she said, did you take a yellow bath? Well? No, She said, hey, is there any way we can run it through the car wash? And I was like, yeah. It has a luggagerack on the back and there are a couple of little plastic pieces on there that I have on there. But every now and then, if you run it through a car wash, the dryer part of the car wash blows those things off and there are

pain in the rear to get back on. I said, I'll just I'll rinse it off and get all the pollen off in the morning. I'll just get up a little early. I'm up early anyway, and I'll just rinse it off with a hose and there we go. So I got up early yesterday morning, and I mentioned to you that I came in and I was in my stocking feet. You remember me talking about that yesterday. So I got the hose out, and I've got a nozzle on it that isn't a

trigger. It's not a trigger type thing it was. It's an actuator that you gradually put however much pressure through it that you want, and it stays on wherever that setting is or off. So I'd sprayed the vehicle down, and I set the hose down, and I went in to get my scrub brushed, to just get a couple things off the roof of it and then rinse it one more time. And when I came back, I inadvertently it

was on the dark side of the vehicle. Got a big light outside my garage, dark side of the vehicle, I inadvert stepped on the nozzle and I activated the hose and I soaked myself, pressed in wet his pants. Dude, I was soaked, shirt pants, underwear, socks, shoes soaked because it was it was just shit. I had it on the fan attachment. I am drenched. So you should have told me, like I've got

the space heater down here. It could have warmed your feet up. So anyway, I learned a lesson, and the lesson is never ever approached the business end of a garden hose when it's loaded with water. See, you're never ever too old to learn a lesson what's the beef? In a half hour? Animal stories in just a few minutes. We'll also have the best and worst next hour, as well as good news, dad joke headlines from

the bee. I want to take a second before we get to the state of the Union, and because I'm not going to spend a lot of time on it, there's no reason to. Yesterday, Peter Sweitzer talked about the importance of getting TikTok out of the lives of your kids. It is a part of the military apparatus of the Chinese Communist Party to I think the words he used deconstruct the virtues, the symbols what makes America America, and to

replace those symbols with whatever. Now understand that if China has its way, those symbols will be like Mao, President Ji, these egotistical, brutal dictators and tyrants. And as I pointed out last hour, you get help with what those symbols are. So you've got the Chinese that you've got Mao, You've got Lenin right. Sometimes it's Zelensky and they're turning him into the hero. He's not an American, he's not he's not us, he's not one of us, he's not of our people. It's all subversive to get us

to yearn for things that aren't native to us. Yeah, yeah, it's it's the watering down, it's the dilution of this country. TikTok. I'm not some old guy opposed to social media. Love YouTube. There's some parts of YouTube that are disastrous, just like everything Instagram. I have problems with what Mark Zuckerberg does, but you know what, TikTok is an instrument being used by a country that believes it can take America without firing a shot.

The documentation, the information is all inside Peter's book. It's documented. The one thing that you'll never hear anybody say about it Peter Schweitzer book is oh, that's just false. That's made up because it's meticulously researched. He won't print it if he doesn't have the sources to back it up, and those sources are listed. Users of TikTok absolutely virtually carpet bombed the US Capitol yesterday, and anyone who's a fence sitter might have been pushed to seeing the danger

that TikTok presents with the extremest attitudes. Don't you ban that or I'll kill myself. Seriously, these are messages they're getting from young people. Get it off your phone, don't make excuses for it being there. Don't make excuses for your business being on TikTok, don't make excuses for the positive impact that's It doesn't matter. China will take that all day long. They play the long game. They've been around longer than we have. They're playing the Dynasty

version of Live the life. Layoffs have surged to the highest level since two thousand and nine. Wait a minute, I thought the job numbers were going well. Then we realized, well, the people that are hiring the government. So the private sector layoffs surged in February to the highest level since two thousand and nine. And oh, by the way, a three percent increase from January and a nine percent increase from a year ago. It's getting worse.

State of the Union speech was nothing. It was It's considered the most partisan State of the Union speech ever delivered. It was nothing but an attack fest on Donald Trump, on Republicans, on conservatives, on people that believe in the sovereignty of this nation. On This Nation's Greatness forty minutes past the hour. We'll change gears next Preston Scott, What will you do without Freedom? On Used Radio one hundred point seven WFLA. In the wild or in

our whole? We love them critters, large and small. Time for another edition of Animal Stories on the Morning Show with Dreston Scott. I love it for a lot of reasons when the settled scientists are proven wrong. In this case, a whale not seen in two hundred years spotted in New England waters. The gray whale spotted off the east coast of Massachusetts. According to officials with the New England Aquarium, whale was seen March first, while they were

flying over the ocean thirty miles south of Nantucket. They were pretty much beside themselves, said, Gray whales are usually found in the North Pacific, easily distinguished from other whale species by the lack of a dorsal fin modeled gray white skin dorsal hump, followed by prolonged ridges. The species disappeared from the Atlantic

Ocean by the eighteenth century. However, in the last fifteen years there have been five alleged observations of gray whales in the Atlantic and Mediterranean waters, including off the coast of Florida in December of twenty twenty three. They're supposed to be extinct. Huh. You see these stories from time to time, a species that died out in nineteen twenty or maybe it didn't, because there it is. What is it Ian Malcolm from Jurassic Park. Oh yeah, life

finds a way. Yeah. And then this is here's a crossover animal story. The aforementioned president she of China, during a meeting with Biden back in November, said that they might be allowing pandas to come back to the zoos of America, including the Washington Zoo where I saw the pandas that were on loan from China. And so China apparently is going to send a new pair of giant pandas to the San Diego Zoo this year. It's what's called panda

diplomacy. Here's my question, do you care? I mean, they're cute, they're they'll rip your face off, they're adorable, they're funny to listen to you. I mean, the way they sit and eat food, it reminds me of an uncle of mine. I mean it's just legs bread out wide, just sit there munching on their their bamboo crunch. I mean it's hilarious, But do we accept the gift? Or are they are they plans? Are they? Are they actually members of the Chinese Communist Party dressed up

in pandas. So pandas are coming with their own TikTok accounts to subverb their children right right, Jijing and bay Bing and follow them on TikTok. Trust me, they don't have an Instagram account. What's this panda's name? Mao? That's weird? Wait? Did the panda put his hand up and bow and g walked by for the unveiling of the of the display? The exhibit is that? Why is that panda reading a copy of Marx's dost Capital? Wait? Did Disney make this pan? Yuh? So there you got animal

stories. When we come back, we're gonna get you ready for what's to be Friday. Think about it now, but I remind you, no names. Don't make it personal. If you have a bad experience, tell us about it, but no names and no profanity. It's as simple as that. We'll take your calls starting five or six minutes. Not now, you can call now, but we're not gonna answer. Gotta get warmed up for that, Gotta get the phone lines greased up. That sounded weird. It's

the Morning Show with Preston Scott Flat Lanes. You're open now call him eight five zero to zero five WFLA eight five zero to zero five ninety three fifty two. We're not one of those kind of radio shows. Just every down with that. That's actually the best part. We're not them. Let's see here getting ready for what's to be Friday. The transgender influencer who is a

transgender influencing I mean that anyway. This is the dude that exposed himself at a White House event last June recently posted a long, rambling video to Instagram. He's the guy that exposed his breasts at the White House and announced that his dog her h H E r A just had an orchaea ectomy. She said, some of you will probably understand me, she he said, some of you will probably understand me better if I just said that my dog got

nutered. She got neurdered, neutered, And then he announced that his dog is Trance, his dog. That couldn't you couldn't you take the dog and accuse him of animal cruelty having First of all, having the dog newtered does not make your dog trans It simply means that your dog is not able to have puppies, but your dog is still a female dog. And of course this speaks to the mental illness factor that we discuss sometimes with those that are

born biologically male or female but insist on being the other. I'll just stop there again. We're getting you ready for what's the B Friday. You can call now eight five zero two zero five to be FLA. Half the lines are taken, half are open. Teacher unions have quietly spent millions on GOP

primaries in thirty two states. This from the daily signal affiliates of the American Federation of Teachers and the NEA, the National Education Association, which is what is the primary union here in Florida, the FAA, they are increasing donations to Republican state level legislative candidates in primary races. The larger teacher unions have dramatically increased donations to Republicans in state House, Assembly and Senate candidates since twenty

eighteen. It's interesting because it would appear there conceding that Republicans are owning these legislatures in these states, and they need to try to use money to sway Republican states are going to school choice. It's the smartest thing to do as it relates to public education, because public education it's a train wreck, including local in this community, it just is. And then, and then, I think it's interesting the President dealt with it last night by saying the name

sort of kind of, but he got it wrong. He called her Lincoln Riley. He didn't know her name. Democrats won't say her name. They will not let the name come across their lips. She was the nursing student murdered at at the University of Georgia, at the Augusta University College of Nursing. They won't say her name. But that's consistent. We have a list here of young blacks that have been and killed and murdered by blacks. And you don't hear Jesse Jackson. You don't hear Al Sharpton, you don't hear

Ben Crump saying their names either. Let's do what's the beef? It's up next? Eight five zero two zero five WSLA. Let's do this. If you're new to the radio program, each Friday, we carve out a little time for you to feel a little bit better. This isn't about trashing somebody, because that's venom. You don't get better by doing that. This is about getting out of your system that which angers you, that has y all worked up and upset, to clear out your crawl. It's What's the Beef

Friday, an exclusive presentation of the Morning Show with Preston Scotten. Your chance to complain about whatever you want with two simple rules. Number one, no profanity and number two, don't make it personal. Do you have a bad experience, tell us about it, just leave names out of it. As simple as that. We go to the phone line. Standing by the longest is George. Good morning, George, thanks for calling. What's the Beef?

Oh, good morning, Preston. My beef is term limits. And I'm talking about from the local dog catcher all the way up from the local Waco fence jumpers to Congress. Especially last night, for the brief thirty seconds that I looked at that trational TV, it was very evident that term limits need to be enacted in Congress. Just looking around, watching the camera pan at the old decrepit peep representative are supposed to be representing us, the one

that have been there years and years and years and accumulated wealth illegally. It just came they need to be term limited. They need to be changed, just like babies diapers for the same reason. Preston, it works in Florida.

Yeah, but absolutely it works in Florida, and it needs to be put into Washington and it would be so much more functional, and you wouldn't have time for these factions to build up war chests and just go against each other because they wouldn't have enough time to worry about re election all the time. As soon as these people getting off as they start the re election campaigns President. It's just a system that it needs to be changed to copy that

of Florida. Thank you, George. I gotta roll on. I appreciate the phone call. Let's go to Tony. Tony, you're up. What's the beef? Hey? You good warning my bief in the houise In market, specifically here in Bay County or Penmat City. Uh huh. It's absolutely horrible. I used to work for a furniture company glivering furniture, and there were so many times where I would be talking to the customer at her home and like asking whether they're from and they say, oh, I'm from Tennessee,

or I'm from New York, or I'm from out west. And Williams bought this home just to run it out, and that's driving the housing markets up here so high as ridiculous. Well, I hope you feel a little bit better getting that set. Yeah, I do, well, hopefully hopefully, God William I'll be closing on a house here and to eat. There we go, there we go. Hang in there, my friend, Tony, thanks for calling in. I appreciate it. Let's go to Ron, Ron, you are up. What's the beef? Hey, good morning,

thank you pressing for all you do there. That show that came on last night, Thursday Night Live, that was just something else. I can't believe how disrespectful that some of the judges aren't the robe, I mean, no respect for the dress of the Supreme Court. The one was that a judge that had a glitter thing under collar that I thought was going to start flashing. And then that newest, that newest judge, the lady there female that

what was she wearing some kind of hubcap assembly around her neck? I mean that was this absolutely ungodly. But Joe Biden, you know he talked about the truth. I never did hear him say, well, there through the facts is on the video. Let's let's wake up people. My goodness, this is just terrible what's going on in our government. I just don't know what to say next. You know, it's terrible, terrible, terrible.

Thank you very much, President, Hey, thank you. We've got a chance to reboot things a little, at least a little, and so better take that seriously. What's coming your way? Jason, you are next. The lines are all ringing. Be patient if you're trying to call in. It's ten minutes past the hour. It's what's to be Friday, your chance to just have a better weekend. Because whatever it is it's been building up, you'll be able to get it off your chest, and trust me,

you'll make other people feel better too. Back with more of your phone calls. Next eight five zero two zero five w FLA is the number two. Remember it's eleven minutes after Back to the phone line. We're going to try to fit as many calls in as possible to create a better environment for all of our communities near and far wherever. This show is heard, Jason, thank you for waiting. What's the beef? So mine would be Hey, guys, mine would be the GOP Party. And how we're not learning from

the Democratic Party. Okay, the silent majority will continue to be silent if we do not vote. I agree the Democrat You can say what they want. They're very vocal. They say what they feel out loud. They vote the way they want. Me myself, I work in sales. I have to be pleasant and people ask me questions. As much as I want to tell the truth, I cannot because it will affect me. So I am part of my own I am part of my own upsetness here. I got

you. But you know what, But don't you think there's a time and a place. I mean, you're you're they're time and places everywhere. I don't disagree with you, but I don't know how winsome that is. I think we just have to we have to be better when we make our arguments. That's at least what I think. I agree. I just I think we need to get out and vote, because if we don't, we can talk about change, and we can talk about what needs to happen. That

nothing will if we do not vote. And I believe this election we're going to have to vote overwhelmingly, so it can't be Yeah, new Gingridge, thank you. Jason new Gingridge said we gotta we got to out vote by five percent, and uh, and I think the number is greater than that. I think I think you just got You're right. Everyone has to vote. It's the only way. You cannot You can't sit down. You can't say well, I wish Mike can't. No, you don't have that choice,

John, thanks for calling in. What's the beef now? Good morning Press, Thank you and granted for what you do. Uh. My beef is after listening to excerpts from the State of Union last night. My beef is with people who are against late term abortions, and I think they're wrong on the It shouldn't be in the third tribe, mister. It should be if it's over eighteen and you've murdered a college student, or if you're a politician who has subverted our country and sold us down the river to China,

then I'll change. I've changed my views on late term abortions and everybody needs to go out and vote. Thank you, John. Always an interesting phone call. Oozing with sarcasm. Thank you very much, Robbie, you're up. Hey Preston, good morning. This is Robby. How are you doing this? Awesome? What's the beef? The beef is the terrible speech that

Biden gave last night to the American people. He looked like an angry old man up there with swinny eyes, just yelling and telling everybody what he's gonna do, what he did do, and we all know that that's not the truth. And I just think it's just an absurd of some of the things that you know, he's standing up there telling the American people and it's just not true. And then he couldn't even pronounce Lincoln Riley's name. He said, Lincoln Riley, coughing, stuttering, mumbling, Uh, it's just a

it's just a disaster. And uh, we need a good president to run this country. And I hope Donald I get to That's my beast. Thank you very much, sir. Appreciate the phone call. Let me fit one more caller hear before the break, we go to Kenneth. Kenneth, you're up, what's the beef? Good morning, sir. I just quick question before I get in my beef. How many times a day do you say

your name? Oh? Maybe maybe several, Okay during the show. My thing is I live in Bay County and I hear your commercials all the time. Not yours per se. But this guy that reports on Florida State Sports every morning, I hear his name at the front end and the back end. Does does he need that much recognition? I don't get it. Yeah, I've I've talked about that, and I guess that's a personal preference of his. Kenneth. I appreciate your phone call. You know, it's an

interesting You're getting into a nuance of our of our industry. There is an old way of thinking about things that you always billboard. It's it's called billboarding your intros and outros. I'm trying to break that habit and not do it as often. You do that so that people knew that listen, because we have people tuning in that are new all all the time. They know who we are, they know who Grant is, they know who I am. They can find us then in on the iHeartRadio app. But it's a fine

line, and I think you can overdo it. I think I can overdo it. It's not my intent to do it that way. It's it's just an old bride. Look, I was raised in that mindset when I started in nineteen seventy seven. It's tough habit to break back with more of the Morning Show with Preston and I'm just kidding. I'm so bad back with more of you and your phone calls. It's what's the pief right twenty two past the hour, We've got time for more calls. We have one line open,

whoa, whoa. So that's a great time. If you're a first time caller. It's first time Friday. Eight fuck zero. We don't do things like that. I just say it to be stupid. Eight five zero two zero five WSLA eight five zero two zero five ninety three fifty two Michael, thank you for being patient. What's the beef? Hey pressing, Good

morning morning. I have to beef. My friend's beef is yes. And then when when I saw there's Pelosia that Joe Biden clubbing, and I'm like, wow, do these people he has no like sympathy before I am, but like she's really into this. So it's like they don't get They're going to run here to the girls. So I don't have anything better for him anymore, Like I know what they have to they're like, well machine,

they don't keep doing what they do. That's trying him being very very old and by sport of beef is like a metallolic and you know, a church history, so people have been as communicated for far as yesterday in Life' TV, he went, Joe Biden is saying reverse Rov Wade and just trying to just want to support Colonel Babies. Is like you would think the church leaders would have as communicated anybody now, but the church leaders are just in bed

with the politicians, so there's no surprise, you know. M hm. I agree, Michael, Thanks very much as always for calling into the program. Always good to hear your voice, you know. Talking about Joe Biden, I feel bad because every time I'm seeing him now, I see Walter Jeff Dunham's puppet that that he holds up and is a cranky, crusty old dude. If you don't know what I'm talking about, it may not be safe for work or for family, but check out Walter with Jeff Dunham and

you'll see Joe Biden. You will see the embodiment of Joe in a bendrolaquis dummy. Uh Haarley, thanks for calling in. What's the beef? Well? Hi everybody, and I'm sure you understand that references that kind of time of year. I grew up in South Dakota and so I'm calling about Christine No. But first I want to want to tell you the best part of growing up that they're listening to your dad and the one of only Halsey Hall. Yeah, boy, who could forget the phone going down your dad's farm?

Put those big heads that Halsey Hall did. We grew up my siblings and I panamizing those those commercials. They were great, thank you. So so anyway, uh, Christy Nomes she is the contestant rhino. She vetoed And I'm calling because there you had a gentleman who is during your discussion on vice presidents of saying I would I would vote for Christi Rome. No, she's the individual who vetoed the trans legislation in South Dakota to prevent men from

participating in women's women's sports. Uh. She ran around the base that the state saying we can't end obamacares to intertwined in our medical system. The first thing she did is she joined the Bayinner's Breakfast Club. So she is she is a She is a rhino, as Chris Christy and as uh as Nikki Hayley. If Trump picks her, it's an indication that he's again going to try and listen to the rhino side of the party wind up picking people like

Bill barn folks that will will manipulate him. So I just wanted to throw that out there, having been there, your nickname in South Dakota is Politician Party. Thanks very much, Arlie, and I appreciate the kind words about my dear dad. Those are great memories. But thanks for sharing what you know of Christy Nome. We're going to try to fit two more in. That's it, Lee, you're up. What's the beef? Oh boy, good morning patriots. How's it going? Good sir? Come on talk to

me. I do have a beef. Nicki Haley that ran for president, of course, was brought off by the Democratic Party, of course, so they can control her. My biggest problem is the money in the pocket. Ten million dollars, fifteen million dollars or whatever she got. She's just like Bernie Sanders. We're going to go out and we're going to go down at beautiful Panama City Beach and buy a six seven million dollar home and live happily. Ever after that money needs to go back in to the system for veterans

administrations, other administrations. Why isn't that being done now? If you were a real patriot, you would run and not worry about the money. But all that money that Bernie Sanders was never a millionaire, never until he ran. And why did he back out there? You have it right there. He knew he wasn't gonna be president. Thank you, Lee. I gotta roll on, buddy, I got one more caller. I gotta fit in Jeffrey, Europe. What's the beef, Hey, Preston, I'll tell you

what you can't. I bet that's Fawcet that'sprayed you. That prayer was from China. I have tried over the last year or two to buy products that aren't made in China. It's tough and I'm afraid I can't. And the final element of it was I went to one of these big pro shops here in town. I thought, I'm gonna buy some good American underwear. Bottom got him home. They're called the first name of them is read. So I wouldn't take much of that. But when I opened the package, they

were made in China and they scratched like the Dickens. Thank good, Jeffrey. I think we can find products made other than China. You may not find everything made in the USA and one hundred percent made in the USA, but I think there are alternatives. There's Vietnam, there's Thailand, the Philippines, there are other places. There's Japan, obviously, the Korea, South Korea. Just saying not easy, no doubt about it, but it's something

I'm trying to do as well. Twenty eight minutes after the hour, back with the news and the best and the worst of the week and more still to come on The Morning Show with Preston's Guy. The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Most days we do the big stories in the press box in this segment, and we thank Restore, carpent Care and Tile for their crowd sponsorship of this segment. Today, however, is Friday, and so we cover

the best and the worst. Grand Yours. Best of the week goes to The Babylon B's Kyle Man, who responded to Reuter's in just the best way is set the scene here Babylon Bee wrote a story and they're this attire site. Remember that ballot boxes, ballot drop boxes were being placed all along the southern border wall and Reuter's fact check emailed Babylon b asking if this story was correct, if this image was accurate, and he responds with, yes, we took a picture of it on the border. It is real. He's

just trolling them to no end. So good. Worst of the week is video game news. Oh no, I don't know if you saw MLB the show, uh huh is allowing you to create a female character and just PLoP them into the game. It's not like it's the WNBA like in NBA two K they have a WNBA mode or the Women's professionals. So Football League correct,

they didn't do that. You can just drop a female and so I'm looking forward to the day when you can just hit forty five mile an hour fastballs off some chick playing for the Yankees with Aaron Judge just dangers to deep center because it's not accurate at all. You know, you just drop a female character Karen Otani, Yeah, who tops out at like fifty five miles per hour with the fastball. Yeah, that's not nice, So shout out MLB the show not all right, my best and the worst worst of the

week. Department of Veterans Affairs Under Secretary Rima Ann Nelson requested officials remove the VJ Day in Times Square photo from all Veterans Health Administration facilities. Do you know this photo? Yes, the famous photo. It's the Navy sailor kissing a stranger with the announcement that the war is over in Japan. Yeah, it's victory in Japan celebration. It's an iconic photo. So the under the worst of the week, the undersecretary is saying that it's it's lack of inclusivity.

What did you want him kissing a bunch of people, A bunch of dudes, a bunch of I mean, actually that is their dream. Yes, But the best of the week is that because of pushback they changed their mind. Good. That's the worst that they set it. I want to take these things down. Word got out. Veterans and other groups pushed back so hard. Never mind, they pulled the mandate back, so the photo remains. So if you if you're a if you're a veteran and you head

to the VA, look for the photo. And if you don't mind take a photo of the photo and send it to me Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. Let me know it's proudly flying in vas across the country. That's not the good news segment. That was the best and the worst of the week for me. When we come back though good News on the Morning Show with Preston Scott do w u FLA. My thanks to those who attended the Center

Right Coalition meeting yesterday. Enjoyed visiting with them. Talked a little bit of corrections, and I'm on the board of Florida Foundation for Correctional Excellence working with the Department of Corrections in the state of Florida. Enjoyed sharing my experiences with the board and our mission, and my experiences with those that have been incarcerated over the years, first from a prison ministry perspective, then personally mentoring a

young man for many years along with my wife. So I had a good time doing that. We're going to turn the page now, let's do a little bit of something different. What do you think, Okay, do you have any good news for a change? So much? Just spell it's time for some good news. It's true, even I need a little good news now and then? Wouldn't it be lovely if we had just a little bit of good news in this political season? Let's share some political good news.

It's not often I can say those words together. You ever heard of Wyatt Gable Twenty one years old. Wyatt is now a member of the North Carolina State Legislature's He's a junior in college. He beat eighty one year old incumbent state Representative George Cleveland by ninety five votes. The idea behind the run began during COVID, Young Wyatt said, after and during the lockdowns and witnessing what he believed was the government stripping away individual freedoms, he reached out to then

Representative Cleveland, and of course got no response. Isn't it funny how that simple act of ignoring triggered a decision to run for office. If he responds, I bet he doesn't run. But he didn't respond, so young Wyatt ran. I remember sitting in my microeconomics class. I wrote him in an email, never heard anything back, and I just remember how it felt. I don't want anyone to feel the same way I felt, you know, not being left out. So that's where I got the idea and here we

are now East Carolina University. He said he's focused on education, the China threat, and government spending. Come on, state representative focused on government spending, education and come on, come on, come on, Jana, Thank you very much, mister president. Big three things focusing on education, simple things like home economics, shop carpentry, so students are prepared. The Chinese Communist Party owns thousands of acres in North Carolina. I want to use eminent

domain to get it all back. And then just smart spending. We spend way too much money as a federal government as a state government, so we need to rein that in so we can lower taxes. My friends, a twenty one year old at a public university won a state seat. And he's not a goober. He's got his head on straight. Come on, you're out there. You're out there rally troops rally, and that's good news. Here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott, one down the radio program.

The four specific laws passed, developments, maybe laws vetoed, don't know, but the four things that happened in the legislative session that will impact you the most. It's coming up money with salmonso of consumers defense. Time for a dad joke. This comes from a listener, Charles does February March. No, but April may nothing like a great seasonal dad joke. That's good. Well done, Charles, well done. Time for some headlines from the Babylon

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Dems quietly asked Scotis if they can ban Biden from ballot Cast of the view unanimously overturned Scotis decision. Scientists suggest prehistoric women were better at hunting than men because they talk so much the animals would just die. Texas National Guard deploys giant sandworms on southern border. Man struggling to read Bible as it's way over there on the shelf, bullies at Worklesslee mockman who hasn't seen Dune Part two

yet. Doritos announces new spokesperson Jared from Subway. Travis Kelsey wonders if it's too late to ask Taylor Swift if she's the one who sings wrecking Ball with Daniel Penny arrested. New York City Force to deploy National Guard to protect subway. There are a couple more here. Hold on, I've turned the page. I've turned the page. I turned to the page. Bear with me.

Elon Musk falls into crippling poverty after single meal at five guys. Woman kicked out of Walmart for not wearing pajama bottoms, and husband loses out on restaurant choice and narrow one to one vote. Brought to you by Barno Heating in Air. It's the morning show on WFLA. We're back to radio program and there the stories that go with those headlines that I hope I'm enticing you to go to the Babylon B and read the stories. All of those headlines

have stories underneath and they are hilarious. It's reading One day on the B is like a great sitcom on television, and you get one every day. Big stories in the press box today of the State of the Union. Yawn, you know, yeah. TikTok users virtually stormed the Capitol Building yesterday. Emails, phone calls, text messaging. That's the impact and influence of TikTok on your kids. Get it off your phones. Quit making excuses for having it, Get it off your phone, get it off your desktop, your

laptop, and get it out of your kids' lives. Get it out of their lives. You're paying for that. Phone layoffs surged in the United States to the highest level since two thousand and nine. Gee, I'm glad we're building back the economy better right. Teachers' unions are quietly starting to donate to the GOP in thirty two states in different primaries. And that interesting. Harvard finally drops the vax mandate, but there are a number of colleges that still

have one. NIH giving two hundred thousand dollars of your tax dollars for transgender voice training. Oscar Meyers starting to offer plant based hot dogs and sausages. Don't give in with five facts from the month of February, and so much more. Have a great weekend, everybody back on Monday morning,