All right, we are here the middle of the week April, the third first week of the fourth month of the year. Unbelievable. Right, were already into April before you know, and I'll be unpacking the Christmas decorations. Welcome friends to the ninth edition of the Morning Show with Preston Scott here now in year twenty three. Great to be with you. I'm Preston, He's Grant. And we begin, as always with a little verse of Scripture yesterday.
We're gonna do a little tag here yesterday, for we do not wrestle against flesh and blood six twelve, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Now we pick up with verse thirteen. Therefore, therefore, because of that, therefore take up the whole armor of God,
that you may be able to withstand in the evil day. And having done all to stand firm, now we'll take apart the rest of the verses the rest of the week. Just think about that, because we're not wrestling against flesh and blood, but against spiritual forces, against spiritual powers. The weapons that we fight with must therefore be differently. So take up the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. That is what has failed most
churches in America today. They have not stood firm. Now there are wonderful churches around this country, in your community, all communities, but most are failing. In my opinion, you could look right here and you can say that those churches did not stand firm. The leadership, the membership, the attenders did not stand firm. They they were in fact tossed back and forth with every wind of doctrine. Best of intentions perhaps, but what do we
know about the pathway of good intentions? So your challenge today, stand firm, anchor yourself in the truth of God's word, Do not be tempted to deviate from it. Stand firm. Your fight is going to be waged with different tools than what we as human being. Look Later in the show, JD. Johnson's coming in, we're talking personal defense. That is a different kind of defense. That is defense using weapons of this day that are designed
to accomplish a very different purpose. This kind of defense is against the root of all of that powerful is the person that understands spiritual warfare and is prepared for the expression of it, shall we say so. There's your verse of the day. Quick reminder, the Prayer Summit is Sunday, three thirty to five at the Moon. Costs you nothing. It is just a time to
gather to pray. Second Chronicle seven fourteen. If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin, and I will heal their land. If you want to gather with others like minded, three thirty to five at the Moon, doors open at three this Sunday afternoon, come back, take a peek inside the American Patriots Almanac, and then begin to unpack the program J D.
Johnson. Today we'll have Florida Man Florida Man Fact or Fiction as well. So we have it's a combo Florida Man with a follow up of Florida Man Factor Fiction. Molly Lord joins us with Big Brothers, Big Sisters of the Big Bend, and so it's a busy day. Stick around, get yourself something to enjoy, whether it's some tea, some coffee, your favorite smoothie, some bagels, some eggs, some cereal. Hang out with us for a little bit. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Preston Scott,
can you fly this plane and land it? Surely you can't be serious. I am serious, and don't call me surely. On news Radio one hundred point seven UFLA my worn and weathered pages of the American Patriots Almanac that I have used multiple types of packing tape, including the time that has those little reinforced strips in it to try to keep this thing al together. It's it's age now is charming to me. I like that about books. Books
that show use are very very cool. Eighteen sixty Pony Express begins service between Saint Joseph's, Missouri, Missouri and Sacramento, California. That's April third, eighteen sixty. Eighteen sixty five Union forces capture the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. That was always a higher calling. Let's see eighteen eighty two Jesse James shot and killed in Saint Joseph's, Missouri. How about that? Oh? How about that? So the Pony Express begins service between Saint Joseph And
Missouri and Sacramento in eighteen sixty. Twenty two years later, same town, Jesse James shot and killed by Robert Ford, a member of his own gang four died a very very violent death. Crazy guy walked in and shot him in his own saloon. He tried to make money off of being the man
who killed Jesse James, Robert Ford did. Nineteen forty eight, President Truman signs legislation establishing the Marshall Plan. Nineteen seventy three, New York City Motorola engineer Martin Cooper makes the first call on a portable handheld cell phone that he just invented nineteen seventy three. It would be about twenty years maybe a little bit less, maybe a little bit more before I had a wireless phone in
my hands. It was a bagphone. I had one of those. And then in nineteen seventy four, one of the worst tornado outbreaks US history, one hundred and forty eight twisters hitting thirteen states, killing three hundred and thirty people. Nineteen seventy four clearly the beginning of global warming. We just didn't know it, you know. Inside the book here I had paper clipped this
section in between the months. The editors, which include former Education Secretary for the United States William Bennett, they have little interesting tidbits and things, and they put down here a list of what they call fifty all American movies. John Wayne once said that his work tried to express a deep, profound love a country whose immense beauty and grandeur are matched only by the greatness of her
people. Wow. Think about that for a second. So on the list is interesting in no particular order, or maybe there was Apollo thirteen, Cinderella Man, Coal Miner's Daughter, Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier, Driving Miss Daisy, Field of Dreams, Forrest Gump, Gettysburg, the Glenn Miller Story, Glory Gone with the Wind, Grapes of Wrath, Hoosiers, Independence Day, Hello boys, I'm back. Just that's epic. It's a wonderful life. John Adams, though John Adams is not a movie, it's
a mini series. It's listed here. Miracle about the nineteen eighty Lake Placid Games US Hockey. That's a great movie. It's terrific movie. Miracle on thirty four. I've had some of the guys from the US Olympic team on the show, How about that Miracle on thirty fourth Street? Music Man, classic movie Oklahoma, another patent prior to the Yankees, Pursuit of Happiness, Great movie Rocky Roots, Rudy san to bo jimas saving Private Ryan Seabiscuit.
I can't tell you how many of these movies I have makes me feel good about my movie collection. Seventeen minutes after the hour, come back with a is it a cry cut Machine? Love? Getting email from listeners. Got a couple that I'll share today, one in this segment one and another a little bit later that will take a lot, little bit more time with. But if you have something you'd like to share, it's it's simple. Preston
at iHeartRadio dot com. Whatever is on your mind. I will do my very best to respond back if if I think it's it's warranted, or if if I have the opportunity, I try. I try my best to do that. I think that a lot of people are surprised, but I do. I do read your emails, and I thank you for them. Even those that disagree. You're welcome to UH to write in. That's fine.
I like reading well thought out and arguments, and honestly, there are there there are many times over the years that someone has written something I've gone wow, I didn't know that, And so it's allowed me to have maybe a little bit of a different perspective on a given issue, or dig a little deeper on something. And and so I thank you for that. Got a note here from Terry, one of our listeners in Pennsylvania, and he said,
I don't think I shared this with you. My daughter bought me is he called a cry cut machine cr cut and I can now put out cut out vinyl stickers and vinyl iron ons for shirts. And so he said, attached as a picture of a shirt I proudly wore throughout lent to the Catholic Church fish Fries and he sends me a picture of the shirt. So you say, you're Catholic, but you voted with the political party that openly brags
about murdering innocent children. Have you given any thought to how you'll explain that choice come judgment day? And he shows it proudly on his T shirt. Knowing this gentleman who has been a longtime listener and friend and supporter of this program, I absolutely can see him wearing it at the fish Fries. Can you imagine how well that went over Terry. You go, brother, Ah, I love it. In a similar spirit, not exactly the same,
the pack supporting Trump make America great again? Ink. Have you heard about their new website that they've created. It's called biden mart dot com. Biden hyphenmart dot com. Pop it up while I'm talking about this, Biden hyphen mart dot com, and you're greeting with a message. Putting food on the table has become harder than every thanks to Bidenomics. As costs for every day items continue to rise, American families are struggling more and more to foot the
bill. Check off the items from the list below to compile your weekly grocery list and see how much more expensive your bill has become under Joe Biden. And so you pick out this list of things, the writer of this article said, I figure I'd get me some ribs for dinner, skirt steak for tomorrow, potatoes, carrots, grapes, coffee, ice cream for dessert,
nothing crazy. In twenty twenty, this would have cost me thirty eight dollars and sixty one cents, but nowadays it comes in at fifty five forty eight, a forty five point six y nine percent increase, he said, and I'm guestimating it would be considerably more in California or New York City. Thanks, Joe. Is it a site? Is it a thing? Yeah? You can click around and click around, click around, click up, sorry, go ahead, sorry, and select the items that you know you'd want
to pick out from the grocery store. You're gonna do it. You can do it. Yeah, I clicked some items. You can put a bill. You can put a grocery bill together. Yeah, yeah, all right. You pick items for like a couple of weeks or month. Geez, I don't know how to shop for a month. Well just guess. I mean, what difference does it make? Right, You're just picking stuff and then we're going to compare the bills at the end of the show. Okay, all right, Uh so you got all show to to figure out what
you're shopping. You can write your sweet wife and you can say what hey, hey, pioneer niece, what what do we got here? Go from there? Uh. Yeah, it's a thing. So if you want to have some fun, share this with your friends. Biden hyphenmart dot com. We're gonna come back. We got the big stories in the press box. Of course, a little check of weather and traffic. It's going to rain out there in much of the areas, to be safe. Good morning,
and welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, let's get to some big stories. Grove of marketing, creative marketing and digital expertise, our prefit sponsors. This is huge. This is a slap in the face to Joe and the Federal Highway Administration. Judge Benjamin Beaton of the US District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. Now you might be thinking, okay,
so this is a limited rule. Oh no, no, no, no. New court overturned the Biden administration's climate rule that required states to track and set reduced goals for greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals, I should say, for vehicles on highways. Kentucky filed the lawsuit in December Texas. Previously one in Texas, but it was at Texas. Only Kentucky was, it seems, joined by other states. The judge is The writing of the judge in
this ruling is brilliant. Listen to this. If Congress did purport to give the administrator authority to set policy in states, that would raise a different and arguably bigger problem. Modern constitutional doctrine allows Congress to demand much from states, but it cannot commandeer or coerce the apparatus of state governments into mere administrative districts
of the federal Court. If the administrator were allowed to shove national greenhouse gas policy into the mouths of uncooperative state departments of transportation, this would corrupt the separation of sovereigns central to our lasting and vibrant system of federalism. But here is the line of them all. Listen. Neither the Constitution nor the Administratrative
Procedure Act authorizes administrative ventriloquism. That's awesome. So again, they will do what they want until the courts stop them, or until people say no. And there are a lot of ways people can say no on this stuff. Biden and g, the Resident and the Chinese President have their first talk since November. G quoted as saying in the conversation, we should prioritize stability, not provoke troubles, not cross lines, but maintain the overall stability of US
Chinese relations. And then he said that Taiwan remains quote, the first red line not to be crossed Okay, then you know what you wonder. She knows that Biden's corrupt. She knows because he was. He was overseeing it. He's been laughing at these saber rattling moments from Joe and he he tolerates them because it keeps up the facade. Joe's in his back pocket, because she has evidence of the corruption of paying Joe through Hunter Hunter being on these
boards of a Chinese company or two. And then there's this Tony Evers, governor Wisconsin. Quoting Evers, I just vetoed Republicans' anti LGBTQ bill demand trans and gender non conforming kids from participating in school sports that align with their gender identity. LGBTQ kids deserve our love and respect and support just like any other kid. Blah blah, blah blah blah. Here's my reason for making this a big story. Clearly, this has to be rooted out, and I
think only participants can do it. That's just my personal opinion. There will be lawsuits that you know, the one that has been filed against the NC two A, but you have to root this out. I don't care if it's a city commissioner, a counting commissioner, a state official, a federal official. It doesn't matter anyone that supports men being able to compete against women and refuses to acknowledge the biological realities of that. Look again, this isn't
about allowing men to go around and play costume all day long. Someone wants to play costume all day long, that's up to them. They do not have special They should not get special protected status. They should not be forcing everyone around them to play in the illusion. It doesn't work that way. If you have anybody that supports that, they are not well. Anybody that supports this should be out of office. They should not be because their judgment
is not is not healthy at all. So let this be just the latest example. Forty minutes after the hour, circle back to China. Here in just a second, come on, get your strut on right here. I just I've got an ace ventur walk in my head here. Sorry, yeah, just a little note here. The tornado watch that we are in in parts of the listening area extends from Apalachicola to Bainbridge, through Tallahassee, Lake City of Valdosta, up into north east Georgia all the way up to Savannah
and Statesboro. Jessup Brunswick. So yeah, pretty big weather system, possible hail what up to ping pong size ping pong ball? Whoa, that'll do some damage. That'll damage some cars. Yeah, I'm trying to envision plane ping pong Uh. I mean, if you got ripped with a hailstorm like that, you're pretty much your car is pretty much total. Because I don't know how you fix that that kind of damage. I suppose you can pop them out and bond to it and all that, but man, talk about
labor. Oh wow. Anyway, all right, I came across this analysis by a doctor, Rebecca Grant. I read up on her background, and in fact I've reached out to try to get her on the show. She is a she's a defense genius, served in the Pentagon. She's now a consultant and has her own kind of not really a think tank, but sort of. She wrote this analysis of a decision by the Pentagon has made as a result of Joe Biden's proposed budget, which of course is obscene in cost.
But yet the Pentagon has told Navy ship builders to slow down, specifically aircraft carriers. She writes about this, and honest to goodness, thank you for writing about it, because I wouldn't have known the importance of this. I mean, defense spending obviously has to be large. It's the primary job of government is to defend this nation. It certainly isn't all the crap that they do. It's anyway, she said, delaying aircraft carriers courts disaster at
a time when their deterrence value is higher than ever. And she details the cutting, and she talks about history and how even recent history, the ability to put aircraft carriers into specific locations has has deterred and stopped certain things from progressing. She makes quite an argument here, but what's being proposed is the budget sent to Congress would slow down navy aircraft carriers by taking away shipbuilding funds
for two years. Meanwhile, she points out China is that they're not nearly as sophisticated. They're not nearly as capable as the Forward class aircraft carriers that are coming. The Nimitz class aircraft carriers are are going to have to be retired. They're nuclear powered. China hasn't figured that out yet. It sounds crazy to say they don't have a nuclear powered aircraft carrier, and they don't have the capabilities. They don't have the skills that we've got to build this
type of stuff. But they're building aircraft carriers at a faster rate by far than what we are. And so she's making the argument that this is something that has to be has to change. It has to for our national security and our national defense. We already know the subs that are being cranked out
by the Chicoms are are just they're huge in numbers. They're building these these artificial islands out in the South. I think it's what the Chinese China Sea is, South China Sea, and there is there's an expansion of their navy and their capabilities even though they're finished in terms of technology, that we cannot ignore. So I'm trying to look her up, doctor Rebecca Grant Sharp, and we're going to try and get her on the show to talk about this
and more in the coming weeks and months. Forty seven passed the hour, come back and talk about a big disconnect. We talk from time to time about disconnects. Back in twenty sixteen, when Donald Trump won the White House, even Democrat Pugnitans were talking about the disconnect. Democrats just didn't get it. They didn't understand where America was. That's still the case, Republicans not
understanding the disconnect. The UNI Party is maybe in jeopardy just enough to cause a little realignment because it's being said, it's being discussed, it's becoming somewhat of a part of the normal lexicon of Americans. There's a story that I've got somewhere in one of my stacks here that Democrat operators are telling Democrats stop registering young people to vote because they're voting for Trump. I told you zoomers
are okay, well, but the abortion issue, legalizing weed. These are efforts in states to try to turn that in some form or fashion to try to get them to vote monolithic and we'll see. But disconnect is the theme here. The United Nations has set up a commission. Now, first we
don't care, but we pay attention because we need to. We need to pay attention to the UN, the World Economic Forum, the World Health Organization, We need to pay attention to organizations that seek to usurp United States sovereignty. We need to pay attention. I'd kick them out of the country. I'd say, I know what I can do with that building there, you go take the UN building and use that to house migrants in New York City.
There you go. Saudi Arabia has been chosen to chair the Commission on Status of Women, the UN's commission to advance women's rights globally, is being chaired by a nation with one of the worst records of human rights violations against women anywhere on the planet. I mean, here's their twenty twenty two law that they've passed that they cite as evidence to the advancements of women's rights. The law stipulates that a woman has to obtain a male guardian's permission to marry.
Under the law, wife has to obey her husband in a reasonable manner. Reasonable what does that mean? Define that for me? Please? While her husband's financial support is dependent on the wife's obedience, refusal to have sex with her husband, live in the marital home, or travel with him without legitimate excuse what's legitimate can also justify the withdrawal of financial support under the law.
A country that jails women simply because they advocate for their rights has no business being the face of the UN's top forum for women's rights and gender. This according to Human Rights Watch, a group that watches this stuff. I just found that remarkably funny. And oh, by the way, guess what I learned. Remember I said the vote was four to three with the Florida State Supreme Court voting to put the abortion amendment on the ballot. You know
who the three votes were, the three female members of the court. The three women wanted to kick the thing off the ballot, and they expressed perfectly why they are right across the board. It's the dudes. Omg, all right, five minutes after the hour, it's the second hour already Humpday program on the Morning Show with Preston. It's kind of Preston, that's grand.
Great to be with you this morning. Yesterday we talked with a young man who is trying to find some all pro dads, get dads out there connected to their kids and as needed, find some folks to just stand in once a month. But the need is wide and varied. It is. It is all throughout, not just our community, but communities across the country. We have a void right here. There are so many young kids that are
in need of mentoring and and support and encouragement. In joining me as executive director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of the big bend and that's Molly, Lord, Molly, good morning. How are you? Good morning? I'm great, how are you good? Tell me what if I were to ask you, what's the status of what we're dealing with locally? And then even more broadly, the need that exists for big brothers and big sisters right now more than ever, a little better than it has been, kind of give us
the status well great questions. Since COVID, we've actually started to see our numbers come back up, which is great because COVID kind of put everybody in a lot of different area spaces and things like that. But on a local and a national level, we have always and continue to struggle to find men to mentor. And there's lots of young boys in our communities are just looking for a friend. We we the ladies love to give their time and just
apply and become big sisters. It's really has been a struggle and continues to be a struggle for us, is to engage and activate with the men in our community. Why do you think that is? Uh, lots of different reasons. I'm sure one that I know off the top of our our head from the research that we've done here and and just talking with different folks in the community of all different ages, is their their commitment. They're uh, you know, kind of afraid, for lack of better words, afraid for
a commitment, our our time commitment. People think it's got to be every day, it's got to be all month long, it's got to be all my weekends, and that's not true. It's four hours a month to become a mentor and it's not being a father figure. I guess that could be a lot of hold back for men too, is that they're going to have to be this father figure for a child in the community, and really all we want them is to be a constant and someone that they can confide in,
you know, someone that they can talk to. So really you're looking for another buddy. Our littles are looking for another buddy in essence, you
know. As I think about this, and I've spent a lot of years prior to being back in media and radio, I was a vocational pastor and a lot of that time spent with young people, and it occurs to me, Molly that some people might look at being a big brother or a big sister, and we're focusing on being a big brother as well, we're not solving the problem, and that is these boys need male figures in their lives for a reason, and oftentimes it is being an absentee father. That's part
of the thing. And I would counter that by saying, well, this is how you solve the problem long term macro is by being a fixture in that it's life and then as they grow older they recognize the importance of it as they start having children. Absolutely, absolutely for sure, and I think you hit home on it is not solving the problem it is it is to help long term with this. You're not going to be there and fix the trauma that they've had because their dad's not there. And trauma comes in lots
of different shapes and forms. Sure does be a divorced family, it could be a death in the family, it could be you know a number of different things moving around a lot that's traumatic for children. And it is we're really just looking for for folks to just have a buddy and hang out and have fun. And our bigs learn a lot from our littles and that's something
that they don't expect when they when they come to the process. Molly stand By, We're going to talk about an event that's coming up, and the idea is to give those of you guys out there that might think about it a different way of sort of testing the water. And we'll get to that next Molly Lord with us from Big Brothers, Big Sisters of the Big Bend. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott, The Morning Show with Preston Scott.
It's the Mad Radio Network, AKA Make a Difference, and we're challenging you to think outside your box, Molly Lord with Big Brothers, Big Sisters of the Big Bend. Everybody who's a football fan out there knows the NFL Draft is coming up this month, Molly, but you've got something coming up called the Big Draft. That's right. We're super excited for this. We've done it a little bit differently in the past, but this is the first
time that we have had a physical activity around this. And who doesn't like to play a game of flag football? Come on, so tell us a little bit about it and where and when and how people take part in and what kind of what you're looking for your expectations. Yeah, so before the break we talked about, you know, what it's like to get involved with Big Brothers, Big sisters and to become a big brother. And I had mentioned it's four hours a month, and this is an activity. This is
a day that we're calling all guys, all men in the community. We have volunteers and mentors that range from ages sixteen and get this, our oldest one is eighty three. So you're never too young or too old to become a mentor and a participate in this event. So Saturday, April thirteenth, from ten to twelve pm over at the Fred George Park, Okay in the west side of Capitol Circle. Over there, we're going to be playing an
old fashioned game of flag football. We have one hundred littles on our wait list and so we've invited our littles to come out and participate, and we're inviting the community to come and do the same. So we want folks to register. They can go to Big Bend Mentoring dot org and on the front page there their click that button that so has become a big This does not solidify them as becoming a mentor, just registers them for this event for this
day. And so we're gonna be out there for a few hours playing a game of flag football. So they get to understand and get to feel what it's like to be a big and just engage with youth in our community. When you say a waiting list of one hundred young boys, it breaks my heart. What ages are we talking about. We serve children ages five to eighteen, so there's a run of gamut in there. I would probably say, you're eight to fourteen is the largest age ran that we have for young
boys on our wait list. Tell me the process of the boys on that side of the of this equation. Are these young boys that really want a mentor want a big brother? Are some of them kind of being advised by their mom or their guardian that it's in their best interest? I mean, give me their side of this. Yeah. Absolutely, And I think you'd
hit the nail on the head. It is a variety of both. And so moms or grandmas who are raising their children for whatever varying reasons, you know, think that it would be best if they had a constant man in their life. You know, sometimes those teenagers are really hard for parents nonetheless, and or grandparents, you know, and they've already raised their kids. So it's a it's a trialing time in a young person's life because they're going
through a lot physically and all of that stuff. So that is, you know, a key time for someone else to get engaged and involved because present I don't know about you, but when I was a teenager, my mom could tell me something until I was blue in the face, yep. But our neighbor across the street would tell me the exact same thing. It was God or not I believed them before I believe my parents. Yep. That was that. Yeah, that's the way it works. Tell me this,
we got about it. We got that's you know, just the type of relationships that we're having and the engagement with them and all that stuff. And again, it's a critical time for a young person to have someone outside of their family to be involved in them and to ask their input and guidance and those types of things. So, Molly, we got less than a minute. I need to ask the tough question. Let's let's do a little pre screening, because you cannot have the wrong people with these boys. They've they've
got enough going on in their life, that's correct. So give us the kind of the the overview of what you're looking looking for you in men that'll be big brothers perfect. So you know, we go through a process and interview, background screens, reference checks, all of that stuff, and we really make it a good fit for each individual person. So we're looking for someone who is patient. Anybody can be a mentor. We do lots of trainings, not only with our bigs, our families, but our littles too.
So safety is the number one component for us. And we have programs that are set up for individuals in their engagement level, their comfort level, and their commitment level, so the length of time that they're willing to commit to a young person. So I invite everybody to come out and visit Big Ben Mentoring dot org to find out more. If you have some questions,
come out on Saturday to thirteenth and ask. We'll have some of our bigs there as well, so you can engage with individuals that are currently in the program and a big brother perfect. Appreciate what you doing, Molly. Let us know how things are going perfect. No, thank you, Molly, Lord with us big brothers, big sisters of the Big Bend. Here's the website again. Just to find out more and register for the Flag Football game. One hundred kids, young men, young boys are needing a big Brother,
Come on, we can do this Big Bend Mentoring dot org. Big Bend Mentoring dot Org. And no matter where you live, whatever community you're listening to this show from, there's a Big Brother's Big Sisters organization in your community. Reach out. Mad Radio Network, Come on, Ruminators Make a Difference. Twenty two almost twenty three minutes. It is twenty three minutes past the hour. A little late into the segment here Jad Johnson. Next hour,
Personal Defense. We're gonna go through some situational personal defense thoughts still to come this hour. Florida Man and Florida Man fact or fiction. But I want to get to an email. Yesterday I got to talking about the bad decision that the state of Florida is likely to make in making marijuana legal. Sorry, I'm just that guy that thinks that it should be illegal and that medical marijuana can be reduced to a pill that doesn't potentially contaminate the people and
the children around those that are taking it. But if I said medical marijuana the side, and again I'm sharing my opinion, but I do have an informed opinion. Yesterday I made this statement that marijuana is absolutely a gateway drug. I did not say it was the number one gateway drug. I said it was a gateway drug. However, people do sometimes miss parts of the segment, and they miss, you know, all of what I might say, and so they go without context. But I got a note here from
Troy. He said, good morning, sir, and this is a good guy here, he writes to the show. Occasionally. Alcohol is the number one gateway drug by any shadow of a doubt. Never heard a stone person say, hey, I'm real Stone, I'm gonna get some cocaine. But I have heard a drunk person say, hey, I'm real drunk, I'm gonna get some cocaine. Never heard of report say stone person runs red light kills family of four, but have heard drunk person runs red light kills family
of four. Never heard stone person smokes too much pot beat up their spouse, but I have heard about it with alcohol. I'm a fifty seven year old man with six children, all grown adults, and I would much rather them get off of heards, off a hard's day work, a hard day of work, and smoke a joint than drink a six pack or a bottle of wine. I know you don't think so, but alcohol is the main gateway drug not pot. It's not my opinion, my friend. That's what
data and science shows. Have a great day, buddy. All right, Troy, A couple things. Number One, I did not say that marijuana was the number one. Alcohol clearly is number one, and it's not even close. However, you are wrong when you say that Stone people don't go get cocaine. They just don't do it right then and there. They advance to it. How do I know? Because I've spent since nineteen eighty three working with Team Challenge. That's that's forty plus years of being around people and
listening to people share their story. I've been around other drug rehab programs, and invariably marijuana was the gateway for them. Is it number one? I don't care. It doesn't matter that it's number one or number two. It happens to be number two. You can find the studies. The studies are suppressed. Why, well, why we're studies about COVID suppressed? Why we're studies about global warming? Why are they suppressed? Because there's a narrative,
and the narrative is, let's legalize weed. It's being paid for as far as Stone person runs, red light kills family of four. I would just say, politely and respectfully, you need to read more. It happens, but this is really about where it leads, not the given moment where it leads. It's like any other vice. You know, person starts gambling a little bit with this, that and the other, and if they have a predisposition for gambling that it explodes and it becomes an obsession, a compulsion.
I never met one person that took a sip of a beer and became an alcoholic. I've met plenty of people that took a sip of a beer and then had another and another, and then the next time had another, and another, and another and another, and then the next time had the six pack and then the next time. You get my point. That's the way satan works. That's the way addictions work. It starts out where you think you can control it, and it then controls you. I stand by my
statement. I believe science supports me. I know science supports me on the fact that it is a gateway drug. I also know that passing and legalizing marijuana is going to be absolutely devastating to a generation of children and then beyond, because they can't do anything about the secondhand smoke they're gonna be smelling. That's science as well. It's going to change the development of their brains. This is The Morning Show with Preston Scott a Wednesday. How are You?
A Big story is brought to you by a grove of creative marketing and digital expertise Grove g R O v A Go Go Go. I want to spend a little more time on what we discussed last hour, the three I am help me understand this. Why did the four men on the Florida State Supreme Court ignore the obvious and allow the abortion amendment to be voted on? Was it because, let me let me throw this out. There are four men and they they didn't want to deal with the bullying accusation. Well that's men,
of course, trying to rule and dominate a woman's body. It is so fascinating to me that the three dissenting votes came from the three female justices on the State Supreme Court Rnantha Francis, Jamie Grossen's or gross Hands and Meredith Sasso. And what's interesting is you would think that in writing their dissent they were channeling the Inner Morning Show because it's as if, I mean, it's what we said yesterday, the amendment misleads voters by ending as opposed to limiting
legis lative and executive action on abortion. Just as Francis argue, the amendments hides the ball as to its future legal ramifications, she said it would it would be fourfold. It would repeal all meaningful abortion laws, eliminate any legislative actions to protect babies before viability, subject any laws regarding post viability abortions to healthcare providers vetos, and would redefine abortion as a health issue in Florida without
saying so four different things. Other justices later talked about the language, the ambiguous and undefined terms viability, healthcare provider, and patience health, the very things we commented on yesterday. So I want to go back to my question. Why did the men on the State Supreme Court ignore the obvious legal I mean, the three justices that are descending on this said this is going to be litigated to oblivion. Why did they ignore the obvious and allow this provision
to be voted on. I have great affection for some of the men on this court, but they were cowards in this ruling. They do not have a legal stand on this, So The only thing that I can point to is they bowed a knee to the potential of being called a misogynist, an out of touch mail Supreme Court justice starting show with Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point seven w FLA, Do you have an explanation? You know,
I was thinking about it. I don't think you're that far off because the only there were two dynamics that popped into my head, and it was I'll have to explain the lingo because you know, this is zoomer lingo. Don have to drop. But it's like white night and like simp behavior.
You know, they're like white but for those who don't know, like simp behavior would be like, you know, they're just so afraid of female rejection that they just do anything and everything for state Supreme Court justices and the power of the feminist in a conservative state. Right, I know, in't that crazy, right? You would not that any of that should batter, right, But the powers are so unseen and so gripping, like you can't they
They probably watched what happened to Brett Kavanaugh. We wrestle not against flesh and blood like these these these forces that are acting in our modern world of feminism and just this this you know women lived, Yeah, that kind of stuff. It's just so rampant, and I think there's there is a real trepidation of being labeled as such that you end up getting this kind of like white
night behavior. Isn't it crazy though, that the three female justices were the ones that held strong and oh, by the way, are legally correct. I'm going to try and get somebody from UH Liberty Council on tomorrow. Got to talk about it, got to talk about it. Quick reminder before we get to something that was really interesting that one of the research assistants my way
Climate the movie. It is on my blog page. There are concerns that YouTube is being pressured like crazy to pull this thing down because the global warming fanatics are demanding it. The problem, the reason why they're demanding it is because they have contemporaries, colleagues Nobel Laureate John Klausser among them, who are saying this is rubbish and it is a scam. It is destroying the economy. It is not feasible what they're proclaiming, and nor are the alternative sources
of energy. You've got to see the movie it's the movie. The movie itself is on my blog page. See it while you can take down the intel and file it away. It's just it's another example of how the mainstream media is is crafting and helping support a narrative that comes strictly from one side of the political aisle and enriches only a handful of people. By the way,
always this table is interesting to me. Us majors with the highest unemployment rates Art history Majors eight percent unemployment, sixty two percent underemployment, Liberal arts seven point nine percent unemployment fifty six point seven percent underemployment. And you do know what underemployment means. It means, Okay, they got a job, but it's not necessarily in their field, and they're not making a living, so they got to work another job. Fine Arts seven point nine percent,
fifty five point five percent unde employment. Where's journalism, because it's got to be on there, we mass media. Yeah that could count six point three percent unemployment, forty seven point seven percent underemployment. Sociology five point five percent, get that five point it yeah, forty nine point six percent underemployment. Commercial art graphic design six percent unemployment, thirty three point seven percent underemployment,
English language six point six percent unemployment forty eight point four percent underemployment. I wonder, if I wonder how many of them are History, for example, are teaching right now, but they're underemployed because they can't make a living teaching. I don't know. I don't have the answer. I'm just saying these are the this is it's a table I got right here. We come back, Florida Man and Florida Man fact or fiction play along, Preston Scott.
Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth? On news radio one hundred point seven double USLA. Come on, everybody, fifty one minutes past our time for Florida Man. If you read something insane, I probably did it. I'm find aboard the boxes, going ahead and google my name. Now the raised know me into the sins I have committed, and we all feel better when we have somebody to come on singing. This story won't take long. It is just epically good, and it comes to us
courtesy of a morning show research fellow. Do we need to start like the fellowship a research fellow? Yeah, yeah, and literally a fellow. We go to the city of Clearwater and Brendan Dolan hyphen King twenty three. According to Clearwater Police, they occasionally find ecstasy pills shaped in different forms, for
example, Batman or Superman, the Batman logo or Superman logo. But no, no, my man, Brandon Brendan, sorry, Brendan, Brendan, bred Brendan took it in a whole new way, in a whole new direction. The pill was orange, and it was in the shape of President Donald Trump's face. Okay, question number one, and it might take an experienced law dog like JD. Johnson to answer this. JD, feel free to stick your head into the window here in front of me and let me know.
Or yeah, Grant's turning on the microphone. Is it Do people have the capability of manufacturing their own pills like that? Or did this come from a pill factory somewhere in China? He says yes, So he says it's possible. So someone had to make a Donald Trump mold. I love the thought of that, and then colored the stuff. I don't know what color ecstasy comes in. Did they have the wavy golden hair? I would think
so it's Donald Trump's face. If it's orange, I mean, you would think that's what they would do. But yeah, that it just it just doesn't get much better than that. So we move now from Florida man to Florida Man fact or fiction. This is the travel game where you can play along. I'm going to read three headlines and you tell me which one's true, which one is and keeping in mind they're all possible when you hear them. Headline number one Florida man in wig and one hundred others arrested with enough
fentanyl to kill everyone in Brevard County, Okay. Headline two, Florida man tries to shoot puppy, puppy shoots him instead. Headline three, Florida woman beats boyfriend with a dozen pink roses after he brings her the wrong colors she wanted red ooh. Headline one, headline two are headline three JdE He's going with three. I'm going with three as well. You're all right, you win, And so yes, it's it's true, ladies and gentlemen, that
that actually did happen. Although, as I always say, every single one of these headlines is possible, and every single one of these headlines could end up being true in another edition. That's true of Florida Man Factor fiction, no doubt about it. But let's circle back to Donald Trump ecstasy pills in the color orange. There's something I know. It's awful. I know, I know, but that's hilarious. But it's still funny. That is hilarious.
It still is. Yes, it is. If they made a Joe Biden pill cast what would the pill be fentanyl, Well, they'd lose it. They they would lose a Joe Biden version. Joe Biden's pill would just cause disorientation and sleep at a craving for ice geez where the drugs go. Yeah, exactly right. When we come back our personal defense sayment, we're gonna circle back to our topic of personal defense. JD doesn't know this, but I'm gonna throw some scenarios at him and we're gonna to talk through some
dues and don'ts. And these are scenarios coming right out of the news. So stick around. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Hey. We are turning the page on the rundown quite literally. I mean that we are in the month of April. Unbelievable that we are in the month of April, and it is the first Wednesday of the month, which means it's time to talk personal defense and back in his old stomping grounds. Here in Studio one B, it's J. D. Johnson of the Talent Training Group.
He is the co founder and co owner and co host of Talent Outdoors. He is the one and only J D. Johnson. Hello, friend, how are you? I'm great? Her are you good? You miss being in the studio recorder? You like being in your new confidence. I like our new studio. It's nice. It's nice to be able to walk out of my office and go across the and not have to drive into town. But yeah, I miss it here, dude, what's I mean? Come on, this is homie. Yeah, how you been? I've been good.
We were just talking about the different roles that you have played when it comes to your law enforcement background. Yeah. Do you ever find anybody make ecstasy pills into different things? I've never I've seen the I have seen the different shapes and the colors and all that. Really, Yeah, it's a you know, I mean, it starts out as a compressed powder and you can buy the pill presses through through Gray Market. Sites and stuff, and
uh, yeah, that's just nuts. Never actually found somebody. I have caught a guy manufacturing ecstasy once upon a time in another lifetime ago. Uh, but it was it was all in uh just one big conglomerate form. It was in a powder form at the time. It wasn't hadn't been pressed. Before we get into some specific scenarios, I want to throw your way and get your thoughts on broadly speaking macro view, do you think we're more violent society than we were, say when you were leaving law enforcement. No,
not necessarily. I mean I think we've gone through there have been eras or short periods of time when there seemed like there was an uptick in violence along the way. When when when crack cocaine first came to Tallahassee, it was there was a very violent time and it kind of there was a lull afterwards when it kind of started to die down. But I think the I think the value of human life in general has gone down dramatically in the last
I don't know, fifteen years or so, fifteen twenty years. How much has the effort to criminalize law enforcement by degrading them, defunding them, making them the focus of whatever contributed to the challenges that law enforcement's facing today.
Oh, it's you know when when a when a law enforcement officer has to go to work every day and wonder if he's going to get in trouble or she's going to get in trouble for doing their job correctly, because it it it's a it's a takes a mental toll, and it kind of makes them not want to do anything that they don't absolutely have to. I would think now I've been retired for ten years and I don't have a I don't have my finger on the pulse of the average street cop anymore because I don't other
than when they come out and go do some shooting at the range. Yeah, yeah, I mean I don't, but I'm not out there every day doing it. You know. It's uh, but I would have to think that, and it's it's always even when I was there, it's always in the back of your mind. But it's uh. I think now more than ever because of what you see on television and people taking you know, everything
is recorded now. I mean everything we do is recorded. There's somebody with a camera on something, or there's a camera a traffic camera on the pole up there that's getting us. So everything is examined, and a lot of times you see those you see snippets, you see short little versions on the tows. You don't get context, you don't get what happened before, what happened after. You're just seeing the You're just seeing that that five second or
that ten second clip of things. And a lot of times the context matters more so than the than that five second clip or whatever. When we come back, I'm gonna segue from this into some scenarios and we'll start talking through what you might think about in advance, because again, as we always talk about with regard to SITA, situational awareness and the such, it's really helpful to think about what you might or should do in a given situation before it
happens. So we're gonna start talking through some of those scenarios next with j D. Johnson on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. The Morning Show with Preston Scott, I actually have some pins in California. We actually have a listener to go figure JD Johnson with me from the Talent Training Group our personal Defense segment. JD. Let's segue as we talked about law enforcement officers and you know, now you mentioned cameras everywhere, the dash cams, people video
camera in their phones, cars, just civilians have dash cams. What's the best guys that we should think about if we see a law enforcement officer in trouble and by that I mean something's going bad when they're making they're pulling someone over, or they're trying to make an arrest. Well, you got you kind of have to let your conscience be your guide and your you have to understand, you have to know yourself, your skill level, your ability to
actually help a lot of times being a good witnesses his help. But yeah, I've been in a situations that we're seeing it now back to back to everything being recorded, we're seeing it's always happened. I had a I was in a fighting against fighting three guys one time, and a guy stepped in and said, you can't do that. He's a he's a police and grabbed one of the guys that I'm literally was that guy physically able? Yeah, he was bigger than was bigger than you or bigger than me. So he
clearly was a guy who knew how to take care of him else. Yeah, and he grabbed one of the one of the three guys that I was trying to detain, and you know, and help me and and and it wasn't a it wasn't a life or death situation at least it wasn't at that it having escalated and escalated to that, But I was sure glad to see him, you know. And and the big biggest thing is I would say, if you're going to help you, let that officer or officers that are
there know that you are there to help them. I'm on your side, officer. What can I do to help How can I help you off? Sir? I'm here to help you and make it plain and loud and and so that you don't become part of the problem. What is protocol from the perspective of the officer in a situation where you obviously you don't know when it's going to go south. But I tend to think talking to my brother and knowing you and Charlie and listening to what you guys have talked about over the
years, you you develop a sense you just a kind of know. Oh, most times, if you're pulling over a car and it's filled with guys, are you calling back up right away, regardless of the pullover or how quickly into the event, are you looking for help? In other words, just help on the way. Most of the time, when a traffic stop, let's just talk about traffic stops. When a traffic stop, excuse me, is initiated, you're trying to give information to the dispatcher over the radio.
You're saying it the location, the tag number, the make, model, color of the vehicle, number of known occupants. Okay, you know
you're putting that information out. And you know, in my experience listening to other people talk on the radio and having them listen to me, you can tell by their voice, because you get really familiar with somebody's voice on the radio, and you can kind of tell just in the way they say what they're saying, whether or not they're getting the whether or not their spidy senses.
Yeah, tingling right. You know you don't. I didn't make a practice of always asking for backup on every traffic stop, but there were times when I immediately said, get me another unit rolling this way, get another car rolling this way. Sometimes that's a long way off, and then it's
all you have to take into account. And with today's technology officers pretty much know can have they have a map going on, a GPS tracking of the cars and that kind of stuff that everybody kind of knows where everybody else is. They may not know exactly what they're doing or how busy they are, but they kind of know where they're at and what kind of call they're on.
So all that's taken into account. If I were to recommend to motorists, obviously, Lass says if somebody's pulled over on the side of the road, that you're to slow down at the very least, and if possible, pull over to give space, save space. If I were to suggest to listeners, as you're slowing down and driving by, just take a look, just pay attention to what's going on, it might make a difference. Sure,
is that good advice? Absolutely? Well, you need to be in that heightened sense of awareness anyway, anytime there's a traffic stock absolutely going on, you don't ever know how that might all of a sudden affect you. And yeah, I mean it helps to pay attention for sure. Back with Jade Johnson of the Talent Training Group next on The Morning Show twenty one alfter the hour, Jad Johnson of the talent training group. My guests are talking
personal defense. We've talked about how weather to intervene if you see an officer in trouble. Let's talk about the scenarios that we see all the time on video. We see stories about it where something happens in a store, in
a fast food restaurant and some kind of business establishment. You're there, you're having a meal, or you're a patron and you're just doing your thing shopping and someone shows up with a gun at the at the clerk and uh, they're not just brandishing the weapon they are they are pointing it the rules of engagement. Well legal from a legal side of that, you can put yourself in the shoes of the person having the gun pointed at them, so legally
you're very justified. I don't like to get into the forcible felony gives you their you know, intervening in aforcable felony gives you the authority even though it does legally, but you can put yourself in that person's shoes, the store clerk. It's when you start interceding to prevent a forcible felony. Yeah, that's the legal grounds, but who are you to who are you How do
you know it's a forcible felony? And but you can always say, Okay, if I was that person standing behind the cash register and somebody's pointing a gun at me, and if I had the ability to defend myself, I probably would at that point. And in today's world, we see so many once, like I said earlier, the value of human life has become so diminished. I would say you're probably on safer ground for your own well being
taking action than you would be if you're able to do so. Now, if you're the if you're the guy or girl that has hits the panic button and you become a gelatinous blob under stress, you're probably you probably shouldn't intervene.
You probably should run or hide or whatever get away. If you have command of your faculties and you have training and you have the ability to do something, and you're paying enough attention to wait for the right time to do that, you know that's I'm I'm always going to take action in those situations. I watched and I told you about the video. A guy decides to rib a fast food place. The only couple in the restaurant dining happened to
be a husband and wife that were both police officers. She says to her husband, is that what I think it is? And they both immediately went and they went into tactic with that position exactly. So my question then becomes for the average person, they've done some training, they're proficient with a firearm, what are the next considerations from that? You guys are trained to just intuitively do they took angles where they weren't gonna shoot and hit the clerk.
That was first thing that I noticed. What about the rest of us? You need to be thinking the same way. I mean, obviously that's you have to limit the amount of it to the best of your ability, limit the amount of danger to innocent bystanders, and follow the cardinal rules of firearm safety. You know, be sure of your target and your backstop ye target in what's behind your target. You know, it would be a horrible thing to do the right thing and still end up hurting an innocent person. That
would be a terrible thing. So you, like I said, you have to be able to think your way through this puzzle that you've been you know, had thrust upon you and exacta what we talk about with situational awareness and thinking about it in in advance, like even now, what would you do if right? And the way you do that is through training. The more you train, the more confidence you have, the calmer you're going to be
in a bad situation. That's why we train. It's not to it's you know, training is not just marksmanship shooting at a square target on a square range. It's not. That's not what I'm talking about, or not what we talk about when we talk about training. We're talking about real life you know, real life scenarios. There's ways to train for that, and there is a certain confidence level that you can acquire through doing that kind of training.
And the more confidence you have, and the more training you have, and the more that then your panic level or your stress level in those situations goes down. What does the laws say if the guy holding the gun on the clerk is holding a fake gun? What did you believe it to be at the time. It's and there's because those robberies that happen every day with BB guns or or airsoft guns that look like real guns, and it is
what you believed it to be at the time. We we read and see incidents all the time where police officership people that are just armed with a BB gun. Well, he didn't know that exactly. If he knew it was a BB gun, he wouldn't have reacted the way he did. And there's plenty of toy guns out there now, are BB guns or airsoft guns that look very, very real. More with j D. Johnson when we come back, road rage showed up in a in a news story. Guy was
literally in a fender bender and ended up dead. We'll talk about that next. This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Back with Jade Johnson of the Talent Training Group. We're talking personal defense and a lot of different arenas. This is road rage, but it's not. This is a scenario that happens multiple times in every city every day. In this case, a grandfather, though not a very old grandfather. The guy was, you know, probably younger than me. It's going to a walmart, backs up to look
for to go into a parking spot. He did not see the lady backing out of her parking spot. He hit the car. Police describe it as a scratcher two. He gets out of the car to apologize for being at fault. She shot him in the face and killed him. First of all, I don't know what he did wrong, but I also don't know if doing the right thing in this day and age is something you can do normally. Yeah, yeah, without seeing his behavior when he got out of the
car, that's that's one thing you have to look at. And then you know, pull the let's go to the video. If he just got out to walk back there and say he was sorry, then he absolutely just got murdered. You know, that's just and and we'll go back again to the value of the human life again. So well, let's talk. There's the right thing to do there, Preston. I mean, there's nothing we can't
say. Let's forget the apology. Yeah, you get into a fender bender, by law, you're supposed to write, You're supposed to stop and exchange insurance information, maybe take some photos if needed, you call police. Do you always call police? I would recommend that in a traffic crash, yeah, in a park, in a private parking lot, like, they still have a duty to report that. Okay, okay, if the damage is there's a certain and it's hard for us to say what there's a certain amount
of damage that requires a police report. And I don't know what it is anymore. If it's one thousand dollars or five hundred dollars or whatever, that requires a police report. Now that can be a self report. Sure, there's the ability to self report that crash for insurance purpose, but just to have an impartial person there to do it, I would always call law enforcement and let them tell you whether or not you can file it over the phone,
or we'll they'll send an officer. In the case of you know, whether it's a fender bender in a parking lot like this or on the side of the road, I know that there's an immediate pressure on those in the in the in the accident or the crash to get out of the way, to not hold up traffic. Correct move the car out of the out of the road if possible, even if that's maybe changing the perspective of the incident, still required to do it. Okay, So the law says, move
the car out of the flow of traffic. Yes, all right. Having said that, are we at a point now where you don't get out of your car if you're armed, you keep a firearm handy, and you wait for police to arrive before you approach the other person. No, probably not, because how do you know that's not going to trigger them to get mad and walk up to your window where you're in a more vulnerable position sitting in
a car. If they're mad enough to shoot you in the face standing outside your car, they're probably going to be mad enough to walk up to your car and shoot you through the window. And what do you do? Assess the situation, do the best you can. And you absolutely cannot prevent all of this stuff. It's impossible. I mean, I'm sure that that man when he got out of his car, if he got out of his car to walk back and apologize or to just to say, hey, what are
we going to do about this, he probably wasn't expecting that reaction. And that now that goes to my next question. Do we then have to go to the step of assuming that not everybody's gonna receive your apology or exchange information. Well, yes, and that is the when we talk about minimal preparedness
and paying attention to your surroundings and all of these things. He needs to be looking that you need to be paying attention to the other person's reaction, what their hands and arms are, yeah, what are the how are they behaving? And that's the being aware of your surroundings right there, what we're talking about. So you do all the right things, but you do them with a sense of what could happen and being prepared as you can be.
Absolutely and that's when you say, oh, I need to go, hide, run, fight, whatever it is I need to do to survive this incident. What a tragedy though, Yeah, absolutely, more with JD. Johnson when we come back. Okay, we talked about a lot of scenarios. How can you practically best prepare yourself for them? That's next, Preston Scott on News Radio one seven UFLA one final segment here JD. Johnson,
Remember talentrange dot com. Very simple, and that's kind of the the the point I want to drive home here, JD, is you can actually do some things other than just stand still and shoot at paper targets. Sure you know, we we built our range in such a way where you can move. You can move forward, move backwards, move latterly and put yourself in those scenarios if I've got to move to co moving to cover, putting, putting an obstacle between you and whatever the threat is is such a huge tenet
of good tactics. You know, standing in one place. If you have a really really good shooting stance, when you're shooting, your tactics are terrible. Uh that's kind of a that's kind of a running joke. If you've got a great stance, your tactics are horrible. So uh so, assuming the position to fire, you talk practice, You talk about marksmanship. Sure, you talk about grip stance, side alignment, and trigger control. Those are your you know, side alignments like picture, trigger control, those are
your tenants of mark good marksmanship. Well, if you if you're practicing all of those in a in a real life scenario, your tactics are bad. If your if your stance is good and your tactics are bad. So you know, the first thing I would say is put some builds, some movement into your drills. The other one, in the really own, truly true way to train for this stuff is by setting up some sort of scenario to where you're moving to cover. If you're life our doing life our stuff,
you're moving to cover. You have cover there, you have physical barriers or whatever else you have covers to cover to move to, and you learn to shoot around those covers from odd positions One of the most valuable trainings that is really difficult to do, is time consuming and expensive, is scenario based training. Going to ask you or you have live players with either air soft or paintball or or simmunitions or whatever. Law enforcement does this all the time with
UH simmunitions, You're you're simulating stress. You are it is it is stress and oculation is exactly what that kind of training is called. Where you're you're putting the UH the the stress or the fear of getting hit with a projectile that stings. You can do this with airsoft, you can do it with paintball. You can do it with with the semunitions equipment, which is very expensive. Sam munitions equipment of the law enforcement uses is very expensive, but
it's very worth it. You know. You can also do it with with with the paintball stuff. Some of your best tacticians combat tacticians are guys that play paintball or girls that play paintball. You know, I'm gonna I'm going to mix metaphors here. I had someone say, if you want to learn how in the game of golf to be a good scorer of the golf ball, don't practice with multiple golf balls at the putting green. Take one one
ball, chip with one ball, and putt with one ball. Take the result of would it be better to learn how to shoot effectively for self defense reasons to not ever do the stance to learn the fundamentals, but to do them in a more practical application. Yeah, you still need to know. You still need to understand the shooting platform and the shooting platform most of the time happens from the waist up, the grip and the placement of your arms
and all that stuff. The shoot. A good shooting platform tends to happen with your upper body. It never hurts to stand still and shoot from one place. It's it's all just afforded that right. But in a real life situation, you don't want to be standing still. If somebody is shooting back at you or pointing a gun back at you, you definitely don't want to be standing still. You don't want to be where you were half a second ago. You know, you always want to be moving uh to or from
one place to another. So there are ways to enhance your abilities under stress. There are, Like I said that the best one is scenario based training. We can simulate that with the laser shot system where you're interacting with a video screen, you know, but like you said, paying attention to the news clips and watching watching the videos that we have the ability to see real
life situations all because everything's on tape. Every time you're rolling that through the roll index in your brain, you're learning something and saying, that's where that guy made a mistake. I would have done this, you know, and just or I would have done this, that guy didn't do that, and that's why he's still alive, right exactly exactly as always, thanks for the time. I appreciate it, my friend. It all right. J D.
Johnson Talent Training Group. You can listen to him Saturdays Talent Outdoors along with Charlie Strickland and the growing cast of thousands every Saturday. And of course we'll be back with Charlie in a couple of weeks here in our personal defense segment. No shortage of scenarios out there to learn from. As Jad mentioned, every time you see a video of something happening, whether you see the
end result or not is irrelevant. You see tactically how people approach certain situations, good, bad, or and different, and you can learn and that's why I pull these stories out of the news because they offer us opportunities to learn. There's not one of these stories that I don't learn something myself in the process of talking about it with Charlie or JD. So I thank them for their time, and I believe these segments can save lives yours, your
loved ones, friends, others. And that's why we do them. That's why we do them, all right. At the beginning of the show, I mentioned a website bidenmart dot com Biden hyphen Mart, and it's put together by a Trump pack Make America Great Again, Inc. And it's designed to show the difference in Joe Biden three years into his White House term as resident and where prices were prior. And I challenged Grant to pick a few things at the grocery store and let us know what it looked like. Yep,
So here's my grocery list. Okay, A couple things boneless chicken thighs, apples, potatoes, onions, milk, sugar, sweetcorn, cheese, butter, eggs, and coffee. Okay, normal things that I would eat. Okay, what's your total under Trump? Twenty seven dollars two cents. What's your total now under Biden, forty dollars seventy eight cents, a fifty point
nine three percent increase. And that's the thing. The guy who wrote this column said his jumped up forty five point sixty nine percent, depending on what you buy. But it's up dramatically, not just a COVID bump. This is regulatory policy created bumps and pressures that are going to continue. They're not going away the Biden Inflation Reduction Act. Just the opposite. It's continuing the pressure that creates the inflation. Brought to you by Barno Heating and Air.
It's the Morning Show one on WFLA. Today we started with Ephesians twelve and then went to thirteen. We went to twelve yesterday Today we went to all the way to Verse thirteen, expanding on the idea of the weapons that we fight with in this day and age cannot just be carnal. It's not just personal defense. We're fighting against evil, and if you go against evil forces without the armor of God, you're going to lose. It's not you might
win, no, no, no, you're going to lose. You're fighting against eternal principality, spiritual powers, and you and I don't have a chance apart from God. Just gonna be as simple and pragmatic as I can be about it. We talked about the irony that the Florida Supreme Courts, three female justices, were the ones that said, don't put the abortion amendment on the ballot. It does not pass the test of language required for the voter to clearly know what they're doing. It is not single subject, It is
not clear and concise. It is the opp is it of all of those things. We talked about a lot of other stuff as well. Talked with Molly, Lord of the Big Brothers and Big Sisters of the Big Bend. They need big bros. Come on, fellas, need you to step up. Go back, listen to the podcast. Learn more tomorrow. Great shows standing by