Mor than friends, neighbors, ruminators, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls in Aaron par thanks so much for joining us this morning here on The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Wednesday, on the program, we start with Galatians five thirteen. For you were called to freedom, brothers only, do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love, serve
one another. Let me pile on here for a second. Elsewhere it says, you know you can do anything you want, but not everything that you choose to do will be profitable. And we're not talking about money profitable as in good for you. It's not gonna be. All things are permissible, but not all things are profitable. I'm reminded of a dear friend. I said to him at one point, you know you have to and he stopped. He said, I don't have to do anything. He said, I
don't. I don't have to go to work. He said, now, if I make that choice, yes, I'll get fired, but I don't have to go. And he preceded the list all of the various things that we do in the course of a day that we choose to do. So the things that we choose to do comes at weighing and measuring the relative value of doing that thing, because we don't have to do anything. So the things that you choose to do each and every day, they can be profitable
for the Kingdom of God for you as a member of that. And I've always found that if you do things to benefit others, you enrich yourself. It's funny how when you invert that, when you start getting real focused on yourself and you're not considered of the people around you, Like if you're an employee and it's all about you and you're not thinking about your boss, your
supervisor, the company you work for. It's funny how things get real narrow, real fast, and that will eventually show seeds that bring about a crop that is very similar to that kind of selfishness. I saw a study years ago, and I reference this study from time to time. The study showed that a group of children dropped off at a playground with no fence. It was just wide open. All stayed in the middle together in the playground.
But when they were dropped off at a playground that had a fence that was one hundred yards or so away, they spread out, fanned out everywhere It was an interesting explanation of human nature that by design guidelines and fences and rules, if you will create the most freedom, that when we have no boundaries, we are less free. This verse in Galatian says you were called the freedom. Use it as an opportunity to love and serve others. I believe
that the freedom to serve comes the boundaries and the rules of God. Ten minutes after the hour, take a peek inside the American Patriots Almanac for May twenty second. That's next year. On the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Preston Scott, what will you do with on Freedom and Use Radio? One hundred point seven WUFLA. Gas prices are elevated, So Biden's going to release a million barrels of oil from our reserves, which is only supposed to be
done in a national emergency, to try the lower gas prices. Why would he do that? Oh, yeah, there's an election coming up. I know you're not that stupid, because you listen to this show. I know that you're not going to buy this. I think more important than cheap gas prices, which are not cheap. By the way, that we'll get to a story just a little bit about that. But it's important to note that
he has repeatedly because of his bad decision making. Think about this, He's releasing oil from our strategic emergency reserves, and he's done it multiple times while serving as president as a pretender. Now we're living in an age of pretend, right, Pretend men, pretend women. So why not a pretend president? And so we are exposed and vulnerable because our reserves aren't what they should be. Because by releasing those oil reserves, he's admitting he was wrong.
We should not have cut oil production. And it's the first thing he did. Oh mercy, all right, May twenty second, what do we got here? In May seventeen eighty two, George Washington received a letter from one of his officers, Colonel Lewis Nicola, proposing that the general used the army to make himself King. Washington wrote a response on May twenty second, seventeen eighty two. It's said, with a mixture of great surprise and astonishment,
I have read with attention the sentiments you have submitted to my perusal. Be assured, sir, no occurrence in the course of the war has given me more painful sensations than your information of their being such ideas existing in the army as you have expressed, which are big with the greatness, greatest mischiefs that can befall my country. If I am not deceived in the knowledge of myself, you could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable.
Let me conjure you, then, if you have any regard for your country, concern for yourself or posterity, or respect for me, to banish these thoughts from your mind. Can you imagine how different the fate of this country would have been had we not chosen Washington to lead the army in the Revolutionary War, and it had gone to somebody who would have said, you know, after all, we are just. We do need strong leadership. We were so fortunate. Eighteen oh two, Martha Washington dies at Mount Vernon
at the age of seventy. Eighteen forty three, a wagon train of a thousand Pioneers bound for the Northwest leaves Independence, Missouri, on the Oregon Trail eighteen forty nine. On this date, Abraham Lincoln receives a patent for an invention for booying vessels over shoals, which he never put to use eighteen. He just had a good idea eighteen fifty six, in a side of tensions between the North and South, South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks beats Massachusetts Senator Charles
Sumner with a cane in the Senate chamber. Man, bring back the days, Bring back the days when guys would just grab a ca ain't it's smack each other. And then on this date in nineteen seventy two, Richard Nixon becomes the first president to visit Russia. There you go, seventeen past the hour. Come back, another auction, only this one's in court. You know my fascination for auctions. This time it's Graceland, Elvis's historic home and
now museum is set to be sold at auction. It's supposed to happen tomorrow, but there's a court hearing today. Here's the story. His daughter, Lisa Marie allegedly, and you know we're careful with things like this, allegedly took out a loan with Nassony Investments in private lending for three point eight million dollars in twenty eighteen and used Graceland as collateral. It claims that Lisa Marie signed a deed of trust to secure the loan, but never paid back the
debt before she died last year. Her daughter, Riley Keoh, an actress, is the sole heir of Graceland. Her brother committed suicide years ago and so her mom, Lisa Marie, is buried next to her brother. She said the loan is a fake and it was not executed by her mom, that it was fraudulently forged. In her lass suit filed May fifteenth, she
said the signatures are forged. Nausiny Investments is not a real entity. She claims the lawyer involved in the deed is denied verifying Lisa Marie's signature or even meeting her ever, and so a temporary restraining order was granted Monday this week and an injunction is set for today. Elvis Presley's Enterprises Elvis Presley Enterprises, a group that runs Graceland and that has the assets of Elvis Presley's trust,
said the claims are fraudulent, quoting there is no foreclosure sales. Simply put, the counter lawsuit has been filed to stop the fraud. The backstory Graceland was moved into by Presley in nineteen fifty seven thirteen point eight acres. I've been there. It's an amazing place to visit. I was never a huge Elvis fan, but the history of that place and what Presley accomplished and collected he was a big time collector, is just amazing. Lisa Marie inherited Graceland
after Elvis's death in nineteen seventy seven. She was just a kid. Within a few years, it was converted to a museum after he died. It was originally constructed in nineteen thirty nine by Ruth Brown Moore and her husband Thomas Moore. They named the property Graceland, after Ruth's aunt Grace, who originally owned the land, and then Elvis purchased the property in nineteen fifty seven and changed it His father, Vernon, took over managing the trust after Elvis died
in nineteen seventy seven. According to the Star's will, ownership of Graceland transferred to Lisa Marie when she turned twenty five in nineteen ninety three. Changed ownership again in twenty three when Lisa Marie died and his daughter Riley Keo, his granddaughter, rather took possession of the estate. Most popular museum in the United States, doesn't surprise me. Over six hundred thousand guests visit and explore the
home every single year. Lisa Marie is buried at Graceland next to her son Benjamin Keo, who died at the age of twenty seven in twenty twenty. So yeah, what a story, huh man? Okay, I for one hope that there was no I mean, why would Lisa Marie need to borrow money? Elvis is his state, his his gear, his his memorabilia, His stuff is souvenirs. I mean, I think Still Royalties generates more than enough money every year. I mean I think he Michael Jackson are among the
dead star Marilyn Monroe who's still just rake in money there. Their estates do whatever that however that's broken down, their celebrities. Just on ending. So twenty seven past the hour, Big stories in the press box next dot miss him here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All Right, quick update here you might have missed the segment earlier in the week. The composer of the theme music for the original Halo game, marit O'Donnell running for running for
Congress in Nevada, is going to join us live on the show. The boys are back. Yeah, I'm pretty fired up. I said, look, let's let's let's help broaden your reach a little bit and see if we can raise your little fundraising money out of Florida and the audience of the morning show. So we're gonna he's gonna join us lives. He's Pacific Coast time. He's going to get up at five point thirty in the morning to join us for an eight thirty segment sometime in the next week or so. So
yeah, see that's what we do. We just we reach far. We swing for the fences. Yeah, we'll strike out occasionally. But if you don't, if the bat stays on your shoulder, you never know what you're gonna do. Right, You gotta swing at the pitch. You gotta take a cut, gotta take your hacks. So pretty fired up about that. Big Stories in the press Box brought to you by Grove Creative Marketing and digital Expertise. Pretty fired up about the fact that now this is a mixed bag
good news. It's a fiddler around the roof on one hand, on the other hand, on one hand, Jacksonville Sheriff announced the arrest of twenty seven targeting child exploitation. These are twenty seven dudes between the ages of nineteen and sixty nine that we're planning on having engaging in intimacy with a child and some I mean child child. I'm not going to read all their names. Their
shame is forthcoming. And I put on our ex page the arrest compilation that Jacksonville Sheriff's Office put together in Wow, some of these guys, what did they do? And I was so sorry, Yeah, buddy, you are sorry. I just wanted to give a shout out because this was a multi jurisdiction, multi agency effort, and so shout out to Bay County Sheriff Tommy Ford. This was done in cooperation with Bay County Sheriff's Office, Homeland Security
Intercept Task Force, Naval Criminal Investigations. That tells you something right there. NCIS was involved. Yes, sir, Yes, Sir US Marshall's Florida Department of Law Enforcement, State Attorney, US Attorney. Here's the takeaway parents. The entry point for almost all of this is the Internet. It's video games and social media. I suppose there's It's one of the reasons why I hate
gaming online against with other people. I just don't do it. If I, if I I sometimes I'll have a game or two on my phone to just pass the time. If it's competing against anybody, I I have no interest. It's just I don't want to do that. I just want to I just want to play against the computer whatever. That's fine, But this is how kids are lured in. They're stalked because someone's pretending. Another big story. FEMA's out of money, we're ahead of We're ahead of hurricane season.
FEMA says it's one point three billion in debt and that debt's going to grow to six point eight billion by September. Here's the question that Senators Rick Scott and Mark Arrubio have asked in a letter to Dave Criswell or sorry, Dian Criswell, the administrator for FEMA. What's happened? What are you doing with the money we gave you, every penny you asked for? Where is it? What's going on? Not good? Ahead of hurricane season? And
then lastly, Americans for prosperity. This is kind of cool as Biden is doing what he can to lower gas prices, they are really lowering. They picked twenty gas stations across the country and they're doing a little little promo. They're buying down the price of gas at twenty different stations back to what prices
were when Joe Biden took office. On the day he took office. They're putting gas prices back to what they were then, which is on average about two point thirty eight a gallon, and they're setting up displays and all that at all these gas stations across the country again, about twenty of them. The events started Monday. They're running through the end of the week, maybe the end of the month, and so good on them. That's genius.
Just a little reminder everybody, this is what Joe's doing to the country. And oh, by the way, intentionally forty minutes past the hour, it's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Got to have a little surgery on Friday, so had a root canal done back in the fall, and everything was going until it wasn't. And I've got an awesome dentist and he said, look, you need to you need to get seen by a specialist because something else is going on. And so we see here what's what it's what it's
called here apicoecto me apicoectomy. So They're gonna go in through the upper part of my gum and get to the tip of the tooth, not from the underside, but from the top that is apparently becoming problematic and causing a bit of nerve discomfort, shall we say, And so I've chosen to let's go ahead get this done. So, uh Friday, I'm gonna go ahead.
They're gonna go in there and cut open my gum and take out this little piece and then sew it back to other I look like I got punched in the face for a couple of days, and so I'm just gonna go ahead and get it over with with the long weekend coming up. Mashed potatoes and uh nah, no, no, you're not gonna blend up your food. No no, no, no, no no. I would do chicken broth before I would ever do anything like that. Chicken Broth's good. Yeah,
I'm sure I can. I can eat pretty much normally. I just have to do the saltwater rints after I eat. And sorry, I got a bug here, those annoying little things that flies around. And given what I do for a living, last thing I need is a little extra proteine. Yeah, So yeah, I'm just whining for just a second. Sorry, I just I just am. I'm not a sissy on this stuff. I'm just like, well, let's go, come on, let's get it done.
Let's go. I consulted with my dentist about the recommendation. The the end adonist is highly recommended, and so yeah, I'm good, let's go. Let's do it, get it done. His staff is awesome. I mean, I've never seen this guy. He's just but yeah, so can't wait, can't can't wait. I did a little digging here. This is
the International Criminal Court, the chief prosecutor Karam Khan born in Scotland. He's a citizen of the UK technically, and he is asking for an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu, the Defense Minister Joev Galant, and as well as leaders for Hamas unnamed of course, for crimes against humanity and all of this stuff, for extermination, causing extermination, causing starvation as a method of war, including denial of humanitarian relief. First of all, he's a Muslim. I
just thought i'd point that out to you. He is a Muslim born though his dad's Pakistani, his mom is is either British or Scottish citizen, and so he's got his dad's last name, and it's just interesting that you know he's a Muslim and we have this arrest warrant. But what we also have is it's important for you to hear this. He's absent of facts. Israel, in fact, used to supply about seven percent of the water to Gaza prior to the invasion. Now they are supplying roughly half of the water.
They starving people. They've supplied a half million tons of food in medicine with twenty thousand trucks. Genocide. Excuse me. They drop leaflets saying get out. It's a Hamas that is using guns to keep civilians there in harm's way. It's Amas that's taking the aid for themselves and or selling it on the black market. So the Israel is doing just the opposite of what they're being accused of. What a shock, And these arrest warrants are just ridiculous.
A three judge panel will determine whatever on all of you. The UN, the International Criminal Court ounce sand Why would they deny secret Service protection for Robert F. Kennedy Junior. He's a declared president presidential candidate. He's polling with enough numbers to warrant protection. I'm just saying, why, huh. Kind of creepy, to be honest with you. When you look at the family tree and you look at what's happened to his family, it's kind of creepy.
I wonder why my Orcus is saying no, he's been advised to decline coverage by the secret service of the candidate. Okay. Came across this yesterday and it was just, you know, we were just talking about it. It all boils down to trust. You do you really trust the federal government? I don't. I know most of you don't. We kind of have to coexist. But there's this underlying and what stinks is there's some many of you work for the federal government. You're awesome, but you know you,
you know, they're just things. There's that book of secrets that allegedly the guy in charge, whoever's in the White House, has just tell some stuff. And at that point then it's like, I don't want to see it. If I'm president, I'm like, I don't want to see it. Keep that over there. I don't want to see it. But in light of that, I came across something in the Babylon B that I just, I just I just had to share because when it comes to the FEDS,
we you can't be sure who to trust that could be your baby. According to the Babylon B, these are the nine ways to tell if your sweet little baby may in reality be a fed. Number One, your baby cries clearly meant to distract you from the windowless van parked across the street. Number two, your baby insists on always being with you for some reason, almost like they're keeping in their eyes on you. Huh. Number three, your baby's rattle looks like it as wires sticking out of it. You're pretty sure
that's not battery operated. Number four, you were reported to the FDA for feeding your child unpasteurized breast milk spits up every time someone mentions January sixth, smiles and claps with delight. Whenever you talk about kidnapping the governor of Michigan. Why is that the only thing that makes your child happy? Always wearing cargo shorts. You don't even dress them in cargo shorts, but your child
just ends up wearing them. Your baby entered the Capitol on January sixth, but was never arrested, and Lastly, when you complain to your spouse about how much you pay in taxes, your baby puts fingers in his or her ear and says, we got them from the battle and be back with our two. Close to happening, A dude has a shot of being in the
US Women's Open in professional golf. The guy that they finally banned from this weird tour out in Australia they finally said, yeah, no, we're not doing this anymore has taken advantage of the LPGA and the USGA not having a policy and is close. He's alternate first alternate to get into the US Women's Open. A dude. He can have all the surgeries and shots he wants. It doesn't change that he's a guy. Anyway. We'll get to that
story tomorrow. I've asked the USGA for an official comment. This comes from our buddy. Some information here that was really interesting to me from Scott Beacon, the b line blogger. By now you should know bline blogger dot blogspot dot com. Suburban Houston four by one hundred track meet, so it's once around the clock, four times one hundred yards one hundred meters, rather four guys at at Costa Addis Costa High School, which is a suburb of Houston
in Humboldt, Texas. They ran it in thirty nine point one four. They averaged less than ten seconds per runner per one hundred meters high school. That's flying. Scott, though, did some digging. Those four guys at one high school in Texas had a time that would have won the Big Ten Track championship in the four by one hundred six teams in the high school finals had a faster time than Michigan State. Adas, Casida and Duncanville would have
placed first and second in the ACC Track Confield competition. Addas Casida would have placed second in the PAC twelve finals to usc by hundreds of a second. But for context, Scott went into the women's four by one hundred meter relay during the twenty twenty Olympics. Jamaica won gold at forty one point oh two, United States forty one to four, Great Britain forty one to eight.
Those are your medalists. Addis Cassida High School would have won the women's four by one hundred gold medal by almost two seconds over the Jamaican national team. Duncanville High School would have won the silver. North Shore would have taken the bronze. The eighth place team in the Texas High School track meet would have
won gold competing against the twenty twenty Olympic women. In fact, if the top eight high school teams boys were running in the women's four by one hundred in the twenty twenty Olympics, they would have taken all spots one through eight, all of them. Scott writes this, Of course, we're told there are no physical differences between men and women. The only thing that matters is how someone identifies in their own mind, and men who identify as women should
be allowed to compete in women's athletics despite genetic differences. Just ignore the fact the teenage boys at eight high schools in Texas can run faster than the fastest, most elite women athletes in the world. Thank you, Scott, consider him your truth detector. The Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point seven WUFLA. There was another titbit in Scott's latest This and That that I wanted to zero in on because it once again focuses on male and
female and I thought this was interesting as well. It's a different topic. But he get again. He looks at numbers and data, and he digs, he writes on the subject of males and females. I thought it was interesting data comparing self perception of men and women on their masculinity and femininity femininity by generation. Ninety percent of Boomer men say they are completely mostly masculine. Fifty seven percent of gen Z men say the same. There's an unbelievable amount
of commentary that could be added as to why that is. Okay, I'm gonna give you that chance in just a second. Oh, I don't even know if I can even narrow it down. But you watch the clock, because you tend to forget the clock. Almost sixty five plus year old men say they feel masculine, but only fifty seven percent of seventeen to twenty seven year old gen Z ers do. Eighty seven percent of Boomer women say they're
completely or mostly feminine, sixty seven percent of gen Z women. First of all, isn't it interesting how the number is dramatically lower in the masculinity marker for men than it is femininity for women. Gen Z women have seemingly retained more of their feminine self image at least the way they perceive it than the men have. You're allowed to be feminine more than you're allowed to be masculine. But proceed belove. That's what I'm getting at. So he asked the
question, are we doomed? Is there something in the water? Is it in the educational system? There might be something in the water literally social media? Yes. Is it a combination of a number of factors, he said, you have to wonder what we're seeing if self perception scores regarding one's gender are related to increasing levels of depression in eighth, tenth and twelfth graders in America, Nearly fifty percent of eighth tenth and twelfth graders feel quote I can't
do anything right forty nine percent. I do not enjoy life forty four percent. My life is not useful. Go oh man. I think the point in the middle of all that that there's a combination of factors. I don't think we could pinpoint to any one thing of why there's a phenomenon of less femininity among females, less masculinity among males. It's a combination of environment that
we're in, kind of the culture of the day. Maybe there were value sets that weren't passed on to you know, millennial and zoomer children and grandchildren right there, those views that you know, like you said, boomer men and boomer women kind of had had the baseline there they felt appropriately what they were. You know, I didn't get passed on for whatever reason. So there's there's no there's no one, you know, reason for this. It's
all encompassing. You're probably right, but Scott points this out. If you look at the numbers, the numbers really started to change in twenty twelve. I can believe that that was when a big culture shift happened. That second Obama administration was a massive, massive cultural shift. iPhone was introduced in two thousand and seven. Yep, Android in two thousand and eight, the Instagram app for Android in twenty twelve. Ye TikTok in twenty seventeen. Yea.
And these numbers have nearly doubled across the board, if not more in nineteen ninety one when they started tracking this stuff. Yeah, totally believe it. Again, it's just interesting for thought and maybe around your dinner table discussion. Sixteen minutes past the hour, we come back. We're going to circle back, little Bill Gates epilogue. Next hour, We're going to take some phone calls, and I'm asking a very broad question. Our country is massively divided
that cannot be debated. Some would say I contribute to it. Some would say that the question is should there be an effort to build a bridge. Should there be an effort to find a way to bring this country back together? Through our dialogue, through our interactions, through our conversations, do we broaden our relationships to not always be with like minded people. We're going to talk about that next hour. I'm gonna see what you have to say.
Is there a distinction between those who can be reached and those who seemingly are so deep into the thick of it that cracking through. Some would say that's us, Oh well, Some would say on the other side, that's us, Oh well, yeah, they're not. Well, that's my point. I think it's an interesting discussion to have. That's funny. I always forget that there are people out there that think, you know, we're the evil ones. They have their view of normal, and it's which is their normal
so laughable. You and I both know of people that were raised in a home by illiberals, and that's how they see the world. That's it. That's all they know. They don't know anything else. So anyway, that's next hour. We're going to take some calls on that. I want to go back to yesterday's show real quickly. This is what Bill Gates said in twenty ten, and it informs where we're going for just a couple of minutes.
Here. This equation has four factors a little bit of multiplication. So you've got a thing on the left, CO two that you want to get to zero, and that's going to be based on the number of people, the services each person's using on average, the energy on average for each service, and the CO two being put out a per unit of energy. So let's look at each one of these and see how we can get this down to zero. Probably one of these numbers is going to have to get pretty
near to zero. Now that's back from high school algebra. But let's let's take a look. First. We've got population. Now, the world today has six point eight billion people. That's headed up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, healthcare, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps ten or fifteen percent. So how is it possible that with healthcare, vaccines, and reproductive services you
can reduce population. See we posited the thought that he was talking about the COVID vaccines that they are contributing to to population controls by reducing population. Perhaps things we don't even know are going on inside as a result of the vaccines. Well, I got an email from a listener that said, don't forget about Bill's mosquito thing, and I looked it up. Bill Gates Columbian mosquito
factories breeding thirty million bacteria infected mosquitos per week. The objective appears to be to introduce this particular mosquito, the Waalbakia, into native mosquito populations by employing lab bread mosquitoes, resulting in the infection of such populations. A plant in Columbia producing thirty million bacterially infected mosquitos every week threatened to and he has threatened to scale and deliver mosquitoes to communities around the world as part of his Mosquito
World Mosquito program. He has declared himself the World Health Health Czarre invested one hundred and eighty five million dollars in the establishment of the mosquito factory in and of itself, the stated purpose to eradicate native mosquito populations thought to be responsible for dengay, zeka and other viral illnesses and humans. That's the state of purpose. Here's the headline from March twenty ninth, a little over a month
ago, Yale experts discuss dengay fever outbreak in South America. I'm just asking the question, what if the stated purpose for the mosquito program was not to reduce den fever, but was to in fact go more along with this. Now, the world today has six point eight billion people. That's headed up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, healthcare, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps
ten or fifteen percent. How is it that medical advancements would lower the life the numbers of people alive in the world. I'm just pointing it out. Thanks to the emails Preston Atiheartradio dot com. This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott's half hour away from talking about bridge building and no we're not talking Baltimore, talking about the divide in America. How do you repair that? Can you repair that? Do you try to repair that? Just want to
get your thoughts on the subject. I will explain a little later on this half hour before we open up the phone lines where this all came from. But first, the big stories in the press box brought to you by Grove Creative marketing and digital expertise Rick Scott, Marco Rubio Penning. A letter to the Honorable Dann Chriswell, Administrator FEMA, Federal Emergency Management Agency, five hundred West C Street, Sorry sorry, five hundred C Street in Southwest. They
basically say, thank you for doing what you're doing. We appreciate the coordination, We know that you're there for us, But where's the money? FEMA is stating that the disaster Relief Fund will run out of money in August, and in fact a deficit of one point three five nine billion in August and by September more than tripling to six point eight billion. What they said last year, we led the effort to fully fund FEMA's Disaster Relief Fund at the
levels you and the White House requested. We gave you that money. I'll take over from here. Where to go? They list a series of questions they'd like to get answers to, But my question is where did it go. Look, I get it. Tornadoes come. We had one here, we had three of them, four of them here. We get it. But that's why you have the money, and we haven't even entered hurricane season, and where did it go. Keep in mind, friends, a lot
of that money is our money, Florida's money. Florida's a donor state. We give far more to the federal government than we ever get in return. Second big story in the press box, conservative group Americans for Prosperity partnering with gas stations to highlight Biden's war on energy. They are buying down the price of gas at about twenty gas stations across the country, and they're putting it at the price was when Biden took office. The first one, first rollback
was Monday. They're going to continue it through May twenty ninth. In Oregon, they're expecting four thousand people to line up to fill their gas tanks with fuel. I wonder if there's a limit, like if you can just fill up your car or truck, or if you can fill up your car,
your truck, your gas cans, your mowers, your boats. Some guy comes in with a caravan of twenty vehicles and then Lastly, Jacksonville Sheriff announcing the arrest of twenty seven in a child exploitation sting cooperation with a lot of agencies in Florida and federally good one of them, Bay County Sheriffs Sheriff Ford, thank you well done, sir twenty seven man between sixteen, sorry, nineteen and sixty nine. We're planning to have sex with children. They were
showing up to do that. I posted on I reposted the story on our our Twitter page, and I just simply said, though not impossible, it is highly improbable that these men can be rehabilitated. So good job, thank you for getting them. But this is this is a thing. And here's why I say that they knew this possibility existed. That then when they were in chat rooms and they were they were grooming these what they thought were children, they knew it could be a trap. But the obsession is so strong
it doesn't stop them. That's why I'm not sure these people can be rehabbed. Forgiven, yes, rehabbed, I don't know, Preston Scott, They're gonna get a I'm just which knock knock, who's thesh on w f L A Florida Man Factor fiction coming up in just a few minutes. It will come first and we'll set up a segment for phone calls. This was sent by one of our research assistants. You know we talked about the job swimming pool dude guys swimming around the country and getting paid to do it. Okay,
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at a park, sitting high in a tree on a branch. And there's a couple on a park bench, and there's a little kid on a merry go round. There's a few people jogging, there's somebody else snacking on their food, having a little picnic, and there were two old men playing chess. And the bird's perspective showed bullseyes on every single one of them. In other words, there's someone we can crap on. Hey, there's somebody else we can crap on. See that guy's sandwich. Hell, we can crap
on that. Look at that little kid, he has no idea we're here. We can crap on him too. That, my friends, is the bird's perspective in this particular issue. How many people can we crap on? Thank you for applying. This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott Wednesday. In the Morning Show, just us taking some time for the people. So what we're doing here we a little bit up the phone lines, just a
little bit. But first, ladies and gentlemen, it's time play a little game on Wednesday at this part of the radio program, and it's called Florida Man fact or fiction. I'm gonna read three headlines and you have to decide which headline is the real Florida man headline with the understanding that anything's possible here in the Sunshine State. Headline number one, Florida man claims he married pet flamingo fish and wildlife officials sees bird. Let me read that again. Florida
man claims he married pet flamingo fish and wildlife officials sees bird. Head Line two, Florida man with no shirt steals FHP cruiser to set off one hundred and forty nine mile an hour chase. Headline number three, Florida man attacks with razor blade machete in argument over squeegee. And so the question becomes which is the official Florida Man's story. I'm going three Florida man attacks with razor
blade, machete and argument over squegee. A Florida man squeeze sort of feel to it, Yeah, it feels outrageous, right, final answer number three, No, it's number one. Wow, Florida man claims he married pet flamingo fish and wildlife officials seize the bird. Oh so there you have Okay, wow, yeah, I wouldn't have guessed that one. Yeah, I mean it's possible. Well, now I just got to stop right there.
All right, let's let's set up the There are no prizes, by the way, you just get to claim you guessed right on Florida Man Factor fiction on the Morning Show with Preston Scott and tell your friends. I want to have a conversation with you by listening to you. I don't plan on doing much chatting other than to interject the thought. Here there, set up the
phone calls. This is your your segment here. I spent two hours on two separate days, one hour each day listening to the conversation between Tucker Carlson and Aaron Rodgers. They covered a myriad of topics. They stumbled on one subject for just a few minutes, and I found myself thinking, you know, that's an interesting topic because they both believe there's got to be a way to build bridges to bring a divided nation back together in some way, shape
or form. Now, Aaron Rodgers is of the opinion that the federal government is so deceitful and dishonest that there just needs to be a full disclosure of everything. Let the collapse follow, and let everybody unite on the fact that the federal government can't be trusted, and to kind of rebuild through actions and so forth, a better, more honest government. I'm paraphrasing. I want to circle back to not so much that as much as this their contention is,
there's got to be some bridge building going on. My question for you is, do you agree? Do you do you build? Do you try to build bridges in your in your life with people that don't think anything like you broadly? Do we do we try to find ways to build bridges in a divided country? You could say, I don't think this country's as divided as we're made to think it is. I think the media makes us think
we're hugely divided. I think there's a lot of common ground and that we just don't had a chance to express that because the media is fanning, For example, my contention, we're not a racially divided nation. We're not. They're trying to make us one. But I don't think most of us have an issue with race I really don't. Some do. They're divided the rest of us. Bridge building eight five zero two zero five WSLA eight five zero
two zero five ninety three fifty two. Your call's next hall, Good morning, ruminators. You're just joining us. It's third hour here on the Morning show and we're taking calls. Eight five zero two zero five WFLA eight five zero two zero five I ninety three fifty two. Kind of a deep discussion point here. We are absolutely all can agree divided as a nation. You can argue whether it's fifty to fifty, sixty forty, whether it's forty forty
twenty, what those breakdowns look like, but we are divided. The question that I have for you, does a bridge need building? If so, how how do you propose it get done? If not, why not? I want your thoughts. Eight five zero two zero five WFLA. I don't know how this is going to go. I don't know if you want to talk about this. I thought it was interesting and worth discussing, Jeff,
what are your thoughts? First off, I would agree with you that this country may not be as divided as the media and various actors, both foreign and domestic. One us to believe it is. There are some people that have very strong vested interests in dividing this country so that they can control and manipulate us, and I think that's important to bear in mind. I think it's important for us to at least try to build bridges with people who are
genuinely interested in doing so. I think people that want to just give up and allow this country to break apart and balkanize and descend into whatever chaos some of these enemies of ours have planned for us would be. It's incredibly dangerous, you know, I know you're talking about In the interview, he was saying we should just let it burn down and then rebuild it. Well, we have no control over how things fall up part, and it's no guarantee
we could rebuild anything after it's all said and done. So I think I think it's important for us to at least try to avert the kind of chaos that could be unleashed in this country if we were to balkanize. Let me ask you a question. If we if we take the approach let's do what we can, where and when and how we can, how would you personally approach that without you know, naming names or anything like that, or sharing you know, your personal circle of of interactions. What does that look like
in like one person's life yours? Well, it's it's you know, it's very difficult. We are first off, we're all really isolated, and we're all on social media and that's not reality. And I think part of this, the plan for me would be to actually talk with people in person, you know, first off, put out put out dealers, and see if anybody even wants to have the discussion. They might not want to. I
mean, I'm not saying we can fix this. I'm not saying we can build bridges right right, but I think it's important for us to at least try because, like I say, if this place burns down, if this country burns down, we've got no guarantee that it'll ever come back to anything like what it was agreed, Jeff, thanks very much, thoughtful. I want to flesh this out just a little bit. I think it's and I might just take three calls this entire because Jeff and I chatted up that segment.
Jonathan's up next. What about you? What does this look like? And what about the idea We're really not that divided. We're divided. Votes show us that, but we're not that divided. And so even that outlook I think might might impact how you approach the bridge building. It might inform your decision making eight five zero two zero five to WFLA just your thoughts on the whole subject, next to the Morning Show with Preston Scott chatting it up.
Does a bridge need building? If so, how what does that look like in your life? If not, why not just getting your thoughts on the subject, Jonathan, thanks for calling in this morning. Yeah, good morning morning. So my thought is really just taking it back to federalism and the Constitution and giving the governor the federal government power that they were originally intended to have. Right now, you've got a small group in Washington directing way
too many people than they have the business of doing. How does that happen? Hopes and prayers? Okay? And while I would argue it requires a legislator that believes it, and I don't, and I think we're far from that. Yeah. I mean, from a practical perspective, even if you had one congressman one congresswoman, and there are I believe there are some that would agree with this sentiment. I'm still more interested in you personally, in
the relationships that you have or don't have. I mean, I don't know. There are people that say they've lost friends and family over the last few years over politics. What does this look like in your world personally? Well, I would I would go at that point, you've got to extend. You've got to extend the family, the family mentality of taking care one of them one another before before someone else is forced to go to to the government
for help. Okay, so your your view of bridge building is to just look very candidly at the needs in your own immediate circle and go from there. Yeah, got you, got you, Jonathan, Thanks very much. I appreciate the phone call. Let's go to Michael. Hi, Michael, thanks for calling in Good morning pressing. How are you good. Does a
bridge need to be built? I don't think it can be. I think we're at the stage where we were right before the revolution a third one of the sport, the king a third one, and independence a third didn't give it a crap about it. I think that's where in our country we have so many people that just like, oh whatever, and you try to get them engaged and point out facts and say, look, this is what's happening, and they I don't care. I don't think bridge can be built because
I deal with people of the liberal persuasion or whatever. I won't use the word I call them, but anyway, they don't care. They are fanatical, They are almost like the Palestinians, and they want to see conservatives destroyed. And we need to get in the mindset. Okay, we need to win more people back to our side and show them, look, this is what's happening to your country. What kind of country do you want to live
in? So that's my view. I know you said third, third, third, Mike, Do you think this nation is as divided as it's portrayed? No, because I believe the communist Marxist media wants to think, oh divided, and and you know, and they also puff up their numbers saying, well, everybody supports Joe Biden and these few radicals don't support him, and we need to destroy the radicals. That's what I was saying. They they want conservatives or people who believe in the constitution to be locked away or
shut up or silence. Yeah, yeah, I don't disagree, Michael, Thanks very much. I appreciate you sharing your thoughts. Scott, Anthony, you are next. What about you? I'll take calls all hour long if you want to talk about this. I'd love to hear from some ladies. I know you're out there. What about your circle of friends? Do you even talk about this stuff? Or is this all you talk about? Just where our country is? See? I think there's both sides here. I
think there's some people they don't have any of these discussions. I was mentioning Tucker Carlson and Aaron Rodgers. They were saying, yeah, there's there's some area is you just don't talk about stuff and there's but there's fewer of those. Uh. The importance of the discussion warrants the discussion. It's how you have it? Eight five zero two zero five to b FLA. Let's do it. See we can get through four calls in this segment here, pretty
broad topic. Is it time to build a bridge? Is our country is divided as it is made the scene? Do we need to build a bridge? And if so? Out all those questions and more. Scott, thanks for being patient. What do you think I agree with you? One of your first callers, Jonathan, you said federalism is a is not working the way it was intended, and I think it's because the federal government is addicted to power and there needs to be a way to cut that power and have
consequences when they overreach into the state's rights. Another thing I believe is that it was the people that want to divide the country. I think the media plays a big role in that. I've done a small business and when I speak to my when I find an opportunity, I think it's okay to speak to my customer's politics. If they happen to in liberals leaning, then they'll tell me something that's really abstract, like somebody's wanting to ban a book,
and I can't deny it. But after I go home and research and look it up, I said, no, there's nothing to that or is different than what they thought. If you remember about a year ago, I sent you an email about having a discussion to a forum work left and right, and you could have arbitrators. After somebody makes a statement, they could say, well, the fact is this. I think the big problem that's dividing us is the media is feeding us lies. Fair enough, No, you
know, Scott, thank you. I appreciate it. Thoughtful comments. Let's see what Anthony has for us. Good morning, sir, heys hate them good It's been a repeat comment at this point. The media is the biggest preparatoriator of lies known to man. Period. Hey, It's also an exposure thing. Like when I was in New York, I was a Democrat.
I voted Democrat. I thought Democrat, Oh, you can't have guns, and all all kinds of things, tax, tax, tax, And then a little about little I got exposed to different things and things were changing my mind. A couple of things happened in New York that kind of made me start moving more towards the right, more libertarian. And then I came down here and I listened to you. You actually made me more You made me more libertarian. And then from a libertarian, I lean a lot more conservative
now. And if I have friends that don't ever listen to anything that isn't their particular brand of listening material or or reading material, you know, the leftists or whatever, and those people, I can't talk to them about certain things because I know they'll sit there and they'll they'll oh, I can't be
friends with you. You know, I don't ever have that problem with you know, conservatives, uh friends, but I do with with the people on the left, but if they're exposed, Like my ex girlfriend was a diehard leftist, and there she got exposed and she's like, I've got to vote for Trump this time because of the vaccine. And she got she you know, her thing was well, you know it was it was my body,
my choice with her with her borish right. And then all of a sudden it came, oh, it's not it's your body, but it's not your choice with vaccines. And that opened her eyes a little bit and she started looking into things and she realized, oh my god, Anthony was right this whole time. They've been lying about Trump this entire time, you know. And and but that's what it took. It took like a mixture event, a world ending event almost from Anthony. Thank you, brother, I appreciate
it. That's great. We'll win them over a little bit at a time. You just got to speak truth. I suppose Dan, Hello, Hey, how you doing pressing good? I just I think there is a bridge that needs to be built, but I don't know that it's going to where you have too many people that don't want that bridge to be built. And
I don't think people understand how deep the liberal toe hold is. I think it started to get exposed when COVID happened and people had to start own schooling their kids and they realized how much the children in the schools have been I mean, there's no other work for it but inductrinated. Yep. And that is not been addressed. It's still going on in the schools. You have more people pulling their schools out school choice. But that's just in Florida.
You have the rest of the nation that they don't have that where kids are getting you know, I don't know if you're the one that said it, if you send your kids to Caesar to be educated, they're going to come back to Roma, you know. And that's what's happening to our nation. And I don't see. I don't see how it's going to get corrected. To be honest with you, I really hope it gets corrected, but I just don't I don't know how it's going to happen. Gotcha, Thank you,
Dan, appreciate it all right, Greg. I want you to stick around. We have other callers that are calling in. I will extend this for the rest of the hour. If you want to talk, I want to give you your I've given everybody a liberal amount of time to get their thoughts shared, and so Greg, I don't want to short change you. You've been patient. If you can hang in there with me through the news break, you will be first. And I promise you've got the time.
What about you? A five zero two zero five to b FLA. We're talking about bridge building. Is this nation as divided as we are being told it is? That's next in the Morning Show. It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott thirty five past the hour. Big Stories in the press Box, brought to you I grow a creative marketing and digital expertise. Big Story this hour is our conversation. We're asking about bridge building. Is America as divided as it appears? And if there's this divide, do we need to do
something to try to repair the divide? To build a bridge? And Greg, you have probably set a record here. Thanks so much. I want to hear your thoughts. Hey, I just hope I can put all my thoughts together here in rooting down. But uh, first of all, I'd like to say that I don't think we're asbody as the media makes us out, makes us out to be. Okay, But uh with that, with that said, uh, to build a bridge, you got to start on
both sides and meet in the middle. And the right, well, we'll we'll have to concede and concede and concede and concede their thoughts and beliefs. But the left won't concede anything to meet in the middle. So a bridge cannot be built as far as I'm concerned. But uh, those songs, Uh, you got to stand for something or your fault for anything. Yeah, we've got to stand for our principles. We've got to stamp for God. We've got stam for the Bible, we've got stam for it word,
and we got to stanford the Constitution. And if we pray for these people, maybe something can happen. But Uh, other than that, I don't I don't see how we can build a bridge. Greg. Let me ask you, take advantage of the fact you've been so patient with me. Let me get your thoughts on this. In your personal life, the circle of people that you hang out with, the people that you interact with, what what opportunities exist day to day for you personally to work on any level of
bridge building. I don't know. I just I just try to present myself in a godly manner and let people see see that in me, okay, and hope that it can that it can it can rub off the showing them that hey, what I'm doing is right or I'm trying to do right. And uh, I hope, I hope that me being a positive influence compete off of that. Fair enough, Yeah, yeah, fair enough, Greg, Thanks so much. I appreciate you being some patient with me and good
job sharing your your ideas on this. And you're welcome to call in folks eight five zero two zero five to b F l A. But I'm not going to belabor it. I've set aside this hour if need be, and you're welcome the way in on it. I think you know, as I'm listening to all of you talk and I well, let me just share a few emails that I've gotten here. Jeff wrote in I think it's Jeff, Constitution should be the bridge that brings us all together. But we have many
trying to destroy the value of what it was supposed to mean. We have to weed out those trying to destroy it. In a sense, we need to clear the bridge that's been created already. Raymond. He talks a lot about social media, but then he says this, should we build bridges, Yes, as long as we can pave those bridges with the skins of the people that disagree with me and use their bones as structural engineering group. Mark writes in we need to get back to understanding we are what we are as
Americans, the basics of our unity. We've always had a diversity in customs, beliefs, lifestyles. We learn to get along pretty well. Up to now we have very powerful, influential people trying to divide us and get us in fighting and distracted with relatively petty things. We can just get it in our heads that even with all our differences, we're Americans. Go to the ball games together, we go to movies together, we go to them all together. We can get along pretty bleep well. Thank you, Mark.
You know, he kind of hit on something there, but not quite. I think our common language is being lost because we're not forcing people to assimilate by learning the language in this country. That's not helping. Bill, Jeffrey, You're next. You're just talking about it here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Preston Scott, go ahead, make my day on News Radio one hundred point seven, doubly UFLA. We got time for about three more calls here, So Bill, Jeffrey, John, you are going to get
the final three slots. Let's start with Bill in the order of the longest way. Hi, Bill, Hey, how you doing? Preston Good? What do you think about all this? You know, for the last several years, it just seems like we've you know, gone down so fast. It just seems like a really coordinated effort. And I'm thinking from a human standpoint, it's too coordinated and too well planned. And I'm thinking it's a spiritual problem. And you know, the Bible says we don't fight against flesh
and blood, but against principalities and powers of the air. And I think, no doubt, you know, we can attack each of these problems. But I think what we really need to do as far as bridge building, is pray for revival in this country and try to get people back to God in the Bible, and then let that fix the problems, the social problems of the country. I don't think we're going to get anywhere just butting heads and you know, pounding our pet peeves. You know, I think we
are too divided for that. But if we let God do it, I think it'll start from the individual and from the inside out, and you know, the changes that we want to see as conservatives will just happen because our focuses on God. Thank you, Bill, I appreciate that. Let's go
to Jeffrey. Hi, Jeffrey, you're up. Hey, Thanks a lot, Christ And I hope I don't expand this out too far, but I would say that, you know, in August of nineteen forty five, the human race got noticed that should we not find common values, I'll back up and say I think the division in our country is reflective of if you look
any place in the world today, there's great division. But I think we have reached a point in our specie where we have to find and we have to accept the fact that we share a common planet, and we must in turn develop values which we all as a specie and understand and share with each other. Otherwise it's obvious that the human specie now has the ability to put our own gun to our head and destroy ourselves. And as far as the
planet may be concerned, this may not be a bad thing. So we're on notice, and if our country and other countries in the world cannot find common values that all peoples can share, we may go down that road as other species have by our own extinction. Thank you, Jeffrey, let's go. Final caller here is John. Hi, John mortipressants. Uh. Yeah, it should be a bridge. We should we should be able to articulate our full beliefs succinctly with someone. But like an earlier caller said, uh,
you know, so many people are deceived by the media. But my question is, how can how can you reason with someone that when you've been deceived by the media and you still keep going back to them for your information. I mean, you've got to have a cool belief just like the gospel you have, and it doesn't take a theologian to tell it and spread it. The guy that said we were divided in thirds, I believe is very close to right. And the color that said revival as only hope, I
think he's right too. You always have the bridge open, but like a like a fence, good fences make good neighbors. But the fence needs to have a gate in it and needs to swing both ways. Thank you, sir, appreciate it. Thanks to all of you, and to those that didn't get in, I appreciate you calling and giving it a shot. Feel free to send me your thoughts Preston, as others have Preston at iHeartRadio dot com, and perhaps I'll hoop here they come. Perhaps I'll get a chance
at sharing these emails in the coming days. Just one of the get your thoughts, Pope Pride A little bit forty six minutes after the hour, what happens if a home for abused women and girls were to suggest that women and girls could include transgenders? Let me say that again. What happens if a home for abused women and girls were to suggest that women and girls include biological males, biological men and boys? Tomorrow on The Morning Show with Preston Scott.
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knew it, seven and a half hours was over. This is what makes life worth living, just seeing stories of a dude building the Legos and saying I was in the zone. Yeah, man, I just I just got going. And you know, you don't think about blisters, you don't, you don't you don't think about the injuries. Just felt it in my veins. Yeah, you just gotta you gotta go, man, you gotta go. You know, you're just you're in the zone. You're not really aware
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