That's how you start a radio program with some of the greatest names in the history of television singing, God bless America. Good morning friends, Welcome Monday. We're already halfway through the week of the morning show. Two shows this week. That was bad. That's it. We're moving right along, my friends. Yeah, Jared with us this morning and tomorrow. Then we will be back next Tuesday. Gonna take a little extended break around my birthday and
my granddaughter's birthday. My granddaughter born on the same day that I was born, and I whispered in her ears the first time I held her. We're gonna stop counting Papa's birthdays start counting yours. I'm not sure it works like that, Yes it does. It works like that, Yes, sir, so. We had a kind of a brother's day yesterday, celebrated Father's Day and birthday yesterday, and my wife and I'm suuryl do something on my birthday
after we celebrate our sweet granddaughter's birthday. But anyway, welcome to the broadcast our verse today. Psalm sixty eight, verses four and five. Sing to God, sing praises to his name, Lift up a song to Him who rides through the deserts. His name is the Lord, exalt before him, father of fatherless and protector of widows. Is God in his holy habitation. I want to focus on that first part, and it'll be part of what we talk about today and our Sons of Thunder segments. It's the role of
songs, hymns and psalms, hymns and spiritual songs in our lives. It's kind of the idea of what are you putting in your brain? And so I'm gonna challenge you on that a little bit later on. But that's how we start the day. Come back, take a peek at history. We'll set up the program. I've got a very important announcement coming up this weekend, a very cool annual event that we always talk about, but because we're off the rest of the week, I got to mention it today and tomorrow,
and hope at Velcroz to your brain. Talk a little FSU baseball this morning. Then Ole's still alive. They got jobbed against Tennessee. We'll talk about that. We'll also talk about what's going on with FSU here. It seems like the NCAA has got a thing here, among others. We'll talk about all that stick around. Busy day on The Morning Show with Preston Scott started counting shows at the beginning because we weren't sure how long he'd last.
Now we're just proving to everyone that week in count This is The Morning Show with Preston Scott inside the American Patriots Almanac. By the way, I'm Preston, he's Jared. It's show fifty one eighty one of the radio program affectually known as Common Sense Amplified. Let's see June seventeenth, fifteen seventy nine. It is kind of cool that we have record of things happening going back so many years. Sir Francis Drake anchors the first newscast for San Francisco. Not
just kidding, anchors in San Francisco. Bay claims the area for Queen Elizabeth the first that was funny. Sorry. Seventeen seventy five, Patriot and British troops fight the Battle of Bunker Hill near Boston, actually the Battle of Breeds Hill. I've been there. There's a little question. Who said don't shoot till you see the whites of their eyes. Even though the Brits took the
hill. This was after the Patriots had taken the hill above Boston Harbor, and they were stunned because it happened literally overnight, and they woke up and there they were, and it's like, oh, this is a problem. And so they were also on Breed's Hill and they paid a price for getting it anyway. Eighteen fifty six, Philadelphia, the republic Party opens its first
presidential nominating convention. John C. Fremont becomes the GOP candidate. You do know, the Republican Party started in Ripon, Wisconsin to end slavery, something that you'll hear even a modern day liberal say on his very popular program. We'll share that sound later on the Home of Segregation and Slavery, the Democrat Party just saying facts hurt. Eighteen eighty five, Statue of Liberty arrives in New York in sections aboard a French ship. Wow, I mean that's incredible.
Eighteen eighty five, seventeen ninety two, five men arrested for breaking into the Democrat national headquarters. The water Date scandal begins, and back in nineteen nineteen, on this date, my dad, Ray East Scott born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. They had his parents avoided My grandma and Grandpa avoided the Johnstown flood and so was born this entire part of the family. And it's almost apropos that my dad was born the same year as the Green Bay Packers.
Just it's poetic. And so there we go real quickly. This weekend, Saturday and Sunday the Tallahassee Model Railroad Show and sail. It's the twenty second and twenty third great family event, and they've added something ladies. Look. I know some ladies go because they just go with Dad because it's sometimes his near Father's Day and all that. But this is a really cool thing. They've got incredible train sets set up and you can buy, sell, trade,
you can do all that stuff. There is a pated mission, but the nationally known long arm quilter, Lauren Jackson is going to be there. Apparently they have learned over the years that the guys that are involved in model railroading a lot of their wives are involved in what's called long arm quilting, and so they have brought They've made arrangements for this lady to come in. She's going to be there quilting, showing those who are interested in quilting how
she does what she does. Giving tips and so forth, and you can meet Lauren in person. So it'll be this weekend. They've got G scale to T scale and everything in between on the railroad side of things. I've been there often over the last several years. It's a great show. It's a good time, a lot of fun. You can go through the thing an hour, hour and a half, two hours, and you can take as long as you want if you're really into buying, selling and trading.
But yeah, so it's over at the fairgrounds once again until they do something with the fairgrounds. Sixteen minutes after the hour, come back, talk a little FSU Baseball and more next fla on your phone with the iHeartRadio app and on hundreds of devices like Alexa, Google Home, Xbox and Sonos and Ihearts Radio season twenty two past the hour of the Morning Show, hour one and FSU Baseball. They have to overcome it. But they got jobbed in the
opener on Friday night against Tennessee. It was a strike. It should have ended the game. It didn't, and Tennessee goes on to rally score four in the bottom of the ninth. Again, it should never have gotten to that point. FSU's bullpen has been streaky all year long. It has cost them games, and it cost them that game because they couldn't throw strikes and they paid a price for it. That said, how in the world does college baseball not allow a replay of maybe one of the few plays they guarantee
have a TV shot of. I think they've been very, very hesitant to allow the review of calls strikes or balls. But it's not a call of a strike or a ball in terms of the zone. True, it's a call based on the literal meaning of the rule, which is a check swing that goes beyond the front hip is. It's not about the plate, it's about the hip of the batter. And every single telecast it's called a slash
camera. In basketball, we called it slash cameras. It's an angled shot and they have it down the third baseline, and they have it down the first baseline, and you can see where the bat is relative to the hips of the batter, and they rely on the umpire down the way and he may not necessarily be watching all that closely because there may or may not be
other batters on the field. But link Jarrett brought this up. How can you review plays where you may not have a clear camera and where the cameras moving, where you might get blurried, blurred vision of whatever it is that you're looking at and not have a shot that you can put in super slow mo and keep crystal clear because the camera's not moving. It boggles the mind
because it did decide the game. It absolutely did. In general, I really do not want AI to take people's jobs, but in this instance, for an umpire on a big decision like that, we've gotten the cameras, we've gotten the technology to make that decision. Rely on them. We're making decisions on plays at the plate, on winning runs scoring. That was a game deciding strikeout or not. Again, f issues, pitching has to be better. It does. It was, thankfully because they came back and beat
Virginia. himI Ferrares having a series. He's got more RBIs than any other player in the playoffs at this point. He's been just hot as can be and he sent two out yesterday. But yeah, it's it's a little troubling, but fsu Connor Dorsey great game yesterday, just his second consecutive start where he was outstanding seven complete innings to run ball and got it done. Bullpen
a little nervous, but got it done. But they've got another elimination game, and then they've got another one after that, and then another one after that if they keep winning. Here's the way it stacks up for FSU baseball. They played tomorrow against North Carolina at two o'clock one. You can listen on WFLA here locally. If they win that, then they advanced to play Tennessee. If they beat Tennessee, then they play Tennessee on a winner take
all, and the winner advances to the championship series. By then, maybe Jamie Arnold's back. Don't know. That's where Link Jarrett's gonna have to figure it out. But I love Link Jarrett, but I've got to ask. It's been pointed out FSU got robbed because the NCAA canceled the national Tournament the spring of twenty twenty because of COVID, arguably FSU's best basketball chance since they played in the national title game in seventy one or seventy two. Then,
of course we saw what happened last year in football. You've got the call on the third strike on Friday, and then in the media press conferences, they're not allowing the local media to ask questions. They're kicking them out link. Jarrett said, no, I mean these guys and they're like, coach, Yeah, you gotta go. What's going on? Twenty seven minutes after the hour, Boy, do we have big stories in the press box? Stick around being told what to believe by the liberal media. Get a refreshing
dose of truth. It's the Morning Show with Prestin Scott on news Radio one hundred point seven WFLA, thirty six past the hour. Big Stories in the press Box, brought to you by Grove Creative Marketing and Digital Expertise. I have so many incredibly important stories in ours one and three. I've got two segments of big stories, one followed by another. Let's push through this, I sayaid, what do you think of? You have any idea what that
is? Sounds like a medical acronym of some kind. Correct. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, otherwise known as Fauci's Fellas went playing there.
It's the infectious disease part of this that I need to focus on, because congressional investigators have now determined listen, they were screwing around with monkey pocks they were performing gain of function research on monkey pocks, causing it to be more fatal from one percent to ten to fifteen percent of the infected would it would be fatal. This is island of doctor Moreau's stuff. This is creepy, it's unethical, it's wrong, and we're funding it. Fauci should be
thrown in jail. He's retired, the highest paid member of the federal government is running this crap and he's been lying about it. The coronavirus was manufactured. Oh, by the way, monkey pox is primarily a gay man's disease. That's a fact. Wh what are we doing? Shut it down? You cannot trust this agency. Shut it down. You need to be demanding of Congress shut it down. That's one story. Second story, the first debate between Biden and Trump. Here are the rules. Ninety minutes, two
commercial breaks. Campaign staff may not interact with their candidate. Both candidates agree to appear at a uniform podium, their podium positions determined by coin flip microphones muted throughout the debate except for the candidate whose turn it is to speak. While no props or pre written notes will be allowed on the stage, candidates will be given a pen and pad of paper in a bottle of water. Yeah, that's a format Joe's can excel at no audience. Hmm. Supreme
Court strikes down bump stocks. The ban on bump stocks six to three was the vote. Now, honestly, the six are wrong and the three are wrong. They're all wrong forferent reasons. Here's why. And I'm going to talk about this with JD and Charlie the next time we meet with one of them, which will be the first of July, first Wednesday, July. A bump stock does allow an AR to function as a automatic machine gun. It does. Yes, it's one, but it allows it to I've shot
one. However, I don't have a problem with that. See, I just don't. I think we ought to be allowed to own tanks two Historically we did. We could own anything, if not more than what the military had. But bump stocks have been struck down by the US Supreme Court. The ATF exceeded its authority. Really, you don't say. Forty minutes after the hour, we're halfway through the big stories in the press box. Stick around thought or story you want to share, write them at Preston at iHeartRadio
dot com. Yes, he knows how to read. Well, actually his producer reads him. He doesn't know how to read. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Seattle is turning to just hear me Seattle because they went through the whole defund the police, the autonomous zone where the homeless are, that the little tent cities, they don't have enough. Police staffing is at levels not seen in sixty seven years. Think of what the population was in
Seattle sixty seven years ago compared to now. Of course, that population is plummeting. They only had four hundred and twenty four police officers working as of December thirty first, it's the last set of data available. Out of those, sixty six eligible for retirement, eighty four over the age of fifty. So you know what they're doing. They're resorting to illegal immigrants. They're giving them guns, they're swearing them in as police officers. These are deferred action
DACA illegals. They're here illegally. Though Biden's ATF has said that they can possess duty firearms and possess ammunition as part of their law enforcement duties. That nice of ATF. ATF's just full of all kinds of interesting rulings and decisions. Huh. Speaking of ATF, boy, I hope I can air what Lee Williams has to say next week about the ATF decision. In Arkansas, the deadly home raid of the head of the Bill and Hillary Clinton Airport.
The executive director of the airport was shot and killed in his own home. Police did not announce their presence. They came in. He heard his door broken into, He came out with a firearm. They shot him in the head. They could have served him a warrant. They could have said, hey, we want to see your home. We've got a warrant here.
They could have gone to his office. But no, no, they went in the middle of the morning, a morning with near freezing temperatures, by the way, where his wife was dragged out and made to stand outside with her night clothes on. They shot and killed him all of a sudden. The Pulaski County Prosecutor Will Jones filings that it was legal and justified. There ain't no chance, friends, that this was legal and justified. None.
And oh, by the way, in violation of their own policies, they didn't have their body cameras on they're caught taping the lens of the door ring camera before breaking in the door. It's atf unchecked, unhinged, unlawful, and the DOJ will not pursue criminal contempt charges against Merrick Garland for refusing to comply with a subpoena. They said it didn't constitute a crime, so they're not prosecuting their own guy. No surprise. I just am asking. I
wrote this in my notes Steve Bannon. Steve Bannon is going to prison for simply not testifying before Congress. They won't even pursue charges. Congress is saying, we want the tapes of your interview that the investigator, the special counsel did, or whoever with Joe Biden. We don't think he's fit to be commander in chief. Now, I think that's a dangerous game to play because you get Kamala Harris. But set that aside, so Merrick Garland faces nothing.
Steve Bannon's going to prison, contempt of Congress. Hello, scales of Justice, Democrats, Department of Justice, Joe Biden, they're sitting on one side of it. Forty six minutes after the hour. What do you think big stories in the press box? Yeah, Show with Preston Scott. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. On news Radio one hundred point seven WUFLA, fifty one minutes past the hour.
Maybe I shouldn't admit to having this, but I have it. Office of the Undersecretary of Defense, Memorandum for Senior Pentagon Leadership, Defense Agency and DoD Field Activity Directors, dated May twenty ninth, twenty twenty four, signed ashish Vaserani. There's a good name for you. There's a there's a G I. Joe kind of name for the Undersecretary of Defense, shish Vera Vaserani. Okay, anyway, this doesn't surprise me. The subject is the twenty twenty
four Department of Defense Pride Month Observance. There's a memorandum on Pride Month observance inside the Department of Defense? Are you crapping me? Really? Real? We're gonna focus on this, are we? Well? We know that the answer is yes. We have documented the infatuation with pride inside the Department of Defense. Now I can't help but notice what is now become a biblical double entendre. We've long known that pride and we're not talking about taking pride in
your work, doing what you do to the best of your abilities. We're talking about the kind of pride that leads to arrogance, send in an unrestrained
ego. That pride comes before the fall? Isn't that? Isn't that now ironic that we should be having a Pride month that the country not entirely Thankfully, my kids got me a T shirt that says, it's got the prototypical nineteen fifties drawing of Dick and Jane and then a couple of little boys, a little boy and a little girl that are distinctly a boy and a girl, and it says, let's make June great again. I love that shirt, love it. But here we go. This is this is a whole
nother Pride comes before the fall? Ironic? Once again the Bible hitting it out of the park. Here's what I didn't expect. Florida National Guard Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Pride Month, referencing the Department of Defense Defense Special Observance. And then another little flyer, Florida National Guard Pride Rainbow, Pride in all who serve a place for all. And then they go through the observer vins Florida National Guard. Huh, then we've got Juneteenth whatever.
Again, I personally don't have an issue with Juneteenth. I would say, just replace Doctor Martin Luther King Day with Civil Rights Day and call it a wash. But if you want to, if you wanna, because we should be renaming it, just like we renamed President's Day. We stopped honoring Lincoln and Washington's birthdays and we went with President's Day. We should do the same with you know, doctor King's Day and just call it Civil Rights Day June
teenth. I personally don't have an issue with it. If if we're going to recognize the day of emancipation whatever. But but then there's just all this ridiculousness, and and I'm and i've i've I've taken these documents and i've I'm trying to get them in front of the Governor's office because we legislatively have eradicated this nonsense from our schools. This has no place in the Florida National Guard. There's one mission protecting Florida citizens, just like that should be the mission
of the Department of Defense. Our two of the Morning Show with Preston Scott coming up, you know, it's interesting. There are a lot of people out there that are saying to themselves, Oh, I wish I'd have gone to college and gotten my degree. There are others out there saying I wish I hadn't gotten to college, and that I'd have just gotten into vocational school or gotten training and done something that I would enjoy and I'd be on my
way without all that debt. It's two distinctly different groups that are heading in the opposite direction in how they're thinking. But right now there is no doubt that if the stampede is bigger one way versus the other, it's people thinking, and young people in particular thinking, Yeah, maybe skipping college isn't such a bad idea. I will add a caveat if you're willing to pick a direction and go to many young people stuck in neutral. The shortage of workers
in certain trades is just causing wages to explode. The market has never been batter that are for inmates that are returning as citizens over these next few years, from the trades to truck driving, tree companies in certain parts of the country. I mean, there are great jobs and careers waiting if you're prepared to work. The demand is huge. An interesting college. It's going to be so interesting to see what the colleges do because they have allowed their institutions
to forget their primary mission. And I personally think it's public and private schools altogether. Most of them have lost their way. The cost of an education is outrageous, and I personally there's no way I would say you need to do this if I were talking to young people, I just wouldn't. Right now, the highest paid trade jobs, according to Indeed ultrascenographer one hundred and thirty one thousand a year. And these are averages. There's some that make
more, there's some that make less. Respiratory therapist one hundred and four thousand, dental hygienists hygienists hygienists ninety nine thousand, construction manager eighty eight, aircraft mechanic eighty two, cable technicians seventy seventy thousand, Industrial mechanics sixty nine, solar installers sixty nine, real estate appraiser sixty four grand on average electrician. This is like, this is a field where you can make a lot more.
Same thing with plumbing sixty two to seven. Plumbers can make six figures easily by willing to be willing to work a little overtime, take weekends every now and then, emergency calls. License practition, license practice nurse fifty nine,
Wind turbine technician fifty eight. The highest construction related trades according to pro tool Reviews Elevator and escalator installer one hundred grand, Electric power line installer eighty five to nine, Aircraft mechanic tech seventy six, A boiler maker seventy three. I guess you got to go to Purdue there, telecommunications installers sixty nine, iron workers sixty eight. I know welders could make six figures. Are
there are opportunities out there? My advice, I'll quote micro instead of finding something that you're passionate about at a job, you can earn a good living and be passionate about that. Bring your passion to that work. Any job you can turn into something that matters. If you choose to nine minutes almost ten minutes past the hour, we come back. Another TikTok challenge going wrong in show with Preston Scott. Can you fly this plane and land it?
Surely you can't be serious. I am serious, and don't call me Shirley on news Radio one hundred point seven doubufla. We've chronicled the various TikTok challenges. I'm good getting it out of the country. I am. I'm just our kids' brands are turning the mush. Anyway, here's the latest one. This one's gotten a couple fifteen year olds arrested. It is the door kick
challenge. You talk about dangerous Hernando County Sheriff's office two fifteen year olds arrested connection to four reports of doors of homes in spring Hill being kicked down, really kicking down doors. First of all, that's not an easy thing to do if you've got doors that are dead bolted that because it's hinged on the other side. They live within walking distance of the homes. Stupid, but they're kids, so that's what kids often are. Stupid. But here's the
danger. He gets shot and killed. The first time you hear a kick at your door, a lot of people are coming out with a gun. The second kick, you're getting shot. You're gonna get shot right through the door. I don't know what time of day this particular set of events happened, but can you imagine the fear I mean, let's go back to the dude in Little Rock, Arkansas. His door was busted in by ATF. He had every reason to come out with a gun. These kids are kicking
the door in. They're not prepared to return fire. Of course ATF had no reason to either. They were wrong and everything they did. But that's a big story in the press box. The issue here is kids being stupid. If this was late at night, fifteen year olds, parents, this is on you. If your kids are not at home underneath your roof, and they're at that age, they're not accompanied by other adults, like I get it in the summer, they're hanging out with their friends. Adults should
be present with them after a certain hour eight o'clock nine o'clock period. If this is happening that late, parents should be getting a talking to. That's ridiculous. But once again, we've we've chronicled all the different challenges, all some of the different challenges that cost young people their lives that originate on TikTok and it's just insanity. But this one is is one you know, I personally parents, I'm talking to my kids and I'm saying, do you know
anything about this? They might say, oh, yeah, it's been a thing on that da and you look them square in the eye and you say, let me, let me tell you what will happen. And you better not be involved in this, don't don't you do it, and you point out you will get shot and killed. These these two were lucky homes they kicked. Someone didn't come running out with a gun and shoot them, because they would have every reason to do it, Which is why the Sheriff's office
is saying dangerous, dangerous, challenge, dangerous, stupid stuff. Look, there's being stupid and they're stupid. That gets you killed. Sixteen after the hour, come back, a little lesson for the Dems. Left LA on your phone with the iHeartRadio app and on hundreds of devices like Alexa, Google Home, Xbox and Sonos. Soon yes and Ihearts radio station. Tim writes into the program with a late beef. Biden says, inflation not really a
problem. Then the National Weather Service suspends launches of weather balloons due to the rising cost of helium brilliant. Thank you, Tim. Oh love it, love it, love it, love it, love it. Oh, I got I gotta get Scott Beacon back on the program. I gotta get Jerome Hudson on the show. Running out of months in June, but months of days, sorry, running out of days in the month of June. Bill Maher talking on his program last week. Recently he's got his little panel Joel
Stein on there. He's the author of a book called Defense of Elitism, edited for Rebroadcasting Radio. Bill Maher talking about the issue that is a problem for Democrats, he's immigration and how they've handled it. This G seven meeting, which is of course the cool kids of the world get together, the seven big countries, the seven big Western industrialized countries get together, and this year it's in Italy, Okay, hosted by Georgia Maloney. She is the
Prime Minister in Italy. The liberal media does call her a fascist every time they can. Her party has roots in fascism, I always say, And the Democratic Party has roots in slavery and Jim Crow and not that long ago, Robert Byrd was the Senate Majority leader in my lifetime, and he was in the Klan. So it's not a matter where your roots are, it's
where you are now. So I don't think she's a fascist, but what she is is the only one who's strong on immigration in the European Union, and they just had the European Parliament there was voters again for the European Parliament said we do not like this much immigration and calling her fascions. Reminded me of what David Frum said off quoted. He said, if liberals insist that enforcing borders is a job only fascists will do, then voters will hire fascists
to do what liberals want. Voters keep saying over and over again, we are not comfortable with this level of immigration. I understand why it doesn't make you a racist to say that, And yet the liberal parts of certainly in America, Alex Padilla said last week he is our senator here. By reviving Trump's asylum ban, Biden has undermined American values. And then they all stand back and go, we don't want to be called a racist, so we
will not make a move on immigration. It's going to get them at election day. It's happening. It's happening in Europe right now. That proves it in Europe, and it's going to happen here in America. It happened with Brexit, It's going to happen again. There there are other roots of this far right populism besides immigrations. If India has far populism, they have, they have. There's no just got rejected. Mody just lost those elections big time. Yeah, he's been there for a very long time with a lot
of anti Muslim hate and that's it. Yes, that's a whole different kettle of fish. Well, I think there's a real moral reason that we should let people into this country who are suffering at any number for it. No, no, I mean, but that's their point. But but there's a I hate to agree on technicalities. Need to get reasonable amounts of people here. You need a way to process these people. You need to make sure that they're safe. But we need immigrants if we want this, No one
of them need have some immigrants. But we need immigrant kicks because they're not protesting in front of the White House. But you know, I mean, even sixty four percent of Latinos support giving the president authority to shut down the US borders. Uh, sixty two registered voters would deport all migrants living in the US illegally. Yeah, we talked about that last week. But let's boil this down, distill this to the point. Bill Maher predicting illegal immigration
is going to completely end the Democrats' campaigns. They don't get it. Why. It's the same reason why the LGB movement has a home in the Democrat Party, because extremists bully see. The difference between the way that the left and the right handle extremism is profound. Unbelievably, the Democrats, who vote in lockstep on most issues are suddenly finding themselves splintering on some issues. Why, because they're cowards to their extremists. They get bullied the right, the
crazies, the neo Nazis of the world. We tell them to pound sand and to go away. You're jerks. Left won't do that. They're scared. Bill Maher is far from from a centrist or moderate. What he is is he's a smart, practical, pragmatic, old school liberal who believes the wokeism, the political correctness, this extreme idea on immigration. They've lost their mind to the left of him, and he's calling it out and he has a platform. Did you notice, other than that little applause on one line,
how quiet his audience was. Z Audius is people just like him? Twenty seven minutes after the hour, the big stories in the press box, rapid fire before Joe Camps. Next, sing to the Mad Radio Network, where you're challenged to make a difference each and every day. Good morning, and welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, big stories in the press box. I'll expand on these. It's kind of like eating tortilla chips. I'm gonna add the water next hour and expand on these.
So it's it's headlines right now. Pretty much. Only Supreme Court strikes down the bump stock band. ATF exceeded its authority, the court ruled six to three. The expected break in that ruling, ATF reinterpreted a post prohibition law and and and violated its authority. Congress has the authority and the responsibility to act if you think it should. I don't, but I'll explain more on that next hour. No charges in the deadly atf Arkansas home raid. We've
covered that story an awful lot. But the counting prosecutor said he was legal and justified. He couldn't be more wrong. The attorneys representing the family said, this isn't this is far from over good. Department of Justice, isn't it? Isn't it interesting? Merrick Garland is cited for contempt of Congress. They won't prosecute Steve Bannon cited for contempt of Congress under Democrats, they did
prosecute. In that interesting Merrick Garland will not turn over the audio tapes of the interview to the Congressional Committee with Joe Biden, and they said it's not a crime, of course it is. Congress wants the tapes. He won't give them. CNN rules for the debate between Trump and Biden. They're saying that maybe RFK Junior could get in there. Ninety minute debate, two commercial breaks. Campaign staff may not interact with their candidate during that time. We'll
see if they have your pieces. Uniform podium, Mike's muted throughout the debate when the other candidate's speaking. No props, pre written notes will be allowed on the stage. Candidates will be given a pen, a pad of paper in a bottle of water. So says CNN. Seattle police facing shortages and manpower are hiring illegal immigrants with doca's status. You can't make it up. They're going to give guns to people in this country illegally. I don't care
if they're DOCA or not. Deferred action, childhood arrivals or something like that, doesn't matter. They're here illegally. They're going to give them guns.
And then this we have learned that Anthony Fauci's old group, the NIAID, the National Institute of Allergy Infectious Diseases, not only did they perform gain of function research on COVID, which likely led to the entire thing being released air quotes accidentally, but congressional investigators have now learned that the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases was performing gain of function research on monkey pocks, making it
not one percent fatal, but ten to fifteen percent fatal. What are we doing? What are we doing? They're making biological weapons and we're funding it with our tax dollars. You need to demand Congress they shut it down. They want to do something to fight diseases and so forth that will be properly controlled and transparent. So be it shut this down. Anthony Fauci should be in jail. He's a criminal. Forty minutes past the hour speaking of health,
only the good side of health, healthy expectations. Next, I am there, I am good, I'm a happy example. Glenn Is on nine to noon. I am stronger every day on WFLA. We need some healthy expectations. That stuff's downright depressing, joining us doctor Joe Camps. It's not out there, Joe. You know, that was what I was going to talk about. Preston, you must really be in tune. And I'm again honest. We didn't talk about this, but we didn't talk about how hot
it is. It's getting close to me in one hundred degrees now almost every day. And you know this is a reminder. You know, every year we talk about sunscreens and I don't care if you use whatever number. You know, I was going to talk about the SPF sun protection factor. There's not a lot of difference. In fact, if you get SPF fifteen you get about ninety three percent blockage, SPF thirty about ninety seven percent, and
one hundred is only ninety nine percent of ultra violent radiation. So the message this morning, let's get the sunscreen out and if all possible, try and stay out of the sun between ten am and one PM. That's when the maximum penetration of the UV rays are active. So I always like to talk about it this time of the year because most of us don't really think about
that. But our skin is the most important, one of the most important organs in our body, and in fact, there's more skin than literally anything else on our body. And also, don't forget the kids. You know, sometimes I think as adults, we you know, we apply sunscreens, but maybe not think about the children. But please do it this time of
year because it is truly getting really, really hot. And so again the measurements don't really matter as you go from fifteen, say up to one hundred, but I think a good number we'd be in SPF for fifty, which blocks about ninety eight percent of the ultra violet radiation. So I always want to talk about this this time of year because most of us are out in
the sun don't really think about it. But it's our one of the more precious organs in our body because there is the number one protective of many, many different potential health issues. So it's quite important to think about this and remember this. So hey, Joe, let me ask you a couple questions.
First of all, you mentioned ten and say one or two in the afternoon, So it's important for people to know then that UV does not necessarily correlate to the heat of the day because the heat might come a little later in the day, but you're saying that UV focuses a little earlier in the day. Yes it does. And you know, one of the other things to remember pressing about this is that even on a cloudy day, yes,
you can still get UV penetration. So I think it's important if you're going to be in the sun to really think about using the and I will say gel or lotions because the sprays, which sometimes you think is a lot easier to use, in fact, you don't get the same amount of coverage. So not trying to commercialize this at all, but it does seem to be
that the lotions are better for protection of your skin. And just being smart about this is a take home message this morning and a reminder as well, because we tend to forget and you know, we get outside, we start working in the garden, or we're doing some type of activity, swimming and you name it, and we're not protecting our skins. So it's very important
to remember these things. Well. The other thing I've learned in the last couple of years that I did not know is that sunscreen can actually expire if you've got it laying around for years. It's no good. That's exactly right. And I also will tell you that over application is something to think about as well, because it does contain certain chemicals that potentially could be harmful for the body. And won't get into that, but it's important, I think,
number one to use it. Number two, try to use the jail application if possible, and number three try to stay out of the sun in the peak hours of this you just have to be out for work or whatever. So that's my message in this morning pressment. Thank you doctor Camps, and we will talk in a couple of weeks. All right, buddy, you have a good time. Thank you, Thank you sir. Doctor Joe Camps with us this morning. I said a couple of weeks because it's a
real short week. We are off Wednesday through Monday. Back next Tuesday, but we will be bought on the air tomorrow, but so it'll be a few weeks before we have Joe back on the program. Forty six minutes past the hour, Set off your mind, get it off your chest. You have a story you want to share, write him at Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Good Morning, Friends, Morning Show with Preston Scott. Great to be with you this morning,
and again reminding you a short week we have. We've just got today and tomorrow, and so as a result, we've got a lot to do in a short bit of time. Today, however, we've got author of a book called Democracy and Solidarity. Don't let the name fool you. It's professor j. James Hunter. He's with the University of Virginia. We'll give you the full kind of breakdown of his his title there, but the book is subtitle on the cultural roots of America's political crisis. Because we've got one.
We absolutely, we absolutely have one, and so yeah, anxious to speak with the professor in a little bit. But first, every Monday at this time, I've decided to devote a little time to try to nudge directly men into not being pretenders but being contenders for the faith. Our churches are full of pretenders. I don't know, I don't know how else to say it. I I I think we've got to challenge each other, guys, like if you hang out. I think it's why a lot of people don't hang
out with people they go to church with. They hang out with other people because the other people aren't going to hold them accountable and try to square Wait, you're in church with me, What are you doing that for? Why are you looking at that? Why are you watching that? Why are you Okay? I want to open your mind to this possibility for a second. And this is about being a godly man, being an actual Christian. We started with a verse from Psalm N sixty eight today. Sing to God,
sing praises to his name is the first part of that verse. And it's so interesting because last week I had this thought as I was just driving around. I listened to two things. Primarily on my radio. Every now and then, I'll listen to some secular music from when I was growing up. Primarily, I'm not really big into listen to the music of today. Not a lot that appeals to me. Every now and then there's a song that's like, Okay, that's all right, I'm certainly not interested. Although I
love rap, I love the art form of rap. I think the skill set is incredible. I think most of it's really kind of degenerate, though, And if you look at the lifestyle that comes with that, Yeah, but good rap that doesn't resort to profanities and challenges people to make good choices and so forth. I'm good with that. I'm good with stuff as long as it's not full of profanities and pushing people towards decisions that are well debauchery.
Right. But I listened to PGA Tour Radio occasionally. Listen to this radio station. Listen to what some of the guys are talking about. Just see what they're talking about. But I've listened to a lot of Christian music a ton, and so my challenge to you guys is is this, open up your brain and pay attention to what you're listening to. You know, some say look at your checkbook and you'll see what matters to you. And obviously it could be your debit card or your credit card. You'll see what
matters to you. What you put in your brain will impact what comes out of your life. And so my challenge to you guys, there's a whole world out there of incredible Christian music. There's the Old Age, you know, the standby stuff, the gospel stuff, the hymns and all that.
That's fine. But Scripture talks about psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, and there's a whole bunch of spiritual songs out there that fall into this category of contemporary Christian music, which is incredibly broad, but it's just good music with good redeeming messages. And so I'm going to challenge you to input some stuff in your life that teaches you about praising God. Change what goes into your brain and it will change what comes out of your life. Time for hour
number three of The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Fast moving program. I can't ever get my hands on why there are some shows that just move so quickly, and this is one of them. It is June seventeenth, show fifty one point eighty one of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. On Preston, He's Jared. Great to be with you this morning, and I'm really pleased to have with us. He's Professor James Hunter. The website James Davison
Davison Hunter dot com. The book is Democracy and Solidarity and on Cultural Roots in America's political crisis. Professor, how are you sir? Doing well? Thanks? How are you? I? You know, it's tough to answer that question because this is your book is addressing a topic and the reason it stood out to me when Steven sent me a little opportunity here to get you on the program. Several weeks ago. We had a discussion on this program
about what's the course of action here to bridge the political divide? Do you begin building a bridge? And before we go into and I want your opinions on what I heard, tell me about your reason for writing this book, because I would imagine to some people even the title triggers if you will interesting. Well. About thirty years ago I wrote published a book called Culture Wars, The Struggle to Define America, and that book introduced the concept of a
culture war to our public discussion. It's just as a truth and advertising I didn't come up with the term culture wars. That was Auto Bon von Bismarck in the eighteen seventies as he was trying to unify Germany at the time of nation building there. But what was going on there was very similar, eerily similar to the conflicts that were taking place in the United States very quickly most of the twentieth century. The division between right and left was a division over
economic and political I would say political economy. It was about the conflict between corporate interests and labor union between the wealthy and the poor. That was most of the twentieth century. In the last quarter of the twentieth century, conflict between right and left began to change, and it was mainly over cultural issues and the cultural assumptions that underwright certain kinds of ways of thinking about government.
That culture war over the last for forty five fifty years has only intensified to the place that we are in right now. This book, in a way is its bookend, an attempt to understand the political crisis that we're in today, but not by looking at polarization. Rather, I look at the other side of the same coin. Our national motto is e pluribus unum. Rather
than looking at faction or the pluribus, I look at the unam. What about the cultural resources always kept us together across our differences, and in spite of our differences, that glue, that sense of weakness has lost its capacity to bring us together. And I wanted to understand where that came from and what it's led to and its consequences. Professor James Hunter with us Democracy and Solidarity is the name of the book. I got four thousand questions just based
on what he just shared. We'll be back We're going to continue our discussion for a couple more segments, and you can get the book all over. Obviously you can find it on Amazon, but again Democracy and Solidarity, you'll find it. Professor James Hunter here in The Morning Show with Preston Scott Audio Magazine, a journey into whatever is left of journalism and always pointing out and
correcting what is not. The Morning Show with Preston Scott challenge is keeping this in between the rails, because the questions I could ask Professor James under are endless. You said I wanted to learn. What did you learn? Broadly speaking, well, I would say that the most important lesson here it changes our perspective when we learned this lesson that we think that democracy we tend to think of democracy mainly as elections, as the rules by which we operate politically.
We therefore think that the isis of democracy is mainly a crisis of of the ways in which parties misuse their their authority, that the way that parties manipulate populations. There the electorate and so on. That we can just and if we just fixed the technology of our of our political system, if we just tweak election laws and and disinformation and so on. We could fix the problem of democracy, and that's just not true democracy Before it is anything else.
Uh is is a set of ideals, a set of values, a set of beliefs, and they all underwrite they provide a kind of infrastructure for democracy. Democracy first and foremost is an ethical vision about the reconstitution of our public life, oriented toward the flourishing of more and more people. This was the whole idea at the time of the Founding. There was a monarchy, there was an aristocracy, an extremely powerful religious establishment, and it was all
biased toward the complete control of those in power. That power, through democracy was extended to the people themselves. But isn't it important to note, professor, that the founders steered us away from democracy into a constitutional republic. I would argue, I mean, but see, I guess I would say that's a buzzword to me, because the left side of the political spectrum and growing numbers of the right side of the political spectrum are anchoring on this word democracy.
Democracy. Democracy. Democracies destroy and our founders knew it well. There are different forms of democracy, and a republican form of democracy is still a democracy. There is directed democracy and that's what the founders were trying to avoid. Correct. Yeah, so a republic is still a democracy, but it's representative in its character. The you know, one other important element of this ethical vision was that it was an agreement that we don't kill each other over
our differences, but we talk those differences through. Part of what the story I tell is about is the cultural resources. I want to look at the cultural infrastructure that provided the very foundations of our political system, and those cultural resources have largely vanished, They have unraveled. They are no longer resources that we draw upon. So you know, we're going to have a presidential debate in a couple of weeks. Don't imagine for a moment that it's going to
be real debate. These are highly scripted. They are all about accusation counter accusation. It is it's not a serious, substantive engagement with the issues. It's about making the other person look bad. It's the form of democratic debate. But the substance is no longer there, and it hasn't been for quite some time. The book is democracy and solidarity. We're going to get I want to get out on this on time, on this segment. So we've
got enough time. The next segment a few more minutes with the author of the book, and it is Professor James Hunter. The book Democracy and Solidarity on the Cultural Roots of America's Political Crisis. Here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott Usla, on your phone with the iHeart Radio app and on hundreds of devices like Alexa, Google Home, Xbox and Sonos. Hey, So here we go in Iheart's radio station. The book is Democracy and Solidarity on
the Cultural Roots of America's Political Crisis. There is no doubt we have one that's that's that's like as obvious as anything can be. We've discussed it. The speed in which it's accelerated is a little alarming. Professor James Hunter, the author with me. Professor, if I were to ask you, what do you think is the single greatest contributing factor to what's happened and is accelerating over the last forty five to fifty years, what would you point to?
Well, I don't think there is a single factor. I do think that I make a distinction when I speak of culture between the weather and the climate. We tend to focus on the weather because it's so obvious. Most of what has brought us to this moment is climatological culturally speaking, it has taken a long time to get us to this point. And I would say that, you know, from the speaking about the right, Donald Trump is a
symptom of that, rather than the cause of it. As the left would say on the right hand side of the political spectrum, wokeism, cancel culture. It is a symptom. It is not the cause itself, I do. I would argue, however, that that the new technologies of communication, the new communications technologies have really accelerated. They have. They haven't caused it, but it represents kerosene on a fire, and and certainly that's a major
part of the problem right now. If we could simply contain the effects of these technologies and the algorithms that accentuate polarization, it would certainly tone down a lot of the of the polarization. Professor, problem isn't no go ahead, go ahead. I was just going to say that the problem, because this is a historical study, at a sociological study that brings things to the present, the problem isn't polarization per se. The problem is that we lack the
cultural resources to work through our differences. How would you how would you define those resources? Well, again, culture is a way of understanding the world, interpreting the world, and so on. We no longer share any kind of ethical agreements. We no longer share, uh, any understanding of what makes something truthful or untruthful. It's often said that we live in a post truth world. A post truth democracy is a contradiction in terms, you can't
run a country. I agree, and and but the same is true in our ethics. There's there is simply this grand canyon of a divide. Uh. There were always ethical uh arguments and distinctions, But underneath those f sical disagreements were some shared assumptions about the way the world is, how we determine what would be good versus evil, and so on, we would come together, Professor. Would I be crude though, in suggesting that one of those
presumptions was there is a God? Well, historically that was certainly a central part of the assumptions, as you say, the assumptive framework. But interestingly are the assumption about the nature of God has been transformed over a period of two hundred and fifty years. It is, you know, and in part what made what was part of the secret sauce was the opacity, the way
in which our understanding of God was opaque. It allowed Calvinists and Catholics, and Jews, ultimately Muslims and Buddhists to all affirm God, even though their conception of God was different. They still nevertheless embraced a notion of transcendence that has largely disappeared, especially in our public life. Not so much in private life, but in public life. So that is a useful illustration of this one other very quick point here, there's a there are different ways of coming
together. In one of the ways is through opposition to things that represent a threat. The Cold War was one of those threats that whether you were on the left or on the right, you agreed it was a threat to the American project. When the Cold War came to an end, our animosity toward the other turned inward, and it was now the other side that was the threat to America. I thought, you know, certainly, at nine to eleven in two thousand and one, there was a brief moment where opposition to
radical Islam was a source of our solidarity. It brought us together. It was short lived, but it illustrates the point I was confident that when the pandemic started to emerge that we would unite around this global threat. But silly me didn't happen. Even the pandemic, an external threat like this was another source of polarization and con flicked and we didn't have the resources. Science was
no good to us well, because science lied to us. Science told us that the vaccine could stop a coronavirus, and it can't, and so it fundamentally just lied. Well, I think that's that's a little bit too sharp
in my opinion. I think there was. But the real point here is that we couldn't agree on what science is in the first place, what science could do and not do, what its methods, and people who are speaking there were people speaking out of the scientific tradition who are saying very different, oftentimes opposite things, And again that's a symptom of the fact that we no longer have an agreement on what it is that binds us together or the means
by which we might achieve coming together. Professor, I'm going to leave you with the last word right there. Thank you so very much. And this is a topic that's worthy of a lot more time than we've got. But hopefully we've wet the appetite of some folks who go pick up the book. Thank you, sir, Thank you. Democracy and Solidarity the cultural roots of America's political crisis. I could point to personally a half dozen things. Media
failing in its job, lack of north on the moral compass. Most people remember, we elect who we are. We just hold up a mirror what we get in Congress, we're mad at it. Well that's who we are. Get mad at ourselves. Lack of common language. I mean, the list goes on and on interesting topic. Professor James Hunter with us on The Morning Show with Preston Scott as your uncle, Preston, the relative you actually enjoy having around and not just at the holidays. This is the Morning Show
with Preston Scott ran a little along with Professor Hunter. It's worth it a little evasion of a question or two, but generally I think he's a centrist, and writing from that perspective, I think he's an honest academic if you
look a little deeper into the book. Although I quibble with the use of democracy because I don't like it, because we aren't a democracy, and so if you if you're not gonna just you know, I just I feel as though using the word democracy and the title triggers it just does certainly triggered you, at least well in the sense that we're not one and the constitutional republic
form of democracy is not a democracy. It is. It is representative, but we are moving towards a democracy, and I would I would submit that is part of the problem. And I think that's how we meant it. But I don't know that that's what people would think just looking at the title. And if ever there's a generation that Judge is a book by its cover, we're it. We're shallow information voters, We're not. We're not. We're not low information voters. We're shallow. And while they could be synonymous,
they're oftentimes not. I'd take a low information over a shallow shallow is just getting the headline, that they get their news from the headline, that's it, anyway, I think it's Those are the types of discussions I want us to have more of. I may not be lockstep with every point in the book, but I'm okay with that anyway. Big Stories in the press Box brought to you by Grove, a creative marketing digital expertise. We're gonna just this is. This is a two segment thing. CNN new rules for
the Trump Biden debate. Two commercial breaks. No staff in those breaks, no pre written notes, no props. You get a pan, a pad of paper, and a bottle of water. The question becomes, are their ear pieces? We'll find out, Well, you'll find out. I'm not. I'm not staying up and watching those. I'm just not. I love you, but I don't love you that much. I'm not. I'm not
putting myself through that. I'll watch the low lights the next morning when I get here, and we'll go from there back with more big stories next here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Morning Show with Preston Scott Tomy on news Radio one hundred point seven WUFLA. More big stories in Grove a creative marketing digital expertise. Supreme Court strikes down the bump stock ban. The Justice vote six' three atf exceeded its authority. Here's where both sides of this
vote are wrong. The the six are wrong because look, bumpstock makes a gun, all but an automatic machine gun? All right, it just does. I've shot one, I'll tell you I'm more accurate with a bump stock than I am with an actual automatic machine gun. I fired both, infinitely more accurate to me. But I'm okay with that. And that's where the I liberals are wrong, the activist justices. It's a machine gun. It
is, and they're legal according to the Supreme Court. They're legal. Atf Trump, they were wrong that said you gotta have the right tona machine gun. You shouldn't have to buy a bunch of extra doc stamps anyway. Seattle police, facing a manpower shortage are hiring illegal immigrants with Dacca's status as cops. Yes, they're giving people in this country illegally firearms and the right to arrest people here legally. I'm sorry. That is a huge problem for me.
No, I'm not sorry. Never mind strike that from the record. I'm not sorry at all. That's wrong. Department of Justice is not going to pursue criminal contempt charges against Merrick Garland. Did anyone really think they would? Honestly, I'm glad they said no, we're not investigating him. He's our boss versus We'll do a thorough investigation and then just sweeping it under the rug. At least they're just being upfront about this. No, we're not
going to investigate him. Here's what I wrote down, though. So Congress wants information from Merrick Garland, he won't supply it. He's not going to be investigated. Congress previous Congress wanted information from Steve Bannon about January sixth. He said, no, I'm not cooperating. This is a one sided witch hunt. He's going to prison. Show of hands. Who has a problem with that? Keep one hand on the steering wheel. If you don't have a hand up, you're wrong. You are wrong. It's not opinion,
you're wrong, taking of wrong. No charges coming to the atf assassination of the executive director of the North Little Rock or the Bill and Hillary Clinton International Airport or national airport. It's not an international national airport. Brian Malinowski he sold guns at gun shows a few he sold coins at gun shows. He made roughly three hundred grand giver or take as the executive director. They say he was making a living selling guns. According to Arkansas law, he was
not. This district attorney was clearly told or threatened to stand down. This should not be over. According to the family attorneys, this is egregious We'll talk about that next week with Lee Williams, the gun writer. Speaking of egregious the National Institutes of Allergy Institute of Allergy and Infection Diseases was performing gain of function research on monkey pocks, making it more lethal. Why would you do that? Why would you be doing that? Why did they do that
with the coronavirus? Why are they making it? Why are they making biological weapons? Why are they making something more lethal? Wouldn't you think their job is to exterminate it a biological whatever threat. Ironically, it attacks almost one hundred percent gay men. Instead of it being one percent fatal, they were making it ten to fifteen percent fatal. This is a congressional investigation. Anthony Fauci should be in prison. This organization, this agency of the federal government
should be closed and shuddered forever. You need to demand it of Congress, close them down. Six minutes after the art an observation from a drive around town. Nextmor on the program, Doctor Bob McClure, JM I James Madison Institute joins us he's the president. We'll have a manly minute, a bunch of other things. I gotta just like I said, I gotta get a week's worth of stuff done. I don't know how I'm gonna do it.
I got stories that have been stacking up. This is going to sound like a beef for what's the beef might as well because we're not We're not having that. This week, I was driving around town, had some of the some of my sons with me, and we were we had finished a game of golf and came upon a guy driving a pickup truck. Door pickup truck, just him and in the back his dog in the bed or the back seat in the bed, okay, in a crate ninety seven degrees out.
Dog did not look happy. And I know I'm gonna get some pushback from some of you guys, but I'm gonna tell you right now, running around with a dog in a very enclosed carrier, it sure shouldn't be in the open bed. Absolutely. I can't imagine the heat and where the dog was positioned in the bed. He's not getting breeze, and dogs I don't perspire, so the only way they can take their heat down is by panting,
and they usually have to have some assisted air on a hot day. Doctor Steverson talks about that all the time in our Pause for Thought segment, and I'm just looking. Dude's got a back seat in his four door truck. Now, I think brother was guilty of animal cruelty right there. I just I think that's just inhumane. Call me what you will, I'm fine with it. But memo to people driving around with dogs, just to understand it's
hot for them. And oh, by the way, if you're taking your dogs for walks, if you can't walk in your bare feet because of the saman or the asphalt, your dogs can't. It's too hot for them. They'll burn their paws. That's another fact. If you can't do it, they can't do it. Anyway, I got a little frosty about that. I thought it was just remarkably inhumane. That dog did not look happy. I could have had have set him free. Brought to you by Barono Heating
and Air. It's the morning show on on WFLA. But we're we're worried. Probably been hit by Carter anyway. Yeah, thank you to doctor, Doctor Professor James Hunter, Democracy Solidarity of the book. He was our guest. Doctor Joe Camps joined us in the second hour CNN releasing new rules for the Trump Biden debate. Supreme Court strikes down the bump stock ban. No charges in the deadly atf RAID in Arkansas. For now, NIAID cannot be
trusted. They were performing gain of function research on monkey po's making it more lethal. Why would a government agency be making a virus more lethal. That's a crime against humanity. That's Mengla Nazi stuff. And yes, Fauci should be in prison. DOJ will not pursue criminal contempt charges against Merrick Garland. Why contempt of Congress landed Steve Bannon after an investigation in prison? They just
won't investigate Garland. Seattle police hiring illegal immigrants as police officers. I wish I were kidding. Tomorrow we'll do it all over again. I can't wait. Folks, have an awesome day, and thanks for listening.