Ep. 5225: Democrats making the big switch thanks to Kamala and Tim

You just you just do. Come on, and as you laugh, you purge, you feel a little bit better about the thing that's just got you, just to the point where you just laugh to keep from filling the blank. And so as you well know, when you combine that with the power of God's word, as you start the day, you become a formidable force ruminators. When you get your heart right, your attitude right, your mind right, your spirit right, you get all those things right, and then God's on

your side. Come on, come on, So we begin with the Revelation three twenty Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and he will be with me. I will come into him and eat with him, and he will be with me. I want to go to that first part. I stand at the door and knock. This is so hard for people to get their brain around. God doesn't make you do anything. You and I have

a choice. You choose, and that knocking, that's that's that still small voice of the Holy Spirit that lets you know when you've messed up. It's not just the invitation to know him, that's that because that's that knocking that you just you just know. Ecclesiastes talks about God putting eternity in the hearts of man. There's we are made

with this vacuum that only God's spirit can fill. Only God can do that, and Jesus just taps on the heart, taps on the shoulder, taps you're on the brain, just says, come on, now, you know that there's more to this. You know that you know, and if you become a Christian, that tapping is the Holy Spirit speaking to you and saying, uh, you can do better than that. Come on, now, go back and apologize. Come on, or the Holy Spirit saying no, don't do that. Don't, don't, don't, and you just push

away that voice. And you know, the Bible tells us that if you do that often enough, you become deaf to it. You lose your sensitivity to that gentle tugging at your heart. So I share this verse this morning to remind you to always answer when God knocks if you sense you need a moment to just think about

something before you react. This is a piece of wisdom that God gave me years ago, boiled down from scripture, and it goes like this, React when you have to save your life and the life of a loved one or friend. Respond. Every other time we react and get in trouble, take the time to respond. Actually, when God's knocking ten past the hour, open up the pages of the American Patriots Almanac. Next, see what's inside. Start to unpack what will be a fascinating program. Can't wait to

tell you about it. It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Inside the American Patriots Almanac, August twenty eighth, nineteen sixty three.

We have ironically jumped right back into the wayback machine and gone to an era where what we only are supposed to see is skin color and surface. That's it. And I reject that. I absolutely rejected doctor Martin Luther King's words, and I've read nearly every speech he ever gave. When you boil those words down, he's calling for a color blind society. And just a couple of years ago, if if you were saying the word color blind, you're

being accused of dog whistling. I reject that absolutely. If you believe in the idea espoused in our founding documents that all men and women are created equal, then you have to reject what's happening in of culture today. You have to if you embrace the ideals of doctor King. He didn't get everything right in his ideas, but the overarching ideas absolutely one percent. It was also on this date in sixteen oh nine, English explorer Henry Hudson discovered

Delaware Bay. Of course, he didn't know it was Delaware Bay at the time. I just he was there, Okay. Eighteen forty five Scientific American Magazine publishes its first issue. Nineteen twenty two, the first radio commercial airs in New York City. Weaf a ten minute ad. Oh my gosh, could you imagine a ten minute ad? By Wiensboro Realty. They paid one hundred bucks for ten minutes to do an ad in nineteen twenty two. That was a lot

of money, but that's a lot of time. That is in our industry, we would call that a tune out factor. Sixteen pass the hour? Did it launch? Did Polaris Dawn launch? Okay? Twenty two passed the hour? Third hour, We're gonna have a discussion, do a little brain picking. Owen Gerard wrote a piece that was unbelievably to me published by the local Genet outlet, explaining why he is no longer a

liberal liberal and is now a conservative. Now that's not just a rejection by the Party Faithful, which I'm going to share some sound of a young lady who was an Obama worker who went to the DNC and left totally disillusioned. I'll let you listen to some of what she has to say. When you go from being a quote liberal, which of course you know my definition of that there is there are very few quote liberals anymore. They're mostly illiberals because liberals believe in liberty. This is

a radical transformation. And so we're going to talk with Owen Girard in the third hour about that transformation. How did you get where you were? What started to open up your world to a different way of thinking and a different philosophy as it relates to government and freedom, on and on and so we're gonna take some time. We're gonna have a conversation, and I can't wait. We've got some sound you need to hear that's gonna be

coming up within the next half hour. Gonna give you the results of a survey called Losing America's Memory two point zero three thousand college students in all fifty states. What did they say when asked some fundamental basic questions? Give you all that? So it's gonna be good now, Polaris Dawn. Did it launch? No, it did not. Whether scrubbed the thing last night and for today. The earliest it's gonna launch at this point is from so I won't be able to be with you on Friday for that.

So I'm just saying we'll talk about it later. Hopefully they'll they'll launch. It's a very risky flight. I mean, the people going up. This is not for the faint of heart. This is not routine space adventure. This is testing new technologies, new a new space. I mean, I myself would be just a little modestly paranoid wearing a space suit that is my protection from outer space. Because the ship itself doesn't have an air lock. So everybody's got to have these things on when they're doing this

space walk, and and everything's got to work right. And so they're gonna be up in this high radiation belt for brief periods of time. They'll be higher up in the well, I don't know how you would describe it. They're going to be at a height not reach since nineteen seventy two and Apollo seventeen, way above the International Space Station, way above, and you just I mean, if you're in the gravitational sort of space of Earth, you're moving at the speed of Earth. It just doesn't feel

like it. But I mean when they're doing spacewalks, they're moving one hundred and what sixty hundred and seventy thousand miles an hour. It's just they're in weightlessness. So anyway, this is a pretty big deal, this adventure, and so not for the faint of heart, that's for sure. A couple of SpaceX workers going up along with a billionaire who is funding a lot of missions. Uh, he's purchased

these missions through SpaceX and then another thing. The Rap Collection are a a b very noteworthy auction house, sort of they do it a little bit differently, are more Pennsylvania. They've got eight letters by Ronald Reagan that he wrote two different people. Three of them are letters that chronicle is faith, that deal with his faith in God, that

offer advice to people, just fascinating insights. They are going up for auction and uh and one signed photograph not ridiculously priced, but certainly probably a little out of my price range. I've got a drawing here of that that Reagan did. It's not him, it's not the it's not the original drawing. It's a it's a replica of a drawing that he did. He was a doodler. He could doodle and he was pretty good. And so I've got

a horse. I got it at the Reagan Library and they had just a few different noodles regraded and framed, and yeah, that was kind of like, yeah, I'm getting that. That's just cool. So I got the Gipper on my wall. Twenty seven past the hour, Big stories in the press box and there are a ton and they're huge. Stay with us. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott listener guy. Yeah, Audio magazine is the way I would describe this, and especially a day like today, because there are so many

stories that need to be on your radar. I can't do a deep dive into all of them. In fact, I can't do a deep dive into any of them. My goal here on a day like this is to just make you aware and hopefully you'll go deal a little digging and find out more. Right. I told you this was going to happen. I told you US District Judge Robert Hinkel was going to get overturned on this. Hinkel and Walker, who rule and rain in North Florida,

they might be just fine, guys. I hear. Walker's a kind of like an official in a game that has rabbit ears. He hears everything and doesn't like it. And it's like, get over it, dude. You're you know you're an official, all right, You're a judge. You make rulings. And I personally think that you and Hinkle are wrong a lot. And I prove it by pointing out when you're overruled. And I told you that Hinkel was going to get overruled on this transgender ban, that the it's

I'm wording that poorly. Florida passed the law banning miners from being prescribed puberty blockers, hormonal treatments, mutilation surgeries, and all that. Hinkle banned the law. He said, Nope, you can't do that. There is such a thing as being you know, gender identity is real. First of all, that in and of itself would disqualify Hinkle from ever sitting on a court. Anyone who believes factually that gender identity

is real is certifiably lost their mind. And he has no business sitting in judgment of other people and rendering rulings based on the law, because it's not that that's just scientifically wrong, it's false, it's a it's an illusion. Anyway, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in fact did what I predicted. They overruled him. I told you they would, and they did.

that then sets a nationwide president. That's just something worth noting. Texas has removed since twenty twenty one one point one ineligible people from voter rules. And that's Texas. Imagine in states that don't give a crap. I'm just saying. A judge who happens to be a Democrat. North Carolina Superior Court Judge Tiffany Powers sentenced Maria Concepcion Cardona a LeHo to one hundred and twenty days in jail. You might say,

why was that one hundred and twenty days? So what's that four months she she killed a twenty year old boy in a fatal hit and run. She's going to serve one hundred and twenty days. One hundred and twenty days. Oh, by the way, Maria, she's in this country illegally and was driving without a license. One hundred and twenty days. Chicago's population is the lowest it's been since the nineteen twenties. Let me say that again. Chicago's population is the lowest

it's been since the nineteen twenties. That's called an exodus. People don't feel safe. But here's a good one. Nearly one thousand students attended a Christian revival led by football players, notable ones at Ohio State University, some big time stars, and I mean dozens and dozens of baptisms. Some of the statements by these players are awesome. I'll share more later, a little bit of a revival breaking out. I saw

the T shirts. My wife's a big Buckeye fan. I saw the big I saw the T shirts on some of the guys in the preseason, and I was like, Okay, something's up here. And then I see this star players are saying, this is more important than anything we're doing on the field. Friends, there's your ray of light forty one past the hour. That's the audio magazine format right there at its best show, fifty two to twenty five. Yeah, that's twenty five of these bad boys. How about that?

know about. Obviously, we're all different people. I generally don't listen to the other shows, and not because I don't like the people. It's that I don't want my view on things to pairrot or be mimicking anybody else, and I don't. I would listen to Rush because Rush was

so uniquely, unbelievably gifted in his analysis of things. I listened to Rush, But I don't listen to most others because I just don't find that I need to for what I do for a living, because I don't want that to impact Although there are times that Clay and Buck, Glenn Beck and others will talk about a subject Mark Levin, we've had Mark on the show. We'll talk about something that I knew nothing about, and I definitely am glad I heard it. So you know, there's a little bit

of a mixture there. But this is a really good example of something that maybe you'll hear elsewhere, but you probably won't. You know. This past week was the anniversary of the suicide bombing at Hamad Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan. Thirteen service members were killed when Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and their military advisors put together one of the most

stupid withdrawal plans ever ever. Suicide bomber killed thirteen of our guys, and Joe Biden's out there saying not a serviceman has lost his life or her life under his command. That's just a lie. Remember this, you're electing a commander in chief. And I said Biden and Kamala Harris because in an unearthed interview that goes back where she sat down with seeing an anchor, Dana Bash, four months before that attack, as the withdrawal was beginning. Here's what was

said between Dana Bash and Kamala Harris Afghanistan. Yes, were you the last person in the room?

who are not citizens. But every single person that is on a voter roll anywhere in the country that, let's just is dead. I mean they listen to this number. They had four hundred and fifty seven thousand dead people on the voter rolls in Texas. Now that's a state where you could argue they have a vested interest in making sure that they've got it as accurate as possible. Democrat runs states not so much. You see, dead people provide a wonderful opportunity for someone to assume an identity

for the purposes completely voting. They don't want to, you know, get credit in their name, though that happens. They want to vote. You think four hundred and fifty thousand votes would make a difference anyway. The number removed from voter rolls in Texas is one point one mil right, one point one million? All right. I want to circle back to that you're electing a commander in chief, and I want to tie it together with a story that we've

discussed about recruiting numbers for the military. You know that there has to be an impact to the lower recruiting numbers, and here you're starting to see it. Military Sealift Command has drafted a plan, and this is USNI News reporting they're going to remove crews from seventeen Navy support ships due to a lack of qualified mariners. They don't have enough people, so they're pulling crew from seventeen ships and

moving them to others. These are the real impacts that affect our military readiness and ability to defend our nation. And this comes from DEI, wokeness, political correctness, whatever you want to call it, that is now reigning supreme in our United States military. And this stems from whoever the commander in chief is. I'm just telling you it matters,

and it better matter to you. All Right, we come back fascinating survey Losing America's Memory two point zero What three thousand college students had to say in a survey in all fifty states. That's coming up next hour two of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, friends, welcome to the second out of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Jose Can you see over there running the radio program in Studio one A. I'm here in Studio one B. It's day thirteen fifteen of America held hostage

and it is Wednesday, August twenty eighth. Now, this is a fascinating survey because it chronicles the steep decline in knowledge and understanding of American history, civics, the political system of this country. Stuff that's pretty important. If you don't have an understanding of how the Framers set this country up. Well, I'll quote somebody involved with the survey, and the survey was conducted by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni.

It was a survey of thirty five questions. The results are called Losing America's Memory two point zero. They asked more than three thousand students from all fifty states questions about history and government Senate terms of length quotes from

the Gettysburg Address. Survey was conducted in June. The vice president for the association at Least vice president for Policy, Bradley Jackson, told a online outlet called The College Fix, it seems that many students are completely tuned out of politics, lacking the knowledge to participate effectively in a democracy. That's a recipe for disaster. I want to underscore something before I get to the results. Did you notice what he

said in a democracy, we're not a democracy. We could be called a representative democracy, but we are a constitutional republic. A democracy is mob rule. The Framers recognize the importance of balancing out pure democracy with something that actually did a better job of preserving the rights of a minority. And that's when they're how they arrived at a constitutional republic.

So notice that even here when he's describing the recipe for disaster, he's you using the word democracy we've taken something that is unique and overly simplified it for the purposes of communication. No, we need to say it's a constitutional republic. It's sort of like I started using the word illiberal years ago, and it certainly I wasn't the only one, but I was the first one to use it that I know of. I know others did and

probably before me, but I've not heard it. And so if we all start saying, when we hear democracy, go a constitutional republic, and you might get a rolling of the eyes and you might get a but it's important. It's a distinction. Now, let's get to the survey results. When asked who is the current president of the US Senate, only twenty seven percent of students were able to say Kamala Harris, which is correct. Over a quarter thought it

was Joe Biden. They didn't understand the distinction between president and President of the Senate. The vice president is the president of the Senate. Many students were unaware that the term of a US senator is six years. Almost a third thought it was four. Nearly a fifth incorrectly said representatives to the US House serve four year terms. They serve two year terms. Members of the US House have to be re elected every two years. You could argue

that's terrific. It allows for a chain Joeverer. You could argue that puts some in constant fundraiser mode. I know for a fact, members of Congress that get elected are told within weeks of their election time to start raising money by their leaders in the Democrat or Republican side. Start raising money. What about being a representative to the House and representing your district takes a back seat to

raising money both sides. But there are other findings that are more alarming, and we'll get to those next ten minutes past the out This Morning Show with Preston.

four knew that that came from Lincoln. At Gettysburg, thirty seven percent of students correctly identified the current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts. Thirty two percent responded they weren't sure. Less than one third we're able to identify James Madison as the father of the Constitution. Almost half forty four percent responded with Thomas Jefferson. Historian Hillsdale College professor Wilfred Maclay, interviewed for this article, was appalled

and saddened by another finding. Now, to put this last little nugget into perspective, I pulled something off my wall. I have a lot of things in my studio, and one of the things I have is something that I printed out that I talked about, dated March seventh, twenty twenty two, and it's a Quinnipiac University national poll. What would Americans do as the world witnesses what is happening to Ukraine? Americans were asked what they would do if they were in the same position as Ukrainians are now,

stay and fight or leave the country. A majority fifty five percent say they would stay and fight, while thirty eight percent say they would leave the country. Broken down Republicans, sixty eight percent would stay, twenty five percent would leave. Independence fifty seven percent would stay, thirty six percent would leave. Democrats fifty two percent would stay, forty percent would leave the country. So, when confronted with the hypothetical, the numbers

that would flee the country are pretty high. Now we get to this last question in the survey, fifty seven percent of students would flee the country rather than stay and fight. In case of an invasion, fifty seven percent

would leave. That is the end result and the symptom of all the other questions, the lack of knowledge and understanding and i'll say appreciation of the founding of this country, the uniqueness of America's political and governance system, and the abuses of it by those in elected office and those sitting on the bench as judges acting as activist judicial persons versus originalist just ruling on the law. If the

law is flawed, so be it. Your job is to rule on the law, make lawmakers fix the law that's bad. All of this lack of knowledge, the judicial it all adds up to fifty seven percent would leave the country versus fight to defend it because they don't think America is worth defending sixteen minutes after the hour This Morning Show with Preston Scott. Yeah, for those that might have missed the setup, just got a phone call from a listener. It was there's a survey at one school. It was

a survey in all fifty states. Over three thousand students were selected to participate in the thirty five question survey. And I don't have any more of the breakdown there, but more than likely those were students that were American students, because that's the point of the survey, is to look at American history and civics and what's being taught from I mean, you know, you could argue that this should be taught in grade school on up through middle school

and high school. Now Florida is addressing that, but this survey indicates it's too late for this generation. And I've long said to you that a generation has to suffer to fix some of the things that are going to that need fixing. There is no way around that. The question becomes, can we surve that generation? I mean, when you look at nearly sixty percent of the representative college students in this survey would flee the country in an

invasion those are the numbers that China pays attention to. Remember, China doesn't want all out conflict in this continent. It can't afford to. If there isn't all out invasion of this country. You've got a militia, meaning the Second Amendment loving Americans that just are not going to let that happen. I mean, take the elite snipers of the Armed services and multiply it, because we have elites shoe all over

this country that are hunters and sportsmen. They're elite anyway. Yeah, the results are horrifying, But this goes back to the importance of what's happening in public schools or not happening in public schools. Now, this story is an embodiment of the Chinese water torture. Some attach it to the Japanese in World War Two, the idea of just one drop at a time, one drop right on the forehead, and over time it just drives you nuts. Do you know

what's happening in Aurora, Colorado, a Venezuelan prison gang. You remember we told you that the leader of Venezuela Manduro is going to be Madua Maduro. He was releasing Venezuelan prisoners packing him up and sending them into Mexico to invade America. Well, one of those gangs is known as Trend de Aragua, and that gang has taken over parts of Aurora, Colorado, as in, they've taken over an apartment building. They've taken over the building. Aurora is a population of

three hundred and ninety thousand. The city council passed a resolution that it will not provide resources for illegal immigrants brought into the town by neighboring cities, namely and notably Denver. One of the local gang leaders, though from Venezuela, who entered this country illegally in twenty twenty two, was released, telling federal authorities he was going to go to New York. Except he didn't go to New York. He went to Colorado.

Within months of coming to the country, he and other gang members beat up a man at the apartment complex the gang took over. He was arrested for a shooting that wounded two people. He was released posted bail, was rearrested for more crimes, now facing deportation, Except Venezuela is not accepting. And so just a couple thoughts here real quickly before we go to News one. I don't care if Venezuela as accepting them or not. Put them in an airplane, put a parachute on him and throw them out. No,

I don't care. I just don't care. That's their problem. Second, where's the Colorado National Guard? The governor, Jared Paullus of Colorado's what you would expect Colorado to have elected. Why isn't he sending the National Guard to aid police and removing these people from this apartment complex, restoring order and arresting every single one of them. What's going on? I'm pointing this out because I need you to remember Aurora, Colorado, because this is how it happens, one city at a time.

First it was Islamic extremists. Now look at the foothold they have in Minnesota, in Michigan. Now you've got Venezuelan gangs openly operating in Colorado. Twenty eight minutes after the hour, reset the Big Stories in the press Box.

standing to be in this courtroom. Have a good day. Jack Smith is not legally appointed as a special counsel. They can't bypass the constitution and the laws of this country anyway. That's why I'm not taking any more time with that. I mentioned Texas removing one point one million ineligible people from voter rolls. Imagine what the number is, and this is since twenty twenty one now, but imagine what the numbers are in blue states where they don't care.

Back to judges, the Florida law banning minors from being prescribed puberty blockers, hormonal treatments, getting mutilating body surgery. Federal Judge Robert Hinkel ruled that the law was unconstitutional back in June. And we told you back in June he was going to get overruled because he's wrong. And we also pointed out that Hinkel and Walker, who are we're sadly cursed to have them in our district, are frequently overruled. And Judge Walker, I hope you're listening, because I know

you got rabbit ears you are. You're frequently overruled because you don't rule by based on the law. You rule based on your personal ideology. You're an activist judge, and activist judges should be overruled, and they are overruled because it's not your job to do anything other than interpret the law, and the law protecting the rights of parents in this case and their children. Yeah, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals said, yeah, you're wrong to Judge Hinkle.

I told you they would told you it would happen. Judge Sentence is an illegal immigrant to one hundred and twenty days in jail. She was involved in a hit and run that resulted in the death of a twenty year old young man. She gets one hundred and twenty days in jail. One hundred and twenty days in jail. That family spends the rest of their life with a sentence, losing their loved one to someone in this country illegally

who gets one hundred and twenty days in jail. Chicago has the lowest population it's had since the nineteen twenties. I wonder why. And then the good news. At Ohio State University, there's a bit of a revival going on, and it's fascinating to me. Trevon Henderson their star running back, wide receiver a Mecca Buka he is, he is their star receiver this year. Defensive end J T Tooe Moolau.

They are leading these revival services. The athletes, star athletes on the Ohio State football team are leading these services. Up to one thy eleven hundred students are attending. Dozens are giving their life to the Lord during these services getting baptized Tui Moolau. And I'm probably pronouncing that wrong, Toue moolo Ao. I don't think anything I accomplish on the field compares to what's happening right now. Henderson, the

star running back. Whatever I've done, this right here, what God is doing is so much more important, so much bigger. So we could be witnessing the start of some thing. I don't know. I don't know, but I'm hopeful forty one minutes after the hour, back with more of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Kind of an interesting conversation coming up next hour. Young man named Owen Girard was

going to step in here. I was shocked at a piece that was published in a Canet newspaper where he talked about the failures of the Democrat Party and especially as relates to young people. I mean, clearly he's in a minority, but I think it's a growing minority. I've chronicled over the last several years the story of Brandon Straka. Brandon happens to be gay, whatever, It's not my thing, but you know, that's between he and God. But Brandon

saw the light after Trump got elected. In the week subsequent to the election, he started to realize that a lot of what the media had been representing about Donald Trump was just factually wrong. It was it was fictional, if not just almost staged and created and manipulated. And he just was awakened. And then he watched what happened as his friendship circles completely disowned him because he started to question the mainstream media. He started to question the

portrayal of Trump. He said, no, look look, look, he wasn't mocking that person that was suffering from a handicap. He wasn't. That wasn't it at all. And he didn't say they're good people on both sides referring to slavery. That wasn't the topic. And it was just one thing after another after another. And so Brandon founded the walk Away campaign, and it's huge. I would argue millions have left the Democrat Party, and I've been arguing for twenty

three years of doing this show. I don't necessarily think you ought to be a Republican. I'm not in love with the party. That's where I choose to caucus at this point. But the Republicans have some issues, but the Republican platform is spot on. The Republicans not necessarily as individuals, but collectively infinitely better. But I'm not telling Democrats you need to join the Republican Party. I'm just saying get out of the party. To me, it's toxic, like being

a member of the Klan. It's not all that different anyway. Kamala now is apparently going to do one sit down with CNN. She hasn't done a taking questions of any substance on any interviews since she became the nominee, or since she was going to become the nominee. It's been how long now? Now she's fiddling over the debate that she had agreed to. She wants to change the rules. She won't sit down and debate Trump at Fox. Why what's the harm? Good ideas travel, truth travels. It doesn't

matter where right. The truth is the truth. You don't need notes to defend the truth. You don't need notes to defend your convictions and your policies. I mean, okay, if you want to write some bullet points on things you want to make sure you say, it might make some sense. But man, what a train wreck. And I just can't I can't push past the fact that it was just weeks ago she was odd woman out weeks ago they're begging Biden, Dumper. You don't have a chance

if Kamala's your VP, and now she's Hope and joy. OMG, how'd that happen? Forty six past the hour, I'm got to set up our conversation with Owen Girard in just a moment.

Kansas and Missouri. I didn't feel any connection to the people that I know right now who are struggling to buy their groceries or to pay their rent, the people who want to know what both candidates are going to do to materially affect change in their lives. And when I was there listening to the speeches, I felt myself feeling mad because I didn't hear anything about the economy, definitely not in commalist speech and not very much in

the others as well. Instead, I heard generic platitudes, things like joy and respect and integrity, and what does that even mean? Let's make the military the most lethal in the world. I thought I was part of the anti war party.

wars all over the world. Then she realizes with the Republican Party, but not all. There are definitely warhawks in the party, no doubt about it. Fought for the underdog, the working people. See, that's the beauty of capitalism. There's no other system in the world that allows people to rise from nothing to whatever they want if they just work hard enough. If you work, you'll be rewarded. But then there's this when and how did we become the

party of academia an affluence? Really, see the light bulb just went off, she's just seeing it. It's been that way for decades. That's why the education system is the way it is, which we've referred to at the start of this hour, we come back, We're going to have a long visit with a young man who maybe he agrees with some of this, I don't know. We'll see what he has to say, I Wonderward joins me. Next, it's gonna be a fascinating discussion our three here in

the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, now, this is going to be a fun hour. I've been looking forward to this since I threw out the hail Mary, the Bolo, the apb. I read a piece that was amazingly published in the local newspaper, the Gannett outlet, the Tallassee Democrat. It used to be a newspaper. It's now a publicist wing for the party. But I digress, and I was surprised because here's the headline, the Democratic Party

has failed young Floridians like me. And it's a short op ed piece written by a young man named Owen Girard. And so I did what I do. I say, somebody's got to know this guy. Someone has to know him and can say, hey, Preston talked about your your column and wants to get you on the show to talk with you. Lo and behold, not a half hour went by and the connection was being made. And so sitting here with me is one Owen Girard. How are you. I'm doing great today. How are you? First of all,

thanks for coming in, Thanks for calling out for me. Yeah, if you ever listened to the show occasionally, yeah, you're in there, yep, occasionally. Huhh. I'm gonna try not tap my feelings hurt about it. Well, you know, we all got busy lives. That's all right, it's all right. I thought young people like you would know about something called a podcast, but you know, never mind, us older people are all into that technology. Okay, let's get to the meat of this. You are described at the tail end

of this piece. Owens Gerard is a lifelong Tallahassee resident. Let's start there.

sure you have. And uh yeah, I just care a lot about North Florida, care a lot about the Panhandle, and really do everything I can to make sure my values are represented even in these types of you know, communities that are deep blue like leon.

can give his pitch. And of course I don't agree with him on a lot of issues anymore, but I respect him for the fact that he went up against the democratic establishment, and of course they ended up. I believe you know, they they did everything they could to make sure that he wasn't president. They're there nominee in twenty sixteen and twenty twenty, they put you know, millions

behind Hillary and Joe Biden. And that's why we never had a president nominee Bernie Sanders, because he was very popular, especially amongst the youth, but really amongst common people on both sides. Again recognizing that populist, that rhetoric.

was going on the world around me. You see the lockdowns, you see the mandates, you see other states, you see the way people are living during COVID, and then you compare it to the estate like Flow Florida, which was relatively free and open and appealing, and then you see the results of that and of course, I talked about that in the article that I did. Is the fact that, you know, you got hundreds of thousands of people moving to Florida ever since COVID because they've realized how great

of a state it is, how affordable it is. You know, you got your no income tax and everything, no state income tax. You got, like I said, the affordability. You've got a good climate, and you've got a government that actually, you know, cares about the people. And you've got Democrats Republicans everywhere coming from states like California and New York

primarily to a state like here. So I think, you know, seeing all that kind of really shifted my views on a lot of the the economic issues and things like that.

this is the solution for all people. Were there such things as ah ha moments where things just started to make sense in a very different way for you?

different ideologies, different belief systems. Not that I was necessarily going to you know, support them or get indoctrinated by them or whatever. I just wanted to learn, you know, I was curious about politics, and I learned about you know, libertarianism and things like that, and you know, it becomes very appealing to me over time.

there are alternative ways of thinking and that's okay. People with alternative views, you know, that's that's okay, and exploring those So I think that's when it started to happen.

But that what's called liberalism today and progressivism is actually illiberalism. Yeah. Absolutely.

You see these people that are you know, really just crushing the the the American dury, and people that are making it impossible to own a home, raise a family, get a decent job, have a decent career, or even be proud of where you come from and who you are. And I think that's that's really tragic that that's the direction it has has led to.

were turning to Praguer. You how'd you find Praguer you? I, honestly, I don't remember.

it'd be things like that, and similar with Praguer you I something I just found with a lot of this conservative media is that it wasn't actually like this evil, you know, hate filled group of people who were trying to like push these you know, narratives and trying to indoctrinate the public. I mean really, at the end of the day, it's you know, it just it's about having a balanced perspective. I mean I listened to lib media,

I listened to conservative media. I listen to what is supposed to be considered you know, the moderate mainstream sources. And you know, I think that is so important for you know, being able to craft your narrative or sorry, craft your beliefs, you know, based off of the different narratives, because that's the only way you're actually going to be able to understand you know, who you are, the world around you, and your involvement, and it really regardless of

what political views you have. So I would say, you know, having an understanding of media, of the media and how they influence people, because you know they are basically the source of a lot of these problems with our culture. You know that that that really is the center of it.

So what sources do people have? And I'll just say, other than a place like this show where we try to throw ideas out at people and talk about the stories that are going on, where do young people turn Because I mean, yeah, I have some young people that listen to this show, but they're not gonna find this show unless someone points them there.

make an impact in their community. You know, after this show, I'm going to go on campus at FSU and table with our Turning Point chapter and you know, we're going to go and invite people have conversations with people just walking through you know campus.

of kids on campus. We have a ton of amazing conservatives on campus who are passionate about their faith, passionate about their political beliefs, and a lot of them came from similar situations to me, where you know, they were able to open up and actually experience alternative perspectives after being raised in a specific you know, narrative and way.

did because it led to our conversation. We've talked about this journey and how you started with a way of thinking that I would describe now as illiberal, and how you are now considered a conservative activist and a central component that we haven't talked a lot about, but you mentioned that I want to zero in on because I can see it in your face and i can hear

it in your voice, and I'm grateful to hear it. Owen, is you believe a massive component in all of this that is missing with some millennials, a bunch of millennials and certainly the gen Z is the numbers show it is faith.

our faith, our connection to God mean absolutely nothing. It's it's disgusting what pop culture and the media and everything, you know, all the narratives that have been pushed on young people for really generations and all throughout history. Obviously that's what sin is. But especially here, you know, especially in the age of the Internet, it's so easy to be influenced by these these opinions that frankly I believe are satanic. Sure, and you know again, it's like it's

they're elevating people. They're making people believe that they can elevate themselves to a level of a godlike status. I can do whatever I want. There's no consequences, there's no whatever. And I think that is the most basic thing we need to do to get back if we want to have a decent society again, if we want to have a society where we can agree to disagree on issues like the corporate tax rate, we need to understand what

it means to be a human being. We need to understand what it means to be an American.

And of course, as time goes on, that got a little bit more difficult, and now we have the modern narratives that you know, government and church are supposed to be totally separate. But my whole thing is. I mean, what is a law. A law is a moral judgment that there is a certain good thing and a certain bad thing. And we, as a real law legislates moralities exactly. And that is a religion in itself, in the sense that you are agreeing to these principles and values and beliefs.

my family. That's God's grace in your world. You mentioned at the very beginning that it's sometimes a little different when you gather with the extended family and so forth. You've got close members immediate family that are supportive, others maybe just sort of pat you on the head. I don't know what's that look like.

you know, those relationships are totally possible. You don't have to agree on everything, whether it's philosophical issues or even economic or social issues or whatever. But you can have that connection because you do have those core beliefs in those that core foundation, you know, of the family, which

is a really beautiful thing. But yeah, and you know, I mean in regards to other relationships, there are people obviously who you know, wanted to you know, shut me out of of their lives after I you know, I told them that I started attending church. You know, I hadn't even changed my beliefs at one point. I was still very much a progressive. I had just started reading the Bible, and they didn't want anything to do with me.

And you know, if I can make an impact on some place like Florida State's campus, which is obviously extremely liberal and not open to conservative perspectives, or other communities you know here in Leon County, you know, I want to do that. And you know, I don't care how difficult they say it may be. I don't care how you know, I'm not in this to, you know, win fifty one percent of the votes and compromise on my values in the case of like running for an election.

I'm in this to actually, you know, change lives fundamentally and you know, bring as many people to Heaven as I possibly can. So whatever way I do that, whether it's politics or not, that is my vision.

page for years. Prager you. And he starts binge watching that stuff, and he's like, wait, what to one issue after another issue after another issue, And see that's what happens. You red pill yourself. But isn't that a spiritual principle. Seek the truth, It will set you free. See. The other side indoctrinates and locks you down. The other side is the illiberalism of this era, the progressivism of this era,

the extremes of the Democrat Party. They are they are drug pushers, and they're pushing an addiction to the government. They're pushing an addiction to letting other people solve your problems. Man, Hey, man, I got you. Hey, just need a little phone. Huh, just a little cell phone, I got you, got you one little taste, huh. A little bit of money for some groceries. Okay, don't worry, I got don't I got you college college bills. Brother, don't worry about that. Let's

just say we'll take care of it. How much is that narrative different than that of a pusher. Some of you could say, well, you know about that, you've never done a drug in your Well, that's true. But my brothers are police officers. I know about this stuff. I know about this stuff. I can read, I've watched interviews, I've met with prisoners. I know how this stuff works. The federal government is addicting people to government the same way a pusher addicts people to drugs. It's just a

different addiction. I can't wait for tomorrow.

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one hundred and twenty days in jail. Yeah, that'll do. Texas removing illegal, ineligible, and illegal voters from their voting roles since twenty twenty one, the number now one point one million. Chicago's population the lowest since the nineteen twenties. What does that tell you? And a bunch of other stuff. Check out the podcast. It'll you'll like it. You'll love Today's show is really good. Okay, Tomorrow will be two, see you twenty one hours. Have an awesome day,