Ep. 5237: Whistle blower report

makes me laugh. Hi friends, welcome, good morning. How are you Jose over there in Studio one A. I'm here in Studio one B. It is the Morning Show with Preston Scott Show fifty two thirty seven, and it's great to be with you. We start each show with a little scripture, do a little bit of a dive into God's word, because you need to start your day with God's word. At the very least, you need to finish your day with God's You need to spend time ruminating

on God's Word. And this segment came about years and years ago because we decided we were going to take up the mantle of responsibility to encourage you to spend time with your children before they head off to school and encourage them with some scripture. I earnestly believe and I understand that there's the world's just going to unfold in a certain way. God knows what that is, but we don't know when, we don't know how, We don't

know any of that. What I know is we are called to be faithful to God's word and to living a life that honors him and represents Him as best we can. And I know that, to paraphrase Ted Kopplela Duke University years ago, Moses didn't come down from Sinai with ten suggestions, and that it sure can't hurt if we start raising our children in the fear and admonition of the Lord. Now, the literal definition of fear in scripture really speaks more to awareness, but a dose of yeah,

I probably shouldn't do that isn't bad either. Now, yesterday we got into Ephesians five, verse one, Therefore be imitators of God as beloved children, and we talked about the there four that whenever you see therefore in scripture, it it's pulling you backwards. And so I recognize that a lot of people just they'll open up in the read a verse and I'm just I'm challenging you to dig just a little deeper when you see that word at

the beginning of a verse that you're reading. For example, we pick up and we go, okay, Ephesians five, therefore be imitators of God as beloved children. Sounds good, it's awesome, But the therefore pulls you back. And to really glean what Paul's writing in Ephesians, you have to go back to Ephesians four and you start verse thirt twenty five where it says therefore, which means you have to go

back further. And it starts with a passage that the translators end up bringing together in something called the New Life. And it says, now I this I say, Paul, Now this I say, and testify in the Lord that you must no longer walk as the gentiles do in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them. Due to their hardness of heart, they've become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality,

greedy to practice every kind of impurity. Tell me, does that kind of apply to today? Sure it does. It's applied to every age since the garden. And so as we go through the rest of the week and unpack the rest of these verses. My point is, dig deeper, take the cues that scripture offers, to go back as needed and bring things into context, because I promise you by the time we get to Friday, that verse one in Galatians five is going to be different because of

what we'll look at that leads into it. Ten past the hour. There you go, let's get started. Morning Show with Preston Scott. Had a great visit with some clients of iHeart Radio in Panama City last night. Made a little trip over to PC, hung out in the old part of town and just had a delightful time meeting clients of iHeart that you know, they don't necessarily advertise on our particular station, but they advertise on other stations.

And it was just good meeting some good people and had a chance to kind of gave some insight on how businesses do what they do in UH in PC, and of course we have we have obviously, we have businesses that work with us on our station in Panama City. We're we're pretty good at what we do. If you own a business out there, whether you are in the Tallahassee metropolitan region, area or Panama City in that region

or area. We're pretty good at what we do. We're pretty good at at helping businesses leverage their their resources to target and reach people that will benefit from your goods or services, your products. And I'll go so far as to say I think we're the best at it, and I like it, and I never do this. I don't ever take the time to talk about this stuff on the air because candidly, the results speak for themselves.

You know, I've had clients for fifteen eighteen years on Just Me this show, and you know, people aren't stupid that own a business. You know, It's like I talk about frequently, businesses that have been around for years. You're not stupid. If you're around for a while, If you navigate the waters of doing business and you are in business and you stay in business, you're doing some things pretty well. Because there's just too much competition out there, there's too many So what we do is we by

putting you in our world. Quite honestly, if you're a business and you want credibility, you come here. You come to this program, You come to this station because we bring instant credibility because you're with other businesses that are really, really good at what they do, and so there's an inference there that, well, if they're good at what they do, then you must be good at what you do. And there's a lot of truth to that because you know, for me, I'm picky, I'm really picky. I don't I

don't chase ever. Ever, I might turn down as many potential clients for me personally as I embrace because I'm picky. It doesn't necessarily mean that that particular client's a bad client. It's just not a fit for me. And I know this. If you're in business, we can help you. And we're and as I said at the very outset, we're we're good at what we do. It's not just radio advertising

that we do. We've got the podcast world. We we we have the corner on the podcast market at iHeart, and we can we can drill down and find your audience pretty successfully. We've got the video roll in stuff. We can. We can do anything that you need done. And you know there's an expenditure to promotion and advertising and marketing, and you need to you need to know that that that just that's that's part of a cost

of doing business. You let people know anyway we're good at and so it was just it was a lot of fun being in PC last night and hanging out with the team over there in Panama City. Saw some some friends I haven't seen in a in a good while. I don't get to make that drive all that often, and so it was just it was a lot of it was It was a good night. It was a

lot of fun. And maybe some people listening to the show for the first time, whether it's going to be by podcast later on, and to those of you that are clients by heart, thank you for trusting us with your messaging and thanks for giving the show and listen. Today is the eighteenth of September. George Washington lays the cornerstone at the US Capital in seventeen ninety three. Boy, wouldn't I love to just see that cornerstone. I wonder if they have it. I wish I should know the

answer to this. I wonder if they have it like kind of carved out where it's protected and encased, and you could see George Washington had his hands on that. That would be so cool. I got a private tour of the US Capitol and went where the public can't go, And I mean there were bullets from the War of eighteen twelve still embedded in the pillars down below. It's crazy. The history of the United States Capitol eighteen fifty, Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act, which mandates the return of

slaves who escaped free States and free territories. That was a bad era, I don't you think. United States Air Force is established in nineteen forty seven. Retired Air Force Colonel Joe Kiddinger in nineteen eighty four becomes the first person to complete a solo balloon flight across the Atlantic. I can't even get my brain around that, but I remember it. Two thousand and nine, Guiding Light, television's longest running drama airing since nineteen fifty two, broadcast its final episode,

and that was in two thousand and nine. My Stories seventeen minutes soap operas, remember those back with more. We'll tell you the significance of the number sixty five next twenty three minutes after the hour Wednesday here on the Morning Show, Jad Johnson in the third hour will be joining us in studio personal defense. We've got a couple stories that I want to get his reaction to that have been in the news, and then we're gonna push ahead into how those things then relate to personal defense.

And I'm gonna drill down a little bit to senior adults specifically. So if you're an older, seasoned citizen and I have to tell you, I wrestle with that that moniker. For me, it's it's look, I look in the mirror and I'm going, my gosh, who's that guy. I feel like I had to, you know, refer to my wallet and make sure that I'm me because I'm old. But I don't feel old. I really don't. I mean every now and then, I mean work in the yard and overdo it a little bit, and I'm like, but I don't.

I don't think I sound old. I don't think I sound like an old guy, but who knows, maybe I do. Anyway, we'll do that. We'll get into some training stuff as well. So that's the third hour. I said. The significance of the number sixty five. No, it's not because I'll be sixty five next year. I don't care. I really don't. I was asked yesterday doctor Bob McClure said, how long are you going to keep doing this? I said, probably till I die, and then I'll find something else to do.

I don't want to tell you. I love my job. And as long as I can form a thought and people want to listen, and my boss wants to keep me around, I'm good. But no. The number sixty five here, this is interesting lending Tree, which is obviously a mortgage lender or service that finds mortgages. I don't know how

that all works. Did a survey, sixty five percent of active daters those in the dating world say inflation has impacted their dating life, going a little deeper, nearly half forty nine percent of surveyed are single, nine percent actively seeking a relationship. Out of those four so only nine percent of those surveyed are even actively looking. Of those dating, sixty five percent say inflation has affected their dating life, with nearly one in four trying to spend less money

on dates, twenty one percent going on fewer dates. Eighty one percent of Americans actively looking for love agree that dating might be easier if they had a little more money. A third, thirty three percent, say they turned down a date they couldn't afford even if they wanted to go. Fourteen percent of Americans have gone into debt due to

dating men twice as likely as women. In that the truth see, guys view a little spending of cash and a date, a little nicer restaurant, maybe a little accouche mon like some flowers or something, I don't know, just a little some something extra. Guys view that and always will as a form of just expressing how much they're enjoying the fact that they're going to get to go on this date. I'm sure for some there are ulterior motives. There always are, but we'll set that aside. Regarding the bill,

forty four percent agree that the man should pay. Twenty five percent think the person who asked the other out should pay, and shouldn't that be the man? Anyway, I'm just saying, I I can't get my brain around this mindset that And look it, it's not like a deal breaker. I would think if you're if you're a dude out there and you're single, I wouldn't think it's a deal breaker. If if a girl that you know says, hey, we should get lunch sometime or something, Okay, but then you

do the formal asking, is what I would say. But anyway, just a little snapshot. There you go, there's culture. See look at us, old man tapping into the culture finger on the pulse twenty seven almost twenty eight minutes. Now past them, Let's do the big stories in the press box next on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, time for the big stories in the press Box. I guess I should wait a second. Let the music establish, go ahead and play the music Wilder. I'm just so

anxious to the talk. All right, stories in the press box this morning. By the way, we spell that pr ees Box because it's, after all, my show Press ton Press my nickname. When I was growing up, people would just say hey Press. My dad would say Press, brothers Press, sister Press. That's just anyway. This story is nuts. The lead story is absolutely nuts. Did you see the whole hes Bela pager thing. I got an email from a

listener earlier yesterday and he's like, did this happen? And and Ron I got your note and by now you absolutely know, brother, it happened. Here's what's here's the story. If you don't know what, I'll call terrorist network. Has Bela got a batch of brand new pagers distribute them. Basically, they all blew up at the same time, nine people killed, not all of them has bell of bad guys by the way, some a child got killed. I mean, that's

just that's terrible. Twenty eight hundred injured. My first thought was the Israelis man, the Israelis. I know what they did in response to the Munich terrorist attacks during the Olympics in nineteen sixty eight, seventy two, seventy two games, sixty eight seventy seventy two sixty eight was Mexico, say, seventy two games. I mean, they extracted revenge over a period of decades. Then story comes out that perhaps it was simply a malware problem inside the pagers that caused

them to overheat, expand and blow up. There are reports of some of these people feeling their pagers getting hot and throwing them away, and so they turn them on. The malware does its thing, And I don't know which. I don't and I wouldn't I wouldn't necessarily necessarily say it's a foregone conclusion. The Israelis did it. Whether it's through malware or some other means, I don't know. But the shipment, someone got that shipment and something happened. You

could say, well, did the Sunnies do it? It's a funny thing because there's this rift between Sunnies and Shia. Sheia believed that, you know, the leadership of the Islamic movement should be one way, Soonies believe another. And this divide goes back to like the six hundreds, and I mean six hundred eighty, not BC because that's a you know, eighties,

that's when you know Mohammed. Anyway, it's just it's an interesting, fascinating story because you know, what if Sunnies did it, but want to pin it on make it look like Israel did it. And I'm not saying that's it either. I don't know, but my goodness, gracious, there are more big stories. I'll get to those who are quickly. Next it's uh forty minutes past the hour, little quick check of weather in traffic here.

this as gently as I can. Congress sucks. And I think Mike Johnson is a man of tremendous virtue who is stuck in a reality of politics inside the Beltway, politics, inside the halls of Congress, politics which are cesspools of filth, i e. The swamp. They're looking at another continuing resolution to keep the government operating. They're not fixing this. Continuing resolutions are how the government has been funded for decades. They haven't done a budget and settled on a budget

in forever. That's how stinking broken that whole thing is. And there's an argument to be made. Fine, let it burn, kind of like the city of tallahassee illiberal progressives. You want it, fine, take it, Let the thing burn. The problem is you may not get it back. Tallahasseans the problem America. Let it burn. You may not have a country on the other side of it that you even recognize. But this thing is so dysfunctionally bad and broken. And

the House right now Republicans have one seat majority. If they have one defection on a bill, it's done. Last big story. I mentioned this yesterday. I just thought it was worth bringing back because I mentioned it in passing. In the third hour yesterday, Bill Gates quoting in response to a comment on CNBC's Make It program that there's a lot of unrest today, he said, and I quote, if we avoid a big war, then yes, there will be another pandemic, most likely in the next twenty five years.

I asked, what in the world does one have to do with another. Listeners responded, don't you remember Bill Gates is the ultimate depopulator? And now I do. Yeah, it was stuck in my brain somewhere. We've talked about it over the years. That's why Bill Gates is hugely invested in pharmaceuticals. That's why he's pushing these vaccines. But think about the disjointed comment, if we avoid a big war, yeah,

there'll be another pandemic. It's almost as if he's saying, and let me paraphrase my way, this would be my subtitles for Bill Gates's statement. You know, if we don't kill a bunch of people off in this world through a big war. We'll do it through a pandemic. That would be the appropriate subtext and subtitles to what Bill Gates just said, just saying forty six minutes after more to come, as always turning the page Morning Show fifty

one minutes past the hour. I got into a extended conversation with one of our guests last night in Panama City about how poor the Republican Party does the Republican Party of Florida, the Republican Party nationally does with messaging. Yeah, they've got a million plus. It's not due to any of the messaging the GOP's doing. People are fleeing the Democrat Party, some are linking on to the Republicans, more probably are becoming independents, non party affiliated MPAs. But the

messaging is just missing still across the board. They should have been communicating to the American people. The moment Joe Biden signed the end of the Keystone XL pipeline, what was going to happen with energy and how that was going to extend into prices because of the dependence of energy, and how it was going to compromise us in our security, and I said as much. I said that three and a half years ago. They need to be messaging this right now. See, they make the mistake of trying to

win elections. No, you win hearts and minds. When you win hearts and minds when you drill the messaging down. You don't run messaging on behalf of a candidate, whether it's Donald Trump or somebody running for a state office. You hammer down messaging that drives home principles. Here's why this is going to fail. Now, imagine the cachet you've got if you run that, and you run messaging like that along the way, as Biden and Harris do these

things that destroy our country. And now after we see the massive inflation and everything else that's gone wrong, you can circle back and say, you remember when we said this, Now look at this, and then what you do by winning the argument in the minds of the electorate. You put that messaging everywhere. You put it online, you put it in social media role ins, you put it on YouTube,

you put it on on television, in radio. That's where the millionaires and billionaires that want to fund this stuff, the Leonard Leos of the world come together and they put this messaging together. Then candidates latch onto the messaging and they make those issues their issues because they've been hearing this messaging for three and a half years in America, and they want candidates that line up with that. You don't try to win elections, You win hearts and minds,

because that's how you win elections. But what do I know? I only communicate for a living. Some did you knows? Five hundred business groups in the country, led by the US Chamber. Sadly, the US Chamber has lost a lot of its cachet because of some really sketchy positions it's taken over the years. But on this one, it's correct begging Congress these five hundred business groups to keep the Trump tax cuts in place. They're set to expire the end of next year, and if they do, it'll be

the largest tax increase in American history. Now, keep in mind, we've seen some tax increases and we've seen the impact of that. They're just saying the work the worst is yet to come. Kamala's vowed to reverse the tax cuts, proposing to raise the rate that major businesses pay from

twenty one to twenty eight percent. I would argue that rate needs to be dropped from twenty one percent because when you had those rates dropped, when we cut the corporate tax rate down, it led to businesses getting more money, not paying as much in taxes. They gave it to employees. Everybody won. See that was the genius of the Trump tax cuts. You not only gave businesses the room to keep their good employees in player by paying them better.

Because you freed up capital. You you in. You incentivized businesses to bring their money back to America. Wait, the rates are more competitive. Oh heck yeah, I'm moving back home. America first, the America First agenda. Now it's it's not just make America great, it's America first. I think you could argue that the corporate tax rate out of be maybe half of what that is at twenty one percent. I'm a I'm a firm believer. It should never be

above ten percent. Why should Why should a government get more than God? But that's that's an argument for another day, another time. All right, we're gonna do the second hour. Look at what we got done an hour one. I

can't wait for hour two. That's next. Okay, we are into the second of three hours here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott wins Say September the eighteenth day, thirteen thirty six of America held hostage and A five two hundred and thirty seven of Me Welcome friends, Jose can you see over there in Studio one A, I'm here in Studio one B. I am Preston Scott. Josh Holly. I would love to get him on the show. I had to go for it. That guy has so much game.

He's the senator from Missouri. He's smart, he is relentless. He's the senate counterpart to me of Jim Jordan. I love Jim Jordan. We've had Jim Jordan on the program. I would love to get Josh Holly on the show. Maybe some of you know him, Maybe someone knows somebody who knows him. Put in a word, grease the wheels a little bit. He has a whistleblower report on the whole July thirteenth attempted assassination of Trump twenty two pages.

Some of the things that are in it. The lead agent responsible for Trump's butler visit, including the campaign rally, failed a key examination during federal law enforcement training to become a secret Service agent really failed. Secret Service Intelligence Unit, which are teams of Secret Service agents paired with state and local enforcement personnel to handle reports of suspicious persons, were not there. They didn't have that team in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Majority of DHS agents work in the rally were unfamiliar with standard security protocols used to campaign events. The only training received by many of the DHS agent's Department of Homeland Security reassigned to work security details was a single two hour webinar on teams Microsoft teams featuring pre recorded videos Sweet God, It's lucky Trump's alive. Law enforcement was supposed to be stationed on the rooftop. It was abandoned because we've heard this story, but it's now confirmed. It

was too hot. Bring a tent, Bring one of those little pop ups. How hard can it be? Secret Service denied multiple offers from local law enforcement to deploy drone technology. Secret Service Counter Surveillance Division, which performs threat assessment of sites prior to an event's occurrence, did not perform its typical evaluation, nor was present on the day of the rally. According to protocols, if the Counter Surveillance Division had been on site, the guy would have been handcuffed when he

was spotted with a rangefinder. Remember we know he was wandering around with running his drone using a range finder, just he was wandering around with a rifle slung over his shoulder. You can't make this up, this level of incompetence. The Secret Service lead agent at that site responsible for mitigating a line of sight concerns was quote known to lack competence and experience in the role. We're we're just

scratching the surface of the twenty two page report. These are whistleblowers inside Secret Service Homeland Security speaking with specific direct knowledge of the Butler rally and how things happened or didn't happen. More to come ten past the hour, It's the Morning Show with President Scott. Update on the thank you cards in a little bit in case you missed the announcement yesterday, j D. Johnson. Next hour, Talent Training Group, Personal Defense. Back to the whistleblower memo by

Josh Holly, US Senator out of Missouri. He needs to be the Senate majority or Senate leader for Republicans if they gained control of the Senate. Josh Holly needs to be in charge. Leverick Scott needs to be Josh Holly. Josh Holly, Contrary to what normally happens, the Secret Service did not check IDs when issuing credentials that authorize access to restricted areas. They didn't even check. Now all of this and more leads to the following questions. These are

the questions Holly has. Who within the Secret Service or DHS made the decision to deny counter sniper coverage to the rooftop on July thirteenth, Who specifically made that decision. When I go through these questions, your first reaction could be well, duh, yeah, No, you need to understand the importance of the specific nature of the question. We need to know who, so that then we can decide did

that person have ulterior motives? Does that person have connections with, say oh, I don't know John Brennan, with factions inside and outside the United States government that hate Donald Trump. We need a specific answer who signed off on this, who made that call? Question when will Secret Service and DHS publicly name the lead site agent for the rally and the lead agent for the Butler visit again, we have to know who that is. Do they have connections,

do they have offshore accounts. Well, that's not fair. Of course it's fair. It's required. We have to have answers to these questions. Now, in the wake of all of this, the Secret Service Acting Director has called for a paradigm shift. And no, I'm not talking about Callaway golf Clubs. Acting Director Donald Ronald Rowe said that he wants to go from quoting a reactive model to a readiness model. See

that's the thing. I don't know. Maybe you've seen I think nat GEO Discovery did it did an entire special on the security detail that follows a president. We're talking about if the if the president flies abroad, we bring in our own fuel on done of you know that, we bring in our own fuel to make sure that contaminated fuel doesn't make its way. On Air Force one we have two Air Force ones. They fly a dummy in sometimes that's not not carrying the president or in

this case, the resident. There's there's so much detail. Why in the world has the Secret Service not been readiness I'll give you the answer from the interim director Rose said, we don't have the personnel, we don't have the staffing. I made a note here. The budget is roughly three billion dollars a year. That's a b three billion dollars. The Secret Service employees about thirty two hundred special agents, thirteen hundred uniform division officers, and over two thousand ten

professional administrative support personnel. So all told, that adds up to about sixty five hundred employees three billion dollars. And I can understand why the cost is expensive. You're protecting targets that move across the country and around the world. I get it. But this is not helping me. It's not helping assuage the concerns that this was a plot that was allowed by certain people in the Secret Service in an effort to kill Trump. And that's why we

have to have answers to the questions Josh Holly is asking. Sixteen, almost seventeen minutes past the hour, we get back a priceless piece of sound. I find it fascinating that the Teamsters union president Sean O'Brien is suddenly a bff of Fox News. That's just so interesting to me. He's smarter than some of the union bosses. He still leans on the punkish side, but I give him credit for being a little bit more sophisticated in trying to get his

message across to a different audience. I'm just shocked by it. Still.

I am a big fan of town Hall. You know, I've I've got a bunch of different sources that I use personally when I prep for the program, and then when you take the research assistance of the show, the lead research assistant, the l r A, and the research supervisor, research assistant supervisor, and then all of the various research assistants on the show, I would I would probably say conservatively, we're drawing from a couple hundred sites to aggregate what

we talk about in the program. But I'm a big fan of the reporting of town Hall. It's it's reporting with a twist because they they give you the nuts and bolts and then they kind of editorialize around it. Here, here's what, here's this, here's what we think. Matt Vespa does a really good job. And his headline is, gee, Hillary, why don't you just come out and say it? Trump should die? And he starts by writing, I'm not sure Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got the message about

what happened last weekend. Former President Donald Trump was targeted

in another assassination attempt. The media has been unsufferable. He goes on to say, with various takes that get progressively unhinged, we've gone from it wasn't an assassination attempt because Trump wasn't shot, to he'll use this an incident to win the election, and finally, the former president is to blame for his assassination attempt because of his heeded rhetoric on the campaign trail, Vesper writes, the victim blaming is appalling.

The gas lighting of who's peddling vicious rhetoric is mind numbingly stupid. Yet it won't sell because the media is primarily mocked and distrusted. So when people talk about rhetoric, it's clear Hillary the memo. Listen to her on MSNBC, and I recognize for some of you, I need to offer the disclaimer keep one hand on the steering wheel at all times, because I recognize that listening to Hillary's voice can sometimes cause you to want to scratch your ears out.

wanted to play that because it's just laughable. Objective, be objective, Well, he meant the object of who you're no, no, no, no, objectivity is reporting the facts and not letting your personal biases enter in. You know, our former producer for many years, Eric Eggers, who now works for the Government Accountability Institute. Eric used to say that your your biases will always

come out in your writing. They just will. I don't necessary rely disagree, but a professional journalist, which we have very few of anymore, we'll filter that writing and filter that writing and edit it, edit it, edit it until as much of them is out and as much fact is in. We've lost that completely. Twenty seven, twenty eight, now past the hour, you got to come back with the big stories. We'll do an abbreviated version next to the Morning Show at Preston Scott thirty six past the hour.

Morning Friends, Welcome the Morning Show. Interesting, some snow in this Sierra Nevada is wondering how that happens in such bad global warming? Huh yeah. Then then they'll pivot and say, well, it causes anominies in the weather. Well, no, what you said Al Gore's movie came out is at the cont the world was heating up and it was settled science.

That's why you called it global I'm sorry global warming. Anyway, the big stories listener pointing out that it is now being reported in some outlets that it could not have just been a battery malware thing, that there were explosives in with these pagers that detonated in the possession of Hesbola yesterday. Basically simultaneously, about twenty eight hundred people have

been injured, nine dead. I don't know. I mean, obviously your your first thought is, Okay, the Israelis intercepted the ship swapped out the pagers, because they can't believe you'd be able to do that to that number of pagers without having a dummy load ready to go. So all I know is if the Israelis pulled this off, that's

that's next level. And I'm going to remind all of you that are a little sketchy on Israel's being mean when you get when when you pick a fight with somebody, you don't get to dictate the terms of how it ends. This is not a military action against Israel that happened in October a year ago, that was not all that was a terrorist attack on civilians. You don't get to make the decision on how this. You don't sit down this idea of negotiating a true. No, no, no, no, no. Now

I'm with Israel on this. We're obliterating you. You lost the ability to negotiate when you attacked civilians, women, children, when you destroyed entire families, when you brutally raped women repeatedly. No, you lost the ability to negotiate. Geneva, it has nothing to say about this. You pick the fight. You do not get to determine the terms of how it ends. Did a little background digging on the whole Sunni Shia thing, because there's still something inside of me that knows that

there's a little grudge between the two groups. Now, Sunnis make up eighty five percent of the world population of Muslims, Shia make up fifteen percent, and at some point it probably would be worthwhile to have somebody on the program to do a little bit of a deep dive to help us better understand the divisions inside Islam. They get along generally speaking, but there are times that there's factional fighting that still there's an undercurrent of that that can

ripple at different times in different ways. Bill Gates forecasting that if we don't have a major war in the next twenty five years, there will be a global pandemic. What a weird thing to say. Now, had I been the interviewer, I would have said, now that's odd Bill. If we don't have a war, then yes, there will likely be a global What does one have to do

with the other. And it was pointed out to me by a listener that you know, Bill Gates is the king of depopulation, right, He's a big, big believer in depopulating the planet. Of course, some of us would say, well, if you feel so strongly, go ahead, start with yourself, start with yourself and your family if you believe in the cast. But see, that's the thing that I'm people like me are here to point out. Illiberals progressives never

ever are including themselves. Ever. That's why when they lecture you about the things that you do to use fossil fuels in your life, they don't stop. They're still driving. There's still got them entourages, their motorcades, their private jets, all of their stuff. They just want to tell you. And we've got another head showdown coming in in Congress over funding the government. We just we told you this

is a broken record. We we have to we have to pass a constitutional management amendment to force a balanced budget with a paydown of the debt. That's that's how I would do it. I would put a constitutional and that circles back to the Convention of States. Forty one minutes past the I'm running really late here. It's Morning

Show with Preston Scott. All Right, update here, and for some of you, this will be new news, and so let me kind of back up and reset a little bit because we always have new listeners to the program. One of the things that we've done over the years, and I used to end the show years ago, for many many years with the expression make a difference. I would end the show saying, Hey, thanks for listening, make a difference. And then we transferred that to just sort

of taking it upon ourselves to make a difference. And so we've got a scholarship at a state college that we have funded for years, I say week as many of you joined my wife and I in funding that. It's not under my name. It's the wfla scholarship Working for Limitless Achievement. It's a scholarship for people that are working their way through school. We wanted to help people that don't get help, that are working their way through school.

We give them scholarships. We're the only scholarship of its kind that I know of, because they don't qualify for PEL grants. Anyway, I don't want to get sidetracked on that.

Whether it's and we're going to have a project coming up this Thanksgiving, Christmas, during the giving season, you know, there's always something we're trying to do, and we came up with the idea of a thank you card the size of a business card, only a unique business card, square, not rectangle, rounded edges, and it has a QR code.

It's very attention getting and it's thank you. And the idea is, whenever you get great I mean raising the bar, great customer service, you give one of these cards out and it has a QR code on one side with a thank you, and on the other side it has the radio program and make a difference, and the QR code takes you to an audio message that I've recorded. And so if you would like twenty of those cards at no cost to you other than a self addressed

stamped envelope, send me an email requesting the cards. When tipping is appropriate, we ask to give a good tip and then leave one of these cards. If you get great service. If tipping's not appropriate, but you get great service. It could be at a doctor's office, it could be at a department store. It could be at the auto parts place or the repair shop. It could be somebody that services your home, whatever it might be. Give them one of these cards and say thank you, and hopefully

they'll go to the QR code. They'll play the audio and be encouraged, and you'll be able to scan the QR code and listen to what they'll hear. But I'll share some of that recording at another time. But if that interest you, send me an email Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. I'll reply in my signature line is my mailing address. Send it to me, but send a self addressed stamped envelope, and then I'll send you a little sheet that kind of explains a little bit more detail,

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you are. Send me an oue Preston at iHeartRadio dot com is how do you start? And then I'll send you the address and where to mail that self addressed damped envelope. All right, forty seven past the hour, it's the Morning Show with Preston Scott jad Johnson. In a little bit, our third hour is already around the corner. How did that happen? I just, you know, wake up and start doing the girl next thing it's there, happen.

caught my eye. Federal and local authorities are cracking down on animal sacrifices in Queens after an alarming number of chickens, pigs, and rats have been killed, waight, mutilated, weight and tortured.

New York City Councilwoman Joanne Ariola announced the huge win for local animals earlier this month, statement posted on Facebook that the National Park Service will deploy mobile lighting units, more Park's enforcement patrols will be added to trouble zones, quoting I promised my constituents that we would bring an end to these heinous mutilations and killings, and through these actions, we are doing just that. No animal deserves to suffer

like this. I refuse to allow it in my district. Together, we will end this. Enough is enough, you don't say in New York City, No, No, the National Park Service is being called in. I'll point out this also underscores the sacrifice, the voodoo, the ritualistic portion of this storyline. This isn't just about killing some chickens and pigs for food, killed, mutilated, or tortured. That is ritualistic behavior. I'm just pointing out

this isn't a Springfield, Ohio boogeyman kind of story. This stuff is happening because people are being allowed in this country that are bringing their culture with them, and they are living under protected status, and this is horrifying. It's not bogus, it's not erroneous. It's happening. It's also the end of the second hour. What do you say we go to our number three next to the Morning Show with Preston Scott. How did it happen? How do we get here to the third hour of the program? I

don't know, but here we are, third hour, Wednesday. It is the third Wednesday of the month, and that means it's time for little personal defense and once again being pressed into duty. It's Jadie Johnson of the Talent Trade Group, co hosts of Talent Outdoors. How are you, sir? I'm great. You got the short straw twice this month. It happens you weren't supposed to quite go along with that quite so easily. I'm not gonna fuss about it all. Put my head down and go forward. That's what we do.

All right, Let's let's get right to it. I'm gonna share a couple of different stories from the news that I that I have here and just kind of get your reaction to them. You might be familiar with the stories you might not. Teenager returns an air soft handgun allegedly to the store where he was buying. Where he bought it, however, the gun was in his pocket. He had a friend that had an air soft handgun in

his jacket. There was a third team there in the parking lot, though, is a gentleman that was doing what he called overwatch. Overwatch is apparently kind of a military term for observing for activity. His son was in a judo thing, doing his thing. So he's just waiting in the parking lot, just kind of observing, and he sees these kids, and he sees one of them with the handgun that is an Airsoft, but he doesn't know that at this point, and he thinks he's about to witness

an armed robbery. He intervenes, wrestled one kid to the ground. They're all telling him these are bb guns. We're just returning him to the store. He's still in an engaged battle when one of the kids turns to walk away and he shot him seven times in the back. A lot went wrong there. I'd like you to just kind of address all that is going on with just the surface level info I just gave you and what your thoughts are.

you got an orange buzzle on the barrel. Got your guns not painted orange, It's just a little ring of paint around the end of the barrel that comes off, basically, and then you have what it looks enough like one that if you pointed at me and I would probably react similarly to the way he did.

manager know what you observed outside. Absolutely, that's that was my point. Because he's probably going to prison for the rest of his life.

less and sometimes they are really bad lessons. But every lesson is every every opportunity to learn is something that I think we should take advantage of. Now, this one, this story from the news, We're going to contrast this story because in this case, this one's pretty clear cut. Guy's with a contractor and they're looking over their backyard. They're inside the house and he sees a man with

a dog come into his backyard with a machete. The guy appears to pass out and he's on the ground and the homeowner contractor alarmed, then see him immediately jump up and start making his way upstairs to a back door, trying to gain entry into the home. Homeowner confronts him, locks the doors, make sure because the kids are home, gets his nine millimeter and confronts the guy. It doesn't say whether it confronted him through the door, whether he opened the door, what have you. The guy drops the

machete backs down, obeyed verbal commands. Everybody lives to see another day.

bad guys outside. Do you open that door, even if you have a firearm.

by things that I've just witnessed and watched. And then now as I'm aging, starting to wonder, you know, you and I are both bigger guys, but I also know we're both going to get older, and I got to thinking, what are the best things for someone to think about as they age to not put themselves in a spot where they're more likely to be a victim. Yeah, you know, my first piece of advice wash don't go alone. You know, don't go fill in the blank wherever you're going, wherever

you're going, don't go alone. Yeah.

that's that's that's not good. That's not good for any of us as gun owners when that kind of stuff happens. Uh, And we don't want to see somebody get in trouble. So it's all about having the correct attitude and we get people in there from time to time. We have seen people in there from time to time that are looking for looking for a fight, and that's not good.

it will give you a beep or a prompt. They use them for competitions primarily, but people that are really into training, a lot of people even on them themselves where they don't have to borrow ours and hope that ours are going to work because they don't last forever. They're they're not I wouldn't say they're fragile, but they're electronic devices.

a target. The minute you tell them, okay, we're going to test your speed and accuracy and you've got to do this drill and in less than three seconds and you've got to get two hits out of three and lessen and they're just their world just explodes, you know. I mean they it's because it's self induced. It's self induced stress. So that's one of the ways we can by doing that is we're inducing a little bit of stress of performance stress. So I think those are very

useful training tools. And one of the issues that we see with seniors is the manipulation of the firearm itself. It's not once you get the gun out, once they get the gun out and all the you know, have all the time in the world to do that. A lot of guys can, a lot of seniors can still

shoot really well. Sure, it's the speed and you're combining the mental side with the physical side, and that's where you start to see And I personally, I'll tell you this, I've slowed down a lot from what I was, from where I was when I was younger. I'm still pretty fast, because I was really fast when I was younger, but I have slowed down some there were you know, it's it's and I see that in myself at fifty six

years old, I've started to slow down some. Do you think it's due to dexterity issues or just you know a little bit of everything. I mean arthritis, you know, arthritis in the hands. I was going to ask you about arthritis.

But I think that that's one of the best things we can do to in training is to induce always have some sort of stressor unless you're just out there to relax.

It's a great place to shoot. It's just I can't stress enough how nice it is to shoot there and uh with ranges in midway and dothan maintenance is oh yeah, it's a necessary evil, right absolutely. But you hear different people say different things about how often you got to break down a gun versus just surface cleaning or running something through that. Talk us through the what you think are the best practices on maintaining and let's just keep it simple for now. Your handgun.

just it's a good practice to be in. You don't have to go do a thorough breakdown cleaning every time you shoot the gun, and you can. You can overdo it, and that's that's the problem we see a lot is that people, you know, keep putting oil on and never take the old stuff off. Using something a product like a there's some guns grubber. Yeah that will completely de oil everything. You can't just spray that on there and I'm done. Now You've got to go back and reapply the lubrication.

gas station, when you're walking through a parking lot. You know, I make a point of making eye contact with everybody and as needed, saying hello, good morning, how are you today, to everybody or anybody that I may have a concern about. If I look, if I see you at the store and I say good morning, just no, I think you're a would be felon. Nah, I'm just kidding. That could just be being nice, but no, there's there's something about

eye contact. It absolutely matters. Bad guys don't want eye contact. They do not want to look you in the eye, and it does communicate walking as best you can head up, shoulders back. You know, some of us are taller than others, and we have that decided advantage when it comes to that stuff. But yeah, I've always It's it's interesting because even going back to when I was in school, I've always had a pod look on my face. I don't mean to I'm generally speaking a pretty happy guy, but

I'm always thinking. I am downloading content into my brain at all times, whether I'm reading, listening, watching, I'm observing, I'm downloading content all the time. And when I'm thinking, I look like I'm just angry. It's the countenance God gave me. Ah, it's not gonna change. It's the way it is. But I think it's probably served me well combined with my overall size. But anyway, good segments today.

Those are segments that literally can save a life. And I hope that you are taking them to heart and you learn and you apply the things that JD and Charlie offer on these segments.

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