Ep. 5274: Maybe who's President does matter

thumb of the resident and the vice Resident. But we welcome you friends to Wednesday on the program, and we start with some scripture, and of course we're kind of doing our own version of an Advent series of scriptures. Advent was something that I really kind of got into when I was a vocational pastor, embracing that liturgical practice of lighting candles that highlight the coming of Christ over

a period of time. And because our schedules adjusted due to our Christmas break, I'm just kind of pushing things back just a little bit and starting a little early. And so today our verse is from John ten, verses seven through nine, and before we get to the verse, I want to share what these verses are building off of Jesus is speaking here, and he's speaking to something that his listeners and those who will hear that message

can relate to. Something to always remember about God. Is he He really loves talking to us in a way that we get. Jesus is teaching style of parables is all about taking eternal truths and making them relatable through the things and the events and the customs and the way life was lived at that time. And so when you hear this, you need to know that sheep farmers and Jesus had a special thing. God had a special place in his heart for shepherds. That's who got the

news of the birth of Christ before anybody else. Shepherds were the lowest of the lows in that culture. Shepherds would have a gate, and the sheep would come back every night into the protection of a fenced in area, and they would pass through a gate, and every morning they would go back out through that same gate, that one gate, and that would lead them back out to pastures. And so with that firmly in mind, Jesus says this in verses seven through nine. Truly, I say to you,

I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. There's an implication there in protection out pasture. But the door is christ there's no deviating from that. There's no other means. That's it. Scripture says that we die at some point and then we face judgment. What you do on this side of eternity.

Making that decision determines whether that door offers you protection and pasture. It's up to you. Ten past the hour, that's how we begin today, and now we get to the affairs of man. Oh boy, what is man that thou art mindful of him? I don't know. I'd blow us up and start over, but that's just me. Ten past the hour, it's The Morning Show with Preston Scott opening up the pages of the American Patriots Almanac. We take a peek at history this time each and every

morning on The Morning Show. Seventeen seventy five, during the American Revolution, Patriot troops under General Richard Montgomery capture Montlon should have kept it? Should just kept it? Do we like this view from the from the other side, we like this, well, we'll just keep it. But see that'll lot. I mean, think of the times we could have just taken more World War Two, We could have kept a bunch of Europe, but nay, nay, we did not. In fact,

we help them rebuild. Same thing with Japan. Look at us, we're best friends, right because the Japanese people know they picked that fight. And as we're learning once again, see history repeats itself. You don't get to dictate the terms of surrender when you pick a fight humas Iran, Syria, Hesballah. When you pick a fight, you don't get to decide how it ends anyway. Supreme Court strikes down laws requiring segregation on public buses in nineteen fifty six. Shame it

took that long to deal with stuff like that. It really is. It's embarrassing. But we did it. We did it. We said that's stupid. It's so much fun to see color blindness become popular and vogue again. You remember me saying I'm not giving in. Uhuh, I've nope, not giving in. That's the standard. How is it that I knew more about Martin Luther King and what he wrote and what he believed than Oh, I don't know all of BLM put together. How's it possible? Maybe because I actually read

what he wrote. I don't know. Maybe he did it just and he wasn't a perfect guy. But nineteen seventy one, Mariner nine becomes the first satellite to orbit another planet, Mars. Nineteen eighty two Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedicated in Washington, d C. I have seen it once. My brother's name should be on it, but it's not because the United States Navy

he was a marine. The United States Navy will not acknowledge people who died as a result of agent Orange, which was dumped on all the guys who served in Vietnam that were in the jungles. It's a defoliant. It killed vegetation, and it killed my brother, So it's a little angering. It doesn't change the fact that that memorial is as moving a memorial as you will see, because colleagues, fellow members of the Armed Services, family members, sons and daughters go there and put their hands on the name

of their their family member, of their friend. Got an emotional thinking about it because I sat and watched it happen and take a piece of paper and they do an etching. They just rub a pencil over the top of it, and they get the name of their friend that's inscribed in that memorial. And I think that's why it matters to me, because I feel like my brothers, sons and daughters ought to have their dad's name remembered at that memorial because that serving in that war cost

him his life. But perhaps someday, I don't know. And on this date, a year ago, Donna Sue Adolson arrested at Miami International Airport with a one way ticket to Vietnam for her part in the murder of her former son in law FSU law professor Dan Markel. Hope Donna gets to hear my show just like her son Charlie. Charlie loved listening to my show. He was here sixteen almost seventeen minutes past the hour. Come back, we'll talk a little turkey. Literally, the fun begins. Senate's voting for

a new majority leader. It's going to be John Cornyn or John Thune. It's not gonna be Rick Scott. And it's a shame because look, there's a there's a move inside of of some circles in the Second Amendment world to UH to keep Rick Scott, to pressure senators to not vote for Rick Scott because of the red flag law that's here in Florida that he signed, and it was wrong. He was absolutely wrong to sign it. It was a reaction to the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School. Uh,

it did not fit. Even the commission that was put together that that pointed out that that these kinds of laws don't stop people from doing bad things, they just limit the rights of good people that said that ish that singular issue. Even though Scott is definitely Second Amendment, he just he's not where he needs to be on it. And that's okay because he can't affect the outcome of the Second Amendment. That said, it's enough to keep him from breaking through any of the logjam that's going to

exist for the leadership of the Senate. He is an infinitely better choice than John Cornyn and John Thune. They are Mitch McConnell light. They are Mitch McConnell mentees. And it's a mistake. And we're going to see these battles in the House and the Senate. And this is how the Republicans can lose putting the wrong people in leadership.

We heard from Justin Haskins yesterday, who is the Senate Majority leader is more important than anybody Donald Trump appoints to the cabinet because they have the opportunity to kill legislation. And so oh this is a big deal. We'll see, We'll see if Trump weighs in. He has not thus far. Anyway, just that that the inability of some people to see the bigger picture just annoys me. Again, Rick Scott's not perfect, but I promise you he's a better choice for Senate

Majority leader than the other two that said. I know that you are. You love to cook. So what what does a Thanksgiving meal look like? Most importantly, do you prepare the turkey?

what I do this year. Weird though, because all of our kids are gonna be elsewhere, So my sweet wife and I are going to just hang out and eat turkey ourselves and have all the all of the different acuch moms. But it's gonna cost you more this year, not as much as last year. But one of the ways that people are saying you could save money is store brands. Store brands will save you about seventeen bucks

on an average Thanksgiving. Personally, I probably lean towards the name brands on a lot of stuff, seasonings in particular, I'm real picky about seasonings. But anyway, just saying I don't know what you're gonna do for Thanksgiving, friends, but hopefully you'll you'll have an opportunity to just be with family and friends, and if not, just be thankful period and joy the day, watch the parade, watch a little football. Yeah, twenty seven past the hour, Big stories in the press box.

Get you up to date on some things.

them and their mental acuity. It just is Yeah, We're going to unpack some things today on the show as it relates to the questions that need some answers as Trump gets going. There's a series of things that have to happen here, and we'll get to all of that. But rest assured, fixing the country is not going to be an easy task. It's going to be very complicated, and there will likely be some very well intentioned mistakes made. He's got to build temporary walls or he tears down

and rebuilds the frame. I mean, my analogy of squatters is spot on the money. Friends, you've ever seen what has to happen when you rebuild a house that's been trashed, whether it's by squatters or termites or whatever. You put up temporary walls to hold the roof on so that then you can rebuild each section of the outside walls of the home and then you can begin fixing things inside. It's just it's a cumbersome, tiresome, at times difficult project.

But while that's going on, we need to know some answers to some things, and we'll get to all of that. A former Chrysler executive and former CEO of not just Chrysler, but a Home Depot Bob Nordelli is saying that CEOs are reaching out to him because these people just kind of talk in circles with each other, you know, groups CEOs of major companies are friends with CEOs of major companies.

And he said, people are already making their plans to move money out of China, move factories out of China, move them back to the United States, move them back to the Asian Rim, to Malaysia, to the Philippines, to Vietnam, to other areas. And that's all I've been saying, just I don't want labels that say made in China to be seen in America as frequently. And so there's there

are businesses. Steve Madden already shoe retailer is is going to pull production out of out of China by up to forty five percent, and that announcement was made within a day or two of Trump's win. We're going to see more money coming back into the country. But before that can really happen, they have to change the regulatory and tax environment in this state, in this nation, and that's going to take time. There's already the threat of a mutiny the House Freedom Caucus. Let me say this.

The House Freedom Caucus is full of really good ideas. They cannot be the enemy of good. Perfect cannot be the enemy of good. We have to move the pendulum the other way. That's what people voted for. And if the House Freedom Caucus is not very, very careful, I think they need to pick the hill they're going to die on hill or hills and then and let the rest be. Let's move things incrementally the other way. If not, if they screw up the momentum that the Republicans have

with this election, this will not be good. More appointments being announced. The biggest surprise that I'm scratching my head over, and not because I don't think he's a really good guy, is Pete Hegsath. Pete Hegsith is a highly decorated member of the United States military. He's a one of the main faces on Fox News. He's apparently going to be the nominee for Secretary of Defense. I hope he doesn't accept.

I don't think he has enough experience for that. I think there are a lot of people in this country that are the right, people that have have more experience. But Pete Hexath is apparently going to be the nominee. Or is the nominee served in Iraq and Afghanistan as an Army infantry officer wor the two Bronze Stars Combat infantry Man's badge. He certainly fights for the vets and vet causes. I just I think tactically you just need a little more experience. But that's just me. There are

other appointments we'll talk about later. Forty one past the hour, running late. What a surprise. You won't believe what happened in Wisconsin, or maybe you will.

recount all those ballots. In Milwaukee. And that's not all he said. I'm not claiming anything here, I'm just saying it's weird that the Wisconsin Republican candidate for Senate was winning until the trajectory totally changed in a huge ballot dump that favored the Democrat. Now, this race was for the US Senate, and he cites a someone that is dug into key races across the country with incredible detail.

In Milwaukee, large voter update one hundred and nine thousand votes eighty three percent favoring the Democrats, arrived at three thirty one in the morning on Wednesday morning, flipping the outcome of the race. The vote batch is improbable on several dimensions. One, it's late at night. Two, it differs

from the sixty seven percent dem vote share before. Three, it's twenty five percent of all Senate votes cast in Milwaukee, So twenty five percent of the votes got dumped at three thirty in the morning on Wednesday morning, after the polls closed at three thirty in the morning. BOYD, does that sound familiar, doesn't it. Four it's considerable. It's a considerable fraction of votes in the overall race. Three the race was close beforehand. It flipped the outcome of the

race number six. He goes on to point out that the exact same thing happened in key house races in Apache, arizon A, NOx, Illinois, Ingham, Michigan, Midland, Michigan, Muskegan, Michigan, Meridian, Connecticut. In all cases except Meridian Meridan. The update favored Democrats every single time. And that's the takeaway here. These late night little swaps, these little things that happen always favor

the left, always except once. While latee is not suspicious on its own, it's worth noting that being the last to announce your count is very important if you want to swing a race by fraud, because it's only at the end of the race. Do you know how many votes you need? Tammy Baldwin retained her US Senate seat in Wisconsin, and the articles out there, No, it wasn't stolen, Wisconsin wasn't stolen might be an indicator of the old

Shakespeare line, doth protesteth too much? Forty six minutes after the hour, just say it again fifty two minutes past the hour, past six in the Eastern time zone, past five in the Central. If you're if you're with me in the Central How you doing, Nelly, Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott. A little shout out to Nelly the She and her family owned Picos on Back

Beach in Panama City Beach. And yeah, business is up since she shared her story here on the radio program, and all of you in the Panama City, Panama City Beach area have been frequenting Nelly's restaurant. That's awesome. That's such good news, it really is. That's what we do around here. We take care of each other. By the way, got our first note in response to a thank you card, and that was pretty that that geeked me up pretty big. And I'm not soliciting more cards right now because I'm

basically out. I only have a few left, which is pretty cool. That we've gotten probably nine hundred or so out. That means nine hundred some odd people are going to get blessed sometime over the next six months. I'm hoping the cards get given out and we'll do another run sometime next year and reboot it. Well, it'll be something we just do. I have learned that I need more postage and every envelope I returned to you has to be stamped because it can't be run through the masche machine,

the sorting machine. Because of the cards, they have to be their non machinable, and so I need a non machineable stamp on each and every envelope. But I'm picking up the postage for you. Don't worry, and those of you that mailed those cheap, little tiny envelopes. The first time I encountered one, I folded up the letter and the cards. I squished it all in there. Not doing that anymore, I went ahead and got my own envelope.

I mailed it back to you so you can have the envelope for some other reason and save your stamps. And I paid the postage to get it back to you. But it's like, come on now, people need a normal size envelope. Security envelopes best, But I'm not soliciting, so never mind. MSNBC. Since the election, listen to this. Listen

to this. Viewership of Joy Read down fifty four percent, Ari Melber forty nine percent, Chris Hayes forty seven percent, Alex Wagner fifty three percent, Morning Joe down forty percent, Stephanie Ruled down sixty seven percent, Andre Mitchell h thank you Rush for that one down forty percent, their rankings, their numbers are worse than they were, and they were already terrible. Fox News up sixty percent. Not their doing. It's by default that people are migrating back to Fox.

Here's the thing. If Fox would understand and remember this, you have Fox News exist because of Rush Limbaugh. Rush Limbaugh proved there was an audience that wanted news that was unbiased and anchors that were hosts of programs that were right right of center. Without Rush, Fox never has the audience to build and do it. The audience doesn't exist. Rush was kind of a shepherd of all of that.

And anyone in our industry, in the talk industry, whether they're left or right, there aren't many on the left because it's fiscally a disaster to be an a liberal talk show host. It just is. You may not remember, many of you, there was a network called Air America and they had Al Franken, and they had all of these illiberals. Mike Gallagher is the only guy out there on the left that actually knows what he's doing as a host. He's wrong, but he's good at his job,

and I credit him for that. And that's fine, but the rest it doesn't work because illiberals people don't want to even listen to a liberals. They just don't. And so businesses don't advertise with the liberals because everything that they spew is anti business anyway. Data dump on the election courtesy of the b Line blogger Next five past the hour, It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. It's Wednesday, November thirteenth, Show fifty two seventy four. Great to be

with you. He's Oaseiah, I'm Preston. I'm laughing because I just I love these these opportunities because I can just visualize you and some of you are sitting around the table, sipping on a cup of coffee, having some toast, maybe an egg, eating a little oatmeal. Some of you are driving into work, and I'm going to do a data dump. I'm just going to give you some information that causes you to go huh. And this all comes courtesy of our friend Scott Beacon, the b Line blogger be Lying

Blogger dot blogspot dot com. And he's just dropping all kinds of stuff. And this was about a twenty twenty four page report on the election numbers and just some interesting things. I wanted to take a couple segments here to share understanding that there are still some votes to come in because well, because they're Democrat states where the supervisor of elections likely a Democrat, and they for some

reason don't know how to count votes. As of right now, Democrats are missing thirteen million votes, maybe a little less by now. Maybe it's maybe it's ten or eleven million votes from twenty twenty. What happened? Just saying what happened? I mean, is it just again voter remorse from twenty twenty? Is it they didn't as successfully get enough mail in ballots? Wink wink, nod nod in lack of excitement for Kamala. Combination of all those things, Trump is close to the

vote total of twenty twenty four. He will likely exceed the seventy four million he received in twenty twenty. However, Kamala, if you add it all up, is still going to probably be about ten million short. So where'd they all go with so much writing on it? It's just it's an interesting observation. Trump won almost every county in the United States, but almost every county in the United States shifted to the right. He didn't just win. That was a misstatement by me. He Kamala did now perform. We

knew that in any county. But the fact that nearly every county in America moved to the right is significant. And Scott breaks some of this down, for example, some of the largest shifts. Remember everyone was laughing about him, including the governor of New York for showing up at Madison Square Garden. Get this, the Bronx shifted ten point five percent to the right. It doesn't mean he won. It means he took voters back over to the right.

Queens Bronx County ten point five, Queen's County ten point four. The border along Texas, all over California shifts to the right, even in DC suburbs in Virginia and Maryland. One large blue arrow going the other way is Jackson County, Missouri, which is the home of Harry Truman, which has long been a Democrat stronghold. It went further left. Man, you ever feel like a pair of brown shoes and a

room full of tuxedos. Hello, hello, Missouri, My goodness, gracious Latino men from Hillary in twenty sixteen, listen to this, she won, Latino men by thirty one points. Trump won by twelve. That is a swing of forty three points in eight years. Forty three points. Trump gained seventeen points with Latina women. That shifted a total of twenty two points since twenty sixteen. So it's not just a win

with men, he's winning with women. That will become very important in a few minutes when we get to another story here black men, though the shift there's only four points from Biden to Harris in twenty sixteen. Sixty nine percent voted Democrat black men in twenty fourteen. That numbers fifty six percent. That's a swing of thirteen points over

eight years just in that demographic alone. With women, it went from thirteen percent for Hillary down to eight percent for Kamala, even though Kamala was allegedly a black woman. Isn't that interesting? And again this is just these are just interesting little factoids about the data. More to come. Ten past the hour, quick check of weather and traffick coming right back. Don't you leave me this Morning Show with Preston Scott. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Right,

I got to clean something up here. I'm just I'm going ahead through this date a little too fast. Trump gained with black men, he gained with women, not black women, women in general, So what does that mean? That means that, as Scott points out here, Clinton won with women by thirteen percentage points. In twenty sixteen, Hillary woman candidate Harris won by just eight. Trump gained ground with female voters. As Scott points out, maybe abortions not the issue that

Democrats think. It is good. You have to walk around in a lightning rod hoping you don't get struck and killed. Trump did infinitely better with young people. Listen to this. Democrats win young people because young people are not as well informed. I'm sorry that sounds patronizing, but it's true. It just is true. They haven't enough lived life experience to understand their wrong about a lot of stuff. Clinton won that demographic eighteen to twenty nine year olds by

nineteen points, Biden by twenty four. Get this, in just four years, that number dropped from twenty four to eleven eleven points. Kamala only beat Trump by eleven, Biden beat Trump by twenty four. Again, there's anything in twenty You'll notice. I'm not talking a lot about twenty twenty because I feel like all of the numbers for twenty twenty should be put in some form have an asterisk next to all of them. Trump won the nation's Star County with

the highest percentage Hispanic population. Ninety eight percent of Star County is Hispanic. They voted Republican for the first time since eighteen eighty eight. They're on the border. Now, don't overlook that a county that is ninety eight percent Hispanic, that is on the border with Mexico voted Trump and Republican in particular for the first first time since eighteen

eighty eight. Why. I guess illegal immigration matters to people legally in this country, and that is not a shocking development. I've been talking about that for years. You want to know what immigrants think about. Talk to the people that immigrated here legally, what they went through, what they paid

to become a legal citizen of this country. The other thing that the data shows that Scott points out is straddling the fence didn't help Kamma at all, whether it's the issues in the Middle East, economic issues, remember the criminal issue we talked about. She didn't want to answer the question. It's the Sunday before the election. I really I'm not discussing California's Proposition thirty six, which negated the vote.

Years before that, Kamala authored lowering the penalties turning felonies into misdemeanors that got reversed in California seventy point three percent to twenty nine point seven percent. The twenty nine percent that voted no on Proposition thirty six were all the criminals, and so the unwillingness to stake out claims didn't help. Trump gained support at the margin in forty eight to fifty states. The shift was greatest in states like California, New York, New Jersey, and Maryland, and he

expanded his margins in Florida and Texas substantially. So there's data. Seventeen passed the hour. My goodness, I'm a minute late back with more of the morning show my Heart's radio station. All right, it's being joked about, or is it. There is a group of women posting on ex TikTok young women fiendishly grinning, says the article part of a movement called make Aqua Tofana great Again. It is it is

an homage to Julia Tofana. Who is she? She's a seventeenth century Italian who sold poison to wives who wanted to disc of their abusive husbands. It resulted in the deaths of six hundred plus men. She is considered today to perhaps be the most prolific serial killer of all time and became known as Aqua Tofana. These videos are teaching women how to poison their husbands or boyfriends. There are those that are responding to these posts. Don't you

know these videos can be used against you. It's giving off a premeditated vibe. The internet is forever. Also, the sixteen hundreds were a lot different than twenty twenty four advancements in detecting poison, but they stored it at the time in cosmetic bottles, so husbands were no, not not

the wiser too at all. Uh. There are allegedly rings out there that you can that a someone can wear and and it can hold a lethal dose of whatever poison inside the ring and you just open up the little compartment and drop the poison in and off you go. This is a thing another thing which I personally like. I like this one better. It's called the four Be movement, and it's based on something going on in the Asian culture and uh, the these are the four bees are

Asian words, maybe Japanese words, Korean, I don't know. Korean. Korean words stands for heterosexual marriage, childbirth, dating, and sex. And you join the movement by giving up all four. Now here's why I say this is incredibly great news because if if the illiberal women out there, I'll just keep it to themselves. You know what I'm saying. That means they're not procreating. That means we're not having a bunch of little liberals raised by a bunch of illiberal Feminazis.

And that is awesome news. Saw you conservative couples, you go ahead and get busy. You know what I'm saying. It's the It's it's the quintessential long game. I could not be more overjoyed to hear the news that illiberal women and girls are saying noice sex. First of all, that's just smart. Unless you're married, okay, But they're saying even in marriage, nope, if your husband voted for Trump, nope. Okay. First guys, trust me, she'll come out of it. If

you're married to her, you made a bad choice. But there's hope. In Jesus, there's hope. But the fact that we might put a dent in the procreation of progeny that will be raised to be illiberals. That's not the worst thing in the world to come out of this election, friends, it just isn't. Twenty seven minutes after the hour, come back with the big stories of the press box and more. All right, let's take a look at some of the appointments and likely appointments. Here two key positions inside the

Trump administration. Obviously, we've got Susie Wilde's chief of staff. If any of you know Susie personally, give her a little shout out for me. Her dad and my dad were buds. I mean, her dad was my dad's partner in the booth for CBS for years. Her dad was Pat Summerle with CBS, And when my dad left CBS, Pat took my dad's job as the lead announcer. He went from being the analyst to the play by play guy and had a great career. And Pat remained very good friends with my dad, and in fact so much

so after my dad passed away. When the Green Bay Packers put my father in their Hall of Fame, I asked Pat if he would come up and do the speech that inducted my dad, and he did. He flew up to Green Bay and so, yeah, just a delightful, delightful guy. And Susie is his daughter, and so Susie and I ought to be besties. I'm just saying. So we're going to try to get in touch with Susie and get her on the show, and for no other reason to talk about our dads. But you never know.

Elie Stefanic un Ambassador, we talked about that yesterday. Michael Walls, National Security Advisor, Tom Homan. Borders are Mike Huckabee, Ambassador to Israel, WHOA WHOA? Okay? EPA administrator Lee Zelden, former House Republican from New York. White House Counsel William McGinley, CIA Director John Radcliffe. Boy, he's got some work to do. Department of Government official and see Elon Musk Vivek Ramaswami. Oh, their job is to look at the bureaucratic waste. This

could be incredible. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseith from Fox, Fox News, Fox and Friends. He's a regular on Fox and Friends and all the shows.

he's a good one, if that makes sense. He's just he's young and maybe not as experienced as something not yet made official, but it appears Marc Rubio would be the likely pick for Secretary of State, and that would that opens the door to a discussion that we just need to have around here. If that happens, who do you want to be the US Senator? DeSantis can pick himself. Desantus could put himself in there. He could put his wife in there. He could put Casey DeSantis in as

the senator. He could put the Lieutenant Governor Jeanett Juniez, who's been a very loyal second. He could pick Byron Donalds. He could ask Matt Gates. There's there's a number of people that he could turn to and offer the job to that that's a great discussion to have. There are other big stories the Uh, there's possible. You know, we've got the vote for the House majority leader. In the Senate, it's gonna be John Thune, John Cornyn, or Rick Scott.

I I would prefer Rick Scott over the other two by far, even though he's not as strong on the Second Amendment as I would want him to be. I would I would personally still choose him over Cornyn in Thune certainly for the good of the nation. And the House is going to have some infighting, and they better be careful. They run the risk of scuttling what they've been doing. Uh, there's money already moving back to America.

Business is already thinking of coming back manufact and coming back, but there's hurdles that have to be eliminated before that happens. Forty minutes past the hour, come back with an amazing piece from Scott Beacon. I just got a note from a listener that and Napolina is pushing Laura Trump Lara Trump. I think that would be a mistake personally. I think it would be a mistake to put a member of the Trump family in because they're a member of the

Trump family. Now you could make the argument that it shouldn't disqualify somebody because their father in law is the president either. But I would contend that that's I think there are better picks. But i'd heard that getting pushed back on Matt Gates. He's a lightning rod, but boy, he'd be fun in the Senate. He's fun in the House. I mentionined, you know, we did a bunch of data from Scott Beacon in the first half hour, and I'm nerdy on that stuff, so I appreciated it. I hope

you got some interesting out of that. This though, I think is this might be I hate to use the word a better post because they're all really good. But he tackled the topic of oh, it doesn't matter who's president. Really, you don't think so. He pulled a series of headlines after Trump was announced the winner, listen to these hamas calls for immediate end to war after Trump election win, Newsweek, Microsoft, MSN, Microsoft, I think that's Microsoft Mexico's migrant caravan breaking up after

Trump victory. Show's Uncertainty Barons EU chief suggested to Trump buying US gas instead of Russia's Fortune magazine or Fortune dot com. China says it hopes for peaceful coexistence with US as Trump Clinch's win, diplomat at Cutter quitting gaza mediation role, Hamas to be booted from country, New York's ending vouch program that allowed migrant families to buy their own food. Putin congratulates Trump, says he's ready to talk. Stock market surges to record highs after Trump's election win.

You don't think headlines matter. You don't think who is president matters. If there's a degree of truth in terms of now the headlines are all true. But in terms of actions that follow these headlines, if there's even a fraction of EU saying, yeah, we're gonna buy our fuel from America, because we're bringing fuel back to America. We're gonna start producing energy again. If any of these things are fractionally true, it's a win. If they're wholly true,

it's a boon. It's huge, and it speaks to the place that America is supposed to occupy in the world. But then there's this one. There's a photo of all the Harris Walls gear at a store seventy five percent off, and the headline says Trump is already bringing prices down forty six minutes after the hour maybe it does matter who the president is. It's the morning show at Preston Scott Great Rodriguez, Chancellor of the State University System for

the Sunshine State of Florida. I should qualify that we'll join us on the phone line in just a little bit. Lots to talk about with Ray, including rumors of the end of the Department of Education. And I'm all in favor of doing some of these things, but they have to be done sequentially right, and I think they need to be proceeded with really good messaging. Tell people why you're doing what you're doing, make the case, Let the vek Ramaswami make the case for why these things should

be considered done and done anyway. I mentioned some mysteries that are going to get solved. I think I really do. Came across a piece by James Kunstler called Mysteries Revealed, and he quotes Scott Adams. People in the media are aware or out of how illegitimately they've done their jobs, that they think they're on the verge of being locked up. Well, there's no doubt about the former they have legitimately done

their jobs. Most of the media has been responsible for the decline of this country in small cities in large states in the nation, the media has forfeited its role. But inside here he talks about Cunseler writes about the fact that there are reports of a frenzy among culpable Department of Justice lawyers. FBI director Ray set to resign before Trump can fire him. Attorney General Merrick Garland has gone radio silent for his own good since election day?

Have you noticed that nothing expect many abiding mysteries to get unraveled, such as how many federal agents did work the crowd around the Capitol on January sixth, which mister Ray has pretended to not be able to discuss due to ongoing investigations to learn more about the pipe bomb caper at the DNC headquarters a few blocks away that same day, the video showing the person of interest talking to Capitol police. Prepare to be amazed at how deeply

criminal these schemes were. You must wonder if the document shredding party is already underway despite calls to preserve all the emails, memos, and texts, then they're the poisoned realms of the intel blob, the CIA, DHS, State Department of Defense, He goes on to list names. They were all necked deep in what looks like sedition, treason, and real conspiracy,

not theories. State officials, New York Attorney General, Letitia James, Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg, Fulton County DA, in Georgia, Fanny Willis. All of them, he writes, can be prosecuted under federal charges under eighteen USC. Section two forty two. Willful deprivation of constitutional rights acting under color of law. That's what the Trump lawfare cases amounted to. Then there's the long running rumors of pedophilia and human trafficking networks among the

elite Jeffrey Epstein, P Diddy to name two. If these things exist, Rights Counselor, and they are released, history will shudder. Think Clinton Foundation. There's an intersection there by the way, we still haven't solved the problem of Hillary and paid to play when she was Secretary of State. Do you ever notice how the Clinton Foundation funds dried up when she left the government. People quit giving to the Clinton Foundation, this altruistic foundation that does good. Suddenly it didn't matter

because she wasn't in a position to grant favors. Isn't that amazing? The money dried up when she was no longer in government. You mark my words. Had she been elected president, the Clinton Foundation we flourishing in money. He writes. Mister Trump would be advised to stay out of airplanes until inauguration day and be extra careful who he puts himself around. He lists three names, Norma eisen Mark, Elias Andrew Weissman. He said, you think they just laid back

and watched football this past weekend. He said, they're trying to steal the House. That's what this delay in the votes is all about, friends, It's about keeping the Republicans from getting a majority in the House. They've lost the Senate, they've lost the White House. They're trying to get control of the House. Come back, let's change gears. Talk Flora's state education with the Chancellor Ray Rodriguez. Next third hour of The Morning Show with Preston Scott On Preston, he

is Jose. It is show fifty two seventy four. So if you find that we have failed in our responsibility to provide entertaining and informative provoking content, you go ahead and go to customer service and seek a refund using number five to seventy four. Great to be with you for the third hour, and I'm thrilled to have with me first time ever, the Chancellor of the State University System is joined me on the program. Ray Rodriguez. Ray, welcome to the program. How are you, sir?

where the third largest university system in the country. We have over four hundred and thirty thousand students who attend one of our twelve institutions. My role as chancellor is I am the CEO of the Borda Governors and the chancellor of the State University System of Florida. I advocate for the university. I also serve in a regulatory position and that it's our responsibility at the Borda Governors to ensure that all that's being done within our state university

system is with the regulations and with state statutes. And finally, we're focused on student success.

seven members of the Florida College System. We work closely with the Florida College System so that there is a consistent education experience and ease of transfer for graduates in the Florida College System that wish to continue their education and obtain a bachelor's degree at one of our universities.

We interact, and when I say we, I'm talking about the state university system with the legislature, because we are advocating for their appropriation request and we're also advocating for good policy in the realm of higher education with the legislature, and we interact quite a bit with the Executive Office of the Governor, working on both appropriations and policy issues.

The average public university has tuition and fees of eleven thousand, six hundred and ten dollars, so we're forty five percent below the national average. We have not raised tuition or fees since twenty thirteen, and as a result of that, our students are able to attend without going into debt.

You know, the narrative nationally is that higher education is unaffordable and that the only way to a painted degree is to go into a significant amount of debt, and so students are looking at that and weighing whether that's a worthwhile investment. And that's largely true for many of

the states in this nation. But Florida is the exception because we do have the lowest tuition empeas and as a result of that, seventy seven percent of our students enrolled in fall semester do not have a federal student low We are graduating students stet free.

put our focus on keeping our kids in state? Are we doing anything to try to attract because I would imagine the cost of out of state tuition for someone that it comes to Florida for an education is a little bit different.

thousand students, ninety percent of them are Florida residents. And the reason for that is our Florida legislature has made a significant investment in higher education. In fact, since twenty thirteen, when we implemented performance based funding centered around student success, our appropriations in state for state education higher education have gone from one point seventy four billion to four point eighty five billion. That's an increase of two hundred and

eighty percent. Our legislature has prioritized investing in higher education for Florida citizens, and so we want to make sure that it's Florida citizens that are benefiting from those taxpayer dollars.

standard for measuring graduation rates in higher education today. Here in the state of Florida, we measure in four year increments because that's what the universities are measured on in terms of performance space funding. Our four year graduation rate is sixty four percent, So we're doing in four years what the typical public higher education across this country university is doing in six If you want our six year graduation rate number, it is just below eighty percent. It's

very important to us that our students are successful. US News and World Report has ranked the State University System of Florida and our Florida College System as the number one state for higher education since twenty seventeen when they began ranking state systems, and it is an objective measure that they use when they do that metric and they issue their rankings, they're looking at how much does it cost to attend, how deep in debt are students, how

many of them graduate, and when they graduate, do they find jobs? And on all of those metrics, the State University System of Florida is extremely successful.

wage threshold. And to get that data, we work directly with the Department of Commerce, and we work with our Chambers of Commerce, the Florida Chamber of Commerce, and our local Chambers of Commerce at our institutions, so that we're plugged into what the local job needs in each of the communities. Within programs of strategic emphasis. More than sixty percent of our undergraduate degrees are awarded in majors that lead to those open jobs, and sixty five percent of

our graduate degrees are in programs of strategic emphasis. The next thing we do, and this is also something that makes Florida unique, is we have something called My Florida Future. If you go to the Florida Border Governor's website, this is the most visited page on our entire website. You can choose any institution and then once you've chosen that institution, look at every major that's offered and it will tell you what recent college graduates are earning when they graduate.

And so you go into the university with your eyes wide open when you choose your major of what your job prospects are going to be after graduation within performance based funding. On that metric, we look at postgraduation, how are our graduates doing. Seventy five percent of them are either continuing their education in a professional degree, law school, medical school, or going on to get their master's or

their doctorate, or their employees. And if they're employed, we're looking at what are the wages that they are earning. And the medium wage of a graduate from the State University System of Florida is fifty dollars.

one way and they come out thinking of another. Because there are notable professors that take advantage of it that they have almost a captive audience what does the board of regions, What do you do as a chancellor to ensure that kids are getting an education and exposure to all philosophical ideals and ideas when it comes to governance and economics and all of the various philosophies that are out there.

six percent. The theory last year was the reason Americans had lost confidence was because higher education had gotten so expensive and students were going so deep in debt. What Gallup found when they asked the follow up questions as to why you lost confidence in higher education, that was actually the third reason the cost and the debt. The number one reason Americans have lost confidence in higher education is because of a lead that is indoctrinating students into

a left wing ideology. And that was shocking because no one thought that would be the number one answer, and that was number one because it's a top concern for both Republicans and those who identify politically as independents. In the state of Florida. The action that's been taken has

been led by Governor Rod DeSantis. He championed legislation two sessions ago to remove THEI programs out of our universities and for us to address these concepts, particularly in our general education crisculum, because that's where the real threat on indoctrination occurs. In general education, students have to take these courses.

They don't have a choice. So it's one thing if you want to go major in one of these concepts or majors or programs that have these theories in them, but a student shouldn't be forced to sit through this in order to complete their general education Crichlum. The statute removes these concepts out of general education Crislum. And so in State of Florida, you're going to be able to complete your general education curriculum without being exposed to any left wing in doctrination there.

to losing their performance based funding. In Florida, the appropriations that we receive, and I mentioned earlier how they've gone up nearly three hundred percent, are all appropriated through the prism of performance based funding. So that is a significant threat to universities that they absolutely, from a leadership perspective,

will be seeking to avoid. The second thing I want to share with you, and this is also something that makes Florida unique, is that every year we survey all of our students on the concepts of viewpoint diversity and

intellectual freedom. And this year we just completed what is the largest voluntary survey that's been done in higher education in the history of the United States, because our system is so large, and the results that came back were very encouraging, and that the overwhelming majority of our students believe in their classrooms that viewpoint diversity is presented and that intellectual freedom is encouraged. And we're going to continue

measuring that every single year. If a student is in a classroom and they are being both of these concepts, then they have the ability to report that, and I can guarantee you the university is going to take action, because no university is going to risk losing their performance space funding.

of the end of the US Department of Education. Memo sent to superintendents across Oklahoma Thursday says this is last Thursday, the state department will work hand in hand with the Trump administration to transition to block grants. Interesting, not to block as in stop grants, but to a different kind of grant. The memo supports the elimination of the federal Department of Education in favor of moving to block grants. Well, now, wouldn't that be interesting? Do things thoughtfully and with an

eye on cause and effect. If we do this, what happens here and mitigate any negative there will be negative consequences to everything. For example, if you remove a cancerous tumor, you're going to disrupt the area around it, because that tumor has blood vessels and it's connected it and you have to take tissue in and beyond the area of the tumor for safety margins and so forth. It's a disruption. So however, you need to remove the tumor there is

an acknowledgment that there is disruption around it. Pull a weed. See, this was the analogy I've used for all all these years, weed pulling. If you if you deal with the problem soon enough, it's that little tiny weed that you just pluck out with your fingertips. You need to pop pop it out. Soil goes right back. Everything's fine, It's like it was never there. You wait and let it grow.

Now it's a two hand mission. And when when you pull it out, you're disrupting soil, you're disrupting everything around it. And that's why you address problems as quickly as you possibly can. Money is already going to be is already the plans are in place to repatriate money to the to the country because Trump is going to cut tax cuts. He's going to tax rates, and I hope he starts with businesses. That would be to me, the the no

brainer of no brainers. But again, people like me, and you have to explain to people why this is good. Because businesses don't pay taxes people do, and because businesses are in other countries for two reasons three labor's cheaper. Regulatory environment is better, tax environment is better. If you remove two of those three, regulatory and tax, you can oftentimes manage the wage because you lower other associated costs

by being back where your products are consumed. And so the tax environment is huge, and money's already There's an article here from the former CEO of Home Depot and Chrysler, Bob Nardelli, saying, yeah, I'm talking to CEOs all over the world. If they're not moving their money back to America, they're moving it out of China. It's a win, but we will see people no longer building plants elsewhere. Think

about that. We American businesses left this country because we made it difficult for them to do business here, to manufacture here, and so we lost their tax revenue because they're they're getting taxed at the lower rate somewhere else. I'd rather have a lesser amount of something than nothing of a lot. Forty one minutes after the arm come

back and yeah more. This is the safest part of the program to do this story because most of the kiddos are in school, but even those that are homeschooled and you're listening to the program or you've got some kids in the backseat running around because you're homeschool or whatever the reason might be. I will trust me, I will use discretion as I discussed this. This is from Jared Stepman, a columnist for The Daily Signal, author of a book called The War on History, The Conspiracy to

Rewrite America's Past. Here's the headline, failing to create Brotherhood of Man, UN promote sex with children. Now, at first, you're like, wait, come on what. There was a tweet by Heritage found President Kevin Roberts, and he was pointing to this particular report that Jarrett is talking about when he said on his tweet, when we say they're coming for your kids, we're not kidding. It is a March

report that was released by the United Nations. Jarrett points out a little history here of the un Ugly Square UN building next to the East River, New York City, began construction in forty nine. Looks like a relic from a bygone era, he writes. The United Nations used to be the forefront of the liberal imagination. In old movies, the UN was treated like a place where serious things happened. If aliens invade Earth, the UN comes up with a

plan to save us. A few older liberals hold on to this fantasy, but for the most part, the UN has just melded with the vast array of non governmental organizations and nonprofits foisting left wing social values on various peoples, while turning a blind eye to dictators in real tyranny like they do with China. But I digress, he writes.

Principal sixteen, that's the title of it. Principal sixteen of the Global Bodies March Report, released for International Women's Day, lays out the basis for what the UN considers consensual

sexual conduct. Quoting from the Principal sixteen, the enforcement of criminal law should reflect the rights and capacity of persons under eighteen years of age to make decisions about engaging in consensual sexual conduct and their right to be heard in matters concerning them pursuant to their evolving capacities and

progressive autonomy. Persons under eighteen years of age should participate in its visions affecting them with due regard to their age, maturity, and best interests, with specific attention to non discrimination guarantees. Did you catch that consensual sexual conduct? So they're speaking out on young people under the age of eighteen, Jarrett correctly writes here, sorry, I have to say it, okay, groomer, If you're wondering, this is the type of stuff that

you may remember me talking about. The North American Man Boy Love Association. It is a national group in this country that believes in normalizing sexual relationships between men and young boys children that they're sexual beings, and that's quite all right. These sick pedophiles are being normalized by stuff like this. This is why many of us believe you

kick the UN out of America. I love that Elie Stephanic is going to be our ambassador, but we really ought to just move this thing out of our country. Get out of here, get out. Forty seven minutes after the other come back announcement on the Toy Hall of Fame, ruminators with a good memory will know that I did not get to the Christmas catalog or spotlight today. There

was so much material in my stack. I have a color coded jumbo paper clip selection that I use, but then to keep it all together, I have those metal little binders that you know they have the little butterfly things that then fall back over and lock up. My stack was so thick today with material. I couldn't even use it. It was too big, So my apologies. The Christmas Catalog Spotlight is going to bump to tomorrow. It

in better because we're off Friday. Tomorrow's Thursday. Yeah, Steve Stewart Tomorrow, Doctor David Hart's Little Optimum Health Natural really Little road Trip Idea, The Christmas Catalog Spotlight and Congresswoman Kat Camick will join us. She has been re elected by a massive margin. That's what you get when you're good. It's a well done cat. The National Toy Hall of Fame, we talked about the who the finalists were. Here are your inductees, My Little Pony transformers and Phase ten. Never

heard of it. Never heard of Phase ten, No idea, what that is? Unbelievably, balloons are not in the Hall of Fame. The stick Horse is not in the Hall of Fame. Pokemon Trading cards didn't make the cut, so only three. So those are your three winners.

of the military. You've got Department of Government efficiency. Elon Musk Vivek Ramaswami. Ough do you imagine those meetings. Musk is sort of on the spectrum and kind of does things his own unique way. Ramaswami can be the mouthpiece of the whole thing. He can explain to everybody why we're doing what we're doing, which is, don't overlook the importance of that. So we're just keeping an eye on these appointments. Nothing official yet on Marco Rubio being nominated

Secretary of State. We'll see if he does go. Who would Governor Ron De Santa's point a point as senator to finish out his term. Interesting stuff things we'll talk about in the days to come. Friends, Thank you for honoring us with your time. As always, have an awesome day. Glenn Beck is up next.