Ep. 5276: Trumps cabinet selection

tons of stuff to cover today. I have so many thoughts because it's not like we've had any important events in you know, American and world history that have taken place since I was here. There's nothing really much to talk about, you know. But Jose is over there in Studio one A. I'm in Studio one B, and our verse of the day is John seventeen seventeen. Now this is from famously Christ's High priestly Prayer where he goes on to say, you know, Father, the hours come, glorify

your son, that the son may glorify you. And he continues on and eventually gets to this portion verse seventeen, sanctify them in the truth. Your word is truth. So it's interesting here I'd have to pull out the Greek

lexicon to see if there's some overlap here. But when he says your word is truth, he's probably referencing what would eventually become we know, the words of Holy Scripture being the guide for Christians around the globe, but that the word Christ himself is the Logos made flesh, and he is truth. As the beginning of the Book of John says, in the beginning was the Word, and the word was with God, that is Christ. And so what's

this word sanctify mean? Sanctify is just the day in, day out, constant, just dealing with mortification of our sin, Christ continuing to guide all that we do. Sanctifying is, you know, like the concupiscence, the desire for sin, sin itself, all of these things eventually dim in our lives. They never go away. We never achieve actual perfection in the flesh this side of eternity. But those things that were once enslaving you, you don't. You no longer have to

be enslaved to. Christ is sanctifying you by purging the dross of sin from your life. So we've got a long way to go. There's a little bit of encouragement. That's the six seventeen sixty three segment and God Bless America from John Wayne. Of course, it's gonna be a fun day. Jose over there, I'm Grant Alan. Good to be back, and it's the morning show here on one hundred point seven of WFLA. I think I forgot to mention it already in my first segment. I'm just getting

back into seventh. Give me a little grace. I appreciate that it's Monday, November eighteenth, in the Year of Our Lord twenty twenty four. It's Grant episode number eight and day thirteen ninety four of America held hostage there. I got it out of the way. I yeah, it's just been a while since I've been in here. I'm Jose. You have a good weekend? Anything in particular to report?

battleship the USS Maine at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. However, the ship's beginning would turn out to be not nearly as famous as its ending, an explosion that sent it to the bottom of Havana's harbor in eighteen ninety eight, triggering the Spanish American War and giving rise to the slogan Remember the Main, not to be confused with Remember the Alamo, although Remember the Main seems like it's, you know, an equally important phrase that we ought to remember. The

Main was one of several battleships named after states. Over time, the US Navy has developed a system for naming their vessels. Like aircraft, carriers are named for named after people like the Abraham Lincoln the Ronald Reagan. Destroyers are named after naval leaders and heroes, such as the Farragut and the John Paul Jones, and attacks. Submarines are named after cities like the Los Angeles in the Norfolk or the Virginia

in the Texas, so very very interesting. Other traditions include Countermeasureships are given names representing strength and defense, like the Avenger in the Guardian. Hospital. Ships are given names indicating care, like the Comfort and the Mercy. So those are that's pretty cool. You've kind of got names that are, i don't know, pretty on brand for the purpose of the naval vessel. So that's pretty cool. Other American history news.

This day in eighteen twenty, Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to cite Antarctica. That's cool. Probably brutal. How do you even like discover that or like get that in sight? You know, Yeah, there's this massive block of ice down there. Let's go check it out, Okay. On this day in eighteen seventy two, Susan B. Anthony is arrested in Rochester for trying to vote in a presidential election. Interesting. In eighteen eighty three, at the urging of the railroads,

the United States is divided into time zones. Isn't that crazy, like to think like something that we just assume is so commonplace, like a time zone, right, but there was like if they're not so distant past, where that wasn't a thing like we just fell back, you know, from daylight savings time now back to standard time, and there was a time we didn't do that. That's so it it's so part of our clockwork now as people, as particularly Americans, and we just think it's normal. But there

wasn't a time when that was normal. Eighteen eighty nine, the Battleship Main as we just said, and in nineteen twenty eight, Steamboat Willie, the first Mickey Mouse cartoon with sound, premieres classic classic. I was just lamenting again yesterday. I long for in America where I could feel comfortable, like taking my children to a place like Disney, so rather than and to be comfortable right instead of me feeling like I have to shield my children's eyes all day long.

I don't particularly want to do that all day long at a park. That doesn't sound so great. But we are fifteen sixteen minutes after the hour. We got more coming up on the morning.

is like photo bombing all of their family photos. Now, Kai Kai Trump Uh, Trump's granddaughter posted I think on Twitter and Instagram that like Elon is achieving like uncle status. It's hilarious to watch all of this go down. He said, Wow, Elon is such a smart guy. It's so funny. I didn't either. I didn't watch I don't watch UFC fights. I didn't watch the Mike Tyson Jake Paul fight. Did you watch that, Jose? It was on Netflix, right, h No, sir, I did not watch it.

stories from over the weekend. Another story, this one was funny to watch. I'm sure Preston probably covered it. And Selzer, the polster out of Iowa, has announced that she is retiring and will no longer be in the polster business after she catastrophically incorrectly guessed that Kamala Harris would take Iowa by a predictably three points or something like that.

Here's the CNN article, Famed polster and Selzer will end her election polling operation after her final survey for the Des Moines Register failed to accurately capture form or President Donald Trump's strong support. It was a sixteen point miss. She predicted that Kamala Harris was leading in Iowa forty seven percent to forty four percent, and Donald Trump eventually took the state of Iowa fifty six to forty three percent, a sixteen point swing. That's brutal. So what do we

learn from this. It's the same lesson we learned from twenty sixteen. I remember saying out loud, I was in College at the time. To my buddies, I remember saying out loud like, don't ever believe another poll ever again. Just know that these pollsters, and in this case Anne Selzer, who was doing a survey for the Des Moines Register, what I'm guessing is one of the major, if not the flagship newspaper there in Des Moines, Iowa, and that they just pretty much cover water for most of the

leftist naw narratives that the mass media has adopted. Trump ultimately swept to victory over Harrison State by a thirteen point margin. Selzer later acknowledged her poll was a big miss and suggested that her pole might have actually energized and activated Republican voters who thought they would likely coast to victory. Okay, I take back everything I just said. Keep doing what you're doing. We're going to keep winning

if this is what you're up to. Kristen Roberts, chief content officer at Genet Media, which owns the Des Moines Register, boy I could have called that one. Told CNN that the Iowa poll will quote evolve as we find new ways to accurately capture public sentiment in the pulse of Iowan's on state and national issues. Our mission is to provide trusted news and content to our readers in the public. No, it's not like we know that. That's what they say,

all right, that's the official PR statement. But we know that's just wildly not true. We know that the media has had you know, for gosh decades. It was Richard Nixon who said, like the press is like the enemy

of the people. Like that was what nothing is new under the sun, and they continue to carry water for whatever the cultural zeitgeist is that's going on right now, and for decades it's been the progressive wing of America's cultural moment, and the media has found an ally in that so kind of hilarious that Anne Selzer basically got it so bad. It's like, yeah, you know, I don't

think this is for me anymore. Yeah you think. Prior to the twenty twenty four survey, the IOWA poll had been considered by many to be the methodological gold standard.

So is everything else right? Every once vaunted institution that we as Americans used to trust and we had some common stake and ownership with, whether it be you know, your local newspaper, well that was run by someone you knew whether it be your local, you know, grocery store, whether it be all of these different institutions that we once had and were loved. We loved these things, We

cared for them as local members in a community. They've been seized by combatants, you could say, from the outside, seeking to overturn our communities from the inside and out. And and Selzer and carrying water for the left is just the latest example. Twenty seven minutes after the hour. I'm Grant Allan filling in for Preston here on the.

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so much. I thought about donning my Maga hat for this show, but I opted against it. I didn't need to get hat hair at six in the morning, five in the morning. So yes, Donald Trump is victorious. We know this. The only reason I'm saying it is to lead up to what the particular facet of the election that I think was kind of important to point out, And so we're actually going to travel back in time. This is actually me talking with Preston from August of

twenty twenty three. I found this in the archives. I was like, I got to bring this back out because it proves with the big story in the press box. Is the way that I was able to describe it, at least in my head, is that the young guys, the zoomers, have been so like particularly young males, have been so maligned that in the public school system there's this expectation that if you cannot learn by sitting eight

hours a day, there's something wrong with you. That young males are viewed as defective girls because they don't learn the same way they've been much maligned, and the same way that if you happen to come from a conservative background,

same thing you hurt. You hear from your youngest years that there's something wrong with you, anderthal, there's something wrong with the sins of your father and your grandfather, your entire lineage is corrupted with white privilege, racism, it set, etc. And I think that the young guys are just kind of like, no, that's exactly what we saw in the

presidential election. So here's an article from the Federalist. PG Keenan writes, Let's hear it for the straight white boys who saved us from Kamala Kamala Harris, Like Hillary Clinton represented the face of the oppressive, suffocating girl boss regime, and the boys were sick of it. And she states that young guys eighteen to twenty, the under thirty demographic, shifted twenty nine points to the right since twenty twenty.

She states, I saw this one coming from a mile away. Boys, especially straight white ones, who can't claim any special status as a member of a marginalized or oppressed community or group, have been cast as the bad guys in the modern world. And they know it. They know that in truth, they're the most marginalized group in America. This is from the Federalist in case you're curious, The headline is, Let's hear it for the straight white boys who saved us from

Kamala Harris. This is pretty much what I felt on the ground, me being an under thirty, You know, young guy, this is how I felt. I looked around at my peer group. I saw the trends that were all over the Internet about how just about every young male sphere is now coded right wing, whether it be the gaming world, whether it be you know, the the dating world as well.

It's it's like, that's those are the trends, and I really want to dive into kind of the things that I mentioned in that old clip a little bit more, paired with some of the cultural observations that Peeche Keenan writes here in The Federalists. So that'll that'll be up after coming up after this break here of the Morning Show. The reason that young males skewed so far to the right for Trump and this presidential election is in part with what Peachy Keenan writes here. This is what the

entire Barbie movie was about. You remember the Barbie movie, the blockbuster summer hit last year, Ken finding liberation from his oppressive pink longhouse, discovering how to be a real man, and then getting his wings clipped again by Boss Barbie, who makes him take off his cool guy clothes and start dressing flamboyantly. Since COVID. All the young men started bringing up this a lot, particularly this being President Trump

and his return to politics. They became based It's in the water, the online discourse, their friend groups, the Fortnite group chats, the powerlifting Jim, and even at Catholic mass they discovered weightlifting. They became keenly aware that the world right outside our front door, in our deep blue neighborhood, hates them and all that they are. They lived through

Black Lives Matter and wondered if white lives mattered. They endured years of movies and cartoons where the hero was a strong, independent girl boss and the boys were either idiots or inconsequential. They had to try to ignore Pride month whenever identity except theirs was celebrated, and wondered when they were allowed to feel pride about being straight and white?

Can you even imagine? Yeah, that's anathema. But there's a particular point here that I wanted to bring up as well, And it was this point that she made about years of movies and cartoons where the hero was a strong, independent girl boss. So think for a second of your favorite sitcoms. When was the last sitcom on major American television where the dad wasn't a bumbling fool like all of the dads are. They're never like highly competent providers

for their family. Now that they may do that in their character, but they don't ever portray the father in this family sitcom hardly ever, maybe only Last Man Standing, but even then he kind of Tim Allen's character in Last Man's Standing was very he I don't know how to I don't know how to say this quite exactly

how I'd like to. It take a little bit of time to try and elaborate, but even Tim Allen's character in Last Man's Standing it was always coded to try and just appease someone, whether it be you know, the boss at the office, whether it be the wife. It wasn't ever just solid, unmoving male leadership because that's who he was, and he's confident and who he is. It just it never those Those aren't the male figures in

major American television that we have anymore. And the last time we had something that was even slightly coded that way was Chris Evans character in The Captain as Captain America in the Marvel series, and then you find out that Captain America is just a lib like that is just a woke lib. It's like, well, of course he had to be. He's not actually allowed to be a representation of a strong traditional American male. And the young

guys looked around. They're seeing their young female counterparts that are skewing hard to the left, and they're just like, I don't I don't recognize this world. This world has basically told them you're not welcome here, and here's all

the reasons that are wrong with you. And this was the proverbial middle finger to the university system, to every school marm like vice principal's that's really what Kamala Harris felt like to many many people, Like everyone kind of had a Kamala Harris in their life and they didn't like her, Like reminded you of this kind of like wet blanket vice principle in school that nobody enjoyed. That

was that's in essence who Kamala Harris was. And the young guys were like, yeah, you know what, I really don't care anymore Trump all the way that just as being an under thirty young male, like I get it, I get it, I feel the same inclinations, I feel the same I sympathize because when I applied for college, I and this was like back in twenty fourteen, I was even marking on my you know, on my college applications, what is your race? And I would say, prefer not

to answer, what is your sex? Prefer not to answer because I had in the back of my mind I was like, yeah, no, I'm I may not get in if I tell them exactly what I am. I may not get in. With student loans that I no longer have. Praise God, I looked around. I was like, huh, I wonder if I'm gonna get any student loan forgiven it. No, I went to a private Christian school. Look at me, I'm not getting student loan forgiveness. I know, politics a patronage network, and I was not the patron for the

party in power. It's that's just kind of how it was. So that's a little bit of my analysis. We'll come back around to the big story again in the next couple hours. But that's that is why the young males skewed hard.

for cabinet picks. Marco Rubio was selected for Secretary of State. But my thoughts are more kind of immediate, like who's going to fill that slot right that Governor DeSantis will have to to fill. And here this is the USA Today Network. They put together a list of most likely candidates. I guess from what they're hearing. I don't know what the timetable is, I uh of when DeSantis will have to select one, but here are the names that they

throw out. Lieutenant Governor Janette Nuniez, Florida Attorney General, Ashley Moody, former Desantist chief of staff, James Outmeyer, former Florida House Speaker jose O Leva, and Donald Trump's daughter in law

Laura Trump. So I mean those are kind of like a wide variety, right, former lawmakers, current executives, a former chief of staff, and then Laura Trump, who would most assuredly be the most of the outsiders, someone who's not really been involved in the Florida political scene here in Tallahassee. All of those other names you kind of recognize if you're kind of in and around the Tallahassee political scene,

the Florida political scene. Laura Trump has obviously been elsewhere working with you know, Trump businesses, the Trump campaign, and I don't believe she spent a lot of time in the Tallahassee area, Not that that's an important qualification, just saying that as a fact. There's kind of four and then one here, if that makes sense. I'm kind of ambivalent about the pick, to be honest with you. I think Ashley Moody would do just fine. Utmeyer would do

just fine. The one that I just don't know a lot about is Lieutenant Governor Jeanette Nunyaz just Ben rather you see her, yeah, like yeah, Jose's giving the thumbs up. I like, I like Lieutenant Governor Nunyaz. You see her come around, you know, like during emergency you know, stormwatch stuff. But Lieutenant Governor Nunyez unlike Attorney General Moody. Attorney General Moody is definitely much more I guess publicly aware. I guess the public may be aware of her. Maybe maybe

that that's just my read on it. I could be wrong because Attorney General Moody, as you know, the highest ranking you know, law enforcement official in the state, has been active in defending you know, state laws that were passed through the legislature and signed by the governor. Various you know, hot cultural moments She's offered her say which I it's just interesting to watch Utmeyer close to Santis guy,

former House Speaker Jose Oliva. He's been it's been a while since he's been around, so he would kind of be making a return a little bit. So I'm kind of kind of ambivalent about the pick, to be honest with you don't really know, but I wanted to hit this too. This is from Hot Air. Donald Trump is already shrinking the size of the federal government. There are numerous FDA employees that are threatening to mass quit in

protest against Trump picking RFK Junior, This is hilarious. I saw the same thing with the Pete hag Seth pick. I think it was the entire DEI office was threatening the resignation. If Pete hag Seth was confirmed as def SEK, that would be hilarious. Is that not cultural victory already, let alone actual victory? Like you just force mass layoffs, force quit you know, they're just there. We're out, We're done. We don't want to be a part of this. And

I love the possibility that it's just beginning. So we are at the end of our nomberumber one here on the Morning Show. We've got whole two more hours than Doctor Joe Camp's coming up next hour five minutes after the hour. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Morning Show Without Preston, it's got our number two. I'm Grant Alan filling in for Preston, just for the day. If

you're just tuning in. Preston just taking a day off and invited me in to be able to sit in the Captain's chair for just a few hours with you this morning, and I thought it'd be a great idea to kind of go through. I mentioned it at the

end of our Number one. I kind of talked about it a little bit, some of Trump's cabinet selections, because well, it's been a while since I've been on and haven't really been able to give my thoughts, and it's kind of like this is like my outlet, you know, Like I it's been a couple months, and I've got all these thoughts stewing around in my head, and so now I've got three hours to just just get it out

of my system. And so there's been a lot of talk about Trump's cabinet picks, whether or not that they were the right fit for the spot, whether they were you know, maybe they were a home run. Everyone's got different thoughts on it. I've got a general view, right, and then I've got more precise views about each particular

selection in the cabinet. The general view is, I think that this is indicating to us, all of these different selections, by and large are indicating to us that voted for him, us that voted for him, that it feels like mistakes have been learned from right. Trump has admitted this. Everyone that remembers the first four years of the Trump administration remembers the John Boltons, remembers the Rex Tillerman's remembers the Anthony Scaramucci's just ended up people who were rather well,

let's just say, insufferable. And it feels like that those that kind of instinct because Trump himself has said, when I got in, you know, I don't really know exactly he's pulling a lot from I guess what you could could describe as that DC Beltway class. And now the cabinet selections are by and large not DC Beltway selections.

They're not you know, longtime officials at X department. They're not longtime officials at you know, Department A, B C. You name it, right, FDA, Department of Defense, you name it. So here's just some off the top. Right, we know Susie Wiles will be why House Chief of Staff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, So let's go. Let's go to

Senator current Senator Rubio real quick. I generally think that's a good pick because now I would have been a little more concerned because we know that Marco Rubio in the past was more pro amnesty than we would have liked him to be, a little more disappointing on the immigration front than we would have liked him to be. But he's not heading up homeland security like he's Secretary of State. Everyone knows that Senator Rubio's gifting has always been kind of kind of thinking off the cuff, like

in diplomatic relations. I think his skill set kind of being a mediator between Party A and Party B, or between the United States and Country X, will be a

rather successful pick. And I think Marco maybe in a little bit of like a prove it's prove himself kind of mode, right, because he came in as a Tea party pick in twenty ten and ran into the buzzsaw that was the twenty sixteen Republican presidential primary, like eventually got the mind cur little little Marco like it just it was kind of it was kind of like not not not great to watch for a little bit of the time. And so now he's kind of like back

and he's working his way up. I think that it will prove to be a good pick.

a couple generations. Now this is this is total victory for the sour dough making tradwives who have been warning us about seed oils and you know, the carcentage is in our deodorant and all of these different things that cause you name it. The crunchy tradwives have been warning us. And the RFK pick tells me that the crunchy tradwives have a place and the Trump administration, and I am here for it. Bring on the sourdough, bring on the beef tallow soap, Bring it on. I'm here for it.

We're ten minutes after the hour. I got more with Trump's cabinet selections, kind of my thoughts on it.

with our bodies. There there's been a lot of studies that have confirmed a lot of those things that have entered into what you could call common knowledge now because of the proliferation of so many different influencers and content creators out there that specialize in this kind of stuff. They're stay at home moms that started doing the research deep dive and they're like, oh my gosh, this is this is what we're we're feeding to our children. That's

what crunchy tradwives are. And r FK Junior is in essence, all of the momentum behind that kind of movement wrapped up into a figure heading straight to I won't be clear here. Hhs. That's that is so crazy. So there's another tidbit of this that I wanted to hit on, and I believe it was Agriculture Secretary was being rumored that Thomas Massey was going to be one of those was going to be one of those picks. He himself

kind of lives the agrarian life, congressman. I think he's one of our one of the best house reps up there right now, kind of lives the agrarian life in his Kentucky district. And one of the guys who's running around in Christian circles for a while who was rumored to be an advisor to the eventual secretary was a guy by the name of Joel Salatin who he's spoken at Christian conferences and he's done lecture series, written so

many books about regenerative agriculture. He's an advocate for regenerative agriculture, which is kind of just like the old paths, the old ways of living in terms of you know, how we raise our crops, raise our livestock, and if you've kind of been in the the kind of the trad Christian scene, for a little while. The name Joel Salatin will ring a bell, and the fact that he very well may have a post in this Trump administration just

blows me away. Honestly, I didn't think it was going to be this good, Like I was kind of holding now having some reservations that I don't know, maybe it could just be the first term all over again. No, I don't think so. So let's keep going. We've got former guest of the show, Congressman Michael Waltz, who's been tapped to be National Security Advisor. I think that's a

good pick. Interior, your Secretary Doug Doug Bergham, North Dakota Governor Christy Nome, Homeland Security Tom Holman, our boy Tom Homan as borders are the one who infamously said on sixty Minutes in response to a question, how are you going to do mass deportations without keeping families together? And he said, oh, we can deport whole families together. So based so great. US Ambassador at Israel, Mike Huckabee. Was

he born for that job or what? There was probably only one person who wanted that post more and it was probably John Hagy. And if you if you know you know, let's see, let's keep going.

living up to the name. It's so funny just watching them like devolve into basically libertarians because they've been you know, they're the left right there. They've been big government. They've been a federal bureaucratic regime size and scale, you know, for years. That's how they get their things pushed through, their initiatives push pushed through is through this bureaucratic agency. And now they're opposed to more. It's just so funny

to watch them kind of flounder. As as as total victory is inbound, I'm totally The more I talk about it, the more the better I feel about a lot of these picks. Still, I still have this thing in the back of my mind that something's going to drop, But I don't know if it's going to this time, I'm feeling a little more encouraged, and boy, it's going to be one heck of a confirmation process for each of

these figures, especially Matt Gates. And I didn't even get to Matt Gates, which is probably one of the more controversial ones so far of the Trump cabinet selections. I don't know if I'll have time to get to it, because there's more things that I want to discuss. But I've seen the people that have said that they don't like to pick, and I don't quite agree with that assessment. Maybe I'll touch on it before we get to another story in the next segment, So stick around after the break.

We're sixteen minutes after the hour here on the Morning Show. I'm Grant Allen filling in for Preston. I wasn't intending to go into this segment to complete my thoughts about the Trump cabinet selection picks, but here I am. Lastly, the Matt Gates pick. The thing that I mentioned before we went to break, I saw lots of people saying he's not qualified. He only served practiced law for you know, like twenty five months or something like that. Hear me

out for a second. I think we on the right make a slight mistake in hinging all of our business efforts, you know, like political appointments, things like that, kind of who we patronize simply off of the meritocracy, right, hear me out. Don't get me wrong. If when you're hiring for someone, you want the best person for the job, that's what you're seeking. If you're a business owner, you're a job creator, you're a boss of any kind, you want to find the best person who's gonna fit this

skill set and be able to do the job successfully. However, I think when it comes to what's at stake, just maybe file the meritocracy thing kind of back away in your brain and think, maybe just for a second, that maybe the most important thing is actually in this moment, in our current cultural moment and our expression right now,

what we need the most is loyalty. Because we just watched the Senate Republicans, instead of rallying behind rex Scott where the momentum was looking, they went with John Thune, who is kind of like, for all intents and purposes, feels like a carbon copy of Mitch McConnell. I don't know, is he worse, I didn't know a lot of the guy. He's kind of, you know, a lesser known figure until now, you know, from a small state like South Dakota, small pot populated state that is like South Dakota. So I

just didn't know a lot about the guy. But I just saw a lot of people that I did trust saying that I don't know about this pick, and so leave it to Beltway Republicans to be able to you know, shoot our entire momentum in the foot. But that said, I think in this cultural moment, I think we do need loyalty to America first. Primarily right, of course, keep

finding competent people. But if we're simply going off of like the meritocracy, we're going off of something that nobody else does, right, like no the progressive left, no other nation kind of thinks that way of like only the most competent people for the job. Yes, we want competent people. I'm giving the disclaimer time and time again here, but in a sense, you need people who are going to be loyal, Like who do you pledge your sword to in the end? Are you going to get the job

done because you believe in it? That was the problem of the first Trump administration. Nobody was loyal, but they were highly qualified, weren't they not Many of them were highly qualified, career bureaucrats, career beltwegh people, and look where it got us. I think in this moment, we could just for a moment, just put away the meritocracy kind of talk I know of Avake Ramaswami is big on that night. I think focusing on that and that alone

is a mistake. It's not the only thing, but there are more things to life than just simply you know, merit It's there is a little bit of like who are your duties and obligations to? And if the MAGA movement America First is basically the political movement personified of you know, duties and obligations to Americans and Americans first, then I think that's what we ought to be doing

in terms of these presidential cabinet selections. Which is why I'm primarily encouraged, because it doesn't feel like that there are too many snakes in the grass. It feels like there's a lot of buy in. I could be wildly wrong. We could have this, you know, a bunch of backstabbers. I don't know. Time will tell, but I'm less likely to say that now then I was maybe even before you know, in the twenty twenty presidential campaign with President Trump. I do think his close call with God, that bullet

grazing his ear, that does something to a man. Right. I don't know his faith life, but I think reality set in in a way. And if the JD Vance pick was a reflection, what if the JD Vance pick for Vice president truly wasn't made until after President Trump was shot in the ear, then I think that's our indicator that whole man, like, this is a little different this time. Like, don't think of President Trump any longer

being the President Trump that came down the escalator. Think of him as the one that got up and said fight, fight, fight, Like let that one be the one that's burned in your brain. Because it's a different President Trump than what he was eight nine years ago. I think it's I think it's a different kind of man this time, and I do think it's for the better. Twenty seven minutes after the hour, Gotta go to break, We got more coming up. Doctor Joe Camps at seven point forty, Good morning,

welcome back. We're officially halfway done with the Monday episode here, and we've got a lot yet to discuss, but the big story in the press box, I want to start by talking about the young zoomer vote that skewed heavily for Trump. I mentioned it last hour. I'll mention it again. So if you don't happen to catch this one in its entire you can go back and listen to it. But this is actually a clip from the archives of the Morning Show. This was August of twenty twenty three.

This was August last year, over a year ago, where Preston and I are having a discussion and I'm trying to explain my thoughts about why I think the young zoomer males, the under thirty demographic is actually more right wing than we think. And this was over a year ago. I think, in hindsight, this kind of proves, you know, the most recent election kind of proves my thought. Here's

what I was saying then. The way that I was able to describe it, at least in my head, is that the young guys, the zoomers, have been so like particularly young males, have been so maligned that in the public school system there's this expectation that if you cannot learn by sitting eight hours a day. There's something wrong with you. That young males are viewed as defective girls because they don't learn the same way. They've been much maligned in the same way that if you happen to

come from a conservative background, same thing you're hurt. You hear from your youngest years that there's something wrong with you, and there's something wrong with the sins of your father and your grandfather. Your entire lineage is corrupted with white privilege, racism, et cetera, et cetera. And I think that the young guys are just kind of like, no, yeah, that's what

happened in this presidential election. Pech Keenan over at the Federalist pens the article let's hear it for the straight white boys who saved us from Kamala, and she equival makes the comparison, you know, explaining that all of the young male spaces now are now coded right wing. Since COVID, she writes, they started bringing up Trump a lot. They became based it's in the water, the online discourse, their friend groups, the fortnite group chats, the powerlifting gym, even

at church. She is particularly I'm assuming Roman Catholic, So I use the term church because it's not just in Roman Catholic expressions of faith. It's like young Christian guys everywhere are. They're more to the right now. They discovered weightlifting, she writes, They became keenly aware that the world right outside their front door and in our deep blue neighborhood hates them. They lived through black lives matter and wondered

if white lives mattered too. They endured years of movies and cartoons where the hero was a strong, independent girl boss and the boys were either idiots or inconsequential. They had to try to ignore Pride Month whenever identity except theirs was celebrated, and wondered when they were allowed to feel pride about being straight and white. Can you even imagine? They had to go to Boy Scouts with female boy

Scouts and their female Scout leader. In the spring of twenty twenty four, he writes, my oldest started getting all his college acceptances. He had a four point three gpa amid fourteen hundreds SAT, and tons of extracurriculars, leadership experience, great recommendations. He was shut out of every single University

of California school. He applied to and usc that's the state of particularly young males, who if you don't, if you're not, if you want to know, what is the place for young males and what they can become in America in the vision of the left, the left pretty much has nothing to offer young males except to become like Tim Walls, like this kind of like buffoon. He's like flailing around on stage, just like acting absolutely like that kind of goofy sitcom dad that nobody respected in

the progressive left America. There's nothing for young men to become accept of that archetype. That's what it is. Forty minutes after the hour, Doctor Joe Camps coming up next.

That's just two and sixty million. Now. Some people would probably just want to blow that off, but that's catastrophic when you look at with what obesity does it causes, you know, heart disease, respidorialns, just cancer, weight bearing, writer, you name it. It's all over the place. And when I saw this, in about twenty years, they're expecting over two hundred and sixty's. That's a two hundred million people.

There's a lot of people, and so I thought, reve than try and break this down, just to bring this back to people's focus. You think about it, you can look around, just look around you today when you move about, and just look at how this is affecting us. And so we really need to take heed to that. Fortunately, I've already gotten my four and a half miles walk

in this morning with my walking crew. Well now, and we were talking and we were talking about that and so you have got to be intentional about this issue. But this is stagnant when you look at the potential costs for this, when you look at the burden in terms of caring for these people, you look at the rehab involved, you look at the complex procedures that it'll take to move us through this stage. This is a number that we must pay attention to. And you can

start this morning by making good choices. I'm not going to tell you what to do. I will just tell you that if we don't get our arms around this, this is going to be a catastrophic issue for us.

something about it in a positive way. So that's my message this morning. I was just really blown away by the projection that that that that that this is. This could be monumental moving forward, so we must act in something about this.

the burden of care is gonna eventually come to them. Unbelievable. Forty six minutes after the hour, doctor Joe Camps again, thanks for joining us in Healthy Expectations. We got more coming up here on the morning show. I'm Grand talent. We're at the end of our number two. Can you believe it already? I've spent most of this hour talking about the Trump cabinet picks and selections. Brief interruption for

a couple other things. But one of the things that struck me I saw this headline and I was like, man, this is just kind of typical where we are shifting sands and shifting alliances. Seem to be a lot of what the new Trump coalition is. So many of the never Trumpers come from a particular brand of Republican politics. I think of it like the Carl Rove type of Republican politics. Bill Crystal, you know, Rick Wilson, like those kind of like the Lincoln Project type guys, and they're

very friendly to like the US Chamber of Commerce. They were very fortune five hundred company based, you know. The During the Occupy Wall Street movement of the late two thousands, most of what you could call the right sympathize more with the businesses more than the occupiers, if you will. And the Occupy Wall Street movement was the precursor to what we would eventually get with full blown wocism. Right,

we know this, but you'll have weird overlaps. So you've got Elon who has spent most of his life who's been not very politically minded, Tulci Gabbard, who was primarily on the left for most of her life. She's still well to the left of me, to be clear, but under this kind of kind of forming new coalition, she does kind of have a place, and it's more focused around the question of how do you view the establishment, how do you view the deep state? RFK and Tulsi

Gabbard are well to the left of me. I'm pretty much still like a traditionalist in every definition of the word, and they on many social issues, have conceded a lot to the left, like to be clear. So I'm not saying that they are one and the same with what I'm thinking, but I am much more likely to give the benefit of the doubt to someone who looks rightly at the federal bureaucratic apparatus and all of its tentacles in its reach in every state in the country, and

someone who's antagonistic to that apparatus. I'm much more willing to give the benefit of the doubt. In walks. Bernie Sanders headline, Senator Sanders says he's looking forward to Trump fulfilling his promise on credit card interest rates. So in in this kind of maga America First coalition that's definitely got some strange alliances, Bernie Sanders does have a stake in the game in the fact that he's really frustrated

with the Democrat Party. Now. I think he's kind of a fraud, right, because he built himself in twenty sixteen as this outsider of the Democratic machine, but in the end he fell in line. Like he's just kind of towed the line with much of what the party apparatus. So I don't like, even among leftist agitators, I don't have a lot of like like sympathy or respect because he taught this big game of being anti Hillary Clinton, anti Democratic Party establishment, and then he kind of has

just fallen in line in the last few years. But he is looking forward to Trump capping credit card interest rates at ten percent and passing that type of an anti usery law. That's crazy, actually, I think that'd be really good. And in this weird forming kind of coalition that we're in in the Year of Our Lord twenty

twenty four, you've got weird things going on. And let me just say, I don't really like AOC, but it wouldn't shock me if AOC starts to find herself being able to negotiate with some of the MAGA America First types in Washington in a Trump administration for more basic, what you could consider anti establishment type policies, right. And

that's what the new Mega Coalition is. It's a coalition of old stock Americans with labor unions, with people who were disgusted by the left in wokeism, and it's this really interesting mix up of different factions that have kind of found a home in America First. And it's very it's very odd. We'll see where it goes. I'm not gonna hold my breath for too long though, hour number three here in the Morning Show. Welcome. If you're just tuning in, I know I'm not pressed, but I am

filling in for him. I'm grant Alan. Feel free to write me. I mentioned my email. Got a couple of emails this morning. I promise I will get back to those of you who wrote me. Good to talk with. Some of you haven't heard from me in a while because I hadn't been in the studio in a while, but it's good to be back. My email is Grant A. L. L e n at w f l a fm dot com. Grant Allen at w f l a FM dot com. Feel free to write me. Follow us, follow the show

the Morning Show on x at TMS Preston Scott. That's where you can find us, and always streaming on the iHeartRadio app, So make sure to download that and you'll be able to in the station and stream the podcast whenever you want. All right, Jose, I told you in the break I wanted to get your thoughts because you can see on the rundown there what is? What does the rundown say? For part one and part two of the next couple segments is Thanksgiving dead?

I didn't enjoy it. It was kind of not my speed. But it feels like we've shifted to Christmas out of order. Don't get me wrong, I love Christmas. And I was talking with my wife about this, like, I think people moved to Christmas particularly sooner because Thanksgiving is so late this year. So Thanksgivings next week, next Thursday, the twenty eighth, and so I just I can't help but feel And I was inspired by this article over at American Reformer.

You can go to American Reformer dot org. It's probably one of my favorite journals to read, and there's an article you can find called the Death of Thanksgiving. How it feels like because of American commercialized culture, Halloween is particularly, you know, highly marketable, right, the candy, the treats, trick or treating, the costumes, it's very marketable. You throw lots of Halloween parties in the office. Your kids at school are having Halloween parties, getting all jacked up on sugar

all day long in the classroom. Maybe they do that anymore. I don't know if they do that anymore. Maybe not, but it feels like there's Halloween that's highly marketable, there's Christmas that's obviously highly commercialized and highly marketable, and then there's Thanksgiving just kind of smack dab in the middle

of it. And I my theory on why it gets glossed over is because there's no way that you can avoid the Christian beginnings of Thanksgiving right Halloween, I would actually argue, and I know some some of my Christian friends may may disagree with me. They don't like Halloween. And don't get me wrong, Halloween has become particularly grotesque recently. You see those like I drive around different neighborhoods and these there's these giant, like grotesque things that people put

in their yards. I just don't like it. It's just kind of dark. And it's not just like dressing up as Casper the Friendly Ghost anymore or No. It's like, go is the most horrific, like almost demonic looking thing you could possibly find, and that's your Halloween costume, And it's it's just I have no other word for it than grotesque. However, Halloween, the origins of Halloween, what is

the word Halloween? All Hallows Eve Hallow meaning holy. It's an Old English word for holy, all Hallowod Eve, all hallows Eve, Halloween, which was the evening before the Hallowood All Saints Day, the feast of All Saints on November first, And so in your high church traditions you still enter into that phrase that time in the church calendar, which is all hallow Tide, which is commemorating remembering the Christian Saints that have gone before us to glory and are

now with Christ. Like that though, that was the origination of Halloween. The idea that it's this neo pagan like kind of larp, that it's the modern American iteration of sowin, it's just not true. That's that's that's a myth concocted by neo pagan's. And then Christmas obviously Christ. So here we go Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, all particularly Christian expressions of major holidays, and there they've Thanksgiving has been forgotten, Halloween's commercialized,

Christmas is commercialized. It's just it's so sad to me that, you know, especially something like Thanksgiving has been forgotten. We got more coming up next. I think I pretty much finished my thoughts there.

You know, Christmas decorations. When do you When do you put up your Christmas decorations? We usually do it right after Thanksgiving?

segment that I entitled touch Grass. A new study from McGill University in Montreal. I think, yeah, it's in French here. Time in nature benefits children with mental health difficulties, and some will say, well, yeah, of course it does. Here's what they found. The research comes on the heels of the publication of a UNISEF report pointing to the importance of green space for children's development. Researchers found that at the end of a three month period, this is particularly

in the classroom. Teachers noted that the biggest changes in behavior occurred in children with the most significant problems at the outset, including anxiety, depression, aggressiveness, impulsivity, social problems, interacting with peers, all the issues that can arise in those kinds of conditions.

idea for the project came up during the pandemic. One of the researchers said, when people were worried about the health risks of children spending so much time inside and behind screens, quote, my kids and I spend tons of time in parks. I've seen the benefits of spending time in nature, both for myself and for them. So I thought, maybe we can have a free and accessible intervention where school children can spend some time in nature and we can measure the effects this has on their mood and

behavior end quote. Basically confirming what all of us have recognized, hours and hours and hours behind screen time, just the iPad kids right being inside constantly, Like we're already North Americans, meaning if you live in North America, there's a chance

that you have some sort of vitamin D deficiency. I remember talking with the doctor one time about that, and it's like, if you live in North America, Florida, you know, particularly South Florida, can be an exception at times if you have a very active lifestyle outdoors, but by and large,

most of us sit underneath fluorescent lights. A lot of us work behind desks, work desk jobs, and we're not getting the appropriate vitamin D. No wonder, no wonder, we're all so angry at each other, no wonder, we're feeling depressed. We have no energy. So here's my exhortation. Well, Doctor Camp's last hour said, I'm not going to tell you what to do. Just be mindful. Here, I'm telling you what to do. Go outside and touch grass, Like, don't leave your phone, crazy right, leave your phone and go

for a walk, just you, yourself and your thoughts. I started doing that a little bit. It's lovely. It's like you hear the birds chirp, you can feel the morning dew on the grass. It's lovely. Go touch grass. Or sixteen minutes after the hour here in the Morning Show, a little bit more coming up. I mentioned as part of the big story in the press box that will reset in our next segment that one of the things about the modern world that we're living in is that

there's no stone. And I've said this a lot on the air. You know, when I was producing Preston Show regularly and I was the regular producer, I would say, there's gonna be no stone left unturned unless it's unless the left is stopped. And what do I mean by that? The reason that young men skewed so far to the right for Trump. And really, if you look at the maps of like which way it trended left, which way it trended right, the entire country, barring a few regions

of the country, trended to the right. Everyone shifted right. Virginia was in play on election night and no one expected that decision. Desk HQ called Virginia and then they had to retract it, like, actually, no, it's too close to call, and then the Beltway counties and Richmond eventually carried Virginia for Harris. But when I say there's gonna be no stone left unturned, there's nothing that we operate in. You may remember from twenty twenty that I have it

on my phone, right. I saved it because and I see people tweet about it from time to time. Bingo found it saved this This is from twenty twenty when the BLM stuff was really taking off. These were aspects and assumptions of whiteness and white culture in the United States. This is what they call whiteness. Right family structure. The scientific method, hard work is the key to success. That's what they call whiteness. So here's the Breitbart article that

I found academic link claims that geology is racist. A professor specializing in inhuman geography at a British university is declared the subject of geology as racist, claiming it has been unduly influenced by colonization. That she doesn't say if geology that has been colonized or not been colonized is right. She didn't say that, but Katherine Yusof, who lectures at Queen Mary University in London, condemned geology as a subject

that was quote riven with systemic racism end quote. The Daily Mail reports that Professor Yusof stated in her book Geological Life that the extraction of metals like gold and iron had created hierarchies, pushed materialism, ravaged environments, and was the root cause of climate change. So what's a position like, you know this, professor Katherine Yusof, this is she's actually

doing her job. And here's what I mean. The entire reason for these types of positions at academic institutions is primarily to further kind of this left, is to gemony this kind of new world type of speaking and thinking this deconstruction of all that was what was considered standard, and it's it's basically out of pure hatred of primarily Christian culture, primarily Western civilization. It's out of hatred of those things that they claim that geology and history and

all these things are rooted in white supremacy. And they're actually when they when they do these things, they're actually just doing their job. That is their job at these positions at these universities. They have their peck, they have their marching orders from their department heads, and the department heads of their marching orders from these institutional presidents, and the institutional presidents running these circles with these politicians, and

they get these massive you know, federal government. Now this is in the UK, so I don't exactly know how a UK, you know, higher ed world works like that. If only you all could be in studio, right, we have a visitor. I'll tell you more. But that's the point of a Catherine use Off and her position at these types of universities is to claim that geology is racist. History professors their job is to say that history is racist.

The gender studies professors are are there to say that uh oh goodness, let me, let me, let me get the right phrase. Uh, binary BIPOC people are racist. That's the point actually, And so if there's ever a possibility of like seizing endowments that like, that's that's now in play politically. But we're we're at the bottom of the hour. I have to digress here because we're we're at the bottom of the hour. We got a half hour left to go here on the Morning Show, I'm Grant Allen

filling in for Preston. Jose's over there. We'll be back.

into she herself. She explains in the article how she's got three teenage boys and she's watched them in their environments and the schools they go to, at their church, they attend, their friend groups, the fortnite group chats, that every kind of male space that's particularly under thirty, right, whether they be high school age guys or you know myself, like I'm twenty seven, dad married, and so even in my friend group, it's all starting to really trend to

the right. Every group space is kind of coded, right. Preston and I were talking about this back in August of twenty twenty three, and I'm trying to remember that I do.

because they don't learn the same way. They've been much maligned in the same way that if you happen to come from a conservative background, same thing you hurt. You hear from your youngest years that there's something wrong with you, there's something wrong with the sins of your father and your grandfather. Your entire lineage is corrupted with white privilege, racism, et cetera, et cetera. And I think that the young

guys are just kind of like now. And the efforts of and the rumors have floated around since then that Baron Trump was arguably one of the chief influential figures in the Trump Orbit that got Donald Trump to go on all of like the bro podcasts, the Theo Vaughn's, the Joe Rogan's, like a barstool sports podcast, busting with the boys, because rather than doing what was conventional kind of politics for so many years of trying to get that sacred middle vote, they're like, why don't we just

expand the base. Why don't we go to the steel mill worker that puts in twelve hours, just wants to come home, sit on the couch watch Monday night football. Well, and he pulls out his phone and he sees Donald Trump on his football podcast that he listens to. Genius Pure move. That's how you get particularly like the bro vote. You know, if you go down to downtown and you see, you know, the frat houses, there's not a Kamala voter there.

Like everyone kind of knows this. You observe it, right, and you kind of feel it, and it was palpable, and I I could kind of just feel that starting to really brew. Maybe like a year and a half ago, things had changed in the eye and the eyes and the hearts of like young men in this country who have been told for basically their entire lives you're not welcome in space, elementary school, in the workplace, you got

passed up on jobs, college applications. If you're not welcome, they're like, well watch this, and that's what they did. That's what they did. Forty minutes after the hour, just a couple more segments coming up here in The Morning Show.

likely to support her. So a third of likely California voters However, thirty six percent say they are not at all likely to support her, So there's.

dates will be announced. I don't know if you said that. Sorry, not talking to Kermit's We've got a lot to discuss, you know, in the upcoming episodes. Preston will be back tomorrow morning, six eastern, five Central here on the normal radio waves and the iHeartRadio app as always. But Jose, I appreciate you letting me, you know, crash your party and be able to be a part of this too as let let go ahead and say it. Oh, it is an honor and a pleasure.

a pretty good quote. Good seems like shooting fish in a barrel. The problem employees are letting Trump's administration know who they are. This will make the firing decision clear and easy, and fire all the people who need needed a break after Trump was elected, and don't offer severance packages. So like they're Some of the responses to this kind of content is is pretty good. All the bureaucrats are ready to quit.

a lot of the cabinet selections. It feels like there are some of the mistakes from the first administration, not really knowing a lot of what to expect when a new outsider president arrives to Washington. In the White House, for the first time getting to be able to kind of make make amends with some of those mistakes. Feel

feels like a development. Who's going to replace Marco Rubio could be Laura Trump, could be a desantist chief of staff, you know, former official lieutenant governor, could be Attorney General

Ashley Moody. The big story in the press box, however, was why young men skewed so far to the right, and me being one of those guys, the under thirty voter, I felt like I had a particular investment in this story being able to share it from my perspective as well as accompanied by an article over at the Federalist Peachy Keen and wrote a good piece. Go check it

out there. Strange alliances are forming in the kind of MAGA America First coalition, like Bernie Sanders is now talking about wanting to pass like anti usery laws as part of Trump policies, which is just if you would have said that, like in twenty sixteen when he was running for the Democrat primary, I would have said, you're crazy. Important note to teaching staff to your kids to you go touch grass, go outside the air, you know, to go do the thing is thanks is Thanksgiving. Dead geology

is racist impression. Will be back tomorrow.