Ep. 5277: Trump declares National Emergency over invasion of immigrants

on Preston. And we begin, as we always do, with some scripture that we are kind of doing our own advent thing, just doing some scriptures that point us to the coming of Christ and the whole point of it all. It says in John eleven and in John fourteen, I am the Resurrection in the life. He who believes in me, though he may die, he shall live, And whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. I am the Way, the Truth, and the life. No one comes to the

Father except through me. That presents some problems for a lot of people that are in various faiths that try to claim a Christian thing. There's one path, there's one way. You die, You face judgment, boom. That's it. And the other thing is anyone can come to the Father. There anyone that whosoever believes in him, whosoever churches. Sometimes not all, but many make it harder to be part of a church than God makes it to be part of the

Kingdom of heaven. It says, if you had known me, you would have known my father also, And from now on you know him and have seen him. You've heard the story about Winston Churchill. When Winston Churchill died, he had planned his entire funeral and there were two bugs. One played taps. Tap, says the song that we hear honoring the dead military generally, and it is actually something

that signals the end of the day. But he followed that with the playing of revelry, revelle sorry, which is that bugle call that you hear sometimes bump bumping up. That is a familiar call to the start of a new day. He started his funeral with taps and then followed it with revelle. That's what Christ offers. Death for a Christian is a comma on the sentence, not a period. And that's the promise of Christ. That is the promise of Christmas. That is why he came to settle things

once and for all to pay the debt. That's why he came. Ten past the hour, Come back and take a peek inside the American Patriots All manak, It's a very very special day to me. I'll share that and more next on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

of Rights. In eighteen twenty, the Nutcracker, Sorry, I had Christmas in my brain. In eighteen twenty the Nantucket. The Nantucket whaler Essex is attacked and sunk by a sperm whale in South Pacific. That inspires Herman Melville to write Moby Dick. I wonder if that really happened or if he just kind of like ran it ashore and they needed an excuse. Let's see. Nineteen forty three, one of the bloodiest battles in the Marine Corps history begins at Terawah,

a tall in the Pacific. US prevails with the cost about one thousand dead. Nineteen fifty three three, flying a Douglas skyrocket at Edwards Air Force Base, Scott Crossfield becomes the first pilot to break mock two. Man, if you've never seen the right stuff, Yes, it's a long movie, but it details the space program and how it happened and how we got to where we ended up getting to, i e. The Moon. It's a great movie. It really an incredible cast. And then it was on this date.

It's hard to believe in twenty eighteen, six years ago, it's already been six years that my grandson kJ was born at eleven thirty seven. In the he was huge. He still is. He is a big, big boy. He is He is almost twice the weight of an average six year old. He's tall. I don't know where he gets that from now. He's just and he's got a heart as big as he is. He is just a delightful little boy and we just love him so very much. And so happy birthday, kJ. Your Papa and your grandmama

and everybody in the family adores you. And yeah, very very special day today. So yeah, there you go. He stayed in history today in the program, Charlie, Charlie is strickly gonna join us. Charlie's gonna come to the studio. We had a lot to talk about with Charlie, as we always do. In our personal Defense segment, we got the Christmas Catalog spotlight. Today, we have some very interesting

sound that you need to hear. The big stories relegated to just the first and second hours, So you got to make sure you tune in at the bottom of this hour or the bottom of next hour to make sure that you get the big stories in the press box this morning, because there's quite a few. We also

have some different kind of stories that we're going to share. Normally, there are stories that we might put in the next segment of the show, but I just I saw that there were two stories that just they tied together too well, and I said, no, no, I'm bumping these to primetime. We're doing these in the seven o'clock hour, six o'clock Central, so stay with us. It's going to be a great show. As always, we planned for the best. Here on The Morning Show with Preston Scott twenty one Past the Hour,

The Morning Show with Preston Scott. High Hi, how are you Wednesday? On the program. FSU men's basketball got a win last night, their fourth of the season. Off to a much better start than they have gotten in the last few years. I think they got a chance to be a decent team this year. I think they've got some nice pieces. Coach Hamilton, Coach Jones, the staff have done a very nice job. First, Jamiir Watkins had to

stick around and that helped a lot. But they got some pieces in, they got some transfers, they got some freshman, nice blend. But it looks to me like they have some better guard play, which will make a huge difference for them. So that was nice. But anyway, this story, it's another one of those history related stories. You ever heard of the dancing Mouse. No, I'm not talking about Jerry Mouse from the movie Anchors Away Dances with I think Fred Astaire. Remember Tom and Jerry the cartoon. Jerry

was in that movie. I think both Tom and Jerry were in the movie, the actual movie, and it was pretty cool. But now the Dancing Mouse is the USS Edsel. It was nicknamed the Dancing Mouse. Three hundred and fourteen foot destroyer Clemson class is what they call it, and it was. It was used in World War One, sadly because US it dropped a depth charge from its ship. In World War two and that depth charge went off prematurely. It damaged the Edsel, limiting its ability to maneuver, making

it unfit for combat. But it didn't stop the ship from being used for convoys and to just just have some some basic armaments. It wasn't because of its maneuverability being limited. It wasn't you know, mixed mixed metaphor here. It wasn't fleet of foot if you will, on the on the water, because it just it struggled turning adequately.

But it was still used in World War two, and according to an official historical account, it's Captain Joshua Nis and its crew engaged in World War two on March first, nineteen forty two, several Japanese ships and Eventually, dive bombers were called in to dispatch this convoy of American ships. The Edsel. In this confrontation, switch speeds directions as much as possible. Deployed smoke screens returned fire on the Japanese

attacking ships, including firing torpedoes. It only had nine. It evaded the Japanese for over an hour before they finally called in twenty six dive bombers to take this one ship out, and it did. Those dive bombers got the job done, and the ship went down and had never been seen. Now they found the ship. The ship went down with most of its crew going down as well, more than two hundred as well as some members of

the Air Force. I guess the Army Air Corps might be more accurate that that were on board the ship one hundred and eighty five US Navy personnel, another thirty one US Army Air Force pilots, and so no one was really looking for it. But an Australian mission that was looking for something else came across the three hundred and fourteen foot destroyer, largely intact, resting upright on the bottom of the seabed. About two hundred miles east of

Christmas Island. And so I'm just thinking that if you if you are a descendant of if your father died in that went down with the ship, if you're the relatives of the captain Joshua Nix, you know their resting place. Now, I would think that would bring some level of comfort, knowing knowing knowing, But they announced it on Veterans Day just last week. The Royal Australian Navy made the discovery with a robotic autonomous system and there it was the Edsel.

So you just it's it's crazy to see because the ocean locks things down depending on the depth of the ocean. Eventually the ocean will win. You know. The Titanic is slowly deteriorating away, and I'll be honest with you, there's part of me that hopes it does finally just go go away so that we don't have any more of those ill fated missions that ended up blowing up and killing the four people aboard just a few years back, which by the way, they found the wreckage of that

now on the floor near the Titanic. But anyway, a legendary World War Two destroyer has emerged from the ocean after eighty two years. Twenty eight minutes passed the hour, The Big Stories in the press Box. Next on The Morning Show with Preston Scott fit like a fine wine. Ah, excuse me, man, Please have some more water the pellegrino. Yes, sparkling. Hm hmm, this breeze very nice. Good morning, and welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Big Stories in

the press Box. Jake Tapper on CNN with Scott Jennings, who we have highlighted here as someone who is really good on the opposing team's turf at explaining things. Tapper and the rest of the left and the mainstream media going nuts over Trump preparing to declare a national emergency due to the invasion of our southern border in our nation. Tapper says, you know, obviously, getting rid of people who have committed crimes beyond coming into the country illegally is

one thing. But deporting people who are paying taxes, keeping the food and agriculture industries running, doing jobs at native born Americans don't want to do or not willing to do. Won't this actually hurt the Americans who are already so frustrated about high prices in the grocery stores.

Number Three, there's another population of people who were violent. You could also go there before you ever get to people who are sort of working in industries. And maybe during the course of all that time, maybe, just maybe the Congress and the White House could figure something out about how to balance our illegal immigration crisis with the need for agricultural label a labor final point, I don't remember anybody having these kinds of meltdowns. When Barack Obama

deported five million people. It is not uncommon for the executive branch to deport illegal immigrants. It happens every administration. Obama deported more than most, and I don't remember any of this kind of meltdown in the crisis has only gotten worse. So I think Donald Trump's doing the right thing, and most Republicans would agree it is a national emergency.

The Manhattan di strict Attorney Alvin Bragg has agreed to postpone sentencing for Trump. Oh they have a problem. First of all, their case is under appeal and Trump wants it dismissed. It should be. There was no crime. No crime was committed in New York City. No crime was committed under the purview of Alvin Bragg. None, none, Well, he was convicted of what of what? No victim, no financial impropriety. He gave a bimbo some money to keep

her mouth closed. She signed an NDA non disclosure agreement. It happens all the time. It is a contract. Here, here's a little money. You just don't talk about this, the relationship they had back in the day. There's no crime. She's the one that violated the agreement. He didn't commit a crime. Was he a good husband? Nope, that's not a crime. Pretty bad, but it's not a crime. And then I don't know if you're paying attention to what Biden's doing in these final days. Yeah, they smiled and

their best buddies and everyone's all upset. Morning Joe visiting at mar A Lago. You know, that's hilarious. Those guys from MSNBC are getting roasted for meeting with Trump. Their ratings tank, They're doing everything they can to bring their ratings up. But just take note, on the left, you can't even talk to people that think differently. That's how sick some of some of the people are on the left. And those of you Democrats that are holding out, I

don't know why. Again, don't join the Republican Party. Just get the crap out of the Democrat Party. You are tainting yourself by being a member of that. You can't talk to other people that think differently than you. But Biden's trying to get us into World War three. Our missiles have now been fired into Russia. Bad bad decision.

Forty one minutes after the hour, little update on a story that the Libs of TikTok have broken Themad Radio Network, where we challenge you to make a difference in your world in a positive way, improving the lives of others. It's the Morning Show with President Scott. Pretty funny. Libs of tick Talk has become kind of an investigative journalistic effort. The gal behind it, she came out, she was like, yeah, whatever, I don't care. I'm not going to hide. I hope

I'm pronouncing your name correctly, Cheya Raychick. She is the libs of TikTok. And I'm sure she's got a ton of people like I have my research assistants. And research assistants are not paid staff members. They're you. This just in. I'll never admit it again because there are people that think we have this big staff of researchers. The staff of this show is Jose and me, Dada. That's it. When I talk about the Morning Show board of directors, it's us. But I guarantee you that Jaya has people

that are feeding her information. So last week on Libs of TikTok, they exposed what's going on in Saint Helen's School district in Oregon, Oregon Underscore Oregon. It all started when parents learned about the arrest of Eric Sterns, a teacher at Saint Helen's in the school district who was charged with sexual abuse against multiple students. Oh wait, it gets worse. Parents then discover the school district allowed him to continue teaching for months while he was under an

active police investigation without notifying the parents. Parents then flooded the next school board meeting. The picture of the school board meeting with the room just jammed with parents and students, one brave mother recounting how she was ignored by the principal when she brought a police report to the school about the investigation. Students spoke out against the school board

against the principal, demanding they resign. So finally, because of the reporting of Libs of TikTok, Saint Helen's High School principal and the superintendent of the school district were placed on leave. The board chair has resigned. It came to light that Eric Stearns, the teacher who was acute of sexually abusing students. As the father of not one, but two non binary children, she writes, what are the odds? But if you thought it ended there, you'd be wrong.

Earlier this year, Saint Helens School District paid out a three point five million dollar settlement to a former student who claimed the school covered up sexual abuse of Kyle Rabaluski, a former teacher and the girls track coach. And so apparently this school district has multiple problems. Here's why I wanted to point out this story. First of all, always make it your business what's going on in your kid's school.

If you don't hold people accountable, it might not be done. Secondly, or Oregon Democrat illiberal fairyland playground for loonies, that's what you get. This kind of stuff happens underneath a state government that is illiberal. This is what happens. I'm not This is like one oh one, Life, one oh one. When you have children in charge, the children do what they want. Forty seven past the hour, Come back talk.

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There is something to that because they just they're just your buddy, right, And so Canines for Warriors matches trained, prepared dogs that are rescued with veterans that are just needing a little help. And the idea is to reduce the number of suicides that are happening. And the number, though it's down slightly, it's horrifying. Twenty a day, twenty veterans are ending their lives every day in this country.

It certainly isn't because this country sucks, although there's certainly corners and places and things you can point to that you go, yeah, well kind of does. Now. The problem is that people that in their lives like this, they just can't cope with a list of things and feel boxed in and feel hopeless, and this program helps. There are a lot of different ways to help people that are going through this kind of trial. So today it is, it's from five to seven thirty. There's again no charge.

If you're in military, you're encouraged to wear your uniform and honor table is going to be set up if you want to put photos of a loved one up, and there'll be a silent auction. It's all designed to raise money and awareness for K Nines for Warriors. They'll have John Tappan and his service dog Henry there. He's a K nine for Warriors ambassador, just sharing and so that's kind of cool. So that's going to happen to night, all right, So just making sure that's on your radar.

Pennsylvania's governor finally paying attention. We'll get to that story maybe tomorrow. I was kind of hoping to fit it in here today, but I don't. It's not a story that is something that I have to talk about in a timely manner. I just need to talk about it to illustrate the tactic again of what's going wrong with the left, not necessarily a tactic, but a philosophy. But when we come back, some really cool stuff in the news.

If I passed the hour of the Morning Show with Preston Scott, good Morning Friends, I am Preston, he is Jose, and yes he's a real person. He's not AI generated or am I not trust me an AI generated sidekick would say something better than that. Come up with something a little bit more. I don't know where am I? Yeah? I mentioned that we had some really interesting good news here. I have never been to this particular museum in Washington, d C. I've been to a lot of them, but

Museum of the Bible I've never been to. But if there's something that makes me want to go there, this is it. Eighteen hundred year old mosaic discovered by an inmate of a prison in Megido, Israel. It features ancient Greek writing that says the god loving Acaptose has offered the Table to God Jesus Christ as a memorial. It is a five hundred and eighty one square foot mosaic decorated with the world's first prayer haul. Actually it decorated

the world's first prayer hall two thirty eighty. It confirms that Christians believe Jesus was the son of God from the earliest years of the church. The floor had been

hidden under the prison, but was discovered. Apparently as they were expanding this prison, they had uncovered it underneath the floor it had been covered, and so the official archaeological body of Israel, the Israel Antiquities Authority, took four years to recover the entire mosaic, uncovering it and then cutting it into large pieces in a way that did not destroy any of the tile, preserving it. It's now been lent to the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC

until this coming July. The CEO of the museum said it's the greatest discovery since the Dead Sea scrolls, quoting we are truly among the first people to ever see this, to experience what almost two thousand years ago was put together by a man named Brusius, incredible craftsman who laid the flooring. And as you look at this story and as you see it, it's pretty incredible. Now, this is

Meguido's the Jezreel Valley. That's where a lot of people believe that the biblical Armageddon is going to take place based on the Book of Revelation. The mosaic included the name of the Roman officer who commissioned the tile work during the Roman occupation of Judea, which is fascinating in and of itself, because remember, well remember some of you may not know, seventy eight Roman general named Titus led the conquering of Jerusalem, and they raised it, that was it.

Israelites were scattered in its a biblical prophecy that it was going to happen. They were scattered in all directions. Israel was no more. It was done. And so this particular, this particular mosaic shows that inside Roman authority there were those that were believers in Christ. Now, just for some context, this is not all that different from us knowing George Washington and John Adams and the Founders existed, because we're in the proximity of within a couple hundred years of

their life and death. The significance of this and the acknowledgment that back at that time they were proclaiming Jesus is God. And keep in mind there still is no refutation of this in contemporary writings of that time, and in fact that the historicity of Christ is noted in Roman archives. In the writing of Ponscious Pilot himself. He wrote about him. He wrote about the supernatural events that happened when Christ was crucified. He wrote about the sun

going dark. It's in Roman archives. So this is just another interesting little tidbit in the news. And guess what, I've got another one next. It's eleven minutes past. There. I told you it was some good stuff in the news. Come on, go God. Now this is another one. It's for Michael Snyder as sub stack. I'm just going to read the headline. Scientists have deciphered the world's oldest map and it reveals the location of Noah's Ark. What okay, this is not new news to some of you that

follow this stuff. We've heard reports and there have been expeditions. There have been I want to say, buzz Aldrin, a devout believer in Christ. You may remember he wanted to take communion on the Moon. He wanted that to That was a very important thing, and his his faith was expressed in the televised and recorded landing on the Moon and the day subsequent. I mean it was incredible. This

is from the Jerusalem Post. Scientists have recently unlocked the secrets of the world's oldest map, a three thousand year old clay tablet known as the Imago Mundi, which is believed to show the location of Noah's Ark. The ancient Babylonian artifact, etched with cuneiform a script using wedge shaped symbols, has puzzled archaeologists for centuries. Discovered in what is now Iraq in eighteen eighty two, the tablet is housed at the British Museum, where it has become one of its

famous collections. The Imago Munde depicts a circular world map, illustrating early Babylonian ideas about the world's creation. The map is thought to show the entire known world at the time, Mesopotamia at the bottom center, and then they go into the description of how they know that the reference is error at Mount Error at is where Hebrews have long

believed the arc came to rest. What's interesting is that there is a rock formation there that is described in this article as the Durupinar Formation, five hundred and thirty eight foot long mound tapering to a point much like the bow of a ship for decades. The features drawn adventures scientists and ARC enthusiasts. The physical characteristics of the site align closely with the biblical description of the arc A link of three hundred cubits with the fifty cubits,

a height of thirty cubits, and so forth. In order to determine the approximate age of the formation, scientists tested thirty samples of rock and soil gathered. The tests determined that the soil samples the rock samples were between thirty five hundred and five thousand years old. It would match the the biblical story of the flood. A lot of cultures write of and document a worldwide flood having taken place. Just so you know, it's not just a biblical thing.

The Bible is. The Old Testament is a book of history. The New Testament is a book of history. The Old Testament establishes the events of the Old Testament established principles spiritual principles that are then revealed in the New Testament. It's a fascinating thing. Ground penetrating radar of that site revealed intriguing angular structures that's, according to the report, that are not typically associated with a natural geological formation. So again,

fascinating story. I go to a scripture where it says in the Book of John, chapter twenty, it talks about Thomas. The other disciples said to him, we've seen the Lord. But he said, unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails and place my hand on his side, I will never believe. Jesus encounters him and says, have you believed because you've seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed. That's how I

feel about this kind of stuff. It would be awesome for the sake of a non believing, skeptical, secular world. But I'm good, I'm good, My faith is solid. But this is cool. This is cool. Come on, you gotta admit it. Eighteen minutes after the hour, It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Thanks for the kind of emails. Just love lifting you up a little bit. I mean,

we get enough of the right we do. And when I came across these stories and saw that, you know, we had two stories that had remarkable biblical significance, I'm like, yeah, we gotta put that in prime time. And so thank you for the kind email that I'm getting from so many. That's awesome. We were just doing a little Bible study answer the trivia question when did the Disciples become Christians? The answers found in John twenty, same place we were

just at. That's where Jesus appeared the night of the Resurrection. That's when they became Christians, and the before and the after is is is all the evidence you need besides what Jesus said and what Jesus did, And if you dig a little deeper, which I've been fortunate to do. You know, I've been blessed to get to do what

I've gotten to do in my lifetime. My professional life has been just so remarkably awesome as a blessing to me, and I'm so grateful that I, at a you know, two decades plus segment of my life, got to sit

and study scripture and read it in multiple languages. And I'm not an expert in those languages, but I did acquire the ability to go through translations and read scripture and have a better understanding of, you know, little things like the fact that there's no there's no you know, punctuation in scripture, and so sometimes you would find that trans would put commas in places that they didn't really belong, and it would change dramatically the emphasis of a given

set of words. And in this case, the original translation of what Jesus said is it is powerful, and it gives great meaning to scripture and the disciples, their their whole actions, attitudes, everything. It just makes so much sense when you read John twenty the before and the after. There's a before and there's an after. Before Jesus died. After they couldn't become Christians until after Jesus died. There wasn't such a thing. They could have died as Old

Testament kind of style. Saints judged by a different standard. That's God's world, that's his deal. It's still his deal in terms of his judgment of us after right, but it's still there for us to see that there was a distinctly different group of men and women after Jesus died. On the Night of the Resurrection, when Jesus appeared and he said, what's up? Peace be with you? Peace be

with you. And that's when they became Christians. There's a sequence of events that happened there, and all of a sudden, these dudes that couldn't pray for an hour the night that he was betrayed, or praying without ceasing before the day of Pentecost, they're just praying and praying. Well, what made that happen? They were? They the Holy Spirit took residence inside of them because Jesus said, receive now, right

then and there, and that's when they became Christians. And that's what happens to anyone who decides to accept that. Didn't mean to turn this into a theological lesson, but it's an important one because we're talking about Christmas right Christmas season, and it's a choice that you make. You don't have to be one, it's up to you. You have to be one to get to Heaven, to have eternity with God. But that's your choice. You're not forced

into it. And despite what some false theologians teachings are out there, you're not predestined. You have a choice, You have a free will. God knows what you're gonna do. God knows exactly the choices you're gonna make, but that doesn't mean he's compelling you and forcing you to make them. He just knows what you're gonna do. But you and I have a free will. That's why scripture says that whosoever, whosoever, it's not well, just just biff and and that's it.

In that crowd. Now everyone has the opportunity. What you do is up to you. Free will. Twenty seven to twenty eight past the hour, Come back and let's get into the big stories in the press box. Next, President elect Donald Trump wants a national emergency declared over the invasion of our country. Yes, there is a meltdown. Yes there is an absolute meltdown on the left. And it's like, how, okay, Trump won the popular vote, right, he won the electoral college.

It was a mandate. But on this singular issue, if Americans voted on this issue only, we're talking seventy thirty. We're talking super majority mandate. Scott Jennings counters Jake Tapper's questions, Tapper basically saying, well, but won't you hurt the agricultural industry and end up driving prices up more and again I would say, yeah, there's a risk of that happening. But Scott Jennings, who has been brilliant being our guy on CNN, said the following in response to Jake Tapper's concerns.

Number Three, there's another population of people who are violent. You could also go there before you ever get to people who were sort of working in industries. And maybe during the course of all that time, maybe just maybe the Congress and the White House could figure something out about how to balance are illegal immigration crisis with the need for agricultural label a labor Final point, I don't remember anybody having these kinds of meltdowns when Barack Obama

deported five million people. It is not uncommon for the executive branch to deport illegal immigrants. It happens in every administration. Obama deported more than most, and I don't remember any of this kind of meltdown, and the crisis has only gotten worse. So I think Donald Trump's doing the right thing, and most Republicans would agree it is a national emergency.

It is a crisis in the Hispanic community. The people who have come here legally, the people here are following all the laws and all the rules, living in some of the communities that are the hardest hit. And so I agree that they also believe in Donald Trump's economic message because most Hispanic Americans are working class Americans, and

the working class did flow towards Donald Trump. They're living in the communities that are the hardest hit by illegal immigration and the societal and governance impacts that it brings. And so I think they want him to do something about both. I don't think the two issues are mutually exclusive.

comes in the nominee for Secretary of Defense. Check this out. It's it's it's notable in what is said here.

twenty twenty. His co host on The Weekend, Rachel Campos Duffy, said, if Pete Hexeth was a white supremacist, I would certainly know this woman referring to Eifel has never met him, how dare she? She deserves to be sued for defamation. But it's not just coworkers of Hegseth that are coming to his defense, which you would expect. Michael A. Rose, You're like, who's he? You wouldn't know his name. He served in the Biden Harris White House and the twenty

twenty campaign spokesperson for First Lady Jill Biden. He had some comments about these attacks on hegxith quote, Opposing DEI initiatives does not make you a white supremacist. This is a spokesperson for the White House under Biden and Harris. Opposing DEI initiatives does not make you a white supremacist. Conversations and demonization like this are a big reason why we got our bleeps kicked. Voices like this on the

left are turning the Democratic Party into a joke. We've also got to knock it off and get serious guests who are going to diagnose politics, not make it worse. Name Calling, vilifying, defaming nominees you oppose, even if there's a good reason to oppose them, represents everything the Democratic Party should be running away from. This bleep has to stop. The answer to extremism is not more extremism. Voices like this on the left are turning, and he just basically

goes on to say, you're turning everybody away from the party. Yes, thank you, Democrat Party leaders. Ryan Ray, are you listening. Your crap stinks and your own people are sick of it. Wake up, grow up, act like a big boy, Act like big girl Nikki Freid, Start to act like the mature people you're supposed to be. I think you guys

are bat crap crazy on policy. I do. But the fact of the matter is your name calling, your borrow from uh uh del Rosa or Lorosa, your your vilifying of anyone who disagrees with you, even on your in your own party. Keep it up, man, because you are causing people to flee. So contrary to Michael Lorosa he's saying gotta stop, I'm like, come on, keep doing it, because it reveals who you are. There's there's a there's a spiritual principle here at work, and this is gonna

be something some of you are predicting. I'm gonna say because it's oft repeated out of the abundance of the heart. The mouth speaks this type of venom and vitriol that comes spewing out of you, your your campaigning, your actions, your attitudes. It reveals your heart. It reveals who you are, and you can try to hide it all you want, it comes out. It shows up because it's who you are, it's your DNA, it's who you've chosen to be. And

so all of these attacks. I love the fact that we are now starting to see people say, my god, we did steal the twenty twenty election, referring to Democrats, My goodness, look at what's happening. They really are out of it. There's a little bravery coming. Yes I voted for Trump, Yes I did. I hope he brings as many outsiders into his cabinet as possible. This is all good news. This is the poison coming out of the wound. Now it's up to you Democrats to decide if you

want to embrace this and really clean yourselves up. You have a chance right now. You can hit a reset button right now if you want, and then we can debate policy and be friends, disagree and be friends. You're the ones pushing the hate. You're the ones pushing, pushing the division. You're the ones out there saying, and by you, i'm talking the people that are that are the out front and your party, you're the ones speaking. Don't talk to people at the dinner table that voted for Trump,

don't get married to people whatever. All this division, it's coming from you, folks. It's up to you. Forty seven past the hour, Christmas Catalog Spotlight. Next it's The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Fifty three minutes past the hour, Charlie Strickland Talent Training Group joins us in just a few short minutes. Our personal defense segment got lots to talk about there, but first time for the Christmas Catalog spotlight.

This is where I try to help you out and perform my K Kringle duties and give you some places to go to find gifts for people. Now, I will always start with shop local whenever possible, but there is the distinct possibility that there are things you're looking for you can't find locally fair enough. That's why you listen to me, because I know things come on. Here we go.

If you're looking for something for your kids or your grandkids, but you don't want the typical kind of toys, you want something that night lean a little bit towards the improving the brain motor skills type stuff. Lakeshore Learning dot Com that's the website, Lakeshore Learning dot Com. That's where you go, and they've got a lot of really cool stuff for all ages of littles. And you'll find everything

from little cash registers to ways to draw. Teach them to draw that projects an image over on a onto a piece of paper and they trace it and learn to draw that way, there's little dolls that are dress up, there's little carry around adventure sets, little animal town, little robot town. And then so it's it's Lakeshore Learning dot Com. All right, Lakeshore Learning dot Com. Now for everybody else on the list, not the littles, although you'll find some

littles here as well, but for everything else. It's one of my favorite stops. It is you're way early, dude, what's wrong with you? Queue and me to stop a minute early? How dare you? I got things to say here? Uncommon Uncommon is my go to and a lot of people once they they go there, they know what I'm talking about. It's just really cool. And the website is

Uncommon Goods dot Com. If you're discriminating and you're looking for things that you're definitely not gonna find many other places, this is where you go and you literally can find something for everybody at about every price point you could ever want. Uncommon Goods dot Com. Come back with Charlie Strickland Personal defense segment. I'm going to have a little time telling session here with my partner. Well, what shall we talk about? We are we're hoping Charlie's gonna remember

to come in here today. We did confirm his visit this week. But while Charlie's en route, you know, he's got an hour fifteen minute drive or whatever here to the studio from where he calls home, and so he's making quite a sacrifice to come in once a month, you know. But at any rate, I will take advantage of the opportunity here. Jose took a phone call, and as I'm prone to do, I would like to respond to said phone call. Now tell me if I have

this right. A gentleman called in and loves the fact that we talk about scripture and God and all that, but just was really a little, a little concerned that we're talking Christmas too much too soon. Yep, yep. Can't skip over Thanksgiving, you know. And I heard Grant talk about that about Thanksgiving getting squeezed. First, let me there are two distinctly different topics to me. First, let me state, most importantly, you cannot talk about Jesus too much. You

can't relegate. Look, the Christmas season is about Christ, you know, the old thing. You can't spell Christmas without Christ, you know that old thing. Wise men still seek Him? Right, Okay, I don't relegate Jesus to December first to the twenty fifth. I don't, I never will, and no one should either, because he's the son of God. All right. Now, Having said that, I don't disagree that Thanksgivings getting squeezed out.

When you think about it, though it may, it makes sense because no one's really figured out a way to commercialize it and ruin it. There are little things like the day after right, Black Friday, the start of the Christmas shopping season. Sorry, I said Christmas. The idea though, is that, I mean, aside from turkeys, stuffing, green bean casserole, fried onions, cream, mushroom soup, I mean, there are some things that everybody buys. Most people buy at Thanksgiving, but

it's not a commercialized holiday. Halloween, as Grant pointed out, is really in its roots a Christian holiday. It's just been twisted, and Christmas, of course, is a Christian holiday. Thanksgiving is the altar meant example of a Christian holiday about giving, thanks its origination, its start, and oh, by the way, side bonus to Thanksgiving is that the Pilgrims when they came over, they tried communism. Now you're laughing, but you know I'm dead serious. The Pilgrims attempted to

live communal life. They attempted to build a society where everybody shared everybody, but they realized William Bradford writes about it, that that leads to laziness, people not producing, and so they did away with that, and then they went with individual property. And if you wanted to help out somebody,

that was fine, but you were responsible for you. And so thanksgiving is, if nothing else, it's a bit of an homage, not just thank you God for getting us through this season, which is what the original settlers that came and joined with the Native American Indians needed their help, and it was a feast of thankfulness. But Thanksgiving in and of itself is just a time of thanks. And publics does probably as good a job as anybody of putting out some commercials that remind us of that. They

really do it a good job. If only they would embrace my idea of a slogan we're shopping is a pleasure. I've been wanting them to use that for years. But anyway, ten past the hour, no idea if Charlie's gonna come or not, but we'll be here no matter what. We got lots to talk about. To ill pass the hour Morning Show with Preston Scott, I'm gonna go ahead and

do our personal defense segment my way. There were a couple of stories I wanted to talk about, and I'm going to talk about them because they illustrate some really important points. This story goes back to June, and I've been holding onto this story every year at the end of the school year. There are these things called senior pranks, and apparently in Sedgwick County, Kansas, they embraced this one

social media prank called senior Assassin. Now, on the surface, the name doesn't engender a whole lot of confidence, right except that, oh, you back up and you go ya. I was an idiot once in school too. This social media prank involved groups of senior assassins air quotes armed with water guns or gelbead guns, not paintball gels. Now, the water guns, although they can look real, generally water blasters aren't. I'm sure there are some out there that are real. And then they have a hidden tank or

something that they're drawing water from. You know, I don't know. I'm not a I'm not necessarily well versed on that stuff. I can only iagine though, that these water blasters are the one of choice because they're cheap and you can get them anywhere. And they got this giant, you know, reserves of water and pH you're just dowsing people. But the gelbead guns, a lot of those are meant to look like real guns. So here's what happens. Group of

three guys decide to target a couple in particular. Don't know if it was because of the girl or because of her boyfriend, my hunch's boyfriend, and apparently they were they were targeted, targeted, and they're at the Kansas Walmart and they fired at these two kids. Well, the girl

called the dad. Now I don't know, I know all of the particulars, but what it sounds like to me is she said to her dad, Dad, I got shot by three boys at the parking lot at the walmart, neglecting to say with a gelbad because they weren't water cannons. These were gelbead guns that were apparently being used here. The fact that she might not have communicated everything properly

made a difference the rest of the story. Next sixteen minutes after the hour here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott even one passed the hour of the Morning Show with Preston scottose over there and our first little Defense segment against Charlie Strickland. Currently talking about a story involving a game called Senior Assassin online social media thing senior prank. Three guys targeting a couple that are classmates.

Apparently there was a little more to this because you know, they were heard by store employees inside this Walmart shouting I'm your senior Assassin before shooting these gel blasters or a gel blaster. The employee contacted a manager manager heard them shout the same thing. This was outside the store, I guess, and then they made sure they didn't go inside the store. So the couple ends up going outside and because they were inside being targeted in there and

went to confront the three guys. One of them called the boyfriend a expletive, which leads me to think, Okay, there's a little more to this targeting that was going on. But you remember I said that the girl called her dad and said I'd been shot. Now we don't know did she say shot at did she say shot? The story says that she told her dad that she'd been shot because her dad shows up and the boyfriend and his daughter point to the three guys and say they're

the ones. When asked what was going on, the dad said, they shot my daughter. Now he had to know though, because he saw his daughter that she was fine. So he approached the car as they're trying to drive and leave. He pulls on the door handle to stop them. That's always a smart thing to do. They weren't stopping. He pulled out a real gun and he fired into the vehicle. He hit one of the eighteen year olds, hit his liver, kidney, spinal cord, severed his spinal cord, and he's now paralyzed

from the waist down. The father has been charged with first degree attempted murder. Now, clearly the daughter didn't clearly communic Kate, and the dad didn't clearly process my daughter's fine. These are jerk kids, and you know, at worst, if you see them in the parking lot, if you felt like you needed to go to the parking lot, at worst you say, uh, yeah, we're gonna have a talk with your parents about this, or you say, what's this about? What? What? What?

What's the threat of fighting in the back of the walmart. What's this about. But the point of bringing this up in a personal defense segment is there was no personal defense here. The rules of engagement and the law, at least in Florida as it relates to castle doctrine, are very clear. You have to be in fear of your life bodily harm coming to you as a result of whatever the attack might be. These three boys, the two boys fled, they ran. One boy sat there after having

been shot because he couldn't move and he's paralyzed. First of all, there's lessons here on senior pranks. There are senior pranks that are harmless. There are senior pranks that are stupid, and then there are senior pranks that are stupid and can lead to dangerous consequences. And this is the latter. But this is also a lesson in not reacting, but responding to situations. The dad, Ruben Marcus contraras he's going to go to prison. He had no reason to

discharge his firearm. Understand. I completely understand being a protective dad, I get it. But this is just a classic example of how something that was quote innocent can go way wrong in a lot of different ways. When we come back another story from the news as we continue our personal Defense segment here on The Morning Show with Preston.

wrong and it started so innocently a senior prank. A kid never ever thought he was going to end up being paralyzed. You could say he's fortunate to be alive. But now we've got a dad that's probably going to go to jail for a very long time, prison for a long time. This is a story where someone else is likely heading to prison. A seventy seven year old woman.

According to her, she and fifty eight year old Arthur Osborne were engaged in some harmless banter, just some joking around and in jest, again quoting her harmless banter, he said, hey, just go ahead and shoot me, just shoot me. And she had a gun in her hand, and she shot at him. She claims she didn't know that there was a round in the chamber. We only have her side to tell. Oh, now there's some corroboration of the potential truth in what she's saying. He was not shot in

the chest, he was not shot in the head. He was shot in the groin. Only where she shot him in the groin is where that artery is. He bled out like that. He is no longer with us. The lesson here is one that Charlie J. D and I repeat time and time and time and time again, and it is the first rule of gun ownership. Never point your gun at anything you're not willing to destroy. Always assume there's a round in the chamber. Had she used just a modest amount of common sense, this would not

have been a fatality. She's facing reckless homicide charges because prosecutors said, rightfully, there's an expectation when you own a firearm, it was her firearm, that you're responsible with the gun and you handle it appropriately. That was not an appropriate handling of the firearm. Now there's something else I want to tack onto this. There is a PSA airing, and sadly it airs on our station that tells you to

keep your guns locked, unloaded, and hidden. I would only tell you that it is my opinion that that advice is only for those of you that target shoot only. You do not have a firearm for personal defense purposes, because it serves zero purpose to have a firearm unloaded. Now, it's up to you to take precautions, if you have children and so forth, to place your firearms in a location that is safe and accessible only to you and

as as needed. Right, But there's this point of common sense here that we're talking about when it comes to firearms. We've seen one story that is brutally simply just that's just stupid what she did. You've got another story that's far more nuanced and layered, and it has a lot of complexity to it, although the principles involved and how we ended up with a tragedy are rather simple. Both stories offer us opportunities to learn when we come back, ways that you can go to a range and improve

yourself as a shooter. Things escalating in Ukraine and Russia. Biden's determined to get us into World War Three's lasting gift to our country unbelievable, the prosecution of that war, and and just and it all stemmed from the weakness in the White House. But let's pause there. When you go to the range, Yeah, you can do the paper target thing, and that's fine, just standing there. But just

understand this. If your purpose is other than plinking just firing at targets, if your purpose is real life defense of yourself or a loved one, that is wholly insufficient. Now Talent Range offers courses that offer you high stress training. They're available, you can do that. There are intermediate steps that I think you should take, and I think there's training that you can do routinely that will improve you as a person that is prepared for what comes your

way as best as you can be. There is nothing that will replace having to draw a firearm and aim it at a person. You can't replicate that, that's next level. But what you do is you accept that there are certain stresses that will come upon you and you try to replicate some of those stresses. You can replicate some of the physical stresses by elevating your heart rate a little bit. Some of the things that we meaning my

son's and our friends and I do. Will run, We'll go to a fifty yard range and will run before or drawing and firing or drawing as we're running, and making sure of all the safety protocols that are common sense, but elevating the heart rate, taking aim, and then moving. Learning to shoot with both eyes open so that you can be aware of any other not just threats, but any potential innocent bystanders. One of the things that you have to consider in a defensive situation is line of sight.

If this bullet misses, and the odds are if there's any range at all beyond a few yards, and even at a few yards, you can miss, but you're gonna miss, You're gonna have a stray bullet. Is there anybody behind your threat that could be in harm's way. You have to take things like that into consideration and change your angles at the range to consider. Wait, there's a threat right right there, and right behind them is an innocent person. I need to change my angle to improve my chances.

You learn to shoot behind concealment, You learn to shoot behind cover, You learn to shoot with your weak hand, in case your strong hand were to become injured. I personally love shooting on steel targets because I get immediate feedback and I don't have to reset them other than the plates that you knock down, and they afford me the opportunity to move side to side, front to back, back to front, change my angles, and work on very

specific skills. The point that I want to make here is when it comes to your self defense and your personal defense, if you're gonna do it, do it properly. Get the proper training. Talent Range has a ton of instructors, all with real life experience that can help you be more effective. You can adopt those skills that they show

you and then practice them. Repetition is everything in this everything from drawing consistently properly, and there are ways you can practice without any rounds in your firear am using little lasers that are inside the chamber of your gun that illuminate a target that you have on an app and so there's ways that you can practice safely at home, again never aiming at a person. So there's our personal defense segment. We come back a funny little way to

end the story. The NFL and the Trump Dance. Yes, the Trump dance is a thing in sports. We'll talk about it next. This is funny. Back a few weeks ago, you might remember Nick Bosa, really good player from the Ohio State University You're welcome, sweetheart, plays for the San Francisco forty nine ers, basically video bombed a teammates interview wearing a Trump hat, and and he's been kind of a thing ever since. A lot of people hating on him.

The hate comes that, you know, people on our side, we might shake our heads and think you're dumb for wearing a Biden hat or a hair Is hat, but we don't insult you. We might think it, but we don't. It's like, you know whatever. Anyway, he apparently started the Trump dance, where after a big play he does the you know, the fists up in the hands and the little shake, that little shimmy back and forth the way

Trump does, and it's become a thing. A lot of players in the league, No not just white players, thank you very much, A lot of athletes in general in a bunch of sports are doing the Trump dance. And so everyone was wondering, is the NFL going to crack down on this? The NFL has no issue with the Trump dance, which is a bit of a shock, so I just thought it was funny. It's just because the NFL has been wrong about Colin Kaepernick. They never should

have allowed him to take a knee. It's a story that we've told frequently and don't need to tell again. But yeah, that's just really good news. Brought to you by Barono Heating and Air. It's the Morning Show one on WFLA look back at the radio program in one hundred and eighty seconds or less. Today we went to John eleven and John fourteen versus twenty five and twenty six and John eleven and John fourteen six through seven talking about Jesus being the Way, the Truth, and the light.

That's it. That's what you got and what an opportunity. Spent a little bit more time in the second hour talking about a couple stories from the news dealing with Jsus and the Bible in general, just the historical accuracy of scripture and the early Church and even ancient history. I mean, just really cool stuff. Our big stories today, Scott Jennings points out the obvious to those melting down over the planned national emergency, we're not going to do

a national emergency on climate change, which is stupid. We have an actual invasion of our country going on, and Trump's going to deal with it. And Scott Jennings on CNN just brilliantly shot down Jake Tapper and all of the arguments against it. Ukraine shutting down the US embassy in Kiev, Things arrest escalating fast. Of course, that's what happens when our missiles are being fired into Russia. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg agrees to postpone sentencing for Trump

four years. Yeah, tomorrow. We've got a great Thursday show already, don't you dare miss it.