Wowsers and welcome Wednesday on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Great to be with you. Didn't mean for the alliteration, but just wow. Looking at what is happening in California right now, is it's heartbreaking if you're not aware Los Angeles County. I mean, it's on fire Malibu, parts of Pasadena, tens of thousands evacuated. I mean, it is a catastrophe what has happened overnight. It is three different wildfires burning in Los Angeles, just blowing up everything in its path,
in their path. I mean, it's you know, we will we'll talk later in the big stories about this, but man, I just I just feel. I mean, it's not often that we start the show with something like this happening as we speak. So I'm just praying God protect people's lives and send the rain, calm the winds. But you will be done. But man alive. I just pray for those people and firefighters and first responders, and my goodness, gracious, it's it's a catastrophe. Our verse today comes from Amos five.
Amos Huh, yeah, Amos five fourteen and fifteen, Seek good and not evil, that you may live and So the Lord, the God of host will be with you. As you have said, hate evil, love good, establish justice in the gate. It may be that the Lord, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph. And so we begin the Wednesday edition of the program, January the eighth show, fifty two to ninety three, twelve days away from the inauguration. I don't know about you, but I'm
kind of I'm not breathing deeply. I'm breathing with shallow breaths. I'm just I'm nervous about our country right now. I'm nervous about where we are. And understand that that's a very fleshly kind of nervousness. When I step back and I just go big picture, you know, instead of all the trees, look at the forest. I know God's got this. I know that there's nothing that's going to happen that's
going to foil God. You know you when I used to do counseling with people when I was in vocational ministry and they were facing all kinds of trauma, I would immediately say, Okay, is God surprised by this?
No?
So if God knew this was coming, it does not mean that it was God's perfect will that something happens. See, that's a mistake a lot of people make. It's kind of lazy theology. Well, you know, if it's meant to be no, no, no, God's perfect will is this. But he allows us to do that. He knows we're going to do it, and so he has a plan. He's got a plan in the midst of this tragedy in and around Los Angeles. God has a plan. Did God allow this to happen?
Yes?
He did, because we live in a fallen world and this kind of stuff happens. But I caution you to step back when things are getting a little bit it challenging in your world and remind yourself. God has a plan in the midst of it. After all, I heard a lyric of a song. He turned the lions den into a petting zoo. He's got it. Ten past the hour. Inside the American Patriots Almanac, we go next. We'll take a look at the national days of the day. What
is it national? What day? We'll tell you next. Pacific Halisades. Gosh, you've got relatives out there in La County, check on them. Let's see January the eighth. It's kind of weird. Just I hate it. I hate sounding dismissive of a story that's impacting so many people. But you know, we just we're going to keep an eye on what's going on there, but we're gonna keep doing the show. It's awkward. Days like this are awkward. We've got guests, we've got things
to talk about, but we will. I've got an eye on this, so we'll keep you informed. But again, if you have family there, reach out. You have friends out there, reach out, check up on them, all right. Seventeen ninety it was on this date President George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York City. What a good idea? Eighteen fifteen. US forces led by General Andrew Jackson defeat the British in the Battle of
New Orleans. Nineteen eighteen at Woodrow, Wilson outlines is fourteen points for peace after World War One. Nineteen thirty five. Rock and roll king Elvis Presley born in Tupelo, Mississippi. You know where Tupelo is, It's about a mile south of one below. Nineteen sixty four, President Linda Johnson declares war on poverty. How we work how's that working out? How is the progressive democrat a liberal way of dealing
with poverty working nineteen sixty four. It's been sixty one years now that we've attacked poverty with entitlements, the method, the idea noble if that's what it was about. Except that's not what it was about. It was about enslaving people. It was it was the federal government becoming a drug for sure.
Hey, come here, come here, check this out. Man, I got some twenties, win some twenties tens. I got some tens. I'll give you some money. Man, I got it, I got you, I got you. Now this is on me. Now, this is on me. Man, I got you. Federal government started dealing. They were just dealing money instead of drugs. People got addicted. That's where we are.
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Nineteen eighty seven, Dow Jones industrial average closes above two thousand for the first time. Where are we now? Forty two thousand? It's crazy, all right? Today is National Career Coach Day, National Winter Skin Relief Day. It's funny. Some of those products cause your skin to go Ah, it hurts. Does it feel very good? Some of them are a little better than others. Nashal. What is this National joy
Germ Day? What National English Toffee Day? Oh? Come on, give me a heath bar man, love me some heath bar bad for the teeth, great for the tummy. National bubble Bath Day. My sweetheart, my my wonderful wife will love that. Of course, she honors days like you know, she honors the bubble bubble bath more than just today. I'll just I'll just say that. And today it's National Argyle Day. If I if i'd have, if I would have only really considered, I do have some argyle socks.
I played. We did a we did a golf tournament. We did one golf tournament here for this radio program years ago. And I wore the plus fours, I wore the knickers. I wore the knickers. I've got the hat that I wore right back here. And I wore argyle socks pulled up to my knees. It was awesome. It was awesome. I don't think I walked around talking like a Scotsman, though I could have had me the nibleck. And then we'll follow it up with a mashi sixteen
past the hour, hunga tanga, hunga pie. Next, paying attention to what's going on in Los Angeles County. Fires began yesterday. We're talking all of the burbs that you hear about, Pacific Palisades, Pasadena, Malibu. I mean, oh my goodness, and so three different wildfires driven by these I think it's the Santa Ana winds. And now they got hit with the tornado when this winter storm started. Tens of thousands
evacuated cars blowing up. Can you imagine now the number, because, for example, there are more electric vehicles in California, and probably more in the La metropolitan area than maybe any other area. Can you the heat when an EV blows up. We're talking we're talking melting capacity here, incredible heat. It's not gonna help, all right. I mentioned before this is interesting. A listener sent this to me. I remember just briefly
talking about it. The Hunga Tonga Hunga haa a pie Hunga Taga for short, erupted January twenty twenty two in the Pacific Kingdom of Tonga underwater volcano. It triggered a tsunami warning throughout the entire Pacific basin, sent sound waves literally around the planet. Journal of Climate published a study
on the impacts of the eruption. See. Usually when a volcano hits, you deal with the smoke, the ash, all that, and it causes a slight cooling because it the ash, all that smoke reflects the sun back into the atmosphere, and so there's a brief cooling. But that's not what happened here. It's interesting because what happened because it was
an underwater volcano, it didn't produce much smoke. It produced water vapor one hundred to one hundred and fifty million tons, the equivalent of sixty thousand Olympic swimming pools worth of water into the atmosphere. All that water ended up in the stratosphere that's about fifteen to forty kilometers above the surface, which produces neither clouds in her rain because it's too dry. Water vapor, though in the stratosphere, has two main effects.
It causes a chemical reaction which then destroys the ozone later layer, which happened. The ozone layer had a massive hole in it until late December a year ago, not this past year, but twenty twenty three. And what's interesting is they then hypothesize that it's going to impact the weather for another several years. That underwater volcano. Now that's their hypothesis, said the northern half of Australia. Their model predicts colder and wetter than usual winters. Understand that the
winter in Australia is opposite. It's our summer, their winter. Their summer is our winter. For North America, it predicts warmer than usual winters, while for Scandinavia it predicts colder than usual winters. They didn't include the al Nino la Nina effect or any of that stuff. It's just they they're not taking a real strong position on this as it relates to anything other than this is our guests, and we could be wrong, which is refreshing because that's
what science is. Science has taken a shot at it and admitting, huh, we were wrong, or hey, look we were right, and that's where we've kind of gotten off base a little bit. But anyway, all right, we're gonna come back. We got the big stories in the press box and obviously were pushing aside a few things to keep you informed of what's going on again. Los Angeles County, California, three wildfires. We think Jose came in in the break
and said, any chance these were not wildfires. I suppose there's always a chance, especially in this day and age. But I will share with you some contributing causes and why wildfires happen more frequently in California. We'll get to that twenty seven past the Hour, Big Stories next. Stay with us. Good morning Wednesday here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott thirty five past the Hour, Big Stories
in the press box here on the Morning Show. Unstoppable inferno is how it's being described, engulfing Los Angeles, zero percent contained, and authorities are saying the worst is yet to come. Mayor of Los Angeles on a taxpayer funded trip overseas while everybody there is losing everything. Now, the mayor perhaps could not have anticipated three wildfires breaking out
in Los Angeles County, but it is a disaster. What I want you to consider is, if you do an analysis of the wildfires that have hit California, you learn something very interesting. Nearly twice as many wildfires are recorded on July fourth as any other time. Now, why would that be because obviously July fourth is fireworks, so they're not necessarily caused by nature. But there's another thing that you should note, and you won't find this very very easily.
You have to do a lot of digging. The lack of management of vegetation in California in general is perhaps the leading contributor to these wildfires getting out of control. See, they won't cut down anything, and so while for example, in and around Florida and Georgia and other areas, you have what are called prescribed burns, and those burns are
to prevent this kind of thing. It limits the damage of a wildfire that starts because the underbrush isn't there, it's gone, it's burned, and they limit that in California. So these kinds of things happening in and around a suburban area. It's a terrible thing. And I'm not blaming California government officials, state lawmakers, the governor, but I am telling you that their decisions in how they manage the forestries of California contribute to the intensity and the ability
of these wildfires to spread and exist. Congress voted on the Lake and Riley Act. Two hundred and sixteen Republicans voted in favor, forty eight Democrats supported it. One hundred and fifty nine Democrats voted against it. Those one hundred and fifty nine should be named. Their photos should be everywhere, and those are your targets for the next election for removal from office. Get them out. One Florida Democrat voted for it, Jared Mosquitz. Doesn't surprise me. Every other Democrat
from Florida's Congressional Democrat Congressional Caucus voted against it. What did it do? It elevated crimes such as burglary, theft, larceny, shoplifting under a mandatory detention provision. You don't have a choice. If you are arrested for any of these crimes, you are detained. It is the Lake and Riley Act. And then one final little note here. I thought this was brilliant. Donald Trump is planning to rename the Gulf of Mexico
the Gulf of America. Isn't it beautiful. We're gonna be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring, covers a lot of territory. The Gulf of America. What a beautiful name, and it's appropriate. Yes it is. Mexico can call their portion of it the Gulf of Mexico all they want. I love it. The Gulf of America. We will start working on that. We'll start working it into our lexicon. Forty past the hour, PC tow woke to got a
note from Michael. I work at FWC. We do prescribe burns all the time. In fact, I'm doing one today. We always say good fires prevent bad fires. We do the burns not only cut down on wildfires, but also to provide a better habitat for the species that live in the area. Thanks for all you do. Hope you have a great week you as well, Michael, Be safe out there and thank you for what you do. See there you go. There's an expert. There's somebody that anyway.
You ever heard of Richard Dawkins. He's a very famous atheist, a biologist. Board member of the a very prominent atheist organization in the United States, the Freedom From Religion Foundation. It pulled an article from its site called biology is Not Bigotry. Richard Dawkins resigned because they pulled it. I
love it, I love it. In his resignation letter to the Foundation, he called the removal of the piece an act of unseemly panic, accused the Foundation of caved to the historic hysterical squeals from predictable quarters and retrospectively censored an excellent rebuttal, biologist and fellow member of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, Jerry Coyne, composed the censored article as a rebuttal to non binary author and fellow Kat Grant's
November article titled what is a Woman? The piece argued that any attempt to define woman womanhood on biological terms is inadequate, and so a biologist wrote in a rebuttal that said, uh no, biology is not bigotry. See, this is what happens when you leave it be, when you just ignore, they'll just eventually destroy themselves. This is lovely, it really is. So you've got Richard Dawkins leaving an atheist foundation because they pulled a piece stating biologically that
women are women and men are men. And just because you think you're something doesn't mean you are. I think I am a great basketball player that can do three sixty reverse dunks. I can't do that, but I think I can. It doesn't make me a great basketball player. It's just it's comical where we are as a culture today. And I wrote in my Rundown PC where we started with all this political correctness gave way to DEI. That we birthed DEI and then wokeness came out of it.
If you don't embrace DEI, then there's something wrong with you. And that woke ideology is now buttressed by DEI policies, which, oh, by the way, are being rolled back slowly. McDonald's dumped them. More and more of the big companies that went all in and DEI have realized, See they have reaped what they've sown, and what they've reaped is a train wreck. They realize hiring based on quotas doesn't work. You hire based on quality, not quotas. We come back a microaggression
I've had to endure. No, don't you laugh at me? Osees in. They're laughing at me, and I'm offended, I sir, am offended by that. Actually I am doing better and laughing with you. No, I'm not laughing though, so you're not laughing with me. See that, in and of itself was a microaggression. Now I'm serious. I've had microaggressions directed at me, even in front of my wife. And I'll explain next. Forty seven minutes after the hour, YEP probably didn't know how tender.
I was.
Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott. I know some of you are actually shocked that I would be the victim of microaggressions. Here's the thing, I didn't know it was a microaggression all these years. Do you know what a microaggression is defined as? Let me help you out here, a statement, action, or incident regarded as an instance of indirect, subtle, or unintentional discrimination against members of
a marginalized group, such as a racial or ethnic minority. Now, of course, what's hilarious about that is indirect, subtle, or unintentional. Unintentional is a microaggression. So I stand just a shade under six ' five, So people say how tall are you? Six four or sixty five? Whatever? And not to Be has this story of a woman online who is a certified life coach. She happens to be five foot ten. A woman approached me in the produce section while I
was shopping and minding my business. Can I get you to come do me a favor because you're tall? I looked at her with a straight face and said, no, I'd rather you get someone who works here. She got assistance, and when I tell you, she would have wanted me to walk to the other side of the section to gather something from the top shelf for her. That is highly offensive to me. And yes she was. And this
was not the first time I've experienced this. I've been grabbing people things off top shelves at stores for my entire adult life, even my young adult life. I've been getting things at stores for people since I grew three inches one year. Actually, I grew three inches over a summer. Over a summer I spent most of the summer in bed because I had, you know, my growing plates in my knees were so soft. Doctors said, bed rest. You're
in it now, pal. I left eighth grade, seventh grade, eighth grade five foot eleven, and I entered ninth grade six foot two. And ever since then, I've been helping people at stores. Happily. Happily, absolutely, I'd be happy to get that for you. Was with my wife the other day. We're at hobby lobby. Some lady said, would you be I said, I'd be happy to didn't know it was a microaggression. Hey, if you don't know, the iHeartRadio app
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It's new and improved, it's incredible, great redesign. All right, we come back. Peter Murphy, Senior Fellow with Citizens for a Constructive Tomorrow. Sea Fact joins us talk about what we discussed yesterday with Joe Biden trying to ruin the country. If I passed the hour, it is the second hour already, Show five thousand, two hundred and ninety three of The Morning Show with Preston's got good morning. I'm Preston twelve days away from a new administration, and it cannot come
soon enough. He's osea running the program in Studio one. A. I am here in Studio one. B. I am Preston Scott. Great to be with you, friends. We are keeping an eye on the big story, which is really a devastating string of fires in Los Angeles County, California. We're talking devastation is hitting right now. It is zero percent contained, and according to officials, the worst is yet to come, so we'll keep an eye on that. Joining us is Peter Murphy. Peter is a senior fellow at the Committee
for a Constructive Tomorrow. It's known as sea Fact. We had guests from sea fact over the years with US to Washington, DC based organization in support of free market technological solutions to energy and environmental challenges. Peter, Welcome to the show. How are you, sir?
Good morning, Preston. I'm great, Thank you, and good to beyond.
Yesterday we highlighted Joe Biden's efforts to leave a lasting mark if you will damaging our country. Let me first ask you before we get into the nuts and bolts of that, Peter, who do you think is really making these decisions? Because Joe Biden just puts his signature on it, and someone may very well be moving his hand for all I know. But who do you think is really authoring these policies? Is this Barack Obama? Are these Baroxica fans? Who's behind this?
I think the baroxic of fans is an app description what the Democratic Party has become in the twenty twenties and progressively unintended throughout the century. The first quarter of this century is they become a much more hard left
Marxist party. And Joe Biden made a deal with this devil to be the moderate face the fake cave to be elected, He and of course Missus Biden, to occupy the White House, to be president, to have all the perks, and to do whatever this party had become, to implement whatever it is they have become, and that is a
much more left wing party now. Joe Biden's career, which of course spans from Nixon's re election in nineteen seventy two, that's Biden's first election to the Senate, he was always in the middle of where the party was, whether it was a you know, dominated by Southern Democrats who were the chairman still a time of the Senate committees, where it became a kind of more law and order, more centrist party under Bill Clinton in the nineties to now
this far left, progressive radical group. That's what he is. And he has no he has no compass whatsoever. He has no principles and so he just went with it, and it got him the presidency because again he was this moderate face, this exterior charm that prevailed and made all kinds of promises that they never meant. So he's been there. He's been there, fakid as they implement all this stuff right till the time they leave.
Tell me this we got We got about two minutes before we take a quick break. What does this executive order do in practicality, it.
Shuts off unless it's reversed. This executive order involving the short offshore oil exploration. Yes, it puts a it makes it untouchable. And you know, we have to grow our economy. We need affordable energy, period, end of story. It's what drove the worst inflation in the late seventies, the cost of energy. It and it's and we have to tame inflation by lowering the price of energy and making America more competitive in the global marketplace. So you have to
expand our reach, our resources. And there's this vast six and twenty five million acres is a third of the land mass of the United States. He put that all off limits with this ancient law, and that's got to be reversed. It can be, but it's not as simple as it sounds.
Yeah, I want to get to that. Next. Peter Murphy with me. He's a senior fellow with Sea Fact. We're talking about Joe Biden. I mean, why not end the way he came in day one he killed the Keystone XL pipeline and put us on an IV with everybody who hates us to find the energy, the sources of energy that we need and then move this to this ridiculous, untenable ev nonsense. More with Peter next on the Morning Show with Preston Scott and Use Radio one hundred point
seven WUFLA. Back with Peter Murphy. Peter, we were talking about this executive order. Now, I would immediately come to the conclusion that, look, this is going to get reversed on January twenty at the moment Donald Trump takes office. You mentioned it might not be that easy.
Well, the law is not clear that a president can reverse it. The laws is clear that you can put impose conservation or in the name of conservation, you can impose off limits to development. It's not clear that you can reverse that in the law. So that has to be tested in the courts. Donald Trump should not assume anything other than he can reverse it. I mean, you know he needs to, and I'm sure he will act
to reverse it. Then there'll be a lawsuit. The Greens will bring a lawsuit, of course, and the courts will be tested by this now. But this goes to show this, you know, in the modern era, I mean, I guess back in the day when this law was put in place, you don't anticipate presidents abusing it, right, this is an abuse of this law, and especially when you're the lamest of laying ducks. You're actually leaving office in ten days, and so you're going to act this way. I mean,
it's a really disgraceful approach. And that's certainly not what Congress had intended, nor has it been acted on this way for seventy years. It's been in existence, and so the courts may recognize that abuse of it. But this goes to a long standing problem of the Congress city the United States is they don't make laws specific enough. They leave too much discretion to the executive branch, and which is now you know, scores of agencies and unelected
bureaucrats who are interpreting things. Now the courts rolled some of that back. The agency's ability to interpret laws or reinterpret them is the key. The courts did roll that power back somewhat in this last session, but nonetheless, Congress needs to be more specific in the laws that they pass and if the law, if the new circumstances arise, then you go back to Congress and you change the law.
I mean, that's how it should be. And this is a result of just decades of Congress being very vague and leaving two much discretion to the executive branch, which is now comprised not so much of the president's people as these lifelong bureaucrats who have their own agenda.
I was going to ask you, Peter, in closing as many things as you and I could point to and absolutely agree on that Joe Biden his administration and I call it the O Biden administration, have done to damage hurt this country. Couldn't you argue the real lasting legacy is what you just defined. This ability to dig in and find ways to take legislation and twist it.
Well progressivism as they practice it, and this really began under Woodrow Wilson, or even to be fair of Teddy Roosevelt. They are not governed by law. They are governed by their own agenda, which they view is higher than law. More important, there's a moral superiority to their agenda and law or for basically for the other side, not for them, because this is their religion in effect and the lasting legacy.
You know, they're using this climate issue, which is so manufactured and fake and unscientific, to do whatever they want. You have not a few Democrats in Congress who want a climate emergency quote unquote climate emergency like a COVID emergency that gives untrammeled power to the executive ranch. Now, they're not going to want it now, but when Biden was in office, Chuck Schumer, Jeff Murchant of Oregon, many others,
we're calling for climate emergency. This is a dangerous time for because progressimism is not bound by laws and constitutional principles. They will do what they want until someone can stop them. That's their mentality and it's a dangerous one going forward if they should get back into power.
Peter, thank you. I appreciate your insight and expertise and look forward to having you back on the show sometime. Thank you, sir.
Thank you.
Preston appreciate it. Peter Murphy with us from c fact. There you go. I thought it was as easy as putting your signature to it. Not so much. That's a very important clarification. But he's so right. They just weasele in there and say, oh, wait a minute, we can do this with that law. We can do that. And he's right. It's due as we say, not as we do.
Absolutely positively, that's the progressive mantra. All right, sixteen past the hour, come back with well, I'm gonna ask you for a little help, little help, little help here next on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, we're keeping an eye on what's going on. We will update you in just a little bit. The fire Pacific Palisades zero percent contained fires in Los Angeles County. That's the short version. We'll spare you the editorializing on it right now.
I did that last hour pointing out the mismanagement of the forestry in California is leading to these issues happening over and over and over. I don't know of any lives lost at this point, but massive evacuations and we're talking some of the most high profile neighborhoods in all of America are being impacted. The number of homes on fire is staggering. Santa Ana Wins just's you can't contain it. It just it can't be contained. So this, this could be,
this could be a disaster of biblical proportions. No, seriously, I'm not I'm not overestimating, and I'm not engaging in hyperbole. Okay, I said I was gonna need a little help. I got a note yesterday from John He said, do any handyman services advertise with WFLA. Now this is for those of you in the Tallahassee area. Okay, for those of you outside Tallahassee, just kind of listen in and and just consider what we're talking about. He said, I need a handyman. He said, I'm gonna be reaching out to
White's Plumbing. Later on, he said, everything from ceiling repair to garage junk clean out. So if you're a junk caller, I had a junk caller that used to listen to the show. I think it's I think it's called the Junk King. I want to say, maybe and he comes out and hauls away junk, and maybe he still listens to the show. So two things Number one. I don't want to hear from you if you are in that line of work. I want to hear from you if you know of someone that's in that line of work
that you trust. Send me an email Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. I want referrals. I don't want someone that is trying to get a free ad here. Okay, I want to help this guy, but I want to do it with referrals, and I want to then underscore this point. That's what we do. See some of you lament the fact that we have ads and you have so many
clients that want to be part of this program. I mean, honestly, though it may not be one hundred percent, people that advertise with this station and on my show are usually pretty top notch at what they do, and just being on here is kind of like, yeah, it's kind of a thing, and I'm proud of that. I've I've spent twenty three years cultivating that. You know, somebody does it doesn't honor what they do and everyone has a bad day, Okay, I mean any line of work, anything you know you're
gonna you're gonna have things happen. It's like someone who sells cars there's gonna be a bad car that comes off the assembly line. It happens, okay, doesn't make them bad people. It just means, okay, someonent wrong. Fix it all right. But this underscores. See, if you're a handyman, there are a lot of people out there looking for you, and you don't have to have me do your commercials.
But you gotta be on my show. You ought to be on this station if you're and now this expands beyond Tallahassee, this expands anywhere you're listening, anywhere in the country. You ought to be on this show because people will hear about you. And because of that, I mean, I'll give you a great example. Aaron Stewart. Aaron Stuart concrete. He's done basically one ad fifteen seconds for years. The only thing more solid than our concrete is my reputation.
Let me tell you something. He is spot on right and he's got all the business he wants. If if you're good at what you do and you're in all these things, you're a handyman, or you're a painter, or or you're whatever, you don't have to have me do your stuff. Just get your get out there, get your and So if you know of a handyman that's good at what they do, send me an email with their name and your recommendation and their phone number. Same thing.
If you know someone that hauls out junk, if you feel good about them, you send it to me and I'll give all this information to John and let him decide what he wants to do. But if you're out there and you do this work, you're a tradesman, you're a tile setter, you're a wallpaper person, whatever. Man. Hello, I'm just telling you this note is an advertisement for the fact that there are people looking for your services. They don't know how to find you. Well, but I'm
on Facebook. Come on, get with it. Twenty eight past the hour. Little help, little help, Big stories in the press sponsor.
Next, obviously our biggest story today the wildfires in You know so often you say California and.
You're thinking the forested areas of the state, and you know, out away from most population. You know, sure there are some little areas that get impacted dramatically, but no, no, this is La County, this is Malibu and Pacific Palisades and Pasadena. I mean the Rose Parade, Rose Bowl Parade, just happened there. My wife and I've been there. It's beautiful. It's just mismanagement leads to these kinds of things. Nature happens. Hopefully these were not wildfires intentionally set. But you know,
Jose brought that up last hour. I can't rule that out. It's doubtful, but nah, I can't rule that out. I mean, it could be very innocent. It could be somebody just deciding to throw the grill open and next thing, you know, some brush in the in the you know, the adjacent lot, catches fire, the winds pick it up, and off it goes.
It's done. But this is a I mean, we're talking tens of thousands of people evacuated, and we're talking homes gone, cars blowing up, and I you know, it hasn't been talked about necessarily directly, but I got thinking about the number of EV's that are, you know, because California just pushed the crap out of those things. And when eves
go up, buddy, anyway, that is the big story. If you have friends and family in SoCal especially at La County, reach out to them, make sure they're okay, and man, you just hope for the best because I'll tell you the other thing that you're gonna you're gonna see in the news. Well, maybe we'll see what the mainstream media does.
I'll simply tell you that that the habit, the pattern in California is when this type of thing happens, looting that takes place afterwards, when these neighborhoods are eve act. The people that come into these neighborhoods and and rob and steal anything that's that survived. It's that's the next thing, anything left behind. People are going to go into these neighborhoods because these are very affluent neighborhoods for the most part. New York Post they've got they've got a new graphic.
They call it the Donroe Doctrine, referring to Donald Trumps instead of the Monroe Doctrine. The Donroe Doctrine. They've got Canada renamed fifty first state. They've got an X over Greenland and it says our land. Now Greenland. Greenland really is a strategically important thing. I wouldn't be in favor of acquiring it. I would be very much in favor of having very chummy relationships. But to be honest, you got to get Canada fixed. Canada's got to get itself fixed.
You've got the Golf of America, not the Golf of Mexico. He is pushing renaming it the Gulf of America. I really do. And then the Pana Maga Canal, the Panamaga Canal, that's it, the Pana Maga Canal. That's probably the closer, brilliant. Congress finally passes the Lake and Riley Act, and of course forty eight Democrats supported it along with all the Republicans, so it passed. It goes to the Senate. Now we'll find out what Tommy Tubberville thinks of its passage tomorrow
when we have him on the show. But one hundred and fifty nine Democrats, including all but one Democrat from Florida, voted against it. How how this is? And honestly, keep it up, Dems, keep it up. You didn't learn your lesson from the last election. Keep it up. This is the kind of crap that's gonna that's that's gonna drive a nail through the heart, a stake through the heart of the evil party known as the Democrat Party. Forty one minutes past the hour, A little more on Meta,
and I've got another question for you. Yesterday we pointed out it became one of the big stories in the press box. Meta ending the fact checking program in the United States. It will introduce X style Twitter x Twix community notes. Zuckerberg said that Meta will be working with President elect Donald Trump. There was something more though. See this is why I love doing what I do. I dig through a bunch of sources and I found an interview here with Meta Chief Global Policy Director Joel Kaplan.
Listen to this. See this is why you listen to the show every now and then. Yeah, you know, you get fine gold. You know you're sluicing, you get fine gold all show long, but now and then you get that big old nugget and you're like, Okay, that's that's what I'm Yeah, that's what I talk. Let's Mabel listen to this. Listen to what Kaplan said. We have a new administration coming in that is far from pressuring companies to censor and is more a huge supporter of free expression. Well, now,
isn't that an interesting little comment. Here's the guy works for Meta, chief Global policy director. We have a new administration coming in that is far from pressuring companies to censor. Why who would be pressuring companies to censor. Now, look, I'm not gonna let him off completely. Scott free here. No, that's what I did there, Scott, Preston and Scott. I want to show with Preston Scott, I'm not gonna let him off. These companies are full of illiberal elitists that
think they know better. Heck, X still has people trying to censor and suppress. We deal with it all the time. Facebook is gonna have this problem. It's gonna take a while to root these people out until they just get fed up with being reprimanded for censoring, and then they quit, and then they'll go to whatever social media site has things the way that they want them, which is everything
butt free speech. But isn't that an interesting comment? Indirectly, he just admitted to what Congress was holding congressional hearings about the government pressuring social media companies to censor. He just admitted it without admitting it. I love my job, and that, my friends, is a nugget that's not fine gold that there that there yet, that's a palm of the hand, nugget that you got in your hand there, that's what you got gold in them there Hills right there,
right there, forty six minutes past. Come back Animal Stories, first visit of the new year.
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In the wild or in our homes, we love them critters large and small. Time for another edition of Animal Stories on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Yes, with a tip of the cap to Larry Lujack, we do another edition of looking at our little friends that find their way into the news. Jefferson County Sheriff's Department in Missouri got a phone call responding to the area of Highway to twenty one and M reports this now reports of a subject monkeying around. When they arrived, they had to come to the rescue of a spider
monkey in a pink tu two after careful negotiations. Is this from the release and some coaxing deputies were able to get close enough to go hands on with the subject and bring this banana's situation under control without incident. The monkey actually approached one of the deputies who's a canine handler. The monkey actually kind of came up and tugged on his pant leg, so he didn't really know what to do. He squatted down, trying to offer some sort of safety, he said. The monkey reached out and
grabbed his hands. He said, Okay, I guess we'll just stand here together until we figure out what to do. They found that the monkey had fled a nearby home. Of course, embarrassed the entire animal kingdom of Jefferson County, Missouri laughing at a spider monkey in a pink tutu. Who does that to an animal? That's just shameful. But this story, this story might be one of the best I've ever seen in my history of doing animal stories. Here on the Morning Show headline some California squirrels found
to be carnivorous by scientists. That pause, by the way, came at the most perfect moment ever. Researchers found evidence showing some squirrels in northern California hunt for rodents instead of sticking to vegan diets. I'm looking at the study here. University of Wisconsin o'kan air, University of cal at Davis first to chronicle wide spread carnivorous behavior among squirrels. It was shocking. Lead author Jennifer Smith said, Associate professor Biology
at E W. O'claire. We've never seen this behavior before. On rare occasions, the squirrels have supplemented their diet primarily by eating insects or by eating eggs or young hatchlings. But could barely believe my eyes once we started looking at the squirrels. We saw it everywhere. Are we talking zombie squirrels? I mean are they limping? You know, one leg dragging behind, standing up, staring down? But where does
this lead? Look? If you if you look at what nature tells us raccoons, coyotes, hyenas, they're flexible and they're hunting strategies. They'll adjust to the landscape, changing as needed. But squirrels. Bet you never looked at the squirrel in your backyard the same. I'll tell you what. I go out in my backyard now I'm gonna be armed. Hey, hey, hey, backup, back up, hand on my pistol, back up. Okay, go about your business.
Go on.
Carnivorous squirrels. That's horrifying, absolutely horrifying, and yet at the same time, in a funny kind of way, that's one of the best animal stories I've ever seen. But let's be honest, California, I'm just saying this kind of fits, doesn't it. Everything's a little different in cal Come back, Doctor Bob McClure in our three if I passed the hour, it is the third and final hour at least for today of the Morning Show with Preston Scott's Show fifty
two to ninety three is ose I am Preston. Great to be with you, and yes, we are keeping an eye on a just this is a catastrophic story in southern California. Three separate wildfires, at least there they're being called wildfires right now. Oceanfront homes in Malibu have been burned to the ground. We're talking Pacific Palisades, Malibu, Pasadena, Los Angeles County is literally on fire and they've evacuated tens of thousands. It is a fire that at this
point is being described as zero percent contained. So if you have family and friends in southern California, especially La County. Just try to reach out, make sure everyone's okay, and anything you can do to support and help. Obviously we'll be useful, but we'll be keeping an eye on that story. We are joined by our first visit of the new year with the president of the James Madison Institute. He's a familiar voice. He is doctor Bob McClure. Doctor McClure, Happy New Year, How are you, sir?
Happy New Year to you, my friend, how are you?
I am terrific. You know, I ended the year making a little subtle transition. I had been counting the number of days this country was held hostage by the Obiden administration. Now I'm counting it down. We're down to twelve days before the new administration. What are you most excited about with the new administration and doctor McClure, what are you most apprehensive about?
Well, first, Preston and I want to wish all your listeners a happy new year in and you know, wonderful twenty twenty five as well. What is disheartening to me is what I'm seeing from the Biden administration on the way out the door. Whether it's the pardons, the reliefs of the Guantanamo Bay hostage terrorists, what they've done with oil and gas, and the list goes on. In terms of what I'm seeing, it's it is very disheartening. It's Unamerican, I'll say it.
It is.
Horrific. People have compared it to, you know, the crazy ex girlfriend who's, you know, gonna burn everything down on the way out of the door. But I think it's worse than that. And while I think the new administration can change a lot of that of what it's been done, it's gonna take time. It just handstrings them and slows them down. Having said that, what I'm most excited about is that we have adults back in charge. We have a president, whether you love or hate his tweets or
his personality, who knows where he's going. He ran on very clear, very specific, common sense policies, and I love that he didn't run on platitudes. And we have adults back in charge, and they are not waiting and they're not messing around, and so I'm very excited about where we're going to go over the next two years.
The president coming in Donald Trump, obviously he has benefited by the fact that he's been there before, and I suspect he's learned some lessons. What is your sense, doctor McClure, because you are as well connected inside the state of Florida, because that's your focus, JMI is all about Florida focus.
What is your sense of what these first hundred days of the Trump administration and its impact by selecting certain members of Florida's Congressional caucus or you know, some of Florida's best to serve in his administration, what will the impact of those hundred days be on the Sunshine State?
You know what I think fascinating is that. And I was having this conversation with someone yesterday. Florida has a thirty year history, and you and I've talked about this starting I would say, let's just say with jib of movement conservatism, I mean like deep thinkers on tax and regulations, on school choice, on all of these different issues. Unafraid movement conservatism, which is very different than Mitch McConnell's Republican Party.
You know, Mitt Romney's Republican Party is very different. And I scream it from the rooftops. We have this brain trust that has been made strong in an iron sharpens iron kind of way here in the furnace of Florida. Whether it's Susie Wiles or James Blair, who's a new policy director who many of your listeners won't know under Trump.
Whether it's Pam Bondi, Marco Rubio national Security with Walt the list goes on, they're gonna all move to DC and they're going to work to make Washington more like Florida. Now it's different, it's gonna be harder. There are a lot of reasons we can talk about, but what I'm most excited about, Preston, is that the bench here in
Florida is so strong. There are so many strong movement conservatives, starting with our governor, but Byron Donalds, and the list goes on, who are not going to be in this new administration, who are still here to make Florida the shining city on the hill, to continue our success. So that because what I'm seeing, Preston is people don't care anymore. I mean, you're seeing people on CNN coming out and acknowledging you know, Trump is going to be a success
if he hasn't been already. You've seen the New York Times acknowledge some of some things, and people don't care anymore. They're not afraid now that he's won, now that he's won the popular vote, and they're looking to Florida for guidance on policy. These other states, the other forty nine states, hang on.
A second, Doctor McClure, eleven past the hour, I got to take a quick seventy second break weather in traffic now on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Had to rudely interrupt doctor Bob McClure. President James Madison Institute, My guest, you were saying, sir.
And I I went too long. The reality is that all of this brain trust that has been refined by fires going to DC, and it's not leaving a vacuum here in Florida. There is tremendous conservative leaderships still here in this state and the other forty nine states have been following Florida's lead for so long. That's going to continue, and now we have an opportunity to impact for the generationally. Washington, d C. With the same kind of quote free state of Florida values tell me this.
I know that we've got a lot to talk about with regard to the upcoming legislative session. And I know that you've got a ton of irons in that particular fire, Bob, But it is sounding as if the rumor mill is pointing to Ashley Moody being the choice for the rest of Senator Mark or Rubio's term in the United States Senate that Governor DeSantis will pick Ashley Moody. First, do you concur with that? And secondly, your thoughts if so.
First, I've heard lots of different names, and I would be would be I don't think it's fair for me to say one way or the other. I think the governor has several really really interesting choices because of the bench is so deep. Secondly, Ashley Moody has been a terrific age. She would do a terrific job as a US Senator. She is strong, she is smart, she has got tons of common sense, and she's not going to fall victim to the kind of Washington you know, drink
the water situation. She's going to remain in many ways the way Rick Scott has just stellar and resolute in her beliefs and her value. She'd be an excellent pick, But I'm not here to say that I know that too. The governor's going to pick. There are lots of choices.
It seems as though a lot of the media outlets in the state are leaning towards comments made about making sure that whoever it is is going to be supporting the border policies of the incoming president and so forth. It just seems to be pointing towards her. So we'll have to wait and see. With the legislative session coming up in March, we've got a minute left in this segment, doctor McClure. What's first, What's most important to JMI.
Two things. Affordable housing, which means not building affordable housing, but building housing that's affordable. And property insurance. The trial bar is coming back to make it sound like wrongly, that the insurance performs didn't work, that prices aren't coming down, that insurance companies, big bad insurance companies don't pay their claims.
None of that is true. But property insurance and affordable housing, that is housing that's affordable, those are the two really big issues for us moving forward in the state of Florida. There are a lot of others, but those stands.
We're gonna pick up right there, Doctor Bob McClure with us for one more segment, president of the James Madison Institute and my guest here in the Morning Show with President Scott. Doctor Bob McClure is head of the James Madison Institute of think tank based in the capital city of Florida here and he joins us on the phone line this morning. Doctor McClure, you've been through this legislative
session thing for years. The Republicans have controlled the legislature for quite a while now, and they kind of have it down to a science. The way that they move leadership in and out. Is there much of a break in time for the new leaders in the House and the Senate.
Not really for the leadership. The break in time comes with the newly elected officials, so they have supermajorities in both the House and the Senate. But you have a fair amount, I don't know the exact number of newly elected House members and newly elected Senate members. So you you know, you there is a training and a learning for those men and women to understand how the process works,
how it's going to work. You know. Uh, those those freshman classes, particularly in the House or or are electing their speaker because we have term limits, even though that speaker is years away from becoming speakers, so that can
be a little dicey sometimes. One of the things that we do at JMI, and we're doing it actually next week, is we are doing a legislative process where we're bringing in some of these new legislators and teaching them not the ropes of the process, that's the role of leadership, but what is federalism? Why do states matter? How can we push back against the dictats of the of DC and things like that. So that's where the education comes
with a lot of these newer members. Because we have term limits eight years, Preston, there's a lot of turnover on a regular basis well, And.
That leads me to my next question, and only someone in your position can really answer it, Bob, How does Florida or how has Florida protected itself from what has infected Washington d C. Obviously they've got a year round legislature and I can't stand it. Florida does a part time legislature, But how do they keep it so the
bureaucrats don't end up running everything? As you said, you've got new members, you got to break in, but you still have the people that aren't elected that do have a lot of sway.
It takes time. I was having this conversation with someone yesterday in Naples and they were saying, you know, it's four years enough for Trump. Well, Washington is different from Florida, and this for two reasons. One of the bureaucracy is massive and more firmly entrenched. But secondly, there are no term limits. And I really believe that those term limits really matter. With fresh blood and new energy and then attitude,
I think term limits, you know, people come in. I had a legislator tell me he was the former Speaker of the House. He said, you know, Bob, my first four years in office, I looked at every bill, I read every John Entittle, I was prepped for every committee meeting. By the fifth year, sixty or seventh year. What does staff tell me to do? What should I be doing? And that's what happens. And you think about that writ large in d C. So term limits in Florida bring
in fresh blood, new energy, new ideas. But we have also pressed and been blessed with tremendous Again. I go back, starting with Jeb, but with Rick Scott Ron, Desantus, Danny Webster. I mean, all these old names of people John McKay, Paul Renner. But later you know movement conservatives who are unafraid. And what we have found is that good policy, and I've said this on your show before, is good politics.
It takes time. But once you implement good policy and politicians realize nobody died, nobody got shot, and you can get re elected, it just becomes a flywheel with momentum. And now that's what we have here in Florida is this conservative movement in the most diverse state in the country.
Now, I don't want to upset anybody, and I know you certainly don't. But that said, you mentioned one of the most important issues you think coming up is the whole property insurance issue and the pushback from trial lawyers. I think we would all agree there are good and bad and every profession trial lawyers are the same. That said, how much of that legislative action that is required or pushback that is required is compromised because so many members of the legislature are in fact attorneys.
Well, I'll tell you. I mean I grew up in a family of attorneys, so I never understood lawyer jokes because I loved all the lawyers that I was around. My dad was a lawyer, my uncle was a judge. I mean, I had lawyers. So I am not painting with the broad brush lawyers. But having said that, I think the legislature is going to see major pushback from the trial bar, because that is you know, where many
of them make their money. Just look at the billboards and the buses, and you know the idea that these reforms which should have been put in place ten twenty years ago, were only put in place about two years ago. But they're already starting to work. Companies are coming back into Florida. Prices are going to have slowly, very slowly, too slow for all of us, are slowly going to come down or or stay where they are. And but the trial bar is not going to allow that to happen.
And yet there are lawyers in the legislatures, so this is going to be an immense fight. They're not going to overt earn the law. They're going to try to demonize insurance companies. And look who loves their insurance company, right, not me, not you, not many people. They don't help themselves, but they're gonna try to demonize insurance companies and say these reforms don't work. We need to get rid of these laws that were recently passed.
It's gonna be interesting to watch. And when we next talk, we're gonna be one month closer and one month away from the session starting, and I cannot wait. Bob, thank you, thanks for having me, my friend.
Happy New Year to you and everybody in your audience.
Thanks so very much, Doctor Bob McClure with us this morning from the James Madison Institute twenty seven passed the hour The Morning Show with Preston Scott. The big story in the press box the fires in southern California. There now is a fourth fire that has flared up. We've got fires in Malibu, Pacific Palisades, Pasadena, and La County is a blaze and it's been going on since last night. I believe don't know the cause. They're calling them wildfires.
I do not know for certain, we'll find out. I'm sure the cause because this devastation is next level. We're talking homes on the coast burned to the ground. I don't know of loss of life at this point, no reports on that as of right Now one headline LA's Democrat mayor slam for being out of the country is county englfed in wild flames with no resources. Don't live there, don't speak to that, don't know. I don't necessarily blame someone for being gone when something unexpected happens. I think
that's a little over the top. Now, you could make an argument that they should be making their way back home, especially you know, strong mayors or leadership mayors. We're not talking about a mayor that rotates in and out as part of a commission. Los Angeles elects its mayor. It's it's a very significant job. But we're talking zero percent contained these fires, and I'm there's nothing to make light
of here. You can very fairly argue that a lot of the problems with wildfires in the state in general are because of mismanagement of the forestry. I can't necessarily say that that's contributing to this particular fire. This appears to be just one of those cases where you've got density of buildings homes. You know, I've always preferred homes that don't have zero lot lines, where they're just one
next to another, just a personal preference. But I know that that's not something that is always available to anybody. But you know, some of these communities, there's all kinds of space between the homes. In other communities, they are sitting on top of each other. But it's tender. Yeah, every home is tender for the next. And that's devastation we're looking at right now. Congress finally votes on the
Lake and Riley Acts. She's the young lady that was jogging University of Georgia's student and was murdered by an illegal immigrant that tried to sexually assault her. When she fought back, he killed her viciously, brutally murdered her. He'll spend the rest of his life in a US prison. He should be put to death. But that's his argument for another day. But the bill would mandate the detention of migrants charged with crimes like burglary, theft, larceny, shoplifting.
It's mandatory. They would have to be detained. They could not be let go. And it's a federal legislation. Can't change it. It's just the way it is. It passed two hundred and sixteen Republicans voted in favor of forty eight. Democrats support it. The opposition one hundred and fifty nine Democrats voted against the bill, including all but one member of the Democrat Caucus from the state of Florida. Now it heads to the Senate. Who could oppose this? People
are being murdered. As I've said too many on the left, the death of Americans. To allow illegals free travel across this country is a acceptable amount of collateral damage. It's okay, it's okay. The Lake and Rileys tragedy, absolutely tragedy, but that's the price you pay to open up the borders. And they're okay with that. And when I first said that, I had email pushback people just I can't believe. No, I've been proven right. It's an acceptable consequence to having
open borders. It's a tragedy what happened to Lake and Riley. But there's the butt. There's always a butt. Might be why some of us have view some on the left as rear ends. I don't know. Forty one minutes after the hour, something that you might have missed in the news. Next forty two minutes passed. Do you miss this in the news? Federal judge rules for Fefiser in a lawsuit of the company's COVID nineteen vaccine. Ken paxt ensued, alleging
the company misrepresented the efficacy of the vaccine. However, the Federal US District Judge Sam Cummings said in a ruling December thirtieth that the court finds, as a matter of law, the circumstances of the case, the defendant is entitled to immunity under the Public Readiness and Emergency Act. Now, I want to get back on this here for a second. We've got to rerun this. I think legally the judge probably is right. However, where the investigation needs to go
is this. If you remember, I shared with you from the FDA policies and guidelines, the rules which govern emergency use authorization, which leads to the shield immunity that the judge references. See. This is why it's all important. This is why I took the time to try to explain to you the importance of the FDA saying no, you can't use ivermectin, No you can't use hydroxychloroquin, No you can't use fill in the blank to treat this, Because if they had allowed you to use anything, even something
that was a Nobel Prize winning medication, ivermectin. Ivermectan's one of the only medicines to ever win a Nobel Prize. Why because it's inexpensive and it treats so many things effectively. Ivermectin's incredible and it's cheap, and it's why Africa and India were using these medicines effectively. If they allow ivermectin, hydroxychloricon or any other treatments, then they're not allowed to
offer authorized these vaccines. Emergency use vaccines are only allowed per FDA and law if no other treatments are available. Do you start to understand now why they couldn't allow ivermectin to be available, Because if it's available, they can't authorize the shots because they haven't been studied enough. They were rushed to the marketplace and they were allowed because of this, and they were shielded. And I don't know if you remember this, but they never did release the
vaccine to Americans that was actually approved. They only kept using the one that was approved for emergency use authorization. I don't think there's a record of one vaccine given that was legally approved. The ones that were used were all the ones used under the emergency use authorization. Why because they're shielded by the law for liability. I hope
that makes sense. I hope I'm explaining it in a way that helps you to understand how nefarious all of this was, how they use the death numbers to cause fear and to cause some of you to get these shots. Some of you are wearing masks to this day because of it. God bless you. I mean this from the bottom of my heart. If you listen to this show, even if you don't, I love you those of you that just stumble upon this. But to listeners, I love you.
But I'm going to tell you. If you're wearing a mask and you didn't wear one before COVID, you have fallen victim to mass fomation delusion. You have been deceived, and you have been altered mentally into believing that that mask makes a difference for you, that all of this stuff is out there, You're hurting yourself in so many ways.
Back with a health related proclamation, it's one of the most.
You gotta be kidne me stories. Ever. Mayor Antonio Tauchia of Bccastro Calabria has issued a proclamation ordering residents to not get sick. I'm not kidding, do not contract any serious illnesses that could lead to the need for emergency medical attention. Residents were also ordered to not engage in activities that could lead to serious injuries, and were advised
to instead spend the majority of their time resting. He said it was supposed to be a tongue in cheek way to mention that there are there are shortcomings to the healthcare options. Half of the village's twelve hundred residents are over the age of sixty five. The nearest emergency hospitals thirty miles away, accessible via a road with an eighteen mile an hour speed limit. The village has an on called doctor, but the service is not available during night's,
weekends or holidays. What a job. No, no, no, no, it's after the five. You put a splint on it. Come back to tomorrow, eh, I mean it? Izzah. What a great proclamation, don't get sick? Brought to you by Barono Heating and Air. It's the Morning Show one on WFLA. That's so funny, all right, look back at the program one hundred and eighty seconds or last Amus five, fourteen and fifteen, our versus today. That's where we started the
program big story in the press box. Wildfires in SoCal and if you have family or friends in the Los Angeles County area, boy keep them in your prayers and reach out. See if there's any way that they can take refuge wherever you are. Come on, come this way. Yeah, we don't know enough. We do know that California has a pattern and a history of bad policies and laws regulating prescribed burns to keep vegetation to a minimum that
can produce these kinds of wildfires. I don't know that that played a role here because of the density and because of the locations, may not have anything to do with it. This could just be one of those things that's just awful and that there is nothing that could be done to mitigate it. I don't know at this point, but there will be time to talk about that. Congress finally votes on the Lake and Riley Act. All Democrat members of the Florida Caucus of Congress voted in the
House at least voted against it. Only Jared Moskowitz. He's the only Democrat that voted for it. We've had Jared on the show over the years, maybe a couple of times. Trump suggesting the Gulf of Mexico get a new name, the Gulf of America. I love that federal judge ruling that Pfizer's lawsuit over the company's COVID vaccine they're protected. So Pfizer's protected. Had an addition of animal stories talked about meta. Didn't ask you a question that I'm going to ask tomorrow. So join us then,