Good morning everybody, and welcome Wednesday. On the Morning Show with Preston Scott and Preston, he s o, hey, great to be with you. On January fifteenth, we're five days away. Five count them five Today, Tomorrow, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and then Monday. All we have to do is get through half the day now. Joe Biden's trying to ruin the country in the time he has left. Sorry, Barack Obama's trying to ruin the country and make things ever more difficult.
They're literally doing all they can. And don't for a second think that Joe has the cognitive skills to think of this stuff. He doesn't. He barely knows what ice cream to order. Okay, So sorry, I got way ahead of myself. But I'm a little fired out because, as I told Jose, I took one for the team yesterday.
I will explain later. John A. Thirty one and thirty two says this, So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, if you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. Did you catch the prerequisite to being set free? Knowing the truth having those things happen abiding, if you abide in my word, he says, First, you're truly my disciple. Do you know what it means to abide? That's something that very few
people really have the skill set. I work endlessly at trying, and it's sad to me that it's taking me so many years of my life to get to where I'm more proficient at abiding. And so I guess I would say, learn from me. Don't wait so long people learn to abide in his word, because you will know the truth,
and that truth will set you free. We now and then have callers that will talk about their knowledge of God or what they think their knowledge of God is, and so forth, and they go wandering off into these unique paths of different faiths and try to make it all make sense. You're not abiding in God's word. If you abide in God's word, period and stop, you will
know the truth and it will set you free. For those of you that know what I'm talking about, how often do you encounter a situation, see something, hear something, observe something, and you just go, I get it. It just makes sense because you're spending time abiding in God's word believing in God's word, learning God's word, and so you just have this level of you get it. It
makes sense. The world today as it is, with all of the absurdities of gender and political correctness and all of this nonsense, it just makes such perfect sense when viewed through the lens of what God's Word tells us. It just does. And because it makes sense, it reduces your stress level. You take on the responsibility and the burden in your circle, in your world to be the best version that you can be of an ambassador of Christ,
and you leave the rest to God. We have a job to do, but it starts by abiding in His word, being a disciple, because that enables us to know the truth, and that truth unshackles us, sets us free. Can I get an amen? Ten past the hour.
On news Radio one hundred point seven us LA Morning Show with Preston Scott, Good Morning friends. I am, of course Preston, he is, of course pose Kenys Yes, c A n us.
Can you January fifteenth, payday for many? Can I get it? What?
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All right? It's let's see eighteen forty four University of Notre Dame.
Notre Dame, the University of Notre Dame receives its charter from the Indiana Legislature. That would be in eighteen forty four, the University of Notre Dame.
Eighteen ninety two, The rules of basketball are first published in Springfield, mass This is cool. I'm gonna tell you right now, this is cool. Listen on this date. In nineteen sixty seven in Los Angeles, the Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs thirty five to ten in the first Super Bowl. And my dad was the broadcaster of that game for CBS Television, and the stories about the broadcast of that game. Mg NBC was the network
for the AFL as it was called then. CBS was the network of the NFL, the National Football League, the American Football League. They hadn't merged really officially yet. The broadcasters got along great. The crews hated each other, and they had to put a fence up to keep the crews separated. Yeah, I'm deadly serious. Let's see here. Nineteen
twenty nine. Martin Luther King Junior born in Atlanta. Two thousand and six, Stardust NASA spacecraft returns to Earth with the first dust ever retrieved from a comet Okay, now that's cool. And in two thousand and nine, it was on this date US Airways piloted by a jet piloted by Captain Sully Sullenberger makes a successful emergency landing on the Hudson you're taking off from LaGuardia. Remember that, Remember that story. Tom Hanks played Sullenberger in a movie. So yeah,
so there you go. Let's see here today is a National Bagel Day. Bagels are so underrated. Yes, little veggie cream cheese on there, a veggie veggie cream cheese on a plane bagel or on an everything bagel and everything bagel. Besides getting all kinds of poppy seeds wedged in your teeth. You just make sure you have a little toothbrush or something to pick those things out afterwards. If you're going
to work. But but but like bag little egg sandwiches Canadian bacon or ham or bacon and egg and cheese, and a bagel, Oh, my goodness, gracious, bagel pizzas. Bagel pizzas are incredible. Yeah, let's see National Strawberry ice Cream Day and National Hat Day. I've got one, two, three, four, five, six, I have seven hats here in the studio. And then there's I don't know, I don't even know where that
hat came from. It's been in that studio forever. Jose's wearing a hat that is an upside Well, it's actually a mug of beer. Yeah, it's very frothy. Yeah, And I don't know where it came from, whose it is or was you know what it is? That's from David Allen. I bet David Allen, former program director and producer of the program with Me. My friend David did a beer podcast and oh, by the way, it was awesome. That
was a great podcast. And I've never had a beer in my life, but I enjoyed listening to it because it was fun listening to those guys. David would always have experts on that knew about brewing and all that. It was so much fun listening to them describe what makes up this kind of beer and that kind of beer. And I mean, I was fascinated. Now, I wasn't tempted to ever have a beer, because that's just I think
they smell kind of gross. I don't mind cooking with a beer now and then like brats and shrimp and some cheese. Beer cheese is incredible for pretzels, for dipping. But yeah, anyway, seventeen past the hour, come back Tallahassee, Leon County folks, I need your help, so stay with me here. This is walking music. Walking downtown. How you do walk to the beat of the music? You ever
see that happen? You got a song playing in your car and just someone walking down the street just and obviously they're not listening to what you're listening to, but they're just on the beat of your song. It's it's it's fun. It just is because you're sitting at a stoplight maybe and you're just watching this dude walk and they're just cruising to the beat. Man, It's like windshield
wipers sometimes get on the beat of the music. Inevitably they get off of it, and then it's like, you know, but but when it gets back on the beat, you're like, Okay, this is cool. It's cool. Anyway. Maybe I'm the only one that thinks about things like that or observes things like that. Will Well. I love when when everybody's turned blinker sinks for this that split second, they're all sinked, and not just that the blinker with the beat of the music as well, yeah, you know, that's like one
of those I don't know. I'm just I'm a child. I admit it. I'm a child. That's okay. Speaking of kids, this is where I need your help. You might have heard in the news. If you're local, if you're outside the tallass area, you have permission to just kind of yeah, you know, keep me on in the background here for just a few minutes before we get to the big stories because you do not want to miss the big stories today. In fact, today's show, you just don't want
to miss the show. But I say that every day, but I'm really mean it. In town, we have the Night to Shine. Genesis Church had been doing Night to Shine for years. They were unable to do it, so Emmanuel Baptist Church picked it up. It's an event started by the Tim Tebow Foundation. It is for special needs kids to have a Night to Shine, have their own prom a special night, and they need buddies, people that will just kind of help out. If you've got a child or know of a child that is special needs
fourteen and older, that's who it's for. They can sign up. It's a special night, it really is, and they need help. But here's what they really need right now. They need prom wear and they're having to kind of throw this together because Emmanual Baptist Church stepped up when Genesis Church said, yeah, we can't do it, and it was like, is this thing going to have to be canceled. So they're a
little behind, so they need some help. They're looking for form aware for young men and young ladies fourteen and older. So if you can help, here's the list ready, here's the list of what they need for young men, suits, jackets, tuxedos, dress shirts, bow ties, belts, suspenders. I would add ties as well, because you can look pretty sharp in a classic suit with a nice tie. And then for young ladies, and they're looking for new or gently used and you know, man,
don't be putting stuff that's stained and all. It's like, if you're donating, don't put stained stuff in there. Come on now, prom formal or evening dresses, jewelry, handbags, shawls, strapless bras, hair pieces and accessories and heals. If you have any of that stuff and are willing to donate. They're creating basically a prom boutique where the participants can come and pick out clothing and they're doing it at
the church. So the church is at twenty three fifty one Mayhand Drive and that's between Magnolia and like Riggins Road, all right, and so on Mayhand big church, really cool church, done a lot of really neat things over the years. Happy to see them pick this up. And if you want more information on the event, Night to Shine tallahassee dot com. All right, so we would appreciate your help.
Twenty seven past the hour, come back, big stories in the press box and more on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. You're welcome.
I watched the four hour Senate confirmation hearing of Pete Hegxath. They alternate between Democrats and Republicans and Sweet Mother of God. Rather than me try to describe what he endured, let's just focus on for a few minutes here Senator Maizie Horano of Hawaii, who sounded drunk. I mean it, don't take my word for it, but she's trying to read from her script. I want you to note none of this is meant to actually get some insight into Pete Hegxath as a Defense secretary. It was all meant to
put smears and anonymous source crap on the record. Check it out.
As Secretary of Defense, you will swear an oath to the Constitution and not an oath to any man, woman, or president.
Correct, Senator, on multiple occasions, including as a young second lieutenant, I have sworn an oath to the conversation and I'm proud to do so, yes, ma'am.
In June of twenty twenty, then President Trump directed former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper to shoot protesters in the legs in downtown d C. An order Secretary Esper refused to comply with. Would you carry out such an order from President Trump?
Senator, I was in the Washington DC National Guard unit that was in Lafayette Square during those.
Would you carry out shoe protest sery in the legs?
I saw a direct service agents to get injured by writers trying to jump over the fence.
Send a church on and discriber.
That sounds to me that you will comply with such an order. You will shoot protesters.
In the lake.
Okay, Next, mister Eck.
Said, you commit to holding leaders accountable at all levels. That includes you, of course, and frankly, as Secretary, you will be on the job twenty four to seven. You recently promised some of my Republican colleagues that you stopped drinking and won't drink if confirmed.
Correct?
Absolutely, Will you resign as Secretary of Defense if you drink on the job, which is a twenty four to seven position.
I've made this commitment on behalf of will.
You resign as Secretary of Defense?
I've made these commitment of job, the men and women i'm service. I'm not because it's the most important deployment.
Hearing an answer to my question, So I'm going to.
And then lastly by people who worked.
With your Fox News, do you know that being drunk at work is prohibited for service members under the UCMJ.
Senator those multiple false anonymous reports pedaled by NBCD.
You know that directly to the job is to.
The dozens of men and women Fox con who are worry.
I'm not hearing that direct in my question, and said, then.
Your offering statement, mister, he said, you commit to holding leaders accountable at all levels. That includes you, of course, and frankly, as secretary, you would be on the job twenty four to seven.
She can't even read her own notes. I'm asking is she inebriated or is she just never mind, it's I'm just getting started. Friends. No, you've got to hear what Tim Kaine did. That's coming up next and I'm sharing it in the early hour of the show. And I'm hoping that you don't have children around, not because of profanity, but because of subject matter. And this is a US senator. We're supposed to be determining the qualifications, the vision, the
ideas for a new Secretary of Defense. Forty minutes past the hour, brace yourselves, keep one hand on the steering wheel at all times. Now, I said thank you to me, and you're welcome to you for enduring that. I don't know how many of you endured the four hours. I don't know if you could. I was in my office at home for most of it, and I have a very very very very very large book case credenza thing behind my desk, and I had to move it away from the wall in order to unplug some things, to
rearrange some stuff. I'm just doing a little redecorating of my office and organizing, trust me, listening to democrats and their efforts to try to rattle Pete Hegseth which by the way, failed massively. They all but guaranteed his confirmation. He is going to be a soldier's delight. And oh, by the way, in case you didn't know, since Trump's election, recruiting numbers are up. We've talked about it for four years, the decline in recruiting. It's up. We're going to get
back to being a military fighting force. We're going to get back to building ships. We're going to get back to doing what we need to do to be the top military apparatus in the world. At least we've got a chance. But listening to people like Tim Kane made it very easy for me to move this massive wall unit.
I'm looking forward to this opportunity to talk. I want to return to the incident that you referenced a minute ago, that occurred in Monterey, California, in October twenty seventeen. At that time, you were still married to your second wife, correct, I believe so, and you had just fathered a child by a woman who would later become your third wife.
Correct, Consider the subject matter.
I was falsely charged, I fully investigated and completely cleared.
So you think you are completely cleared because you committed no crime that's your definition of cleared. You had just fathered a child two months before by a woman that was not your wife. I am shocked that you would stand here and say you are completely cleared. Can you so casually cheat on a second wife and cheat on the mother of a child who had been born two months before, and you tell us you are completely cleared?
How is that a complete clear? Senator?
Her child's name is Gwendolen Hope Hegseeth, and she's a child of God, and she's seven years.
Old, and she and you cheated on the mother of that child less than two months after that daughter was born, didn't you those were false charges?
Well?
No, fully investigated and I was completely cleared.
And I am so youthful in the marriage.
I have to this.
You've admitted, you've admitted that you had sex at that hotel on listen to this guy.
You said it was consensual. Isn't that correct anything?
Dmitted that it was consensual, and you were still married and you just had a child by another woman.
Again, how do you explain your judgingly false charges against me? You I investigated and I.
Was completely clear.
You have admitted that you had sex while you were married to wife two, after you just had fathered.
A child by wife three.
You've admitted that, now if it had been a sexual assault, that would be disqualifying to be Secretary of Defense, wouldn't it.
I it's a false claim.
Then, in a false claim, Now if it had been a sexual assault, that would be disqualifying to be a Secretary of Defense, wouldn't it.
That was a false claim. So you're talking about a hypothetical.
So you can't tell me whether someone who has committed a sexual assault is disqualified from being a Secretary of Defense.
Senator, I know in my instance, and I'm talking about my instance.
Only, it was a false claim.
But you acknowledged it was you anowledge that you cheated on your wife, and that you cheated on the woman who by whom you had just fathered a child.
You have admitted that.
I will allow your words to speak for them.
You're not retracting that today. That's good.
I assume that in each of your weddings you've pledged to be faithful to your wife.
You've taken an oath to do that, haven't.
You, Senator, As I've acknowledged to everyone in this committee, not a perfect person, not claiming to But.
You no, I just asked the simple question.
You've taken an oath like you would take an oath to be secregary of Defense and all of your weddings to be faithful to your wife.
Is that correct?
I have failed in things in my life, and thankfully I'm redeemed by my Lord and Savior Jesus Christine.
All right, now hold on to all of that, Just hold on to it. I'm going to rearrange some things because when we come back, member of the Republican Caucus has had enough with this total line of questioning by all of these people, and I'm just giving you a snippet of it. We come back, Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma gets teed up by the Republicans. Oh You've got to hear it next on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Our friend Tommy Tubberville was on the committee that was
listening to this. But the guy I want to play is Mark Wayne Mullen, US Senator from Oklahoma. You may remember he's the guy that offered to fight the head of the union the Teamsters a fl cio whatever literally step outside. He was a undefeated MMA fighter as well as a Hall of Fame wrestler in the state of Oklahoma.
But you know, cooler heads prevailed. But after listening to all of the challenges and trying to belittle Pete Heggsa's service to this country and his lack of qualifications, here's Mark Wayne Mullen.
There's a lot about qualifications, and I think it's still hypocritical of senators, especially on the other side of I'll be talking about his qualifications not going to lead the secretary or be the Secretary of Defense. And yet your qualifications aren't any better. You guys aren't any more qualified to be the senator than I'm qualified to be the center,
except we're lucky enough to be here. But let me read you what the qualifications of the Secretary of Defense is because I googled it, and I googled it and went through a lot of different sites, and really it's hard to see. But in general, the US Secretary of Defense position is filled by a civilian.
That's it.
If you have served in the US Army Forces, and I've been in the service for you have to be retired for at least seven years and can weigh that. And then there's questions that that the that the senator from from Massachusetts brought up about serving on a on a board inside the military industry. And yet your own secretary that you all voted for Secretary of Austin, we had to vote on a waiver because he stepped off the border raytheon. But I guess that's okay because that's
a Democrat secretary of Defense. But but you so quickly forget about that. And then Senator Kane or I guess I better use the senator from Virginius starts bringing up the fact that what if you showed up drunk to your job? How many senators have showed up drunk to vote at night?
Have any of you.
Guys asked them to step down and resign for their job? And don't tell me you haven't seen it, because I know you have. And then how many senators do you know have got a divorce before cheating on their wives? Did you ask them to step down?
No?
But it's for show, you guys. Make sure you make a big show and point out the hypocrisy because the man's made a mistake and you want to sit there and say that he's not qualified.
Give me a joke.
It is so ridiculous. That you guys hold yourself as this higher standard and you forget you got a big plank in your eye. We've all made mistakes. I've made mistakes, and Jennifer, thank you for loving him through that mistake, because the only reason why I'm here and not in prison is because my wife loved me too. I have changed, but I'm not perfect, but I found somebody that thought.
I was perfect.
And for whatever reason, you love Pete, and I don't know why, but just like our Lord and Savior forgave me, my wife's had to forgive me more than once two and I'm sure you've had to forgive him to and so thank you.
Bomb. Tim Kyne's over there shaking his head like there's no hypocrisy in any of this. So there's a taste. I'm probably not going to play much more of that because I can't do it, and I don't think it's healthy for you to hear it. You can go back and listen to the entire thing. Here's what you're going to come away with, Pete. Hegseith has a absolutely laser focused vision for our military. He has experience. In my opinion,
he already has the respect of all of them. He's recognized that we don't need DEI it's out, we don't need quotas gone. We're going to get better and safer the day he's confirmed, and I think he will be.
All right.
Confirmation hearings pick up dramatically today. The roster will get to at the bottom of the hour, and big stories in the press box. I'm not going to make you listen to any more of the nonsense that Pete Hegsith went through. He was brilliantly prepared for what came at him, calm, decisive, and again he's got a clear vision. So I expect confirmation. He needs a simple majority in the Senate. He needs fifty one votes. He'll get that. I'm quite certain he's
going to get that. But anyway, this hour I want to I've been wrestling with this story since I heard about it, and you might not know a thing about it, but it's likely going to impact a lot of you. Your credit score might jump twenty points based on what I'm about to tell you. A new rule finalized by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau taking effect soon if not already, unpaid medical bills will no longer be included on credit
reports or impact loan decisions. The aim is to use the burden of medical debt and ensure that patients without standing bills aren't hindered from getting home mortgages, car loans, small business loans, et cetera. The rule will remove nearly fifty billion dollars in medical debt from credit reports of fifteen million Americans, which could boost scores by an average of twenty points. Now you might be sitting there saying, what's there to think about on this, Preston. Isn't this
a good thing? Maybe that's what I mean by I'm wrestling with this. You know, at different times in my life, I've I've had to deal with medical bills, but I paid them. Sometimes I pay them over time. Thankfully, I'm at a different place in my life and I don't have that issue right now. I'm grateful, going back to what we started the show with yesterday, being grateful, but I'm and I'm just when I said, wrestling this is this is this is what I'm wrestling with. Here's my fear.
What now becomes the incentive to pay a medical debt? And what happens with fifty billion dollars of medical debt no longer being a hindrance in any way, shape or formed to someone's finances. Now, before you write me off as some heartless ca who doesn't get it, now, I do get it, and I know that there are always exceptions to things. I know that, So you have to extend enough grace to me to understand that I paint with a very broad brush because I am a broad caster.
I'm not a narrow caster, and I understand that that for some select situations, there are remarkable circumstances that bring about the debt that can't possibly be paid in a timely manner. I get that. I do what I want you to do, though, is I want you to step out and ask and answer this question. Is there a chance that you're gonna end up paying that debt for other people? I'll explain next ten past the hour, It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Now.
According to this story, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has found that medical debt is a poor predictor of an individual's ability to pay back alone, yet it still plays
a role in thousands of denied mortgage applications. They expect that an additional twenty two thousand mortgage apps will be approved each year because of this, and that may be, And obviously I think home ownership is a really important good thing for people to strive towards if that's one of their goals is is to own own their own home. Although you could argue you never own your own home because of tax debts from property taxes and so forth.
I mean, that's a whole nother story for a legislative solution on another day. But let me go back to my original question. Let's just think through this for a second and talk about it out openly. Here, someone's got debt and they're they're not paying it. Ostensibly they're not paying it because they're unable to pay. So my first question is, but can you can buy a house buy a car now, Well, but you need a car to get a job. Okay, fair enough consideration, absolutely, but what
happens to that debt that goes unpaid? Certainly hospitals and certainly doctor have to write off a debt, have to write off debts after a period of time. They just the cost of trying to claim to recover the money is greater than any money as they're getting back, and it's just then written off as a business expense and they lose money. But understand this, those people by and large are getting paid. Here's my fear. My fear is that, with the best of intentions, what's going to happen is
that debt. Then okay, what do you do with any business expense? Business owners, Okay, let's whatever the expense might be. Don't you in fact wrap all of those things together and then determine your cost of a good or a service. So if you're a hospital or a doctor and you're writing off millions, if not billions of dollars collectively as a profession in debt every year, don't you then factor that in and say, on average, we're going to have
to write off this much debt this year. So to recover that debt, we have to raise our rates of service, our cost of goods. But in the case of medical debt, we're largely talking about services. But at the same time we're also talking about the fact that to a large extent, the hospital profession, you know, hospitals in general, not the profession. Hospitals overcharge dramatically for things. You ever see what the price of a raiser is. Why same reason the pentagon
does it. They're covering for other things. They're masking things. That's why you don't. You don't often go to a doctor's office or a hospital and get Okay, here's what it costs to get this done. A menu and prices. You only get that when you check out. Now I know the reason they say, well, they don't want to hinder someone getting the care they need. Now we get back to medical judgment, which has been damaged by COVID and gender reassignments and all of that kind of thing.
But let's just stay really focused on the issue here. Is there a possibility that this is going to benefit some folks, There's no doubt about that. And for those that have a good conscience, and it's not an issue that you've got this debt and you're paying this debt, but you still want to get a house as long as you're paying the debt. I feel like there needs to be something in here other than just walking free
of the debt, because here's what will happen. Those costs will be borne by everybody else, the insurance industry and the people that then pay the premiums will those debts will get paid. And I'm thinking that instead of writing this stuff off so much they're going to start wrapping it into the cost of doing business. X percent of people will not pay their bill. It will not hinder them,
so they're not going to pay it at all. So we're going I think we're going to see the amount of bills unpaid go up and that will eventually add to higher premiums or higher cost of services for the rest well for everybody. Everybody will end up paying more. So great news for everyday Americans or is it? That's all I'm just asking? Seventeen passed the hour. Walmart and Amazon have made some big choices. We're going to tell
you about them next. All right, changing gears completely here, It's what we do because I don't want you to get bored. Trivia question. The Walmart logo. You got Walmart, and then you've got this yellow thing to the side of it, right, what would you call that a flashing light?
So you think it's representative of a flashing light? Yes, like you know, like like back in the days whenever they would have a sail, you know, you know, you would have they would have the you know, price with that little logo on it, you know, So I think it's like a kind of like a bright light to kind of grab your attention. But that's just that's just me. So on the regular logo that says Walmart, and then
there's that yellow thing next to it. That's just a still shot, a still picture of the flashing logo saying prices are falling, Yeah, something like that cheap stuff here. Well, I mean, like you know, Kmart had the blue light special. You're probably too young to remember that. Yeah, I remember you talking about it, but yes, I have no idea what you're talking about. Well, what you're describing, that little thing is only two decades old. They added that twenty
years ago. It's been twenty years since Walmart did a redesign of its logo. They've redesigned it now. They call that See I call it an asterisk. It looks like an asterisk to me, just a fancy one, just like what's on your keyboard above the number eight on your keyboard above the number eight is an asterisk, And that just looks like kind of a fancy asterisk on a standard cordy keyboard. They call it the spark. That's what
Walmart calls it. They call it the spark. Here's what's crazy about all of this They've done a redesign of the Walmart and the Spark, and I would defy you to find the difference. Now there is one. There is a difference. If you put both Walmart and the new Walmart and the Spark and the new Spark side by side, you can see the difference. What they've done is they've fattened them up. They've add a little more heft to both of them. But that's it. It's not like a redesign.
It's not a lot different than what they did with the Walmart. Is when you type something and you pick a fond and then you highlight what you've typed, and you decide to put bold on it, and you fatten it up, make it bold. They just went bold on the Walmart and they went bold on the Spark. So Walmart has a new logo. I don't know what the point of that redesign is because it's virtually undetectable to
most people unless you see them side by side. And I would say that unless you see them side by side, well, then what's the point of the redesign? What'd you spend the money on? Because now you're going to spend millions retrofitting all of your signage on Think about this, Think of the number of walmarts in the country that now have to get new signs printed and on their buildings.
And for what that's not a redesign. That's stupid. It just is I'd like to think I know a little bit about marketing, and and that just that defies logic. I'm all down for freshening branding, but if you're gonna do a redesign, do a redesign. But anyway, and then Amazon, I promised Amazon News they are ending the Try before you Buy program. That's the deal where you get to get a half dozen of pare of items at a time for a week before decidings which ones you want.
Here's what I didn't. I'd never take advantage of that, because that's just not a thing I do. Apparently, the number of clothes design styles that are available for that program is so limited that they were like, yeah, this
isn't worth it. So it ends January thirty first. So if you're one of those try before you buy people and you take advantage of that program on Amazon, it ends the end of the month, and then yeah, then it's I guess you pick out whatever you want and if it doesn't fit, I guess you send it back. But it's not under this same program Amazon. You know, the one thing that Amazon has brilliantly done. Amazon has
made returns brilliantly easy. It's easier to return something to Amazon than it is to go back to a store and turn it back in. They've made it easy. Gotta give them credit for that. All right, come back, big stories in the press box. I'm staying on time because we've got We've got J. D. Johnson coming in next hour with the Talent Training Group Personal Defense. Don't you
dare miss it. This morning Show with Preston Scott one hundred point seven WFLA National News just kind of took the steam out of what I was going to share. Talking about the nominations today, the one that's the most interesting to me is Payam Bondi as Attorney General, because Pam will be in a spot to make a lot of Democrats nervous. See That's why I'm going to offer
a little armchair guessing here. I think the answers Pam gives to very specific questions she's going to get will determine the type of pardons Joe Biden issues before leaving office, who gets covered. I think the Democrats in the Judiciary Committee are going to and have been instructed by Chuck Schumer, who's been instructed by Barack Obama and to whatever extent Joe Biden, not Joe Jill. She's only got five more
days on the job. I think that they have instructed them to ask questions about certain topics to determine if Pam's going to go after people. She going to go after Anthony Fauci, staph the NIH for lying for their deception. She going to go after the FBI and what happened
on January sixth? Is she going to do a thorough investigation of Adam Schiff in particular Jerry Nadler didn't ad Jerry didn't ad Nadler their role on that committee attacking Trump for four years, claiming to have smoking gun evidence that amazingly was never produced but was used like a hammer against Trump for four years. Is she going to get to the bottom of Clantifa and the reasons why
there were no prosecutions virtually none. Now, I mean, I can see that this is a very very important hearing. It's going to start now, it's scheduled to start about nine thirty this morning, Christy nomant nine Homeland Security Department. There's Marco Rubio at nine all at ten o'clock rather, he of course nominated Secretary of State. I mean, man, Florida. Wow, we've got we've got some people up there, you know,
looking to serve this nation. And I'll be honest with you, I think so highly of how our state is run and how we do things, and I think we got a great bench here. Let's do it. Let's get some Floridians up there that know what good policy looks like. That said the confirmation hearing yesterday, Pete Hexath just cemented his place in my opinion. His confirmation was sealed the moment Tim Kane unleashed his insane personal attacks. And you talk about disgusting and despicable, but that's who he is.
That's who he is. He's a disgusting human being. Mazier Harano just made me laugh because she sounded drunk, and she's been known for a very long time as not being one of the brightest people in Congress. If you know what I mean, I'm gonna be charitable and just leave it at that. Forty minutes past the hour. Those are your big stories in the press box, things that will shape our nation. And that's a nineteen seventies action
police theme. If I ever heard one storry blah blah blah blah blah and then another guy comes jumping around the car with the doors swinging open and they freeze him co starring blah blah blah. You can see it, can't you? All Right, this is important, This is very important. I feel like I'm channeling ron Bergerty. I have a very important announcement. Forty says Cannonball and jumps into the
end of the pool. No, this is important. Apparently, wearing flu season, I guess are any of you just sort of deadened to all of that at this point after COVID, You're just like, it's noise every winter, it's flu season. See, that's why you don't wear masks, because you don't build up the antibodies naturally that help you from getting sick sick, and you inhibit the ability to deep breathe and your system to work the way it is. You're not breathing
deeply when you're wearing a mask like that. In fact, you're hurting yourself. You're likely causing disease by just breathing in everything that's trapped in that mask. But anyway you do, you there is a warning from officials with Rutgers University that poison control centers across the country are getting increased calls for overdoses of acidymeniphin. Now, acidameniphin is the ingredient in thailanol. Thailanol equals acedamenophin. You can buy it generically
as a cidamenophin, but that's that's thailanol. All right. Here's the problem. And I did not know this. People are popping it to treat flu like symptoms, but most people are unaware. Listen to what I'm about to tell you. Listen and you're listening. There are more than six hundred products out there that contain acidamenifin that people are taking.
So if you take this product to treat the flu, and you take that product to treat the flu, and you take that product, and you take that product, and then all of a sudden you've got tilanol or it's generic equivalent, you are overdosing on a set of miniphin and it can create liver toxicity, damage and failure of your liver. I mean thirty five years ago, I knew somebody that tried to kill themself by taking a bottle of a set of miniphin. Talk about a painful way
to try to die. Now, this person changed their mind and got pumped, and thankfully they didn't. It was literally a miracle that this kid didn't die. But that's what's happening. These are accidental overdoses from people not recognizing acid of minifhins in all these products. So there's two takeaways here.
Number one, read the ingredients on the label of anything you're taking for a cold, flu, whatever, and pay attention to whether or not there are ingredients that are common between them, because you could be accidentally overdosing yourself and end up in a world of hurt. Six hundred products on the market that contain acid of minifin, Oh my gosh, and you don't even know it until it's the damage is done. And that therein lies the problem. That's you're
damaging your liver and you don't even know it. So yeah, so far flu season, five point three million flu illnesses, sixty three thousand hospitalizations, twenty seven hundred deaths. You don't hear about that, though, do you that? Interesting because people die of the flu every year. They're usually compromised with other health issues, and then things complicate when someone gets the flu. So forty seven past the hour, come back. You've heard of the irs? You ever heard of the
e rs? All right, let me read the announcement Donald Trump made from Truth Social yesterday. Far too long, we have relied on taxing our great people using the Internal Revenue Service through soft and pathetically trade agreements. The American economy has delivered growth and prosperity of the world while taxing ourselves. It's time for that to change. Today, I'm announcing that I will create the External Revenue Service to collect our tariff's duties and all revenue that come from
foreign sources. We will begin charging those that make money off us with trade, and they will finally start paying, finally their fair share. January twenty, twenty twenty five will be the birth date of the External Revenue Service. Make America great again. It's going to be interesting because I think that the way that we've gone about this as a nation for a very long time has just been wrong. We have too many people that don't pay anything, and we have too many people that pay too much, and
you will never ever convince me. I don't care how much money a person makes. They don't owe the government forty percent of it, thirty nine percent of it, thirty seven percent of it, thirty percent of it, twenty seven percent of it, twenty three percent of it, fifteen percent of it. They just they just don't. It's wrong, it's morally and ethically wrong. But pressed in the person that makes so much, they have enough. Well according to you, but to you you have you have too much. According
to somebody else. You can go on and on with this. All that we should require in this country is that people have an opportunity. Outcome is on you. And if you see that, yeah, there's really not a good future here for me where I want to be economically. Okay, So pick a new direction, do things differently, create a side hustle. I mean, I don't know what to tell you.
At some point we'll have a long discussion over the over the fair tax, and we'll have a I'll bring somebody on with fair tax to once again talk about it. The irs and our system of taxation is just wrong because we're missing out. And to quote Marco Rubio said this, you know Marco is a bright guy. He said, we don't need more taxes, we need more tax payers. And part of that equation is that people that pay nothing ought to pay at least one hundred bucks a couple
hundred bucks a year. Don't you think someone collecting a paycheck hot to pay something. They're living off the roads, they're living off the infrastructure. They yeah, but less of their disposable And see that's where you go to the fair tax. Think about this for a second. In a fair tax world, no business pays taxes. In a fair tax world, no income earner pays taxes. Think about all of your money, and this includes Social Security and Medicare. It's all out. You get all of it. You get
all of it. If you want to set aside money for an IRA or something that's up to you, it's all taken out. When you go to the store and buy stuff. And people that don't make a lot of money, they get money to offset that to a certain level. Like all of us would roughly thirty five hundred bucks of spending on necessities and so forth, we wouldn't be taxed on. After that your taxed. It's brilliant anyway. J D. Johnson standing by next. Did you hear that ad for
Trump Watches? You might not have. If you didn't, you will mourning friends, ladies, gentlemen, boys and girls, males and females only, ruminators near and far. Thanks for joining us. It is the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Great to be with you. Jose over there in Studio one A. I am here in Studio one B, and it's time the first visit of the year with Jad Johnson of the Talent Training Group. It's time for our personal defense segment.
Good morning, sir, Happy New year. How are you? Good morning, Happy New Year. Yeah, I told you before we started, we're gonna do things a little bit differently today. But I want to I want to stress to all of you, and I've already I've already got a question coming in uh, and I have a question here to start with. But I would love to hear your questions. I don't want to assume that I am going to always ask what you want to talk about or what what you want
to hear. So if you've got a question, just email me Preston at iHeartRadio dot com and if you'd like, you can uh, you can call us at eight five zero two zero five w f l A. I'm not going to tell you we're going to take calls all show long. I will tell you that we'll fit a caller to in if you want to call in and ask a question. Eight five zero two zero five w f l A. That is uh, that is the number, and so give us a call. I want to start
JD with a question we got from Brian. He said, what is the effectiveness of a gun safe as a Faraday age in the event of an EMP occurrence? Now, let's not assume everybody understands what he's even talking about. An EMP electromagnetic pulse.
So if you were to detonate a let's say, a nuclear device at altitude, you could create that. And we have naturally occurring EMPs with solar flares and things like that that can disrupt radio communication. It can fry, essentially in Layman's terms, it can fry electronic devices, mess with hard drives on computers, depending on what kind of hard drive it is, do a lot of damage to electrical
electronic devices. Like I said, naturally occurring. And there's a lot of folks that are in the prepper world that are highly concerned about about EMPs. We've had naturally occurring EMPs back in the early days of telegraph late eighteen hundreds early nineteen hundreds is a huge event that essentially shut down the tele graph grid in this country for for a good bit of time. It actually short, short circuited or burned out a whole bunch of the telegraph lines.
Well, and people are on heightened nervousness because of all of the drones that that we still don't know anything about.
Right Yeah, Well, I mean it's a it's a crazy insane world we live in right now.
And so what's a Faraday cage?
A Faara day cage is essentially a device that would block that pulse and disperse it into the ground. It's like a ground wire on an electric motor on your pool pump, if you've had a swimming pool and a pump running on it. If you'll look closely, there's a big copper wire coming off of it, probably with a with a copper rod driven down into the ground, so that we'll we'll transmit any electrical overcharge basically down into the ground.
So now we get to the question about as safe.
Yeah, some of them I have seen on some of the safe that that out there that they say it will protect from an e MP. Haven't seen that advertisement on all of them or claim from all of them. We sell devices at the store that are that will protect your house in your car.
I've got one on my truck.
It's it's a it's basically a device that because all of our vehicles modern vehicles now, unless you're driving a you know a pre you know pre computer in your car, which has have been around since the eighties, unless you're driving something with points and plugs and a carburetor, you've got a computer in your car that runs your car
that your car can't operate without. And they make devices that hook through the battery system and it's essentially if you get an overcharge of your electrical system, it will run it to ground and protect your car.
Uh.
Some of these devices that are on the market come with an insurance policy essentially that they'll say, okay, well if you if we have this and it our our device fails, you get a twenty thousand dollars worth of repair stuff. So you know, they have them for houses. Florida Power and Light has them.
So putting a thinking of as safe as one. It's for protecting.
Yeah, you want to put a hard drive or your your hard disk or something on the laportire laptop or even your phone. Yeah, your phone. I mean they make Faraday bags. The military has come up with them, come up with them years ago.
Uh.
They make little bags that you can put your phone in. That's essentially a tenfol bag.
Yeah, what's where the tenfol hat comes from? Okay, Uh, we're gonna pause right there and we're gonna pick up right there. JD Johnson with me of the Talent Training Group and it's personal Defense here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
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Jadi Johnson with me of the Talent Training Group and the Talent Range of course and Talent Outdoors. He and Charlie hosting that on the weekends and you can listen on these fine radio stations. You were just saying that there is a way to test how effective your safe may be as a Faraday cage.
Yeah, you can if you put your put your cell phone in there and close the door and call your cell phone.
So use your.
Spouse system in case somebody else's phone to call your phone. And if you get a signal through there, it's not If you don't get a signal through there, you've got a Faraday cage.
Now, someone called into Jose and talked about a microwave oven.
Never heard that, but it makes perfect sense because it's containing the microwaves, and that's a lot of what the if we had an EMP Poltz, it would probably be in that wave range, in that wavelength which is radar and all that kind of stuff.
Now, of course you'd have to be suspecting that one was coming or else you've got to carry around your phone and everything, put them in that stuff at all, like a Fara day bag or whatever at all times, and that's not really practical.
And if you keep your phone in a fair day bag all the time, you're never going to get a never gonna get a call.
This kind of kind of defeats the purpose of or one way to slap stop the phone calls.
And I know people that have taken fair day bags and on some of the older, more simple vehicles where you have an electronic fuel injection add on system to a car like you've some of the older vehicles that they change out points and plugs to electrically fired ignition systems. They'll take an extra one and put in a bag and keep it in their car in case they ever have that kind of stuff. They can just unzit the bag, reinstall, go down the road.
You and Charlie and I discussed on two separate segments over period of a couple of weeks prepping what is the line for preparation because that is a series of rabbit trails. Oh yeah, it's it's rabbit holes that never end. But I mean practically speaking, JD, what what is.
The everybody's everybody's got a different line. I mean, where do you feel comfortable? You know, how much expendable income do you have to do? Because it is not cheap. It's so I think everybody's got that has to establish their own where they feel comfortable at. I'm probably not. You know, I teach Charlie about grazing in the yard. You know, he's he's gone to a lot of trouble to learn what you can and can't eat that's naturally in our environment whatever else. I just you know, I
kind of look at things a little bit differently. So I think it's a real personal choice that we make. I think the risk because that e M P. I think is a risk of dealing with that kind of stuff because of solar flares, because it's a naturally occurring thing that can cause I mean, we have a fragile We have a very fragile system as far as I'm concerned, because.
That is interconnected and everybody.
Yeah, exactly, And it doesn't take a whole lot of ingenuity from a bad guy or just mother nature, yeah, to ruin a whole bunch of that and put us essentially in the dark ages if we're totally dependent on that system.
Even when it comes to prepping food wise, there's just so long that stuff is useful, right, five years, mat.
Yeah, You've got some stuff that you know that's seven or ten years. You've got some foods products out there that are good for twenty five years, right, But yeah, I mean there's in you know, I My goal is different. I have freezers, and I have a generator to run the freezers in case we lose power, So my house can operate for a pretty good period of time without
the power grid, and that's what's important to me. That's my everybody's got to kind of formulate their own plan and whatever they're comfortable with, you know, all.
Right, when we come back, we're gonna change gears, We're gonna talk about AMMO and magazines. We're gonna eventually get to some proper maintenance of a handgun and combine compare that with the maintenance of a long gun. Are there differences? Uh, this is kind of a one oh one segment here of personal defense. If you have a question, email me pressing at Diheartradio dot com or call eight five zero two zero five to bfl A back for JD. Johnson
of the Talent Training Group. We get through another quick question here that you and I were just talking about in the break from tim Vehicle cameras. They've heard you talk about this on Talent Outdoors. But there's just so many choices on the market. Are there features? Are there things that you're looking for in those kinds of cameras.
I wanted one for the front and rear looking out at the back of the my truck and the front of my truck, and so it's.
Two different cameras or one different camera.
Okay, you you know, I just ran the wires under the trim and dressed everything up, made it look good.
Uh.
So it's not wires hanging everywhere and causing a hazard.
There is it? Is it sort of centered on the vehicle, like in front of your rear view mirror, and then centered in the back backwards precisely? Yes? Uh? Are there are there features these cameras have that you want. They have.
Most of the ones that I've seen have some night vision capability, so it's the low light's gonna pick up pretty good, or with the light from the tail lights and the headlights, it's going to pick up really good.
Uh they have.
The one I have has a an SD card in it with a loop system, so you're it's constantly running. It overwrits the it overwrites the the little less D card, So.
If you have something happen, you pull the card out and download that segment and then pop it back in and off you go exactly.
Okay, So it's a constant overright. It has a it's hooked into the to the to a hot lead in the car, so if you have motion sense in the car. The car sensors motion, it'll automatically come on. Doesn't have They have some that have interior camera capability of recording outside of the car and inside the car with sound. Actually you know that, And and they're not and they used to be really expensive and now they're not. I think the one I have, I got it on Amazon. It was like one hundred bucks.
So it's select the way we've gotten with webcams that you just buy and you plug into your desktop and put it on your your screen. Exactly. Okay, I promise we were going to talk about AMMO and magazines. Are there any significant differences between range AMMO brands.
No, not really. I try to look for ammunition. That's you know, they're all is all training, AMMO is all going to be about the same price.
It's it's a very global market within like a buck or two of each other a box.
Right, yep, they're all gonna be you know, you're looking for full metal.
Jacket, doesn't matter whether it's brass or not. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
I don't recommend steelcased AMMO in much of anything. In stell case, AMMO is almost has almost become nonexistent to a great degree because the majority of it was manufactured in Russia, okay, and or China, and we don't do gun business with Russia China anymore. That's been prohibited, So there's there's been embargoes against them for political reasons, and so you don't see.
A lot of it. How long can you leave ammunition in a mag for example, you load up a bunch of magazines, you've got them in your bag. How long can they sit there without you needing to maybe pop some rounds out to let the spring loosen? Does that even matter?
Uh?
No, don't worry about that. Springs wear out when they're compressed and released. Compressing a spring and leaving it compressed is not gonna wear it out as long as quickly as using it, or you're compressing it and releasing it.
That makes sense. So yeah, it's sort of like your gridstore opener. You know, you're that spring that on a multipiece gride store if you just have your door down or it's not in.
Use, correct, It's so whether it's loaded or unloaded, it's not getting a lot of use. When you use it, it's gonna wear it out faster than anything It really is going to depend on what kind of temperatures and humidity you're exposing your AMMO to on a daily basis.
What about the usefulness of those rounds?
You know you you don't see most if you're talking about self defense AMMO.
Nope, I'm talking about that range AMMO first and then we'll get to the self defense.
So the round it's not going to change things. What changes the velocity?
I get.
I think it's what you're talking about on the AMO. If you have a velocity loss or whatever.
Or does the round just go bad? No, okay, it won't just go bad.
It will go bad if you expose it to temperature extremes.
Uh, get really hot, really cold to find really hot and cold, like the trunk of the car, or in the garage, in your attic, in the attic of the house. But if it's in the main part of the garage, let's say you got to safe in there or something like.
That, and you're not getting drastic temperature swings and you're not getting high humidity.
Okay.
Humidity is the biggest enemy of guns and ammunition. Okay, And we live in a very humid environment, especially in the garage. Your garage is not climate control like your house. Your house, the humidity in your house is going to stay fairly controlled.
Okay.
That's one of the ways we control heat and cold in the house is by taking a lot of the humidity out. That's what your air conditioner does in the house. That's why we have a drain on your that runs out of the house. It's pulling water out of there. Garage is a little bit different because it is most most garages are not climate controlled. Uh there's a garage
door there that's not well insulated. Now, it's still going to be warmer, cooler than than the outside, but it's not gonna be as good as inside the house.
We got more nuts and bolts to talk about as it relates to our guns and ammunition magazines, all that kind of thing. We're gonna talk more with Jad Johnson of the Talent Training Group next here on the Morning Show with Preston Scotton, thirty five minutes after the hour. Look at us on time. That never happens to me. I'm never on time with this show. All right, Jad Johnson with me of the Talent Training Group, and we're taking your questions. This final question will take from you today.
This comes from Stu in Georgia. He said, do muzzle breaks reduce recoil on handguns? Yes? He asked secondarily, do they increase noise level? Yes? You laughed when I read the question to you the first time. All Right, For people listening that do not know what he's talking about, what is a muzzle break?
Brakes are essentially when you in the last little bit of length of the barrel, so the last the business end the muzzle, so you come just inside the muzzle, or you stop short of the muzzle, and it's either slots or holes drilled in. Slots cut in or holes drilled into the end of the barrel on a rifle, shotgun, or pistol one side or another, usually on the top. Okay, because what happens when you fire a gun, a handgun or a rifle, the gun tries to the muzzle rises,
you have muzzle rise. That's what recoil. It recoil is. So what they're what they'll do is they'll cut this slot in there and it's like a jet engine port basically, so you're you're directing the energy or the burning gas. You're directing that upwards instead of out the front, so you're directing it upwards at least some of it upwards, some of it upwards or out to the sides. A lot of time on rifles you'll have these. If you see the big Abrams tank, they've got this device on
the end of the barrel. Sometimes it has looks like they call it a break.
It's just and.
It's directing the gases up to the top or out to the sides to cut down on recoil. When you do that, they are effective. They do work. The more horsepower if you will that the cartridge itself has, the better the break works. So on a nine millimeter defensive pistol, I don't recommend them one because you're also pushing muzzle flash, burning gas and low light situations, you're generally going to be pushing that hot gas up in front of your
front site. So in a low light situation you're going to be taking away some of your night vision from it, and it's not so effective in a self defense situation. That's something that you've got to have. It also greatly increases the noise. You know, it's back towards the shooter, so you're you're increasing the because you're giving that gas more places to escape. It's going to increase the boom, the pop.
The point of it, though, is to help reduce recoil.
Yes, that is that is the the reason for their existence big on big high caliber rifles, some of them. If you have a really lightweight rifle that's with with with a high a high horsepower cartridge, it's almost a necessity to keep it being going to make the gun comfortable enough to shoot.
But you are increasing noise the way you.
Suppressors also reduce noise and act sort of the same way as far as reducing some recoil. You can get some recoil reduction from a suppressor without the noise. But express suppressors are expensive and right now they're highly regulated by the federal government. We hope that that goes away.
It doesn't.
Suppressors don't keep guns from sound like guns. They keep gun shot from damage in your hearing ens.
Well, I was going to get to that. Since you brought it up, doctors are now coming out the ones that aren't crazy and recommending removing all restrictions on suppressors to make them as readily available as buying a handgun or a long gun, and that for that very reason. Hearing protection.
Yeah, I don't shoot guns around my kids, even with my kids wearing hearing protection. I don't shoot guns around my kids that are not suppressed because I don't want them to end up like me. And that was in
my early twenties having significant hearing loss from shooting. I've been an avid shooter since I was a little boy, been hunting since I was a little boy, and thousands of shotgun shells, and by the time I was in my early twenties, I already had significant hearing loss because it's hearing damage is a compounding thing.
Yeah, and you don't get it back, and you don't get it back.
And I'm been wearing hearing aids since I was thirty and they're not fun. They you know, it's just it's they're aggravating. Sure, So I'm a big proponent of suppressors. As far as protecting protecting the.
Hearing, we're going to stay on that subject. Ironically, it's not where I was going to go with this segment, but with the question that came in the discussion that's followed, we're going to stay there. We're going to talk about hearing protection and the different kinds that are available and whether JD recommends prefers one over another. Next to the Morning Show, j D Johnson with me final segment here, and we're going to keep that train of thought talking
about hearing protection and so forth. Now, I will admit I have one of those compensated barrels on a sig P three sixty five. I've got the compensated barrel and so I'll just be more careful to make sure that i have the proper hearing protection. Yeah, but let's talk
about hearing protection here for a second. The technology of today versus old school, Because there are cans right now that you can put on that have a setting on them that allows you to hear people around you with the cans on and somehow reacts and shuts down to protect your hearing. Is that effective? Yes, they are.
I've been using them for the work the same way, believe it or not, the same way a lot of hearing aids work. They have a essentially a decibel meter. The smarter the hearing devices are smart enough to register a decibel level. When it reaches that level, it just has a micro switch that reacts within microseconds and it shuts off those microphone and then you they.
It can hear the sound level before you can and shut it down before it causes any issues. Flip, that's crazy. Now what about the in ear In other words, cans versus plugs plugs plugs are somewhat effective. We hear through our ear drum that's down in the ear canal soft tissue. We also hear through the vibration of the three bones that are in We have three little bones in our ears, and anvile and a stirrup and a hammer them. I
think I think that's the three bones there. They're taking much less of you for not knowing, sir, but go right ahead.
So we also hear through vibration. That's how the you have a phone, these ear plugs that they have. You see guys wearing these things that have the little bit theyd ear. Yeah, they're picking up the vibration. Those those devices are picking up the vibration of the bones in your inner ear. Okay, So ear plugugs don't protect those bones.
So with kids, especially with kids, you need over the ear ear protection that's protecting those bones from the colibration of the over pressure or the noise that happens when you fire a gun.
Now, can Can you damage your hearing though, Yes, through the bones, yes you can. Yes, Bee with big, big.
Caliber stuff can absolutely damage that your hearing. There's nerves attached to those things. So what what happens with hearing loss with the hearing losses is nerve damage.
At least it's a big caliber.
I would say if five five six is one of the loud of ar fifteen is one of the loudest guns on the market to me, so.
Unsuppressed five two two three, that is high caliber. What about handguns? Yeah? Are there differences? There are?
There are, There are differences setting aside of twenty two, some of the some of the different twenty two can hurt your.
Ears, understood, but it's nothing, nothing like the other calibers. No, it's not there.
The problem with handgun is the proximity, uh close to arms length, you know, that's how far away the noise is. So obviously the further you are away from the noise, the less decibels you're going to be exposing yourself to. Rifles tend to have longer barrels and they're further away, but handguns can do just as much damage because of the proximity to your face.
And your ears in a perfect world, do you put, what about the plugs that are technology oriented, that that are electric, They're gonna be just as good.
I would say is probably like the foam the phone style earplug, some of the little pham, cheap throwaway disposable ones do a really good job of taking the decibel exposure away from.
Your ear drum. I was going to say, if you combine those foam plugs with cans, you probably have a pretty good situation. That's the best of both worlds right there. Okay, protect your hearing, protect your hearing. Don't get it back. You can't get it back.
And then you say hunt to your wife a lot, you know, Yeah, she gets aggravated. Yeah, huh, such a such a fun time tormenting me with yeah.
I'm sure they do. Thank you, sir, sir, Thank you.
J D.
Johnson of the Talent Training Group. My guests forty six past the hour, good to get some basics, huh, just refreshers, updates, different things. We'll pick up there next month. And then also next month, Charlie Strickland will be back with us in the middle of the month, so we uh, we always look forward to having JD. And Charlie here in studio with us US Tomorrow Steve Stewart, Michael Canell. It's
a true story called Blood and the Badge. It's about some bad cops and the mafia, and yeah, it's true story. Also tomorrow, doctor Steve steveson Pause for Thought, we'll talk about some New Year pet owner resolutions and give you a road trip idea. Florida Museum, the Cox Center and Aquarium teamed up with the city of West Palm Beach to take a Guinness World Record on I have no idea why, but they decided to take on a record that was set in Los Angeles, California, in twenty nineteen
for the largest gathering of people dressed as dinosaurs. The old record was two hundred and fifty two people. Our friends at the Cock Center, Sidence Center, and Aquarium teamed up with the city of West Palm Beach and established a new Guinness World Record of four hundred and sixty eight people dressed up as dinosaurs. I think it would be a fair observation to say why, and I guess the answer would be because all I can tell you is it was, in a strange way funny to watch.
Here's why how many dinosaur suits can you find? Right? So you got four hundred and sixty eight people that have all bought dinosaur suits, and they naturally migrated together. They ended up oftentimes clustered in like looking groups. It was hilarious, not entirely, but what what I watched just made me like because look at that. I just I'm thinking of Jurassic Park, the movie Ian Malcolm, Look at Nature. It Found a.
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We talked about the confirmation hearing of Pete Hegsith, the Democrats and their petulant, childish, absurd, offensive lines of questioning which really weren't designed to elicit any kind of response yes or no, just yes or no. Yeah, but you're asking a question that is completely and totally out of context. I can't answer it that way, yes or no. I'll take it as a no.
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I I did it for you, ladies and gentlemen. I listened to Mazie Horano and Tim Kane and Kristen gillibrand or whatever name is. I did it all for you. And I will have to see a counselor for a week. Some of them are just horrible people. They just are. Sorry. Pete hegg sith he'll get confirmed because of the way he was treated, because he was brilliant, and most importantly, he's got a vision for how to fix our military. And oh, by the way, the election of Donald Trump
is already changing the recruiting numbers, heg sith. Being the Defense secretary, those numbers will explode. Write it down, Write it down. More confirmation hearings today. Be careful how much is sit amnifin you're taking in? Walmart changed this logo up a little bit. Yeah, sort of maybe, I don't know. Amazon treading the ending its try before you buy program, talked about medical bills no longer being a part of your credit bureau. I'm not sure it's all good news.
But tomorrow we'll do it all over again. We'll tee it up. Friends, join us, can't wait. Have an awesome day.