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Talk more about the last few days later on in the hour, but great to be back with you this morning to kind of wrap up the week, and so we will adjust the show accordingly. We'll get to that as well in the time ahead. But welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott Show fifty three to oh two. And it is Friday. Yeah, what a week. Huh. Let's start with John one. One. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Let's just stop
right there. In reality, if you allow your faith to just open up your heart a little bit in your mind, a lot is explained in those two verses. Jesus said, I'm the Living Word. When a woman reached out and touched the hem of his garment, it was his prayer shawl by faith because she was a Jew and she believed that if she could just get that prayer shaw that corner which represented the Word of God. And when she touched it in this massive crowd, she was healed
and he felt something because he's the living Word. He was with God in the beginning and through him all things were made that have been made. Those two verses just kind of layout the foundational precepts of our faith. Ten past the hour, it's unpack a little Dayton history here that we are in, and some more and we'll start to get caught up here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, let's take a peek inside the American Patriots Almanac. It is January twenty fourth, eighteen
forty eight. James Marshall discovers gold at Sutter's Mill in North Carolina, sparking the gold Brush, which is, by the way, why they call them the San Francisco forty nine ers. Just in case you didn't know. Little NFL trivia there. That's it's it's a great name. It's one of the best because it's tied to an event of history. Nineteen twenty two, Christian Nelson of Iowa receives a patent for the Eskimo pie. Now, now, if you're going to get a patent, you either want to like, do something that
helps mankind or do something that feeds mankind. Eskimo pies, baby, come on, that's that's awesome. Nineteen fifty Percy Spencer, who never graduated from grammar school receives a patent for the microwave oven. See there's there's knowing things and there's knowing things. My wife bought me a hat for Christmas. It says I fix things and I know things. Yeah, yeah, I uh, I just I tinker. I for example, in fact, I'm
gonna throw this out there. I need to find somebody locally that has a three D printer and can take something and turn it into a CAD drawing and then manipulate that drawing a little bit and modify it. It doesn't have to it's not a big three D printing thing, but it does need to be a plastic that is really really hard to break, very rigid. But I got something, and see that. That's the thing. I'm like a lot of you. I just I mean, I'm not. I just have a knack for knowing how to figure it out.
And it's like I just I find ways to fix things, probably not by the book, but I get them fixed and and some it's it's something I've done since I was a child. I've always reverse engineered things, taken remotes and things apart, and and then you know today you can do it while videotaping, so you know how to put it back together. But back in the day, you
just you just just figured it out. And then if you couldn't remember how to you just go, well, no, that doesn't fit right there, and that does and you and you learned real early. Don't don't force it. You know it's okay, it's got it. It was made precisely, so it'll fit precisely. And if it doesn't, something's off and you just I don't know, you'll work it anyway. That's just kind of me. So if you know anybody, or if you do three D printing, and again it's
got to be really rigid plastic. And I don't know anything about three D printing, whether the material that you can three D print can can do that. I mean, I don't know if you can three D print steel. I mean, I have no idea. I don't know how any of that works. I don't know, But email me Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. I'll buy you a happy meal. And then on this date in nineteen eighty four, the first Apple Macintosh computers go on sale. You know, I
had Steve wassneyak on this show. Steve Wassneak was one of those first Apple guys and Steve Jobs yep, just saying yep. And before we break here, today is National Peanut Butter Day. This is kind of funny. National Beer can Appreciation Day, can anyone say in mulvaney? And National Compliment Day? So yes, a chef's kiss to all. I
compliment you on your taste. In radio programs seventeen Past the Hour Friday in the Morning Show with Preston Scott Rave, reviews on the Morning Show Band, and the vast array of new tunes in the Library. You're very excited about that. Yeah, I'll talk more in the latter part of the hour about recent days, but let me get the PSA part of it out of the way. For those of you
that might be venturing out the roads. Depending on the place where you live, most of the roads that are still a little sketchy are either canopy roads that snow fell through, rain fell through, froze, and because of the canopy the trees, it hasn't fully dried up. It's not so much thawing, it's about evaporating because we're still in twenty degree temperatures each night, so the snow's melting, and if it comes across the road and then all of a sudden we're down to freezing. At six at night,
it freezes back up and it gets sketchy. You know, where I live, there were a couple of little spots that I lost traction. Now, they were small, they weren't. It wasn't a dangerous thing because I was driving stupidly. But you know, obviously I left. I left a half hour early and just to allow myself time just in case. Main roads pretty much clear. I ten is largely opened up to our west, though not one hundred percent as
of now. It's close apparently. But wherever you live, just remember we're still I mean, I don't know about you. My yard has probably fifty percent of the snow ice on it. Still. It took about an hour to get the ice off of my car yesterday. I had to heat the car up. I had to allow some residual heat to get through the hood and then the defroster, and then I climbed a ladder to get up on the roof of my suv to be a to take a rubber mallet and break it apart and then grab
sheets of it and throw it because it was. It was three inches thick and it was ice, you know it was it was snow turned ice. And I did that because ice chunks breaking off of a car and bouncing and hitting a windshield can can crash through windshield. I mean it's dangerous and so I you know, you do you, but I think it would be important to get all of it off of your vehicle, your truck, your car, whatever, so it's not breaking loose as you're driving.
There are a lot of people driving around with white on their on the roof of their car, and I get it, but if you can break it free, please do so. You know, you can use a hose, but I know a lot of people have disconnected their hoses and all of that. So it's just it's still a little sketchy in so residential neighborhoods. So if you haven't gone out, like I drove around my neighborhood yesterday afternoon.
My wife needed to run a couple of errands yesterday and I wanted to see what the roads were like. So after I got the ice off of my car, because I had her take my car, I just like her in the big SUV when she's driving around on something like this bad weather or whatever, and so she you know, I drove around, and there were certainly parts in my where I live that were safer and better than others. And I knew this morning there was gonna be a little bit of black ice. I knew that
because I've lived in that. And so I guess all of that to say, no matter where you live, you got snow in the listening area of this program, all right, And the odds are you still have some either residual snow or it's still getting below freezing at night. So I'm just saying, take a little time. The schools are still closed throughout the region. Best I can tell, I know that Leon County the schools are closed again today. The universities are closed, the college is closed, and so
just you know, take it for what it's worth. But if you're out driving, if you have to drive, just allow a little extra time today. Don't be an idiot. I know that most of you that listen to this show, you're not that person, because you can't listen to this show and be an idiot driver, because I would offend your sensibilities all of the time. Because I loathe idiot drivers, unsafe drivers, I loathe them, and I don't loathe you. I love you. We have so much to talk about,
so we will not do what's the beef today. I've got Lee Williams, the gun writer, joining me next hour. But today we're going to catch up, going to catch up because we've been gone and I feel bad that we've been gone. But it would not have been safe for us to try to get here in the hour we have to drive, and so we made the executive decision to not so, you know, so be it. We're here, We'll get caught up, and it's good to be with
you this morning. Here back once again together. You're on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Sensey of sensibility, communicator of common Sense Amplified. It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Shall we take a moment to bask in the glow that a radio program that I have called common Sense Amplified for twenty three years. As of this March, we now have a president.
That is touting the virtues and the return of common sense. Yes, I'm well aware that we are ahead of our time here and that's the benefit of listening to the program. You get validation on many things that you're thinking, you get prodded and poked on other things that you're thinking. At the very least you're informed on things that are happening. But in this case, common sense is returning at a
very very fast clip. The big stories. In the press box I mentioned we are not doing what's the beef today because I've just got too much to catch up on. So rather than talk about how much I have to catch up on, let's get through that big story there that was in the Fox Newsday line of judge in Seattle. I knew it was going to happen when this judge was based in Seattle. I knew that it was going
to get blocked. And that's fine. There is an intent here, and we're not going to dig through the argument of
the fourteenth Amendment. We'll do that next week. I'll see if I can get Hans von Spakowsky on the program because he authored a piece several years ago on what the fourteenth Amendment is and what it isn't And Donald Trump wants this before the United States Supreme Court because he and his administration believe his legal experts believe the Fourteenth Amendment has been misinterpreted for decades that if you go back to its origin, it had to do with
slavery and children of slaves. It did not have to do with people arriving in this country illegally popping out a kid and saying, see, my kid's an American. Had nothing to do with it. And oh, by the way, it should be pointed out that when an ambassador is in this country, he or she, if if their wife, if the ambassador is a woman and married and has a child in this country, that child is not a citizen of this country. That child is a citizen of
where they were sent from. Just because they were birthed here does not make them a citizen here, because their parents are citizens of another country. So the argument is best framed by ambassadors sent to this country to serve as ambassadors to the United States. They're living here, but because their child's born here doesn't make them citizens. This is all about getting it before the United States Supreme Court. Good a criminal arrested seventeen times, one of hundreds, if
not thousands now that have been captured by ice. See, this is a whole new world. Now, it's a whole new here in America's he's got seventeen criminal convictions. He screams, f Trump, you feel me, yo, Biden forever bro that thank Obama for everything he did for me. Bro that that was part of the tantrum he threw on camera while being hauled away by ice. Seventeen criminal convictions. And if you have a problem with grabbing up these criminals and deporting them, they can live next to you. You
open up the spare bedroom in your home. Otherwise, zip it, zip it. Don't want to hear it. And that's the thing, Congress. Put them in your house, put him next to you, have him live on your front yard. Let him pitch a tent in your backyard. Otherwise I don't want to hear it. Forty minutes past the hour, you get you get the feel for where we're going today. Catching up, Yeah, baby, Hi,
real quick here I ten way west we're talking. I'm looking at the updated five one one map Mossy Head, which is north of Niceville but well to the west of Panama City on I ten, and obviously Panama City is well well south of I ten, but there's still some it looks like some ice related accidents happening there. Ninety has some problems on a couple of places in that same area. So just remember as you head west
there are still some spots. If you're going to get on I ten, or if you're traveling on IT ten you just catching the show here heading through and you're heading that way. There are still some issues. But I ten is mostly open, but there are are still some issues getting caught up on some things as well as you know what's happening, like what's just happened. The House has passed the Lake and Riley Act. The Senate passed it, so now it's heading to the desk of Donald Trump.
It'll be his first congressional law passed that he's going to put his signature to. I just want you to think about this. This same thing was passed in the last Congress, but Democrats controlled the Senate and they wouldn't listen to it. They refused. It passed this time around. And what significant is It passed in the Senate sixty four to thirty five. Think about that, It passed sixty four to thirty five. In the Senate. Democrats voted against it,
not although a lot of Democrats voted for it. But what significant is they wouldn't even take it up the last time, and it makes you think about the amount of legislation that Democrats might have voted for that could have helped some things like this is low hanging fruit on immigration. This has taking people that are showing a proclivity for crime and saying we're detaining you, you're being held, you're not being released, you're not being now, so that's past.
I saw this story and I thought it was very interesting. Israel's top military chief, hers I Haleev hallev I, informed the Minister of Defense today that by virtue of my recognition to my responsibility for the IDF's failure on October seventh, and at a time when the IDF has significant achievements and is in the process of implementing an agreement to release our hostages, I requested to leave my role on March six, twenty twenty five. Until then I will complete
you know, readiness and changes. But he said, the morning of October seventh, under my command, the IDEA failed an insmission to protect Israel's citizens. My responsibility for this terrible failure remains with me every day, every hour, and will remain with me for the rest of my life. Now, let me say a couple things here. He's resigning because he feels as though he's the head of the Israeli defense Forces. He said, it is a failure on my part for what happened. Can I'll tell you what I
would do if I were the prime Minister. I would not accept his resignation. I would say, sir, by virtue of the fact that you're taking responsibility, you show the leadership that we need in that position. Now, if there were things that you in fact did do wrong, okay, let's learn from them, let's implement changes, because experience is the best possible teacher. But think about this now, someone
taking responsibility owning it. I don't know how much he bears, but the fact that there are people of honor out there, I just thought that was worth mentioning. Another story here. A poll conducted for parents defending education by a third party national research firm. Six percent of fair and It's thirty three percent Republicans, thirty eight Independence, twenty four Democrats, and ninety six percent felt that parents should have the freedom to decide what kind of schooling is best for
their child. Ninety percent of parents said public schools should be focused on reading, writing, and arithmetic. I would add American US history taught properly. Fifty six percent opposed to school organizations based on race or ethnicity. Thank you. Eighty two percent concurred the race of a pupil should not be a determining factor in discipline. You you. Eighty percent said schools should not assist students in altering their gender
identity without informing parents. Seventy seven percent believe the district personnel should be obligated to notify a parent if their child is using a different name or pronoun at school. Seventy four percent of respondence were opposed to elementary schools students receiving instruction on sexual orientation, gender identity, or assisting
seventy four percent three out of four. Three out of four said girls should not allow men males boys to compete in girls sports, use girls' facilities, or share accommodations based on their quote gender identity. Here's what this says. Common sense is starting to become vogue again, and that is good news. Forty seven minutes past the hour, There's more. There's more, all right, before we get to Lee Williams, the gun writer. Next hour, a few more things in
the news. Obviously we knew this was gonna come. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski. The only reason they have an R in front of their name in the US Senate is it stands for Rhino, not Republicans. It's Lisa Murkowski are Rhino Alaska. Susan Collins are Rhino Maine. The only reason that they have in our is because they just simply fictitiously represent the party they're not. Murkowski will not support Pete Hexath. What I love is allegations, quoting allegations, and that's all
I need. So she is of the opinion that anonymous fact I mean that he abused one of his wives when that particular wife swore a statement that he did not. But we're going to believe the allegation, not the person. Anyway, HEG sith is going to get confirmed because if it boils down to it and a tie breaking vote is needed, guess who has it? Jd Vance. Jd Vance is the Senate President. And don't think for one second if something comes in front of him and it's HEG sith yes
or no, and he's the vote, it's done. Senate Intelligence Committee passed fourteen to thirteen, fourteen to three. Rather the nomination of John Ratcliffe as CIA director, and it passed the full Senate four to twenty five, so that's now two for two. Marco Rubio is Secretary of State. CIA Director John Radcliffe is now the CIA director. We got to get Pete Hesith in there. They just anyway, it's one of the big stories. And then this Representative Andy
Ogles Douglas. I'll go with Ogles Tennessee pushing an amendment to the Constitution that would give a president three terms in office, but not more than two consecutive terms. He wants Donald Trump to be able to run again. I don't like it. I don't like it. I get it, we don't need Well he gets another try. He got another try, he won, and let's be candid. In four years, Donald Trump will be in his eighties. I'm not an agist, but I think there's some practicality to this. That said,
we don't need to modify the Constitution. But that's just my opinion. All right, we've got Lee Williams standing by the gun writer, he joins us.
Next, all right, let's go, let's get started.
We have no time to waste. We've lost enough days due to a winter storm in Florida. There's something really weird about saying that, but it's true, and we welcome you back Friday here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott and I am joined by the Gunwriter Lee Williams the website thegun Writer dot substack dot com. Lee, how the heck are you?
Good man? Busier than hell this time of year, even with Trump in office, it's amazing.
Yeah, there's no shortage of stories that you're covering on the Substack site. And I encourage all of you to sign up for the newsletters. You'll get articles as Lee writes them and releases them, and of course you can support the work Lee. Let's start with I was fascinated to learn of the nexus that exists between Lee Williams and former President Joe Biden.
Explained, Well, Joe's of course from Delaware. I worked in Delaware as a young reporter there, young investigative reporter. Got to know Joe a little bit. I knew his son Hunter, I'm sorry, his other son better. But yeah, I mean it's a small state and you just, you know, you just kind of take it for nothing that you're going to get to know the guy, because I mean, he's one or two senators. There's only a couple of representatives,
and it's a hell of a small state. So that's how I got to know Joe.
Now share what you kind of view his four years as it relates to what your focus is, which is the Second Amendment and gun rights in this country.
Without a doubt, Joe Biden has been the worst president we've ever seen in terms of the Second Amendment. There's not even a close second in terms of the Second Amendment. I mean, right off the bat. And the thing is now, I don't know how much was him. I don't know how much was the powers in his office in the White House, because you know, he ate a lot of crap for everything they did. But only now are we starting to find out that we don't know what Joe
knew and what Joe didn't know. I don't think he knew much about what was going on. I haven't talked to him for years, but man, I would start. Three years ago I wrote a story on how Joe Biden's mind was playing tricks on him and he wasn't the president that we should have had. And you know, gosh, now the rest of the mainstream media is finally catching up three years later.
I'm curious, what was there, like a specific event that caused Joe to take advantage of that event and start using the ATF for political purposes.
No other than the event was the election. I mean, the minute he got elected, the powers behind Joe Biden focused on guns. I mean, I've written one hundred, probably one hundred stories on Joe Biden and guns. And the minute he gets elected, he comes out and boom, he's reading the speeches. He's anti gun. He had the office set up in the White House right from the very beginning. There was no one incident that caused him to be all anti gun.
In twenty twenty two, thoughs you know it in your article, it really started to focus on gun dealers, those selling guns legally in this country. There was a determined focus to try to revoke licenses. And do we know was there anything other than I hate guns, I hate the Second Amendment motivating it.
I don't know what was motivating it. All I know is from a journalistic perspective, it we kicked in the high gear. I mean it was crazy, the stuff that he was doing to try and take were Second Amendment right.
I think you document it with a number five hundred percent.
Yeah, ATF back in the day. I don't want to say they used to play nice, but sometimes I'll know. I know a couple of gun dealers who had good relationships with the ATF investigators that would come in and look at their shops. If something was wrong, the ATF would just kind of hold it up and say, hey, you need to fix this. That all changed, bro, That all changed after Biden got elected. They were all intent on using simple paperwork errors to close down the shop.
It was.
It was nuts.
Thankfully that era is over, we hope, and that's what we're going to talk about next. Lee Williams with me, he is the gun writer. It's the gunwriter dot substack dot com. Here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Let him past the hour. Lee Williams the gun Writer with me. Gun writer is spelled with a T gun right term. It's the gunwriter dot substack dot com. That's where you go
and Lee House Resolution two twenty one. It was introduced by Representative Eric Burlison of Missouri Lauren Bobert of Colorado. We talked about it on the show last week. First of all, what are your thoughts on its potential for passage?
You know, I gave it. First of all, the bill would do away with the ATF. I mean, the whole bill is pretty simple. If you're a bit alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and explosives is here by abolished. I didn't I've seen a lot of bills like this in the years, but I didn't understand it when it after it came out for a while. It is getting a tremendous amount of
traction right now. There are more right now. I would say it's the number one good bill HR two twenty one because everybody signing up to support it.
Is it because the ATF is has turned itself into its own form of a Second Amendment anti anti Second amendic gestapo, because there's there seems to be overlap, as there always is in federal government in what it does versus what say the FBI is responsible to do.
I don't like the term gestapo for describing ATF because it's not strong enough. Okay, Yeah, ATF has just gone crazy. I mean they've literally gone crazy under that bureaucrat that that ran them into the dirt. And you look at what they've done. I mean, look at Brian Malinowski.
Yeah you well you detail Brian Malinowski, but you've got there's a list, Lee, There's a list of abuses not to not the least of which is that those those f fls that are being attacked across the country.
Imagine having shop and then not having a shop. Imagine having millions of dollars in inventory in your shop and then having an ATF agent come in, go through your paperwork, find a couple of procedural errors in your paperwork, and shutting you down. We have a gun shop here in Sarasota. It's been open for decades. Right now all they sell is black powder because they were shut down. It's crazy what's been going on with ATF and how quickly that
federal agency was reponized by Biden. I mean, it's like they were waiting for him to come in. And I have you know the guys that I knew no longer work for ATF with that way, the guys who are going into the gun shops.
Tell me this. Do you do you feel as though Donald Trump would his best tack would be to simply use the bully pulpit to inform Americans. I mean, quite honestly, if I'm on his staff, I'm handing him your article on what he needs to do, recounting the stories, the abuses, and you know, the the increases in shutting down businesses, and I would simply say, we need to pass the legislation. So it's not an executive order, it's done, and it's a matter of law.
Yeah, ATF needs to go, it needs to be shut down. Whatever crap I got to watch my language, whatever kind of crap they need to do to be handled easily by any other agency, FBI or anybody. ATF needs to go. They need to be shut Now we're talking about five thousand people, about twenty five hundred agents and the twenty five hundred support staff and guys that go and investigate
these gun shops. So it's not a huge dent with what's coming under the Trump administration and how how badly they're going to reduce and I say badly in a good way. Badly they're going to reduce the size of government. ATF shouldn't even be in the afterthought. I mean, let's do it now, let's do it today.
Is there any part of alcohol and tobacco that is at all relevant to our culture today that we need some form of this apparatus.
No, okay, some guys making some liquor. You got some guy making booze in the sticks in the selling it to maybe fifty people who cares. There are enough agencies out there to regulate cigarettes and tobacco on their own. We don't need ATF.
So it's just it's as simple reduction and the diet on government large.
Yes, right, absolutely, because there has never been a federal agency that is so quick to join the persecution and the prosecution than ATF. I mean, look at their history. Just take a second and look at their history. I mean, oh my gosh, you've got you've got the a lot of dead people because of ATF.
Yeah, it's noted in several of the articles that you can on Lee's website. It's the gun Writer dot substack dot com. More to come with Lee Williams of The Morning Show, a few more minutes with the gun Writer. You go to the Gunwriter dot substack dot com and you'll find the work of Lee Williams and Lee joins us for one more segment. Lee. Back in December, state Representative Joel Rudman filed a bill to embrace finally full open carry in the state, but that bill has now been withdrawn.
What happened, Yeah, I don't think it's gonna pass here. I think it's done. I don't know what happened. I was not in to have these behind the scenes conversations. I'm sickened by this that we don't have have open carry here in Florida. I mean, look at the legacy that Florida is passing on right now. We've got Pam Bondi's going to be our attorney general. She I mean twenty eighteen, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland was hit.
She jumped on the other team. I mean, she helped get this anti gun bill pass that made raise the age from eighteen to twenty one to purchase established red flag laws in our state. Now she's going to be our attorney general as opposed to bat gags. Florida does not have good gun laws. We've got okay gun laws, but when you compare it to some of these other states,
especially the open carry thing, it's bad. And we live in a state where a lot of people want to carry openly and that needs to change, bro It's really sad.
Tell me why it is that on occasion, especially as a related to the Second Amendment, good bills die in the Florida State Senate.
I wish I knew all of the reasons, but right now I would have to point my finger at the Sheriff's office offices, the Sheriff's Association. For some weird reason, the people in charge of that right now do not want open carry. They believe it's going to cause all these kinds of problems. But for me, right now, if I'm looking for somebody to say, hey, they're the ones that killed openary, it's going to be the Sheriff's office.
How is it that the red flag law even got through? When the commission that was formed made up of some parents that were, you know, parents of kids that died at Stoneman Douglas High School, they didn't recommend that. They went the opposite direction. They believe that we needed armed personnel, we needed teachers to have the ability to carry in schools. How do we get there?
You know, twenty eighteen was a weird year for that. I mean, we had all of these horribly mains and killed children at Marjorie Stone and Douglas. They thought they were doing the right thing. They obviously weren't. I mean I talked to people that were on that commission and they said, you know what, we supported red flag laws. I know there were a few that didn't, but man, it got through and it's sad. Now we're going to have to remove it.
So we've got this now headwater here. We've already seen just a little bit of a territorial squabble between the Governor and the head of the House and the Senate with it when it came to the special session. A little bit of a pushback there. But the Governor's made it clear he wants open Kerry and he'd sign it. But yet and the House seems willing. So as of at this point in time, it is Ben Albritton, the Senate President, that's stopping it. Correct?
Correct? Correct?
Is there enough support in the Senate if it got to committee, if it got through committee?
I don't think so. I think we're going to have to wait until we have a new Senate with more Second Amendment people on it. I mean, it kills me to say say this, Preston. I mean, I live in Florida. Obviously I'm living in Sarasota, and the fact that we cannot open carry is a major hit on us nationally, and it says a lot about our government here.
See. I'm of the opinion I don't think tactically it makes sense to open carry, but I think I shouldn't have the right to open carry.
I agree one hundred percent. I would probably open carry a little bit. But yeah, tactically it's crazy because everybody sees your firearm, obviously, but the fact that I cannot makes me absolutely crazy.
Right Well, Lee, thanks for what you're doing. Keep writing, my brother, and we'll talk again next month.
Sounds great.
Take care, brother, Thank you, sir. Lee Williams with us this morning. He is the gun Writer. The Gunwriter dot substack dot com is where you go to read his work. With all due respect, reach out to Senate President all Britain, and reach out to the Florida Sheriff's Association. I'm not certain that a majority of sheriffs agree with the association's position on this. I'm not certain. Twenty seven minutes past the hour, boy, there are just a ton of things.
So for one of the only times I can think of in show history, other than being off we're not doing what's the beef today. The only time we've replaced it would be the occasional we got a short week, so we're gonna do a Thanksgiving what's the Blessing or something like that. But we're just not doing it because there's just too much in the news to discuss. We are getting reports of there's still being a little bit of ice on Highway ninety in between Quincy and Midway.
I'm hoping today's the last day we have to deal with stuff like that, that the weather's gonna give us a bit of a break. And even though we're gonna still have some cold temperatures, we're gonna get the ice melted and snow melted, and we're gonna get We're gonna get past all that stuff. But the bottom line is if you are out driving pulled up Florida five to
one one, it's really a good source. There are still areas on ninety well west, we're talking in and around Crestview I ten between Mossy Head and you know, to the west kind of in the direction of Harold, that are still problematic, but a lot of iten has opened up. So clearly big story is a winter storm Florida is just you know, all you can do is just throw your hands up and say, you know what, I'm not
mad at anybody. You can't be mad at anybody. We're not going to have a bunch of salt trucks and snow plows and just just not going to have it. It would make no sense to spend money on something that happens once every forty years, or in this case, the last time we had snow accumulation like this is nineteen fifty eight. We've had some snow. This is the third time it snowed since I lived here in nineteen
eighty seven. I've moved in nineteen eighty seven. It's the third time that I can remember actual snow on the ground. This was a lot of snow, but it was mostly ice. It was kind of an icy It was definitely snow as it fell, but it didn't pack worth a darn by the time you could get to it and you had anything accumulative. Those of you that managed to mold some form of snowman, well done. Good on you. I grabbed a bunch of the snow ice and put it in my refrigerator in a labeled freezer bag. I have
two bags now. I have bags from the last snowstorm that hit when I was on the air. This was a little different. But we're back with you big stories in the press box. The judge blocking Trump's birthright citizenship order calls it blatantly unconstitutional. Well, that depends on how you're reading it. See, here's the problem if you read the fourteenth Amendment. We'll go do a deep dive on this next week again, hoping to get Hans von Spakowsky,
who's written at length on the fourteenth Amendment. There is great reason to think that this has been largely abused and misinterpreted for years, and we'll talk more about that. I don't think anyone cares one bit about this judge's ruling because it's going to be appealed. It's going to get appealed all the way up to the Supreme Court, is my guess. I don't know about you, but I'm thrilled to hear gang members with seventeen criminal convictions say,
f Trump, Let's give the president all the credit. Thank you very much. You want him living next to you. These are the types of people that are now being rounded up and ready for deportation. Donald Trump is doing exactly what he said he would do, and he's wasting no time. Here's what's key. Congress needs to come behind and make law as much of this as possible so we don't have ping pong balls back and forth on
this everything from energy policy, tax policy, immigration policy. Make as much of it law as possible so that a future president has to deal with that. Do the right thing, legislate common sense to the best that you can. Speaking of the Lincoln Riley Act is heading to the desk of the President. It has passed the House and the Senate. That's good news. More Big Stories next, forty minutes past the hour, Friday.
This morning, dispensing information at the speed of sound, and if you're lucky, he'll be wearing his Clark Kent glasses Today The Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Trombone makes me happy, Just does ony. Two minutes past the hour, More Big Stories. Parents in a survey strongly support education reforms that are dripping in common sense. It was done for the organization Parents Defending Education. A third party national research firm did the surveying back in December. Ninety six percent believe in school choice. Ninety six percent ninety percent believe schools ought to be focused on reading, writing,
and arithmetic. Fifty six percent opposed to school organizations based on race or ethnicity, Thank you. Eighty two percent believe that the race of a student should not be a determining factor in discipline. You mean color blindness, You mean
that's a good thing, exactly, it's common sense. Eighty percent schools should not assist in students altering their gender identity without informing parents, Without informing parents, doesn't matter to have that should be one hundred percent, but i'll settle for eighty. Seventy four percent opposed to elementary students receiving instruction on sex orientation and gender identity, assisting students in transitioning seventy four percent. Seventy five percent concurred that males should not
participate in girls team sports, utilized girls facilities, or share accommodations. Again, common sense, common sense. These are issues. And here's the thing.
All the talking heads on the mainstream media, some of the Democratic liberals, let them scream, if the Republicans would only listen to me, start compiling the video, start compiling the quotes, start compiling the sound bites, and then Trump on the campaign trail Trump signing legislation or executive orders, pointing out these polls, point out every opportunity that you can how Democrats are obstructing common sense, show how far
detached from reality and these simple, basic fundamental issues, how far the left is from being even remotely sane. Start messaging now, because in two years you can change the pattern of midterm turnover to the other party. We cannot afford it. Here's what happens in two years if it takes place now. I'm gonna try to get Evan Power on the show. Evan and I have had an interesting
relationship over the many years we've known each other. I want to get Evan's thoughts because he's in a place of influence now he's the chairman of the Republican Party of Florida. I'll get it. I want to get Evan's thoughts on this messaging because clearly Florida's gotten a lot of things right. But we have to start now because here's what's going to happen. If Democrats take control of the House. In the Senate, they say, they'll say this, see, you've elected us to stop this man. All the while
he's keeping the things. He's keeping the promises that got him elected. We got more to come, more to talk about. Forty seven, forty six passed the Hoart. I don't want to get ahead of myself. John Ratcliffe confirmed the CIA director. Seventy four to twenty five was a vote in the Senate, which means yes, Democrats jumped on board, some opposed. There will always be opposition. Next is Pete Hexath. It's going
to be a very different vote. I love how National News summarize Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins, us senators from Alaska Maine, respectively, as saying that he's unqualified. Oh no, no, no, no, no, he's very qualified. You may not like him, and he clearly has owned some personal issues from his past and been very open and honest about them. But this could come down to Jade vance. They've got two defections right now, they've got a fifty three, So they've got fifty one
votes right now with Collins and Murkowski opposing. So that brings the Democrats if they stand in unison at forty nine. So if there's one more apparently, here's what's interesting. The third vote that was the one that people were worried about was Mitch McConnell. But Mitch McConnell is not going to oppose Pete Hexath a little bit of a surprise. But jd Vance could be the tiebreaker, just saying this is an interesting story one that there might be disagreement
in the show here on this one. I think Jose's in favor of amending the constitution to allow Donald Trump to serve another term. I am not in favor of amending the constitution. I just I think that the difficulty in amending our constitution is appropriate. Florida needs to take a lesson from the nation on that one. That said, the amendment says no person shall be elected to the office president more than three times, nor be elected to
any additional term after being elected to consecutive terms. This is all based on the interruption that, Okay, if people want him to serve two terms, they have to let him serve two terms consecutively. Now do I think the second term was stolen from him? Yeah? I do, I absolutely do. But I also just believe in just kind of things happen and God has a plan, and I'm okay with that. You know, I wish it hadn't happened. But the fact is, I think we're in a better
place in terms of unity. The pendulum got pushed so far. I mean, look at the young people that are moving to the right. Not just young men. There are some young women that are standing for life that are saying, yeah, this is crazy. Anyway. I'm not in favor of it, but it is an amendment that's being pushed. The requirements to push a constitutional amendment across the finish line are massive,
massive anyway. So those are your big stories generally. There are clearly others, and we couldn't possibly get to everything. There's more to talk about. I don't know if you saw any of the virtual appearance at the World Economic Forum by Trump. It's brilliant. He looked at the CEO Bank of America and said, why aren't you, Why aren't you doing business with conservatives? Why are you are you?
I mean, he just that guy's like ah. I mean, he basically said that if you make your products in America, it's gonna be better for you, it's gonna be better for us. Otherwise you're gonna likely be seen some tariffs. He has threatened to start tariffs on China ten percent Canada, Mexico twenty five percent that begin as early as February twenty February first, these are negotiating points. Tariffs have a place.
But here's what's interesting to me. I had somebody share something with me, a very good source that said, not unreasonable people are making a proposal. I'll tell you what that proposal is next on the Morning Show with Prescient Sky. All right, there are questions being asked about the Trump pardon of January six ers. I got a note here saying that it's a blanket pardon for all. I don't
believe it's a pardon for all. Maybe I'm mistaken. I did not see that as a pardon for all, but I did see it as a pardon for nearly all, because nearly all we're not guilty of a crime. I mean, maybe a misdemeanor for some. But that gets into a big can of worms. But we'll have We got plenty of time to unpack all that I wanted to share. What was shared with me, and what's being discussed is a different kind of pardon. Now, just everybody dial in here.
And for those of you wondering, no, we're not doing what's the beef today. Having snow days where we couldn't do the show has necessitated me taking time to catch us up on some stuff. And I want to talk about this. What if I said to you that there was an idea being kicked around inside the Beltway to do away with the IRS in a rather backhanded way and to force Congress into adopting another way to collect taxes.
What if I suggested to you that what is being considered this is crazy, but it's being considered by people that are disc drive by a source of mine as not unreasonable people. Now, I won't give away my source, and I won't go beyond that. I'll simply say, okay, tell me more. And here's what I was told. The consideration is to pardon everybody who has been convicted of income tax evasion, which would in essence kneecap the IRS and force Congress to in short order figure out how
to collect taxes. Now, I would say that goes back to a fair tax. For me. I'm a consumption tax guy. It's what works in Florida, and if I have the opportunity in the next couple of weeks, I will get a spokesman from Fair tax On here and explain it. Fair tax is not without a challenge or two, but they are minuscule to those of you that think we need to fill out we just need a flat tax. That's appropriate. I'll only point out that history says that won't work, because that's how we got where we are
right now. So the idea is interesting. Now consider so what do you do with the irs? It becomes the ers and all of those people then go to work. Reduced in number. We don't need as many as the External Revenue Service, focusing on collecting revenue overseas finds tariffs taxes owed to the United States as a country. Well, now, wouldn't that be interesting. I know that there are accountants that right now would be just crying about this. I'm sorry.
There would still be a need for services with regard to doing the books and helping businesses with their balance sheets and their p and L statements, etc. But we have to change the mechanism for taxation in this country and give you the ultimate authority over your paycheck. We'll explain later. Ten past the hour. I've got so much to talk about.
This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Senate Democrats blocked the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. It was fifty two forty seven. Republicans voted to proceed on a technicality, they're able to do that, but at
this point it's it's been somewhat blocked towards vote. The text of the measure stipulates that healthcare provider is present when a baby is born alive amid an attempt at abortion must exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of the child as a reasonably diligent and conscious health care practitioner would render to any other child born alive at the same just dational age, and then ensure that the child
born alive is immediately transported and admitted to a hospital. The measure precludes prosecution of a child's mother. The mother of a child born alive described under subsection A may not be prosecuted for a violation of this section, an attempt to violate this section, a conspiracy to violate this section, or an offense under this under section three or four of this title based on such a violation, so it
protects moms and their decisions. Democrats voted against it. John Fetterman was called out by the director of Legal Affairs and Policy for Susan B. Anthony Katie Daniel, who wrote, my dude, it's literally called the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. A baby is born, breathing and squirming, and you voted to deny her the life sustaining health care she would be owed if she were born under any other circumstance. As this is not about a federal decision
on abortion. It's up to states. This is about saving the life of children. See that's the thing. It's a child. But I'm not going to beat that up. I've done that often enough. Trump signs an executive order ending remote work for federal employees. Some are not very happy. Wah all, I want some tissues to go with those French cries. Little cheese without wine. Yeah, I really don't care. I
would submit that. And he's also put a freeze on hiring, which is brilliant because he's like, we're functioning without these people. Why would we want to hire more people? Come back to work or see you now again? I think you. I think you have to be very shrewd in cutting the bureaucracy by all means move ahead. But I think you need to put provisions in there with forms of
sunset clauses. I think I said this well before the turn of the year that I think it's imperative for Trump to get more money back into this country, which is already happening, boost energy, which means jobs, which means costs reduced, which takes pressure off of inflation, which in turn we probably will see lower intates. I don't think the president needs to order that. I think you let the market forces. You put things in place to allow the market to function properly, and then the forces of
the marketplace determine what happens. And by bringing money back in, by bringing jobs back, manufacturing back, energy production back, by stopping these mandates of you will do this and killing entire industries with a stroke of a pen. What you do is you say there are now jobs for all of the people in the public sector who are going to lose jobs by say July first, and then September first, and you sequentially start shrinking the size of government. You
get rid of the duplication in agency overlap. There should be no diagrams of overlap. Generally speaking, there just shouldn't be. We can't afford it. We just can't. Spending money on bureaucratic nonsense is silliness. And so what you do is you create these opportunities for people in the public sector to move to as you get rid of their jobs, as you get rid of these agencies, as you get
rid of duplication. It was pointed out to me by listeners that ATF does serve some function outside of firearms, and that even within firearms there are some things. And that's why I asked Lee about that. There may be reasons to keep ATF, just not remotely in the fashion that it's in now. I'm okay with that retool remake, Streamline Peak, it Noon notch, and then they have jobs to go to seventeen past the hour, come back. The reimagining of efficiency is spreading. By the way, twenty two passed.
Good Morning Friends, Welcome back Morning Show with Prestin Scott. A little different here for Friday, because we miss so much time. I felt like I owed it to you to get us caught up on a few things and to talk about some of the stories in and around the news. This is a business story, and I think it's interesting. The DEI fanatics out there are livid that Trump is fulfilling your promises and that DEI is getting just shot in the head. In government, yeah, I mean literally,
it's done. In the federal government, it's over. It's over. In our military apparatus. There are no DEI officers in any agency of federal government anymore. They're positions have been neutered anyway. There's there's also a move parallel to that in the private sector. Major players in the world of commerce are pushing away from the buffet table of DEI. They're not partaking anymore. The DEI fanatics are out there
blaming Trump again. This is common sense. This is this is so represented on so many levels in so many different arenas. We hear stories of a handful of rogue teachers or staff at a school somewhere that are LGBTQ, are into transitioning, are posting videos that they're going to keep doing it, and the majority of the teachers just
stay silent. They allow themselves to be bullied. Hopefully this is all changing that that people that believe in normal common sense are going to come out of the closet and say enough. But this efficiency that's starting to be I mean the Department of Government efficiency doge, is it stimulating something in the private sector. Look, I'm no fan
of Starbucks. I've gone into a Starbucks a handful of times over the years to get myself a hot chocolate because salted caramel hot chocolate sounded really good on that day, and so I'd get one for myself, and back a few years ago, every now and then my wife would enjoy an iced coffee from there. But I was never We were never regular Starbucks people. Just it's just not our thing. And then you factor in some of the social policies that they've embraced. Well, all of a sudden,
now corporate layoffs are coming to Starbucks in March. The CEO has said it's happening. But what I noticed inside the story. See, if you just read the headline, you would just go, oh okay, Starbucks's face lagging sales and hired a new CEO last year. But when you read inside the story, I just want to take a second. The new CEO said that the company needs to go
back to its roots as a coffee house. The strategy is called back to Starbucks to bring back some of the things that made the company the most recognizable coffee brand in the world, bringing back condiment bars to the stores, enhancing the coffee house aesthetic, personal touches such as serving coffee and ceramic mugs. Starbucks will be reintroducing its use of sharpies to write customers' names on cups, and we'll stop charging extra for customizing beverages with non dairy milk.
Set a goal for a four minute wait time in cafes, provided additional coverage hours, and over three thousand stores, meaning they're getting rid of people at the upper levels and they're adding people in the lower levels. Oh, you mean customer service is going to improve, the company's going to double paid parental leave benefits. It's going to continue to cover one hundred percent of college tuition for thousands of employees.
I mean that that's awesome, private sector stepping up. That's brilliant. But what I wanted you to see is buried in there is this simple little thing cutting management, enhancing at the service level. There are opportunities to learn from these types of demonstrations of reorganization of refocus for your business. Twenty eight minutes after the Hour, come back, best and worst of the week, good News, Dad joke and headlines from the be Monday on the program. Grant Allen will
be in. I got jury duty. I will have my phone and I will have a book. Ah, but what book will I bring?
Oh?
Wouldn't you like to know? M But now Grant will be filling in, he'll dh I'll be back on Tuesday and we will work out the week together. All right. Time for the best and worst of the week, Huz that can you see? Good morning everybody? Yeah? What was your best and worst? Yeah?
So my best was a little obvious.
The snow.
I was just infatuated with it. Stayed up all night long to watch it fall, got up early to see you know what I missed when I went to bed for a couple hours. Did you try making a snowman? Oh no, I mean I tried, but it was, like you said, it was like ice pretty much, So didn't do that.
Then the worst was.
That the snow kept me in for two days. I wasn't able to work and I hate that. Yeah, I'm a workaholic.
Yeah, okay, mine similar, except my worst of the week was the snow slash ice. I just knew it. We got a little snow, it melted, it started to melt, but before the snow really fell, we had rain, and underneath the snow was the ice, and that is so prototypical black ice scenario. And I just knew it as badly as I thought, oh man, I need to get into work on Wednesday. I knew, not a chance, not a chance. And then it just kept lingering. And it
still lingers. So I was bummed because it's such a big week, because my best of the week it's Joe Biden's out of the Oval office and Donald Trump is in it. Amen, hallelujah. Yeah that I mean, yeah, that is the best of the week. And it's just not even close. I'm sorry for all of you that were like, oh, but it's snowing and I've never seen snow. I pull up YouTube, baby, you know, go go put your head in the freezer for five minutes and you'll feel it.
All right, that's awesome. But we've got a leader in the White House, not a perfect Person's tamp down a little bit here, hump the brakes a little bit here. There'll be a little overreach here and there where he's going to be nudging Congress. But boy, you the press conference, we talked about it, just taking questions the media. I don't care what they try to do to spin it. Just remember this.
He is doing what he was elected to do, and I could not be happier with how this week has unfolded.
For the most part. There are certain things he's gonna do to tweak people. He's doing other things to set up court cases. And can I add this, we now have four years that if something happens on the United States Supreme Court, we've got a chance at having Look, there have been we've been disappointed by some justices to a certain extent, but generally speaking, our court is in good shape for a while. So that's our best and worst of the week. We come back good news. Still
have a dad joke headline for the Bee. Yeah, it's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott. I'm gonna set the over under at two point five the number of times that Grant Allen breaks into a Donald Trump type voice, and I'll take I'll take the under. I think he'll do it once or twice. He's a young man of moderation. I don't expect him to go crazy with it. I don't expect him to be prompted about this in any way,
shape or form. But I'm going to ask Jose to keep record, just a little little check mark there how many times he does a a Trump voice. And I'm setting it at two and a half, and you can take the over of the under, but I can. I can promise you this Monday is going to be a lot about Donald Trump, a lot our good news story. You know, we've talked about how difficult it is to
travel on an airplane, passengers, crew, flights getting canceled. Could you imagine being stuck in an airport during these snowstorms and you just you can't go anywhere. You're living at the airport. I've never had that happen, but I know it's happened to thousands. I know it's happened to some
of you. Flight got canceled because of weather at the destination, they're not flying, and all of a sudden, the storm hits where you are and you can't go anywhere, and you're just there, but on the airplane, that door closes and there you are. That's it. You're not getting off. You're getting arrested if you try to get off at that point, right, I mean, that's just the way it is. They close that door, so you're in. And so I came across this story of what's described as the opposite
of a seat squatter. We talked about seat squatters, how they try to grab seats that aren't theirs, and so someone shows up that's paid for the seat and they're not moving, and then it becomes a big ordeal. Another reason why I hate flying. But in this case, and this one example prompted other stories of similar it seems to happen more in first class, which is interesting. Take that for what it's worth. In this case, a husband
and wife traveling together were separated. They were bumped to first class because of a flight being delayed and rerouted, so the airline said you can fly first class on your next leg. But they were separated. Someone immediately noticed that was sitting next to the husband or the wife and just voluntarily said, hey, you're traveling together. I'll swap
seats with you so you guys can sit together. Done. Done, And then others started to comment about how they had the same experience, and it was interesting because they had the same experience in first class where someone just noticed that a husband and wife were separated and said, well, I'm flying solo and you're sitting next to me. She's got a solo seat there. I don't care. I mean, I'm sure you're a nice person. Love to talk with you, but I'm sure you'd rather talk to your spouse, So
how about we just switch? Now, here's the thing. Those kind of courtesies shouldn't be uncommon. They should be common. But the fact that it happened, and that it's being echoed, and that maybe others are noticing and might take notice of the people around them and say, what can I do to make somebody else's trip a little bit more comfortable? Because mine's going to be what it is. I'm flying alone. If I can help somebody else keep their family together, man,
I'll sit wherever. Maybe there will be a renaissance of that, and wouldn't that be some good news? Where did the time go? I don't know, no idea. The show's all but done, but it's not done, so don't you leave yet. Got a new blog up on the blog page that's a lot of fun. But instead of a typical dad joke, I just stumbled upon this and I just wanted to share it because this particular joke by the Gipper Ronald Reagan has aged very very well.
Did you hear the story.
People loved when he told jokes.
About the kid who was outside the Democratic fundraiser selling kittens. When the people came out from the fundraiser, he was holding up the kittens and he was saying, by a Democratic kitten. Well, a couple of weeks later, the Republicans held a fundraiser in the same place, and when they came out, there was the with the kittens, and he said, by a Republican kitten. And one of the members of
the president seen in there two weeks before. I said, wait a minute, you were selling these kittens the last time as Democrat kittens. How come the Republican kittens now, it says, because now they got their eyes open.
That is just oh epically beautiful that you can share that one. You can share that one. Ladies and gentlemen, It's time for your my our trusted source for satire. These are headlines from the Babel of Being with the proposed ban of TikTok, Americans now only being spied on by Pentagon, Google, Facebook, Apple, Samsung, doorbell, and toaster after losing access to TikTok Zoomer's frantically ask grandparents how to use Facebook. Biden confirms that before declaring new amendment, he
talked with respected constanstitutional scholars Beavis and butt Head. Democracy falls as man who received the most votes becomes president. Biden gives Nation one last friendly reminder that he is absolutely the worst. Cleaning crew arrives at White House to get rid of old man's smell age gently guide Biden to retirement home room disguised as oval office. Nation actually pretty impressed that Biden lived through all four years of his presidency. Biden takes comfort in the fact that at
least he did his best to ruin the country. Liberals briefly pause, chanting death to Israel'll call Elon Musk a Nazi. Sad hunter. Biden wondering why no one is buying his paintings anymore. Coastguard rescue swimmer, disappointed he can no longer work from his home. Columbia student just graduated with DEI degree sad with border clothes, this murderer will now be forced to do all his murdering in Mexico. And in final partying gift, Biden appoints Harris.
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We had to do a Friday special edition of the Morning Show because we missed so many days due to these snow days. I'll be honest with you, I don't hardly ever remember snow days when I went to school in Minnesota. But we had snow days here. I mean they happen, I just don't remember. Started the program today with John one versus one and two, and we talked about those verses and their connection to just this is Christianity,
and good way to begin the program. As we got caught back up the big stories in the press box. There were probably twelve of them, and so we just blew up the format of the show and just went through all these things that are going on. We will be back on Monday, but with DH designated host is Grant Allen. I'll be back on Tuesday. And so my friends have a good weekend. Hope things staw in your yard and the plant damage not too bad.