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W everybody welcome, moistio o business got as hose over them. Sorry, I'm Preston. Good morning, how are you. It's Tuesday, January twenty eighth, show fifty three oh four, and it is a delight to share time with you as always each and every morning. Common sense amplified. It is so fun to hear the words common sense echoing around the world as Donald Trump talks about the return of common sense,
that we're just we're addressing the simple things. And as we go through the show today, my goodness, Yeah, it's gonna be a good one today. We're gonna take some calls next hour. Who do you think kill JFK. We're gonna go there. We are gonna do it because I've written a blog and I've thrown some stuff out there, and I'm getting a lot of email from folks on one particular topic and who might be behind it. Audio recording that's been released, and I mean, just some crazy
stuff out there. So you might have an idea of what you think and I might change your mind. I might throw something in your gears that causes you to just grind to a halt on what you think, so we will unpack all of that. That's next hour in the third hour. Realm of and Sky. It is a book by Buddy Levy, an award winning author. It is
history's greatest Arctic rescue. It's an incredible story. I received an advanced copy of this back a couple months ago, and it's an advanced reader copy, so it's not necessarily proofed. It's released by the publisher to just kind of give you the book. There might be a typo here or there. And I love getting these kind of books. I personally prefer hardbacks, but I still love them. And Buddy's going to join us live in the third hour. And this
is an amazing story. It really is. And there are names that you'll recognize in this and there are names that you will not recognize, but regardless, it is history, and you know that. That is what I don't interview authors of novels. I just don't novels. They're fine if you enjoy them. And there's a couple that I've enjoyed in my lifetime, but that's not where I'll spend my time on this show. On Make Belief, I will spend
my time on stories of history and truth. And so anyway, our scripture today, we're going to continue in First Timothy four. And remember Paul is talking to his protege. He's instructing Timothy. He said, command and teach these things. Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech and conduct, in love and faith. Impurity, just going to stop.
There.
A lot of you are my age or older. A lot of you are younger. To those of you that are younger, there's this great temptation to use your youth as an excuse. You will be my age before you can blink no seriously, and you're going to find yourself going, oh, I wish I would have set a better example for my kids. I wish I would have And then fill in the blank. And a point was made Sunday in church, and I reflected on this as having been a vocational
pastor with people that had passed away. I never heard anybody at the end of their days lament the lack of stuff they acquired. But I've heard plenty through the lost days and weeks and months and years pursuing silly things and not investing in the people they loved and in changing the lives around them. Set an example. Ten past the hour Tuesday, you're on the morning show with Preston Scott. All right, let's take a peek inside the American Patriots Almanac. If you're new to the radio program,
there is some order to it, you know. I start the show with some scripture every day because I think it's important.
I'm an old guy. I'm allowed to do things like that. It's what I think is best for you. That's right. I think kids today, are you fifty year olds and forty year olds?
Are you? Kids? Have lost sight of that? Sorry? Yeah, So we always start with some scripture, and we start with a peak in history because I think that it's important to just know these little tidbits and little things. First commercial telephone exchange installed in New Haven, Connecticut. Okay, that's interesting, serving twenty one subscribers with eight lines. That was in eighteen seventy eight. Okay, now that's kind of
fun that. See early telephones, telephone services they were I think they were called something like a party line, where areas had multiple people sharing a phone line, so you had to pick up real quietly and if somebody else was on the phone, you hung up and let them continue their conversation. And conversely, if you were on the phone, you kept it to a brief conversation so others could use the phone. And that's just that's like crazy to us. Wait,
no privacy, Nope, nope none. Your calls were easily heard by two or three other households. Let's see here. Nineteen fifteen, Congress creates the US Coast Guard. Nineteen sixteen, Lewis brandeis appointed Supreme Court to the Supreme Court by Woodrow Wilson, becoming the High courts first Jewish member. Nineteen thirty four, America's first ski lift opens in Woodstock, Vermont. A tow rope pulled by a model T engine. Here we go.
Let's see. Now what else could I use that for? Ooh, I got an idea, And so what I would imagine is they had like a rope and a pulley system at the top, and you would grab the rope I'm guessing, and it would pull you up on your you were on your skis. That's what I'm envisioning. That's how it would work. I think there are some that still do it that way. It's not necessarily a ski lift as much as it is a ski pull a skier pulley system,
and it just pulls you right up the hill. Personally, I would prefer that over a ski lift in a chair elevated how are for many feet high? I hear too often of just weird things happening and people trying to get off and on those things. And on this date, January twenty eighth, nineteen eighty six, the Space Shuttle Challenger blew up seventy three seconds after liftoff. I will share
this with you. I'm not saying you ought to do this because it's a little eerie, but if you look at really good high deaf footage of that event, you can see the crew compartment come off the spaceship in its entirety, and you can see it being it was designed to be to separate, but unfortunately they didn't design
that with any kind of parachute system. And so the crew they know now well, they knew shortly afterwards that many of them we're still alive when it impacted the water, and so they fell that entire distance back down aware this is not going to end well, and it's just it's kind of one of those eerie things that when you look at the footage and you look at still photos, you can you can. Yeah, let's see. Today is National
Gift of the Ladybug Day. Not sure what that means, National Plan for Vacation Day, National Data Privacy Day, National Blueberry Pancake Day, you're that, honey, And today's National Kazoo Day. By the way, when I said do you hear that, honey, I was not duck in j jose. I just just no, seventeen past the hour back we come to the show in just mere moments. All right, mister food walk in here today and he's like, do you like cheesecake? A couple of weeks ago? Do you like? He's always got
something that he wants me to try. He wanted me to try oatmeal that was chocolate. I thought it was obscenely gross. Well, you prepared it, uh, improperly. Also, following the directions was improper Now you gotta follow my directions whatever, So get your mind around this. Have you ever had Skyline chili? Yes? I love it.
I was actually worried there's something wrong with it when I saw the Well why do you like it?
You know it's because it's a secret recipe.
It's quick, you know, and I like you make your stuff out of scratch. But sometimes I like the can as well. Sky Chili is good, Skyline Skyline. Yes, Skyline Chilio, but.
You don't know why you like it. I'm not gonna lie. I like all can chili. So it's not that it's Skyline that you really like. It's that whatever, right, Yeah, yeah, I'm a chili fan. I don't like minced onions. They have to be cooked way down. They've got to be caramelized at the very least, if not cooked to crispy. I do like fried onions, but I'm fine with caramelize. But I love the flavor of onions. I cannot stand
the texture of it. And so I've never I've never tried Skyline chili because I have this fear it has chopped onions in it, and I'm just like, but this just to me sounds so gross. But I will admit I think taking your French fries and dunking them in a frosty is gross. Whoa, whoa, whoa, that is excellent fra No, it's gross, but I respect that that's something that some of you love. And I'm gonna get email. Oh man, are you missing that? I get it. That's fine.
In joy, in joy, not for the MOI I will not. I will eat French fries and then I will have a frosty. If I have to have a frosty, that's fine. They're they're fine. But dipping my fries in ice cream?
No.
I brought up Skyline Chili because there's another. Skyline is a is an Ohio thing Cincinnati. It's it's an iconic brand. So is Greater's ice Cream. Apparently g R A E T. E R S. They've got four generations now running the company. The fourth generation president has announced a new flavor of ice cream, and yes, it's Skyline Chili flavored ice cream. I gotta try that. What they've done is they've taken the Skyline spice and mixed it in and integrated it with the ice cream. I couldn't do that. I I
understand the sweet and savory thing. Stop rubbing your belly like that. That's just gross. I get the sweet savory type thing, but I cannot. Can you get your brain? I'm not asking Jose this question because I know the answer. For the rest of you. Can you get your brain? Around chili spices in ice cream. Someone who ate it said, don't hate it's delicious. Tried it last night, can't wait
to try with hot sauce. And that's a guy named Brendan cull who's the President and CEO of the Cincinnati Regional Chamber of Commerce, who just posted, you know, his love for this mixes. I got nothing for you, friends. That's that's there. You go. We tend to talk about food in this segment of the show from time to time. I feel like it's a safe but I don't know. Does that just cause you to go yeah now or does that cause you to go WHOA like Jose, I
gotta try that. Twenty seven passed the hourum. A reshuffling of the Big Stories is next. Good morning friends, Good to be with you this morning. As always This Morning Show with Preston Scott. He's Jose, I am Preston. The big stories in the press box were all sett and ready to go, and then yesterday happened at the special session. I think this is a really bad look for the Florida Republican Party in the legislature. The legislature adjourned the
special session immediately called by the governor. They just were done. They gabbled it. Then they called their own special session to address one topic, immigration, not the multitude of topics the governor requested. They also overrode a veto of the governor on the budget going back to last June and reinstated roughly fifty six million dollars of money the governor cut about a third of the operating budget of the House and the Senate. They restored that money. They overrode
the governor and it wasn't even close. All one hundred and eleven present members of the legislature in the House voted to override the veto, and thirty five of thirty six Senators that were present voted to override the veto. So it was it was a slam dunk override. They got their money back that was in the budget. The governor has light item authority, he vetoed parts of it. They put the money back in the immigration bill that
they they filed. They would be designated designating the Agriculture Commissioner, Wilton Simpson, as the state's chief immigration officer. Now, in first blush, you'd say, what why would you have the commissioner of the Department of oh Agriculture Grant Allen sent me an observation yesterday, said, is this about safeguarding Florida's agricultural industry. I think he's right, but I also think
there's something else at play here. By making Wilton Simpson the state's chief immigration officer, and they're going to create a new division inside the Division of Law Enforcement FDL, They're making him the point person between the state and Trump. I don't know if you know this, but Wilton Simpson, I believe, has expressed an interest in running for governor. He came from this body. This is the legislature's efforts to boost Wilton Simpson's profile in advance of a gubernatorial run.
I'll be honest with you. I didn't like Governor DeSantis, and I am I'm suggesting that. Well, what I'm about to suggest, I don't know clearly if there were any communications between the office of the Governor and the Senate President and the Speaker of the House Ben all Britton and Danny Perez, respectively, it would appear that the call for a special session hit them as a bit of a surprise. It's bad form if the governor didn't consult them first. Behind closed doors and say, guys, I'm thinking
of doing this, give me your thoughts. At the same time, the Republican Party, writing on an incredible high, is getting sucker punched and it's doing it to itself because this looks bad. This looks like guys, know what I mean. This looks like a measuring contest. This looks like a turf war, this looks like this is sophomoric, and it's a bad look for the state legislature. Forty one minutes after the hour, that's your big story in the press box today. It's the morning show at Prestin scott on
news radio one hundred point seven WFLA. I had other stories, but then that happened, and it's like, really, guys, you just Florida, just you swept everything and now you look like children. We're not doing your special session.
Ah.
This is about putting the governor in his place. And this is also, in my opinion, about having a little bit of inside kind of politics in support of one of your own to be the next governor. This is about throwing the heft of the issue of immigration and handing it to Wilton Simpson ahead of a gubernatorial GOP primary. I don't. It just hits me wrong. It just does.
And I'm sorry if some of you listening from the House in the Senate and you're working, and this may cost me all interviews with Ben all Britton and Danny Perez, this may cost me getting Governor DeSantis back on the show. I don't care to quote from jd Vance. I don't really care, Margaret, No, I just I don't. I've said things over the years that have cost me a ton of interviews. Okay, if that's the consequence to this, it actually speaks to the fact that I'm probably right. Air
Force has started to dismantle its DEI programming. I don't know if you know this. I didn't know this. The DEI stuff has been going on since twenty twelve. It is deeply embedded in the Air Force. It is deeply embedded in our military apparatus. But they're doing it. They are following the orders of the command, the Commander in Chief,
as well as now the new Defense Secretary. In accordance with President Trump's Day one executive order, US Office of Personnel Management directed respective DEI offices to cease all operations by five pm January twenty second, two days later, officers were replaced on paid administrative leave, their employments set to terminate by the end of the month. By noon on January twenty third, agencies were supposed to report on all steps taken to implement the memorandum. The Air Force allegedly
did so. How bad was it? According to student learning objectives, Cadets who completed the Diversity and Inclusion Studies Minor, which required a minimum of five classes, were able to identify and critically access explanations for construction of specific categories groups such as sec and gender, race, ethnicity, nation, socioeconomic class, religious affiliation, age, disor ability, sexual orientation, and cultures. What what?
Why in the name of God would we ask people signing up to be our defense forces learn crap like that before I shoot you down? Do you mind discussing your gender, say Hubby, before we jump into foxhole together, Let's talk about the importance of socioeconomic stratospheres. Jeez, all right, forty seven past the hour. We're gonna take some phone calls. Next hour, change gears. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Yeah, Baby. Fifty two past Tuesday in the Morning Show, author Buddy Levy in the third hour great book Realm of Ice and Sky. It's true story of an incredible rescue found in the pages of history. We'll do that in the third hour. Lots to talk about between now and then, but we're going to take your calls next hour, and you're welcome to get in line if you want to weigh in on this. I put a poll question up on our X page, and you know, we got a little bit
of traffic. We we don't put a lot of time in social media around here. I mean I post things on the X page a few times a week, put some conversation podcast links. I put a link to the new blog. New blog is all about the assassination of jfk Okay. The question on the X page is what best represents your view of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy? Single shooter, multiple shooters, US government directed or mob slash,
foreign government hit? What best represents your view? Now you can use that as your guide to answering the question. I want to take calls on. I just want to get your thoughts quickly. I don't want a documentary from you, but your thoughts on the assassination of jfk Now. I don't want this to spin into Robert F. Kennedy or Martin Luther King. This is about jfk Now. In my blog, I've got in case you've never seen it, these film,
it's been remastered. It's tough to watch. In fact, when it was first hand it over, I think it was Time magazine, maybe it was Life. Zuepruter did not allow them to show I think it's framed three point thirty one or something like that because it was too upsetting. It showed the fatal shot, but it has since been released in its entirety. It shows the killing of a president. It's tough. If you've never seen the Zubruter film, pay attention to my note and warning it's tough. It is
the only video recording film evidence of the assassination. But I also linked to a story and I post in there a half hour interview with one of the doctors from Parkland the trauma Center, and it just doesn't add up to the Warren report conclusion. But the added story involves a guy named Billy saul Estes. If you don't know the name, look it up. Billy with a I E. It's a dude, Saul so Ol separate word. Estes E s Tes Texas fraud, Texas con man who was deeply
tied at the hip to LBJ. Lyndon Baines Johnson, then vice president, would soon become president. And there's a recording floating around that was released by Billy saw Estes's grandson. Check out the blog give me a call eight five zero two zero five to b FLA. All right, let's do this second hour morning show with Preston Scott and I thought it would be you know, at this point, clearly it's not of interest to many of you. We have a call standing by. We'll get to that call
in just mere moments. Donald Trump decided to fulfill yet another promise to go ahead and release all of the files on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King. Whether those files will remain redacted as they have been, I don't know, but allegedly all of them. They've got a deadline to release it all. I envisioned the National Archives in the back room burning a bunch of stuff. But my question to you is who killed Kennedy? As in the president. I don't know
if LBJ played a role and ordered his assassination. There's a recording out and I've listened to it of Billy saul Estes speaking with Clifton Carter, a former executive director of the Democrat National Committee, a very close associate of Lyndon Johnson, saying that a guy named Malcolm Macwallace. Mac Wallace assassinated Kennedy. LBJ ordered it. He says it on tape. It's an old recording, it's verified. It's him. It's this dude, who's you know. He was convicted of fraud, he did
time in prison. He was connected to another murder, the murder another murder that mac Wallace committed. Mac Wallace apparently was kind of a strong arm by extension for LBJ consolidating his power. When you go to the makeup of the Warren Commission, there are a lot of questions about who's served on that commission and why and why certain people got pardons and and got treated the way they did. I mean, it's it's interesting at the very least, troubling
at worst. But here's the thing. In my opinion, there is not a chance in the world that a single gunman killed JFK. Not a chance. I'd love to know what you think. Eight five zero two zero five WSLA. George, thanks for calling in. I had a feeling you'd call in this morning.
Preston. When I when I heard that recording of Billy Estes, the first thing I thought of was you so.
Well, wait, I don't know how I feel about that.
Well, no, you had mentioned that, and you know, and I just happened to come about that recording a couple of days before you talked about it last week.
Well, it's interesting, George, that recording. I've had no less than three or four people email me links to that recording through different stories, so it's clearly getting around. But but talk to me about your thoughts on all of this.
Well, the first thought, Preston was there was more than one gunman, and that is scientifically, physics wise, and ballistically
unarguable to deny. Anyone that knows anything about physics and ballistics and can see the film segment of three point thirty one of the Bruder film knows that that shot that hit Kennedy, the kill shot was from front because you can literally see his head go backwards, and you know the back of the skull ended up on the back of the limousine, and that's where Jackie Kennedy was crawling back to get Yep, that does not happen from a shot from behind.
What do you make of that, noted pathologist Forensic pathologist Michael Biden, stating they're wrong that shot came from the back. How can a guy would that level of experience be so cosmically wrong.
Because somebody's gotten to him and paid him off. Okay, justin and I think he destroyed any credibility he had. He goes against everything at every doctor that has seen it and was on the scene, said.
George, Hang on a second. I want to keep you through the break. We got a quick check of weather in traffic. We're gonna come right back. What about you. Eight five zero two zero five WFLA your thoughts on the killing of JFK. Love to hear from you. Eight five zero two zero five WFLA single shooter, multiple shooters, US government arranged or mob foreign government arranged the killing of JFK. Which of those best describes what your thoughts are on all of this? And we've got Georgia on
the phone line. Continues Sir.
Pressing. We we left with the fact that there's obviously at least two shooters, and there's a great film out called Executive Action, and it dates back to the eighties that that details more that you'll see the second. The second aspect of this is there has to be some government involvement to the point of the cover up. I mean, you know, the Warrant Commission came in and they swept
us under the rud very very quickly. And and the fact that they said, okay, we're going to seal this and nobody can see it tells you immediately that Okay, there's something in there they don't want anybody to know. It's kind of like Fiser trying to have their records
sealed for seventy five years. The fact that Trump when he announced that he was going to you know, open this, uh, probably when the records all got destroyed, but most likely anybody that was involved in this immunioning about it's already dead. But at one time, you know, anybody that had a connection to it or was you know, one one person away.
I think within the first year and a half there were over forty people that either died mysteriously or committed suicide, that that were connected some way with this, and the odds back then were they set over a tree into one of that happening. So as far as government involvement, the fact that they've covered something up, but you know, you go back to JFK's father, was you know, involved
with the mafia. Is very clear that you know, the FBI director did not like any of the Kennedys, and Castro did not like JFK simply for the fact of the VPIG. So pretty sure Lee Harvey Oswald was a patsy and the fact that a mafia figure was allowed to get into the garage and kill him before what he could speak, you know, it basically the stuff movies are made of. But but yeah, there's there's definitely two shooters.
The government was involved in some former fashion, especially in the cover up, and you know, will we ever get the concrete truth Preston, Probably not, but you know, you got it. You've got to have some sense of you know, the intelligence of a sloth to know that there was at least two shooters involved in this assassination.
Thank you, George, I appreciate you weighing in on this. Tim, Thanks for calling in good morning.
Yeah.
I recently found a copy of Life magazine from February of nineteen sixty four, really, and it's all The front page has got Lee Harvey Oswald standing there, the full picture on the front of the MAGA with him holding a rifle right, and as they detailed the thing, they basically there's no way it could have been more than one shooter. I mean, there had to be more than one shooters.
Human And.
I don't know the details, you know of what I think the gentleman for me was just talking about. But I was an expert rifleman in the army, and I guarantee you there is no way I could have made well, I could have made one shot, but the second third whatever there with a bold action rifle, there is no way one person could have made those shots.
Given your background, you you clearly know a little bit about ballistics as well. Do you agree with what we're saying There's not a chance in the world that that shot that blew out the back of his head came from behind.
That's probably true. I honestly have not looked at all the details that far. In this article, it talks about how that based on the positioning of the vehicles when the shots were not and everything that there was somebody on that so called noll that they talked about quite a bit. Yeah, it wouldn't surprise me if the gum was hiding. Something more likely is probably they just didn't dig that deep.
Tim, Thanks very much. I appreciate you calling in. You know the JFK, what the doctors saw. The documentary of seven doctors that were in the trauma room with JFK when he was brought in. They'll tell you about a bullet wound that was underneath the scalp on the front of the head that disappeared in the final autopsy at Bethesda when the body was brought It lines up perfectly with the exit wound at the back of the head, and any wound from the front totally eliminates the idea
of a single shooter completely. It ends it, which is why they had to cover it. Those doctors went to their deaths and never changed their story once in over sixty years. Never well by the time they died, it was less than sixty years, but you get my point.
Eighteen minutes past the hour, we're to come here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott, if you do a little digging, and I will go back and modify my blog and add a link to a story that gives you a big overview of the alleged according to this recording, killer of Kennedy, Malcolm mac Wallace, who was convicted of murder in another case, former marine, allegedly had an affair with lbj's sister. I mean, the documented history of this
guy is surreal. I'd never heard of him. I just know there is not a chance, not a singular chance, a single gunman killed Kennedy. There just isn't. There's when you look at all of the evidence. I've read most of the Warren Report, and when you look at all of it and you start to open up. To me, you start with the medical evidence, because the medical evidence, to me, is like mathematics. There's a degree of certainty
to most gun crimes. For example, inside this story of mac Wallace is the death of a guy that, unbelievably the FBI ruled a suicide. So the guy shot himself five times in a suicide. Huh shot himself five times with a twenty two bold action rifle. What what? These are the types of things that you look at and you go no, no, come on, stop it. And people just didn't ask questions. But these are factual things. The the seven doctors at Parkland went to their graves without
their story changing on what they saw. They were interviewed separately, they were interviewed together. There's complete unanimity that the official autopsy of Kennedy is not reflective of what they saw in the trauma center. It's not even close. And so there's a book out there called Man Who Killed Kennedy? The Case against LBJ. Roger Stone familiar name, has a
ghostwriter with him. Not a ghostwriter, He's got a secondary writer with him, a kind of a collaborative writer, similar to you know, Glenn Beck has Justin Haskins do a lot of his writing. Glenn does you know, some of the work, and Justin does the bulk of the research and so forth. But that's a book might be worth getting. Man Who Killed Kennedy The Case against LBJ? And I
cannot recommend it enough. I think if you see the Paramount plus documentary JFK what the doctors saw, you will come away with at very least the same conclusion that the forensics is like math. It just doesn't lie. It just is what it is. We may not have any idea how deep into the rabbit hole this whole thing would go, and we may likely never know, but what we can know is that it was more than one shooter. And once you determine that, the rest of the story
blows up. It just does. It has no credibility. All right, twenty seven past the hour. I wish some of you had called a little earlier in the half hour. We're moving on here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Yeah, check out the blog in just a few minutes. I'm gonna update with a couple of links to a couple of books came across another one probably worth looking at as well as the article that I'll link to. And the other book is LBJ The Mastermind of the JFK
Assassination by Philip Nelson. It's a pretty in depth read, a lot of overlapping themes, just outlining the motive and the behind the scenes things. There's some things that Richard Nixon knew. Richard Nixon believed that LBJ was behind the assassination of Kennedy. The second Jack Ruby killed Oswald because he recognized Jack Ruby from years before and his connection to to Johnson, he was an informant with the FBI. He was mob connected. Yeah, anyway, big story in the
press box this morning. There is but one, and it's what happened yesterday. And who knows what will happen with the special session. I will be anxious to hear from others, but I think that it gives the Republicans a really bad look and it's unseemly. I mentioned when I first understood there was some pushback by state lawmakers, namely Ben all Britton, Senate President, the new Senate President, and the
new House Speaker Daniel Perez. They were not warm to the idea of the special session being called the way that it was called, and I commented that I thought, if he hadn't done it, that the governor should have privately met with them and they should have worked this out in advance, so it was a unified decision to move forward. I don't know that the governor didn't do that, but it would appear that he didn't, and so that
was bad to me. What was worse is the reaction of all Britain and Perez, because what this suddenly looks like is kids playing in the plague in the sandbox, and who's going to be in charge of the bulldozer. I just I can't believe that they are frittering away the well earned advantage that they hold in the legislature with this ridiculous infighting. And I'll go ahead and be elder to all of you. Shame on you. It's a terrible pr blunder for all of them. So the legislature
overrides veto from the governor on the budget. They basically reinstated fifty six million dollars of money that the governor took out of the line item vetoing by the line item vedoing process. And that's fine, But then they they adjourned the governor's special session and convened their own special session. That's just childish, it just is. It's a bad look.
And in that they decide to pick up one bill filed in both the House and the Senate that puts Wilton Simpson in charge of immigration for the state of Florida as the state's chief immigration officer. Since he's the Agriculture committe and, oh, by the way, a likely candidate for governor. This was a hand up, hand out to Wilton Simpson to help him and his profile. And there are some that have said, you know, the Governor's pointed
this out. You know, agriculture is one of those industries that tends to protect migrant workers, legal and illegal, and maybe that's not the wisest person to have in charge. Now the counter to that is, well, no, that's the very reason I have Wilton Simpson in charge. I'll let other people figure that out. What I can tell you on this side of it, it looks bad for all of them, and I think it hurts the brand of
the Republican Party inside the state of Florida. And before Politico Florida popped out their daily little thing, I made all these comments in the six o'clock hour before they released at seven, and they've come to the same conclusion. They called Wilton Simpson the sleeper winner of the special session, and they've listed basically the same things I've just talked about. What have we said about Republicans snatching defeat out of
the jaws of victory? Forty one minutes past the hour, It's a bad look, fellas mainly minute just a few minutes away. Buddy Levy the book Realm of Ice and Sky, true story of an amazing. In fact, the subtitle Triumph, Tragedy and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue. We'll give you a snapshot of that book up in the next hour here on the Morning Show. A lot of you Costco shoppers, I get it. I've never shopped at Costco. You may or may not know. Costco is its own version of Target. Only.
Unlike Target, which is pushing away from DEI, Costco seems to be doubling down. Costco fully embraces DEI. What's interesting is I came across a story involving some people that we've had routinely on this show from the National Center for Public Policy and Research. It's the Free Enterprise Project. You might remember hearing about that. I've had guests from the Free Enterprise Project on at least a dozen times over the last few years. And they engage in shareholder activism.
They bring up proposals, they make suggestions in shareholder meetings. And one of the things that they did is they challenged the DEI policies. They ask for Costco to investigate the risks of the company's business and its bottom line because of DEI policies. The board of directors unanimously rejected the proposal and made a big deal of slamming it.
What's interesting is that we've documented here how Walmart, McDonald's, Harley Davidson, target other companies in the country are pushing away from DEI, and so members of the Free Enterprise Projects are saying, look the battle. We know the battle, We've been fighting it for years. It's not over. Costco now is positioned, though, is a pretty high profile holdout from this tide of companies that are pulling away from DEI. What you should know is that one of the ranking
board members is Jeff Rakes. He's formerly the CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a very vocal supporter of DEI policies. He said, attacks on DEI aren't just bad for business, they hurt our economy. A diverse workforce drives innovation, expands markets, fuels growth. Let's focus on building a future where all talent thrives. In the comments to this article, I saw two comments I wanted to highlight, one quoting him, A diverse workforce drives innovation, expands markets,
fuels growth. Someone wrote, give us one example where this has actually happened, where those things led to success. Expansion growth of a business. And then someone commented underneath that what has been proven is the opposite, that only happens when people are hired by merit. Those who are diverse and qualified should have no problem getting real jobs if they have merit. Just letting you know. I don't blame
the rank and file workers at Costco for this. They're doing their job, but you ought to know Costco is one of those businesses that are thumbing its nose at the wave of pendulum, swinging away from DEI because it's discriminatory. DEI is right now the poster child for discrimination in America. Forty seven minutes past, come back, got an interesting story to share, plus a manly minute coming up to the
top of the hour. I've just kind of held on to this story and I just thought it was worth sharing. You know, the House voted to pass the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. Republicans voted unanimously to pass the bill. Only two Democrats in the House voted in favor of it. But I love how these common
sense issues can splinter the party on the left. Martina and Ilova, who is openly gay, has been for most of her entire adult life is staunchly opposed to what's happening with transgenders taking a greater and greater role in women's sports, men taking spots of women. She said, shame on the Democrats who really don't care about women, girls and their safety and fairness. More dams need to step up here. I know many who agree but are scared
to speak up because of the reelection. Because of reelection, I say, do the right thing, grow a spine. What what people need to remember in elected office is this is the right thing. It's common sense, and most voters agree. This is slowly exposing that root of political correctness that started growing decades ago, and it's getting exposed where you can.
You can cut it off and kill it if you have the courage, because at its root it's this teeny tiny minority of people that just will never be happy with anything. There will always be people that just they're not going to be happy by anything. They're not going to be a friend. Quick catering to this anyway, I just enemy, My enemy is my friend. I mean, Martinez, way to go.
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There are people out there that are speaking common sense, and that's what this is all about. It's been a minute manly minute. We believe this is I think the first one of the year. Maybe kind of blew it out of the water. I think last week, with the storm coming and the inauguration of the President, I came across this little tip here how to change a flat tire, and it got me thinking, men, teach your sons, because manly minute is all about raising up men. Male by birth,
man by choice. You don't choose whether you can be a male or a female. That's what this nonsense is about. Now you choose whether you're going to be a man. And the tip here is guys with sons and single moms, when something goes wrong, teach your son how to be part of the solution. For example, using the flat tire, Dad's teach your son how to change a flat tire. Teach your son about how to get it done on the side of a road, uneven pavement, how to chalk
a tire on the opposite corner. I mean, all these little things. How to loosen the lugnuts before you jack the tire fully up off the ground. All these things take advantage of challenging moments to teach your son how to navigate them. All Right, we're done with our two hour three features Buddy Levy Realm of Ice and Sky. It's a true story, Triumph Tragedy and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue.
He's my guest in the first half hour next on The Morning Show with Preston Scott Morning Friends, Ruminators, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Appreciate you joining me. Show five three hundred and four of The Morning Show with Preston Scotti's Ose. I am Preston and it is great to have with us. For the third hour, Buddy Levy
Budd He's the author of more than ten books. He has appeared on the History Channels programs Greatest Mysteries and The Unexplained, and his latest book is Realm of Ice and Sky. It's a true story subtitled Triumph Tragedy in History's Greatest Arctic Rescue. Buddy, Welcome to the program. How are you, sir Presson.
I'm doing well.
Thanks for having me my pleasure. I appreciate you you joining us here. I've got to ask on the front end here now. More than one of your books deals with cold temperatures. I'm curious do you just when you start researching, do you find stories that have never been told. As you're researching one story and decide, okay, this needs to be told in a later book.
That's exactly what happens.
You know.
I bumped into realm of ice and sky, the story of the first attempts to fly dirigibles to the North Pole, while I was researching my book. And so you know, I'm on an Arctic swing here, this is my third one in a row, and yeah, I can't seem to get enough of icebergs, freezing rain, sleet, and you know floating ice flows.
All right, set the stage for this particular story. Give us kind of the time frame what was going on, because when you say darrigibles and the Arctic, that almost seems oxymoronic.
That's a great observation. Yeah, so it's it's the turn. It's the early nineteen hundreds, and you know, the right brothers have just started testing out in the planes at Kitty Hawk, and the airship or dirigible or what we think of now as a blimp is a very new technology. And men have been batting their head against the ice for a one hundred or two hundred years trying to get to the North Pole. And this American name Walter Wellman has the great idea to try to fly a prototype
lamp essentially to the North Pole. And the story is really a three part story about the men who attempted to fly to the North Pole. When it looked like making it there by the traditional dog sled method was fraud, let's say, fraught with terror and death and tragedy.
Is this a typical story when you talk about you know, Walter Wellman and his pioneering of you know, obvious not just the polar thing, but the transatlantic airship aviation thing. Is this one of those classic stories of well, we're going to do it because it's there and no one's done it before.
I think that's part of it, Preston. But you know, there's also we're on the cusp at this period of a great technological advancement and scientific discovery, and so North Pole is this big blank byte space on the global maps.
Certainly there's an element of fame and immortality involved, you know, to be the first one to make it to the North Pole guarantees financial just I mean, you're untold rich is really a lecture tours and book deals and newspaper articles, and so you've got this kind of frenzy to try to be the first. And there's also a great deal
of actional pride involved. So in the book, you know, we've got the American named Walter Wellman, the famous Norwegian explorer ruled Almondson than this Italian airship designer later named Lumberto Noble. So there's a whole lot going on, and so I would couple it with you know, discovery exploration and then also a search for the unknown.
Joining me on the program is Buddy Levy. The book is Realm of Ice and Sky. You know me, I don't do novels around here. True stories is what we focus on on the program, and it is a remarkable story. We'll get into more detail on that next here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
You have a story you want to share, write him at Preston at iHeartRadio dot com.
Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Back with Buddy Levy book Realm of Ice and Sky. Buddy, it seems to me that one of the things that your book accomplishes, whether intentionally or not, is you recategorize Walter Wellman. He seems like a guy that prior to your book, and your writing is kind of noted in history as sort of an also ran a guy I didn't quite get much done, that's true.
I actually had never heard of him, to be honest, and the guy is really fascinating. I mean, he's just as well Ohio born, self taught kid who ended up starting his own newspaper at age fourteen. And by the time we met him really in the book, you know, he's middle aged and is one of the most famous journalists in America. He hobnobbed with and captains of industry like JP Morgan and Andrew Carnegie, and he end up having a hustle because he's really interested in science and
exploration as an Arctic explorer. And you're right, you know, if you put him on the Mount Rushmore, you would not put him on the Mount Rushmore of Arctic explorers. And he's kind of a footnote. But the way I interpret him is that he's an incredible pioneer because he's the first to attempt to fly to the North Pole in an airship, and he also makes the first to
attempt flying across the Atlantic in an airship later. I don't want to give too much away, but he's really really fascinating and was also you know, the first to create wireless technology at the Arctic, in the Arctic and using Marconi's new wireless telegraphy, and so the guy was just kind of a polymath. Really.
It's interesting because you know, you talk about the aviation component of this, and if we try to push above that and go to take the sixty thousand foot view of this, like you say, not give a ton of way, but still kind of paint the picture of this book. You've mentioned some names that a lot of people know. They know the name Robert Pierry, they know the name Rold Emmonson. They've at least they've heard those names, and they connect that with Arctic exploration. What's the nexus of
all of these players. How do these people end up kind of in the same world.
Yeah, that's great question. You know, there's this confluence happening where the airplane, as I mentioned, and the airship are both being developed simultaneously, and we forget that that it was not exactly a done deal that the airplane was
going to have supremacy of disguise. In fact, when this book sort of opens in nineteen oh six, oh seven, oh eight, the airship has a lot of advantages, and so men are trying to see which technology is going to be the most practical, not only for military capabilities but for commercial travel. That's sort of the primary driver.
And so I like that you point that out because after the Wellman section of the book, which is part one, we encounter Roald Dominson, who's mostly known because you know, he was the first to the South Pole, first through the Northwest Passage, and then I argue and others concur with me that he was verifiably the first of the
North Pole. But you also have characters in this book like Richard Bird, who ends up in this and they all convene ultimately in this place called Spalbard, which is roughly halfway between northern Norway and the North Pole, which is a kind of ground zero for leaping off to
attempts at the North Pole. And you know, you've got this incredible scene where you've got Richard Bird and is Josephine Ford and then this massive airship called the norga three hundred and fifty foot long airship, and you know, there's sort of this race for the North Paul and it's a global media event there many journalists are up there in the far frozen North and it's just an amazing scene.
Buddy. It doesn't stop there, though, because, as you point out in your book, Italy is woven in you mentioned the airship, the Norga and it's designer engineer, if you will, who you mentioned earlier. I want to get to that next one more segment with Buddy Levy, Realm of Ice and Sky Triumph tragedy in History's Greatest Arctic Rescue. We'll take you to that little nugget next on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. The book is Realm of Ice and Sky. It's author, Buddy Levy, is with me for
another few minutes. Buddy, we've talked a little bit about the airship component of this. I'm still fascinated by the fact that how did they think that an airship which relies on air for you know, its ability to stay aloft along with you know, the motor component over such cold temperatures. Who thought that was a good idea?
That's a great question. Well, so these airships were in they're fledgling stages, and you're right. I mean when Wellman initially begins, you know, he scraps a seventy five horsepower motor on a hydrogen inflated flammable, hydrogen inflated one hundred and eighty five foot craft, and you know, you kind of wonder what could go wrong. But by the time we reached the second and third parts of the book, the airship has developed significantly with Zeppelin in Germany and
the Italians in the military. Mussolini's Italian military had created these three hundred and fifty foot long really advanced airships which could then go seventy five miles an hour at a top speed, but they cruised at about fifty and there was still a lot of danger involved because you've got, you know, flat gasoline powered engines connected to a hydrogen filled craft. But they were you know, and and some had blown up. I mean, this is twe years before
the Hindenburg. Right by the time Aminsen and Umberto Noble, the Italian designer, get involved, but there had been an accident, so it was always a lumining fear. But what was amazing to me is that, you know, Aminsen and Nobilay, they buy Aminsen buys this airship from the Italian government and makes a journey in nineteen twenty six and they
have a degree of success. You know, the covers has triumph, tragedy, and history's greatest rescue, so there is some triumph, but there's also this a bunch of national pride involved, and you've got the Norwegians buying against the Italians even though
they're working together for one of the flights. And in the third part of the book we really get into Umberto Noble, having had success with almins and crossing over the Polar Sea, decides he's going to try to do this with an all Italian crew for the honor of Italy, to take credit for the design and the exploration, and we end up, you know, they fly up to the North Pole and are besieged by hurricane force winds and they make a turnaround to try to go back to Svalbard,
which I mentioned was halfway between or their Norway and the North Pole, and the weather, sleep deprivation and all sorts of freezing rain and sleep force the airship lower and lower, and eventually there's this catastrophic contact with the ice which rips the control car, which is the sort of on the bottom of the airship. Off of the craft. Six men are up inside the envelope which is the gas that filled bag, and the nine men are thrown
onto the ice, including umberto Noble. Bones are fractured, men are dying, and fortunately one of the men has had the wherewithal to leap from the crashing control car onto the buckle polarized with the emergency radio. And it's kind of like, you know, it's kind of like where's Waldo Or They're out in the middle of the polar Sea, hundreds of miles above of Svalbard, and they be in to try to piece together some survival and they've got
some food. They shoot a polar bear, and they end up spending a great deal of time sending SOS calls on this radio, and amazingly, a man, a farmer in Russia, here's this, like a you know, an amateur radio guy. Here's this SOS call from the Italia, which by now this is global news. You know, it's all over what happened to the Italia airship? Where is it? And his
calls He ends up contacting the Italian government. It says, I've got this message and it has some like cryptic coordinates, and this starts the most amazing multi pronged multi national rescue operation in Arctic history. And you know there are many many countries involved, the US, Finland, Eden, Norway, Italy. Uh and they're going by ship, by icebreaker, by airplane and it is just an amazing story. Last third of
this book about will will anyone find these guys? And so I cut back and forth between the rescue operations and then the men on the ice and some of the men leave to go try to strike out to make it across the ice and find land to get help. Is very dramatic.
Okay, My last question is this, how many movie theater movie companies have reached out for screenplay rights because that's a movie.
Some my Arctic books have gotten some heat. People are interested. You know, there's I think that the period piece, the history thanks you know, in part to our man Taylor Sheridan, has brought back an interest in you know, in historical works, and this would be an amazing film. I got to admit, or series.
Well, you described the back third of the book in the back and forth, that alone is how a movie's done, my friend, That's how you do it.
Yeah. This was not lost on me as I was writing it.
Buddy, Thanks so much for sharing time. With us this morning and sharing the story of Realm of Ice and Sky. Thanks for visiting with us.
My pleasure. I have a good dakeahappy, Thank.
You, sir, appreciate it. Yeah, boy, what a story Realm of Ice and Sky.
Gotta get that book. Twenty eight past the hour, running a little.
Tight on time, which is quite all right, because honestly, I'm a little disgusted with the big story in the press box. It's Republicans frittering away, at least from a public image perspective, the remarkable successes inside the Sunshine State, with this silly, petulant urf war between the governor and the Leader of the House and the Senate and the
state legislature. It's just silly. And if I sound as if I'm coming across like a cranky old man who's trying to pull apart his three sons, you're right, because the three sons are adults. They're grown men, and they should know better. And it's annoying if you don't know what I'm talking about. Ben All, Britain Danny Perez were upset because Governor Rond Deissan has called a special session, allegedly without consulting them. I get it. I'd have been
put out by that too. But this is where, in my opinion, you as you get older, you understand the difference between reacting and responding. I think they reacted so well that he can call it, but we convene it. It's up to us. And so you know what they did. They adjourned the governor's special session and immediately gabbled into order their own special session. And you know what that that is. That's childish. That is that is posturing. It's flexing and saying, who has I have bigger muscles? No,
I have bigger muscles. I'm tolder than you are. It's silliness and you all are suffering because of it in the in the eye of the public. I've got the email to prove it. I've got my personal texting is blowing up, My email blowing up. Thank you for saying this, because people are responding to this the same way at your age, people, and this is the kind of crap that's going to lose you the House in the Senate, and it's going to lose you the governor's office. It's
it's annoying to me, the veto on. You know, the governor vetoed some of the legislator's money, and they were mad about that, so they said, okay, fine, we'll deal with that too, So they overrode the governor's veto. They got fifty six million back in their coffers twenty eight and twenty eight for each side. We can pick and choose on whether or not that's smart. I don't know.
That's a side issue. But then on this whole issue of immigration, which they filed bills on both the House and the Senate, and they're going to be taking that up I guess and voting on it or whatever today. I don't know. That's a silly bill too, because what it does is it puts Wilton Simpson in charge of immigration policy, if you will, for the state of Florida, is the chief immigration officer. I don't know that it's
smart to have the head of agriculture over immigration. Here's why this is not to impugne the integrity of Wilton Simpson. It's about avoiding the appearance of evil. It's about avoiding the appearance of unfairness. What are they going to hammer down on all industries except maybe not some agriculture. I don't know, But that's why you move it out from
under agriculture. But you see, there's another issue at play here, and I think it's the issue of helping Wilton Simpson in his run for governor and giving him some more credentials because he came from the Senate. I think it's a bad look all the way around. Forty minutes past the hour, we come back. Howard Eisman joins me with some money talk here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
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legal advice. Howard, Good morning, sir. How are you fine?
How about you?
I'm doing well. I'm curious why are home sales so low?
Well, home sales are so low because Preston the inventory has been building up because an awful significant number of homes that have been built have gone At this point, I'm sold, that's the simple answer. In fact, existing home sales actually this past year ended up at the lowest level in twenty nine years. Got to go all the way back to nineteen ninety five.
That's crazy. Yeah, So interest rates is it's just part of the part of the equation on this. It's inventory as well.
Inventory the tremendous surge upward in the price of homes, and then you throw in the interest rate on mortgages, and that's a bad mix in the soup.
That's crazy.
That's a challenging mix. And I'll give you some numbers for the listeners. So the median home prices past year ended up at around four hundred and nineteen thousand, just hundred and four hundred and twenty thousand. And think of it this way. If you're a young couple getting started and you want to acquire your first home cost four hundred and twenty thousand, if you have to put twenty percent down as a down payment, you got to have
eighty thousand sitting around to do that. So's it's very challenging. And at today's mortgage rates seven percent, just over seven percent. You're looking at a twenty five one hundred dollars a month mortgage payment, and we haven't even talked about the cost of insurance and what your property taxes will be. So it's a challenging environment, and in large part present it's because the price, the medium price of a home over the last seven years has increased by sixty five percent.
I think a bunch of people listening to us below forty just through their hands up in the air and walked away.
Yeah, I hate to hurt the ratings.
Yeah, hey, tell me this. How is it possible with that kind of economic news floating around out there that the stock market can have a cap value like it has right now and it can have grown the way that it's grown.
Sure, well, let's focus in on the latest craze that's captured the imagination of investors in the country, Artificial intelligence AI. Yeah, so if we look at, let's use the Wilshire five thousand stock index. Those are publicly traded companies, small, medium, large, and gigantic. As of last week, the value of that index exceeded sixty trillion dollars and just since the AI boom, let's say that started in November of twenty twenty two, we've seen just under a twenty two trillion dollar index
in those publicly traded stocks. That's actually a fifty percent increase in Presston just over two years. And you go back and you go, Okay, where were we, say, just a decade ago, the value of stocks was twenty one trillion, So it's come really really close to tripling in a decade and doubling just since the start of this decade twenty and twenty. And let's not forget we had, you know, we had the COVID thing going on very shortly after that.
So it's occurred in part because UH, consumers have have had cash to invest over the last decade, and I think for many of them there's a little bit of a disconnect. They separate the cost of their home and then investing to put away money for retirement.
Wow.
Yeah, it makes my head hurt. You're not helping it.
But UH and the real, the real interesting thing here, Preston is, you know, consumer sentiment right now because of the new administration coming in and the Congress is very bullish, very optimistic, and UH as a very positive outlook for what may happen, and as the course of this year plays out, impress and I would have to say, well, let's just see how it does play out.
Well, here's hoping they undergird the economy instead of building it out any further. Howard, thanks for the.
Time, brother, Absolutely have a great day. Present.
Thank you, sir, Howard Eisman with US forty eight minutes past. Come on tomorrow, we're going to take on birthright citizenship. Okay, what's the deal with that. I've got my friend Hans von Spakowski joining us. He is a constitutional expert with the Heritage Foundation. He will break down the fourteenth Amendment. You're gonna get the snapshot the whole thing, the history, the purpose, and likely it's misinterpretation in court cases along the way. This is incredible to me. What I'm going
to share in closing. Did you know that it's National Soup Month. It makes sense because people get sick in the winter. We're in the midst of it December January winter, right, I mean winter latter part of December into January. February is the winter. We've certainly had our taste of it. But there's nothing in my world. There is nothing better than soup. I'm only going to tease this. I'll talk
more about it tomorrow. Progresso soup drops No, not boullion drops, as in a lozenge that you put in your mouth and it tastes like progresso soup. I'm not kidding. More coming tomorrow.
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That's where we began the program. Talk to Buddy Levy, author of Realm of Ice and Sky. Can't wait to read the rest of it. I may go ahead. These are the types of decisions that I make that some people think are foolish. You have an advanced copy, Why would you go buy the book? Because I love hardcovers. I just prefer a hardback book, the pages and all that. Just the cover doesn't get twisted and turned back and dog eared and all that stuff. Anyway, I'll probably end
up buying a book. Florida legislature overriding Desantas's veto for support services. He cut about fifty seven million out of the budget. They put it back, and then they got into a terf four with the governor on the special session. I think the bill that the House and the Senator proposing is to benefit Wilton Simptoms Simpson's run for the governor's office. I also think that it's unwise to put the Department of Agriculture over immigration. Would you do that
federally when the agriculture business depends on migrant workers? I mean, would you do that? Of course not. It makes no sense. I've been guilty of generalizing sometimes when it comes to DEI. But we're seeing individual corporations that embraced it rolling back, except Costco. What's up with that? And Costco Shoppers was saying, we talked a little bit about JFK. That's on the Blogge will be back tomorrow.