Morning Friends. Welcome to Monday on the Morning Show with Preston's got final Monday of the month of February. Believe it or not. Yeah, crazy, hope you had a nice weekend. Weird weather, but that's okay, He's OSEI I Preston. It's Monday, February the twenty fourth. It is show fifty three, twenty two. We'll get to more on the date in just a moment, but we start with some scripture Philippians four Versus six and seven. This is really good stuff, right right. It
all is. But you know what I mean, do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, Let your requests be known to God. And the peace of God, which surpassed says all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ. If I were to compile a list of scriptures that would be like,
memorize this. I mean, look, you'd love to say you could memorize it, all right, But being practical, I think that there are just there are some scriptures that you can really anchor yourself to. Jesus took the ten commandments and boiled them down to two. He said, if you do these things, You're going to cover the rest. I feel that way about this scripture. This scripture is such an anchor point to live your life as a Christian. Consider the words again, do not be anxious about anything?
So how do you avoid that? By praying in everything and in making supplications to God with an attitude of gratefulness. We've talked about that time and again, starting your day with an attitude of thank you, Lord for this day. Thank you. We sometimes just kind of rifle through the Lord's prayer if you're the person that does the Lord's prayer, and we just kind of make it almost just another set of words, thank you for this day. And that
attitude of gratefulness appreciation changes every thing. And it says you'll get a peace of God as you pray about things, as you offer God, I need help with this. Or would you bless my wife or my husband, or my kids, or my friends, my coworkers, my colleagues, my clients. As you pray these things, God just floods us with a peace that we don't understand. And that's okay. All you have to know is that God is granting you that ten past the hour, it's the morning, Show with Preston Scott.
It's the Morning Show with President Scott. Cleven passed the hour inside the Patriot's Almanac would go and we turn to the twenty fourth of February eighteen oh three. Supreme Court in Marbury versus Madison affirms its power as the final interpreter of constitutional issues. Okay, under God, just saying because the rights that we have are given by God, they're not given by man. Always remember the United States
Constitution limits government. We have rights that are unalienable, they just are, and the document limits what the government can do. Something you'll note at different times in the show today is people on the left want the government to step in on everything. Believe that the government knows better knows what's best for you and me. Eighteen forty one, John Quincy Adams begins two days of arguments before the US
Supreme Court in the Amistad case. A lot of people don't know that Amistad is a It's just it's an incredible case. Slave ship and who's quote property The slaves were, and they turned to John Quincy Adams to go into court, which he hadn't done in a very long time, and make the art he won the case John Quincy Adams. Eighteen sixty eight, President Andrew Johnson becomes the first president
to be impeached by the House of Representatives. The Senate later acquits, of course, won for the first time since the Civil War. The South gains full representation in Congress with the seating of the Georgia delegation. Boy, what do you think that was?
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We're not having lunch with them, you know, when the think about it. The South seceded, fought a lot of people died on both sides of that battle. A lot of members of Congress had to be pretty frosty about this. I don't care what any state rits whatever. It's about slavery. Come on, let's not kid ourselves. It was about slavery. Democrats held on to slavery as long as they possibly could. Some say they're still in the market in the business
of slavery. Some say that I say it too. I'm just anyway, no, the what would that be like when they first walked back in after rejoining the Union? Do you think it's like? I have this image of everybody else kind of looking real quietly to the side and then just turning their back. That talking to you, No, I'm not sharing my lunch with you either. They definitely weren't saying gigi to each other. No. And then in nineteen ninety one, the Persian Gulf War US led coalition
begins a ground campaign against Iraq. Didn't end well for them. Today is National Tortilla Chip Day. I must tell you tortilla chips one of the most underrated snacks ever. You can use it with salsa, you can use it with spinach and artichoke dip, you can use it with queso. You just eat and play just a little salty. You could drain them, drench them in in nacho cheese dust,
and and and there you got a dorito. Yeah. I mean, it's it's insane when you think of all the flavors of tortilla chips that are out there that have been made. Dorito's this, and Dorito's that, spicy barbecue, spicy nacho nacho, nacho snack. Anyway, it's it's a glorious, versatile snack. And they come in colors. Sixteen past the hour. Really cool story coming up next for Floridians in particular. This is sad and cool and a little crazy all in one story.
And it fascinated me because it's it's Florida. I'm going to make a confession here. I had never heard of the SS United States. SS stands for steamship. Okay, I'm I'm putting a blog together on this, and I'm in the Getty website. iHeart has a contract with Getty and so we access some of our photos through Getty. And I'm having the heck of heck of a time finding photos of this. When you do search, it's popping up everything from you know, fashion shows to I mean SS
United States is I mean, how hard is that? But anyway, I won't get sidetracked.
It is.
Until the Brits cheated, which is what they do to get the record. The SS United States held the speed record for crossing the Atlantic by an ocean liner. They used the Brits used a basically a catamaran hydrofoil speed boat that is not an ocean liner, and they did it faster, so they claimed the record. And it's like, stop it. You're like one ate the size and you don't even hold passengers overnight, so just stop it. But they they took the blue ribbon. Whatever arrogant little curs.
Here's the thing. It's It was a technological marvel. It was bigger than Titanic, and I say was because it was is not really a thing. It's beginning its journey to Mobile, Alabama. It's been decommissioned, it's been stripped of a lot of stuff. Tug boats are bringing it down the coast. It's from it. It's been in Philadelphia for years. It's coming down the coast and then it's going to hook around the tip of the Peninsula. I'm I'm hoping it would be amazing if they came along the Florida
the Gulf coast of America. I don't know if they'll go from the tip and then go directly to Mobile or if they'll come along the coast, and if so, you might see this thing. It's a behemoth now in terms of its era, there are modern cruise ships that I'm sure are bigger, but this still holds the record for speed of the real record for speed of an ocean lander across the Atlantic. It could go and in its day, it was stunning, absolutely stunning. It transported for presidents, celebrities,
Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly. Here's what's gonna happen. It's going into indomobile where it's gonna get stripped of everything inside, All the fuel is being taken off, any hazardous material. They're gonna take it off the about twenty miles off the coast of Okhuosa County that's destined Santa Rosa Beach, and they're sinking it. They're gonna land this thing one hundred and eighty feet down on the ocean floor, right side up, and it's going to be a reef.
They're going to create using this an artificial reef that will then become an actual reef. Oh my gosh. That will be a place to fish. It's also going to be quite a place to dive. So I'm on my blog page. I'm going to put a short little documentary on the ship itself that shows you the ship, and then I'll put another clip on the sinking, what they're
going to do, how they're going to do it. But I just thought this was so fascinating, first, brilliant repurposing, because these things are great for the oceans and for Florida. Come on, more tourism. People will come from all over to I have this thing absolutely guarantee twenty seven Past the Out, Big Stories and Little Saucy. When you'll come back.
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Yeah, I won't be distracted. I get so many emails from people that are just so interesting and keep them coming pressedon at iHeartRadio dot com. Love to hear from you. I try my best to respond to as many as possible. I don't always get to do that, and I don't respond generally if someone sends me a link to a story, but at any rate, I appreciate the email, the big stories in the press box. This might be considered today's vernacular as a hot take. I don't think it is.
I think it's a very it's It is meant with a very sober minded view of God's word. You probably have seen the news. If you are Catholic, you probably know the news that Pope Francis is in critical condition. He had he was being treated for pneumonia and then suffered an asthma attack and it nearly killed him. He stabilized after that. Good. He's fighting kidney failure as well. They are working very hard to keep the pneumonia from turning into sepsis, which can happen the word is that's
not an issue at this point. But he is in critical condition, and I know that I'm saying something that will not happen. I understand that, but I'm going to say it anyway. I hope Pope Francis recovers, as I do most everybody. I don't. We've talked about this time and again. I hope you don't wish bad on people, even people that I disagree with politically or philosophically or whatever. I'm not upset when someone who who commits horrible crimes passes away and dies. I'm okay with that, but I
don't wish it on anybody. My wish would be someone barricaded in an apartment gives up and that no one's hurt, even that person. But with the Pope, my hope would be that if and when, I mean at some point he will pass away, he's eighty eight years old, he's in frail health, it will happen. I wish. I wish the Catholic Church wouldn't elect another pope. I know that's almost heretical, or rather it's it's almost it's heretical to have the position. Let me back that up. If you
want someone to be the head of the church. From a business administrative perspective, Okay, that's fine. Every organization needs somebody to kind of oversee it. But the practice and the and the position that that they elevate a man, that Catholics lift up this person is just not biblical. And I would only hope that you just don't that that.
I mean, I know it's crazy, but wouldn't it be awesome if the Catholic Church said, Okay, let's just let's pick somebody to oversee the affairs and maybe, if you feel strongly about the issue as a as a coalition, turn Vatican City into a place for migrants to come and to live. I mean, if you feel strongly about that,
that's fine. Seriously, I'm serious. I'm not trying to be a jerk when I'm saying this stuff, but let's not Why would we put someone to be in a place where people kiss their hand and bow to them, and I just that is so wrong. It just is. And I know there I know a lot of Catholics that just you're not down with that, and I and I get it. There are aspects of a church service that you find pleasing to you because you like the order and the pomp and the circumstance and the liturgical nature
of it. I get it. That's and that's cool because that's preference until it wanders into heresy, until it wanders into things that are not of God or God's word at all. Anyway, It just I saw that story, and I thought this was an opportunity to talk about that for just a few minutes. A couple other stories real quickly. Here, Dan Bongino will be the deputy director of the FBI. Trump has has picked him. And Doze finds two billion dollars in taxpayer funds earmarked to a group linked to
Stacy Abrams. Two billion. And when they started the thing in twenty twenty three, I think it was. It was it twenty twenty three, and I'll tell you more about it next hour. It reported one hundred dollars in total revenue. Excuse me, I'm gonna explain this is a scheme, and I'm gonna explain it next hour. Forty one minutes pass more to come here in the morning show.
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Come on, you have to be loving what's happening with the administrative state of this country. Come back to work on Monday, or you're on leave or you're fired. Look at where we've gotten in our country where workers have the audacity to say no, know what what what? That's insane. It's just one of the many meltdowns that are happening because illiberals and left us believe in government. They believe
that they know best. And if it requires the government to tell us how to live the simple minded beings that we are, we need to just shut up and do what we're told. I'm sorry. I didn't like sitting at the kittie table when I was a youngster, and I'm not about to sit at the kitty table now. It's not going to happen. There's a meltdown right now because Donald Trump is replacing the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. I told you we would.
This was as obvious as anything that the President was going to do. He was going to change the entire direction of our military apparatus. He had to had to. What's interesting is the typical wokesters are out there claiming, see, he just got rid of General Brown because he's black. Just a little help here, guests who nominated General Charles Brown to be the chairman of the United States Air Force?
To begin with? Uh, Donald Trump, so much for that accusation. Huh. No, he was removed from his job because he's woke, because he's been all in faith of these DEI initiatives. Trump's not going to have it. That guy knew he was done the second Trump got the election. Air Force Lieutenant General Dan they call him Raisin cain Dan Raisin cain Is is the nominee to replace Brown. Listen to what Alexander Vinman that weasel and he is. He's a weasel.
He's the guy that thinks he's dangerous. I'm so grateful he quit the military, he said, the senior military officer purges will put our troops in danger. Trump put a part time airman in charge of the military, jumping a slew of three and four stars with thirty to forty years of military experience. Our enemy couldn't be happier. First of all, I wrote to him, I said, enemy enemy singular. Are you nuts? If we have an enemy that's singular,
it's leftists and democrats like you, that's the enemy. Domestically. They want to see our military hobbled and neutralized because they want the United States to have to bow and bend a knee to China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and anyone else who hates us. It's just the opposite, and it just shows how detached Vinman and the lefties are. They're they're shaking in their boots that the United States is rebuilding its military, that recruiting numbers are up. They
missed their chance. This is very good news and again not at all unexpected. Forty seven passed the hour. Okay, I'm only a minute later.
WFLA.
This was kind of funny, Warren Buffett send a no doubt, Berkshire Hathaway made payments of twenty six point eight billion dollars in taxes last year, five percent of what all corporate America paid. In addition, they paid income taxes to foreign governments and forty four states. And he said, spend it wisely. I'm curious, Warren, did you ever send that spend it wisely to other administrations? This I just couldn't
pass up. MSNBC has finally canceled Joy Reid, perhaps one of the biggest race baiters and bigots on television.
Let's just consider the question that I have on that these two men are both elderly. Donald Trump is an elderly man who, for whatever reason, was given nine seconds to take a iconic photo op during an active shooter of the situation. Weird situation. We'll figure that out one day. But his survival of that and bouncing right back and going right to his convention is being conveyed in the media world as a sign of string. This current president of the United States is eighty one years old and
has COVID. Should he be fine in a couple of days? Doesn't that convey exactly the same thing.
Joe Biden, when he was perfectly healthy, stumbled walking down up and downstairs, got lost, had no idea where to go in his own home. Please, but wait, there's.
More people I ever heard here use the word inflation are journalists and economists, right, So that is not part of the normal lexicon of the way people talk. So it's interesting that Republicans are doing something they don't normally do, right, which is not used the common tongue, right, not US, just common English to sort of use do on their campaigns, like they're doing with Prime. But what they've done is they've taught people the word inflation.
Right.
Most people wh would have never used that word ever in their lives are using it now because they've been taught it.
You're too stupid, you don't know, don't understand. And then there's this, I mean, this really.
Was an historic, flawlessly run campaign. Harris Latifa never endorses anyone, you know. I mean, she had every prominent celebrity voice. She had, she had the Taylor swift Is to the Swifties, she had the beehive, Like, you could not have run a better campaign in.
That short period of time.
And people wonder why she's been canceled. Keith Olberman's out there saying they don't have a joy read problem with any MSNBC. Yeah they do, but not anymore. And what I love is Keith Oberman a former and then you fill in the blank a former everything. He's a former. I wonder if he has a business card. Keith Oberman former, that's his that's his title. Former. He's a former, formerly with ESPN, formerly with MSNBC. Formally his own show, formally
formally formally, he doesn't have a job. He's just out there being mean and nasty and vile. That's all he is. He's a former. What a terrible thing to live your life as a former. Not a farmer, a former, not a framer, not a farmer, a former. Come back with our two of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Second hour of the Morning Show with Moi and who.
Didn't know?
I spoke German? Did you sorry? That's Jose over there in Studio one A. I'm here in Study one B. I'm Preston. Welcome to the program, everybody, Thanks for making time. I was reminded I got an email and I almost got sidetracked on this earlier in the show, but I can allow myself to be sidetracked just a little bit by this now. I got an email earlier this weekend from a friend, a professional acquaintance who's a friend of the show. He listens every day, and what a good guy.
I will leave his name out of it. I'll just simply say a great photographer. Professional. That's not what he does now, although I'm sure he does it a little bit on the side, because when you do that professionally for a living as a news photographer, not a videographer, a photographer. But he sent me a note reminding me of when I got banned from commenting on the Tallahassee
Democrat web page. I was forbidden, and the accusation made by then publisher Skip Foster was that I was I was sending people to other sites and it was a really cheap, petty, wrong thing. And I made his note to me public and so Tallasi Reports did a story of it, and they researched it, and they looked up all of my recent posts and they were like, he
didn't send anybody anywhere. He pointed out facts that were in error in your stories, and and I just I just wanted to take a second here and point out where Skip now in that newspaper, where that was about nine years ago, Skip still publishing the Democrat. Oh No, he's not, is he? And I say this with all humility. This is God's grace, this is God's favor that newspaper. It's literally a crime. What's happened to the legacy news
outlets of this country? The Democrats not unusual, It's like most all of the Gannett properties, it's just a terrible newspaper, and it has been for a long time, a long time. I just pointed it out. I pointed out when they called a local school FAMU one of the highest rated universities in the Forbes ranking, and it was one of the lowest ranked out of six hundred and some institutions. It was in the bottom thirty at the time, bottom thirty.
And they had the audacity to quote the source Forbes, which does annual rankings of colleges and universities, and say it's one of the highest rated in the Southeast. What the heck are you talking about? That was a lie. It was wrong. It was a lie, and I wrote about it. I sent them a note. I said, that's just factually wrong. It's just it's it's cosmically wrong. And so for things like that, he decided I needed to be banned. He said, not that it matters. You're not
really a competitor. He just belittled everything that that that we do here, and that's fine. I don't I don't really care. I brought it up because it was it was in an email, and it reminded me of all of the boy comments on that story by Dallas. Your reports go lore and it pointed out the obvious. There's some people that don't care for me, and that's fine. But I'll just say here, we are about to finish our twenty third year next month, and where's anyway I
just and again, I don't credit me. I credit you, and I credit God. Not in that order, God and then you. God's just given us favor, and I don't understand it. I just don't. I'm grateful, and I try to maintain that attitude. I just wanted you to know that I appreciate you, even those of you that just disagree with everything I have to say. I appreciate that you listen, that you lend us your ears for a
few minutes whenever you can. We are evidence that even in a community that thinks very differently than many of us do, there's room. There's room for us. There's room for your ideas, there's room for your beliefs and your philosophies in the way that you see things. Ten past the Out, got to talk about the SBA. Next, This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Admit it, you
love Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Musk in his role with Doge pointing out to the President what needs to be done to accomplish these goals, and the President says, yeah done. Musk is making suggestions based on researching. He's got a staff and a team of people that are really smart, and they find Think of what they found in a month, a month, a month, what has been uncovered. And so they're ordering people back to work that don't want to go back to work. And you have to
love that I go to work. Why aren't they going to work? Because you're paying their salary. When you see taxes taken out of your paycheck, you're stroking a check to them that are choosing not to go to work. It doesn't matter. Well, I can do my job, it doesn't matter. They're not in charge. Their boss says, return to work now. The SBA chief is Kelly Leffler Loeffler Leffler from Georgia, and she made a little video that oh, I had seventeen million views in a matter of hours.
It's my second day here at SBA. I could not be more excited to be here Small Business Administration. So I thought i'd take a walk and what I found is exactly what's been said is true about ninety percent of our employees are working from home. Well, that ends Monday with President Trump's order to return to work. Today. Elon Musk is taking it further with certain business, certain departments, saying, justify your salary by the end of the day, justify
why you're paid you and I can probably do that. Although, let's be honest, aren't there times in your work world where you get so familiar with what you're doing you start cut in a corner. I'm not talking about acquire knowledge leading to efficiency. That's commonplace. It's like when jose started this job, there's so much to do with what he does over there, there's no way to be efficient. There's just too much. But over the course of six months,
now seven months, he's become efficient. He knows how to do things faster, more efficiently. So guess what. Now he's got a little bit of time that he can do other things. He can work with some clients, he can do some additional production. Anybody that has an actual work ethic, when they find those efficiencies, they say, Okay, what now can I do with the time in which I'm paying for my company to make me more valuable to afford me the opportunities for raises and promotions. That's what a
smart worker does. Eli Musk is saying, what do you say? We just tell us what you do in a week to earn your pay. I would imagine there's some people freaking out right now because their forty hour work week probably looks like about twenty hours and then what and then they're walking the pad and they're going to the gym, and they're doing other things while we're paying them. This is uncomfortable. I told you it would be because some
of this stuff sort of splashes back on us. If we want to look at the work ethic of federal workers, we ought to be looking at our own work ethic, right, I mean right sixteen past the hour? A excuse me? Story? Next, Scott began our buddy from the b line blogger. His blog is up for the week, well for at least today. He does as many as two or three a week, and it says what did you do last week? It's exactly the topic we were just talking about. I just
saw it in my mailbox, came ten minutes ago. That's brilliant. And he breaks down as he always does, the data and it's brilliant. If you've not subscribed to Scott's work, it's the website is the b line Blogger. You just go to bline blogger dot blogspot dot com and sign up and he's got a new blog up this morning. All right, I told you there was an excuse me story? What earlier in the shows. Hey said to me that that was kind of like one of those are you
sitting down type stories? Now this is we all have been, maybe at different times, slow learners. I have I think any anyone who's honest and really takes a good look at themselves says, we've got blind spots where we just the lessons come a little slower. But I have to say Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum is in a whole new category with this one. You would think that she would not play games with with not so much Trump, but with with policies that are so common sense. She is
advancing a plan to change Mexico's constitution. Wait for this, to protect cartels. I told you, I'm Jose's over there. What exqueeze me?
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She wants to protect cartels from any possible US military intervention. Trump, of course, has classified eight Mexican drug cartels and criminal organizations including MS thirteen in Trendda are GUA are a GUA as foreign terrorist groups with the classification. See that's the key. The US military could be authorized against these organizations. Now I'm like, yeah, because we should have been doing
that years ago. Biden wasn't gonna do it. But the cartels and what they're doing in their trafficking of humans and fentanyl, their crimes, they're exporting of their terrorists into our country to set up strongholds in certain communities. Oh no, no, no, no, new. We've got the resources and intelligence to just take them all out. We can do that. We just have to
have the willingness to sustain some collateral damage. And this is Look, this is no different than taking a tumor out of the body when it's been allowed to grow too big. You lose some tissue around. It's a shame, it's it's it might have been avoidable, but it happens, and you have to do that. It just and I know that sounds a bit callous. These are human beings that are likely innocent, but that's what cartels do. What
homosterists do. They embed themselves with people that are innocent civilians scared to death, but innocent civilians to try to avoid capture or any level of, you know, military action, whether by their host country, Mexico or a foreign nation
like the United States in this case. But she's actually daring to amend Articles nineteen and forty of Mexico's Constitution that would prevent foreign investigations or military actions without the approval of the Mexican government whatever half of you are on their payroll. What are you talking about? What are you talking about? I'm sorry. If you don't want us to intervene, clean up your own territory, if you don't want military drones strikes on your cartels, by golly, I
guess you better take care of it yourself. I mean, moms and dads, you tell your kids clean up your room, because if I have to clean it up, you're not going to like the things left behind. If I clean your room up, all those toys gone storage. So you clean it up or I'll clean it up. You might not the way you like the way I clean it up. And that's what I would be saying to Mexico. You clean up this. If you don't like what we're talking about, you better clean up your problem, or we will and
you won't like how we clean up your room. Twenty seven past the Hour, twenty eight Stacy Abrams, the story is amazing, all right, this is a story that we mentioned last hour. We'll do a little deeper dive this hour. Big Stories in the press box. Here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Dose has discovered two billion in taxpayer funds set aside for a brand new nonprofit linked to Georgia's forever candidate, Stacy Abrams. Two billion taxpayer dollars
set aside for a group called Power Forward Communities. This money is part of twenty billion dollars that was parked at the end of Biden's term by the EPA. Now, this Power Forward Communities is brand new. It was founded in twenty twenty three, never managed any sizeable amount of money. In fact, it reported one hundred dollars in total revenue in its first three months in operation, one hundred dollars.
This gets to something called a green bank. The Biden administration was funneling money into outside organizations like this one. And I'm not talking about the Powered Forwards, powered Power Forward Communities. I'm talking about rewiring America. Rewiring America is about making us go electric. Now, they never really get into so how are you going to power all the electricity? You can't do it with solar, you can't do it
with wind. You have to have natural gas, you have to have coal, you have to have oil, you have to have these other fossil fuels. So they give this massive sum of money to reing Rewiring America, which then acts as a bank a depository for twenty billion dollars, and then they distribute it to all these other costes. This is this is money laundering. This is taking your money and routing it through all these different organizations so you never really know where it's going. And of all people,
Stacy Abrams, are you kidding me? Sad thing is the organization name Power Forward Communities just ruins a good name established around here. The Power Forward Speaker series has nothing to do with this nonsense. Two billion dollars. You just you start adding all of this up, friends, It's incredible. Donald Trump has picked Dan Bongino to be the Deputy
Director of the FBI. He'll work under Cash Ptel. Bongino former New York policeman, former Secret Service agent, former Fox News contributor and radio show host, podcaster Nice Choice and Pope Francis in critical condition, diagnosed with pneumonia, had an asthma attack in the midst of treatment that nearly proved fatal. He's dealing with kidney failure. That's a problem. He's eighty
eight years old. I've just I politely suggest that when the time comes for the Pope's life on this side of eternity to come to an end, I can only hope, against hope, the Catholic Church doesn't need another pope. It would be lovely if they got out of this practice of lifting up man to bow too to kiss the hand of I wish nothing bad on Pope Francis. I wish he would get better theology. I wish he would
quit speaking heresies. But I hope he recovers. But at some point point his life will end like ours will, all of us will, and I can only hope that well. It's a hope. Forty one minutes past the hour, a couple state states are fighting with Pam Bondi. This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Pam Bondi is taking the Department of Justice back to what it's supposed to be doing fighting violent crime, dealing with the drug cartels,
dealing with the trafficking problems, human trafficking, drug trafficking. But at the same time, this immigration issue is one of the keys because as it ties to all of them. The illegal immigration issue connects to violent crime in this country. The illegal immigration issue connects to the drug problem in this country. The illegal alien issue connects to human trafficking
in this problem in this country. It's they're interconnected. You solve the illegal immigration issue largely, you solve a lot of the problem, not all of it, but a lot of it. So New York and Illinois are two of the most notable states that are fighting against this. The governor of New York, Kathy Hockle, is saying that these worthless, publicity driven lawsuits will be a total failure, just like all the others. I don't think so these are criminals.
They've entered this country illegally. Bondi said. They are protecting illegal aliens over American citizens. Not going to happen. So here's my question, what will the citizens of New York and Illinois do as their governors decide to publicly be the poster child for stupid. It's dumb to be spending the money and the resources on protecting people that have invaded this country. I still want Governor Hackel and Governor Pritzker, Pritzer, Pritzker in Pritzker, O kay, I want them to open
up their mansions for illegals. No no, no, no, no no no. You house them. You take in ten or fifteen of them, at least you're in governor's mansions. You're talking about public that's public, public owned spaces. Don't dump them into the private sector. You set the example. You're the governor of the state of Illinois. You're the governor of the state of New York. Be a leader. Set the example. House them,
just randomly, don't select, don't be picky. Just go down to the bus stop, bring a couple of your your entourages, limos and SUVs and load them up and bring them to your place. Let's see how that works out. No security, uh uh, that's not welcoming. Can't have your tache of guards, no armed guards, none of that. You need to be like everybody else in your community that you're demanding. They need to take these people in. See how that works out. Forty six past the hour. It's The Morning Show with
Preston Scott. Tony Evans is the governor of Wisconsin, and in a budget recommendation he changes the word mother to inseminated person and paternity to parentage. Other gender terms he wants them changed references to why for husband, he wants them to be changed to spouse, word father changed to parent, mother swapped out for the phrase parent who gave birth to the child. Oh my gosh, they just don't learn. You'd think it's a parody. It's not. This is this
is the governor. It explains so much of what's gone wrong. I've mentioned the politics of my beloved Green Bay, Wisconsin and how the the mayor there is just a leading a left wing insanity in that city, and it's underneath the umbrella of what's going on washing in Wisconsin in general. Whiskysense fighting for its soul right now. It's it's a little purple leaning, maybe blue, but kind of red at times. So it's kind of purple. It's just it's crazy that
they elect someone like this as governor. Anyway, all right, here's what we're gonna do. I teased this last week. I have no idea how it's gonna go. You don't see me do things like this very often. You don't hear me do things like this very often, because surrendering this program for blocks of time is a bit of a risk. I'm counting on the fact that there are three people that would like to have a conversation. And so here's what we're gonna do, one segment at a time.
We got the call screener up. We're gonna take one caller right now for the next segment after the news, and we can talk about anything you want, as long as it's not profane and appropriate. Okay, so you know, you know, come on, one caller, whoever the first caller is, you're gonna get a chance for the entire segment to just have a conversation with me. We can talk about something that's in the news. It's not really what's the beef.
It's a little bit more in depth in that it's a little bit more of a back and forth and you can ask my opinion on something you can. It can be in the news, it cannot be in the news. It's whatever you want. You ask a question about me. And so you need to think about whether you want to be one of those three conversations. So we're going to take caller number one for segment one, and then in the break after caller number one, we'll take caller number two, and then then in the break after segment
number two, we'll take caller number three. I'm calling this three conversations, whatever you want to talk about. So often when talk show hosts take phone calls, it's you don't really get a chance to have a conversation. One of the things I loved about Rush. Now Rush operated in a different time of the day, so drive time, morning and afternoons. It's just different. There are more interruptions because of a lot of different things commercials and news and
weather and traffic and so forth. Midday you just don't have that stuff. So we're going to try to pull a little bit and give you a chance to have a chat with me again, whatever you want. First caller, we have a caller standing by, I believe, So we got caller number one ready for segment number one. When we go to break after segment number one, after when we do the weather track, call right away and you can be the caller for segment number two, and then
in the next break, caller number three three conversations. Never tried it before. I've done open lines twice a year. Maybe I want to have something a little more meaningful and deep here, and then you can tell your friends you were on the radio and you can listen to it on the podcast. Three conversations coming up next here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, third Hour Show fifty three, twenty two of the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. He so, osay, I'm Preston, and we are Look, I've got a paper clip full of material here, but we are having hopefully three conversations. Just let you call in and talk about what you want to talk about for a few minutes. Michael, thanks for calling in. What would you like to chat about?
Well, thank you for taking my call. I'm in the trades, as I talked with Jose and people always like, well, you're going to miss all those illegal aliens working on your job site. No I'm not, because I don't hire them. And also, these contractors getting busted or they're not busted, getting called with these illegals working for them because they're paying pennies on the dollar. Right, You're supposed to go through E verified to make sure whoever's on your job
site as either green card or naturalized system. So the way I look at it is, I say, start busting these contractors and finding them. So, I mean wish they can do, they just haven't yet. Also with the go ahead go ahead, Well, I.
Was just going to ask you, because we've got time here, do you talk to others that are in the position of higher in your same profession about this topic? And if so, what are those conversations?
Like? Yeah, well, all contractors, we all know each other, you know, we not even know the subs. You know, everybody kind of knows everybody. And the ones I know that are friends of mine. They do not hire illegals because you can get fine. Plus also you get bought up what's called the CLB, which is a contractor's board, and you can have your license snatch from you. So I mean, if you're in violation too many violations.
How often has that happened in your profession over the years that you've been in it.
I've never seen it.
See That's what I'm wondering. I'm wondering about enforcement, whether there's ever been any real enforcement of it.
Well, I think now they're really going to start buckling down on it. The problem with Preston is you got legislators who kind of turn a blind eye to it because all their cousins and brothers and uncles and whatever are in the trade, so they just kind of like, am okay. I think now, because the country is focused on this problem, you're going to see a little bit more enforcement.
Now.
I see enforcement on bad work, not the code, which you know, I welcome inspectors to try to find something.
Absolutely, I would imagine this. I would imagine a crackdown in what and we're keeping it vague obviously, but I would imagine a crackdown on this, which will force contractors that are hiring illegals to raise their prices. Is great for people like you.
Also, what's happening is there's fewer and fewer people in the trades. So I have people all the time. I've tried to get a contractor out here for months, I can't find anybody. Oh yeah, because there's few of us, and some of that, you know, guys getting old like me and retiring, but also just the amount of paperwork. Preston, I had to the simple repair on a roof. This elderly lady got an argument with her insurance company. They didn't want to give her any money, so she was
forced to put a tarp on a roof. Well, unfortunately she lives in one of these ho eggs neighborhoods and they complained to the city. So she got sighted or you know, paperwork. So through a friend, they contact me, a is hey can help this lady out? Yeah, sure, simple roof repair, no big deal. It took me three weeks filling out nine forms just to get the permits just to fix this roof.
Good.
Great, yeah, and you know, and it's like permits ain't cheap because they do it on the evaluation of the percentage of what the total of the job on some things, not on all things. But also I found out that one of the ladies down there in the permitting office is the City of Tallahassee doesn't have a budget to pay the employees in permitting. They get their money from permit Oh yeah, uh huh, yeah exactly. And I will
have to sing the praises of Leon County Permitting. Those guys are great, they're efficient, get it down, boom, move on, same thing. What Color County, Gason County, Jefferson County, Franklin County never had a problem with any of them. You deal with the city of Tallahassee. It's a bureaucratic nightmare.
Well, Michael, thanks for making time for me this morning. I appreciate you sharing a little inside story of what's going on out there in the trades.
Thank you, Thank you.
Preston. You off a great day.
You do the same. There you go, simple as that, Michael wanted to talk about the trades? What about you? Eight five zero two zero five to BFLA. We're looking for one caller, one caller only. In the next segment, conversation two, will it be you? See what I did there? See what I did there, little little ryman. That's next here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Men and women who serve our communities as first responders.
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It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Michael's going to be the lone conversation for the day. We're gonna move on to some other things here. I see. I was worried about this. I know that there are certain shows that all they do is rely on the same six callers every single day, and they give them nicknames. Captain Bob in wah Wah Hooky. I mean, and you hear
the same people when I started this show. I inherited that because there was another show that was on on another channel here in town, and they had the same people call all the time, to the extent they gave them nicknames, and it was just a snoozefest. Same. It's like sitting around with a group of six guys complaining
about the same things all the time. Anyway, I knew early on from my days of doing talk radio back in Phoenix, when I was a producer, that the shows revolve around the content, and we occasionally like what's the beef? Is content that derived from callers, and I wanted to do every now and then, I just test the water and see if you folks want to talk about things. And it's just absolutely fine and dandy that you don't. Michael wanted to talk about what's going on in the
trade professions. That's fine. Associated Press suing Trump because they have kicked the AP out of the White House Press Corps. The AP said it is about an unconstitutional effort by the White House to control speech. What this revolves around is the Gulf of America. The AP won't call it that. Trump and his White House staff is saying, fine, we'll see in court, no problem. And and there are a lot of people that are a little nervous about this. This
is the White House trying to control what others what others? Right, Well, I don't think that's quite it. I think it's I think that's over oversimplifying things a little bit. And I think this case is about factual misrepresentations. I don't know that you have to have. I don't know that that you know. For example, I'm not guaranteed a spot in the White House Press Corps, even though I work for iHeartMedia. I'm not the White House correspondent. We'll take a call
in the next segment. A little late for this one, but we'll do it in the next one if they want to wait. But if you have an organization that misrepresents facts, it's not about opinion. The Department of the Interior determines what certain spaces, what certain things are called, that are federally owned, that are in federal territories, and if you're not going to adhere to that, the White House is saying, okay, your style book. This is the same style book now that discriminates. Keep in mind, it
capitalizes black people, but it doesn't capitalize white people. Capitalizes to be in black, not the W and white. I personally think it's stupid to capitalize any of it. It is, but that's a matter of preference. But that's in the style book. Anyway, sixteen past the hour, come back, we'll talk with another caller wants to have another conversation here in the morning show. You know, baseball, you go one
for three, you're in the Hall of Fame. You go one for three for your career in baseball, you're a three thirty three hitter, you're in the Hall of Fame. So I was prepared to chalk this up as one for three, E call it a good day, but we're going two for three because Jeffrey's standing by wants to have a conversation. Good morning, Jeffrey.
Hey, good good morning, Preston. Probably a lot of people are like me. They well, not a lot of people with people of my generation. I'm in my seventies. I'd rather sit across the table, look at somebody and talk to them and talking into a little uh box here, like I am a little uncomfortable, but I'll try Anyways, I'm HARKing in back a little bit to what you
were talking about, these cartels and what have you. Yeah, and I'm thinking, uh, you know, as I from my perspective of my age, I just am astounded at the amount of both prescription and all kinds of illegal drugs that are now that you're part of this society that I'm just astonished. What's your thought on.
That, the drug dependency that's in our country.
Oh, my gosh. Yes, And I'm not just talking about the illegal I'm talking about the prescription drugs. I think if you take ten people, probably seven people are on some kind of drugs, prescription or otherwise.
I Jeffrey, I had a doctor's appointment back a few months ago and the nurse came in. They had changed over to a new system, and she said, are you still taking blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, And I said, I've never taken that. And she then flipped her screen over and she said, what about all the rest of these? And it was a list of probably thirty medications that one patient was taking at a time. One patient was taking thirty medications and it wasn't me.
There was a mix up in the system, and I said, I'm not taking any of those. And then she goes, oh, my goodness, the system failed, blah blah blah. So she said, so, how many medications are you taking? I said none. She said, what, You're sixty four years old. You're not taking any I said, no, I'm not. I don't take any And that speaks to well, that speaks to your point we're over medicated as a culture.
Well, you know, I would agree. There's an excellent book out called You Are the Placebo. And one of the interesting facts that have shared in that book is that you take the amount of and the depressants that are taken in this society. And there have been study after study, and people can check this out. Just don't take my word for it. There have been studies after studies to show that if you if they take to a control group, give one group addeddepressant drugs and another group of placebo.
They have determined, when I say they, the people who have done these studies have determined that the people who take the placebos are actually actually able to produce naturally the same substance that is used in the prescription drugs in other words, they're able to actually heal themselves using their own mind rather than having to take the drugs. I believe it, rather than dwell on that though, I would like to return again to this idea that all
these looks, these cartels, how are they making money. They're making money off of Americans who are doing these drugs, and these these drugs are being brought in from China, manufactured and made into whatever kind of substance they can be developed into, and then sold to people in the United States of America. We have a critical problem here, and I think we've done a very poor job in trying to educate our people as to how drugs can influence their lives for the worst in the long term.
I completely agree. It's one of the reasons why I spend so much time talking with alternative care doctors, because nutrition is a huge component of all of this. Just have better nutrition.
I can appreciate you doing that. Now, if I can make another comment.
Yeah, we've got time for one more.
Go ahead, good, because this is what I've told my children, because they've dabbled and drug themselves. Now again, I'm in my seventies. I experimented with all well, with many of the drugs. I never got into the cocaine or heroin or anything like that, but I did some very interesting experimenting with drugs and the final conclusion that I came to, which I didn't use this term, but after having done
my experience, had my experiences with drugs. This is one of the what I consider to be the overall fact of any kind of drugs that you're taking. In other words, marijuana, hallucinogens and what have you. Drugs can be very useful, quite useful under certain circumstances to get people to ask questions. But the problem is, drugs do not give any answers. And this is what is a critical fact to understand.
They may open you up to certain types of questions in regard to the human mind, but drugs do not do not give you any answers.
Jeffrey, thanks for the conversation, man, I appreciate it very much. We're running into a break here. Thanks for calling in. I thank you. That's it. Let's get the big stories in the press box next twenty eight After the Hour, This Morning Show with Preston Scott.
WUFLA thirty six past the Hour, Big Stories in the press Box This Morning.
I mean, there's an ultimatum now that federal workers are dealing with. Federal employees need to list what they do to earn a paycheck. And there's talk of mass civil disobedience. And here's the bitter reality, and this is going to hurt. If the overwhelming majority of federal workers went off the job, would it matter to you? How much would it directly impact your your life? And I'm going to say this, take a lesson from the fast food industry, whether it's pizzas,
whether it's burgers and fries onion rings. When fast food workers started demanding pay commensurate with people that have, you know, jobs that are requiring more skill and knowledge, what did the fast food industry do they automated? Do you really want to suggest to Elon Musk, you're not doing I'm not going to work. See how you function without me? Really you want to take the guy that is behind Tesla and SpaceX and say, I dare you to automate? Really? Look,
I'm just saying that's just dumb. The only people that are balking at having to justify their job are people that don't have a way of justifying their job. They're not earning their money. I'm not talking about taking a an on the one hour lunch break, going an hour ten every now and then. I'm not talking about that, because honestly, anyone that I personally know that that takes
the occasional longer lunch break makes up for it. They work a half hour longer that day, or they work longer that week, or they put an extra time when no one asks and they don't punch the clock. They give back anything like that when it happens, it doesn't happen routinely. We're not talking about that. We're talking about people. Jose was sharing with me a video of someone that was in tears because they're two day a week job.
They're now requiring them to go into work five days a week and they're like, but I get my job done in two days. What does that say to you? You either can do more work. You know you're shorting the company sixty percent. You can do sixty percent more work, or you're sixty percent overpaid. Take your pick. And now they're complaining because they're being asked to go back to work. I'm sorry, but you see, and this is the attitude I need all of you to adopt. You're writing these checks.
Remember we talked about how a lot of people that don't ever sign the front of a paycheck complain, Well, guess what you're now signing the front of the paycheck. You pay these employees, you pay these workers, these federal workers. I just maintain that about anything that impacts your life, like let's say Social Security. You get a Social Security check. I bet almost all of that's already automated. I'm just saying there aren't a lot of people needed to probably
run that program at this point. And if you want to jeopardize your place by being a jerk and not being willing to answer some simple accountability questions, these are basic questions. Would you do this week to justify your pay? I mean, a good employee does that for themselves. They say, did I earn my money this week? Did I do my job? This lady that was crying can't work her side business that she's doing during the day when she's being paid by you. You're paying her, your tax dollars
are paying her. Forgive me if I'm not shedding tears. Forty one minutes after the hour, guess who's the acting director of the ATF or might.
Be use radio one hundred point seven double UFLA.
Forty two passed the hours. So Donald Trump, the word on the street, huh you like that? The word on the street is that Donald Trump is going to name Cash Pateel the acting director of ATF. Oh isn't it just fate that we have Lee Williams on the show this Friday? I cannot wait. He's writing a lot of important stories. If you don't subscribe to his newsletter The gun Writer dot substack dot com The Gun Writer dot substack dot com, and you'll get his articles in your
in your email every time he writes one. It's all focused on the Second Amendment. And he has been scorching the ATF in the last several years, scorching. I didn't know this, but on Thursday, Attorney General pam Bondi fired Pamela Hicks, the General Counsel for ATF. As General counsel, she is the one that gives legal guidance to actions that the ATF takes and says they're either legal or they're not. Look at the abuses since Joe Biden's taken office.
She's personally responsible for abuses that have led to the loss of lives. I mean people have been killed. The raid of Brian Malinowski in Oklahoma City, I think it was Oklahoma City pre dawn raid. He came out defending his family from what he thought was a break in. That guy was the director of the airport ATF could have at any point in time just set up a meeting said hey, we want to talk to you about the guns you sell at gun shows. What he was
doing was following what was allowable in state law. The attorney general for the state of Oklahoma was going to fight on his behalf until something happened and he got scared. Biden's ATF Attorney General Merritt Garland probably threatened him, probably things like, we will make your life a living hell. Of course you can sue us, and maybe you'll prevail in eight years. That's the type of thing that the FEDS would do. If Cash Patel is in charge of
the ATF. In my mind, it all but becomes dismantled. But we'll see. But the first step of firing Pamela Hicks huge pam BONDI boy, she is not wasting any time. Love it, love it cannot wait for our discussion on Friday with Lee Williams the gun rider. Yeah, yeah, cannot wait forty six after the hour, come back. We'll tell you the importance of number twenty two tomorrow in the program.
There are people that think, because Donald Trump is president, that the petroleum industry oil and gas will be volatile. That's a word that someone that works inside the industry is saying that there's concerns that the industry will be very volatile in these next four years. I don't know how anybody that works in oil and gas is not overjoyed that Donald Trump is president. We'll talk to somebody that ought to know. He's give for bigs with the
American Petroleum Institute. They lobby on behalf of oil and gas industry federally. There are state versions of this, but this is the national we'll get. We'll get the straight scoop. Is the industry nervous? Are they are they unsure of? I mean I kind of thought drill Baby drill would put any fears aside. But whatever we'll see, we'll get. We'll get an insider's take on that also tomorrow, Manley minute Money talk one Soto. There's a few of you
that know who he is. Fantastic hitter, baseball player for the New York Yankees. Now with the New York Mets. He's gone to the Mets. He signed a contract worth seven hundred and sixty five million dollars seven hundred and sixty Of course he'll probably get less than half that after taxes to the federal government in the state of New York, but we'll set that aside. He he wore
number twenty two. That's been his number. And what is commonplace in markets in professional sports where a star comes in is usually someone's got that number, and there's a little discussion on getting that number from player A to the new player player B. In this case, guy named Brett Battie. Maybe it's Beaty infielder, veteran, been around for a little bit, not old by any standards, but still war number twenty two. But he gave it up for Soto. He gave up number twenty two for Juan Soto. What
did Soto do? He gave him an eighty thousand dollars heavy tahoe had one styled out, had painted in the back window. Thanks for number twenty two. And uh. He called him out of the spring training and handed him the keys and said, here you go. It's yours drive it and everything. So there there's that right now, as you're going right for a number in professional Baseball, brought to you by Barno Heating and Air. It's the Morning
Show one on WFLA. What we covered a lot of ground today, had two conversations, had three slots open, but two up. By the way, let me just help out here. We did have a third caller call in later that that was hoping to come on the air and talk about a fundraising. That's not the point of the project the conversations. With all due respect if I if I do that, it turns into nothing but PSAs for for half hour, and that's frankly, that's boring radio. I appreciate
your fundraisers. Send them, I forward them to our management and they determine whether PSA's are done or not. I don't have a role in that. If it's a local event in Panama City or in Tallassee, I do my best to talk about it and fit it in a couple of times, but that's not the point of a conversation. That's so please don't do that, or we'll just see. That's why I don't do segments like that, because it leaves me feeling like I'm a bad guy. And it's just that's just. If Rush took PSA's for a half
hour in his show, he'd lose millions of listeners. He can't do that. Sorry, hope francis in critical condition. Hope for recovery. But if, if, and when that time comes, when the time comes for them to replace the pope, I just hope the Catholic Church doesn't. You don't need to be bowing and kissing the hand of a man. You just don't. You just don't. Trump picking Dan Bongino
to be Deputy Director of the FBI. Doge finds two billion in taxpayer funds earmarked for Stacey Abrams linked group that's smart talked about the US, not the U. The SS United States heading to the Gulf Coast. Great story gonna be on my blog page later today. Friends, We're gonna have another great day tomorrow. Can't wait to share it with you. Thanks for listening.