Good eye mates, and welcome Tuesday Wanting Show with Preston Scott and Preston. He is Jose God see by the dawn's daily light. We have. We've got quite a show for you. So much to talk about. Man, gotta keep our eye on the ball. And that's tough. I mean, normally the first half hours a little bit. Not today. Once we get past the history segment, we're going so buckle up our verse today. We're following what we read
yesterday in Philippians four. This is verse eight and nine. Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honor, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. So let's just let's step back for just a second. What is worthy of praise? Tough to get past God and God alone. There's a byproduct to this this focus that we're being driven towards. It's
it's a filtering process. If you've ever seen those shows where they've got, you know, someone finding water by digging a trench next to a dried out or in the bottom of a of a river bed or a creek that wash that's dried out, but it used to have water. You dig and you dig and you dig, and usually you find water, but it's gross. So the idea is to use gravel and different things to filter. It seems to me that this is a list of filtering agents. True,
something's got to be true. Something's got to be honorable, just pure, lovely commendable, any excellence, there's anything worthy of praise. Think about those things. There's your filter if it filters its way through that. Think about these things and it says what you have learned and received and heard and seen in me. Practice these things and the God of Peace will be with you. So we now get to
another issue. Are you living your life in such a way that people would look at it and go, yeah, yeah, it's it's not quite the I don't know if you've seen they're trying to make the the Meg Ryan Billie Crystal scene in Katz's Deli a thing. Again. They only keep Meg Ryan on that screen for just a brief second because she's had so much facial surgery. It's a little tough to look at, and it's dog on shame.
She was such a cutie patuity when she was you know, when she just was herself, but all these surgeries anyway, she's you know that, I'll have what she's having type thing. And she's putting this mayo on her sandwich and it's what makes the sandwich so incredible. And so it's a commercial. It's a clever commercial, it really is. But the idea is that you live your life in such a way that people look and see how you live your life and see the peace of God on you, and they go, yeah,
I want that? What what? How I? And they they they are, they inquire how do you have that? There you go Philippians four eight through nine, eight and nine. Today that's our verse. Howard Eisman will not join us today. He's under the weather. Keep Howard in your prayers. Call me yesterday not feeling well at all, So we're praying for you, good sir. Difford Bigs will join us. He's
regional director with the American Petroleum Institute. We're gonna we're gonna get to what what's going to happen in the oil and gas industry. Is it better now that that Trump's in office. I've got to believe it is, but I could be wrong. It happens. We've also got a ton of news to talk about. Some disturbing things in the news. We've we've gotta go there, so stay with us. We'll take a look at this date in history. Next to the Morning Show with Preston Scott. It's The Preston
Show with Morning Scott. What twenty fifth of the month. Inside the American Patriots Almanac, we go eighteen thirty six. Inventor Samuel Colt patents his revolver. Oh yeah, oh yeah, I've got a nickel plated cult revolver. That is. I want to say it's an eighteen sixty one New Frontier. I could be wrong on that. It's not from eighteen sixty one. Obviously was manufactured in the nineteen nineties, but it's still a thing. I fired it a couple of times.
I did. I couldn't help myself. I couldn't stop myself. Eighteen sixty two, Captain William Driver flies Old Glory after Union troops enter Nashville. Eighteen seventy, Hiram Revels, a Mississippi Republican, becomes the first black US Senator when he's sworn in to complete the unexpired term of Jefferson Davis wait a minute, wait, wait, wait, what was that? I didn't hear that, Preston, what was that? In eighteen seventy the first black US Senator was a
Republican from Mississippi named Hiram Revels. A Republican. Oh how about that? Really? Wow? Boy? Does that change the history for some? Mind blown? Yet some of you are liberals, some of your Democrats? Have you figured it out? Yet? The Democrat Party was the home of the Klan. To say, histories, what is it? John Adams said, facts are stubborn things. H nineteen oh one, JP Morgan forms US Steel, first
billion dollar company in the world. Nineteen thirty three, USS Ranger, the first US ship designed and built as an aircraft carriers, launched at Newport News, Virginia. I wonder what that was like to look at that thing. It was designed. They had tested the concept on I want to say, a freighter, a cargo ship that they just built a platform on and they had a biplane take off and I guess land on this thing to see if the concept worked. Oh yeah, did yeah, it did. Cool stuff. Today is
National clam Chatta Day. It's National clam Chatta. I love a good clam chatda. But not with too many potatoes. You need potatoes, but you don't want those big chunky ones because they don't get tender. You need the little cubes, little cubes, smaller dice cubes. You gotta have potatoes in a chatta, but you can't have too many potatoes because it just did no flavor there. You need just small little guys. Now, Clam chowder. Clam chowder on a cold day is just amazing. You season it the right way
and it's just something special. And today is a National Chocolate Covered Peanut Day. Actually it's National Chocolate covered Nut Day. And you know I'll go with that. Is there is there a nut made that doesn't taste amazing wrapped in chocolate. Maybe there is peanuts, Yeah, hello, goobers. Right, chocolate covered almonds? Oh yeah, cashews sounds good to me. I've never had a chocolate covered pecan, but I bet it would be amazing because the chocolate getting those big old grooves get
inside there. Now, if it were, if I were making something like that, I would mix just a tiny bit of cayenne pepper in, just a tiny bit of cayenne pepper in with some chocolate pecans or almonds or not whatever, just a little little on the on the yeah, oh yeah, yeah, sixteen passed, all right, remember now buckle up because it starts next quarter one past the hour. I am alarmed that the United States did not condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
It concerns me. I have no issue with the position that President Trump, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseith is taking regarding US troops not going over there. We're not going to get dragged into this war. What I struggle with is Russia's determination to invade instead of diplomacy. For anybody that says, well, Russia's you know, they're commedis there's corruption all throughout yeap, and what's Ukraine. There may not be full out communism, might not even be close, but their
corrupt as can be. Ask Joe Joe knows anyway. I'm very troubled by that. But that is not the story I wanted to start the show with. Basically, Islamic militants in the Democratic Republic of Congo, known as Allied Democratic Forces. This is what's important. You need to get this in
your head. Allied Democratic Forces they are not They're not democratic, They're Islamic extremists murderers because they went into a village, they gathered seventy Christians, pulled them out of their homes, pulled them into a church, tied them up, and beheaded all of them. Here's the question I have now. According to Open Doors US, ninety five percent of people living in the Democratic Republic of Congo are Christians. So this
would be considered the beginning of an ethnic religious cleansing. First, this is what happens when bad people have guns and good people don't and they cannot defend themselves. Secondly, where's the mainstream media? Liz Wheeler wrote about this. Where's the outrage? If seventy people that were say gay in some country, name the place, we're rounded up by Islamics is Lamists and beheaded. The world would be screaming. The media would be outraged. What is the United States going to do
about this? What are the world country? What what are the neighboring that this would be an international outrage? Well? Where's the United States on this? This is I'm not suggesting we send troops over there. Here's what I am suggesting. It needs to matter, and I'm suggesting that you understand when you hear Allied Democratic forces in the in the republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo. That you understand, Allied Democratic forces are ISIS. They are ISIS aligned, they are ISIS.
They hope to establish a caliphate in so that nation, in that village to start with. That's what they're gonna do. Is anyone gonna stop them. Secondly, this is not just connecting the name Allied Democratic Forces equals terrorism, but it's also acknowledging what Islam is about. Let me be clear, there are peace loving, live and let live Muslims around the world. But even they are in the crosshairs of
these guys, they'll be killed. Second, because they'll use the killing the other people to get these peace loving Muslims to either sign on to what they're doing or their next That's a fact, indisputable. Twenty seven past the hour, Man, I hate starting the show this way. That's how much content we got at any point in the previous four years. Have you heard a major American company that admittedly is one of the biggest in the world with international manufacturing
and so forth. Have you heard anyone in business, not a left politician, not a Democrat politician, but anyone in business say words to the effect of we are bullish on America and then follow that up with money. Say what you will about Apple and what is it Tim Cook? I think he's the guy who replaced Steve Jobs when jobs passed away. Tim Cook bullish on the future of American innovation. We're proud to build on our longstanding US investments.
They have committed a five hundred billion dollar investment five half a trillion dollars. They're going to open a new manufacturing facility in Houston that will produce servers that had been manufactured outside the US. Thousands of jobs will be created the facility opens in twenty twenty six. Apple said it will double its US Advanced Manufacturing Fund and create the Apple Manufacturing Academy in Michigan. Oh well, can't win
them all, Michigan. Significant R and D investments in the US will also be made to support AI, silicon engineering, software development, and machine learning. This wasn't happening. Businesses know that under Trump and hopefully his successor and hopefully Congress codifies this stuff permanently in law where it's not executive orders. Business leaders know they will make more money in America and be a hoarding the country that it was birthed in.
Lowering taxes on corporations leads to more jobs, more manufacturing, more fill in the blank. President Trump was lauding the election results in Germany, but don't be so fast to congratulate because the likely new Chancellor of Germany is Friedrich Merz, and he is not necessarily an American fan. He's not a fan of the US. He thinks that we are whimping out in Europe, that our commitment is waning. No, Trump's merely saying you need to pay your fair share.
Murz said that they are looking looking to now create a Europe that is independent from the United States. What's interesting is that Germany does not have a single combat ready division in its armed forces, so good luck with that. And then lastly, I'm an a statement coming from a counselor to President Trump, Alina Haba Habba, talking about Epstein Island. Transparency is coming. They don't want anyone to know who was on Epstein Island, who was a pedo, and who
is probably still sitting in DC. Allegedly, they will be releasing all of the information or much of it soon. That was on Fox and Friends this weekend stated out loud that we'll get to the bottom of who was involved in trafficking and taking advantage of young girls that were brought to Epstein Island to well, there's a photo of Bill Clinton getting a massage from some girl. I'm just I'm thinking to myself, I'm sorry, I don't know how you go there. But anyway, forty minutes, forty one
minutes past the hour. Sadly a little shake my head for a local school. This was in the news yesterday, didn't get to it in the program. I'm going to be very interested to see how the board of governors of Florida's university system and the governor Ronde Santis, who, oh, by the way, here we go. Donald Trump has endorsed Byron Donald's to be the next governor. Governor de Santis pushed out his wife, Casey yesterday for the first time, and Casey did not say no, no, no, no no,
So this could get very interesting. Matt Gates already out there kind of taking sides, disappointed in Governor De Santis because quote Gates and Donald's were the ones helping him prepare for the governor's race. He claims literally the two of them, Oh my, I have a feeling this is going to get a little nasty. His comment on Byron Donalds is basically, Byron's a wonderful guy. But he doesn't. He's not. He's been in congress. Here's the problem with that.
So were you governor? You are a congressman. Byron Donalds calls Florida home. Byron Donalds has a wife who is stellarly sharp, just like you do. Just saying this is going to get interesting. Cannot wait to talk with sal news Oh about this. The dynamics are huge. But here's the story. And what will the governor? What will the board of governors do? Florida State University has reinstated a quote friendly space option on the on campus housing application
meaning friendly to LGBTQ plus. Now, this is the type of stuff that as I understand it, and I could absolutely be wrong. Let me be clear. This is to me DEI. I've got the statement from Florida State University. This is FSU. Routinely reviews were freshest campuses information and messaging on a regular basis to ensure information up to date and accurate includes university housing web pages and applications.
During this review, a previously used question was omitted from the returning student housing application for twenty five to twenty six academic year. A revised version of the question will be included in the new student housing application. Returning residential students will be given the opportunity to update their previously submitted housing app for twenty five to twenty six with this question. And the question is about wanting a LGBTQ
plus friendly space. Here's here's my question, and this drives to the heart of what DEI is is not all about. DEI is not about diversity, equity, inclusion. DEI is just a renaming of bigotry and discrimination. It's just reverse. So where does it stop? And bear with me now? Is this a white friendly housing? Is this a black friendly housing opportunity? Is this a friendly opportunity for those who are Christians? Is this a friendly housing option for those
who are conservative or liberal atheists, politically independent athletes. We already have athlete dorms, as I understand, at least we used to. But you get my point. Where does it stop? So we're just going to ask if this is friendly for gay and lesbian, transgender students. This is problematic for the school. This could be very problematic for the school forty seven minutes after the hour, just keeping you aware. We will discuss at greater length.
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All right, moms and dads, especially if you've got young girls, especially you listen to this if they're in public schools. We've shared this story, a national case came from this very county, Leon County, Florida. But this is when it goes horribly wrong. Story from the New York Post talks about the actions of a former social studies teacher at Columbine and High School. Sound familiar in Jefferson County, Colorado, Leanne Kearney, thirty seven years of age. Investigators hired by
the district. This isn't just an allegation now, this is based on investigators that the school district hired. Why did they hire? Because they have obtained emails and records showing that school counselors and even the principal, who is now very remorseful and regretful, kept from the parents of a student who, at the age of fifteen, began being groomed by the then thirty four year old perhaps Leanne Kearney. Leanne Kearney identified this girl in her classroom, which shows
the stalking behavior that exists inside this community. They look to pick off young people and groom them for this lifestyle. Oh and did she groom check this out? The second she could. The teacher ran off to Oregon with this girl when she turned eighteen, left the state. How did that happen? Well, it's easy when the fifteen year old lives with the teacher. How did that happen? Because she and the counselors were able to be They convinced the girl that she was being abused or that she could
use abuse abuse allegations to gain her independence. There were twenty four thousand text messages between the two. They met in secret hours on the phone. They even engaged in a certain level of intimacy. When the girl was still a minor. They turned in a fraudulent application for federal homeless youth status that would allow her to move out of her parents' home. She did. The parents were helpless because the school had people in place that supported all
of this. The staff never contacted the parents, never checked out her story, never talked to the younger brother about life at home, even though they shared the same guidance counselor don't think this can't happen to your student, your child. It's not their phone, it's your phone. They're your kid, not their kid. Five minutes past the hour of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Hello, Good morning, ruminators, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, males and females only, Welcome
to the broadcast that sosay. Can you see over there in studio one A, I am here in Studio one. B. Hey, let me get your thoughts on this. We if you missed the program yesterday, we tried something in the third hour, three conversations where we just cleared out everything else, though I had a mountain of material that I could have used. And it's sort of a modified version of an open line kind of thing where I just have a conversation in each segment of the of the half hour, so
three conversations. There are three segments, so three conversations, and we had two. We had two conversations. What was your thought on the effort yesterday? I mean, do we try it again sometime? You know? I think it was good.
Maybe a little bit more time and advance, you know, because I think it is a little daunting to people you know that never been on on air before. Maybe so you know that that quick time there to think about it.
But we warned them on Friday, Oh right, right, we did, and then we teased it all morning long that we were going to do this. But the concept in general, yeah, I think it's a very very neat concept. There's a couple of good calls. It's nothing earth shattering. I mean, you know, talk show has been taking phone calls forever. I mean, quite candidly, nothing but phone calls is a sign of a lazy talk show host, always has been, because that means they're not prepping, they're just relying on
people to be their content. And it's like that's no good and if people are stupid or boring anyway, we had two conversations, but there's a third conversation that we'll get to in just a few minutes. Not with a phone call, but with an email. Someone could not call in, so they emailed me what would have been their conversation, and I'm thinking, okay, okay, so we'll talk about that in a few minutes. But yesterday, at this time, we talked about the Small Business Administration, and I looked up
the history of it. I thought it would be worthwhile to take a couple minutes and talk about the history of the SBA. And I think its history is fascinating and it might speak to its relevance or lack thereof for today. What else happened during this timeframe. Social Security social socialism. It's a social program. Social security is a form of socialism. We did not adhere to the rules of Social Security as they were outlined by FDR. FDR
never planned on it being an indefinite program. It was intended to be a temporary program because of the Depression to help people. We have totally changed it. The SBA popped up in nineteen thirty two. It was the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. It was created by President Herbert Hoover. It was designed to help address the financial crisis of the Great Depression. It was a federal lending program and for
all businesses large and small hurt by the depression. And then you fast forward in nineteen fifty three, it was President Dwight D. Eisenhower that signed the Small Business Act into law that created the US Small Business Administration the SBA. So it is created in its present form in nineteen fifty three. So I looked it up. What do we do? It says access to capital, entrepreneurial development, government contracting, and advocacy. Those are the four main umbrellas, if you will, underneath
SBA access to capital. Here's my question. Why why should the government be competing with the private sector? That's just me. Why should the government in this day, Look, we're not in the depression anymore. Why should the government be in competition with private lenders that lend money for small business startups to entrepreneurial development. Well, I got to be honest with you. Services are available in more than eighteen hundred locations.
In my mind, that's eighteen hundred locations that can be closed down to save tax bear dollars. Because you ever heard of YouTube LinkedIn all these private opportunities to gain whatever entrepreneurial advice you want to have. Power Forward Speaker series here in Leon County every year they bring in someone to help with entrepreneurial development. They're small labs and things like that. There are all kinds of hubs in the private sector. They don't need to be in that.
So we've now cut the purpose of SBA in half. So I'm just pointing out that if you look at so many of them, these agencies and programs, they might have had the best of intentions, but they're just not needed and we shouldn't be paying these these for these programs. Eleven minutes past. Now come back with the third conversation, three conversations, if we do it again. It's all about you talking about whatever you want and having a conversation with me. It's not about giving a speech, it's not
about picking a fight. It's about just having a conversation and talking about whatever you want to talk about. And it was interesting the two conversations we had. We did not have a third segment, and so someone wrote in heard you on your show that you were doing five minute conversations with a viewer listener about the topic of their choice. I don't know how else to contact you, but if available, I'd love to talk with you, specifically to get your input on the best way to contribute
financially to the Republican Party. Huh oh, well, I'm not gonna be calling people personally about stuff like this. That's you know. I'm glad you found a way to reach me. It's Preston at iHeartRadio dot com and I hope you can understand. I'm you know, I get between fifteen and thirty texts daily for contributions, But when they ask for my input on a topic, my signature on a birthday card for Trump, my priorities on issues, I can't submit any of those without giving money. I feel like I'm
I'm being hustled or conned. I don't know where the money's going and for what purpose. Anyway, that's my wish to get your input. Let me know. Appreciate all you do. And that's from Rosemary. Rosemary, I appreciate you writing in. I hope you're listening. I won't be calling. I've addressed this, but not this specifically. All of those texts, I get them too, A bunch of you get them. You get emails. How many emails are you getting a day from Donald Trump?
And Trump's sell them gear and that's fine, man, go crazy with the merch. But like you, you get those surveys, you take a second, fill them out, and then at the end, can't hit submit unless you give them a dollar or five dollars or ten dollars or fifty dollars or one hundred dollars. Uh huh, no, I will tell you what my position is. I don't give to the party. The party is not demonstrated to me yet that they
know what the crap they're doing. Look, I'm happy for Evan power, but Evan's not the reason why the state of Florida is moving the way it's moving. It's because of legislative accomplishments, the leadership of the governor, and the state moving more and more red. Now. The bottom line is that the party, to me, its main purpose is to grow itself, and it grows itself through messaging or lack thereof. The party's growing despite itself. I won't give
money to the party. I'll give money to candidates. That's just me. You do you, but I won't get in part because a crap like this can't stand it cannot stand it. The bombing of the even well, you don't understand that's the way it works. Screw that. Do it the right way, be respectful of people, and maybe show a little bit more where the money's going by messaging, putting out messages. The party in the state, the party in the nation should be messaging like crazy. They should
have been doing it during Biden's four years. The moment he signed the Keystone Xcel kill. They should have been messaging. They don't know what they're doing, and I'm tired of giving them free lessons. I've been giving them free lessons every morning for five three and twenty three mornings, and I don't want him to pay me for a thing.
I just want him to take the advice. So an answer to your question, Rosemary, I don't give the party a dime, not going to until they demonstrate the ability to message and show me where that money's going in messaging, in buying time on television, in buying time on radio, in buying time online. I want to see messaging. I don't want to see messaging about candidates. I want to see messaging about ideals, about principles. I will say it until I die. Win hearts and minds, you'll win elections.
Doctor Bob McClure James Madison Institute says it so concisely and precisely, good policy is good politics. Win people with the idea, and then let the candidates align with the idea and they'll win. That's how you do it. Sadly, we're in danger putting it all away here in Florida, ladies, we need to have a talk. And I know it's not all of you, just like I know that not all men are great drivers, but ladies, come on, seriously, come on again. I know there are exceptions to this,
but generally speaking, ladies, you are terrible drivers. I'm sitting at a left turn lane. I'm the second car waiting to turn left at an intersection. That's a very busy intersection. So it's left on a green arrow. Only there's never a green light where you know, the green arrow drops away and then it's just a green light and you turn if you can. It's only left turn green arrows, so you're waiting through all the cycles of the intersection for your shot to make the left turn. I'm second,
I'm right behind the car in front. The brake lights are on, the car's occupied, they're not flashing. This is not a car in distress. This is not someone in trouble. This is someone that's stopped. The light turns green. I give it a seton. I hit the horn. Hello, just a little friendly, little tap. Just hey, I know you're probably on your phone. Nothing word now, just and now the line behind me is starting to get a little agitated, so I hit the horn a little bit more. Then
I hit the horn a little bit more. She sits through the entire green turn light. My first thought is, okay, I might need to get out of the car and see if this person's okay, But I choose not to because the brake lights are on their foot is on the break? Did they fall asleep? And then the unbelievable happens. It's a red light. It's red, it's red. She goes, she doesn't, She doesn't go left, she doesn't go straight, she goes a U turn, immediately turns right where I
was just I was dumbfounded. Thankfully, the people in the line behind me are staring at her and not thinking it was me that was holding them up. They could see that there was that other vehicle in front, thankfully, Not that it really matters, I suppose in the grand scheme of things, but it's like, really, you wait this out, you just sit in your world of oblivion, and then suddenly you run a red light and run the risk
of causing a wreck. Lady lady driving, not an old lady, not a lady that you would say, oh, bless her heart, she doesn't. We all see drivers like that bless his or her heart. They're just old and they're driving very defensively going thirty five and a fifty five, going thirty and a forty five. You know, veried, No, no, no, no, young girl. Ah, but there's more, but not today, not today. Just saying, ladies, come on, come on. Twenty seven minutes past Yeah ye.
Morning Show with Preston Scott. Crime to the Conversations with Preston Scott podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Probably very important to understand what d OGE has has done so far. They're finding waste, they're finding they're not saving us money yet. The amount of money saved so far.
Is estimated to be about sixty five billion dollars. It's a drop in the buckets. It's not insignificant. It's just short of insignificant. What they're finding is waste and fraud totaling trillions. But for example, contracts that have been canceled, well those contracts have been fulfilled. Biden spent money like someone with a runaway credit card, because that's what government has had constantly tapping you and I for more money, more money, more money, more money, and that's something you
and I can't do. Why can't you and I expect and demand that government runs the way that you and I have to run our budget. And for some reason, we've got this disconnect where too many people, too many of you, don't connect those dots that this spending is your money being misspent. Imagine, imagine if you ask for some help paying bills, okay, and your family chips in and helps you pay bills through a tough time, and then you go off on a vacation. What you just
you just asked for and received help. What are you doing? That's the government. They just take it though they don't ask, they take They increase tax burdens. And for any of you that have fallen into this ridiculous trap of thinking this fair share argument, businesses don't pay tax. People do businesses pass on the tax to you. You pay it, You pay all of it. It's a cost of doing business that they factor into the price of the good
or the service. Hello, we've got to get to a U. And this is this goes back to what I was talking about in the second segment, last half hour. This is the This is where the party, the Republican Party they don't get it. That's the messaging that should be going on right now. They should be pointing out that when you want more money and you don't have the income and the asset to liability ratios to get more credit, to get more borrowed, sorry you can't. You have to
reduce your costs. There needs to be that kind of mechanism where you and I say no, spend what we give you wisely, and if you don't get if you're not able to live and do your job with the money we give you, well I'm sorry. Cut cut things. What government does is it cuts things to intentionally hurt people, to try to send a message, oh you want cuts, huh,
here's where we'll cut. Donald Trump celebrating Apple's investment of five hundred billion dollars in America, building manufacturing in this country, just the beginning of it. Forty minutes past, Big stories in the press box. Here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott. What if I told you that people responsible for our national security, our intelligence community, was spending hours
and hours every week holding sex chats amongst themselves. The NSSA national security agency, apparently has been engaging in sex chats since the start of DEI initiatives inside the government. This is uncovered by Christopher Rufo and Hannah Grossman. Rufo Senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, contributing editor of City Journal, author of America's Cultural Revolution, and Hannah Grossmann, investigative reporter.
One popular topic. They've got sources inside the NSSA who have provided chat logs from the nssa's Interlink messaging program. According to the NSSA, all NSSA employees sign agreement stating that publishing non mission related material on Interlink is a usage violation will result in disciplinary action. These logs date back two years, featuring a wide range of topics sexual in nature, transgenderism, homosexuality, kink related sex, castration, genital surgeries
one topical. One popular chat topic is male to female transgender surgery. They were legitimized inside the NSA because of its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. What they did is they used employee resource groups to turn all of this stuff into official duties. They would label this stuff under diversity, which by the way, is usually bigotry and racism, but they used it as a euphinism, euphemism for sex talk, so they would they would categorize these as meeting titles
like privilege, ally awareness, pride, transgender, community inclusion. Only what they were doing is they were having sex chats while you were paying them on the clock. Here's the here's here's where the war is. All of these people that Trump wants to clear out, they're not going to toe the line. They'll have no choice but fire them. And to do this is going to require some discomfort on the part of Americans. These are fundamental working issues. Do your job, what you do on your time, as long
as it's not illegal, that's up to you. But on the clock, do your job. They're not. And there's the problem right now. The NSA seemingly cannot How can they be trusted with our national security intelligence when they don't have the ability to distinguish between male and female? Forty six past them not saying just saying malely minute just a few minutes away here, Philadelphia Eagles have declined the invitation to be honored at the White House by President
Donald Trump. The words are to the effect of, no way, okay. Add that to the reasons why I wanted the Chiefs to win. No I can't stand Philadelphia fans because for the most part, generally speaking, they're the worst, most obnoxious human beings that are fans of a pro franchise in sports. Now this, I'm sure the Eagles are not alone. Megan Kelly had a little salty response to it. She wrote, go bleep yourselves, Eagles. My husband is a fan, so
I got on board, but bleep this bs. She could be a little salty, It would seem Leaving Foxes liberated her just a bit. When it comes to stuff like that. The comments from people just blistered them. Blistered them, and taxpayers paid for your stadium, said one we will remember. Source of the Eagles spoke anonymously stressed the conversation about refusing a visit with President Donald Trump after beating Kansas City have already occurred. It was a massive no. Okay, look,
I don't care, and I doubt Donald Trump does. He's got plenty more important things to do than do a photo op with a bunch of prima donnas. If I were the owner of the team, I would say, no, You're under a contractual obligation to go, and you will go, and you'll be respectful. Its just that simple. It's part of your contract. You're an employee of the team. You will go just like it would have been very simple.
You don't take a knee. I'm sorry. You're an employee that you want to do that on your own time, that's fine. But when you're on the sideline, when you're in a uniform, when you're representing this team, you are not taking a knee. Just said, simple you, But I have a fee. I've got the through themendment.
Men.
No, you don't. Not the workplace, no one does. I can't say anything I want. I mean, let me back up. I can, but I'll be fired. There's certain things I cannot say or I'll be fired. That's fair. Don't believe me. Try saying what you've been thinking about your boss for a while. Go say that at work to him or her. Let me know how that works out for you. You see, you're not protected. That's not protected speech. That's settled. It's legally settled. Just saying now. Right along top of that,
we come to a manly minute. Remember male by birth, man by choice. These are virtue skills attributes. Things to teach your son first, get your son in sports. No, but they're not particularly athletic or coordinate it. I don't care. Get them involved in sports first, it'll be good for him. Secondly, there is a sport somewhere that your son can play and it will teach them values that translate into life. Sports is so wonderful because it is a metaphor for life.
You can encounter in one game, in one match, in one event, a lifetime of experiences that can be teachable moments for your son, and then teach your son how to handle winning and losing with dignity. Celebrate the wins, but remember what it's like to be on the other side of it when you're shaking hands after a game. Sports is a wonderful tool. Just don't look at people like the Philadelphia Eagles football team for advice on how to conduct oneself when we come back. Gifford Biggs joins
US Regional Director American Petroleum Institute. Next on The Morning Show with Preston Scott Third Hour Morning Show with Preston skyg Morning Ruminators. Thanks for joining us, whether it's on the radio or on iHeart, we appreciate it. Remember make us a preset punch this radio station in on your iHeartRadio app as preset one or two, and the Morning Show with Preston Scott in Preset one or two, the
Conversations podcast as well. But just remember you got all the presets just like the old buttons on your radio dial in the car, and you can find us very very easily. Thrilled to have on the program. Gifford Briggs. He is the regional director for the Gulf Coast the American Petroleum Institute, formerly president of the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association. Gifford, Welcome to the program. How are you, sir, Good morning, Thank you.
For having me. I'm doing great today in this beautiful morning in Tallahassee.
Tell me, let's give listeners a little bit of an outline. When I say American Patroleum Institute, you say, describe it to our listeners.
Sure, so, very simply, we're a national trade association that represents the oil and natural gas industry across the United States, but we're also a global organization and that we are the premier standards setting organization for the oil and natural gas industry. And so for people that are listening and maybe driving in their car right now, when you go get a can of motor oil, there is an API certification seal on that on that motor oil that says
that it's been refined according to the API standards. And so that's something that people touch, you know, you know, on a regular basis just one of the one of the nearly eight hundred standards that we've set across the industry.
If we put a percentage, what would their guess be the percentage of things that make up somebody's home, apartment, their possessions that have petroleum in them.
I mean, I you know, that's a it would be a very high percentage. Maybe you know, forget about I guess maybe the lumber that is that makes up the frame. But you know, oil or natural gas is used to make up just about everything, and certainly is used to to you know, even if you look at something like lumber that it's it's used in the process to create the two by fours that ultimately, you know, go into your home. So oil and natural gas touches everything that we do all day long.
One of the things that I've done Gifford over the years is try to explain to people just how present petroleum based products are in their day to day life, and then to imagine a world without any of it, and how far back we are from being anywhere near being quote independent of our need for fossil fuels. But it still staggers me that there are people that don't think that the last four years have been a problem
for us. How would you describe the last four years under the Biden administration from a petroleum and gas perspective, Yeah.
Certainly, you know, the previous administration through as much uncertainty
as the industry as possible. You know, while we support you know, solar and wind and renewable forms of energy, we support of all of the above proach, we're going to need more energy tomorrow than we have today, and in five years from now, we're going to need a lot more energy than we have today, and it's going to take everything you know, in the previous administration, whether it was you know, pausing, you know, the permitting of
energy exports, facilities, shutting down the Gulf of Mexico, uh, you know, in you know, ridiculous environmental regulations. You know, all of those things really sort of hampered the industry and the outlook that in the investments that people want to make, which you know, put us more at risk, not today, but five years down the road, and you know,
it threatens our energy security. We never want to end up in a situation like our allies in Europe did where they were dependent on you know, Russia or China for their energy and we see how that's worked out for him. So certainly under this administration, we've we've you know, uh, a cataclysmic shift in policy and wanting to renew American energy dominance and maintain American energy security and and really be able to export our American you know, energy progress around the globe.
Gifford Briggs with me. He's the Gulf Coast Region director for the American Petroleum Institute. My guest, he's gonna be with me a couple more segments. Got a lot to talk about here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Natural gas oil industry sports a lot of jobs, and the margins are incredibly small when compared to industries across the country
and around the world. Just for a second, touch on that, Gifford, because one of my other complaints is people talk about the oil and gas industry how they're just hoarding all these profits and all this money let's talk about the margins inside the industry.
Yeah, I mean, look, it's a and it you know, it really depends on where you look at when you're out in the in the you know, I came from in Louisiana, from the small independent side of the industry. My father was you know, built a service company up from ground zebra and put everything that he had into it. And the and you know, there's a lot of people in the oil field that you know, are small family businesses that you know, produce one barrel of oil a day.
And when you know, you look at the cost that they have to put in and the risk that they take, uh and then and at the end of the day, the the what they receive is totally out of their control. For a long time, you know, OPEC was able to control the price of a barrel of oil. And so one day you're selling your product at you know, fifty
dollars and the next day it's it's five dollars. And you know, we saw it go down a negative fifty during COVID UH and so you know, there's a it's a it's a high risk industry from a financial perspective. And then when you get into the refining side of the industry, you know, where you know, you see the sort of traditional you know, Majors and Exon and Chevron
Shell and those companies. When you go speak to those refinery managers, they are talking about fractions of pennies every day of where they can, you know, find ways to make the process a little bit more efficient because that that's how thin their margins are on the refined product. Obviously you're talking about, you know, tremendous volume. And if you go visit a refinery, you know, I think people are so used to it, and we kind of touch
on this about making a gallon of gasoline. But when they you know, when they send a barrel of oil through a refinery, you know they're they're they're using you know, different processes to take fractions of a molecule oft to be able to use it to help us make medicine or to make candles or hand sanitizer. I got to visit the largest refinery and that makes the most hand
sanitatis that are on the planet. And so these are things that we don't think think about that are very important to the industry and those and those you know, those fractions of the pennies are what make a difference producing.
Let me back up exploring U securing producing. It's cleaner in this country than anywhere in the world, and cleaner than it's ever been. Is that accurate?
That that is one hundred percent accurate. I mean, our industry invests, you know, billions of dollars to you know, pull oil and natural gas out of the ground and do it in the most environmentally responsible way possible. In the United States has seen our emissions drop year after year, while other countries have not seen that, and that's in large part due to, you know, particularly the growth of
the natural gas industry. I mean, in two thousand and seven, you know, we thought we had a seven year supply of natural gas, and then with horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing and shale plays like the Ainesville Shale in others, we've gone to a two hundred year supply of natural gas. And we've been able to replace a lot of the cold fire power plants, which has greatly reduced the missions
profile of our country. And we want to export that progress around the world and help you know, use clean burning American natural gas and other places, which helps bring down you know missions globally.
Joining us on the program for one more segment is Gifford Briggs. He is the Gulf Coast Region director for American Petroleum Institute. When we come back, we're going to talk about the President Donald Trump is Golf of America day. What that signals to you and me? Moving forward here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott twenty one minutes past the hour. Joining me on the program is Gifford Briggs. He is Gulf Coast Region director for American Petroleum Institute.
And Gifford and I were talking in the break Gifford, there are some inside the industry that believe the volatility their were not mine of President Donald Trump means uncertainty and not good times for the oil and gas industry. I think the policies of the previous administration versus the policies of this one say just the opposite. What do industry insiders say about that?
Well, I mean, I think it's pretty clear from the campaign trail that President Trump's approach to energy was going to be as he said, Drill, baby, drill, and you know, unleashing America energy dominance, securing our energy security. And you know if you look at just some of the action he's taken already, you know, undoing the President Biden's freeze
on l G permits. You know, the the last year was the first year that we never had a golf uh uh lease sale and what is now the Gulf of America and President Trump's come in and he's undone a lot of that. So, you know, for industry and having conversations about you know, permitting reform, you know, we want, we need to be able to have access to energy. We need to be able to access to the areas in the Gulf of America where there are abundant natural resources,
and we need to be able to export. You know that that progress across the country. And so President Trump's approach is certainly a welcomed one within the industry. That is is going to allow investments to flow in the industry, which is critical to our long term success.
So would it be fair to say then that any volatility comes from the fact that you you can go from one president that for example, Joe Biden's first day in office was killing the Keystone EXL pipeline, to another president and that what needs to happen is Congress needs to come in and solidify policy as a matter of this is what we do in America, correct.
I mean, one of the things that we're we're talking about within API and our policy teams is, you know, how do we ensure that we've got durable energy policy that can withstand the you know, the pendulum swings that our political system, you know, and how it works right now.
And so the more that the more policy that can be you know, put in place by by Congress that can't be easily undone as we move from one administration to the other, it is critically important because you know, these are our industry in a lot of a lot of most places is not making decisions on the policies today we're looking at and saying we need We're going to make it, you know, a twenty billion dollar investment
and adding this component to a refining facility. You know that that's going to span the course of multiple administrations. And so the more policy that we can get the better of the environment to be more predictable and more stable, the better it is for us to be able to make those decisions. And certainly President Trump had to undo a lot of what President Biden did because he just you know, he was moving away from from you know, American energy into our oil and nats or gas in
other areas. And so we're we're excited about the approach that that President Trump is taking and we hope that you know, that Congress can move and certainly Speaker Johnson from Louisiana's he's in the Hainesville shale area. He understands the importance of robust energy policy and hopefully under his leadership, we can we can see some things moving.
So it's safe to say that regardless of who's in the White House, that's of value on the short term, but the most important is the long term, bigger picture, and that's where it rests in Congress, in the House and Senate one hundred percent.
And you know, and there's a responsibility as well at state and local governments. We're seeing you know, more activism at state and local governments, whether they're wanting to you know, ban uh you know, uh natural gas stows or when I first took the job at API, there was a resolution in Tampa to prohibit the constructions of petroleum infrastructure,
so no more gas stations, uh. And so you know, we're seeing more of these policies at the local level that are also a challenge, and so we need to make sure it's not just the president, it's not just Congress, but also that there's policy at the state and local level that allow for the continued development, the transportation, the refining, and the consumption of oil and natural gas.
Different In closing, what would you say to listeners is most important for them to know and or do in response to whether it's it's President's Trump Trump's Golf of America Day proclamation, or whether it's just the bigger, broader picture.
Yeah, I think the most important thing is is no matter you know what noise that may be out there about the end of the you know, the oil and natural gas industry and that we need to you know, need to move away from these fuels. Is that America and globally is going to consume more oil and more natural gas in twenty fifty than we do today. And it is going to take all of our country and our policymakers working together to ensure that we have the
energy that we need to meet today. And the oil and natural gas industry is going to pay a critical role in making that happen.
Different Thanks for the time today. I appreciate it.
Thank you.
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Love to know that, But we'll find out just how different things are under You know, I think the comparison was between President Trump and Bernie Lomax. Anyone that's ever seen the movie Weekend at Bernie's, you get that, and it's making you laugh right now, maybe spit your coffee out. President Trumps celebrating Apple's commitment to spend five hundred billion dollars investing in American manufacturing of some of their products. They're gonna put a facility in Houston. It'll be open
in twenty twenty six. They're going to double their Advanced Manufacturing fund and create a manufacturing academy in Michigan. Well R and D investments, Apple putting half a trillion dollars into the US economy. See this, and leftists deride this. This is trickle down economics. When you spend five hundred million dollars, sorry, five hundred billion dollars in America, in America, that money makes its way into the American economy. It
pays American workers. Those American workers buy in America because they live in America, they spend in America, and that money then filters into those into businesses and services and goods and products that those people buy, and then that that does what that See, that's called trickle down economics. And sadly the left doesn't believe in that. And I don't know. To me, that's like saying I don't believe in water it's just patently dumb. It doesn't require anyone
to believe in it. It's what exists. Money, when spent trickles down, It inevitably pays our salaries. And then it's like, you know, to borrow from the lion king. It's the circle of life. Our money then that we secure for our job then goes back into the economy and is spent again, and it pays for people, and it is filtered in. And that's trickled down economics in its finest. JP Morgan Chase defending the bank's diversity equity inclusion policies,
saying that they're hiring practices are merit based. Now this is interesting because the CEO said, he's over this crap. See, it's not just embedded in in federal government, it's embedded in businesses, large businesses. Now they can he can say what he wants. He's CEO. He didn't do anything. And so now you've got an actual spokesperson out there defending DEI while the CEO is pushing away from it and telling protesters bring it on. I don't care who signs
the bleeping petition. We've chronicled what happened at Facebook. He took the tampon products and all that out of the restrooms for men, and so they brought tampon products in there. I ever, this is the war that is being waged. Big stories in the press box. Forty minutes past the hour, more business related stuff absence. Howard Eisman next.
Ride them at Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. Yes he knows how to read. Well, actually his producer reads him. He doesn't know how to read. It's the morning Show with Preston.
Scott's had Eisman supposed to join us in this segment, but it is under the weather. So we praying for Howard and wish him well in a little recovery from whatever the credit is that he might have. Joanne Inc. Is filing Chapter eleven. Eighty two year old company announced it's selling all assets to a buyer group and is shutting all of its retail locations. Wow, this is like a patient brought in the operating room and it's too late. This is too late. I think two things hindered Joanne
and I don't know who Joe Ann is. But the company has six hundred and fifteen million dollars of debt. It owes one hundred and thirty three million to its suppliers. Rent alone is twenty six million a month. So they've they have filed a Chapter eleven bankruptcy protection. And I think there are a couple of things at play here. First of all, let's go back to our conversation with Gifford Briggs. There's a ton of stuff inside that store
made with petrolium. Synthetic fabrics are all made with petroleum, all of them. There are natural products like cotton and things made from other plants, perhaps maybe even seaweed for that matter. I don't know. I watched Tom Hanks make some pretty cool rope on the movie Castaway using vines. I mean, that's pretty cool. But Joanne's also was. The
stores I've been in remarkably antiquated. Their stores just they looked like they were left over from the late sixties early seventies, like they just haven't had the money to repackage and freshen up and make them look better the display of what they do, and they probably didn't diversify quite enough where you've got people buying stuff. Look, this is one of those areas, though, where you can look
online all you want. There's nothing that beats going and seeing a fabric sample in person and seeing it and touching it just isn't And so they I think there's a way for them to have managed this, But I don't know that there were. Between the minimum wage push, the cost increases and then a little bit of obsolescence in their stores, it just they just they lost steam. And so you've got an eighty two year old company that's having to close its doors. Period done. Now does
somebody take it on and reimagine it? Do they merge? You know? I think Michael's is in a similar type position if they haven't already gone into that direction of But I can't. There's just something in my head that says Michael's was in the news. But but I think that there's a marketplace for this. There's certain things. It's like a nursery where you buy plants. You can't really do that online. Sure you can say you know, I want this, but you're not getting a fifteen gallon tree
in the mail. It's tough. So you need nurseries. You need places where you can There's certain products that you want to see in touch. Even if you buy a car online, you want to go see the car. You want to go test drive it. Even if you don't buy, you want to know before you spend the money, right.
I just think there are things that you just want to see and feel and touch for yourself, and so I think there's still a market for brick and mortar, fabric shops and things like that, craft shops and so forth. Forty six minutes past the hour, all I can do is laugh with the next story, not just a zeus Rogrigez tomorrow. Well, of course, cover whatever's out there in the news. Talk a little bit more about female drivers,
just saying and again they're bad drivers. That are guys too, I get that, but inevitably the worst are some women. Star sorry and you women, you know it, know it. Also animal stories tomorrow. This is just gross. This is just so gross, and the way it was written is just hilarious. I don't know who Chris NeSSI is, but I think he writes for Reuters. President Trump has ordered
the Resolute Desk removed from the Oval Office now. The Resolute Desk was given to President Rutherford B. Hayes in eighteen eighty from Queen Victoria, and it was built of the remains of the British Arctic exploration vessel, the HMS Resolute. It's a beautiful desk. It was center in the movie National Treasure, the Resolute Desk, I mean, it's a big
part of that movie. Well, the reason why Trump's having it removed temporarily and replaced with the C and O desk, which is short for Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, and it was used in the Oval Office in nineteen seventy four.
There's apparently several desks that the president can choose from, but he's having it removed because Elon Musk's son, Little X. When Musk and Trump were doing their little press conference, Little X was in there, and let me just read the way that they described it, the young Musk scion and budding nasal archaeologist. At one point, the tot wiggled his finger around in his nostril and then seemingly wiped the resulting bounty on the famous desk first used by
John F. Kennedy in nineteen sixty one. So he went digging for a booger, and he took the booger and he put it on the desk. And Trump is a germophobe big time, and so Trumps had the desk removed and it's being lightly refinished. He said, they're cleaning that bad boy to the core and then they're bringing it back in because Musk Kid put a book on the desk. But that's just laid growth. Brought to you by Barno
Heating and Air. It's the Morning Show one on WFLA lightly refinishing, brilliant look back at the show in one hundred and eighty seconds or less. We started the day with Philippians four, eight and nine, Chapter four, verses eight and nine. Big stories in the press box covered a lot of ground today, President celebrating apples, announced five hundred billion dollar investment in manufacturing plants in the United States. It's manufacturing ramp up here in this country. It's just
the beginning, friends, it just is again. We explained trickle down economic explain the importance of this, how it all works. Talked about the next German Chancellor Frederick Murrz criticizing Trump, saying NATO could be finished soon, calling for an independent European defense. They don't have one battle ready division in the German military, not one. Go for it, Frederick counselor to the President, saying, as it relates to Jeffrey Epstein
Epstein Island, that transparency is coming. There are going to be so many very nervous people, very nervous on both sides of the Aisle I Suspect NSSAY secret chats have been revealed National Security Agency using taxpayer dollars meaning taxpayer paid salaries and wages and on taxpayer dime, holding sex chats on line amongst themselves while on the job. Talked about the SBA, what it does, what it maybe shouldn't do.
Talked about a counselor, a principal and a teacher at a Colorado school that groomed a student and the student ended up going off with the teacher. Tomorrow, we'll do it again, friends, Thanks for listening. To have an awesome day.