Ep. 4959: Supreme Court Strikes Down Affirmative Action

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Friday, June 30th 2023. Our guests today include:
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Episode Transcript

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What a perfect way to start theFriday edition before fourth of July at the
Morning Show with Preston Scott. I'mPreston, that's Jared. Great to be
with you. That song is sittingnow on my block page. You can
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and he loves Jesus and has carvedyour career as a contemporary Christian singer.
Just released that a few days agoand thought, man, what a great
way to lead into the fourth ofJuly weekend, which sort of kind of
is I know some of you mighthave to work on Monday, and of
course there are always folks that workoff and on over the weekend, but

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still kind of a long weekend.We're taking a long weekend. We'll be
back on Wednesday. But great wayto start the show with a song that
is brand new called My America.Psalm thirty three twelve says, this blessed
is the nation whose God is theLord, the people whom he has chosen

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as his heritage. I would contendthe reason why people still come to this
country for opportunity and freedom, nomatter how as sort of like Danny wrote
in that song, how bruised weare as a country is because we are
still blessed among the nations. AndI believe with all of my heart from

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a biblical perspective as well as justwhat I know in my heart, the
reason for the blessing despite the shortcomingsis our willingness to stand with the nation
of Israel. Blessed is the nationwhose God is the Lord. And I
will bless those that bless the peopleof Israel is another scripture. I think

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that we start messing with that.We are in a very precarious spot,
more so than we are even now. Ten minutes after the hour, take
a peek inside this date in history. Next on The Morning Show with Preston
Scott. Welcome to m a DRadio Network, Make a Difference Radio Network,

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and this is the Morning Show withPreston Scott. Twelve minutes past the
hour. Good morning, Good morning, good morning, Thanks so much for
making time. Appreciate you joining us. What's to be Friday? Talk to
Melanie Collette from Project twenty one aboutthe amazing ruling by the Supreme Court which

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I told you was going to have. I mean to me, it was
the easiest ruling to predict in avery long time. And we'll get to
all of that later in the show. But it's June thirtieth, final day,
and then we are we are halfwaythrough the year. From a calendar
perspective, where has it gone?In some respects as an older person too

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fast? In other respects, asan American not fast enough. Let's go,
Let's let's go. Eighteen fifty nine, June thirtieth, Frenchman Emil B.
London becomes the first daredevil to crossNiagara Falls on a tight rope.
You ever seen Niagara Falls in person? Jared, No, not in person?

(03:29):
Um, there we go plenty oftimes. You went to the talk
back button. There's lots of buttonsover here. Man, give me a
break, like, uh uh yeahthe first time at first we've had Nick
Wilenda on the show. Nick's beenon the program a few times over the

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years, and he did the walkacross Niagara Falls on a tight rope.
I can't even imagine having been thereand seeing it in person, it is
it is onspiring. Did not goto the Canadian side, which I know
is more pretty. I chose notto go through the passport nonsense, and

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just stayed on the American side.And there are places where you can go
literally in the park and you canwalk out across a little little a small
little bridge, and you see theselittle tributary streams and you can go right
there and you can look out andsee the waters gather and go over the

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edge, and it's incredible. Itjust is incredible onspiring. I just I
get goosebumps thinking about somebody doing thatbecause of the awesome power of that waterfall.
It's incredible. Eighteen sixty four,President Lincoln signs the Yosemite Valley Grant

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Act. What's interesting about this isgranting the Yosemite Valley California for public use,
resort, and recreation. Twenty sixyears later, Yosemite National Park was
created, thanks largely to a naturalist, John Muir, who spent decades studying,

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promoting and protecting the area. Andso twenty six years after that would
be um, what eighteen ninety iswhen it was turned into a national park.
I suppose is what they're what they'resaying there, But I've been there
as well. Yosemite is yeah,yeah, it's it's it's pretty cool.

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Haven't spent any time really of anynote there, but still been there and
can say that. But let's seewhat else we got. Nineteen fifty Truman
orders US ground troops into Korea.Soap opera The Guide Light nineteen fifty two
moves from radio to TV. Womenused to call those my stories. Yeah,

(06:08):
my grandma used to call it mystories. Yeah, that was a
thing. I think Gone Light justrecently went off the air, not long
ago. I think, I thinkyou're right. It was iconic. I
mean I remember as a high schoolkid, if I missed a day of
school and was stuck home sick,there was just so much on television back

(06:29):
then. You didn't have cable.You were just stuck with, you know,
whatever the networks had on the airand PBS, and it's like,
yeah, well I'm not watching SesameStreet. And you would every I would
every now and then just tune infor like ten minutes, and I decided
that I just really needed to getbetter and not have to watch this stuff.

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Never could find a way through someof those those soaps. But and
then in the nineteen fifty three,the first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly
line, in Flint, Michigan.Watch the Barrett Jackson the latest auction.
I tape those things, and Ithink I've shared my connection to that.

(07:20):
I went to school in Scottsdale withthe Barrett his son was one of my
classmates of Barrett Auctions. It wasit's now Barrett Jackson, and and Tommy's
not involved in the family business muchat all. I don't think he has
to work period. But I'm alwaysblown away by the way those corvettes sell

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and what they sell for the carsthat were going over the block. You
know, I think it's going tobe interesting as this whole ev thing happens,
what happens to modern day muscle carsthat seemingly are going to become extinct,
literally extinct. I mean, wewent through a period of time when
it was uncool to drive a musclecar, and then they came back,

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and now they're being regulated out ofexistence. I'll be curious to see what
happens to final editions of those thathit the auction block. Eventually, seventeen
minutes past the Hour in the MorningShow with Preston's cap a Your Bond with
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And one of the things that Ido is I'm pretty transparent about my life
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What's going on? I said,I just had a fight. She's

(10:24):
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For you know what a skink is. They're they're larger than average sized

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in our part of the world.A skink has a blue tail or a
purple tail. Some people see itas blue, some see its purple.
And they're kind of black and theyjust look mean. Well, one got

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into the house, and there wasno way that behemoth was going to stay
in my house, and so tryingto figure out how to keep it out
of the bedroom and out of certainareas and get it out, it turned
into an incredible brawl. I'll pickup a regular lizard. I won't pick

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up one of those things, eventhough I know they're supposedly wonderful pets and
gentle and whatever. I'm not.I'm not picking those guys up. I've
seen them eat other lizards. I'mnot doing that. And call me a
coward. I will own it.Long story short. I took shelves,

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laid them down, I took tables, turned them over, and I created
a shoot to keep that thing ina specific area. I stuffed towels and
crevices where it couldn't crawl through oraround. And I eventually won the war.
But when it was done, myhome did not look like a demilitarized

(12:18):
zone. It looked like a militarizedzone. It looked like the aftermath of
a massive barbrawl. I was soakedin perspiration because it was like one hundred
and forty degrees outside that day.I had the double doors flung open to
our screen room. But I won. I won. I was victorious.

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It's exactly right, thank you verymuch. But man, I paid a
price lifting up a chair he crawledinto, and I had shake him out
of this big rocking chair. Notbig, I'm big enough, it was
big enough to not be friendly topick up and swing back and forth to
get this thing out of there,which I eventually did. So there you

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go. Now you know a littlebit more more than you probably care to
know about me. I am nota fan ofm certain types of things,
snakes, those kinds of lizards.No, no, No. Twenty eight
minutes after the er, come backwith a big story in the press box,
and it's a big, big,huge story. Next always looking for

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the Truth. It's the Morning Showwith Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred
point seven uf LA. Next hour, we'll talk to a representative from Project
twenty one about the Supreme Court decisionthat was released yesterday. Bunch more coming

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today. But the decision released yesterdaywas huge and in my mind totally expected.
It was just it was a slamdunk. Even though John Roberts flips
between being an originalist and an activistjudicial reviewer, I knew this was This

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was done an affirmative action in twocolleges have been struck down, which in
a sense makes it done nationwide.And this relates to college admissions. But
this is a shot over the bowto the bigoted policies that have overshadowed this

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country for five decades. In thedecision, Justice Roberts wrote for the majority,
but Justice Thomas wrote his own opinionas well while signing on with the
majority opinion, but Justice Roberts wrotethat for too long, universities of quote

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concluded wrongly that the touchstone of anindividual's identity is not challenges bested, skills
built, or lessons learned, butthe color of their skin. Our constitutional
history does not tolerate that choice.For her descent, Sonya Sodemeyer wrote that

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the decision rolls back decades of precedentand momentous progress. This is about the
law of diminished expectations or reduced expectationsthat have plagued HBCUs and minorities in this
country for years. What's interesting isit was another minority that really brought this

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to bear, an Asian student thatclaimed, I'm getting excluded and I have
the achievement here to get in,and you're picking people that have not near
the academic scorecard that I have becauseof the color of their skin. And

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so students for Fair Admissions beat Harvardand the University of North Carolina in two
separate cases that are underneath these decisions. What's interesting is that Harvard is the
oldest private college in the country,UNC, the oldest public college in the
country. So this was a messageto private and public schools. Interesting to

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me that in one of the cases, Justice Jackson recused herself because she had
close ties to Harvard. Kagan didnot recuse herself Elana Kagan, even though
she was the dean of the HarvardLaw School. Take what you will from

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that. Otherwise it would have beeneven a more decisive majority. Go back
to May nineteen fifty four, NewYork Times reported that the United States Supreme
Court set aside the separate but equaldoctrine in education in its Brown Versus Board
of Education ruling, racial segregation wouldno longer be permitted in K twelve public

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schools. And so that was fromnineteen fifty four. And it's taken us
all this time to get colleges anduniversities to abolish the practice of admitting people
based on preference of skin color.But keep this in mind, Harvard is

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going to still do it. I'llexplain next on The Morning Show with Preston
scott You mayor of Realville, dispensinginformation the speed of sound. It's The
Morning Show with Preston Scotts. Okay, here's a rule of illiberalism. They

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will find a way around court rulings, and they will continue to do what
they want to do until they're stoppedagain. Harvard. I read Harvard's statement,
this is when I love my job, because I get to find things
like this. Harvard said it wouldcertainly comply with the decision. The court

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held that Harvard Colleges admission systems doesnot comply with the principles of the Equal
Protection Clause embodied by Title six ofthe Civil Rights Act. And then here's
your tip off that Harvard's going tokeep doing what it's doing. The court
also ruled that colleges and universities mayconsider in admissions decisions and applicants discussion of

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how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration,
or otherwise. We will certainly complywith the court's decision. They're already bringing
their legal team together to create aloophole where they can keep doing exactly what

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they're doing by using the consideration inadmissions ones experiences how race affected his or
her life. By the way,take note that Harvard was politically incorrect by
saying his or her not they're themjes or zoom or zur whatever. Of

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course, how long would that statementhave to be if you had to take
into account one hundred and fifty differentgenders. I mean, how you know
you have to put a limit?I guess somewhere. For his part,
Justice Thomas just it's been described asfire dropping the hammer. He wrote.

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The solution to our nation's racial problemsthus cannot come from policies grounded in affirmative
action or some other conception of equity. Racialism simply cannot be undone by different
or more racialism. Instead, thesolution announced in the Second Founding is incorporated
on our constitution that we are allequal and should be treated equally before the

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law, without regard to our race. Only that promise can allow us to
look past our differing skin colors.In fact, all racial categories are a
little more than stereotypes, suggesting thatimmutable characteristics somehow conclusively determine a person's ideology,
beliefs, and abilities. Of course, that is false. Members of

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the same race do not all sharethe exact same experiences in viewpoints. It's
far from it. A black personfrom rural Alabama surely has different experiences than
a black person from Manhattan or ablack first generation immigrant from Nigeria. In
the same way that a white personfrom rural Vermont has a different perspective than
a white person from Houston, Texas. And then he took on the descent

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starting with justin Justice, Jackson usesher broad observations about statistical relationships between race
and select measures of health, wealth, and well being to label all blacks's
victims. Her desire to do sois unfathomable to me. I cannot deny
the great accomplishments of black Americans included, though, including those who succeeded despite

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long odds. And he went onfrom there. I suggest you take the
time to read Justice Clarence Thomas's concurringaion on affirmative action. But here's the
important thing. It's done. Drivea nail in it. Now they'll find
ways around it, and that willlead to more court cases. We'll talk

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about this and more with Melanie Collettefrom Project twenty one, and you know
about Project twenty one. We'll explainall that a little bit later here in
the Morning Show. And women servingour great nation and our armed services,
those serving communities as law enforcement officersand first responders, I say you are
all essential workers. Welcome to theMorning Show with Preston Scott. About an

(22:38):
hour from now, we'll open upthe phone lines, give you chance to
call in and vent a little bit. Whether you have a long weekend or
you're going to get an extra dayoff next week, you're going to get
a little extra time off. Iwant you to enjoy it. So What's
the Beef Special edition comes up,the holiday edition, the fourth of July

(23:02):
edition of What's the Beef? Ialready have beefs coming in. This guy's
beef is heartbreaking. Oh my gosh. I'll share that next hour. Unbelievable.
You can write me if you cannotcall in as as as Chip did
here, Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. Very simple. Just Preston at iHeartRadio

(23:25):
dot com and perhaps I'll share yourbeef on the air so you'll have some
airtime through me. Tomorrow is Julyfirst, and that means three hundred laws
signed by Governor Rond de Santas takeeffect. Legislature files, thousands of bills.

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Three hundred made it through. Iwas a little discouraged by a couple
of vetos. We'll talk about thatin a couple of weeks with Salnuzo.
Themes Madison Institute. But here's what'scoming starting tomorrow, permitless carry for firearms.

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The same rules apply to how youcarry. You may not carry open.
It is not constitutional carry, butit is a massive expansion of rights.
You still go through the same checksand background checks, but you no
longer need the government's permission to carryconcealed. Now. I would recommend you

(24:33):
go through a concealed carry class anyway. My reasons training and reciprocity being able
to carry in other states. Byhaving that pass, it's cheap for five
seven years of carry. I thinkit's worth it. That's just my personal
conviction. But the thing that Iwould beg of you is if you're going

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to make the decision to okay,now that I don't the government's permission,
I'm going to go ahead and carry, get training, you know, go
to talent, get training, getwith a firearms expert, and learn what
you're doing, and by all means, try before you buy. Get to

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ranges that allow you to rent guns, and rent different types of firearms and
decide what works best for you.Do not just all I like the look
of that. Without pulling the triggerand knowing what you're doing, you will
you potentially could regret it with yourlife by getting the wrong firearm if you're

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getting it for personal protection. Expandedschool vouchers for all Florida students, regardless
of family income. That's huge.That is a that is the state of
Florida basically saying to public schools,you're just not getting it done. And

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all you need to do is lookat the test course. In some school
districts, they're just not getting itdone. Our kids are falling behind,
and so you have options expanding fromkindergarten to now eighth grade, not third

(26:32):
grade, but eighth grade. Alaw that bar's instruction of sexual orientation and
gender identity. We don't need thattaught to children. Now. I've advocated
I don't even want to teach sexat I think the schools have forfeited their
rights to do that by some rogueteachers that are saying, screw you,

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I'll teach what I want. Ibelieve that's a parent's job anyway, but
at least for now through eighth grade, can't do it. But my question
that I keep asking many Diaz everytime we visit in one way or another,
is how are you going to stopit? Until they put cameras in
classrooms, not for live streaming,but for recording what goes on in the

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classroom, not just for parents,not just for students, but for teachers.
When it's a word of the teacherversus the word of a student settled,
it's there, it's on camera,it's recorded. Until we do that,
we're going to have abuses of theParental Rights and Education law. Very

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important. It doesn't matter where youlive in Florida, public restrooms, schools,
and public buildings may no longer bewhat you feel like you are that
day. It corresponds to your biologicalgender period. End of discussion. Sorry
about that, guys who pretend tobe girls. That's just the way it

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is. Welcome to the second hourof The Morning Show with Preston Scott.
I am Preston. That is Jared, last day of the month, and

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we're talking about a very very goodthing in my opinion on show four thousand,
nine fifty nine, and it's Ithink the steak in the heart of
affirmative action. I think it's agood thing. And joining us on the
program from Project twenty one is MelanieCollette. Melanie, do you think it's
a good thing? I indeed thinkit's a good thing. I have been

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complaining about affirmative action for many yearsbefore it was like a popular thing to
do. I've always looked at itas a black cloud that followed me over
my career. So I think it'sas I think it's a great thing that
it's done away with, and Ithink you will force people to actually do

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the work schools, in particular publicschools higher education. Instead of lowering the
standards and lowering the threshold for peoplebased on the color of their skin,
maybe what we'll do is for allstudents, if there are gaps in their
learning I'm a former educator, bythe way, gaps in their learning,

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that they will attempt to fill thosegaps, perhaps with some additional programs or
transition courses or something like that,instead of lowering the standards, and that
way, kids would actually graduate frompublic high schools with the actual education that
their diploma suggests that they have.When they get to college, they will

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be equipped with the knowledge that they'resupposed to have to be able to have
the discipline, critical thinking and etc. To graduate from college and and to
get accepted into college. You know, perhaps uh, you know, me
being a business person. Maybe there'sa gap in the market for a school

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that's not a community college, butit is not high school, that's just
a transition program to prepare people forcollege, instead of just letting people into
college based on the color of theskin and lowering the threshold or giving them
extra points for the color of diskinin my mind, it's reverse racism.

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It is a way to keep blackand brown people less educated, less you
know, less successful, by justcontinuing to pass them along without the knowledge
that they actually need. So I'ma static that this has happened, and
now I think that the powers thatbe, especially in the education space,

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will have to actually roll up theirleaves and do the work. Joining me
on the program, Melanie Colled,she's a spokesman with Project twenty one.
For those of you that are newto the program and maybe new to Project
twenty one, I've had a relationshiprelationship with Project twenty one for better than
a decade now, and it isa group of conservative thinking men and women
who, oh, by the way, happen to be black. I'm looking

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forward to the day that we don'thave to make those kinds of distinctions.
But there's a reality here Melanie,and that is that there are many on
the liberal left side of things thatwill simply call you, as they do
Clarence Thomas or any other achieving blackperson in this country, well, you've
just compromised your culture and you don'treally get it. Yes, I've heard

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that many times. Feel free totweet me at jvoc Diva on Twitter and
send the nasty tweets. I'm herefor it. I've heard it many times,
and you know what, I donot care because I am busy out
here trying to be more successful andmake this world a better place. So

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if you lispend your time criticizing myselfand other people who look like me that
are out here trying to be successful, promoting liberty and freedom, family entrepreneurship,
and conservatism. If that's how youwant to spend your time, it's
a free country, have at it. But we're going to continue to do
what we do here at Project twentyone, and that is to promote the

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values and principles that we think arenot only beneficial for black and brown people,
but beneficial for all. Melanie Collettewith us melodies stand by, We're
gonna take a quick break, comeback in seventy seconds after a quick check
of weather in traffic, and I'mgoing to share a thought that I've carried
and talked about on this program fordue for two decades. Keeping in mind,

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I had a son attend Florida andM University. I'm very close with
a lot of the members of thefaculty out there and have had great relationships
over the years. But I havea theory I'm gonna run by Melanie next
on the Morning Show. If it'slike a fine wine. Ah, excuse
me, man, Please have somemore water the pellegrino. Yes, sparkling.

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This breeze is very nice. Goodmorning, and welcome to the Morning
Show with Preston Scott. Back withMelanie Collette with Project twenty one. She
is a business technology expert, entrepreneur, and a political commentator. Background in

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corporate operations, organizational management experience andas you heard, an educator as well
I have. Obviously, we arebased here in an educational kind of hub
between Florida State University, Florida andM and the state college that's here.
Melanie and I have four years commentedto folks that one of the big challenges

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that HBCUs and programs like affirmative actionjust will never ever deal with is the
law of diminished expectations, and thatfor generations now, too many in Black
America have been victimized by that law. Do you agree hundred percent, wholeheartedly

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agree with that. One of thethings that tends to happen, and it's
audacity for me, but that tendsto happen is that people will ask you
about your education where they don't askyour white counterparts. I happen to live
in an area that is predominantly white, and so many times when I'm in

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professional spaces, I get asked whatI would characterize as quote unquote the oddest
question. But I know, butI absolutely know why they're asking when I'm
the only one who looked like mein the room in a professional space or
an education space or something like that. I taught computers on a college level,

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and many times I was either mistakenfor a student or somebody else who
worked there, but not an actualadjunct professor, which is what I was
doing. So so you know,it is in the same situation when I
taught high school, you know,parents night, I would get asked tons
of questions about my background. Why, but probably because I was the only

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black teacher in the entire school,and they wanted to know how I got
there. Obviously I was an affirmativeaction higher. Like I said, for
me, it was a black cloudand it probably still is. That just
follows me around my career when peoplewonder how did you get in this space?
How did you get in that space? When many times my education and

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background matches or exceeds that of mycounterparts that don't look like me. What's
so great irritating, But what's sosinister about at all, Melanie, is
when you break it down to prospectivecollege students and high school students that are
enrolled in schools right now, you'retelling them, you know what, you're

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really not capable of getting into thesegreat institutions without a little help. And
that's been the part that has justbeen insulting to me because of the people
that I personally know, friends thatI personally have, that don't need those
artificial aids. They just need theopportunity to achieve, and they will.

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But because we've diminished our expectations throughaffirmative action, we have a lot of
kids that have built in excuses.I have all twelve years of my time
in the classroom, and even whenI was taking education classes, I have
fought against this narrative. I cannottell you how much trouble I have gotten

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in with Principles over these same kindsof programs and ideologies and teaching. And
many times we would be, youknow, I would be in a professional
development meeting and some facilitator would comein and say that exact thing, that
you know, these lower standards basicallyare better for black and brown students,
and I would raise my hand andexpress the way I completely resented that sentiment

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and that it was complete, absolutebuffoonery. And had it not been for
the high standards that my teachers hadwhen I was going to high school in
the eighties, I would not haveI would not have a master's degree.
I would not have published the forwardto a book. I would not have
written many, many published articles forpolitical blocks, nor would I be a

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political commentator. And I would liftoff all the things that I've accomplished thanks
to miss Jenkins. Red pen inhigh school grating me. And never was
did my parents say to me,well, miss Jenkins must be a racist.
What they said to me was,do better look at that red pen

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study. What she wrote, anddo better. But that is not what
they are teaching that. That's notwhat they're teaching teachers today. They are
teaching teachers that black and brown studentsare lesser. And I absolutely resent that.
And I've ended up in a superintendent'soffice, you know, a time

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or two because I expressed that Ifelt as though it was ridiculous. And
do you know that three white menin my teaching career looked me right in
my face and told me that Idid not understand the racism that I didn't
understand. My dad was a PhDand did it the old fashioned way.
Party was like online school. Ihave a master's degree, all my sisters

(38:58):
have college degrees. But I don'tunderstand. I don't get it. So
but okay, Melanie, you cannever get enough good advice from white liberals,
oh man, when you're a blackconservative, just remember they're not liberals,
they're illiberals. Now, appreciate Iappreciate you coming on the program today
and I look forward to having youback sometime. Thank you, Thank you

(39:21):
for having me my pleasure. MelanieCollette with us this morning on the Morning
Show with Preston Scott Fla on yourphone with the iHeart Radio app and on
hundreds of devices like Alexa, GoogleHome, Xbox and Sonos, Yes and
Radio season. I wonder when themedia is going to finally write over it

(39:58):
on Colin Kaepernick. Colin Kaepernick,over six years removed from NFL, vows
to keep pursuing return in face ofpolitical bias. Said I'm gonna keep pushing,
he told Sports Illustrated. I'm gonnakeep fighting for it because I know

(40:19):
I can step in on the stepon the field and play. Every workout,
every opportunity I've had to show.The feedback has always been positive.
Everything from me he's still an eliteplayer to the workout was great. It
was better than expected. Looking forwardto the day I can return to the
field and play, he said,I've heard a lot of excuses over the

(40:40):
years. Most of the time itends up with, oh, we're gonna
see how the guys we have dowith the Raiders situation. Last year it
was Stidham and Nick Mullins, whichto me, you know, just compare
resumes and capabilities on top of theworkout and the feedback, It's like,
okay, cool, Obviously there's somethingelse with this decision. To me,

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that's typically where it ends up being, or has it been for the last
seven years, or has been forthe last seven years. I just wanted
the opportunity to come in and showwhat I can do on the field.
Judge me based upon that, notpolitical biases that you have. Here's the
problem, Colin, and here's thething. He doesn't get it, and

(41:22):
no one in his world will tellhim the truth. He said, I
haven't seen any substantial change. Ithink there's a lot of work to do
on that front. What front?What front? What are you talking about?

(41:42):
And I just think that that wheneverthese stories come out, some of
you people read this stuff and someof you have never heard the program,
and you you haven't given thought tothis in the right way. And yes,
there's a right way to think aboutit. And it goes something like
this one Colin Kaepernick walked out onhis contract with the San Francisco forty nine

(42:04):
ers. He walked out, hequit. Set the politics aside. You're
a general manager, you're an owner. You know that the guy's a cancer
in the locker room because he's goingto be an antagonist and an activist.
And that's fine as long as youdon't want to be a football player too.

(42:30):
You can be an activist, godo that. Be that. But
again, the NFL made the mistakeof permitting this stuff. They don't have
a right to satan yet, Ohabsolutely they do. When he's on the
field, when he's in uniform,when he's in the locker room of the
building where he is paid to work, yes they do. He wants to

(42:51):
hold a press conference, well,that's a roll of the dice for him.
But he could probably get away withthat. But his actions on the
field, taking knees and all that, No, nope, it's not allowed.
There is no right of free speechin the workplace. Sorry, there
just isn't. But here's the thingthat he doesn't get and so many people

(43:13):
don't understand. He walked out ona contract, was offered an opportunity at
Denver, didn't want it either.Owners are like and why would I want
to pay him? He walked outon his last contract. He wants to

(43:34):
be an activist. He doesn't wantto be a football player. And this
is the world he's created for himself, and he's whining and complaining about the
circumstance that he created with his choices. So is he a bit of a
marked man. Absolutely he is.He's an activist. NFL teams want football

(44:02):
players, they wanted activists, they'dgo hire one. They want football players.
Stop the nonsense, stop the rhetoric, get past it all. Appreciate
the opportunity you were given. Buthe's flushed it away into the Mad Radio
Network, where we challenge you tomake a difference in your world in a

(44:25):
positive way, improving the lives ofothers. It's the Morning Show with Preston
Sky. All right, we area half hour away from what's to be
Friday, but less than that fromtaking your calls. We'll give you the

(44:47):
queue to call in just a littlebit and get it off your chest,
enjoy the weekend. That's the wayit works. There's little annoyances. We
don't let them build up. Youkeep them at bay by venting a little
bit each and every Friday here onthe program. For better than twenty of

(45:09):
the twenty one years that we havedone this show, we have done What's
the Beef on Fridays, and it'sa thing. It just is people call
in complaining about whatever they want.It can be little or big. If
it matters to you, it mattersto us. Big story in the press
box this morning on the program isthe lowest of hanging fruit. The Supreme

(45:30):
Court has said at no to affirmativeaction, and it is about time Clarence
Thomas writing a concurring opinion for themajority. You didn't write the opinion,
of course, John Roberts, makesure to write the big opinions. You

(45:53):
just don't know what you're gonna get. But Clarence Thomas wrote fifty eight pages.
You think he had something to say, He said, Justice Jackson's race
infused worldview falls flat at each step. Individuals are the sum of their unique

(46:20):
experiences, challenges, and accomplishments.What matters is not the barriers they face,
but how they choose to confront them. And their race is not to
blame for everything good or bad thathappens in their lives. The contrary,
myopic worldview based on individual skin colorto the total exclusion of their personal choices

(46:44):
is nothing short of racial determinism.Determinism. The great failure of this country
was slavery and its progeny, andthe tragic failure of this Court which its
misinterpretation of the Reconstruction Amendments. AsJustice Harlan predicted in plessy. We should

(47:07):
not repeat this mistake merely because wethink, as our predecessors thought, that
the present arrangements are superior to theConstitution. Yes, Clarence Thomas, he
is such a such a hero ofmine, and he ought to be of

(47:30):
yours. Here's the downside. Affirmativeaction is saying, no more, you
can only achieve entrance into this institutionbecause of your skin color. It says,

(47:52):
you want to apply here, makethe grades. We are covering our
eyes on that question of race.I I think it is so wholly insulting
to say to anybody, oh,you can't and then fill in the blank.

(48:19):
We're not talking about you can't dunka basketball, you can't throw a
football sixty five yards. We're nottalking about that. We're talking about you
can't achieve. Affirmative action has saidthat for more than two generations, three

(48:39):
generations. It said you can't achieve. You need our help, you need
you need assistance. And the friendsI have are people like Melanie collect Oh.

(49:01):
I'd love to be in the roomif you try to tell her that
she needed help to achieve, sheneeded racial considerations in her admissions to a
school. Her dad would probably puthis fist through your face and good for
him. But here's the thing,Harvard is going to try to get around

(49:21):
it. They've already said so,so the fight continues. Forty minutes after
the hour, The Morning Show withPreston Scott then say of sensibility, communicate
her of common sense amplified. It'sThe Morning Show with Preston Scott. Forty

(49:51):
one minutes after the hour, gettingcloser to what's to be Friday. Also
next hour, some good news fourthof July? Where do you want to
be? Fourth of July? Somefacts about Fourth of July around America,
a special edition of a Dad jokeWink wink, nod nod, Hello Jared,

(50:14):
celebrity appearance for Dad y today,And of course headlines from the b
We will leave you with those aswe move into a long weekend. We'll
be back next Wednesday. One otherthing to note on the Supreme Court,
there are more rulings going to bereleased today June. The end of June
is when the rulings from the previoussession come out, and so one of

(50:38):
the big ones is expected. TheSupreme Court is expected to rule on whether
Joe Biden can just cancel student loandebt. I have a pretty good feeling
about this one. I have beenwrong about my analysis on the Preme Court,

(51:00):
but I will say not often becauseI try to read and study pretty
deeply some of these impactful cases,and I just don't see where the president
has the authority to do what he'sdoing. I think a big clue on
how this one is going to go, and I think they know it too.
The last couple of days, theDepartment of Education has been tweeting out

(51:22):
anti suicide messages and helpline phone numbersto call, so I think they've got
an inkling of how this one's goingto go. I've asked, I've asked,
Grant, and I'll ask you.You're younger than I am, and
I'm and I'm not gonna lash out, don't I don't know. You're deep
thinking on certain things. I'll justlisten to what you have to say,

(51:45):
and it's cool whatever you say tothis question, Jared, do you see
any scenario where someone getting a loanto go to college that that loan should
be paid for by the rest ofUS taxpayers? If someone takes out a
loan in good faith with full intentionon repaying it, but something disastrous happens

(52:08):
to them, a disability that makesthem unable to work, or perhaps they
have a responsibility to a sick familymember that they have to leave their career
to be a full time caretaker.If they end up going into military service
after the fact, because a lotof people end up becoming officers in the

(52:30):
military after graduating from college. Maybethey didn't have they didn't go into the
service to have the GI bill,but then they want to go into the
military after become an officer. Imean that could be paid for by the
government, but extremely unique circumstances woulddo would would be meriting consideration of help.

(52:54):
There's always outliers, right, Butas a broad rule, what Biden
is offering for or against? Well, in my personal situation, it would
benefit me greatly, the same grant, same grant, But still question remains
for or against. If I haveto be selfish, I would love it.

(53:15):
Yes, I'd be for it becauseit would help me tremendously. Would
it help the country tremendously? Idon't know. It would help a lot
of people in my situation and withthe net positive but but good I don't
know. But should other people payfor the decision? That you made,
because if we do that, thenwhat's the difference between that and a credit
card? Hey, if he wantsto forgive my credit card debt too,

(53:37):
I'll take it. Forty six minutesafter the hour of the Morning Show with
Preston Scott, we'll get you readyfor what's the beef next? Listening to
the M A D Radio Network,Well, you are challenged to make a

(53:58):
difference each and every day. Wouldyou do that for us? Please?
Please just a little just try it, would you? This is the Morning
Show with Preston Scott ten minutes awayfrom what's to be Friday beginning in earnest
we'll start taking your calls. Wheneveryou want to call in eight five zero
two zero five w FLA. Youwill be on hold for a little while.

(54:21):
But if you're good with that,we're good with that. Eight five
zero two zero five ninety three fiftytwo. We have the same number of
phone lines as Rush Limball had foureight five zero two zero five WFLA.
If you'd like to get in getin line, you can call Jared's ready
to go. I just want tofollow up on our discussion with Jared there

(54:42):
for a second, and I wouldsay to Jared, as I've said to
Grant. If they offer it,heck yeah, take advantage absolutely, But
you shouldn't get it. You justshouldn't. You made the decision to go

(55:05):
to college. You didn't have to. Nobody made you do it. Nobody.
There are jobs galore that have noneed for a college education. And
oh, by the way, that'sthe direction education's going. They're catching up
to what people like me have beensaying for years. It's awesome to have

(55:27):
a college degree in certain fields.In a bunch of fields totally unnecessary.
You can get certification. You don'teven need to go to classes. You
just get out there and go towork. There are certain fields. You
give me a kid out of highschool and let me put them to work.
They will be so much further aheadfour years later, and with no

(55:51):
debt. They will not have collegedebt certain fields. It's not for everybody,
but the idea that the taxpayers shouldbe bailing out people that get college
loans is patently absurd. So I'mhoping the Supreme Court says, no,
you can't do that. One thingJoe has done is, on average,

(56:14):
he's added ten thousand dollars per householdin regulatory cost. This from Casey Mulligan,
professor of economics at the University ofChicago, who likely is not an
uber conservative. I'm just guessing theactual amount is nine thousand, six hundred
dollars per household. However, ifBiden is reelected, the report states that

(56:47):
the eight year accumulative cost would beseven trillion dollars of the regulations that Biden's
rolling out, which is sixty thousanddollars per household. Welcome the world,
Good God, Almighty, What inthe world are we doing. But that's

(57:13):
what happens when you overregularly. Anotherstory in the news New York City drag
parade marchers. You might have heardabout this chanted during the parade We're here,
We're queer, We're coming for yourchildren. That was last Friday in
Manhattan. I know that in someof these parades there are naked men walking

(57:35):
around, and why they were notarrested beats me no idea. Even if
they say, oh, it's justa joke, we're just we're just kidding.
Always remember this about humor. Allhumor is grounded in a kernel of
truth. All humor now, Ipersonally don't think there's anything funny about it.

(58:05):
I think the adage that if youlisten to a liberal, in my
case what I call them is illiberals. Listen to an illiberal or a leftist,
they'll tell you what they plan.I absolutely believe in the idea of
the LGBTQ movement grooming children, andthey're doing it by rationalizing ridiculousness. I

(58:32):
mean, there are libraries that havea Billy Jean King illustrated book about her
life, and the first pages,the very first page, she describes herself
as being a lesbian woman. Whywould that be needed for a second grader

(58:55):
if it's not to begin the processsays of grooming, and grooming is not
necessarily for victimization. Grooming is preparingone to accept the idea of something as
normal that is not, and it'snot. It just isn't. Sorry,
And so these are things, forexample, in Leon County that books in

(59:22):
the library and the superintendent of Educationsdefending it and will defend it being there.
It is no business being there,no business at all. Billy Jean
King write about her incredible career becauseit was incredible, great tennis player,
we don't need to know about hersexuality just doesn't matter. But it's in
a book designed for children. Ifthat's not intentional, what is it?

(59:46):
What's to be Friday is next?We have we have three lines? What
we have? Three lines open eightfive zero two zero five WFLA, your
calls, your complaints, eight fivezero two ninety three fifty two. What's
the B Friday? Is next?Time for What's the B Friday? On

(01:00:31):
the Morning Show with Preston Scott Jaredstanding by to take your calls. We
have two lines open eight five zerotwo zero five WFLA. Whatever it is
you would like to get off yourchest, We're here for you. It
can be big, it can belittle. We just have two simple rules.
Number one, no profanity. Thisis a program that we love to

(01:00:54):
have kids listening. In fact,I get now stopped at stores and restaurants
and introduced to people that have listenedsince they were strapped in the back seat
in a kid's seat with their parents. That's how long I've been on the
air. Now they're in college,where they're married, they have their own
children. I mean, it's crazy. We've always tried to keep this a

(01:01:16):
program that's safe for kids to listento. So that's number one, No
profanity. Number two, don't makeit personal. If you have a bad
experience at a restaurant, at abusiness, tell us what happened. Leave
the name of the business out ofit, unless I drag it out of
you and just leave that kind ofthing to the professionals. Well, that
said, you can complain about anythingyou like. It can be like I

(01:01:37):
said, it can be something that'sin the news. It can be something
that's in your home. It canbe your employers, it can be your
employees, whatever you like. Eightfive zero two zero five to WFLA eight
five zero two zero five ninety threefifty two. Greg has been very patient.
Good morning, Greg, Welcome what'sthe beef? First of all,
Happy Independence Day weekend, And myhonorable mention is the weird battle cry for

(01:02:00):
next year. If I have toshow a picture ID to use my Costco
warehouse membership card, then I'd betterbe able to show a picture ID to
accompany my voting booth ballot or mymail in ballot. But that pales in
comparison to the pity party by ProgressiveDemocrat TV personalities. It let off with

(01:02:27):
Anna Navarro saying, well, thisjust shows the love that Dad Joe Biden
has for his son Hunter Biden andthen Alexandrea or Sardell Cortez, among others,
said that this is nothing more thana distraction away from the indictment and
eventual conviction of Donald Trump. Actually, miss or Saro Cortez, this is

(01:02:52):
all about that security clearance thing.If indeed the judge accepts the plea bargain
on the two tax of Asian chargesand the plea bargain on the weapons form
charge, yes what Hunter loses hisWhite House security clearance and he can't do
any more flights with the big guy. Thank you, Greg. I appreciate

(01:03:15):
the phone call. Thank you verymuch. That frees up a line eight
five zero two zero five to WFLA. Let's go to Royn. Hello,
Royn, good morning, Good morning, Preston, thank you for all you
do, and happy Fourth of Julyweekend. Really enjoy it there and a
man to what the last man wasjust talking about. But Bill SD seventeen
eighteen, I believe it is aboutthe hospital having to put an immigration status

(01:03:40):
on the illegals that come in thereto get medical care. Is what's up
with that? Why? Why arewe if you can if you're illegal,
you broke the law. Why areyou even allowed to come in and get
free medical care on our dime?What the world is going on? You
feel better? Oh man, Ijust saw I hope. So anyway,

(01:04:03):
and you always sestify who's in oneA and one D. I've been missing
that this last week or so withwhich one's in which studio? Well I
am? I am always relegated tostudio one B. Yeah, well we
need to know who's okay, fairenough, Ron, thank you? Yeah,
it's jar Jared's in studio one Athis week and next week as well,

(01:04:27):
and maybe a couple of days intothe following week as Grant Allen is
on paternity leave. It's Brandon ondeck. Then, Mike, what about
you? We've got lines open eightfive zero two zero five w FLA eight
five zero two zero five ninety threefifty two. What's the be Friday?
Whatever you want to complain about.By the way, I got a complaint

(01:04:48):
that I might be misleading people aboutthe permitless carry. I've not misled you,
but I'll remind you anyway. Youstill follow the rules of concealed carry
in the sense that you can't opencarry. As I made clear, it's
not constitutional carry. It's it's concealed. You can't just walk around with a

(01:05:11):
gun strapped to your leg unless you'reheading to the range, going hunting or
going fishing. But the bottom lineis it's permitless as of tomorrow, but
not open carry. Just making suremore of your calls next State five zero
two zero five to WFLA and Joewith Preston Scotts, How will you do

(01:05:32):
with freedom? And used Radio onehundred point seven WFLA listener of the program
worried about people getting arrested for beingfools and not knowing the law. I

(01:05:57):
can only do so much. There'sthree hundred laws that are passed, and
I got two minutes in the newsat the top of the hour to tell
you about them. And it's calledpermitless kerry, and it's up to you
to know what it means. Anyway, it's what's the beef. We have
two lines open and you can complainabout any even me. I'm a big
boy. You can complain about me. I got a note from Chip.

(01:06:23):
You think you've had it rough?Listened to this. I have a signed
football by Bowden, Fisher, Hagens, and Taggart. All the recent FSU
football coaches head coaches. I recentlymet Mike Norvell and asked if I could
send it to FSU for his signature. He said, yes, my beef
is with ups. They picked upthe football package from FSU and delivered the

(01:06:46):
same day to somewhere and Tallahassee leftat office with ghossier. GEO s I
er, I'm in Panama City whereit was to be sent. I'm heartbroken.
Oh my goodness. If that wereme, I would be more than
heartbroken. I would be saying,find my football. Here's what I'll do.

(01:07:12):
If you're a listener in Tallahassee andyou know whoever ghostie or is g
O, S I E R andcan shed any light on this, send
it to me. Send me whatyou know. We gotta get this guy
who's football back that that is atreasured memento and we got to help him
get his football back. Eight fivezero two zero five to BFLA good morning,

(01:07:33):
Brandon, thanks for calling in morningpressing. How you doing. I'm
doing great? What's the beef?It's really pretty simple. Kids have been
getting I have these foots. Howkids have been getting sick from vaccines being
made? Yep, And so Iwent born basically and they're they're still doing
it and they're just blinded to thetruth. And it's really irritating. Are

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you talking about all of the allof the vaccines? Are just some of
them? Some of them? Yeah, they're still getting autism from it,
but they can't figure that out.It's really irritating. Honest. Yeah,
it's frustrating, Brandon, Thanks verymuch. I appreciate the phone call.
There are a lot of people thatagree. I agree that there are some
problematic vaccines. I believe that someare not, and discerning that is a

(01:08:23):
challenge. But where we're going withthis stuff with mandated vaccines is horrifying,
especially when they're not vaccines. Whenthey don't prevent a particular virus or illness.
It's not a vaccine, it's atreatment. Thanks very much for the
phone call. It frees up aline. Let's go to Mike. Hello,
Well, Mike, what's the beef? Very good morning pressing. Yeah,

(01:08:45):
yesterday, California's going ahead with reparations. Gimy free stuff. That's what
it is. That's my beef.I'm just grateful. I don't live there,
but I don't understand anybody who does. Well, that's why the population
is growing here in Florida. Yeah, yeah, no, no doubt.
And I wonder where it's gonna end. I wonder, you know, there's
gotta be a court challenge coming toall of that nonsense. There's gotta be

(01:09:10):
it. Just can't stand. Theycan't afford it. California doing Brooke now.
Yeah, and I don't want everybodyelse to pay for their mistakes.
Nope, Thank you, Mike.I appreciate it. Have a great fourth
weekend, and thanks for calling in. Let's see here, let's go to
John, John your next what's thebeef than morning? Thanks? Thank you

(01:09:30):
for your show and everything you do. My beef is was how people drive
during the rest of the year,much less in holidays. You live fourth
coming up. Everybody, please,it doesn't take you, It doesn't cost
you anything to drive courteously, drivedefensively, accelerate and accelerate lanes in the

(01:09:54):
when you're getting on the expressway,don't just be a stump in the middle
of the river. Merge to blowa traffic use your turn signals, and
when somebody lets you in so youhand up and wave, use all your
fingers and waves of a nice reciprocalthank you for being courteous. Thank you.
Be courteous. People, be nice. It'll save lives and will make

(01:10:16):
you feel better. There's plenty ofstuff to complain about, but it's like
drinking from a fire host. Wedon't have enough time to pin one down.
Plus you have a prohibition against profanity. So I'll say good goodbye and
have a safe or did July holidayto everybody, and y'all especially thank you
again. Thank you, John,appreciate the call we've got. I don't

(01:10:42):
know what what's that online for?He said his name is either or either.
You can pronounce it either way.Oh wow, yeah, thank you
for that. You have options?Then George? Then who eight five zero
two zero five to BFLA What's tobe Friday? One? Final session?
Next on the Morning Show ula onyour phone with the iHeart Radio app and

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on hundreds of devices like Alexa,Google Home, Xbox, and Sonos.
So here we go in Ihearts Radiostation twenty two minutes after the our final
bank of callers. Here, what'sthe be Friday? On the Morning Show
with Preston Scott's see here. Ieither take that collar or I either take

(01:11:31):
that caller either either I don't knowum, what's the beef? Oh,
my name is Bill, not eithereither. When I was growing up,
most people said either. But nowadayshe's on the radio and Trowish and they
got people saying either. When Iwas growing up, I thought saying either

(01:11:54):
was sort of put put on,sorry, trying to sound British. I
think people are just be natural andsay either most of the time. Because
that's why I always said it.Oh, and because that's how you said
it, that's how everyone else shouldsay it. Well, people, I
was growing up with my parents,my teachers, my teachers incology instead of

(01:12:16):
here. Yeah, you could beright either way, you could be wrong.
Well, but they're so consistent onthe radio and television now by saying
either either either, they're something likethey're affectation. I think, okay,
they weren't feeling like they're British.Do you feel better getting that off your

(01:12:38):
chest. That's why we're here.That's why we're here. My friend,
I appreciate so his name is Bill. He was very insistent on either or
either on the phone, so Iguess that's what I heard. Thanks for
the phone call, my friend.I appreciate you calling in George, thanks
for calling what's the beef. Well, either it's a beef or either it's

(01:13:01):
just a complaint. I don't knoweither one, don't get don't get billed
calling back now. I happy Fourthof July weekend coming up and everything pressed
him, But my beef is okay. With the reparations talk in California and

(01:13:24):
the affirmative action, um, I'mready for reparations for the sixty years of
affirmative action of everybody being turned downthat otherwise was qualified to get into any
college that that work was turned downbecause of that. I actually had experience

(01:13:44):
In one particular school I applied forgraduate school. I was told if I
applied, since I have American IndianNative American Indian descent, that I could
get in full scholarship like that.I turned it down. I got into
another school, but I turned itdown because I did not want that being
determined factor. U Plus, I'dhave been the only Native American in the

(01:14:05):
school, and that's why they wantedit. Yeah, but you couldn't think
of the mileage you would have hadnow with focahanas oh, pressing, pressing,
And I was I was either oreither too stupid to take advantage of
it. But I want reparations,and I think if h if you know

(01:14:28):
everybody that was denied or it doesn'thave to be gotcha. Hey, George,
I got a role, but thankyou very much. I appreciate that.
That'll be interesting to see if somebodypicks up that ball and runs with
it, depending on what we gettoday from the Supreme Court. Teresa,
second to the last caller, whatdo you got? What's the beef?
Well, I was getting a prescriptionyesterday and what I found out shocked the

(01:14:50):
crap out of me. Oh,apparently apparently Florida has a vaccine Registrate and
our doctors are a sending that informationwithout our permission permissions to this registry.
That's not their business, that's minein my doctor's business. Were gonna need

(01:15:12):
to look into that. Theresa,thanks very much for the phone call.
I misspoke. This is the secondof the last caller, Bob, welcome.
What's the beef? Quickly? Well, they've changed the rent policy payment
where I rent currently for the lastseveral years, we can no longer use
a check, which means that wehave to go to one of the local
retail establishments and carry cash there inorder to pay our rent. With another

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four dollars charge. This means thata lot of the elder really folks in
the apartment complex that I would livein that don't drive, have to walk
to the bank, get between eighthundred and eleven hundred dollars in cash,
carry it to the retailer and purchasepay for their rent. I know,
is just me or we're jeopardizing thehealth of seniors. This sounds like elder
abused to me. Bob, thanksvery much. I would only suggest that

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you look into You know, yourbank can issue a check for you electronically
and you don't have to deal withany of that. There's usually about a
three or four day time before itgets to wherever it goes. But the
banks that I know about in thecommunity use that up. That service is
available at no charge. You mightlook into that. Mark final caller,

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what's the beef? I get morein that? Hew y'all? Do it
good? Sir? What you got? Did I hear you correctly saying if
Grant was on maternity league? No, you did not. He's on paternity
leave but paternity late, yes,my land sakes, all right? I

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thought I heard you roll. I'msorry about that. That's Okay, it's
kind of sort of similar in thathis sweet wife gave birth to their first
child, and so he's getting acouple of weeks to spend time with his
baby before coming back to work.Yeah, I get it, all right.
I appreciate it. Yeah, man, thanks very much. I appreciate
the phone called paternity leave. Nowhe doesn't he doesn't get turned everything.

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He didn't push out the baby.Nope, well, now you know,
I mean, at least I don'tthink he pushed out the baby. Might
have played a role there somehow,but I think he just held her hand.
It's just a dutiful husband right there, encouraging his sweet life. That's
why he only gets two weeks versusour six weeks. Twenty eight minutes after

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the hour of Time for News Backwith more of The Morning Show with Preston
Scott, Morning Drive version of anaudio magazine and keeping you company as you
prepare for your day. It's TheMorning Show with Preston Scott. Thirty six
minutes after the hour. In theMorning Show with Preston Scott off until Wednesday.

(01:17:54):
Wednesday, J D. Johnson joinsus from the Talent Training Group.
We're gonna talk about firearms. We'lltalk about the law a little bit.
We'll talk about personal defense and situationsin the news. We'll also talk about
guns as an investment collectible guns.Are they good as an investment or is
it strictly well if it holds itsvalue awesome? And it depends on the

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collector whether it's an investment or not. We'll get to all that Jad's knowledge
on firearms and what is collectible,what is not pretty good and pretty extensive,
and so we'll tap into that.But fourth or July is coming up
on Tuesday. Interesting to me thatin history John Adams thought that it would

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be July second would be the daythat would be commemorated throughout all of history
as the birth of this country.But it turned into July fourth, and
I wonder if that pendulum will everswing back. I don't know. Came

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across a list here wallet hub releasedthe best and worst places for a Fourth
of July celebration. Of the eighteenmetrics, they use the average cost of
beer and wine, something that Ican't relate to. This is important to
know for your Fourth of July celebration. Yeah, if you do the beer
and wine at yeah, never havingbought beer for anything other than boiling brots

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or shrimp. I couldn't tell you. I wouldn't know. I just I
don't know. Or beer cheese.I've I've made beer cheese for a dip
and and enjoyed that. But Icouldn't tell you one from another. And
what's a good price and what isn't. But that, along with like the
weather forecast, the average forecast inJuly early July, was among the reasons

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for the Pick Best Cities. Scottsdalechecks in at number twenty, Milwaukee at
number ten, Los Angeles, California. I have trouble believing that that is
where you find the best prices forwine and beer. But it's but it's
true. At least according to walletHub Facts and figures, nine point five

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billion is the amount that Americans planto spend on Fourth of July. Food.
One hundred and fifty million the numberof hot dogs eaten on July fourth.
And that's by Joey Chess, notalone. Yes, it's the annual
tradition, the hot dog eating Yeah, the Coney Island. Uh. And
it's disgusting to me. To me, that's not a hot dog eating contest.

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Hot dog eating contest is a hotdog on a bun, not a
hot dog with a bun. It'snot dunked in water. It's I can't
stand the way they do it.I can't watch it because it's a nauseating
to me to watch. But onehundred and fifty million hot dogs three billion
is the amount that Americans plan tospend on beer and wine. That's that's

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incrediful to two point seven billion theMountain spent on fireworks. Seventy four percent
of fireworks injuries occur in the monthof July. Fourth. Of course,
the value of American flags imported issix point five million. I'm wondering,

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is there an American flag company outthere that would really like to take advantage
of being an American flag company thatwants to use that number in its marketing,
because there would seem to me tobe a great opportunity to capitalize on
that number of imported dollars or moneyspent on imported flags. And then fifty

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point seven million people travel more thanfifty miles from home for a fourth of
July trip. So there you go. Fourth of July numbers. Come back
with a great good news story.Next on the morning Show with Preston's Guy,
Guy, do what you're talking about, what you will be talking and
most importantly, what you should betalking about. It's The Morning Show with

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Preston Scott. Each Friday at thistime, we scour the news cycle and
hold on tight when we find agood news story worthy of sharing. And

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boy, oh boy, is thisa good one. And it's a Florida
story makes it even better, AndI'm just going to share from the story
written by Rachel Abramson from The TodayShow. Firefighter in O'calla, Florida was

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pulling an overnight shift in January whenhe was awoken by a two am alarm.
He knew the sound immediately. Itwasn't a traditional firefighter alarm. It
was a different alarm that they haveat the fire station. A newborn had

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been placed in the building's safe Havenbaby box. It allows someone to safely
and anonymously surrender a child, noquestions asked. To be honest, I
thought the alarm was a false alarm. But when he opened the box,
he discovered a healthy infant wrapped ina pink blanket. She had a little

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bottle. She was just chilling.I picked her up and held her.
We locked eyes and that was it. I loved her ever since that moment.
The backstory is the firefighter and hiswife had been struggling for more than
a decade to have a bay.The wheels in his head started turning.
I didn't call my wife right awaybecause I didn't want to wake her up,

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but I knew she'd be on board. He would go to the hospital
with the baby inquiring about adopting her. At the hospital, the firefighter,
who is also a paramedic, wrotea note and left it with the little
girl. I explained that my wifeand I had been trying for ten years
to have a baby. I toldthem that we'd completed all of our classes
in the state of Florida and wereregistered to adopt. All we needed was

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a child. When he spoke tohis wife, she started to cry.
I said, don't get too excitedyet. My biggest fear is that the
note I wrote wouldn't stay with thechild, and those were a very stressful
few days. Zoe was placed onthe Safe Havens baby box on January second.

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On January fourth, she was homewith the firefighter and his wife.
The couple adopted her in April andher name is Zoe the way I found
her. This was God helping usout. It's difficult to cry not to
cry when I tell the story.He's sharing the story to give the biological

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mother some closure. We want herto know that her child is taken care
of and that she's loved beyond words. One detail he learned later from the
hospital is that the baby's umbilical cordhad been tied off with a shoelace.
There are one hundred and forty eightSafe Haven Baby Boxes in the United States,
and so far, thirty one babieshave been safely surrendered. The devices,

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if you don't know about them,are temperature controlled and feature a bassinette
style bed inside. The founder ofthe boxes, Monica Kelsey, spoke at
a press conference the same day Zoewas surrendered. We want to address the
parents who legally surrendered this infant,and right now I want to talk to

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her or him directly. Thank you, Thank you for keeping your child safe.
Thank thank you for bringing your childto a place that you knew it
was going to be taken care of. Thank you for doing what you felt
was best. Man. This storyjust hits me every time I read it.

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So grateful to parents that love thatchild enough to give her a chance,
and to these safe boxes that offeropportunities for that chance to be handled
appropriately and safely and legally, Andto the parents of that beautiful baby girl

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that had a prayer answered. Howcan that not be good news? Forty
seven minutes after the hour on TheMorning Show with Preston Scott. Fifty two
minutes after the hour, quick quickreminder, yet again, we are out

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Monday and Tuesday, back Wednesday,Thursday, Friday for another set of Morning
Show broadcasts. Grant Allen will beon paternity leave another week, and so
he'll be off the next three daysand a couple of days a week after
at least as he settles into lifewith a newborn baby girl. And so

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we are we are excited for them, and that explains his absence for those
of you wondering. Jared though,came to me at the end of the
show yesterday and he said, Ihave a dad joke. I've got many
dad jokes, but I've got oneI really wanted to share today. Yes,
So I said, well, mygoodness, and I wrote on the
Rundown Dad Jokessie Special Edition. Soa dad joke sir, you're up.

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Okay, Preston, did you hearabout the psychic dwarf that is scaped from
prison? No? I didn't.Well, make sure you're on the lookout
because there is a small medium atlarge. That's good. You might get

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another shot at one of those nextweek. Do you have a dad joke?
Share at pressed it at irradio dotcom. Time for some headlines from
your source, your trusted source forsatire ladies and gentlemen. Headlines from the
Babylon Bee. A new study findsbizarre connection between being liberal and having giant
googly eyes. Department of Justice findsno evidence of bribery, and photo of

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Biden holding a sign reading will tradepolitical favors for cash tatterween Scientists beginning to
suspect two sons might have something todo with global warming career Jean Pierre throws
smoke bomb and disappears when asked aboutHunter. Biden texts pedophile jailed for flashing

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kids at playground, kicking himself fornot doing it at Pride parade. Instead,
State achieves goal of having every roadunder construction at the same time.
Cute baby does Satan's work by distractingchurchgoers in pew behind him. Ten year

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old boy dies tragically from mom takingaway Nintendo's switch. New York City mandates
all pizza must be cooked under bathroomhand dryer. Trump and dieded in New
York for eating pizza cooked in woodburningoven. Teenage mutant Ninja Turtles moved to
Florida to escape New York pizza oven. Band Hunter drops off another truckload of

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personal incriminating secrets at Goodwill. Historiansnow claimed Hitler was just kidding when he
chanted We're coming the Jews. Bidenboasts how well he's handled Ukrainian economy.
Final headlines. NBC defends Pennywise theclown's harmless slogan I'm coming for your children.

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Democrats devastated as Supreme Court band's racismawkward. Supreme Court rules against affirmative
action with affirmative action higher sitting rightthere, and those are headlines from the
Babbylon be your trusted source for satire, brought to you by Baronet Heating and
Air. It's the Morning Show oneon WFLA had a good visit with Melanie

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Collette from Project twenty one as wediscussed the end of affirmative action at least
as we know it. We alreadyknow that Harvard is going to try to
find a work around. They've alreadysaid as much in their statement and response.
So it's a win. But todaythere will be several court rulings that

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I'm quite certain we'll be talking aboutWednesday when we come back. According to
a Chicago economics professor, the Bidenregulations have cost Americans ten thousand dollars per
household, but that, if reelected, his regulations that he's planning to roll

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out will cost American household sixty thousanddollars. Have a good weekend, everybody
back next week.