Ep. 4969: The Anniversary of Dan Markel

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Episode Transcript

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Good Morning, five minutes after thehour. It's Tuesday, July eighteenth.
More on that dated moments here onthe Morning Show with Preston, it's kind
of Preston, that's Grant Allen overthere in the studio one A running the
radio program as always show forty ninesixty nine, Day nine O nine of
America Hot Coast. Just kind ofthrough that. Yeah, I think as

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much as anything else, that numberis why we start the show with prayer
now pre dates Biden in the inthe Oval office, but because you really
should start your day spending a littletime with Jesus and a little time in
the Word. It's a great wayto kind of set the town for the

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day. And so if you're notfamiliar, this is a secular radio program
that runs through the filter of whatI think is the right way to view
the world, and that is througha biblical lens. I just that's to
me, the only way any ofthe nonsense that we talk about so often
in the show makes any sense.Does it make sense? Because you know,

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God kind of said, this iswhat we were looking forward to,
this is what's going to happen inour world. And the best part,
though, is he has a wayto help us cope and manage our way
through it. Matthew six fourteen.If you forgive other people when they sin
against you, your heavenly father willalso forgive you. Let's expand on that
a little bit. First Timothy one, verse twelve through seventeen. I think

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Christ Jesus, our Lord, whohas given me strength, that he considered
me trustworthy, appointing me to hisservice. Even though I was once a
blasphemer and a persecutor and violent man. I was shown mercy because I acted
in ignorance and unbelief. The graceof our Lord was poured out on me
abundantly, along with faith and lovethat are in Christ Jesus. Here's a

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trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance.Christ Jesus came into the world to save
sinners, of whom I am theworst. But for that very reason I
was shown mercy at so that inme, the worst of sinners, Christ
Jesus might display his immense patience asan example for those who would believe in

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him and receive eternal life. Nowto the King, eternal, immortal,
invisible, the only God, behonor and glory forever and ever. A
men that's unpack that for just asecond. If you really step back and
think about it, holding a grudge, unforgiveness only impacts you and then the

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direct circle around you, because you'rewalking around like a sour patch kid all
the time because you're bitter and angry. It's the person that you have unforgiveness
towards. They might be in anotherstate, they might be in a totally
different play, they might have passedaway. So what good is that grudge

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doing you. Here's what it's doing. It's hardening your heart. And the
Lord, the Lord's prayer, Jesussaid, pray like this. We ask
God to forgive us, but toalso give us a heart that will forgive

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others. Because Jesus knew unforgiveness,holding grudges against other people that first and
foremost, they're not feeling it.You know, if someone's walking around having
committed a sin against you, that'son them. They have to sort that

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out with God. It's not yourjob to do anything but forgive them.
And if the door opens up foryou to have a conversation, amazing how
that conversation will go. Think aboutthis, you have that conversation with that
person, just somehow the conversation comesup and whatever the topic was that caused
the burden and the grudge to formcomes up. Imagine that conversation with bitterness

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and a grudge and anger versus thatconversation having already extended forgiveness. What a
different conversation that is. So whenyou have extended forgiveness and that person may
never know you forgiving them, Godknows, And I just have a feeling
that God will because maybe you'll havea conversation. It won't come up,

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but you'll just talk to him likethey're your friend or whatever, and conviction
then comes on them. And maybethat's how God uses your forgiveness to actually
set them free from the mistake,the sin that they committed. Here's what
I know. It's a good thingto forgive because we have been forgiven.

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Ten minutes after the hour, takea peek inside the American Patriots Almanac.
Next. Got an amazing story thatwe're going to connect to the history segment
next as well. It's great tobe with you. Always enjoy sharing time
with you. It's Tuesday on theMorning Show with Preston Scott. Preston Scott

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One News Radio one hundred point sevenWFLA, thank good morning, welcome to
morning shows. He's got I'm serious, I need to take that bed and
add a rooster crowing. Don't youthink we need a rooster in that?

(06:06):
Absolutely? And I think you'd beeasily done. I mean just right after
the first couple of chords, youknow, just boom right there, ye,
start of the day kind of roosterthere was. I don't think you
remember these days. We have anin studio guest. By the way,
Rob Strano was with me. We'lltalk to Rob a little bit later.

(06:26):
Rob is PGA teaching pro and welove golf, and our relationship started through
a fundraiser a few years back withMarvin Goldstein at Christmas time. And it's
a great story. But Rob remembersthe days when Kellogg's Cereal used to do.
They would put a rooster in theircommercials. That's how they would mark

(06:51):
Kellogg's corn flakes, and the roosterwas kind of the iconic image of Kellogg's
for the longest time anyway. Yeah, So I've always had a rooster in
my head with that song. Eighteenfifty three July eighteenth, trains begin running
between Maine and Quebec over north Americafor the first international railroad route. Ten

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years later, eighteen sixty three,the fifty fourth Massachusetts led the assault on
Fort Wagner on Morris Island near Charleston. That is the movie Grey, Yes,
sir, great movie. How manytimes have you seen that movie?
Not as many as I've seen otherones. Maybe two or three. Great
movie. What's really amazing is ifyou ever go to Fort Sumter and you

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look out across the bay, thenext land mass over there at the point,
that's that's where that happened. It'snow national park, cannot be disturbed.
I'm not even sure you're allowed toland a boat there. But it
is sacred ground because the remains.I'm assuming they let the bodies lay where

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they were or were buried there.Yeah. I believe Colonel Robert Gouldshaw still
is Roderick's character. Yeah, whowas a person of history. He was
buried in with his men. Theyjust piled sand over him and that was
at So. Yeah, those remainsare still there. It's a it's a
it's an amazing story. Anyway.Nineteen eighteen, US troops joined a successful

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Allied counterattack in the Second Battle ofMarne Marne Martin turning point of World War
One. By the way, Iwatched nineteen seventeen for the first time a
few days ago. Oh my goodness. Oh would you think I was not
ready for that? Oh? Yeah, amazing though, wasn't it. It

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was the way the cinematography was outof this world, the one shot,
the entire way. Yes, butI was not ready for that. I'm
not for those of you that arehistory buffs, and it's not. It's
it's not an actual story, butit's based on a story that was told.

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You can absolutely see it taking placeif you, Yeah, it's I
don't want to. I don't wantto ruin it for you because it would
have ruined it for me to know. But there were some twists. There
were some things I did not expectto happen, and some of those expectations
were dashed early in the movie.It's like, oh, anyway, let's
see Intel nineteen sixty eight is incorporated. I can hear the can you hear

(09:35):
the jingle? Can you hear thejingle? See? I can hear the
jingle in my head. Bump bump, bump bump. It's just it's just
marketing, good branding and marketing.It's burned in your melon. Nineteen eighty
six, researchers at Woods Whole Ocean, a graphic institute, released deep sea
video of the remains of the Titanic. It happened on this date in nineteen

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eighty six. And this is oneof the big stories in the press box.
Word. Yeah, on this datenine years ago, Dan Marquel was
shot nine years ago. Today.I took part in a massive live YouTube
panel discussion on the case last night. And yeah, big story in the

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press box today, the case againstCharlie Adelson and so forth. We're gonna
touch on that as well. Butwhen we come back, we're gonna extend
the history segment one more segment.Stay with us twenty one minutes after the

(10:46):
hour in the Morning Show with Preston'sdoctor Morny. I know you're a podcast
whistener. What is the podcast offavor right now in your world? Oh
my gosh, I have so many? Yeah, but you've you've got one
or two that are kind of toppingthe list for you. Hard to pick
one? No, it isn't,no, it seriously is. I'm scrolling

(11:15):
tomatoes. You've got yourself a listthere. You don't have one that stands
out. No, I really don'tone of them. Okay, go ahead.
Um, there's a group of guysthat I like listening to. They're
called the King's Hall Podcast, andso it's just about it taking on you

(11:35):
know, modern views with historic Christianyou know, wow, with historic Christian
takes it. It's just a reallygood podcast. So recommend it. Is
it a reverse of presentism a littlebit? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
they're a little I would can Iwould call them pre modern Okay, so

(11:56):
yeah, megabased. iHeartRadio App isbrilliant for a lot of reasons. You
can listen to the show wherever youare, wherever you travel, and if
you can't listen to it live,you can. You can listen to the
show whenever you want. And that'sthe beauty. I can't tell you how
many people I run into. Well, you know, I only get to

(12:18):
listen to the first half hour theshow as I'm driving. Um, I
pull it up. Have you iHeartRadioApp? Have you have you listened?
What's that? All of a sudden, I just feel my heart get crushed.
Yeah, it's like you know thatthat scene from Jaws where he takes
the styrofoam cup and crushes it.That's that's me. My heart is made

(12:41):
of styrofoam and you just crushed itwith that. Now you can listen on
the app whenever you want. OnceGrant finishes the show about ten o'clock Eastern,
you go to it listen to everythingyou missed, you know. For
example, this is interview. That'sCharlie and j D. Yeah, it

(13:01):
sounded talent outdoors, you know.But one of my one of my podcasts
that I listened to, and it'sI'm waiting for a third season, is
called Good Assassins. The first onewas the story of the effort to track
down a Nazi war criminal named HerbertHerbert Couckers or they called him Zookers,

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and it was the effort the Israelishad to find this guy, and it's
incredible. But the second one thatI just finished listening to is the story
of a spy that you've never heardof, called Virginia Hall. She was
and is perhaps the single greatest femalespy, if not spy, in American

(13:50):
and maybe even world history. Herstory is incredible because she was an Ampi
and she was known by the Nazisas the Limping Lady. Part of her
story connects to this story here.This is the headline. They climbed mountains

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to escape Nazis. Now their greatgrandchildren are making the same journey. Virginia
Hall to get away after she hadbeen uncovered with a wooden prosthetic attached to
the stump of one of her legs, climbed the Pyrenees mountains without her guide

(14:39):
knowing that she had a problem.And that's just part of the story.
But this particular story details eighty sevendescendants of people that were either resistance fighters
dodging the Nazis escaping the Nazis thatfled France through the Pyrenees, and it's

(15:03):
called the Freedom Trail, and theyare they are taking the same route that
their ancestors did, climbing, dealingwith the brutal conditions and then you know,
summoning and going over to the otherside to freedom, and it's it's
a fascinating story. I share thatas a backhanded way to circle back to

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if you've not checked out the podcastsavailable, and if you've never considered the
Good Assassins that season two, TheVirginia Hall story. Season one and season
two were incredible. If you're ahistory buff and there's something in you that
you like justice. You'll love thesethings, you really will. They're brilliantly

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told by the author of the firstbook. Good Assassins is a book written
by I think it's Stephen Talty,and he narrates it and then narrates the
second one as well, and it'sjust it's a tremendous story. But season
two the story of Virginia hall usby that kind of worked for Great Britain

(16:12):
in the war, and just Inever heard of I never heard of her,
didn't know anything about the story.It's great listening. Twenty seven minutes
after the hour, Big Stories inthe press Box. Next on The Morning
Show with Preston Scott, It's Traffic, Weather, Sports, Entertainment, to
and the Truth. The Morning Showat Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred

(16:36):
point seven uf LA. Thirty fiveminutes past the hour. Just getting started
The Morning Show with Preston Scott.Limbered up, got it all loosened,
ready to go. Third hour,the program were busy. We've got Jerome

(16:59):
Hudson with me, alumnus of TheMorning Show, editor of the Entertainment section
at Breitbart dot Com, as wellas author of the fifty things books.
Jerome will join us, as willthe States CFO. Jimmy Petronius will join
us this morning and we'll talk abouta topic that is well, it's the
source of a lot of anger ina lot of you, and it's insurance

(17:22):
in Florida. You're watching companies backout of the state. You're watching your
premiums go up across the board.So we put a shout out. It
was really funny. I just said, we need Jimmy Patronis on the program.
I think I said it late lastweek. And next thing to know,
the chief staff sends me a notewhen do you want him? And
so we got it worked out inhis schedule and he'll join us this morning

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as well. Big story in thepress box. It was nine years ago
today that Dan Marquel lost his lifein his driveway. We have three convictions,
a fourth trial coming up with CharlieAdelson, his former brother in law,
is accused of being behind the He'saccused of sort of being, if

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not the mastermind, because there aremany that believe that Wendy Edelson, dan
Marquel's ex wife, that her momDonna, is the mastermind, and many
believe that that indictment is going tocome. It's just a matter of time.
Harvey the father may be indicted.Don't know, we'll find out.

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But the evidence I've shared before,as a former grand jury member that handled
capital cases for six months I saton that grand jury, I can tell
you that there is more circumstantial evidencethat I know about that is public in
this case than any circumstantial evidence casethat I presided over as a grand jury.

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There's more evidence supporting the arrest,the indictment, and I believe the
conviction that will happen with Charlie Edelson, and so I just think it's important
that we remember this case until justiceis served. Can't let it be forgotten.

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And I know nine years is along time, but as we've learned
in other cases, you know,when someone is murdered, the tree of
victims goes wide, tall and deep. Just for a second, think about

(19:45):
Dan Marquel's sons who have been keptfrom their grandparents on the Marquel's side for
almost their entire life and have beentold who knows what about their dad,
about the other side of the family. It's criminal on a lot of levels.
It's child abuse on some Another bigstory in the press box. Despite

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the improved economic outlook according to smallbusinesses, something that leaves me scratching my
head. June was the eighteenth straightmonth that the index measuring small business optimism
remained below the forty nine year average. Let's see eighteen months. How long

(20:33):
has Joe Biden been the resident ofthe United States? Oh yeah, never
mind, Target, by the way, has had Listen. This quantifies the
trouble Targets had like nothing else.I've ever seen total institutional inflows for Target
in quarter two thirty five million dollarsin quarter one two point one billion.

(20:57):
You think they've taken a hit?WHOA needless to say, their stock has
been downgraded. This is the MorningShow with Preston Scott forty one minutes past
the hour Tuesday on the program.If you're just joining us, good morning.

(21:18):
I don't know what it means thatI might be the first voice you
here in the morning, even beforeyour spouse. But I sure appreciate.
I don't know the spot, suredo. I've been holding onto this and
I haven't been able to get tohim. The Affirmative Action case that the
Supreme Court decided, there are somequotes the Justice has rolled out and I

(21:42):
just want to share some of thetop quotes, even though at times we
scratch our head and wonder what he'sthinking, why did he become an activist
overnight? And then other times he'soriginalist. John Roberts the Chief Justice,
and this remember, this is allabout the affirmative Action case, which to
me, just like Roe Wade,was faulty from its very beginning. They

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had they threw away precedent to seta precedent, and now we have everybody
saying, well, they're breaking precedent. Well, because the President was wrong,
Justice Roberts, eliminating racial discrimination meanseliminating all of it. Let me
just say that to the bigot thatlistens to this show on a regular basis,

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Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all ofit. You do not get to
excuse being a racist and a bigotby saying, well back years ago,
no no, no, no,no, no now now now, Justice

(22:56):
Clarence Thomas Justine, referring to JusticeKatangi Brown, Justice Jackson would replace the
second founder's vision with an organizing principlebased on race. In fact, on
her view, almost all of life'soutcomes may be unhesitatingly ascribed to race.
This lore is not and has neverbeen true. Even in the segregated South

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where I grew up, individuals werenot the sum of their skin color.
Justice Neil Gorsige said, the wordsof the Civil Rights Act of nineteen sixty
four are not like mood rings.They do not change their message from one
moment to the next, Justice Thomas. Justice Sodomyer apparently believes that race conscious

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admission programs can somehow increase the chancesthat members of certain races Blacks and Hispanics
are admitted without decreasing the chances ofadmission for members of other races Asians.
This simply defies mathematics. When youget an originalist that can express his or

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herself, the clarity of thought ispiercing. And that's why the just one
challenges on this program for the lastseveral years have gone unanswered, because there
is no intellect behind the arguments,only emotion, only emotion. Back to
Justice Roberts, while the Descent wouldcertainly not permit university programs that discriminated against

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black and Latino applicants, it isperfectly willing to let the programs here continue.
In its view, this Court issupposed to tell state actors when they
have picked the right races to benefit. Oh, Justice Thomas. After siloing
us all into racial casts and pittingthose casts against each other, the descent

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somehow believes that we will be ableto, at some undefined point, march
forward together into some utopian vision.Thomas continues. Justice Jackson uses her broad
observations about statistical relationships between race andselect measures of health, wealth, and
well being to label all blacks asvictims. Her desire to do so is

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unfathomable to me. It is aninsult to individual achievement and cancerous to young
minds seeking to push through barriers ratherthan consign themselves to permanent victimhood. Brilliant
one final, Justice Thomas will endwith this, While I'm painfully aware the

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social and economic ravages which have befallenmy race in all who suffer discrimination,
I hold out enduring hope that thiscountry will live up to its principles so
clearly enunciated in the Declaration of Independenceand the Constitution of the United States,
that all men are created equal,are equal citizens, and must be treated

(25:56):
equally before the law. Forty minutesafter the hour, it's the morning Show
with Preston Skin It's the Morning Showwith Trustin Scott on news Radio one hundred
point seven wuf LA fifty one minutesafter the hour of the Morning Show.

(26:21):
Manly minute next hour an incredible doseof Irony. Also one of the more
different Florida Man stories ever. It'snot a typical Florida Man story, but
it's Florida Man. We've got thatcoming up in the next hour as well.

(26:44):
Rob Strano with me in studio thismorning. Rob is become a very
good friend. He's a PGA teachingprofessional, played on the tour years ago.
We won't say how many You're welcome. And I was talking with him

(27:04):
about we were talking about historical artifactsand items and things of history. He's
a history buff like I am.You're a history buff. I don't have
much time for novels. I wantto read books that tell me about history.
I want I want to know deeplyabout certain periods of our of our
history. And I shared with himthat in my modest collection of things,

(27:30):
I wanted to acquire some items fromthe Revolutionary War that told a story.
And I wasn't sure how I wasgoing to do that. I just kind
of relied on just the right thingswould come up at the right time,
at the right price. Because Idon't have deep pockets, I you know,
I have to be very very modestin my bidding. My wife right

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now is listening, going yeah,And I acquired some handwritten letters detailing service
and requesting back pay of a youngman named Elishah Hinsdale. Elijah Hinsdale served

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under Lafayette and in the Continental Army, beginning at the age of sixteen.
Now hold a hold onto that notefor just a second. Think about Valley
Forge, Think about the year's seventeenseventy seven, seventy eight, seventy nine

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and the fighting. He survived thewar. Obviously he wrote the letters,
but sixteen years of age. Nowlet's move forward to today. This is
a young man named Aidan Gilbert.Now, I don't consider what you're about

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to hear to be the words ofan unpatriotic young man. These are remarkable
words from a very astute young manthat is calling things as he sees them.
He is the son of a dadwho served in the Marine Corps.
Now, the Pentagon will tell youthat ten years ago about eighty percent of

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new recruits had a parent who servedor had a family member who's served.
That's changing. Gilbert was ready tojoin when he left high school, but
he's changed his mind. This isthe young man's words. If we're prioritizing
being woke and we can't actually protecta majority of American people, what's the

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point of having a military. Isit really worth joining and putting our life
on the line for ideologies that wedon't agree with and that we don't want
to necessarily protect. Think about thatfor just second. It was something that
a man of honor would do toserve and protect his country, serve and
protect those values that existed. ButI think things are a little bit different

(30:11):
now. He's always considered himself apatriot, but he said that the Left
has successfully eroded patriotism, celebrating satanicthemes and music in Hollywood, woke ideology.
It just angers me seeing our presidentas the conductor of that symphony of

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sewage. Can we just pause fora moment at the ability of this young
man to craft a statement that Ithink we all ought to own for a
while. Symphony of sewage, aconductor of a symphony of sewage. To
Butcher's the point that we've been making. I just wanted to illustrate that this

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is a young man and we havebeen saying what patriot young man or woman
wants to serve under this Here arethe numbers. Army, Navy, Air
Force expect to fall twenty six thousandshort in twenty twenty three of recruits.

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Twenty six thousand. That will puta dent in our readiness time for hour
two of the Morning Show with PrestonScott five minutes after the hour it's the

(31:41):
second hour. Can you believe in? Already we're third of the way through
brief Morning Show with Preston Scott twostage, July eighteenth, Show forty nine
sixty nine and as of right now, because I know what you're thinking,
Preston, what do you give onewho is worked five thousand shows in radio?

(32:06):
I'll tell you what you give someonewho's done five thousand shows in radio?
Give them your attention. That's it. That's all I want, Ruminators
is another day, and we willbe grateful if we get there. It's
scheduled for Tuesday after Labor Day.If everything shakes out with time off planned

(32:29):
between now and then, show fivethousand will be the Tuesday following Labor Day
in September. So there you goa few things good to know. How
about the irony Mexico submits complaint toUnited States after Texas starts placing floating barriers
along the Rio Grande River. Whatare complained about? It's our half of

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the room. I I This isa question that I saw raised by Tucker.
I don't know if anyone happened tosee the Blaze summit featuring all of
the major Republican candidates minus Donald Trump. You mean where he toasted three of
them and ended their campaigns. God, that one. Oh my gosh,

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it was so bad savage. Yeah, it was spending on your point of
yeain, But Tucker raised the questionof, okay, so realistically, how
many Americans are dying from, youknow, Russia. But Russia is this
grave and moral enemy apparently, butyet Americans are dying every day by the

(33:43):
complicit nature of the Mexican government spillingover into the United States drugs, crime,
gangs. Who which is more ofa moral imperative Russia or Mexico.
And I'm like, well, whenyou put it like that, that's a
really good question. That's low hangingfruit. Yeah. I did not hear

(34:04):
that. But that's but that's whythis stood out to me. What are
you complaining about? Seriously, it'sour at first, it's our half of
the river. Yeah, shut up. In fact, we should take both
sides of the river just because wecan. Yeah, just to make Mexico
pay for it. Let just rememberI've been advocating since two thousand and two

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that we simply move our military basesto put auxiliary bases along the southern border.
Rotate troops in and out. Itkeeps them ready, it keeps them
prepared to fight, and it endsthe cartels coming across the border. We

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could control our entire southern border withour military if we just we're clever.
I mean, I understand we needa military base in the middle of the
heartland in Nebraska and in South Dacodaor whatever. But what have we rotated
some of those good old guys andgals to the southern border and has needed

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the northern border, and we hadauxiliary basis spread along and they patrolled that
entire thing period and we let usborder patrol be at the legal points of
entry. That's their pillot, that'stheir post. That's I stand by that.
One other thing you got to knowabout two other things. Have you

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heard of Public Sq No? Ihaven't. It is apparently an alternative to
Amazon, and they are going publicthis month. Oh, they've been in
business since August twenty twenty two.They're gonna go with a public offering at
the New York Stock Exchange in acouple of days. Public Sq Public Sq

(35:50):
Long story short, unwoke businesses thatwant a different place to do business and
drive customers. Oh cool. Sothere, I'm looking at their site and
it's not just an Amazon style whereyou can purchase things wherever, but they
actually drive you to local, familyowned small businesses in your area too.

(36:13):
Yep, that's cool. Yep,Public Sq. So I'm just putting it
on your radar. Third and finalthing you should know about. I'm not
trying to tempt anybody to do somethingstupid. I'm just letting you know.
The powerball jackpot's going to be overa billion dollars for the drawing tomorrow eight

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And in case you're wondering, aftertaxes, you're gonna walk away very wealthy
if you were to win. Thelump sum is five hundred and sixteen point
eight million estimated, So after taxes. You're gonna be walking away with probably
three point eight three point six millgive or take something like that. And

(36:59):
again I stand and by my statementon that. Explain to me why the
government should own one piece of that. The states already get money, why
should the government get more. It'sThe Morning Show with Preston Scott eleven past
seven in the Eastern time zone,six in the Central. Normally listening to

(37:23):
us in the Central time Zone atthis time is my in studio guests.
He's just hanging out. We're gonnago play some golf with a couple of
buddies later on this morning. RobStraino from the destined area, and how
are you. I'm doing great,awesome to be here and see the behind
the curtain with you and Grant.Yeah, right, awesome. It's fantastic.
You got a voice for radio,buddy, do it? You got

(37:45):
that gravelly kind of Yeah, it'sa unique kind of sound that would translate
well in any media. Oh well, you do kind of broadcast though,
too. God, if I meanit's I do TV. Is what I
do at the Golf Kingdom TV showthat I host. But yeah, you
know, it's nice and I haveyou know, multitalented, you know inside
me here, Yeah, you sentme this story, and so here's what

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I thought would be fun because Robis one of my research assistants, and
you sent me a story and here'sthe headline. Georgia, the Peach State
is out of peaches. Here's whyand how locals are coping. What stood
out to you about this story thatthey're out of peaches? How do you
run out of peaches in Georgia?And I think it says they're substituting apple.
Now it's the Peach State shouldn't runof peaches, they say in the

(38:31):
story. It's a CNN story.The Peach State lost more than ninety percent
of this year's crop. Now thereason I ask Rob for his thoughts on
this, and we'll talk in afew minutes as well. But see,
there's when you do the show thatI do and you read the amount of
material that I read, there arecertain things that just it's it's as if

(38:53):
they're lit up and kneeon and deepburied in the story. Is this is
this segment here, And I'm I'mbetting that you grant many of you listening,
you're going to get what I'm where. I'm going here. CNN talked
to farmers in agricultural groups who saidthey can't remember a more devastated peach crop,

(39:15):
quoting I was talking to an olderfarmer and he said, nineteen fifty
five was the last time he sawit this bad. Now, why would
that jump out at me? Ihave no clue you got anything? Grant
trying to thing nineteen fifty Back tothe future. Now, first, going

(39:38):
back to the year nineteen fifty five. Good, that's good. But now,
first of all, notice how howRob pulled Grant into the show here.
See this is natural, right right, He's done this kind of thing
before. He's not new to amicrophone at all. It hasn't been this

(39:58):
way since nineteen fifty five. Seehere's the spin that's coming. I'm thinking,
what government intrusion program started in fiftyfive? No, it's that it
happened in fifty five. It's alwaysI gotta, I gotta, I gotta
tweet, not a tweet. Igot a text from a buddy the other
day, and I'm gonna pull itup here real quick. And it had

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to do with the weather. See, this peach thing is all about climate
change. That sounds being framed ofcourse it is, of course, yeah,
absolutely, the heat wave that hidin the February okay, followed by
a couple of frosts, um iswhat destroyed the crop. And maybe it
did that very well, could betrue. But here's the bigger point.

(40:40):
This is being framed as this isman's fault. It's climate change, environmental
attack on our world. My buddySalnuzo sent me this record seven days current
forecast heat wave days at one hundredand five in California or something, some

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part of California. The record innineteen twenty three of nine days. Yeah.
My point in this is that there'salways this hottest since filling the blank.
It hasn't been this hot since andfilling the blank. We haven't had

(41:27):
a crop this bad since nineteen fiftyfive, nineteen twenty three, eighteen seventy
four. The list goes on andon. See you sent this story like,
oh my goodness, the devastation ofGeorge's economy. Come on, people,
it's you're the peach state. Liveup to it, do your job.

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I don't disagree with that, butI know CNN and I know where
they're taking this, and what standsout to me is that part of the
story. They don't want you tofocus on it's happened before. Thus ended
the lesson More with Rob Strando nexttwenty one minutes past the hour. It

(42:09):
is Tuesday on the Morning Show withPreston Scott Grant Allen. There in Studio
one A, Rob Strando hanging outwith me in Studio one B and Rob,
I wanted to share, and I'mgonna challenge you because you are as
verbose as I am in two minutes. How did you come to this program?

(42:30):
And how did our friendship start?Okay, that's easy, you know,
because you're in destined. Yeah,I'm indestined. So my wife and
I listened to you every morning overcoffee. How'd you find the show?
Found the show one day asking formorning shows via the iHeart app, and

(42:51):
you came up and we started listeningand just enjoyed the entire format and the
fun and just the whole show isjust it's just great to listen to.
And it starts our off and you'llstart off with the Verse and everything,
you know, the way you startedthere with the Bible, and you know,
we were listening at Christmas one yearand every year at that time we
I have a tithe I give.I save a chunk and I donate a

(43:15):
chunk, and I do it quietlymost of the time. But you and
Marvin were in here doing your usualChristmas show, and you put out something
that Marvin would do a concert ifyou donated a certain amount, And I
called and and got Grant on thephone, and I said, Hey,
I want to donate this. We'regoing to do a charity concert, you
know, at our place, andwould Preston come along if I gave a

(43:37):
little extra, Not knowing what Iwas asking or getting into here, actually
it should have been a discount ifI came home. So I wanted.
I wanted you get you guys todo your your little bit that you do
here there for our guests. Andwe we we talked about that, We
made the donation, we did theplans, and you and Marvin came over

(43:59):
to to Deston and we arranged alittle private concert for a local charity and
came over and you guys did agreat event. And you know before that,
I was coming back from a charityevent I play in every year over
at Hammock Beach for the National ChristianAthletic Association. And we had all we
had all of a sudden already connectedthat we both love golf, and you

(44:22):
said, would you mind looking atmy game? Yeah? See, Rob
is a is a teaching pro.I mean he that's what he does.
He teaches people, professionals as wellas amateurs and hacks like me to be
better golfers. And so I stoppedon my way by and we got together
and worked on your game, andthen that just kind of started the whole
golf part and then the charity part, and that, and probably less than

(44:43):
two minutes explains how we arrive atthis moment where you and I are hanging
out and joined what you do,and you know enjoined golf today too.
Yeah. Rob and I've spent sometime together. I've met his family and
been over to Deston and spent sometime with him on the range out there,
and just just a great friendship.I appreciate your friendship. I enjoy
it too, and I thank youfor being a contributor to the program.

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You must get a laugh every timeI pick a story that you've sent.
Every Yeah, it comes up.I said that one, Like Naomi I
sent that one. She's gonna textme and go Preston's got it right.
There you go, there you go. It's time. I told you this
was a different kind of Florida manstory. Everybody, if you read something

(45:30):
insane, I probably did it.I'm fat of the blog. Is going
ahead and google my name, Googlemy knee. Now there, so into
the sins. I have committed andwe all feel better when we have somebody
to blame. Come on, everybody, it's Cloverida man. Yes, here's

(45:58):
the headline ready. Lionel Messi becomestrue Florida man spotted at public's grocery shopping.
I was gonna say, is itat publics or wrestling pythons? This
is incredible? This is it now. If you don't know, Lionel Messi

(46:20):
is an icon around the world asa soccer player, probably the greatest soccer
player ever and probably the most knownathlete in the world right now, up
there with lebron and Christiano Ronaldo.Yeah, he and Ronaldo. I mean
they go back and forth. Butthat speaks to the global nature of soccer,

(46:42):
is that two of the most followedpeople on the planet come from the
same sport exactly. Well, Messihas come to America and he is going
to be playing for Inter Miami FCfootball club in Major League Soccer LS.
It's the biggest thing that's happened tothe MLS. Ever, they're gonna pack

(47:02):
stadiums. They're gonna have to probablyfind more venues than they're normal stadiums for
some matches. I'm guessing, butwho knows. Well. The one of
the sponsors of the Miami team isPublics. It's not a press thing.
He's just out shopping. He's gothis cart. He likes Lucky Charms.

(47:24):
He's pushing a cart through and barelyanybody's recognizing him. There were a couple
of photos. Welcome to America,buddy, we don't care about soccer,
not just that. In Argentina hecan't get into his home. Yeah,
he has to have armed security togo anywhere in his country. Comes to

(47:45):
America. A man's out shopping atPublic's almost makes me want to go to
a game when they play Orlando FC. Oh heck yeah, or does Atlanta
have a team. I don't gothere. You think, don't go to
our Atlantis sir, Okay, I'llstick to Orlando. Yeah that's not a
lot better, but it's somewhat better. That's just I beg of people don't

(48:09):
go there. But seriously, Messyis now a Florida man, Preston Scott.
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulledwas convincing the world he didn't exist.
On news Radio one hundred point sevenw FLA, thirty six minutes after

(48:37):
the hour, Jerome Hudson from brightBard. Next hour about a half hour
from now, sa Bo. Jimmypetronis from the state of Florida. We'll
join us an hour from now.A few things, Big stories in the
press box, James Comer, USCongress. Biden's opened over twenty shell companies
to launder money, and we'rere andand he's the one making decisions. Well

(49:08):
we know it's the o'biden administration,we get it. But anyway, the
big story in the press box nineyears ago today, Dan Marquel lost his
life in his driveway. We're gonnaprobably talk about this in a totally different
way tomorrow with Charlie Strickland and ourpersonal Defense story, our personal Defense segment.

(49:30):
I'll be candid with you. IfDan had had some situational awareness and
had a firearm with him, hemight be alive today. He was followed
and the car that followed him.Once he realized that they were turning and

(49:51):
slowing down in front of his house. That's when the hand goes to the
firearm and the entire situa changes.But Charlie Adelson sitting in Leon County jail,
apparently I was on a panel lastnight, a YouTube live panel talking

(50:12):
about the case. Apparently someone thathas connections inside said that he is on
what they're calling the unlive watch,that's their way of saying suicide watch,
that he has checked up on morethan fifty times a day in his cell.

(50:35):
Because the thought is, I mean, the one of the observations made
by the panel last night, whenwas the last time you saw a scenario
like this where a guy like Charlie, a wealthy doctor granted dental practice,
but a doctor nonetheless is actually facingjail time for the rest of his life,

(51:05):
if not a death sentence. Theyjust generally these people get get away
with it. But they were reallydumb. Even though his license plate said
the Maestro. License plate said Maestrothe guy. The guy is an endless
narcissist and so we're we're going tosee the trial unfold we think in October

(51:32):
again. Panel last night, Katiemcbanne was not going to be of any
use. That defies logic to me. It just does why she didn't flip.
Well, maybe Charlie's innocent. Yeah, and maybe snow doesn't melt in
the desert. Whatever. Yeah,I wanted to add this real quickly here.

(51:57):
I don't know if you saw thestory TSA agents Miami and National Airport.
I mentioned the story because it affectsanyone that ever travels anywhere arrested for
stealing from flyers. What they dois they distract. They've got one member
of this crew distracting a passenger whilethe others are going through their stuff at
screening and they're stealing cash. Wasthis Sam Brenton's tactic. Nope, Sam

(52:22):
would just go up and snag theluggage at the carousel. If he saw
luggage he liked, he just snagit from the carousel. Now this is
this is a high end scam.My point is this, if you travel,
don't allow yourself to be distracted.Most TSA agents, i'm sure,
are honest, good people. It'slike cops. Most are wonderful community servants.

(52:45):
But there are always going to beexceptions. So don't allow yourself to
be distracted. That's the point inmentioning the story. Forty minutes after the
Hours Morning show, Preston Scott,can you fly this plane? And surely
you can't be serious. I amserious, and don't call me surely.
On news Radio one hundred point SEVENFLA, the defense says you have the wrong

(53:15):
man, and that's what a defenseteam is supposed to say. I guess
I would have trouble being a defenseattorney because I would feel like I have
to say silly things like that whenI know that that's not the case.

(53:37):
But my job is to make surethat the other side does their job.
I'm good with that. I respectthat part of the legal profession where a
defense attorney's job is to make surethat the other side does theirs. I'm
good with that. But when yousay they have the wrong man, I
want you to apply that statement whichhas been made in the case of the

(54:00):
Gilgo Beach murders. And we talkedabout this a little bit, this guy
being arrested. We're not naming him. I never will. But I'm following
this because I follow stuff like this. I'm fascinated by how law enforcement cracks
cases, how they find people.This is fascinating because some informations out.

(54:22):
First, they went ahead and movedon this guy because they used a grand
jury to have some investigative secrecy inthis. But even with a grand jury,
now, I've never talked publicly aboutone case I was a grand jur
on, never will, but that'snot always the case. And so they

(54:45):
were worried because of the profile ofthis case that someone would leak something out,
and so they moved and arrested thisguy. This into some of these
statements. The fifty nine year oldmarried father of two architect working in Manhattan
allegedly killed three of four women knownas the Gilgo Beach four. But he's

(55:07):
actually a suspecting up to maybe elevenmurders. They were monitoring him because he
was monitoring the investigation through Google searches. They got his computer now and they
were able to see what he wassearching. Now let's go back to they've

(55:29):
got the wrong man. Defense attorneys. We have maintained our secrecy because we
were afraid that this one person,this killer, would be trying to monitor
investigation. Once we got his Googlesearches. That was the case. He
was asking questions such as what isthe phone evidence in the Gilgo case.
How come they can't trace the phonesin the Google case, which he meant

(55:52):
Gilgo. So he's asking questions specificto our investigation. He was also making
searches of the victims, looking atpictures victims online. He was running searches
of the victim's siblings. Listen tothis, and in one instance admitted that
he was the killer. He hadsome disparaging things to say about the sister

(56:13):
and said he was going to comefind her. We're not done. The
witnesses indicated that this person that theydescribed as a very large individual with Amber
Costello shortly before she disappeared, thathe was driving an avalanche. It wasn't
until March fourteenth, twenty twenty two, more than ten years later, that

(56:36):
we were able to link an avalancheto this guy, who matched a very
unique physical description. The police statedthat they were able to link him to
the murders after they obtained DNA evidencefrom Pizza eight. All but it gets
better, or well you know whatI mean by that. Listen to this.

(56:57):
We have hairs recovered which were fromMay Again Waterman, one of the
victims, and a hair that wasrecovered from the last victim Amber Costello.
The DNA profile from the two hairsrecovered match one hair of the DNA profile
of the suspect. The other onematched his wife. She knew nothing of

(57:20):
any of this, but her beingthere eliminates everybody else. Good morning,
and welcome to the Morning Show withPreston Scott, Jorman Hudson. In just
a little bit from bright Bark,see what's going on in the world of
entertainment, and then some He'll talkabout anything. He's so well versed on

(57:46):
what's going on in the news.Always love chatting up my friend Jerome.
Then Jimmy Petronas CFO, a friendof Florida States. CFO always makes himself
available. Hey that's a couple.Now we've got Jimmy Petronis and we've got

(58:07):
the Commissioner of Education, Manny Diaz, making a regular appearance. Hey,
that's all right. Used to havethe governor that stopped? Oh well,
it happens anyway. How's this forirony? This from town Hall the tip
sheet. Matt Vespa. I'm justgonna read the headline and we can dig

(58:30):
a little deep. But scientists whoresearches about honesty accused of fabricating studies.
Now, what does that sound like? It sounds like a headline from the
babbylon Bye, But it's true.Harvard researcher who studies honesty has been accused

(58:52):
of fabricating studies, not just one, but several. Harvard Business School's Franchesca
Gino allegedly chalked up phony results tiedto studies, including one focused on honest
behavior. This reported by The NewYork Times The New York Times. Really

(59:15):
uh. She's been placed on leave, according to her business school web page.
Times reported she was still on thejob as recently as midwet May.
She's published one hundred and thirty fivearticles since two thousand and seven. According
to the Chronicle for Higher Education,in a blog called data Kolata, she

(59:36):
let's just pause it the beauty ofthat data Colada run by three behavioral scientists.
It's alleged fraud in four academic papersthat she co authored. Where have
we seen this before? Oh yeah, the FDA, the CDC, you
know, only branches of government thatpeople rely on for their health. Anyway,

(01:00:01):
it takes a special kind of personto academically lie about your subject topic
being honesty Like that is wild?How bad at your job. Do you
have to be It's one thing tofabricate, like gun statistics, yeah you
or you would think climate change,right, I've seen it. These types

(01:00:22):
of subjects are all the time,you know, fabricated. But honesty,
you had to lie about honesty?Good lord, And we wonder why we
just laugh at higher ed now andagain there are always exceptions. We paint
with broad brushes around here, havebig fat, wide brushes that we paint

(01:00:45):
roll with. But still that youhave a researcher that and I can you
know, I can almost imagine howthis happens. She's sitting there and she's
got See. This is the problemwith science today, with research today,
they have a conclusion, a hypothesisthat they just want to be true.

(01:01:07):
Back in the day, they werelike, I wonder if and then that's
their hypothesis, and then they gothrough no, or hey there's something to
it, let's dig further. Nomore. Today the hypothesis is a personally
deeply held conviction or belief. Nowwhat can I do to prove it to
you? What can I do tovalidate my own idea? It's and you

(01:01:34):
know what's so funny is it's nodifferent than your kid when they lied to
you about where they were going tospend the night. It's no different.
The question wasn't can I go hangout at Joey's house? The question was
what do I need to say toyou to convince you to let me hang
out at Joey's house? I havea hypothesis. What do I need to
do? What research can I doctor? What kind of stats can I make
up to pass my research paper?Time for a manly minute? Remember mail

(01:02:01):
by birth, man by choice,And yes, you choose to be a
man. Half the population's mail,but you choose to be a man.
Teach your son to manage high stresssituations. Now, I don't necessarily think
this is for anybody before high school, but I think once your son gets

(01:02:25):
to high school age, put himin situations with a little bit of stress.
Not life or death, nothing likethat, but teach them to handle
decision making or performance when there's alittle pressure, when somebody's watching, etc.

(01:02:46):
And you'll look at him one dayproudly and say, you, young
man, you are now a man'sman. Five minutes after the hour,

(01:03:13):
it is the third and final hourat least for the day. On the
Morning Show with Crustin Scott Show fourthousand, nine hundred and sixty nine,
the five thousand show scheduled for theTuesday after the Labor Day. Grant Allen
over there in Studio one A.I'm here in Studio one bat joining me
Rob Strano of what is it calledGolf Kingdom or Kingdom Golf Flag? I

(01:03:36):
can't remember. The TV show isthe Golf Kingdom? Golf Kingdom? That's
the TV show, Jerome Show.Jerome Hudson joins us, Jerome, is
that on your radar? His TVshow, the Golf Kingdom? No?
I have not heard of. Soyou're not You're not covering golf on social
media? Huh, they're Dylan gwynhe break Bright News sports editor. I'm

(01:03:59):
sure all over it. So youknow I came into this segment, I
got I got nothing in front ofme. So Jerome, go ahead and
talk. That's usually the best wayfor us to do it. Now,
you know what I want to Ineed you to give insight to me on
this. Fox News is cratering.It's it is losing audience hand over fist.

(01:04:27):
Here's my question for you. Isthis in the grand scheme of things
good? Well, I I sayit's good for Breakfront News UM, because
after being pursued by Fox News fairlyheavily a couple of years ago, I
realize why I felt so good aboutwhere I am currently employed US. It's

(01:04:58):
a massive media come me and thatis not necessarily a bad thing. Fox
News is UM. But I thinkoftentimes when a company grows so large,
H and I guess I don't haveto tell you this preston having you know,
worked for Massic conglomerate, UM,you sort of lose the message,

(01:05:21):
you know, UM. It sortof becomes a telephone game the culture that
the company started with. And Ithink that's very true for Fox News.
UM. You know, sadly,it could probably date back to the passage
of its founder, Roger als Um. I just explained it this way,

(01:05:45):
and I did it yesterday a standingdate that I have with an older gentleman
from my church here in Jacksonville.You know, at Bright part News,
we don't cheat our audience. Wedon't talk to them like they're stupid.
We do the opposite. We tryto report there's much of the facts about
a stories that possibly can We ofcourse don't get everything right, and I

(01:06:11):
think our alreadience appreciates that, andyou know that the numbers don't lie,
and it continues to grow as bigas it is and e gauged as our
as I already exist. I don'tthink Fox News does that all the time.
I mean, they're certainly not asbad as MSNBC or NBC or ABC
or the rest of the establishment leftwing media, but they've become a corporate

(01:06:34):
culture. People like Paul Ryan beingon the Fox News board eventually has an
effect on how they report on immigrationand how they report on the poisoning of
Americans on our southern border, theway that they report on presidential or political

(01:06:57):
candidates, real issues, and soit is. I think Fox News is
important. They do a lot ofgood work. I know a lot of
good people there, but they're certainlyin the middle. I mean, you
see their Nate late night lineup shifting. It's basically the same, but it's
different. The way they handled theouster of Tucker Carlson, probably the most

(01:07:20):
important man and cable news, probablyall the news media. You know,
I think it'll all work itself out. Um, you know, it's a
little bit sad. Is a betterFox News? I feel like made for
a better Bright Button News, Youknow what I mean? Like the better

(01:07:43):
Fox News was at forty. Icould see it in my own news room.
It's sort of raised the stakes foreverybody. And I don't know what's
going to happen to Fox News.Hang on that that thought. We're gonna
pick up right there. Jerome Hudsonis in entertainment editor with bright Bart and
the website brightbart dot com. He'salso author of the Fifty Things book books.

(01:08:06):
There's a third book coming. I'vebeen trying to get the title out
of it every interview for the lastyear and a half and I can't get
it out of him. But Iwon't even bother today. He'd probably tell
me today anyway, More with Jerome. Next in the Morning Show eleven minutes
after the hour, Jerome Hudson withme from bright Bart. Fifty Things Books,

(01:08:30):
Fifty Things they Don't want you toKnow, Fifty Things they don't want
you to know about Trump was booktwo and a soon third coming book.
Jerome, Let's let's talk some moreabout Fox. What was a bigger deal
Rupert stepping down from really actively beinginvolved or Lachlan stepping up, Lachlan stepping

(01:08:53):
up? I think Luper Murdock.I mean, I honestly believe Luper Murdoch
at the end of the day hasa good sense of the news medium medium
uh in several different countries and reallyjust wants to make a lot of money.

(01:09:15):
Um. You know, he's notan American citizen, and so that
always gives me a little pause,and it makes me a little suspect about
you know, his his his appreciationfor how a massive medium news and in
the information like Fox News can haveon the country long term. But nevertheless,

(01:09:39):
you know it's he's he's Rupert Murdockis good at the news thing.
H Lakeland more of a wildcard abit you know, never really see him
at the highest levels running the show. And you know, to be honest
with you, I just not knowingthat much about him about what he deeply

(01:10:01):
believes in terms of the most actualissues facing this country as it relates to
you know, the largest center rightUH news organ. Um gives me a
lot of pause. And you know, again, like you know, people
like Paul Ryan having massive amounts ofsway over the news and the opinions that

(01:10:27):
are disseminated a Fox News is disinsertingum so um, hey, hey,
boy, they're really uh and it'swell, yeah, I mean we talked
earlier in the program. They've gonefrom a primetime share of fifty one percent
to thirty eight percent since Tucker's left, and it's not going to get any
better. With their new lineup.They might stabilize the free fall, but

(01:10:50):
Jerome to me, it's more fundamentalthan than well, it's displayed in fundamental
things like when they're writing on transgenderissues, insisting on using the proper pronouns
versus the accurate pronouns. Those twome or tip offs. Yeah, I

(01:11:11):
guess I'll let the audience in ona little secret here. The majority of
the people who work at the NewYork Posts, the Believe, the oldest
newspaper in the country and is oftenviewed as a center right newspaper. The
majority of the people who work there, the majority of the people who run
the show, that is, theexecutives, the executive editors, they're Democrats,

(01:11:34):
and they're like long time Democrats,big check writing democrats. And the
same can be said for Fox News. You know, I don't think the
majority of the people who work thereprobably don't align with their audience, certainly

(01:11:54):
not on everything, but on mostissues political and cultural. But I think
people would be surprised to know ifpeople running the show of Fox News don't
exactly share the politics of the majorityof the Fox zoidless um. And I
think that is starting to become clearfor people, particularly people who are in

(01:12:15):
the know. The mask is slipping, if you will. Did they keep
it in check when Rupert was overseeingthings more directly? I think so?
And any of these what extrajudinarian,however you say that word, it's just
probably one of those things where culturallyhe's he doesn't necessarily fit anymore and in

(01:12:36):
a change you know time, Uh, there's he probably doesn't want to have
the coin anymore, if you will. At this point you're getting up there,
Uh, there is that that thatfamilial uh you know, aspects of
it is the sons are running theshow, um, and they're younger,

(01:12:59):
they have new ideas, They probablythink they could do it better, and
you know, well, it's clear, Jerome standby, Okay, it's clear
that they're not doing it better.And I'm wondering when shareholders are gonna say
enough. Sixteen minutes after the hour, more with Jerome Hudson on the Morning
Show with Preston Scott's tent Our Minutesafter the Hour or on the Morning Show

(01:13:23):
with Preston Scott. He's an alumnusof this radio program. I don't know.
I hope he's a proud alumnus.Jerome Hudson with us. At least
it makes him laugh. The latteris true. I do oftentimes if I

(01:13:44):
am forced to get my origin story, give all due raise to you.
Oh stop better your early stewardship intutelage, in mentoring a wayward a wayward
child. God. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Jero Mudson with us

(01:14:08):
from Breitbart dot Com. Jerome how, how at what point does shareholder interest
and even the legal responsibility from afudciary perspective start to make a dent in
Disney decision making because they seemed tobe intent on alienating their entire audience.

(01:14:34):
That's Disney. Yeah, no,w I say, from one fledgling multimedia
company in news Corps Buds News toDisney, Um, you do see pushed
back from shareholders. And you knowBob Jpek was hired in the latter part
of twenty twenty one, and hemade it just over a year in the

(01:14:55):
job of CEO at Disney because heactually made managed to come in at CEO
and and accelerate the pace of thedestruction of Disney. And so he was
ousted as well as several other executives, and Bob Iger was brought back as

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CEO, and he hasn't actually fixedthe problem. Disney stock is down over
one hundred and twenty five dollars inthe last two years. I think that
goes directly to your point. Thereare a lot of people hold a lot
of Disney stock, and for along time they did it for good reason,
because it was a company that basicallyprinted money. And in the last

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half decade Disney has gone from thatfamily first company to the equivalent of a
multi multi national sex offender. Youcan't leave your children around Disney programming a
low un I've got a bar thatone that's good hum. It's just,

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you know, riding around in avan, you can see the upper body
before you don't want to know whatthe lower body looks like. Um.
And you know, I took onBridge a couple of months ago. As
you know, you know, I'mso blessed to be an editor at right

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Bart News. I worked with verybrilliant and diligent and just beautiful people growing
beautiful families. Sometimes I feel inthe brilliance that I'm surrounded around. But
I was smart enough to know acouple of months ago Preston that the headlines
that came out after the second quarterDisney's losses Disney Plus, this streaming version

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of Disney, the headlines and theNew York Times and Bloomberg and the Economic
Times were that Disney's losses Preston hadshrink or shrunk and that was a good
thing. And I was like,what, So they went from losing a
billion dollars plus on Disney Plus tolosing just less a billion dollars and that

(01:17:12):
was good news. And I've I'vesit there, take it am? I
am? I crazy? And Iwasn't crazy because it sounds like George W.
Bush when he said a reduction inthe amount of the deficit right like
that that there's this there's this principleat the UH, the the wardens nothing

(01:17:32):
with the school. It is theHarderst Business School. I can't remember the
actual name of it. But there'sthis principle called negative elevation, where like
bad news is all is also goodness. And I get that I understand how
that can work in some ways,but that doesn't make any sense. Disney
Plus wasn't launched to lose less moneythan they thought they would lose. I

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mean, they knew that the thingwould take time to become profitable. But
Bob Eiger had a vision, hehad a goal, and he had a
specific date. He said, bytwenty twenty four, Disney Plus will be
profitable. And I don't know ifhe was aware of the fact that his
company, Disney It's content production,was housed with executives Preston who, because

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they have transgender kids, think thatevery parent wants their child to be exposed
to that sort of content. It'snot working and it's never going to work.
As as we talked Off learned,there are bed rock principles that made
this country great. There are sharedvalues among many of us. Even though

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he turned on the TV and doesn'tfeel like it's at every day, but
it's true and Disney used to reflectthat, and they no longer do.
They're pumping out poison and it's toxicand sadly it's it's starting to lose a
lot of people money. Jerome asall ways, I wish we had more
time, but I appreciate the timeyou're able to wedge out for us.

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Thank you, my friend. Bewell, Love you, God bless you,
love you too. Joe Mudson withus this morning brightbart dot Com.
Fifty Things Books. Get the fiftyThings Books twenty seven minutes after the hour.
Welcome to the Morning Show with PrestonScott thirty five minutes after the hour

(01:19:28):
of the Morning Show. Tomorrow,Charlie Strickland of the Talent Training Group.
We'll talk personal defense, a coupleof situations from the news, a few
other things will discuss. Also somedisturbing trends you parents need to have on
your radar, and that's coming uptomorrow on the program. We said late

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last week there were some calls comingin during What's the Beef? We put
an APB out for the CFO ofthe State of Florida, Jimmy Petronis,
And here he is, Jimmy.How are you? Yeah, Hey,
Preston, great to be with you. How are you doing, sir?
You know, um, it couldalways be worse. I could be living
in New York or New Jersey orIllinois. Um. So um, you

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know, I'm glad to live inthe Free State of Florida. I'm glad
to have the best fiscal health we'veever had in the history of the state.
Uh, We've got some emplacement challengesand interest rate challenges that that are
not being paid attention to by theFED. But other than that, we're
hoping Mother Nature doesn't throw as ahurricane. Jemmy, I'm you know,

(01:20:34):
as as Dave Ramsey says, betterthan I deserve us. Right, We've
got a lot of callers, andI'm not telling you anything. You don't
know. You get the calls,you get the emails, you get stopped
at stores by friends and people thatjust recognize you. As much as the
legislature has done in recent sessions toaddress insurance problems inside the Sunshine State,

(01:20:57):
there is a there's a feeling thatthey start did the work on this problem
a little late. So what canyou tell listeners right now across Florida that
are opening up their renewal notices andwhether it's property or automobile, they're either
losing their company or their rates arejust jumping out of the roof. Yeah,
that's right. Look, I've beenon the job now just over seven

(01:21:20):
years. Every single year we haveclamored for a closure of things that you're
very familiar with, things like aobWhere were these exploitation by just a handful
of law firms or just basically turnedsome toxic loopholes into driving carriers out of
the state. And look, I'dbe lying if I didn't tell you that,

(01:21:44):
you know, previous led slave sessionsdid not do what we needed to
do. But I tell people allthe time, there's this table in Tallahassee,
and sitting at a table, there'splanets, attorneys, there's contractors,
there's public adjusters, there's insurance companies, there's agents. There's all these players
sitting around the table. The oneperson that has not been invited that table

(01:22:05):
was a damn policy holder. Andit's has been frustrating as you see all
these guys protect the fight to keeptheir loopholes open, and their loophole's work
created on purpose. A lot oftimes, these loopholes that allowed them to
exploit Florida statutes and take advantage ofthe insurance market or take a jap vantage

(01:22:26):
of the policy holder was something thatjust kind of happened that they were able
to figure out on their own.So yeah, I mean, you know,
I think I think governor is sayingthis. This is the third governor
I've worked with. It's been fascinatingwatching his evolution and seeing him, you
know again remembers the other times.This guy wasn't familiar to Florida laws until

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they got here. So it wasreally an outside set of eyes looking at
a lot of this. He hadthe first special session back in May of
twenty twenty two. It was itwas okay, I really think it did
not do what needed to be done. But by God, that December special
session roll around. He ripped theband aid off and he was going to

(01:23:08):
make sure that we were not goingto have the litigation problems that have made
us, you know, the worststate in the Union for litigation, frivolous
litigation. So yeah, it's it'sa twelve to eighteen months, you know
struggle that we're going to have untilyou know, the market changes. Now.
I can't control interest rates, Ican't control inflation. And the other,

(01:23:30):
you know, twisted side of thisis there's capital readily coming to the
state of Florida to create a morecompetitive market, but they're gonna wait tifter
November. They're gonna wait till afterhurricane season, where the likelihood of them
getting hit by a catastrophic storm andcrippling their business is going to be less.
So yeah, it's it's hopefully keepour fingers across some other nature doesn't

(01:23:51):
throw us a storm. That's along answer to tell you some of the
frustrations I've had. Jimmy patrona's CFOfor the State of Florida, asked another
segment still to come on The MorningShow with Preston Scott. The Morning Show
with Preston Scott, Chief Financial Officerfor the State of Florida. Jimmy petronis

(01:24:15):
with us on the Morning Show.Jimmy, finish his sentence best you can.
For every farmers that pulls out ofthe state, we have we have
ten carriers wanting to start up inthe state. Okay, I mean,
I mean and literally farmers. Andlook, I'm not in their c suite.

(01:24:39):
I don't know their their financial decisionsthat they made. But you know,
Florida's getting four hundred thousand people ayear into the state. That is
a growing market when people are fleeingNew Jersey, New York, California.
So these carriers time is money.They've got to get into markets that are
emerging markets in order to try totry to take advantage of the time to

(01:25:01):
return on their investment. So differentones will say, God, let's let's
go, let's go create an insurancecompany, let's jump into the Florida market.
Well, different ones came into themarket at different times. Some of
them have huge overheads, some ofthem don't. And the more overhead they
have, and raising inflation and raisinginterest rates is going to the less in

(01:25:23):
the ability they have risk and getthrow in top of it where a risk
prone state, sure with hurricanes.So all that, all that being said,
I've gotten a lot of interest.There's capital that wants come into the
Florida market. But again they're gonnawait till after November. They're gonna WAITI
after the hurricane season. Two thingsI want to get to before we finish
up today. Let's finish with propertyfor just a second here, what would

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you say to a homeowner because theyemail me that they got their company shutting
down or their premium has gone toa place where they just cannot afford it.
What should they be doing or considering? So the legislature over the last
two years has pushed out seven hundredmillion dollars. We're in the best fiscal

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health we've ever been, so it'skind of hard. You don't want to
create a new program, so youwant to try to send money back to
the taxpayers. So we put sevenhundred million dollars aside sales tax exemption on
windows and doors. But the probablythe big kicker is the windstorm mitigation inspection.
If you've never done one of those, estate pays for it's about one
hundred fifty dollars. You can goto my safe flhome dot com. You

(01:26:34):
can apply for it. That's aninspection. That's a much more thorough inspection
in your house. Now, Idid mine a few years ago. I
paid for it out of my pocket. But my Florida law dictates that if
the improvements on your home are notnoted on your insurance policy, the carrier
must give your rebate and the carriermust discount your entrance. Right, it's

(01:26:56):
the best cast secret in Florida.But if you go get that windstorm mitigation
inspection, especially if you've got anolder home, you probably have those improvements
on there and your carrier doesn't evenknow it. What about finding a carrier
just in general, So again Itell people all the time. If you
don't get what you want from yourinsurance agent, sometimes you need to pick

(01:27:17):
up a phone and call another agent. Different agents have access to different When
we had to lack I'm with thisinsurance crisis back in Oa, people would
call my office. I'd say,pick up the Yellow Pages. Well the
Yellow Pages doesn't exist anymore. Soagain, you know, go and go
and talk to ideally somebody you goto church with, maybe somebody that you

(01:27:38):
do athletics with with your kids,that you know that's an insurance business.
Go talk to somebody that you havea relationship or you have familiarity with,
and let them go shop your insurancefor you. I appreciate the time,
Jimmy. Next time we come back, we're gonna switch over and talk a
little automobile insurance in the state.But thanks for the job. First,

(01:27:58):
thank you job you're doing. You'redoing a great job. And I always
appreciate your willingness to come on theshow. I'll come on anytime you asked
me. Thanks buddy, thanks forhaving me. My pleasure. Jimmy petronis
with us this morning State CFO inthe Morning Show with Preston Scott forty six
minutes after the hour when we comeback New Smyrna Beach. A couple of

(01:28:18):
stories to share as we wrap upthe program on the morning show. Okay,
New Smyrna Beach. Man recovering afterbeing bitten by a shark while sitting

(01:28:45):
in the water. Happened shortly aftertwo o'clock on Saturday afternoon. That's what
makes it unusual. He's at theSouth Jetty and the day before guy got
bit up pretty seriously at three inthe afternoon and same area. Now,

(01:29:05):
if you don't know, New SmyrnaBeach is one of the busiest beaches for
sharks of anywhere around the Peninsula,Florida, anywhere in the Gulf. Here's
my connection to this story. WhenI was a young child, we used

(01:29:28):
to have a home on New SmyrnaBeach. My dad and my mom and
one of the siblings. Two ofthe siblings would go. We would go,
and I was the youngest, soI'm you know, five, six,
seven, eight years old, Andevery year we'd go down to New
Smyrna Beach for spring training when mydad was doing twins baseball. Okay,

(01:29:49):
and so I would get the canvasraft for twenty five cents for the day,
or the nickel or whatever it was. And I was not a great
swimmer, so that raft was mybest friend. My brother, six years
my senior, thought it would befun to take me out past the breakers.

(01:30:15):
So it puts the little rope thatis in the front of the raft
in his mouth and starts swimming offthe coast of New Smyrna Beach. I
had no idea I was going tobe the inspiration for that scene in the
movie Jaws where that little kid inthe raft gets munched in half. And

(01:30:38):
so I'm out there and next thingyou know, I'm looking around and I'm
not scared, you know, I'mokay. Only Patrick's back at the beach
now waving at me. And itwas then that I realized there's a force
in the ocean called a current.I only now know I was heading to

(01:31:01):
Cuba. My house was moving northas I was going south, and I
distinctly remember seeing my mom walk outthe back patio on the deck Patrick and
I could hear her, just barely. I didn't get the full story till

(01:31:23):
I got towed back in. Where'syour brother? And He's just pointing,
and I'm out to sea on myway to Cuba. How do you know?
And so long story short, Igot brought back in by my brother,
who at the time had remarkable buckteeth, and he had to come

(01:31:44):
out and get me and and tojust slide that in there. I wasn't
at the time. At the timeI was. I was, I was
brought back in. I was nottraumatized. But I have to tell you
that every time I see a storyabout shark encounters at New Smyrna Beach,

(01:32:04):
I think back to a little boyon a rental raft out in the dangerous
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one hundred and eighty seconds or less. Today is the nine year mark of
the murder of Dan Marquel. Ithappened nine years ago this morning, in
fact, less than five minutes fromour studio, and Charlie Adelson is sitting
waiting for his day in court,which will come in October. I'm not

(01:32:53):
gonna say I wish him well orgood luck. I wish for justice.
Miami TSA officers rested back a coupleof weeks ago for stealing money from flyers
during screeners screenings. Here's the wayit worked. And I know this is
just it's probably rogue, and itprobably is. But if you find a

(01:33:15):
TSA agent distracting you, you lookstraight at your luggage, pay attention in
the sense of if they ask youto raise your hands, turn around in
a little booth. But you keepan eye on your stuff, because that's
how they were doing it. Targetsin trouble. They keep losing market shares.

(01:33:35):
George is out of peaches, Mexico'scomplaining, and we'll do this all
again tomorrow. Have a great day, Thanks for listening.