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This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Wednesday, January 8th

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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Wowsers and welcome Wednesday on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Great to be with you. Didn't mean for the alliteration,
but just wow. Looking at what is happening in California
right now, is it's heartbreaking if you're not aware Los

(00:37):
Angeles County. I mean, it's on fire Malibu, parts of Pasadena,
tens of thousands evacuated. I mean, it is a catastrophe
what has happened overnight. It is three different wildfires burning

(01:02):
in Los Angeles, just blowing up everything in its path,
in their path. I mean, it's you know, we will
we'll talk later in the big stories about this, but man,
I just I just feel. I mean, it's not often

(01:25):
that we start the show with something like this happening
as we speak. So I'm just praying God protect people's
lives and send the rain, calm the winds. But you
will be done. But man alive. I just pray for

(01:47):
those people and firefighters and first responders, and my goodness, gracious,
it's it's a catastrophe. Our verse today comes from Amos five.

(02:08):
Amos Huh, yeah, Amos five fourteen and fifteen, Seek good
and not evil, that you may live and So the Lord,
the God of host will be with you. As you
have said, hate evil, love good, establish justice in the gate.
It may be that the Lord, the God of Hosts,
will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph. And so

(02:34):
we begin the Wednesday edition of the program, January the
eighth show, fifty two to ninety three, twelve days away
from the inauguration. I don't know about you, but I'm
kind of I'm not breathing deeply. I'm breathing with shallow breaths.

(02:55):
I'm just I'm nervous about our country right now. I'm
nervous about where we are. And understand that that's a
very fleshly kind of nervousness. When I step back and
I just go big picture, you know, instead of all

(03:19):
the trees, look at the forest. I know God's got this.
I know that there's nothing that's going to happen that's
going to foil God. You know you when I used
to do counseling with people when I was in vocational
ministry and they were facing all kinds of trauma, I

(03:43):
would immediately say, Okay, is God surprised by this?

Speaker 2 (03:52):
No?

Speaker 1 (03:55):
So if God knew this was coming, it does not
mean that it was God's perfect will that something happens. See,
that's a mistake a lot of people make. It's kind
of lazy theology. Well, you know, if it's meant to
be no, no, no, God's perfect will is this. But

(04:17):
he allows us to do that. He knows we're going
to do it, and so he has a plan. He's
got a plan in the midst of this tragedy in
and around Los Angeles. God has a plan. Did God

(04:38):
allow this to happen?

Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (04:40):
He did, because we live in a fallen world and
this kind of stuff happens. But I caution you to
step back when things are getting a little bit it

(05:02):
challenging in your world and remind yourself. God has a
plan in the midst of it. After all, I heard
a lyric of a song. He turned the lions den
into a petting zoo. He's got it. Ten past the hour.
Inside the American Patriots Almanac, we go next. We'll take
a look at the national days of the day. What

(05:24):
is it national? What day? We'll tell you next. Pacific Halisades. Gosh,

(05:54):
you've got relatives out there in La County, check on them.
Let's see January the eighth. It's kind of weird. Just
I hate it. I hate sounding dismissive of a story
that's impacting so many people. But you know, we just

(06:14):
we're going to keep an eye on what's going on there,
but we're gonna keep doing the show. It's awkward. Days
like this are awkward. We've got guests, we've got things
to talk about, but we will. I've got an eye
on this, so we'll keep you informed. But again, if
you have family there, reach out. You have friends out there,

(06:35):
reach out, check up on them, all right. Seventeen ninety
it was on this date President George Washington delivers the
first State of the Union address in New York City.
What a good idea? Eighteen fifteen. US forces led by
General Andrew Jackson defeat the British in the Battle of

(06:57):
New Orleans. Nineteen eighteen at Woodrow, Wilson outlines is fourteen
points for peace after World War One. Nineteen thirty five.
Rock and roll king Elvis Presley born in Tupelo, Mississippi.
You know where Tupelo is, It's about a mile south
of one below. Nineteen sixty four, President Linda Johnson declares

(07:20):
war on poverty. How we work how's that working out?
How is the progressive democrat a liberal way of dealing
with poverty working nineteen sixty four. It's been sixty one
years now that we've attacked poverty with entitlements, the method,

(07:49):
the idea noble if that's what it was about. Except
that's not what it was about. It was about enslaving people.
It was it was the federal government becoming a drug
for sure.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
Hey, come here, come here, check this out. Man, I
got some twenties, win some twenties tens. I got some tens.
I'll give you some money. Man, I got it, I
got you, I got you. Now this is on me. Now,
this is on me. Man, I got you. Federal government

(08:25):
started dealing. They were just dealing money instead of drugs.
People got addicted. That's where we are.

Speaker 4 (08:31):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
Nineteen eighty seven, Dow Jones industrial average closes above two
thousand for the first time. Where are we now? Forty
two thousand? It's crazy, all right? Today is National Career
Coach Day, National Winter Skin Relief Day. It's funny. Some

(08:52):
of those products cause your skin to go Ah, it hurts.
Does it feel very good? Some of them are a
little better than others. Nashal. What is this National joy
Germ Day? What National English Toffee Day? Oh? Come on,

(09:13):
give me a heath bar man, love me some heath
bar bad for the teeth, great for the tummy. National
bubble Bath Day. My sweetheart, my my wonderful wife will
love that. Of course, she honors days like you know,
she honors the bubble bubble bath more than just today.

(09:34):
I'll just I'll just say that. And today it's National
Argyle Day. If I if i'd have, if I would
have only really considered, I do have some argyle socks.
I played. We did a we did a golf tournament.
We did one golf tournament here for this radio program
years ago. And I wore the plus fours, I wore

(09:57):
the knickers. I wore the knickers. I've got the hat
that I wore right back here. And I wore argyle
socks pulled up to my knees. It was awesome. It
was awesome. I don't think I walked around talking like
a Scotsman, though I could have had me the nibleck.

(10:20):
And then we'll follow it up with a mashi sixteen
past the hour, hunga tanga, hunga pie. Next, paying attention

(10:41):
to what's going on in Los Angeles County. Fires began yesterday.
We're talking all of the burbs that you hear about,
Pacific Palisades, Pasadena, Malibu. I mean, oh my goodness, and

(11:06):
so three different wildfires driven by these I think it's
the Santa Ana winds. And now they got hit with
the tornado when this winter storm started. Tens of thousands
evacuated cars blowing up. Can you imagine now the number, because,

(11:32):
for example, there are more electric vehicles in California, and
probably more in the La metropolitan area than maybe any
other area. Can you the heat when an EV blows up.

(11:52):
We're talking we're talking melting capacity here, incredible heat. It's
not gonna help, all right. I mentioned before this is interesting.
A listener sent this to me. I remember just briefly

(12:13):
talking about it. The Hunga Tonga Hunga haa a pie
Hunga Taga for short, erupted January twenty twenty two in
the Pacific Kingdom of Tonga underwater volcano. It triggered a
tsunami warning throughout the entire Pacific basin, sent sound waves

(12:37):
literally around the planet. Journal of Climate published a study
on the impacts of the eruption. See. Usually when a
volcano hits, you deal with the smoke, the ash, all that,
and it causes a slight cooling because it the ash,

(13:01):
all that smoke reflects the sun back into the atmosphere,
and so there's a brief cooling. But that's not what
happened here. It's interesting because what happened because it was
an underwater volcano, it didn't produce much smoke. It produced
water vapor one hundred to one hundred and fifty million tons,

(13:22):
the equivalent of sixty thousand Olympic swimming pools worth of
water into the atmosphere. All that water ended up in
the stratosphere that's about fifteen to forty kilometers above the surface,
which produces neither clouds in her rain because it's too dry.

(13:43):
Water vapor, though in the stratosphere, has two main effects.
It causes a chemical reaction which then destroys the ozone
later layer, which happened. The ozone layer had a massive
hole in it until late December a year ago, not

(14:04):
this past year, but twenty twenty three. And what's interesting
is they then hypothesize that it's going to impact the
weather for another several years. That underwater volcano. Now that's
their hypothesis, said the northern half of Australia. Their model

(14:29):
predicts colder and wetter than usual winters. Understand that the
winter in Australia is opposite. It's our summer, their winter.
Their summer is our winter. For North America, it predicts
warmer than usual winters, while for Scandinavia it predicts colder
than usual winters. They didn't include the al Nino la

(14:51):
Nina effect or any of that stuff. It's just they
they're not taking a real strong position on this as
it relates to anything other than this is our guests,
and we could be wrong, which is refreshing because that's
what science is. Science has taken a shot at it
and admitting, huh, we were wrong, or hey, look we

(15:14):
were right, and that's where we've kind of gotten off
base a little bit. But anyway, all right, we're gonna
come back. We got the big stories in the press
box and obviously were pushing aside a few things to
keep you informed of what's going on again. Los Angeles County, California,
three wildfires. We think Jose came in in the break

(15:34):
and said, any chance these were not wildfires. I suppose
there's always a chance, especially in this day and age.
But I will share with you some contributing causes and
why wildfires happen more frequently in California. We'll get to
that twenty seven past the Hour, Big Stories next. Stay
with us. Good morning Wednesday here on the Morning Show

(15:57):
with Preston Scott thirty five past the Hour, Big Stories

(16:20):
in the press box here on the Morning Show. Unstoppable
inferno is how it's being described, engulfing Los Angeles, zero
percent contained, and authorities are saying the worst is yet

(16:44):
to come. Mayor of Los Angeles on a taxpayer funded
trip overseas while everybody there is losing everything. Now, the
mayor perhaps could not have anticipated three wildfires breaking out

(17:06):
in Los Angeles County, but it is a disaster. What
I want you to consider is, if you do an
analysis of the wildfires that have hit California, you learn

(17:26):
something very interesting. Nearly twice as many wildfires are recorded
on July fourth as any other time. Now, why would
that be because obviously July fourth is fireworks, so they're
not necessarily caused by nature. But there's another thing that

(17:50):
you should note, and you won't find this very very easily.
You have to do a lot of digging. The lack
of management of vegetation in California in general is perhaps
the leading contributor to these wildfires getting out of control. See,

(18:14):
they won't cut down anything, and so while for example,
in and around Florida and Georgia and other areas, you
have what are called prescribed burns, and those burns are
to prevent this kind of thing. It limits the damage

(18:35):
of a wildfire that starts because the underbrush isn't there,
it's gone, it's burned, and they limit that in California.
So these kinds of things happening in and around a
suburban area. It's a terrible thing. And I'm not blaming

(19:04):
California government officials, state lawmakers, the governor, but I am
telling you that their decisions in how they manage the
forestries of California contribute to the intensity and the ability
of these wildfires to spread and exist. Congress voted on

(19:28):
the Lake and Riley Act. Two hundred and sixteen Republicans
voted in favor, forty eight Democrats supported it. One hundred
and fifty nine Democrats voted against it. Those one hundred
and fifty nine should be named. Their photos should be everywhere,

(19:52):
and those are your targets for the next election for
removal from office. Get them out. One Florida Democrat voted
for it, Jared Mosquitz. Doesn't surprise me. Every other Democrat

(20:13):
from Florida's Congressional Democrat Congressional Caucus voted against it. What
did it do? It elevated crimes such as burglary, theft, larceny,
shoplifting under a mandatory detention provision. You don't have a choice.
If you are arrested for any of these crimes, you

(20:34):
are detained. It is the Lake and Riley Act. And
then one final little note here. I thought this was brilliant.
Donald Trump is planning to rename the Gulf of Mexico

(20:55):
the Gulf of America. Isn't it beautiful. We're gonna be
changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the
Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring, covers a
lot of territory. The Gulf of America. What a beautiful name,
and it's appropriate. Yes it is. Mexico can call their

(21:17):
portion of it the Gulf of Mexico all they want.
I love it. The Gulf of America. We will start
working on that. We'll start working it into our lexicon.
Forty past the hour, PC tow woke to got a

(21:52):
note from Michael. I work at FWC. We do prescribe
burns all the time. In fact, I'm doing one today.
We always say good fires prevent bad fires. We do
the burns not only cut down on wildfires, but also
to provide a better habitat for the species that live
in the area. Thanks for all you do. Hope you
have a great week you as well, Michael, Be safe

(22:13):
out there and thank you for what you do. See
there you go. There's an expert. There's somebody that anyway.
You ever heard of Richard Dawkins. He's a very famous atheist,
a biologist. Board member of the a very prominent atheist

(22:39):
organization in the United States, the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
It pulled an article from its site called biology is
Not Bigotry. Richard Dawkins resigned because they pulled it. I

(23:02):
love it, I love it. In his resignation letter to
the Foundation, he called the removal of the piece an
act of unseemly panic, accused the Foundation of caved to
the historic hysterical squeals from predictable quarters and retrospectively censored

(23:25):
an excellent rebuttal, biologist and fellow member of the Freedom
From Religion Foundation, Jerry Coyne, composed the censored article as
a rebuttal to non binary author and fellow Kat Grant's
November article titled what is a Woman? The piece argued

(23:49):
that any attempt to define woman womanhood on biological terms
is inadequate, and so a biologist wrote in a rebuttal
that said, uh no, biology is not bigotry. See, this

(24:11):
is what happens when you leave it be, when you
just ignore, they'll just eventually destroy themselves. This is lovely,
it really is. So you've got Richard Dawkins leaving an
atheist foundation because they pulled a piece stating biologically that

(24:39):
women are women and men are men. And just because
you think you're something doesn't mean you are. I think
I am a great basketball player that can do three
sixty reverse dunks. I can't do that, but I think
I can. It doesn't make me a great basketball player.

(25:05):
It's just it's comical where we are as a culture today.
And I wrote in my Rundown PC where we started
with all this political correctness gave way to DEI. That
we birthed DEI and then wokeness came out of it.

(25:27):
If you don't embrace DEI, then there's something wrong with you.
And that woke ideology is now buttressed by DEI policies, which, oh,
by the way, are being rolled back slowly. McDonald's dumped them.

(25:49):
More and more of the big companies that went all
in and DEI have realized, See they have reaped what
they've sown, and what they've reaped is a train wreck.
They realize hiring based on quotas doesn't work. You hire
based on quality, not quotas. We come back a microaggression

(26:16):
I've had to endure. No, don't you laugh at me?
Osees in. They're laughing at me, and I'm offended, I sir,
am offended by that. Actually I am doing better and
laughing with you. No, I'm not laughing though, so you're
not laughing with me. See that, in and of itself

(26:36):
was a microaggression. Now I'm serious. I've had microaggressions directed
at me, even in front of my wife. And I'll
explain next. Forty seven minutes after the hour, YEP probably
didn't know how tender.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
I was.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott. I know
some of you are actually shocked that I would be
the victim of microaggressions. Here's the thing, I didn't know

(27:19):
it was a microaggression all these years. Do you know
what a microaggression is defined as? Let me help you
out here, a statement, action, or incident regarded as an
instance of indirect, subtle, or unintentional discrimination against members of

(27:42):
a marginalized group, such as a racial or ethnic minority. Now,
of course, what's hilarious about that is indirect, subtle, or unintentional.
Unintentional is a microaggression. So I stand just a shade
under six ' five, So people say how tall are you?

(28:05):
Six four or sixty five? Whatever? And not to Be
has this story of a woman online who is a
certified life coach. She happens to be five foot ten.
A woman approached me in the produce section while I

(28:28):
was shopping and minding my business. Can I get you
to come do me a favor because you're tall? I
looked at her with a straight face and said, no,
I'd rather you get someone who works here. She got assistance,
and when I tell you, she would have wanted me
to walk to the other side of the section to
gather something from the top shelf for her. That is
highly offensive to me. And yes she was. And this

(28:52):
was not the first time I've experienced this. I've been
grabbing people things off top shelves at stores for my
entire adult life, even my young adult life. I've been

(29:13):
getting things at stores for people since I grew three
inches one year. Actually, I grew three inches over a summer.
Over a summer I spent most of the summer in
bed because I had, you know, my growing plates in
my knees were so soft. Doctors said, bed rest. You're

(29:34):
in it now, pal. I left eighth grade, seventh grade,
eighth grade five foot eleven, and I entered ninth grade
six foot two. And ever since then, I've been helping
people at stores. Happily. Happily, absolutely, I'd be happy to

(29:55):
get that for you. Was with my wife the other day.
We're at hobby lobby. Some lady said, would you be
I said, I'd be happy to didn't know it was
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we come back. Peter Murphy, Senior Fellow with Citizens for
a Constructive Tomorrow. Sea Fact joins us talk about what

(31:01):
we discussed yesterday with Joe Biden trying to ruin the country.
If I passed the hour, it is the second hour already,
Show five thousand, two hundred and ninety three of The
Morning Show with Preston's got good morning. I'm Preston twelve

(31:23):
days away from a new administration, and it cannot come
soon enough. He's osea running the program in Studio one. A.
I am here in Studio one. B. I am Preston Scott.
Great to be with you, friends. We are keeping an
eye on the big story, which is really a devastating
string of fires in Los Angeles County, California. We're talking

(31:43):
devastation is hitting right now. It is zero percent contained,
and according to officials, the worst is yet to come,
so we'll keep an eye on that. Joining us is
Peter Murphy. Peter is a senior fellow at the Committee
for a Constructive Tomorrow. It's known as sea Fact. We
had guests from sea fact over the years with US
to Washington, DC based organization in support of free market

(32:06):
technological solutions to energy and environmental challenges. Peter, Welcome to
the show. How are you, sir?

Speaker 5 (32:12):
Good morning, Preston. I'm great, Thank you, and good to beyond.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
Yesterday we highlighted Joe Biden's efforts to leave a lasting
mark if you will damaging our country. Let me first
ask you before we get into the nuts and bolts
of that, Peter, who do you think is really making
these decisions? Because Joe Biden just puts his signature on it,
and someone may very well be moving his hand for
all I know. But who do you think is really

(32:39):
authoring these policies? Is this Barack Obama? Are these Baroxica fans?
Who's behind this?

Speaker 5 (32:46):
I think the baroxic of fans is an app description
what the Democratic Party has become in the twenty twenties
and progressively unintended throughout the century. The first quarter of
this century is they become a much more hard left

(33:07):
Marxist party. And Joe Biden made a deal with this
devil to be the moderate face the fake cave to
be elected, He and of course Missus Biden, to occupy
the White House, to be president, to have all the perks,

(33:29):
and to do whatever this party had become, to implement
whatever it is they have become, and that is a
much more left wing party now. Joe Biden's career, which
of course spans from Nixon's re election in nineteen seventy two,
that's Biden's first election to the Senate, he was always
in the middle of where the party was, whether it

(33:51):
was a you know, dominated by Southern Democrats who were
the chairman still a time of the Senate committees, where
it became a kind of more law and order, more
centrist party under Bill Clinton in the nineties to now
this far left, progressive radical group. That's what he is.

(34:15):
And he has no he has no compass whatsoever. He
has no principles and so he just went with it,
and it got him the presidency because again he was
this moderate face, this exterior charm that prevailed and made
all kinds of promises that they never meant. So he's

(34:38):
been there. He's been there, fakid as they implement all
this stuff right till the time they leave.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
Tell me this we got We got about two minutes
before we take a quick break. What does this executive
order do in practicality, it.

Speaker 5 (34:55):
Shuts off unless it's reversed. This executive order involving the
short offshore oil exploration. Yes, it puts a it makes
it untouchable. And you know, we have to grow our economy.
We need affordable energy, period, end of story. It's what

(35:16):
drove the worst inflation in the late seventies, the cost
of energy. It and it's and we have to tame
inflation by lowering the price of energy and making America
more competitive in the global marketplace. So you have to
expand our reach, our resources. And there's this vast six

(35:39):
and twenty five million acres is a third of the
land mass of the United States. He put that all
off limits with this ancient law, and that's got to
be reversed. It can be, but it's not as simple
as it sounds.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
Yeah, I want to get to that. Next. Peter Murphy
with me. He's a senior fellow with Sea Fact. We're
talking about Joe Biden. I mean, why not end the
way he came in day one he killed the Keystone
XL pipeline and put us on an IV with everybody
who hates us to find the energy, the sources of
energy that we need and then move this to this ridiculous,

(36:14):
untenable ev nonsense. More with Peter next on the Morning
Show with Preston Scott and Use Radio one hundred point
seven WUFLA. Back with Peter Murphy. Peter, we were talking

(36:36):
about this executive order. Now, I would immediately come to
the conclusion that, look, this is going to get reversed
on January twenty at the moment Donald Trump takes office.
You mentioned it might not be that easy.

Speaker 5 (36:51):
Well, the law is not clear that a president can
reverse it. The laws is clear that you can put
impose conservation or in the name of conservation, you can
impose off limits to development. It's not clear that you
can reverse that in the law. So that has to

(37:13):
be tested in the courts. Donald Trump should not assume
anything other than he can reverse it. I mean, you
know he needs to, and I'm sure he will act
to reverse it. Then there'll be a lawsuit. The Greens
will bring a lawsuit, of course, and the courts will
be tested by this now. But this goes to show this,

(37:34):
you know, in the modern era, I mean, I guess
back in the day when this law was put in place,
you don't anticipate presidents abusing it, right, this is an
abuse of this law, and especially when you're the lamest
of laying ducks. You're actually leaving office in ten days,
and so you're going to act this way. I mean,
it's a really disgraceful approach. And that's certainly not what

(37:58):
Congress had intended, nor has it been acted on this
way for seventy years. It's been in existence, and so
the courts may recognize that abuse of it. But this
goes to a long standing problem of the Congress city
the United States is they don't make laws specific enough.
They leave too much discretion to the executive branch, and

(38:21):
which is now you know, scores of agencies and unelected
bureaucrats who are interpreting things. Now the courts rolled some
of that back. The agency's ability to interpret laws or
reinterpret them is the key. The courts did roll that
power back somewhat in this last session, but nonetheless, Congress
needs to be more specific in the laws that they

(38:44):
pass and if the law, if the new circumstances arise,
then you go back to Congress and you change the law.
I mean, that's how it should be. And this is
a result of just decades of Congress being very vague
and leaving two much discretion to the executive branch, which
is now comprised not so much of the president's people

(39:06):
as these lifelong bureaucrats who have their own agenda.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
I was going to ask you, Peter, in closing as
many things as you and I could point to and
absolutely agree on that Joe Biden his administration and I
call it the O Biden administration, have done to damage
hurt this country. Couldn't you argue the real lasting legacy

(39:30):
is what you just defined. This ability to dig in
and find ways to take legislation and twist it.

Speaker 5 (39:41):
Well progressivism as they practice it, and this really began
under Woodrow Wilson, or even to be fair of Teddy Roosevelt.
They are not governed by law. They are governed by
their own agenda, which they view is higher than law.
More important, there's a moral superiority to their agenda and
law or for basically for the other side, not for them,

(40:03):
because this is their religion in effect and the lasting legacy.
You know, they're using this climate issue, which is so
manufactured and fake and unscientific, to do whatever they want.
You have not a few Democrats in Congress who want
a climate emergency quote unquote climate emergency like a COVID

(40:23):
emergency that gives untrammeled power to the executive ranch. Now,
they're not going to want it now, but when Biden
was in office, Chuck Schumer, Jeff Murchant of Oregon, many others,
we're calling for climate emergency. This is a dangerous time
for because progressimism is not bound by laws and constitutional principles.

(40:43):
They will do what they want until someone can stop them.
That's their mentality and it's a dangerous one going forward
if they should get back into power.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
Peter, thank you. I appreciate your insight and expertise and
look forward to having you back on the show sometime.
Thank you, sir.

Speaker 5 (40:56):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (40:57):
Preston appreciate it. Peter Murphy with us from c fact.
There you go. I thought it was as easy as
putting your signature to it. Not so much. That's a
very important clarification. But he's so right. They just weasele
in there and say, oh, wait a minute, we can
do this with that law. We can do that. And

(41:17):
he's right. It's due as we say, not as we do.
Absolutely positively, that's the progressive mantra. All right, sixteen past
the hour, come back with well, I'm gonna ask you
for a little help, little help, little help here next
on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, we're

(42:09):
keeping an eye on what's going on. We will update
you in just a little bit. The fire Pacific Palisades
zero percent contained fires in Los Angeles County. That's the
short version. We'll spare you the editorializing on it right now.
I did that last hour pointing out the mismanagement of
the forestry in California is leading to these issues happening

(42:31):
over and over and over. I don't know of any
lives lost at this point, but massive evacuations and we're
talking some of the most high profile neighborhoods in all
of America are being impacted. The number of homes on
fire is staggering. Santa Ana Wins just's you can't contain it.

(43:00):
It just it can't be contained. So this, this could be,
this could be a disaster of biblical proportions. No, seriously,
I'm not I'm not overestimating, and I'm not engaging in hyperbole. Okay,
I said I was gonna need a little help. I

(43:20):
got a note yesterday from John He said, do any
handyman services advertise with WFLA. Now this is for those
of you in the Tallahassee area. Okay, for those of
you outside Tallahassee, just kind of listen in and and

(43:44):
just consider what we're talking about. He said, I need
a handyman. He said, I'm gonna be reaching out to
White's Plumbing. Later on, he said, everything from ceiling repair
to garage junk clean out. So if you're a junk caller,
I had a junk caller that used to listen to

(44:04):
the show. I think it's I think it's called the
Junk King. I want to say, maybe and he comes
out and hauls away junk, and maybe he still listens
to the show. So two things Number one. I don't
want to hear from you if you are in that
line of work. I want to hear from you if

(44:27):
you know of someone that's in that line of work
that you trust. Send me an email Preston at iHeartRadio
dot com. I want referrals. I don't want someone that
is trying to get a free ad here. Okay, I
want to help this guy, but I want to do

(44:48):
it with referrals, and I want to then underscore this point.
That's what we do. See some of you lament the
fact that we have ads and you have so many
clients that want to be part of this program. I mean, honestly,
though it may not be one hundred percent, people that

(45:11):
advertise with this station and on my show are usually
pretty top notch at what they do, and just being
on here is kind of like, yeah, it's kind of
a thing, and I'm proud of that. I've I've spent
twenty three years cultivating that. You know, somebody does it

(45:35):
doesn't honor what they do and everyone has a bad day, Okay,
I mean any line of work, anything you know you're
gonna you're gonna have things happen. It's like someone who
sells cars there's gonna be a bad car that comes
off the assembly line. It happens, okay, doesn't make them
bad people. It just means, okay, someonent wrong. Fix it
all right. But this underscores. See, if you're a handyman,

(46:01):
there are a lot of people out there looking for you,
and you don't have to have me do your commercials.
But you gotta be on my show. You ought to
be on this station if you're and now this expands
beyond Tallahassee, this expands anywhere you're listening, anywhere in the country.
You ought to be on this show because people will

(46:22):
hear about you. And because of that, I mean, I'll
give you a great example. Aaron Stewart. Aaron Stuart concrete.
He's done basically one ad fifteen seconds for years. The
only thing more solid than our concrete is my reputation.
Let me tell you something. He is spot on right

(46:47):
and he's got all the business he wants. If if
you're good at what you do and you're in all
these things, you're a handyman, or you're a painter, or
or you're whatever, you don't have to have me do
your stuff. Just get your get out there, get your

(47:09):
and So if you know of a handyman that's good
at what they do, send me an email with their
name and your recommendation and their phone number. Same thing.
If you know someone that hauls out junk, if you
feel good about them, you send it to me and
I'll give all this information to John and let him
decide what he wants to do. But if you're out

(47:31):
there and you do this work, you're a tradesman, you're
a tile setter, you're a wallpaper person, whatever. Man. Hello,
I'm just telling you this note is an advertisement for
the fact that there are people looking for your services.
They don't know how to find you. Well, but I'm

(47:54):
on Facebook. Come on, get with it. Twenty eight past
the hour. Little help, little help, Big stories in the
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Speaker 2 (48:08):
Next, obviously our biggest story today the wildfires in You
know so often you say California and.

Speaker 1 (48:30):
You're thinking the forested areas of the state, and you know,
out away from most population. You know, sure there are
some little areas that get impacted dramatically, but no, no,
this is La County, this is Malibu and Pacific Palisades
and Pasadena. I mean the Rose Parade, Rose Bowl Parade,
just happened there. My wife and I've been there. It's beautiful.

(48:55):
It's just mismanagement leads to these kinds of things. Nature happens.
Hopefully these were not wildfires intentionally set. But you know,
Jose brought that up last hour. I can't rule that out.
It's doubtful, but nah, I can't rule that out. I mean,

(49:22):
it could be very innocent. It could be somebody just
deciding to throw the grill open and next thing, you know,
some brush in the in the you know, the adjacent lot,
catches fire, the winds pick it up, and off it goes.
It's done. But this is a I mean, we're talking
tens of thousands of people evacuated, and we're talking homes gone,

(49:43):
cars blowing up, and I you know, it hasn't been
talked about necessarily directly, but I got thinking about the
number of EV's that are, you know, because California just
pushed the crap out of those things. And when eves
go up, buddy, anyway, that is the big story. If

(50:08):
you have friends and family in SoCal especially at La County,
reach out to them, make sure they're okay, and man,
you just hope for the best because I'll tell you
the other thing that you're gonna you're gonna see in
the news. Well, maybe we'll see what the mainstream media does.
I'll simply tell you that that the habit, the pattern

(50:30):
in California is when this type of thing happens, looting
that takes place afterwards, when these neighborhoods are eve act.
The people that come into these neighborhoods and and rob
and steal anything that's that survived. It's that's the next thing,

(50:51):
anything left behind. People are going to go into these
neighborhoods because these are very affluent neighborhoods for the most part.
New York Post they've got they've got a new graphic.

(51:12):
They call it the Donroe Doctrine, referring to Donald Trumps
instead of the Monroe Doctrine. The Donroe Doctrine. They've got
Canada renamed fifty first state. They've got an X over
Greenland and it says our land. Now Greenland. Greenland really

(51:37):
is a strategically important thing. I wouldn't be in favor
of acquiring it. I would be very much in favor
of having very chummy relationships. But to be honest, you
got to get Canada fixed. Canada's got to get itself fixed.
You've got the Golf of America, not the Golf of Mexico.
He is pushing renaming it the Gulf of America. I

(52:01):
really do. And then the Pana Maga Canal, the Panamaga Canal,
that's it, the Pana Maga Canal. That's probably the closer, brilliant.

(52:21):
Congress finally passes the Lake and Riley Act, and of
course forty eight Democrats supported it along with all the Republicans,
so it passed. It goes to the Senate. Now we'll
find out what Tommy Tubberville thinks of its passage tomorrow
when we have him on the show. But one hundred
and fifty nine Democrats, including all but one Democrat from Florida,
voted against it. How how this is? And honestly, keep

(52:47):
it up, Dems, keep it up. You didn't learn your
lesson from the last election. Keep it up. This is
the kind of crap that's gonna that's that's gonna drive
a nail through the heart, a stake through the heart
of the evil party known as the Democrat Party. Forty
one minutes past the hour, A little more on Meta,

(53:11):
and I've got another question for you. Yesterday we pointed
out it became one of the big stories in the
press box. Meta ending the fact checking program in the
United States. It will introduce X style Twitter x Twix

(53:40):
community notes. Zuckerberg said that Meta will be working with
President elect Donald Trump. There was something more though. See
this is why I love doing what I do. I
dig through a bunch of sources and I found an
interview here with Meta Chief Global Policy Director Joel Kaplan.

(54:02):
Listen to this. See this is why you listen to
the show every now and then. Yeah, you know, you
get fine gold. You know you're sluicing, you get fine
gold all show long, but now and then you get
that big old nugget and you're like, Okay, that's that's

(54:24):
what I'm Yeah, that's what I talk. Let's Mabel listen
to this. Listen to what Kaplan said. We have a
new administration coming in that is far from pressuring companies
to censor and is more a huge supporter of free expression. Well, now,

(54:50):
isn't that an interesting little comment. Here's the guy works
for Meta, chief Global policy director. We have a new
administration coming in that is far from pressuring companies to censor.

(55:12):
Why who would be pressuring companies to censor. Now, look,
I'm not gonna let him off completely. Scott free here. No,
that's what I did there, Scott, Preston and Scott. I
want to show with Preston Scott, I'm not gonna let
him off. These companies are full of illiberal elitists that

(55:33):
think they know better. Heck, X still has people trying
to censor and suppress. We deal with it all the time.
Facebook is gonna have this problem. It's gonna take a
while to root these people out until they just get
fed up with being reprimanded for censoring, and then they quit,

(55:54):
and then they'll go to whatever social media site has
things the way that they want them, which is everything
butt free speech. But isn't that an interesting comment? Indirectly,
he just admitted to what Congress was holding congressional hearings
about the government pressuring social media companies to censor. He

(56:21):
just admitted it without admitting it. I love my job,
and that, my friends, is a nugget that's not fine
gold that there that there yet, that's a palm of
the hand, nugget that you got in your hand there,
that's what you got gold in them there Hills right there,

(56:45):
right there, forty six minutes past. Come back Animal Stories,
first visit of the new year.

Speaker 6 (56:53):
Next the Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio
one hundred point seven WFLA.

Speaker 1 (57:08):
And now remember, if you have a handyman suggestion in
and around the Tallahassee area, or someone that hauls away junk,
just just send it my way, Preston, and you personally
know them, have used their services and recommend send it
to me. Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. Preston at iHeartRadio
dot com.

Speaker 7 (57:28):
In the wild or in our homes, we love them
critters large and small. Time for another edition of Animal
Stories on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (57:38):
Yes, with a tip of the cap to Larry Lujack,
we do another edition of looking at our little friends
that find their way into the news. Jefferson County Sheriff's
Department in Missouri got a phone call responding to the

(57:59):
area of Highway to twenty one and M reports this
now reports of a subject monkeying around. When they arrived,
they had to come to the rescue of a spider
monkey in a pink tu two after careful negotiations. Is

(58:23):
this from the release and some coaxing deputies were able
to get close enough to go hands on with the
subject and bring this banana's situation under control without incident.
The monkey actually approached one of the deputies who's a
canine handler. The monkey actually kind of came up and
tugged on his pant leg, so he didn't really know
what to do. He squatted down, trying to offer some

(58:46):
sort of safety, he said. The monkey reached out and
grabbed his hands. He said, Okay, I guess we'll just
stand here together until we figure out what to do.
They found that the monkey had fled a nearby home.
Of course, embarrassed the entire animal kingdom of Jefferson County,

(59:07):
Missouri laughing at a spider monkey in a pink tutu.
Who does that to an animal? That's just shameful. But
this story, this story might be one of the best
I've ever seen in my history of doing animal stories.
Here on the Morning Show headline some California squirrels found

(59:33):
to be carnivorous by scientists. That pause, by the way,
came at the most perfect moment ever. Researchers found evidence
showing some squirrels in northern California hunt for rodents instead
of sticking to vegan diets. I'm looking at the study here.

(59:58):
University of Wisconsin o'kan air, University of cal at Davis
first to chronicle wide spread carnivorous behavior among squirrels. It
was shocking. Lead author Jennifer Smith said, Associate professor Biology
at E W. O'claire. We've never seen this behavior before.
On rare occasions, the squirrels have supplemented their diet primarily

(01:00:22):
by eating insects or by eating eggs or young hatchlings.
But could barely believe my eyes once we started looking
at the squirrels. We saw it everywhere. Are we talking
zombie squirrels? I mean are they limping? You know, one

(01:00:43):
leg dragging behind, standing up, staring down? But where does
this lead? Look? If you if you look at what
nature tells us raccoons, coyotes, hyenas, they're flexible and they're

(01:01:05):
hunting strategies. They'll adjust to the landscape, changing as needed.
But squirrels. Bet you never looked at the squirrel in
your backyard the same. I'll tell you what. I go
out in my backyard now I'm gonna be armed. Hey, hey, hey, backup,

(01:01:28):
back up, hand on my pistol, back up. Okay, go
about your business.

Speaker 4 (01:01:37):
Go on.

Speaker 1 (01:01:42):
Carnivorous squirrels. That's horrifying, absolutely horrifying, and yet at the
same time, in a funny kind of way, that's one
of the best animal stories I've ever seen. But let's
be honest, California, I'm just saying this kind of fits,

(01:02:06):
doesn't it. Everything's a little different in cal Come back,
Doctor Bob McClure in our three if I passed the hour,
it is the third and final hour at least for

(01:02:28):
today of the Morning Show with Preston Scott's Show fifty
two to ninety three is ose I am Preston. Great
to be with you, and yes, we are keeping an
eye on a just this is a catastrophic story in
southern California. Three separate wildfires, at least there they're being
called wildfires right now. Oceanfront homes in Malibu have been

(01:02:51):
burned to the ground. We're talking Pacific Palisades, Malibu, Pasadena,
Los Angeles County is literally on fire and they've evacuated
tens of thousands. It is a fire that at this
point is being described as zero percent contained. So if
you have family and friends in southern California, especially La County.

(01:03:13):
Just try to reach out, make sure everyone's okay, and
anything you can do to support and help. Obviously we'll
be useful, but we'll be keeping an eye on that story.
We are joined by our first visit of the new
year with the president of the James Madison Institute. He's
a familiar voice. He is doctor Bob McClure. Doctor McClure,
Happy New Year, How are you, sir?

Speaker 4 (01:03:33):
Happy New Year to you, my friend, how are you?

Speaker 1 (01:03:36):
I am terrific. You know, I ended the year making
a little subtle transition. I had been counting the number
of days this country was held hostage by the Obiden administration.
Now I'm counting it down. We're down to twelve days
before the new administration. What are you most excited about

(01:03:56):
with the new administration and doctor McClure, what are you
most apprehensive about?

Speaker 4 (01:04:04):
Well, first, Preston and I want to wish all your
listeners a happy new year in and you know, wonderful
twenty twenty five as well. What is disheartening to me
is what I'm seeing from the Biden administration on the
way out the door. Whether it's the pardons, the reliefs
of the Guantanamo Bay hostage terrorists, what they've done with

(01:04:31):
oil and gas, and the list goes on. In terms
of what I'm seeing, it's it is very disheartening. It's Unamerican,
I'll say it.

Speaker 1 (01:04:40):
It is.

Speaker 4 (01:04:42):
Horrific. People have compared it to, you know, the crazy
ex girlfriend who's, you know, gonna burn everything down on
the way out of the door. But I think it's
worse than that. And while I think the new administration
can change a lot of that of what it's been done,
it's gonna take time. It just handstrings them and slows

(01:05:02):
them down. Having said that, what I'm most excited about
is that we have adults back in charge. We have
a president, whether you love or hate his tweets or
his personality, who knows where he's going. He ran on
very clear, very specific, common sense policies, and I love

(01:05:26):
that he didn't run on platitudes. And we have adults
back in charge, and they are not waiting and they're
not messing around, and so I'm very excited about where
we're going to go over the next two years.

Speaker 1 (01:05:42):
The president coming in Donald Trump, obviously he has benefited
by the fact that he's been there before, and I
suspect he's learned some lessons. What is your sense, doctor McClure,
because you are as well connected inside the state of Florida,
because that's your focus, JMI is all about Florida focus.
What is your sense of what these first hundred days

(01:06:03):
of the Trump administration and its impact by selecting certain
members of Florida's Congressional caucus or you know, some of
Florida's best to serve in his administration, what will the
impact of those hundred days be on the Sunshine State?

Speaker 4 (01:06:18):
You know what I think fascinating is that. And I
was having this conversation with someone yesterday. Florida has a
thirty year history, and you and I've talked about this
starting I would say, let's just say with jib of
movement conservatism, I mean like deep thinkers on tax and regulations,
on school choice, on all of these different issues. Unafraid

(01:06:43):
movement conservatism, which is very different than Mitch McConnell's Republican Party.
You know, Mitt Romney's Republican Party is very different. And
I scream it from the rooftops. We have this brain
trust that has been made strong in an iron sharpens

(01:07:04):
iron kind of way here in the furnace of Florida.
Whether it's Susie Wiles or James Blair, who's a new
policy director who many of your listeners won't know under Trump.
Whether it's Pam Bondi, Marco Rubio national Security with Walt
the list goes on, they're gonna all move to DC
and they're going to work to make Washington more like Florida.

(01:07:27):
Now it's different, it's gonna be harder. There are a
lot of reasons we can talk about, but what I'm
most excited about, Preston, is that the bench here in
Florida is so strong. There are so many strong movement conservatives,
starting with our governor, but Byron Donalds, and the list
goes on, who are not going to be in this

(01:07:49):
new administration, who are still here to make Florida the
shining city on the hill, to continue our success. So
that because what I'm seeing, Preston is people don't care anymore.
I mean, you're seeing people on CNN coming out and
acknowledging you know, Trump is going to be a success
if he hasn't been already. You've seen the New York

(01:08:12):
Times acknowledge some of some things, and people don't care anymore.
They're not afraid now that he's won, now that he's
won the popular vote, and they're looking to Florida for
guidance on policy. These other states, the other forty nine states,
hang on.

Speaker 1 (01:08:27):
A second, Doctor McClure, eleven past the hour, I got
to take a quick seventy second break weather in traffic
now on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. This is
the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Had to rudely interrupt

(01:08:48):
doctor Bob McClure. President James Madison Institute, My guest, you
were saying, sir.

Speaker 4 (01:08:55):
And I I went too long. The reality is that
all of this brain trust that has been refined by
fires going to DC, and it's not leaving a vacuum
here in Florida. There is tremendous conservative leaderships still here
in this state and the other forty nine states have
been following Florida's lead for so long. That's going to continue,

(01:09:17):
and now we have an opportunity to impact for the generationally. Washington,
d C. With the same kind of quote free state
of Florida values tell me this.

Speaker 1 (01:09:29):
I know that we've got a lot to talk about
with regard to the upcoming legislative session. And I know
that you've got a ton of irons in that particular fire, Bob,
But it is sounding as if the rumor mill is
pointing to Ashley Moody being the choice for the rest
of Senator Mark or Rubio's term in the United States

(01:09:51):
Senate that Governor DeSantis will pick Ashley Moody. First, do
you concur with that? And secondly, your thoughts if so.

Speaker 4 (01:10:01):
First, I've heard lots of different names, and I would
be would be I don't think it's fair for me
to say one way or the other. I think the
governor has several really really interesting choices because of the
bench is so deep. Secondly, Ashley Moody has been a
terrific age. She would do a terrific job as a

(01:10:23):
US Senator. She is strong, she is smart, she has
got tons of common sense, and she's not going to
fall victim to the kind of Washington you know, drink
the water situation. She's going to remain in many ways
the way Rick Scott has just stellar and resolute in

(01:10:45):
her beliefs and her value. She'd be an excellent pick,
But I'm not here to say that I know that too.
The governor's going to pick. There are lots of choices.

Speaker 1 (01:10:55):
It seems as though a lot of the media outlets
in the state are leaning towards comments made about making
sure that whoever it is is going to be supporting
the border policies of the incoming president and so forth.
It just seems to be pointing towards her. So we'll
have to wait and see. With the legislative session coming
up in March, we've got a minute left in this segment,

(01:11:17):
doctor McClure. What's first, What's most important to JMI.

Speaker 4 (01:11:22):
Two things. Affordable housing, which means not building affordable housing,
but building housing that's affordable. And property insurance. The trial
bar is coming back to make it sound like wrongly,
that the insurance performs didn't work, that prices aren't coming down,
that insurance companies, big bad insurance companies don't pay their claims.

(01:11:46):
None of that is true. But property insurance and affordable housing,
that is housing that's affordable, those are the two really
big issues for us moving forward in the state of Florida.
There are a lot of others, but those stands.

Speaker 1 (01:12:00):
We're gonna pick up right there, Doctor Bob McClure with
us for one more segment, president of the James Madison
Institute and my guest here in the Morning Show with
President Scott. Doctor Bob McClure is head of the James

(01:12:25):
Madison Institute of think tank based in the capital city
of Florida here and he joins us on the phone
line this morning. Doctor McClure, you've been through this legislative
session thing for years. The Republicans have controlled the legislature
for quite a while now, and they kind of have
it down to a science. The way that they move

(01:12:46):
leadership in and out. Is there much of a break
in time for the new leaders in the House and
the Senate.

Speaker 4 (01:12:53):
Not really for the leadership. The break in time comes
with the newly elected officials, so they have supermajorities in
both the House and the Senate. But you have a
fair amount, I don't know the exact number of newly
elected House members and newly elected Senate members. So you
you know, you there is a training and a learning

(01:13:14):
for those men and women to understand how the process works,
how it's going to work. You know. Uh, those those
freshman classes, particularly in the House or or are electing
their speaker because we have term limits, even though that
speaker is years away from becoming speakers, so that can
be a little dicey sometimes. One of the things that

(01:13:36):
we do at JMI, and we're doing it actually next week,
is we are doing a legislative process where we're bringing
in some of these new legislators and teaching them not
the ropes of the process, that's the role of leadership,
but what is federalism? Why do states matter? How can
we push back against the dictats of the of DC

(01:13:57):
and things like that. So that's where the education comes
with a lot of these newer members. Because we have
term limits eight years, Preston, there's a lot of turnover
on a regular basis well, And.

Speaker 1 (01:14:07):
That leads me to my next question, and only someone
in your position can really answer it, Bob, How does
Florida or how has Florida protected itself from what has
infected Washington d C. Obviously they've got a year round
legislature and I can't stand it. Florida does a part
time legislature, But how do they keep it so the

(01:14:28):
bureaucrats don't end up running everything? As you said, you've
got new members, you got to break in, but you
still have the people that aren't elected that do have
a lot of sway.

Speaker 4 (01:14:39):
It takes time. I was having this conversation with someone
yesterday in Naples and they were saying, you know, it's
four years enough for Trump. Well, Washington is different from Florida,
and this for two reasons. One of the bureaucracy is
massive and more firmly entrenched. But secondly, there are no
term limits. And I really believe that those term limits
really matter. With fresh blood and new energy and then attitude,

(01:15:04):
I think term limits, you know, people come in. I
had a legislator tell me he was the former Speaker
of the House. He said, you know, Bob, my first
four years in office, I looked at every bill, I
read every John Entittle, I was prepped for every committee meeting.
By the fifth year, sixty or seventh year. What does
staff tell me to do? What should I be doing?
And that's what happens. And you think about that writ

(01:15:27):
large in d C. So term limits in Florida bring
in fresh blood, new energy, new ideas. But we have
also pressed and been blessed with tremendous Again. I go back,
starting with Jeb, but with Rick Scott Ron, Desantus, Danny Webster.
I mean, all these old names of people John McKay,

(01:15:47):
Paul Renner. But later you know movement conservatives who are unafraid.
And what we have found is that good policy, and
I've said this on your show before, is good politics.
It takes time. But once you implement good policy and
politicians realize nobody died, nobody got shot, and you can

(01:16:08):
get re elected, it just becomes a flywheel with momentum.
And now that's what we have here in Florida is
this conservative movement in the most diverse state in the country.

Speaker 1 (01:16:19):
Now, I don't want to upset anybody, and I know
you certainly don't. But that said, you mentioned one of
the most important issues you think coming up is the
whole property insurance issue and the pushback from trial lawyers.
I think we would all agree there are good and
bad and every profession trial lawyers are the same. That said,

(01:16:40):
how much of that legislative action that is required or
pushback that is required is compromised because so many members
of the legislature are in fact attorneys.

Speaker 4 (01:16:53):
Well, I'll tell you. I mean I grew up in
a family of attorneys, so I never understood lawyer jokes
because I loved all the lawyers that I was around.
My dad was a lawyer, my uncle was a judge.
I mean, I had lawyers. So I am not painting
with the broad brush lawyers. But having said that, I

(01:17:14):
think the legislature is going to see major pushback from
the trial bar, because that is you know, where many
of them make their money. Just look at the billboards
and the buses, and you know the idea that these
reforms which should have been put in place ten twenty
years ago, were only put in place about two years ago.

(01:17:36):
But they're already starting to work. Companies are coming back
into Florida. Prices are going to have slowly, very slowly,
too slow for all of us, are slowly going to
come down or or stay where they are. And but
the trial bar is not going to allow that to happen.
And yet there are lawyers in the legislatures, so this

(01:17:57):
is going to be an immense fight. They're not going
to overt earn the law. They're going to try to
demonize insurance companies. And look who loves their insurance company, right,
not me, not you, not many people. They don't help themselves,
but they're gonna try to demonize insurance companies and say
these reforms don't work. We need to get rid of
these laws that were recently passed.

Speaker 1 (01:18:18):
It's gonna be interesting to watch. And when we next talk,
we're gonna be one month closer and one month away
from the session starting, and I cannot wait. Bob, thank you,
thanks for having me, my friend.

Speaker 4 (01:18:27):
Happy New Year to you and everybody in your audience.

Speaker 1 (01:18:30):
Thanks so very much, Doctor Bob McClure with us this
morning from the James Madison Institute twenty seven passed the
hour The Morning Show with Preston Scott. The big story

(01:19:22):
in the press box the fires in southern California. There
now is a fourth fire that has flared up. We've
got fires in Malibu, Pacific Palisades, Pasadena, and La County
is a blaze and it's been going on since last night.
I believe don't know the cause. They're calling them wildfires.

(01:19:42):
I do not know for certain, we'll find out. I'm
sure the cause because this devastation is next level. We're
talking homes on the coast burned to the ground. I
don't know of loss of life at this point, no
reports on that as of right Now one headline LA's

(01:20:10):
Democrat mayor slam for being out of the country is
county englfed in wild flames with no resources. Don't live there,
don't speak to that, don't know. I don't necessarily blame
someone for being gone when something unexpected happens. I think
that's a little over the top. Now, you could make
an argument that they should be making their way back home,

(01:20:36):
especially you know, strong mayors or leadership mayors. We're not
talking about a mayor that rotates in and out as
part of a commission. Los Angeles elects its mayor. It's
it's a very significant job. But we're talking zero percent

(01:20:57):
contained these fires, and I'm there's nothing to make light
of here. You can very fairly argue that a lot
of the problems with wildfires in the state in general
are because of mismanagement of the forestry. I can't necessarily

(01:21:17):
say that that's contributing to this particular fire. This appears
to be just one of those cases where you've got
density of buildings homes. You know, I've always preferred homes
that don't have zero lot lines, where they're just one
next to another, just a personal preference. But I know

(01:21:41):
that that's not something that is always available to anybody.
But you know, some of these communities, there's all kinds
of space between the homes. In other communities, they are
sitting on top of each other. But it's tender. Yeah,
every home is tender for the next. And that's devastation

(01:22:04):
we're looking at right now. Congress finally votes on the
Lake and Riley Acts. She's the young lady that was
jogging University of Georgia's student and was murdered by an
illegal immigrant that tried to sexually assault her. When she
fought back, he killed her viciously, brutally murdered her. He'll
spend the rest of his life in a US prison.

(01:22:26):
He should be put to death. But that's his argument
for another day. But the bill would mandate the detention
of migrants charged with crimes like burglary, theft, larceny, shoplifting.
It's mandatory. They would have to be detained. They could
not be let go. And it's a federal legislation. Can't

(01:22:46):
change it. It's just the way it is. It passed
two hundred and sixteen Republicans voted in favor of forty eight.
Democrats support it. The opposition one hundred and fifty nine
Democrats voted against the bill, including all but one member

(01:23:07):
of the Democrat Caucus from the state of Florida. Now
it heads to the Senate. Who could oppose this? People
are being murdered. As I've said too many on the left,

(01:23:27):
the death of Americans. To allow illegals free travel across
this country is a acceptable amount of collateral damage. It's okay,
it's okay. The Lake and Rileys tragedy, absolutely tragedy, but
that's the price you pay to open up the borders.

(01:23:48):
And they're okay with that. And when I first said that,
I had email pushback people just I can't believe. No,
I've been proven right. It's an acceptable consequence to having
open borders. It's a tragedy what happened to Lake and Riley.
But there's the butt. There's always a butt. Might be

(01:24:09):
why some of us have view some on the left
as rear ends. I don't know. Forty one minutes after
the hour, something that you might have missed in the news.
Next forty two minutes passed. Do you miss this in

(01:24:39):
the news? Federal judge rules for Fefiser in a lawsuit
of the company's COVID nineteen vaccine. Ken paxt ensued, alleging
the company misrepresented the efficacy of the vaccine. However, the
Federal US District Judge Sam Cummings said in a ruling
December thirtieth that the court finds, as a matter of law,

(01:25:00):
the circumstances of the case, the defendant is entitled to
immunity under the Public Readiness and Emergency Act. Now, I
want to get back on this here for a second.
We've got to rerun this. I think legally the judge
probably is right. However, where the investigation needs to go

(01:25:26):
is this. If you remember, I shared with you from
the FDA policies and guidelines, the rules which govern emergency
use authorization, which leads to the shield immunity that the

(01:25:49):
judge references. See. This is why it's all important. This
is why I took the time to try to explain
to you the importance of the FDA saying no, you
can't use ivermectin, No you can't use hydroxychloroquin, No you
can't use fill in the blank to treat this, Because

(01:26:13):
if they had allowed you to use anything, even something
that was a Nobel Prize winning medication, ivermectin. Ivermectan's one
of the only medicines to ever win a Nobel Prize.
Why because it's inexpensive and it treats so many things effectively.

(01:26:39):
Ivermectin's incredible and it's cheap, and it's why Africa and
India were using these medicines effectively. If they allow ivermectin,
hydroxychloricon or any other treatments, then they're not allowed to

(01:26:59):
offer authorized these vaccines. Emergency use vaccines are only allowed
per FDA and law if no other treatments are available.
Do you start to understand now why they couldn't allow
ivermectin to be available, Because if it's available, they can't

(01:27:21):
authorize the shots because they haven't been studied enough. They
were rushed to the marketplace and they were allowed because
of this, and they were shielded. And I don't know
if you remember this, but they never did release the

(01:27:43):
vaccine to Americans that was actually approved. They only kept
using the one that was approved for emergency use authorization.
I don't think there's a record of one vaccine given
that was legally approved. The ones that were used were

(01:28:06):
all the ones used under the emergency use authorization. Why
because they're shielded by the law for liability. I hope
that makes sense. I hope I'm explaining it in a
way that helps you to understand how nefarious all of
this was, how they use the death numbers to cause

(01:28:31):
fear and to cause some of you to get these shots.
Some of you are wearing masks to this day because
of it. God bless you. I mean this from the
bottom of my heart. If you listen to this show,
even if you don't, I love you those of you
that just stumble upon this. But to listeners, I love you.
But I'm going to tell you. If you're wearing a

(01:28:52):
mask and you didn't wear one before COVID, you have
fallen victim to mass fomation delusion. You have been deceived,
and you have been altered mentally into believing that that
mask makes a difference for you, that all of this
stuff is out there, You're hurting yourself in so many ways.

Speaker 8 (01:29:21):
Back with a health related proclamation, it's one of the most.

Speaker 1 (01:29:41):
You gotta be kidne me stories. Ever. Mayor Antonio Tauchia
of Bccastro Calabria has issued a proclamation ordering residents to
not get sick. I'm not kidding, do not contract any

(01:30:06):
serious illnesses that could lead to the need for emergency
medical attention. Residents were also ordered to not engage in
activities that could lead to serious injuries, and were advised
to instead spend the majority of their time resting. He
said it was supposed to be a tongue in cheek
way to mention that there are there are shortcomings to

(01:30:28):
the healthcare options. Half of the village's twelve hundred residents
are over the age of sixty five. The nearest emergency
hospitals thirty miles away, accessible via a road with an
eighteen mile an hour speed limit. The village has an
on called doctor, but the service is not available during night's,
weekends or holidays. What a job. No, no, no, no, it's

(01:30:53):
after the five. You put a splint on it. Come
back to tomorrow, eh, I mean it? Izzah. What a
great proclamation, don't get sick? Brought to you by Barono
Heating and Air. It's the Morning Show one on WFLA.

(01:31:14):
That's so funny, all right, look back at the program
one hundred and eighty seconds or last Amus five, fourteen
and fifteen, our versus today. That's where we started the
program big story in the press box. Wildfires in SoCal
and if you have family or friends in the Los
Angeles County area, boy keep them in your prayers and

(01:31:36):
reach out. See if there's any way that they can
take refuge wherever you are. Come on, come this way. Yeah,
we don't know enough. We do know that California has
a pattern and a history of bad policies and laws
regulating prescribed burns to keep vegetation to a minimum that

(01:31:59):
can produce these kinds of wildfires. I don't know that
that played a role here because of the density and
because of the locations, may not have anything to do
with it. This could just be one of those things
that's just awful and that there is nothing that could
be done to mitigate it. I don't know at this point,
but there will be time to talk about that. Congress

(01:32:20):
finally votes on the Lake and Riley Act. All Democrat
members of the Florida Caucus of Congress voted in the
House at least voted against it. Only Jared Moskowitz. He's
the only Democrat that voted for it. We've had Jared
on the show over the years, maybe a couple of times.

(01:32:41):
Trump suggesting the Gulf of Mexico get a new name,
the Gulf of America. I love that federal judge ruling
that Pfizer's lawsuit over the company's COVID vaccine they're protected.
So Pfizer's protected. Had an addition of animal stories talked

(01:33:06):
about meta. Didn't ask you a question that I'm going
to ask tomorrow. So join us then,
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