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This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Tuesday, March 25th.

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- Elizabeth Cole
- Riley Gaines
- Jerome Hudson
- Howard Eisenman


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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Just passed five minutes past the out.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Good morning, how are you great to be with you
today and you will be very happy to be with
us today. Friends, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, males
and females only, welcome the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

(00:40):
It is Tuesday, March twenty fifth. More on that in
Mere Moments Show fifty three forty three.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
That is Jose. I'm Preston.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
We start today in Titus Too, and we're picking up
where we left off yesterday. We talked about instruction that
Paul was giving Titus on ministry on the island of
Crete Cret's Big Island, about one hundred and fifty five
one hundred and fifty miles across, and we pick up

(01:14):
in verse three yesterday it was instructions to older men.
Uh oh, older women are next. I said it, ladies.
I put the two words together. Older women. It's okay.
Older women likewise, are to be reverent in behavior, not

(01:38):
slanderers or slaves too much wine. They are to teach
what is good and so train the young women to
love their husbands and children, to be self controlled, pure,
working at home, kind and submissive to their own husbands.

(01:59):
That the word of God may not be reviled. Hmm,
sounds like a laundry list of things to do well.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
It is.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Understand that the when you get into the translation of
that set of scriptures.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
This is not about don't have a job.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
This is about reminding people that at this time in
history there was this thing called being a new Roman woman,
and a new Roman woman was someone who would frequently

(02:49):
get inebriated and would not have need of relationships with
one man kin of the women's lib movement of the
early Roman culture. And so this was a reminder that
older women play a role in reminding younger women what

(03:16):
it means to be a woman of God, what that
looks like. And here's the thing. There's nothing wrong with
being an older woman. It's like I said yesterday, there's
nothing wrong with being an older man. Obviously, you want

(03:37):
to be as fit as you possibly can be. You
want to present yourself to your spouse as attractive as possible,
I would think. But there is a thing with women,
more so with women. There are examples with some men,

(03:59):
but more so with women. It's a broader trend to
try to push the envelope on staying young and if
you look at just the art of plastic surgery, there's
a time and a place for it. You've had a fire,

(04:20):
you've had a bad accident, you need some reconstruction. Or
for example, there are people that as they age, their
eyelids get to the point where they literally have trouble
seeing because their skin their eyelids are getting so heavy. Man,
you do what you need to do so you can function.
There's a difference, though. There are people that do things

(04:42):
for vanity to try to cheat the clock, and it
usually looks like you did things for vanity to try
to cheat the clock, and you're not fooling anybody.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
The point of.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
These passages in these first two days here of the
week is to not demean yourself and the aging process,
but to embrace it and to use the wisdom acquired
through a life lived to help and instruct younger men

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and younger women. Ten minutes past the hour, It's the
Morning Show with Preston.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
Scott, improving the lives of others. It's the Morning Show
with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Coming up to twelve past the hour.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
March twenty fifth, In The Patriots Almanac, sixteen thirty four
of the colony of Maryland, founded by Catholic and Protestant
settlers sent by Lord Baltimore. Is founded by the way,
that is an awesome name, Lloyd Baltimore.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
That's just brilliant.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
Eighteen sixty five, Roberty Lee orders his last attack of
the Civil War against Fort Stedman near Petersburg, Virginia. Nineteen
eleven fire kills one hundred and forty six garment workers
at the Triangle Shirt Waist Company factory in New York City,
leading to the public to call for safety reforms.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
And on this date in nineteen sixty five.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
Civil rights March led by doctor Martin Luther King and
the historic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama on the
steps of.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
The state capitol. Today is National Medal of Honor Day.
It is Tolkien Read Day, so you read the works
of the English writer, poet and university professor J. R. R.

(07:16):
J R. R.

Speaker 4 (07:18):
Tolkien, the author of the classic works The Hubba, The
Lord of the Rings and other works.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
Today is also National Lobster Newburgh Day. Okay it is.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
It is a seafood dish that is, of course lobster,
butter cream, cognak sherry eggs and cayenne pepper. I might
say it belongs in a crusty loaf of bread as well,

(08:02):
like a bread bowl.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
Cut it out.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
One of the best fondues ever and you can make
it so easily is you get a sour dough bread bowl,
well circle, and you make a bread bowl out of it.
And what you cut out, you really hollow it out good.
And what you get out of it you then cut
up into little squares and you toast it, and then

(08:30):
you mix your favorite cheese is but generally you want
cheddar of some kind in the mix of that, whether
it's a mild or a sharp, but you get that
really gooey and you bake that in the bowl. You
pour it in, You pour it in, let that sit,
and then you dip and shrimp and crab mixed in there,

(08:55):
and you put a little cayenne in there and paprika.
You you garnish it on the top with paprika. But
Lobster Newburgh. It is National Lobster Newburgh Day. I am
all about that. Today's American Diabetes Association Alert Day.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
And it is National Equal Payday.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
So there you go today, speaking of equality, how about
we preserve women's spaces that was the whole idea of
Title nine, creating opportunities for women, not pretend women.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
You know, it's as if.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
There's a group of people now that think it's Halloween
every day and you are no more the other gender
because you say you are than you are whatever character
you used to wear as a little child in your
Halloween costume.

Speaker 5 (09:59):
Look, I'm.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
Okay, son, try jumping off the roof and let me
know how that works out for you. You're not Superman, Okay,
that's the reality of the circumstance. Well, today we've got
Riley Gaines on the show. Riley is coming to town.
They have moved the meeting onto the FSU campus. Will
tell you all about it. Elizabeth Cole will join us
next hour. She is vice president of Solo Parent. If

(10:22):
you are a single parent or if you know of
a single parent, tune in. It's seven oh five Eastern,
six oh five Central, because we've got some really good
help for you, resources, free resources that would be useful
to you as a single parent. Third hour, Jerome Hudson

(10:43):
will join us from Breitbart, and Howard Eisman joins us
with Money Talk. We got a manly minute, and more
so it is a busy packed show, seventeen past the Hour,
cannot Wait. Thursday became two Tuesday. Here in the Morning
Show with Preston Scott. You never know what's going to

(11:18):
inspire me to look.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
At something and to just do a little googling.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
And seeing if I can find a particular item, a collectible,
if you will. I was watching yesterday the third installment
of a three part series on Jack Nicholas. Jack Nicholas
the greatest golfer of all time, Tiger Woods amazing, but

(11:55):
he didn't eclipse Jack.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
Jack's still the best.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
And it was a fascinating look at Nicholas's life. But
the final version was called Pinnacle, and it's when Nicholas
won the Masters at the age of forty six or
forty seven, and it was just it was an incredible story.

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And then there's some other backstories and the charity work
that he and his wife Barbara do, and it just
it's it's a remarkable story. But in the midst of
the discussion of his winning of the Masters, there's this
McGregor putter called the Response and it's designer, you know,

(12:51):
called Nicholas to the McGregor factory, said hey, give this
a look, and Nicholas goes, what in the world is that.
You've got to be kidding me. That is the ugliest
thing I've ever seen. And it was a putter that
was very large by comparison to any other putter of
the time, he said in an interview.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
This is years later.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
He said, well, I'm not using anything really well right now,
so why not give it a shot? Send me a
couple of them, And so he kept one and with
it won the Masters that year after playing terrible golf
for a period of years, and everyone's saying they would
even put odds on him winning the tournament, even though
he had more wins at the Masters than any other

(13:38):
golfer in history. They were like, he's over it, he's passed,
he can't win, and he wins, right, So he uses
this putter and it turns into this incredible thing that
he used this particular putter, and so I just happened
to go online and look and see and you can
find that model, but you can't find anything quite like his.

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He doesn't even know where it is, he said, it's
the only club I've won a major with that I
don't know where it is, he said, I don't know
if one of my kids gave it away or he said,
I have no idea anyway, I was just looking and
it was just it was a fascinating look. And then
I looked up the putter he used to use to
win most all of his majors with, and that thing.

(14:21):
You find one of those, and it's worth thousands. Not his,
but that brand, that type. There's so few of them.
It was just interesting to see what captivates the attention
of people.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
And why.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
I say that because an auction house that I use
frequently when I obtain things is called R and R Auction,
and they auctioned off a fascinating piece of American business history,
the iconic Twitter bird logo sign from the San Francisco headquarters.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
It's sold at auction.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Elon Musk was selling off this stuff and just getting
rid of it, and someone bought it. What do you
think gets sold for? It's no small thing. It's twelve
feet by nine feet. That's big. So whoever bought it
has a big place to store it or show it
or what have you. But it sold for just under

(15:28):
thirty five thousand dollars. Part of me thinks that's a steal.
I think that's a really good bye. But yeah, so
that's what that piece of history has gone for. They
nicknamed it Larry Larry Bird Boston Celtics.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
You see what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
I think that's pretty funny myself, even though it was
in San Francisco.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
Twenty seven past the hour.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
Come back, let's do the big stories in the press
box and get this show rolling.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
Thirty six minutes past the hour, Big stories in the
press box.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
So police have found an incendiary device devices multiple at
a Tesla dealership in Austin, Texas.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
Here's what was curious to me.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
The devices were found in the showroom around eight am.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
How'd they get in?

Speaker 2 (17:02):
Maybe I'm reading way too much into the report, but
I would be fascinated to know how a device was
waiting in there at eight am. I mean, if it's
a dealership, you're thinking, what they shut it down around

(17:24):
nine o'clock at night? Maybe earlier, I don't know. So
you've got random staff closing up for the night.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
What do you have?

Speaker 2 (17:38):
Custodial staff, nobody how to get in there? How is
it noticed by the people coming into work at eight am?
They're like, whoa, what's that? So the bomb squad was
taken in. It was an incendiary device or device is,

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which means it was left there to start a fire.
This appears to be affiliated with a group called Tesla Takedown.
Supporters of the movement include a Representative of Congress from
Texas named Jasmine Crockett. She's apparently seemingly wanting to make

(18:25):
a name for herself because she's saying outrageously stupid things
repeatedly during a conversation with members of the Tesla Takedown movement.
How does that happen? By the way, how does that
movement organize? Quoting her words, not mine, so I'll keep

(18:47):
it short. I'm truly here for very selfish reasons, starting
with on March twenty ninth, that's the day of this
mass event where allegedly they're going to terrorize Tesla dealership
all over the country. It's my birthday, and all I
want to see happen on my birthday is for Elon
to be taken down. Now, that would be considered by

(19:11):
most to be a threat of violence. She has tried
very hard to clarify herself and say no, no, no,
that's not what I meant. In fact, listen to what
she said here after I guess a warning from the
Attorney General's office. We know that we are peaceful, loving people.
This is not about violence. That is one of the

(19:33):
funniest lies ever told Clentifa. The people that are behind
these types of events, First, they can't tell you why
they're doing it because they're stupid. And I know that
sounds really harsh, but they are. They don't have a
reason for this, because this is Can you name me

(19:54):
another time? And I'm sure there are times, but what
other times have we seen people attacked for buying something?
Now the people who bought, not the people who marketed
through ridiculous means, but like people being attacked for buying

(20:15):
a Tesla, And I would bet that people well, let's know,
you know what people were attacked for one of those
red hats that I have hang in here, kids, old
people were being attacked. And what does this have in common?
Oh yeah, that's right. It all happens on the left

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side of the aisle. The violence always comes from the left.
There's more to this, We'll get to it here in
a second. Forty minutes past the hour, these attacks on

(21:03):
Tesla dealerships, Tesla owners, the dockxing of Tesla owners, the
planned attacks Tesla dealerships, and now we have another transgender
charged with vandalizing a newly constructed Tesla service center, Evan White,

(21:23):
known as Aaron Air quotes. It is the third known
transactivist arrested over attacks on Tesla. White biological male using
the sheithe pronouns, booked as a six foot two woman

(21:44):
into the Cook County jail. First of all, there's a problem.
This is not a woman. And why state cities, municipalities
keep playing this game because and this is I think
probably the best grounds to just go ahead and attack.
This is from the criminal justice perspective, the court has

(22:07):
an obligation to identify the gender of an accused, that
they're incarcerated, and that they're placed in the appropriate holding
cells with the right population. You just you don't put
men with women and women with men. You just don't
do that. But this is just the next example of

(22:34):
the mental illness. And I'm not mad at it. I'm
mad at what some are doing to force women out
of places that are rightfully theirs.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
Mad at that. But these people are to be pitied.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
And they need help, They need interventions. Stacy Abrams final
story in the press box. This is fascinating. The Georgia
Ethics Commission find the New Georgia Project, that's the Abrams
founded group, three hundred thousand dollars for violating state election laws.

(23:21):
Now here's what makes this really interesting. Number One, it's
the largest fine in the state's history. Secondly, it's one
of the largest fines in the history of the country.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
And the commission was unanimous.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
Failing to disclose more than four million in campaign contributions
and more than three million in expenditures while backing abrams
failed run for governor in twenty eighteen. They didn't declare
any of it. Here's where it gets very interesting. House
Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith from Missouri quote,
as you know, under IRS Section five oh one C three,

(23:59):
organized are strictly prohibited from participating in or intervening in
any political campaign on behalf of, or in opposition to,
any candidate for public office. The case is they should
lose their tax exempt status and violations should require fines

(24:24):
and or criminal charges. So, yeah, that's an interesting development.
And when we come back, how far did the damage
go during COVID one case from North Carolina here, that

(24:51):
is very very interesting, and the state Supreme Court in
North Carolina overruled lower courts in the state to tee
up a lawsuit, and we'll tell you about it next here.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
In the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
Thanks for joining us. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

(25:34):
North Carolina family.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
Mom and her son can sue a public school system
and a doctor's group for giving the boy a COVID
nineteen vaccine without consent. This from the North Carolina State
Supreme Court, a trial judge, and the State Court of

(25:58):
Appeals ruled against them August twenty twenty one, at age fourteen,
despite his opposition, at a testing and vaccination clinic at
Guilford County High School. Teenager went to the clinic after

(26:18):
cases of COVID were found on the football team. He
did not anticipate that they would be administering vaccines. He
told the staff at the clinic he did not want
a vaccination. He did not have a signed parental consent
for him to receive one. The clinic tried reaching the mom.

(26:41):
When they couldn't do it, the colleague at the clinic
said give it to him anyway, and they did. Last year,
a intermediate level appeals or unanimously ruled that the federal

(27:02):
Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act shielded the school and
physicians from liability. The State Supreme Court said, oh, no, no, no,
it did not. Chief Justice Paul Nuby wrote in the
prevailing opinion that the law did not prevent the mother
and son from suing on allegations that their rights in

(27:24):
the state constitution had been violated. He said, a parent
has the right to control their child's upbringing and the
right of a competent person to refuse forced, non mandatory
medical treatment. Majority of justices concluded the immunity only covers

(27:44):
torte injuries, which is when someone seeks damages for injuries
caused by negligent or wrongful actions. Tort injuries are not
constitutional violations, so the PREP Act does not bar plaintiff's
constitutional claims.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
This is significant. This is significant on multiple levels.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
First of all, how many people got forced into that
clot causing DNA altering shot, got bullied into it, got
forced into it. And the fact that there is such

(28:30):
a Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act PREP Act that
it even exists is horrifying. Under no circumstances should someone
be forced to have a treatment. This is a very

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big story and one to keep an eye on now
if you're just waking up with us this morning. Elizabeth
Cole will join us next she's vice president of Solo Parent.
Solo Parent was founded by a gentleman years ago in

(29:17):
Tennessee when he suddenly found himself raising his children by
himself when his spouse walked out, and he came to
realize there are a lot of single parents out there,
and there are, and so he put together an organization

(29:39):
that offers resources help supporting single parents so they can
raise healthy kids. In Florida, there are more than six
hundred and thirty five thousand single parent households, and I'm

(30:00):
betting there are a lot of resources that a lot
of you who are single parents may not even be
aware of, support groups and other things that might make
the journey just a little bit better. Of course, we
do our part by trying to help with things like
the Manly Minute.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
But we'll talk to Elizabeth in a little bit.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
Also next hour, Riley Gaines, founder of the Riley Gaines
Center at the Leadership Institute, she will join us. She's
coming to Florida State. This week, the meeting's been moved
on campus. We'll tell you about all that and more.
Third hour, Jerome Hudson will join us from Breitbart, author
of the Fifty Things books. We also have a manly
minute money talk. So it's going to be a busy

(30:42):
rest of the day. You are tuned in, my friends
to the Morning Show. All right, settle in, ruminators, It's
the second hour of the Morning Show with Preston's great
to be with you this morning. Bright Bart's Jerome Hudson.

(31:02):
Next hour and a half hour from now, Riley Gaines
will join us on the program. But I am thrilled
to have with me vice president of Solo Parent the
website soloparent dot org. And if you're listening outside of Florida,
just go to the website. You'll find resources for your area.
But for those of you in Florida, you can go

(31:23):
to solo parent dot org slash Florida. But the vice president,
Elizabeth Cole, is with us. Elizabeth, good morning, Welcome to
the program.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
How are you.

Speaker 6 (31:33):
Good morning.

Speaker 5 (31:34):
I'm doing well.

Speaker 6 (31:34):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (31:35):
I'm doing terrific? Where this Tell me where this started?
Give me the snapshot version.

Speaker 6 (31:43):
Well, so our CEO, Robert Beeson found himself as a
single dad for about eight and a half years after
his wife left him and his three girls, and he
was a big time music executive, was not planning on
being a single dad, and then one day it was
just there. He was looking for resources and couldn't find any,

(32:04):
and he said, you know what, as soon as I
get you know, my feet under me and get some
health and all of that, I want to do something
about this, because he just felt so isolated and alone.
And so he started Solo Parent in twenty seventeen and
we've been, you know, trying to reach single parents all
over the country ever since.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
I would imagine that because I mean, we all have
been touched by this in some way, shape or form,
whether it's directly or through friends or family. But the
way of becoming a solo parent is so varied and different.
I would imagine that it leads to different kind of
places that everybody's at when they begin this journey. So

(32:47):
how do you adjust to that simple starting point that
everyone's starting from maybe a different place?

Speaker 6 (32:54):
Yeah? Absolutely, I mean it's true we have single parents
who are there through divorce, just like myself through you know,
death of a spouse, through even adoption. Maybe they've chosen
to become a single parent through adoption, unplanned pregnancy, lots
of different ways that single parents are kind of made,

(33:15):
if you will. And the biggest thing is that it
doesn't matter how you got to be a single parent.
We welcome and accept everyone who is parenting alone. And
the struggles may look a little different that we all have,
you know, very you know common ground in terms of

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loneliness and isolation, and you know, maybe we sweep things
under the rug because we're just trying to get through
day to day life. And the problem is is that
we when we do isolate ourselves and when we aren't
able to connect with people in a deep way, it
just it can have a trickle down effect to our kids.
And we've seen that, we've seen the tragics to six

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that are coming out of single parent homes, and so
we want to do everything that we can to provide
the community and support for single parents so that they
know that while they're yes, they may be struggling, it
may be surviving not thriving situation, but they're not alone
and there are people who understand and who get it.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
We're going to get into some of the specific ideas, programs,
resources and things that you guys offer and kind of
link to. But I'm just curious, you know, the person
that has been a single parent for a few years
now and it's been a tough go for them versus
the person that's at the very beginning of that journey
in your experience, one of the differences in how they

(34:40):
kind of navigate once they recognize there are resources, there
is help.

Speaker 6 (34:47):
Yeah. Well, I'll say we actually just did. Last week
was National Single Parent Day on Friday, and last week
we released a podcast about this topic. And we have
kind of three phases of solo pa granting that we
talk about, and triage is the first one. So if
you think about the first time, like you've broken an

(35:07):
arm or you're you know, anything that's happening, you're going
into a hospital and you're in triage, I mean you
are in the thick of it. Everything is mayhem. You
don't know up from down, it left from right. You're
just kind of again, it's it's more than surviving it,
or you know, it's it's kind of worse than that.
And so this is like when you're unable to really

(35:31):
like even get through the day. You may not even
want to get out of bed. You're struggling to keep
food on the table because you know, whether it's your
finances you haven't gotten all of that figured out, or
maybe just emotionally and mentally you are just struggling. That's
kind of that triage stage. And I would say that,
like and especially in my own experience, for some people,

(35:53):
that triage stage may last anywhere from six months to
a year year and a half, and then you move
into the next phase, which is the recovery phase.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
Elizabeth, just pause right there for a second. We have
to take a quick break here. It's about seventy seconds.
Coming right back, and we'll talk about phase two here.
Elizabeth Cole is with US vice president solo parent website
soloparent dot org slash Florida. If you live inside the
Sunshine State doubled you have to la coming up to

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twelve minutes past the hour with me, Elizabeth Cole with
solo parent website soloparent dot org and God bless you
for creating a website that's actually easy to navigate it friendly.
We were talking about some steps and stages here, and
we started with triage you're moving into recovery.

Speaker 6 (36:53):
Now, yes, and so let's recover with the recovery stage.
What we found and what we heard I mean, if
you listen to the podcast episode from last week, Andrews
shared his experience of moving from triage into recovery and
he really found that Soul Apparent was the answer for
that for him. He was able to move into recovery
because he had community around him and people who understood

(37:16):
his experiences. But what recovery looks like is kind of
you know, you're out of the triage stage and that
you can get out of bed in the day. You know,
you're putting food on the table. You're moving through life.
Your job is more stable, you're emotionally more stable. You're
able to show up to your kids in a healthier

(37:37):
way when they respond and react. But you're not necessarily
at your healthiest. You know, you're still kind of surviving.
Maybe you aren't able to see what the future looks
like yet. Maybe you haven't really gotten kind of fully
back on your feet. And let's be honest, after the
death of a spouse and after divorce, nothing's really the
same ever again. But you're able to kind of kind

(38:01):
of envision a future for yourself and for your kids.
And like I said, we've found that we really kind
of usher people from that triage into recovery stage. And
then the third stage is wellness. And this is where
you are, I mean, really able to use your story

(38:22):
to help other people. You're able to kind of be
level headed, You're you know, being more of a mentor
to those around you. All of us were human. You
make mistakes, and you know, two steps forward, one step back,
but you kind of know how to navigate life and
show up in a way that feels healthy and grounded

(38:44):
and in a way that you're able to just kind
of be there for other people. And like I said,
use your story to help others.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
I would imagine that helping other people based on your
personal experiences kind of takes a little bit of the
staying out of the person and experiences. It brings some
perspective to those and helps with the healing process. And
so it's sort of like a circle that happens there.

Speaker 6 (39:09):
Absolutely, I know for me, I needed to make purpose
out of the pain, and I went to Robert the CEO,
when I was kind of probably a year out for
my divorce. I went in and said, you know, I
just really feel like I need to be using my
story to help other people. And he was like, great,
let's do it. Let's put you to work and so

(39:30):
and really it really has and really does for me personally.
And I'll say that I lead a group every Monday
online at eight pm Central nine pm Eastern, and you
can find that on our website as well, but I
lead those groups on Monday nights. And what I've seen
time and time again is it doesn't matter what phase

(39:53):
of parenting you're in or single parenting you're in, you
have something to offer to the group. Then for people
who are kind of in that wellness phase and using
their story to help other people, it's so amazing. How
I know, for me, I'll hear people's stories that are
in triage and they're right in the thick of it,

(40:14):
and it helps me kind of go back and discover
things that maybe I didn't think about before, didn't heal,
and it kind of takes me back there. And there's
a healing that happens even from interacting with people here
in the trioche stage, and then of course vice versa.
The triage stage are hearing from people who are in
recovery and wellness, and they have a lot of hope

(40:34):
and you know, for where they're going, it kind of
pulls them along to say, Okay, I can get through this.
If they can do it, I can do it, you know.
And so it's just really the community aspect is so
so so important when we're talking about our single parent
life and just having people who understand.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
Elizabeth Cole with US Vice President Solo Parent Again. Website
soloparent dot org slash Florida For those of you in
side Florida you just want to find out more, just
take out the slash Florida and go to the website.
You'll get some great resources and suggestions on how to
navigate this world. We got one more segment left with

(41:13):
Elizabeth here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (41:21):
We fla on your phone with the iHeartRadio app and
on hundreds of devices like Alexa, Google Home, Xbox and Sonos.

Speaker 1 (41:28):
This is Chrysler and Ihearts Radio station.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
Time moves fast, and so let's start talking some specifics
about the website with me as Elizabeth Cole with Solo
parent and I know, I know, we've got a ton
of single parents listening out there and Elizabeth go through
some of the resources that people will find on the

(41:56):
website to be the most useful.

Speaker 7 (42:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (42:00):
So well at soloparent dot org, as you said, and
we have everything there from our podcast if you just
want to tune in weekly. We fifty two weeks a year.
We have a new podcast that relates to the top
issues that single parents deal with. Obviously, that's free. We've
got our groups online in person, you can check those out.

(42:24):
We really want to provide online groups for single parents
because you know, childcare and figuring out the timing and
all of that is really can be difficult for single parents.
So those online groups are a great free resource and
a way to connect with other people. But we also
if you want to start a group in your area,
or maybe you're pastor at a church, or you know,
you lead a nonprofit organization that serves single parents in

(42:47):
some former capacity, we have all the resources that you
need to start a group. So all of that information
is there as well, of course, and then we've got
our online course that we just launched earlier this year
for free for Florida State residents, the four Habits of

(43:08):
Successful solo parenting, and you'll find that there as well
for free. It's a seven module core you can do
it at your own leisure, that sort of thing that
it takes you through kind of some four habits that
single parents can establish to kind of get through day
to day life and help become the best version of themselves,

(43:28):
not just for themselves in their communities, but also for
their kids. So we've got lots of free resources there,
but definitely come connect with us and learn more.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
I would again I'm guessing, but the financial component and
the childcare component have to be the most frequently talked
about or maybe the biggest hurdles for single parents.

Speaker 5 (43:57):
Absolutely.

Speaker 6 (43:58):
I mean, the the financial strain on single parents is significant,
especially in the state of Florida. We have seen how
average income for single parents is around twenty seven thousand
a year for single parents in the state of Florida,
and that is significantly lower than the average household income

(44:20):
in America, and so the financial strain is real. And
then of course when it comes to childcare, I mean,
people are paying more in childcare than they pay for
their mortgage or for their rent payment, you know, and
it's just I mean, it's impossible for single parents to
cover all of those expenses, and so it is a
very real struggle. We don't necessarily we don't. We aren't

(44:43):
a benevolence organization. We focus more on the emotional mental
health right of single parents. But you know, they're the
resources out there. You know, we can we can try
to make connections in any sort of way, but for
the most part, we're focused on that emotional and mental
health side of things. And so you need somewhere to

(45:04):
come and complain about your financial you know, straight and
all of that. We gotcha that we you know, we
aren't a benevolent organization.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
Yeah, I mean, I think for many just knowing how
to navigate and knowing, for example, that there might be
programs that offer subsidies and help for childcare in certain circumstances.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
I think just knowing you're not alone.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
You know, there's an old expression misery loves company, and
I think that that awareness is really helpful to a
lot of parents out there that find themselves in this spot.

Speaker 6 (45:40):
Absolutely, yeah, And do we do cover you know, in
our groups, we talk about a lot of the topics
that we're covering every week, and from time to time
throughout the year, we'll talk about finances because we know
that you know how to make a budget even or
how to save when you can't make an end meet.
You know, talking about those sorts of things together is

(46:02):
really helpful and giving ideas. And we have some single
parents who have really found habits and things that they've
been able to do to help start saving towards retirement
again and you know, start have a budget and do
these different things or how to make extra income on
the side. And our community is really robust and that

(46:22):
people are able to pull kind of pull things together
and say, hey, this is what I you know, this
is what works for me, maybe it'll work for you too.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
That's what those shared experiences in that community that you've
talked about all morning.

Speaker 1 (46:36):
It matters so much. Elizabeth.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
Thank you for what you and the others are doing
with solo parent. Appreciate the resources, and thanks for taking
time for us this morning.

Speaker 6 (46:46):
Oh thank you. I appreciate you having me.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
Thank you very much, Elizabeth Cole with US Vice president
soloparent dot.

Speaker 1 (46:53):
Org slash Florida.

Speaker 2 (46:55):
And again, I think that component we just hit on
it there at the end. Others and their experiences and
ideas invaluable. Twenty seven past the hour, we come back.
Riley Gaines will join us next on the Morning Show
with Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (47:13):
Welcome to m a D radio network where we challenge
you to make a difference. And this is the Morning
Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (47:29):
Thirty five minutes past the hour. Not wasting a moment
of her time, Riley Gaines with us this morning, founder
of the Riley Gaines Center at the Leadership Institute. She's
been with us before. In fact, the last time Riley
was with us, she later that day, was there when
President Donald Trump signed and signed an executive order trying

(47:50):
to protect women's sports and spaces.

Speaker 1 (47:54):
Riley, welcome back. How are you.

Speaker 5 (47:57):
Well, I'm fantastic. It is so good to be on
with you.

Speaker 1 (48:00):
I remember that day.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
I remember seeing your face when he signed that document
and handed you a pen. But you knew deep down
that that was not going to get this thing done.

Speaker 1 (48:12):
Hence the fight is far from over. Tour.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
Tell us kind of your appraisal of where things are
right now in protecting women's sports and protecting women's spaces.

Speaker 5 (48:23):
Well, you're so right. Being there for that signing was
just of course, it was an experience that I'll never forget.
In the visual that came from it, where I'm sure
you saw the clips. I'm sure you saw some of
the videos and the images of surface where you have
President Trump signing this executive order surrounded by all these
little girls. I mean they're five, six, seven, eight years old,

(48:45):
and they're wearing their jerseys. I loved it at a
sports jersey. Wasn't it amazing?

Speaker 1 (48:50):
I watched it all right. I was beaman.

Speaker 5 (48:53):
As the little girls were. Their faces were so joyous
and excited. But you're right, I went into that knowing
that there would be states number one that of course
would not adhere, they would not comply to federal law,
to this executive order. And knowing of course that there
are are just about half the states, a little under

(49:15):
half the states that have not passed any sort of
state law themselves. So that's of course what we've seen.
We've seen the NC double A. That's another entity that
is completely not fallen in compliance with this executive order.
We saw Congress, we saw passed the House, but we
saw this this bill that would codify this executive order

(49:37):
fail in the Senate with all US Democrat senators voting
in opposition of this. So look, while it's great that
we have seen the decisive, swift action from President Trump.
You're right the far the fight is far from over,
and the war on wook it just hasn't been won yet.

Speaker 2 (49:56):
I'm curious where you think is the most effective battle
field for this thing. I have some thoughts, but I'd
like yours.

Speaker 8 (50:05):
Well.

Speaker 5 (50:06):
What we have seen the most effective. It's public pressure.
It's amazing to me that we have had Democrats.

Speaker 6 (50:15):
Again.

Speaker 5 (50:16):
I hate to make it partisan like that because the
reality of the situation is it's really not a partisan issue.
It's not polarizing at all. Actually, it's very unifying, and
we see that in the numbers. They say it's an
eighty twenty issue. I think it's more jurassic than that.
But in terms of elected representation and how the media
is representing this issue, it really is partisan. So it's

(50:37):
amazing to me to see the elected Democrats doubled down.
I really thought on November fifth, when Donald Trump won,
that Democrats were going to distance themselves from their voting
record acts like they never took the stance be totally
in alignment with protecting women and girls in their private spaces.
But that's not at all what we've done. So what

(50:59):
we know we're is public pressure. We need people, we
need everyday, people who otherwise would have never been involved
in politics, people like myself. Look, I had no interest
in taking the position and stance that I did, you know,
being thrust into the limelight and the way that I have.
But it's a necessity. It requires men, it requires women, old, young, white, black, gay, straight,

(51:23):
It doesn't matter. None of those identity factors matter when
you're dealing with such an important and timely issue as
women's rights.

Speaker 2 (51:32):
Riley Gaines with me this morning. She'll be with us
for another segment. Riley stand by. Quick check of whether
and traffic. It's forty past the hour. It's the Morning
Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (51:46):
Yes, he knows how to read. Well, Actually, as producer
reads him, he doesn't know how to read. Welcome to
The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (51:59):
Regular lists ner ruminators of this radio program know. I
have been talking about this topic for years, and it
pains me that we've had to devote time we've had
to devote to it. But I'm doing this in part
because I have granddaughters and I am determined to help
make sure that they have a place to compete, a

(52:19):
place to shower, change clothes, Riley, We're seeing stories. We
saw a story just this past week. We talked about it.
I know you posted on it in Oregon. A young
man beat women, young girls and took awards from young girls.
And it's absurd that we find ourselves even discussing this.

Speaker 5 (52:43):
That's the truth. I often think if our founding fathers
were still around and they saw some of these headlines
that are being published, they would be confused. They wouldn't
even understand what is being communicated, what is being said.
They wouldn't understand what trans woman trans men seeing. She

(53:03):
used for a mugshot of a male who's in prison
for either murdering a child. We've seen some crazy stories
when the mugshot is very obviously a male. So yeah,
what we saw in Oregon, it's tragic, but truthfully, it's unsurprising.
This is a male who's competed for several years now,

(53:24):
taking opportunities away from girls. I've talked to several of
the girls he's competed against, who of course recognized the unfairness.
But they, truthfully, they don't know what to do. And look,
I will tell you I don't blame them, they're so
young to have to to know how best to defend themselves. Really,
the problem is the adults. Whether it's the parents, whether

(53:45):
it's the coaches, whether it's the athletic directors, the officials.
The adults have failed them and they're left to bear
the burden of defending themselves. It's really sad. But what
I do think we need to see in states where
this continues to happen or Maye, Michigan, Minnesota, California, Washington,
the list goes on. What we need to see is

(54:06):
girls ultimately boycotting, and that's what we've dubbed this. We've
dubbed it Project Boycott, with emphasis on the word boy.
And these girls they get on the track, they get
on the court at the field, and when there's a
boy on the other side of the net or a
boy in the lane next to them, they don't go
and looking. You know, that's easier said than done, but

(54:26):
that is the most powerful way to send the message
that enough is enough. I'm not going to be subjected
to this type of discrimination.

Speaker 2 (54:36):
Riley, I'm glad you said that. I want to run
two things by you and get your thoughts number one.
I've advocated that same thing for quite a while now,
just don't compete. However, I want to propose another idea,
because we're not getting the attention of enough people in
enough important places. What are your thoughts on organizing a

(54:58):
complete shutdown of girl girls athletics for one day sometime
in the fall.

Speaker 1 (55:04):
Or the winter.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
Give it time to be organized where we get the
attention of parents, and we simply say it, on this day,
no girls going to compete in any athletic competition anywhere
until we get this changed.

Speaker 5 (55:18):
Look, I think this is awesome. We've I've thought about
this for a while. Of course, as you could imagine,
it would be hard to coordinate and of course be
hard to get everyone on board, but again it would
be really powerful. And so the day that I propose
is October tenth. And the reason why is because it's
the tenth day of the tenth month, which in Roman

(55:38):
numerals is x X, which of course is the female chromosomes.
They re fifth grade biology.

Speaker 8 (55:45):
See really you know that.

Speaker 5 (55:48):
And it's again, it sends a it sends a message
that cannot be ignored. That's what they've done for years,
that's especially what they did with President Biden in offices.
They just ignored us, they stone welled us. They didn't
give us a seat at the table to even have
the conversation. Well, guess what now, because of the current administration,
because of the political landscape across the country, because of

(56:11):
the shift in public opinion that we've visibly got to
see based on poll numbers, we do have a seat
at the table. We have a voice as women. It's
time we use it and we send the message again
that these regressive policies it's in the name of progress,
in the name of feminism again, it's taking our rights

(56:33):
to equal opportunity as women away.

Speaker 2 (56:36):
I think it's a brilliant idea. I love the date.
I support it wholeheartedly. I think it has to be
more than just when there's a transgendered athlete competing.

Speaker 1 (56:45):
I think it has to.

Speaker 2 (56:46):
Be we're going to protect women's sports, girl sports, and
girl spaces. The second thing I wanted to get your
thoughts on, there are too many things being kicked around
about birth certificates. It can't be birth certificates. It's got
to be.

Speaker 5 (57:01):
That's right. This is exactly what the NCAA is done
and why I said they're not incompliance their new policy
that they have in place. It does it resorts to
birth certificates, which what we know is birth certificates can
be made fraudulent. They can be changed in all but
six states, and of course across the world. We've seen
some great action by Secretary of Saint Marco Rubio's that

(57:25):
pertains to the Olympics. He says, look, we're not going
to consider fraudulent passports in the Olympics as they're hosted
in the United States in twenty twenty eight. So absolutely,
a simple cheek swab. People say it's invasive, the less
says it's invasive. Again, was the COVID test, the swab
that touched my brain not invasive, if that's the standards.

(57:48):
Was the drug test we had to take in college
where you went into a bathroom, you have someone standing
at the stall door watching you. You dropped your pants
to your ankles, you lifted your shirt up to the
three sixty and then teeding the cup while they continue
to watch you. Is that not necessarily invasive? It's silly,
it's stupid to say it's invasive. It's a simple cheek

(58:09):
swab or saliva test.

Speaker 2 (58:12):
Lastly, you are coming to Florida State University, and of
course we are right in the heart of it all
right here this Friday at the Bellany Build, Bellamy Building,
Room zero zero two to one on Collegiate Loop. Tell
people what they can expect if they come to the event.

Speaker 5 (58:31):
Man, I'm so excited. Of course, you can expect a
more adept conversation as to what we've talked about. It's
hard to get into it in these six seven minute
you know, little time spots, but a more in depth
account of not just my personal experience, but you're right,
the landscape of where we are, the winds that we've seen,
of course the work that still needs to be done.

(58:55):
I love getting on college campuses. I love engaging with
the youth, really trying to mobilize the youth, and we
saw how important that was again on November fifth. I
don't think we would have won the Swing States we did,
especially had the youth not turned out in droves for
Donald Trump.

Speaker 2 (59:14):
I can't I can't thank you enough for what you're doing.

Speaker 1 (59:16):
Riley.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
You have you have a microphone and time here anytime
you want it, so let your folks know anytime you
want to get an announcement out want to join me
on the show.

Speaker 1 (59:25):
We're here for you.

Speaker 5 (59:27):
You got it, you got it. Thank you so much,
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (59:30):
Riley Gaines with us this morning, and again the fight
is far from over. College Tour coming to FSU this
week Friday. Doors open at six the event at six
thirty Bellamy Building, Room twenty one one thirteen Collegiate Loop.
So pull out your Google Map because driving around the
campus is a challenge. I've recommended they have friendly ambassadors

(59:53):
in the area because not all of you know the
college campus very well, and that they have people helping
you get to the right building. Know this, there will
be people that oppose, and that's why I want that
crowd overwhelmed by you. Support what Riley is doing. When
I say she's literally put her life on the line

(01:00:16):
to protect girls' sports, that is a literal statement of truth.
Support what she's doing. Forty nine minutes.

Speaker 3 (01:00:24):
Past morning show at Preston Scott's Boy.

Speaker 9 (01:00:32):
That escalated quickly.

Speaker 4 (01:00:34):
I mean that really got out of hand fast.

Speaker 9 (01:00:36):
On WFLA.

Speaker 2 (01:00:45):
Members of some of the FSU athletic teams are going
to be there unless they're intimidated into not showing up.
I mean, do you want to see dudes playing on
the softball team, playing on the golf team, women's golf team,
men playing. Do you want to see men in the
swim team? Do we want to see a repeat of

(01:01:08):
Leah Thomas here at Florida State? Do we want to
see men suiting up with the women's basketball team? Hey, look,
they can make a difference. They got smoked last night
by LSU because the Lady Tigers are just better. But
I'm just saying, you know you could stop that. Have
a few men out there on the court. Shit, that'll

(01:01:31):
end it real quick. You watch what happens next when
a man is competing in women's college basketball. You watch
what happens then. I'm telling you now, I hope you
support it. Friday, six thirty FSU Bellamy Building, Room twenty one.

Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
Ought to be good mainly minute mail by birth man
by choice.

Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
A few moments here to remind you of tips you
can give your son to be a man.

Speaker 1 (01:02:00):
It's spring.

Speaker 2 (01:02:01):
Teach him how to mow the lawn. There's an art
to mowing grass. Teach him that fine art of knowing
how to mow the lawn. You don't mow it the
same way every time.

Speaker 1 (01:02:15):
You mow it in different directions.

Speaker 2 (01:02:17):
Huh huh, paying attention to the height of the mower deck,
and you could say, one day, son, you old man,
and look at that lawn.

Speaker 1 (01:02:27):
Hour three is next.

Speaker 2 (01:02:42):
Wow, and we have an hour left. What a show
by passed? Tuesday, March twenty fifth, Show fifty three forty three,
and I am joined by entertainment editor for Brightbart dot com,
author of the Fifty Things books and topping it all
off on the resume, a friend, ladies and gentlemen, Jerome

(01:03:06):
Hudson joins us.

Speaker 8 (01:03:07):
Good morning friend, Good morning sir. Oh I'm terrific. You know,
I woke up, thank the Lord and got to reading,
so my mind is sharp and you know, I'm building

(01:03:29):
that workout from last night. Oh, everything's great.

Speaker 2 (01:03:33):
We just had Riley Gaines on the program and she'll
be coming to Florida State this week, and we've had
her on before and I'm just curious, what's it going
to take, Jerome, for the majority of this American public
to have their way and for us to get back
to protecting women's spaces and women women's athletics.

Speaker 8 (01:04:00):
So I think it's happening, and you know, I would
look to Virginia, and that was sort of an inflection
point I think for the country. You obviously saw the
political ramifications of adults, administrators of schools and sports leagues.

(01:04:20):
Parents obviously furious as the truth came out, not necessarily
because the local media or the national media outside of
Bright Partners and a few other outlets were reporting it,
but because parents were showing up to meetings. And I

(01:04:44):
think that is generally sort of the pressure that it
takes right of people oriented energy in which people realized
that an unjust is being carried out, and the people
again in the government in this case, school administrators oftentimes

(01:05:08):
elected officials, and in the sports realm particularly, I guess
you know ages K through twelve and then beyond in
the collegiate realm, there are systems in place. California settled
this in twenty thirteen when their legislature essentially and Governor

(01:05:28):
Brown signed the law that allowed for boys who were
born boys to play in leagues and on teams with girls.
And you know, you have to assume that it's worked
for California. There have been issues, certainly, and politicians out
there trying to wrestle with Gavin Newsom just made headlines

(01:05:50):
because he had, you know, contradicted the law of his
of his land in California when he was he was
lieutenant governor when Brown signed that law in in place.
I mean, the long and short of it is, I

(01:06:11):
think this is a ninety five to five issue. You know,
maybe that five percent of people when you ask them,
do you think that it's fair for you know, biological
males to play in women's sports leagues. You know you
probably would have let five percent down to less than

(01:06:32):
one percent. And you know, I don't know why the
left and largely the Democratic Party has seeded such a
very common sense issue to the right, to conservatives, to Republicans,
if you want to look at it through the political lens.
I just think it's one of those It's one of
those things, you know, just water's wet and right is right.

(01:06:56):
Boys should play with boys, girls should play with girls.
After the competition over boys should go to boys locker rooms,
girls should go to girls locker rooms. So at time
and time again, and I've said it at nauseum on
this program. Usually the last in the Democratic Party, they've
been toward a policy or a philosophical framework that doesn't

(01:07:19):
really care about individualism, individual freedom, and oftentimes that falls
out of alignment with common said.

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
Jerome Hudson with me this morning from Breitbart dot Com.
He's the entertainment editor. He's the author thing of the
two books Fifty Things They Don't Want You to Know
and Fifty Things they Don't Want You to Know about Trump.
We come back, We're going to talk about something from
his pages on Breitbart dot Com.

Speaker 1 (01:07:46):
Next back. You want him on that radio America can
handle the truth. You need him on that.

Speaker 9 (01:07:58):
Radio nine to noon on w f L A.

Speaker 1 (01:08:11):
Eleve minutes past the hour. Jerome Hudson with me from
Breitbart Jrome.

Speaker 2 (01:08:15):
I was I was chuckling yesterday as I thought about
our conversation and and I'm curious when a movie like Oh,
I don't Know Snow White comes out, do you do
you go see that movie? Do you get an advanced
preview of it? I mean, how does Disney first of all,
Tree Bridbart and secondly, just how much do you have

(01:08:39):
to go through to cover that kind of thing?

Speaker 8 (01:08:42):
Uh So to your second to the last question. In
the last couple of years, Disney pr has been good
about reaching out to us on stories. It's not necessarily
that we made a mistake in our recording at Breidbart.
But it's you know, it'll they'll they'll come to us
with a with a statement, if you will, sort of

(01:09:04):
explaining their side of the story. And that actually happened
a couple of times with this movie. Yeah, we get
screeners all the time, sort of the lingo.

Speaker 4 (01:09:16):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:09:16):
They they used to sing you DVDs, but now it's
it's basically digital copies. The pr team of a production
company will reach out, uh and you know, if we
want to interview casts or whatever, they'll send us a
digital copy of the film. I try to see everything
that I cover that includes comedians, you know, actors, bands, uh,

(01:09:43):
and obviously TV and film. I really tried to find
time this weekend to see snow Light uh. And I
because John Nolti, one of the greatest writers on the internet,
usually reviews films and he's been on a g Hackman
run of late because obviously is that the tragic loss

(01:10:05):
of him and his wife. But John Notty saw the
movie and he said, quote, it's a bad film. Quote
he said, it is. It is incongruent with human human nature,
and it is an affront to the original film and
Now that's not just John Notty for our News saying it.

(01:10:25):
That's not just me agreeing with it. That is born
out in the numbers. Snow White should have been a
movie President that should have at least done one hundred
billion dollars easily here in the United States and somewhere
between one hundred and fifty and two hundred million dollars internationally.
The problems began early with this film. The budget was

(01:10:49):
reportedly two hundred million dollars that mushroomed to seventy because
there were there were disagreements in creative direct apparently going
back two years ago. They finished the bulk of the
film two gears the writer strike, actor strikes, and COVID protocols.

(01:11:10):
The budget just ballooned up to almost three hundred million dollars.
You tack on another one hundred to one hundred and
fifty million dollars to promote the film, which they scaled
back because the star Rachel Ziegler, is so toxic. It's
a four hundred maybe million dollar disaster, and Disney deserves it.

(01:11:32):
It is an anomaly in terms of multinational companies, specifically
their boardroom. I mean it is still filled, not wholly,
but a lot of the people who run Disney. Kathleen Kennedy,
who runs Lucasfilm, she hates Star Wars, she hates the franchise.
She thinks it's too masculine. She wants to girl boss

(01:11:53):
the whole thing up, and a lot of that wokeness.
If you will be led into Snow White. Rachel Ziegler
bashed and disparage the original film. It was a beloved film.
It was an international box office success. It was it was,
you know, mostly critically acclaimed. It was a passing project
for Walt Disney himself, and it helped fun the Burbank

(01:12:17):
Park in Southern calig Fortune. You know, we may not
have a Disney World as we know it today if
it were not for Snow White. And to put this
movie in the hands of a person who is so vowed,
who's twenty three but thinks she knows everything, and it's
just further destroyed an already toxic brand and Disney hang.

Speaker 2 (01:12:41):
On a second drome. I won't pick up right there
when we come back. Jerome Hudson with Me Entertainment editor
with bright Bart dot Com on The Morning Show with
Preston Scott Back with Jerome Hudson at Bridbard dot com,

(01:13:12):
entertainment editor, author of the Fifty Things book. So, is
there any chance, while there are some little glimmers of
hope in and around Hollywood since the Trump administration has
taken over, Jerome, is there any chance that a lesson
has learned inside the movie industry, inside Hollywood from this

(01:13:35):
fiasco with Disney and snow White, that they become more
careful about who they hire for what roles, and how
they handle, you know, just all decisions moving into movie
projects moving forward.

Speaker 8 (01:13:52):
Has learned since nineteen ninety four when the Canadian styles
Jackson Center structure a sort of cross pollinated to California,
is that Georgia is now the Hollywood or Atlanta, I
should say it now the Hollywood of the South. So
the economic lesson in one part is we will go

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where it is economically advantageous for us as an industry
to film movies and TV shows and commercials.

Speaker 1 (01:14:24):
But let me hang on, let me interrupt you for
a second there.

Speaker 2 (01:14:27):
But even if snow White is filmed in Georgia, it
doesn't change much of the bottom line because of the
toxic nature that you outlined so well of the actress
and everything surrounding the film.

Speaker 1 (01:14:40):
And that's what I'm wondering. I'm wondering if this is
just now going.

Speaker 2 (01:14:43):
To be look at the money they're going to lose
on this thing, all because of an idiot running the
studio and lead actress.

Speaker 8 (01:14:53):
Right, this was so snow Light was never going to
be a film that you know, males, I guess preteen
to the sixty we're going to go see, right, So no,
Rachel Ziegler. Should they have known that Rachel Ziegeler guess
as a massive social media community and following and presence, yes,

(01:15:15):
and they tried to trade on that. But what Disney
couldn't account for is that she's a very toxic woman
who is on the wrong side of the Israel Palestine war.
She's on the wrong side or gender issue. She's on
the wrong side of political issues. And by wrong side
of political issues, I mean, you can support Kambala Harris,
but to damn all Trump's supporters and voters to hell,

(01:15:38):
which is essentially what she did in a way, like
Disney can't account for that. And this is the new generation.
It's like you talk to any sports coach, the kids
are just different these days. And so Hollywood trying to
navigate that is. You know, there are not a lot
of Rachel Ziegler's and I'm pretty sure lessons will be learned,

(01:15:59):
but through or what's our president? And she ignored Disney
executives who were trying to rein her in, trying to
explain to her the simple math that you cannot smear
and captivate half the country.

Speaker 2 (01:16:13):
Well shegg She bragged people would wait in line to
see her in this movie, and no one waited in
line anywhere. There were previews where the theaters were empty.

Speaker 1 (01:16:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:16:24):
No. I published the story yesterday of those, just a
collection of videos of how this snow white bomb did
real time.

Speaker 5 (01:16:35):
Again.

Speaker 8 (01:16:35):
Disney is is a little bit of an anomaly in
the sense, you know, Warner Brothers has a president CEO
Want of Discovery in David Zaslov. This guy is a slasher,
he's a burner, he's no nonsense, he's about good content,
and he's canceled Wope projects that were one hundred million
dollars in and so over time, this is gonna happen again,

(01:17:00):
and it's going to happen outside of Disney. It's probably
more likely to happen with Disney. But the economics of
this are are dismal because most of the theaters in
this country are owned by people like you and me,
but by people listening in the audience right now, they're
not owned by mega corporations. Now that's changing a little bit,

(01:17:23):
But Disney going woke is actually hurting the bottom line
of small business multiplex owners, and that is the part
of it. It's because so much of it could be mitigated. Preston,
just make classic movies and TV shows, you know, like
you did for the first eighty five heaters of your history.

(01:17:45):
This is truly a sad example of going woke and
going broke. It hurts communities with the theaters, and it
didn't have to be this way. Mark Webb, the director,
is an amazing visionary, but he, you know, five years
and was given this horrible product that nobody wants to

(01:18:07):
see because it's star was so toxic.

Speaker 2 (01:18:12):
Well, it might be bad for the business world of
Hollywood and those affiliated with it, but it's great for
your business. Jerome and Breitbart dot Com and the entertainment page.

Speaker 1 (01:18:21):
Yeah, I.

Speaker 8 (01:18:23):
The other side of my mouth, I don't hesitate to
say that. You know, it is it is good concept. Look,
I would coach up the leftist consultants, Democrat politicians, but
they won't listen. There is an arrogance right now, even
in defeat, even as they have lost politically, as clearly

(01:18:44):
the country has shipped it. I mean, the data on
the election is still coming out, and if every Republican
registered Republicans voted, Kamala would have lost. Like Kamala's defeat
could have been bigger. It's almost, you know, a gift
that some people just thought that Trump had it in
the bag right in itself is interesting. But the less

(01:19:08):
they don't get it, prest I mean again, these are
these are people who on the issue of light, they
weren't talking about the emotion and of the hard decision
that it that it would take to have an abortion
and lost in the pain. These are people talking about
shout your abortion.

Speaker 2 (01:19:28):
I know, I know, tone deaf, my friend, tone deaf.
Jerome got a run brother, God bless talk to you soon,
Love you.

Speaker 8 (01:19:37):
Love you too.

Speaker 6 (01:19:38):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:19:38):
Jerome Hudson with us rightbart dot com entertainment page editor,
but he waxes on anything and often does here on
the Morning Show with Preston Scott Money talk in just

(01:20:15):
a few minutes with Howard Eisman, but big stories in
the press box. Police find incendiary devices in a Tesla
showroom in Austin, Texas, eight o four a m.

Speaker 1 (01:20:32):
Yesterday morning in the showroom. How to get there?

Speaker 2 (01:20:39):
How was somebody able to place that in the showroom overnight?
I bet police are asking some questions, at least they
should be. But it is Austin, so you never know.
Austin one of the more more liberal state capitals in
the nation. Interesting in Texas, another transgender otherwise known as

(01:21:08):
a dude pretending to be a woman. It's not always
the case of a dude pretending to be a woman.
Sometimes it's a dude at pretending to be a dude.
But this is the third known trans extremist arrested over
attacks on Tesla's six foot two dude dressed up pretending

(01:21:29):
to be a woman. Unbelievable and of course members of Congress,
one in particular from Texas Jasmine Crockett. I guess she's
decided to just be that next dumb member of the squad.

Speaker 1 (01:21:48):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:21:50):
She's having to be very very careful because she's saying
some things that can.

Speaker 1 (01:21:54):
Get her in Watson Watson twelve.

Speaker 2 (01:21:59):
Pam Bondi's warning, and then Stacy Abrams organization New Georgia
Project fined three hundred thousand dollars by the Georgia Commission
on Ethics, House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith, pointing
out that not only is it the largest penalty in
Georgia's history, but the largest ethics fine ever issued in

(01:22:22):
the United States.

Speaker 1 (01:22:23):
Perhaps, but it.

Speaker 2 (01:22:25):
Opens up the organization because it engaged in what it
got it was found guilty of and a unanimous finding
by the Commission was seven million dollars in expenditures on campaigns,
including Stacy Abram's own campaign back in twenty eighteen, and
that's a direct violation of the five oh one C

(01:22:46):
three status that the organization enjoys. So the irs could
be doing some checking into the organization, and wouldn't that
be delightful. We're going to come back with Howard Heisman
a little money talk. It's Tuesday. It has been quite
the show. Don't this would be a day to remind
you subscribe to the Conversations podcast because we'll have a

(01:23:10):
lot of segments broken out into the Conversations podcast and
of course the Morning Show podcast as well. You can
assign it a preset on the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 1 (01:23:21):
Easier than ever.

Speaker 2 (01:23:22):
To listen to the podcasts on the app. Time for
Money talk with investment advisor Howard Heisman. Securities and advisory
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NBC Securities Inc. Is a wholly owned subsidiary of RBC

(01:23:43):
Bank USA. The opinions expressed are not those of NBC
Securities Inc. Or iHeartMedia. On appropriate matter, seek professional tax
and or legal advice to you the money, Howard, I
have always likened debt and it getting overwhelming for people,

(01:24:06):
like steering a ship, a big ship with a small rudder.
It takes time to turn things around. And it appears
as though debts are really piling up in America.

Speaker 7 (01:24:18):
Yeah, pressing. They really have been. The February survey of
consumer expectations released by the New York Federal Reserve Board
of Governors found that almost fifteen percent of consumers said
they expect to miss a debt payment within the next
three months. And if you exclude or I should say,

(01:24:41):
that's the highest percentage that believe they're going to miss
a debt payment since you know, at April of twenty
twenty when things were kind you know, when things were
shut down. And I might add in the same area
that consumer savings are are rapidly declining, and thirty percent

(01:25:04):
of all households said that in case of an emergency,
they couldn't come up with two thousand dollars even within
a month or two. So a lot of stress there,
and I think we may see that playing out and
less consumer spending an impact on GDP perhaps as the
year plays out.

Speaker 2 (01:25:24):
That also dovetails to what you're seeing as it relates
to people making plans to take a trip this summer
when the kids are out of school.

Speaker 7 (01:25:31):
Yeah, it really does. So travel plans. You know, you
had about forty nine fifty percent of the population planning
to travel last year, and the survey this February just
completed is seeing a decline down to about thirty nine percent,

(01:25:52):
about a twenty percent decline in regards to whether they're
going to take a vacation in the next six months,
and so vacation plans that involved travel lowest since twenty ten,
if again you exclude the COVID period.

Speaker 2 (01:26:12):
It also shows up that the personal economies of people
are being stretched and tested when you look at how
many people are touching their four h one K. I'm
going to set aside the fact that I've long argued
it's no one's business, not the government's business, when we
touch our retirement savings.

Speaker 1 (01:26:32):
But the bottom line is people are.

Speaker 7 (01:26:34):
Yeah, they really are. About five percent of all four
to one K holders took early withdrawals due to economic
cardships this past year in twenty twenty four, and that
was an increase from three point six percent the year
before that in twenty twenty three. So this is the

(01:26:58):
highest percentage that have indicated or took hardship loans going
all the way back to two thousand and eighteen. And again,
I think as we've been talking about here, Preston, is
just shows that consumers, some consumers are stressed to the

(01:27:20):
point where they're taking money out, and in some cases
they're getting hit with an early withdrawal penalty when they
make that move.

Speaker 2 (01:27:28):
I just want to give you a chance to kind
of give us a little snapshot of the S and
P five hundred over the last three weeks and what's
been seen out there.

Speaker 7 (01:27:36):
Sure, so the S and P five hundred peaked on
February nineteenth, and over the following three weeks we saw
a decline of about nine percent, and when we look
at the declines that have occurred, that puts it in
the second percentile out of two out of one hundred. Okay,

(01:27:57):
so it was a bad period. It was the worst
decline we've seen since nineteen fifty three. That's the bad news.
Now the good news looking forward historically, when we've had
declines that have occurred that quickly twelve months later, the
S ANDP miraculously has had a net increase of over

(01:28:18):
twenty percent. And actually at least if it's not twenty percent,
turns up to have a positive return about eighty three
percent of the time. So hold on to your seats.

Speaker 1 (01:28:31):
Well, at least we can end on some good news.

Speaker 7 (01:28:34):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (01:28:35):
That's thank Howard, Yes, sir, have a great day. President
you as well.

Speaker 2 (01:28:39):
Howard Eisman with us some financial news and nuggets money.

Speaker 1 (01:28:43):
Talk here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (01:29:07):
Tomorrow on the program, athletic director for Florida State University
Michael Alford will join us in the third hour.

Speaker 1 (01:29:13):
We're gonna have a little.

Speaker 2 (01:29:14):
Chat of the stadium renovation new head basketball coach. Just
kind of the state of athletics in the nation, just
kind of where the country is going college athletics. The
ACC deal a lot of ground to cover, but we're
going to really talk about that football renovation, the stadium
do Campbell and the new facility for football, got animal stories,

(01:29:38):
a ton of other news to talk about today. Was
incredible epic program. I hope you enjoyed it. These are
the shows that I'm real proud of because of the
quality of guests and topics we cover, and I hope.

Speaker 1 (01:29:54):
You enjoyed it.

Speaker 2 (01:29:55):
Georgia Men as in North of US group of guys
Atlanta based nonprofit men opposing sex trafficking the acronym is
most started an effort to break againness world record by
playing a continuous basketball game, and they went one hundred

(01:30:20):
and twenty one hours and three minutes. Twenty three players
from seventeen to the age of sixty four were required
to remain inside the gym for the duration of the attempt,
even while taking breaks. The final score was thirteen thousand
and ninety six to twelve thousand, nine hundred and seventy two,

(01:30:44):
so always a bit of a blowout. One team beat
the other team by by quite a few points. But anyway,
the money raised fight sex trafficking, support recovery programs for survivors.

Speaker 1 (01:30:55):
Well done, guys. One hundred and twenty one hours straight
of playing hoopes. That's a long time.

Speaker 2 (01:31:06):
I mean, do the math there, my friends, that's that's
roughly five days of playing basketball. And you had to
stay in the gym, So twenty three guys, they they had.
You got ten players on the court at a time,
so you had a nice rotation. But I'm wondering, how
do you sleep because one group, I mean, I guess

(01:31:32):
you've got enough there for two teams, four teams actually,
and then a few backups. So I'm guessing you've got
five on five. So you've got one group maybe sleeping
for four hours while the other group's going for four hours.
That is not a fast court, fast, you know, fast

(01:31:53):
break kind of game.

Speaker 1 (01:31:54):
No way.

Speaker 3 (01:31:56):
I'm actually impressed that they scored thirteen thousand points. Brought
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Speaker 2 (01:32:07):
I mean, the sheer duration of that is is kind
of mind numbing. I'll let them have that record. Not
interested in take it.

Speaker 1 (01:32:16):
We started the day with Titus two and picked.

Speaker 2 (01:32:20):
Up with Verse three talking about older women. We started
the week with older guys, now older women. We'll see
where it goes tomorrow. I want to recap just the
interviews the guests today. We did have big stories. We
talked about the Tesla attacks continuing. Members of Congress Democrats

(01:32:46):
could be charged with inciting violence. More transgenders involved in
these attacks?

Speaker 9 (01:32:55):
What is that?

Speaker 1 (01:32:57):
What? Anyway?

Speaker 2 (01:32:58):
Stacy Abrams her organization in Georgia, the New Georgia Project,
in trouble, likely with the irs. North Carolina family can
sue over COVID vaccine administered by a school district without permission,
permission from the parents, no consent. Talk to Elizabeth Cole
was solo parent, Riley Gaines, she'll be at FSU more

(01:33:21):
on that this week. Talk to Jerome Hudson from Breitbart,
Howard Eisman in Money Talk. Yeah, I'd say it was
pretty stellar and tomorrow we'll do it again. Friends, have
a great day,