Ep. 5348: Will Disney learn a valuable lesson, or not?

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Teusday, April 1st.

Our guests today include:
- Congresswoman Kat Cammack 
- Comm. Manny Diaz
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Good morning, Welcome to the month of April. It's the
Morning Show with Preston Scott. He's ose, I'm Preston at
show fifty three forty eight. Yes, it's April. First, let
me tell you something. The only fools around here will
be me. Just remember that. No, there's no practical jokes

(00:38):
on the show today. I'm not a big fan of
that stuff. There may be inadvertent moments where I make
a fool of myself, but aside from that, and that
wouldn't be intentional at all. He's the word inadvertent. But
welcome friends to the broadcast. And we begin, as always

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with scripture, and we're going to go Palm one O three.
Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and all that is
within me, Bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, oh
my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Now we're

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going to pause. There there's a list, there's a list coming.
But what I want I want to do is I
want to take just a couple of minutes here and
first verse one, you're commanding your soul to bless the

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Lord all that is within you. Now, what would happen
if we put that seriously into play? All day long. Now,

(02:11):
I'm not saying you can't do your job. You have
things to do, you have meetings to attend, you have
business to be focused on, You've got school classes and
so forth. I think what this is challenging us to
do is to be mindful that everything you and I

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do reflects our heart and our attitude towards God. And
I spent some time Sunday thinking about this. It was
sort of part of the message in church. We're in

(03:00):
Titus chapter three, and there's some challenging, especially contemporary, kind
of taking those scriptures and applying them to today. There's
some challenges in there, and I've been wrestling with it

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a little bit. And I think, when I look at
this scripture, all that is within me bless his Holy Name,
carrying that attitude through the day. You know, I I've

(03:45):
shared this a couple of times. A dear friend who
has gone on to be with Jesus, a guy named
Bob Newton, and Bob and I would play golf together.
Bob was a very good golfer at an advanced age,
a very good golfer, and he would he would hit

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a bad shot top a ball or something down the fairway,
and suddenly you would hear him go hallelujah, and he
just smile as big as day. He might hit a
bad putt, praise the Lord. Everywhere he went. He was

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just praising Jesus. And yes, you can do that out loud,
but you can also do that in your heart and
with your attitude and with your conduct, your actions, the
words that you speak. You know, I've challenged you before.
If you are one of those people that uses the
F word all the time, man, drop it. It's not becoming.

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Just stop and then work on the rest. But then
this bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forget not
all his benefits, the goodness of God.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Ten past the hour.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
April First, we'll take a peek on what that means
in the American Patriots Almanac. Next on The Morning Show
with Preston Scott. It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

(05:46):
Cory Booker slamming President Trump on the floor of the
Senate's a seven o'clock last night, Go get it I.
April first, seventeen eighty nine. In New York City, the
US House of Representative holds its first meeting, elects Frederick

(06:11):
Mullenberg of Pennsylvania as its first speaker.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
Just want to remind you.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Elon Musk could be Speaker of the House, just saying,
you don't have to be elected to Congress be the speaker.
Just saying, I'm just saying. Eighteen sixty five Union troops
went a victory at the Battle of Five Forks, Virginia,
causing Robert E. Lee to tell Jefferson Davis that Petersburg

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and Richmond must be evacuated. Nineteen forty five, American troops
begin landing on the island of Okinawa, the largest amphibious
assault in the Pacific during World War Two. Nineteen fifty four,
US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is established.
I once broke down right in front of that, blew

(07:02):
a wheel off a car, now a tire, a wheel,
wheel sheared off my sixty nine trans Am and went
flying down I twenty five. Thankfully didn't hurt anybody. I
had quite the ride. Tire left the left rear, the

(07:23):
wheel left the left rear part of the car. It
slammed down and jumped up on two wheels, and I
just cruised right off the interstate. No one hit me.
I hit no one. The tire didn't The tire and
wheel didn't hit anybody. I was a little shaken by
that event, but I got a good look at the

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Air Force Academy.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Because it was right there.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
Nineteen sixty, Tyros won the world's first weather satellite, launched
from Cape Canaveral, and in nineteen ninety six, this is funny,
the fast food chain Taco Bell announced that it had
bought the Liberty Bell and renamed it the Taco Liberty Bell,
and thousands fell for it. It was like that, I mean,

(08:11):
that's funny. That's pretty funny, great April Fools joke. Today
is National Tom Foolery's Day, not to be confused with
April Fool's Day. I guess it is National sour dough

(08:31):
bread Day. Hear that, Emily. Today's national one cent day.
Wonder what's going to happen to the penny? Just saying
the valuable pennies will become even more valuable if we

(08:53):
do away with pennies.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
I have a heart for pennies. Not really.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
Today on the show, US congress Woman kat Caamick will
join US Commissioner of Education for the Sunshine State, Manny Diaz,
it's been a minute since Manny's been on the show.
We'll talk to him, get his thoughts about the possible
dismantling of DOE, what that means, what people don't think
about or know about the relationship between states and the

(09:24):
federal Department of Education. We've had a couple of generations,
maybe three if you define a generation by twenty year windows.
This is sorry. We are now in our third generation
of a Department of Education federally. There was one prior

(09:48):
to that, so we're kind of going back to the future,
if you will. So, yeah, we'll talk about that a
lot of other stories. We'll take some calls on a
very interesting topic next hour. It's kind of a it's
I'll just I'll wait and tell you about it in
about a half hour. I will. It's gonna be fun.
Though we had fun yesterday talking about dreams. There's just

(10:10):
some look when we get a chance to divert and
talk about some other things and just kind of push
away from all the politics.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
I think it's kind of fun, don't you.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
Don't you?

Speaker 2 (10:21):
I think it's good for us.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Sixteen past the hour, It is the Morning Show at
Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Twenty two minutes past. Good morning.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
Rainstorm wasn't as bad in our area as maybe was expected.
It went a little south of us, it appears, so
that's good, but I know there was some heavy rainfalls
still in the region. I hope things are all right
in your home. I don't know if you've seen the numbers,
but snow White, the Disney remake, just it went from

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bad to worse. It dropped sixty six percent in the
second weekend. It earned just fourteen million according to Variety
magazine over the weekend. What's interesting to me is You've
got these people out there that are quote, public relations

(11:34):
crisis experts, and this one is Susan and Susan Sarah Schmidt,
and she could not be more wrong. And I'm thinking
to myself, you're paid to do this, and you are
this off. Listen to what she's diagnosing the problem as
it's not a result of wokeness, it's Disney's inability to

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respect the weight of the crown. They cast a rising
star radically reworked in an American classic, then went silent
while the Internet lit the match, instead of arming Rachel
Ziggler with a clear message or standing beside her when
her comments went viral, they disappeared. They skipped the fan base,
skip the charm, skip the chance to explain the magic.

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This wasn't a cultural war casualty. It was a failure
to lead the conversation. Sweet lord, that is one of
the dumbest things I've ever heard in my life. You
and I are not in the business of quote crisis
public relations, but if I were, I'd be a heck

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of a lot better than that, and honest, because the
only way you can manage a PR crisis is to
look at it honestly. You have to step back and say,
it doesn't matter that Rachel Ziegler is a rising star.
What she said and continues to say is torpedoing her

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career because she's toxic. You wait, the next thing we're
going to hear as how she's been canceled by conservatives.
Know she's canceling herself by being toxic. And movie companies
have this thing, it's called profitability, that they want to
maintain and they don't want someone that's going to tank

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their profits. She has personally ruined this movie. Now, let's
set aside any creative license they took with the movie itself.
But I want to go to comments made here by
and oh, by the way, this had to be a
lot of fun on the set with her and gal Gado.

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You know, Ziegler is pro Palestinian, gal Gado's in Israeli,
And apparently it was a little frosty. But what I
want to get to here is Jonah Platt. Jonah Platt
is the son. He's thirty eight, He's a man. His dad,
Mark Platt, worked on the film, flew to New York

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City to reprimand Ziegler during the film's promotional cycle. The
meeting was quote a failed attempt to get the actor
to delete a social media post reading and always remember
Free Palestine. Platte gets online and starts going to town

(14:32):
about this.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
Listen, this is.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
What happens when somebody recognizes, see this guy, Jonah Platt,
the son of one of the producers or directors. He
needs to be in crisis public relations. Yeah, my dad,
the producer of an enormous piece with an enormous piece
of Disney IP with hundreds of millions of dollars on
the line, had to leave his family to fly across

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the country to reprimand his twenty year old employee for
dragging her personal politics into the middle of promoting the
movie for which she signed a multimillion dollar contract to
get paid and do publicity for. This is called adult
responsibility and accountability, and her actions clearly hurt the film's
box office. This is the part I want you to

(15:19):
listen to, because this drags all the way back to
Colin Kaepernick in the NFL Okay. Listen to what he said.
Free speech does not mean you're allowed to say whatever
you want in your private employment without repercussions. Tens of
thousands of people worked on that film, and she hijacked
the conversation for her own immature desires at the risk

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of all the colleagues and crew and blue collar workers
who depend on that movie to be successful. Narism narcissism
is not something to be coddled or encouraged. Brilliant take.
Earlier this week, Variety reported that Platte met with Zegler

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for a second time after she posted bleep Donald Trump
made Trumps supporters never know peace and that the Disney magic. Now, Seriously,
isn't those are comments? Isn't that what Disney wants? And
the and Fox consults a PR crisis expert that couldn't

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find her way through out of a closet, unbelievable, twenty
eight minutes past the hour, Come back with the Big
Stories in the press Box.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
Thing Show with Preston Scott sixty percent of the time.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
It works every time.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
On news Radio one hundred point seven double UFLA.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
Thirty six minutes past the hour. I'm going to upset
some people here because I recognize that Donald Trump is
a breath of fresh air.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
And he is.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
But as I've always said to you, if you lose
the ability to be objective and honest about anyone, you're
starting to worship that person. We're not supposed to worship people.
And there are a lot of things I like and
admire about Donald Trump, but there are things that I've

(17:39):
warned you of, and I'm going.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
To tell you right now. He's not helping matters.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
First of all, I'm over the talk about Greenland and
the fifty first state crap.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
I'm over it.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
It's silly, it's egotistical, it's just it does not help.
It creates animosity where none existed previously.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
That's the thing.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
And then when he's asked about a third term and
he says, uh, there are ways to do that, excuse me,
and then you've got Steve Bannon out there. No, we
don't need to be talking about crap like that, period.
And he needs to stop it because this is the

(18:46):
type of thing that fuels all of the talk about
Oh see, he wants to be a dictator, he wants
to be a king. He doesn't think the rules apply
to him. Well, I mean they're talking. Well, let's see
jd Vance can run for president. He'll be vice president
then and then jd Vance will step out of the

(19:06):
way so Trump can be president again. Oh stop it, no,
really stop it. And you know Trump says, hey, I
like working. Awesome, me too, But he did not just
he needed to categorically say no, this is my second

(19:30):
term and I'm going to try to get as much
done as I can and prepare the way for another
president to follow what we're trying to do here. But
he said, well, I like working. I'm not joking, but
I'm not. Look, it's too early to think about that.

(19:51):
There are and then he goes, but there are methods
to do it. Oh god, now Jose's over there laughing.
I'm not and I know that some of you are like,
this is yes, we need another third, yes we do, No,
we don't. It hurts the credibility of what he wants

(20:21):
to get done, because now it allows the other side
to say see and distract.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
See.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
Stay focused on what dose is uncovering. Stay focused on
hammering in as it to make permanent the changes that
are being made through executive order. There is plenty to
do there this kind of talk. He fell into the
trap to even answer it. That's a silly question. No,

(20:58):
of course not.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
That's how you answer it.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
You end it, You nip it right there, done, and
you then stay focused on your agenda. You've just given
the press license to fan the flames on this because
you didn't shut the door. And honestly, I don't care
if there are legal maneuverings to do it.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
It's wrong.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
Honestly, I'm grateful now that he didn't get elected right
away to his second term because I think his term
after Biden is far more effective, and I think he's
far more prepared than he would have been. I think
he was a blessing in disguise. There are other big stories.
We'll get to those next. Forty minutes past the hour,

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Go ahead, hate on me, It's all right.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
One point seven UFLA.

Speaker 4 (21:54):
See.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
I'm I'm certainly not a never trumper. Those people are nuts,
they're obsessed, they're hateful. But I'm also not an always trumper.
He's fallible. It's like you and me. I don't worship him,

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I appreciate him, and I wish he'd check his ego.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
On this stuff.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
Now, there's a time to poke in prod. That's not
one of them. That's not an issue you poke in
PROD about. I'm sorry, Republicans. In the state House, State Senate, Senate,

(22:44):
there was a bill the Officer Jason Rayner Act.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
Rayner, you might recall, was shot and killed in.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
The head by a drug dealer, a thug during a
police stop. The guy got a reduced sentence for manslaughter
instead of murder, and so a bill introduced by Tom Leak,

(23:11):
state Senator called the Jason Officer Jason Rayner Act, would
have instituted a mandatory life sentence for cop killers.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
I'm good with that, but the bill has been put
on hold.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
Tom Leak did it because quote of his love for
Democrat colleagues. Democrats were crying that the bill would disproportionately
affect black people. Why no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
don't be dismissive of this. Why would it disproportionately affect

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black people? Is it because black males happen to kill
cops more frequently than white's, Hispanics and Asians?

Speaker 2 (24:17):
Yeah so no really, so what difference does that make?
This is.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
And this is cowardice by Leak. My love for all
of you tells me today the best thing would be
for us.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
To and he's pulled the bill. He's not, he's what
their stop.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Republicans are stopping to increase penalties on cop killers because
of their love for their color.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
So Tom Leek wants to be liked.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
By Democrats as opposed to just doing the right thing
whether you're liked or not. This is part of the
problem with the Republicans today. That's governance cowardice. If you
don't have the bones to govern, then get out. That

(25:30):
bill needs to happen, just like there needs to be
punishment and enforcement of laws employing illegal immigrants. And they
they are cowards on both. You know, one of the
problems we're facing in our country is the unwillingness to

(25:51):
talk about difficult issues. We still don't talk about black
on black crime. Look at almost every city in America
where black men die at a disproportionately high rate, and
you will find their murderers are black men.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
But we don't want to talk about that. We don't
want to.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
Talk about homes without dads. Whether it's black, white, it
doesn't matter. Homes without dads are a problem. It sickens
me that this bill has now been paused because I

(26:42):
love my Democrat brethren. I love them too, I have to,
but I don't have to like them. Doesn't mean past
the freaking bill. You're a super majority. What's wrong with them?

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Forty seven minutes past the album, I'm still not through
the big stories.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
Common sense amplified. It's the morning show at Preston Scott.
All right, We're gonna.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
Change gears here because we can and we need to.
This is from not the Bee, remember now, not the Bee,
not the Babylon Bee, not the b This is where
all the stories are true, no satire. And they've got

(27:49):
just a tiny bit of snark and fun in their
headlines occasionally.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
And here is one top men.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
CIA documents reportedly confirm the existence.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
Of the Arc of the Covenant.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
Now, if you remember Raiders of the Lost Arc and
how it ends who who's looking into the arc? Top men?
So here's the story. The CIA claimed to have confirmed

(28:35):
the existence of the Arc of the Covenant by way
of remote viewing, otherwise known as extrasensory perception ESP, alleging
the mysterious sacred object is guarded by entities with an
unknown power. A recently resurfaced declassified document claims in a

(28:57):
remote viewing session on December fifth, nine, nineteen eighty eight,
remote viewer number thirty two was tasked with identifying a
target that, unbeknownst to them, ended up being the storied
Arc of the Covenant, according to a document that was
declassified on August eight, two thousand, and has been circulating
on social media.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
This has been reported now by The New York Post.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
Now, there are people that think remote viewing is boulder dash,
and it certainly is dabbling in things I'm not messing with.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
But but I want to know if you think the
Arc of the Covenant now, I don't.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
I'm not asking if you think it's If it's real,
it absolutely is real. Too many historical records of it exist.
You can also, you certainly can call in and say, now,
I don't believe any of it's real. Okay, that's fine,
you can call in and say that. But I want

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to know if you think it's been found, does someone
have it? Does a nation have it? Does Israel have it?
Is it in Ethiopia in the city of Axum in
a church there that has a guard, a priest guarding it?

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Twenty four to seven, that sits in the presence of
the Ark of the Covenant? Do you think it's sitting
in a warehouse somewhere in Washington, DC, or in Virginia
or something. I mean, that's obviously what they intimate in Raiders,
and of course Raiders is very fictionalized. There are a
lot of things wrong with Raiders from a literal perspective,

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but it's still it's a great movie. So I went,
does the Arc of the Covenant is it? Is it
been found? And if so, where is it? What are
your best guesses? Eight five zero two zero five WSLA.
I want to take some calls. If you're interested in this,
give me a call. I'd love to know what you think.

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I'll share some things that I learned years ago on
The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
Five minutes past the hour.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
It's second hour of the Morning Show with Preston Scott
thought it'd be fun to have a call in session
here where we talk about something a little bit different.
It's back in the news. If you google this, it's
out there. It's out there and a lot of sources.
New York Post has something published about it. Not to
be I think Yahoo News has something on it. It

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is the documents that are being looked at. I don't
think it's because it's recently been declassified. It was declassified
quite a while ago. But that the question is the
arc of the Covenant, that artifact that in the Old

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Testament was so prominent. Has it been found? Is it
lost forever? Was it destroyed? Was it carried off and
hidden by Jeremiah the prophet? No one knows. Some think
they know, some believe they've been told. I want to

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know what you think. Has the Arc of the Covenant
been in the possession of Nation ABC or D. Do
you think it that it has been found and it
is in safe keeping? What do you think? Eight five
zero two zero five WSLA. I'll share with you as

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times what author Grant Jeffrey, who researched and studied this stuff,
told me long before he died. He died in twenty twelve.
I think I spoke with him in the nineteen nineties
and asked him questions about things that were in a

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few books that he had written, and I got some
fascinating answers. But I want to know what you think, Michael,
thanks for calling in this morning. The arc of the Covenant,
besides Indiana Jones, has anyone found it?

Speaker 5 (33:35):
I think someone has found it. There was an archaeologist,
I believe his last name is White, and he was
dating under Gogtha where Christ was crucified, and there's a
crack that runs down that hill, I mean deep, and
he found a bandit tunnel. I think Jeremiah hid the

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Archite Covenant before Titus sacked the temple to keep it safe.
And I think the reason it's still in Israel is
in the Second Coming. Actually, the Antichrist will try to
put it, you know, or have it put in this
third Temple, and then that way says, see, I had
to see to God, I am God, et cetera, et cetera,

(34:16):
et cetera. Okay, So I think it is in Israel.
I think it's real club. I mean that Golgatha is
like right is in Jerusalem basically. I mean it's a suburb.
If you will, I think it's right there.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
So but do you believe it's been found and it's
in the possession of or you just believe that's where
it's located.

Speaker 5 (34:38):
I think they this professor found it. Now. I don't
know if the Israeli authorities have taken possession of it
or not and keeping it quiet because they don't want
anybody to know. But this book he wrote, he was
talking about he had helpers and a guy crawled down
this hole and came out and said, I can't go

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in there, and he said, look what I found. And
so they dug it out more. And you know, of
course the helpers were smart enough not to touch it
and said, hey, this is the dark of the Covenant.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
So interesting.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
Thank you, Michael, appreciate the phone call. Let's go to Matt. Hello, Matt,
good morning morning.

Speaker 5 (35:18):
Pressedon, Hey, just off of your last caller, and that's
exactly the reason why I believe it has been found.
But also, if you'll just google the Sacrifice of the
Red Heipper, yep, seven times a red heaper will be sacrificed.
It's written about it. Numbers eighteen in the Bible, and

(35:43):
from another talk show host that spoke on this subject
not long ago. Three red heipers have been imported from
the United States for sacrifice at a temple that is
being rebuilt right now. And yes, I do believe it
has been found. And Mount Goggle that he was talking

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about is the same mountain that Christ was sacrificed on
and when he found when the scientists he was talking
about found the Covenant, he also found a black material
which ended up being live blood. So I believe. I
believe it's theft found and I believe simple as being

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prepared for the sacrifice of the seventh red heifer.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
Thank you, Matt.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
Appreciate that there's something missing from that equation, though, if
they go ahead and reinstitute the sacrificial practices from the
time of Moses, I'll get to that. I'll explain that,
but I will I want to keep focused on the
arc of the Covenant. You're welcome to call in, or
you can just kind of sit back and listen what

(36:51):
was shared with me by an author that spent a
lot of his time. If you look up the books
of Grant Jeffrey, you'll get a few for you know,
kind of his area of interest and expertise. But I'll
share all that with you and more and take your
calls at eight five zero two zero five WFLA. The
Ark of the Covenant? Is it in the possession of

(37:13):
a nation? Is it still undiscovered? Was it destroyed?

Speaker 2 (37:19):
What do you think? It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
Don't worry, We're here to make it all better. It's
the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 5 (37:37):
Now.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
The Bible has a lot to say about the arc
of the Covenant numbers four, number seven. Exodus twenty five
talks about the polls that are to remain in it
at all times. Two Samuel six teaches the dangers of those.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
Who are not levitical priests touching it.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
David ordered it brought back from the Philistines, and unfortunately
they did what the Philistines were doing. They put it
on a cart, a cart drawn by oxen or horses
or what have you.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
I think it was oxen.

Speaker 1 (38:23):
And when it got to what's described as the threshing floor,
the oxen stumbled. The cart started to rock, and a
soldier as a placed his hand on the arc to
steady it, to keep it from tipping. Over and he
immediately was killed because he wasn't a levitical priest. See,

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God was really particular about that stuff. These are the rules,
and it was yet another example of just showing how
futile it is for man to just kind of figure
this out on his own. That's why God sent his son,
because we couldn't get it done. We couldn't do it,
We can't meet the standard. And so when you look

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at what happened us, it dies because he touches it.
He's not a levitical priest. And God brought about the
tipping of that cart. Why because he wanted the arc
off of a cart and back on to the shoulders
of the priests. The priests were supposed to carry the

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ark of the Covenant, only levitical priests period. And now
this is where it gets interesting. We fast forward to
the twentieth century. At some point in the twentieth century,
author Grant Jeffrey told me on a phone call and
has written about this, that in Israeli general, he's spent

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countless time in Israel. Jeffrey did, and he made relationships
and friendships, and he said that he was told by
a trusted high ranking Israeli General that the location of
the arc had been found. Was it in this church

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in Axom, Ethiopia. Maybe, maybe not. There's a lot of rumor,
there's some problems with the story, but there's certainly the
Orthodox Church of Ethiopia in the city of Axim.

Speaker 2 (40:39):
They held to that idea.

Speaker 1 (40:42):
That it was a church with a group of concentric circles,
and in the last circle inside, one priest remained in
the presence of the ark at all times and was
there until he tagged out at a very old age
and was replaced by somebody else.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
And that's it.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
Concentric circles were meant to present a barrier to anyone
who would dare to take it. I don't know, but
here's what Grand Jeffrey said, Israel has the Ark. He
said that they went so far as to find members
of the Israeli military whose family line dated back to

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the levitical priesthood. In other words, they found military men
whose ancestors were levitical priests, and they carried the arc
out and transported it to a location. Now, this where

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it gets really interesting, as it relates to the sacrifice
and bringing back what Moses engaged in and I'll share
that next with you because it does connect together, but
there are some challenges.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
That are faced by that.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
Sixteen minutes past the hour, just talking about something different
in here on the Morning Show, twenty two minutes past
one more call here before I get to the PostScript
on this story. We're talking about the arc of the Covenant.

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Is it in the hands of a nation? Has it
been found, is it destroyed? Was it destroyed, is it
forever lost? Or what do you think?

Speaker 2 (42:36):
Bill? Thanks for calling in.

Speaker 6 (42:39):
Well. In your last segment, you were talking about how
the Israeli military did a genealogical study to find out
who could actually carry the arc of the Covenant, inasmuch
as that to go back that many centuries to find
those feeds, but to say okay, you're the man. Did

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they have to go through some process of ordination to
be able to carry the arc? I just have these questions.
Okay they tapped them on the shoulder and said, Okay,
you're part of the bloodline, you get to do it.
It seems somewhat far fetched.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
Yeah, I can't answer that question because I don't know
for certain how they went about making that determination, but
they were smart enough to make the determination that they
better be of the line of the levitical priesthood.

Speaker 6 (43:37):
Yes, well, I sure hate to make the mistakes.

Speaker 1 (43:41):
Well, you know, you could argue, if the story is true,
you could argue if none of them died, they passed
the test. Yeah right, yeah, right, Bill, thank you. I
appreciate that, great question. Here's the thing. The Muslims deny

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the Temple was ever on Temple Mount in Jerusalem, and that,
of course is just balderdash. It it's rubbish. It absolutely
was there. The evidence is there, the walls are there.
I mean, you know, come on, that's absurd. This is
all about trying to find a way to preserve the

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myth of Muhammad and his making up of a faith,
which he did.

Speaker 2 (44:35):
Muhammed, if you look at his Mohammed's a man of history.
But he was.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
Not one to embrace the new Christian faith. He was
not embracing the Jewish faith. So he took elements of
both and created his own religion.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
That's what he did. Okay, let's set that aside. For second.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
There are those that believe that there is room on
Temple Mount for the Dome of the Rock, which is
where allegedly the prophet Muhammad was taken up and the
temple to be rebuilt. The Muslims will never allow that.
They just they will not allow that. As I understand scripture,

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that's where the temple has to be rebuilt, though, so
I don't know what all that means. I can't tell you.
A previous caller talked about the red Heifer, and you
may remember I had long believed that the best Indiana
Jones movie never made was Indiana Jones and the Ashes
of the Red Heifer. That's the movie that should have
been made. And I sent the idea, in fact, to

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George Lucas at one point I said, this is the
movie you need to write. This is the one because
it fits brilliantly with the theme of the Ark of
the Covenant. And there's something missing though, in what was
shared about the red Heifer. First of all, so you know,
a red heifer that meets the biblical standard for sacrifice

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cannot have one blemish on it, meaning there cannot be
one hair anywhere on the body of that cow that
is anything other than red. There cannot be one white hair,
not one. It's a requirement. But here's what's missing. To
do that sacrifice, you have to have the ashes of

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the previous sacrifices. It's called a perpetual sacrifice. And so
that's why I was saying, that's the Indiana Jones movie
finding because you put it in let's say nineteen sixties,
early Israel, Indiana Jones, Harrison Ford a little bit older,

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and he's been tasked with now finding for a rebuilt
temple the last ashes of the red head, because you
have to have the ashes of the previous sacrifice to
be mixed in with the ashes of a current sacrifice.
So that's the perpetual nature of it. Now I've read

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the reports too of red heifer's having been finally bred
and in the land of Israel. Now, I personally don't
believe that they can build the temple. They might try,
they might build something somewhere, but it will that's not
the acceptable location, at least from a biblical historical perspective.
In what Prophecy says it should be, that said, you know,

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man will do what man does right, but it won't
be an acceptable sacrifice, even if you accept that notion
of it being an acceptable sacrifice without the previous ashes.
And here's why Jesus was the only sacrifice Jesus made
all of those other sacrifices irrelevant. And so you have

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to underst and that this whole issue of the rebuilding
of the Temple, which I had a friend that would
routinely call into the program, David Pelegi. David lived in
the streets, he lived in Jerusalem, he had a shop
in Jerusalem, Historic Jerusalem, and he talked about how there
was an effort to raise money to rebuild the temple.

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It was in all of the stores. My point in
bringing all of this up is Jews that are historical
and faithful to the Old Testament, they are absolutely focused
on this. It matters grand scheme of things. Jesus is
the ultimate sacrifice for our sins. Nothing else is needed,

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nothing else will be offered that is acceptable. So twenty
eight minutes past the.

Speaker 2 (48:47):
Hour, I've just man hopefully you found that at least amusing.

Speaker 1 (49:01):
I'm gonna try to get through all of the big
stories in the next couple of segments, because well, I mean,
they just they take a little time.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
Good morning, friends, Welcome.

Speaker 1 (49:11):
We're halfway through the Morning Show with Preston Scott, US
Congresswoman Cat Camick in a little bit and then an
hour from now Commissioner of Education for the Sunshine State,
Manny Diaz. Haven't had Manny on since last spring. Sheesh,
it's been a minute, So we'll talk to the commissioner again.

(49:33):
It'd be good to have him back on the show.
Trump's answer to the question on a third term, certainly,
I personally think he fell into a trap, and I
know that we, most of us, really appreciate what he's doing.

(49:57):
I'll be thrilled if he survives his term and isn't
killed by Washington insiders. Getting the right people in charge
of the CIA and the FBI is making the difference
and will likely enhance his safety and security dramatically stripping

(50:19):
the security clearances of people that shouldn't have them. If
you're not in office, you.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
Don't need them.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
If we want the opinion of say an expert on this,
that or the other that once served in the government,
you know what you do. You bring them back in,
You vet them, You sit him down, and you give
him information in paper that he can look at in person,
and you ask his opinion or her opinion, and then
you they just leave. They don't take anything with them.

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They don't get security clearances. We don't need to do that.
But when Trump talks about a third term, it just
invites distraction. And now I had an interesting email someone said,
could it be that by talking third term, he's pulled

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the media's attention off Signal Gate. Yeah, could be, But
I think there are a lot of other things you
could talk about that aren't as absurd as saying there
are ways around the constitution where I can serve a
third term. Now see, I have a problem with that.
You know why, because that's what the left does. The

(51:38):
left looks for ways loopholes hate them.

Speaker 2 (51:43):
And I wish you'd.

Speaker 1 (51:44):
Stop talking about Greenland as if they're just some little
brother that you can give noogies. Two kill your Greenland.

Speaker 2 (51:53):
Yeah, you little pip squeak.

Speaker 1 (51:57):
Stop it. You're making enemies where you don't need to
make them.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
Anyway.

Speaker 1 (52:10):
Republicans in Florida paused a bill because they don't want
Democrats to dislike them. The bill was the Officer Jason
Rayner Act, which would have given a mandatory life sentence
to cop killers. This because the guy who killed Officer
Jason Rayner got at manslaughter charge. What he got manslaughter.

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He was sentenced for manslaughter, not murder. He shot the
cop in the head during a traffic stop. And wait,
and why did Tom Leaks, who was the sponsor of
the bill pull it off because of love for his

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Democrat colleagues in the Senate. Why did they commit murder?
Did they shoot a cop in the head? No, The problem,
apparently is that it disproportionately affects black people. See, this
is the problem with race. We continue to assign a
color to it. The fact that it disproportionately affects black

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men is a problem for black men. But it doesn't matter,
and it shouldn't matter. Don't kill cops. They put their
life on the line every moment of every day. If
you kill them, I think it's appropriate and commensurate the punishment,

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the punishment of life in prison. But we didn't do
it because we love our Democrat colleagues. These are self
inflicted injuries by the Republican Party in Florida, not the
party the Republican elected lawmakers.

Speaker 2 (54:06):
Forty one minutes past.

Speaker 1 (54:10):
More big stories next, and Welcome to the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. Actually Victor was wrong twenty three years
now in year twenty four, More big stories in the

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press box. I don't know if you've seen the story
DOGE has uncovered, and I want to just get this said.
And I am trying to get this Barbara Devane, whoever
she is, who's going around complaining about the feared cuts

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to Social Security and stirring up all kinds of crap
over what the mainstream media is falsely reporting that's not
been proposed. It's not going to be proposed. There's a
reality Social Security is on the path of bankruptcy because

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both sides of the aisle have spent stupidly for decades.
Your Social Security money is gone. Your social Security benefits,
if you're drawing it, are being paid by people like
me and jose and everybody else who works and pays

(55:39):
Social Security. Our money is paying you. So our money's gone.
Everything we're putting into our account is going to you.
So just stop believing the lies. What they're doing with

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DOZE is they're uncovering the fraud and the waist and
they're cutting down the size and they're bringing more efficiency
to save your social security.

Speaker 2 (56:11):
I don't know if you saw the chart.

Speaker 1 (56:15):
Since twenty twenty one, nearly five million illegals have a
Social Security number. In twenty twenty one, the first year
of Biden, two hundred and seventy thousand got them. In

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the second year, five hundred and ninety thousand, in the
third year, nine hundred and sixty four thousand. In the
fourth year, two point one million added up. It's almost
five million.

Speaker 2 (56:55):
That now have.

Speaker 1 (56:57):
And they're still getting them. We've got they've uncovered one
point three million already on Medicaid. There are people that
have registered to vote and have voted. They're here illegally,

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but because they have a Social Security number, they're able
to bypass things. So please stop believing the nonsense and
the lies and showing up at these silly protests called
by Democrats to fan the flames on nothing, a giant

(57:39):
nothing burger. Shame on the Left for doing what they
always do, and shame on you for believing it if
you're one of those that believes it. Feared cuts, Really,

(58:00):
Congress isn't stupid enough to actually propose cuts. You might
not get as much of a cost of living increase
as you want and or need. But I hate to
tell you social security is so past its day. Our

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country has to find a glide slope to get off
a forty seven minutes past the hour we've got a
manly minute, maybe even a little more dozed to talk about.

Speaker 2 (58:30):
Next. Told you.

Speaker 1 (58:39):
We'll start with a man in a minute. Yeah, mail
by birth, man by choice. This is our segment where
we take a little time, create a little space for
you moms and dads to consider some skills, virtues, ideals,

(59:02):
mindsets to teach your young son so that one day
you'll look at him, smile.

Speaker 2 (59:09):
Proudly and say, you, sir, are a man.

Speaker 1 (59:15):
Now teach your Last week I talked about teaching your
son how to mow the grass. Let him take a
shot at it.

Speaker 2 (59:28):
Teach him the.

Speaker 1 (59:30):
Purpose of mowing, how to mow that you don't follow
the same pattern every week in mowing season. If you
follow the same pattern, you're going to hurt your lawn.
Mow in different directions. It helps the grass, all right.
But now we're going to expand on that. Teach your

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son about care of a landscape in general. Now, this
is a backhanded little nudge to all of you to
come come on now with your yards. Here's why number one,
you want to teach this to your son because hopefully
one day he'll own a home and he'll have a
landscape to maintain. Maintaining that landscape creates value for the property.

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It keeps the value of the neighborhood up. Drive through
a neighborhood where someone's yard is trash, you've hurt the
value of the neighborhood. That if your yard is trash
because you won't mow it and you won't take care
of it at all, you've hurt your value of your home,
and you've hurt the value of your neighborhood. I think

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it's just to me. It's something that not only do
have I come to enjoy, but it's something that I
think is important to teach your son. That way you
can say you, sir, you are a talented yard keeper.

Speaker 6 (01:00:57):
Er.

Speaker 1 (01:01:00):
So yeah, so there you go. We got Congress from
wing caat cammicking a little bit. I wanted to. This
just made my day. Elon Musk has suggested that there
is a fraud loophole that he thinks is partially responsible
for Congress having some unusually wealthy people earning two hundred

(01:01:24):
thousand dollars a year but somehow acquiring millions and millions
of dollars while serving the people. And so they're going
to look into it. How do they get twenty million
if they're earning two hundred thousand a year. We're going
to try to figure it out and certainly stop it
from happening if they're taking advantage of the taxpayers. He

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thinks there's a fraud loophole with non government organizations known
as NGOs. He thinks that there's some politicians that are
sending money out through these NGOs and then it comes
back through multiple channels back into their pockets. Would it
surprise any of you, But it's music to my ears
that they're gonna look at it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:07):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:08):
You watch how many sudden retirements from the Nancy Pelosis
of the world. We're gonna come back you as Congresswoman
kat Camick lots to talk about some of this stuff.
We're gonna talk a little bit about Doze. We're also
going to talk about social Security. We're going to talk
about a few other things in the news with the Congresswoman.
Next here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. It

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is the third hour of the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (01:02:51):
Hi, Friends, ruminators, how are you.

Speaker 1 (01:02:56):
If I sound like I have a smile on my face,
I do, by golly. I love shows where I get
to talk about things other than the typical, and we're
in this we get trapped because we have a responsibility
to talk about the things that are in the news.

(01:03:17):
You know, I've always shared this is a program where
it's broken down into three buckets. The things you're talking about,
got to give a tip of the cap to that.
The things that you will be talking about news that
we're privy to, that we know is going to be
as big story, and my favorite category, the things that
you should be talking about. I love that, and so

(01:03:40):
we try to we try to make sure that we
do that. But I also am mindful that a steady
diet of nothing but politics, whether it's local, state, or national,
can just cause you to just go yeah. And so
while I know some of you would prefer that I
just throw red meat out there all the time, honestly,

(01:04:03):
I can't do it. I need dessert. Just take a
look at my waistline. I need a little dessert. I
need something other than red meat. And so we'll throw
out a little salad here and there, little fruit cup,
and of course some dessert. And today's show, like yesterday's show,
has had had some of that. US congress Woman cat

(01:04:28):
Camick joining us in just a moment. Here.

Speaker 2 (01:04:29):
We're getting her call lined up.

Speaker 1 (01:04:32):
But it's, uh, there's so much in the news cycle
right now, it's almost dizzy. And that's why I'm grateful
that I don't have to at the very very beginning
with Congresswoman Catchmick Florida's third congressional district, that I don't

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have to talk about any of that stuff. Kat, I
get to say congratulations to you and your husband.

Speaker 7 (01:04:59):
You're yes, thank you. We are very very excited. A
baby girl do it August?

Speaker 2 (01:05:06):
Oh, come on, you got a baby girl coming.

Speaker 7 (01:05:10):
Yeah. My husband is absolutely terrified. He keeps saying, oh
my god, it's going to be two of you.

Speaker 2 (01:05:16):
Oh, it's gonna be awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:05:18):
I have I have a third granddaughter on the way
that's due sometime around July fourth.

Speaker 2 (01:05:25):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 7 (01:05:27):
Congratulation.

Speaker 1 (01:05:28):
Yeah, but no, seriously, how awesome is that? And and
have you does? How does it work?

Speaker 4 (01:05:35):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:05:36):
Trust me, I know how it works.

Speaker 1 (01:05:37):
But you know what I mean, how does it work
being a member of Congress and going through this pregnancy,
giving birth, and I mean, how do you do it all?

Speaker 7 (01:05:46):
Well, I'll tell you I will be the fourteenth woman
in history to ever give birth while serving. So this
is not something that Congress deals with on a regular basis.
They don't have a plan for this at all. And
and as far as the logistics goes, you know, thankfully,

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I'm doing in August, which is the recess, if you will, right,
So we have every plan to deliver in Florida. But
uh yeah, if something happens, I have Walter reed down
the road, and so we're prepared for any contingency. But
I have said he listen, I'm prepared to do this
job pregnant not pregnant, and nothing's going to stop us

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from getting a job done. Of anything, it might make
me a little bit more aggressive, a little bit more
like a mama bear.

Speaker 1 (01:06:36):
Okay, now have have the have you gone through the
pregnancy cravings? Do you have a craving that you've been
dealing with?

Speaker 7 (01:06:46):
Honestly, protein that is vote It's not something specific, it's
only protein. Okay, And uh you know, she she's in
there like a little miss Joanna Gaines rearranging organ not
kind of there. And so at any given moment, I'm
like ow, all of a sudden, I'm winded or oh wow,

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that's different.

Speaker 2 (01:07:10):
I didn't know could be there.

Speaker 7 (01:07:13):
Yes, exactly exactly. And I joke, you know when I
found out. I found out at two o'clock in the morning.
I had just gotten home after a long series of
delayed flights and I was just not going to fall asleep,
and something told me you should take a test, and
so I did, and you know, I was shocked. I'm like,
oh my gosh. Well, the very very next twenty four hours,

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I find myself in the cr fight back up in Washington,
and as you know, we talked about it. I was
one of the thirty eight that did not vote to
give a blank check to the debt ceiling. And I
get a call at midnight and like, you need to
report to the Speaker's office at seven am. And so
I show up, and I know we'll be able to

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tell the story that my daughter's first negotiation was for
one point five trillion dollars in saving with the Vice President.

Speaker 6 (01:08:04):
Of the United States.

Speaker 1 (01:08:05):
Nice. Not many can make that claim. Cat stand By
ten minutes past the hour, US Congresswoman Cat Camick with us,
We've got a couple more segments to talk about the
business at hand.

Speaker 2 (01:08:17):
Here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:08:25):
Doing it his way, like old Blue Eyes, except he
has a little more hair.

Speaker 2 (01:08:30):
The Morning Show with Preston Scott twelve past the Hour.

Speaker 1 (01:08:36):
US congress Woman Cat Camick with us and thrilled to
be hearing the news of a new member of her
family coming.

Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
Kat.

Speaker 1 (01:08:47):
We've talked a little bit this morning about Look, we
all love the president. We love what he's doing largely,
there's always things we wish were different. But are you
concerned at all that this talk about green and the
talk of a third term that he he takes and
he distracts from the business that needs to get done.

Speaker 7 (01:09:08):
So a couple of things. One, if it sounds incredibly windy,
it's because I'm walking to the capital and it is
absolutely frigid, especially for Fluordian right now. So sorry about
all the women in the background. But then on the
issue of you know, I'll just use the third term
as an example. Do I think that he's serious. No,

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I think that, you know, the president, he's very good
at some shock and aweest. It does more to throw
off his opponents than anything else. So I'm not too
worried about anything really being seriously considered in that way.
And if it were, I would oppose it because what
we know has been done on our side will absolutely

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be done on the other side. And as a constitutional conservative,
it's pretty clear I'm not interested in the institution.

Speaker 5 (01:10:01):
So.

Speaker 7 (01:10:02):
We would definitely not be in support of that. So
I think most of this is mostly for shock and awe,
And again, I'm all in on the America First agenda,
but it has to be focused and I have a
lot of concerns about that at this moment.

Speaker 1 (01:10:17):
What are your expectations for the upcoming announcement tomorrow on
Liberation Day, the tariff announcements.

Speaker 2 (01:10:24):
Have you been cue on anything. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:10:27):
In fact, we've been having a lot of conversations about
how that's going to impact Florida specifically. You know, a
lot of people in our neck of the woods, particularly
in the ag industry, are very concerned because the number
one industry that sees retaliatory tariffs is agriculture, and so
folks are very nervous. There's some discussions about what the

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administration would do to try to ease that pain, but
we need to be very honest about the fact that
and I'm sure I'm getting in an elevator so sorry
about what that would mean in the in the what

(01:11:09):
I say, short term pain for long term gain. And
I'm laughing because one of my Democrat colleagues is hopped
in the elevator with me and he's given me a look.
He just hopped in elev and he is looking at
me like, uh huh, yeah, okay, Cat, But no, I

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think that that's we have, especially in the seat of Florida,
experienced decades of unfair practices that have put us at
a disadvantage, particularly in Florida. I mean, I goes back
to NAFTA, so there has to be reckoning and there
has to be an adjustment because I'm all for free trade,

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but it has to be fair trades, yes, and what
we've seen is not fair.

Speaker 1 (01:11:56):
Kat. Stand by. We're gonna let you get settled here
for a second. Hopefully you'll get settled into your office.
I feel so bad as you're walking to make you
do this interview. I feel like I should just hang out.

Speaker 2 (01:12:07):
But I can't.

Speaker 1 (01:12:09):
Cat Cammick with US US congresswoman from Florida's congressional district.
One more segment to go on The Morning Show with
Preston Scott. Twenty one minutes past final segment here with

(01:12:30):
US Congresswoman Cat Camick, Florida's third congressional district. Cat, I
don't know if when you're back home, or even while
you're gone, if your office is getting hammered like some
other congressional offices of the GOP. But it is unbelievable
what I'm watching happen with the disinformation regarding Social Security.

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Senior adults and activists on the left are trying to
turn this into they're taking away our benefits. They're going
to cut benefits. I don't know of any proposal to
cut Social Security benefits, do you.

Speaker 7 (01:13:06):
I still have yet to come across that one. But again,
this is this is the playbook from you know, circa
you know, the beginning of the two thousands. This is
the George Soros blueprint. And you know, I was born
and raised in Colorado, and there was actually a book
written about what George Soros did in the state of Colorado,

(01:13:29):
talking about how they did the medical marijuana then the
legalization of marijuana, how they used fear mongering tactics on
national issues that were just patently false. This is the
playbook and there it was very effective. Then it's going
to be used again now and people are seeing it
in action. You have paid protesters going to these town halls,

(01:13:50):
shutting these members down. And it's not because they think
that they can actually change someone's mind. They're there because
they want to shame Republican members of Congress. So we've
been getting protests at our office, and for the ones
that we know are are constituents, I've actually offered. I said,

(01:14:11):
come sit down and have a meeting with me. And
in fact I met with two ladies. They call themselves
the Gainesville Democrat Badass Feminists. I think that's their official
group name, and yes, I know. They sat down and
they immediately hit on the social security issue, and I said,
I said, ladies aren't familiar with the fact that in reconciliation,

(01:14:34):
it is a violation of the Bird rule to touch
social security. It cannot be done. Even if people wanted to,
which no one wants to, it cannot be done. They said, well,
how come that never gets talked about. I said, because
no one wants to actually have a conversation. People just
want to scream at each other. And so we actually
ended up having a very productive conversation and it ended

(01:14:56):
with them saying we wish we had this information because
we don't want to go out and tout false, false narrative.
I think that there are people who are getting caught
up in this that don't know better. And I admittedly
I said, you know, Republicans, we've always been bad messengers.
We've never been very effective when it came to telling

(01:15:16):
the story and getting the truth out. That's just always
been a weakness collectively of the party. So we have
a lot of work to do in reconciliation. We cannot
touch social security, and no one is looking to take
away social security period, hard stop, full stop.

Speaker 1 (01:15:34):
I have tried to explain to listeners that the argument
to make about doze because they try to tie doze
and what Elon Musk is doing looking at social security
as see see.

Speaker 2 (01:15:45):
What they're doing.

Speaker 1 (01:15:46):
They're cutting, they're cutting, they're cutting, and yeah, they're making
it more efficient and they're also finding fraud to protect
your precious social security.

Speaker 2 (01:15:55):
Isn't that the argument?

Speaker 7 (01:15:57):
Yes? I mean, And there was a great interview I
only got to catch bits of it with Brettbaer and
really kind of the leaders of those and of course
he was there and they said, you know, they said,
it's absolutely staggering the amount of fraud and abuse that
gets that gets thrown onto Social Security. They said, the
calls that come in where you have scammers that are

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calling into the Social Security Administration and pretending to be
someone else, changing the benefits and sizoning the money away.
And not to mention the illegals, the non citizens that
are collecting Social Security. We should be all collectively as
Americans fighting to get rid of this type of crap,
this garbage that is really really damaging the system. I mean,

(01:16:42):
and again point me in the direction of the one
hundred and seventy nine year old that is collecting a
Social Security check. I want to know their nutritional habits
and I want their skincare routine.

Speaker 2 (01:16:53):
Okay, says this is this.

Speaker 7 (01:16:55):
Is absurd that anyone is willing to go.

Speaker 2 (01:16:57):
Out and defend that last question before where we'll let
you go.

Speaker 1 (01:17:01):
You had mentioned a few visits back the need to
do a bill that requires background checks of those working
in Congress.

Speaker 2 (01:17:08):
Where are we on that?

Speaker 7 (01:17:10):
So we are aiming to introduce this week or next.
It is pretty staggering the amount of pushback that I
have already received. But you know me, I am a
I am a negative reinforcement type person. So the more
pushback I get from Republicans and Democrats, the more I
continue to push to get it done because it is

(01:17:31):
staggering the amount of foreign government influence that is taking
place here on Capitol Hill through organizations like the Muslim
Brotherhoods for example.

Speaker 2 (01:17:42):
Yep.

Speaker 7 (01:17:43):
And then of course it goes without saying that you
have access to the United States Capital to members of Congress,
and you should. We should have a background check done
on everyone, period, full stop. I mean, you have to
have a background check to work at publics. Why shouldn't
you have a background check for work in our nation's capital.
It makes no sense. So that bill is going to

(01:18:04):
be introduced. We're going to be doing a lot of
media around it because it's going to take we the
people to get this to the finish line because Washington,
as we all know, they're very slow to adopt change
and embrace change. So we're going to need everybody, all
hands on deck.

Speaker 1 (01:18:20):
Well God to help them if they push against you.

Speaker 2 (01:18:22):
Now that your mama in waiting, I know, I know, terrifying. Kat,
Thanks again and we'll talk in a couple of weeks.

Speaker 7 (01:18:29):
Appreciate you have a great week, everybody, and go Gators.

Speaker 2 (01:18:32):
Oh oh that hurt, but I know what you mean.
Thank you, Kat.

Speaker 1 (01:18:38):
Gator's in the NCAA Basketball Tournament and number one seed,
the four number ones advanced. Did I call that? Or
what did I call it? The top seeds we're going
to go? I thought ones and twos, we're going to
be in the finals. Here we go. It's guaranteed one
in one. Oh well, great vision with Kat Camick. And

(01:19:00):
you heard call your members of Congress, House and Senate
and demand background checks for staff members in Congress twenty
seven past the Hour, thirty six minutes past warning Show

(01:19:25):
with Preston Scott. You heard me ask the question of
Congresswoman Kat Camick. I think one of the big stories
in the press box. I understand Trump loves to just
pick and tease with the media. I just think you
have to pick and choose your battles. When the media

(01:19:47):
does something falsely, that's when I think you're combative with
the media. You point out the falsehood and you drop
the hammer on him. But you can't you can't have
it both ways. You can't toy with the media and
throw out something like a third term, which is absurd,

(01:20:13):
and not expect the media to jump all over it
and turn it into an issue, and that I think distracts.
I think to talk about Greenland, imagine you're the people
of Greenland for a second, you're I mean, it's almost
as if you're being talked about like you're part of

(01:20:39):
a lego set, and I think it's remarkably distracting to
the overall goal of what you're trying to accomplish. All right,
thirty seven minutes past the hour, haven't had this gentleman
with us in as they like to say, in a
minute joining us Commissioner of Education for the State of Florida.

(01:21:00):
These man ideas, Manny, how are you?

Speaker 4 (01:21:03):
Good morning, doing great to be with you. How are
you doing?

Speaker 2 (01:21:07):
I'm doing well.

Speaker 1 (01:21:08):
I'm curious to get your take on the effort to
dismantle the Department of Education. For those who aren't in
your world, you know, this is what you do for
a living. You're in the midst of it all, Explain
what difference would be made by the ending of the
Department of Education.

Speaker 4 (01:21:27):
Really just a huge benefit to the states. I mean,
a lot of people they hear Department of Education and
think that the Department of Education has actually been involved
in improving the education and dealing with kids in our country.
But they haven't.

Speaker 3 (01:21:44):
It's really just a large bureaucracy who's been used, especially
by the Biden administration and other Democratic administrations, to really
impose the will of the federal government on states.

Speaker 4 (01:21:56):
And we all know that education is a responsible literty
that belongs to the state.

Speaker 3 (01:22:01):
And how do they do it.

Speaker 4 (01:22:02):
They use the per strings. They put strings attached to
those dollars that are appropriated by Congress, and they try
to get states to do things like allow you know,
men to play in women's sports, which is what the
Biden administration's you know, final push was before they kind
of get out of office there. So it's really not

(01:22:22):
something that has an actual effect. The dollars are still
appropriated by Congress. They are coming to the states. We
will have a lot more flexibility on how to use
those dollars appropriately within the state. And so that's really
the big differences. It's a net positive, and.

Speaker 1 (01:22:39):
I mean it would be fair to say that not
just that there's more money. If X amount of dollars
is allocated to education in America through the federal government,
we don't have a bleed off of any of that
money to run a bureaucracy.

Speaker 4 (01:22:55):
That's correct.

Speaker 8 (01:22:56):
And I mean, look, if you really kind of a
dose theory, if you really wanted to take a deep
dive into those dollars and how they've been used going
back to the Carter administration when this was created, you're
going to be very disappointed. So I think people have
the misunderstanding that these dollars have all flowed down into
the classroom, have been used to educate our kids. And

(01:23:19):
so you know, you hear those same folks saying what
we need is more money.

Speaker 4 (01:23:23):
No, we spend more than almost any country in the
world on education, but we're not getting great results. Part
of that is because of this bureaucracy. Again, you know,
you take someone something like Title one funding, which is
supposed to come from the federal government down to help
schools and students that are of low income improve performance. Well,

(01:23:46):
when you're siphoning off a good portion of those dollars
to have to build a bureaucracy at the district level,
which is just to respond to the needs of what
the federal government is asking for, kind of defeats the purpose,
doesn't us and it's not really getting into that classroom
to help those students, and so we hope and we're
starting to see notifications from the United States Department of

(01:24:11):
Education now under Trump and Linda of a command that
is giving us more flexibility. We're inquiring us to push
that flexibility so that we can get those dollars into
the classroom and helping our students here in Florida.

Speaker 1 (01:24:24):
Commissioner Manida's commissioners stand by. He'll be back with us
one more segment here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott,
The Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one
hundred point seven w FLA. Taking time away from a
very busy schedule. Commissioner of Education for the State of Florida,

(01:24:46):
Many Diaz, Commissioner, what are the priorities for you in
the legislative session.

Speaker 3 (01:24:52):
But we don't have.

Speaker 4 (01:24:54):
Huge bills this year in the legislative session, There's been
a lot of big things done in Florida of us years.
There are a few bills moving through there that provide
some tweaks for the scholarship program, just the logistics of
it and how we get it rolled out. As is
now five hundred and twenty thousand students participating in that.

(01:25:15):
We also like to see some streamlining when it comes
to teacher certification and some of the other things that
we just do and day in and day out, just
to try to make it better for our districts to
be able to recruit teachers and make it easier and
make more sense for our teachers when they get in
the classroom to have the right training and right certification.

(01:25:36):
So we're really just looking overall at how we continue
to improve our choice landscape, how we continue to improve
teacher recruitment. Obviously, the governor has come out again with
the budget proposal that includes increasing teacher salaries and investing
in teacher salaries, so we know that's important, but we
also know it's very important that we maintain our options

(01:26:00):
for families and students and continue to thrive with our
choice landscape here in Florida. So I think it's a
good balance and that's kind of what we're looking at.

Speaker 1 (01:26:10):
One of the proposals I discussed in the last few
days was one that would change that's the graduation standards,
removing a couple of the standardized barriers. Namely, I think
the biggest one problematically to me is the.

Speaker 2 (01:26:23):
One of regarding algebra one.

Speaker 1 (01:26:26):
I just I think they're roughly half the students just
are not mathematically inclined. And I think it's a kind
of a silly requirement, especially when you apply it in
ged settings.

Speaker 2 (01:26:36):
What are your thoughts on that?

Speaker 4 (01:26:39):
Well, look, I think we have to have a requirement
for math. We have to have a measurement right by
which we were saying, we're giving us students of Florida
High School diploma and we're expecting that they are going
to be able to read in tenth grade level, which
is what we're telling our folks when they graduate. I
think there has to be requisite in math. And you know,
some people arg is that algebra is at geometry what

(01:27:02):
is it? And some folks will tell you, well, you
you know, do you use algebra the rest of your life?
The truth is you do. It's the logic that you learn,
you know, it's the process of logic. You may not
be doing equations, but I guarantee you that throughout your
day there are there are equations you go through in
your head using logic to to get answers to things,

(01:27:23):
even if it doesn't look like an algebraic equation. So
I think there's there's a you need to have a
minimum math requirement when you're when you're saying you're going
to give a student a graduation a diploma from the
State of Florida high school diploma. And so you also,
a lot of these students are going into the world
has changed, as you know, and a lot of students

(01:27:44):
are opting not to go to the traditional four year
route universities. They're they're opting to go into the state
college system and look into credentials, to stack credentials to
go into things like welding, electricity and all those things. Right,
And I think it's important that students have a base
when they do that, but they're all, you know, students
have multiple ways that they can master that, including some

(01:28:05):
alternative examinations. And so I think, look, if you look
at our graduation rate Preston, it's the highest it's ever
been non COVID, you know, right we had during COVID
the tests were suspended. We're almost at ninety percent graduation,
which is the highest. It's eighty nine point seven highest
the status had. So this is you know, students are graduating.
It's not stopping them from graduating, they're just having some

(01:28:28):
students are having to go through a process of remediation
and getting there. So I think it's important that we
don't if we're not getting students to the bar, that
we don't think we just remove the bar just because
students can't get there. Don't underestimate students. We're able to
get them there.

Speaker 1 (01:28:43):
Manny, thanks for the time today. Look forward to having
you back sometime soon. Appreciate the work you're doing.

Speaker 4 (01:28:49):
Thank you great, great for having me on.

Speaker 2 (01:28:51):
Thank you, Missioner Many Diaz.

Speaker 1 (01:28:53):
This morning, Florida Department of Education and our guest on
The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Brisbane will host the

(01:29:20):
twenty to thirty two Olympics in Australia and if they
hold the rowing competition where they're proposing, friends, you want
to be watching the rowing competition?

Speaker 2 (01:29:36):
You ready for this?

Speaker 1 (01:29:40):
They are proposing the Fitzroy River.

Speaker 2 (01:29:46):
As the location for rowing.

Speaker 1 (01:29:51):
The Fitzroy River is a natural habitat for Australia's saltwater crocodiles.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanize said, but I'm not sure having
the rowing there, although I've got to say people might
break world records. They'd want to go pretty quickly, wouldn't they.

(01:30:18):
The head of Olympics is not at all concerned about it.
He said, there are sharks in the ocean and we
still do surfing. I just wonder if there was a
shark attack in a surfing competition in the Olympics, would
they end that because last I checked, in most of
the Olympic competitions, you don't necessarily have to worry about

(01:30:40):
being consumed by an apex predator. But man, I just
Australia floats crocodile habitat is location for twenty thirty two
Olympic rowing. That is one hundred percent gospel true story.

(01:31:04):
Oh Tomorrow on the show JD. Johnson, Representative Chad Johnson,
It's the day of Johnson's Johnson and Johnson.

Speaker 2 (01:31:11):
Will be with us tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:31:12):
We're going to talk with Chad about the anti Semitism
that's going up on campuses and what Florida, what he
wants to do introducing legislation to deal with it. We
haven't had as much of it here because Governor Ron
DeSantis is just not going to have any of it.
But I think you have to put things in place

(01:31:34):
so that regardless of who's governor, if you have a
week need governor, you don't have these issues the laws
of the law. So that's tomorrow on the program, brought
to you by Barono Heating and Air, It's the Morning
Show one on WFLA. Started the program with the first
couple of verses from Psalm one oh three, and barring

(01:31:57):
something else, we're going to continue with that Psalm tomorrow.
But that's where we started the show. Great visit with
Kat Camick. Congratulations again to Kat her husband Matt, expecting
their first child, a baby girl. That's just awesome, it
really is. And I'll be honest with you, I'm gonna
be a bit of.

Speaker 2 (01:32:15):
A fan here in a nerd.

Speaker 1 (01:32:19):
That was so cool, kind of sort of hearing her
walk into Congress, right into the elevator, Democrat colleague looking
at her, She's just like, yeah, whatever, we lost the
signal for a second or two here and there, because
you and I knew that was gonna happen. Been there, seriously,
been there. But it's cool walking in through the halls

(01:32:41):
of Congress talking to us on the show, Come On, Kat.
And then a visit with Manny Diaz, Commissioner of Education
for Flora. So pretty top notch guests here today on
the program. A lot of great subject matter. I wish
President Trump would stop with the third term in Greenland
and just stop. I wish Republicans would grow backbone in

(01:33:02):
the Florida Legislature. Doge gonna start looking at members of
Congress who have become.

Speaker 2 (01:33:12):
Strangely wealthy, well serving. I love it.

Speaker 1 (01:33:15):
And we took some calls talking about the arc of
the Covenant audio magazine or what huh? Right, that's what
we do around here tomorrow at the middle of the
week April second, Friends, have an awesome day.

Speaker 2 (01:33:32):
Don't play any jokes on everybody, right,