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- Gabriella Hoffman





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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Morn in France. Welcome to Friday. It's the Morning Show
with Preston's God. In Preston, He's Jose great to be
with you this morning, April the fourth, and we start
with Ephesians one seven. In Him we have redemption through
his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the

(00:33):
riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us in
all wisdom and insight, making known to us the mystery
of His will according to his purpose, which he set
forth in Christ, as a plan for the fullness of time,
to unite all things in Him, things in heaven and

(00:54):
things on earth. I want to focus in as we
move to the history segment here in just a second,
making known to us the mystery of His will according
to his purpose which he set forth in Christ. I

(01:17):
think that the simplicity of the message is what really
causes people to stumble. We are programmed in our mind
through the course of our life to do things for reward.
You do things for your parents' approval. You do things

(01:39):
to get a good grade, you do things to earn
an award, you do things to get a raise. And
the idea that God simply sent his son to die
for our sins, and all we have to do is
receive that. It runs so counter to how we're programmed

(02:00):
in our brain from when we're little. It escapes so
many because it's too simple. Being a Christian is not easy,
but it's simple. For God so loved the world, he
gave his only son that whosoever should believe in him

(02:20):
will not perish, but have eternal life. That's not easy
to accept, but it is simple. Eleven minutes past the hour.
Let's get busy. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right,

(02:44):
open up the pages of the American Patriots Almanac. Here
we have eighteen forty one April. Fourth President William Henry
Harrison dies of pneumonia one month after being inaugurated. What
a bummer, dude kicks a bucket thirty days after he
gets put in office. Crazy city of Los Angeles is incorporated.

(03:07):
In eighteen fifty eighteen eighty seven, Susanna Assaulter of Argonia,
Kansas becomes the first woman elected mayor of an American town.
Nineteen forty nine United States and eleven other Western nation
sign a Treaty. The North Atlantic Treaty organization otherwise known
as NATO, started on this day in nineteen forty nine,

(03:29):
and it was on this date in nineteen sixty eight
that doctor Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis. Now,
I don't want to get overly serious too soon, but
I'll just tell you this, FBI killed him. FBI arranged

(03:51):
for his murder. There is zero zip, not a doubt,
more than likely a little bit of the tentacles of
the MK Ultra program. Jay Edgar Hoover hated three people
more than life itself. He hated Robert F. Kennedy, he
hated Martin Luther King, and he hated John F. Kennedy.

(04:12):
And there's no doubt in my mind he played a
role in having all three of them killed. And it'll
be very interesting to see if if certain documents that
that are related to all of this get released. Now,
it's it's insane what our government has been involved in

(04:32):
over the years. And it's a shame, it really is.
You know, we we our founders, would be horrified by
the waters we have dipped our toes in. Anyway, I
don't like I said, I want to get too too early, man,

(04:54):
just too early. But let's just say this. There will
be There is going to be some time spent. And
at some point I'm finding the right people to come
on this program and go through the history of MK
Ultra because it will blow your mind. And it's corroborated.
It's it's congressional hearings, it's out there, it's it's noted,

(05:15):
this is it's just it's forgotten. It's it's a connecting
of dots that once you step back and look at it,
you're like, oh, that's it. That's it. It's National Vitamin
C Day, National JEEP four by four Day, National School

(05:35):
Librarian Day, National Hug a Newsperson Day. That would be tough.
I mean, who do you think are you really are?
Maybe it's just a ministry hug, like you'd hug somebody
that that just needs a hug, you know, not because

(05:56):
they've earned it. You know. It's kind of that theme
of Jesus. It's it's just because we're gonna extend our
love to you, We're gonna give you a hug. Two
newspaper people, newspersons, I should say. And today, best of
all is National Chicken Cordon Blue Day. That is one

(06:17):
of the great great dishes ever concocted by man. But
let me tell you, a chicken cord on blue is
a pounded, very important, pounded chicken breast. If you don't
pound it, you will ruin it. You've got to pound
it down and get it even so that it cooks evenly.

(06:40):
All right, that's number one. And then after you you
get it all laid out flat, lay a layer of ham,
and put Swiss cheese, and then roll it up maybe
a little pancoa breading. You can bake it, you can,
you can put it, fry it in a in a
deep fryer, you can fry it in a pan. But

(07:02):
oh my gosh, it's right up there with chicken kiev.
It's just among the greatest chicken dishes ever. And you
get that Swiss cheese, you cut it and it just goes,
just gooshes out. It's beautiful, all right. Seventeen past the hour,
a great story of biblical archaeology coming up next to.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
One.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
Wondered if the research assistant team of this program starts
to get a little nervous because they think, like me,
it's crazy, because over time they just start to see
stories the way that I see them and they go, oh, yeah,
he needs this one. For example, research assistant supervised Rob

(08:02):
sent me this story, and I knew Rob was wired
a lot like me. We have a lot of common interests.
Both love Jesus. But it concerns me for the welfare
of all of the research assistants if they're just starting

(08:22):
to see the world and the news and the headlines
through my eyes. And it's like, I don't want that
for anybody. That's just that's that's a that's a tough
road to walk, it really is. But thank you Rob
for this story because it's brilliant. I'm gonna just read
the headline just to kind of lay out where we're going.

(08:46):
New discovery at Sight of Jesus's resurrection corroborates the Bible. Now,
it needs to be noted that it's a sight that
many believe is the sight of the resurrection and the

(09:07):
tomb where Jesus' body was laid. We don't know. But
here's what's interesting. I'm gonna read a verse of scripture
to you. Okay, now this is you can hear the
smile of my voice here. John nineteen forty one says

(09:27):
this now in the place where he was crucified, there
was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb
in which no one had yet been laid. It's a
small little detail, right, But what have we learned. We've
learned through archaeological digs in a story we did just

(09:49):
yesterday about Meguido, the exactitude of what Scripture says, Old
Testament knew and what we come to learn. And so
you start to think, you know, Jesus, Jesus said love
God with your mind. You know, he added that little

(10:12):
nugget there that it's not just a matter of faith,
you can intellectually embrace God and what the Bible teaches
and says. And so here you've got this little verse.
And a team from Sappienza University in Rome archaeologists have

(10:37):
been brought to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher because
when they were doing some renovation work they there was
some excavation work being done and in the course of
doing the excavations, they came to find some organic material

(10:58):
and inside the story. Now, this site gets four million
visitors a year, that's how important this site is. But
they analyzed remains of this organic material and found the

(11:21):
presence of olive trees and other garden materials plants. That
matches that simple description in John nineteen forty one, there

(11:45):
was a garden. And so what they've determined is what
was a tomb? Did in fact have surrounding it a garden.
It's just again it's just I don't know. But would
it shock me?

Speaker 3 (12:06):
No?

Speaker 1 (12:09):
I know it exists. I know there's a place. I
know it happened. You know, we know Jesus lived, we
know Jesus died, we know that his body could never
ever be found until he started walking around and hanging
out with people, which was witnessed by lots of people.

(12:35):
And oh, by the way, not once refuted in anything
written back to those times when you would say, now
that's none of that's true, that didn't happen. It's saying
twenty seven past the hour, let's get to the big
stories in the press box. Next in the Morning Show
with Preston Scott Boy that escalated quickly. I mean that

(12:59):
really got out of and fast.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
On wfla.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
Lead research assistant of the Morning Show, pointing out that
yesterday I said the CIA had Martin Luther King killed.
Today I said the FBI. Yeah, they worked together CIA.
The CIA was behind mk ultra, and there's every reason
to believe that mk ultra was used in part on

(13:30):
James Array, the alleged assassin. He's not the guy that
shot and killed King. Not a chance, not a chance,
And more than likely the FBI was responsible. Keep in mind,
the CIA was supposed to be doing nothing but foreign work.

(13:57):
The CIA is a foreign agency, the FBI is domestic.
But the CIA was the source of the mk ultra program.
But uh, anyway, big stories in the press box. This
is brilliant. We've talked about Jasmine Crockett, the representative from
Texas that has decided to become the poster child for

(14:19):
DEI no, and I mean that literally. She's literally bragging
about this. Listen to what she said during the House
Judiciary Subcommittee oversight meeting. They're looking into the corruption inside
the Federal Bureau of Investigation under the Biden administration. And

(14:42):
she said, and I quote, when I first became a
public defender, I had no criminal defense experience. I walked in,
I told my boss, Charlie, I said, listen, you should
hire me. He said why, I said, because I'm black.
Charlie looked at me. Like I was crazy. That's a quote.

(15:04):
Sweet lord, She's bragging about being a DEI Higher. I
had no experience at all, but I said I'm black,
And of course the internet went nuts on this. Carol Swain,
who I believe has been a guest on this program,

(15:26):
she said, Wow, this explains a lot. Jasmine Crockett brags
about being a DEI Higher. That's Charlie Kirk. She went
on to say, we want somebody to show up, and
we don't want them to look at us and act
as as if just because I'm black, or because I'm
a woman, that I'm not worthy of having that case investigated.

(15:51):
What if you flip that. Let's just for a second,
whether you're public defender, whether you're a prosecutor and you're
dealing with a victim's family, whatever the case might be.
She approaches it from the racist, bigoted lens of color.

(16:20):
I don't want people to see me walk in as
a black woman and think that you know, I can't
do the job. Well, do we want you to walk
in and people think that you have the job because
you're a black woman and that you have zero credibility
in her experience, See, that's where this whole race thing

(16:42):
gets lost. We want the best people, period. If it's
all about Dei, man, I'm ready to represent older, middle
aged white guys who think they can play basketball on
an NBA roster. Come on, give me a spot on

(17:03):
the bench, boys, Come on, because there's not enough people
look like me on the NBA. Not enough people that
look like me. But no, that's not what we want.
We don't want Deis on the bench or on the
on the court, or on the field, or in the
track or in the fill in the blank. We want

(17:24):
the best. We buy their jerseys. We don't care what
color they are. Oh wait a minute, Wait a minute,
white white guy wears that number. No, no, oh you
mean a black guy wears that Oh no, I don't
want that. Give me a break. He's your man, he's
the guy you love. Black, white, doesn't matter. You can ball.

(17:44):
You want his jersey. That's what see we are not.
This is this DEI stuff is force feeding race down
your throat. There's another one I got for you, another
story that I'm sad to say, proves me right again.

(18:08):
Forty one minutes past the hour. Big stories not over yet.
I gotta stand up for this.

Speaker 5 (18:19):
One now now.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
Now, years ago, I grew so weary of the op
eds telling us how to avoid mass shootings, that there's
certain things that we need to do to stop mass shootings,
And of course that's to take guns out of people's hands,

(18:50):
because that's how you stop them. Guns are dangerous. Now,
of course, I pointed out that I've had a gun
by my side for twenty years and I've not shot
me yet. But but that's beside the point. Right, rational
thought doesn't matter when it comes to this stuff. So

(19:11):
what I did is I developed something that the mainstream
media could do that, though would not stop these types
of events entirely, might make a difference in What I
suggested was this, I know by the way. I wrote
letters to editors across the state of Florida. I reached

(19:33):
out to the Sheriff's Association, to individual sheriffs. I've asked governors,
I've asked political leaders use the bully pulpit, and asked
the mainstream media to stop using the names of mass shooters.
Now there's a time and a place. You've got a

(19:56):
mass shooting shooter gets away, this is who we're looking for.
You plaster their name and face all over and then
you catch them. And once you catch them, you no
longer print their name, You no longer use their name.
You use them anonymously. The shooter, the mentally deranged, whatever,

(20:20):
but you don't use their name. I've said it time
and time again. I've used examples. The shooter at Marjorie
Stoneman Douglas High School. He said in a video clip
that they uncovered after the shooting. You don't know who
I am, but you will, little Cretan. He killed kids

(20:42):
and for what to be famous? All right, let's fast
forward this story now. Covenant School shooter Nashville. You know
how that story just fell off the map? Why? Because
she's trans, She wanted to be a dude. I've been

(21:02):
telling you it's mental illness. I feel sorry for these
people because somewhere along the line, something tragic happened, or
they got encouraged by people, whatever, they got prayed on.
I don't know, but there's a mental illness there and
I feel bad for them. In this case, this woman
fantasized about killing her her father, killing her psychiatrist, and

(21:25):
she wrote notebook after notebook. I mean, there was no manifesto,
there was a suicide note And now they've released a
report on all these notebooks that she wrote. I want
to just read from the summary. In short, the motive

(21:47):
determined over the course of the investigation was notoriety. It
goes on people to remember her after her death. Inspired
by books and documentaries on the Columbine Killers. I've told

(22:12):
you about the story of the little girl from Florida
who saw the documentaries and fantasized about recreating what those
two little jerks did and Columbine killing all those students.
And so this girl from Florida hops a plane, goes

(22:32):
to Colorado with the plan of going to Columbine and
reenacting the crime. She ends up offering herself in a park.
I mean somehow pulled a shotgun out and blasted her
own brains out using her foot. She's stark naked. But

(22:54):
here's the point. She was born after Columbine even happened.
So how does this become such a thing because people
talk about and use their names and make them famous.
So once again, another example, when will the meetin I

(23:17):
think I'm I was the first that I know of anywhere.
Megan Kelly the second to say we need to stop
using shooters' names. But no one will listen. Will it
stop these things? Absolutely not, Could it limit absolutely it can.

(23:37):
Let them be forgotten. I've still not used the name
of this shooter. Granted I've used the name James earro'ray,
Lee Harvey Oswald, John Wilkes, Booth. Those certain names in
history you just can't avoid. But this stuff. Stop using

(23:58):
their names. Get on the bandwagon, media, come on, do
the right thing. Forty eight minutes past the hour. Thus
endeth the lesson.

Speaker 4 (24:11):
And this is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
All right, we're looking at a sketchy weather forecast for Monday.
We need a weather system to speed up and get
through because behind it is spectacular weather, cool, sunny. But
right now the golf tournament on Monday is under a

(24:39):
rain forecast and we cannot have that. We cannot have
that because I haven't played around a golf this year.
I've tried, but my back injury at the time would
not allow me to finish. But I rehabbed my back.
It feels amazing. I think I'm hitting the golf ball

(25:03):
well and I'm ready to play. That said, they still
need three teams now, not to have the tournament, but
to fill the field. So it's for the FSU Hockey Club. Yes,
the FSU Hockey Club. That kind of makes you laugh,
doesn't it. So if you'd like to enter the tournament,
we need we need three more teams FSU Hockey Club

(25:24):
dot com. And I know the weather forecast, but but
we're gonna believe that it's gonna speed up and push through.
Now this is inspiring as it is infuriating. You ever

(25:45):
heard of Stephanie Turner. That's the name we want to know.
Thirty one year old fencer Cherry Blossom open in Maryland.
She was forced to fence against Redmond Sullivan, a male

(26:06):
pretending to be a female. She knew that she was
going to face him, so she made a decision. She
was not going to face him, so she had her
fencing gear on. As the match was about to commence,
she took her head gear and mask off, took a

(26:28):
knee and submitted. Redmand said, are you okay? I'm sorry,
She said, I have much love and respect for you,
but I will not fence you. When the judge comes over,
she said, She said, I cannot compete against a man.

(26:52):
It's not right. Redmond says, well, you know there's a
member of the board of directors here who supports me.
There's a policy that acknowledges me as a woman. And yeah,
she got disqualified. Blackcarted is what it said. Made her

(27:13):
sign and now she's being punished. They said, not because
of her views, but because she would not compete against
a man. She did the right thing. Remember the Riley
Gaines idea for ten ten. And it's the second hour

(27:53):
already of the morning show with Preustin. It's got great
to be with you, Jose over there in Studio one A.
I'm here in Studio one B. Just show three and
fifty one. But News Counting. I was very, very bad
in that last segment. And I will call myself out

(28:13):
when I do a poor job as the host of
this program, and I was. I was bad because in
the previous segment I went really long, and so I
did not have enough time after talking about the FSU
golf tournament to adequately talk about the story of Stephanie Turner,
the fencer. What I want to get to is the
outlandishness of in this case, USA fencing. Now, I thought

(28:39):
the President of the United States kind of nipped all
this with an e with an executive order, but as
we're learning, just because the President signs an executive order,
it doesn't mean things change. The idea of protecting women's
sports and spaces is unbelievably taboo for some people, and

(29:06):
I don't get it. Listen to the statement given to
Fox News by USA Fencing. USA Fencing enacted our current backup.
If you're just tuning in. Stephanie Turner is in a
fencing event sanctioned by USA Fencing in Maryland. She was

(29:29):
in a pool, and pool competition means that you're grouped
with others a specific group, and whoever does the best
in that pool advances to knockouts or a tournament setting
a bracket. But the pool is where they start to
whittle things down. And she knew she was against a

(29:50):
dude pretending to be a woman, and so she gave
long thought to it. In fact, she said, I've been
a lifelong Democrat, but I'm now a conservative Republican and
this issue is responsible. It has opened my eyes to
the realities of the left. But it's pretty sad when

(30:10):
that's that's the state of things that it takes this
but whatever, that's how that's her journey. So she took
a knee, she would not compete, and she's immediately brought
before the UH the tournament directors and blackcarded and and

(30:32):
listen to listen to these statements. This is USA Fencing
enacted our current transgender Non Boundary Athlete policy in twenty
twenty three. The policy was designed to expand access to
the sport of fencing and create inclusive safe spaces. Oh
barf all of the all of the words that caused this,

(30:53):
this reflex in my in the back of my throat.
The policy is based on the principle every everyone should
have the ability to participate. They can in the gender
they were born with and if they're good enough. See
that's the rub here as dudes. These guys suck. They're

(31:14):
not good enough, so they have to compete against women
because of their superior biological makeup. As men, they can
compete more favorably. And they went on to add insult
to injury by saying she was not penalized for her
stance against transinclusion, but simply for refusing to fence. In

(31:38):
the case of Stephanie Turner, her disqualification was not related
to any personal statement, but was merely a director's all
of her decision to decline defence the eligible opponent, which
the FIE clearly prohibits. That's the International Fencing Federation. Now
why they call it FIE when it's the Internet National

(32:00):
Fencing Iff whatever. So the obvious here. And remember now,
eighty percent of America believes it's wrong for men to
be able to compete against women. But we're still futzing
around with this thing. If people had simply used the

(32:26):
advice we offered years ago, not when it's trendy to
say it. And thank you Riley Gaines for being brave
enough to trumpet the idea don't compete. That's how we
win this. And I say we because I'm a grandparent
of two granddaughters. I want them to have a place

(32:48):
to compete where they don't have to worry about competing
against men, showering with men, changing clothes with men. I
don't want them to have to deal with that. And frankly,
I don't want to kick the rear end of some dude.
When I'm ade years old, I don't have to be
I don't want to have to deal with that. And
when I and before we break here, I referenced Riley

(33:09):
Gaines because She's been a guest on the show a
couple of times. I would consider her a friend of
the program. Now, Riley said, I brought the idea up,
let's have a national day where people where girls in
sports across the country do not compete at in anything,
whether there's a male there or not competing against them.

(33:30):
They just send a message. She said, what do you
think ten ten x X little chromosome action there xx.
Huh So October tenth is the potential date of something
like that, And I will feel such a part of
that because I've been saying it for years. Can you

(33:54):
believe we're having to fight this fight? I mean it's
right up there was saying, can you believe I have
to ask people stop wearing masks, put away your grocery carts, ladies,
quit wearing too much perfume. I mean, these are all
things that we now have to address that we shouldn't
have to address. Eleven minutes past the hour some retirement thoughts. Next,

(34:21):
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott on news radio
one hundred point seven WFLA. Came across a piece of
Epic Times under bright personal finance retirement. I'm not sure
that it's bright, but that's where they put it, and

(34:44):
it it's for retirees or people thinking about retirement. You
can't take it with you. Four things you lose in
retirement maybe, and I think they should qualify this, but
there are some realities, and I will tell you that
the realities of retirement. I'm not thinking about it because

(35:07):
I'm not interested. There may be a time that I'm
told I'm no longer wanted doing what I'm doing right now,
but I ain't retiring. My retirement day is when Jesus
calls me home. That's when I'm retired. That's it. I'm

(35:31):
gonna keep doing. I'm just the idea of And for
some of you, your quote retired and your love and life,
I am happy for you. That is terrific. That's not
how I'm wired. I no, no, no, nope, nope, nope.
So they go through this list. Number one they list

(35:53):
as a something that you lose is financial security. Now
seventy a Gallup Pole took taken in twenty twenty four,
seventy five percent of retired Americans say they have enough
money to live comfortably. I question that, but that's what
the poll number says. One thing you should know is
that by look retirement age according to Social Security sixty two,

(36:15):
I'm past that.

Speaker 6 (36:18):
An old guy, and well, I still put my underwear
on underneath my pants. Time may come that I slip
them on over them. You can do about it, huh.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
Anyway, delaying your Social Security benefits past your retirement age
permanently boosts your retirements. For example, you receive an eight
percent increase for each year you hold off. So let's

(36:52):
let's do the math here. You don't retire at sixty two,
So sixty three, sixty four, sixty five, sixty six, sixty seven,
sixty eight, sixty nine, seventy that's eight more years you're
gonna get if you do the simple math. Eight times
eight is what sixty four sixty four percent increase on

(37:20):
your Social Security Social Security benefit by just holding off.
So heck, yeah, I'm waiting. That's one reason there are
some investment things. See a financial person about that stuff.
Where you can put your money. You know, one of
the better places to put your money bonds, municipal bonds,

(37:41):
especially because municipal bonds pay interest, it's exempt from taxes
federal taxes. You lose your benefits usually when you retire,
if you're getting benefits at all, you lose them. So
you need to know what's going on with Medicare, Medicaid,
all that stuff. Know your options. There are people that

(38:03):
will tell you, oh, you've got to sign up by
sixty five or else. Well, that's if you don't have
health care. If you don't have health care and you
delay for whatever reason, you get penalized. And that's stupid.
Social network work is a social network for a lot
of people. So when you retire, you lose your social network. Well, hello, church,

(38:26):
not just the Rotary club and the Civitan and all
these other get involved in a church, develop friendships and relationships,
and then purpose. A lot of people believe that when
you retire you lose your sense of purpose because your
job was your sense of purpose. I can tell you
right now that this is not my sense of purpose.
This is one way that I express it. I'm a husband,

(38:51):
I'm a father, I'm a grandfather. But more than anything else,
I'm a Christian. My sense of purpose is right there.
And the fact of the matter is whether I do
this job or don't do this job, whether I decide
on doing something else, which I'm just saying, got a
few irons in the fire. I'm just saying, this is

(39:13):
not my purpose. This is a way that I express
my purpose. So just some thoughts on retirement there. I'm
sure there will be other times to talk about it.
Eighteen passed. I'm way late, but that's the way this
show has gone today, twenty three past the hours Friday

(39:37):
on the Morning Show, Good morning, what's the beef? Next hour?
Your chance to call in and complain whatever you want.
I think Jose's anticipating a very rough set of phone
calls this morning because he brought in a professional bailiff
to try to keep order on the program this morning.

(39:58):
In the third hour. He won't take a seat. He's
standing at the ready at all times. And so, yeah,
buddy of his is professional bailiff. It's like a key.
You got a bailiff in the house, all right, President Trump? Yesterday,

(40:18):
the operation is over. The patient lived and is healing.
The prognosis is that the patient will be far stronger, bigger, better,
and more resilient than ever. Make America great again. That
was in response to the absolute wig out by everybody
over the tariffs, and again, tariffs is one of three

(40:41):
legs on the stool. You've got to cut taxes. You've
got to cut spending, and you gotta you gotta and
taxesn't spending to me. They go together. And the third
leg is regulation. You've got to change the regulatory environment
in the country. And if you get those three things right,
and look, there are nations already coming to the bargaining table.

(41:03):
Trump has made it very clear this is about sending
a message and getting people to come back here and
sit down and have a serious discussion on what trade
needs to look like, because it's wrong. Understand this. We're
working hand in hand with Japan on the China problem.
And what did we do? Why am we slam Japan

(41:26):
with tariffs? We're working with Israel against Hamas and Iran,
and Israel knows we are. There is no greater ally
what did we do? We hit Israel with tariffs? This
isn't you hear this expression from time to time. It's
not personal, it's business. Friends. This is a wonderful example.

(41:50):
It's not personal friends and foe alike. This is business.
The trade prac this is in dealing with America have
been wrong for so long we've gotten used to it.

(42:12):
It's like when you have some a part of your
body that's just in agony, and you finally find either
the rehabilitation, the movement, the exercise, the surgery, whatever. You
get used to working limping, or you get used to

(42:34):
doing things with that pain, and all of a sudden
you don't have it. You were so accustomed to living
your life with it, you're like, whoa wait a minute,
but you're scared to go through with that process because
there's a little unknown there is it going to fix it.
That's where we are. We've gotten so used to cheap

(42:58):
crap in this country that we've lost sight of the
fact that, oh, by the way, we're being screwed, which
is contributing to the inflationary conditions that exist. Anyway, everyone again,
just remain calm. We come back Gabriella Hoffman with Sea

(43:19):
Fact Committee for a constructive tomorrow. You will be shocked
to learn what you're about to learn about wind energy
in America. That's next here on The Morning Show with
Preston Scott. I'm back on time. It's the Morning Show

(43:39):
with Preston Scott. All right, welcome ruminators. Halfway through the
five three and fifty first edition of the Morning show
with Preston Scott. Hello, I'm Preston. He is Jose and
this is Gabriella Hoffman. She's a policy analyst with Sea Fact,

(44:02):
otherwise known as Committee for a Constructive Future. I guess
that's what we're dealing with here, is hoping for something
like that for constructive tomorrow. But Gabriella, I appreciate you
joining us in the morning. I think that you're going
to break some news that's going to be a shock
to some but maybe not surprising at all to others. First,

(44:26):
let's set the stage here. How did this story come
on to your radar.

Speaker 7 (44:32):
In terms of the eagle kills. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (44:34):
One of my colleagues, David Wochik, has done extensive reporting
on onshore offshore wind about kill permit that the government
issues to companies that are requesting to offset their bad
behavior when they're developing or citing these projects, and during
the Biden administration, unsurprisingly, David found that a lot of

(44:57):
these clean energy companies were given heart blanche to basically
harm and ultimately kill, license to kill essentially threatened golden
eagles and danger golden eagles, bald eagles which are fully
recovered but are still protected by the Migratory Bird Act,
and he found that, unsurprisingly that the Fish and wildlut

(45:18):
Service under Biden, I think it's going to change under
We think it's going to change under Trump. Is very
secretive about how many eagles are killed at individual wind sits.
So that's what I'm happy to break down with you today.

Speaker 1 (45:30):
I am I'm totally unsurprised because we anyone with an
ounce of common sense, understood that this was long going
to be a problem if you scaled up energy production
with these wind turbines. Kind of give us a little
bit of a breakdown of the types of numbers we're
talking about here.

Speaker 8 (45:51):
Absolutely so, David found that we haven't been able to
identify exactly how many have been killed. What I have
seen in my own research too, I've done some investigative
work into both on shore and offshore wind It could
total in the tens of thousands, perhaps maybe even more.
But we don't know the exact numbers because those are
hidden by the former Fish and will Lift service the

(46:14):
regime under Biden. But we expect I think once the
new Trump fish wall that service director is confirmed, there's
a likelihood he's probably going to be very transparent about
how many eagle kills are. But any group that has
attempted to research exactly how many have been killed, they've
been shut nobody. But the government can know exactly how

(46:35):
many have been killed at individual wind sites and what
David has been able to preen from whatever he can
obtain so far that is really available, but very selectively
put out there. He says that oftentimes, if an individual
wind site claims that thirty eagles have been killed, you
have to three times that, so it's ninety. But again,

(46:56):
it's very very limited as to what we know, but
it could be tens of thousands maybe, or eagles that
have been sacrificed in the name of so called clean energy.

Speaker 7 (47:04):
They doesn't have to be this way, but they're very secretive.

Speaker 8 (47:07):
And perhaps this is where doche can come in and say, Okay,
let's shine a light on how many eagles have been
killed in the name of clean energy. Why are these
kill permits authorized to wind, solar and so called clean energies?
And if an oil and gas company requested it, I
don't like to do what aboutism? But if an oil
and gas company got away with this, there would be

(47:27):
a lot of fury over this behavior, and they're very
cautious not to do this because it would attract a
lot of ire. But a lot of clean energy companies
from the Biden era got carte blanche to harm the
environment in the name of saving the environment under this
But the numbers are kind of funky. But in David's
reporting he says that oftentimes they underinflate how many kills
there are. The numbers still we don't know because it's

(47:49):
very top secret.

Speaker 1 (47:50):
Gabriella stand by, Gabriella Hoffman with me for another segment.
We're talking about a story that is written by David Wojik.
The FEDS are hiding the eagle death data. And what's
interesting is there are a lot of people that, as
she just alluded to, should be screaming about this, but
are woefully silent. We'll talk about that some more next

(48:12):
to the Morning Show.

Speaker 4 (48:18):
And women serving our great nation and our armed services,
those serving communities as law enforcement officers and first responders.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
I say you are all essential workers.

Speaker 4 (48:29):
Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (48:35):
So we're losing untold numbers of golden eagles, bald eagles
who we've gone to great lengths to protect, which I
have zero problem with. But we're only getting if we
even got access to the numbers, a third of the
actual potential a number of birdkills here, Gabriella up. Where

(49:01):
are all of the environmental groups. Where's our little friend,
Greta Thunberg? Where's Peta?

Speaker 8 (49:07):
They don't care because in their thinking, green energy supersedes
common sense. It even supersedes actual conservation efforts, so they
don't care how much is sacrificed because their motivation is
to catalyze solar or wind, and solar which don't work
most of the time. They only work a fraction of
the time if you're lucky on your wind. According to

(49:28):
the federal government, itself only works optimally for thirty five
percent of the year. And I also wanted to mention
that this data where the equal kills are housed and stored,
which we should be knowing and seeing full transparency hopefully
on this. It's at a place called the Injury and
Mortality Reporting System, and only the Fish and Wildlife Service

(49:48):
has acted.

Speaker 7 (49:49):
This is what David found.

Speaker 8 (49:50):
So you can't see the individual kill numbers at wind facilities,
so only certain people who have access to this obscure
kind of department can know the ex maths as to
how many have been killed. So David's report hopefully will
encourage the Trump Interior Department, those maybe enduged fishwall that service,
to actually reveal the numbers. Because people have questions, real

(50:13):
environmental sub questions. Why are eagles golden or bald or otherwise,
or other birds of prey that are sensitive to these structures.
Why are they being sacrificed for so called sustainable energy
production when other alternatives or other existing technologies, oil and
gas even so clear does not enact this kind of

(50:33):
harm onto wildlife in this manner, and.

Speaker 7 (50:36):
So people have questions. That is why.

Speaker 8 (50:38):
Actually, I think President Trump has also cited that the
wind in his phrase, in his words, the windmills have
killed birds, et cetera.

Speaker 7 (50:46):
And he's not wrong.

Speaker 8 (50:47):
There there's a lot of documentation and David also reported
and I've also looked into this as well. And the
excuse is, well, you know, we can still have turbines.
We just have to pay that excuse me, we have
to paint the blades black or do some other sort
of retooling refixing of the turbines to make them better
anytime you go across it or drive by a wind farm.

(51:08):
I've been in Wyoming, I've been in Washington State up
been in many places, and most recently I did reporting
including perspectives from a group called Albany County Conservancy, and
David mentioned them too, how they've been very aggressive and
brand who works with the organization that to get to
the number, get to the bottom rather of finding out

(51:29):
how many eagle kills are. They've only been able to
obtain twenty two percent of records. But again those documents
that they acquire through foyer requests and through different lawsuits,
it only it's still very much limited us to what
details there are. You can't see the number of eagle kills.
It's again very very secretive, very very limited as to

(51:50):
what you can know in pre and from these details.
But you look at these wind turbines, even anecdotally, you
see the turbine blades collapsing. I was in Wyoming driving
from Cheyenne to Layer Me and I saw multiple turbines
not working. I saw one that was broken. You see
them juxtaposed next to pump jacks.

Speaker 7 (52:10):
We're told that.

Speaker 8 (52:10):
They don't need to rely on oil and guests, but
everyone knows. The dirty secret is they still lie on
oil and guests to thrive. So there are a lot
of problems with this technology. It's not ready for prime time.
They're very setuptidized, the market doesn't reward them, and they're
harmful to the environment, including birds of praise.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
I appreciate you sharing the intel you have here and
joining me this morning. We need a little bit more illumination,
shall we say, of these kinds of things, And of
course these energy projects are all silly and ridiculous. But Gabriella,
thank you for the time this morning.

Speaker 7 (52:43):
Thank you for having me to join you.

Speaker 1 (52:45):
Thank you very much, Gabriella Hoffman with ce FACT Committee
for a Constructive Tomorrow. Did you know look, a wind
turbine is a food processor for birds. They're spinning. Birds
fly right to them and they get decapitated, they get destroyed.

(53:10):
Look underneath any wind turbine, you know what you're gonna
find dead birds and Pete good to dude, goodness, got
nothing to say. Shame on you not worrying about the future.
Birds sees this out to be getting you ready for

(53:33):
what's the beef? If it doesn't, oh, stick around, you'll
love what's next, especially you Star Wars fans on the
morning show. So we're losing untold numbers of golden eagles,

(53:54):
bald eagles who we've gone to great lengths to protect,
which I have zero problem with. But we're only getting,
if we even got access to the numbers, a third
of the actual potential, a number of bird kills here, Gabriella,
where are all of the environmental groups? Where's our little friend,

(54:16):
Greta Thunberg? Where where's Peta?

Speaker 8 (54:20):
They don't care because in their thinking, green energy supersedes
COmON sense, It even supersedes actual conservation efforts, so they
don't care how much is sacrificed because their motivation is
to catalyze solar or wind, and solar which don't work
most of the time. They only work a fraction of
the time if you're lucky on your wind. According to

(54:40):
the federal government, itself only works optimally for thirty five
percent of the year. And I also wanted to mention
that this data where the ego.

Speaker 7 (54:49):
Kills are housed and stored, which.

Speaker 8 (54:51):
We should be knowing and seeing full transparency hopefully on this.
It's at a place called the Injury and Mortality Reporting system,
and only the Fish and Wild Off Service has access.
This is what David found. So you can't see the
individual kill numbers at wind facilities. So only certain people
who have access to this obscure kind of department can

(55:11):
know the exact mass as to how many have been killed.

Speaker 7 (55:14):
So David's report hopefully will.

Speaker 8 (55:17):
Encourage the Trump Interior Department, those maybe enduged Fish and
Wall of Service to actually reveal the numbers. Because people
have questions, real environmental sub questions. Why are eagles golden
or bald or otherwise, or other birds of prey that
are sensitive to these structures. Why are they being sacrificed
for so called sustainable energy production when other alternatives or

(55:41):
other existing technologies, oil and gas even so clear does
not enact this kind of harm onto wildlife in this manner, and.

Speaker 7 (55:48):
So people have questions. That is why.

Speaker 8 (55:50):
Actually, I think President Trump has also cited that the
wind in his phrase, in his words, the windmills have
killed birds, et cetera.

Speaker 7 (55:58):
And he's not wrong. There there's a lot.

Speaker 8 (56:00):
Of documentation and David also reported and I've also looked
into this as well. And the excuse is, well, you know,
we can still have turbines.

Speaker 7 (56:08):
We just have to pay that.

Speaker 8 (56:09):
Excuse me, we have to paint the blades black or
do some other sort of retooling refixing of the turbines
to make them better anytime you go across it or
drive by a wind farm. I've been in Wyoming, I've
been in Washington State up in many places, and most
recently I did reporting including perspectives from a group called

(56:29):
Albany County Conservancy, and David mentioned them too, how they've
been very aggressive and brand who works with the organization
that to get to the number, get to the bottom
rather of finding out how many eagle kills are. They've
only been able to obtain twenty two percent of records.
But again those documents that they acquire through foyer requests

(56:50):
and through different lawsuits, it only it's still very much
you know, limited us to what details there are. You
can't see the number of eagle kills.

Speaker 7 (56:59):
It's again very very.

Speaker 8 (57:00):
Very secretive, very very limited as to what you can
know in pre and from these details. But you look
at these wind turbines, even anecdotally, you see the turbine
blades collapsing. I was in Wyoming, driving from Cheyenne to
layering me and I saw multiple turbines not working. I
saw one that was broken. You see them juxtaposed next

(57:20):
to pump jacks. We're told that they don't need to
rely on oil and guests, but everyone knows the dirty
secret is they still lie on oil and gas to thrive.
So there are a lot of problems with this technology.
It's not ready for prime time. They're very subtustidized, the
market doesn't reward them, and they're harmful to the environment.

Speaker 7 (57:36):
Including bursts of.

Speaker 1 (57:37):
Praise, I appreciate you sharing the intel you have here
and joining me this morning. We need a little bit
more illumination, shall we say, of these kinds of things,
And of course these energy projects are all silly and ridiculous.
But Gabriella, thank you for the time.

Speaker 7 (57:55):
This morning, Thank you for having me to join you.

Speaker 1 (57:58):
Thank you very much, Gabriella Hoffman, a Sea fact Committee
for a constructive tomorrow. Did you know look, a wind
turbine is a food processor for birds. They're spinning. Birds
fly right to them and they get decapitated, they get destroyed.

(58:22):
Look underneath any wind turbine, you know what you're gonna find?
Dead birds? And Pete good to dude, goodness, got nothing
to say. Shame on you not caring about the future. Birds,

(58:42):
seeze this hot to be getting you ready for what's
the beef? If it doesn't, oh, stick around. You'll love
what's next, especially you Star Wars fans on the Morning Show.

Speaker 4 (58:56):
Nice, good morning, and welcome to the Morning Show with
Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (59:10):
Got a note here from Ben at a webinar yesterday
dealing with the markets finances. They broke out a graph
superposing the market in twenty eighteen versus today, and it
showed what happened when Trump imposed tariffs the first time
in office and how the S and P dropped and

(59:30):
that had a long upswing before COVID. They were just
they were pointing out to financial analysts, bankers and so forth.
Here you go, this is what's happened before. I think
this might be a little bit a little bit more
lengthy before we see the bounce back, because it's far
more extensive. Trump's not screwing around and I love it,

(59:54):
love every bit of it. Told you i'd get you
ready for what's the beef. George is standing by three
lines are open, and I said, Star Wars fans, Uh,
you know the name John Boyega. Finn great character. I
love the character of Finn in the New Three. In
the Newest three movies, you know, I ranked the first

(01:00:15):
three as as the og I mean they are they
are the goats. The second set of three, which are
the first three in the trilogy, eh, the third three
I think are good movies personally, although Rogue one is
just Rogue one is to me the best of all

(01:00:40):
of the newer Star Wars movies. It connects so brilliantly
to to Star Wars Episode four, New Hope. But he's
he dropped this line out there, he said in a
documentary titled Number one on the call sheet Black Leading
Men in Hollywood. He said, let me tell you, Star

(01:01:01):
Wars always had the vibe of being in the being
in the most whitest, elite space. Dude irrelevant actors for
a thousand alecs. I mean, could you say anything more stupid?

(01:01:30):
He'll get roles because he says stupid stuff. No one
will go see him though, because he says stupid stuff.
Says the guy who they literally wrote a character for
so that he could play it. I will never understand

(01:01:57):
the mindset of looking at life through the lens of race. Ever,
it is so belittling and demeaning, because what he's suggesting
is that black actors just aren't good enough to get
good roles, so they've got to get good roles because
they're black. I would love to hear what Morgan Freeman

(01:02:21):
has to say about that. I would love to hear
what Denzel Washington has to say about that, Jamie Fox
in his day, Eddie Murphy. I mean, it's my numbing
how this level of dumb exists on the left. They

(01:02:48):
have such a dim view of themselves. It's a lot
like what we talk about with regard to the law
of diminished expectations, that when you don't hold yourself to
the same standard at everybody else, and you then begin
making excuses for your underachievement, what do you think is

(01:03:11):
going to happen? And so, if I were black, I
would be incensed at comments like that. You mean to say,
you don't think that blacks are good enough to get
leading roles, and so we've got to drop the black

(01:03:35):
card to kind of pressure the industry into giving us
some Really, no, let me tell you, bad acting black
or white people don't come when people say stupid things
politically in Hollywood. People don't come ask Marvel how that's
working out. Marvel was riding the biggest wave in Hollywood.

(01:03:57):
And then they open their mouths the actors, the Chris
Evans is, and what Mark Ruffalo Ruffalo Hulk and and
look what happened dead? What's to be Friday? Eight five
zero two zero five w FLA. What's going on here? So?

(01:04:33):
What's to meet Friday? Friends? Come on, ruminators, let's go.
We've only got George standing by his lonely eight five
zero two zero five WFLA. I didn't do a very
good job teasing the segment. I was busy complaining I've
got email beefs coming in, but I really would prefer
not to resort to those eight five zero two zero

(01:04:54):
five ninety three fifty two. We have three lines wide open.
If you've ever wanted to be on What's the Beef?
I've only been doing it for twenty three of twenty
four years. I mean, come on, but now is your chance,
because the lines are literally wide open except for George.
George is taking one line. That means three are available

(01:05:16):
eight five zero two zero five to b FLA. Whatever
you want to complain about we have two simple rules,
no profanity, don't make it personal. And with that we
go to the phone lines and standing by waiting with
an RPI of eighteen is George, Good morning, George, welcome,
Good morning, Preston.

Speaker 9 (01:05:35):
First of all, I gotta let you know of the
humor that you earlier spit the coffee out on my
pants with you. Don't want to be eighty years old
beating up some pervert that's wanting to sit You know
when I heard that, man, when I'm right there with you,
because I'd do the same thing.

Speaker 2 (01:05:56):
Man.

Speaker 9 (01:05:56):
I'd bring fist to some you know guys that just
sit out like that. And and even if I'm one,
I'll still do it. Yes, sir, I may get my
butt kicked. But my beef this week is these these
idiot Democrats. It's really not a beef more than a revelation.
They keep uh keying and and vandalizing the tesla's you

(01:06:20):
know the one, and and they keep getting arrested and
charged with felonies. And guess what, they won't be able
to vote for Democrats for at least a decade because
they're a convicted fellon. So my beef is don't stop
I'll keep doing it. You're coloring yourself.

Speaker 1 (01:06:38):
Channel channel, You're inner Fleetwood Mac. Don't stop believing, you
know absolutely, Uh no, that's not Fleetwood Mac. That's is
that Is that aero Smith or foreigner?

Speaker 9 (01:06:49):
Uh Mac?

Speaker 1 (01:06:51):
Is it? Well, that's that. It might be two different anyway,
I'm gonna get complaints on that, trust me. Oh well, well,
don't don't Journey did a you know, don't stop thinking
about tomorrow. That's Fleetwood Mac. It's it's Journey or Aerosmith
or something. Don't stop believing.

Speaker 2 (01:07:07):
Yeah, that's Journey.

Speaker 1 (01:07:08):
Yep. Thanks, thank you very much too. All right, we're
shameless old school rockers. Go ahead. Next, you have another
You have another beef, George.

Speaker 3 (01:07:18):
That's it.

Speaker 9 (01:07:19):
That's it, Preston, And and I hope you golf tournament.
The weather takes care of it so you can get
there and hit the long bow.

Speaker 1 (01:07:25):
Come on, that's what I need. Some good vibes. Absolutely, George,
Thank you very much. That opens up a line, so
jump on it. Friends. Eight five zero two zero five
to b fl A Paul, Good morning, welcome. What's the beef?

Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
Okay at my beef?

Speaker 10 (01:07:37):
This morning? Preston is with the Republicans. They want Pam
Bondy to go out and arrest every crook. I could
say something worse, but every crook out there, and we've
got a lot of them in government is like Elon said,
you could be in around room with targets there blindfolded,
throwing darts, and wherever it hit, you can find more

(01:08:00):
crowd than corruption. She's going to get to these people.
We're not going to rest all of them. Hopefully, we're
going to get to people at the very top in
the government that we're selling us out. But all of
a sudden, they want everybody in jail, and that's not
going to happen. They all got a right to a trial,
So shut up, Republicans and let Pam and Trump do

(01:08:20):
their job and it'll happen.

Speaker 2 (01:08:23):
That's my beef.

Speaker 1 (01:08:24):
Thank you, Paul. Appreciate the phone call that frees up
a line. Eight five zero two zero five WFLA. Let's
squeeze in one more here before the break. Hi Bob,
thanks for calling in. What's the beef? Hello Bob, Bob,
Hello Bob. All right, we're going to take a break
eight five zero two zero five wfl A. I'm to

(01:08:46):
show you that I'm a kind benevolent talk show host.
I'm not running the call, Bob. I'm gonna come back
to you. I'm gonna give you a chance. I'm gonna
give you one more chance when we come back from
a weather and traffic break. So I'm keeping the line
hot because you waited a long time. Sort of not
as long as George. George has the RPI of eighteen today.

(01:09:08):
But so Bob, hopefully he's listening on the radio. In
about eleven seconds after I said Bob, he's gonna go, oh,
wait me. It's what's to be Friday? More calls next
on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. So what's to

(01:09:31):
be Friday? Final hour of the radio program for the week.
Your chance to complain and get it off your chest.
Whatever you want to complain about. Just don't use profanity,
and don't call out the name of a business. Tell
us what happened. You'll feel better and we'll protect the
business and hopefully encourage them to just do better because
they'll kind of know. Hell. No, I'm gonna go back

(01:09:52):
to Bob one more time. Bob, you're there? Is it? Bubba?

Speaker 2 (01:10:01):
Oh my god? Is that me?

Speaker 1 (01:10:05):
Is it?

Speaker 5 (01:10:05):
Bob?

Speaker 1 (01:10:06):
Hold on? Hold on? Hold on, is it Bob or Baba?

Speaker 11 (01:10:09):
It's but moah do you Preston? You you're royalty.

Speaker 1 (01:10:14):
Oh you're funny. The the call screener put Bob down
and so uh oh bab blah. Okay, all right, brother,
what's the beef?

Speaker 3 (01:10:26):
The beef is sit.

Speaker 11 (01:10:27):
Down here on Lake Keller right now, so big.

Speaker 2 (01:10:29):
But my vetterfence because they all are employed right now.

Speaker 11 (01:10:33):
I came from Norway to Tallahasthy because we always have
this thing, and so they're a little upset, Preston, But
we're gonna get through this period here, hopefully within the
next sixty days. I don't know what's going to happen
after that, because these guys are decorated veterans here.

Speaker 1 (01:10:53):
Veterans are going to be taken care of by this administration.
They're just going to do it more efficiently.

Speaker 10 (01:10:59):
Fish.

Speaker 11 (01:11:00):
But are you sure, though, make sure, because they have
been promised stuff before.

Speaker 1 (01:11:06):
No kidding, that's true.

Speaker 11 (01:11:07):
That's true. And the thing is is that you know,
the better one here with me right now is my
Clint Eastwood look alike. And I tell you right now
you don't want to mess with this guy.

Speaker 1 (01:11:20):
Here's what I can't tell you. I can tell you
this that you're in standing with the left and the
liberals and Democrats is not going to get it done.
They're on the wrong side there right now.

Speaker 11 (01:11:30):
I tell you, right now, they still up Republicans and
all of a sudden, how they out of work and
they're living from paycheck to paycheck. So work no matter
what you tell them, it's not gonna resonate with them
because they earn this.

Speaker 1 (01:11:48):
And now when you say they're out of work, when
you say they're out of work, why are they out
of work?

Speaker 11 (01:11:53):
They're out of whip because they got they had to
make those cuts from the BA and whatnot, and these
are better. Is that hate the DA? It's what they
got employed.

Speaker 2 (01:12:05):
And now they're out of work.

Speaker 6 (01:12:07):
Mm hm.

Speaker 11 (01:12:07):
So that's that's what the problem's gonna call me in at.
Is that the more you get in with the BA
hurt the b A, you're gonna hurt the veterans who
did secure jobs there.

Speaker 1 (01:12:20):
Yeah, that's unavoidable, though, Bubba, I appreciate the call, my brother.
Here's the thing. Every agency is overloaded. There are too
many and and and there are cuts that are gonna
be inevitable. I wouldn't have handled it the way that
Trump has handled it. I would have grown the private
sector first, but you gotta you gotta do it sometime,

(01:12:43):
and and all I can tell you is, when it's
all said and done, there's gonna be more opportunities if
we just give it time. But as I said, I
know that that's not easy for anybody there's It just isn't.
But I appreciate the call. My brother and UH and
to all veterans out there, thank you for serving this country.
And the treatment of veterans generally speaking has not been

(01:13:06):
good in the history of this nation. But thank you. Michael,
you're up. What's the beef?

Speaker 2 (01:13:12):
My beef is these live tard meanies. Their segment earlier
about the eagles being killed. Yeah, yeah, these people are
such hypocrites. And what they are is they're useful idiots,
is what Lennon called them in the Bolshek Revolution. Yeah,
they go asid They're attacking tesla cars. Okay, I thought

(01:13:36):
you're all about green. Oh, let's light it on fire. Okay,
let's put a lot of pollution in the air and
destroy it. Plus you got to put that car now
in the junkyard and guess what you got the batteries
and all those chemicals going to leads down in the ground.
I mean, these people are just so whacked out. I
mean it's just ridiculous. I just see some of the
stuff they did, and I'm like, you people, y'all need something.

(01:13:59):
I mean, we need to bring mental institutions back and
load them up.

Speaker 1 (01:14:03):
Do you feel any better?

Speaker 2 (01:14:05):
Yes, a day, I will tell you by y'all have
a great weekend. God bless everyone.

Speaker 1 (01:14:09):
Thank you, sir. Appreciate the call. Michael Dodge. I know
you've been patient. Brother, Just hang in there a little longer,
then Gerald, then Tim, and then we've got room for
one more. We're gonna get four calls in the next segment.
I don't care how long it takes me. I'm getting
four calls in eight five zero two zero five to
b FLA. It's what's the beef? Final segment? What's the beef? Friday?

(01:14:45):
And four calls remain Dodge, You're up? What's the beef?

Speaker 12 (01:14:49):
Hey, Preston, So I've watched this video of these two
fishermen and Punta Gorda, you know, yelling at each other,
and how you know how it kind of finishes up,
and my beef really isn't with the emotion houseplant, that's
the best captain in the world, whatever he said. And
it's not actually with a teenage kid who said broke
more times than you know, a bunch of teenagers playing online.

(01:15:10):
It's with the three adult males sitting in the boat
who are looking at their phones and not dragging that
boat captain back into his boat and saying, you know what, dude,
we paid you to go fishing. Let's go fishing. Stop
yelling at somebody.

Speaker 13 (01:15:25):
You got to look at those three.

Speaker 12 (01:15:26):
Dudes and go what is wrong with you? You're not men?

Speaker 1 (01:15:30):
Gosh, tell me this. When you see stuff like that,
do you think any of it staged?

Speaker 2 (01:15:39):
You know, there's a part of me that thinks it staged.

Speaker 13 (01:15:41):
But then I looked and the police visited this guy.
He shut down his website. This best boat captain in
the world is now the best couch sitter in the world. Right,
he just put himself out of business. But those three
men sitting on the boat who paid him for his charter, yeah,
are just sitting there on their hands and they are
not doing anything, and they need to do some self reflection.

Speaker 1 (01:16:04):
Dodd's great observation, Brother, I hope you feel better.

Speaker 5 (01:16:07):
I do.

Speaker 1 (01:16:08):
I feel better. Thank you. That's why we do this.
We want you to feel better. All right, We've got
three more calls. Gerald, you are up. Thanks for calling in.
What's the beef?

Speaker 3 (01:16:17):
Hey, Preston, you may not always be right, but you're
never wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:16:25):
That's not true.

Speaker 3 (01:16:28):
Are fantastic. The system is a problem. Yep, that's about it.
The other thing is is my best friend was worked
at Bagram. I mean, I'm saying this now because they
have the We're just saying this new bill that they're
trying to pass with the firearms, you know, removing the
shotguns and pistols from eliminating the short barrel shotguns. Basically,

(01:16:51):
you know that you can walk out the gate at
Bagram and buy an ak for ten bucks. What's wrong
with our society? Why can't we do that?

Speaker 1 (01:17:03):
You know, Land of the Free, Home of the brave sometimes.

Speaker 3 (01:17:08):
Oh and you know what else, General Patton is the
only one who can wear suspenders in a boat at
the same time, because without him you wouldn't have got
your patent tank, US patent office down, your patent leather shoes.

Speaker 1 (01:17:21):
Oh that's funny. Thank you, Gerald, appreciate the phone call.
We're down to two more callers. Let's go to Tim. Tim,
you are up. What's the beef?

Speaker 14 (01:17:30):
Good morning. My beef is with these wind turbans and
the reports I get. I am no fan of wind turbans.
I've been all over Texas and seeing where most of
them are never operating right, But they say they kill birds,
but I don't understand how, because the blades turn very
slowly when they're not operating, and I don't see how

(01:17:51):
birds fly into something that's moving that slowly. So I'm
just when they you know, I can see an eagle
building in this on top of one that's not operating,
and then it come home and destroy the birds that way.
But I just I might at a loss, and it
makes me mad when they don't explain.

Speaker 11 (01:18:07):
That to me.

Speaker 1 (01:18:09):
Okay, I can tell you that if you seek that answer,
you're gonna find it. And and sometimes the turban's moving faster,
sometimes it's slower, but either way, the bird doesn't necessarily
know and can time when to fly through it. They don't.
They don't necessarily sense that it's even there.

Speaker 14 (01:18:30):
But if you're without having seen them operating, like I say,
I don't lure them around here.

Speaker 1 (01:18:36):
Great, I understand. Just go to the bottom of these
things and you'll see there are dead birds underneath almost
every single one of them.

Speaker 14 (01:18:47):
But well, I truly I've driven by them, but I've
never stood right under one to look that close.

Speaker 11 (01:18:53):
To be honest.

Speaker 1 (01:18:54):
Gotcha, thanks very much. Hopefully that segment last hour an
hour from now was was helpful to understand the amount
of damage it's doing two species of birds, namely eagles.
And you know, I again I I can only tell
you that it's happening. We got time for one more caller,

(01:19:16):
and that belongs to Pat. Pat, you're in no pressure.

Speaker 5 (01:19:18):
But what's the beef, man, mine's with the Republican Party. Two? Okay,
you know you got you got Governor Descendants wanting to
bring real relief to people paying these property taxes. And
he's right, man, Lets the people that visit here pay
x the state tax are the sales tax. But she's
got the dog on Florida House fighting him on that,
you know. And and and then you go to the

(01:19:41):
republic This is the Republican and they can't stick together.
And you go to Washington, DC. You got four of
them in the Senate working against his uh wanting to
do away with the tariff on Canada. And then you've
got that Paula Luna and I know you're supposed to
say names if you can't have her way. So I'm
going to quit the freedom cocket And i' want to
work from home. Well, what do you want to do?

(01:20:02):
You want to work from home or you want to
be in the congress. Man, I'll tell you they're going
to snatch victory again from the job of us, just
last toy for the victory. You know what they're going
to do. And they and it just taps my buttet
a Democrat, they'll stick together. They may not like it,
but they'll float party line.

Speaker 1 (01:20:18):
Pretty much.

Speaker 5 (01:20:18):
You can't get you know it. And Trump and the
Santas de Santas was elected by everybody in the state,
Trump by everybody in the country. And you got these
little Republicans that are elected by the little Senate, their
little sector of the state or sector of the country,
and and uh and they just won't get on board.
And with that said, Gerald's right on on this gun thing.

(01:20:39):
You know, you go back a generation. You could go
to the hardware store and by dynamite. You could go online,
or you didn't go online. You could just buy a
gun through the mail until somebody shot a president in
the sixties. You know, he's running on that man.

Speaker 11 (01:20:51):
This is craziness.

Speaker 5 (01:20:52):
But anyway, thank you, Pat.

Speaker 1 (01:20:53):
I'm glad. That's that's our purpose here. It's what's the
B Friday? When we come back the best and worst,
some good news, a dad joke, headlines from the B
great half hours still to come Friday on The Morning
Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 4 (01:21:13):
Senseay of sensibility, communicator of common sense amplified.

Speaker 1 (01:21:18):
It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Alrighty, it's that
time of the radio program where Jose and I consider
and contemplate the week that has been and share with

(01:21:38):
you our best and worst of the week. You're up, sir.

Speaker 15 (01:21:42):
Oh so my best for the week is camping. We're
going camping this weekend and I cannot wait here. There's
gonna be a bird migration that we may be lucky
enough to catch. And then my bad for the week
is the passing of Vau Kilmer. I may you rest
in peace. And yeah, you have to watch heat.

Speaker 1 (01:22:03):
At some point.

Speaker 15 (01:22:05):
Heat, Oh yeah, Heat falcoum or Robert Neiro al Pacino
more people.

Speaker 1 (01:22:11):
Okay, I've never seen it. It's a really good movie.
Hours long. We're really good.

Speaker 15 (01:22:15):
Oh wow, crime movie okay, action okay.

Speaker 1 (01:22:20):
My my worst of the week. I'll get that out
of the way and we can we can fade the
music out all the way there, thank you. There we go.
My my worst of the week. Women, ladies, back it
down on the perfume. You're killing people.

Speaker 15 (01:22:42):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:22:42):
You push your cart down the aisle and bodies are
dropping left and right. People are their last thoughts are
I wanted peanut butter? And then they're grasping their throat
because they can't breath. Please, ladies, if you're if your

(01:23:08):
husband loves that awesome, save it for your husband when
you're out in public. Go a little lighter, maybe a
little dad behind the ears, little dab on the wrist,
and then leave it be not all over. I don't

(01:23:32):
want to smell the nineteen eighties. And I did, and
it was awful because it literally ruined my ability to
shop for food because all I was getting was that,
Oh I mean, oh, so come on, ladies, come on,

(01:23:53):
little consideration, and not all of you, most of you,
but some and it tends to be older it tends
to be fifties plus. Not always, but it tends to
be best of the week. The hummingbird experiment worked in

(01:24:13):
my backyard. I've had the feeders in a spot that
I thought was great, near the hummingbird butterfly garden. We
have a dedicated space for hummingbirds and butterflies, and I
thought it was brilliant, and yeah, hummingbirds would come eventually,

(01:24:34):
but it was so far away you couldn't enjoy it.
And I like looking at hummingbirds. So I took one
feeder and put it right by my wife's window where
she works. We have an east wing and a west wing.
Trust me, we don't have a very big house, and
the west wing is shaded. The east wing is shaded,

(01:24:57):
which is great. It keeps the the food from getting
too hot. And I put a hanging basket of flowers
that they love next to the feeder. It's working brilliantly.
And then I put the other feeder right outside my
office window, and it's working brilliantly. I've got this little guy.

(01:25:18):
I've affectually named him Doctor J because he floats. He
floats in the air and it's awesome. So that's my
best of the week. We come back. We've got good
news to share. We still have a dad joke and
some headlines from the Bee. Forty minutes past the hour,

(01:25:39):
Some morning show with Preston Scott. This is the Morning
Show with Preston Scott. All right, not to be confused
with a good news segment. I got this note from
Michael relative to the caller during What's the Beef about?

(01:26:02):
Didn't understand the issue with the wind turbines because they
he said, I don't understand how it's an issue. This
is This was sent to me by Michael. The average
tip speed of wind turbine varies depending on its design
and size. For modern historic horizontal axis wind turbines turbines turbines,

(01:26:25):
the tip speed generally ranges from fifty to one hundred
meters per hour, which is roughly or sorry, hang on,
from about one hundred to one hundred meters per second
one hundred and eighty to three hundred and sixty kilometers
per second, which is one hundred and ten to twenty
two hundred and twenty five miles per hour. Smaller turbines

(01:26:49):
often i have lower tip speeds, while larger utility scale
turbines have higher tip speeds, the birds don't see the
blade tip because of the tip speed. He said, It's
sort of like when you put a record on a turn.
The center looks like it's barely moving, but the outer
tip is rocking, and so the outer part of an
LP record is moving pretty fast by comparison to the

(01:27:12):
inside of the of the record. So anyway, just saying
that that's just what was was sent in by Michael.
I have some incredibly good news. I know of one
movie that I will return to a movie theater to
see in twenty twenty six. The backstory here, and yes,

(01:27:37):
this is good news because there's a movie that we're
going to get to see that in the classic style
of animation. When I was a kid, cartoons were animated
for children and written for adults. Parents sitting there watching
cartoons with their kids could get a chuckle out of

(01:27:59):
the human It wasn't base, it wasn't you know, blue humor.
It was it was funny, it was clever, It was
dry at times, but the animation was slapstick and kids
loved it, and so it was perfect. Apparently, Warner Brothers
shelved a movie that they were going to release but

(01:28:23):
changed their mind because of the Barbie movie that came out,
and it's called Coyote Versus Acme, and it's a it's
a story of Wiley Coyote suing ACME for all of
the defective products that he bought in pursuit of the Roadrunner.

(01:28:43):
And if you know the Roadrunner and Wiley Coyote commercial cartoons,
you know what I'm talking about. And so he files
a lawsuit against ACME for the faulty products. And it's
it's one of those where animation merges with real actors
and actresses. And so according to critics that saw it

(01:29:07):
and screening audiences, it got really big reviews. It was
very funny. It was highly regarded, and then they shelved it.
They decided they were going to take a forty million
dollar loss on the thing, because that's what it costs
them to make the movie. I guess they were going
to take the loss, write it off in taxes, and

(01:29:28):
not release the thing. The actors, the producers, the animators,
everybody loved this movie so much. They just threw a fit.
And so Warner Brothers put it up for sale and
Ketchup Entertainment bought the rights for fifty million dollars and

(01:29:51):
so allegedly it's going to be released in twenty twenty
six in American theaters and then be distributed. Friends, I'm
going bring back the old cartoon days. Most of them

(01:30:12):
don't pass the woke test of the era we're living in,
and I suspect there might be something in here that
falls into that category. But I don't know, but I'll
take it because it's got wile E Coyote. I love it,
and the fact that it's going to make its way
to the theaters is good news. Here in the Morning
Show with Preston Scott. Yeah, we got some rain coming

(01:30:45):
in and hopefully it speeds up because I've got a
golf tournament to play in fundraiser for the FSU Hockey
Club and would love for you to take part. We
got room for three more teams in the event to
bring it to a full field and it's a Capital
City Country Club. Nine am. Shotguns start on Monday, which

(01:31:07):
means they're going to talk real slow, So I got
time to get there. Welcome everybody to the golf tournament. Wait,
please stall for time, give me a chance to get there.
But no, the rain, we gotta get it gotta get through.

(01:31:28):
Come on, come on, gotta play that tournament. And so
if you want to register, it's FSU hockey dot com,
FSU hockey dot com and you can register right there.
Time for dad joke. Get you ready for church this weekend?
Here you go, Sorry, I want to hear a joke
about pizza. Never mind, it's too cheesy. And it's always

(01:31:58):
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holds off on reading Bibles so as to not ruin
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Speaker 1 (01:33:36):
I hope you appreciated that last one, because that last
one is so good, so good. We got to talking
in a break Jose and the bailiff about about the
fact that you know, everything needs to be outlawed now
because everything's a weapon. Everything. My gosh, perfume. Perfume in

(01:34:03):
the hands of some women is a weapon. Pan it. Oh,
the silliness of it all. Gotta keep laughing, Gotta do it.
Monday on the program SALD News that will join us,
we will talk about week number five of the legislative
session in rearview mirror style, and then look ahead week six.

(01:34:27):
Session is past the halfway mark, and so we'll talk
about what's going on. I'm not gonna reset the big
stories in the press box, we talked about it. We
had some good rants today, some okay calls, some okay calls.
Appreciate all of you for calling in fun week of radio.

(01:34:51):
We are working on two potential new podcasts. The executive
Committee of the Morning Show is is considering expanding the
footprint beyond the Morning Show podcast and the Conversations podcast
and doing a day starter podcast with kind of our
morning devotionals all packaged together, and a good news podcast,

(01:35:16):
kind of a brighter side kind of thing. Just saying
it could be coming. Have a great weekend, everyone,