Ep. 5362: Pope Francis dead at 88, Vatican says.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
I think that's a good way to start the week.
Good Morning Friends, April twenty first, Monday, The Morning Show
with Preston Scott, Great to be with You Show fifty
three sixty two. He is Jose resplendent in his red,
white and blue, and I'm just here in my frumpiness,

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occupying Studio one B Great to be with you. Though.
We'll get to this date in history and mere moments,
but we will start with some scripture. John ten twenty
eight through thirty. Jesus said, I give them eternal life,
and they will never perish, and no one will snatch

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them out of my hand. My father, who has given
them to me, is greater than all, and no one
is able to snatch them out of the father's hand.
I and the Father are one. There's a very important

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little nugget here. Who are they them? Who are those
that live with that blessed assurance? I give them eternal life?

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Who are they? See? That's the question that we all
have to make certain we have wrestled with and have
come to a conclusion. If you're not sure, it's okay.

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If you have doubts, settle them. Are you among them?
Are you part of they? Who will have eternal life

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that will never perish. Making certain and settling that enables
you to move forward into growing as a Christian. If
you've never settled that, like if you've done the Sinner's prayer,

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if you will and ask Christ to be your savior.
But you're still wrestling with this fundation. Mental, let's settle that.
Ten past the hour, come back, take a peek at
the day in history, take a look at the National
Day of fill in the blank, and more still to

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come on the Morning Show, The Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Twelve past the hour of The Morning Show. Glad to

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be with you this morning. Busy weekend in my world,
don't know about yours, beautiful weekend of weather in the
wake of the tragedy of Thursday, which we certainly will
talk a little bit more about, but it will not
dominate the show. I'm sure FSU call it. Democrats will

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really be upset that we're daring to step back into
some sense of normal And how dare the school go
back to classes and scheduled activities today? I mean, after all,
how many days were given to snow and ice? No,

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I'm not making that up. They wrote that I've got
their statement anyway, Well, plenty of time for that, but
it's not going to dominate the show. And so we
pick up with the twenty first here of April seventeen
eighty nine, John Adams takes the oath to become the

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first US Vice President. If you've not seen the docuseries
John Adams with Paul Giamanni as John Adams or Lenny
as Abigail Adams in and I would say the portrayal
of the two of them together. Yes, there's a George

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Washington and Thomas Jefferson in there, they're all brilliantly cast
in played, But John and Abigail, the dynamic of that
relationship is brilliantly portrayed in that series. I think it's
six episodes or something like that. I've got the DVD set.
It's incredible, great, a great sense of the founding of

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this nation. It really is. And of course it's all
based on the work of David McCullough, perhaps my favorite
author of history. Eighteen thirty two, Abraham Lincoln enlists to
serve in the Blackhawk War, elected captain of his militia company.
Eighteen thirty six, Texas wins independence from Mexico forces led

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by Sam Houston, defeat General Santa Anna's Army. That San
Jacinto eighteen fifty six train crosses the Mississippi River for
the first time on a new bridge connecting Rock Island,
Illinois and Davenport, Iowa. Butch O'Hare receives a Medal of
Honor in nineteen forty two. He he, of course, is

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not just a brilliant pilot. He was aboard the aircraft
carrier Lexington when radar picked up a formation of Japanese
bombers closing in. He jumped in his grumming F four
f three Wildcat and got busy, and thus O'Hare International

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Airport is named after him. Let's see here, and Elvis
Presley hits number one on the chart for the first
time with Heartbreak Hotel in nineteen fifty six. I will
resist the urge to do my Elvis Presley impersonation. Today
is National Rendering Day. Now I did not know I

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When I hear the word rendering, I'm thinking we're going
to draw something. It's an artists rendering. But rendering as
it's meant for today is taking the fifty percent of
any animal that is used for meat or what have you,
and rendering the rest of it, making it useful, not
letting anything go to waste. Today's National yellow bat Day,

(07:31):
National Chocolate covered cashews Day, which had me thinking, the
only thing I can think of that's probably not great
covered in chocolate bugs because there are people that eat
bugs covered in chocolate. Not a chance, not a chance,
no no. And it is National Kindergarten Day, and again

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i've you know, I always admit my frailties and stupid pidoties,
and well, as long as I know them, I always
thought it was kindergarten. I just I don't know why.
It's just when I was a kid, it just made sense.
I figured kinder was like a German word for kid,

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and it's a kindergarten. It's a place where you plant
your kids and leave them be. I mean, it's just
what I thought, a kinder kind of a kindergarten, or
maybe it's Swedish, I don't know. But only later did
I learn garten, and I still don't know what any
of that means. A kindergarten, it's a garten. I don't
know what a garden is. I know what a garter

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snake is. I don't know what a garden is. Seventeen
past the hour, Take you to the movies next, boy,

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I'm gonna be sideways with some folks today on the show.
One of the big stories developed overnight. Yeah, listening to
someone going on and on and on Pope Francis passed
away today. Happened in the last few hours, age of

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eighty eight. But I'm listening. I don't know who it
is that's just going on and on and on on
Fox News about it. And and I just I couldn't
disagree with more with with somebody more in how he's
talking about the role and the purpose and the importance
of the Pope, and I just I just profoundly disagree.

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But anyway, I don't know how many of you made
time to go see King of Kings, And I don't
know if it's still going to be playing in the theaters.
It was actually at AMC and CMX here locally. It
was likely in a theater near you. Animated film maybe

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Angel Studios is its origination. It's really a wonderful story
as I understand how it's told of Jesus and his life,
and I cannot wait to get the DVD. Didn't have

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the opportunity to. I was hoping to take my grandkids
to see it on Friday, but the two littles, probably
the two littlest of the littles. If I just had
my grandson, it probably would have been a go. But
I had both my grandsons and one of my granddaughters
and it was probably not going to work out to

(11:01):
take them to the inside the theater. But King of
Kings is definitely something to maybe think about getting. When
they put it out on DVD for the library for
the kids. Tremendous reviews and how fun that there was
a widespread, you know, distribution of a Christian animated film.

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How lovely is that? Now on the other side of
the spectrum, not necessarily other side in terms of it
in a bad way, but just what's what's coming with
it is a Minecraft movie because Minecraft is apparently I mean,
I've heard of Minecraft for years, right, but I've never

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I'm going to speak something borderline heretical to some of you.
I think it's just stupid. There's certain video game things
that I get and I'm down with. That is just
not one of them. I just like, okay, whatever. But
as is the case, it's actually kind of a smart strategy.

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We're going to take a video game that millions play
around the world, and we're going to fashion that into
a movie. It's I mean, we've done it with the
Mario Brothers, We've done it with in a certain way
with Halo. There are all kinds of movies that have

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been generated out of video games, and apparently what's coming though,
is a level of destruction at the movie theaters where
there are certain sequences in the movies where Jack Black's
character yells chicken Jockey Hose's in there laughing, which tells me,

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you know what this means. No, I have no idea
what it means, but I've seen the videos and it's
it's dumb but hilarious. Well, it's to the point where
it is the people are destroying the theaters because they're
throwing and breaking and destroying stuff in the theater when

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it's said, but get this, it got released the first
week of April. It's already made half a billion dollars
five hundred and fifty seven million worldwide. So yeah, I
don't know that Disney has a piece of it. It

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probably would explain why it's doing well if it doesn't
have a piece of it. Twenty seven past the hour,
Big Stories in the press Box coming up. This is
the Morning Show with Preston Scott listening to a little

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CC whinings in the break the goodness of God, that
woman has a gift my own mine. Alrighty, Big Stories
in the press Box. Pope francis dead at the age
of eighty eight, and the passing of anybody is sad,

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even at the ripe old age. Relatively, I mean, eighty eight,
you've had a decent run. I'm going to one twenty.
That's what my goal is. But that would require all
of my kids to live a long time, because I
had no interest in outliving my children. That's said. I

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struggle with this placement of a man. I struggled listening
to Fox News this morning describe him as the person
that one point some billion Christians around the world look to. No,

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I don't look to him. I don't look to any man.
I believe that there are people that are called to
an office to be a pastor, a teacher, an evangelist,

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maybe even an apostle, a prophet, and I think we
fully don't understand what those words really even mean anymore.
But but no, I have I reject the hierarchy of
the of the Catholic Church. It's it's not God ordained

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in any way, shape or form, because it places a
man on a pedestal. And while he was a Jesuit,
which from a a doctrinal position is very sound and solid,
his teaching of certain doctrinal positions was heretical. It was

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just wrong. It's ultimately up to God to judge this
man and his life choices, as it is for all
of us. The fourth vow of Jesuit is poverty. Among

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them is poverty. I is there a more opulent lifestyle
than that of a pope as it's constructed, not necessarily
throughout history, but certainly as it's constructed right now. I
said before that when the passing of the pope happens,

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it is a wonderful opportunity for the Catholic Church to
have a deep look because there's no doubt there are
people that love Jesus throughout the Catholic Church. I do
not doubt that at all. There's just an affinity towards
the liturgical nature of the Catholic Church, but the praying
to saints and the canonization of people as Saints is
just unbiblical. It's idolatry. You don't pray to the saint

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fill in the blank, you pray to Jesus. Saint Mary
can't do a thing for you. Nothing. And so while
I understand this is gonna rub some of you really wrong,
I'm okay with that because I stand on what Scripture says.

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The balance in the text of Scripture is very clear.
I fully understand where certain doctrinal positions come from in Scripture,
and they're just anyway. It's a great opportunity for a
reset here. I don't have high hopes that it will happen,

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but it is one that is the big story in
the press box. Yeah. I remember someone saying, I wonder
what will happen when Billy Graham passes away? And I
was of the belief that that mantle of ministry of

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evangelism would be spread to millions around the world. And
I feel like that's largely what's happened. A lot of
people relied on the Billy Graham crusades too, and I
think that that ministry has has been handed to more people,
which has been a good thing, an incredible example of

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faithfulness to God and singular purpose as an evangelist. That
was Billy Graham's calling. What will happen now with the passing?
You know, they're going to go into their meetings and
the smoke is going to blow, and then it's going
to be a certain color, and they'll know that they've
selected another hope, and hopefully we'll be better theologically as

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a result of it. Forty one minutes after the hour,
Tommy Huckelbert on News Radio one hundred point seven WUFLA.
By the way, I just had to look. I was

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actually a lot closer than I ever thought. On kindergarten,
check this out. It originated in Germany in eighteen thirty seven,
where Frederick Froebel, a German educator, opened the first kindergarten

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in Blankenberg. Initially called the Institution for Play and Occupation,
it was later renamed kindergarten in eighteen forty because it
translates in German to children's garden. He believed that emphasizing

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it was based on the ideas of Johann Heinrich Pestelizzoli
and Jean Jacques Rousseau that play, nature and self activity
should be nurtured in children like plants. In a garden,
hence the name kindergarten. I was as a child. I

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was close. Look at me, boy, blind squirrels find an acorns.
Huh yeah, So a little closer on that one than
I thought. All right, let's segue to something not so,
not so warm and fuzzy. Just weeks before the shooting

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at FSU last week, which left two dead, t Urchaba
Robert Morales, Florida legislature shut down a bill that would
have permitted students and faculty to carry firearms for self

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defense on campus. Now, it wouldn't have made it across
the finish line in time, regardless, But I just wanted
you to know that the State Senate Committee on Criminal
Justice voted down four to three Senate Bill fourteen, Senator

(22:12):
Elena Iliana Garcia voting with Democrats to prevent the bill
from advancing. State does not permit carry concealed on any
public college campus. And so, once again Florida. Now it

(22:34):
might not have advanced, regardless because Ben All Britain might
have completely cut the legs out from under it. I
don't know, I want to be fair to him. Previous
Senate presidents have killed the bills from ever moving or
advancing Republicans i e. Second Amendment. And so, as I

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said in my commentary, Uh, you've got you've got signs.
Do they stop bad guys with guns? Okay? What about
a strongly worded policy, surely that that will Uh sir,
there's a policy here, put that gun away, that'll stop

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a bet Oh No, that won't either. How about laws?
We have laws you may not have a firearm round
a college campus. That stops that guy. You know what
else doesn't stop bad guys from carrying guns on campuses?
Florida Senate Republicans, they don't stop them either. Yeah, I'm

(23:48):
getting a little angry at at at the Republicans in
the in the legislature kind of over it, kind of
over the hypocrisy, the two faced governance. It's how you
lose a supermajority, which causes you to lose a majority,
which causes you to lose because you don't govern as
you were elected to govern, because you're scared to do

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the right thing, whether it's enforcing illegal immigration laws on
employers or allowing people to protect themselves. You can't protect
the college campus. It's a city with countless, countless points
of entry and egress, and you dare to hold that

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as a space as secure as an airport or a courtroom.
Give me a break. It's time to wake up people.
It's time to allow carrying on college campuses and to
allow faculty a chance to defend themselves and their students.
Forty seven minutes past the hour, Doufla. Remember if you

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have something you want to share, always always things to
chat about. Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. I reply to
many in some way, shape or form, even if it's
just a thumbs up emoji, a shocked face emoji, a

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tears emoji, a laughing emoji, or a heart. Sometimes I'll
leave and dash a thought or two. Often send that.
Sometimes more depends. Every email is different, but we get
a few. But I always love to read what you
have to say. I received an email over the weekend

(25:58):
that is it was the most impactful email I've ever
received on this show. I just sat and my wife,
who was away for the last couple of weeks visiting

(26:19):
her mom and dad and on the farm in Hawaii,
in Hawaii in Ohio. She said, are you okay? And
I shared with her the note and it was humbling,

(26:40):
just humbling and It just reminded me the importance of
those five minutes at the start of the show. How
about if I leave it at that. My point is
that the email we receive gets read. Still remember the

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email of thanks, which is just from a man who
was about to pass away, and he sent me a note.
And he did pass away within a couple of days
of sending me that note, thanking me for keeping him
company all these years and just being a friend on
the other side of the radio. And it's just it's

(27:29):
it's humbling. I don't know how else to put it.
Just know that when you send things, or even when
you send thoughts where you just disagree, it's it's quite
all right, it's okay. We've lost a lot of that
in our country, where it's okay to disagree and be buddies.

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But anyway, I thought it was interesting that I had
a meeting last week. Capital Conservatives brought a panel with
me otherwise known as three of my sons, and we
hit them with someone in their twenties, thirties and forties,
and it was like, okay, you said you wanted to

(28:11):
grow younger, here's your audience. And I had them come
and just share their thoughts. It was a terrific meeting,
But I said, you need somebody writing your social media
like Wendy's and they were like Wendy's Like, oh yeah,
Wendy's social media is next level. And sure enough, the

(28:32):
day after, Wendy's is in the news replying to Katy
Perry coming back saying can we send her back to space?
They've taken some heat. They're not backing down. It's Webdy's
gotta love it. Yeah, welcome, second hour of the Morning Show.

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I'm Preston. He is jose so that the pope, the leader
according to one guy on on Fox News of one
point three billion Christians. No, that's that would be Jesus.
He states, Who am I to judge on the sexual

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orientation of a priest? I rest my case. Anyway, I'm
not going to get sidetracked on that here. That's one
of the big stories in the press box. Good morning friends,
Second hour of the show. I want to give you
an update. This is information that I've received on the

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shooter and the shooting at FSU. This is reliable information.
He is. You know, I don't know what the end
defense strategy is going to be in all of this
if it's just going to be a plea deal, my

(30:04):
hunch would be, there's no reason to go to trial.
It just isn't any If I were a betting man,
I would say, there we will be a plea deal because,
for example, let's just say he's going to rule insanity. Right,
they just lost his mind. Well, here's the problem with that. Apparently,
days before he is now, he's on video on the

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security cameras at Tallassee State College. He was casing the campus.
He was on campus. He was looking for whether that
would be a place to commit this crime versus say,
FSU student union. He was looking so that in my mind,
suggests that the alleged shooter entered into a level of

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premeditation that is, I mean, insanity defense goes away that
that just if they try, if that tactic is tried,
and if he's considering that, that video, which I believe exists,
ends that. The other thing that's interesting is there was

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a thought that well, he just changed his mind, threw
down the shotgun, went to the handgun. There's the possibility
that he got off one round, but a greater likelihood
that he panicked a little bit. I'm familiar with the
shotgun that he allegedly had, and I'm familiar with how

(31:37):
you rack the thing, and there's just there's a manner
in which it has to be done. And if you're
in a little bit of an agitated state about to
commit this kind of crime, you can jam your gun yourself.
But the suggestion is that he fully planned on using
the shotgun, because the understanding is that he had multiple

(32:00):
His pockets were loaded with twelve gage shells. Had he
used the twelve gauge, he would have killed far more people.
There is also just thank Jesus, there were exercises going

(32:28):
on with SWAT teams and personnel that allowed them to
be two and a half minutes away. But an FSU
police officer is the one who stopped the shooting. Understand Understan,

(32:54):
I understand that he fired eight to nine rounds hit
the suspect once. It was at a distance of maybe
twenty five to thirty five yards. Perhaps you'd probably like
to see a little bit better accuracy, but the job
got done, the threat was neutralized, and that's what matters.

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No further lives were lost. Now, I want to get
to the critiques by FSU College democrats because they sent
another a third press release, and of course they say
if you would like to interview or whatever, and of
course they don't want to interview here. What they mean is,

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if there's a friendly source out there that we can
manipulate with our rhetoric, we'd be happy to sit down
and talk with you. They don't want to take questions,
they don't want to be asked, so we'll do it
for them. I'm going to share what they some of
what they sent to me, and the idiocy and stupidity
of it all. And now I'm not going to forgive

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them because they're kids. No, not going to do it
and forgives the wrong word. I'm not going to excuse
them because of the kids. But I think it's important
to understand this group is out there and they are
the only voice of discontent with this, with the handling

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of all of this, including going back to class today,
they're mad about that. Ten past the hour, there's an
update and now next some faulty logic. We're your morning show,
The Morning Show with Preston Scott. FSU college democrats demands

(34:51):
in regards to campus shooting. We were given a week
off when the university got a few inches of snow. Now,
we're expected to go back to class days after a
mass shooting. It was not a mass shooting in terms
of death toll. Now, it's not diminishing the lives of

(35:12):
Robert Morales or tiru Chaba. He was a vendor. Morales
I believe worked for the school. It's merely pointing out
that it's been three days and you have to go

(35:34):
back to school, go back to work, get back to
living your life at some point. Now if you're if
you're a witness to the shooting, you saw friends, you
saw people shot, and you're you're struggling. Doctor Richard McCullough said,
the faculty is well aware, and there are opportunities for

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you to get an incomplete on your grade and and
take your final LIA or whatever the case might be.
They'll be flexible with you. But to think that you
just stop everything is ridiculous. And to compare it to
the snowfall, where faculty and many students could not literally
drive and get to campus, it's just stupid. It's childish.

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That part of it is what I would expect from them.
It's just childish. But now we get to listen to
this the end of one paragraph. It says it is
a miracle that more people were not killed or seriously injured,
and then they say thoughts and prayers will do nothing

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to bring back the two people lost, Thoughts and prayers
will do nothing to heal the people recovering at TMH.
Right now, Wait, you just said it was a miracle,
but now you're saying thoughts and prayers won't impact the
people that have been injured or impacted. Which is it?
Are you? Are you? Are you secularist Ethen's or not?

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And I'm pointing out that no, in fact, thoughts and prayers,
especially prayers, are exactly what will help the people heal emotionally.
In particular, thoughts and prayers will do nothing to make
Florida State feel safe again. There's a degree of truth

(37:23):
in that. Now they get to this, we are asking
FSU put locks on all doors, provide training to all
faculty and staff on active shooter response. They've done that,
and in fact, I've heard from professors that followed their
protocols and give students more time to grieve. How much time? See,

(37:47):
I know for a fact that a bunch of students
want to just get back to class, get back to normal.
It's not disrespect. Why do you paralyze the entire university
and thus magnify the impact of this ridiculous shooter's actions

(38:14):
if you don't feel like you can go and handle it. Democrats, Okay,
I'm not here to judge you on that. I would
personally think that it's kind of like a circle of
impact that those near and witnessing of the shooting. I

(38:34):
can understand them needing some time. I think most people could.
But the overwhelming majority what ninety nine percent were not
They were not there, they did not witness it. Impacted absolutely,
They're a student. It happened on their campus. It's foolishness, though,

(39:03):
to think that your solutions stop anything. You clearly don't
understand the mentality of shooters who want to kill people.

(39:23):
It's absurd that Republicans in the State Senate are allowing
this to continue. This is two shootings at Florida State
University in eleven years. When will you lawmakers do the
right thing? You cannot secure a college campus. Admit that first.

(39:45):
You cannot turn it into the US Senate, the US House,
the State Senate, the state House. You can't turn it
into an airport or city hall or county chambers. You
can't do any of those things. It's a city that
people come and go. You can't protect it properly. So
why in the world would you not allow people to

(40:07):
protect themselves. We just have to keep guns off campus memo.
They're on campus and they will be anytime someone with
evil intent wants to bring one. You can't stop it,
and you can't stop these things from happening. You can

(40:30):
limit the damage by putting pause. Imagine if a shooter says, jeez,
I wonder how many people are carrying You've removed all
of that with your silly and stupid proclamations and policies
and rules. Friends, hold Florida Republicans in the Senate accountable.

(40:55):
It's their fault that we continue to have no means
of protecting students and faculty and staff. It's the fault
of Florida Republicans, nobody else. The fact that these happened,
these types of events, that's sin, that's the nature of

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fallen man. Eighteen minutes passed, the hour moving on. I

(41:45):
had a note from someone who is on staff at FSU,
teaches there. Robert Morales was a friend, and the reason
I called the pro Friday. I saw him often, and
I believe he ran to the shooter. He was an
incredible man and a tremendous husband and father, and I

(42:08):
bet his family wished he would have had his firearm
that day. The university expects us to die for our students,
but that didn't lock the doors for us. They left
us vulnerable. I'm angry. I will put down my life
for others only because Jesus expects it of me. The

(42:30):
university should want me to carry I guarantee you my
students want that comfort. Lastly, many times I would be
throwing a baseball in that square at noon. I'm taking
back that space today and I will be throwing a baseball.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
At lunch to honor my friend Robert. Thank you for
the note.

Speaker 1 (42:59):
The difference between the f SU Democrats, at least the
ones signing the note. Most rational people understand that that
throwing a book bag at a guy with a gun

(43:20):
doesn't do much. That they were very fortunate law enforcement
was right there, or there would have been more fatalities.

(43:50):
That's why active shooters are stopped frequently by people that
are that are just happen to be there, that are
armed because they're there and the more we allow those
places to exist, that's why these shootings happen where there

(44:10):
are no quote guns allowed. How many times do we
have to point out the gun free zones are targets.
I begged school officials, you'll think less of me. Perhaps
I went to a school board meeting. Why about it

(44:31):
just say that that take the signs away. Let there
be a thought that faculty can carry on campus. Let
there be a thought that it's not just the resource
officer in a uniform walking around or not walking around.
That's the only person you have to worry about that
everybody make put doubt in the mind of a possible

(44:54):
shooter that maybe there's like fifteen people with firearms do something.
It defies logic that whether it's our public schools here
in Leon County perhaps where your kids are in school,

(45:15):
that they are just sitting targets with one person carrying
on campus. It should be faculty. And in the case
of a college or university, any student that's of age
to carry, they should have that right because you cannot

(45:38):
protect them. Twenty eight minutes past the one. Okay, now
I am moving on. I've said that before. Sorry, this
is the Morning Show with Preston Scott thirty six minutes

(46:00):
after the hour, Pope Francis passing away at the age
of eighty eight. Vatican needs to find a new leader.
Hope people remember that Jesus is the head of the Church,
not the Pope. I know that seems a little simplistic,

(46:20):
but it's really kind of important if you remember it was.
It was the whole screw up of people thinking that
priests were the key to finding any way back to
God that just led Israel into constant trial and still

(46:43):
relying on quote, religious leaders instead of turning to God
in the Messiah. But anyway, it's an opportunity here, we'll see.
I suspect this is going to be interesting because there
are people in the Catholic Church leadership that believe that
Pope Francis, for all of his good qualities, and there

(47:04):
were plenty there, there are many inside the Catholic Church
leadership that believe he was a heretic, that he did
not adhere to sound doctrine contrary, uh spoke false doctrine,
kind of pick and chose things. So this offers the

(47:24):
church at large a really interesting opportunity. And what will
it do. I don't know. Interesting here as well. Justice
Kagan Elena Kagan denied an emergency appeal for four Mexican
nationals yet and without comment, didn't refer it to the
full Court, just said nope, and so it cleared the

(47:49):
way for them to be deported. But the Court has
temporarily paused the use of the Alien Enemies Act of
seventeen ninety eight. Now, Justice Alito, that's the guy that
I want you to read about. In this Alito had

(48:11):
some very strong words of descent. He was joined by
Clarence Thomas. They were soundly defeated seven to two by
the other justices. It was interesting, though, this is a
temporary pause of being able to deport members of MS thirteen,

(48:33):
which the Alien Enemies Act specifically talks about invasion or
wartime enemies. It was last used in World War Two,
and if ever there was an opportunity, and I think
a very useful example of its use, it's now with
you when you have organized gangs, whether it's MS thirteen

(48:58):
or TDA treadin de Aragua. Alito said that the court
issued an unprecedented and legally questionable relief without giving the
lower court's chance a chance to rule. I refused to
join the court's order because we had no reason to
think that under the circumstances, issuing an order at midnight

(49:20):
was necessary or appropriate. Both the executive and the judiciary
have an obligation to follow the law. This court should
follow established procedures, and so Alito was having none of it.
But he was clearly overruled. But it is a temporary

(49:42):
hold on the deportation. I don't know what the courts
expect when the numbers that Biden allowed into this country,
but was the that was the goal allow? So many
in the court system would be overwhelmed and couldn't do
anything about it. Forty minutes past the hon Doctor Joe,
I'm standing by with some healthy expectations. Next, Doctor Joe

(50:10):
Camps joins us on Mondays with some healthy expectations. Good morning, sir,
Good morning.

Speaker 3 (50:15):
How are you today, Preston.

Speaker 1 (50:16):
I'm doing well, good, good good.

Speaker 3 (50:18):
You know, vitamin D is widely known for boosting bone health,
muscle strength, and immune function, and we've all known that,
but this sort of caught my eye. There was an
interesting study that came out recently and showed that this
common vitamin is effective in preventing and treating coal erector cancer,

(50:39):
and I thought, wow, how can a vitamin and what
does a vitamin have to do with colon cancer? So
I read more and it basically reduces information, it promotes
death of the cancer cells, It inhibits tumor growth, and
it enhances the immune sponse. And more than anything, it
improved survival raies in those that had metastatic colon cancer. Now,

(51:03):
the optimal dose should be tailored to the individual's health condition,
and that's basically between the physician and that patient, and
we know that the optimization of the dose is somewhat
to be designed. But I thought that this was really
really interesting because I've never even had really heard much

(51:27):
about that. Although it's been many, many years since I
was in medical school, over forty years things changed drastically.
But I thought this was a very interesting study and
the incidental it's also been shown to reduce autoimmune disease.
So I actually learned something pressing, which tells me that

(51:49):
we've got to keep reading and we've got to keep
looking and keep searching because new things are coming out
every day. In order to be revelent, you you've really
got to stay in touch. So I thought this was
interesting just for one's knowledge to show that the research
that's ongoing, it's really tremendous and really beneficial for us

(52:15):
as we try and understand how to deal with cancer,
which is something that's been very challenging over the last
forty years of my association with medicine. But this one
caught me by surprise. So I wanted to launch this
just for thought and have people continue to read about it. Now.

(52:37):
The main thing is you know how much should you take?
And so the daily rates range anywhere from one thousand
to four hundred. Sorry, four thousand I used, but I
think one should perhaps consult their physician about seeing what
the optimal dose is. But it's good to know and
good to learn that vitamin D, despite its advantages for

(53:02):
bone health, which we've all known for many many years,
seemed to reduce actually the second leading cancer that we
know of, and that's our co director of cancer. So
a bit of information.

Speaker 4 (53:15):
And I.

Speaker 3 (53:18):
Thought about responding to last week. I really didn't want
to do it, but I will just say one thing person,
I was very very appreciative of our first responders. We
don't thank them enough. They put their lives in harms way,
they go and attack the problem. And this is extensive everywhere,

(53:40):
from the professors, the police department is, the Sheriff's department,
highway patrol, the FBI, the ambulance drivers, and the last
but not least, the incredible physicians and nurses and other
staff that we have at TMH. They performed markably well

(54:01):
and it's a depth of gratitude for them. And that's
all I want to say about it. But just think
those that work in this business, we are in the
life business, and it was very much appreciated. Their professionalism
and their performers leave second to none. So that's my
story this morning. Preston, OK, you have a great week.

Speaker 1 (54:25):
You do the same, my friend, Thank you, Thank you
very much. Pressing doctor Joe Camps with us this morning,
Healthy Expectations forty six past the hour, The Morning Show
with Preston Scott, fifty one minutes past staring at an

(54:46):
epic time story and epic time story. Sorry, and Health
and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior the outstead
of press conference that autism is a preventable disease caused
by environmental factors, with possibilities including mold, air, medicine, and

(55:10):
the increase in the average age of parents, quoting, we
have really good genetic markers now they provide a vulnerability,
But those genetic markers alone are not going to dictate
your destiny. You need an environmental toxin. He said that
new studies on the environmental causes would be announced in

(55:31):
two to three weeks. He said this has not been
done before. The CDC reported on April fifteenth that the
prevalence of autism has increased to one in thirty one children,
up from one in thirty six, up from one hundred

(55:51):
one in one fifty in two thousand and two. So
there is a three hundred percent increase in the cases
of autism in twenty years. Now. That would be one
of those things that I think that you would step
back and say, Okay, if something has jumped up three

(56:14):
hundred percent, that cannot just be diagnosis. That we're better
at recognizing it now. I have not long believed that
the routine childhood vaccines, the mumps, measles, you know, polio vaccines,

(56:37):
and there are people that have written me saying, now
those are all bogus. Okay, I don't believe that those
are are causing the autism to spike. Now if they've
changed them, and if we've added more mandatory vaccines, Okay,

(56:58):
that's something that needs to be studied. And while I
do believe there is a certain percentage of these students,
I'm not prepared to say how many that simply need
just a little guidance, Young people that might need just

(57:20):
a little discipline. And I'm not necessarily talking about, you know,
the old spare of the rod spoil the child thing.
I'm just saying that that there are some kids that
are categorized as ADD or ADHD that simply need to
be told sit still. Now there are others something else

(57:44):
is going on, and I believe that there needs to
be a study. Here's what I'm grateful for. We've got
ahead of Health and Human Services. It's asking the question
and trying to find an answer. We've got someone that
is saying we can do better with our food and

(58:05):
we can get rid of you know some of these ingredients,
you know, food dye, what red dye number four? Is
that the one? I mean that we're starting to say,
why are we putting all of this process nonsense in
our foods? Honestly, if it's to expand shelf life. If

(58:32):
you really think about it, wouldn't it make sense for
a manufacturer to not increase shelf life, to basically say
to consumer, you need to use it within a shorter
period of time or it's going to go bad, which
then makes you go buy more of it. So you
use it, you're wiser in your shopping choices, and you're

(58:54):
having fresher, better ingredients without the processing. I'm all in
favor of looking into all this stuff absolutely, one hundred percent.
Are we come back Richard Stern? Yes, we're gonna try
it again, only this time we're gonna switch from cryptocurrency.
We're gonna do that again later, but we're gonna talk
about the tariffs. A lot of nervous people over these tariffs.

(59:16):
We're gonna look into the tariffs, get the perspective of
someone who well, he's his expertise is economic policies and
the studies of all things budget related to the United
States government. So he'll join us next have a good

(59:37):
in depth look at the strategy of the dangers of
the history of tariffs. Is there any way for us
to have levels of expectations that are based in reality?
All that and more Next on the morning Show with
Preston Scott. Good morning friends, Welcome to the third hour,

(01:00:01):
Fast Moving Monday, April twenty first, on The Morning Show
with Preston Scott. It is show fifty three sixty two.
No matter how, no matter where you are listening to
us from, we appreciate it very very much. Hope you
had a wonderful easter. I hope you remembered the purpose
of it. Hiding a few eggs around the house is great,
just so long as you're teaching your kiddies to chase

(01:00:22):
after Jesus as much as they chased after a few eggs.
Joining us on the program is Richard Stern. He is
acting director of the Thomas Rowe Institute for Economic Policy
Studies and director of the Grover M. Herman Center for
the Federal Budget. He looks at this stuff, the budget,
the spending, debt, taxes, and hopefully tariffs. Richard, welcome to

(01:00:45):
the show. How are you hey?

Speaker 4 (01:00:47):
Thank you for having me all yet.

Speaker 1 (01:00:49):
I appreciate your time. There are a lot of nervous
people out there. Wall Street's going nuts. I don't have
a real problem with the pullback in Wall Street. I
think a lot of people think it was overvalued to
begin with. But let's take a big broad view first
before we drill down from your chair right now, give
me your evaluation of the decision by President Trump to

(01:01:13):
enact these tariffs across the board and specifically drilling down
into China.

Speaker 4 (01:01:21):
Well, I think we all know that we've had decades
and decades of China breaking every rule, breaking every agreement,
trying to not just dump products into the US with
the strategic mind to destroy critical domestic industries, but also
to flood Chinese tech into the US that frankly, they
can use into their own supply network, in their own

(01:01:43):
spy network. I mean a lot of people talk about this,
but the evs that China sends us send data and
information right back to the communist Chinese Party. So at
the end of the day, what Trump is doing here
is the high stakes maneuver, but it's aimed squarely at
getting rid of trade users, but really most importantly getting
rid of that Chinese maliing influence and getting rid of

(01:02:06):
that that stuff that the Chinese government's doing that ultimately
helps their war waging machine.

Speaker 1 (01:02:13):
Did the President take the right tack in doing this
as he's done it?

Speaker 4 (01:02:20):
Well, I market so like uncertainty at any point in
the presidency, but doing it early in your presidency is
probably the best time of place to do it. And
at the end of the day, you know, what I
always say is the best time to fix a mistake
is when you know you've made one. And the truth is,
we've made mistakes of China for decades. We finally have
an American president who is willing to both acknowledge that

(01:02:43):
and to work to try to write those issues. And
it's very important. I mean, I think if you realize
it this way, about a full third of Chinese companies
are unprofitable, and our wards of the state are being
subsidized by the Chinese Coumtunist Party, and many of which,
of course with the aim of destroying industryes abroad, not

(01:03:04):
just in the US but across the world, with the
mind of making it so the world is now dependent
on inferior products coming from Chinese industries that are under
the control of the Chinese Communist Party. So unfortunately that
kind of reshuffling will come with some short term pain.
It is a necessary thing to have a stable global

(01:03:25):
economic environment, and to have a global economic environment, and
certainly US economy that is not completely dependent on China.

Speaker 1 (01:03:33):
What are the early results so far? I mean, I
look at announcements like, let's just pick one Honda saying,
you know, we want to go ahead and get ninety
percent of our production in America done domestically in America,
so that obviously necessitates more manufacturing, more manufacturing jobs. And
you hear of other stories like that, are we getting

(01:03:55):
the splash for the action initially that you think is
in urging?

Speaker 4 (01:04:02):
Absolutely, you know, Honda, Hyundai, a few other places have
said that. And at the same time, this one other
thing I think is crucial about this, which is that
we've got seventy five countries that have come to the
White House already negotiating different trade deals to break down
their barriers. But most crucially, all those countries and then

(01:04:22):
about a dozen beyond that, in a more serious fashion,
have already said that they would like to match our
tariffs against China, and they would like to work on
dealing with the Chinese issue. Just this morning, South Korea's
government came out and announced that they're starting to really
crack down on mislabeled products that are really Chinese that

(01:04:43):
get brought into South Korea. And then sent to the US.
We've made in Korea labels even though they're really Chinese products.
So you know, we're only two months into this, really,
and you're already seeing as you pointed out, factories announced
they're going to come back to America and countries announcing
that they're working with signore to those trade barriers and
most importantly boxed up China and their ipulace.

Speaker 1 (01:05:06):
Joining us on the program is Richard Stern. He's with
the Heritage Foundation. We're going to continue our discussion next
here on The Morning Show with Preston Scott, the fastest
three hours in media. And don't be surprised if you
have a chuckle here and there, just like that. Thanks

(01:05:29):
for listening. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Nothing
to laugh about here. We are talking about tariffs in
particular because there are a lot of people that are
nervous about the tariffs. I think that a lot of
people don't really understand Democrats, Richard, as you well know,

(01:05:51):
spending this. These are just taxes, these raising taxes on Americans.
We're sort of falling victim to our own addiction to
cheap stuff, aren't we.

Speaker 4 (01:06:04):
Well, there is some reality that it depends on what
you ultimately do with terror. So it's like most government policy,
it's not the first action, it's what do you do
in the end? Sure, but I will see you this though,
Trump has said, is that he would like to use
every single dollar terre revenue collected to cut income taxes
for hardworking Americans and the cut business taxes for hardworking

(01:06:26):
American small business owners and for companies that employ Americans
and make things here in America. So I would say
that at the end of the day, Look, I'm not
a fan of government. I'm sure most listeners are not,
so I don't want the government to get more money
at the end of whatever terrorsts are imposed. But if
every dime of it has actually rolled in the top
cuts for American businesses and American workers, it's a win win.

Speaker 1 (01:06:51):
I know that this is maybe going a little outside
of our discussion on tariffs, but since you're a budget
and spending guy and a debt guy as well at Heritage,
how important is it to address the issue of lowering
the debt and I mean deficit spending meaning to come
down g duh. We have to start paying the debt.

(01:07:11):
And I'm not sure that the Trump presidency has really
focused as much attention on that, nor have the American people.

Speaker 4 (01:07:21):
Absolutely, Now, I will say, I'm very proud of the
work that Elon has been doing and Doze has been doing. Absolutely,
I'm very thankful that even though, as you pointed out,
and you're absolutely correct about this, that Trump himself hasn't
focused on the debt, he has at least allowed Doze
and Elon and other people around that to do that
in a way that frankly, no American president ever has.

(01:07:43):
So it might seem like a small step, but he
has allowed and Doze has been an unprecedented step. Now,
the fact that that is unprecedented might speak to your point,
which is that we haven't taken it seriously yet as
the American public or are elected as officials. But I
put a fine point on this. The federal debt, just

(01:08:04):
the federal debt alone is two hundred and seventy three
thousand dollars per American household. It is quite literally America's
second mortgage on a home. You'll never see.

Speaker 1 (01:08:17):
That's horrifying and it's borderline depressing. How big of a
mistake was it, or was it a mistake to allow
China into the World Trade Organization in two thousand and one.

Speaker 4 (01:08:28):
Well, I don't know if it was a mistake per se.
The bigger mistake, frankly, is that it's not just that
the WTO has China and a lot of other nefarious countries,
but that the dispute resolution mechanisms that sounds like a
fancy term of the WTO are run by all these
countries that hate us, and so at the end of
the day, the WTO is mostly run by countries who

(01:08:51):
try to steal our patents and ip who sign trade
agreements that screw over American workers and American producer. So
the WTO doesn't represent a real interest to having true
free trade globally. It caters this special interest often of
despots and dictators. So I don't know that letting China

(01:09:14):
in was necessarily the problem. To be fair, China would
find its way into other economies around the globe, so
we still would have to have dealt with China in
the way we're dealing with them now. I think the
bigger problem is that we let the WTO get taken
over by not just China, but other countries that don't
reflect our values and in fact have mysterious goals in

(01:09:36):
Agua Global Trade.

Speaker 1 (01:09:37):
We got another segment to go with Richard Stern. He's
made time for us. He's with the Heritage Foundation. He
specializes in budget and spending, in debt and taxes, and
this morning in tariffs, more to discuss here on the
Morning Show with Preston Scott. We told you before the

(01:10:03):
President took office that this was like tearing a house
that had been squatted in for four years down to
the studs. That's what dose is doing, ripping off the drywall,
exposing the mass, exposing the damage. And now it's time
to fix some things. And one of the things that
this administration is fixing is the trade imbalance, not just

(01:10:25):
with China but around the world. Richard Stern is with
me from the Heritage Foundation. Richard, in your view, if
you were sitting at the table and able to articulate
what the off ramp looks like for this tariff drama
that we're watching unfold, what does it look like?

Speaker 4 (01:10:47):
So we have had years and years and years of
China dumping products into our markets, stealing our tech and
more importantly, using every other major trading parkner we have
as a go between, including countries who we have as
military strategic partners. I think the off ramp here is
we need to get those countries to work with us

(01:11:09):
to box out China, to put a check on the
Chinese Communist Party. South Korea this morning coming out admitting
that they've been a pass through for mislabeled Chinese products
and that they're willing to do something about it. That
is a huge step in the right direction. And that's
what we need, I think at the end of the day,
is for all of our partners to really be partners,

(01:11:30):
to work with us against the Chinese to root out
their involvement and their interference. And if we can get
that kind of commitment, then I think that's a real
victory for Trump.

Speaker 1 (01:11:41):
How important is it that we have largely brought some
of that to bear. I mean, there's been some saber
rattling here and there, but Trump has been very, very,
i think even handed in how he approaches even allies, saying, no,
you've got to do better than you're doing right now.

Speaker 3 (01:12:03):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (01:12:04):
Absolutely, But again, you know, it's really hard, and this
is unfortunate. It's hard to name an ally who has
actually been a complete ally on the front, even Canada
and Mexico have been tremendous pass throughs for Chinese products.
So at the end of the day, here, what Trump
is really doing is putting them on notice and making
it clear that you can't just claim to be your ally,

(01:12:26):
you have to actually act to like it. And more importantly,
before China, almost like a virus, gets too outside of
the sandbox here to make sure that we're actually dealing
with the problems that they pose and not letting them
get their hooks into not just the economies but the
governments of these supposed allies.

Speaker 1 (01:12:45):
Richard, is it fair to suggest that this is a
second prong in Trump's effort to bring business back to America. One,
of course, was lowering the tax rate the first time
he was in office. I think he wants to even
be more aggressive on lowering the taxes on businesses. You know,
we've tried to articulate to our listeners for years that

(01:13:06):
you know, businesses don't pay taxes. People do. It's a
cost of business that's passed along to a consumer at
price point that they pay for the good of the service.
Is this another way of doing the same thing. You're
lowering taxes, but you're also saying you'd be better off
manufacturing your products here in America versus paying the tariff.

Speaker 4 (01:13:27):
Exactly. But you know, the other thing that he is
trying to stop as well, which is lost a little
in some of the conversations, is what the Chinese government
in particular does is tax the rest of their economy
to subsidize something like the car industry, and then dump
these cars in our markets and European markets at a

(01:13:47):
quarter a tenth of the actual price of the car.
Runs the entire whatever the industry is out of business
entirely in the US and Europe, and then goes right
back to selling their cheap beat cars or whatever the
product is at full price again. And so it's not
just that they're out compedious normally, it's that they're doing

(01:14:08):
predatory pricing with the aim of destroying these industries. It
hurts them, but it hurts us more because of how
strategic they're being about it. This is actual economic warfare,
not simply compared to advantage or normal gains from trade.
As economists would say, how.

Speaker 1 (01:14:26):
Much to people listening right now that are nervous, they're
nervous because maybe they're older and they're watching their four
oh one k get hit. They're nervous because they're not
quite sure what's going to happen. What do you think
is a realistic time frame for things to smooth out,
for deals to be struck, and for there to be
a sense of I guess normalcy.

Speaker 4 (01:14:51):
So I would say perhaps two months or so, maybe
three then, And I think one of the things it's
important to look at here is the stock market. We
all know the stock market is a future looking pricing mechanism,
which sounds great, but you look at your retirement savings
plummeting and you say, well, stock is cheap. But what
I would tell you is the stock market is pricing

(01:15:12):
in uncertainty at the moment because the negotiations are ongoing.
But the truth is, we had a flood of imports
into the US before the tariffs because Trump gave businesses
enough lead time to bring what they needed to operate
for a few months while he negotiates. So if we're
done with this in a couple months or even less

(01:15:32):
time than that, then at the end of the day,
there'll be very little real impact. It's negative from what's
going on, and potentially an enormous amount of positive impact.
So that's the time when I would keep my eye
on the business is prepared for that, and frankly gave
them intentionally enough lead time to do precise for that.

Speaker 1 (01:15:52):
In closing, what would you consider a danger sign?

Speaker 4 (01:15:58):
I think a danger sign is that if if we're
three months out and still doing this and we still
don't have wins on the board, that's where I think
you have a danger sign. I think if you have
another stock market plummet the way you did right after
the April second tariffs, it's another danger sign. I think
what you're looking at right now is the market simply
pricing uncertainty. Another drop would be the market pricing in

(01:16:23):
that it thinks Trump's going to fail, and that's the
thing I think would look at a danger sign. But
that's different from the uncertainty.

Speaker 1 (01:16:30):
Richard, thanks for the time and your expertise. I appreciate
it very much.

Speaker 4 (01:16:34):
Thank you so much for having me on.

Speaker 1 (01:16:36):
I appreciate it. Richard Stern with us from the Heritage
Foundations little insight there. We'll have him back talking about
cryptocurrency in the next few weeks, I promise. Twenty eight
minutes after King the questions, you want the answers to
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(01:16:56):
hundred point seven w FLA. Well gotten a few notes
about my comments on the Catholic Church and its opportunity

(01:17:18):
to do a little bit of a reset, and I
appreciate the comments and very thoughtful comments. Nothing inappropriate in
any way, shape or form. A lot of way to
go is a lot of notes from Catholics, very very thoughtful, kind, considerate,
and to just reset. Pope France is passing away at

(01:17:40):
the age of eighty eight, and his description of being
the head of the church and the point person for
one point three billion Christians, and I just flatly reject
all of that. He's not the head of the church
Jesus Christ is. He's not the point person for the
Christians of this world. He's no different than you or me.

(01:18:06):
He expresses his faith differently, perhaps sometimes heretically. I just
he has taught at times heresy his claim to not care.
And it's not his place to judge priests. Brother, if

(01:18:27):
you have one responsibility, it is to stand in judgment
of the people that are quote serving the church. And
you're the administrative head of it. Yeah, it's your job
to pass judgment. It's that refusal to accept those parts
of scripture that say no, we're supposed to look at

(01:18:49):
each other's lives and hold each other to standards, not
in the way of saying I am better than you,
but in saying no, we hold each other accountable. When
you see me fall short, call me on it. And
when I see you fall short, I'll call you on it.
And if, for example, if I'm the head of a
church and I have someone serving under me as an

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associate pastor and they are they are gay, lesbian, whatever,
and they wouldn't be an associate pastor as a lesbian,
they would be in another role, but they're serving the
church and they're living a lifestyle that is not consistent
with scripture. I'm sorry, you're not going You're either going
to change or you're not going to work in the church.

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And I could go on and on, because I've had
doctrinal problems, and not that I'm an authority, but I
can read scripture. And there's the trap. The trap is
that we sometimes sit back and say, well, I don't
know scripture well enough, Well why don't you? And if
you don't know something, why don't you read? Because I

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hate to tell you the the whole point we're gonna
go along here. The whole point of Jesus dying on
the cross was a to provide the perfect sacrifice for
all of our sins, including Pope Francis and every other pope,
and every other priest and every other pastor and everybody else,

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all of us, that we should have a way. But
here's the other thing that happened when Jesus died on
the cross. The first thing that happened was the curtain
in the temple was torn from top to bottom, and
it was so high they couldn't tear it without putting

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up some form of a scaffolding from top to bottom.
It was torn from top to bottom because it was
a work of the Holy Spirit that said, oh, by
the way, this whole idea of you need a priest
to go before God for you. Jesus said, no, no, no,
no more. That's no longer a requirement. I have made

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a way for you. You do not need man. I
am your mediator before God the Father. I'm your high priest,
I'm the head of the church. I'm the one. And
so the veil was torn to just simply say no more.
Wall of separation. Every single person listening to me right now,

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you can boldly approach God seeking forgiveness. You don't need
someone to do it for you. You can do it
any moment, anytime. You don't need to kiss a man's
hand for God's sake, and I mean that literally, for

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God's sake. You don't need to kiss or bow before
a man. He's a man. It is an opportunity for
the Catholic Church, and I hope they contend. I hope

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they contend for true doctrine, doctrinal purity. What does God's
word say, not what we've been taught, not what we know.
What does God's word say? That's the arbiter, not tradition.

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That's how we got there. The Old Testament was a
giant example of you guys can't do it, and I'm
going to prove it to you. You do this, and
do this, and do this, and do this and do this.
God set it all out. Man couldn't do it. Okay,
Just let's go back to the basics. Just avoid the
tree and that tree right there. You can eat everything,

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just stay from that that tree, that tree couldn't do it.
Catholics listening, this is a great opportunity. You need to
be involved in indoctrinal purity. Get it right, demand that

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you get it right. We don't need a man as
an intercessor between us and God. We have one Jesus
forty two minutes after the album. He's the head of
the church, always has been, always will be again. I've

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gotten some very kind notes real quickly. Here among the
fallout email that I've received as a response to the
shooting at FSU is the Sandy Hook Promise. They claim

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there have been at least thirty six mass shootings in
Florida since the start of twenty twenty four. Listen to
this two paragraphs. Reports have stated that several of the
students who were present on campus during yesterday's attack referring
to Thursday, survived the twenty eighteen Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High
School shooting in Parkland. In response to this attack, Nicole Hockley,

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co founder co CEO of Sandy Hook Promise and mother
of Dylan, who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary
School tragedy, issued the following statement, this is the heartbreaking
reality our children now face. It is possible to live
through more than one school shooting in your lifetime. Yesterday's
tragedy at Florida State University is another painful reminder. It's

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not an isolated case. It's not a coincidence, it's a pattern.
So you're at a Florida high school and you go

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to one of the two largest state universities, three largest
state universities in Florida. So you're a Florida high school student,
you were a student on campus when the tragedy happened,
and you happen to be at Florida State. I mean,

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it's not a coincidence, it's a pattern. But it's a
pattern that people go from a Florida high school to
a Florida university. Okay, I guess that's a pattern. I've
invited them to come on the program. They won't because
though we all have the same goal of preventing these shootings,

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they don't want to follow what the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas Council,
the group that put together to study this, made up
of parents and law enforcement and security specialists. They don't
want to adhere to what was recommended, so they're not

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going to engage in that conversation. But I just wanted
to let you know, I invite I invite the Florida
State Democrats. They're crickets. I've invited them multiple of times
over the years. The Sandy Hook promise, I will be shocked.
I will be thrilled if they respond, because we'll have
a great conversation. But yeah, forty seven minutes past them,

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we are going to end this show the right way.
I take zero credit for the following story. I hand
all of it to Matt Regal without kick. I mean,

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we've all heard of Indy Car right, NASCAR F one.
They are different kinds of racing. But we've got a
new of event that's going to happen in Los Angeles.
According to the LA Times, it will take place at

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the Hollywood Palladium later this week. It's cost one point
five million dollars to stage. It will be they raised
the money to stage this sperm racing founded by four teenagers.

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The jokes right themselves. They're going to have thousands of
people tuning in. Some are going to be watching there
in person on a microscopic sperm race that they'll put
on a big screen. The single celled swimmers, the race

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eight inches long. Can you imagine in future iterations it
could shaped to face to look like Daytona, Indianapolis. Lamon's
uh yeah, they're going to have It's forty minutes, play
by play, replays, leaderboards, everything, and apparently the race will

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feature a student from USC and a student from UCLA. Look,
after all, at one point or another, we all have
won that race. Literally just saying, I'm just sperm racing
coming to Los Angeles this month. I'm not making it up.
Brought to you by Barono Heating and Air. It's the

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Morning show on WFLA. When you think about how we
started the program and where we've ended it, you know,
we started in John ten, twenty eight and thirty and

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now we're ending it with a sperm race pretty much
tells you what's happened. In the scope of the show
covered a lot of ground on the tariffs with Richard
Stern from Heritage Foundation. The Pope is dead at the
age of eighty eight. I maintain it's a glorious opportunity

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for the Catholic Church to rewrite its history. Justice Elena
Kagan denying emotion to halt a deportation of Mexican nationals,
but the Supreme Court has halted temporarily the pushing out

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of him as thirteen and other gangs using the Alien
Enemies Act of seventeen ninety eight. We'll see where that leads.
Robert F. Kennedy said that autism is spiked by environment,
not genetics, so yeah,