Ep. 5368: IBM makes a large investment in the USA.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:12):
All right, good morning and welcome Tuesday, April twenty ninth.
Here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. He is
Jose looking sharp today. It's it's strange because the the
the plaid kind of look, the checkered look, you would
think is more of a winter fall thing, but it

(00:38):
works for you. Yeah, it's it's actually the hair. Well,
you know what's funny you say that, it's there's a
little truth to that because the black in the in
the shirt pulls the black out of your hair or
vice versa, and beard and mustache, whatever's left of it. Okay,

(00:58):
it looks a little like a terrorist. But the bottom
line is he's a good looking one. Jose's in there
manning the radio program in Studio one A. I am
here in Studio one B, and let's get the scripture,
because okay, I'm gonna I'm transparent with you people. I was.

(01:19):
I woke up, I'm fine, felt good. Driving to work
was fine. I was a little scattered in my prayer time.
My mind was wandering a little bit into some just
nothing serious, just stuff, and so I just kept having

(01:42):
to refocus myself. And then I got here and read
some email, and I just started getting really crabby, really crap,

(02:02):
and I had to remind myself, you know, this is
a choice, and I had reason to be a little crabby.
You know. We were getting calls yesterday after the show
about a story here locally, and I got emails about it.
And some of the emails were just you know, inquiring

(02:23):
and curious. Others were a little accusatory. And it's like,
and then there's a little project we're working on around here,
and I hate failing, and I feel like it's set
up to fail, and I hate it. I hate it.
I don't like failing at anything that we do. And
so I was just starting to get a little crusty

(02:44):
around the edges, and I had to redirect myself. And
then I popped open my devotional job Job nineteen twenty five,

(03:07):
one verse, one verse. Now, first of all, the fact
that randomly my daily devotional which comes from Bible Gateway,
and I have a few, but I flip around a
little bit between them. And then sometimes I don't use
any of my devotionals. There's just something God lays on

(03:29):
my heart, and sometimes it's something based on a message
at church. But this one, I mean, just think about it.
You're kind of feeling a little about things, which is
another way of saying not that I was feeling sorry
for myself, because I wasn't at all, but that I
was just like, really, I was in that really kind

(03:51):
of mindset all of a sudden, And all of a
sudden you see the words the word Job, and you're like, oh, well, yeah,
I've forgotten. I don't even need to no room to
complain about a thing, right, So the fact that it's
even coming from Job is an immediate reset. And then

(04:14):
it's this verse for I know that my redeemer lives,
and at the last he will stand upon the earth. Now,
let's just think about this for a second. This is Job,

(04:39):
long before there was a Jesus, and he says, I
know my redeemer lives, and when everything is over, when
all is said and done, and I think about the
context of Job's life, I know he will be standing

(05:03):
upon the earth. He'll be the one left standing. Yeah.
Reset accomplished. We're good. Ten past the hour. It's The
Morning Show with Preston Scott. The Preston Show with Morning Scott.

(05:34):
What all right? Just about twelve past the hour, twenty
ninth of April eighteen fifty four. Ashman Institute now Lincoln University.
First college for African American students is established in Chester County, Pennsylvania.

(05:57):
Ashman Institute, Okay, eighteen fifty four, just a few years
ahead of the Civil War in Pennsylvania would be like
you know when you think of Gettysburg and by the way, Gettysburg, Wow,

(06:21):
if you've never been, it is worth the drive is
out of the way, but it is absolutely one of
the most solemn places to go you will ever set
foot on. Eighteen ninety eight. First American Cancer Lab is

(06:44):
established at the University of Buffalo eighteen ninety eight, we
were looking into cancer. Nineteen thirteen, Gideon Sunback of Hoboken,
New Jersey, patents the first modern zipper. All right, that

(07:08):
who I mean that, that's just one of those How'd
you come up with that? What made you think that
you could get these things with teeth that would line
up in such a way that you would run this

(07:29):
and it would pull it together and it would fasten
something closed. Think of how many zippers there are. We're
not talking just close, just I mean, just think of

(07:49):
you probably have hundreds of items in your home with zippers. Suitcases, pouches, backpacks,
little compartments on things. US troops liberate Dachau concentration Camp
in Germany in nineteen forty five, and in nineteen seventy five,

(08:13):
American officials evacuates Saigon as North Vietnamese troops close in
on South Vietnam's capital. What a saga that was? All right?
Today is also as you would expect, it is National
Zipper Day, National Peace Rose Day. There's a very interesting

(08:41):
story about the piece rose. It was developed in France
in the nineteen thirties. A piece rose has kind of
yellow or cream colors and then crimson tipped flowers on
the outside or on the tips of the petals, multicolored

(09:01):
tea rose or hybrid rows. And the person that developed
it was worried about the pending invasion of Germany coming
into France, and so he literally sent cuttings all over
the world to try to preserve the flower. And so
the flower still exists because of that. It's called in

(09:25):
many settings the piece rows. It's the backstory of it
is just fascinating to me. So there you go, and
then today you knew it had to happen. There had
to be some mention of food in the first half
hour of the show National Shrimp Scampy Day. Shrimp scampy

(09:58):
is simply one of the most beautiful dishes in the
history of the world. Those delectable little crustaceans properly cooked,

(10:19):
they cook up in moments. You have to be careful.
But a properly shelled, deveined, cooked shrimp in garlic butter,

(10:41):
maybe a squirt of lemon, and sprinkled with parmesan cheese
and then baked. And then you have multiple choices from there.
You can either ladle it onto angel hair pasta, doing
it on anything other than angel hair. If you're gonna
do pasta, going with a thicker pasta is a mistake.

(11:04):
You'll drown out the shrimp. You don't want to do that.
Angel hair pasta is your pasta of choice. Or and
or just a plate of those baked with a nice
garlic bread where after you eat the shrimp, you're taking

(11:29):
your bread and.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
You're just sopping up that garlic butter. Oh yeah, dunk, dunk, dunk,
You are just sponging that stuff up. Oh yeah, okay,
we're late eighteen passes. Get me talking about shrimp scampy

(11:55):
could be the rest of the show, Tom.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
Mooment uh head device is walking out a live audience
Fox and Friends. He's like he's a celebrity football player
is something high five.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
And fist pumps, fist bumps. It's just it's hilarious, absolutely hilarious.
All right, Do you have a special like you know,
there's some people that can wiggle their ears and make
their ears move around, and there's like my lone trait

(12:34):
of weirdness is I can flare my nostrils and at
will and move them up back and forth like I'm
a fish swomen You have anything like that? No, actually, no,
not at all, my face. Do you ever try to
cultivate anything like when you were little? Do you remember

(12:55):
like watching a kid do something and you try to
mimic that and you couldn't quite Like I can't. I
can't the loud whistle, your whistle, I don't count that
as a whistle. That that's that's next level the way
you do that. But the kind that you put a
couple of fingers in your mouth or you or you
use your tongue and your lips a certain way, and
that kind of thing. I can't do that either. I

(13:16):
always wanted to. I could never pull it off. Is
there anything like that for you? It was the touching
the tip of your your nose with your tongue. I
tried doing that, okay, okay, never succeeded. Do did you
like pull your tongue and try to get it out
there as far as you could or did you push
your nose down or yep? I could do that, but
you know, yeah, I'm never I never. I tried that too,

(13:40):
never come close to that. This is this one's one
of those that I've seen it. I've seen this guy
do this. I've watched it. Williams Martin Sanchez Lopez from
Uruguay currently lives in Milan, Italy. When he was eight
or nine, he says he learned that he could relax

(14:00):
the muscles around his eyes and then could pop his
eyeballs out of the sockets. He said he figured out
how to do it and then he released the pressure

(14:22):
and they just pop back in. And he now holds
the Guinness World Record because official measurements by doctors found
that he could pop his eyes out three quarters of
an inch out of their sockets, So his title is

(14:43):
the farthest eyeball pop mail and when I saw the
picture of him with his eyeballs out, it was hilarious
because he looks like something from Who Framed Roger Rabbit
If you've never seen the animated movie Who Framed Robert
Roger Rabbitt, it's a little just a little off color,

(15:07):
but it's generally a pretty pretty funny movie. But yeah,
that that was just that that's next level craziness there.
Just want to put something on your radar. We are
doing a box fan drive again in Panama City and Tallahassee.
Will we will. Details are coming. We're going to do

(15:30):
it through the month of May, and so we've got
we've got several places in Panama City for you to
drop them off and a couple places here in Tallahassee.
The numbers last year were staggering, especially in Tallahassee. We
didn't do quite so well in Panama City. So we've
enlisted the help of Shane and Tests on our country

(15:53):
station and we're going to try to really knock it
out of the park and help senior adults that they're
unfixed incomes. They can't just run the air conditioning when
it gets hot and humid. Box fans are game changers
for them. So details to come. So if you can
pick up a couple of box fans when you run
to the you know, Low's home depot, Walmart, Target, whatever,

(16:16):
get a couple. They're not very expensive. They're about twenty bucks.
You can go, you can pay more, but you know,
the last go I think is what it is is
the main brand. Yeah, grab some and we'll tell you
where to drop those off and make a difference. All right,
that's what we're all about. The Mad Radio Network twenty
eight past the hour, Sorry late again, back with the

(16:38):
big stories dub the UFLA thirty six minutes past. Let's
get right to the big stories in the press box

(16:59):
today the the IBM shareholders meeting will take place now.
The company announced yesterday that it will make a one
hundred and fifty billion dollar investment in US manufacturing. Can

(17:19):
we just pause for just a brief moment and remind
ourselves Barack Obama said manufacturing jobs are going and they're
not coming back. So what he said in his first
term of office, all that was required to keep manufacturing

(17:46):
jobs in this country was a president willing to fight
for them. But the big part of this meeting is
will they codify the decision to push away from the

(18:06):
DEI woke agenda because allegedly that's what they're going to do.
They have publicly stated already that their media buying, content policies, etc.
Audience centric, aiming to reach all consumers authentically and our

(18:27):
viewpoint neutral with respect to political and religious status or views.

Speaker 4 (18:30):
Thank you, Thank you.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
Just sell your products. We don't need to see guys
holding hands and girls kissing. We don't need to see
any of this stuff. Sell your products. Use hiring principles
in the workplace that affirm merit. Meritocracy is what we're

(18:54):
looking for. DEI in all of its forms, whether it's
affirmative action or whatever, is racist. It is bigoted, it
is blinded by the ideology, and it is not in
any way, shape or form fair. And I'm gonna remind

(19:16):
you if we're going to embrace DEI anywhere, then we
must embrace it everywhere, including the NBA, the NFL, ice, hockey, soccer, swimming,
where there are certain sports that are pre predominantly white

(19:38):
males or white females. We need some black skaters out
there in the hockey teams. We need more black swimming
in pools. We need more whites playing in the NBA.
We need we need more whites playing in baseball, not

(19:59):
just Hispanics. I'm just saying. And then Tom Homan responding
to US District Judge Terry Dowdy in Louisiana about the
two year old deported the American citizen, the two year

(20:21):
old American citizen deported to Honduras. Homan wanted to clarify.
He said, look, the judge just doesn't have the details.
Washington Post made a big deal out of this thing.
Homan went on Face the Nation on CBS. No US
citizen child was deported. Deported means ordered by an immigration judge.

(20:46):
Regarding the two year old that specific child, he said,
there was due process. The two year old baby left
with the mother because the mother signed a document requesting
her two year old baby go with her. That's the
parent's decision. I don't think the judge knows the specif
civics of this case. The two year old went with
the mom, the mom signed a paper. It's not a
government decision. The mom was being deported. The baby had

(21:11):
a right to stay in the country if she'd left it.
She chose not to. Thus, endeth the story. I'm gonna
explain to you in just a moment why Trump's negative
ratings are historic, his approval numbers are historically low. Just

(21:33):
share that next forty minutes forty one minutes past the
hour on news radio one hundred point SEVENUFLA, you may

(21:57):
have seen the story. Trump has historic at least for
the last I think it's eight decades lowest presidential approval ratings,
allegedly in a moon's age. All right, So here's the thing.

(22:17):
What I started to notice is that in this polling,
you know, where he's pulling really bad old white people.
And it occurred to me, what do old white people
tend to do? Sit and watch TV. They're watching CNN,

(22:46):
they're watching MSNBC, they're watching the twenty four hour news cycle,
and they're being fed non stop. In fact, I think
the survey said that the mainstream news outlets on TV,
ninety two percent of the stories about Trump since he

(23:07):
took office have been negative. Now, just so you know,
news stories should be neither positive nor negative. They should
just be the news. You leave it to people like
me and you to form an opinion and turn it
into comment. But polling can be very sophisticated, and my

(23:33):
hunch is that if you ask enough people, you'll find
that Trump is getting tremendous support. I cringe at some
things that he still says and does, but overall still
like the first term in office, only much more efficient

(23:56):
and effective. This time around. He's he's getting things done.
Those is simply simply the best thing that's happened in
government in my lifetime. We're finding some of the waste,
some of the fraud. We're at the tip of the iceberg,

(24:17):
so you have to you have to filter what we're seeing.
In terms of these numbers. I don't doubt for a
second that there are a bunch of angry old white
people out there, because I see the Biden Harris bumper
stickers on their cars, and I just it just I
don't know if dementia loves dementia. I don't know if

(24:39):
you know where that's coming from. I'm not trying to
be a smart alec when I say that, I mean
I don't understand why anyone would have supported Joe Biden
other than sympathy. But that's not enough to throw a
vote to Right now, the Democrat part Party has got

(25:01):
a boatload of issues, and it seems like the mainstream
media is just trying to ignore that. I came across
a piece yesterday. Politico Florida sent out they have a
morning update that they email out. It's coming in fifteen
minutes to me. And they talk about the Ruth's List.

(25:21):
She's the change Gala fundraiser, training, live auction selling, Woke
Necklaces says Woke on them, the CEO for Ruth's List.
We still believe in all the values we always have.
We need to become better messengers. No, you don't understand.

(25:45):
Everyone got your message. That's why they've rejected you. See,
they don't They don't understand. But here's what's really interesting
inside Politico. It notes this. It notes Jason Pizzo's stepping
down from the party. He was considered the most likely
electable Democrat to the governor's office in twenty twenty six

(26:07):
because he's a moderate Democrat who could maybe pull a
few more independents than other Democrats, and he probably could have.
But now he's an NPA. He's only going to pull
from Democrats. He's not going to pull from Republican voters.
But here's what's interesting inside the article. It says this.
Now every leadership role in Florida's Democrat Caucus is filled

(26:29):
by a woman. Oh sweet goodness, that cements the problem.
No offense, ladies. You cannot have an organization that targets
all people, males and females, young and old, be led

(26:52):
by nothing but women. You can't successfully do that. Can't
do it. It won't work, So just stay at it.
There's more in this that I'll mine into a little
bit later on this week, but no, that's just yeah.
Keep it up. All female leadership led by Nicki Freed.

(27:15):
Please change nothing. Keep doing what you're doing. However, I
do think that the weekend Democrat Party is causing the
Republicans to cause some unforced errors because they know that
the party is no meaningful competition to them, and so
I think that the Republicans are losing their edge and

(27:35):
it's a shame. Forty minutes past, the are come back
with interesting development New York. It's the Morning Show with
Preston Scott. Cryptocurrency one oh one, take two coming up

(27:59):
in the third hour. We had so many people I
got stopped at stores. What happened?

Speaker 5 (28:09):
Man?

Speaker 1 (28:10):
I was all into that, you and me both I
confess I've read I still I guess I've just been
conditioned into the idea that we have a federally controlled currency,
and the idea that there's a currency available that's not
controlled by the government is just tough for me to grasp.

(28:36):
I believe Heritage Foundation when they say to me, this
is good, this is a good thing. It doesn't mean
I'm going out and buying crypto though, because I don't
understand it. And some of you are out there right now,
you're slamming your hands on the on the steering wheel.
Don't honk your horn, Okay, don't scare anybody around you.

(28:59):
I guess you're frustrated with me because I don't understand it.
But I don't understand it. I don't How do you
just make up a currency? I suppose if you, if
you and I'm talking to myself here, I suppose, for example,
eggs could be currency. If you look at the price

(29:24):
of eggs, someone that has chickens could turn eggs into currency. Right,
people who have chickens and have their own eggs and
put them in a little container and they give them
to you in exchange for whatever that's currency. Right, You're
you're using it to barter to buy things with. Here,

(29:47):
here's three dozen and eggs. That's my down payment on
a new house. I mean that's an extreme, of course,
but I guess that is it that simple. I'm gonna ask.
I'm gonna ask the dumbest questions ever, I'm sure, and

(30:07):
I think right now probably people are calling into Jose
trying to rescue me from myself President. I'll explain, and
then I thank you that you know what you know.
But I have to go to people that I know
know what they know. You know, at least Stefan it

(30:28):
could be the next governor of New York. It would
be amazing if New York actually elected a real Republican,
not a phony. She may run, and polling right now
shows her as the absolute Republican nominee and only six
points behind the governor. Governor's underwater in New York. People

(30:52):
don't like her. She's creepy. She's kind of a newer
version of Nancy Pelosi. Even physically she's just yees. All right,
we're gonna come back with the second hour, already second
hour of the morning show, and a couple of stories
from the news to make an incredibly important point five

(31:39):
passed the hour. It is the second hour already of
the morning show with Presidon's Cacod Morning Friends Ruminators. One
of the things that I really try to accomplish, and
I you know, whether I'm successful at this or not
is not for me to judge. I will tell you

(32:03):
that of late, I've had some of the most impactful
emails ever, many surrounding our devotional segments at the start
of the show. But I've also had some you know,
I go back to a phone call we had during
What's the Beef last month, maybe so in talking about

(32:26):
how much they've learned listening to the program, and it's
not me. It's simply looking at the stories in the
news and again running it through a filter that I
just call common sense. I'm no deep thinker. I'm not
smarter than anybody else in any way, shape or for.

(32:50):
My life experiences are maybe different than yours, and yours
are different than theirs, and so the sum of our
life experiences allows us to perhaps better distill certain stories
or certain things and explain them or understand them in

(33:11):
a manner that might be useful. I don't know, it's
it's not a lot of light bulb moments here. It's
it's about logical analysis, using common sense about certain things,
and it's what's missing even if you look at like

(33:38):
when Charlie Kirk sits down on college campuses, he's incredibly
good on his feet, but what he's applying is common sense.
I'm wanting to put a video up of a guy

(34:01):
actually wanting to fistfight him. Seventy year old dude. The
Holy Spirit told him to come and challenge Charlie Kirk
to a gentleman fistfight. Now, the overwhelming majority of people
at this meeting are young students that agree with Charlie Kirk.

(34:22):
That's what's really interesting. Those numbers are growing, the protest
numbers are shrinking, like there's a little bit of an awakening.
But I want to arm you with some very common
sense things. For example, right now in Florida, Republicans are

(34:44):
failing us. And I touched on this last hour. Republicans
are failing in part because they do not have a
competitive party pushing them. Is a runner going to run

(35:05):
his or her best with competition that can't even come
close to them, or will they run their best when
there's at least someone pushing them you have to have
a measure of competition. And the Democrat Party is so

(35:29):
inept inside the state of Florida that Florida Republicans are
becoming arrogant and they're becoming lazy. As a result, we
have a second mass shooting at a college campus called
Florida State University in eleven years. And you can debate

(35:53):
the definition of mass that's fine. I'm using what the
mainstream media is using. Why. Because we have created an
environment by not allowing college students and faculty members to
carry concealed on campus. We've created gun free zones, which

(36:16):
are redefined by shooters as targets. Gun free zones are
targets because to someone intent on killing people, gun free
zones mean no one's shooting back anytime soon. Bad people

(36:37):
count on good people following the rules. But that argument's
not good enough. And I'm going to pull two stories
from the news in just the last few days to
illustrate the point of the arguments that we need to

(36:57):
be making. And I can only hope that Florida lawmakers
and their aides are listening because the lack of willingness
of the Florida Senate to have meaningful debate on this issue,
and to shut it down without debate, without floor votes
is an embarrassment and it's costing lives, and it's to

(37:19):
their shame. Eleven passed the hour. Don't miss the second
part of this.

Speaker 6 (37:29):
Find more on his vlog wufla fm dot com keyword Preston.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
At least eleven people died, some very young, when someone
intentionally drove an suv into a crowd during a street
festival in Vancouver. Thirty year old local man known quote

(38:05):
known to local law enforcement, significant history with the department,
as well as healthcare professionals. So let's just pause there
for a second. A vehicle was used for a mass killing.

(38:26):
Where are the cries to stop selling vehicles? Where? And
don't for a second fall for the trap of well,
that's silly apply the same logic to firearms those of

(38:55):
us It doesn't. For the point we're trying to here
has nothing to do with founder's intent. That's settled. We
know the founders learned from history. A disarmed citizenry is
ripe for a dictatorship. Look around the world to this

(39:19):
very day. Do citizens have arms in Iran? Do they
have arms? In Cuba? Do they have arms? In these
places where Despot's rule. No, of course not. But let's
apples and apples. A car, a truck and suv was

(39:42):
used to kill eleven people. Where are the cries and
the protests to ban vehicles? Where are they a vehicle
was used to kill people. We're not going to see
those protests because people know that's silly. Then what makes

(40:12):
a gun any different. It's not the gun, it's the person.
It's not the vehicle, it's the driver the person. How
about this story from Florida. First responders in Clearwater declared
a mass casualty event Sunday night after a recreational ferry

(40:35):
carrying dozens of passengers were struck by a boat, which
fled the scene. Boats are boats now going to be
limited in the hands of people? Only certain people may
have a boat. Only certain people may have a car,
or a truck or an suv. Only certain people can

(40:59):
have filled in the blank. The Florida Senate should be
absolutely humiliated by the fact that that's where bills allowing
people to carry firearms in this state on college campuses
go to die. Those bills die in the Senate they

(41:20):
have for decades. The Senate should be humiliated. The Republicans
in the Florida Senate should be humiliated. If they're not
going to outlaw vehicles and boats and bats and fertilizer

(41:41):
and timing devices and glass, etc. ETC's hammers, knives. If
they're not going to ban all of these things, then
have them explain what makes a firearm different than any
of those items. Demand an explanation. I'm over Florida elected Republicans.

(42:15):
It's cost us two more lives at Florida State University,
traumatized how many others. The answer is not banning guns.
My god, that's what That's what led to this, and
that's why Florida Democrats FSU Dems won't come on this show.

(42:36):
They actually responded to my emails. I said, I just
want you to come on the program and explain. They
couldn't their kids, They couldn't quite grasp what I was asking.
I want you to come on and talk about you
make some rightful cases about the locks. The door lock

(42:56):
system failed at Florida State. We've learned that now. But
it doesn't matter if you're out there in the student
union and someone's pulled a gun. I know from sources
that I have that there was somebody that could have
taken out the shooter that was right there, but was

(43:17):
not allowed to have a gun, and he followed the rules,
but he had all of the knowledge, all of the skill,
all of the training, and he could have ended it
right there when the guy was fumbling around with his
twelve gage, when he was trying to get his twelve
gage loose, he could have drawn and ended it right there.

(43:40):
This is on the backs of Florida Senate Republicans. The
decision to commit the crime is solely in that kid's head.
But the fact that we could not fight back on
that campus is all the responsibility and fault of the
Florida Senate Republicans. Shame on all of them. Eighteen minutes

(44:04):
past the island, You'll notice I haven't had a Florida
State Senate Republican on this show this year. Somebody like
if you call them down, no got a note here
from a listener. Ray points out, Yeah, we got to

(44:28):
hold the manufacturer of the vehicle and or the boat responsible.
How about how about whoever made the tires. You know,
they got to share some responsibility. You know, any vehicle
used in a mass killing, and we've talked about that before,
But I want to give you this is a behind

(44:48):
the scenes I'm pulling directly from my email box. All right,
I want to show you how lacking courage the Florida
Senate in particular is right now. Now, the House has
its own problems, and it's mostly in the leadership and
the leadership behind the scenes, there's some manipulation going on.

(45:12):
It's all holding a grudge against rohnd de Santus, and
it is what it is. But I got an email
from a PR firm saying Senator Jay Collins would be
interested to come on as a guest to discuss his bills,
Senate Bill nine ninety two, which protects farmers from frivolous
lawsuits for using approved pesticides. Senator Collins views the issue

(45:36):
as imperative to US strategic interest being able to grow
our own food within our borders, et cetera. Okay, I
said I'd be happy to. In fact, this was my reply.
I would be happy to make time for Senator Collins,
but would make it conditional on discussing another topic as well,
closing loopholes and Floida's Everify law. It's an agriculture related

(46:00):
bill and so I'm bringing up an agriculture related question
e verify that was sent on April the seventh, and
the reply from the PR firm was sounds good. Let
me loop around with his team and see if he's game.

(46:24):
Twenty two days later, three weeks later, nothing and the
sessions almost over. Senator Jay Collins would rather not talk
about everify than he would talk about his bill to
protect farmers. Isn't that interesting? Republican state senator does not

(46:53):
want to talk about everify. Loopholes that allow illegal immigrants
to be employed by three main business industries in this state.
Isn't that interesting? Isn't that interesting? They don't want to
have that discussion. The tough on immigration Republicans, the let's

(47:16):
get them out of the country, out of the state,
don't want to talk about the means by which these
illegals are in the state and able to be in
the state, that is, be employed. They don't want to
talk about that. And that's why I don't have many
members of the Florida legislature on the show anymore, because

(47:39):
they don't want to be held accountable. You decide what
you want to do with that information. But that is
directly out of my email box. That is exactly what happened.
And you never heard Jay Collins on this program because
he was too scared to come on and have to

(48:00):
dress illegal immigration and the employment of illegal immigrants. Why
it's not hard e verify what friends. I will always
be fair. I slam on Democrats and as it calls

(48:25):
for it, I will slam on Republicans, and I will
sleep well at night. I don't know about them. Twenty
eight minutes after the hour, back with the big stories
in the press box. Welcome to the Morning Show with
Preston Scott.

Speaker 5 (48:54):
Down Down, Down, Down.

Speaker 1 (49:08):
Man can't stand having to pick on Republicans, but it
is what it is. And look, Jay Collins is a hero,
except he's clearly following the marching orders inside the party.

(49:29):
Welcome to the second half of the Tuesday program. Richard
Stern will join us. We'll talk cryptocurrency next hour because
I have a faintest idea how this stuff works. I've
read on it, I've read your emails, I've gotten people.

Speaker 4 (49:46):
You know, I'm not an expert, but you know I
do trade in crypto, and I you know, I think
I could maybe help enlighten you.

Speaker 1 (49:54):
I've read all your stuff. It's you might as well
be speaking like a language from another universe. I just
it's it's tough for my little old brain to handle it.
It's probably not that much different than handing, you know,

(50:16):
a laptop a smartphone to somebody that just has never
been around the technology and trying to explain how to
do certain things. It's like, h it's stuff that you
intuitively know but can't necessarily transmit to others. Big Stories
in the press Box. Tom Homan set in the record

(50:38):
straight two year old was not deported because it takes
an immigration judge to deport anybody. There is no deportation
owner on a child. No US citizen child was deported.
There was due process for that specific two year old

(51:00):
that was sent to Honduras with the child's mother who
requested her child come with her. Well, well, I mean,
I say, of course hopefully, So hopefully a mother would
want her baby with her if she's illegally in this country.

(51:21):
The whole birthright citizenship has been misconstrued. It's no different
than when an employee of an embassy from another country
is in this country on assignment and they give birth
to a child. Their child's not a US citizen. They're
a citizen of the country where they are employed, where

(51:41):
they work, where they live, that's home. If they're the
ambassador from Ireland and they give birth, their child's an
Irish citizen, you know, Bangladesh, of whatever, it doesn't matter.
And then today big meeting for IBM shareholders meeting, will

(52:02):
they codify the pushback from de IBM leaving the charge.
There are analysts a Heritage that are looking at this.
I came across the story in the Daily Signal. There
are analysts at the Heritage Foundation that say, if IBM
holds firm and is pushing back from DEI, and they
stay with that in the board meeting, the shareholder meeting,

(52:26):
it will be a tsunami in the corporate world. They
believe it will be the start of a very significant
pushback against DEI in the corporate world. We can only hope.
Forty minutes past the hour, remember the Epstein files that
we're going to be released. Weren't we supposed to see

(53:08):
the Epstein files? JFK, Martin, Luther King, Bobby Kennedy. Weren't
we supposed to see the Epstein files. Who's on the list,
who was there, what's happened. Now, maybe I missed it,

(53:40):
Maybe it got released and got buried. I don't know.
That's entirely possible, though not likely.

Speaker 4 (53:49):
What I do know is.

Speaker 1 (53:52):
You've got someone else that is electedly i'm sorry, allegedly
killed themselves, that's involved in this. And it's the young
lady that Virginia Geoffrey Geofree from Australia found dead in
her farm forty one years of age, now famously pictured

(54:13):
with Prince Andrew's arm around her at the waist when
she's a young child, A young kid, not child. Child's
not fair, kid is fair. She was the one that
got into a pretty bad accident with a school boss,
left her in serious condition. She allegedly was posting on

(54:33):
her social media she had days to live. Her attorney said,
not likely she killed herself. I'd been speaking with her.
She was in good spirits, making plans for her future.
She wrote back in twenty nineteen, I'm making it publicly

(54:56):
known that in no way, shape or form a my
suicidal I've made it known to my therapist doctor if
something happens to me, for the sake of my family,
do not let this go away, and help protect them,
help me protect them, meaning her kids.

Speaker 5 (55:10):
Too.

Speaker 1 (55:10):
Many evil people want to see me quieted. She's certainly quieted.
Now her attorney again says no, no, no, no. And
now we've got another survivor, Juliet Rose Bryant from South Africa.
She was kidnapped by Epstein twenty years ago. She's speaking out,

(55:31):
making it very clear that if anything happens to her,
it's not suicide. She's not often herself. I mean, this
is right up there with Clinton stuff, isn't it? Or
is this part of since Bill is likely involved in this,

(55:52):
is this part of the whole Hillary Bill death list?
That's just enormous. Yeah. I keep asking people that crinkle
their nose at a statement like that, you know the
numbers of people that have died that are connected to
Hillary Clinton? I ask, how many people do you know

(56:15):
that have died under mysterious circumstances? Personally? How many people
do you personally know? For most of us, it's a
goose egg, it's a big bagel donut, nothing, not a
For some there may be a person. But we're talking
eighty ninety one hundred people that have direct connections to

(56:41):
Bill and Hillary Clinton that are dead under quote mysterious circumstances.
I'm sorry, Uh, that's not that is beyond probability that's
out there. We're talking odds of you know, one and
ten to the four hundredth power. No, So I'm just

(57:08):
going to circle back to where I started. We're the
Epstein files. Why hasn't Trump pushed the release of the
Epstein files. I'm not suggesting Trump's on there. I am
suggesting that there are people that are connected to Trump
or to the Republican Party that I'm just saying, what

(57:30):
other conclusion can you draw? Forty seven minutes.

Speaker 5 (57:34):
After you.

Speaker 1 (57:38):
Come back with a manly minute appropriate the Morning Show
with Preston Scott on news Radio one hundred point seven
WFLA time for a my laugh match the rhythm of

(58:04):
the moment, Did you notice that that was kind of cool?
Manly minute mail by birth man by choice here on
the Morning Show with Preston Scott. These are these are
just these these few moments in the week where we
set aside time to plant seeds into your brain on

(58:29):
how to raise your son to be a man because
they're male by birth. Contrary to what some out there think,
it can't it just are or aren't and so male
by birth, but you choose to be a man. Adds

(58:49):
a decision based on things that we input into our children,
notably our young sons. And and so this is for
just conces iteration for you parents out there, for single parents,
single moms might enlist the help of a brother or
a grandfather to kind of step in there and help out.

(59:12):
And one of the things that you can do is
teach your son that fine line between self belief based
on realities of who God made them to be and
false praise. False praise is showing up in culture today

(59:38):
because we tell our children that they're the best at
everything that they ever do, when maybe they're not. Find
the things that your son excels at and begin to
nurture those things while exposing him to other things. But
for example, when a child told all their life that

(01:00:01):
they're the best, it sets them up for a brutal fall.
I'll give you an example. We've all seen the rehearsals
for American Idol where someone just shouldn't be there, but
because their mom or dad told them that they were
the best singer in the world, they went out there

(01:00:23):
and they got crushed and humiliated. You know, if somebody
has a gift vocally, just like you know if someone
has a gift in a certain area, nurture those gifts.
But we're looking to raise young men with a healthy
dose of self esteem that doesn't bleed into a huge

(01:00:49):
ego and considering self more than the people around them.
And that's why I said it's a fine line, it's
a balance. So there you go. Skip the false praise.
Don't label him or her the best ever at this,
that or the other. Just some common sense is what

(01:01:11):
we're talking about here. Hey, real quickly, the box fan
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(01:02:42):
third hour morning show with Preston Scott. Great to be
with you friends. We're about to wrap up the month
of April. Tomorrow's it and then we head into the
fifth month. Already time is just screaming by, and great
to have you with us this morning. And it is
terrific to have back with us. From the Heritage Foundation,

(01:03:03):
Richard Stern and Richard Take two, we're going to talk crypto.
How are you, sir, Hey doing well?

Speaker 7 (01:03:09):
Thanks again for having me back.

Speaker 1 (01:03:10):
On Absolutely all right, I am going to lay my
stupidity out there in front of everybody. I've been talking
about it for months. I don't get it. Let's start
with as fundamental as you can go. How does something
become a currency that is outside the realm of a government?

Speaker 7 (01:03:31):
Well, if it makes you feel better. Most economists don't
even get this, so for everybody listening as well, this
is really a new field, even for economists. So the
way I would think about this, right, is that a
currency basically does two things. It's something that stores value.
You've worked hard, You've produced something of value. How do

(01:03:51):
we keep track of that? And then the other thing
is it's something you can use to exchange in the
moment with somebody, again as an indication that you've got
something I want. I don't have anything you want right now,
so I'll give you currency. So then the question becomes, well,
that could be absolutely anything. So the more important parts

(01:04:13):
of it are how do I know that the thing
you're giving me is something somebody else will value and
not just you writing IOU on the back of an appkin.

Speaker 5 (01:04:24):
Right.

Speaker 7 (01:04:24):
The thing about crypto, right, is that it's a unique
code packet that mathematically has to be unique, but fits
in like a jigsaw piece puzzle to every other bitcoin
or whatever that currency is. So every single holder of
another one of the cryptos knows instantaneously if your jigsaw

(01:04:46):
piece puzzle fits their broader puzzle or not. That's why
you can verify whether crypto is or isn't what you
claim it is.

Speaker 1 (01:04:55):
I'd love to say that helped me.

Speaker 8 (01:05:00):
I hear you.

Speaker 1 (01:05:02):
For example, last hour, I joked in the day that
we're living in, the price of chicken eggs has just
gone crazy, right, And so in theory, eggs could be
turned into a form of currency.

Speaker 7 (01:05:20):
And in fact, in a lot of countries they used
to be. I'll I'll tell you want to see even
better about this. So if you want to ask yourself,
where does the word dollar come from, it comes from
this very long chain going back to the Roman word
for a day. In fact, they have the same root
word and it comes from the Roman word for a

(01:05:41):
day's worth of grain rations, And so that's the original.
In the West, the original concept of money was what
was a day's worth of grain?

Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
Is crypto an umbrella that for example, underneath that umbrella
is you mentioned bitco? Is that one form of crypto?

Speaker 2 (01:06:04):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:06:04):
Absolutely, But I'll say I'll give you this. I think
the best way stepping stepping back out from the technical
part of it, I think the best way to think
of a crypto, So let's take bitcoin or ethereum, or
there's literally a million of these. I would say that
the way to think about it is you have a
million artists. You've got what I would do, which is

(01:06:26):
at best finger painting, but then you've also got rem
Brand and Ramier Picasso. The way to think of bitcoin
is that each individual bitcoin is each of the individual
paintings of Rembrand, and all of the rem Brands together
make up all of the bitcoins. So I and my
finger paintings would be one of the mean coins that

(01:06:49):
nobody buys and nobody wants. The bitcoin would represent all
of the paintings of a master painter. And I think
that's probably the best way I think about it. There's
an infinite number of of cryptos in the same way
there can be an instant number of painters if you
bring in all the Kindergarten finger paintings as well as mine,
but some of those are people like Ramier and rem

(01:07:11):
Brand of the.

Speaker 1 (01:07:11):
Cosso Richard Stern with us from the Heritage Foundation, we're
talking not economy. This time, but it sort of is
it parallels. It's got its own sort of parallel universe cryptocurrency.
We're talking about it with Richard and we'll continue next
on the Morning Show. This is the Morning Show with

(01:07:35):
Preston Scott. I'm trying to get my arms around crypto
and not be that doddering old man that doesn't have
a clue. But I will admit I still don't get it.
Richard Stern trying to help me understand it and by extension,
help you all better understand cryptocurrencies. You said there's a

(01:07:55):
million different versions out there that intuitively, I think to myself, well,
doesn't that then diminish the value of it? If there's
all these different iterations?

Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:08:07):
Absolutely, But again what I would say is the best
way to think of each crypto is it's the art.
It's the painting works of a painter. So the question is,
you know, does every random street painter or finger painter
or you know, like if you or I want to
take up art, I assume you don't. You know I
don't either. By the way, then you know, do we

(01:08:28):
diminish the value of Monet's paintings or rem brand or
a mirror and so that's why you can have a
million of these, but they don't change the value of
each other because and then, like I said, I really
would view it as each crypto is like the collected
works of an artists. So most of them are random
street painters, but nobody likes them, nobody cares about them.

(01:08:51):
There's really only a handful of them that have gotten
to this position the way that the very famous artist has.
And that's why there's value, because everybody else identifies that
they like that coin. But that's where the value comes from.

Speaker 1 (01:09:06):
One of the things that I've heard explained Richard is that,
for example, there is a finite amount of and let's
just stay with bitcoin because it seems to be among
the most well known. Would that be a fair statement. Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:09:20):
Absolutely, it's not the most well known.

Speaker 1 (01:09:22):
Okay, So if bitcoin is the crypto of choice for many,
that its value is derived in part from the fact
that it's finite in number. There's just so much of it,
and they're not going to be quote producing even though
it's digital, right, I mean, it's digital money. So how

(01:09:43):
do we know that they're not going to produce more
of it?

Speaker 7 (01:09:47):
Absolutely? So it's mathematically set and I know that everybody's
favorite way to understand something is to bring math into
the situation.

Speaker 1 (01:09:55):
But there's a percentage of my audience at now.

Speaker 7 (01:10:00):
You exactly well, you know they would be in like
most of the people in DC hate me as well,
so they're a good company.

Speaker 1 (01:10:07):
Okay, here's the way here.

Speaker 7 (01:10:09):
I'll give you a physical way of thinking about it.
Imagine a jigsaw puzzle that's a circle, and because each
no layer finishes the puzzle, there's always extra pieces at
the edge of the circle, so you could always add
more pieces to the puzzle. Each layer you go out,

(01:10:30):
each circle you add to the puzzle, it gets larger
and larger and larger. There's a moment where the next
circle you'd put on the puzzle, the next ring is
you know, the size of a state or the size
of the planet. There's a moment where physically you're just
not going to add to the puzzle because that next
ring would be so large. That's how bitcoin limits the

(01:10:55):
supply is the mathematical calculations you have to do to
get the next coin are exponentially larger than the coin
before it, And so it's mathematically set up so that
it would be physically impossible to actually do the number
of calculations needed to get over twenty one million bitcoins.

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So we're not at twenty one million, but we're getting close.
Because each coin that gets unlocked, it gets harder and
harder and harder to do the millions, billions of calculations
you need to get there.

Speaker 1 (01:11:28):
Is there an actual bitcoin that someone can put in
their safe.

Speaker 7 (01:11:34):
No, so this is I think the least tangible part
of this. It's really just a strain of zeros and
ones that it's a code packet, if you will. But
what I would say is like a jigsaw piece puzzle
of the other holders of bitcoin. No, mathematically whether when
you say, hey, I've got a bitcoin, here's my code,

(01:11:57):
everybody who's already a holder of bitcoin knows mathematically whether
your jigsaw piece actually fits into the broader puzzle. That's
why you can verify it, because you can't just walk
up with random mak because everybody else in the network
knows instantaneously if you're holding the unique puzzle piece you
claim to be holding or not. That's why the network

(01:12:20):
allows you that verification. In the same way that the
serial number on a dollar tells you whether it's a
real dollar or not, or rather tells the bank whether
it's a real dollar or not.

Speaker 1 (01:12:31):
All right, Richard Stern with us from the Heritage Foundation.
We got one more segment to try to I told
you folks, this is crypto one oh one, and I'm
sorry I'm dominating this with my own stupid questions. But
I can't possibly even think of having a meaningful discussion
down the road unless I get some of this in
my head. So we have more to come here in

(01:12:52):
the Morning Show with Preston Scott. We could literally take
a week of shows to break down the topic of
cryptocurrencies and why it is good, or why there are

(01:13:16):
questions or why the confusion. Richard Stern with us from
the Heritage Foundation. Richard, I have to believe hurting in
some fashion is that whenever you see a story on cryptocurrency,
they put on some sort of like this bitcoin an
actual coin, and I think it causes people to think
that there's an actual such a thing.

Speaker 7 (01:13:38):
Oh absolutely, but I will say there is mathematically such
a thing in terms of the code. But yeah no,
I hear you. Es people said, so there's a thing
you can actually literally put your hands on.

Speaker 1 (01:13:49):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I'm staring at articles right now, even
on the Heritage site, and they've got the B on
the bitcoin and it's like, okay, whatever, So let's get
down to it's it's actual useful valuation here. And you
were just telling me in the break that one of
the big keys here is its ability to be a
hedge against inflation HOUSEO.

Speaker 7 (01:14:11):
So the important thing to recognize them, by the way,
to the extent that you feel like a dollar is
you know, a physical piece of paper can put your
hands on. I hate to break it to everybody, Most
dollars exist as digital coding in the banks and the
app the Federal Reserve. And this gets to the problem
with this, which is that the Federal Reserve in DC

(01:14:33):
can print as many dollars as it wants. And every
time the Fed prints a dollar, the dollars you own
lose value. Right, there's no cap on the supply of
the dollar. In fact, the joke that we have at
Heritage is that the dollar is the ultimate mean coin. Now,
you might ask yourself why does the Fed print money?

(01:14:54):
And the answer increasingly is because the federal government runs
a deficit, needs more mone money, so they don't have
the courage the transparency in public. To tax the American public,
they simply print more money at the FED, causing inflation,
devaluing your dollars. And so it's really just a silent

(01:15:15):
tax policy that shuffles your purchasing power towards the government.
But if you're using gold or silver or crypto, then
your money is protected because it isn't controlled by the FED.
They can't just print it and devalue your money.

Speaker 1 (01:15:33):
What determines out of you sent me to a website
coinbase dot com as a reputable place where people buy
and sell crypto. And as you look at the first
page of one thousand and eight hundred and seventy some
odd pages, some are valued at a dollar, some are
valued at ninety five thousand dollars. What determines that?

Speaker 7 (01:15:58):
Oh, the market on base. But you know, this gets
back to the analogy of you know, famous painters. You
can to think of it as that there's one thousand
and eighty six painters whose work is on sale on
the market, and that's the same kind of thing. It's
what people looking at it want to sell it for
and want to buy it for. Some of these coins
are limited and supply, some of them are not what

(01:16:20):
the numbers are limited on. All of that gets into
the valuation. But the important thing here again is that
you know who is producing it, and it's not the
government that can just unlimited make whatever and want and
devalue your holding. So there's especially for Bitcoin or the
ones where there's limited supply, is real trust that they

(01:16:41):
can't just inflate away the value of it after.

Speaker 2 (01:16:44):
You buy it.

Speaker 1 (01:16:45):
How does one learn whether there is a cap on
how much of it is there versus it's there's there
is no cap. As you mentioned, some of these don't
have one.

Speaker 7 (01:16:56):
If you if you look it up, you can you
can often find the information. Coinbase themselves gives you a
real full detailed breakdown on all of the cryptos that
are on sale on coinbase. And again Coinbase is a
very reputable company. You can you can use them to
do that research and get to know all of the
details about each of the different cryptos.

Speaker 1 (01:17:18):
So if I'm looking up that, for example, right now,
the number two, because bitcoin is way far and away
the largest in terms of value, uh ethereum is sitting
right now. But inside the stats it says mac supply,
it says not enough data.

Speaker 7 (01:17:36):
Yeah, So Ethereum is a little less transparent about their algorithms.
Part of why bitcoin is is so popular is that
everything about bitcoin is very well known, very robust. We
know there's a finance cap on it, gotcha, and so
that's why it's impart why bitcoin is so valuable, why
it's market cap is so large. But yeah, no, each

(01:17:59):
crypto has its own little flavor. They're each engineered to
do different things.

Speaker 1 (01:18:04):
When you say engineered to do different things quickly, what
does that mean.

Speaker 7 (01:18:09):
So one of the other advantages of cryptos is that
the coding keeps track of all the transactions that have
ever happened. It's a little bit like a running receipt,
and so you can verify what's happened, where it's been
know that it's in fact a real coin. But part
of that is if you think of it this way,
when when you go swipe your credit card, you and

(01:18:31):
the business pay a fee to the credit card companies
so that their network can move the money around. And
in fact that's actually where they get the money from
to give you awards points, which is to say that
they overcharged you in the first minute and then are
giving you award points in the back end, Cryptos technologically
work the way that a credit card exchange works, but

(01:18:53):
they don't charge you for it. So each of them
is engineered to handle those transactions, the physical movement of
the data in different unique ways. Some of them are
a lot better, a lot faster than banks are. You
know right now, if you want to transfer money, you
can take three to five business days. Cryptos generally can
do this from a human perspective, basically instantaneously, but they're

(01:19:17):
each engineered differently to handle different data transactions.

Speaker 1 (01:19:20):
Gotcha, Richard. Fascinating topic and thanks for illuminating it a
little bit for us today.

Speaker 7 (01:19:27):
Well, thank you for having me on the talk about
it as as helpful as I could be about it.
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:19:31):
I thank you, Richard Stern with us from the Heritage Foundation.
Hopefully you know a little bit more. Twenty eight past the.

Speaker 6 (01:19:38):
Hour, told what to believe by the liberal media. Get
a refreshing dose of truth. It's the Morning Show with
Dresden Scott on news radio one hundred point seven w FLA.

Speaker 1 (01:20:02):
Just to show how stubborn and stiff necked people can be.
Look what's happened in Canada after years of being put
under the thumb of Justin Trudeau. They've turned to another illiberal.

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He might not be the same brand of illiberal that
Justin Trudeau was who was obsessed with his power. But
Mark Carney, Canadian Prime Minister, his party is going to

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win the country's federal election for a fourth consecutive time.
I think, looking at the population makeup of the nation,
this speaks to the problem of ill liberals dominating in
populated areas. I think of Canada as sort of a

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giant version of Alaska, where there are little clusters of
people near some of the bigger cities, and then everyone's
just spread out, and it makes you wonder. As of
late yesterday, the Liberal Party was leading with one hundred

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and sixty one seats in Parliament one hundred and fifty
by the Conservative Party. You've got to get one hundred
and seventy two of the three hundred and forty three
seats to hold the majority. I mean, I just but look,

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our elections reveal the same people don't learn, and sadly
we don't have enough Republicans in the House of the Senate. Yeah,
I'm gonna have a discussion tomorrow about this with Jimmy
Patronis Jimmy's gonna be on the show with us tomorrow,

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first time he's visited with us. As a sitting member
of the United States Congress. We don't have enough members
like Kat Cammick and Jimmy Patronis that are going to
do the right thing regardless. But guess what I think

(01:22:57):
we now have two in Florida. You remember when Katkamick said,
I was the only member of the Florida Caucus to
Congress in the House that voted against pork for my district.
I'm gonna ask Jimmy if he's gonna do the same.

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If if one becomes two, that's the start, then we
need three. We need the representative from District two to
make the same pledge. We're going to stop deficit spending
and adding to our debt. A new big story in

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the press box forty minutes pass down. We'll reset the
other two stories at the top as we close the show.
Right am at Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. Yes he
knows how to read. Well, actually, his producer reads him.
He doesn't know how to read. It's the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. Box fans, get yourself Box fans to

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donate to senior adults in our listening area in Panama
City and the surrounding area in and around the Capital City.
So go buy yourself some box fans and we'll tell
you where to take them. Or like, if you're in
Panama City, you can just go buy them at ACE
and leave them right there. In Bay County and Walton County,

(01:24:29):
ACE Hardware stores they sell box fans, or you can
pick them up somewhere else if you want and drop
them off there. But why not just buy them there.
They're stepping up and helping us PepsiCo. The distribution center
in the Capital City is a drop off point here
in Tallassee near Tallassee State College right across the street
and the iHeart Building here in town. So just putting

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that on your radar, start acquiring box fans. They're like
twenty bucks by one a week, drop off four. You know,
this is whatever. It's going to make a big difference.
As the heat built. We're getting ahead of it this year.
Last year we were behind. We didn't get the fans
delivered till I want to say, July or August. This year,
we're gonna have them delivered by the end of May.

(01:25:14):
Before June hits and the really hot, humid weather comes
upon us in the wild or in our homes. We
love them Critters, large and small. Time for another edition
of Animal Stories on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
This one made me scratch my head. Brevard Humane Society's

(01:25:35):
thirteenth Annual East Coast Dog Surfing Festival Lourie Wilson Park
and Coco Beach, twenty three rad rovers competed, with Sammy
the Chaiweene winning a back to back title one for
a second consecutive year. It's a cross between a Chihuahua

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and a dosent Chaiweny defended the twenty twenty four title.
Five thousand people were there. I have to tell you, though,
I'm waiting for a shark to take one of those
things out. I mean, you're seeing a little weeny dog
of some kind, I mean on a board. Ah, there's

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just something creepy about that to me. I think it's funny.
I love watching videos of animals surfing. It's hilarious. But
still staying in Florida, Penelas County Sheriff's Department Clearwater Parking Lot,
a deputy spotted in eastern screech owl lit a baby
owl an owlet. I guess that means he was at

(01:26:43):
the outlet mall. Anyway, fish and Wildlife were called in
they took the owl. The guy put the owl in
an area, hoping to see a mom owl show up
and take her young charge back to the nest, but
it didn't happen, so they called Fish and Wildlife and

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brought the outlet to a raptor rehab center. Massachusetts, town
of Rockport. We have a vandal in the neighborhood eighteen
to twenty four inches tall, wearing black and white with
a red hat. Turns out a woodpecker was destroying up

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to twenty five cars, SUVs, trucks in the area. Apparently
this amorous woodpecker kept seeing his reflection in mirrors and
in glass windshields and so forth, and thought it was
an opponent in their very territorial in mating season and
just started cracked windshields with its beak. That's how formidable

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those beaks are. In fact, one guy who's an expert
on birds at Brown University said it's biomechanical, the equivalent
of a hammer. The beak of a woodpecker damaged at
least twenty five vehicles. How do you make that call

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the insurance company?

Speaker 4 (01:28:17):
My front windshields broken? How that happened, sir? It was
it was a woodpecker. A woodpecker. Yes, forty six minutes
past the hour.

Speaker 1 (01:28:46):
Hey, we got a couple of minutes here. Let's uh,
let's gyp the press conference. It's the one hundred day
sort of gathering of the media at the White House,
and Carolyn Levitt is holding forth with Scott Besson, the
Treasury Secretary, taking questions talking about tariffs, China, the economy

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in general, the.

Speaker 9 (01:29:11):
Best possible trade deals they have for the American people.
We had four years of bad deals, for decades of
unfair trading, and we are going to the unwine those
and make them fair. What we are doing is we've
created a process. I think the aperture of uncertainty will

(01:29:31):
be narrowing, and as we start moving forward announcing deals,
then there will be certainty. But certainly is not necessarily
a good thing in negotiating hearing.

Speaker 10 (01:29:44):
Last night, there were reports on the administration sort of
walking back a little bit on the auto terrorists. Can
you sort of just elaborate on that decision there and
what we can expect going forward, and why sort of
the shift in this autocare well.

Speaker 9 (01:29:58):
President Trump has had meetings with both domestic and for
excuse me, foreign auto producers, and he's committed to bringing
back auto production to the US. So we want to
give the automakers a path to do that quickly, efficiently,
and create as many jobs as possible.

Speaker 1 (01:30:17):
Jasin, thank you so much for only thank you sir,
Sorry bark about China?

Speaker 8 (01:30:20):
Does the administration anticipate anticipate supply chain shocks or supply
shocks coming now that harborsshipments from China are significantly down,
and if so, are there being plans or are there
plans in the process of.

Speaker 1 (01:30:35):
How to address that.

Speaker 9 (01:30:37):
I wouldn't think that we would have supply Chaine shocks.
And I think retailers they have managed their inventory in
front of this. You know, I speak to dozens of companies,
sometimes daily they but definitely weekly, and they know that
President Trump is committed to fair trade and have planned accordingly.

Speaker 1 (01:30:59):
There you go, and that's just sort of a little
listen in to the press conference going on right now
at the White House. Carolyn Levitt, the Press Secretary, turning
things over to Scott Bessen because there are a lot
of questions obviously about what's going on with tariffs and
the relationship in particular with China. Get over cheap stuff,

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ladies and gentlemen. Just I can't stress that enough. We
as a country need to look for where is this manufactured?
When you're shopping online, where is this manufactured? And find alternatives.
You'll find them. You will find them.

Speaker 6 (01:31:41):
Brought to you by Barno Heating and Air. It's the
Morning Show one eight on WFLA look back at the
program in one hundred and eighty seconds or less. Where
did the show go?

Speaker 1 (01:31:56):
I don't know. Started with Job nineteen twenty five. Yeah,
we started with Job. It's all I could do is
laugh about it. Fun little devotional that was very transparent devotional.
That one was good. Visit with Richard Stern with a

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Heritage foundation talking about cryptocurrency. Big stories in the press box.
Of course, we talked about the Canadian elections, IBM rejection
of DEI are they going to codify that at their
shareholder meeting today? Look at us on top today? Huh say?

Speaker 5 (01:32:33):
Look at us.

Speaker 1 (01:32:34):
It's not something I generally worry about whether it's today,
but I thought it was an important story because of
its its potential domino effect on business in general in
this country. DEI is racist and bigoted, period end. And
the thing about it is no one can dispute that.

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It's just it's indisputable. Tom Oman. The Borders are responding
to an inquiry by US District Judge Terry Dowdy in
Louisiana about the two year old that was deported. A
court has to deport somebody. No immigration judge issued a
deportation the mother of the child. The mother was being deported,

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and the mother said, I want my child with me. Okay,
she signed the paperwork, the child had due process done.
We're asking where are the Epstein files. We compared a
mass killing in Canada with a car and a hit
and run attack on a ferry with a boat, and

(01:33:40):
wondering are we going to go after the drivers of
the cars and the boats