Ep. 5374: Behind the Headlines: Uncover the truth behind Media headlines.

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Wednesday, May 7th.

Our guests today include:
- Charlie Strickland 





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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Wednesday on the Morning show, I'm pressed in Scott. Good morning.
He's Jose. Can you see he's already had a rough
morning everybody. So if you call the program today, be
kind and gentle, or he will bite your head off.

(00:38):
His car has been kicked repeatedly, mercilessly by a deer.
He's got the damage to prove it. The deer walked
away from the encounter. Jose's vehicle limped away. Yeah, thanks
to my cat light reflexes. Not quite catlike enough, now,

(01:03):
was it? No? Yeah, dear, are just so much fun.
All right, let's get into God's word here. Yesterday we
talked about Jonah one and how God said to Jonah,
I want you to go to nine of them because
nineveh stinks evil everywhere. I want you to go. I

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want you to preach to those people. Jonah was like,
uh no, and he jumped on a ship trying to
get about two thousand miles the other way. God had
none of it. In the midst of all of the
tumult of the sea, the ship he was on being
tossed back and forth. The Captain's like, everybody's praying except you.

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You're sleeping at the bottom of the ship. What are
you doing? Why aren't you calling out to your God?
And then Jonah confesses that he's in disobedience to God,
and he just said, toss me overboard. Jonah was not praying. First,
he was disobedient. Secondly, he wasn't praying. So he gets

(02:10):
tossed overboard. He gets swallowed up by a fish, not
a whale, a fish. And then check this out the
very first verse of chapter two. Inside the fish, then
Jonah prayed to the Lord, and this starts a fascinating journey,

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not just to Nineveh. More importantly, in Jonah's heart, God
desperately wants us to walk in his blessing. The requirement

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is obedience. Jonah did not pray. He he was resistant
to what God asked him to do. He didn't pray
about it. He said, no, I don't like those people.

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They do not deserve your grace and mercy. And guess what,
there are a lot of people that struggle with God
because he's merciful. Well, if God forgives people like that,

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then I don't want any part of it. Really. So
if somebody confesses their sins to God and seeks forgiveness,
regardless of what they've done. They may be paying a

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consequence for that choice that they made. They may have
to serve time in prison, or they might have to
work their way up from the bottom, or they might
have to fill in the blank. But if someone's heart
is truly seeking redemption, you're going to hold a grudge

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against God because he forgives, and you're not seeing the
issues in your own life, or you think that the
issues in your life aren't as bad as theirs. All
I can do is point you to Jonah and remind

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you of what happened. You might not likely get swallowed
into the belly of a fish for a few days.
But Jonah was asked once to do something he didn't
didn't agree. When it was time to pray in the
ship to find out what needed to happen, he didn't pray.

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He gets tossed overboard, swallowed and he's probably looking around going, well,
this worked out well for me, now, didn't it. And
then he decided maybe it's time to pray. There are
lessons there, my friends. Ten past the hour, give it

(05:34):
like a fine whine. Ah, excuse me, man I please
have some more water. The Pellegrino, Yes, sparkling mm this breeze.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Very nice, good morning, and welcome to the Morning Show
with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Right just about twelve past the hour. No getting nice
night of rest? Sleep, Oh, you gotta get it. It's
how your body heals itself. I I've learned to appreciate
a good night of rest as I've aged more than ever.

(06:18):
When I was younger, I didn't even think about it,
the importance of it, and so I would oftentimes, you know,
short myself wouldn't sleep a lot. I was stupid. Yeah,
let's take a look at the American Patriots Almanac for

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May the seventh. It was on this date in seventeen
eighty nine, first inaugural ball honoring George and Martha Washington
was held in New York City. Nineteen fifteen, the German
U boat a German U boat sinks the British Lioner
Lusitania off the Irish coast, killing twelve, including one hundred

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and twenty eight Americans, and that played a large role
in bringing US into World War One. The Great War
nineteen forty five, Germany surrenders its forces to the Allies
in France Raims, bringing an end to World War II
in Europe. Nineteen fifty seven, John F. Kennedy warded the

(07:25):
Pulitzer Prize for his book Profiles and Courage. A lot
of people don't remember that that the former president was
the president was a Pulitzer Prize winning author. And in
nineteen ninety two, the twenty seventh Amendment barring Congress from
giving itself mid term pay raises as ratified. Boy that

(07:53):
sure worked kept their pay in check, now, didn't it
they just I wonder if that's when it started the
insider trading stuff. I'll bet you you could trace it back.
I want. I'm going to ask Peter Schweitz to that question,
even if it's off air. Did did the twenty seventh

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Amendment stop in Congress from giving themselves pay raises? Did
that usher in this era of insider trading where so
many get rich? So remember there's that there's a there's
an actual investment named after Pelosi based on what she

(08:39):
and her husband do with their trading, because it's it's
clear that they're involved in insider trading. Anyway. National Day
of Tourism. It's National Tourism Day, National Interpreter Appreciation Day.

(09:01):
You're welcome. I interpret the news for you. Okay, no,
National Skilled Trades Day. Come on, all of you that
are in trades, and I hope you're skilled. If you're
not skilled, you're probably straggling for money. National Packaging Design Day.

(09:26):
You know, if you think about it, there is an
art to packaging. There really is. Designing a package is
an art. And I hate clamshell packaging. I understand why
it exists, but how many people have how many times
have you been cut over the years trying to open

(09:48):
up clamshell packaging? National Barrier Awareness Day, National Roast Leg
of Lamb Day. It's not my favorite lamb is It's
not my favorite. I confess I struggle getting past the
fact that they're I mean, sheep are just adorable. And

(10:10):
I don't know why I don't assign the same value
to pigs, especially in my world, knowing my wife. Probably
because I did not grow up eating lamb. I did
grow up eating ham. I did not go out and play.
I did not go out and say, all of a sudden,

(10:32):
I'm channeling my inner Doctor Seuss. National Paced Up Day,
National Bike to School Day, National School Nurse Day. So
there you go, sixteen past the album Boy, we got
a busy show today. Twenty two minutes after the hour,

(11:07):
just spinning the discs here on the morning show. Great
battery round up coming up a week from Saturday. Don't
get ahead of it. It's not this Saturday. It's a
week from Saturday. At the Costco. Lithium iron, nickel, metal hydride,
regular alkaline batteries, rechargeable devices with batteries in them, nothing big,

(11:35):
not automotive batteries, not vape pens, not batteries heavier than
five pounds. And it's Southern Waste Information Exchange doing this
in conjunction with all of us here at Diehard, Leon
County FSU. Just gathering up old batteries. You've got like

(12:00):
batteries that you know, the Blackendecker ryob Duwalt, and they're
no longer charging. Well even bring them. You got you
got a computer phone, something that you just you never
did anything with and it's just sitting there. Bring it.

(12:20):
Nothing to heavier than five pounds, all right, that's from
ten to two at the Costco a week from Saturday.
Now today, I might tell a joke. I might tell
that one joke. I know and hang out with the

(12:41):
Capital City Republicans, so I'll find out if they have
a sense of humor before I even begin. And I
will be the guest speaker today at Capital City Country Club.
Kind of appropriate for the Capital City Republican to meet
a Capital City country club. And I think the meeting

(13:06):
food and all that starts around eleven thirty. You know,
I don't know if you can just show up and
pay your money and buy lunch and hang out and
listen ask questions. They say, we'll take care of some
business early around twelve o'clock, we'll start the program. You
can speak ten, fifteen, twenty minutes, then leave time for questions.

(13:33):
Maybe I will, maybe I won't. I don't know what
I can assure you is. And I've mentioned this, they
may rue the decision to invite me. I don't know.
I don't know. I have a few things that might

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be worth sharing. I'm a Republican. I left the party
for a good eight years. Maybe was NPA. So frustrated
was I with the state apparatus? I begrudgingly rejoined. Not

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because the platform was faulty. The platform is brilliant, but
because Republicans can't get out of their own way. And
I'm not talking about rank and file people like you

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I'm talking about the party. They can't get out of
their own way, and I don't like being affiliated with losers.
I haven't warned my son's hat all year long, all

(15:10):
during the basketball season, I didn't wear my son's hat
one day. Why they're losing. They were terrible, highest payroll
in the NBA and awful. And I can't stand the
fact that the Republicans hold this slim majority, and we're

(15:30):
gonna have to fight like crazy to keep the slim
majority we have, and we should be expanding it. We
should be destroying the Democrat Party forever by just winning
hearts and minds, making the argument. Look what Charlie Kirk

(15:53):
is doing, learn from it. He plops himself down on
college campuses and says, prove me wrong, and he challenges
people to just talk, to have a debate of ideas.

(16:15):
And he points out brilliantly how the left always resorts
to name calling, always resorts to outlandish, ridiculous claims, can't
have a substantive debate. But Republicans don't know how to
take the message that wins and broadcast it. Why does

(16:38):
has anyone ever considered why conservative talk radio is successful
and liberal talk radio just fails almost every time. Twenty
eight minutes after when we come back an example of
sort of what I'm talking about. It's the Morning Show

(16:59):
with Scott. All right, time for the big stories in
the press box. Here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
If you're just joining us for the very first time,
we cover a lot of ground in a given show.

(17:21):
And when I say I say stupid things like bully,
today's a busy show, well duh. I mean every if
if it weren't a busy day, if I didn't have
everything in the rundown filled out with something, we'd be
sitting here this morning and going, m so, what's up?

(17:52):
I mean, come on, We come prepared every day and
we go through a lot of stories. Bottom of the hour,
most hours, big stories in the press box. These are
things I want on your radar. Here's the headline, and
a bunch of conservative sites pushed this out. Supreme Court
upholds Trump's trans military band. See Jose's clapping. Other people

(18:18):
were clapping. I got emails see this story. No no, no, no, no,
that's not true. Those headlines are not true. I had
to write the editors at the Daily Signal, the Daily
signal is the spin off of the Heritage Foundation. It's
now totally independent of Heritage, But it was the Heritage

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Foundation kind of news site, and then it became totally independent.
And it's supposed to be doing straight news. That is
clickbait at its freaking worst, and it angers me. The
Supreme Court simply said that a district court ruling stopping
it is in error, and so they lifted the district

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court ruling that stopped the implementation of the band nationwide
and said, no, that ruling is inappropriate. It is in
front of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. That's where
it will and then if we need to, we'll take
it up from there. They did not listen to the arguments.
They didn't listen to the merits. There is no decision
on whether the ban, which I believe is fully constitutional.

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My beef is at first good. We can go back
to doing what we're supposed to do, which is what
holding the military to standards that are discriminatory. Wait, what
do you mean by that? The military discriminates and prejudices
against fat people, slow people, people that are too tall
to fly in jets, too short to do other things.

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It doesn't matter. There are prejudices all over the place.
This is another one that has to do with mental fitness.
But I'm equally angry that conservative news sites the court
did not uphold. The court merely stayed a lower court

(20:18):
ruling saying, uh yeah no, and and they're not they haven't.
They have not heard the arguments for or against it.
So be happy that we can move forward. Absolutely, it's
going to have its full day in court and hopefully

(20:41):
you know, we're gonna set I think the Supreme Court,
if nothing else, did this to reprimand the district court
saying you have no authority beyond your district. That's just
my personal hunch on why the justices ruled six to
three to lift that order. And then the other big

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story is India has dropped at least on multiple products,
zero tariffs, not going to tear if any of the
US products that are auto parts, pharmaceuticals, and steel. They
had a twenty five percent tariff on auto parts, twelve
percent on pharmaceutical fifteen percent on steel. It's the start now.

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Scott Besson says that they are negotiating right now with
seventeen of the eighteen major traders. China is the eighteenth.
Active negotiations. Deals are being organized. It will take time
to construct them, but India has already said yes we will,

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and so it's a starting point. I just wanted to
update you. Forty one passed the other. The main conservative
media has got to do better. If we are going
to pick at mainstream media for its inaccuracies and for

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writing headlines poorly and trying to just generate clicks, we
have to hold people that are allegedly conservative or straight
down the middle media outlets, we have to hold them accountable.
So I wrote the editors and I said, you guys
are better than this. The word in the headline uphold

(22:38):
upholds Trump's band suggests that they considered arguments and upheld
the band. They did not. There were no arguments made.
They simply said to a lower court ruling, no, you
do not have that authority. You are in error. So

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the band continues as it was originally put in place
by executive order and is now being implemented by the
Secretary of Defense in all of the military branches. What

(23:22):
happened to Rachel Levine, Remember he's the guy that worked
for it, wasn't he Like the deputy Secretary of HHS.
It's a classic photo of him standing with a bunch
of women, and all you did the picture just cut

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the top half off and you just looked at the
bottom and all of the ladies are standing with their
feet basically pointed straight ahead, and then one set of photo,
one set of feet ducted out. It's like, gee, I
wonder who's different in this photo. There's like thirty women

(24:09):
and him. It was hilarious, and he's wearing a skirt.
I wonder if he's serving still. Remember he used to
walk around with his uniform with all of the ribbons
and medals and stuff. Hey, you've got I put it
on the X page. A link to an article by

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Kurt Schlichter. He's funny. He is a columnist with town Hall,
and he writes, all GOP senators have to do is
not be dumb. All GOP senators have to do is
not be dumb. So we're in trouble. And he goes

(24:55):
through and he talks about the various members of the
US Senate that are Republicans, and he doesn't talk about
all of them, but he points out, and I think
very astutely, the midterms are vital and it goes back
to what we've all been lamenting. See, I believe rhinos

(25:19):
can be brought into the fold through sheer volume of messaging,
because rhinos will be impacted by it. Young people are
swinging to the right, and we need to take advantage

(25:43):
of this by arming them with the apologetic for why
why are they being drawn to conservatism? And we're not
very good at it. Schlichter writes, for example, accurately, Susan
Collins from Maine is not a rhino. He basically says,

(26:05):
she's a moderate, and there's a difference. She's reliable seventy
five to eighty percent of the time on most every
issue that matters to the GOP. And then he says this,
if you think you're getting somebody more conservative out of Maine,
you've lost your mind. That's a fair observation. He points

(26:32):
to Alaska Lisa Murkowski and what a train wreck, he said.
Hopefully Alaskans will get their head out of the snow
and find a better candidate. And he goes through and
talks about the different holes in the party, mentions Tom Tillis,

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what a disaster he is, and so it's just it's
a brilliant piece it's a funny piece, but it's great
analysis and I just challenge you go to my ex
page at TMS Preston Scott and click that link and
read that story. You'll be better for it. Forty seven

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minutes past the hour, come back and a lot of
stuff to talk about. This is the Morning Show with
Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
Yea.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
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(27:51):
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(28:16):
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just think about it. Just get a box fan. We'll
tell you more. All right, I hope you're ready for this.
This blew my mind gateway pundit reporting Stephen Miller. You

(28:41):
know Steven Miller, the Deputy chief of Staff. He leads
America's First America First Legal It has filed a lawsuit
against the Chief Justice John Roberts in his capacity as
Presiding Officer of the Judicial Conference of the United States,

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and Robert Conrad, director of the Administrative Office of the
US Courts. The lawsuit accuses the two of them of
running what AFL is describing as an unconstitutional shadow agency
and violating federal transparency laws. The lawsuit was filed April

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twenty second. It's slamming the Judicial Conference and the Administrative Arm,
both overseen by Justice Roberts, as rogue quote executive agencies
that have collaborated with far left lawmakers to wage lawfare
against conservative Supreme Court justices. The lawsuit, which is being

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reported on now, states for several years, the media and
enterprising lawmakers have launched an onslaught to destroy the impartial
reality and political neutrality of Article three courts, and in particular,
the Supreme Court justices Thomas Alito Kavanaugh of all faced
political and physical threats because of the politicization and weaponization

(30:13):
of the law. The lawfair has been led by Senator
Sheldon Whitehouse and Representative Hank Johnson, relying upon ideologically favorable
legacy media to falsely accuse Justices Thomas and Alito of
ethical improprieties. Their aim was simple to chill the judicial
independence of these Supreme Court justices. They filed freedom of

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information requests and the Judicial Conference and Administrative Office of
the Courts have refused, and so rather than fight with it,
they're just they're filing a lawsuit. Did you expect to
hear the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court being sued

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in connection with something like this? The answer is no,
But the equal answer is yeah, but I'm not surprised. Wow,
just wow. All right, we come back, some very important
questions to be asked. All right, let's do the second

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hour here of the radio program, an hour for now.
Charlie Strickland will join us, and a lot to talk
about since our last visit. We set aside the first
Wednesday of the month to talk with Charlie and j D.
And since last visit, we had the events at Florida

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State University, So we're going to talk about that and
related issues, as well as some active shooter protocols because
the Florida legislature displays continued cowardice. By the way, did
I mention that the Florida legislature is dominated by Republicans.

(32:24):
We have to think about how we're going to handle
things because I mean, do you go on campus if
you can't protect yourself and they can't. Possibly. I'm not
mad at FSU police, GPD or any at any college campus.

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They're they're they're doing their job the best they can.
They can't be everywhere, just like they can't be in
all of our neighborhoods. But in our neighborhoods we have
the right to carry, So we don't need them to
be everywhere. We just need the option. Anyway, we'll get
to all that I said, I had questions. I want

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to preface this segment that will spill into the next
with the fact that this was this was something that
didn't occur to me in the manner that it now
lodges in my brain. And I want to thank a

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very encouraging listener of the show who I will not out.
I'm not going to out this person. I'll just simply
tell you that this person is a professional photojournalist, has
been for years still freelances for news outlets and publications.

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So I'm not going to do anything to hurt this
person by outing this person. But I got an email
about the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for photo journalism
in twenty twenty five, for ostensibly photos taken in the

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previous year. And I never would have given this the
consideration that I am right now unless someone that is
a professional photographer who knows very well how to take

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photos in every setting, because this person has taken photos
in every setting, what the guidelines are, what the general
parameters are of photography. Okay, just bear with me. This
has a a question attached to it that for some

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of you you're going to go like I did, WHOA.
Others you're gonna go yeah, I'm not surprised. Others are
going to say I knew it. And there might be
one or two of you that go stop. But there no,
there won't be many of you. I think for most

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of you, what I'm about to share and ask, which
is lifted right from the pages of an email I received,
is really worth asking. I'll give you this much. When
we come back. We're going to talk about a singular

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photo that won a Pulitzer Prize, which was the attempted
assassination of Donald Trump. What might that question be? We'll

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ask it next here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

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The photo was taken by New York Times photographer Doug Mills.
He said, and I'm quoting, I just happened to be
down shooting with a wide angle lens just below the
president when he was speaking. There was a huge fla
waving right above his head, and I just happened to
be taking a picture at the same time when I

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heard the pops, I guess I just kept hitting the shutter,
and then I saw him reach for his ear. He grimaced,
grabbed his hand and looked that there was blood, and
he went down, and I thought, dear God, he's been shot.
He said. The moment he discovered he had captured an
image of a bullet whizzing past Trump was a surprise
to him. May I get to the question that a

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professional photographer that worked for major news organizations, by the way, asked,
I want to know why Mills was shooting at one
eight thousandths of a second on a speech won five

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hundredth of a second, it would have been plenty fast
but not fast enough to get the vapor trail of
a bullet. Think about those numbers, friends, Now, let me
help you out a little bit, because I then I
listened to us, and I'm thinking, Okay, he realizes he's
got a waving flag back there. He wants to capture

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that flag that's moving, And so you're thinking, maybe you
put your shutter speed at say what you would to
cover a sporting event, right, because there's movement and you
don't want blurriness. You want crisp photos when there's movement,
and so you generally pick up the shutter speed when
there's any kind of movement. That's why you're even your

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simple cameras that have settings, or your phone has a
setting called sports, because it speeds up the shutter. It's
it's reducing the likelihood of blur. I did a little
digging here for capturing crisp, clear images of sports at action,
shutter speed is crucial. Aim for a shutter speed of

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one five hundredths of a second or faster, ideally one
one thousandth of a second or one two thousandths of
a second. So when the photographer who's writing me says
five hundreds of a second would have been plenty. It
would have been plenty even for a waving flag. Right,

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But let's just extend the benefit of the doubt here
for a second. Let's say you really want to make
sure it's tight one one thousandth or one two thousandths
of a second. So here's the question, back to my photographer,

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listener of this show, why was the photographer for the
New York Times shooting at one eight thousandth of a second?
What would be the purpose of shooting at one eight

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thousandths of a second? Some might say, was he tipped off?
Did he know that someone was going to take a shot,
or did he hear a rumor? Was there? Why? See,

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that's the point, why that I'm sorry to use this term,
that's overkill shooting a speech, even with the moving flag
at one eight thousandths of a second. Let's put it

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this way, that shutter speed is fast enough to freeze
a bullet in the air. Isn't that interesting? I told
you going into this questions, lots of questions, And isn't

(41:19):
it interesting how we still don't have all the answers?
Sixteen minutes passing yesterday we talked about the buffalo public

(42:37):
school system. And it's funny because I'd held on to
that story for a few days and lo and behold
yesterday afternoon a development. Now this is this is a
story that comes from a whistleblower, someone with the SVU

(43:01):
Detective Unit, Richard High, and he's accusing Buffalo Public Schools
of basically covering up crimes that take place inside the
school system. And the attorney representing the school system, Robert Boreanaz,

(43:21):
has taken issue with the whistleblower cop and he he
said that basically, to paraphrase, he should have sent a memo.
It doesn't matter that the cop has documented an instance

(43:45):
where principal ignored a subpoena from a district attorney regarding
a sexual assault on a school campus. A memo would
have absolutely made a difference. Right. That's right up there
with halt. I say a halt again, you sir, stop
committing those crimes. That's what Florida lawmakers want you to do.

(44:13):
On college campuses. If somebody pulls a gun, stop, I
say stop. There are young sir, I have policies here.
Do you see that sign that sign says no gun's allowed?
Stop it. I'll report you don't name that at me.

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Local television outlet, which by the way, has not been
real warm and fuzzy to the cop that's a whistleblower here,
has noted that there are examples proving what the police
officer has said. Press release from Buffalo Public Schools. A
teacher was placed on administrative leave after two students consumed

(45:06):
gummies with THCHC. The problem is that when the police
were called, they labeled it as school other incident, even
though it was narcotics. See, that's what the school does.
The school is trained in essence to make calls and
categorize things in a way that doesn't raise alarm, that

(45:29):
covers it up. That there are information only reports, and
so what he's suggesting is that any parent of a
child in the Buffalo Public school system that may have
been a victim of something, they need to look and

(45:51):
see if there's a report at all, even if it's
a information only report. He points out, that's how Buffalo
Public schools keep the lid on things. They categorize things
in ways that it doesn't it doesn't elevate to a
level of any kind of criminal investigation. All the schools district,

(46:18):
all the attorney representing the school district would have to
do is show an evidence of cooperation with Buffalo police
on cases. Isn't it interesting how he didn't bring that
up in his little blowback to the media. It's the
point of the story, if you missed it yesterday, is
crimes being committed and being covered up by the Buffalo

(46:40):
Public school system and you're like, Buffalo, New York, who cares.
Here's why it matters, because this is the result of
public education that is run by unions and by administrators
that are cozy with unions and that do not want
outside interference. They do not want people to look in
and we're talking. This is a police officer with the
Special Victims Unit that has direct knowledge of crimes that

(47:10):
Buffalo Public Schools did not handle according to the legal
prescriptions that are required. Twenty seven minutes after the album
get back with the Big Stories in the press box
Charlie Strickland in about a half.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
Hour so running dry version of an audio magazine and
keeping you company as you prepare for your day. It's
the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (47:38):
You know, negotiations happen in a lot of ways. Trump,
for example, said, look, we've got a we got to
deal with the tariff imbalance, and we're going to start here.
Everyone's paying ten percent, China's paying one hundred and thirty
four percent or forty two percent or whatever it is

(48:00):
makes me laugh. Mike Pence is out there being critical
of it all. Well, I don't think whatever go away.
Trump is bringing people to the table because even in
our weakened state, Thank you Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Democrats,

(48:22):
the liberals, we are still where people want to do
business and need to do business because we buy things.
We buy stuff, all right. So that's one form of negotiation.
The other is flying some A tens over and saying

(48:42):
hello to the hoothies. Jose pointed this out in the
break who these have made an announcement. I don't know
how terrorists make announcements. It's like holding a formal press conference,
masks over their faces. You promise not to attack any
motive ships. The in deceased. We are not attack any

(49:04):
any more ships. And that's funny how that happened after
a visit with some A tens. That's another form of negotiation,
peace through strength. We've asked you, We've asked you again,

(49:26):
We've sent word to the Iranians, your funders, those bankrolling
you don't do it. But you didn't listen. So we're
sending what's called the A ten negotiating team. Not from
the State Department. This is a different division of negotiation.

(49:48):
This is from the Department of Defense. They don't talk much,
but they say plenty. It's a what happens, right, isn't it.
Trump's already got to deal with India. India's already zeroing

(50:09):
out tariffs on certain products. We're not across the finish line.
But this is a an example of what happens when
you have leadership. Look, you're not going to strike gold.
You're not gonna hit oil. You're not gonna hit it
out of the park every single negotiation. Every time, there
will be some things that don't work out exactly the
way that you hoped. But I'm going to tell you again,

(50:37):
when these negotiations are done done, and it may take months,
it may take a year, I don't know how long
it'll take. But when it's done, I don't think you'll
see a Democrat come into office at some point as
president and change it because the hard work will be done.

(50:59):
It's like walking into a home that's been remodeled. Why
would you tear it down? Nah, it functions good. Okay,
it's not exactly my style. But look, I mean, look
at this house. God's and that's what we're dealing with here.
And then my other big story, the headline, Supreme Court
upholds Trump trans military band. No, the Supreme Court did

(51:22):
not uphold. What the Supreme Court did is it struck
down a nationwide injunction that was ruled by a district judge.
It it's there are two things that are laughable. First
that Judge Benjamin Settle into Cooma, Washington thought that he
could screw over the entire Executive Order across the nation

(51:46):
in his little courtroom. No, I'm sorry, the Supreme Court
just I think the Supreme Court just laughed at that.
But the Supreme Court did not uphold. The Supreme Court
said that court ruling is an error, and so it's
going through the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. I think

(52:07):
it is, and it may find it so way to
the Supreme Court where it will then be decided. But
for now, Pete Hegsith, Secretary of Defense, you may proceed.
My complaint is that mainstream not mainstream conservative news outlets
said Supreme Court upholds Trump's trans No, the Supreme Court

(52:30):
did not uphold it. Uphold it implies a ruling. There
was no ruling. I just want you to be very
clear so that if you talk about this victory, you
don't do it in such a way as to make
yourself look foolish and uneducated. It's why I don't base
things on headlines, even in new sites that I favor.

(52:52):
I read and learn more about the story, and I'm
getting I get things wrong. But this angered me greatly
because this is a trusted news site, and there were
multiple trusted news sites that got this wrong. Inside the story,
they got it right their headline. It was clickbait, and

(53:13):
that really bothers me. Anyway. Forty one minutes after the
album I'm All better now not, I really am feeling good.

Speaker 3 (53:25):
It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (53:42):
I've referenced before that I get this Politico Florida playbook,
and it's not as as biased as some They clearly
are pulling for the Dems, but it's not overt and
they do point out some realities. Yesterday stood out to
me a little bit. Florida Democrats haven't seen much good

(54:08):
recent much recent good news. They faced a brutal split
in their top ranks. Talking about Jason Pizzo, state senator
from South Florida that quit the party. He's NPA. He
was considered maybe one of the leading candidates to try
to make a run for governor. He's out staggering. They

(54:32):
keep losing ground to GOP voter registrations and have little
in the way of fundraising. And then it goes on
to say this, it has left them clinging to a
shred of hope for twenty twenty six, that President Donald
Trump could self implode Democratic operatives. Party members and elected
officials described a harrowing possible future for both Florida and

(54:53):
the country, one in which Trump's tariffs would lead to
empty shelves at Walmart, in which people would soon pay
exorbitant prices for basic needs, and seniors would watch their
retirement funds dry up as they wait for hours on
the phone trying to reach the Social Security Office. Now,
first of all, every single point in that paragraph is

(55:14):
fear mongering. What if, what if well? What if well?
What if we run out of gas tomorrow? What if
you don't have any cash. What if that all the
electricity goes down? What if it rains for forty days
at forty nights? And then it says in the paragraph
following listen, of course these circumstances may never come to pass,

(55:40):
so let's just dish and this is the problem with
media today. And then they get into this observation. But
their illustration by Democrats shows how the hope for a
resurgence for the party, at least at these very early
stages Listen, is reliant on outside factors rather than a

(56:01):
specific leader or vision. There you go, see, they backed
into a very honest analysis. The Democrats got nothing. That's
how I would subtitle that paragraph. The Democrats have no leader,
they have no vision. All they do is fear monger.

(56:24):
Next paragraph says this, certain economists predictions about how Trump's
policies may affect the global economy do paint a dire
picture for consumers, and Democrats have precedent for leaning on
the prospect of a country in ruins to help boost
their chances. After all, Trump's handling of a once and

(56:46):
a century pandemic in which businesses were shut down and
two hundred and thirty thousand Americans died before the election,
was a key reason he lost to Joe Biden. I
need to stop that. He didn't lose to Joe Biden.
Let's just go ahead and say that. And that's one
of Mike Pence's biggest problems is Mike Pence can't handle

(57:06):
the fact that he was wrong about January sixth, and
he is wrong about January sixth. Were there some lawbreakers? Yes,
there were some, relatively few. Was Trump wrong to ask
him to stop the recounting all that? Yes, Trump was wrong.
Pence did not have the authority to do what Trump

(57:28):
wanted him to do. But that said Trump's handling of
the pandemic. Businesses were shut down because of Anthony Fauci
lying to the American public and lying to said President
Donald Trump. American business were shut down because states that

(57:50):
were run by Democrats shut them down. States that weren't said, uh,
hang on now after a few days, hold on now.
And the Americans that died. Do you want to talk
about how many Americans die of the flu every year?

(58:15):
Do you want to talk about the fact that a
lot of these deaths had nothing to do with COVID.
Do you want me to remind you of the story
of the district attorney that had to get the coroner
to change the death certificate from COVID as the cause
of death to a sledgehammer to the head of the
woman because he couldn't file charges because they didn't list

(58:40):
the cause of death, which is what it really was,
that her ex husband beat her to death with a hammer.
He listed it as COVID. Why to ramp up COVID
death numbers. Why because that's what we were doing. We
were categorizing people with stage four cancer in hospice care
as dying of COVID. They did not. They died with it,

(59:02):
they didn't die of it. It's a big difference, big
difference anyway, just I just thought it was interesting. It's
an interesting snapshot of the way democrats are viewing Democrats,
because that's what political is. It's a very left leaning organization,
and that's how they're viewing themselves. Fair enough, forty eight

(59:24):
minutes after the hour, come back, talk a little bit
about Secretary Defense Pete Hexith and what he's up to.

Speaker 4 (59:31):
Bear of realvill dispensing information at the speed of sound,
and if you're lucky, he'll be wearing his Clark Kent glasses.
Today The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (59:50):
The United States Secretary of Defense Pete hegsith.

Speaker 5 (59:55):
We are leaving wokeness and weakness. No more pronouns, no
more climate change obsession.

Speaker 2 (01:00:06):
No more.

Speaker 5 (01:00:08):
Emergency vaccine mandates, no more dudes in dresses. We're done
with that.

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
There you go, There you go. He is ordering a
reduction of military generals and flag officers, he said. The
directive is a historic one. It's in keeping with President
Trump's commitment to achieving peace through strength. We're going to
shift resources from bloated headquarter elements to our warfighters. First

(01:00:45):
phase will result in a minimum twenty percent reduction of
both active duty four star generals and general officers in
the National Guard. Second phase and additional minimum ten percent
reduction in general general and flag officers with the realignment
of the Unified Command Plan. Through these measures, we will
uphold our position as the most lethal fighting force in

(01:01:07):
the world, achieving peace through strength and ensuring greater efficiency, innovation,
and preparedness for any challenge that lies ahead. More generals
and admirals does not equal more success. We're getting back
to doing what we do in the military. Thank the Lord.

(01:01:31):
We mentioned what you know, we finally took action. Biden
did nothing to deal with the Huthis and the threats
the Iranians were posing to this country, shipping and so
forth in the Middle East. Trump had had enough. He
gave him a warning. He said, stop, they didn't. We

(01:01:52):
sent the A ten negotiating team. This is what it
means to put the military back in place. To everyone
that is out there all sensitive over us saying sorry,
trans individuals cannot serve in the military, the excuse is
going to be laughed at in court. I don't care

(01:02:15):
what a district judge said. Are there prejudices in recruiting
requirements and in serving in the military. You're darn right,
they're prejudices. There are biases. There's discrimination all over the place.
If you're a dude and you think you're a woman,
if you're a woman and you think you're a dude,

(01:02:37):
you are mentally unfit to serve. Sorry. When we come
back our three in our personal defense segment, all right,

(01:03:04):
morning friends, it is the third hour of the Morning
Show with Preston Scott Show five three and seventy four.
But who's counting, well, I am, yeah, I'm counting. Yeah.
Jose's over there in Studio one A. I'm here in
Studio one B, and I am joined by co founder
co hosts All Things Talon, Ladies and Gentlemen. He is
Charlie Strickland.

Speaker 6 (01:03:25):
Hello, Hello, good morning. How are you fantastic? You said
better than I deserved to be or something like that.

Speaker 1 (01:03:32):
That's what he says all the time. And you know,
Dave Ramsey says it so often it takes the fun
out of say, I just don't even go there, but
I think it, I feel it.

Speaker 6 (01:03:43):
You know, life is good, I'm it's challenging, it's busy.
I was talking to a gentleman for a while yesterday.
I was buying some fertilizer from from green Point and
I got cows now and pastor and hayfields and all that,
and you know, we were talking about how busy we were,
and I said, you know, I just I don't know
that I could stay in life any other way. You know,

(01:04:04):
I've retired once. In one of these days, I'm going
to retire again. But I'm going to retire so I
can work some more doing something different. Right, Just you
know what's next, Well, apparently it's cows and goats and
chickens and turkeys and a few pigs.

Speaker 1 (01:04:19):
Let me let's let's get to the topic of the
day you sent me. You sent me a text, and
just to set the stage, you worked on the FSU campus.
I did. And so when the news came out that
there was another active shooting at Florida State's campus, what
was your immediate reaction? And then after some time went

(01:04:43):
by and you learned some things, which I'm sure you did,
what was your response.

Speaker 6 (01:04:48):
Well, first off, I will say this, the FSU Police
Department is one of the best trained agencies in the region.
They have some downtime in between semesters, and when I
went was working there in the early nineties, I took
more classes than I was able to take in years
at the Sheriff's office. Now that's changed in a lot
of ways. But brand new police chief there is a friend.

(01:05:11):
Former police chief was a friend. One before that was
a friend, And I know that agency very well and
I have a lot of confidence in their capabilities, as
was evidence in their response on that particular day. It's
only so many people patrolling a fairly large campus and
their performance was exemplar, as everybody else that responded However,

(01:05:31):
you know, you're always you know, when seconds count their
minutes away, and in that case, they were not very
many seconds behind. Unfortunately it ended the way it did.
It could have been a lot worse, as it always
could be. So my initial response was, you know, I
wanted information like everybody else, because we as a citizenry

(01:05:53):
are pretty nosy. We want to know everything. I've gotten
to the point now where I don't really care as
much about the why. You know, I do have a
lot of background information. I do know a lot of stuff.
I am very familiar with the players involved. That's not
as relevant to me as because it's going to happen
from some corner of our society, somebody with some philosophy,

(01:06:15):
somebody from some religious background, from some with some reasoning
in their thought, from the left or the right, or
the this religion or that religion, or this race or
that race, or this member of this community or that
sexual preference or whatever, or just someone is broken. It's
all over the board. Yes, mental illness versus somebody who
has a political agenda. The fact that when I was

(01:06:37):
teaching an active futer course last night from the right
to bear courses that we do and I show this
slide of all these different people and I go through it.
I never say names, but I'm pointing at I'm going, Okay,
this person's Muslim, this person is Christian, this person is
right wing, this is left wing, this is a member
of the LGBTQ plus community, this person is you know,

(01:06:57):
this thing, this thing all the way back to the
Teris Texas toweringts in October of sixty six, and there
were previous ones before that. Bombings and killing have been
going on for a long time. And yeah, and we
look at the body counts that are rising versus the
number of shootings, and you know, we talk about all that.
But what I try to tell people in my classes
is can you can you look at this and the

(01:07:19):
people that are doing this all a back to Washington
Beltway snipers to all these people, tell me the next
shoot or what race are they going to be? Based
on this pattern? What sect are they going to be?
What political affiliation are they going to be? And I say,
can you in order to predict something, you need to
be able to establish a pattern. And you cannot establish
a pattern in this. It's all over the board. We

(01:07:41):
cannot predict this. We're not going to stop this, and
it's not going to get better because our country is
becoming more and more divided, and with the social media
platforms and everything going on, there is so much hatred,
so much division, so much mental illness that's going untreated.
There are so many things that are not happening in
our society. I don't see it getting any better. So

(01:08:02):
the argument then becomes, if it's not going to get better,
if it's going to happen again, what do we do
to stop it once it starts? And that's where we
run into some resistance.

Speaker 1 (01:08:14):
We're going to pick up our conversation right there and
I'm gonna put a statement in front of Charlie, get
his thoughts on it. Next ten past the hour, twelve

(01:08:37):
past the hour. Our discussion today, in one form or another,
is going to revolve around active shooting incidents. Take the
Florida state situation, and I mean, it's times too. We
had strosure. Now we have this, Charlie. I want to
I want to talk to the people out there that

(01:09:00):
talk about gun free zones, and we know that gun
free zones are invitations for shooters. They look for those
types of places to carry out their crimes. But I
would contend there is no such thing as a gun
free zone because bad people will bring guns anywhere they want.

Speaker 6 (01:09:17):
Us like having speed limits signs. You know, okay, so
speed limits fifty five? What's everybody doing? You know more
than that? Some people less than that. People that are
going under the speed limit make everybody mad. Yeah, you know,
and so it's nothing. But you know, I Jad and
I talked about this on our show, and we struggle

(01:09:40):
with it, and we have discussion all the time. And
where most of these things occur is so if I'm
going to go get a body count, I want to
go out and make a name for myself. And I think,
you know, people who show pictures and mention names and
do things like that. I saw it in the local
paper whatever it is now if it's a on line down,

(01:10:00):
I never look at the actual paper itself. And you
keep saying the name, this guy's name over and over again.
His his family's friends of ours and we're co workers,
and and you know, I don't want to see the
name because all that does is encourage the next person
and they go, oh, well, people want to know. People
have a right Local Democratic Party response on Facebook that

(01:10:21):
that was one of the people have. People are curious
and they want all that from Okay, but don't encourage
the next one. Don't do you don't get it. Don't
encourage the next one, because that's what they want, is
is this, this fame, this this notoriety. They want this,
and you're feeding that, yep by doing this.

Speaker 1 (01:10:38):
So stop.

Speaker 6 (01:10:39):
And I know you're absolutely fantastic about not saying people's
names and not promoting that. We talk about the incident
so we can learn from it, okay, And in this case,
what we learn is that you have a gun free
zone defined by Florida statute in a Republican state, which
is supposed to that. Florida has led the country in
a lot of gun laws over the years, and we've

(01:11:00):
lost that lately. Yep, we're now following behind because we're
not doing things other states. We're one of the few
states that doesn't allow open carry, one of the few
states handful less than a handful of states that don't
allow open carries.

Speaker 1 (01:11:13):
A lot of people are surprised by that.

Speaker 6 (01:11:14):
Yeah, I mean, and the thing is that came about
through our concealed weapons carry laws that were passed back
I think in the eighties you talked to miss Hammer
and Mari and Hammer, and she'll tell you that that's
when they took away, you know, the ability to open
carry in certain places, of certain circumstances. Through that legislation,
it say okay, we're going to do this, We're going
to do that and conceal. Carey was opposed by the

(01:11:35):
Share Association and law enforcement and people like that back
then and now they and they were saying, well, we'd
rather see the firearms. We want to see them. If
people have a gun, we'd rather see them. We want
to know they have it, and we don't want it concealed.
Nowadays it's we want it concealed, we don't want to
see it. We don't want to open carry. I'd rather
as a law enforcement officer, if I see a god,
somebody's got a gun, I'd rather know they have one. Now,

(01:11:56):
I don't think open carry is a good idea as
far as technically, but I think it's your right if
I have the right to carry it concealed and I
don't have a right to carry it open too. I
was one that I was attending classes at FSU when
I was studying from Aster's degree, and I would leave
the Sheriff's office with a red shirt in a training
unit and their badge on my shirt and a gun

(01:12:19):
on and a badge on my belt. And I had
to go all the way through the dean's office and
the chief of police called me and says, listen, would
you please quit carrying a gun to campus is offending
some students. I'm like sorry, going to do it anyway,
because Sheriff's office policy requires me to have a firearm
on me at all time, on and off duty. It
was one of those conversations, where are you sure? I said, yeah,

(01:12:39):
I help the shaff right to policy. You know, we
pushed that through so it was required so that we
could get around stuff like this. And I don't care
if I offend some Chinese nationalists in the class that
complained or not. You know it in Hazius not having rights.
We have rights, but apparently we don't in certain places.
And I'm not going to say that there's not places
you shouldn't carry a g If I go to visit

(01:13:01):
somebody into jail, I probably shouldn't have a gun in
the y.

Speaker 1 (01:13:03):
You're afforded a level of protection in those places by
armed personnel.

Speaker 6 (01:13:08):
Yeah. Absolutely, it's a secure facility that nobody then you're
you go through a metal detector if you tell me,
and this is the right way to do it. If
you tell me that I can't have a firearm on
a piece of property, then you have a responsibility from
my safety and you can't do it with the police department.

(01:13:29):
You can't unless you put up a fence and metal
detectors over an entire piece of property. Now I can
get like a football game or something, but even then,
unless you're going to send somebody through, metal detectors.

Speaker 1 (01:13:39):
Didn't work in Munich in nineteen seventy two.

Speaker 6 (01:13:42):
And so you're telling me that a peaceable, law abiding
citizen doesn't have the right to protect themselves because you're
afraid that somebody's going to break a rule with they're
already breaking the rule if they're willing to commit murder,
they're willing to want past a sign and carry a
gun that they shouldn't have, and they know that you're
an unarmed populist behind that.

Speaker 1 (01:14:02):
More with Charlie Strickland of the Talent Training Group, co
host Talent Outdoors here on The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 6 (01:14:21):
And We're back.

Speaker 1 (01:14:22):
I had to twenty two minutes after the hour. Charlie
Strickland with me this morning in studio our Personal Defense segment.
You kind of let into this in the last segment, Charlie,
people that normally are not in favor of the Second
Amendment and gun rights are out there buying guns.

Speaker 6 (01:14:38):
Well, I will tell you that people from both sides
of the political coin, Democrats and Republicans, more and more
people from the left, people who you might back in
the day, would have been surprised to see show up
to a gun range, you know, because we tend to
put ourselves in a box. You know, we're, okay, we're

(01:15:00):
on the right, and we think conservatively and we like this,
we're against that, we like guns, and then the other
side is something else. But there's a lot of overlap.
You would probably you would probably find some conservatives that
are in favor of socialized medicine or something. There's these
things like that. Okay, but we tend to gravitate in
a certain direction. But there are a lot of people

(01:15:21):
on the left that are starting to and have been
for quite some time, and did all along support arming themselves.
Now they may not agree with us on things like
you know, what they consider to be assault weapons or
high capacity magazines.

Speaker 1 (01:15:35):
Whoever ever define.

Speaker 6 (01:15:37):
Right, well, they have a lot of church. Some people
have a hard time defining what a woman is. I mean,
you know, it's just you know, I'm sorry, it's just
that's that's one of the big discussions going on right now.
So you know, it's hard, it's hard to specifically say
certain things.

Speaker 1 (01:15:51):
Now.

Speaker 6 (01:15:52):
The fact is, as we get more and more people
in any class we have, if we had twenty people
in there, three or four or five are going to
be from the left side of the equation. Now, we
try to keep politics out of our classroom. We try
to keep it off of the range. We welcome anyone
to come to the range. We want everyone to come,
and we want everyone to learn how to use a
firem and protect themselves because that's really what we stand for,

(01:16:15):
is your right to protect yourself, which is what the
Second Amendment stands for, is your right for personal safety
and personal protection and to use whatever means necessary, to
coin a phrase from some of the left wing folks,
any means necessary to protect yourself. Because when you are
when your life is in danger, when eminate fear, when
you are in eminent fear of death and great bodily harm,

(01:16:37):
or when the law prescribes what Castle doctrine says, someone's
forcibly or unlawfully attempting to any of your residence, dwelling or occupied, convanced,
and you have the right to use any level of force,
including deadly force. That means running over them with a car,
stabbing them with a knife has happened recently here in
town in a home invasion robbery. You've got the right

(01:16:58):
to use a firearms. There's no there's no too much
force if it's if deadly force is justified now, but
we're starting to see more and more people show up
and say I want to I want a gun, I
want to carry a gun. I want to defend myself,
And we encourage it one for their safety, and we
encourage it also because the more people who feel that way,

(01:17:19):
the less likely the left is to go after our
Second Amendment rights because they don't want to give those
up either. And you and I think a lot of
people be surprised that the percentages of people that don't
look like me that own and carry guns. There are
people that are very politically active in the minority communities
who are staunch gun owners. Sure, I'm talking about all

(01:17:44):
the all the evil guns too, and the percentages of
of of of African Americans who own guns is pretty
height legally on guns. A lot of people start, oh, well,
now I'm not talking about on the street. I'm talking
about that walking into our store that I would they disproportionately.
We have minorities and women coming to less proportionally women.

(01:18:07):
But I mean, there was something on Reddit the other
day somebody wanted an LGBTQ friendly gun range in a
class they could go to that didn't have a quote
maga vibe, and several people recommended us, but they said,
we definitely have a maga vibe. Well, we welcome anyone.
You know, we don't bring all that into the you know,
you don't want to talk to me personally about I'll
talk to you. But the fact is is, you know

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you get the best instrument you're going to get trained. Yeah,
come on, We're welcome. We I mean, we don't hold
anything against anybody.

Speaker 1 (01:18:37):
Because gosh, you'll even train Baptists. Sorry, I'll let you
go down those roads. Yeah I know, I know, I
know I want into religion, man, Yeah, I know I
do that when we come back. I want to get
to that active shooter class you did. I want to
ask you a couple of questions and we'll do that next.

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Charlie Strickland with me the Talent Training Group Learn Moore
talentrange dot com. This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

(01:19:30):
Thirty six minutes after the hour, Charlie Strickland with me
from the Talent Training Group. You mentioned you were doing
an active shooter training class. What do you teach?

Speaker 6 (01:19:38):
So we teach the run, hot, fight philosophy. That's the
national model, but we do it with a twist. We're
a little less politically correct. And unless you're training, you'll
know way. Yeah, I mean, you can get it from
law enforcement agencies and place light, but there's there's this
solid material taught by competent, qualified people. However, they're not

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always willing to say the things we're willing to say
the way we're willing to say it. And you know,
I'm a little more blunt about things. And we spend
some time talking about how to hurt people, you know,
in the course, you know we talk about we spend
a lot of time talking about mindset, not just run,
hide and fight. You know, run if you can get away,
hide or barricade yourself if you cannot get away, and

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then fight ultimately if you have to, well you just
got a whole lesson right there. That's that's that's it,
that's what that's the national model. However, we talk about
situational awareness, as you and I have discussed time and
time again. You know, different to Cooper's color code, you
know condition yellow, are you know that kind of thing
where you're paying attention to your surroundings. We talk about

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formulating a plan. We talk about looking at your environment.
We talk about you know, mental rehearsal of of how
you might react if things happen. We talk about, you know,
what type of weapons of opportunity you might find, and
then you know, carrying a firearm and some of the
tactics involved in that, which we can talk about in
a minute. We talk about the protector mindset, predator prey

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and protector the sheep dog mentality because mindset matters most
and that's a recurring theme in our classes because if
you don't have that, you don't have to have physical
skills as much as you need to have the mindset.
You can be the best competitive shooter in the world.
But if you don't, you're not willing to take a
life with that firearm, then it's you're totally useless in

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a fight. And you can be a terrible shot. But
if you're up close and personal and you're willing to
take the shot, then you're more than competent, you know,
to deal with that situation. And you know, I go
back to a line I think Clint Eastwood said in
the movie was a man's got to know his limitations.
And that's something that you go to the range and
you find out what are my limitations, what's my skills set?

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But we do this, We do this training. We go
around and we do it in businesses, and we do
it at our facility. We do free seminars through Right
to Bear all the time, and then we I do.
I go out and do threat assessments on businesses and
organizations and agencies and whatnot, and then we turn around
and teach these classes. I do charge for that stuff.

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And we always have people from churches and church groups
show up at these things, and a lot of times
I see the same faces again and again because they
just want a refresher because their class is a little
bit different, follow the same PowerPoint, but you know, it
is what it is, and we talk about the same
stuff we talked about earlier on not being able to predict.

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When we go to businesses, we discuss talking to HR
and developing means of communication between facilities and HR and
management to make sure that they're sharing information and polling
the employees to make sure when I have workplace violence issues,
things like that. But ultimately we are trying to steer
people towards building their skill set at the range and

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building their ability to protect themselves and their home and
their office and public you know, in public places. And
that's when you would get into some specific tactics that involves,
you know, how would you react.

Speaker 1 (01:23:03):
I want to get to that next in our final
segment here we're going to get out on time, so
we got time. On the backside of this. We're going
to talk about if you make that decision tactically, what
do you do and then what and then how do
you prepare for that maybe at the range next with
Charlie Strickland here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

(01:23:35):
Final segment with Charlie Strickland to the Talent Training Group.
Remember talentrange dot com. Learn about the Range, learn about
the training programs. There are a lot of different programs
and classes that are available. So someone has they've trained
as best as someone that's not a professional can train,
and they've made the decision in their mind, and they've

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acquired a certain degree of I guess proficients would be
the best way to put a Charlie to feel as
though that if there was an active shooter situation that
they could maybe make a difference in help.

Speaker 6 (01:24:08):
So there's several considerations here, Okay. One is what are
you capable of doing? Okay, do you want to aggress
towards the threat and try to make a difference that way,
or are you trying to set up a defensive position
so if they come your way and you're behind hardcover
something and you can engage that person to protect people
that you may be protecting. Let's look at the former, Okay,

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So let's say something's going on in the mall food
court or in one of those hallways, or in a
large building or an office complex or something, and there's
shots fired, and there's an aggressive, active shooter, an active
assailant there, and you are armed. Now you've secured, your family,
your people. You know, you're no longer concerned about anybody
but yourself, and you have decided that you're going to

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be the sheep dog. You're going to aggress towards the
threat you're gonna First off, you don't want to be
running around with a gun in your hand, because if
you're running around, everybody's like, Okay, I'm gonna move here,
I got my gun out. I'm not at a that's fine.
You're going to get shot if a law enforcement officer responds,
or another off duty officer there and playing clothes, or
another civilian who decides to do the same thing. All
they know is somebody is shooting. They see somebody with

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a gun and they're not in uniform. Bad for you.
So you don't want to be running around with your
gun out. Your gun should still be concealed, you know,
in your hands. We teach a rest position where you
cover up the firearm, you kind of hunt your body.
You are not taking an aggressive stance. You're you're looking
more submissive, but you're moving not maybe not directly out
of target. You know, you're maybe moving from position to

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cover to position a cover tactically so that you don't
look like as a purpose. So if yes, if a
guy is shooting up a place and he turns and
sees you coming directly at him, obviously now become the
focus of that threat, and now it's it's an all
out gun battle between you and him. Hopefully you can
go out shooting. So you want to try to sneak up,
but aggressively, assertively, you know, quickly, not maybe not at

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a dead run. You may want to run for little
ways and then slow down. You need to get to
a point where you are capable of taking an accurate shot,
and that varies based on your skill set. And that's
what you need to do at the range is to
determine what you can do wended, what you can do
under stress, what your capabilities are, because if you're not

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capable of taking a head shot at seven to ten
yards and then beyond, that's not going to happen under
stress period. I don't care who you are, then you
don't need to be trying to do that into a
crowded location. I mean, you don't be part of the problem,
be part of solution. And so you need to know
what you're capable of, and which is why I say

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you know, sometimes it's a matter of setting up shops
somewhere and barricading and waiting for that person to come
to you. If they are now, if they're moving in
your direction, that changes the equation. You need to set
in a static position and wait and take a support
over or can cover concealment, take a supported shop, but
maybe wait for them to walk past. You walk up
behind them and honestly, I hate to say, it should

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have been a back of the head. You know, at
that point anything goes. So we actually teach drills like
that in some of our classes.

Speaker 1 (01:27:08):
But the so.

Speaker 6 (01:27:11):
Getting there and then if you engage the person, you
take a shot. You need to now you've won the battle,
standing there over that person with a gun in your hand. Again,
terrible idea, Yeah, because you're going to have tunnel vision,
auditory exclusion, these things under critical incidence stress. You're not
going to hear the commands people are given to you.
You're not going to see law enforcement show up or

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other people. The minute this thing is over and you've
scanned the environment briefly to determine there's no longer a threat,
you need to put your gun back up. You need
to conceal it, maybe set it on something next to you,
and get your hands away from it. I say, put
it back where you got it from, put it back
in your holst, you conceal it again, and then stand
there with your empty hands. You shouldn't have anything in
your hands because when you're challenged by law enforcement or

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whoever shows up, you don't need to. There don't need
there doesn't need to be any misunderstanding, right so, uh so, yeah,
I mean there's there's there's the do you do it?
Do you go? Do you wait? Make that decision? What
are you capable of? And then what do you do
in the aftermath? And then you keep your mouth shut?
I get an attorney, you know. I think you're going

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to be a hero if you've done this. However, yeah,
stranger things have happened. Call somebody, you know, call this
so you know, talk you through it if we have to.
It's not really our job, but I don't know. Just
be safe, but be prepared, you know, be a sheep dog.

Speaker 1 (01:28:36):
That's why you go to the range, to be as
prepared as you can be. Thanks for the time.

Speaker 6 (01:28:41):
Sure.

Speaker 1 (01:28:41):
Charlie Strickland with me from the Talent Training Group forty
six past the hour, Ah Boy breaking news here getting

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texts to the effect that Cash Battel is not releasing
the Epstein files fearing a rise in anti semitism if

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A comment here on this says that if Epstein's files
can shake public trust, the problem isn't the public, it's
the people being protected. So as Jeffrey Epstein, working as
an Israeli spy was this, was there something more going

(01:30:11):
on than just deviance with young girls. I don't know,
I just but you remember we've been asking where are
the files? We could have our first indication of how
deep this rabbit hole goes man, all right, that just

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ruined the end of the show. I was going to
do a story about lollipops. I can't, I can't. How
can you do a story about lollipops after that? Thanks
for the text. Tomorrow in the program, M Steve Stewart

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of Tellassi reports, we'll get some health tips. Doctor David
Harts will join us. I'm going to introduce you to
a couple and they are missionaries Czech Republic. I thought

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it would be interesting to talk with a couple that
is saying, yeah, we're going to go over there and
do that, and they're selling everything and they're moving their life.
A young couple with their life in front of them,
Not an older couple that's lived a good life and

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retired and are looking to serve God and just go
do something. No, no, no, no. This is a young
couple that's going to devote their life to this thought.
It'd be interesting to hear from them. So they're going
to join me here today or tomorrow in the studio.
I've got the Alone countdown beginning Thursdays. I'm devoting time

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every Thursday to Alone, the television show. Just telling you,
so you better read that email I sent Jojose because
you will be asked questions about it tomorrow. We've got
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Show one on WFLA great visit with Charlie Strickland of
the Talent Training Group. Just the complexities of trying to
get the right thing done around here made more difficult
by Republican lawmakers. And isn't that a kick in the pants, right?

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How does that happen? How does it happen that Republicans
are standing in the way of our campus as being safer.
Supreme Court did not uphold Trump's trans military ban. It
struck down a district court stay a delaying of the implementation.

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It said, no, the district court does not have the
authority to do that. You may continue, but the merits
of it have not been argued. I think it's absolutely fine,
and I think it'll be proven so. But the bottom
line is the Supreme Court did not uphold Trump's ban.
Court said the district court can't make that ruling. But
he is making headway on tariff negotiations. India has come

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to the table, so tomorrow we'll do it again. Have
a great day, friends, Thanks for listening.