Ep. 5387: Ooops! Should we trust self driving cars?

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Teusday, May 27th

Our guests today include:
- Hiram Sasser
- Zack Smith
- Howard Eisenman 
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Good morning friends, Welcome.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Tuesday.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
On the Morning Show with Preston Scott. I am Preston.
He is Jose feeling a little bit back to normal,
a little bit still have a ways to go, but
it's great to be back with you after a long weekend.
I hope it was a blessed weekend. I hope you
took time to remember what Memorial Day is and that

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you did not skip over that. If you had time off,
if you celebrated with a barbecue or a trip to
the beach, or maybe got out on the water, or
just enjoyed some time doing whatever it is that you
enjoy doing, that a price has been paid for those
things that we enjoy. In our country, we start with

(00:57):
Scripture one. Timothy four to eight says this for a while,
bodily training is of some value. So this is for
all you gym rats out there. Bodily training is of
some value. Godliness is of value in every way, as

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it holds promise for the present life and also for
the life to come. Simply put, I'm not diminishing the
need to work out, be fit, exercise, yard work, whatever

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hobbies you enjoy, absolutely great, but at some point there
will be either a period or a comma on the
end of your sentence, and all of that weightlifting will
be of no value whatsoever. Now it provides value until then, absolutely,

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But are you investing time in creating value for your soul,
for your spirit, for your eternity. That's what First Timothy
is all about. Ten past the hour, back with more
here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Mayor of Realville. He offers a state of the Nation
every single day. This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
All right, just about twelve minutes past the hour. May
twenty seventh. It just feels weird, doesn't it that we
had Memorial Day yesterday and we got a full week
of May. Still it I mean, it just it just
feels odd. But at any rate, twenty seventh of May.
In eighteen thirteen, in the War of eighteen twelve, Colonel

(03:19):
Winfield Scott, assisted by American Naval forces, captures Fort George,
New York. Eighteen ninety, Lewis Glass and William Arnold received
patents for the first jukebox, known as the Nickel in
the Slot eighteen ninety A jukebox Are You kidding Me?

(03:43):
Nineteen nineteen an AVC plane commanded by Albert Reid reaches Lisbon,
Portugal on the first transatlantic flight, with a few stops
along the way, and in nineteen thirty seven, San Francisco's
Golden Gate Bridge opens up. It is National Grape Day.

(04:04):
I become a big fan of red seedless I'm not
a snob though I grew up eating the green grapes
seedless grapes, but the red are a little sweeter. It's
National Grape popsicle Day, which would make sense. It's its

(04:25):
National grape Day, and it's National cellophane tape Day. Here
you go, not much on the twenty seventh of May.
This would be a good day to do something noteworthy
in a positive way. Please thank you. I am still

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obviously my voice is. I'm back to sounding a little
bit more like me, not the second base that I
was at the end of the week last week where
I was like, oh.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah, yeah, you know, see.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
A coughing, a little not much, stuffy, a little not much.
My ears, though, are really are still plugged, and so
I have to I have to do that trick where
you hold your nose and you blow so you can
pop your ears, because otherwise my my headphones are killing me.

(05:26):
When my ears are plugged, the frequencies that are getting
siphoned out leave only really harsh, shrill frequencies, not the
smooth mid tones and bass of my voice. I only
get there really crectly ones, and they're just they're just yeah,

(05:47):
ah awful. And so I've gotta I've gotta, i gotta
keep popping my ears. But but we'll be good. A
fascinating show today, a lot of guests, kind of a
rare Tuesday. It's going to be a rare few days,
and then Friday I hand it over. The designated host
will be grand Allen on Friday and Monday.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
I was speaking engagement.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
On Friday, a very rare one that I'm taking the
day off to be involved in. I will share more
about that next week when I come back. But yeah,
and then I'm just just gonna take a long weekend
and I'll be doing that off and on through the summer.
I'm going to take some long weekends. There may be
a week that I take. I don't know, I don't know,

(06:32):
I don't know, but it be all right. Get Grant
Allen in here as often as possible. Lots of things
to talk about a lot of things to recap. Played
golf yesterday. Had a very pleasant day on the golf course.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
With one of my sons. My wife rode.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
Around with us, swung the club once or twice and
hit some putts and we just had a nice day.
I played well, that was nice. Well, three over seventy five.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
It's okay.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
It was just an It was a fairly clean round
of golf for me, which was very unexpected. I've been
working on some things that I was able to take
to the golf course, and I'm in a very good place,
I think, with my golf game, especially when I consider
I haven't played a lot of golf this year. I've

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practiced a little bit more, but I haven't played. And
anyone that plays the game knows it is a constant chase.
But playing is the most important thing. And I have
learned some things over the years of how to take
practice to the course and so that's been fun. But
it was just lovely to be out, just out out.

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Spent some time with family member over the weekend and
some of the grandkids fixing, putting stuff together, and that
was fun. So I hope you had a nice weekend
as well. Seventeen past the hour. Comeback. We will kind
of give you an update on what's going on with
the FSU athletics next. Okay, two seasons have come to

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an end over the weekend. FSU softball. Little girl who
pitched for Texas Tech really good. Of course, she cost
Texas Tech University one million dollars. Yes, a women's softball

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player one million dollars. It's open, it's above board. It's
the way NIL works, and it works with where are schools?
Just to give you an idea, Texas Tech has never
been to a college softball World Series and in its
existence ever, and it's going to one because it bought

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itself a team.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Okay, it's She.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
Was for the most part unhittable for Florida State. Over
the weekend, she pitched two games, pitched through a blister.
She's a great player. She's good, and that's where we
are in sports today. I don't know if she's good

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enough to win a World Series. The storied programs of
women's softball probably will have a little bit more. FSU,
of course, is a great softball program, but I don't
know that it has the money to compete with a
with any of the Texas schools because the Texas boosters
for most of the schools Texas A and M, Texas Tech,

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Texas Baylor, maybe yeah, they're deep pockets now they want
to win. But FSU softball bows out. They lost two
straight at home. Tip your cap. Move on. Nice season,
forty nine to twelve Super Regional. It's a good season.

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Not the way they wanted it. They wanted to go
to Oklahoma City, but it's a good season. So congratulations
to the girls. I know it was hard for the seniors,
especially to not make it back to the World Series,
but that's what happens. Sometimes you win and sometimes you don't.
FSU men's golf, now this is where it gets really

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if you're a golfer, you understand this. They did not
make the final eight teams by one shot. You take
your best four scores, and they finished nine over par.

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They needed to be at eight. One hole in particular
doomed the team. They played on their final day yesterday.
I watched it. They played the front nine last, so
they started on the back nine, played the front nine last.

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They got to a short the shortest hole on the
golf course, about one hundred and twenty five yard Part three,
and the best players on FSU's team made double bogie
one after another after another after it. It was incredible
to watch. And they just did not play that golf

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course well. And so a team that swamped, they swamped.
In the regional, Ole Miss got the last spot. Ole
Miss used the play of its best player, who's a
rather foulmouth young man but a nice player with a
very ugly golf swing, Michael Losasso, to get that final spot.

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So FSU men's golf its season ends without reaching the
final eight, which is a bummer. FSU baseball will host
the regional and they are one upset away from hosting
a Super regional. They are the ninth seed. They had
to be eight or better. You won't hear link Jarrett

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complaining because as honestly, they probably didn't deserve to be
a top eight seed. They were close, very close they were.
They're the nine seed, which means if any of the
top eight seeds lose, they should be receiving a Super regional.
They should be, but you never know, you don't know

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how that'll all shake out, but congratulations. Florida State will
host Northeastern, which is on a torrid pitching and winning streak.
I mean, it's crazy Mississippi State eh Okay team and
Bethune Cookman who just keeps winning games. But FSU did

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beat them in the regular season, but it was a
close game. They're not going to come up scared a
bunch of seniors on that team. So the regional begins
Friday at three FSU and Bethune Cookman open play and
of course you can hear the game right here. Twenty
eight minutes pass. That's the hour, come back with the
big stories in the press box.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
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Speaker 4 (14:12):
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Speaker 2 (14:12):
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Speaker 3 (14:19):
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Speaker 5 (14:20):
Preston Scott, Yeah boy, here we go Tuesday.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
On the radio show. Due what I did there, thirty
six minutes past the hour. Let's get to the big
stories in the press box, shall we. That's Jose over
there wearing a winter kind of thing. It's it's a
weird match in there. It's it's the Jaws shirt, which
is very very seasonally appropriate. And then and then a

(15:03):
winter hoodie fleecelned. Yeah, it's a little chilli in here,
but you know.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
You know you can change the temp, right, you can.
You don't have to leave it at fifty degrees anyway.

Speaker 3 (15:22):
He's he's he's so unassuming. He does not want to
change the thermostat, even though he's the only one who
works in that studio.

Speaker 4 (15:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
I don't change thermostats because I was trained not to
touch him as a child. So yeah, just okay, Well
I've given you permission. Still a coughing pause here and there.
There are a couple of stories here that I think

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are worthy of your attention. One, you and I've heard
nothing about. Have you heard of the growing, repeat growing
tension between Finland and Russia, as in Russia starting to

(16:17):
amass a little bit of a military presence on its
border with Finland. Now, I'll be the first one to
tell you Russia can't afford to be doing stuff like this,
as it's getting its supply of soldiers, munitions, and weaponry

(16:41):
drastically reduced in its war with Ukraine. Apparently this stems
from Finland reacting to Russia's invasion of that territory in Ukraine.
Finland joins Natoia doesn't like it. Finland shuts down its

(17:02):
border with Russia because it's sensing that Russia is in
fact weaponizing migration, sending I think Syrians and other migrants

(17:26):
into Finland, and so it's closed its border down. Smalia,
that's the other nation. And so it's my point in
raising it is remember that in the back of Vladimir
Putin's mind, is he really wants to try to find

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a way to expand Russia and create the old Soviet Union.
Just keep an eye on that story. Just something to
keep an eye on. Now when we come back, a
second big story that I think you really need to hear.

(18:07):
The sound the evidence is overwhelming, and that's next here
on The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
The Morning Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one
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Speaker 3 (18:31):
Good morning friends. You may remember years ago, and if
you're new to the program, you may not remember years ago.
In prepping for the show, one day, I just came
across story after story after story. It wasn't like one
ap story that got run in multiple outlets. It's it's

(18:59):
a story where I noticed a similarity in the headline
over and over and over, and it was about guns.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
And I found.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
Like dozens of stories in newspapers across the country with
the same headline altered only if the data in a
given state was different. They had to adjust the headline
because it was be a red state and the data
didn't match what that was being pushed out. And I

(19:34):
made the prediction, you watch. I shared all the headlines
I think it was thirty some odd headlines that were
almost literally the same, but they weren't the same story.
And I said, you watch, Democrats are going to do
They're going to try and pass legislation. And that's what happened.

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In fact, it was the very day I mentioned it
that legislation came out. In my point was the mainstream
media was being used to push out Democrat talking points.
Democrats would send out these press releases and the mainstream
media would pick up keywords and use them in unison,

(20:19):
doing the de facto bidding of the Democrat Party being
the pr wing. We're now fast forward years later. This
was this was in the Obama years that this happened.
So we now find ourselves with a story that the

(20:42):
democrats feel like they can seize. And it's the confrontation
between Trump and the president of South Africa. Remember we
talked about that. We talked about how Trump said, you're
engaging in genocide here, You're you're you're attacking white farmers
because they're white. And he played a video and then
he had Retief Goosen, a white South African celebrity, a

(21:03):
star golfer, a world champion, a major champion golfer, said yes,
it's happening, and the South African president was in trouble.
Listen to the mainstream media and this is a compilation
of one, two, three, nine different stories to.

Speaker 6 (21:24):
The dramatic scene in the Oval Office today, the tense
confrontation President Trump ambushing the President of South Africa.

Speaker 7 (21:30):
Next another Oval office meltdown, President Trump ambushing the President
of South Africa.

Speaker 5 (21:35):
President Trump is being accused of conducting something of a diplomatic.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
Ambush a South Africa's president in the Oval Office.

Speaker 7 (21:41):
To be with you, I'm katie, sir, President Trump orchestrated.

Speaker 8 (21:43):
Another Oval Office ambush.

Speaker 9 (21:45):
Today is today Donald Trump meeting with the President of
South Africa and attempting to ambush and humiliate that leader.

Speaker 7 (21:53):
To Zelenski territory, where essentially he was a bit ambushed
inside the Oval office.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
Felt like an ambush in there, kind of like the
President's of Lenski meeting in the Oval office.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
This was an ambush.

Speaker 10 (22:06):
It was orchestrated the room.

Speaker 11 (22:08):
Opposta brought his best diplomatic self to this meeting, but
nothing could have prepared him for this multimedia ambush.

Speaker 10 (22:14):
What started it?

Speaker 3 (22:19):
It just never stops. The talking point, clearly ambush. Every
mainstream media outlet used it. Everyone, everyone. Here's my point
in bringing it up. And again, many of you get this,

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you understand it, you know. I'm I'm just illustrating again
the importance of using wisdom and discernment. If you get
in the waters of the mainstream media, they don't do
news much. They are propagandists for the Democrat Party and

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for illiberalism. Forty six minutes after the hour This Morning
Show with Preston Scott, I'm listening to Marco Rubio argue

(23:48):
with Senator Chris and Holland and it's just comical. It's
a battle of and it's a battle with an unarmed man.
It's a battle of wits with an unarmed man. Well
well done. Secretary of State Rubio A couple little stories here.
First of all, I'm a big fan of Liverpool soccer.
My son, who lived overseas for several years, became a

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soccer fan when he came back home. He got some
of us hooked into the Premier League in particular, and
Liverpool specifically. And so Liverpool won the Premier League title,
and they had a massive parade yesterday, and a fifty
three year old Liverpool man decides to drive his van

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into the crowd and hurt people nearly fifty four seriously,
may or may not die, do not know. The video
is horrifying. Bodies go flying. He intentionally drove through the crowd.
He chased people down, and we're talking a crowd of millions.
Perhaps it was massive, and he just.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
And it was just. It's horrific.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
It's and in Liverpool is one of these communities. They
call themselves the Scousers, and they do not consider themselves
part of the English aristocracy. This blue collar Liverpool is

(25:23):
blue collar home of the Beatles. They take their soccer seriously.
It's the identity of the community is largely around soccer,
very much like a green bay. Is the the identity
of Green Bay or the Packers. It's the major sports

(25:44):
franchise in Liverpool. It's soccer, it's the Reds, And I
just could not help but wonder where the calls are coming.
Where are they for an end of assault vehicles? Forty
I think it's forty seven people were injured. Surely lawmakers

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here in the States are paying attention, right, I mean,
isn't isn't that what we do? So it's just it's
a tragedy. I'm not making fun at all. I'm pointing
out the inconsistency a vehicle is capable of unbelievable Oh wait,

(26:38):
what you say it's the driver? Oh well, but I
thought it was the firearm. Ergo the vehicle. The van
clearly is the issue here. You have to grab hold
of these incidents, as tragic as they are, and use

(27:03):
them to argue against stupid because we continue in this country.
We have to continue. We have to be vigilant in
fighting against those that would try to take our firearms
with absurd claims that do not stand comparative analysis, as

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in this van.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
This vehicle.

Speaker 3 (27:38):
Didn't have to be a van, could have been a mini,
could have been a self driving tesla, which Oh, by
the way, video has gone viral. Dude who owns one
Model three full self driving unit veering off a country road.

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I want to say in Alabama, ripping through some fencing
and flipping onto its roof. Some of you love yourself
driving featured vehicle. You're putting your life at risk. I'm
just telling you, you are putting your life at risk.

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Just keep in mind they don't know what caused.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
It, glitching the matrix.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
I don't know, a shadow farm animal, no idea. Time
for the second hour of the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

(28:52):
All Right, five past the hour. It's Tuesday. Here on
the Morning Show with Preston Scott. He is Jose I
am Preston. Great to be with you. Short week for
me here today, tomorrow and Thursday. Grant Allen on Friday
and Monday as our dh the designated host of the
radio program. But today on the show, Hiram Sasser will

(29:13):
join us in about a half hour. He's executive general
counsel for the First Liberty Institute, and we will talk
about that Supreme Court decision that was a split four four.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
I'm maybe a contrarion on this. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
I don't think it's horrible that the Oklahoma State Supreme
Court's ruling holds, but there's clearly descent among the eight
Supreme Court jurists. But we'll talk about that case, and

(29:50):
in the third hour, Zach Smith will join me. Zach
is with Heritage Foundation. We've had him as a guest
several times, but he's also a newly appointed trustee to
the University of West Florida. Now there's a rumor that
the Commissioner of Education for the state, Many Diez, is
going to be named interim president.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
Of the university.

Speaker 10 (30:14):
Hmm.

Speaker 3 (30:15):
That's an interesting development. But we'll talk with Zach about
what's going on because there are a lot of interesting
things that are being reported as happening at the University
of West Florida, and so we'll get a little bit
of an overview of that. I don't know if you
saw this. Two interesting stories. First, The first story comes

(30:38):
to us Saturday, Kim Jong UN's fury after watching North
Korea's new navy destroyer crippled in a botched launch. They've
got everybody there, including the little you know, the little
rotund one. And the way that they launched this ship

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is they kind of slide it down on sideways into
the water. I guess that's how you do it. It's
not I wouldn't launch a ship, but that's how it's longed.
They're launched all the time. Apparently many that that way. Well,
something happened and the malfunction in the mechanism caused the

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stern of the ship to swing into the water while
the bow of the ship stayed on the launcher, and
so it stressed the thing and apparently it it's a mess.
And so he was absolutely flaming embarrassed. Now I could

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do my North Korean impersonation and rest assure it would
not sound like haiku. All right, Now, it would be
funny too to create a haikup about this event. It

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would be. But I'm not. I'm not going there instead.
That's headline number one, okay. And so they've got this
thing covered in tarps to keep satellites from seeing how
bad it is. It's covered in these massive blue tarps.
I guess they went to the home depot and just
bought out every tarp they had. Now, the follow up

(32:41):
story Monday yesterday, North Korea arrests for over failed warship launch.
So apparently a mistake doesn't just cost you your job.

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In North Korea, you get arrested, and my bet is
these four will never be seen or heard from again.
Just think about that for a second. If this happens
in America, some people are going to lose their job,

(33:24):
there's some reassignments. But unless it was a terrorist act,
which it's not criminal to be bad at your job
unless it is, I guess. But in North Korea, you
screw up there and the little rotund one is going
to have his revenge, and it is a criminal act.

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You knew, I mean, could you imagine you're in the
box with him, and let's say you're the Ministry of
Defense or what however they call it.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
Over there, you're the.

Speaker 3 (34:02):
Head and this happens, and Kim Jong un is just
blinking staring at the mangled mess of a ship they're
supposed to be modernizing their navy oops, and you're right
next to them. And I gotta think that your second thought,

(34:29):
because your first thought, I can't say on the air.
I can't, I can't, I can't use those words. Your
second thought is I wonder how quickly I can get
out of the country or kiss the kids goodbye, I
mean I wow. Eleven past the hour. Another interesting story

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coming up next.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (35:03):
Till. Robertson's last words to his granddaughter full strength ahead.
Listen to him saying, when I die, don't you cry.
I'll be celebrating. I'll be dancing, So I want there
be dancing. Phil Robertson, man, he might have been living

(35:28):
for the devil for a lot of years, but he
sure lived for Jesus for most more for most of
his years and more. My goodness, what a testimony for
the power of God, and that man spoke it made
a road trip, had to stop by the headquarters of

(35:50):
Duck Dynasty, which we did. My my uncle Si bobble over.
Here is testimony to my I visited, along with a
few other little things that I picked up, including a hat.
But yeah, Phil Robertson passed over the weekend. Died on

(36:14):
a Sunday that just somehow fits good for him. Go celebrate,
my man. Watch how we put this together?

Speaker 6 (36:21):
Now?

Speaker 3 (36:21):
Okay, here we are. Second segment, second hour story about
a Cassio Cortes Alexandra A Cassio Cortes. The Washington free
Beacon has just noticed something. She hasn't been pictured wearing
her engagement ring since November twenty twenty three. It's gone

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seventeen months without. She was going nowhere without it until then.
She engaged to Riley Roberts, a web developer, proposed during
a vacation in Puerto Rico, and April no news of

(37:12):
their nuptials, nothing official. When she got the ring, she
confirmed it was a zero emission ring. I'm not making
that up. Her words, not mine. Then it disappears hasn't
been seen on her hand for one photo since. So

(37:43):
the question becomes is this a legal maneuver? The reason
why it matters is if she's actually going to run
for president. By virtue of remaining unmarried, Roberts retained certain
privacy privileges not afforded the legally married spouses of other lawmakers.

(38:06):
He is exempt from publicly disclosing his assets, his stock trades,
his places of employment. If he gets the Nancy Pelosi thing,
all those trades have to be disclosed. We've joked about
the fact that there's an actual investment you can make

(38:29):
based on Pelosi's trades. It's forty five days after she
does her trades, but its return in the marketplace is astounding. Nonetheless,
But what's interesting is she referred to him as her
spouse in for House Ethics Committee filings pertaining to her

(38:53):
overseas travel in twenty twenty three. But yet they're not
married allegedly. What makes this significant is she is advancing
legislation that has a loophole built in. She introduced a
bill that would prohibit members of Congress and their spouses

(39:15):
from trading individual stocks, but it wouldn't prevent her partner,
who's not married to her from engaging in trading.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
In there's the loophole.

Speaker 3 (39:32):
That's why the story was interesting to me. I don't
care whether she's married or not whatever, that's what's interesting
to me. Seventeen minutes past the hour, Now watch what
we do here talking about her marriage or not? All right,

(39:59):
interesting story here and it comes under the category of
psychology and relationships and it's a contributor to CNBC Mark Travers.
He says, I'm a psychologist who studies couples. People in

(40:22):
the happiest relationships do five things on weekends that most neglect.
What's like, Oh, really interesting. I wonder what they have
stumbled upon One, they put away their phones. A couple

(40:44):
spends a lot of time together but is constantly distracted
by text, emails, social media probably isn't as happy as
a couple who spends less time together but without their phones.
Carving out time without phones overly handy is helpful.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
Two.

Speaker 3 (41:05):
They engage in something that he describes as parallel play.
After draining week of work, it's normal, even healthy, to
crave solitude, but it can be hard to choose between
me time and we time. Lucky, there's a way to
satiate the need for both alone time and bonding called
parallel play, the concept derived from child psychology, where two

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people engage in their preferred activities separately but alongside each other.
For couples, one partner might like reading on the couch
while the other plays their favorite video game next to them.
Might not be directly engaging with each other, but they're
intentionally sharing space and destressing. I'm not saying one thing

(41:52):
about any of this. I'm just sharing what this person says.
Number three, Create a ritual relationships. Thrive on ritual. Coming
home to your partner knowing that the weekend will bring
something familiar, something reliably yours can be comforting. Number four,

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they put intimacy on the schedule. They I don't think
I need to say much more than that. And number
five they laugh on purpose. One of the most reliable
tools couples can use to strengthen their relationship is playfulness.

Speaker 2 (42:37):
Laughing.

Speaker 3 (42:39):
It can boost relationships, satisfaction, ease conflict, break up a
sense of monotony. We unknowingly train ourselves to look for
things to stress over during the week, but on the
weekends we need to take those goggles off. The act
of being silly, being met with silliness in return helps
us reconnect. But the child like wonder we carry inside

(43:02):
that gets buried beneath our responsibilities. Who boy, am I
lucky because I act like a child all the time?
Just ask my wife? No, really, you know this is
interesting and it is important to remind yourself that while

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these are perhaps even useful, there is nothing as important
to the success of a marriage then to each one

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have his and her own personal relationship with Christ and
for it to be active and growing.

Speaker 2 (43:59):
That, singularly is the key.

Speaker 3 (44:06):
These other things useful, they're useful, They're like a tool,
but none of them replaced that singular fundamental twenty seven

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minutes after go.

Speaker 2 (44:28):
See what we did? We went from AOC and are
weird kind of whatever too?

Speaker 1 (44:33):
See different in a positive way improve the lives of others.
That's what this show is about. And this is the
Preston Scott Show.

Speaker 3 (44:50):
Well, ruminators, welcome to the second half of the radio
program Tuesday, May twenty seventh. Hope you had a nice,
enjoyable weekend, and I hope you remembered as you were
grilling food and hanging out at the beach to take
a moment and reflect on why we enjoy these freedoms,
and that you offered a moment of silence and a

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little reflection and maybe some heartfelt prayers to the families
who lost loved ones in service to our country.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
Well, we welcome you to the morning show.

Speaker 3 (45:22):
I'm Preston, he is Jose and joining me on the
program is Executive General Counsel for First Liberty Institute, Hiram Sasser. Hiram,
how are you today?

Speaker 10 (45:32):
Hey?

Speaker 8 (45:32):
Good?

Speaker 10 (45:33):
How are you doing?

Speaker 3 (45:33):
I'm doing well. Last week we talked about the ruling
or lack thereof, I guess would be more appropriate of
the Supreme Court. It was a four to four split
with Justice Cony Barrett stepping down, we're accusing herself. In
the case of Saint Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School
versus Drummond, give everybody a brief overview of the case

(45:56):
and then give me your thoughts on the decision to
allow the Oklahoma States Supreme Court decision to stand.

Speaker 4 (46:03):
Sure.

Speaker 10 (46:03):
Well, after we won our case against the State of
Maine a few years ago in Carson versus Making on
the voucher program, the Supreme Court and ruling in that
case basically said, if there's any kind of government program
at all whereby others can come and ask to participate
in that program, you can't exclude them simply because they're religious.

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And so in Oklahoma, a Catholic virtual charter school petitioned
the state of Oklahoma to be another virtual option. They
have about a dozen others virtual options, and so the
Catholic Church say, hey, we'd like to offer one as well.
And the state of Oklahoma, including my client who's a

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state superintendent and also the state Board of Education or
represent said, look, we're not allowed to engage in kind
of religious discrimination. The Supreme Court just told us that
the program opened anybody. We're not allowed to engage in
religious discriminations. So we said we're not going to do that.
We're going to say it's okay. But the Attorney General
getting her Drummond in Oklahoma, he's a liberal who campaigns

(47:12):
as a Republican, and so what he did was he
decided he wanted to sue on behalf of his ACOU
buddies in order to stop the Catholic virtual charter school
from existing. And so that suit went to the Oaklahoma
Supreme Court, which ruled against my client's position and ruled

(47:33):
in favor of the Attorney General, saying it would be
a violation and a separation or church and state to
allow this, to allow this charter school, which would require
this kind of religious discrimination. The Supreme Court told us
we're not allowed to do. So everybody went and saw it.
All the agencies involved asked the Supreme Court to review

(47:54):
the case, including the school asked to review the case,
and they took it up. But then they they decided
to mysteriously tie for for justice. Bair did not participate
because the Notre Dame law clinic she used to be
a professor of Notre Dame helped represent the school, and
so it ended up tying for four, which means nothing

(48:15):
other than it gives whatever happened below the win. And
so this round the Attorney General fighting for his separation
of church and state for the CELU. He won. But
we're vowing we're going to come back and we're going
to find a way to get back to the court
where we can get all nine to be able to

(48:38):
hear the case again.

Speaker 3 (48:39):
Joining me on the program is Hiram Sasser. He's executive
General Counsel for First Liberty Institute. Hiram standby, We're going
to take a quick break. Now we've got a quick
check of whether in traffic. Come back. Talk some more
here on the Morning Show.

Speaker 1 (49:01):
The Morning Show with Preston Scott on news Radio one
hundred point seven doubt.

Speaker 3 (49:06):
LA with First Liberty Institute Hiram Sasser with us. We're
talking over a case at the Supreme Court deadlocked on
last week. You said mysteriously. Share a little more on
why you say that.

Speaker 10 (49:22):
Well, I mean, look, I was at the oral argument.
I thought I thought we had five votes. I mean
Justice Alito, Justice Thomas, Justice Gorsaice, Justice Kavanaugh, and Chief
Justice Roberts all seemed pretty skeptical of Oklahoma, of the
attorney general, and favorable to the school and our side.

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But somebody, somebody defected, but we don't know who because
they don't tell you who. When they do a vote
that's tied for for, they don't write any opinions for
or against, no descending opinions, and they don't reveal the
vote count, like who voted Watt basically so that you
have a clean slate to come back and try and

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do it again. So that's the mystery. We don't know
which one of those five flipped over to join the liberals.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
Tell me this, I am, and I will be very
candid with you, Hiram. I am torn on this as
a former pastor and a guy who ran a private
school for a long time, a private Christian school. I love,
for example, the option that Florida offers with tuition vouchers,
where you can take your kid whatever school you want, private, public,

(50:34):
whatever the money follows the student. I'm troubled though, by
the president of a charter school that is under the
auspices of the public school system being a quote religious school,
because it seems that it would open the door to
an Islamic religious school or even crazy as it sounds,
it's satanic religious school. Talk me off that ledge.

Speaker 8 (51:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (51:00):
I mean, first of all, it actually in Oklahoma. The
way the program works, the reason why everyone thought that
you're not allowed to engage in the discrimination in Oklahoma
is because the money follows each students. In other words,
just because you get approved to set up as a
as a school does not mean that you're going to
get any funding. You only get funding if the students
show up. So it works sort of functionally funding wise

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as a voucher program. So it's really no different. Imagine
you set up a school, a faith based school, and
like in Florida, and you start the voucher program. This
is this is.

Speaker 8 (51:34):
What happened in Maine.

Speaker 10 (51:36):
Uh And and let's say you said up a religiou
school but nobody came, Well you don't, you don't. You
don't get any students, so you don't get any any
of the public funding. But if some kids show up
with their voucher money that's following them, then obviously you're
getting you're getting some funding. So it's the same way
with the charter school. You've got to take all the risks,
you got to set it up but if if as

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kids show up up, then though they're bringing the funding
that otherwise would travel with them with them to that
charter school. Does that make sense?

Speaker 2 (52:08):
It does?

Speaker 3 (52:09):
But but the and correct me here, because I'm not
a I'm not a citizen or a resident of Oklahoma.
Oklahoma does not have the voucher program that some other
states have, correct, right, right.

Speaker 10 (52:21):
So they're basically doing it the same kind of thing,
but through a charter school program. And this was going
to be a virtual option, sure, because Oklahoma's pretty rural
in certain area. You know, you get outside of tuls
Oklahoma City, there's a lot of rural areas.

Speaker 3 (52:35):
Do you think that nuance matters that that it's not
a voucher program where quote, my tax dollars are going
to follow my child versus Okay, this is something the
school system is having to offer.

Speaker 10 (52:48):
I think I think it's that's just a semantics thing.
It's all the same kind of thing. It's there's there's
no there's no difference. Uh.

Speaker 8 (52:56):
And and you know the.

Speaker 10 (52:57):
Attorney general, he tried to cover his tracks, he's trying
to pretend to be a conservative, is like, well, I'm
fighting against this because uh, you know, we we could
potentially have, you know, in an Islamic school, and you
can have an Islamic school in any school any state

(53:18):
that has a voucher program, and you can't discriminate against
them because you allowed the Christian school to participate in
the voucher school program, but you're not going to allow
the Islamic school to to participate in the voucher program.

Speaker 4 (53:32):
Uh.

Speaker 10 (53:33):
The the only problem with that is that, uh, they
you know, you don't really see that happen. And the
reason why you don't see that happen it is not
because there's any discrimination that's allowed. That's not what's going on.
It's that there are certain there's certain organizations, certain certain
pockets of people who don't want the government scrutiny or

(53:58):
they don't want the government to kind of take a
look to see what it is that they're doing. Because
even with voucher programs, you have to you have to
show that here we're teaching these types of values, we're
teaching these types of things.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
There's always strings attached.

Speaker 10 (54:12):
There are strings attached, and I know a lot of
Christian skill, you know, I don't want you know, I
don't want to a lot of strings attached. You know,
great homeschool, go to a private school that doesn't accept vouchers.
That's that's that's that's what's what makes America great. But
there are some people who are people of faith who say, hey, look,
I can't afford to do that. I'd like to I'd

(54:33):
like to be able to have the opportunity to send
my kid to Faith Fayed School. Does that mean that
they have to show that we're actually doing algebra? Sure,
but you know what, it's okay because that's better than
the alternative, and it was and it was an option
I didn't otherwise have.

Speaker 3 (54:50):
Well, I appreciate you making time for us, Hiram and
giving us kind of a little nuts and bolts on
this particular case. Let us know when you circle back
and find another case to bring the for the court.
All right, take care, Thank you, Sir Hiram Sasser with
us this morning from First Liberty Institute here on the
Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 12 (55:21):
Times.

Speaker 3 (55:21):
For a minute, will we proclaim mail by birth man
by choice? Hello? Friends, these are ideals, virtue skills, things
to teach your son. You ready, I've never done this

(55:44):
in all the years we've been doing mainly minutes. I've
never touched on this topic. Teach your son how to
shine his own shoes. Now that brings back and obvious.
Does he have shoes to shine? Does your son have

(56:08):
a pair of dress shoes? You need to buy him
a pair of dress shoes, if for no other reason,
then for him to learn how to shine them. For
that matter, you can go to a secondhand store, get
a pair of dress shoes, and just for the total
purpose of teaching him how to shine a pair of shoes.

(56:34):
Any man worth his salt has at least one pair
of dress shoes. I know there's a couple of you
out there, like brother, those days are gone. I got
me boots and I got sandals, and that's all I got.

Speaker 1 (56:48):
Whatever.

Speaker 3 (56:49):
You still have to teach your son how to know
how to polish shoes, whether it's the Kiwi polish, little
Kiwi polished kits, a spit shine, whatever you swear by.
I'm a big fan of knowing how to use the brush,
know how to use the buffer, and a little little

(57:11):
polish in the right color. And boy, there is just
something special about a perfectly polished shoe. Just saying there
you go, that's your manly minute. That way you can
you can know that, for example, on your son's wedding day.
Try if your son goes in the military, he's going

(57:32):
to learn. He will learn. But apart from that, on
his wedding day you will not have to say what
I have not shown you how to buff you how
to polish your shoes. Son, Come on, doesn't matter that
they came polished. Put an extra shine on it. So

(57:53):
there you go. When we come back, let me tell
you about next hour, we're gonna have Zack Smith with
us Heritage Foundation. Now, normally Zach is talking to us
about economic things, generally though the court legal stuff. He
and Hans von Spakowsky kind of run in the same circles.
Zach a little younger than Hans. Zach is a newly

(58:16):
appointed trustee for the University of West Florida. I'll give
you one one example of what's gone wrong at the
University of West Florida. Friday, October twenty fifth, The Drag
Me to Hell, a special Halloween drag show event by

(58:39):
the Women's Studies Collective at the University of West Florida.
At the University of West Florida Commons Auditorium, and this
is just one example of the of overt overtures to
the LGBTQ community that public education has no business being

(59:00):
part of. That's not in the curriculum. There's no reason
for that kind of crap. And so Governor ran Ron
desandis appointed Zack Smith to the trustees.

Speaker 1 (59:12):
Rumor is.

Speaker 3 (59:15):
Manny Diaz the Commission of Education is going to be
the interim president.

Speaker 2 (59:18):
Now we'll see about that.

Speaker 3 (59:20):
I've not talked to Manny in a minute, so I
don't know, but that's what's floating around out there. But
he's got a list of things that he wants to
address as a trustee of the university now. And so
by golly, we're going to talk about it, because a
lot of you might consider sending your kids, especially those

(59:43):
of you in Bay County, Walton County, the area in
and around Panama City and on to west to the
west to Destin and Fort Walton Beach. You might be
thinking about the University of West Florida. Should you be
thinking about it? Talk about that? Next was Zack Smith
on the Morning Show Preston Scott. If I passed the

(01:00:15):
hour third hour Tuesday in the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Great to be with you, friends. Hope you enjoyed your
weekend and appreciated the reason why you got to enjoy
your weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
That's ose in Studio one A.

Speaker 3 (01:00:27):
I am here in Studio one B, and I am
joined by our friend from the Heritage Foundation. He's senior
Legal Fellow and manager of the Supreme Court and Pellate
Advocacy Program at the Heritage Foundation, our friend Zach Smith,
proving once again that knowles and gators can play together. Hello, sir,
how are you.

Speaker 8 (01:00:47):
I'm doing well. Thanks so much for having me on
the show this morning.

Speaker 3 (01:00:50):
I'm really excited because this is the first time we're
talking about something where I did not initiate. The contact
is saying, Zach, help me understand something, because this is
a whole nother world here. I have been sharing with
listeners about your appointment, but I want to back up
a little bit, Zach, how does one get appointed a

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trustee of a state university here in Florida.

Speaker 8 (01:01:18):
Well, I appreciate you asking Preston. The governor was nice
enough to ask me to serve on the board of trustees,
and so I was very pleased to accept. I'd already
been serving on the Pensacolas State College or local community
college here in Pensacola on their board of trustees. And
so the governor asked me to also serve on the
University of West Florida's board, and I'm happy to do that.

Speaker 3 (01:01:39):
So this is going to sound so silly, but I
think people want to know what is it that got
you on the radar of Florida's governor.

Speaker 4 (01:01:50):
Or.

Speaker 3 (01:01:50):
Let's be honest, the people that are probably surrounding him
and advising him. What puts you on the radar is
somebody that would be useful to help the University of
West Florida because best as I can tell, it needs
some help.

Speaker 8 (01:02:06):
Well, it does, Preston. And look, I'm a lifelong resident
of Pensacola, Florida. Even though I worked for the Heritage Foundation,
I live in Pensacola. I served our community as an
assistant US attorney. I thought at the University of West
FLORIDA'VE been teaching freshman government there for many, many years now,
and so I know our community and I know the
university in particular, and as you mentioned, unfortunately, some of

(01:02:27):
the things that have been happening at the university over
the past past several years, particularly as it comes to diversity,
equity and inclusion initiatives, are not where they needed to be,
and so I stepped in. Had a very interesting first
board meeting a couple of weeks ago, and I'm working
to try to make sure that not only is the
university complying with Florida's relevant laws, but more importantly, that

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the focus is on the students and making sure that
the students did the best education that they deserve.

Speaker 3 (01:02:58):
I know that we are in a state that has
a law Sunshine law prevails, and so there's probably nothing
I'm going to ask you that's really off the record,
because it all is on the record. When you showed
up at that first meeting, did you have a list
of questions you wanted answers to or because you've been

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on faculty there, you're very well versed on the good,
the bad, and the ugly of the university. Did you
go in already with a bit of an agenda on
a whiteboard?

Speaker 8 (01:03:30):
Well, I don't know if I would call it an
agenda press and I did have questions I wanted answers too.
I wanted to ask the president why some of the
certain proubling things I had seen take place at the university.
Why they had taken place, Why either she or her
staff thought it was appropriate to promote certain activities or
certain speakers at the university. And if they didn't think
it was appropriate, what steps have been put in place

(01:03:52):
to make sure that future instances would not take place
again in the future. And I'll give you one example.
One of the things I asked the president at that
board meeting is why she thought it was appropriate for
the university, the university itself to co sponsor a drag
show called Drag Me to Hell. The President talked a
lot about inclusion, talked a lot about making students still welcomed,

(01:04:15):
respect for all viewpoints. And my point to her was,
you know, I disagree with the university co sponsoring your
drag show, but even if you didn't, would it make
religious students feel welcomed? Would it make them feel included
to essentially have their religion mocked by a Drag Me
to Hell drag show? I don't think so, and unfortunately
I didn't receive a satisfactory answer from the president at

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that meeting.

Speaker 3 (01:04:39):
I want to pick up right there with me Zach
Smith with a Heritage Foundation, but notably he's a trustee
at the University of West Florida. We're talking about the
inner workings of what that looks like, as well as
what specifically is going on at the University of West Florida.
Because a lot of you listening, whether you are in
the Capital City region or you are to our west

(01:05:00):
in our Panama City hub, or listening in the southeast
on iHeartRadio. That could be a school on the radar
for your kids. Should it be. We'll talk about that more. Next,
It's the Morning Show with President Scott Levin passed the

(01:05:28):
hour of Zach Smith with me Yes with Heritage Foundation,
but we're talking about his role as trustee at the
University of West Florida. Zach, you mentioned some topics you
brought up and asked questions of the university president before
we get to the president specifically and the status of
the president in light of some rumors floating around the
day in state news. What was the tone in the

(01:05:52):
rooms as you could best determine from other fellow trustee members.

Speaker 8 (01:05:58):
Well, this was a virtual meeting. Unfortunately, some of the
trustees who had been on the university board for some time.
Some of the trustees who had been on the board
while these activities were taking place, were not supportive of
my questions. In fact, one of my fellow trustees has
been on the board for some time said that he
supported the rights of students to have drag shows that

(01:06:20):
he was offended by my line of questioning and unfortunately
chose to engage in an add hominum personal attack without
really addressing the issues that I brought up. But look,
my goal President, and I made this clear when I've
talked about this, when I was talking, you know, to
the Florida Senate, I stiff to be confirmed by the
Florida Senate. Is my duty as a trustee is to

(01:06:43):
do what's best for the students, to do what's best
for the faculty and staff, and to do what's best
for the community and the university overall. And so if
that means sometimes asking some difficult questions, if that sometimes
he's asking me some uncomfortable questions for the president and
others on staff who are there, I'm okay, do that,
and I think I have a duty to do just that.

Speaker 3 (01:07:03):
Well, by the virtue of your appointment, we settle the
fact that this is not a private university. It is
a publicly funded university. Don't some of these programs run
a foul of what state law determines now is appropriate.

Speaker 8 (01:07:19):
Well, I think that's certainly a concern. Obviously, there's discussion
about a grant that the Governor's office had flagged a
previously a Florida Dose more specifically, had flagged about potentially
running a foul. Now the university administration says that it
doesn't run a foul of current DEI prohibitions. I'm not convinced,
but we're going to take a close look at all
of that and look forreston. Look, there's a lot of

(01:07:41):
really talented faculty and staff in students at the University
of West Florida. Unfortunately, I think there's been a culture
where students who may have a certain religious inclination, where
students who may have a different political view, typically a
more conservative worldview than many of the fact that your
staff there have been missed up silence, not free to
express their views. And I'm committed to changing that so

(01:08:03):
that all students can feel free to express their religious beliefs,
can feel free to express their political beliefs, whether or
not I agree with them, on campus, and she can
freely engage in a free exchange of ideas. That should
be the goal of really all of higher education.

Speaker 3 (01:08:18):
Zach Smith with me, trustee University of West Florida. Zach
the president of the university. Who is president right now?

Speaker 8 (01:08:26):
Well, it was it is doctor Martha Sanders, but in
fact doctor Sondras. She resigned about a week after that
board meeting where I asked her some of those difficult questions.
Apparently she did not want to answer many of those
questions that I gave her, so she has submitted her resignation.
And in fact, we're talking at a good time. President.
I have a board of trustees meeting in just about

(01:08:47):
an hour where we're going to discuss who should be
the interim president of the University of West Florida. We're
going to stand up a search committee to look for
the future president at the University of West Florida instead
of all your as I say, stay tuned. The University
of West Florida is an excellent institution. There have been
some problems. We're working to address those, and I'm confident

(01:09:08):
that going forward, this will be not only an institution
that serves our community and a region and a conserved
students in our state and across the nation as well.

Speaker 3 (01:09:18):
Zach Smith with me for one more segment. We're talking
about what's happening at the University of West Florida. There's
a name being floated even this morning as a potential
interim president. We'll talk about that as well as what
the future may look like moving ahead for whoever ends
up taking that job. And I might even drop a
question about the decision that the University of Florida is

(01:09:41):
seemingly about to make on its next president from a
distinguished member of the Gator alumni. Next the Morning Show
with Preston Scottsla.

Speaker 1 (01:09:58):
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Speaker 4 (01:10:06):
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Speaker 3 (01:10:11):
Twenty one minutes past the hour final segment. Here was
Zach Smith. Yes, professionally with the Heritage Foundation, but he
serves as a trustee at the University of West Florida.
Governor Ron De Santas appointed him. He was confirmed by
the State Senate. Zach, Before we get back to the
University of West Florida, your alma mater is apparently narrowed

(01:10:34):
down their president's search to the current president of the
University of Michigan, Santa Ono.

Speaker 2 (01:10:41):
Oh no, I mean, oh.

Speaker 8 (01:10:43):
No, Yeah. Well, look, I'm very troubled by some of
the past statements that president has made. Obviously, if you
go on social media, they're very easy to find. He's
been a very strong advocate of certain DEI type initiatives.
He's given and acknowledge and mens before many of his speeches,
and so he's held very radical views in the past

(01:11:06):
on some issues where I vehemently would disagree with him. Now,
Santa Ono, he said he has recently converted. He seemed
to like he's eskewed many of those previous positions and
says he is now anti DEI for treating everyone equal.
Oh now, that's a very recent conversion, Preston. That seems

(01:11:28):
to have come about about the same time the University
of Florida president's job came open. So take that, yeah,
take that for what you will. But the University of
Florida Border Trustees is a meeting this morning to decide
whether to move his nomination.

Speaker 10 (01:11:41):
Forward or not.

Speaker 8 (01:11:42):
But I certainly think there are very proumbling statements he's
made and very real questions that need to be asked
about whether his newfound commitment to anti DEI policies is
indeed genuine.

Speaker 3 (01:11:54):
Tell me about the search for an interim. The reports
today in Politico Florida say that Manny Diaz, the Commissioner
of Education for the state, is likely to be chosen
as the interim.

Speaker 2 (01:12:08):
Is that something that you think is on the radar?

Speaker 8 (01:12:11):
Well, I have to be a little bit circumspect about
what I say, Preston. As I mentioned the University of
West Florida Boarder Trustees, we're meeting in about an hour
to take this very question. What I can say is
that I appreciate Nanny Diaz's work as the Commissioner of Education.
I'm a big fan. I think it'd be a fantastic
selection to be an interim if he is chosen to

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do that. But we'll talk about that at the border
trustees meeting later this morning. But that is certainly in
the news this morning and over the weekend as well.

Speaker 3 (01:12:42):
You've mentioned that before even taking the appointment as a trustee,
you were aware of and concerned about and interested in
the affairs of the University of West Florida, and as
much as you were able, you constructed a bit of
a list of things that you think ought to be priorities,
least from your chair as a trustee. Give us top

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two or three things on that list.

Speaker 8 (01:13:06):
Yeah, well, look, Preston, I think in universities we should
be committed to the free, fair exchange of ideas, even
ideas we may disagree with. The student voices should not
be silenced or one preferred political narrative be plushed. And unfortunately,
where addressed with President Founders at the last board meeting,
you had Marxist ideology being uncritically promoted, you had a
radical transgender ideology being uncritically promoted to students, and those

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are very, very troubling things. So I think we have
to get back to the basic block and tackling of
if fostering an environment where free, open debate can occur.
Then on the heels of that, we have to also
make sure that students are getting in an affordable education,
that they are able to go into the workforce, meet
the needs of businesses and other entities in our region
so that they can get good, high paying jobs, get

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a good return on their education. And then obviously, because
UWF and Pensaco Estate, we sit in Pensacola. We have
a large military population here. We're home with the Blue Angels, yeah,
and the Air Force members over at Eglin. I think
it's important that we make sure that we're adequately serving
our active duty military personnel and our veterans for seeking
to transition into civilian lives. And so those will be

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just a few of my focuses as a member of
the board of trustees at PSC and UWF, and I'm
excited to stay engaged and help move both of these
institutions into the future.

Speaker 3 (01:14:24):
As if you're not spending enough place. You also mentioned
that you are a professor teaching at a state college,
Pensacola State College.

Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
What kind of professor are you?

Speaker 3 (01:14:33):
You tough?

Speaker 2 (01:14:33):
Are you tough grade?

Speaker 3 (01:14:34):
I mean, are you well?

Speaker 8 (01:14:38):
It depends on who you ask. Preston have a I
bought freshman government at both Pensacola State and the University
of West Florida. I'm not teaching in the fall since
I'm a newly appointed trustee. But look, I focus on
the founding of our country. I focus on the ideals
that made our country great, and I've enjoyed the experience
and I hope to get back to teaching that freshman

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government class.

Speaker 3 (01:15:00):
So what's a timeline for an interim and what's a
timeline for that interim to serve before the search really
focuses on a permanent president Or do you feel like
I mean to the trustees, and I know you can
only speak for yourself, Zach, but do you think there's
a feeling that an interim needs to get in there
and kind of settle things for a little while.

Speaker 8 (01:15:21):
Well, we will talk about that as the board meeting
later today. President Sanders. Her resignation is effective ninety days
from the date seat she submitted it. We can wave
that we can shorten that time period if the Border
Trustees sales we need to do that, or doctor Sonders
would like us to do that. I think we'd certainly
consider that, But so we have a little bit of

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time if we need to. But look, I think once
the interim is in there, they'll kind of get the
lay of the land, look at some of the problems
we flagged, and likely take steps to address those. But
I'm excited. I think we're getting ready to turn a
corner here, Preston, and I think there's a bright future
in front of the University. Of West Florida.

Speaker 3 (01:15:59):
Zach, thanks so very much. I appreciate the time this morning.
Best of success in the.

Speaker 1 (01:16:03):
Meeting today, of course, thanks so much for having me on.

Speaker 3 (01:16:06):
Thank you, Zach Smith, Heritage Foundation trustee. Now we've got
an end at the University of West Florida, just saying,
just saying, see it's spreading our tentacles like a hydra.

Speaker 2 (01:16:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:16:21):
Anyway, good. Wouldn't you love to be in his government class?
Freshman government. Come on, dude from Heritage Foundation teaching your kids.
That's a reason to send your kid to Pensacola State College.
Right there, twenty seven minutes after the hour, it's the
morning Share with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:16:45):
Beck. He's always been a white guy. Glenn.

Speaker 13 (01:16:49):
We got it licensed to talk nine to noon on WFLA.

Speaker 3 (01:17:06):
Under the heading slow Learner's Class. I present another example
of the coordinated effort between the Democrat Party the elected
Democrats of Congress in the mainstream media. Last week, Donald

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Trump has a contentious meeting with the President of South Africa,
Sera rama Fosa, and listen to how the mainstream media reported.

Speaker 6 (01:17:40):
It in the dramatic scene in the Oval Office today,
the tense confrontation President Trump ambushing the President of South Africa.

Speaker 7 (01:17:46):
Next another oval office meltdown, President Trump ambushing the President
of South Africa.

Speaker 5 (01:17:51):
President Trump is being accused of conducting something of a diplomatic.

Speaker 1 (01:17:55):
Ambush of sous president in office.

Speaker 7 (01:17:57):
To be with you, I'm Katie, sir, President Trump orchestrated
another oval office ambush.

Speaker 9 (01:18:02):
Today Today Donald Trump meeting with the President of South
Africa and attempting to ambush and humiliate that leader.

Speaker 7 (01:18:10):
To Zelenski territory, where essentially he was a bit ambushed
inside the Oval office.

Speaker 3 (01:18:15):
Felt like an ambush in there, kind of like the
President's of Lenski meeting in the Oval office.

Speaker 1 (01:18:20):
This was an ambush.

Speaker 10 (01:18:22):
It was orchestrated.

Speaker 11 (01:18:23):
Little Room Opposa brought his best diplomatic self to this meeting,
but nothing could have prepared him for this multimedia ambush.

Speaker 3 (01:18:31):
What started us to some degree in ambush, Well, Katie,
I mean it wasn't ambushed, ambush, ambushed, ambush and ambushed, ambushing, ambush.

Speaker 7 (01:18:39):
And ambushed inside the Oval.

Speaker 3 (01:18:40):
Office that was produced by Western Lensman and pushed out
on X where we grabbed it.

Speaker 12 (01:18:49):
Ambush, Ambush, ambush, ambush, ambush, ambush, ambushed, ambush, ambush, ambush,
and ambush like ambush, ambush, it just it.

Speaker 3 (01:19:00):
This was a talking point pushed out by the Democrat
Party behind the scenes. How else does it arrive into
the mouths of every major network reporting news. Now, what
I also want to do here is I want to
point this out.

Speaker 2 (01:19:22):
None of that.

Speaker 3 (01:19:24):
Would pass an eighth grade journalism course for objective journalism.

Speaker 2 (01:19:31):
How do I know?

Speaker 3 (01:19:32):
Because I took one. I started writing news in middle
school for the announcements I worked in the high school newspaper.
I was a newsman as a senior in high school

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for one of the largest radio stations in Phoenix, Arizona.
I've been writing news use but I had to prove
my proficiency and thankfully hold on. I passed eighth grade journalism.
Eighth grade eighth grade journalism. I knew that you cannot

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use descriptive terminology and remain objective. That inserts an implied bias.
The word ambushed is used in this case is not
just a verb. It's used to describe. I mean, if
you look up the word, it's it's not a charitable word.

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When you ambush somebody that is that is negative connotations.
It just illustrates once again that even eighth grade journalism
would render all of these news reporters to be failures,

(01:21:05):
all of them. Twenty minutes after the one.

Speaker 2 (01:21:09):
Of the big stories in the press box.

Speaker 1 (01:21:13):
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (01:21:18):
Time for a little money talk with Howard Eisman with
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Speaker 14 (01:21:49):
Powered It would appear that a lot of people are
invested in the stock market, despite its rocky road of late,
and that.

Speaker 4 (01:22:00):
Certainly is a fact. Yes, Sir. For the second year
in a row, sixty two percent of our fellow Americans
have said that they currently have money invested in the
stock marketing either through individual stocks, mutual funds, index funds,
or their own self directed retirement accounts. And that level

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is just one small percentage point shy of the record
of sixty three percent being in stocks all the way
back in two thousand and four.

Speaker 3 (01:22:32):
Howard you've spent your professional career in this world. What
does that signal to you?

Speaker 4 (01:22:39):
It signals to me a couple things pressed in one.
Owning stocks, bits of pieces of real companies that are
growing over time is a good way to accumulate capital
and wealth for retirement. And in this case, you know,

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we looking back over the last two years, we've had
back to back years where the S and P five
hundred has been up about twenty five percent per year.
And I think folks are beginning to catch a collective
breath after, you know, after the early April announcements that

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came out of you know, we're a little bit surprising
to the market. So here we are. The US economy
is still moving along, still growing, and folks want to
be a part of that.

Speaker 3 (01:23:34):
It's interesting because you mentioned early April. Early April was
the beginning of an unbelievable roller coaster, one that I
can't remember seeing in my adult lifetime. Is it truly marked?
Did history kind of get set in some form or another.

Speaker 4 (01:23:51):
Well, that remains to be seen, but I think we
can say a couple things. It looks like we're in
the process of having another V shaped recovery recovery. In
terms of the market, the S and P five hundred
fell by fifteen point three percent year to day on

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April eighth, which I believe was just today after the
President's liberation announcement and the rollout of the global you know,
terra concepts, and it's practically completely reversed that since then,
in the last five weeks, we've seen a v shape rally.

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The market is up probably eighteen and a half nineteen
percent today looks like it's going to be an up opening.
So that fifteen percent eighteen percent decline, you know, has
basically disappeared. And the last time we've seen this kind

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of activity sharp down and so quickly up and go
all the way back to nineteen eighty two, a long
time ago.

Speaker 3 (01:25:05):
Wow. Yeah, you know, I was talking to a family
member back a few weeks ago about where auto loans
are in the marketplace, and it got me thinking about
just the credit scores and its role and its relationship
to what kind of rate somebody gets.

Speaker 2 (01:25:21):
What kind of credit scores are people carrying these days?

Speaker 4 (01:25:24):
Yeah, this one and this is a little bit surprising,
and it may be for some of your listeners. So
the New York feds quarterly Consumer Credit survey, which they've
been doing since nineteen ninety nine, shows that the median
credit score of those who took out auto loans here
in the first quarter, their score hit a record high

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of seven twenty two. And you know, we hear all
these conversations about how challenging the economy has come, and
it certainly has for some of our fellow citizens.

Speaker 8 (01:26:01):
Yeah, but.

Speaker 4 (01:26:03):
Of auto loans, actually the predators seeking them at a
credit score of seven eighty or above.

Speaker 3 (01:26:12):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (01:26:13):
Yeah, So I think it's a sign that, you know,
it may be a little premature to hear all the
doom and gloom talk.

Speaker 3 (01:26:22):
It also tells us people are better at maintaining their
own their own budget than the federal government is.

Speaker 4 (01:26:28):
Oh well, that's without a doubt, Howard.

Speaker 2 (01:26:31):
Thanks for the intel.

Speaker 4 (01:26:32):
Absolutely have a great day, Preston.

Speaker 3 (01:26:34):
Thank you, sir, Howard Eisman with us this morning a
little money talk here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
All I'll get to do is read the story. I

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am going to avoid embellishing this at all. A missing
man in Turkey accidentally joined his own search party for
hours before realizing he was the person they were looking
for Beyhan Mutlou had been drinking with friends on Tuesday

(01:27:21):
when he wandered into a forest in Bursa Province. When
he failed to return, his wife and friends alerted local
authorities and a search party was sent out. Mister Muttlou, fifty,
then stumbled across the search party and decided to join them.
According to NTV, but when members of the search party.

Speaker 2 (01:27:45):
Again calling his name, he replied, I'm here.

Speaker 3 (01:27:50):
He was taken aside by one of the rescue workers
to give a statement. Don't punish me too harshly, officer.
My father will kill me. He reportedly told them. Please
drove mister Mutloo home. It's not clear if he was
given a fine.

Speaker 2 (01:28:06):
Just embrace the visual.

Speaker 3 (01:28:08):
Here.

Speaker 2 (01:28:10):
Guys had at little a little bit of.

Speaker 3 (01:28:14):
Punch and he got lost out in the woods and
the search party, hey.

Speaker 8 (01:28:25):
Muttloo.

Speaker 3 (01:28:28):
Muttloo's up there, and he goes, eh, what well, we're
searching for you.

Speaker 2 (01:28:36):
Why I'm here? I'm looking too.

Speaker 1 (01:28:46):
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Speaker 2 (01:28:49):
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Speaker 1 (01:28:50):
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Speaker 3 (01:28:53):
It's just something about that is that is just breath.
It's like a scene from a movie.

Speaker 2 (01:29:00):
It really is.

Speaker 3 (01:29:03):
The guy just stumbles into the search party and he's like, wow, help.

Speaker 1 (01:29:10):
And as him they're looking for.

Speaker 3 (01:29:11):
That's just too good, all right. We started our day
with First Timothy four to eight had a nice little
devotional on that Today's program feature to visit with Hiram
Sasser with First Liberty Institute. We talked about the Supreme
Court split. He explained some nuance in Oklahoma law that

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makes the functioning of the program very similar to the
voucher program in Florida. He said, the differences are just semantical.
So they're going to try and get it in front
of the court again in a different case, different situation,
But you know, I don't know that it means much different.
But we'll see perhaps a case where Amy Coney Barrett

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does not recuse herself.

Speaker 2 (01:29:58):
Maybe that matters. I don't know. He felt like they
had the votes and someone defected, ooh defection.

Speaker 3 (01:30:05):
They thought they had a five to three win, but
they didn't. Talked to Zach Smith from the Heritage Foundation,
who was really visiting with us in his role as
a trustee for the University West Florida. It was very
interesting find out what's going on there. Honestly, I really
didn't even know we had a university over there. I

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mean it, I apologize, but it just strikes me as
a place that might be in a strip mall, not
like a real universe. But maybe it is. Apparently it
is good to have him out there, Howard Heisman. Of course,
with some money talk are big stories today, the same

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lamestream media taking their talking points from the left literally literally,
and we once again have proof.

Speaker 2 (01:31:00):
What's going on with Russia and Finland a little sketchy
over there.

Speaker 3 (01:31:05):
Keep your eye on what's going on there tomorrow. Fascinating
story of what's happening at the Alamo. Yes, remember the
Alamo tomorrow, That and more. Can't wait. Friends, have a
great day, talk to them.