Ep. 5388: The Big Beautiful Bill, is it really that beautiful?

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Wednesday, May 28th

Our guests today include:
- Kent Strang





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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Good moarning, Welcome to the show. Yeah, still fumbling around
here with the crowd, but much much better. It's Wednesday,
May twenty eight. We're at the end of the month.
May I just let's get the scripture Romans twelve. This

(00:52):
this has a little heading to it. You know, obviously
the books of the Bible, we're missing punctuation in the original,
so we do the best we can with that. Sometimes
the punctuations and the wrong spots. Sometimes those commas and
things kind of switch importance of certain things around. But

(01:19):
translators will oftentimes take a body of scripture and will
give it a heading. Where this verse comes from. It
says in Romans twelve, at the beginning of verse before
verse nine, it says marks of a true Christian, Marks

(01:41):
of the true Christian. These are things that are symptomatic
of a person who truly is walking as a Christian.

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And I'm going to focus on one small passage. It
says in verse fifteen, rejoice with those who rejoice, weep
with those who weep. That would be a verse that

(02:30):
would be so easy to breeze by. What's it really saying?
Remember now that skill set is emblematic of a Christian

(02:53):
remember that in the Bible, there there's fruit of the spirit,
and there's gifts of the spirit. Gifts of the spirit
are not owned. You might walk in one for a
minute an hour. I don't believe you own it. I

(03:17):
believe the gifts of the spirit come upon you when
you put yourself in a position and need them, and
you seek them. But I don't necessarily think, oh, he
is the gift of healing. No God does. And if
we put ourselves in a place to rely on God,
I believe God can do incredible things with or without us.

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But that's a gift. The fruit, as I've detailed for you,
is standard equipment. You and I are not excused from
not possessing every single fruit of the spirit. All of
those various descriptions of fruit you and I are supposed

(04:03):
to manifest if you will. This is similar. Rejoice with
those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. This is empathy.
This is sharing what others are experiencing. Are you truly

(04:32):
happy when someone that you know and love, or maybe
even don't know. Are you truly happy when they're happy?
Do you rejoice with them? We're not talking about rejoicing
over things that aren't worth rejoicing over. But like someone

(04:53):
got a job that they've really wanted, where they got
a bonus, or they have a great accomplishment, or maybe
they just got discharged from the hospital and they're just
so rejoicing over that being better. Can you rejoice with them?

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And to those that are crushed and downcast, can you
weep with them? Remember what it said at the beginning.
The interpreters of the Bible categorize that as one of
the things that marks a true Christian, rejoicing with those
who rejoice, and weeping with those who weep. Ten past the.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Hour, you mayor of Realville. It's the Morning Show with
Preston Scott. Past the hour. He's oaia Im Preston, Good

(06:02):
Morning Friends.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Welcome Show, fifty three eighty eight of this radio program.
On this date, May twenty eighth, seventeen fifty four, Virginia
Militia under Lieutenant Colonel George Washington defeat French troops near Uniontown, Uniontown, Pa,
opening skirmish of the French and Indian War nineteen oh two.

(06:27):
The Virginian by Owen Wister, regarded as the first Western
is published nineteen twenty nine on with the show, the
first movie with color and sound debuts in New York.
I want to say, that's the name of the song
that they use for the Bugs, Bunny Roadrunner Hour, Back

(06:52):
in the Day, Oh Messa the Nights, This is it? Oh?
What height as well?

Speaker 3 (06:58):
Hit on the show?

Speaker 1 (07:00):
This is it? Yeah? I think that's the name of it,
and I don't It might be from that movie, I
don't know. Nineteen or at least inspired by. Nineteen fifty seventh,
the National League approves the move of the Brooklyn Brooklyn
Dodgers and New York Giants to Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Nineteen eighty four, Ronald Reagan leads a funeral at Arlington

(07:22):
for an unknown serviceman killed in Vietnam. The remains were
later identified as those of Air Force Lieutenant Michael J.
Blassi and then moved to Saint Louis. It's quite a development.
What else we have this is interesting? Today is National
Beef Burger Day, but it's also National Hamburger Day. Yeah,

(07:55):
I'm I mean, obviously we're in grilling season, right, But
what's the difference, I guess. But now I'm gonna add
another wrinkle to it. It's also National Brisket Day. I

(08:19):
made some sliders on Sunday. I grilled chicken, hotdogs and sliders,
and the sliders were a mix of brisket and chuck.
So good was that mix. I've I've got eight more
sliders I'm gonna make. But that's interesting. National Hamburger Day,

(08:47):
National beef Burger Day, and it's National flip flop Day. Okay,
whatever you say today on the program. We've had a
little bit of a change. My guest, Jonathan Hun from
the Alamo Trust, sent me a note yesterday said, mister Scott,

(09:12):
I am so sorry. I thought my kid's school was
going to be over. It's not, so I have to
take my daughter to school. Is there any way I
can reschedule, I said, dude, family first. Absolutely. He was like, oh,
thank you so much. No, brother, it's all good. It's

(09:35):
all good. We are going to reschedule him, hopefully for
next week, so we do not have our guest with
the discovery related to the Alamo and the renovation of
the Alamo, which I've never seen it in person. I
think I drove by it, I think, but my mind

(09:57):
also tells me we didn't drive by it. It was
like right over there a block away. It's one of
my big regrets driving through San Antonio and not stopping
to see the Alamo. Anyway, we'll talk with him next week.
But today on the program Kent Strang, he is managing

(10:18):
director of Americans for Prosperity. We're gonna go through the
big beautiful bill. We're gonna take it apart, put it
back together again, talk through. It's gonna be an interesting conversation.
Cannot wait. So we've got a lot to get through.
Stay with us. The fun starts in just moments. Well no,
I mean it's you know, it's already started. I mean,

(10:42):
you know we started with scripture. How do you go
wrong there? Right? But you get my point? An auction
uh huh? Next twenty two minutes past the hour. You

(11:13):
know my obsession with auctions. I don't buy very often.
I don't think I've bought anything at an auction all year. Yeah,
I don't. I don't involve myself in bidding for things
on eBay. I just here's my price. Hey, you to

(11:36):
leave it or buy it now or whatever. But I
don't buy much on eBay. But but auction houses, like
I have a couple of auction houses that I that
I routinely get email from. This is not one of them,
but this is this is incredible. Freeman's Hindman in Chicago

(11:57):
auction house, they had one hundred and forty four items
up for auction, personal belongings to President Abraham Lincoln. Before
I get to the highest selling item, it was interesting
to me that the auction was held to fund payments

(12:21):
on a loan from twenty years ago that was taken
out by the Lincoln Presidential Foundation. Huh, so we don't
know what that was all about. But they have thousands
of items related to Abraham Lincoln, and they put one
hundred and forty four items up for sale. One hundred

(12:44):
and thirty six were sold. I would love to know
what didn't sell. It's not in the story, but that
would be almost more interesting to me than anything else,
because I'd be like, I'll give you a buck, I'll
give you ten, i'll give you one hundred, I'll give

(13:05):
you a hundred bucks for that. But maybe it was
just they were priced in such a manner, or they
just for whatever reason, did not have any interest. I
have trouble believing that there it must be something else,
but sold a wanted poster showing three of the suspects
in the assassination. It sold. Earliest known example of Lincoln's

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handwriting sold for seven hundred and sixty two thousand dollars
and some change. A notebook with his handwriting from eighteen
twenty four went for five hundred and twenty one thousand
dollars and some change. The auction raised seven point nine
million dollars, and that includes the buyer's premium, which was

(13:54):
set at twenty eight percent. So if you buy something
at an auction like that, you have to pay an
additional twenty eight percent in this particular auction, which would
go to the auction house. So the auction house made
a killing on this thing. I mean, seven point nine

(14:16):
million in total sales, and the auction house is netting
roughly twenty eight percent. Yeah, it did well. But here
we go. A handkerchief which was in his possession the
night of his assassination, went for eight hundred and twenty

(14:40):
six thousand dollars. And that's not the highest item. The
highest item a pair of gloves that were in his
pocket when he was assassinated. They are blood stained. One

(15:03):
point five to two million. Wow, Yeah, would you want that?
Would you want something that actually had that man's blood
on it? I don't know. I don't know, but you

(15:31):
know that. I mean, I'll be honest with you. If
there was any one item of Lincoln's that I think
I would want, it would be his top hat. He
wasn't wearing it when he was shot, so there's not
likely to be, you know, any of that there, But

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it's so iconically connected to Lincoln, the top hat. I mean,
you could put that in a case and not have
a word around it, and everyone would go, that's Lincoln's,
isn't it right? Yeah? That would be my Is there
anything you would be interested in? I mean, would you

(16:14):
own those gloves? Forget the money? Would you want them
as something you could display? No? No, sir, I'm gonna
go with you. The top hat for sure, but not
the gloves. I wouldn't be interested in that or the
speech that he allegedly wrote and put in his hat
of the the Gettysburg address. That the top hat. That's

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kind of hard to pass. But I mean, if you
had the handwritten getty's Burg address, all right, twenty eight
past the hour, come back, we get the big stories
in the press box coming up next do not miss.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
His job to keep you informed. The Morning Show with
Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point seven WUFLA
thirty six minutes after.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
Big stories in the press box, can we just have
a moment of silence for Florida lawmakers. We used to
have a legislature that got things done. Thank you. We're
about to enter into the month of June with no

(17:35):
budget because they can't they can't figure it out. Republicans
are acting like Democrats. And to underscore the point I've
been trying to make, which is fix e Verify, I
drove in I went up to k Roa to play

(17:56):
golf earlier this week. One of my sons, my wife
and I went up there. Driving back, it said Florida
uses z verify or something like that, and I'm laughing, Yeah,
sure you do. With two massive loopholes, you can drive

(18:20):
a semi truck full of illegals through US Immigration. Joined
with Polk County Sheriff's Office, a nine day undercover human
trafficking operations started May second. Two hundred and fifty five
arrests were made. Thirty of them have now got ICE

(18:41):
detainers on them. These are people that have been charged
innocent until proven guilty with soliciting prostitutes, prostitution, involved in
aiding or betting prostitution, and child exploitation. Out of the
two hundred and fifty five, better than ten percent at

(19:03):
least are here illegally. Don't tell me that providing jobs
for illegals is not helping provide a means for these
people to stay employed, to stay in our country, in
our state, and yet Florida lawmakers continue to turn a
blind eye to it. And by Florida lawmakers, I'm going

(19:25):
to point the fingers specifically where it belongs Republicans. Florida
Republicans continue to ignore this problem. I could go ahead
and channel the famous line of I think it's Matt
Hooper Richard Drivers's character in Jaws. Mayor Vaughan, I don't

(19:47):
think you're gonna understand the scope of this problem until
it swims up and bites you in the because Florida's
already been bitten in the by illegals. It's happened to
my family. I've talked about it on this program. But

(20:11):
Florida Republicans, they would rather worry about political games. And
these are peoples, and many of them friends you noticed
we haven't had any of them on the show this year.
They won't come on the program. If you tell them
you want to discuss the verify, they won't come on

(20:32):
the show. Georgia, Brian Kemp is not going to run
for the US Senate. John Ossoff is facing reelection next year.
You need to replace him. I cannot believe that Brad

(20:53):
Raffinsberger is the leading candidate of the GOP. That is
obscene to me. Your Secretary of State ran one of
the worst elections in history in twenty twenty, and he's
your leading candidate. Well, I say that you've got someone

(21:15):
that might run. He hasn't announced, Representative Mike Collins. If
he puts his foot in there, you support him. I
don't have time to give you all the virtues of
Mike Collins. Just know that he is the right man,
and he's got great social media skills. And COVID ends
vaccine recommendation for healthy kids and pregnant women. CDC's ending

(21:38):
the recommendation of COVID And in fact, they've said to
the vaccine makers, you got to do trials. You want
these promoted to healthy quote healthy people. You have to
do trials with Placebo's the whole nine yards. That's a
good start. Still waiting for the medical community to apologize wrong.

(22:01):
You were wrong, and I have the receipts forty one
minutes after the hour. How are teachers professors going to
know if students cheat and use AI see. I think

(22:22):
there are tells Grammar's too good. The writing is not
human what I'm saying, But how will you know? There
are some circumstances where it rats itself out. For example,

(22:46):
Chicago Sun Times Philadelphia Inquirer decided to get ahead of
the summer reading. People go to the beach, take a
little vacation, get away, head out camping. Maybe bring a
good book or two. Great idea, right, do a little reading,

(23:09):
just kind of a deep breath. I got a stack
of book so high in my office at home that
I just I would love to just have the time
to read. But I'm kind of like that painter. The
last place he wants to do and paint is his
own house. I paint all day long. I don't want

(23:33):
to pay my own house. I read all day long,
and it's probably why I'm languishing on writing my book,
because I just I'm convinced I'm just gonna like, I'll
take two weeks at some point in my lifetime and

(23:55):
just write it, get it done, because just poke had
a few pages here and there's just not working anyway.
The two newspapers in question produced a list of books
new books by famous authors that you might want to
pick up to take with you and do some reading.

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For example, Perceval Everett won the twenty twenty five Pulitzer
Prize for Fiction, Andy Weir, who wrote The Martian. Here's
the problem with the list. The authors are real, but
the books they supposedly wrote are not. Out of the
list fifteen books you might want to pick up for

(24:40):
summer reading, only five are real. The rest were made
up by AI. Now in this article by Pointer, which
was sent by a friend of the program, this particular art,
Pointer is an interesting outlet. They try to hold themselves

(25:05):
up as this very elite source of what's going on
in the industry. The problem is, here's a statement that
really reveals a problem inside a Pointer. Now, to be clear,
these sometimes and Inquire newsrooms were not responsible for the
summer reading list. Well, of course they were because it
was published in their newspapers. Now they contracted with King Features,

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which is part of Hearst Newspapers, and so the guy
behind it, he owned it, Marco Buscaglia. So the list
was partially generated by AI. Huge mistake on my part
has nothing to do with the Sun Times. They trust
that the content they purchased is accurate and I betrayed
that trust one hundred percent on me, kudos Marco, well done. No, seriously,

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he fell on the sword. It was his responsibility providing
that content. But ultimately, a pointer tries to provide cover
for the No. No, no. A newspaper is responsible for
everything it prints. It doesn't matter who wrote it. It
doesn't matter who the source is. A newspaper is responsible
for everything it prints. That's why you have an editor.

(26:18):
You have an editor that should look at that list
and go, I don't know of a new book coming
out by so and so, And the second you recognize
one's off, you like, oh oh, this list is potentially flawed.
But they're trying to excuse the fact that The Sun

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Times in the Inquirer newsrooms, we're not responsible because the
content came from well, but they're responsible for all of
the content that they put in their newspaper. So who
cares whether it came from an outside source or not. Anyway,
It's just it's fun because as someone who who watches

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the media for you, it's always fun to point out
some of the inherent flaws of how the media operates.
And there is one right there, and even an organization
like Pointer, a publication and outlet, may be better way
of putting it is supposed to hold them accountable. They're

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not so. Forty seven forty eight minutes past, they are
come back with Mike Johnson's defense.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
Fifty three minutes past. Are you buying or not buying
Mike Johnson? On Fox News Sunday, Shannon Bream the host,
and she brings up the concerns of Rand Paul, us
Senator on the Big Beautiful Bill.

Speaker 4 (27:56):
Well, I agree wholeheartedly with what my dear friend Rand
Paul said. I love his conviction and I share it.
The national debt is our the greatest threat to our
national security, and death sits are a serious problem. What
I think Rand is missing on this one is the
fact that we are quite serious about this. This is
the biggest spending cut. Shan in more than thirty years.
We're going to cut over one point five trillion dollars

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in spending, and it's a big leap forward. The last
time we had a spending cut was three decades ago,
when it was only eight hundred billion, even adjusted for inflation.
This is the biggest spending cut I think in the
history of government on planet Earth.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
Now is it enough? Of course not.

Speaker 4 (28:34):
But we have a very delicate balance and we have
to start the process. I liken this to an aircraft carrier.
You don't turn an aircraft carrier on a dime. It
takes a mile of open ocean, and so it took
us decades to get into this situation. This is a
big step to begin to turn that aircraft carrier. One
important point about what he said, It sounds like his
biggest objection is the fact that we are extending the
debt ceiling. That's a critically important thing to do. We

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have to do it. We're not going to get any
Democrats to assist that. So to get it through the
Senate and make sure we don't crass the US economy
and default in our debts for the first time in history,
it has to be part of the Reconciliation package. And
that's why the President Trump and all the other Republicans
in Congress, House and Senate understand the necessity of this
real quick important point here. It does not mean that

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we're going to spend more money. We're extending the debt
ceiling to show to creditors, the bond markets, the stock
market that the Congress is serious about this. President Trump
is dialed in one hundred percent. He is a visionary leader.
He does not want to spend more money, and he
has the same concern about the national debt that Rand Paul.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
And I do. All right, you buying what he's selling.
There's more to it, and his explanation goes on. Rand
Paul said that he would support the bill even with
wimpy anemic cuts if they weren't going to explode the debt.

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The problem is the math doesn't add up. Bream would
later ask, you know, much like when someone gets an
extension of the credit rating, you usually spend up to
your rather your credit limit. You usually spend up to
your limit. What prevents you from doing that? And I

(30:18):
think that when he says the biggest spending cut, it
harkens back to the moment I heard George W. Bush
say a reduction in the amount of deficit spending. Well,

(30:43):
if you're just spending less, but you still have deficit spending.
Deficit spending is defined is spending more than you're taking in.
So we're spending less, but we're still spending more than
we're taking in, and therein lies the problem. We're going
to talk with Kent Strang Americans for Prosperity about this

(31:07):
subject next. It's gonna be a great conversation. Don't miss
an hour two of the Morning Show with Preston Scott
if I passed the hour. It is the second hour

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Wednesday here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Good
morning in Preston. He is Jose And it is May
twenty eighth, show fifty three eighty eight of this radio program.
And I told you we were going to dig into
the big, beautiful bill as it has been described, be
to the third Power. And we are joined by Kent Strang,
Managing director of Americans for Prosperity. Kent, how are you

(31:51):
this morning.

Speaker 5 (31:52):
I'm doing great, Thank you for having me. Good morning.

Speaker 1 (31:55):
How would you describe this bill? It is, yeah, another
reconciliation bill. Obviously, we still it still has to go
through the Senate. But what are the pluses and if
any minuses of this bill?

Speaker 5 (32:12):
Oh wow, that's a big, big question. I think the
major plus is that a bill like this prevents the
largest tax pike in American history if Congress fails to
extend the twenty seventeen Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which
most of your listeners probably know is the Trump tax
cuts that will usher in. That would usher in the

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largest tax pike in American history. And what this bill does,
and the good parts of this bill are that it
codifies and makes permanent the tax rates in twenty seventeen.
So the Tax Cuts and Jobs Acts lowered rates across
nearly all income levels. And what this bill does is
it makes those rates permanent and so they can't end

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anytime soon like they did, or they're like they're up
against right now. And it maintains the core rate at
twenty one percent, and so it provides an incredible amount
of certainty for small businesses, provide certainty for families. It
keeps taxes low, and it prevents again the largest tax
bike in American history, which would be disastrous not only

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for the American economy but for Republican lawmakers who would
have to, you know, wear that as an albatross around
their neck.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
What are what are the most notable things that maybe
concern you if any.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
Sure, Well, let's remember this is a big, gigantic bill
from Congress, and as a satiscal conservative, right there, there's
always things that you know, multi hundred.

Speaker 5 (33:40):
Page bills that you don't love. And so there are
some things that make the tax coda a little bit
more complicated, and we already have an incredibly complicated tax code.
We see an increase in some of the salt deductions
and for the for the listeners who may not know
what that is, this is where you can write off
your state and local taxes, and right it went from

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having a cap of ten thousand dollars and it looks
like they're going to move that up to thirty or
forty kind of depending on what happens with the Senate.
And what this kind of creates is where let's say
red states or fiscally responsible states bail out poorly run
blue states like New York and New Jersey and California
where they have incredibly high state and local taxes and

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incredibly high property taxes and so that cap is not
it's not amazing policy, but is it enough to want
to think this bill? No Congress should move forward on
a bill like this. And there's some things that there's
some certainly things that they could fix that are not perfect,
that are not great, But overall, this is a good
bill for the American people and we should see Congress

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pass it and get it to the President Trump's desk.
And then it has other it has other elements that
just Republicans campaigned on, and so you'll you may remember
no tax on tip, no tax on overtime, if those
provisions are in this bill on a temporary basis. And
so a lot of the promises that President Trump and
Republicans made on the campaign stump in October and November

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of last year find their way into this bill, and
the Republicans should be proud of delivering on their promises.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
When you say on a temporary basis, explain.

Speaker 5 (35:17):
So like the twenty seventeen Tax Cutching Jobs Act, where
a lot of the provisions were temporary, those are elements
that are currently temporary. So no tax on tip, no
tax on overtime, those will have a sunset period and
ll have to come and renew that. And so that's
what this bill does on the tax brackets, is they
made those permanent. And so right now the provisions for

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no tax on tip and no tax on overtime are
currently in the bill as it currently stands is it
will have a sunset date and it's not quite permanent,
and another Congress can come back and make it permanent. Well,
the Senate could say, we want to make that permanent.
Here's the way to pay for it. We're going to
do it.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Kent Strang with me, Managing director for Americans for Prosperity.
We got a lot more to talk about on the
big beautiful bill here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
That escalated quickly.

Speaker 2 (36:18):
I mean that really got out of hand fast.

Speaker 6 (36:20):
On WFLA.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
Back with Kent Straying, Managing Director Americans for Prosperity. We're
talking about the bill that is sitting in the Senate
right now and we'll see what happens. It would make
permanent the tax cuts that went into effect years ago
in the first administration of Donald Trump. Kent, what would
you say to people like me who I hear what

(36:49):
you're saying about the tax cuts making them permanent and
the disaster that would await not dealing with that. But also,
how long are we going to keep kicking cans down
the road? We keep having reconciliation bills, for example, instead
of getting a budget, we keep adding to the deficit.

(37:11):
I understand Mike Johnson. I just listened to a SoundBite
we played two minutes of it where he talked about how, hey,
this is the biggest spending cut. Yeah, but we're still
spending more than we're taking in, and every single voter
can't do that. Government's the only one that can do that.
We run out of credit. They just keep taking money
and spending more than they're taking in. How many times

(37:33):
are we going to kick this down the road before
we deal with it?

Speaker 3 (37:37):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (37:37):
I agree with you, and I feel for you. I'm
a fiscal conservative myself, and Americans to prosperity pride ourselves
on limited government, lower taxes, and that's what we're about.
And I think that it's an excellent point. And while
I commenced Speaker Johnson for putting in one point six
trillion dollars in cuts, it's a start. And the way

(37:58):
that I would frame this is that this is this
is a starting point, and I think that when we
kick over to the Senate, they especially as you hear
from members like Senator Paul Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin,
they are clearly worried about this as well, and they
want to make additional cuts. And I think it's important
for them to continue to find those cuts. But at

(38:19):
the same time, we have to remember that there are
incredibly small majorities in the House and with some New York, California,
New Jersey members, and we can't but so much that
like it's just unpassable, right, And so what I would
encourage Congress to do is continue to find the cuts
on the Senate side that can pass the bill, but

(38:40):
also we need to take additional steps, as you've said,
to rein in the wasteful spending that we have in Washington.
It is absolutely a problem. It is unsustainable. I think
one way that Congress could do that is we could
look at the DOGE cuts through a recisions package or
multiple recisions package. Let's package up all the waste and say,
like you said, or in sort of the strength running

(39:04):
on Treadmill's kind of spending that we have in this country,
package it up, get it to Congress and end it.
They could even do another reconcile I know, no, probably
don't love reconciliation packages, and we'd rather have a real
budget where we actually allocate towards the things that we value.
But there are other ways that Congress can continue to
cut the waste, the fraud, and the abbruse. And they

(39:25):
have to do that, especially if it is going to
raise the debt. They have to make it a priority that, Hey,
in addition to this bill, we're going to go back,
We're going to cut decisions. We're going to do things
that make government more efficient for the people or cut
the wasteful spending. But I agree with you, they must
do this, and I hope to see the decision package
start to start to take place alongside this bill.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
Let me let me be more pointed and put you
on the spot here for a second. All right, okay,
how long will Americans for Prosperity give this Congress, this
President before saying, okay, enough, it's time to cut the debt,
and you only do that by spending less than what

(40:13):
you take in.

Speaker 5 (40:15):
I think that's an incredible question. I don't know if
I have the answer to the timeline, and I think
the way that we have looked at this is that
the negative impact of our economy in the immediate of
ushering in the largest taxic in American history would be
incredibly disastrous for our country in the immediate And but
I agree with you that we have to take these steps,

(40:36):
and with a Republican trifecta of the Republican House or
Republican Senate and a republic Gun president, now is the
time to do that. You don't know how long you
have to be able to make these things happen. And
you know right now you're guaranteed two years and you're
not guaranteed anything beyond that. But but I agree with you.
America needs to get needs to get serious about it.

(40:58):
Congress needs to get serious about it. We need to
have a real budgeting process with form that we do
budgeting in Congress, so members actually are responsible for what
goes in and out of the budget. And so I
one hundred percent agree with you. I don't know if
I can give you an exact timeline. I don't have that,
But let's call them.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
Let's call a board of directors meetings of Americans for
Prosperity right now, Let's just do it on the phone here,
can't stand by sixteen minutes past. We got another segment
to go with Ken Strang with Americans for Prosperity, twenty

(41:46):
one minutes past the hour, just a few more moments
with Kent Strang, Managing director of Americans for Prosperity. We're
talking about the bill that is right now. It's the
Reconciliation Bill. Reconciliation is a way to get a budget
done without having get the budget the actual number of
votes that you might have to have for a budget
is that? Is that how you understand it? Or have

(42:06):
I got that wrong?

Speaker 5 (42:07):
Can just a complicated process, but basically it allows when
you're doing spending, you're doing allocations where you don't have
to have the full sixty threshold in the Senate's past legislation, right,
you can do it through through singular votes. And we've
seen it a lot through the twenty seventeen Tax Cuts
and Jobs Act was done that way. All of the

(42:29):
Biden agenda, the inflation, the ill named Inflation Reduction Act,
Build Back Better that was done through a reconciliation process.
And so it's a let's say, it's an easier way
to get something done because of the hurdles that it
takes to get sixty votes in the Senate, regardless of
what political party is in power.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
Inside the bill that's sitting in the Senate right now,
that has passed the House by the thinnest of margins,
are there social Security payments? Are those texts?

Speaker 5 (43:02):
I haven't seen that particular provision on there, but I
think it's I'll be sure to take a look at that.
But there is so much in this bill. My wonderful
folks that at Americans prosper and Policy have like a
fifteen page document of all this stuff in it, and
I haven't come across that one in particular, But I'm

(43:23):
happy to get back to you and your producers to
go through the Social Security I haven't seen that provision.

Speaker 1 (43:29):
Have you noticed any discussion? You know? One of the
things I brought up to members of Congress in the
House and Senate that have been on my program is
just this simple, I guess annoyance that older Americans are
forced to take money out of an IRA at the
age of seventy and some change. I believe it is,
they have to start taking withdrawals. Why is that any

(43:51):
of Congress's business? Why they have no say in the matter.
It's my private money, it's not my Social Security money.
Why should congres have a say on when I take
money out of my ir.

Speaker 5 (44:04):
Yeah, I don't think that they probably should, right, And
I think that's probably one of those things when they
created the tax code, they put in these arbitrary deadlines
and arbitrary rules. But I agree with you.

Speaker 3 (44:14):
I think that and.

Speaker 5 (44:15):
Especially as Americans continue to get older and older and
you want to save that nest egg for a longer
period of time and create growth in it, you ought
to be able to do that. It's it's your investment,
it's your savings. I agree with you on that. I
just looked up the no Social Security and basically it
says that dude to what's called the bird bouts of
the Bird rule, that so security taxes probably can cannot

(44:38):
be changed, but they can increase the standard deduction for seniors,
which which would do that. But that's that's I just
found the answer for you on the Social Security. But yeah,
I think the Congress it shouldn't be in a business
that's telling you when you can and can't move your investments.

Speaker 1 (44:54):
Well, the reality is more and more people are working
longer and longer in their life, and it defeats the
whole purpose if you're starting to have to take money
out and you lose the opportunity to compound that interest.

Speaker 5 (45:07):
Absolutely right, we live in a time where people are
living longer and longer, and it's you know, we've just
dealt with four years of massive inflation from the Biden administration.
It costs the average American family eleven thousand, four hundred
dollars more just to maintain their lives. And so, yeah,
I've come across people traveling the country retirees or retiree

(45:27):
age saying, oh, I was going to retire in X year,
and now I can't because I need to work two
more years because I can't afford my gas and my
groceries and the things just to make life. And so
those couple of years in the market can make a
huge difference for folks who are getting ready to enter
that phase of life. And yeah, I don't think Congress
should be telling you when you can and can't take

(45:49):
investments out. I think there's certainly that's right, But when yeah,
not there.

Speaker 1 (45:56):
I I'm I'm well and where we started, and that's
with the data in the deficit, And I've long lamented
can't the lack of ability that Republicans have the message
they don't know how to communicate very well to the
American people. And regardless of whether someone lives in a
blue state they elect blue lawmakers or not, everyone understands

(46:17):
that when they get turned down for a credit increase
or a loan application, it's because they don't have enough income.
And and I've long wondered why we're not seeing better
messaging to stop Congress from spending money they don't have
by pointing out that that we just we need, we
need government to operate the way our households operate. Do

(46:37):
you ever see a time when groups like yours and
others coalesce together and do the messaging that the Republicans
seemingly don't know how to do.

Speaker 5 (46:48):
Sure, I think I think Republicans are getting a little
bit better at it. Like let's take the medicaid discussion, right,
I think that the progressive left is saying, oh, you're
going to kick everybody off, it's this inhumane thing. And
I think finally Republican are are starting to find the
right messaging that's what able bodied men without dependence should
go to work, and about seventy percent of Americans think that,

(47:11):
and that a work requirement for an able bodied human,
you know, able bodied man with no spendance is a
good thing, and that hey, we're not taking off single
mothers who rely on these programs, like these are folks
who are non citizens or these are folks who do
not did not deserve this benefit. And so they're starting
to push back on that messaging. But yes, I mean,

(47:31):
we have to get serious and there are a few
members of Congress that are very serious about the spending
reductions that we need. But I agree with you. I
think it's we need a we need an opportunity for
us to talk about the out of control gum and spending.
I thought that would come after the Biden years where
they just send us into oblivion. But you're right, we
have America's got to get serious on on the spending

(47:52):
cut and hopefully we see that through some decisions.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
Packaging now, Hope Kent, thanks for the time this morning.
I appreciate a little more clarity on the bill and
hopefully we'll talk again soon.

Speaker 5 (48:03):
Absolutely, thank you for having me. Have a great morning.

Speaker 1 (48:05):
Thank you, sir. Can't strang with Americans for a Prosperity
twenty eight past the hour, Beck, you want him on
that radio. America can handle the truth.

Speaker 6 (48:18):
You need him on that radio nine to noon on WFLA.

Speaker 1 (48:36):
I just want to follow up my conversation with Kent
Strang with this little nugget from Federal Reserve Governor Christopher
Waller said. Everybody I've talked to in the financial markets,
they're staring at the bill, and they thought it was
going to be much more in terms of fiscal restraint.
They're not necessarily excited about what's inside this thing. Markets

(49:01):
are watching the fiscal policy with the bill that's being
put through the House and Senate. They have some concerns
about whether it's going to be reducing the deficit. We
ran two trillion dollar deficits in the last few years.
This is just not sustainable. The markets are looking for
more fiscal discipline. Well, maybe they are, maybe they aren't.

(49:25):
I'm not convinced that the markets pay attention to whether
Washington is displaying fiscal discipline. It just seems funny to
me that we're hearing those words now. Now. Look, I'm
grateful everybody to everybody ought to be saying we need
fiscal restraint in Washington. We need to cut deficit spending

(49:47):
and eliminate it, and we need it to be such
as we're paying down the debt. There's so many problems.
I would be lying to you if I said I'm
not a little discourage that I'm not hearing more from
doze of late. And maybe it's because Elon Musk is
not shining a light on it, because he's taking a

(50:09):
lesser role. He's not front, you know, in front of
this and grand standing on it. Maybe they're doing just
as much work. They're just doing it quietly, which is
fine by me as long as they're doing the work.
But I'm gonna circle back. Yeah, we got big stories
in the press box. You can go back and listen

(50:29):
to the last hour or catch up on them next hour.
But I want to go back to what I was
talking about with Kent. The government should have absolutely zero
say on when you take your retirement. They just should
have nothing to do with it. It's none of their business.
It's a giant nun ya none ya business. I will

(51:00):
tell you now, I plan on fighting that a lot. Well,
you didn't care about it years ago, You're right, I didn't.
But I'm getting closer to retirement years, and I don't
plan on retiring. That's my whole point. I don't plan
on stopping now. Maybe God has other plans for me,

(51:22):
but I don't plan on stopping work ever. Oh God
keeps me busy in heaven. I don't want to stop
working now. There will come a time I may not

(51:43):
want to do this, although I don't know when that
might be, but it could happen. There could be other
things that I decide I want to do. I should
have the option of doing that and not touching what
meager savings I have. It's none of their business. It

(52:03):
just truly isn't. Can anybody name for me why it
would be the government's business to know why or to
have a say in when you take your money out
of your private retirement. If they want to say, well,
you got to start taking your social whatever. I still

(52:26):
think that's my money and it's none of your business.
But if you you know in that it's run through
the government whatever, But my savings, it's none of their business.
I gotta change gears.

Speaker 2 (52:43):
Next Getting Too Angry Make a Difference Radio Network, and
this is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (53:02):
Why I don't know, but the Social Security Administration keeps
track of baby names. Did you know that keeps track
of the most popular baby names going back to the
nineteen sixties, not only for the United States as a whole,
but state by state. The most popular baby names in

(53:25):
twenty twenty four across the country Number one Liam, Liam,
number two, Noah. Isn't that interesting? Oliver, Theodore, James, Henry, Matteo, Matteo,

(53:47):
Noah offense, but Matteo, Elijah, Lucas, William, so some biblical
names in there. It's interesting overt biblical names. I mean,
James is number five. It's not an overt biblical name

(54:07):
like say Elijah and Noah, but it's still a biblical name.
Most popular girls' names Olivia, Emma, Amelia, Charlotte, Mia, Sophia, Isabella, Evelyn, Eva,

(54:29):
and a different spelling of Sophia figures the way people
it's like my name to some would be spelled p
R e ss T I N pressed in. It's dumb

(54:51):
whatever way people spell names now. Top boys names in Florida, Huh.
Liam was number one in Florida. Noah was number two
in Florida. Lucas was number three. Jose was not on

(55:13):
the list. Neither was Preston. Elijah was number four, Oliver five,
Mateo six, Dylan, number seven, Thiago, th h I A
g O. Tiago was number eight, Luca e. Luca Luca

(55:37):
Bratzi was number nine. Ethan was number ten. Top girls'
names in Florida Olivia, Emma, Mia, Isabella, Sophia, Emilia, Charlotte,
Sophia again, Valentina, and Luna. Hold on though, just wait,

(55:59):
let's go back to when I was born nineteen sixty.
These were the most popular names in Florida for boys
in nineteen sixty James, Michael, Robert, David, John, William, Mark, Richard, Charles,

(56:20):
and Kenneth. Just I'm gonna go back and forth here,
number one name now versus number one name then and
so forth, Liam, James, Noah, Michael, Lucas, Robert, Elijah, David, Oliver, John, Matteo, William, Dylan, Mark, Tiago, Richard, Luca, Charles, Ethan, Kenneth.

(56:57):
And then the girls' names. We've gone from Olivia to
Mary back in nineteen sixty, So Olivia is the number
one name this year. Mary was number one in nineteen sixty. Emma, Donna, Mia, Linda, Isabella, Cynthia, Sophia, Susan, Amelia, Patricia, Charlotte,

(57:23):
Lisa was number one in nineteen sixty or number seven
in nineteen sixty, Sophia, Karen Valentina number nine, Deborah in
nineteen sixty, and Sandra was the number ten name. And

(57:44):
Luna it was number ten in uh in Florida this
year or in twenty twenty four. So there you go,
baby names. It's funny how people are so particular about that,
and by that meaning I can't name my child that
that that that so and so named their child that. Yeah,

(58:05):
you're right, it's exactly the same. Forty seven minutes after
the hour doubled UFLA. You might have missed the announcement earlier.
Our guest from the Alamo literally remember the Alamo. Sorry,

(58:27):
I just I can't help myself. Jonathan Hewn. Jonathan's with
the Alamo Trust and they've had some really remarkable things
happening at the Alamo, and I just thought it'd be
fun to talk about it. Some of you might be
making a road trip out of it, right You might
be taking a roadie to check out some sites in

(58:50):
Texas and maybe you'll head to the Alamo. Anyway, he
had to take a rain check, so we're going to
try and book him for next week. But immediately after
the show today, I will be talking with former House
speaker Nuke Gingrich and we'll share that interview tomorrow morning
on the program. But so today in place of that,

(59:12):
We're always prepared. I knew he let me know yesterday,
so I was well prepared. But I'm always prepared anyway.
And I'm kind of like kind of like a radio
boy Scout from back in the day when the Boy
Scouts were the boy Scouts, not the well, you know
Scouts that doesn't fit well on the shirts and the logos,

(59:37):
the you know boy Scouts. But you get my point.
We got a lot of just individual, random stories to
go through. Here's one the former Harvard Medical School morgue manager.

(59:57):
You would think that whoever's got that game, he has got
some credentials, right, You're at the Harvard Medical School and
you're in charge of the morgue. Well. Cedric Lodge fifty
seven of Goffstown, New Hampshire, has pled guilty to interstate

(01:00:20):
transport of stolen human remains. He was swiping and selling organs, brains,
skin faces, from donated cadavers before their disposal. My man,

(01:00:45):
he admitted that for at least three years he participated
in the sale and interstate transport of human remains. It's
just one more thing, right, That's what I wrote down,
Just another thing. There there are those that would correctly say,

(01:01:08):
now you're dead, who cares? Mhm? If if it were
a family member of yours, would you would it matter?
Would you? Would it be bothered? I mean there may
be some who are like, nah, I don't care. I
don't care what they do uh to to my my

(01:01:33):
wife and my children. I care. So I just assume
my body be kind of kept together. Other than you know,
I'm an organ donor, and so if something were to
happen and there's any parts of me that are useful
to help somebody else live, come good with that. But
I don't want old Cedric to be peeling off my

(01:01:58):
face and selling it to some dude or some gal
wanting to be a dude. You know what I mean.
I mean, no, no, no, no, no, no, don't need
that happening. We come back, third hour of the program.
I'm going to tell you what happened at a Checkers

(01:02:19):
drive through and We're going to ask some very pointed
questions that are going to be uncomfortable. Do not miss
the third hour because we've got some great stories to share.
Wednesday here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott Hi Cobbies.

Speaker 5 (01:02:47):
It's just us.

Speaker 1 (01:02:50):
Final hour of the radio program today. I will be
here today and the rest of the day and of
course tomorrow and Grant Allen will be filling in on
Friday and Monday with So it's the Grant and Jose Show. Yeah,
I know it's going to be interesting. No, it's going
to be great. I always love it when Grant steps

(01:03:12):
in and Jose is going to be taking on a
little added responsibility. That'll be fun for the two of them.
Can't say what it'll be like for you, but I
think it'll be very good radio, that's for certain. Grant
is always well prepared. The young man knows nothing else.

(01:03:33):
That's how he was raised. He was raised to be
prepared because he interned here. Grant Allen interned on this
program when he was in high school and then went
to college, came back and again became the producer of
this program and now is the producer emeritus slash designated

(01:03:53):
host See how that works. Some of you are probably thinking,
so any quitting pal, make room, come on, make room
in due time. In due time. Got to get to
some stories here. Checkers drive through, right, have you ever

(01:04:15):
been to a Checkers? Everybody's been to a Checkers. It's okay,
it's it's okay. It's not my it's not my go to,
it's my.

Speaker 5 (01:04:28):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:04:28):
I don't think there's gonna be anything else for another
eighty miles. Go to forty year old customer Wesley robertson Kassimi.
We're in Kassimi, Florida, is a little unhappy with his order,
according to witnesses. That tells you something. Right there, we're

(01:04:51):
going to witnesses. It was about some missing packets of mayo.
Now look full disclosure. I've gotten to where it's just

(01:05:11):
a joke. I should stop and look at everything in
my bag. I don't, as a courtesy to the people
waiting behind me. But for example, I was at one
very popular place ordering what some may have called a
grilled chicken sandwich. Some I though, ordered a very special

(01:05:34):
barbecue bacon grilled chicken sandwich and repeated that order multiple
times to make sure that the young man taking my
order understood me because he was standing right next to
my car. Now, I'm not telling you where I'm at.
I'm just telling you that's what I ordered. And what

(01:05:55):
I got was a plain, dry, boring, grilled chicken sandwich
with none of the what I ordered. I didn't order that,
so I get it. You're like I asked for some
packets of mayo, and more than likely the in this case,

(01:06:16):
young man twenty three year old Elijah Mackie wasn't quite
paying attention to that, just like the young man who
was standing literally eighteen inches from my face didn't understand
when I said, I want the barbecue bacon grilled chicken
sandwich please, because I'd not been able to eat one

(01:06:38):
of those because the establishment near where I live is
closed right now and going through renovations, and so I
was very anxious and really looking forward to that. But
he clearly didn't. It just didn't register. His mind was
somewhere else. And I'm imagining that mister Robertson, Wesley Robertson
wanted packets of mayo for a various Maybe you wanted

(01:06:59):
it for French fries. Maybe he wanted to douse whatever
sandwich he was getting, at checkers with all kinds of mayo.
I don't know. All I know is I can imagine it,
can't you? Hey, make sure you put some extra packets
and mayo in there, please. And the kids not hearing it,

(01:07:20):
he's just well, things didn't go well when mister Robertson
noticed the packets of mayo missing. What happened we'll tell
you next, and then we'll also ask what if a
couple details have been different? Would this be a bigger story?

(01:07:45):
Ten past the hour? Ordering at a drive through not
as simple as it should be. Yeah, we're going to
take a drive in realvill here in just a minute.
So what we have now is we've got to drive through.
Customer forty year old man happens to be white, angry

(01:08:11):
because out left out of his order. Where the multiple
packets of mayonnaise he asked for? So he's upset about it. Now,
most of us would say it's nothing to be upset about. Annoyed, Yeah,
fair enough. You have to throw the thing in park
or go inside and say, hey, can I get the

(01:08:33):
packets of mayo? If you stop to check, if you're
down the road, Yeah, you might go from annoyed to
angry because there's nothing you can do about it. You're
not turning around and going back. I get it. But
young mister Mackie, who happens to be black, is having
none of it. He climbs out of the drive through

(01:08:55):
window where he's taking the orders and, according to the witnesses,
called Robertson a slew of very bad names. Oh and
then he pulled out a gun and shot him in
the chest. You heard right. He pulled out a gun

(01:09:24):
and shot him in the chest. He then left. Police
eventually tracked him, got him. He said, how's bro doing?
Bro is dead? He killed him? He killed him. So

(01:09:47):
let's unpack this fairly. Is it unreasonable for a worker
at a convenience store, a fast food market to carry
a firearm? Not at all. No, nope, I do not
question now if he's legally allowed to have one. He's

(01:10:12):
not a convicted felon, he's twenty three years of age,
assuming he doesn't need to have a CCW in Florida.
So assuming he's legally in possession of that firearm, there's
absolutely nothing wrong with it. It's a crazy world, man,

(01:10:32):
you're working to drive through, you're working at it. Maybe
at a convenience store. Absolutely. However, I don't think a
customer getting angry over the fact that they didn't get
some packets of mayonnaise is a threat of imminent bodily

(01:10:53):
harm or death. And so here we have a young
black Mail with a firearm. Again, I have no problem
with that, but I do have a bit of a
problem with him deciding to pull a firearm and shooting
a customer in the chest because he's arguing about mayonnaise. Now,

(01:11:21):
let's get to the role reversal here. What if the
worker were a young white male and what if the
young white male worker climbed out of a drive through window,
pulled a firearm and shot a forty year old Blackmail
in the chest? What might we be hearing about this story?

(01:11:48):
Do you think the narrative would be slightly different? Do
you think the coverage would be slightly shall we say, enlarged?
You know the answers. This is a tragedy all the
way around, because a forty year old man died because

(01:12:09):
he got upset over some mayonnaise, and a twenty three
year old man is going to spend the rest of
his life in prison because he's going to be convicted
of first degree murder because he's been charged with premeditated
first degree murder and he has zero defense of self defense,

(01:12:33):
Castle doctrine, nothing, He's got nothing. He chased this guy down,
jumped out of the window, and shot him in the
chest and it was witnessed. So I wrote on my
notes here, who does this? Who does this? I'm just saying,

(01:12:55):
this is just wow. Sixteen minutes after that hour, a
visit to a Checkers restaurant. Was that last guy's visit? Yeah,

(01:13:22):
the mayor of Realville, because we talk about issues and
stories like that last one, and we asked the real questions.
Jose and I were just talking about some things in
the break. It's a discussion I had at home yesterday
with my wife, the systemic problem in Black America, fatherless

(01:13:51):
homes and a culture that says you're not a man
unless you're carrying a firearm. Now, again, we need to
separate this story out from that narrative to some extent,
because we don't know a few things. We don't know
if the young man was entitled to have if he
was allowed to have a firearm, My guess is he was.

(01:14:14):
That would be my guess if I assume that Checkers
does not have a policy that says you can't have
a firearm. I'm not sure. If I work for Checkers
and I'm at the drive through, I'm following that policy myself.
You know. It's like, hey, I would rather be tried
by twelve than carried by six, you know what I mean.

(01:14:37):
It's like, you just you have a right to protect yourself.
Is just my bottom line. That said, there is a
cultural issue here in that the single biggest cause of
death for young black males is other young black males.
And the idea that, for example, video games is spur

(01:15:00):
this on is just it's that's just not accurate. There
are more white young men playing video games by sheer
population than young black males, and and so the issue
here is the cultural proclivity to have a firearm because

(01:15:22):
you're a man, and to draw it for no reason.
I mean, just look at the numbers that were shot
and killed over the weekend in Chicago. And again, this
is just this isn't just Chicago, It's Baltimore, it's it's Gary, Indiana,
It's it's in major cities across the country. Black males

(01:15:42):
killing black males because they're insulted or because of drugs,
or because of whatever it might be. Because it's the
easy go to, it's uncomfortable to talk about this stuff.
Just like, for example, New Orleans, the sheriff of New
Orleans Parish, Susan Hudson, totally unqualified for the job. She

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is a living, breathing example of DEI. And if you
look at across the country, I have high regard for
women that want to serve the community in law enforcement,

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but the evidence is pretty overwhelming that women are overpowered
by men and have their firearms taken more often than
it happens to men. It's just it happens far more frequently.
There are some very capable female police officers and sheriffs,

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deputies and troopers, absolutely, but there are plenty that are
not because they cannot measure up to the same standards.
You look at this woman's resume in New Orleans, ethics violations,

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multiple complaints as the sheriff, consent decree management, multiple complaints,
and ethical violations resulted in findings by the Louisiana Ethics Board.
You've got all these escapees and I think the last
time I checked, fourteen arrested for helping those ten guys escape.

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This is gross and competence. It's a result of DEI hiring.
I don't know how many examples that we need to
have of all of these various things before we say yeah,
DEI is probably not a good thing. But that's why

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I am gainfully employed because I get to talk about
stories and I'm comfortable doing so. Other people are not
comfortable talking about some of this stuff. That's okay. We're
gonna keep talking about these stories. We're gonna keep pointing
out the role reversal. If things were different, what kind
of story would this be? You know, it would be different.

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And I would contend that the media soft coverage of
stories like this is one of the reasons why this perpetuates,
because at some point something has to change the tide
where blackmails put a line in the sand and say
we're done. We're not gonna it's not gonna be how

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many children can we father. It's going to be about
being a dad, It's about being an example, it's about
raising standards. At some point, it's got to happen. And
to me, the only way that happens is if you
shine a light on what it is, what's going on,

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and you bring some level of accountability twenty eight minutes. Sorry,
after the hour, we come back. We've got the big
stories in the press box and more.

Speaker 2 (01:19:29):
I say you are all essential workers. Welcome to the
Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:19:45):
COVID ends. Well, back up here. COVID doesn't end, It
will never end. COVID will never ever end. Pharmaceutical companies
will assure us of that. The healthcare profession will ensure

(01:20:06):
us of that. CDC is under a new sheriff though,
and as a result, it ends COVID vaccine recommendations for
healthy kids and pregnant women. The Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Junior,
announced that yesterday we're one step closer to realizing the

(01:20:26):
Make America Healthy Again promise. New COVID shots for healthy
children and adults will need to go through lengthy, placebo
controlled clinical trials before they can get approved. Ah, there's
just so much to say, but I will, I will not.

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I will spare you the repetition, the change of the
vaccine definition, the clearing of the field. Hydroxychloroquin ivermectin among
the meds that could have been successfully used to treat
and keep people alive. Instead, we threw him on ventilators,

(01:21:09):
thinking that this thing was going to stop the virus,
and it didn't. It made things worse, clouded people's hearts up.
And I mean, anyway, Georgia, Georgia, you need to be
keeping an eye on Representative Mike Collins in a good
way because Congressman Collins might be your hope, your best

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hope if he decides to run for the US Senate,
if he does elect him. He was largely behind the
Lake and Riley Act. He's new to Congress. He actually
got a bill through the Biden Congress O Biden Congress,

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the Trank Act. Trank is a if I remember correctly,
it's it's a synthetic. It's called like a zombie drug.
And he worked. He just he pushed and pushed and pushed.
Same thing with the Lake and Riley Act. He got
it done. He will get things done. He's a bulldog.

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But he's also got incredible social media game. And honestly,
the Republicans need some people like that in the House,
in the Senate. We need we need more. We remember,
every time a Democrat loses, we gain we gain a two.
It's a it's a plus two because they lose one

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and we gain one. So getting John oss Off out
of the Senate is huge. He put a picture up
of all of the American presidents through history, and in
place of Biden's picture, he put an auto pen brilliant
and Joint Operation NABS two hundred and fifty five in

(01:23:04):
a human trafficking sting in Polk County, thirty of them illegals.
And I keep wondering when Florida lawmakers are going to
step up to the plate and do the right thing
with you Verify. You guys talk tough, you talk so
tough on illegal immigration, but when it comes to dealing
with the one of the root causes of it, employing them,

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you got nothing. Your cowards on this issue. I'm sorry
if that hits a little close to home, your cowards,
there are no excuses. Well, but we don't want to
help somebody. Oh stop it. It's amazing if you just
do the right thing, what happens. Just do the right thing.

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But whatever, I don't expect to get any Republican lawmakers
on the show for at least a couple of years.
I'm okay with that. I don't need them, don't need them,
don't need Florida lawmakers on this show. If they want
to come on, they know the rules. We're in Talkie Verify,
good to talk. We'll talk about anything they want to

(01:24:09):
talk about, but we will talk about Everify. Just so
you know, anybody who's announced that they will come on
this show has passed that test. They are willing to
do it. Cool. Forty one minutes after the hour, come
back with a well, I'll explain.

Speaker 2 (01:24:28):
Good morning, and welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:24:38):
All right. Picked up a few things at the grocery store.
We're shopping is a pleasure and I was about to
check out and I walked by the magazine Ale. Now
the magazine isle is not what it used to be,
and that's a dog on shame. I loved the magazine Ale.

(01:25:04):
There's still some worthwhile things there, but not many. But
I saw this old friend. Yeah. Now, at the time,
I did not realize that it was seven dollars ninety
nine cents to pick up this magazine, and by pickup

(01:25:24):
meaning bye. But as I did grab hold of it
and flip through its pages, it was a done deal.
I was going to own this magazine. I don't buy
magazines many many times I used to subscribe to Flying

(01:25:49):
I still might get back to that. I am an
email subscriber, I'm a digital subscriber, but I do love
the magazine. I just flipping through pages. Golf Magazine is is?
You know? I'm not like a serial subscriber. If there's

(01:26:11):
a NAT GEO sitting in a doctor's office, I'm gonna
read it or what I have in my hands. Popular Mechanics,
Popular science, and popular Mechanics. I just I'm fascinated. I
have no idea why. It maybe goes back to my childhood,
but I mean, how do you how do you how

(01:26:35):
do you not pick up and read on deciphering the
anti kythera mechanism? The ancient Greeks constructed an ultra complicated
astronomical clock. Will we ever uncover its secrets? The idea is,

(01:26:57):
did the ancient Greeks actually kind of sort of stumble
on the basics of computing? And that's what this articles about.
I'm like, I'm all in everything you need to build
your own router sled huh okay. To go along with that,

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there's a twenty twenty five tool Awards. Well, some would say,
why am I not on top of that? List because
I'm the ultimate tool, That's what some would say. And
then there's this this little article right here, and this

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is really why I bought it. Five days, two tornadoes,
one military base. A pair of twisters struck the same
location in nineteen forty eight and upended weather forecasting forever.

(01:28:07):
H more on that in a moment forty six minutes
past the hour. What you'll find inside a magazine going
inside my popular mechanics magazine for the month of March April.

(01:28:30):
So it's a dated copy. I guess it's month month
or two old. I flipped to this one segment on
tornadoes in nineteen forty eight. Interesting, and inside of that
they talk about a diary of John Winthrop, Massachusetts governor

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of sixteen forty three, discussing a very bad tornado. But
it's massachuse us. They don't have many tornadoes. They're fair enough.
But this outbreak of tornadoes in nineteen forty eight got
me curious and lo and behold inside. In nineteen twenty five,

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seven hundred and ninety four people died when the country
experienced the deadliest tornado outbreak in its history. Really before
global warming. That's not possible. I mean even if you
credit modern construction and alert systems, et cetera. We're talking

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about an outbreak of storms that well just blew all
that away. And as you read through this article, you
find all these periods of history where storms are just terrible,
and just in a simple, little popular mechanics magazine, I

(01:30:05):
just found so many fascinating things that make so much
of what we're told today absolutely rubbish as it relates
to climate change. I'm glad I got the magazine. I'll
at least have a list of the top twenty five
hand power tools to choose from, because after all Father's

(01:30:29):
days right around the corner, I'm just saying, there you go.
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Morning Show one on WFLA. All right tomorrow on the
radio program, Steve Stewart will join us. Have a Hopefully
he's not under the weather still, hopefully he's feeling better.

(01:30:52):
Jerome Hudson always loved my monthly visit with Jerome former
into on this radio program. Then look at him now,
Look at him now, author entertainment editor at Breitbart dot
Com and a frequent guest of this show. Started out

(01:31:18):
right there next to where Jose is right now? Nuke
Gingrich tomorrow on the program. I'm actually going to interview
him in about six minutes, but I'm going to share
the interview tomorrow morning at seven thirty five Eastern, six
thirty five Central. So if you are out in Panama City,

(01:31:39):
get up a little early catch my visit with Nuke
Gingridg's former Speaker of the House. He's got a new book,
Trump Trump's Triumph, America's Greatest Comeback. Interested interested to hear
more about the book plus his assessment on kind of
where we are? We will also cover a The countdown

(01:32:01):
continues to the show premiere for the June season, the
new season twelfth season of Alone Today on the program,
pointing out why Florida's legislature continues to stub its toe,
can't pass a budget and they still are well, I
mean it's dead now. They're not going to touch e
Verify for at least another year. I just would love

(01:32:24):
for you to just make it, make make their sell
their their phone lines, their their office is just miserable
with calls on fixing e Verify. Ask the Republican lawmakers,
if you're so tough on illegal immigration, why aren't you
dealing with e verify? Simple question, Georgia. Keep your eyes

(01:32:48):
on Representative Mike Collins as in, encourage him to run
for the US Senate against John Ossoff. Get that man elected.
He's not in the race yet, but you cannot have
Brad Raffins in there. You cannot have him. I'm actually
okay with Brian Kemp not running, although many thought he
was electable. I would rather have an electable person that's

(01:33:10):
actually going to do a good job. Brian Kemp. Not
sold on Brian Kemp, but he's not my governor. Cdc
n's COVID vaccine recommendation for healthy kids and pregnant women,
Well that took a while, didn't it. But at least
we got it done. Covered a lot of other stories
today was a lot of groundcovered, and we talked, of

(01:33:31):
course about the big beautiful bill with a Member of
Americans for Prosperity. Friends, thanks for listening, have an awesome day.