Ep. 5429: Popular video game is a hunting ground for child predators.

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Teusday, Agust 12th. 

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- Justin Haskins 
- Howard Eisenman 




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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Just building the drama. Wait in a second, I know
how you're doing. It's Tuesday, August twelfth, three on the
Morning Show with Preston Scot I'm just I'm giggling over
the fact that it's August twelfth. School has started, which

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is wrong. I shouldn't be starting school this early unless
they're going to year round school. I said I was
gonna talk more about that yesterday, and I didn't. Anyway,
I will not be sidetracked good show today. As always,
we work very hard to present you with a good show,
but it doesn't matter if we don't start out the
right way. Now, remember the whole point of the six
seven sixty three segment June seventeenth, nineteen sixty three. Look

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it up. The whole point of this segment is to
give you something to talk about with your children before
you send them to school or drop them off. I
am grateful to get stopped at stores, to have lunch

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with clients, to get emails from people that speak to
the importance of this segment in their life. It blesses
me and I'm so grateful. I'm doing what I believe
God laid on my heart to do so many years ago.

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Starting the day with scripture. Can you read scripture later?
Of course you can. There's never a bad time to
read God's word. But I'm sixty five. I have learned
that starting the day with a dose of God's Word

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is useful. It is helpful. It brings perspective, It brings
a degree of peace, correction, challenge. But if you have
children and you're not using this segment to kind of

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help fuel a little chat with your kids before you
send them off with prayer. Never send your kids to
school without praying over them. Ever. Well, but they just
don't say it doesn't matter. They're teenagers now they're in
high school. They don't They're not anchient. It doesn't matter.

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You're the parent, you are the spiritual head of your home.
Speak God's word over your children. When they're older and
have children, they will remember it, and they will hopefully

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do the same because at that point they'll recognize the
value of it. Pray over your children, give them a
hug and tell them look them in the eye, make
them look you in the eye, and you say do
you know that I love you? And do not let

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go of their face until they smile and say yes.
Here's your scripture. Today Matthew five fourteen begins. Here you
are the light of the world. A city set on
a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a

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lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand,
and it gives light to all in the house. Now
Jesus is saying this, and he pivots in the same way.
Let your light shine before others, so that they may
see your good works and give glory to your father

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who is in heaven. Think about that. Could there be
a more encouraging perfect word to start a day and
to send your kids out the door with you are
the light of the world. Your heavenly father dwells in.
You show him by doing good and being good. Ten

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past the hour. That was sporty. That was sporty. Good
way to start the day. August twelfth. Take a peek
inside the American Patriots Almanac. Next, he is Jose dressed
rather conservatively today. It's kind of nice. I'm Preston. This

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is the morning show.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
On news Radio one hundred point SEVENUFLA.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Jose and I having a laugh. We put a sign
in his studio at his suggestion. Last week we had
a an on air train wreck. Otherwise known as dumpster fire.
And he said, I need a sign. I need a

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sign that says so many days since the last train
record dumpster fire mistake. And so I, of course, being me,
I immediately had a sign ordered. And he uses a dry
race marker and it's got a face of a dumpster
with a smile on it that's on fire, and it

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says days since last dumpster fire words of that effect.
And so he now has the number one written on it.
And so he's sitting there laughing hard, but you can't
hear him because he leaves his mic turned off. That's okay,

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it's we were just talking about making it through the
show and writing a two at the end of it.
His goal is to you know, go months. It's tough.
It just I mean, it's to me. I told him,
I said, I don't make it through a show perfect.
But we strive for that, we absolutely do. But I

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will say his job is sort of like being the
center in a football team. His job is to hike
the ball every single time consistently. That's his job. Now,
my job, as a quarterback is to successfully take that

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snap and then do something with it. And quarterbacks don't
play perfect games. Very seldom, very seldom. But you have
to have your center play perfect. Center's got to be perfect.
Quarterback at the nature of the position breeds a lack
of perfection. It just comes with the territory. I accept

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that I can be a little Brett Farvish at times
and make make some decisions that maybe I shouldn't, you know,
throw a throw a pass. A comment here that I, oh,
I wish I had that pack. You know, as I'm
talking through this, this is kind of an ad hoc moment.
I think the parallel between what I do and a

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quarterback on a football team is pretty strong, pretty strong.
In the locker room. I'm kind of the guy that
rallies the troops, demands more, including of himself, gets too
much credit and too much blame. But it comes with

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it comes with it. It's August twelfth inside the American
Patriots Almanac. Grew quickly here sixteen to fifty eight. First
police force in the United States established in New Amsterdam,
New York. Isn't that interesting? The first police force in
America in the Americas, well at least North America, well

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at least us is New York, where he wants to
defund the Police eighteen thirty three, Chicago Incorporated, population hundred
and fifty. Thomas Edison in eighteen seventy seven invents the phonograph.
I gotta stop right there. You know, my fascination with that.
Eighteen ninety eight piece protocol ending Spanish American War is signed.

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Nineteen eighteen, Post Office establishes the first US regular airmail
service between New York and Washington, and in nineteen sixty
the first experimental communication satellite Echo one launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Today is National Julianne Fry's Day, otherwise known as shoe string.

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Those shoe string, those really thin fries. They tend to
be just a little crispier saggy. Shoe string fries are
brutally bad. It's like, man, just run them through the
slicer again and call them hash browns. Brother, that's just awful.
But if you get them right, they're really good. But
did you know the first mention of the Julienne cut

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goes back to seventeen twenty two. Francois Mascielos les Cousina
royal l albourgeois. That's where you would find it. In
the seventeen twenty two edition of that which I will
not pronounce again about seventeen past the hour, back with it?

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Did you know? And hey, whoa did you know? All
right here we go? Did you know? Many believe that

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the nursery rhyme Marry Mary quite contrary, refers to Mary,
Queen of Scots. No relation. By the way, No proof
has ever been found that the rhyme was known before
the eighteenth century, while Mary the First of England, Mary
Tudor and Mary Queen of Scott's Mary Stewart work contemporaries

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in the sixteenth century. It's a mother goose rhyme. It says,
this is the original version, Mistress Mary quite contrary. How
does your garden grow with silver bells and cockle shells?
And so my garden grows? That's the original the way

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we know it is, Mary, Mary quite contrary? How does
your garden grow with silver bells and cockle shells and
pretty maids all in a row? Now here's the big
Did you know? Did you know that silver bells and
cockle shells may have reference torture devices? Great nursery rhyme?

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Maybe leave that one out of the kids selection, Just
saying now this is a Did you know we've got
another story of biblical archaeology. This one, though, is crazy.

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I've picked up a couple stories on this. I've never
heard of. The Temple Mount Sifting project. Apparently Islamis did
some unsupervised construction in nineteen ninety nine on Temple Mount
and they took soil out without supervision and dumped it

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in the Kidron Valley. Well, they're sifting through that soil
because where they took that soil was from Temple Mount,
which is of unbelievable biblical importance. It's where the temple was. Well,
they're sifting through this stuff and an archaeologist Mordecai Irlick

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discovered what the project describes as a rare, exceptionally well
preserved clay ceiling impressed by a stamp seal inscribed with
ancient Hebrew letters. The impression bears the name of yedyah
Asa Yahoo, otherwise known as King Josiah's son. It is

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likely the end it has a fingerprint on it that
may very well be the fingerprint of King Josiah's son.
When you look into the scriptural reference of this, it
comes from Second Kings, the twenty second chapter, and it
recounts King Josiah's temple reforms. And it says Hilkaya the

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priest a hikam actbore schaf and Asiyahou went to speak
to the prophet Holda, who was the wife of Shallum's
son of Tikva, the son of Haras, keeper of the wardrobe.
She lived in Jerusalem in the new Quarter. And this
is second King's twenty two verse fourteen. So he's named

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now in not the bee It's version of the story.
The writer says this, it's a singular name from two
millennia ago. Otherwise ordinary benign, forgotten but to serious Bible students,
but now dug from the dirt, a clay seal and
a dusty fingerprint, maybe the latest piece of tangible evidence
that validates the historical accuracy of God's word to man.

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When skeptics call the Bible a book of myth, they're
increasingly forced to reckon with the evidence being pulled from
the ground, sometimes with ancient fingerprints still pressed into it.
These kinds of discoveries do much more than thrill and
fascinate nerdy archaeologists. This is what's important for you to hear.
They reinforce the credibility of the Bible for modern readers.

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Every time an artifact like this seal surface is confirming
a biblical name, event, or place, the narrative that scripture
is merely allegorical is punctured by hard evidence. Let me
take it one step further. The archaeology, which establishes the
historical accuracy of what is written in God's Word then

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gives you confidence to place your faith in the components
of God's Word that are spiritual. Come on, have a
bite at that and chew on it all day long.
Twenty seven minutes past the hour, We're going to come
back with the Big Stories in the press Box. Next
in the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
Make a difference in your world in a positive way,
improving the lives of others.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
It's the Morning Show with Press Did Scott thirty five
minutes past Big Stories in the press Box. Later in
the show, We've got Justin Haskins joining us from the

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Heartland Institute website. Is that is his baby, stopping socialism
dot com and Glenn Beck books. He is co author
of several Glenn Beck books. He's in just an incredible
writer researcher. He's a policy guy. He's smart. Golly, he's smart,

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and he loves Jesus. That's most important, of course. But
I'm gonna ask him the good, the bad, and the ugly.
You know, what's going on in Trump's administration that's really
really good, What is bad and ugly, what's not good?
And what has to get done. We're going to break

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it up into those three segments. This is a story
that I thought needed to be on everyone's radar. Trump
has activated the National Guard and federalized police in Washington.

(17:28):
The National Guard and by Washington meaning DC. The National
Guard does not have authority to arrest people, but they
can detain them until law enforcement does arrive. He is
using Section seven forty of the DC Home Rule Act
of nineteen seventy three, which puts the control of the
Metropolitan Police Department under the President for forty eight hours.

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He has delegated that to Pam Bondy, the mayor of
d C, Muriel Bowser. He calls her a good person
who's tried, but she's been given many chances. And the
crime numbers get worse, city gets dirty or less attractive.
I can't speak to the dirtier and less attractive. I
can't speak to the crime numbers based on what's what's

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been released by DC police, and the numbers aren't on
Trump's side on making this call. Have there been some issues?
There always are. It's a city run by Democrats, the city,
the city structures run by Democrats, has been for decades.

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But according to statistics here in the Epic Times from
DC Metropolitan Police, overall crime decrease seven percent year over
year in the first eight months of twenty twenty five.
Violent crime down twenty six percent, property crime down four percent,

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twelve percent dropping homicides, fifty percent increase in sexual abuse,
twenty eight percent, reduction in robberies, twenty percent dropping burglaries.
In twenty twenty four, there was a thirty five percent
drop in violent crime compared to the previous year, eleven
percent decrease in property crime, fifteen percent decrease in crime overall.
The numbers aren't squaring with the assertion of President Trump.

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I'm just telling you what the numbers are in a
very reputable news source. You do with that which you will.
These are the types of things that to me, they
worry me a little bit. Trump sees a homeless problem
in Washington, DC there very well might be. There's a
homeless problem in a bunch of big cities across this country,
and all of them are run by Democrats. All of them.

(19:47):
You find a homeless problem, you're going to see cities
run by Democrats every single time. Maybe there's an exception
out there, but there aren't many Republican runs cities just
deal with the problem differently. Second story that has to

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be on your radar. Maybe maybe Jose knows about this platform.
I knew, I've never heard of it until I saw
this story. Is it? Is it roadblocks? Rod blocks? Regretfully,
I do know about that. Yeat roadblocks, roadblocks? Okay, is
it a thing? It's a big thing, obviously. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (20:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (20:29):
It's a computer game of some sort.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
Apparently, it is a platform where people develop games and
make them available to people, young people, really young people.
In fact, the numbers say forty percent of the daily
users are twelve or younger, sixty percent under the age

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of sixteen, and eighty five million a day play on
the platform. But according to one guy known online as Schlepp,
his name's Michael, who's twenty two year old, he said
he got groomed and nearly lost his life because of

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Roadblocks and so over the past year, he and a
team have helped law enforcement arrest six predators, some of
them advertise themselves on roadblocks as minor attracted persons or
maps map stands for minor attracted person they advertise themselves.

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His sting operations have caught developers, community members, longtime players,
some of whom admitted to watching child pornography involving infants.
He documented the bus reported offenders to Roadblocks, even sent
detailed evidence binders directly to the company's headquarters. Roadblocks has
responded by threatening him with lawsuits. They're calling him a

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platform risk. Now. I'll talk more about this story next hour,
but it's important parents for you to know. I look
this up on AI and Roadblocks has some serious red flags.

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Serious So we're gonna get to that next hour. Be aware,
know what your kids are doing, even the littles. As

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we do on the program. We change gears all the time.
We I'll occasionally dwell, but not often, not often. I
we try to keep it moving along. I can't there
you go, this is good news. You're you're a Mandalorian fan, right, Yes.

Speaker 5 (23:14):
I love bubble Fit but never seen the show.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
Oh, you never see Mandalorian The Mandalorian. Huh. Oh, so
you don't know anything about Carra Doon? Uh? Do you
not know?

Speaker 5 (23:24):
Sir? You know who Gina Carano is? Yes, I know
her controversy.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
Okay, she played Carra Doon. Okay, and was on The
Mandalorian season one, I believe it was. And Disney fired
her because she posted some comments she's a conservative now
she's a former Mma fighter. She yeah, and and she

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had posted Jews were beaten in the streets, not by
Nazi soldiers, but by their neighbors, even by children. Because
history has edited, most people today don't realize that to
get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round
up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own
neighborhoods hate them simply for being Jews. How is this
any different from hating someone for their political views. Well,

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Disney fired her from her role on The Mandalorian, accusing
her of denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities.
So she sued Disney. She didn't care, and Disney settled.

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Disney has settled a wrongful termination lawsuit. This is great.
Just listen to the statements here Disney filed emotion to
have the lawsuit dismissed, but that didn't go very well,

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and so Disney makes this announcement. The Walt Disney Company
and Lucasfilm are pleased to announce that we have reached
an agreement with Gina Carano to resolve the issues in
her pending lawsuit against the companies. Miss Corano was always
well respected by her directors, co stars, and staff. And
by the way, you know what this is called kissing.

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She worked hard to perfect her craft while treating her
colleagues with kindness and respect. With this lawsuit concluded, here
we go. We look forward to identifying opportunities to work
together with miss Corano in the near future. Corano posted
in response, and the truth shall set you free. They

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were gonna lose. They were gonna lose. Forty six minutes
after the hour, it is the morning show with what
eight minutes away from the top of the hour. Got

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an email to share with you next hour that you
will want to hear. Let you also hear from Benjamin Netanyahu,
Prime Minister of Israel. Gotta listen to him and what
he's what they're gonna do, and they're gonna do it,
but better he explained it than I. Hey, if I

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were to ask you, where does Cracker Barrel rank in
your list of chain restaurants. Is it the top five?
Is it a top ten? Is it a top twenty?
Where's Cracker Barrel? Is Cracker Barrel even on your radar? Jose?
There's part of me that thinks you're not a Cracker

(27:10):
Barrel guy because you like you like kind of foreign
cuisine that's got some panache.

Speaker 5 (27:18):
Well, actually, I'm a big fan of Cracker Barrel.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
You are. Yeah. I love their breakfast? Yeah that that
what was it?

Speaker 5 (27:26):
The little castro breakfast Castro?

Speaker 1 (27:27):
I think it's an ash brown casserole.

Speaker 5 (27:29):
Oh really good.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
So you like the when they're serving it in the
skillet and that whole thing. Oh yeah yeah.

Speaker 5 (27:35):
But I do know that people say that it's bland
and boring. Now I don't see it.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Well, it's interesting because I put of the chain restaurants,
it's in my top ten. It would not be in
my top five, but it would be in my top ten.
Here's why, when you're traveling, I'm not a big fan
of let's just try something local unless I'm there for

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a while, so that I can recover just in case.
But when I'm traveling sometimes I just want to make
sure I get a predictable, good meal right just just

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what that is right there. I want it, and I
want it the same cook the same prepared, the same taste,
the same wherever I am eating it across the country.
I want that consistency. Well, apparently what's changing at Cracker
Barrel is driving some up the wall. They're changing the decor.

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They're lightning cracker barrels up, They're brightening them up. There's
this thought that they're just a little too dark and
dingy inside. Now some people love that. They love that
homie kind of you know, put a blanket around you,
kind of hug that A Cracker Barrel elicits. They're saying, Look,

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we're not getting rid of the rocking chairs, we're not
getting rid of the menus that We're just we're lightning
things up a bit. We're just we're trying to bring
a little more brightness to the ambiance of the restaurants.
But I'm reading some of the online comments, Holy smokes,

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people are angry. Now. This place looks like every other
chain restaurant, planned and boring. What are you thinking with
that interior. This remodel is in an emoji a vomiting face.
I mean, it's just they're doing the one peg games.

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Everything's the same. They're just and they're not doing them
all but once. Apparently they're rolling these out place by place.
But boy, people, now, I will say, I think you
have to be careful how you do it. And if
I were Cracker Barrel, you know what I would have done.

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I would have hired Joanna Gains even though I'm really
disappointed in Chip and Joanna with their new show. From
a design standpoint, I would have hired Joanna Gaines to
modernize the rustic feel and she would have come up
with a design that would have worked in every restaurant
and it would have been spectacular because she's she's a

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really gifted designer. I'm just saying I wish she and
Chip had not done what they've done with the show
they're doing. But that's okay. I love them. They're just
anyway great designer. But boy do people get upset about
some things. Right, Wow, all right, we're gonna come back,

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and our two is going to begin with a bang,
not literally, but just with you, you know. Second hour
of the radio program affectionately known as common Sense amplified
high Friends, ruminators, ladies and gentlemen. Boys and girls heading

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off to school yet again. Mind your teachers, be good students,
be respectful, help your fellow classmates be better versions of themselves.
And welcome, yes, even you youngsters, to the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. You ever heard of the Face Act?

(31:42):
The Face Act was was bad, and Congress needs to
pass a repeal of the Face Act. And you might
remember the story twenty twenty three Patrick Bryce tackling and

(32:12):
repeatedly beating two senior adults. Twenty eight year old man
brutally beating two senior adults who dared show up outside
an abortion clinic to offer options and pray for the

(32:37):
mothers and the children. The prosecutor in Baltimore asked for
ten years of prison after he was convicted on two
counts of second degree assault and reckless endangerment. Let's qualify

(32:58):
the injuries. One, a seventy three year old man, sustained
permanent damage to his right eye had to make subsequent
emergency room visits thanks to a fracture of the orbital socket.
The other was just knocked unconscious. This was not a

(33:23):
minor altercation. This was a targeted beat down. But the judge,
instead of jail time, the Baltimore Circuit judge, you Vet Bryant,
gave the man who just snapped. Some media outlets called

(33:45):
it just a bad day, so he gets home detention
three years of probation and anger management and therapy, not
one day of an actual jail sentence. I want you
to I want you to remember the story of Mark Hawk.

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His home was raided by the FBI because he shoved
a pro abortionist who repeatedly initiated a profanity laced verbal
confrontation with him and his son. We dealt with pro

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lifers going to prison for doing none of this, no
acts of violence, just being outside a clinic and praying.
A lot of legal experts think the Face Act is unconstitutional,

(34:59):
but when you con Parrot. In the wake of the
Supreme Court decision Dobbs versus Jackson, more than ninety pregnancy centers,
per life organizations and churches have been vandalized, attacked, or firebombed,
and those people are basically being slapped on the wrist

(35:19):
if facing charges at all. So I'm just making sure
this is something that you are aware of and that
we make sure that our lawmakers are doing something to
get rid of how we treat the most vulnerable in

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our country. Speaks volumes about us and children in a
mother's womb. There is no more dangerous place than that
in America for a child. Ten past the hour, got
an email that connects to this story. Next now, I

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got a note from a listener and I'll leave first
and last name out of this. I don't have a
last name anyway, but I will leave all of that.
And the note came last week as we talked about
Planned Parenthood and what an evil organization it is. And

(36:39):
if you doubt that, just look at its foundation. It
was set up to make aborting black children easy. Margaret Sanger,
the founder, was as big a bigot and racist as

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you'll ever find. That is the root and origin of
Planned Parenthood. Here's the note. About twenty years ago, I
was unemployed and not able to pay for medical services,
had no health insurance. I had a health concern and
a friend told me to go to Planned Parenthood clinics,
since they provide health care for women who can't afford
to see doctors or don't have insurance. I called my

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local planned parenthood clinic told the woman who answered what
my concerns were, and that I was unemployed at the time,
no health insurance, really didn't have any money to see
a doctor. The receptionist immediately told me they don't really
provide anything other than abortions at that clinic. I thought
that was odd, and she just said they didn't have
the staff to provide any other services, but to check

(37:46):
with another clinic. A few weeks later, I was in Tampa,
and so I thought, well, maybe I should check with
a clinic there. Since it was a big city, surely
they could help me. I actually went to the clinic
and asked if I could make an appointment. The young
girl always, oh, yes, certainly fill out these forms, so
I was quite relieved. The paperwork didn't ask a lot

(38:08):
about my general health, but asked me a lot about
my sexual activities and preferences, and if I had sought
counseling prior to coming to them about my situation. I
completed the paperwork and gave it back to the receptionist.
Long story short, neither clinic would help me because they
were there to provide abortion services and other birth control
their choice of words, not mine. Planned Parenthood is nothing

(38:32):
but a scam. They do get federal money, and there's
no one on the face of it or that can
convince me that American taxpayers do not pay for abortions
at these clinics on a daily basis. Now that's one note,

(38:52):
but it is representative of a reality. Every time Planned
Parenthood pivots and says, oh, you're just harming women's health care,
it's a complete lie. They make their money aborting babies.

(39:15):
Executives with Planned Parenthood have been caught on tape bragging
about how they perform certain abortions to keep intact organs
for sale. This is what it is. It serves no

(39:42):
purpose other than to harm our society. It's not a
woman's choice on aborting children. A woman's choice comes in
engaging in sexual activity with a man who makes the

(40:06):
same choice. Both of those choices outside of the confines
of marriage are wrong. But did you know that people
abort babies because they wanted a boy and it's a girl.
They wanted a girl and it's a boy. It's a

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human being. And I haven't said this in a while,
but I think it's worth repeating. On a personal level,
I wish that men and women would respect the boundaries
of marriage for intimacy purposes, that that's where it belongs.

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But recognizing I can't control all that, I don't care
if a particular woman sleeps with the football team. That's
your decision. But when you have another life inside of you,
it is not just your decision. There's another human being,

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and that's what it is. It's not a dog, it's
not a cat. It's not a bird, it's not a fish.
It's a person. Doesn't look it's just a formation of cells.
It doesn't look anything like a person. Well, if you've
seen a picture of a newborn and looked at that
person eighty years later, they don't look much alike either.

(41:41):
It's called development. It's a human being, and nothing changes that.
Seventeen minutes past the hour. Change gears next on The
Morning Show with Preston Scott. Three minutes past the hour,

(42:29):
and I think it's useful for you to hear this,
And even though the actual press conference was nearly forty
minutes long, I think it's useful for you to hear
Benjamin Netanyahu explain what their plan is for Gaza. I

(43:00):
think it would be very safe for me to kind
of put it this way. Israel's over it. They're done,
They're done dealing with Hamas, and you can choose to
believe or not believe what he says regarding the people
of Gaza and what they're looking for or not looking for.

(43:30):
The press conference that he held really says exactly what
needs to be said, and rather than try to spin
it one way or the other, I just think it's
useful for you to hear from him. Now. It's just
taking me a second for the sound to spin up here.

(43:54):
I'm not sure why. My computer is just dogging it
of late, but the last couple of days it's just
a dog It's like, come on now, it's taken forever
to load things. Should have thought about this beforehand, but
I'm an idiot and so I didn't. He has no

(44:22):
interest in occupying Gaza. There's nothing in it for him.
There just isn't. But he is determined to. I have
a picture now, Yeah, I'm I'm over this. Sorry, I will,

(44:43):
I'll come back to it. The there is no chance
that he will allow any governance of the Gaza region
to have any impact influence by Ama. He said, there

(45:03):
are terrorists that are armed right now in that same area,
and he said, we're not going to allow another October seventh.
It's just not going to happen. And so we're gonna
take over Gaza. We're going to begin a rebuilding process,

(45:24):
and we're going to ensure that Gazans have a representative
government that does not include Hamas, that does not include
any policy positions that align with the idea that Israel

(45:45):
shouldn't exist. Makes no sense for that type of government
to be a neighbor, he said, So we're just not
going to allow it. Just that's him. But sadly, I

(46:06):
could not get the sound to spin up quick enough,
and I would have preferred him to say that versus me,
but that's just the way it goes. Sometimes. Thirty five
minutes past is when we'll do the big stories in
the press box. Between now and then, we've got news, weather, traffics.

Speaker 6 (46:20):
Stay with us the Morning Show with Preston Scott on
News Radio one hundred point seven WSLA.

Speaker 1 (46:49):
I flung my microphone out of the way because I
was very upset it myself. I created my own dumpster fire.
But we move on thirty five past the hour big
story in the press box, Roadblocks is that what it's
roadblocks versus rob blocks.

Speaker 5 (47:07):
Yep, roadblocks roblocks. I'm not sure to be honest.

Speaker 1 (47:10):
Roblox bands a youtubeer after he exposes child predators on
the platform. That's the headline. Michael, known as Schlepp, isn't
just another gamer. He's a twenty two year old survivor
who says he was groomed on roadblocks as a child
and experienced so traumatic it nearly cost him his life recovering,

(47:33):
he has made sure that he will. He's dedicated himself
to making sure no other kid goes through it. He's
been operating stings with a team of others and handing
the material over to law enforcement. It has led to developers,
community members, longtime players, people sometimes even advertising themselves as

(47:58):
minor attracted per persons. That's what MAP stands for. Apparently
I didn't know that. Do you know that? I guess
some of you did.

Speaker 7 (48:09):
So.

Speaker 1 (48:09):
Instead of being appreciative and thank you for helping keep
our community safe, Roadblocks says, we're going to slap you
with some legal threats. They terminated every account he's ever
had and banned him from the platform for life. To
his subscribers on YouTube, the guy known as Schlepp said,

(48:31):
this isn't going to be your typical video. It's a
call for help. Roadblocks is banning me from catching predators.
They claim I'm hurting their players. Tell that to the
kid who emailed me thanking me for getting the guy
who groomed him arrested. The company's official stance vigilante predator

(48:51):
catching groups like his are a platform risk and harmful
to others. So instead of taking this, I've got the
letter that Roadblocks sent to him threatening legal action. Roadblocks

(49:12):
ignored his reports on credible threats and dangerous grooming activity
and games like public Bathroom Simulator and Dollhouse role Play.
As I best understand it, this is a platform where
game developers and some of them apparently sick people are

(49:34):
able to put their stuff on this platform and people
can access all of these different the myriad of games
that are available. I looked it up on AI. I
just wanted what does AI say about Roadblocks dangers associated
with Roadblocks. While Roadblocks is a popular online platform that

(49:57):
allows users to create and play a wide variety of games,
it also carries potential risks, especially for younger users. It's
crucial for parents and guardians to be aware of these
dangers and take steps to mitigate them. Here are some
of the key dangers associated with roadblocks. Again, this is Chrome, Google,
It's AI. Online predators and inappropriate contact, contact contact, inappropriate content,

(50:26):
cyber bullying, scams and financial exploitation, account security and hacking,
excessive gaming and potential addiction, privacy concerns. I want to
go into those first two. Online predators is at the
top of the list, with inappropriate contact followed by inappropriate content.

(50:50):
I'm begging you parents at the start of the school year.
First of all, even if the school school system that
you're part of will not limit cell phone use, you
do it. Make sure your kids put a way to
monitor their phone use and make sure they only use

(51:13):
their phone to call you in an emergency, to call
you at a lunch hour, but to not have their
phone out at any other time during the school year
school day period end. But secondly, and importantly to this story,

(51:34):
this is a popular you knew of this game platform?
Did you know about this? No? Absolutely not. And see
Jose's kind of a gamer, He's in that world a
little bit. I'm not. I will not touch a game
where there's a multiplayer component to it. I have no

(51:55):
interest in being made fun of by a bunch of
twelve year olds. I just don't. I don't want to
be trash talked by some prefeubescenteen ever. I know. So
this is a word to you parents. If your kids

(52:17):
got this on their phone, personally, I'd be deleting it
now and I would say, don't go back. But this
goes back to do you have all the passwords to
your kids phone? Can you assure yourself that you know
what's going on? Forty one minutes past thought a lot

(52:40):
of people jumping on Israel because they're claiming they're assassinating journalists.
They're making these outrageous claims about journalists being killed, two
hundred of them. Maybe some of these journalists shouldn't be
taking up arms for hamas and holding hostages. You do

(53:06):
know about that, right? You do know that's been proven
al Jazeera journalists being part of the hostage takers and
holding many of the January or October seventh victims hostage
in their homes well, claiming to be journalists for Al
Jazeera or whatever. Give me a break. Let's listen to

(53:31):
Benjamin Netanyah, who take two.

Speaker 4 (53:33):
I'm glad you came here because I'd like to take
the opportunity to puncture the lies and tell the truth.
The truth is that Hamas still has thousands of armed
terrifts in Gaza. It vows to repeat the savagery of
the October seventh massacre, and to do so again and
again and again. It openly professes its goal to destroy

(53:56):
the state of Israel. Its subject gets cosins, it steals
their foods, it shoots them when they try to move
to safe zones. And I think it's instructive that now
many Gazans are fighting back. They're begging us, They're begging
the world free us, free us, and free Gaza from Ramas.

(54:18):
No nation can accept a genocidal terrorist organization, an organization
committed to its annihilation, a stone's thrill from its citizens.
Our goal is not to occupy Gaza. Our goal is
to free Gaza, free it from Ramas terraces. The war
can end tomorrow if Gaza, or rather if Ramas lays

(54:40):
down its arms and releases all the remaining hostages. Gaza
will be demilitarized. Israel will have overriding security responsibility. A
security zone will be established on Gaza's border with Israel
to prevent future terrorist incursions. A civilian administration will be
established in Gaza. It will seek to live in peace

(55:01):
with Israel. That's our plan for the day after Ramas.
And let me summarize it. Five principles for concluding the war.
One Hamas disarmed, Second, all hostages freed, Third, Gaza demilitarized.
Fourth Israel has overriding security control. And five none Israeli
peaceful civilian administration. By that, I mean a civilian administration

(55:25):
that doesn't educate its children for terror, doesn't pay terrorists,
and doesn't blanche terrorist attacks against Israel. That's what we
want to see in Gaza. So it's neither Haramas nor
the PA. That's our plan.

Speaker 1 (55:41):
There you go. Your problem with that? A none Israeli
governing body. We don't want neighbors who hate us and

(56:02):
want to see us eliminated from the face of the earth.
Your problem with that? Forty six minutes past. Justin Haskins
coming up next hour here in the Morning Show with
Preston Scott.

Speaker 8 (56:20):
Thought or story you want to share, write him at
Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. Yes he knows how to
read well. Actually, his producer reads him he doesn't know
how to read. Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston scott.

Speaker 1 (56:41):
It's Tuesday on the Morning Show with Preston Scotland us
and it's.

Speaker 6 (56:46):
Time for another maddening minute.

Speaker 1 (56:50):
Sixty seconds or more of maddliness to make sure that
your young squire is raised to be a man.

Speaker 3 (56:59):
Remember Nil, my birth man, my choice.

Speaker 1 (57:06):
Thank you Neville. It's the start of a school year.
Teach your son to be a leader in the classroom.
Here's how you do that. Encourage your son to be
the one in the room that kind of helps bring

(57:26):
a little order when everyone's a little rowdy, that when
the teacher asks something and everyone's going crazy. Teach your
son to be the one to go, hey, hey, hey, missus.
Smith has asked us to whatever hold a door for

(57:48):
the young ladies in the classroom for the teacher. Be
a gentleman, be a leader. Learning the art of being
a man begins very early and it becomes a habit.
You just teach your son now these simple small skills

(58:13):
and they become ingrained in him and part of who
he is. Not just a male man, because that's just
what we're looking for men. So there you have it. Yeah,

(58:36):
that just works, doesn't it? Just right there? Huh? Violins
come to an end? Just maybe a cello mixed in there? Fiola? Okay,
next hour, Justin Haskins. One of the things I'm gonna
ask him, what has President Trump gotten done that's really good?

(59:04):
What is not so good or even ugly? And I
would put this in that category. The US budget deficit
has grown from a year ago by almost one hundred
and ten billion dollars despite tariff revenue, Customs duties jumped

(59:33):
one hundred and twelve percent. Now I ordered something that
I did not know was going to be Oh, cod duties,
you owe forty three dollars on a twenty eight dollars purchase,
which makes no sense to me, because no matter what
the tariffs are, it's not that So I said, yeah, no,

(59:54):
I'm refusing the shipment. Never mind, send it back, take
it back, take it back. But despite a one hundred
and twelve percent jump in custom duties, our deficits getting bigger.
And we knew. And it's not to say I told

(01:00:16):
you so. They knew. They said by passing the one
Big Beautiful Bill, things were going to go up. But
then reverse I don't know that they're going to reverse.
I consider this a massive problem. So we're going to
talk about the good, the bad, and ugly, and we're

(01:00:38):
going to also talk about what has to get done now.
It might be the bad and the ugly reversing. It
might be no, we got to do this, this, and
this to get to the bad and the ugly. I
don't know, but we're going to get the opinion of
somebody who's probably smarter than all of us combined on
such matters, because this is his world. Justin Haskins is

(01:00:59):
a prolific writer and researcher and our friend from the
Heartland Institute. I also want to get an update on
stoppingsocialism dot com boy. If ever there was a website
that New Yorker's ought to be memorizing right now, take

(01:01:19):
a look at the pages, because this is what's coming
your way. The left is getting more and more extreme,
and they're leaving behind a ton of people, and so

(01:01:43):
the argument is there to be made. I just don't
know if Trump's making the argument the right way, because
sometimes Trump just gets in the way of Trump. So
we'll we'll deal with all that more next hour. We've
also got money talk. Next hour, Howard Eisman will join
us and more here on the Morning Show with Preston's back.

(01:02:18):
We have not a moment to lose, because Justin Haskins
joins us for the third hour here this morning. It
is Tuesday, August the twelfth. Can't believe it, Christmas already
hitting some of the stores. It's crazy. Before you know it,
it'll be here and then a new year will be here.
But great to be with you, ruminators. That's Jose. I'm Preston,

(01:02:41):
and here is Justin Haskins of the Heartland Institute, the
website Stoppingsocialism dot com, writing books with Glenn Beck writing
in general. Justin, how are you?

Speaker 9 (01:02:53):
I'm doing well, how are you?

Speaker 1 (01:02:55):
Did you ever think stoppingsocialism dot com would become so
crucially important to a mayoral election in maybe the largest
city in America?

Speaker 9 (01:03:09):
Yeah, yeah, I did. I actually saw all of this
coming many years ago, not specifically in New York City.
Although the whole project for Stopping Socialism we have a
Stopping Socialism TV channel, by the way, on YouTube as well.
You could check that out.

Speaker 1 (01:03:26):
Okay.

Speaker 9 (01:03:27):
The whole project was started as a reaction to Alexandria
Okazio Cortez winning her primary way back in twenty eighteen.
That was sort of the genesis of this idea, and
it was because we saw when you actually it wasn't
just a New York thing. It was everywhere when you

(01:03:48):
actually start looking at polling data, especially among younger people, socialism.
It depends on how you ask the question, but it's
very clear when you try to get to the heart
of it, socialism is the very popular amongst younger people
and the next generation when they become the primary voting generation,

(01:04:09):
it's going to be a huge problem for this country.
And that was the idea behind stopping socialism and the
whole project that we build around it. Like I said,
the videos, the website, We've done a lot of speeches
and books and all kinds of stuff. So just it's
it's vitally important. I mean just absolutely vitally important.

Speaker 1 (01:04:30):
Has visitation to the website gone up since mom Donnie
won the primary.

Speaker 9 (01:04:36):
I don't know if we'll ever reach the heights of
the Bernie Sanders presidential near presidential win. I think that
was that was probably the height of it. But I
think we're going to see it skyrocket even more than
what we've seen in the past in this next upcoming
presidential election, because I think the Socialists are going to

(01:04:59):
make a real play for the Democratic Party primary. I
don't know who that person is going to be. It
could be AOC, could be somebody else. It could be
a Bernie Sanders AOC ticket or something like that, because
Bernie's too old to be on the top of it.
But I think we're going to see another chance for
the Democratic Socialists to have a presidential candidate at top

(01:05:22):
of that ticket. Are there something we're going to see
it really soon?

Speaker 1 (01:05:25):
Are there some deep pockets that would put some ads
for your website on say, oh, I don't know the
Times Square Electric billboard.

Speaker 9 (01:05:32):
Well, we're working on it. We're working on it, and
that would be awesome if we could pull that off.

Speaker 1 (01:05:38):
Yeah it would, Yeah, it would. I just wanted to
make sure we talked about that site because we haven't
in a while, and it's a very First of all,
it's a very well done site. It's a great site
for parents to cruise around with their kids and start
introducing them to the fundamental basic concepts of socialism and
why it is so bad for our country.

Speaker 9 (01:06:00):
Yes, thank you very much. Yeah, we put a lot
of work on it. There's hundreds of articles on there.
Some of them are more news oriented stuff, but a
lot of it is the articles about the basics of
what socialism is, why it doesn't work. We don't use
any straw mans. We use the arguments that real socialists

(01:06:21):
make themselves, and we interact with those. Some of the
articles are short, some are very long, And like I said,
we've got a whole bunch of videos on YouTube as well,
stopping socials and TV where we deal with all kinds
of different things, topical news of the day type stuff,
but also again like the evergreen basics of combating against socialism.

(01:06:42):
Now more than ever, this is a huge, huge problem.
I think a lot of Americans sought on the right
that it was kind of dying out after the last
round of AOC nonsense, you know, several years ago, and
the Green New Deal got rejected and all of that.
But I don't think that's going to be the case.
As we're seeing in New and elsewhere, Minneapolis and other places.

(01:07:03):
This is a huge, huge problem moving forward, and it's
only going to get worse as the AI Revolution starts
to take more and more jobs. I think that's going
to be a huge issue as well.

Speaker 1 (01:07:15):
Joining me Justin Haskins when we come back, we're going
to talk about the good, the bad and ugly of
what's going on with the One Big Beautiful Bill, with
what President Trump is doing again good and bad, as
well as what has got to be done. We've got
lots of a lot of ground to cover with Justin
Haskins at the Heartland Institute again, the website stoppingsocialism dot com, Go.

Speaker 2 (01:07:38):
There morning show at Preston Scott Boy. That escalated quickly.
I mean that really got out of hand fast.

Speaker 1 (01:07:54):
On WFLA Justin Haskins with me from the Heartland Institute. Justin,
what is the best thing that's going to come out
of or has come out of the One Big Beautiful Bill.

Speaker 9 (01:08:19):
I think the easiest one that you could look to
is the border security funding a massive amount of money
for border security, more ice agents, I mean, more border
walls and things like that. I mean, I never thought
that that was going to happen in my lifetime. To
be totally on with you, I just did not think

(01:08:41):
it was ever going to happen. So I think that
that's that's probably one of the biggest things economically. The
biggest victory was extending the tax cuts. That was so
absolutely vital. I think they made a mistake actually putting
that in the big beautiful bill. I think that just
should have been a standalone thing on its own. But

(01:09:02):
that was if we hadn't If the tax cuts from
twenty seventeen were not extended, the personal tax cuts, they
were set to expire at the end of this year,
if they were not extended in this bill, the economy
would have for sure crashed. There's just no question about it.
The economy would have crashed, everyone's taxes would have gone up.
It would have been catastrophic. So that was absolutely necessary.

(01:09:25):
So to me, those are the two big victories, the
border security and making sure that the tax cuts were extended.

Speaker 1 (01:09:31):
Is the border such an issue at this point even
with Democrats, except for the extreme loonies. Even with Democrats though,
that issue pulls real strongly that we've got to control
our border. Do you think that is sufficient enough to
keep it that way, keep it secured, even if Democrats
were to control Congress in the White House.

Speaker 9 (01:09:54):
No, Okay, you know, I don't think so. And the
reason why is because a lot of the problem that
we had on the border were not just that there
was not a lot of good security there at times
in certain places. It was that the policies surrounding it
with giving people, allowing people to claim asylum and say

(01:10:19):
that they're being persecuted when obviously a lot of them
were not really being persecuted, and then that being used
as a way to just let people into the country.
Millions of people even if they were caught, even if
they went to the border, and they were so under
a democratic president that that law is still an option
for them. They can still interpret the law that way.

(01:10:39):
The Trump administration is not, but the next president could
and in those cases, they literally will just let people in.
It doesn't matter what the border security is. You just
walk up to the border and you say, I claim
asylum and then they let you in. So it's a
that's a huge, huge part of the problem, and some

(01:10:59):
of that is, you know, hopefully going to be fixed.
But really I think that there are ways around all
of these things, and Congress did not write ironclad protections.
We still need an immigration reform bill in contress, and
we really haven't gotten that.

Speaker 1 (01:11:19):
What's the worst that's come out of the first seven
months of the Trump administration, what is the worst?

Speaker 9 (01:11:27):
Okay, well, I think there's a couple of things I
think long term, I'm going to give you kind of
an off the wall answer in a second. My short
answer is spending in government debt and all of that.
That is a crisis that has not even there's not
even an attempt to try to solve it. And I'm

(01:11:49):
not surprised because the Trump administration did not try to
solve it the first time around. Either they're not going
to do it now. We need entitlement reforms in order
to fix that problem, and Congress doesn't want to do
that both sides, and so we are going to continue
going down this road where our economy is going to
becoming more and more dependent on debt. The debt affects

(01:12:10):
the interest rates, It affects you know, every and the
interest rates effects the housing market, it affects everything. And
so this is a huge crisis level problem for us,
and there is no effort in Washington to fix it.
So that's my short answer.

Speaker 1 (01:12:27):
Justin hanging right there. When we come back, I want
the off the wall one, and then we're going to
kind of pick up right there. Sixteen minutes past the hour,
More to come with Justin Haskins at the Heartland Institute.
Here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott, Justin Haskins

(01:12:50):
gave us a brilliant tease for this final segment. He said,
I've got an idea that is out there just a
little bit. And when I asked him in the break,
I also want to talk about the one thing that
people are not discussing that's not on their radar that
should be he said, it's the same thing.

Speaker 9 (01:13:07):
So justin go, yeah, there's There was a law that
was passed very recently led Donald Trump with a big
supporter of it. A lot of Republicans in Congress were
advocates for it called the Genius Act, and the Genius
Act one of the main things that it was doing
was trying to regulate something called stable coins. Put a

(01:13:28):
put a government stamp of approval on stable coins, increase
regulations on stable coins. Stable Coins are a kind of cryptocurrency, Okay,
so like bitcoin and stuff like that, except their their
value is tied. It's pegged to something stable, so in
this case the dollar. So the way it works is
essentially a cryptocurrency that is equal to always a dollar.

(01:13:53):
So it's a way to use to have a digital
dollar without actually having the government create a digital dollar. Now,
the legislation that they put into place, the reason Republicans
like it is because there's a lot of advantages to
having a digital currency, but they don't want the government

(01:14:14):
in charge of it or the set in charge of
it for a lot of reasons that we can all
imagine as conservatives. We way too much power in their hands.
The problem is the people who are behind, not all
of them, but many of the people behind the biggest
stable coin companies out there right now, there's already hundreds

(01:14:34):
of billions of dollars worth of stable coins out there.
Are the great Reset people, They're the Davos people. It's
Blackrock and companies like that that are the big owners
of these things. And these are the people who were
just trying to silence conservatives, destroy the fossil fuel industry,
force esg down everyone's throats, and now they are the

(01:14:58):
key people behind what is essentially a government approved quasi
digital dollar that can be tracked and traced and controlled.
They can tell you what you can spend it on
and what you can't spend it on and as institutions
adopt this more and more and more, which is far

(01:15:18):
more likely now that the government has put its stamp
of approval on it and said we're going to regulate
it and make sure that it's safe. This is going
to become, in my opinion, a massive, massive, massive problem
because there's going to be widespread adoption of this all
throughout the banking industry. It's already starting, it's going to
speed up over the next several years. It's going to

(01:15:40):
be common for people to use digital dollars through these
stable coins, and without any privacy protections or liberty protections.
They didn't put any of that in the bill. They
just passed it and gave all this power to the
black rocks of the world without protecting individuals, and there
was no reason to do that. They could have easily

(01:16:01):
put those protections in the bill. So for me down
the road, say five years into the future, I think
this could be like a crisis level problem if we
have a Democrat in the White House that wants to
work in a public private partnership with the black rocks
of the world, just like they did with ESG, to
control what you can buy and what you can sell
and who the good guys and bad guys are and

(01:16:22):
all of that stuff, just like they were doing with
social credit scores before.

Speaker 1 (01:16:26):
Who's fighting it in the House and Senate anybody?

Speaker 9 (01:16:30):
There were some people who fought against it. Josh Holly
in the Senate, for example, is one of those people.
But for the most part, Republicans were in favor of it,
and a lot of the Democrats were in favor of
it too.

Speaker 1 (01:16:42):
How much have you written about it?

Speaker 9 (01:16:45):
I've written a decent amount. I actually published some articles
and some big publications and things like that. But for
the most part, the establishment I did Glenn Beck Show
and some of some bigger shows talking about that as well.
But the reality is the Republicans and Donald Trump were
openly in favor of it. I mean, they were advocating

(01:17:06):
for it, and because of that, there was just no
way that it was going to die. It's just there
was way too much support behind it from the very beginning.

Speaker 1 (01:17:17):
Is anyone starting to see the potential problems now that
it's out there and maybe rethinking or is that just
not there yet?

Speaker 7 (01:17:27):
Well?

Speaker 9 (01:17:28):
I mean there were, like I said, Josh Holly and
people like that are atting some of the same concerns
that I had, But for the most part, no, And
it's because it seems like a free market solution to
a problem, you know, And that's that's the thing. Because
there's a lot of benefits to having a digital dollar.
You can do you basically transmit it around the world

(01:17:48):
twenty four to seven for almost nothing, So there's it's
a much better system than the banking system we have
now where it takes days to move money in some cases.
So there are real advantages to it, but there are
also huge problems, and those problems are just being ignored.
And I think while you have Donald Trump in the
White House, there really aren't any threats. But that's not

(01:18:11):
what I'm worried about. I'm worried about the next president
or the president after that. I'm worried about the next
you know, Joe Biden type president or Barack Obama. And
I think they're setting the stage for a catastrophe down
the road because they didn't put personal liberty protections in
that legislation, and there was no reason why they couldn't
have done it, so very very frustrating.

Speaker 1 (01:18:31):
Justin hang on for a second, I want to talk
to you real quick as we wrap up here. But
thanks for the time this morning. Of course, Justin Haskins
with me. I'm going to visit with him in a
second here off air, just us talking, you know us,
guy's talking. We've got the news coming up. We've got
the big stories in the press box. Howard Eisman joins
us with some money talk. More to come on the

(01:18:52):
morning show with Preston, Scott and Beck.

Speaker 2 (01:19:02):
You want him on that radio America can handle the truth.

Speaker 10 (01:19:06):
You need him on that radio nine to noon on WFLA.

Speaker 1 (01:19:24):
Funny talking a few minutes. Big stories in the press box.
First Democratic whistleblower told FBI that Adam Schiff approved a
classified leak a series of leaks to target Donald Trump.
The intelligence staffer worked for House Democrats called the alleged
behavior treason, iss and illegal. See this is starting to

(01:19:46):
now come into focus, and I'm going to remind you
again how quiet the parties have become. Now. Hilary's decided
to chirp up on on a couple of topics, but
she is probably engaging in more diversion than anything else.

(01:20:15):
You know, I was called to account because they said,
you know, you're reading the DC police crime numbers. Yeah,
and I explained with the caveat that's where they come from.
I just anyway, I don't think taking control of DC
police right now is a top priority for the Trump administration.

(01:20:39):
And at the very least, you got to let somebody
else make the suggestion. That's just me. That's one story
in the press box as well, not just the Democrat
intelligence staffer who worked for the Democrat House Committee saying yeah,
Adam Schiff wanted classified documents released and did release them

(01:21:00):
to target Trump. That's as he said, treason us. We'll see,
we'll see. But the other big story beyond Trump activating
the National Guard federalizing police in Washington, which is a
pretty big deal, is the uh the game platform roadblocks.

(01:21:22):
I'm not going to go into it in great depth
because time doesn't allow. I did so last hour, so
you can listen to the second hour of the radio
program Big Stories in the press Box. At the bottom
of the hour, I explained the problem with the game platform.
You know you do you were at me. That's going

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off my kid's phone platform, desktop, laptop, tablet. They're not
having any part of it. It is a platform where
developers can place games and based on what we're seeing,
no oversight, and it would seem Roadblocks cares more about
their overall impressions than they care about the welfare of children.

(01:22:04):
And it's worth noting that forty two percent of daily
users are twelve or younger. That's massive, eighty five million
daily active users. Eighty five million. And there are people
that are being caught in stings that are that are

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child predators among other problems, and Roadblocks is more concerned
about their numbers, and so they're trying to shut down
the guy who's helping police catch these people. Well, that's
that's real good for your public relations. Forty minutes past
the hour, we're going to come back. Howard Eisman set

(01:22:47):
to join us with money talk next on The Morning
Show with Preston Scott to.

Speaker 8 (01:22:51):
M a D Radio network, Make a Difference Radio Network,
and this is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:23:02):
Time for a little money talk with investment advisor Howard
Heisman with Enanced Financial Services. Securities and advisory services offered
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(01:23:23):
On appropriate matter, seek professional tax and or legal advice, Howard.
Before we get to some of the tidbits this morning,
Why is AI playing such a significant role so soon

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in our economy?

Speaker 7 (01:23:50):
Sure? Well, AI is Preston is a big deal. You know,
there was the Internet back twenty five thirty years ago,
and now it's AI. I think it has a lot
to do with the fact that going forward, as it
gets further built out, we're looking at it playing a

(01:24:12):
huge role in healthcare and how healthcare and medicine technology,
surgery is done, in education, and also just the future
interaction of human beings with robots and the role of
each of us over the coming decades. So it's that,

(01:24:34):
you know, it is what it is for a reason,
and it's not likely going away anytime soon.

Speaker 1 (01:24:42):
You have uncovered some facts, as you always do that
you share some little tidbits on the economy, and what
we were just talking about is quantifiable. It is making
a difference in the economy.

Speaker 7 (01:24:54):
It really is. We'll look a couple different ways. Let's
look at the cost of electricity and what we pay
for electric power here recently, and what it's likely to
be going forward is more and more of these AI
data centers get built and rolled out. So the average
price of a kilowatt hour preston of electricity on a

(01:25:18):
year over year basis has increased in forty three of
the fifty states. Wow yeah, yeah, and Maine, Utah, and
New York being the largest of the three. And folks
in Maine are paying about are using thirty seven percent
more power than they did a year ago, as an example.

Speaker 1 (01:25:39):
And that's because AI technologies are being based in these
cities and states inside their borders, and the cost of
using power is just going up because of the usage
of AI.

Speaker 7 (01:25:51):
Yeah, because AI and the data centers and what's going
to be done within them. The key component is it
requires a ginormous amount of power. It can be hydro electric,
it can be natural gas, coal, fossil fuel base, but
it's an enormous amount of power. And just to amplify

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on that a little bit, there's a data center that's
under construction now. It happens to be overseas four hundred
thousand square feet on two thousand acres. It requires a
tremendous amount of land and here in the US alone,

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we're seeing all the big tech companies building currently huge
data center plants, all of which are going to when
completely generate over a gigawatt of power, and the price
tag just this year alone for each of those companies

(01:26:55):
going to be between sixty five billion to one hundred
billion dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:27:01):
Well, and this is now the AI thing, I don't
know how else to call it, the technology boom it is.
It is showing up in the economy's GDP as well.

Speaker 7 (01:27:12):
It really is making it's already making a big difference.
So if we look just at investment software and it,
which is you know, internet technology equipment, it's added almost
one full percentage point to our nation's GDP in the

(01:27:33):
prior qure. And just to put that in reference, you know,
typically in America seventy seventy two percent of our GDP
comes from consumer spending, and consumer spending added less than
two thirds of one percent to GDP. And if we

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look historically the same sector we're talking about, technology, software
and software investments have accounted traditionally for only a little
over four percent of total GDP versus again, consumer spending
it around seventy percent. So for now anyway, the scales

(01:28:19):
have tipped because no one wants to think of it
this way. Preston, America can't afford to lose the AI race,
you know, to China, India, or Russia or any other country.

Speaker 1 (01:28:35):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (01:28:36):
Yeah, so it's it's all in. In fact, I saw
something the other day they're talking about, you know, putting
an AI center and potentially a nuclear power plan up
on the moon. US had the Russians and the Chinese.
So well since.

Speaker 1 (01:28:57):
We've been there, right, Oh my goodness, yes, sir Howard,
thank you for the info.

Speaker 7 (01:29:02):
Absolutely, have a great day. Press.

Speaker 1 (01:29:04):
Thank you, sir. We'll talk again in a couple more weeks.
Maybe three weeks, I think is our next visit. It's staggering, actually,
I think it's a couple more weeks. Yeah, money talk
here in the Morning show with Preston Scott, I had

(01:29:32):
to look up who Jennifer Welch is. Have you ever
heard of her? Yeah? Apparently she's been on a show
on Bravo called Sweet Home. I have no idea what
Bravo is, could not care less, but she's an actress

(01:29:56):
and podcaster who decided that she said, I've had it
with white people, that triple Trump. I guess voted for
Trump three times. That have the nerve and audacity to
walk into a Mexican restaurant, a Chinese restaurant, an Indian restaurant.

(01:30:18):
I don't think they should be able to enjoy anything
but cracker barrel. White people who triple Trump should be banned,
boycotted from the best thing that America has to offer,
which is multi culturalism. That's what we're fighting, folks, That's

(01:30:42):
what we're fighting. Just keep fighting the good fight.

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Big stories in the press box. Trump nationalizing Metropolitan Police, sorry,
federalizing the wrong term there police in Washington and activating
the National Guard said crimes out of hand. Now, I
looked at some other stats and it would seem that
the murder rate has jumped and that they're fudging the
numbers a little bit. Would that surprise anybody talked a

(01:31:48):
lot about the very popular kids game platform Roadblocks. You
were thinking Roadblocks over there, mister gamer.

Speaker 5 (01:31:59):
Oh I've only played like five minutes of it and
never touched it over again.

Speaker 1 (01:32:05):
Can you spread the word? Oh yeah, yeah, I mean
if you just look up the dangers and risks associated
with it, it's and they're attacking the guy who's trying
to keep kids safe, who is a victim of being
groomed himself. He escaped it. Let you listen to Benjamin

(01:32:27):
nettan Yahoo explain what Israel and its plans are for Gaza.
I don't know a problem with you have a problem
with it. I don't have a problem talked about the
Face Act. If you don't know what it is there,
you go something to learn, shared an email from a
listener about her experience with planned parenthood. We did talk

(01:32:48):
about Cracker Barrel. Some customers hating the redesign of the
inside of the restaurants. I haven't been to one enough
of late to say a change, so I don't know.
I'm now wanting to go. I want to see I
want to see what it looks like. Disney settling a
rhinful termination lawsuit with former Star Wars actress Gina Carano.

(01:33:09):
That story is from last week. I'm finally just kind
of getting around to it. And a fascinating archaeological discovery
with soil pulled from Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Really cool
stuff there. Tomorrow, Doctor Bob McClure, we'll talk about Chick
fil A's fall menu and the fate of Honeybees.