Ep. 5439: Elderly beware, there are scammers afoot.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Well, good morning, ruminators.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
How am I?

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Yeah, it's Tuesday, August twenty sixth Here on the program.
More on that date in mere moments as we dive
into American history. But it's show fifty four to thirty
nine of the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
He is Jose, I am Preston. Hello.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Mark Levin joins us this morning. We have a manly minute.
We've got money talk and much much more. But as always,
we begin with some scripture. Isaiah twenty six, verse four
says this trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord

(01:05):
God is an everlasting rock. I love how God is
described and that idea of trusting in the Lord forever.

(01:26):
Why Because the Lord God is an everlasting rock, no erosion,
no movement. God does not change. That's why you can
faithfully place your trust in him. Think about what you trust. Okay, really, seriously,

(01:52):
let's make this very very elemental. When you put your
foot on the break of your car, you trust it's
going to stop you. For a moment, consider the what ifs.

(02:15):
What if you have a hole in your brake line
and you have no fluid it and all of a sudden,
you're putting your foot on your brakes and it's not stopping. Immediately,
panic sets in. If you've ever driven a car where
the brakes have failed, panic immediately you are you are

(02:36):
suddenly going where's the emergency brake? Is it one where
you pull it to your did you put your foot
on it? What? What?

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Ah?

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Because you could be going too an intersection, you could
be coming up behind something, you could be pulling into
a uh an area where where people are crossing a sidewalk.
Panic sets in. Why because you put your trust in
your brakes and they didn't work. We trust, all day

(03:08):
long all kinds of things to work properly. We trust
stoplights to work properly. When we fly, we trust that
the airplane's going to work. We trust that the pilots
are coherent and not drunk. We trust the chef to
not spit in our food. We trust all kinds of things.
I have talked about the fact that we all live
by faith all day long. Now it's not a matter

(03:32):
of whether, well, I'm just not a I don't believe
I'm not a person of Yes, you are. Every single
human being on the planet Earth is a person of faith.
Everybody were created with a vacuum. We are beings that
are created longing for, searching for something to put faith in.

(03:57):
That's that's why mankind is different. Man is different. And
so this simple little verse Trust in the Lord forever.
There is nothing else you can say that about. Trust

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in your brakes forever. No, because you have to fix them,
you have to replace them. They wear out. God doesn't
wear out an everlasting rock. A rock is symbolic of

(04:43):
something anchored and immovable. That's your God. It is not
hard to place your tr trust in God. It is simple,

(05:04):
it is It is not complex. And God is everlasting.
That's why the trust comes. Because He doesn't change. He's
not going to pull the rug out from under you
and say, ah, sorry, the rules have changed. No, nope.

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Ten past the hour. Take a peek inside the American
Patriots All Monaco, let's go, It's by the way, Isaiah
twenty six.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Verse four. Here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
One point seven w UFLA.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Twenty sixth.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Seventeen ninety one. John Fitch and James Rumsey, rival inventors,
both receive patents for steamboats on the same day. Okay,

(06:24):
did you hear what James is going down?

Speaker 5 (06:27):
And he's getting a pattened. What we've got a beat
in there? Sedgwick quickly draft some drawings.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
I don't get write.

Speaker 6 (06:41):
It down.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Same day. What are the odds? Eighteen thirty nine, Oh,
the slave ship a'm astad is captured off Long Island,
leading to the trial where Quincy Adams was brought in.

(07:06):
Many thought this guy can't ah, he's too old. But
the former president member of Congress was asked to help
with the case and he wonted. If you've never seen
the movie Amistad, it's tough. It's a tough movie to watch,

(07:37):
but the the Yeah, it's a dramatization to a certain extent,
but the history of the story is documented and it's
a fascinating story. Eighteen seventy three, the Saint Louis Board
of Education establishes the nation's first public school kindergarten that

(08:01):
I still remember, kindergarten. I always called it a kindergarten.
Am I going to kindergarten? Kindergarten? Nineteen sixty eight, Democrat
National Convention begins in Chicago. Thousands of anti Vietnam War
demonstrators take to the streets clash with police indirectly, that

(08:24):
is part of our landscape today, not intentionally, but we're
going to talk about President Trump's executive order on flag burning.
I think it's a silly decision. I know there's a
nuance to it, and I get it, but it just

(08:48):
it's a bad decision. We'll also talk about the Democrat
Party because they there's some meetings began with a well,
we'll let you listen to how the Democrat summer meeting
began in Minneapolis. Just they can't help themselves, and it's

(09:14):
just great for me. There's just so much good fodder
in all of it. Today is National Got Checked Day, ladies.
This is about breast cancer, and this is about making
sure self examinations, getting yourself checked, routine screenings, you know

(09:36):
that kind of thing. And so it's it's a call
to action, providing a friendly reminder asking the question have
you been checked? So there's that. It is national. I
don't like the sound of this National Web Mistress Day.

(09:59):
I know what it means. It's about. It's about women
in the internet, web design space. I get it, but
in this day and age with the stuff that's online,

(10:20):
Web Mistress Day just sounds a little seedy, doesn't it. Yeah,
National cherry popsicle day. Always good. My wife's going pooh.
She thinks cherry anything tastes like cough medicine. For example,
if we get an icy and we're sharing, it's coke icy.

(10:45):
If it's mine, it's a cherry coke icy. Add that
cherry baby. Come on, that's just glorious.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
Today's also National Women's Equality Day, okay, a National Dog Day.
When you consider the different shapes, sizes, and looks of dogs,
I mean, and you've seen dogs that look like their owners,

(11:19):
it's hilarious.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
It just is.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
Dogs are awesome. Seventeen passed the out stop right there,
It's Morning Show with Preston's Guy. Twenty two minutes past

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the hour.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
It's the Morning Show with Preston's Gay. Good morning.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
Did you know this is not out of the book?
Sorry boys, this is this is out of the news.
We have a new record for the highest ever paid
sports card at a public auction. What do you think

(12:16):
that dollar figure is? Yeah, it's it's higher than the
price paid just in the last couple of years for
the nineteen fifty two Tops Mickey Mantle card. That one

(12:37):
was twelve point six million dollars for a baseball card.
This one beat it. Let's go through the top ten
here before I reveal this is this is crazy. Some

(12:58):
people look at this as a financial investment. It is
safer to buy something like this and watch it appreciate
in value than it is to invest in the stock market.
There's an argument to be made for that. In this case.
Number ten is the twenty seventeen Panini National Treasures Patrick

(13:22):
Mahomes Platinum Shield graded eight point five sold for four
point three million. A nineteen fifty two tops Mickey Mantle
at four point five million at number eight to twenty
eighteen twenty nineteen Panini National Treasures Luka Doncic Logo Man

(13:45):
four point six million, another Mickey Mantle nineteen fifty two
at five point two, tied with an upper deck Lebron
James Exquisite Collection five point two at number five. The
Sweet Uh Caporal, I guess it's how it's pronounced. T

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two O six Honus Wagner at six point six million
a Baltimore News from nineteen fourteen. Babe Ruth card at
seven point two million at number three. Another Sweet Caporal
T two O six Honus Wagner at seven point two

(14:30):
five million, Mickey Mantle. The nineteen fifty two tops Mickey
Mantle with a with a grade of nine point five
sold for twelve point six and the new record belongs
to a Michael Jordan Kobe Bryant combined card for twelve
point nine million dollars sold through Heritage Auctions. What makes

(14:55):
it interesting is that it it was one of one.
It had Kobe and Jordan's autographs, but also the NBA
logo patch from one of their jerseys. In the case
of mj his logo Man was the special Gold variety

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used for the fiftieth anniversary of the NBA in nineteen
ninety six. Jordan led the NBA in scoring that year
they won the title. That year he was crowned MVP
for the fifth time of the NBA Finals that year
during the Exquisite Collection Run, Bryant and Jordan were paired

(15:37):
together with other NBA stars passed and present for a
dual autograph logo card. But this was the only card
that featured Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan. There was one
one of one, and someone paid twelve point nine million
to have the one of one. Well, hello, there, do

(16:02):
you display that? Do you lock it? In a safe
Do you lend it to the NBA Hall of Fame?
I don't know what you do with that. Twenty seven
minutes past the hour, It's the Morning show at Preston Scott.

Speaker 6 (16:19):
Play a lot of the time.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
On news radio one seven double USLA.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
Kind of a.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
Public service, big story in the press box this morning.
I loathe having to do stories like this, but this
is the big story today. This is it, and this
is for I know that we've got a lot of
senior adults that listen to the show. I know that

(16:58):
we have a lot of younger adults that are the guardians, caretakers.
You look in on mom or dad, your mother in law,
father in law, you check up on them. This needs
to be on your radar, friends, because this is now

(17:18):
an FBI warning of literally the loss of entire life
savings through scams, and senior adults fall for this stuff
all the time. It is draining life savings retirement accounts.

(17:48):
Here's how it works. It's a three phase operation. It
is a phantom hacker scam. It has cost Americans over
one billion dollars since twenty twenty four. The Tech Support
impostor the Financial Institution impostor and the US government impostor. Yes,

(18:12):
it's that sophisticated. In the first phase, a tech support
impostor contacts the victims through a text, a phone call,
or an email. Texts, phone calls, emails. They direct them
to download a program that which allows the scammer remote

(18:34):
access to the computer. Then the scammer asks victims to
open their financial accounts to determine whether there have been
any unauthorized charges. They come in acting like they are guardians.
They're the watchdogs. They're the ones that are looking out
for you, and we are seeing some suspicious activity. Once

(18:58):
they determine the most luke target, the scammer chooses an account,
tells the victim they will get a call for further
instructions from the fraud department. So it's not one person
that's just no, no, no. They hand them off to
somebody else who sounds official. The second phase, the financial

(19:19):
institution imposture, calls the victim to inform them their funds
have been accessed by a foreign hacker and must be
moved to a safe third party account. Victims are instructed
to send money via wire transfer, cash cryptocurrency, told to

(19:41):
send multiple transactions over a span of days or months.
The third phase of the scam, the victim could be
contacted by someone posing as a US government employee who
prompts the individual to move their funds to alias accounts
for their protection. Yes, we can verify that this is happening,

(20:02):
and they come off as believable. I don't know if
there are a bunch of Indians and that we all
get those calls phone rings. You pick it up and
you hear nothing, and then you hear a whoop and
the sweat shop in the background. There are times I go,
I'm not interested to have a nice day. There are
other times I'm in a little bit more of a

(20:23):
feisty mood and I have some fun at their expense.
Usually the call ends with them offshering some profanities in
my direction and hanging up. It's quite alright with me.
Drives my wife crazy that I do this, but they're
just Sometimes I need to scratch that itch because I
know these people are taking advantage of people like my

(20:46):
mother and father in law, senior adults like many of you.
I'm begging you, if you're not sure, get your kids
involved in what's going on on your email. Let them
call somebody. Don't click links that you don't know. And

(21:08):
even if you think you know because it looks official,
hover And if you don't know, what I mean by
hovering your mouse to see the URL that it's linking
you to. The rule of thumb is if someone's saying
someone's messing with your accounts, hang up, don't reply to
the text, don't reply to the email. Call your bank,

(21:29):
call your financial institution, call your the holder of your
four oh one k and ask them are there any
unauthorized Are there any is there any suspicious activity that
go to them directly? You place the call, don't let
them place the call. You place the call, don't click
any links. This is the big story this morning. We're

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gonna do everything we can to prevent you from being
a victim. Forty one minutes past the hour, Yes it's happening.
The Preston Show with Morning Scott. What I categorize this

(22:16):
story as finally there's something inside of.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
Us that seeks justice.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
Though we all walk in this place where we only
are justified through Christ, not ourselves, but that inner drive

(22:57):
that most.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Not all.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
People who have hearts that are unrepentant and bent on
evil rules don't apply to them. They don't care. Virginia's
Attorney General, Jason Maaz findings of an investigation into Roanoke

(23:24):
College in Virginia were released by plaintiffs complaintants in response
to a biological male transgender swimmer that competed on Roanoke's
women's team in twenty twenty three. The Attorney General in
Virginia concluded that the college denied the female swimmers accommodations,

(23:45):
advantages and privileges on the basis of sex, caused the
women emotional, physical, and dignitary harms, and violated Virginia Human
Rights Act. He said the female swimmers inside his reporter
who were discriminated against her eligible to seek financial damages.
According to the report, a private complainant who has received

(24:09):
a notice of right to file a civil action may
file a civil action under the Act for compensatory and
punitive damages as well as injective relief. There is no
record as of right now of any college or university
having to pay financial damages to women athletes for putting

(24:30):
males on sports teams. This could be a huge win
because apparently there are six that are suing men and women.
He says, in a report, and competitive sports are separated

(24:51):
for a reason. A male who has undergone puberty has significant,
undeniable athletic advantage over female that no intervention can undo.
The women's swim team endured and is still enduring, emotional, physical,
and dignitary harm because of Rono College's failure to follow
the law. Go get them, Go sue their ever loving

(25:21):
bridges off. I am all down for that. I didn't
know about Roanoke College. Yet another, yet another example that's
a win. All right, we come back yesterday we got
to talking about the petitions, and then we started wondering, Okay,

(25:43):
well where is this petition because it's not showing up
this two point five million. Well it's up to two
point nine million, And I found it, and talk about
that story. Next petitions about what? Yeah, brace yourselves, kiddos.
Forty seven minutes past the hour, It's the Morning Show
with Preston Scott dubufla friend of the radio program. Just

(26:23):
use the words sick, disgusting in reference to this petition.
And it's a two point nine million signatures and most
of them from India.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
I'm betting.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
It is a petition a plea for fair sentencing. Isn't
it interesting? Listen to how it's constructed and worded, and
obviously you know whatever we the undersigned urged Governor round
Santas in the Florida Board of Executive Clemency to re
examine and reduce the sentence. Pause stop, hey, key job.

(27:16):
We haven't had a trial. There hasn't been a sentence. Manisha,
who is the petition starter. We have a trial first,
then we get to a sentence. Then you can ask

(27:41):
for a change. Knock yourself out. I'll continue. For a
twenty eight year old truck driver involved in a fatal
U turn crash on Florida's Turnpike in South Florida, this
was a tragic accident, not a deliberate act. While accountability matters,
the severity of the charges against him does not align

(28:02):
with the circumstances of the incident. Well, the judge disagrees.
Because the judge not only accepted the charges of vehicular
homicide times three, he added vehicular manslaughter times three. It's
not looking good for your boy. Relevant precedent. This is

(28:28):
in the petition that two point nine million people have signed.
And that's the point that our listener's making. This is pathetic.
Aguilera Madero's case in Colorado full stop problem number one.
In Colorado, a driver Rogelle Aguilera Maderos initially received a

(28:52):
one hundred and ten year sentence for a fatal crash
resulting in four deaths. Yeah, yep, listen to this. Though,
following a massive public outcry and a petition that garnered
over five million signatures, Governor Jared Pollis commuted his sentenced

(29:13):
to ten years with parole eligibility after five That underscores
why we hate Colorado, because Jared Pollis is a coward.
That's an affront to the victims, that is spitting on
the graves of the victims. Judicial acknowledgment of unfairness. In

(29:39):
that case, even the sentencing judge admitted that the mandatory
minimum sentencing law is compelled him to oppose the lengthy
term and that if I had the discretion, it would
not be my sentence. Hopefully he meant to say, I'd
make it worse, but probably not, given that it's Colorado.
In conclusion, he writes, or she or whoever this is.

(30:00):
By granting clemency, you would reaffirm the value of proportional justice.
There is no proportional justice. Here, friend, three people are dead.
Three people are dead because this man entered the country illegally,
because California enabled him to drive, even though he should

(30:24):
have known there. I would never consider taking on a
responsibility in a country where I can't read fundamentally the
language of that country that as a human being, you
don't do that if you're going to put other people's

(30:44):
lives at risk. The power of community advocacy and the
potential for rehabilitation. We believe this case is not just
about one individual. It speaks to the broader principles of
fairness and mercy in the justice system. You're right, it's
not about one individual. It's about three three who died

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because of the reckless, inexcusable actions of one three million friends.

(31:38):
And we are into the second hour of the Morning
Show with Trustin Scott. One hour from now, Mark Levin
will join me live talk about his new book on Power.
I think it's his eighth or ninth straight bestseller. Yeah,
people read.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
What Mark writes, and they should. Smart man.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
I'm going to open up the phone lines here and
this segment is designed for well. It's an observational opinion
piece written by Timothy Goglin, and I might be mispronouncing
his last name. He is the vice president of external

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and government relations that focus on the family, and he's
based in Washington, DC. And the headline which I found
in Epic Times is how remote work changed working moms.
A significant segment of moms who had been working remotely
decided they would rather stay home. I want to open

(32:51):
up the phone lines and they are indeed open to
anyone who is a mom. And you fall into that category.
During COVID you started working remotely. COVID ends it has ended,

(33:12):
by the way, all of you with a mask, and
you decided, you know, I think I'm just going to
stay home. And you either figured out a way to
continue to work remotely or you just ditched the job
and you just went home understanding. And let me say
this up front so I don't get blasted by anybody.
Being a mom is a is a full time job,

(33:37):
but it's a job of rich reward. It is a
job that is signed up for. It is a job
that is more important than maybe any other job out there.
And so I'm not suggesting that well, you're just taking it. No,

(33:57):
being a mother is unbelievably hard work. So I'm not
diminishing that when I say quit your job. I hope
you understand I know what we're talking about here, and
hopefully you do too. But if you are one of
those moms, I would love to hear from you, and

(34:17):
I will set aside the rest of this half hour
to hear your reasons. Why let you express it yourself.
I'm looking at I mean, the Washington Post even did
stories on this that moms are well, there's a renaissance

(34:42):
of being a mom. There is a slight shifting. Some
say significant, some say, well it's a movement, it's not
significant yet. That depends on who you talk to. But
there is no doubt there is a push back towards

(35:09):
moms being at home with their kids, whether that's homeschooling
or whether that's simply being present in their kids' lives
from the moment they wake up to the moment they
come home from school. Now, I've got some information here
I want to share also some regrets from even notables

(35:31):
like the late actress Mary Tyler Moore. But if you
want to share your experience, if you are a mom
who made the decision to stay home after working outside
the house, if that's been your lot all the time,
just being at home, You're welcome to call in and

(35:53):
share why you made that decision. But I want to
talk to moms I have made that choice, and I'd
love to hear you express why. It's eight five zero
two zero five WSLA eight five zero two zero five
ninety three fifty two. But when we come back, what's happened,

(36:14):
why the change? We'll look into some of the information
that's in this opinion piece here on the Morning Show
with Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point seven

(36:36):
double USLA. Welcome to call in. If not, we will

(36:58):
certainly move along after this segment. Here we're talking about
the decision and what's happening in our culture where more
and more moms are deciding to either work remotely or
else not work. They're finding ways to if they need
to provide income, do some side hustles in legal senses

(37:25):
of course, or just not work altogether if their situation
with their husband allows that option. Buried inside the report
of a twenty twenty three it's called Motherly State of

(37:49):
Motherhood Report, twenty five percent a parent surveyed now stay
at home with their children. Compared to fifteen percent in
twenty twenty two. So something happened as a result of
COVID no doubt. Eighteen percent of the mothers in the

(38:09):
sample of changed jobs or left the workforce. Top reasoncided
staying home with the children. It seems that when the
pandemic was over and people were ordered back into the office,
a number of women just said, nah, I'd rather be

(38:32):
at home or decided that caregiving was more important. One
quote in a Washington Post piece mother in her late thirties,
I worked hard, had a great career. We were both

(38:54):
making great money. But I was working so much. There
were weeks when I saw my kids for maybe thirty
minutes a day. Finally it was like, let's slow down
so I can be a present mother. This is the
important line. I choose to give my best energy to
my kids while they're little. I mentioned Mary Tyler Moore.

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She was heralded by the feminist movement. She played, you know,
she played Mary Richards, who was and you know, look,
I love Mary Tyler Moore and the Dick Van Dyke Show.
It was an epically funny program, but Mary Richards's character
was like the rage of the feminist movement, a lot
of feminist you know themes inside the show, which was

(39:43):
a tremendous show. But after her son died. Her son
died when he was in his twenties. It was allegedly
an accidental discharge of a gun he was working with,
and he killed himself. He was with somebody else. In

(40:07):
her book, after all, she wrote, there's no question about it.
By the time Richie was five, I had already let
him down when he needed me the most. I was
busier and even more self concerned than I had been
when he was an impressionable infant. Much to the dismay

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of those who heralded her character on the TV show,
she would say later in life how important she felt
it was for a mother to be at home and
be involved in her children's lives during their formative years.
It's another indicator, along with the number of young people

(40:55):
that voted for Trump. There are things shifting back in
our culture now. Are they shifting for the right reasons?
Can't tell you that. I don't know, but they're shifting.

(41:15):
There are more people in Hollywood saying whatever, cancel me.
I don't care. I love Jesus, I don't care. It's
silly for men to play sports against women and compete
against them as if they are women. It's silly. We're
seeing more and more common sense, bravery, common sense courage.

(41:47):
It's like that piece we talked about last week. Conservatives
come out, It's okay, it's okay to come out. Sixteen
almost seventeen minutes past the own, we come back, how
a Florida congresswoman and her family allegedly stole money from you?

Speaker 6 (42:07):
And me.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
Wandering, I was, I'm not going to get distracted, but
I'm looking at my locally sourced honey and it's crystallizing

(42:36):
inside its little plastic jar. And I don't know why
it does that. I don't want it to crystallize. I
wanted to stay gooey. Now Jose says it's because it's
losing moisture. My question in response to that was, well,

(42:57):
how is that possible in a sealed container? How does
it do that in a sealed container? I mean, I
still have gooiness in there, but I want gooiness. I want,
I don't, I don't. What's up now? Is that? Is
that because it's it's pure, you know honey, and it's

(43:22):
not from the store.

Speaker 7 (43:25):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (43:26):
Apparently it's because it's a naturally uh, super saturated sugar
sugar solution specifically of glucose and fruit toose, and the
glucose being less soluble in water.

Speaker 1 (43:39):
Well, you sound like you're describing man made products. No,
the bees making, because fructose is Isn't that the stuff
we're supposed to be getting rid of in our in
our in our products.

Speaker 8 (43:58):
It's a certain type of fruit. It's usually the man
made kind. Yeah, high high fruit toose. Corn syrup is
the bad one. But fruit toose is just sugar appear.
It's just it's just natural in honey huh yeah, glucoose. Well,
all I know is it looks like a honey slushy
right now, and I and I'm bothered by it. Anyway,

(44:22):
i'd i'd committed to this. I gotta say it.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
Representative Sheila Sheer Filis McCormick. She replaced Alce Hastings. She
got she got smoked when she ran against Alci Hastings
in twenty eighteen and twenty twenty. When he died, she

(44:51):
filed to take up his seat, and amazingly, money wasn't
a concern. See in the previous campaigns she raised less
than one hundred and ten grand. This time, she put
two point six million of her own money, which is,

(45:13):
according to Washington Free Beacon, is quite a feat for
someone who reportedly earns eighty six thousand dollars a year.
It turns out that the Florida Department of Emergency Management
received an invoice from Trinity Healthcare Services, and she was

(45:38):
the CEO at the time. It was the first of
seventeen invoices that Trinity submitted to the state, and it
was the first of them came the very day Hastings died,
and it brought five point eight million dollars of your

(45:58):
money to Trinity. Fdem Florida Department Emergency Management alleged in
a December twenty twenty four lawsuit accusing the company of
theft by conversion they didn't return the MISPAID funds. Washington

(46:24):
Post framed the matter as ethical worries for the Florida Democrat.
According to Washington Free Beacon, several members of her family,
her husband, brother, mother, father, sister in law, played roles
in the alleged scheme, where we have to say alleged.
At this point, we're talking of millions and millions of

(46:45):
your dollars that were funneled into the accounts of this
woman allegedly and her family allegedly. Wow, my goodness, gracious,

(47:07):
some things don't change. Hey, did you get a call
on my honey problem here?

Speaker 8 (47:12):
Yeah, apparently we have two callers saying that they're saying
the same thing different they're saying the same thing.

Speaker 1 (47:17):
They're saying that it's not real honey.

Speaker 8 (47:19):
Apparently one guy said, I don't care you know who
it comes from.

Speaker 1 (47:25):
If it pure raw honey and it's from a local
Tallahassee address, it's bottled locally.

Speaker 8 (47:33):
Yeah, I I don't agree with them. I believe it's
a naturally occurring thing that honey honey does.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
Apparently you can add corn syrup to it to slow
down the no no, no, no, no, yeah right, no
adult traded, no unadult traded. All right, So the fight
is on here, there's a it's a brawl among the
I'm sure I've got email coming in, quite quite certain.
I have email coming in. Yep, I got email coming in. Okay,

(48:02):
this will be good. Twenty eight after the hour, Mark
Levin next hour in the Morning Show with Preston.

Speaker 4 (48:07):
Scott Hey, It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
It's like spinning a roulette wheel. I talk about mom's
staying home, playing that incredibly important role of being a
mother as opposed to maybe working advancing career because advancing

(48:41):
their children meant more. Not many interested in talking about that,
though it's an important topic. Talk about the crystallization of
my honey in my little plastic jar, and the phone
lines light up, the email box blows up. Contrary to

(49:07):
what one gentleman called in and said, it has been
affirmed that the honey that I have, the crystallization is
the assurance that I have real pure honey.

Speaker 2 (49:21):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (49:23):
Got calls from beekeepers, got calls from farmers, got texts
from friends. We're well informed on such things. Everyone says
the same thing. The crystallization is natural. It is the
product of real pure honey. The only pure honey that
doesn't crystallize like that is tupelo honey, and a honey

(49:47):
that is produced in North Carolina, which is told to me,
is not very good. What I know is this is
pure honey, and I now know what to do to
help it, and that is to just put it in
with some warm water, just let it sit in a
bowl of warm water, or to gently microwave it, or

(50:10):
to just let it sit in the sun and it'll
just go right back.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
So good.

Speaker 1 (50:16):
I knew I had pure honey, that I knew. But anyway,
it's it's always fun. I was telling Ose in the break,
that's that's the sinew that connects us those kinds of things.
Because now we know, now I know that's there. You go.

(50:41):
You got some good honey there now, all right, the
big story in the press box, and I'll be brief
this time around. I'll go in more depth next hour
as I did last hour to senior adults. Listening to
the children of senior adults who are parents and are
in their thirties and forties and fifties themselves. Seniors are

(51:08):
getting scammed out of their retirement, out of their savings,
out of everything they own in a bank. They're they're
getting cleaned right out. It is so bad. The FBI
has issued a warning it is being driven by AI.

(51:29):
More on AI tomorrow. Probably hope the first lady understands
the dangers of it as she pushes it. I mean,
we're the guy who is the inventor of AI, who
came up with the basis for it. All is out
there right now, banging the drums, saying careful, careful, And

(51:52):
all I keep hearing is the terminator music in my head.
Because James Cameron talked about a time when artificial intelligence
would get to a tipping point in its knowledge and
would simply consider humans a threat to it. The guy

(52:15):
who invented the technology known as AI, he is signaling
the exact same warnings right now. Back to the big story.
Teach know when to click and when not. The rule

(52:38):
of thumb is when in doubt, don't. People are being scammed.
It's a three phase scam. We're talking billions of dollars
being lost in America alone. Take this seriously. And if
you're wait, what come back an hour from now, forty
minutes past the fifty five five minutes from now, not

(53:01):
an hour an hour to be too late. Oh the
fun doesn't stop here.

Speaker 4 (53:07):
Find more on his vlog doub u f l a
FM dot com keyword preston.

Speaker 1 (53:16):
All right, So we got a call from an entomologist
at FAMU Florida and M University said, yep, you got
you got the real thing. Don't use a microwave, don't
use too hot a water to warm it, warm it
gently slowly. I think sunlight makes a lot of sense
to me. Yeah, he did mention sunlight as well. A

(53:40):
lot of people on on my email box telling me
that isn't it funny, honey, honey, go figure lighting up
the world talking about my honey. Of course, when I
talk about my honey, I light up my world.

Speaker 2 (53:57):
Of course. That's my wife Cynthia.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
Right right, yeah, I know. Let me. I like taking
you there, I like I like putting you in the spot.
One of the joys of radio is it is it is.
It is the theater of the mind. No visual We
paint pictures with words and so forth. So I take

(54:21):
you to the opening of the Democrat National Committee Summer
meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This is the Chairman Ken Martin
opening opening the meeting Lindy who is from the Sagana

(54:41):
Ojibwe nation, and she's going to deliver our land acknowledgment.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
Today, our land acknowledgment.

Speaker 9 (54:53):
Boujou Lindy somuse a mcdotum uh and and now good
morning DNC members, friends and relatives.

Speaker 10 (55:06):
Let's talk about the land for a second. Yeah, the
DNC acknowledges and honors the Dakota Yata, the Dakota people
who are the original stewards of the lands and waters
of Minneapolis. The Dakota cared for the lands lakes in
the Wakatanka, the Great River, the Mississippi River for thousands
of years before colonization. This land was not claimed or traded.

(55:28):
It's a part of a history of broken treaties and promises,
and in many ways, we still live in a system
built to suppress indigenous people's cultural and spiritual history.

Speaker 1 (55:39):
Now, what she didn't go on to add was suppress
their cultural and significant history or whatever by saying by
like changing the names of the Washington Redskins and the
Cleveland Indians. So the Democrats are still afraid of their
woke base. Later, with a minus thirty four approval rating

(56:08):
and seventy million dollars less cash on hand, And to
put some context on that, the Democrats have fifteen million
dollars cash on hand, the Republicans eighty eighty million. With
one profanity in here I'm warning you of. Now here's

(56:29):
here's the chairman. I'm sick and tired.

Speaker 4 (56:32):
Of this Democrat party bringing a pencil to a knife fight.

Speaker 1 (56:36):
We cannot be the only party got plays by the
rules anymore. We've got to stand up at fights.

Speaker 4 (56:41):
We're not going to have a hand tied behind our
back anymore.

Speaker 1 (56:45):
Let's call a damn spot and get into fight. Democrats
were the only ones playing by the rules. Sweet Lord almighty,
how do you spell delusion? Starts with a D like
Democrat for minutes past the hour, we come back with
a manly minute here in the morning show with the Prestons,
Guy time for a manly minute skills, virtues, ideals to

(57:18):
teach your son so that he will become a man. Remember,
male by birth, man by choice. And no, we're not
talking about sex change. Stop it, stop it. When I
started this segment, I didn't have to talk about such
silliness and offer a disclaimer. No, because you can't can't

(57:43):
choose male or female. You can choose whether you're going
to be a man or not. I'm saying, guys, parents, moms,
all the stay at home moms that I'm talking to,
you know about that first half hour your son how
to handle the American flag? It never ever touches the ground.

(58:12):
It doesn't touch the ground, doesn't touch the floor, doesn't
touch water, doesn't touch the road, no object underneath it. No, No,
you don't hang it upside down unless it's a national emergency.

(58:33):
Some have said, well, who's assuming what's going on? Stop it.
You don't carry it flat. You don't use it to
carry things. With all due respect to the athletes that
love to put it around their necks when they win something, No,
you don't wear it indoors. It should be to the

(58:58):
right of the speaker or stage area. It is not
for advertising or promotional purposes. You don't draw on it,
you don't mark on it. So just learn the dues
and don'ts about the flag. If you have a flag pole,

(59:20):
it goes up and down briskly, and when it comes down.
When it goes up, have someone with you. If you
can't manage it yourself so it doesn't touch the ground.
That's what you do. So there's your mainly minute here
in the Morning Show with Preston Scott, and it segues
to this story, which will segue to our guests next hour.

(59:41):
President Trump has signed in executive order directing the Attorney
General to prosecute violations of laws involving flag desecration and
to pursue litigation that would clarify the scope of the
First Amendment as it relates to flag desecration. It will
reas me, it worries me. Of course, you don't burn

(01:00:10):
the flag. But the Supreme Court ruled in nineteen eighty
nine that burning the American flag is a form of
symbolic speech that is protected by the First Amendment. Donald
Trump said that it is used to incite riots. Probably

(01:00:33):
worse than you know, he's he's prone to hyperbole. No
worse than at any other time in history. No, that's
not true. Vietnam was pretty bad. Do I agree with burning?
Of course I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
Do.

Speaker 1 (01:00:53):
I agree with the right to Yes, I do. Should
we no? Can we? Yes? That I've this. This is
the territory Trump walks into that feeds the dictator narrative.

(01:01:21):
And this was an unwise thing for him to do.
I don't know who's advising him. There are those saying, look,
you're allowed to. It does not criminalize burning the flag,
said one. It does not infringe on our freedom of speech.

(01:01:42):
It criminalizes the flag burning only when it's intended to
incite violence or accompanied by other lawless action. Well accompanied
by the well, then the lawless action is the issue.
So what if you burn a flag? If you're burning
a flag de light, let's say, oh, I don't know
a molotov cocktail. Yeah, it's breaking a law when you

(01:02:04):
throw it. Yep, it is. But this is murky stuff,
slippery slope material. I don't like it. Again, I'm going
to restate what I've said multiple times. I am not
a never trumper, great great president in most regards, but

(01:02:27):
I am also not an always trumper.

Speaker 2 (01:02:29):
This is wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:02:31):
Mark Levin joins me next here on the Morning Show
with Preston Scott, Cookemoning Friends, Ruminators. Thanks very much for
sharing time with us. We greatly appreciate it. You know

(01:02:52):
we do. Jose running the program in Studio one A.
I am here in Studio one B, and it is
the Morning Show with Preston Scott Show five four thirty nine.
Enjoining me on the program, where I had to read
his entire resume, it would take the entire segment, I'll
just simply say. Mark Levin is a radio show host.
He is a host on Fox News of Life, Liberty,

(01:03:17):
and Levin, among many other things, and he's a very
accomplished writer, several best sellers, including the current book on power,
Mark Levin joins us once again, Mark, how are you good?

Speaker 3 (01:03:29):
How are you my friend?

Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
I'm doing terrific. I am always fascinated by what causes
someone to take on a topic, and in the case
of on power, that is a very difficult topic to
put your arms around. First, what pushed you to do it?
And secondly, how did you get your arms around it?

Speaker 3 (01:03:50):
That is a great question. My wife says the same thing,
Why do you always write books about these tough tost topics?
And I said, that's the way my brain works. I
can't help it. So this topic, the reason I decided
to write it and get my hands around it is
because I started to really think about what I was hearing,
what I've read over the years. You know, I've got

(01:04:12):
a massive library my home here as I collect books,
not collect them to read them and then put them
on the shelf, And I started to think, what is
what is politics? Government, society? What's it all about? Fundamentally,
it's about power. And power determines whether you live in
a free society or whether you live in a tyranny.

(01:04:34):
Power determines whether you your voice is heard in a
government or not. Power determines whether you have free speech
or not. Power determines all of it. And then I
went back and looked at, you know, the Revolutionary War,
what was that about. Ultimately it was about power, that is,
representative government. They revolted against the monarchy because the monarchy
did not listen to the voices of the people. And

(01:04:56):
then I got to thinking, okay, well, really, what is
the base of our government. We talk about these things,
you know, separation of powers and liberty, and it goes
in one ear and out the other for a lot
of people. And I thought, well, that's not exactly right.
That's the endgame. But what is it about? And it's
this when you go back and look at the founders

(01:05:19):
the revolution and the founders, they believed in the sovereignty
of God. They believed in the Judeo Christian belief system.
That doesn't mean everyone else has to believe in it,
but they did, and they believe God was sovereign. And
when you read the Declaration, God is mentioned in different iterations,
four different times in a document that is declaring why

(01:05:40):
we're revolting and why did they do that? Well, God
is the sovereign and his children on earth. When it
comes to governing and the civil society. They are the sovereign.
So we the people that we talk about, we the
people that are mentioned in our documents, we are the sovereign.
That is where this comes from. And then when you
look at the institution, why is it written the way

(01:06:01):
it's written? Because they took the declaration and they said,
what kind of government do we set up that creates
this civil society that Locke talked about and yet respects
the sovereignty of the individual and the community of individuals.
And they looked at the Enlightenment, and so our founding

(01:06:22):
and our government is a fusion of this Judeo Christian
belief system and the Enlightenment. And what did the Enlightenment
tell them? Among other things, that told them the power
needs to check power, power needs to check power. With
the Enlightenment came the whole idea of Western democracy and
so forth. So I talk about this word power, I

(01:06:43):
break it down into a positive power and a negative power,
and then I compare it to Marxism and Islamism. Art
is am Americanism is the fusion of the sovereign and
this belief system, our faith with the Enlightenment. Marxism rejects

(01:07:03):
our faith rejects all faith. It's just coercion, and Islamism
is the fusion of a very radical view of Islam
and coercion. And I go through it and break it
down and applied to the language liberty and rights, that
sort of thing.

Speaker 1 (01:07:22):
Mark Levin with me. The book is on Power. We've
got another segment to go. You can find it literally everywhere.
It is a bestseller once again, authored by Mark Levin,
eight time New York Times bestseller. He's our guest for
another few minutes here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

(01:07:46):
Wing Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 4 (01:07:48):
I got Pantha My News Radio one point seven Dousla.

Speaker 1 (01:07:58):
Carving out time, very busy schedule. Mark Levin with us
The Book on Power, Mark, How did you end up
arriving at the chapters you did and tackling the different
iterations of power that you write of, because it's expressed
in so many different ways, so many different levels of humanity,

(01:08:23):
society and government in the world and in our history.
What led you to this particular set of topics.

Speaker 3 (01:08:31):
No pression. It sounds to me like you've written a
book or books, because this is what goes through your head. Actually,
this is very interesting. You raise these questions. Well, first
of all, you have to decide what you want to prioritize,
and then you have to decide what you're not going
to expand on, because you know the book could be
a thousand pages long. I decided in this book in particular,

(01:08:53):
I wanted it to be very concise and readable and understandable.
And you take on these very tough topics. And even
at the end of the book, I say, look, I
could have written about power and immigration, power and equality,
power of this, that and the other. But this is
really a journey of the mind. And so I write
about power and language, power and rights and power and liberty.
I bit off the what I think are the toughest chunks,

(01:09:15):
and I explained, among other things, that liberty without rights
means nothing, and rights without power mean nothing. And I
explained in the book. And you look at the Stalins
constitutional in nineteen thirty six. It's brilliant. He steals from
our Bill of Rights, it even goes beyond it. And
yet the next year he was slaughtering the Ukrainians. He
slaughtered at about seven to eight million Ukrainians.

Speaker 1 (01:09:37):
So what is that all about?

Speaker 3 (01:09:40):
And what that's all about is what I call the
the use of language and a negative language to support
negative power. And I also explain that, you know, rights
without power power the people in this case mean nothing,
and I try to compare those and explain those. And
I also explain in the book it's not all philosophy,

(01:10:01):
it's not all ancient history, it's not all American history.
I bring it to today. The Democrat Party believes in
an authoritarian democracy. And I know that sounds odd, but
it's true, which means they basically go through the process
of voting, and they go through the process of judging
and all the rest of it. But they're in favor
of centralized power. They reject the whole notion of the

(01:10:25):
American founding that God is the sovereign and therefore the
people of the sovereign. And so this is why they
created this massive bureaucracy at the fourth branch of government
that's not in the constitution. This is why they rely
on these trial courts and judges. If they win elections, great,
they try to make permanent changes to our system. If
they lose elections, they turn to the permanent party government.

(01:10:46):
So they're into what I call soft negative power. They
are the progeny of marx. I wrote a book called
American Marxism. I don't need to get into that. And
then I said, we spend our trying to preserve individual
liberty and the separation of power. So it's a completely
different mindset. Our viewpoint is completely opposite of the view

(01:11:11):
of the left, that is, the Democrats, or the Marxists
or the Islamists. And they are absolutely incompatible. And I
explained this is the battle of our time. Their ideology
which seeks to twist and turn our society and culture
inside out, and our belief system, which is based in
our founding and our constitution.

Speaker 1 (01:11:32):
Mark I look at the makeup of Congress and some
of the newer elected members of Congress that are Republicans
that seem to have that ethos, that ideal of what
America was founded to be really part of their personal creed.
Are there enough conservative Republicans and are there enough citizens

(01:11:55):
of this country that are taking ownership of the apologetic
to advance it and to secure our future.

Speaker 3 (01:12:03):
Well, here's the thing. When I write a book, I
don't know the answer to those questions. I try to
influence the outcomes. I try to I'm on a mission
as an activist. I'm an activist first, a radio host,
an author, and TV guy second, and so my view
is to take these positions, push them out as much

(01:12:25):
as I can, because I know the media will not,
And that's why I write books. Because there's tens of
millions of us who do, in fact share these values
in these belief systems. I want to encourage people to
learn more about them, to expand on them, to discust
them at the dinner table at church, at synagogue where
they are, to have the Thomas Pains and the Paul

(01:12:47):
Revers out there to counter what is I believe is
this growing darkness and it's very grave of this Islamist
Marxist ideology. I don't believe there are enough people speaking
out about this, but again, tens of millions of us,
we can circumvent the propaganda from the media and from

(01:13:09):
politicians and demand of them what we want, demand of
our teachers and our professors what we want, and push
this out. Whether you're a truck driver, an electrician, a plumber,
whether you're a surgeon or a lawyer, it doesn't matter.
These are ideas that we share as Americans.

Speaker 1 (01:13:25):
Mark, thanks for writing the book and thanks for being you.
I appreciate you very much.

Speaker 3 (01:13:29):
Well, thank you brother God bless take care of yourself.

Speaker 1 (01:13:32):
Thank you. Mark Levin with us this morning. And the
book is on power and you can get up everywhere
you can go to the bookstores. You can. You can
probably find this book at at Target or Walmart for
that matter. Okay, maybe not Target, but Barnes and Nobles
Books a million Amazon of course, and you can you

(01:13:55):
can order it from as Simon and Schuster. Mark Levin
our guest here on the More to Show with Preston Scott.
No way to follow up Mark Levin other than with.

Speaker 7 (01:14:16):
If you read something insane, I probably did it.

Speaker 6 (01:14:22):
I'm find of who the block is. Going ahead and
google my.

Speaker 1 (01:14:25):
Name, kid them's name. Now there is so man to
the sins I have committed, and we all feel better.
We would have somebody to come on everybody saying the man.
Although I gotta tell you once again, Florida Woeman. This

(01:14:52):
is this is so quintessential Florida Man territory only Florida Woeman.
Emily Martinez claimed to be a veneer technician working at
the tap In Beauty Bar in Panella's Park. Her clients

(01:15:15):
were allegedly offered full mouth veneers for a much cheaper
price than it would normally cost at a typical dentist office.
That's clue number one. Authorities said two customers suffered pain

(01:15:39):
infections complications after she worked on their teeth. You see,
she took fake veneers and attached them with crazy glue.

(01:16:03):
Due to the complications, some of her customers underwent emergency
dental work. Video shows her social media advertisements with before
and after clips of clients teeth. Authorities in Penela's County

(01:16:24):
say that she used nail glue to attach the veneers
and it was possible that she pulled some clients teeth.
She was arrested for unlicensed dental work. She's also accused
of using different names and undering under different business titles.

(01:16:52):
She was offering veneers for like three grand or something
like that. Yeah, you don't, you don't. That's one of
those things. It's like, I remember seeing story. We've talked
about the stories women getting injections in their behinds because

(01:17:18):
they want them fuller rounder. And you know what some
women got, They got cement talked into their rear, ends
injected into their butt. I mean what people will do. Look,

(01:17:40):
there are no discounts on things like that. You don't
get a discounted butt lift. You don't get a discounted
breast enhancement. You don't get discounted veneers. You see the
right people for things like that. If you're gonna do
things like that, now, the butt lift and the breast

(01:18:01):
stuff whatever. I no, unless you've had like you had
an accident you need surgical you know, repair type thing.
I get it. But that whole world of enhancement to
oh look at me, No, no, no, no, no, But

(01:18:24):
but the veneers, I get it. I get it. A
lot of people want that, Oh put on sunglasses, white teeth,
But Florida woo man, he's just in crazy glue to
attach him, not what you do. Twenty seven minutes past

(01:18:44):
the hour, come back with a big Story in the
press Box.

Speaker 4 (01:18:51):
It's traffic, weather, sports, entertainment and the Truth The Morning
Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point
seven WFL.

Speaker 1 (01:19:11):
Big Story in the press Box this morning is for
seniors and the children of seniors, which means people, look,
I get it. I'm a senior, but I'm at that
age where I'm I'm a hip senior. You know what
I'm saying. And look, I'm in this world and have

(01:19:35):
been for a while, so I'm not clicking any links
and losing my money. But the FBI has seen fit
to send out a bulletin and warnings because so many
senior adults are being scammed out of their entire life savings.
We're talking about all of it. And so if you

(01:19:57):
have parents that are senior adults, grandparents that are senior adults,
and you know, and and they're not aware that these
scams are out there, they they might get offended. What
you don't think?

Speaker 6 (01:20:13):
I know.

Speaker 1 (01:20:15):
Most of them don't, or we wouldn't be having this bulletin.
So push past a little bit of resentment that you're
worried about their ability to recognize a scam. Push past
it and warn them. Anyway, here's what's happening. First, a

(01:20:36):
tech support impostor contacts your grandparents, your parents through a text,
a phone call, or an email. They click a link,
they reach out, they say, find out more, click here,
chat with an expert, whatever, and they get connected to somebody.

(01:20:57):
That person then directs them to download a program that
allows the scammer to access their computer the scammer asked
the victim to open up their financial accounts to determine
whether there have been any unauthorized charges. Once that happens,
what they're doing is they're looking for where is the money?

(01:21:22):
And once they find their target, then they move into
the next faith. They're gonna get a You're gonna get
a call from someone in our fraud department and they'll
help you further. I'm glad we were able to get
to begin the process of helping protect your money. Oh,

(01:21:43):
it sounds so wonderful. Then the second call, financial institution
imposture from the fraud department calls to inform them their
funds have been accessed by a foreign hacker. Oh no,
not a foreign acker.

Speaker 6 (01:22:03):
What should I do?

Speaker 1 (01:22:09):
The person may or may not have an Indian accent.
Do you much? Move you out of money immediately to
a third part of you account? Maybe not. Maybe it's
gonna be well move your money, or maybe it's gonna
be you need to move your money. It needs to be.
You know, I don't know what the voice is gonna be.
It doesn't matter. They're gonna tell you to move your
money to a third party account where it's gonna be safe,

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and then they're instructed to send the money via wire transfer,
cash or crypto and do it over multiple transactions over
a span of days or months to this new account.
The third phase, someone could be posing as a US
government employee, prompting the individual to move their funds to

(01:22:55):
alias accounts for protection. Just kind of Yes, this is
a scam that's going on. Hackers are accessing people just
like you. We are saving millions of No, they're stealing
millions of dollars. They're actually stealing billions of dollars. This
is happening. It's happening to people in your family. They're

(01:23:20):
getting these emails, texts and phone calls right now. They're
getting them. Make sure your family members know what's happening.
Money Talk ironically. Next on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Money Talk

(01:23:48):
with investment advisor Howard Heisman with Enhanced Financial Services, securities
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appropriate matters, seek professional tax and or legal advice. All right, Howard,

(01:24:21):
I'm not convinced that we're not paying the tariffs ourselves.
I get the negotiating part of it all. But what's
the impact of the tariffs in the economy?

Speaker 11 (01:24:31):
Sure, well, you know, Presston, they add up, and they're
starting to. The tariff revenues last month month of July
top twenty seven billion. At that rate were to hold
true throughout the remainder of the decade through two thousand
and thirty four, that would estimate it anyway, bring in

(01:24:54):
two point eight trillion in revenue over the decade to
the Treasury depart now. And that, by the way, that's
an effective teriff rate that we have in place today
of about fourteen point four percent. So there are a
few things that that kind of money could potentially offset

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or pay for, such as one way to raise two
point eight trillion would be to increase the payroll tax
by one percent. That would bring in about one point
three trillion, but no one wants that. You could put
a twenty five percent carbon tax polluting industries, that bringing

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about nine hundred billion, and last but not least certainly
not going to be very popular. Cutting the pay of
our military personnel by seventeen percent. Collectively, those three things
would equal two point eight trillion, none of which you're
likely to happen, right, So the issue with tariffs really

(01:26:04):
comes down to what you mentioned, who actually is who's
paying for it? And it's a mixed bag at this point.
I think a large part of the tariffs are being
paid by the companies that were purchasing goods and services
from right here in the US. So we're seeing a
little bit bump up inflation, those companies are suffering a

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little bit of a hit to their profit margins to
offset the tariff costs. And finally, the foreign exporters, those
exporters and countries are paying some as well.

Speaker 1 (01:26:40):
Where are individual investors right now? What's the mindset? Are
people bullish? Are they bearish? Where what are the people
that are putting money out of the in the market thinking?

Speaker 11 (01:26:51):
Boy press And that's just such a great question. Over
the years, we've seen at times where bull markets move
up on what I would call a wall of worry,
and it appears to be the case today. Individual investors
have been polled since nineteen eighty seven every single week

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by the American Association of Individual Investors to kind of
get a feel for how they're feeling. And what we're
seeing today is that only about thirty one percent of
investors or bullish or positive, whereas forty five percent Preston
are negative. They're bearish, And if you take that spread,

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it's only about a fourteen percent difference between those that
are positive and negative and the bias. Over the decades,
Preston has been for a positive bullish tilt because you know,
folks like when their stocks and portfolios go up.

Speaker 12 (01:27:52):
Sure, so this is only this has only happened a
couple of times in the very same week where we've
had such an arrow spread.

Speaker 3 (01:28:05):
Uh.

Speaker 11 (01:28:05):
And yet the markets here are basically they're at all
time highs as we speak. So we're going through what
I call the wall of worry effect, and we'll just
have to wait and see how much longer that plays out.
Obviously investors hope for quite some time.

Speaker 1 (01:28:23):
Howard is always thanks for the intel. We'll talk again
in a couple of weeks.

Speaker 11 (01:28:27):
Yes, sir, I have great day.

Speaker 1 (01:28:29):
Thank you, sir. Howard Eisman with us this morning Money
Talk on the Morning Show with Me.

Speaker 2 (01:28:37):
Preston Scott and can you see.

Speaker 6 (01:28:42):
Us?

Speaker 7 (01:28:56):
Tell you still get an emailed about Honey. I steally
have phone calls coming in and get an email everybody
tell me about tuber Honey and they're.

Speaker 1 (01:29:06):
Telling me I got good stuff, right what I got?

Speaker 7 (01:29:09):
Yet?

Speaker 1 (01:29:11):
I can't believe how many people have written, texted, and
phoned about Honey. I guess you are sweet on the topic.
Oh b Hive end with a an interesting I saw

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the picture of this, and I was dumbfounded. I talked
about how a swordfish, sailfish, sailfish probably more so, would
be what I would probably prefer to catch. Lighter salefish
are the lightest of the as opposed to like, I'm marlin,

(01:30:10):
unbelievable guy fishing off Orange Beach, multi day fishing trip
offshore Gulf of America. Five hundred and fifty pound swordfish.
I'm showing Jose the picture of this behemoth. Now, that's

(01:30:36):
half the size, more less than half the size of
the fish I saw at the Bay Point bill Fish Tournament.
The marlin that was caught, it was you're kidding me? Size,
I mean, it was just it was. It was ginormous.
But a Alabama state record five hundred and fifty pounds

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swordfish man. They the guy who caught it, Robert Fritz,
sixty foot hatteras.

Speaker 2 (01:31:11):
Okay, that don't work, that don't work. That's a nice boat.

Speaker 1 (01:31:15):
We wanted marlin, but that day we caught some dolphin,
blackfin tuna, three thirty five pound wahoo, hooked a barracuda
we were bringing it in, and a two hundred pound
class blue marlin chas and hooked the couda and tried
to eat it. Unfortunately, we didn't hook that fish, but
they did a deep drop setup meant for swordfish, squid bait,

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heavyweight light stick fifteen hundred feet overnight. Four am boom,
four am boom, unbelievable.

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Remote work and moms and how could we ignore the
impromptu honey. Segment we'll be back.

Speaker 2 (01:33:45):
Tomorrow