Ep. 5440: Is Trump going to far.

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Wednesday, August 27tth.

Our guests today include:
-Daniel Flynn





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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Andy, Good morning, Welcome to the Wednesday edition of The
Morning Show with President Scott Ruminators. How are you. I
hope you had a good night of rest ready to go.
For those of you that are in your final hours

(00:38):
of your overnight shift, hope the work shift went well.
I can't say we're going to help you sleep better,
but we might. I will say that everything that I
did yesterday to prepare for this show, with the exception
of two segments, has largely been thrown out by what

(01:00):
happened since I went to bed news that is that
that has developed now there. It's just the show got
tossed up in the air like a salad. It just
got tossed up in the air. And so we I

(01:20):
said to Jose when we when I walked in, I said, hey,
we're probably gonna take some calls in the second hour.
And then I said to him, after going and printing
a bunch of things skip that no, we're not. We
I just can't. I can't do it. There's just there's
too much. So buckle up, Buttercup. It's gonna be uh,
it's gonna be a lot of fun to go through

(01:42):
the information and look even stuff that's a little wonky.
We're together, right, We're we're We're together. Whether you agree
with me on things or disagree with me, whether I'm
channeling your inner thoughts or I'm pushing and prodding against
things that you believe and hold deer, it doesn't matter.
We're together, and it's okay if we disagree on things,

(02:04):
even though you shouldn't disagree with me on most anything,
but that's okay if you do. Our scripture today comes
from our message series at our church, which I'm sharing
with you on Mondays. Micah seven, it was the final
day in the book of Micah. We're going through the
minor prophets of the Old Testament, the Book of twelve

(02:27):
of the twelve Prophets minor prophets, and so we've we've
polished off Micah. But in Micah seven, seven and eight
it says, but as for me, this is Micah, I
will look to the Lord. This This comes after spending

(02:50):
time talking about woes and distress and difficult times, and
Micah says, but as for me, I will look to
the Lord. I will wait for the God of my salvation.
My God will hear me rejoice, not over me, my

(03:12):
enemy when I fall I shall rise. When I sit
in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me.
Isn't it interesting how once again that theme that we've
talked about Jesus being the light of the world, and

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that if we just hug close to him, even as
we walk through the darkest of darkest times and places,
we have the illumination that comes from Jesus, kind of
like the ultimate miner's light, illuminating a path where we
can safely set our feet. But what I want is
look at here, just for a minute. I will wait

(04:02):
for the God of my salvation. When I sit in darkness,
the Lord will be alike to me. Sometimes. Listen, did
you catch I think the keywords in those two parts
of those two verses, i will wait, I will sit.

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Waiting and sitting are not things we do very well.
We don't like being in quiet, we don't like just pausing.
We like to react. I've talked very openly over the
years about one of my weaknesses throughout my lifetime is

(04:44):
I'm a reactionary. And I've grown out of that a
good bit. I can't say I'm totally been delivered from
that shortcoming, but I have spent probably thirty years learning
the difference between responding to something and reacting to something.
And I'm far better at responding than I used to be.

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But those verses underscore the idea of responding, of waiting,
of sitting, of being still, and that sometimes the best
thing to do is just hit the pause button. I
know that applies to some of you this morning, and
this is good wisdom for you to share with your

(05:26):
kids today as they head to school. Ten past the hour,
It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott Wufla. Inside the

(05:48):
American Patriots Almanac, we Go August twenty seventh, sixteen sixty five.
The first theatrical perform rents in the Colonies, a play
called The Bear and the cub As in bare scandalous.

(06:14):
It was given in a comic Virginia, seventeen seventy six.
It was on this date British forces defeat the Patriots
in the Battle of Long Island. To that, eighteen fifty nine,
Edwin Drake drills the first successful commercial oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania.

(06:35):
Huh how about that? Nineteen oh nine. Lyndon Johnson born
near Stonewall, Texas. Nineteen sixty two, NASA launches Mariner II,
the first probe to fly by and gather data on
another planet, Venus. So there's this state in history now
it is It is National pots de krem Day. Yeah right,

(07:03):
What in the world is that? I had to look
it up. It is a delicious custard dessert. You collect
your ramkins because this is the day you use them.
Recipes call for this. It's a French dessert dating back
to the seventeenth century. Its name means pot of custard

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or pot of cream, which also refers to the baking dish.
While pots de crem traditionally baked in small pots with lids,
they may also be baked in other small porcelain dishes.
A wide variety of custards may be used, and it

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should not be set when the baking completes. Recipes vary.
You can count on eating eggs, egg yolks, cream or milk,
chocolate or vanilla. They bake at a low temperature, and
it's helpful to put them in a watery bath so
they bake more evenly. I don't know if you've ever

(08:11):
baked in a water bath. It's a really smart way
to bake things at a lower temperature. Very evenly because
it distributes the heat better. Some use espresso orange. Then
you add fresh berries, whipped cream if you like, little

(08:32):
powdered sugar on top. So there you go. That's that's
what it's National just because day, just because National peach Day.
So there you have it. That's that's what you got
for the day. Now today on the program, again, I'm

(08:54):
looking at a rundown that is been just tossed around,
you know, like an unbuckled passenger and a jet and
bad turbulence. I mean just tossed around. Let's see how
many analogies I can come up with today. They're just stupid.
We do have one thing that's locked in, and that's

(09:14):
a guest, Daniel Flynn. He's an author, and he writes
about the man who he says invented conservatism. I I'm
gonna be interested in hearing his case. It's the man

(09:39):
who invented conservatism, the unlikely life of Frank s Meyer,
referred to as the original riz Kid, set the path
for modern day conservatism, but whose story nobody knows. I thought, yeah,

(10:00):
let's talk a couple of minutes about that. So we've
got them for a couple of segments. This morning. The
big stories in the press box are incredible. There's been
a massive development in the cracker Barrel story, and there's
still going to be a lot more to talk about
within that that we've also found and uncovered, not like

(10:21):
through our investigative reporting, but through the research team finding
reporting that is giving us a glimpse into the inner
workings of the cracker Barrel corporate suicide. Searching for the
right word. So stick around, We've got a lot to

(10:43):
get to today. Sixteen seventeen minutes now past the hour,
come back with a did you know that starts with
the word eureka?

Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (10:59):
Word? Is this about? With the yes? Twenty two past
the hour eureka? This is really fascinating. Can creativity be forecast? Now? Eureka? Obviously?

(11:25):
Is that is that it's almost it's almost a euphemism
at this point.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
It is.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
It is synonymous with the moment of discovery, right, Eureka?
And the question is can creativity that moment be forecast?

(12:00):
There's a study that now claims that you can catch
a Eureka in real time. This is so amazing to me.
Those aha moments that I think we all have them
at different times where we suddenly unlock the lock where

(12:23):
we figure it out, where it just clicks connects. Sometimes
it's not something that you necessarily invent. It's a riddle,
a problem, a conundrum, a puzzle that you solve and
there's this moment that it clicks together. You ever played

(12:47):
that peg game at Cracker Barrel just to kind of
mix stories. You ever gotten it down to one? I've
gotten it down to one like two or three times
in my life. I can't remember how I do it.
Each time I do it, I just sort of stumble
upon it. But there's a moment in that game. It's
not unlike chess or a lot of other things that
we might play where you just you see it. You

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just see it and it happens. And what this study
did is it measured shifts in behavioral attitudes actions minutes
before a problem solver announces a breakthrough. The study suggests

(13:36):
that insights appear to come out of nowhere, but are
foreshadowed by changes in how people move right and shift
attention while they think. To capture insight, the team video
recorded six PhD level mathematicians as they tackled notoriously hard
problems from the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, a six

(14:01):
hour twelve problem contest in which most years the median
score is zero or one out of one hundred and twenty.
The filming took place in offices and seminar rooms chalk
in hand, and they identified every moment participants expressed an

(14:21):
abrupt realization, for example, oh, I see. These moments were
often accompanied by sudden movements and emotional explanations, not unlike
Archimedes running naked through the streets of ancient Syracuse yelling eureka,
though it admittedly less dramatic. Crucially, the minutes leading up

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to those exclamations were not business as usual. The mathematicians'
familiar loops between ideas led to novel connections, and their
overall behavior became less predictable. Using tools from information theory,
the researcher quantified unpredictability and found it reliably ramped up

(15:04):
before verbalized insights. In a separate analysis of the video,
they report that behavioral unpredictability increased two minutes before a
Eureka moment and peaked about one minute after the insight,
and then returned to baseline, meaning the body gave clues

(15:26):
that something was about to happen. That's that's kind of
cool that they were able to observe differences in how
people conducted themselves in the moments leading up to that. Aha, eureka,

(15:51):
the breakthrough, the discovery, the whatever. Interesting, very interesting signals
from unpredictability. Even though this was mathematics, they suggest that
it could be useful and detectable in other creative domains,

(16:15):
and so the frustration might in fact lead to an
openness to new ideas. When you're trying the problem solve,
you get frustrated and then it's like, oh, oh oh wait,
and then you get you think outside the box a
little bit and all of a sudden boom. Honestly, it's

(16:35):
kind of how I built my desk because I didn't
have all the stuff that I needed to build it properly,
so I had to improvise. And that improvising is what
led to a lot of frustration, but a lot of ah,
I could do it this way. Moments it worked. I
got my desk twenty eight minutes after the hour. I'm
sorry if that bored you fascinates me.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yes, he knows how to read well, actually, its producer
reads him.

Speaker 4 (17:05):
He doesn't know how to read. It's The Morning Show
with Preston Scott directed in The Morning Show Banned Wednesday

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Show fifty.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
Four forty, He's Oseiah and Preston Big Stories in the
press box, Cracker Barrel has dumped the new logo. They
are going back to the old logo. We thank our
guests for sharing your voices and love for Cracker Barrel.
Our new logo is going away. Our old timer will remain.

(18:05):
Interesting that the statement did not come from Julie Fel's
Messino or Massa No I'm going Messino. It came from
their social media people. If the last few days have
shown us anything, it's how deeply people care about Cracker Barrel.

(18:26):
We're grateful for your heartfelt voices. You've shown us that
we could have done a better job sharing who we
are and who will always be. Now we get to
the sketchy part. What has not changed and what will
never change are the values of this company was built
on when Cracker Barrew first opened in nineteen sixty nine.
Hard work, family, scratch cooked food, made with care. At

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least two thirds of that are sketchy. But there's a
lot more to this story, and we'll get to some
of it later on in the show, just some of
the corporate filings over the years that reveal investor distrust
of what the new CEO and what the board was doing.

(19:12):
Got that. That's how deep we're diving here. See, that's
what we do. That's all we do. Second big story,
President Trump is proposing renaming the Department of Defense the
Department of War, which is what its original name was

(19:35):
during the Civil War, it was excuse me, he was
the Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. Trump thinks that it's
not just defense. We want a military that can be offensive.
Some say the best offense is a great defense. What's

(19:57):
interesting is, you know, I jumped this up on to
our ex page. Didn't get a lot of results because
we're not verified. It's a nice way of saying that
you have to pay money to not be suppressed, and
so we're a little suppressed from you know, I just
at this point, I just refuse to pay money to

(20:20):
lift the page up. But that's not to say it
won't happen. It's just interesting. I'm not sure everybody is
in agreement that we ought to just call it the
Department of War. That said Pete Hegseith is in support
of whatever Trump wants to do, so that's fine. And
then the other big story. DNC members rally around the

(20:41):
Resolutions Committee voted unanimously to affirm the American values of diversity, equity,
and inclusion. So it will go to a vote to
the four hundred plus membership today. But the Democrats seemingly
cannot read the tea leaves. And so to any of

(21:07):
you that are are holdouts hoping the Democrat Party is
gonna you know, someone's gonna break some smelling salts in
front of their collective nostrils and they're gonna come to
their senses. It doesn't appear to be the case. They
have voted unanimously to to to re up and to
double down on DEIDI is an affront to success in

(21:32):
this nation. DI is a chain to the plantation for
all members of it. If you are a member of
DEI by way of being a minority or a quote
suppressed fringe group, you are you are chaining yourself to
the Democrat plantation. It is. It is saying you're not
capable of succeeding on your own merits. You have to

(21:55):
have benefits, which ironically are exclusionary of other groups, which
discriminate against other groups. So Democrats listening, you've got more
choices to They're not waiting, they are not learning lessons.
Forty one minutes after the hour, They're just not learning.

(22:16):
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott. I just want

(22:41):
to listen to that for a second. This story was
sent to me a few weeks ago by a listener
who said, have you seen this? Do you know anything
about this? The answer was no. It's taken me a

(23:06):
while to read up and learn enough about it, and
I don't know that I will be successful in getting
this in, but I'm gonna try, even if it takes
me a couple of segments. It is a guest essay
by doctor Merril Nass and it shared by doctor Robert Malone.

(23:29):
Now I know there are some people that doctor Malone
has fallen out of favor with. That's fine. You know,
I don't subscribe to a lot of group think on
a lot of things, and so I've kind of pushed
away from a big group that was very, very useful
during COVID that I think got over at SKIS and

(23:51):
really lost sight of what matters most. But here's the headline,
and you need to hear this. Okay, this is not
something that is unimportant to really anybody. Will Congress give
the pesticide industry a de facto liability shield? What the

(24:22):
piece goes into great detail, as in I'm I think
I only printed a portion of it, and I got
fourteen pages, and doctor Nass writes. In twenty thirteen, Bear
had its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary. It was riding high.

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It sent an airship an anniversary exhibit around the world
to celebrate. Its stock price was twenty seven, the highest
it had been since it entered the New York Stock
Stock Exchange in two thousand and two. It was bullish
and interested in acquisitions. Bear decided to go out after Monsanto.
Do you know the name Monsanto? Here's what Fortune magazines

(25:08):
said about it. Bear bought Monsanto as part of its
reinvention of a life science firm with a focus on
health and agriculture. At the time of the deal was
proposed in twenty sixteen, the competitive landscape of agricultural science
space was shifting dramatically. Dow and DuPont were merging, and

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so were cam China and Syngenta. Bear wanted to become
a bigger player in seeds and genetically modified crops, and
Monsanto offered just that doctor nasrites, but there were potential problems.
The World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer
just reported that glycissate, the active ingredient in Monsanto's most

(25:54):
popular product Roundup, was a probable human carcinogen. In the
first case to trial, groundskeeper Dwayne Johnson won. His case
was awarded two hundred and seventy eight million dollars by
a jury. It was reduced twice to twenty one million.
The discovery revealed that Monsando had known of the potential

(26:17):
carcinogen of glycopate since the early nineteen eighties, but Monsando
had pressured the EPA, which ignored much of the independent
scientific evidence revealing glycisate's toxicity and instead relied on industry
supplied studies negating it in its official safety assessment. California

(26:41):
listed it as a carcinogen in twenty seventeen. Bear's stock
has been dropping ever since it bought Monsanto. The story continues,
and we'll get to the rest of it next, because
the rest of it implies there is a full court
press by Bear with the other pesticide companies to shield

(27:03):
it from any liability moving forward. And it's buried in
an appropriations bill.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
And we're going to get to that next on news
radio one point seven. Doub usla.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
If you are just joining us, will Congress give the
pesticide industry a de facto liability shield A guest essay
by doctor Merril nass on doctor Robert Malone's newsletter, And
we're at a point here where in twenty twenty three,
Bear hired a CEO New One, Bill Anderson said he

(27:48):
was going to take care of the glycopate glyphos sate
liability problem for the company. He developed a six prong approach.
I'm not going to go into detail on those six prongs.
I will simply tell you that the idea was to
make the liability problem disappear. And what they're doing is

(28:10):
they are working with other pesticide companies. They have hired
some very clever lawyers, and they've convinced Republicans. This is
where we get to the meat of the matter for you.
They've convinced Republican leadership to put a writer in an
appropriations bill that would essentially end the using of failure
to warn in pesticide lawsuits. See, that was the problem.

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There's no warning to people. And what they're saying is
they're putting in and to sort of paraphrase, and I'm
looking at something called section four p fifty three of
the Appropriations Bill. Now as of now it has not passed.

(28:59):
They're using the EPA's old definition of safety for the
carcinogen that's inside some of these pesticides, glyphasate. That was

(29:20):
done the EPA used the studies by the pesticide companies
at the time, not the new studies. Not anything that
shows the pattern, not anything that shows what's happened. It's
a well known fact. That's why you use glyphas sate
very sparingly. The groundskeeper was a guy who used it

(29:43):
all the time. There was no warning. What this section
four point fifty three, it will state that glyphassate is
safe BA Biston Monsando supplied science, and it will not

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be allowed to be challenged going forward by other agencies
because the writer blocks all funding for timely label updates
or other safety recommendations throughout the federal government. Furthermore, it's
not just about glyphosate, but about tens of thousands of
registered pesticides now and in the future. The bottom line

(30:25):
is it transforms the EPA registration into legal immunity at
all levels. This is a bad, bad, bad thing. This
is about the food products. I don't know if you've heard,

(30:48):
but a massive amount of rice produced has trace amounts
of glyphosate in it. Stuff you buy at the store, packaged,
it's in there. So we need to be fighting against
Section four fifty three. Section four fifty three. You need

(31:12):
to tell your congressman vote no.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Past the hour.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
It is the second hour show fifty four to forty
of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. You know what
we're We're just five days away from five shows away
from show five four four five. That'd be kind of fun.
I know that has a name when it's the same
forward or backwards. I just don't know what that is.

(31:51):
I kidding, like, oh yeah, when someone says it, I
told you the show rewrote itself when I got in
the morning and that and look it happens. It's not
the end of the world. I've got a stack of
stories over here that I'm gonna set to the side
and maybe get to it if they you know, sometimes
the story just taps out. It's not evergreen, but it

(32:16):
can hold. But it can. It's like food in the fridge.
It can last just so long, and like a jar
of spaghetti sauce, it just lasts so long before you
just have to throw it out. White fuzzy stuff starts growing,

(32:40):
it smells weird, and yeah, you just gone. But for
a while, it's fine. I've got a bunch of stories
that I think are like that they'll hold for a while.
I looked at this. US District Judge Alan Johnson has
again dismissed a lawsuit by four at least four former

(33:06):
University of Wyoming students against their sorority for allowing a
biological male to join their group. The judge ruled the
sorority can define women however it chooses, He wrote, the
organization clearly showed in its document that it defines women

(33:28):
by their gender and not their biological sex. Nothing in
the bylaws or the standing rules requires capitinarily define the
words women or women to include any of those individuals
born with a certain set of reproductive organs, particularly when
even the dictionary cited by plaintiffs offers a more expansive definition.

(33:50):
He dismissed the former student's citation of the definition of
women under President Trump's executive order. We are not entirely
sure what this definition means, not having a degree in biology.
But even assuming this definition aligned with plaintiffs, it only
applies to the executive branch's interpretation of federal laws and

(34:12):
administration policy. It is not relevant in the world of
private contracts, which is where we currently find ourselves. He
dismissed the case with prejudice, which means it cannot find
its way back to his courtroom. It can be appealed. However,
this is why the United States Supreme Court has to

(34:34):
take this on. It must, it must settle what the
definition is. Let's go to Matt Walsh's question, what is
a woman? The Supreme Court of the United States. Unbelievably,

(34:57):
we find ourselves in Rod's twilight Zone picture, if you will.
We're a man with tucking technology and a bra can
pretend to be a woman with the little rouge and lipstick,

(35:20):
can portray himself as the Paris sex. No, no, none
of that changes the DNA of the person. And look,
I'm not going to get through all of that again.
We all know this. This is so so annoying that
we are still dealing with this issue. I'm gonna paraphrase

(35:47):
my old buddy, John Stenberger, who said on this program.
John former head of the Florida Family Policy Council, now
working with Liberty Counsel. John famously said on this show,
if marriage can mean anything, marriage means nothing. If woman

(36:18):
can mean anything, woman means nothing. And so this is
about a definition anchored in time by God that defines
woman as a biological female different than a male. Eve

(36:45):
was different than Adam. The two served different purposes, but
served together. And look what happened to us. Not nevermind,
that's another story. We have to have a case skip
before the Supreme Court that settles this issue, ends it.

(37:08):
This is lunacy ten past the hour. More court decisions
that defy understanding, where you're challenged to make a difference
each and every day. Good morning, and welcome to the
Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 5 (37:31):
Timing matters. Timing matters.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
If a contest says entries must be received by such
and such date. If it's not received by such and
such date, your entry doesn't count. Yeah, but but but
the postal service, it didn't get it there in time.

(38:10):
That's not my fault as someone running a contest, that's
your fault for not taking into account potential delays in
postal service and the need to mail it earlier. Right
timing matters. There are deadlines on things now through blah

(38:33):
blah blah blah blah. Take advantage of the Labor Day sale.
Guess what. The Labor Day sale ends when the business
closes on Labor Day unless they extend it. Come in
the day after the Labor Day sale and say hey,

(38:53):
I want that Labor Day special. You're most likely going
to get a Oh. Sorry, that special financing was was
for the last month and it ended yesterday. Sorry, can't
you I mean, it's just a day late. No, the

(39:16):
requirements of the special financing stipulated we needed it done
by yesterday. Okay, So why in the world would voting
be any different. Pennsylvania tried to tighten down its laws,
saying that if you don't have your mail in ballot properly,

(39:42):
time stamp, date stamped, and on time, or if it
doesn't have a signature, it doesn't count. There are rules
it doesn't count, except that the Third Circuit Court of
Appeals said no, no, that is in a a burden
on a constitutional right to vote. No, it's not. You

(40:08):
get a mail in ballot what forty five sixty days,
I don't know how many days, but you get it
in plenty of time. Well, but I need time to
research the candidates. Then don't mail in a ballot, don't vote. Yes, sorry, citizen.

(40:31):
So the appeals courts of the Third Circuit says no, no, no.
If it comes in late, oh well, comes in questionable,
Oh well, forget that. That's insane. Time limits, time requirements.

(40:55):
It matters. Guess what, friends, I finish this program, whether
you realize it or not, every single day for twenty
three plus years, at eight fifty six forty Eastern time
seven fifty six forty Central time, every dog one day.

(41:20):
If I go one second long, you know what, You're
gonna hear something else. It ain't gonna be me. I
can't say to Jose, oh wha wait, I've got to
I'm not done. I'm not done. I'm not die. Here's
what's gonna happen if I if I, for example, in
the body of the show, I can just keep going.

(41:41):
We're right now twenty five twenty eight thirty seconds past
our break time, No big deal. It's fine. It's not
called it's called a hard break. I can move that
around during the body of the show, but at the
end of this show, and even at the top of
the hour, but definitely at the end of the show.
If I'm talking and I want to keep that's what's

(42:06):
gonna happen right there. It's gonna It's just gonna me off.
It doesn't matter how much I want. But I think
it's fair, only fair that I be No, I'm out
of time. I am out of time. It doesn't matter

(42:29):
what I think. I'm out of time. That's not fair. Well,
guess what, stupid, Get your thoughts together and get them
said sooner, faster, and get it over with and you'll
be just fine. Cubby. See that's what you would say
to me, and you would be right. Another another issue

(42:56):
that the United States Supreme Court has to settle. We
have an election day. In my mind, ballots have to
be received by the end of that day, not one
moment later. Not one moment later, eighteen minutes past the article.
You say, I'm two minutes late, but those were really

(43:20):
good two minutes. Cracker barrel has cracked, and not just
smegs they're going back to the old timer logo. First

(43:42):
of all, when you look at the new logo, if
you were the quote artist that came up with that,
wouldn't you feel a need to refund your money whatever
you got paid? That would awful. That was just boring

(44:04):
and ugly. There was nothing interesting about it. It was
like it's the type of logo that you see on
in a small town someone that buys a building and
opens up a restaurant and they just put up the
name of the restaurant and there's no there's no style

(44:28):
to it whatsoever. It's just bills, bills, bills, what, yes,
it's bills. Okay. It doesn't draw, it doesn't entice, it
doesn't nothing. It says nothing. Anyway, with a little digging,

(44:50):
we found some things. The rebranding debacle began at four
point thirty in the afternoon on a phone call on
May sixteenth, in twenty twenty four. That day, the CEO,
the new CEO, Julie Fells Messino. And by the way,

(45:16):
I'm just and I don't know this. I think we
all know she's likely a wokie. She's got the look
of a woki. She does. But I always get a
little nervous when I see three names Fells Messino, like

(45:36):
I will maintain my identity before I married you. It's
such a it's it's like whatever. It's like if my
mom had gone with Ada Bickner Scott. My aunt Wilma

(45:57):
did it. She was the president for the National Organization
for Women. Yeah, she's one of those right, brilliant woman
loved her, but there you go. Anyway, in the phone
call she talked about the strategic transformation plan. Her board
of directors rubber stamped it. But the fly in the

(46:20):
ointment was a guy named Sardar big Glory. Big Glory
was an Iranian national whose family fled Iran when the
Ayatollahomoni took over. He's wealthy. In fact, he might be

(46:44):
right underneath Blackrock, the biggest shareholder of Cracker Barrel. And oh,
by the way, he also owns Steak and Shake. That
adds a little wrinkle to that little barb that Steak
and Shake throughout there. Now we know why he did
a one hundred and twenty page slide deck presentation to

(47:09):
the board as an investor. Cracker Barrel is in a crisis,
and he did it shortly after this meeting, Cracker Barrel
is not a broken brand, it has a broken board,

(47:29):
and so he starts detailing the problem with the company
and shares it with everybody on the board. They disagreed
with everything he had to say, but he filed reports
with the Security and Exchange Commission listing the problems that
he saw as an investor, and it's documented the problem

(47:53):
lies not in seeding, but in general more people to
sit in it. We do not believe changing and the
furniture and altering the decor going to change the company's
trajectory or solve the company's underlying problem of declining traffic.
He followed up said Cracker Barrel was at a critical

(48:15):
inflection point shareholder value destruction. Listen to this in twenty
twenty four November, if you had one hundred dollars in
Cracker Barrel stock in January twenty nineteen, five years later,
it is worth about thirty dollars. Therefore, there is just
thirty dollars to go before the entire investment is lost.

(48:39):
He's citing the truth. You're losing value. Warning, warning, danger.
They didn't listen. My point in bringing this story up
is there's a record of people inside the investors, criticizing, questioning,
warning the board of directors, and they ignored. So until
the board of directors is changed and the CEO has changed,

(49:02):
I'm holding to my pledge. I don't care if they
keep the logo, new leadership or I'm not setting foot
in the place ever, ever again. Twenty nine minutes after
the hour, they can do what they want with that.
I'm nothing. I don't matter you do.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
I am fair, I.

Speaker 1 (49:20):
Am good, I'm a happy example. Glenn Is on nine
to noon.

Speaker 6 (49:25):
I am stronger every day on WFLA.

Speaker 1 (49:42):
Can Democrats be wrong about literally everything? Yes, yes they can,
and they are. I can't think of anything anymore Democrats
are correct about. I mean, I'm open. Preston iHeartRadio dot com.

(50:05):
Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. Send me a oe. What
are Democrats correct about anything? They're wrong on immigration, they're
wrong on crime, they're wrong on the economy, they're wrong
on defense, and they're wrong on DEEI, which is so funny. Diversity,

(50:32):
equity and inclusion demands the opposite by writing laws and
policies that say you must favor people that look a
certain way. You exclude anybody who doesn't. How hard is

(50:58):
that to understand? Apparently it's very hard, because even though
the polling shows Democrats are losing this issue, they voted
unanimously yesterday in their summer meeting in Minneapolis, in their
Resolutions Committee meeting affirming American values of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

(51:23):
What are you talking about American values? American values are
summarized by every American having the right to life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness. Nothing else needs to apply.

(51:47):
They're going to vote on it today. Friends, Cracker Barrel
has junked the new logo. They've gone back to the
the old timer. It's not a win yet, it's an
admission they screwed up. Now how far do they go?
We'll find out. They are deeply steeped in DEI, They're

(52:11):
deeply steeped in the LGBTQ movement. They are deeply invested
in this stuff, deeply at the top level. And oh,
by the way, their food quality is diminished. So we'll see.
And President Trump proposes renaming the Department of Defense its
original name, the Department of War. What do you think?

(52:33):
Do you like the idea? Those are your big stories?
Forty minutes passed out. We're going to come back. You
remember Fire Aid? Who all those fires? I love this audience.

(53:01):
Let me be more specific. I love you in the
Christian agape sense of the word, certainly some in the
falleo sense, only my wife in the other way. But

(53:22):
I love you, Tim Wrights in Democrats are correct. I'm
getting everything wrong at a boy. That's Minyon King, Mike
drop moment. Some of you know what I mean. Remember
Fire Aid, the big concert to raise money for the

(53:46):
victims of the California wildfires last year, Washington Free Beacon
did a little digging where'd the money go? More than
one hundred million dollars was raised one hundred and sixty
different California nonprofits. So what good did it do? Good

(54:08):
to ask? Right? A lot of people gave money, a
lot of money. Well. Firing announced back in February would
distribute the money it raised equitably, a promise it appears
to have kept. Green Line Housing Federation, for instance, received

(54:29):
funds of about four point eight million dollars dedicated to
dedicated to health and housing. Oh, but it noted on
the website no whites needed to apply in order to
qualify for a grant through Green Line Housing Foundation. Applicants
must be black or Hispanic. Oh okay, okay, I mean

(54:55):
that's just one right, that's just one organization. Then there's
the Black Freedom Fund that got money. They got seven
point six million dedicated to disaster relief. Now, in a
previous grant proposal, it's said that it would only assist
groups led and controlled by black people and primarily serving

(55:22):
black people. Key My Tribe Rise received cash from the pool.
It has a similar mission. Other groups that have received
money offer assistance to illegals inside California. One in fact,
the Alliance for Better Community doubled Down on the website

(55:43):
states that its commitment to immigrant and undocumented families. Home
Grown got money, got three point five million for children's
and families. The organization's website states that it's committed to
steering funds to undocumented providers. Fire Age website lists several

(56:05):
progressive activist groups like California Native Vote Project, So fire
aid relief went to voting projects, which quote on the homepage,
no one is illegal on stolen land. Aside from Greenline

(56:27):
Housing Foundation, none of the nonprofits responded with a comment
on receiving the funds and not having anything to do
with fighting the consequences of the fires. I raised that
to point out first of all, the hypocrisy on the
left knows no limits, and one hundred million plus of

(56:52):
money raised. We just listed a bunch of organizations that
did nothing for people that were victims of the fire,
but they sure advanced their causes of DEI and oh,
by the way, racism and bigotry against whites or legal

(57:15):
residents of this nation. Forty six minutes past the hour
when we come back, it's his time, this shy always
pointing out and correcting what is not.

Speaker 3 (57:29):
The Morning Show with Preston Sky.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
Hold on everyone, Oh another segment where I get to
say some crazy news. Well, I don't know if everybody
remembers the Florida woman who is posing as a nurse
for quite some time. She got busted. Well I found

(58:00):
her better half. Uh Tallahassee man who was a who
pled guilty to charges of impersonating a veterinarian. Yes, unfortunately
a dogg He lost his life due to his medical
malpractice and not being an actual veterinarian. No way, unfortunately

(58:22):
for the poor dog.

Speaker 1 (58:24):
Yes, Rest's little buddy, Yeah r I p little guy
he will be missed.

Speaker 2 (58:31):
And and then and then here's a another craziest that
I found personally crazy.

Speaker 1 (58:35):
I didn't know this.

Speaker 2 (58:36):
I don't know if this is you know, popular information,
but apparently cre Egg owns Doctor Pepper and they're called
the Cure Egg Doctor Pepper.

Speaker 1 (58:51):
Company.

Speaker 2 (58:51):
What yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They they acquired a they
acquired a Dutch company called j D E Pete. It's
a coffee brand. So they yeah, they they brought them in.
They bought them for eighteen million.

Speaker 1 (59:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (59:07):
And apparently Cuig bought Dr Pepper in twenty eighteen for
eighteen point seven billion dollars. Okay, so Cuig, yeah, the
coffee is now the owner of Doctor Pepper. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
I thought that was not a weird marriage.

Speaker 1 (59:28):
Yeah right, yeah, that's bizarre, no wayos eh.

Speaker 2 (59:32):
Yeah, absolutely yeah they sure they sure did. They bought it.

Speaker 1 (59:36):
Oh, pull my leg some more.

Speaker 2 (59:39):
Well, yeah, Curreig is is worth now as a company
forty eight billion dollars because of a buying you know,
all these little companies. So yeah, crazy crazy stuff.

Speaker 1 (59:52):
Any more stories?

Speaker 2 (59:54):
I got a couple more. Yeah, there was so Madison
in Madison County. Some deputies were in wall in a
deadly shooting. This one is you know, pretty pretty standard.

Speaker 7 (01:00:05):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:00:05):
They they got called to a house, you know, for
some gunfire, told the guy dropped the gun, he refused,
and they shot him.

Speaker 1 (01:00:15):
That's usually what happens when law enforcement officers tell you
to drop your weapon and you don't.

Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
Yeah, so that that one's not, as you know, unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (01:00:23):
But no, that's that's very go away. That's away, Yeah,
that's away.

Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
Very way.

Speaker 1 (01:00:31):
Any anything else.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
Let me see, No, I have I to hear about
that truck driver that was brought back from California. Uh,
and then about the petitions. But we went over that already,
Yeah we did. That's we did completely unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (01:00:49):
Okay, so what else you got? Uh so it's total
really see about that?

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
Really?

Speaker 1 (01:00:57):
Yeah? How can you is? Is? I might have asked
you this question before. Does your Spanish work in Cuba?

Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
It's it's very confusing to both parties, Cubans and Mexicans, because, yeah,
they both speak pretty differently, and I had to struggle,
you know, to go.

Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
So you blend in easier with which side.

Speaker 2 (01:01:25):
The American side?

Speaker 1 (01:01:27):
Well, of course, but you know what I'm saying, between
Cuba and Mexico. Where do you blend in easiest.

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
Man, It's hard. It's hard for me to find a
fit there, even.

Speaker 1 (01:01:36):
Though you look like either a Hasidic Jew or an Arab.
Yeah as well. I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
Everybody looks.

Speaker 1 (01:01:42):
But from a language perspective, there's not one side or
the other that you tend to blend easier with.

Speaker 2 (01:01:47):
I would say Mexican because I was raised by my
mother who's who's Mexican? So yeah, I would have to Sayanos.

Speaker 1 (01:01:55):
All right, fair enough. There's another edition of Jose and
his Selection of News that we call No Way Jase
Honor in a Pleasure. When we come back, we're going
to talk to Daniel Flynn. He's written a book called
The Man Who Invented Conservatism, The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Myers.

(01:02:20):
I've never heard of the guy, and I didn't know
anyone quote invented conservatism other than our founders. That's coming
up next, our number three awaits us. It is The
Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, ruminators, we are

(01:02:50):
into the third and final hour, at least for today,
of the Morning Show with Preston Scott Show fifty four forty.
That's right, We've been at this for a minute. Great
to have you with us and sharing time with us.
Jose running the show over there in Studio one A.
I'm here in Studio one B and with me the
author of the book The Man who Invented Conservatism, The

(01:03:12):
Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer, the author Daniel Flynn
with us. Daniel, good morning, how are you outstanding?

Speaker 7 (01:03:19):
Thank you for having me.

Speaker 1 (01:03:20):
How did this topic pop up on your radar?

Speaker 7 (01:03:24):
Well, there's a lot of people that want to write
about Lincoln or Napoleon or Churchill or some topic that
everyone's written about. Before. I thought it would be a
better idea to write about someone who should have a
biography but doesn't. Frank Meyer really is the most exciting
untold story of the twentieth century, and I was excited
to tell it.

Speaker 1 (01:03:45):
Tell us a little bit about where this starts for you, Well,
how about this? How did you know about Frank Meyer?

Speaker 7 (01:03:53):
Well, he wrote a book called In Defensive Freedom, and
I think for most people Frank Meyer wasn't so much
a person as he was the personification of an idea.
So basically, Frank came up with this idea of fusionism,
which was, you know, essentially the governing philosophy, the default
philosophy of conservatives from Barry Goldwater in the early nineteen
sixties well through Ronald Reagan, and people thought, well, this guy,

(01:04:18):
you know, he was basically an idea. What I found
out is that he was not the personification of an idea,
but he was a person and he led a very
shocking kind of pops off the page life.

Speaker 1 (01:04:29):
How does he become a conservative? How does he even
embrace those ideals when he was in fact originally a communist.

Speaker 7 (01:04:41):
Yes, so frank Meyer was sort of the Johnny apple
Seed of communism in Great Britain amongst the youth. And
at the very time that he's calling for the violent
overthrow of Ramsey McDonald's government, who's the Prime Minister of
England at the time, he is doing something that Lenin
or Chay or Fadell cast had ever dared to do.

(01:05:02):
He is actually having an affair with the prime Minister's
daughter in Ken Downing Street. He is the type of
person who is prone to to sort of reckless act
like this, but also is a very social guy. And
so my, I guess the point there, apart from the
salacious details, is that frank Meyer you know, was drawing

(01:05:25):
a crowd. He was a person that you know, the
Prime Minister's daughter wanted to be in his arms. What
he changed his mind, he didn't change his personality. People
still wanted to be around him. People still, you know,
he's still dripped with charisma. And so the type of
guy that's going to lead a movement of communists probably
the same type of guy that's going to lead a

(01:05:46):
movement of concernatism, because it's not that's I mean, anyone
could change your mind, but they're still going to be
the same guy. And Frank was the same guy. He
got deported from England, he came over to the United States,
he still did his communist thing. About nineteen four the
Communist Party change and Frank basically knuck away, and five
years later he became a right winger.

Speaker 1 (01:06:08):
Did he ever acknowledge that what he believed and espoused
was in fact wrong or did he believe that communism
just didn't ever get expressed properly?

Speaker 7 (01:06:20):
Oh no, you know, Frank testified at the longest, most
expensive trial in US history, which was the fully square trial,
the smith Back trial, in nineteen forty nine. He put
eleven of his former comrades in jail, including Gus Hall
and Eugene Dennis, who was the head of the Communist
Party at that time. So Frank had a great deal
of remorse for what he had done. Essentially, at the

(01:06:44):
end of the Cold War, there came something from France
called the Duke Close Letter, and it basically warned American communists,
I'm sorry. At the end of the World War Two,
they warned American communists that a Cold War was coming,
that they needed to stop being allies with Roosevelt and
stopped friendly with capitalists because this new war was coming.
And Frank thought that was crazy, like, you know, we

(01:07:05):
just had this war that killed fifty million people, and
we're going to have this new war. And that sort
of accelerated his departure from from the Communists, and he
basically spent the second half of his life in penance
kind of undoing what he the you know, the damage
that he had done in the first half of his life,
not only as a communist, but he was a real playboy.

(01:07:27):
He was a ladies man. I think there's about three
or four women that have Wikipedia pages that he had
affairs with and that, you know, there weren't a lot
of women in the nineteen twenties and thirties who now
have went topedia pages. So Frank got around. His life
was very exciting as a communist, probably less so as
a conservative, but as a conservative that's kind of where

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he made his name.

Speaker 1 (01:07:50):
Joining us on the program for another segment is Dan Flynn.
Daniel is the senior editor of the American Spectator, visiting
fellow at the Hoover Institution, and he's aughto seven books.
This one is The Man who Invented Conservatism, The Unlikely
Life of Frank s Meyer. More to come here on
the Morning Show with Preston Scott got to lay out

(01:08:22):
and give time for everybody else to join us here
just about twelve past the hour, and Daniel Flynn is
with me. The man who invented Conservatism, not Daniel, but
The Unlikely Life of Frank s Meyer. That's his book,
Daniel Flynn's book. And Daniel, how do you go about
researching this kind of topic?

Speaker 7 (01:08:43):
Well, it was pretty exciting. I mean, that's a little
side story in itself. Essentially, COVID happened, shut down all
the archives and when I did a Foyer request Freedom
of Information actor requestion in the federal government. It basically said,
usually you know this, we're processing requests from it years ago,
but yours is going to take longer because of COVID.
In other words, check Beckler was in the twenty thirties.

(01:09:05):
So I panicked and I had to look. Essentially, I
wished Frank Meyer's papers and letters into existence, and it
took me two years, but it led me. My search
led me to a warehouse in Altuna, Pennsylvania, and I
found Frank You know, about a quarter million documents, Frank's
tens of thousands of letters. These are you know. The

(01:09:28):
letters include Tolkien and Evelyn Waugh and C. S. Lewis
and William F. Buckley and Barry Goldwater and Henry Kissinger,
jed Or Hoover. There are so many let were so
many letters in this collection that allowed me to write
this book. And you know, usually researchers might go to
an archive or something like that. Aside from those fifty

(01:09:49):
or so archives I went to, I had to find
Frank Meyer's papers in Cold Country, Pennsylvania, and so that
enabled me to write to tell an untold story. Most
of the books also are relying on other books. This
is a book that has fresh information from you know,
the biggest names of the twentieth century that Frank was

(01:10:11):
in contact with.

Speaker 1 (01:10:13):
When you say letters that have the names of and
you listed those people, are these letters to Frank? To
them from Frank? Describe those letters a little more well.

Speaker 7 (01:10:25):
I think with people like Bill Buckley and people at
National Review. You know, there's over one thousand letters you
know from Buckley or Wilmore Kendall or Brent Bazell to
and from these people that aren't in any other archives.
There aren't copies of these. From Barry Goldwater, there's you know,
over one hundred letters. So from some of the others,
the letters are fewer. Like Tolkien is basically says to Meyer, well,

(01:10:48):
I can't write a book review for you because I'm
doing another Lord the Lord of the Ring project, and
it's interesting in its own right. Joan Diddion is a
person who probably your listeners have heard of one of
the most famous essays the twentieth century. Frank Meyer is
the first person to publish a Joan Didion article, a
freelance article by her. There are a number of letters

(01:11:09):
from her in this collection that no one's seen. There
are Chris Homemade Christmas cards that she made of her daughter.
There Frank was he also as the book review editor
of National Review. He brought in a guy named Theodore Sturgeon,
which was a very fortuitous choice. Sturgeon wrote the line
in Star Trek, Live, Long and prosper He came up

(01:11:30):
with the prime directive. He wrote that episode where Leonard
Nieboy does that weird salute with his hands where he
splits his fingers. So the Sturgeon was a massive figure
in the history of Star Trek. And here he was
writing for National Review as Star Trek is on the air.
And that's a pretty interesting story in his own right.
Frank is living next door to Bob Dylan in Woodstock.

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All his life he's intersecting with people like T. S.
Lewis and H. G. Wells. His best friend was Eugene
O'Neil junior, So he knew America's most famous play right
as America's best play, right, Eugene O'Neil. It's just a
real twentieth century story. And then you have the backdrop
of all this a Frank coming in sort of at
the ground level of the post war conservative movement and

(01:12:15):
shaping that in his direction.

Speaker 1 (01:12:18):
Last question. I mean, I'm going to guess here, go
out on a crazy limb. There's no way you're finding
that treasure trove of documents without frank Meyer's family.

Speaker 7 (01:12:29):
No. Frank's son, about two years into the project, told
me about a couple that had bought their house and
they bought all the contents. This couple didn't buy the
house to live in, they bought the house to store
their books. So unique off the bat, and basically it
turned out that they had put all their books and
all their stuff in a warehouse in Altoona, Pennsylvania. And

(01:12:52):
I said, hey, take me to your warehouse. And so
over three days, I looked through six hundred and fifty
three boxes, found fifteen moving boxes with stuff, and that
huge treasure trove. And that enabled me to write a
story that hasn't been told about, you know, the conservative movement.
I mean this is there's a lot of wild stuff
with some of these guys that are in the early

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conservative movement, you know. Wilmore Kendall writing to Frank Meyer
two of these principles at National Review, to the senior editors, saying, listen,
I don't have that book review, and I'm afraid I
don't have a good excuse this time. Remember that nineteen
year old Coed I told you about, Well, she's showing
up at my door, and this time I didn't turn
her away. So this is kind of the backstory that

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you're not going to get from any other book, because
these are friends talking to each other privately and correspondence,
and to be able to get you know, one hundred
thousand or so letters or whatever it was, you know,
you're able to tell a story about the conservative movement
that nobody else has has come across before.

Speaker 1 (01:13:51):
I imagine the reaction to this is going to be
fantastic when more people get their hands on it. Daniel,
thanks for the time this morning. I wish you nothing
but the best.

Speaker 7 (01:14:00):
Appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:00):
Thank you, Daniel Flann. The book The Man Who Invented
Conservatism The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer. Oh wow,
could you imagine his eyes when he saw all those documents?
My goodness? Eighteen passed the hour. Last hour we discussed

(01:14:39):
a court ruling in Pennsylvania. Well it was about Pennsylvania.
The Third Circuit of Appeals ruled against the state of
Pennsylvania and trying to tighten down election law by saying, no,
you have to adhere to the dates of having a
ballot turned in via mail by a certain date. Court said, nah,

(01:15:00):
and need to do that. Barry wrote in and said,
I'm paraphrasing. Wonder if the irs feels the same way
about returns. Aren't you, in fact penalized financially for not
turning in your return by the said date, which is

(01:15:22):
usually April fifteenth midnight. If it does not have a
time stamp prior to midnight on the fifteenth, you are penalized.
How is it that voting somehow escapes the deadline? How's
that possible? Anyway? I have said repeatedly, and I know

(01:15:47):
it upsets some of you because some of you are
always trumpers. You're wrong, You're wrong. I'm not even an
always me because I'm a man, I'm a human. I

(01:16:08):
can be wrong. We are heading in the wrong direction
on one front. For certain, I'm guessing at the direction
of the Commerce Secretary, maybe at the direction of the president.
The Pentagon is weighing ownership equity stakes in defense contractors

(01:16:33):
like Lockheed Martin. The United States government recently acquired ten
percent of Intel stock. That's wrong, that is dangerous, that
is socialist slash communist. That is wrong the government owning

(01:17:01):
stock in a private business, It doesn't. In the case
of Lockheed, it doesn't matter that the majority of its
business comes from federal contracts. It doesn't matter if the
government has ownership in a private equity company. How in
the world are they not supposed to get favorable status

(01:17:23):
when it comes to legislation that benefits it over its competitors. Naw,
this is wrong. It is wrong to own a stake
in a defense contractor it is wrong to own a
stake in Intel. This is wrong, and I'm not alone.

(01:17:44):
I know that not everybody who's standing with me is
your favorite person. I would agree with you on Tom Tillis.
He thinks it's wrong, Ran Paul. If socialism is government
owning the means of production, wouldn't the government owning part
of it Intel be a step towards socialism? Yes, it is.

(01:18:08):
It is absolutely wrong. Why do you think Democrats didn't
fight it? Because there's gonna be a Democrat in the
White House at some point, more than likely, and they're
gonna be like Soweet, look what he did. Democrats are
gonna run Congress eventually more than likely. Look what they allowed. Friends,

(01:18:34):
I don't I don't have enough words or enough time
to express how concerned I am by some developments in
the last week, Trump saying yes to six hundred thousand
Chinese students in American colleges and universities as part of
a negotiating deal with China. No, you can negotiate on

(01:18:55):
a lot of things, that's not one of them. And
I got more news on China and the and farmland
in just a moment, well a few moments. But this
should alarm all of you. This is happening under Donald Trump.
This is a problem. It's a big problem, and I

(01:19:15):
will not ignore it, and neither should you. Twenty eight
minutes past the.

Speaker 3 (01:19:19):
Hour I Think Show with Preston Scott Tommy on news
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Speaker 1 (01:19:38):
Alarming news by way of a map. And I don't
know quite how I'm gonna do this on a radio program,
so I will simply ask you to visit my ex
page in advance of the next segment. Maybe that'll start

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with Jose visiting my ex page in advance of the
next segment so that he can kind of be you.
I think you need to pull it up on the
computer so you can see it. Big stories in the
press box there are three of them, although I could
list the entire show as big stories in the press

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box other than the interview with Daniel Flynn, and that
wouldn't be a big story. It would be an interesting story.
President Donald Trump proposing renaming the Department of Defense to
the Department of War. I don't know how I feel
about that. I just I think the departments of the

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Department of Defense works just fine because it has sufficed
for about a century plus, and a good defense is
the best offense. That said, it's out there and being

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kicked around. I just we don't need to remake everything
in the image of Donald Trump. And I'm again I
have concerns about some things that we're doing. I mentioned
it in the last segment, and some things that we
are not doing. I have not lost sight of the

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fact that most of what Donald Trump is getting done
and attempting to get done is very good for this nation.
I know that. But as is the old expression that
my dad shared with me, it doesn't take a lot
of poison to ruin a meal. Cracker barrel, returning to
its old logo, it's not a win in terms of

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the cracker barrel. It is not going to stop my
decision to not walk in the doors of the restaurant,
because so long as they are funding LGBTQ initiatives that
mutilate children, as long as they are supporting policies and
laws that allow men to invade women spaces ie restrooms,

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not going to spend a dime there, now, you do you.
I'm not organizing any boycott. I'm just telling you my conviction.
I will not be there until they have a new
CEO and a new board that determines that those ideals
and those things are wrong and they'll not support them.

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They don't have to say, oh, LGBTQ is a sin,
they don't have to do that. I'm not asking them
to do that. That's up to me to make the
decision about that. As it relates to my convictions and
my value, I'm saying, don't support it, don't spend money
because my money indirectly then goes to those things. Not Nope,

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and then the third big story, same basic theme. The
Democrat National Committee Resolutions Committee voted unanimously yesterday to affirm
the American values of DEI diversity equity and inclusion, which
are racist. They are exclusionary. Do you remember how I've

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said for years illiberals are what they accuse others of being.
They do what they accuse others of doing. This is
a classic example. DEI is just the opposite. It's not
about diversity. Diversity only matters with their fringe groups. Take
a group that happens. I mean, look at the causes

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that fire AIDS supported that we documented last hour. If
you're white, you're out. There are other circumstances. If you're Asian,
you're out. That's exclusionary. It's not inclusive. It's exclusive. It's

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not diversity. It's racism. It's just packaged differently. It's not equity.
What's equity about denying people fill in the blank based
on their race. Jesus I thought that's what we were
fighting in the wake of the fall of the South

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in the Civil War. But it's okay now because it's
white people being disadvantaged, that's okay. You got nothing to
say forty one minutes past about that map on news

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radio one hundred point SEVENBUSLA. This was shared by a
listener of the program and a It's just it's from

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Epic Times inside their a section, and it's a map
showing US farmland owned by Chinese companies. Here's what you notice.
Nearly all of it is right by a US military installation.

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They listed Shaw or Force based, Fort Bragg Naval Station,
air Folk, Aberdeen Proving Ground, right Patterson Air Force Base,
Grand Forks Air Force Base, McDill Air Force Base, Laughlin
Air Force Base, Ford Hood. I mean, it's incredible that

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we are allowing any Chinese interest to buy any land
in this country. What are we thinking, Well, that ain't
an American to not allow people to just buy the crap.
I'll tell you what. You won't have a chance to

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say it ain't American. If you keep selling this land
to people that hate us, if you keep allowing people
in this country that hate us, We're being replaced Americans,
American farmholders, farmland owners. They're being bought out by the

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Bill Gates and the chi Coms of this world. How
is it that Bill Gates owns so much farmland and
he hates farming. There's a reason he doesn't want to
allow farming, so he's shrinking the land. At some point,

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the United States government is going to have to act
and stop this. It's not enough for Florida to say
within X number of miles. They have to say you
can't buy any land in Florida if you are a
Chinese national, if you have a company that's based in China,
if you have any connection to the CCP. Nothing, no, not,

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And you've got to work whatever you have to do
to make sure that they can't do it through third
and fourth parties. This is as alarming as it gets now.
Because I'm not verified or whatever the term is they

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use here on X, it's got a limited amount of reach.
But I have tagged the US House, the US House GOP,
the Senate GOP, Donald Trump, and the POTUS sites on this.
This is a problem. Why are we turning a blind

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eye to this? For if they're able to let's just
for a second, let's just think for a second about possibilities.
Let's say these are missile bases, air force bases, coordination centers,

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and what if on these farmlands they are burying in
the ground sophisticated equipment to jam every signal that is
coming from that base to and from what if they can,
in fact, by not firing a shot, completely shut down

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those bases and render them defenseless against whatever. Forty seven
minutes after the hour at TMS Preston, scott On X,

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I hope Sheriff of Polk County Grady Judd never becomes
a cartoon character of himself. But boy, for now, sign
me up. He just went gangster on everybody. This is brilliant.
Holds a press conference and announcing the takedown of a

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drug trafficking gang, and he did it wearing a gold
chain and bracelet worth about fifty grand from the drug leader,
the kingpin quote, I got their drip, I got their body,

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we got their guns, we got their dope. And then
he describes you know what happens, and I mean he's
wearing the chain, he's he is just all about it.
It was brilliant, he said. But I want you to
imagine this for a minute. People continue to tell you
that drugs are low level, nonviolent. They're anything but low

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level and nonviolent. When you see fifty thousand dollars in drip,
when you see that not so dangerous drug of cannabis,
you see guns, you see first degree murder from overdose.
And then he goes on to break down the crime ring,
showing pictures of all the people, the suspects involved, and
how it all worked, how it was organized. It just

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reminds me of the importance of defeating marijuana at the
ballot box. We have to stop it, have to stop it,
but I gotta give points to the sheriff. I got
their drip.

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Speaker 1 (01:31:36):
Our verse today came from Micah seven versus seven and eight.
That's where we started the program. Pretty strong start to
the show. Our devotionals are a strong start to your
day if you if you tune in for them, your
day will be better. They will not because of me,
but because God's word does things. Big stories in the

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press box. Democrats are going to vote today and rally
around it would appear a pro dei resolution that these
are American values, even though they were rejected wholeheartedly. Republicans
are growing silent. They're losing the messaging war again. And yeah,

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cracker Barrel returning to its old logo, old timer back.
You imagine the stores that changed to the new logo already,
They're gonna be like, what, I'm not buying it, You're
buying the new sign. You're buying the new old sign.
I'm not buying it. You've made us go to this one.

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You're buying this one. Trump proposing renaming the Department of
Defense its original name, the Department of War. What do
you think, Commerce secretary says, the Pentagon weighing equity stakes
and defense contractors like the government owned ten percent of Intel.
It's all wrong. There's no way we should be doing it.
China owning farmland right by military bases all over the country.

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That's wrong, no way that should be happening. The millions
raised for the fires in la a bunch of it
went to groups that won't do anything to help white
people took inside the cracker barrel. How it ended up
where it is. Court decisioned by the Appeals Court in

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the Third Circuit against Pennsylvania. Man. Just listen to the show.