Ep. 5442: The American dream, is it dead?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Psalm thirty nine, Verse fourteen says, I praise you for
I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works.
My soul knows it very well, and that a nice
way to start the day. The truth is I am

(00:28):
a child of God. Yeah, it's a great song by
Megan Woods. It's called The Truth, and I think it
was the song of the year last year in Christian music.
But it just a powerful reminder of the truth that

(00:50):
you are fearfully and wonderfully made, not an accident. I
think we spend time while some spend time chasing who

(01:10):
they aren't instead of embracing and allowing to be refined
who they are. Just remember, pressure produces a diamond, Fire
refines gold, and that's how I think we become the

(01:37):
better version of ourselves through trials, if we remain focused
on God's word and allow him to have his way
in our lives. Ten past the hour, take a beak
inside the American Patriots Almanac will tell you about the show.
It's Friday, which means, oh boy, it's the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. All right, it is. It's the last

(02:29):
August broadcast for this year of the Morning Show planning
to be around next year. I heard extended my contract,
so that's well, maybe that's not good news for all
of you, but by golly, I'm going to stick around
unless God has other plans. It is August the twenty ninth, September.

(02:53):
Onet is Monday. We will not be on the air Monday.
It's Labor day, Yes, so we will. We will not
labor on Monday, though it would be hard for me
to honestly look at you and say that this is labor.
It's not just. It's not. Seventeen seventy six, August twenty ninth,

(03:19):
Having lost the Battle of Long Island, Patriot troops escape
over the East River to Manhattan. Boy the book seventeen
seventy six, David McCullough writes of this, this is one
of several examples of God's hand in the birth of

(03:39):
this nation. A fog rolled in at the only time
it could roll in to protect revolutionary forces and get
them out so they could fight again another day. Had

(04:02):
that fog dot come in, it was over. It's unbelievable,
and McCullough's telling of it through history is just is remarkable.
Eighteen sixty nine, John Wesley Powell's expedition floats out of
the Grand Canyon. I can only imagine what that had

(04:25):
to feel like. First amazing, but secondly, are we ever
getting out of here? You can't climb out. You're in
the Grand Canyon. We made it. One of only two
rivers that flow year round in Arizona, the other of

(04:47):
the Verde River. I lived real well. My dad had
a house and I would go out there when he
was up in Minnesota. In the house was never mind.
I just had a charm childhood. I'd go out there
on the weekends. I'd finish school, drive out there. Sometimes
I'd bring a buddy and we would be playing thirty
six holes of golf every day and just chilling. Bring

(05:10):
some frozen meals, maybe head to the restaurant at the
clubhouse for a meal or two. It was just what
a glorious thing. Sorry distracted. Nineteen forty four American troops
marched down the Champs i Lessees in Paris celebration of
the liberation from the Nazis. Nineteen fifty seven, Senator strom
Thurman of South Carolina ends the longest filibuster by one

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person in Senate history. He went twenty four hours and
eighteen minutes against the Civil Rights Bill, A loser and
a bigot. And on this date in two thousand and five,
I was on the air, Hurricane Katrina hits the Gulf
coast Louisiana, New Orleans, in particular below sea level. I

(05:55):
don't know why you build there. I have no idea
why you build below sea level? Bad decision? Today is
national hold on here on, hang on? It is there
we go, National Lemon Juice Day, National Chop Suey Day.

(06:23):
I find it boring, National Sports Sampling Day, National College
Colors Day. So there you go, sixteen past the hour.
We're going to come back with a did you know?
And an amazing segue to a story. Did you know?

(07:00):
Bill Gates, co founder Microsoft, not founder, scored a fifteen
ninety out of sixteen hundred on the SAT got him
into Harvard, but he dropped out to do other things.
It's so interesting to me how the left will ridicule
people like Russia Limbaugh and Glenn Beck who decided to

(07:20):
not go to college to pursue a career that they
have turned into a very successful one. I have two,
but to a smaller degree. I suppose in the eyes
of some, but the left just loves them. Some Bill

(07:43):
gateses a college dropout. I'm just pointing it out. He
just is. And there's nothing wrong with that. When you
find what you're supposed to do. I need to go
to college if you want to, and that's part of
your great Get certified in something, go to trade school,

(08:06):
follow follow your passions, but just work. Sometimes just working
opens the door to what you you figure out what
you love now. I said that that segues nicely, brilliantly
to our next story, because it's so fascinating to me.
The Gates Foundation, the largest charitable foundation in the US,

(08:29):
has cut ties with Arabella Advisors. Arabella has got to
be crying in their wheedies this morning. Gates is funneled
nearly half a billion dollars towards nonprofits through Arabella over

(08:50):
the last sixteen years. Arabella Advisors controls hundreds of activist
groups that support lefties, the administer network of so called
dark money groups while drawing support from people like Gates
and George Soros and others. So Gates pulling his money
is a really big deal to their end. Gates says,

(09:12):
We're just going to connect directly with the people that
we support, more direct relationships, rather than working through Arabella.
I think this might also have something to do with
Trump administration looking into these dark money groups a little bit.
I don't I have no problem with people giving money
to organizations they want to support, but it shouldn't be hidden.

(09:35):
I don't care who it is. Shouldn't be hidden. According
to The New York Times, a lot of groups downstream
from Arabella are really really angry and nervous, and there's
probably some likely unemployment coming to some. But Gates calls

(10:00):
it a business decision that reflects our regular strategic assessments
of partnerships and operating models. Okay, hey, if that's how
you do, you cool that works. I just thought that
was interesting. Okay. A lot of people wondering when are

(10:22):
you going to talk about the Donna Adelson trial. Oh,
at some point we talked a lot about Charlie Aedelson. Well, yeah,
he was the first of the Adolson's to go to trial.
I've said from the get go, Donna's case is stronger
than Charlie's. I also think that Donna convicted herself. What

(10:44):
do you mean by dad when she took a one
way or two Vietnam with her husband when she tried
to flee the country on a one way ticket to
a nation that does an extradite back to the United States. Yeah, yeah,
that's that's how Now I think that Donna's done. She

(11:06):
will spend the rest of her life in prison. And
then the question becomes, does Harvey get brought in? And
you know, there are some that say this isn't done
until Wendy's face is trial, and there's truth to that story. However,
I just want you to consider this for a moment.

(11:27):
What kind of life does Wendy Aedelson have. She's relocated
herself and her kids to Texas. She's basically having nothing
to do with the family. So you're Wendy Adelson. And
maybe Dad gets brought in and charged and he spends
some time in prison. He won't face nearly with Donna
and his son Charlie. You know, Charlie's doing life. Two

(11:51):
others are doing life. But imagine being Wendy. Your family
is in prison all for you because you couldn't handle it.
You couldn't handle sharing custody with your husband, you couldn't
handle the kids staying where they were born, and your

(12:12):
family arranged for the murder of your ex husband and
where to believe you knew nothing about this. I don't
believe that, but proving it is another story. And so
we'll see. But I'll get to the Donna Aylsen trial

(12:35):
at different times. I just again, I I've been accused
of prejudicing the community by talking about these things. Obviously,
they've got a jury and I can talk about it
freely if I want to, and I always have. You know,
the evidence is out there. Just till death do us

(12:59):
part I think is the name of the podcast about
this murder. Let's give that a listen on iHeart give
that a listen. In fact, I'll probably link to it
on my blog page. Twenty eight minutes past the hour,
It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, big

(13:39):
stories in the press box today. This is alarming. New
study out of Australia is warning that two of our
most common over the counter painkillers I have a profen
and a sid of minefit I have a profen is Atville.

(14:00):
The cidamentifin thailanol apparently are playing a role in one
of the most urgent healthcare crises we face in the world.
Testing shows that the painkillers fuel superbugs that contribute to
antibiotic resistance in studying E. Coli in labs and an

(14:31):
antibiotic used to treat ecoli. Not only did the two
painkillers drive antibiotic resistance when used individually, but if for
some reason you were to take thailanol an advil or
acidaminifhin an ibuprofen together while fighting whatever, it causes the

(15:00):
infection to mutate and literally strengthen itself and causes greater
resistance to the antibiotic. So the takeaway here is, if

(15:23):
you're fighting an infection of any kind that requires an antibiotic,
do not take acidaminifin or ibuprofen period and stop, and
by golly, don't take them together. That is, it's fueling
superbugs that then they mutate and become more resistant to

(15:49):
the most effective antibiotics that treat them. Another big story,
the Atlanta Journal Constitution is done printing this year. They
will no longer do a print addition as of December
thirty first, they're gonna go strictly digital. That's gonna cost

(16:14):
some jobs. It is the continuation of the decline of
the print media outlets because they have not awakened to once.
This has nothing to do with the digital world. It
has to do with bad reporting. It has to do
with losing sight of your job. Has digital played a

(16:39):
little bit of a Sure, Digital's played a little bit
of a role. I'm telling you there will be print
additions that thrive because they report honestly and objectively. But
another one bites the dust. And then this The mother

(16:59):
of the shooter in Minneapolis is not cooperating with law enforcement.
She is not talking to them and has hired a
defense attorney. Now, I will extend the benefit of the doubt.
She's obviously in misery with what her son did. Allegedly,

(17:24):
it was done, according to the defense attorney, to field
calls for media requests and all of that. You hire
a defense attorney for that. There are crisis pr firms
that you can hire, probably for a lot less. But
here's what's interesting. When he went through his transition, which oh,

(17:49):
by the way, will learn later in this show, he regretted.
It's in his manifest dough manifest doe. She signed the
papers to change his name. What are you thinking? He

(18:13):
was a kid? Forty one minutes after the hour, Well,

(18:38):
we now know a little bit more and again, just
to reset, I don't always jump on stories when you
think I should. I sometimes wait because I don't like
I mean, we just talked about with the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
There's so much bad reporting, and I've been on the

(18:58):
wrong end of things, getting ahead of story because I
just took what somebody reported, and you know, it's like, ah,
give it a second. And I wanted to learn a
little bit more about the John Bolton raid, former national
security adviser under Trump. Trump fired him. John Bolton, you
should know, is a warmonger. He believes in going to

(19:22):
war overall other things. Matt Vespo at town Hall new
details about the federal raid on John Bolton torch the
LIBS narrative about the story. You know, we've been dealing
with the gas lighting about how Obama and Biden would
never ever give an order to go after their enemies,

(19:44):
even as we are unraveling the Russian collusion story, and
it lays right at the feet of Barack Obama and
maybe more importantly at his pen, at his mouth in
memos that show clearly involvement. But here's that. This is

(20:05):
that ps de resistance, you know, where the momentum started
for this raid to begin with, when Joe Biden was president.
There was momentum suggesting through various spy networks that Bolton

(20:30):
had leaked classified details through unsecured servers to it would
turn out to be his wife and his daughter. So
first you've got the reality that the national security advisor
is being watched by spies, and they knew he sent

(20:53):
information which tells you, okay, his personal email and and
so forth was being hacked repeatedly, routinely, and constantly. The
Biden administration was told about it, but they killed the investigation.

(21:16):
Biden killed it why probably because it would buttress Trump's
claims of being subverted. So this all started under Biden.
Looking into John Bolton from the New York Times. The
investigation in the President Trump's former national security advisor, John R. Bolton,

(21:38):
began to pick up momentum during the Biden administration when
US intelligence officials collected information that appeared to show he
had mishandled classified information. It should also be noted that
independent magistrates in DC and in Maryland approve the search warrants.

(22:03):
This is not political retribution. Trump was told about it
after the fact. He heard about it on the news.
Now that's what he says. You can say I don't
believe that. That's fine. You know, he's a busy guy.
Plus he plays golf. I'm just saying, if you play golf,

(22:28):
you know what I'm talking about. You're focused on your
golf game. Anyway, It's interesting to me with all of
this fake outrage. This is another example of the Biden
administration otherwise known as the Oh Biden administration, stopping an

(22:50):
investigation that would hurt their cause. Forty seven minutes past,
I'm only a minute late, all right. We're hanging in there,

(23:13):
all right. I occasionally toss a bone out there to
see if you're interested in talking about a topic here there,
And I haven't had a what would you do jump
up and scream and say talk about this? We've got
what's the beef in the third hour, But I thought

(23:34):
i'd ask you. There's a headline in a story on
Fox Business and they ask a question, is owning a
home still the American dream? The headline also has this

(23:56):
why older Americans are choosing to rent? So my question,
and we've got the phone lines available if you'd like
to join me in the next hour. I've got time
set aside. Now all, I've got a ton of stories here.

(24:17):
I've gotten no less than five or six stories that
I can just go ahead and throw into the mix
here on the show. If you're not interested in talking
about this, but I am curious. Do you agree or
agree that's the wrong way of putting it. Do you

(24:39):
think that owning a home is part of the American
dream it's something that you aspire to or no? Not really?
I would love to know your age and the why
or the why not? For example, are you one of

(25:00):
the older Americans? The numbers are pretty staggering. More and
more older Americans are just selling their home, taking the
money investing it, and then they're renting. Now, the math
on that doesn't make a lot of sense in some regards,
but the ease and convenience, and I guess the cost
savings to a certain degree, although apartment rental, you know,

(25:25):
if you just if you want people around you all
the time and you want to hear their business and
they yours and above and below and to the sides. Okay,
And if that's all you can do, I get it.
I mean, I think everyone's probably lived in an apartment
at some point. But is that what you choose. Is

(25:46):
that something that interests you as an older senior adult perhaps,
and maybe you've done it. I've got a bunch of
information here, quotes and things from people comments on the story,
but I'm just more curious what you think first. And
the numbers eight five zero two zero five WFLA eight

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five zero two zero five ninety three fifty two. We'll
get to the calls after the top of the hour.
So if you want to wait and call in when
we're into the news, that's fine. If you want to
call down and make sure you get on the air,
that's fine. You just have to wait just a few minutes.
Do you aspire to own a home? If you don't
own one, is that something that is important to you

(26:31):
to own a home? I know that we advised one
of our kids, who was you know, I want to rent.
I want to get out kind of get on my own.
I'm like, dude, buy you can buy, I can't buy. Yes,
you can buy, and he did, and boy was that

(26:53):
a smart decision for him. Instead of paying rent, you're
actually saying less, you have more and you're building equity.
But that might not be for everybody. Do you aspire
to own a home. And if you own a home,
are you aspiring to sell it, move in and rent,
moving forward for the rest of your life? Eight five

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zero two zero five WFLA eight five zero two zero
five ninety three fifty two Is it the American dream?

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Here we go the second hour of the Morning Show
with Crust and Scott. I came across a story as
we begin our two that I wanted to take some
calls now we had someone call in they couldn't stay
with us. I thought it was a great question, and
you know, offered some thoughts I would love to hear yours.
Is owning a home still the American dream? And for

(28:06):
those of you that own a home, maybe your home
is paid off, maybe it's gonna pay and be paid
off in a few years. Are you thinking of ditching it,
selling it, putting the money in you know, safe low
interest IRA, just to keep it safe, money market account,

(28:28):
that kind of thing. And you want to rent, You
don't want to maintain a house, You just you want
to simplify, downsize. I would kind of feel weird not
having a place for my kids to stay if they
needed a room for the night, for my grandkids to
spend the night. I don't know. That's just me though,
But we don't have a very big home.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
We we.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
We stayed kind of within our means and we've been
living in our home for well twenty years now and
love it. We've invested a lot in it. I don't
see the wisdom myself in not owning a home if

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you can, But is it still something you aspire to?
Eight five zero two zero five to b FLA eight
five zero two zero five ninety three fifty two. Now,
if we don't have anybody interested in talking about this,
that's fine, I have other stories to discuss. Some of
the comments inside the story were intriguing to me. According

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to Harvard Joint Center for Housing, they found that people
fifty five and older account for half of all home
improvement spending, and that's expected to grow to fifty six
percent this year by the end of the year. However,
Property Markets Group, it has a rental part folio, it

(30:02):
has seen a seventy percent increase in inquiries from people
fifty five and older in just five years from twenty
twenty five to From twenty twenty to twenty twenty five,
seventy percent increase in inquiries from people fifty five or
older about renting. Obviously, mortgages can be expensive, and you

(30:31):
know the but it's the psychology apparently of being an
older person and having a bit more financial flexibility though,
I mean, do you I don't know, Liz, Thanks for
calling in this morning. What do you think about it? First?

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Are you a homeowner?

Speaker 3 (30:54):
I am a homeowner.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
What are your thoughts about this?

Speaker 3 (31:00):
I feel pretty strongly, if you can afford it, that
there's value in owning your home. My husband and I
have been homeowners since we were married about twenty years ago.
We're in our second house, and I hope that it's
our forever house and that we live in until we
can't live there anymore. I think the value I see

(31:22):
in it is not only the memories that you build,
but the community that you that you build, just knowing
your home, owning your home, knowing your neighbors, having that
feeling like this is where I'm going to stay, building
those roots. I mean, even the things you plan in

(31:42):
your yard.

Speaker 4 (31:43):
We build.

Speaker 3 (31:43):
We have small fruit trees that I imagine that my kids,
my grandkids, they're going to benefit from that. We are
invested in the community, We're invested in our neighbors, and
there's just something about that that I just don't know
that you fully get if you're renting and have more
of a transient.

Speaker 5 (32:04):
Philosophy or thoughts long term.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
This is a home that you would ideally like to
stay in with your husband till God calls you home.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
That's right, that's right, that's the plan.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
Do you still think it's an American dream for those
who are younger?

Speaker 4 (32:28):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
I hope so those are the values that we've tried
to instill in our boys. I believe that they see
value in it. I hope that that's it. I think
that that's how you build family, that's how you help
build communities.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
We listen. Thanks very much. I appreciate you calling in
kind of broke the ice here. Nancy's standing by. Nancy
will get to your call. We've got two lines open.
We've got another one standing by eight five zero two
zero five to BFLA. Is owning a home still the
American dream? I would love to hear from some younger
people that do not own a home? Do you aspire
to Ten Past the Hour The Morning Show with Preston

(33:12):
Scott on News Radio one hundred point seven Doubufla. Back
to the phone lines. We're asking a real fundamental question.

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Is owning a home still the American dream? And if
you do own a home, are you are you going
to get rid of it and rent when you get
older or as you age, And if you're younger, do
you still aspire to own a home? Just curious? It
seems to be something that is changing, Nancy. What are

(33:56):
your thoughts?

Speaker 2 (33:56):
Hi?

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Hi?

Speaker 5 (33:58):
Hi?

Speaker 2 (33:58):
Yeah, we own our home and it's the home our
boys grew up in. There's a chance that down the
road we might move into something smaller, but we'll still
have rooms for them, like you had said, so that
if they come to visit, or our grandkids come to visit.
Our sons are all buying homes. Two of them have.

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The youngest is in the Navy and he's renting right now,
but he and his wife are anxious to buy.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
Are you. Do you have friends that have decided to,
you know, cash out on their home and rent. Have
they Do you know anybody that's doing that?

Speaker 2 (34:40):
No, nobody, our age, everybody owns. I don't think any
of them plan on moving into an apartment. It's just
not a good investment. There's that's how we've always felt.
You're not putting your money. Well, sure two ORed a
place to live, but nothing long term investment wise.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Gotcha, Nancy, Thanks very much. I appreciate you calling in.
Let's go to our friend Marvin. Marvin, how are you, buddy.

Speaker 4 (35:08):
Good morning, Preston. I'm doing great. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
So as a realtor, not just a exquisite concert pianist,
but as a realtor, what's your take on all this
and what about you personally?

Speaker 4 (35:20):
Well, well, personally, I have own home, own several homes.
But it's gambling to think that you're going to sell
your house and put the money in the stock market.
And conservative is the way to go, is not to
put all that money at risk. To rent is an

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issue now, it's really.

Speaker 6 (35:46):
A big issue.

Speaker 4 (35:47):
Because the renting of places is so high.

Speaker 6 (35:54):
Yeah, and the places.

Speaker 4 (35:56):
Are so high that everybody is it's a real But
home ownership is great, which you have to be conservative.
You'd be careful. You don't want to build something and
pretendue like you've got king and this is going to
be a palace forever. It's not a good idea.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
Thank you, Marvin. Good to hear from you. Buddy, and
you'd be well, someone did some math. If you sell
your house and you walk away with four hundred grand,
you rent a nice place, but small it's minimum two
grand minimum. That's fifteen years of rental payments. Let's say

(36:34):
you do that at the age of sixty. What do
you do at seventy five? You've got no equity, You've
you've gone through all of your money to pay your rent.
Now what I just it's it's it's interesting to me, Danny,
Thank you for calling in. What are your thoughts?

Speaker 7 (36:53):
Hey, good morning, Preston. Yeah, So, I mean I think
I might be a different case because I kind of
can up. When I was buying homes in the you know,
interest rates for them three hundreds, and I kind of
had a lace. I kind of had a late start
to college because I went to the military. But when
I did eventually get out of the military and go
to college, I bought a home and I rented out

(37:14):
all the rooms in the house. You know, got the house,
you know, the Mont's house, you know, but rented out
all the rooms and I kind of let all my
roommates essentially pay the mortgage payment. And that set me
up pretty good, pretty early on, and I've had the
I guess dumb luck to be able to say that
I've made about two hundred grand and off of each

(37:34):
house inequity when from the time I bought the time
I sold, and I'm on my third house where I'm
I could sell it today and I'd make well over
two hundred. But again, this was also during the time
where the interest rates were much, you know, much less.
I feel very fortunate. But the idea of renting to me,
just from my experience is kind of nuts. But that's

(37:57):
my experience, and again I was purchasing and doing this
during a different time in the market.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
So interesting, Danny, good philosophy. And by the way, thanks
very much for serving our country. I appreciate it.

Speaker 8 (38:08):
You got it.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
Danny Culling in this morning here on the Morning Show.
All right, we're gonna move on to some other stories here.
This thought was interesting. I guess that to me is
very interesting fodder. If you're around young people, younger people,
do you aspire to own a home? I think that's

(38:30):
a great conversation to have. I really do, because it's
not it shouldn't be political. It can be because you
talk about economic forces and interest rates and what drives
those and all that. I just think, do you aspire
to own a home? Seventeen past the Hours, The Morning

(38:50):
Show with Preston Scott. It's just a couple of them
stories here in the news that cut my attention for reasons.
You know they're There are ways I suppose you could

(39:12):
try to briber reporter, but I'm not sure handing a
lot of cash in a open used bag of chips
is the way that I would do it. I'm not
kidding The City it's New York City News, but it's

(39:33):
called The City. It's an online outlet. Eric Adams advisor
Winnie Greco handed a City reporter cash stuffed in a
bag of potato chips. The incident has been reported to
law enforcement, promptly contacted by the Brooklyn US Attorney's Office.

(39:55):
Happened not this past week, the week prior. They wrote
about it right away, and Winnie Greco apparently is a
She's a liaison to the Asian community, works with Eric Adams,
who's trying to win the mayor's seat again against crushing

(40:21):
odds and a socialist nut job. It's a classic case.
Adams is better than the nut job, but the nutjob
has had the momentum. She was the target of multiple investigations.
This Winnie Greco. She was a longtime ally, resigned from

(40:45):
her position as the mayor's leison, but has been showing
up at all of his campaign stops. On Wednesday, City
Hall reporter Katie Honan spotted Greco near the announcement of
the opening of Adam's newest campaign office in Harlem. Greco
later texted Honan after the event. When she spotted her again,

(41:06):
asked her to meet across the street, walked over to
the Whole Foods. While inside the store, Greco handed Honan
an open bag of chips with the top crumpled closed.
She thought it was an offer for a light snack.
Greco told Greco more than once she could not accept
the chips, but Greco insisted she keep them. When they

(41:27):
parted ways, she opened up the bag to see meaning
just undid the crumpled up top at least one one
hundred dollars bill in several twenties. She said, I cannot
accept this. Where are you? I'm giving it back. She

(41:47):
didn't respond when she was asked if it was her
intention to hand over money to the reporter. She said, Oh,
made mistake, apologized to Ova. I make mistake. I'm so sorry.
Culture thing I don't know, I don't understand. I'm so sorry.
It feels so bad right now. So sorry, honey. That's

(42:10):
a quote. Yeh. I just wanted to be her friend.
I just wanted to give one one good friend. It's nothing. Uh,
can we forget about this? I will try to be

(42:30):
a good person. Please, please, please don't do nothing in
news about me. Oh my, I can't make this stuff up.
You just you cannot make this stuff up. We come back,
we go to the big stories in the press box,
and then we're gonna expand a little bit the shoot
her in Minneapolis. Some information coming out that I think

(42:53):
is very enlightening. Next, in the Morning Show with Preston.

Speaker 9 (42:57):
Scott, we suggest you use the restroom before you listen
or invested at thirty foot catheter.

Speaker 1 (43:11):
Yes, I use it all the time.

Speaker 9 (43:13):
This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott, twenty minutes away.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
From taking your calls from What's the Beef Friday off
on Monday. A little follow up. I gave the wrong
I guessed that the title just didn't pop into my brain,
but it did. The podcast on the murder of Dan
Markel that you want to listen to is Over my

(43:45):
Dead Body. You'll find it. The first episode is called
Tally and I was shocked when that first came out
because of the detailed information the audio of what investigators had.

(44:10):
But again, it's not what you think, it's not what
you know, it's what you can prove. And while it
took a lot longer than anyone would have liked, so far,
the prosecution being handled by Georgia Capelman, who is unbelievably detailed.
She is She Georgia Capelman as a prosecutor is like

(44:38):
a surgeon with a dull knife, meaning.

Speaker 10 (44:44):
Just deliberate, just over and over and over, and eventually
the incision happens.

Speaker 1 (44:56):
She is really good. I had the privilege of serving
on the grand jury with Georgia Kapelman primarily making the
arguments to us for six months on a myriad of
cases that were capital cases. But anyway, that's the name
of the podcast, Over My Dead Body and you can.

(45:18):
You can listen to it for free on the iHeartRadio app.
It is absolutely worth listening to if you're interested in
learning about the evidence that Don Adilson has to overcome.
And I've told you from the get go, this is
the strongest circumstantial case that I have been presented with,
including my time as a grand juror. It informs me

(45:42):
spending that time listen to evidence, some of it circumstantial,
some of it not, in various cases where we vote
to say yes, you have a case to you have
a probable cause for this charge. Had I been a
grand juror faced with the evidence that was presented on
the podcast alone, it would have been a slow dunk,
Go get them. She has had convictions, she had a

(46:06):
plea on one defendant, convictions on three others, all of
them life in prison, and now a fourth Donna Adelson.
And will there be a fifth, and then what happens
with Wendy the ex wife. We'll see. We'll talk about
it down the road a little bit. I want this

(46:26):
trial to go a little longer, for I take much time.
Atlanta Journal Constitution will cease publishing a print edition December
thirty first, So if you're interested, just for giggles in
purchasing any version of that newspaper, wait for the last one.

(46:48):
You know. Look, they are the author of their own demise.
I do not rejoice in people losing their jobs unless
they're evil, bad, criminal people. But in this case, this
is an industry that is blaming technology and digital for
its demise when its demise has been its own doing.
It is self destructed by not doing its job. And

(47:12):
if you're in the print world of journalism and you
don't agree with that statement, all I can tell you
is you're wrong. The evidence is overwhelming. Your unwillingness to sorry,
not your because that's too personal. And some people are
really good reporters. They're just prevented from doing their jobs.

(47:33):
Or they found outlets and they are in newspapers that
are prospering and doing well, but it's their own fault.
Common painkillers may fuel deadly superbugs that resist antibiotics. It's
a study showing that iboprofen and acid ofmnifin, when used
individually while a viral infection that requires antibiotics or a

(48:01):
bacterial infection that requires it, any kind of infection requiring
an antibiotic individually, those two hinder and in fact fuel
the bug. If you take them both, you are feeding
the bug and allowing it to mutate faster into a

(48:22):
superversion of itself that is resistant to the antibiotics completely.
It's absolutely worth being on your radar. The last big
story in the press box, I'm going to tie into
the next story. Stay with me. It's forty minutes past
the hour, second hour here of The Morning Show with
Preston Scott.

Speaker 11 (48:44):
The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (49:05):
Two minutes past the hours this Morning Show. One of
the other big stories is that the mother of the
shooter in Minneapolis has quit cooperating with police. She's not talking.
Why why would you need to hire a criminal defense attorney?
To quote? The announced reason is to field calls from media.

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What we know is that she signed the paperwork allowing
him to change his name and to pursue his transgenderism.
That would be enough reason for me to be haunted
by this. If I were the parent, I contributed to
his delusion. But this isn't her fault. This isn't the

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parent's fault. It's not the family's fault. It's nobody's fault,
but his fault. It's not the gun's fault, it's his fault.
But inside the documents which were I thought written backwards
kind of in a code, that were written in Russian.
New York Post has uncovered that he expressed regret for transitioning,

(50:21):
wishing he'd never brainwashed himself. Listen to this. I only
keep it the long hair because it's pretty much my
last shred of being trans. I'm tired of being trans.
I wish I had never brainwashed myself. I can't cut

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my hair now, as it would be an embarrassing defeat
and it might be a concerning change of character that
could get me reported. It just always gets in my way.
I will probably chop it on the day of the attack. Now,
there's a second part to this that speaks for itself,

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the regret, and it's what we've talked about time and again.
He's a sixteen year old kid, likely started dealing with
stuff when he was thirteen fourteen, going through puberty, and
he get to a point where he's sixteen. He says, mom,
I want to be a woman, and she says okay,
instead of getting him help, instead of saying son, let's
just wait this out, instead of just trying to now okay.

(51:33):
But again, the act of violence is not the mother's fault.
But this is something that the media has to take
responsibility for. Listen to this. He praised the Sandy Hook massacre,
and in fact, for years had dreamed of being and

(51:58):
I don't mean sleeping at night dreaming. I'm talking about
fantasized about being quote a scary, horrible monster standing over
those powerless kids. He wanted to shoot and kill children.
Why because we make heroes out of these killers, because

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we use their names over and over and over. He
praised several serial killers in his writing, including the guy
that shot and killed the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
This is what I've been begging the media to wake up.

(52:44):
You know, the mainstream media is so busy saying, you know,
we need to do more to stop these kinds of things.
We need to deal with the guns. The gun didn't
do anything other than it what it's made to do. Fire.
The person responsible for where that gun is aimed is

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the person responsible for the death. Intellectually. If you're going
to take that argument, then get rid of cars, trucks, SUVs,
get rid of all kinds of things that can be
used as weapons. Nope, that's that's not going to fly, friends,
So why doesn't the media do what it can do
and stop publishing these people's names, stop repeating them over

(53:34):
and over and over and over and over. This guy
idolized them. Why because they lived in the public sphere.
He wrote on one of his magazines, Where's your God?

(53:55):
Young man met his God? Met that gun? Odd the
moment he pulled the trigger and ended his own life.
He met that God. Justice was delivered in what form

(54:16):
and where and how? But he met justice. Forty seven
minutes to pass the hour to come back. Get you
ready for What's the Beef Next? On The Morning Show
with Preston Scott.

Speaker 9 (54:29):
Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott. What's the

(54:53):
bee Friday coming up in just a few You are
welcome to call in and get in line if you like.
Eight five zero two zero five WFLA man, the decisions
some people make. I came across this story of Ryan Borgwart.
Besides having a terrible last name, he in August of

(55:21):
twenty twenty four staged his own drowning, left his wife
and three children in order to rendezvous with a woman
in Eastern Europe in the country of Georgia that he
met online. Decided he wanted to ditch his wife and
children to be with. Investigators finally tracked him down after

(55:50):
he faked his own death, convinced him to come back
to the country, turned himself in. He was arrested, going
to jail for eighty nine days because that's how long
investigators looked for his body. Has to pay thirty thousand dollars.
His wife divorced him four months after he came back
into the country. Told investigators he drove to Green Lake,

(56:14):
about fifty miles from his home one hundred miles northwest
of Milwaukee. He picked it because it's the deepest lake
in Wisconsin, paddled to the middle of the lake in
his kayak, overturned it. This is after he went to
church with his family. He paddled back to shore in
an inflatable raft he brought with him, dropped his cell

(56:38):
phone and id in the lake. After attempting to wash
away his muddy footprints on the shoreline, he allegedly rode
off on a bike he had hidden there. He rode
for seventy miles, caught a bus from Madison to Toronto.
From there, he caught a flight to Paris, then some
unnamed Asian nation before he traveled to Georgia, whereas his

(56:59):
gas pal.

Speaker 1 (57:00):
That he met online picked him up and they hung
out in a hotel for a few days, and then
he became a resident of Georgia, as in the country
he had coordinated this. What a loser, The lead research

(57:28):
assistant of the program made this comment, at least he
didn't kill his wife and children. There was at least
some concern he had taken out a life insurance policy
prior to the incident. I'm guessing that was his way
of saying, here you go, honey. I'm guessing she was

(57:54):
named as the beneficiary, but I don't know, and so
I guess yes, if that was the case, what'll be
interesting is does he get then prosecuted for insurance fraud.
One would think that the claim paid out, but I
don't know that. That's not in the story. But still

(58:20):
loser and the dangers of online man, the grass always
seems to be greener on the other side, Guys, it's not.
It's just not honor your vows. Fifty six minutes past
the hour, what's to be Friday is next? We have
two lines taken, two lines open eight five zero two

(58:42):
zero five WFLA eight five zero two zero five WFLA. Well,

(59:05):
it's time and we have one line open eight five
zero two zero five WFLA. If you want to be
guaranteed a little airtime, this is I don't do this.
I surrender time once a week at least, but not
very often to you, to let you just because I
get to get it off my chest all week long.

(59:27):
Whatever it is, silly, unimportant, big, massive, But if it
matters to me, I share it. This is your chance.
If it matters to you, we'll even pretend to care
about it ourselves. It's what's the bee Friday? Here on
the Morning Show with Preston Scott eight five zero two

(59:48):
zero five WFLA eight five zero two zero five ninety
three fifty two. You can complain about anything you like.
We have two rules. No profanity and don't make it personal.
Oh and don't monologue. Okay, Michael, you are up. What's
the beef?

Speaker 8 (01:00:03):
Actually there's three of them.

Speaker 12 (01:00:04):
I'm gonna do it real quick. One this single lip
tard mother signed the paperwork to half her son. Quote
transition jump that into his mental illness. Two these lip
tards always talking about, oh, well, it's the Republicans in
Mega that do all the violence. No it's not. I'm
sick of hearing that. And then three people are like, well,

(01:00:29):
you know what if there were no guns? Uh, well,
you know maybe if somebody had a gun, then captains
a little punky behind and.

Speaker 1 (01:00:40):
Good at it, good self at it, Michael. I'm proud
of you.

Speaker 12 (01:00:44):
Well, thank you, sir. I appreciate Hey, Preston, Yeah, I
got off my chest. Hopefully you and Jose and everybody
else have a wonderful weekend and hopefully anything good things
happened to y'all.

Speaker 1 (01:00:55):
Okay, same for you, brother, thank you, thank you. See
how simple that is, friends, and that frees up a
line eight five zero two zero five to bfla, Greg,
you are up. What's the beef?

Speaker 6 (01:01:09):
The Mark Levin phone app consumes too much bandwidth. We
had a morning show listener, Honor about eight twenty three
pm Eastern daylight time on Wednesday night, get through and
mention your interview that morning with Mark Levin about his
book on Power. So Thursday morning, I chose to do

(01:01:31):
an ego search and found out there's insufficient memory to
download the phone app, so I have to play suck
it up, Buttercup and try to find out if I
can't find it with the iHeartRadio Plus membership, So I
need to upgrade to all access.

Speaker 1 (01:01:52):
Well, I hope you feel better at least.

Speaker 6 (01:01:56):
Good luck searching and go Nobles by bye bye.

Speaker 1 (01:01:59):
Bye, Thank you, Greg, well done, brother, kept it between
the lines there. Great job, Greg. Let's go to Joel. Joel,
you are up. What's the beef?

Speaker 8 (01:02:09):
Good morning, Preston President. My beef is I'm concerned about
the peace of the development of the of these deep
state investigations that were supposed to be having. You know today, today,
all we've had is a raid on what's his name's house,
Bolton's house. We don't have that much time. We got

(01:02:31):
about a year and a half to dig up all
this stuff, in this tremendous amount of stuff that needs
to be digged up. I remember hearing that the Muller
Report had forty lawyers investigating Trump. Forty. Well, we should
have four hundred lawyers investigating all the deep state stuff,
which is massive, and it needs to come out because

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if it doesn't come out during the Trump administration the
first term, we're not going to see it.

Speaker 1 (01:03:00):
I don't disagree with anything you've said, not a word.

Speaker 8 (01:03:05):
I have a good day.

Speaker 1 (01:03:06):
Hey, thank you. I'm just I'm sitting back hoping that
there's a deep exhale, and I got that out. See
here's the thing. People live vicariously through your beefs all
of you. When you complain there's a there's at least

(01:03:30):
twenty twenty five others that are zeroed in on your
beef and going yep, yep, that's right. Say it and
then they feel better because you said it for them.
And I'm being you know, I'm being conservative with my
numbers there. I'm just saying that specific beef is going

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to resonate with at least that many people, if not
thousands more, and then we're multiplying it across the country.
All right, We've got Zach, then Linda, then Bruce. We
have one line open eight five zero two zero five
to be.

Speaker 13 (01:04:06):
Fla decades of doing morning drive radio differently, doing it
his way like all blue Eyes.

Speaker 1 (01:04:22):
Except he's not one of the great decomposers. You know,
it's not six feet under. Hey, the Morning Show with
Preston Scott. I need to ask for just a moment

(01:04:43):
as suggested that we do this, So please ask the
morning show band to bring the music down, just a
moment of silence for Bruce who was on holden. He's gone, yeah, Okay,

(01:05:06):
we're gonna move on now, Bruce, the line is open
eight five zero two zero five WFLA. If you want
to call back, Zach, you've been patient. Welcome, wats the beef,
good morning.

Speaker 14 (01:05:15):
I'll tell you might be Freston.

Speaker 6 (01:05:17):
It's uh.

Speaker 14 (01:05:20):
Tell you scumbags that don't put your shopping cart away
in my.

Speaker 6 (01:05:23):
Publish in my city.

Speaker 14 (01:05:26):
Instead you pop a wheelie into the nearest island. You
know you can lead that scumback behavior to you shoppers
at Walmart, but you see you do it at public.

Speaker 6 (01:05:35):
So we're gonna have some issues.

Speaker 14 (01:05:36):
Don't be surprised if I share some words, and some
of those words they're gonna be nice words.

Speaker 6 (01:05:45):
I don't care if you're an old lady.

Speaker 15 (01:05:48):
I feel.

Speaker 1 (01:05:50):
I figure if they've got the strength to pop the
wheeling a.

Speaker 14 (01:05:52):
Little bit further, it's a little hot out for these kids.
They're not job is to go eat the egg hunting
like shopping carts. Okay, it's hot enough out there to
put it in the freaking rack.

Speaker 1 (01:06:03):
Hey, Zach, if.

Speaker 14 (01:06:04):
I had a nice car and that one of those
cars hit my car, h you like you ain't got
a nice car anyway. Now, Preston, ask me if I
feel better.

Speaker 1 (01:06:13):
No, I'm not. I've been trying to ask you a
couple of questions. I've been asked trying to ask your
questions for the last two minutes and you won't let
me do it. Do you think they don't know what
questions you're gonna ask? Well, you know what I think.
I'm just gonna move I'm just gonna move along. You've
gotten your beef out, that's fine, that's fine.

Speaker 4 (01:06:35):
We'll make.

Speaker 1 (01:06:37):
That's why we do it. Zach, thanks very much. I
appreciate it. I was gonna ask a couple of questions,
but no, no, no, no, But you know what it
is all about you. These segments are about you, my friends,
and so we're here to help and hopefully Zach feels better.
That was pretty funny, Linda, you're up. What's the beef?

Speaker 16 (01:06:58):
Good morning, Presston. My beef is with Disney. Oh are
they ever gonna learn to leave the q LGBTQ stuff
ont of their movies?

Speaker 2 (01:07:10):
No.

Speaker 16 (01:07:12):
I caught one last night of quick seeing. My daughter
and I went to see Freaky Friday and they had
a school food fight, which was cute, but in the
background you could see a pride flat be course flown
by one of the kids.

Speaker 1 (01:07:29):
They've got to find a way to fit it in everything,
even the animated stuff for the littles.

Speaker 16 (01:07:35):
Yeah, yeah, I was really disappointed in that for what
you spend to go to see a movie that's ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (01:07:42):
Yeah it is, Yeah, it is. Well that's my beef, Linda.
I wish you know what I understand. And Disney is
losing money hand over fist with their movies and they
don't seem to care. And I'm not sure why that's
not a legal issue. But Linda, thanks very much. I
hope you feel a little bit better getting that off

(01:08:03):
your chest. Yeah. I at what point are we going
to deal with the fiduciary responsibility of Disney to its shareholders?
I just I don't get it all right, We've got
wide open lines. I think Zach scared everybody off of
the phones. I've just wondered about Zach. You know Zach's comment,

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if you've got the energy to pop a wheelie and
get the card up on the grass and the landscaping,
you really can't walk it to the cart corral or
put it back up on the sidewalk where the kids
can grab it easier. I don't get it. I really don't.
All right, We've got we got three lines now open

(01:08:49):
eight five zero two zero five to BFLA eight five
zero two zero five ninety three to fifty two. What's
to be Friday? Final segment is next. We can fit
four maybe five callers, So call now.

Speaker 9 (01:09:07):
West LA on your phone with the iHeart Radio app
and on hundreds of devices like Alexa, Google Home, Xbox
and so noos.

Speaker 1 (01:09:13):
This is Chriser and Ihearts Radio station. This is it.
Final four callers and we're done. I've got a couple
email beefs if I can get to them, but first

(01:09:34):
you have been very patient. Ray, thanks for calling in.
What's the beef okay today?

Speaker 15 (01:09:40):
Number one? I graduated in high school in nineteen sixty one,
Down and Perry and every back.

Speaker 8 (01:09:45):
Then.

Speaker 15 (01:09:46):
We were educated, we were told no one. We had
prayer to more in President Diligence School. We're caught the
Golden Rule and a lot of boards there at the
guns to school and Truck's know. Nobody dared mess with us.
But the boards and the beating, the police are taking
care of it. Nother thing. We're talked. We're talking the
two sides of every story. We get all the information,

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look at both sides that make up your own mind,
and that way you educated. I think in reason. Now
we are I have a new high school building period
by the time, and I forget my parents team one
night from a PEK meeting that there's someone that I'm
talking have you let fellow go want come in finance school.

(01:10:30):
They're gonna be telling you what to do. And then
of course after the guard to kick out of school.
What's the amount of hearing?

Speaker 17 (01:10:39):
Uh?

Speaker 15 (01:10:40):
The liberals took over the schools? God kools.

Speaker 1 (01:10:45):
Yeah. Ray, we're kind of getting into a filibuster here.
I I appreciate you calling in, but I've got to
move along so I can fit everybody else. See, we
just lost Gay, but thanks very much for the phone call.
We'll go from Gay Who's gone? To Ray? Who's here? Ray?

Speaker 18 (01:11:01):
Hey, my beef? Is that annoying commercial where the engine
cranks and cranks and doesn't start. They have a wonderful product,
but that commercial is so annoying. My girlfriend told me
to not buy anymore.

Speaker 6 (01:11:15):
That's my beef.

Speaker 1 (01:11:17):
I'm glad you're laughing at the end of it. That
means it's done its work. Thank you. Sir, I appreciate
the call. Yeah, when someone ends their phone call with laughter,
the therapeutic value of the call has already manifest, which
tells me we have done our job. Henry, you are up.
What's the beef?

Speaker 15 (01:11:37):
Fay?

Speaker 5 (01:11:38):
Good morning?

Speaker 7 (01:11:38):
Pressed?

Speaker 5 (01:11:38):
And this comments directed at eighty five percent of the
motoring public, and I would define them as women and
Q tips. The other fifteen percent would.

Speaker 7 (01:11:50):
Be males, not necessarily men.

Speaker 4 (01:11:53):
But males.

Speaker 5 (01:11:54):
Okay, if you're going to pull out in front of
my car from an intersection or whatever I'm driving through,
please be really familiar with the pedal that's at the
extreme right of the floorboard on the driver's side. It's
called the accelerator. So if you're going to pull out
right in front of me, that device at the extreme right,

(01:12:16):
that accelerator. The harder you push it, the faster your
car will get out of my way. So I do
not rear end you.

Speaker 1 (01:12:24):
That's my beef, Presten, Well delivered, thoughtfully delivered. Consider it
to other drivers. Our final caller here is Bruce. Bruce,
you have returned, my brother, You're back, Yes, sir, what's
the beef?

Speaker 19 (01:12:43):
These school shootings? And it's my beef? Is actually with
the school boards and the local police. I'm sorry, but
it is not hard to lock down a school or
have school security. Most schools are have a perimeter fence.
All they have to do is put up one other fence.

(01:13:04):
It's not difficult. And we have plenty of special operators
that will on towards gun fire and not away from
or wait outside until it stops, that have retired from
the military, that we could hire to secure schools.

Speaker 3 (01:13:20):
There's no excuse.

Speaker 1 (01:13:24):
I don't disagree with you. There's a lot of a
lot of people yours truly, that have been arguing with legislators,
with school board, school board members, superintendents. They're not doing enough.
And the second you eliminate the idea that a school
is a gun free zone, you you will help the situation. Now,

(01:13:50):
metal detectors keeping kids from bringing firearms and weapons knives
turned to weapons. Obviously, that that's that. That helps with
the stud udents, but it won't stop a mass shooter.
The only thing that will stop a mass shooter is
hardening the target and having plenty of people around that

(01:14:10):
will shoot back. That's what will stop a mass shooter
real quickly. Here, we have a couple of emails that
came in on the subject of beefs. Jeff said, disgusted
with all the activist judges who are engaged in aiding
and abetting various criminal causes, yet again working to prevent
President Trump from being the president. There's no statute of

(01:14:33):
limitations on conspiracy to undermining because it's ongoing. And then
I got a beef sent to me yesterday, believe it
or not. Marshall wrote in have you noticed the city
of Tallassee has led its numerous beautiful rose gardens go.
They're unkept, they're mismanaged, and they're being run down. Where's

(01:14:55):
the city pride? Yeah?

Speaker 11 (01:14:58):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:14:59):
I'm actually not sure if those rose gardens are tended
to by the city. I always thought there were people
that were kind of attached to those parks that took
it on themselves. Maybe those folks are dead or something.
I don't know. Roses are tough, I will tell you that,
but yeah it you know, it's not like where Thomasville

(01:15:22):
they really take pride in their roses up there twenty
seven minutes after the hour. But we gotta if you're
gonna have them, take care of them, right, we come
back We've got the best and worst of the week.
Good news a dad joke that was mailed in this week.
I had a couple of submissions and headlines from the

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bees still to come on the Morning Show. Thanks for
joining us.

Speaker 9 (01:15:54):
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Speaker 1 (01:16:16):
The best and worst of the week, Jose, you're up
all right.

Speaker 20 (01:16:22):
The best for me was the Christian heavy metal rock
concert I went to. I don't even know if that's
what you call it, but it was in at the
Murray Hill Theater in Jacksonville.

Speaker 1 (01:16:34):
Went with my best Bud Jordan. You may know him.

Speaker 17 (01:16:37):
Yeah, I think I met him once or twice. Yeah,
it was man, I had a great time. I couldn't
hear afterwards, but it was awesome. And then, uh, for
my worst, it has been my the butchering of the
word wo what what what color? We'll call it wi

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coula not wacoola.

Speaker 1 (01:17:00):
Thank you. I've been saying wakola, but I've learned it.
That's not how you say it. It is w color.
It's yeah, yeah, my worst of the week. Why is
it when stores are busy that managers that aren't busy

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managing just stand there and they don't go to a
checkout line. Ostensibly, managers know everything that goes on in
the store and know how to do everything. That's why
they're a manager. So I'm at a place the line
there are two clerks, the lines are ten to fifteen

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people deep in each line, and the manager's sitting there
having a conversation with someone who could be a clerk,
but he's just chatting it up. And eventually I just
stared daggers into him. I don't know if that made
a difference, but he eventually picked up the radio and
had some people called to the front. My question is, Okay,

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I've seen this in a lot of places. How about
go man check out yourself. But they're managers, Well, but
you're not managing anything right now, you're staring at customers
waiting in line. I just that's my worst of the week.
It's like, come on now. The best of the week

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was a tie first. Bishop Kelly High School in Tulsa,
Oklahoma has a freshman tradition. Freshmen have to show up
their first day of school and kiss their mother goodbye.
It's a thing. They've done it for years and the

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seniors line up and watch and it's embraced. It's a thing.
I've seen the video of it. It's hilarious. They drive
up moms dropping them off and they have to give
them a kiss on the cheek. It's awesome. That's a great, wholesome,

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fun tradition. But I said it was a tie. The
lead research assistant dropped this in my box this morning
and suggested that it might be the song for the
start of the show. But it's not. I said, Now,
this is best of the week. This is rapper Tom McDonald.

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Just an excerpt that has to be edited out of
the podcast. So if you're listening to the podcast, we
just played Tom McDonald's The Devil is a Democrat, and
you can check out the song. He is a very
conservative white wrapper and he's really good. He's really good.

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But I can't allow his song to stay on the podcast.
But I can't openly tell you that's what we played.
It's so good The Devil is a Democrat. Anyway, you
can check it out. That's my best of the week. Right,
we come back. We got good news. Forty past the hour.

Speaker 6 (01:20:27):
Open.

Speaker 1 (01:20:33):
This is really cool. Beginning in fourth grade, thirty year
old Rosie Paulk said she grew up receiving countless handwritten
letters from her dad. Over the years, she estimated that
she acquired over thirty five hundred letters from her dad,

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sixty seven year old Ecker. Whenever she would be away
at summer camp, when she left for college, even moved
into her first apartment that was just twenty minutes away,
Rosie would always discover a handwritten note in her mailbox
every single day. It felt like a journal entry, ranging

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from topics like his classes he was taking during his
doctorate program, to how proud he was that she would
hit career milestones, or even detailing a favorite subway sandwich.
Her two year old son now receives letters from her
father as well. She's saved each and every one of them.

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She said. There's dad jokes, there's father like humor. Sometimes
during letters, my mom would talk to him out loud
when he's writing, and he'll write, hold on, she's talking
to me, and then she stops talking and he gets
back to writing the letter. But this past July, she
noticed her father, who had earned his PhD, had become

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a little aimless and she could tell he wasn't feeling well.
A few days later, after recalling all the thousands of
letters she had received from him, she thought of a solution.
I wonder if complete strangers would want to receive a
letter from him. She went to TikTok and she posted
a video seeing if anyone would be interested in this proposition.

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She received a resounding response and acquired over one thousand
requests for letters from her dad. It's called the Dad
Letter Project, which she described as male that will make
you smile or cry in a good way. A website

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was born. She said. People wanted to hear from a dad,
They wanted to hear from a father figure, and so
her dad, who's spending the sub her summer in Michigan,
was immediately on board. But then she realized he's going
to need help, so they brought on three additional Dad

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staff writers. Each submitted requests. Some are grieving with the
loss of their own father, Others are wanting to hear
a funny anecdote. One request was from a third grade
teacher in West Virginia who was asking for my dad
to be the third grade class penpal. She said, sometimes

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you just need a dad to remind you that you're
doing great, to offer unsolicited life advice, or to tell
you a joke that's so bad you have no choice
but to laugh. It's like a hug, but on paper. Regardless.
Dad has been writing about ten letters every morning since
the beginning of the project, and he said, it comes
from the bottom of my heart. I address problems that

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they have the best I can. I'm honored that they
would write me, and I'm happy to write them back.
They're being inundated with requests for more. The good news
here is a This is the power of a dad.

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Any male can be a father. It's something special to
be a dad. And it's also the power of providing
that wisdom, insight, care to total strangers that just need
a dad in their life. Someone's trying and that is

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good news.

Speaker 14 (01:25:03):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:25:03):
We are off Monday back Tuesday with the Cat Camick,
us congresswoman. She's had her little girl back at it
being a mom now as well as a congresswoman and
chance painter, part of the new cast of Mountain Men,

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which will premiere on Wednesday, so we'll have him the
day before the premiere. One of the cast members from
Mountain men, lives in Alaska. He will be joining us live.
That ought to be fun ose playing a place in
a call to Alaska. Uh, time for a dad joke.
Something you can take to church with you. This comes

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courtesy of Christopher. You're right saying. He says, our chaeologists
have found a two thousand year old stain. They believe
it's from ancient Greece. He said, I'll see myself, Christopher.
That was brilliant, great joke. Ladies and gentlemen, It's time

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for headline satire if you will. These are satirical headlines
courtesy of the Babylon b Taylor's swift engagement overturned his
referees determined Travis Kelsey's knee didn't touch the ground. Genius.
Trump enacts plan to dumb down Chinese population by inviting

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them to attend American universities. Trump vows to nationalize as
many private companies as it takes to defeat socialism. Report
Kilmar Abrago. Garcia just won away from Free Burrito on
his deportation punch card. Mayorship of New York to be

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awarded the first candidate who can bench press the bar.
Friend group recruits Baptists so to always have a designated driver.
Somber Democrats mourn DC going a record ten days without
a more murder man fulfills great commission by occasionally wearing

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novelty Christian T shirt and public overcorrection. Cracker Barrel adds
Confederate flag to logo and changes name to the South
Will Rise Again. Instant sainthood man installs car seat without cussing.
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Speaker 9 (01:27:36):
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Speaker 1 (01:27:42):
Look back at the program in eighty seconds or less.
We started with a terrific song by things Megan Woods,
and it's called the Truth. And we started with a
verse from Some one thirty nine verse someone thirty one
thirty nine, verse fourteen is where we began the program Today.

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Big stories in the press box. The mom of the
Minneapolis shooters suddenly quits cooperating with police. Why why would
she hire a criminal defense attorney? It makes no sense.
I look, none of this is her or anyone's fault.

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No matter what happened in this kid's life, this kid
is the responsible party. And oh, by the way, it
is confirmed in his own handwriting that he regretted his
transition to transgenderism. Common pay painkillers, a sedimentifin, and iboprofen

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may fuel deadly superbugs that resist antibiotics, according to a
study in Australia that has some veracity to it. Popular
newspaper announces an end to its print edition, The Atlanta
Journal Constitution. Oh, it's only been one hundred and fifty
seven years. One hundred and fifty seven years of printing

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a newspaper will come to an end. They're blaming digital technology.
I'm telling you it's bad reporting. We talked about owning
a home, is it still the American dream? And we
discussed a bunch of other things as well. But my friends,
you have a great weekend and go Knowles