Ep. 5488: Good Luck New York.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
By past the hour, Wednesday, November fifth, Morning Show with
Preston Scott Show fifty four eighty eight. I am Preston.
He is ose the sun is going to going to
come up? But friends, New York City has elected a

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socialist mayor. Most populous city in the country has elected
a socialist to be the mayor. We will unpack that,
of course, and be paying very close attention. I I'm
just remembering the old adage careful what you wish for.

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It will take a minimum of twenty years for New
York to recover from this if they reverse course. Minimum
because the exodus is beginning today, but will again we'll
unpack that. In a way. The scripture unintentionally points to

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this sort of We talked about Zechariah in church on Sunday.
Zechariah ten, verse two. It says, for the household, God's
utter nonsense, and the diviners see lies, They tell false
dreams and give empty consolation. Therefore the people wander like sheep.

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They are afflicted for lack of a shepherd. Household gods?
What are those? All the little gees, all the gods
that people erect in their lives that they really do
kind of worship above the God of the universe, the Creator,

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the Father God, and the Father of Jesus. Above Jesus,
above the one who sacrificed and gave his life for us,
all of those other gods. The things that are just
so much more important to you than God, the things
that reveal your heart, your checkbook, how you react to

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situations when they go south, Like I know people that
are just they talk the game, but man, when the
pressure comes, they blow up. They can't handle it. They
can't handle it. Household gods, utter nonsense. They got nothing

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for you. All the things that we sometimes are focusing on,
they got nothing. The diviners see lies. Diviners say, fortune tellers,
palm readers, pharaoh cards, you name it. All that stuff nonsense. Lies,

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They tell fall streams and give empty consolation. They're hearing
from demons. That's why they tell you about your past.
They're plugged into demons. Demons know your past, they see
your life. Therefore, the people wander like sheep afflicted for

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lack of a shepherd. That is New York City, that
is Minneapolis, that is Portland, that is Seattle. That is
what you have as you watch this country move. I
read a commentary I won't unpack it. Today, I've great

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a commentary on that they don't want to go to socialism.
This is a person on our side of things trying
to intellectualize the vote that New Yorkers went with Mom
Donnie because he tapped into something. Oh, he tapped into
their stupidness. The argument being made is that the middle

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class just you know, he tapped into there. They're they're
realizing that just things aren't right. Uh no, you don't
go socialist. It's just not It's it's that simple. And
if there were any doubts, his little victory speech last
night clinched it. But God has a plan. God's not

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up in heaven going wait, he won, so it's gonna
be okay, kiddos. Ten past the hour, It's The Morning
Show with Preston Scott. Coming up to twelve past the hour,

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November fifth, Huh, let's take a peek here. Eighteen sixty two.
Frustrated by the Union's lack of success, Abraham Lincoln removes
George McClellan from command of the Army of the Potomac.
If you want to watch one of those documentaries that's acted,

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check out the one on Ulysses s Grant that's produced
by the History Channel. The story of his life is
absolutely fascinating, but the tactical genius that he was is

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even better. That man was playing chess on the battleground
and he was bold, he got stuff done. Great story.
Eighteen eighty nine, Wyoming citizens approved the first state constitution
granting full voting rights to women. Nineteen twelve, Woodrow Wilson

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defeats incumbent William Howard Taft and former President Theodore Roosevelt
to become the twenty eighth US president. Nineteen sixty six,
Everett Alvarez begins month twenty eight of what will eventually
be one hundred and two months as a pow in
North Vietnam. One hundred and two months.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
That's crazy.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
And former President Ronald Reagan announces that he has Alzheimer's
disease on this date in nineteen ninety four, and then
he pretty much drifted out of the public eye and
preferred to to go through that preserving I think his
privacy as much as possible. Today is National Stress Awareness Day.

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What what is that? It's National Love your Red Hair Day.
Don't have any but for those of you that are
red heads, there you go but this now, it's National

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Donut Day. What's the best donut. It's best donut out there.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Krispy Kreme, hands down.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
They're glazed.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
No, that's that's not a donut.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
That's that's it's look, crispy cream is a thing, but
that's not that's that's just air and sugar.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
You're stressing me out.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah, I know. Put on your red wig and we'd
be onto something here now. I I'm I personally think
that that a Krispy Kreme have a place, okay, but
they're not the same to me as a Dunkin donut,
donut king, even even a donut at a Public's or

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donuts at Tasty Pastry for example. The more more not
a cake donut. I'm not a cake donut fan, but
but there's there's no comparison. That's just not a real donut.
It just isn't. It's it's it's fine, but that's not
a real donut. That is a that's it. You know

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what that is. That's a fast food version of a donut.
That's what that is. It's it's like, take your best
hamburger and compare it to a McDonald's, a burger king,
a drive through Hamburger. It's not the same. It's fine
if you want one and you just time is of
the essence and shake your head all you want. But

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but that's that's that's what Krispy Kreme is. It's a
fast food donut. Now you wander into a duncan you
wander into a real donut shop? Okay, now that's something different.
But of donuts, what's your favorite kind of donut? M m.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
That's a tough one.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
Just a glazed donut from.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Simple glazed donut? Oh yeah, yeah, Chris Cremer, I like maple.
A maple donut is incredible. Long John's used to be
a thing. People don't make them much anymore. A maple
long john, which is just a rectangular donut, a long donut,
but it's rectangular. Give me the glazed. I'm good with that.

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I'm good with a sugar donut. I'm not a big
fan of the old school cake donuts, powdered donuts. Okay,
they're okay. I'm not into the fruity stuff. You know that.
You know I'm not that way. I'm not a fruity guy. Okay,
seventeen past the hour, I can't wait for the email

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on this one. All right, Today on the program, Let's
work backwards Jade Johnson. In the third hour, we will

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talk about the Second Amendment broadly. I think it's really
important to always be reminded of its purpose. We talk
a little bit about open caerry. We're going to talk
a little bit about tactical defense when you're dealing with

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someone with a knife. As well as, if we've got
the time, we're going to get into some preliminary thoughts
on holiday shopping and offer some thoughts if you're thinking
of getting a firearm for a loved one. Maybe you
know the first BB gun for a kid, you know

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that kind of thing. We're going to give you some
things to think about first, all right, considerations, We've got
the Lieutenant Governor Jay Collins joining us in a little
better than forty minutes. He'll be joining us in the
second hour. We'll have a conversation with the Lieutenant Governor

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and speaking of he will be the featured guest. Former
Florida Senator, retired US Army serve twenty three years Remember
the Special Forces combat veteran, The American Valor Dinner, Keystone

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Federated Republican Women their fourth Biennial American Valor Dinner is
coming up tomorrow night at the Monticello Opera House and
if you are interested, just look up the Keystone Federated
Republican Women and you can get your tickets online if
you are interested. It's a five thirty eight to thirty event.

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Tickets are fifty dollars. It is a fundraiser. You must
have tickets in advance. I'll go ahead and give you
the phone number to call her text for tickets eight
five zero four nine one eighty seven to fifty five
eight five zero four nine one eighty seven fifty five
and again, our guest next hour will be the featured
speaker at the event tomorrow night. Speaking of local events

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Friday night, Tallasse Symphony First Commerce Credit Union teaming up
for the John Williams Cinematics Celebration. It's it's already here.
Seems like it was just yesterday that we were talking
about it. It is the music of John Williams. And

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I mean we're talking Indiana Jones, Jaws, Star Wars, Harry Potter,
Jurassic Park, Superman. I mean iconic music has been scored
by this guy. I think he's the single best cinematic

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composer in history, and it's not even close. His career
has just been breathtaking and the music of John Williams
will be celebrated at this event. It'll be at Cascades Park.
Tickets started just thirty two dollars. You can go to
Theatterleamphitheater dot com website, Food trucks, beverage stations, all of

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that will be available. And then this weekend the ninth
annual Southern Game Fair Kevins. Kevin's is a regional iconic destination.
People literally fly their private jets in the Thomasville to
go shop at Kevins. I am not making that up.
People fly in from all over to shop at Kevin's.

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And this game Fare is a thing. It's Thursday through Saturday,
and you can get your tickets online at Kevinscatalog dot com.
You'll learn you know, they've got Tall Timbers Wagon Tour,
they've got the Quail Bash, they've got the Gamefare Event
shooting demo. It's a three day happening and so if
you are interested, get your tickets online at Kevin'scatalog dot com.

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Twenty seven minutes past the hour, there's your calendar. What's
going on here in the area. More to come on
the Morning Show. And this is the Morning Show with
Preston Scott. Nothing surprising in the elections ergo, they are

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not the big stories in the press box. We'll touch
on them in just a few minutes. But first, if
you're just waking up, good morning, how are you? He's OSEI,
I'm Preston at show fifty four to eighty eight of
the radio program. The Lieutenant General Lieutenant Governor sorry of
his military background with his president office. Jay Collins will

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join us the LG in just a little while. First
big story in the press box. The Chief Judge of
the US District Court in DC, James Boseburg, signed the
orders in twenty twenty three preventing cell phone carriers from
notifying eleven Republican members of Congress about Special Counsel Jack

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Smith subpoenas seeking their cell phone data from January fourth
to January seventh, twenty twenty one. Judge claimed disclosing the
subpoenas could result in the destruction of or tampering with
evidence to justify keeping them hidden. Problem is it's likely
a violation of federal law, and so Ted Cruz has

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just had enough of it.

Speaker 5 (16:51):
I am right now calling on the House of Representatives
to impeach Judge Bosburg. Judge Bosburg put his robe down
up and said, sign me up to be part of
the partisan vendetta against twenty percent of the Republicans in
the Senate. That is a dereliction of duty and a

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violation of the judicial oath. And I want to thank
Chairman Grassley and Chairman Johnson for pursuing this tenaciously like
a dog on a bone. We are going to get
the answers of every person who signed off on this
abuse of power, and mark my words, there will be
accountability for these zelots who wanted to corrupt the Department

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of Justice and corrupt the judiciary in order to try
to attack their enemy's list.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
We'll see where this leads. He's he's right there. The
people that are involved in this stuff, the John Brennan's
in this case, James Boseburg, they have that look. It's
a look of smugness and arrogance. It says the law

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doesn't apply to me. I make the laws. I do
what I want, just said simple. Sorry. It's why Patrick
Tata Domiak has to be given a new trial or
has to have his sentence thrown out because what the
government did is an affront to every single person that

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owns a firearm in this country. It's a gross violation
of the law and of power. Second big story in
the press box. I've never heard of her. She's a
singer named Tish Hyman born in Brooklyn. Black Lady. Don't

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know what her style of music is, it doesn't really matter.
She was at a golden gym in Los Angeles and
a man's in there pretending to be a woman, though
not really. It was crazy because when I saw the
video of the encounter outside in the foyer in the

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lobby of the gold gym, I'm thinking, this guy is
and because he's not presenting himself, he's just he's walking
a certain way. It's such a spiritual tell you know.
By and large, these issues are spiritual in nature, and
they reveal themselves so consistently. There are exceptions, but generally speaking,

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the people that have this, this demonic problem have the
same kind of traits. And isn't that interesting. It speaks
to how how much of a social contagion it is.
It speaks to the demonic origin of it all. But
she had her membership terminated because she complained about a

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guy being in the women's locker room. Who oh, by
the way, said some very droger. I can't play the video,
I can't play the audio of it. I cannot share
it because it's so full of profanity. She's not happy,
and she's letting every woman in that lobby know there's
a guy in there. Now some men confront him, but

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he's protected status in California, and it's just a it's
just it's illustration. Planet Fitness was the first to say
there's no such thing as a men's locker room or
a women's locker room. And to paraphrase my buddy John Stenberger,

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I if men and women can mean anything, men and
women mean nothing. If male and female can mean anything,
male and female mean nothing. So whatever they think is
a lead or a men's room, or a men's locker
room or a lady's locker room in any of these
exercise facilities that blur the lines, that don't care, they

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don't have a policy. Whoever wants to go in whatever
they can. I can't say some of the details of
what this guy said to this singer, but it just
gets to the fact we're not there yet. Progress is
being made, but we are not there. And sadly, it's

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the underbelly of sin that is in our country is
showing itself still and I don't expect that to change
a whole lot. Forty one minutes past the hour, Let's
go ahead and touch on some of the election stuff.
Next thought or story you want to share, write them
at Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. Yes he knows how

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to read. Well, actually, his producer reads him. He doesn't
know how to read. Welcome to the Morning Show with
Preston Scott. Democrats won all the elections that are really

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being tracked. These are not national elections in any way,
shape or form. These are state elections. Some will try
to read too much into it. These are largely left
leaning states. There's you know, Virginia is kind of a
coin toss. The Democrat candidate there won easily, I mean

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not even close. Lieutenant governor say Democrat one Attorney General
Jay Jones, that that guy who threatened to kill colleagues.

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I mean, it's incredible. And then of course the one
race that has the New Jersey governor's race went to
a Democrat. But of course everyone's watching the mayoral race
and Zorah and Mam Donnie got over a million votes,

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carried with fifty point thirty nine percent. In Minneapolis, the socialist,
the Marxist, sorry did not win, but he did not lose.
There'll be a runoff. No one got a majority. There's
a bunch of candidates there, and so now it's it's

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going to be a play for the for those who
who did not get in the runoff, who gets them.
But as of right now, it's a ten pointed for
the incumbent, who's a train wreck. So Minneapolis is it's
just a matter of whether you're going to have an
uber liberal and a left wing loon or a Marxist.

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But I think we can look at New York. New
York City is is going to face some certainties now.
The economic structure. Look, Wall Street is already starting to shift.

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There's a new Wall Street developing in Dallas, Texas. A
lot of the big and this is a story we'll
talk about in the coming days. A lot of the
big financial players are in Dallas now, are moving have
moved to Dallas in the last five years. There will

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be an exodus of businesses out of New York City.
You have elected a Muslim extremist, but he's a he
he he engages in takia. See he either believes that

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those engaged in the LGBTQ lifestyle should be thrown off
a building, or he's guilty of being an apostate, or
he's lying to achieve the purpose of getting elected. There's

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a conflict coming all of the all of the pleasantries,
and look there he wasn't hiding who he was in
the standpoint of being a socialist, not at all, but
the realities of that because we don't we've not educated
people for a few generations now on what socialism is,

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what communism is, what Marxism is, why the founders set
up this country the way they founded it. Because we've
not done a good job teaching, we have now functionally
illiterate people that vote, and this is what you get.
I will not buy the excuse that the middle class

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of New York, No, they weren't looking for some hope
and if they listened to anything this man said, they
would know. No, but what was your choice, Andrew Cuomo

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And I'm sorry, Curtis leiwa, he's not electable. He needed
to get out of the race to give Cuomo any
chance whatsoever. I don't care about the down battle, down
ballot doesn't matter. The mayor of New York City is
a very strong place a position anyway. Forty eight minutes

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after the hour, the elections are, they have been and
we'll see.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
Boy, that escalated quickly.

Speaker 6 (27:19):
I mean, that really got out of hand fast on WFLA.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
Let's put some context into why the government shut down
is going to be a historic government shutdown, longest in history.
Let's go back to October of twenty thirteen when one
of the guys who put it all together for Barack

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Obama was giving a little talk and I want you
to listen, very very carefully. I played this few weeks ago.
I had not played it in a while, but it's
very relevant to where we are today. This is the
deceit that went in to the crafting of Obamacare.

Speaker 7 (28:22):
This bill was written in a tortured way to make
sure CBO did not score the mandate is taxes. If
CBO scored the manda's taxes, the bill dies.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (28:30):
So it was written to do that in terms of
in terms of risk rated subsidies. If you get a
law which said healthy people are going to pay in
it made explicit the healthy deal pay and the six
people get money. It would not have passed, Okay, just
like the people transparent. Lack of transparency is a huge
political advantage.

Speaker 4 (28:47):
And basically, you know, called.

Speaker 7 (28:48):
The stupidity the American voter or whatever, but basically that
was really really critical to get in the thing to pass.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
And you know, it's the second best argument.

Speaker 7 (28:56):
Look, I wish marks right, we could make it all transparent,
but I'd rather have law than not. So it's kind
of like his reporter story. You know, yeah, there's things
I wish it could change, but I'd rather have this.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
Law than not fault the stupidity of you. His I
wish we could be transparent is such a damning statement.
They couldn't be transparent because if they had been, Congress

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wouldn't voted for it. They had to lie, They had
to lie to the American people because they thought it
was best. What does that have to do with today?
What does that have to do with millions of people
going without paychecks, suffering without food that because Democrats are

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demanding that they extend the subsidies that they put in
place that they intentionally let die. As of twenty twenty
five to sunset. Democrats are demanding that already maybe the
biggest subsidized program in America, Obamacare, They're demanding it be

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subsidized even more to approximately ninety three percent, or they're
not voting to open the government. Okay, okay, I just
thought it was important for you to hear the real

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history of Obamacare. It was all a lie, and because
you and I were considered stupid, it got passed. Shame
on them, Shame on us, Shame on Supreme Court Justice

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John Roberts. Back with our two of The Morning Show
with Preston Scott. All right, here we go. It's the
second hour show fifty four eighty eight of The Morning
Show with Preston Scott. Great to be with you, Jose
over there in Studio one A. I am here in
Studio one B, and I am joined by the Lieutenant
Governor of the Sunshine State, former State Senator Jay Collins.

(31:30):
Welcome to the studio. How are you.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
I'm good, Preston. How are you in to day?

Speaker 1 (31:33):
I am I'm doing great. I've been kind of tickled
at having this opportunity to have you in the house
and hang out with us for a little bit. We
were just talking. Give me your snapshot reaction to what
we just saw happen with the largest state city in
the America going socialist. And it wasn't like they didn't

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know right first off, it's heartbreaking. How on earth, of
all cities in the United States of America, do we
have to learn that lesson in New York City? How
it just boggles my mind. Nine to eleven wasn't that
long ago. We know the issues with socialism, it leads
to communism. Lenin put that out a century ago, right,

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that's the fact socialism leads to communism. We know the
outcome has always been the same. Why on earth that
we have to try it in this city that never
sleeps right there in New York City, My goodness, gracious, heartbreaking,
but it's a good lesson. Just because you're on top
now doesn't mean you're on down the road. It's all gas,
no breaks, work hard, reach the people, do good things,

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make a difference. As a Republican Party, let's keep our
eyes focused and move forward from here. The big problem
I have with our party, and I boycotted the Republican
Party for about ten years. I caucussed with him, you know,
as just an independent guy out there. But my problem
is the Republicans don't know how to message. And I

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look at New York City as now exhibit A. We
should have been messaging the moment Joe Biden took office
and signed the paper on day one killing oil in America.
We should have been messaging because I feel like the
Republican Party tries to win elections instead of winning hearts
and minds, and they don't do it very well.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
Yeah, you know, messaging matters, right, how we explain the story?

Speaker 1 (33:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (33:22):
I think you also have to reach out into the
different demographics within that Gen Z far different than Gen X, yep,
far different than the baby boomers.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
Right.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
You have to reach them on different platforms, different key messages,
and you can't just shoot out one message. I think
it's going to work for everybody. You can't do that.
You can't abandon one group. You got to work two, three,
four times harder. But you know what, it's worth it.
To your point, you have to reach people for who
they are, how they are, where they are.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
Let's go back to your personal ethos. I mentioned to
your team I wanted to just kind of have a
let's get to know Jay Collins a little bit. How
did you end up making the decision to join the military.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
Well, I'll tell you what. I was raised and adopted
by my grandparents. I was born to a sixteen year
old kid. We really didn't have anything. I'm the son
of a failed farmer and growing up my dad, who
was a veteran World War Two veteran. You know, he
raised me on America, American values, America has a place
to lead, America makes a difference. We can make a difference.
Those are the things he taught me. He never talked

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about the war, never talked about his personal experiences, but
he did talk about big things, and I'm so grateful,
you know, he didn't pollute it with the negativity I learned.
And I grew up believing in America. And that was
the eighties, right, Ronald Reagan, Rambo Rocky, It was all
America all the time. So I had that in my heart.
And after I graduated high school, I went to college for
a couple of years, realized the NFL probably was not

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going to be my dream choice.

Speaker 1 (34:46):
Right.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
I wasn't good enough, tall enough, fast enough.

Speaker 1 (34:49):
Other than that, he had a shot.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
I checked every box after that, right, and you know
it just I came to reality that I needed more
season in your life. I joined the army, fell in
love with I truly did Why Why Because it was kinetic.
You did things each day, you moved out, but you
left an outsized imprint on things around you. And it
was a meritocracy. If I worked hard, I showed up early,

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I did more work, I got more results. The results
paid off. I did better, I got promoted.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
Would you have joined the military twenty years later the
way that it had evolved and become woke.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
Yeah, now, very very doubtful. It wasn't a meritocracy. We
have gone through the ebb and flow of promoting person
based off demographics or race or creed or color or
whatever the case may be. The military has to be
a meritocracy. Their job in the Department of War is singular.
It is to fight and win America's wars abroad.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
That's their job. They have to do that. And secondary
to that and implied is that you have to protect
the will of the American people. You have to protect
the American people here at home. That means you have
to be out there doing things. So if you're not
training to fight training to win, you're not doing the
right things. But I loved it because as I could
do more, I could be successful and I could continue
to grow at my own pays. That's why I love

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Special Operations when I got into it.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
Florida's Lieutenant Governor j Collins with us this half hour
here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Back with

(36:36):
the Lieutenant Governor Jay Collins. We were just talking about
the current generation and what that looks like. I think
Charlie Kirk played a large role in what's going on
with young people today too. You know, he was a
big brother to a whole lot of people. And like
you say, I mean, for the first time ever, the
numbers say this is the first generation in history where

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young men are leading the return to church, not women.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
It's incredible to see. First off, God rest Charlie, right yep. Second,
I can't imagine how his wife feels. I can't imagine
his children growing up in seeing their dad murdered executed
that way. It breaks my heart. It really does, just
as a dad to have to have that out there
on the internet, on the web.

Speaker 8 (37:23):
And.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
Then people mocking it. Jay, I asked this question of
everybody in the days subsequent to Charlie's killing. What was
worse his assassination or the celebration of it.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
Well, by far the celebration.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
Yees, you know what.

Speaker 2 (37:40):
You got to take that rage and turn into resolve.

Speaker 1 (37:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
Charlie's movement, this civil discourse concept, it's the very best
of American values. It's why we have a republic. We
can protect that freedom of speech, protect your own unique thoughts,
and we can have a discussion. His courage to go
out there, even though he had threats incredible. People ask, well,
why we recognizing a Republican in all these cities. You're

(38:03):
recognizing an American citizen who put his neck on the
line every day to encourage the very most fundamental part
of our republic, civil discourse, communication between people who didn't agree.
He stood there and he had conversations with people who
didn't agree with him. He went into the lines then
every single day. That is an incredible thing, and I'm
so proud of what he did. But look at the
growth in the chapters across this country and across the world.

(38:25):
If they say one man can't make a difference, there's
exhibit a right, incredible, incredible legacy gone too soon.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
What I loved and admired most about Charlie, beyond his
personal commitment to Christ and how he expressed it, was
his ability to take the apologetic. He could defend his beliefs.
He had ownership of them. And one of the things
that I always challenge our listeners is, you know, don't
parrot what I say, or what a guest says, or
what an article says. Own it, learn it, have it.

(38:57):
I've got to believe that a lot of your upbringing
by your family and then as a member of the military,
has created a personal ethos for you. You don't need notes.
You're not sitting here with a book. I've had politicians
over the years have books in front of them to
turn to the page to answer the right question the
right way. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
No, I don't need a book. I know who I am.
I have been myself unapologetically every single day. I learned
my ethos and I tested it in combat. But you know,
here's one thing I love, and I always say this,
God's plan is so much bigger than ours. But I
wanted to be a Green Beret. I wanted to serve
our country, protect our nation abroad. On that ragged edge
of freedom out there in places where nobody ever knew

(39:37):
what we did. But my plan wasn't what it is
or now. I never dream to politics. I happened to
come here. Life brought me here. I'm unapologetically myself because
the fact is I learned these lessons from my dad.
I'm the son of a failed farmer. There's an acronym
that matters to me. It's as NF. A son never forgets.
You never forget where you come from. I'll never forget

(39:57):
losing our farm and how it changed my family and
my dad. I'll never forget the lessons in the military.
You know, when I buried people, when I had to
look one of my brother's wives in the face because
he passed away serving our nation. We have a responsibility
to make that sacrifice matter, to make that sacrifice worthy
of what our nation is becoming and going to be.
And then we may promises the children who have to

(40:19):
live on without their dad, without their mom. We have
to make sure that we steward what our nation is.
You want to know why it's burned in, why there
are no notes, because every time you have that conversation,
it echoes through your brain through your soul through the
reality of who you are. Those things matter. Those are
incredibly hard. To sit there and have a conversation with
a little kid and who lost his dad and is

(40:40):
never going to see that man again. Heartbreaking, But we
got to make this nation worthy of that sacrifice.

Speaker 1 (40:47):
Jay Collins with me for one more segment. Remember he
is the featured guest at the American Valor Dinner, which, oh,
by the way, is tomorrow night in Monticello. Monicello. I
think of Jefferson's home and I get I see it.
It's like it's like to to our east, it's Lafay

(41:09):
yet but we say Lafayette. Ah help me out. Huh
what tomato?

Speaker 2 (41:14):
Tomato?

Speaker 1 (41:15):
Yeah, but still I gotta be better than that. I've
only been doing this twenty three years. You'd think i'd
figure it out. More to come with Jay Collins next.

(41:45):
Jay Collins with me, Lieutenant Governor for the Sunshine State,
formerly a state senator. What's been the biggest transition from
being a state senator now being in LG Well.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
I'll tell you what. I have sixty seven counties.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
Now.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
I got around the state quite a bit as a
state senator, working on that trends, law enforcement issues. I
travel pretty well in eighty five days. I think it
is something like that that I've been in office as
a lieutenant governor. I've had three days without multiple events.
I have hit three to ten counties per week. We're
out there hustling, but you know, it was actually a
positive thing. It is amazing to see the small differences

(42:20):
across the state, but county to county to county. For
the most part, people want the same things. I get
asked about property tax I get asked about insurance, I
get asked about table top kitchen table issues. What's going
to make it better in my community? And it's good
to see that resonated. Sometimes you get caught in this
Tallahassee bubble a little bit and everything seems a little skewed.
It is such a blessing to get out there and

(42:41):
just see people for who they are, how they are,
where they are. I keep bringing that up because it's
so important. Man, it's the tree in the forest. You
gotta have your eyes on what matters, and that's our people.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
Let's go ahead and address the issue that everyone's wondering.
When you were named lieutenant governor, made this statement on
the program. I said, well, that tells me Casey's not
running that because the governor has put someone in that
perhaps is going to make a run to follow him

(43:13):
as governor. So, Lieutenant Governor Jay Collins, what's the future
look like?

Speaker 2 (43:18):
Well, as I've said over and over, and it makes
me laugh because I put the same story in, the
same message out every single time. Because I'm trying to
be completely transparent. I went through a long process when
I jumped into this. I don't want a politician. I
sure don't want myself to be this way who just
jumps in here and thinks it's all about me. What's
good for me? How am I going to do on this?

(43:39):
What's my next click? I had to check with my
family first. Are we going to be able to survive
all of this onslaught of information and movement and everything?
Are they going to be okay? My son's my wife
as lieutenant governor as lieutenant got okay? But also if
we decide to make a run for governor, I mean
that spotlight, Oh it's different, hot right?

Speaker 1 (43:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
The next was that community around me, you know, my
support structure, the people who are there for my wife
and my kids. If I'm out there doing my thing
across the state. I better make sure that's tucked in,
plugged in, ready to roll in there are no problems.
The last thing is this, I am not a typical politician.
I will never be the person whose politics is normal.
I will never do be business as normal. I know
how to lead. I've been in politics for three and

(44:22):
a half years and understand that I'm the Lieutenant governor
of Florida, the twenty first lieutenant governor. I am on
the precipice of finalizing my decision to run for governor
of the Free State of Florida. And I've been in
politics for less than four years. Stunning. What does that
tell you? People want leadership. They don't want politicians, they
don't want businesses normal. They want someone who can know

(44:42):
what they're talking about but echo in their heart. I
call it a political double tab the head and the heart.
You have to know what you're talking about. You've got
to be someone who's trustworthy. And I wanted to see
as I went around the state, how does my brand
of leadership on the ground, in your face present doing
things on the ground, how does it resonate with people?
And I'll tell you what. It's been incredibly positive so far.

(45:04):
It truly has. So we're finalizing our choice, and i'll
tell you what here in the next few weeks. Probably
I'm not going to give a date. I don't have
a hard date. We're gonna finalize that and we'll put
it out there. But I can promise you this should
I jump in, not afraid of competition, not afraid to work.
Anything great in life is earned, it's not given. You
have to earn the vote in Florida. You got to

(45:25):
put the time in. And you've seen the pace that
I'm moving at right now. I'm relentless in the pursuit
of excellence. I believe Florida is the conservative proving grounds
of America. What we do here resonates across the nation.
In Florida will continue to lead. And my role right
now is to have governor to stand as is six,
to have his back, to fight beside him and do

(45:46):
what's best for the people of Florida. I'm gonna do
that every day, all day, twice on Sunday, and we're
gonna work relentlessly, period. End of story. We'll announce. If
we announce here in the next little bit, you know,
give us some time. We'll come back to you. Make sure.

Speaker 1 (46:02):
Is there one singular deciding factor that will push it
one way or the other?

Speaker 2 (46:07):
No, not really, you know. To me, I think if
you focus on one part of it, you're missing the
tree in the forest. You focus on the tree a
little bit, right. We took a long, laborious process and
something I probably was remiss and didn't talk about enough.
I need to get in there and do the job
for the first sixty days. Why on earth am I
going to go try out for something else and I

(46:28):
haven't done the job and shown that I'm even competent
as lieutenant Governor. I've been at this for sixty days
before I really started getting serious into digging around on this.

Speaker 1 (46:37):
You could argue, though, that the governor has placed you
in positions to maybe demonstrate some qualities that maybe he
didn't put the previous your predecessor in as many high
profile spots.

Speaker 2 (46:50):
Maybe that's true, maybe it's not. But I can also
tell you that I've leaned in and done things. And
Jeannette was a great lieutenant. She's a delightful lady. She's
an incredible human being. I don't think it's one of
the other you take what you get and you do
the most you can with it. But I wanted to
show people that, Hey, look, if I'm going to really
look at this next gig, I want to show you
I'm competent what I'm doing. I'm going to go out
there and hustle. I'm gonna go out there and perform

(47:11):
and let them know that the people are where my
eyes are. I'm taking my eyes forward. I'm trying to work.
I'm trying to prove that I'm competent, capable, and I'm
ready to lead if I decided to do that, and
I thought it was important to do that. So where
we are now, it's just finalizing that piece. It's a
big decision. I don't want to take it lightly, and
I don't want to ever think that Floridians believe that I,

(47:33):
as a politician, care more about my ego than they're
well being. That's the wrong equation. It's not a me thing,
it's a we thing. Am I If I decide to
run the best leader for the state of Florida, that's
really the discussion before jumping in. And if that's all
thumbs up, everything else is green, well we'll announce and
we'll run forward. If it's not, we'll come forward and

(47:53):
say something quite the contrary, like hey, look, good luck
to everybody decided to bow out. Here's our why. Nonetheless,
it's all about the people of Florida.

Speaker 1 (48:02):
Thank you for serving our country, thank you for serving
our state. Thanks for coming in.

Speaker 2 (48:06):
I appreciate you, Preston, thanks for having me on.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
Absolutely my pleasure. Jay Collins, the LG and our guest
here in the Morning Show with Preston.

Speaker 9 (48:14):
Scott Make a Difference Radio Network, And this is the
Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (48:42):
So what do you think is he going to run
getting a lot of email interested reaction. That's good, that's
good that you're paying attention. You need to be. I
am sure we'll hear from the Lieutenant governor more he is. Look,

(49:05):
you'd have to be really not paying attention to not
notice how frequently he has been on the program. Paul
Renner has been with us a couple of times. Byron
Donald's not once. You know, it's not from a lack
of availability. I'm certainly I make time available to guess

(49:26):
I want and I you know, if you want to
be governor, I even look, I invite democrats on this show.
But democrats traditionally don't want to come on the show
because traditionally there are exceptions. Okay, we paint with a
broad brush, right, there are exceptions. But generally speaking, Democrats

(49:48):
don't know how to engage in reparte. They don't do
give and take exchange of ideas well, because they're ideas
are bankrupt. They're just not good. They fail. You know,
the Lieutenant Governor, we were talking about New York City.

(50:09):
How how many history books have you not read to
miss the lesson of failed socialism? And you've not only
handed over in New York City to a socialist, you've
handed it over to an Islamic extremist who stands arm

(50:31):
in arm with an unindicted co conspirator in the bombing
of the World Trade Center in nineteen ninety three. I'm sorry,
I don't want my photo taken next to unindicted bombers
like we're best buddies. No, hey, have I shown you

(50:58):
that photo I've got with Isama Bin whoa so cool? No,
you don't know. You don't show that off unless you're
proud of it. Unintentionally big story in the press box,

(51:18):
New York City it's rest in peace. From this day forward,
it is rest in peace, and it will be anything.
But he doesn't believe in police officers, doesn't believe in prisons,

(51:41):
doesn't believes in the government owning and operating as much
as possible free everything. Let me ask you this, who's
gonna pay for it when all of the people that
have been move See, there's a mathematical component to socialism.

(52:08):
And one of the reasons why I love math. Not literally,
I'm not a mathematics I hated in school. But one
of the reasons why I love math is its certainty.
There's a certainty to the mathematics of taxation that explained
that if you want to give away all of these things,
and you want city run grocery stores and all bus

(52:29):
service free, and all education free, and all everything healthcare free,
everything free, nothing's free, someone pays for it. Who who
will be left? Because the rate of taxation, the mathematical
certainty of those numbers demands that you have to have

(52:54):
people to pay it. But if those people leave, then
who pays for it? Oh, it's gonna be this is
gonna be tough lesson But right now, the socialists, the communists,
the Marxists, the Islamis are celebrating forty one minutes past

(53:14):
the hot Yeah, I guess we'll call that a big
story in the press box. It's the Morning Show with
Preston Scott on news radio one hundred point seven WFLA.

(53:36):
I'm just gonna put an addendum to that segment, and
I'm gonna zero in on all of you living in Tallahassee.
This is what they want for you, the extreme left
that has been running the local Democrat party now for
a few years. They want Jeremy Mattlowe as because he's

(54:02):
Zoora and Mom Donnie gone light. He's the low fat version,
he's the diet version. He's a socialist. He believes in
all of the same mantras, all of the same ideals,
as does Jack Porter, who sat in a chair right
in front of me and lied about what she believed,

(54:25):
which is why I'll never have her on this show again. Ever,
she lied, I don't put liars on this show. She
presented herself as one thing, got elected and then revealed
who she was, not gonna have it, not gonna have it.

(54:52):
So this is a warning for all of you. Tallahasse
could be next the state capital of Florida could be
next because if Jeremy Mattlow wins the election and someone
just like him wins his seat, it's over. It's three

(55:15):
to two, baby done. Now, there's a group of people
out there that say, let it happen. Let people get
what they vote for, that's what they want, Let them
have it. The problem is the collateral damage, Like what
you're gonna watch happen in New York City, could be

(55:41):
a real help to Tallahassee voters because you're gonna get
to watch it all happen. City of Tallahassee. They've got
a city owned grocery store. I don't know if it's
up and operational, but that it's in the plans if
it's not. They have a public transportation transportation system that's

(56:01):
a money's money pit. They have a history of underfunding police.
Now that's changed in recent years, but they went over
a decade decade and a half underfunding local law enforcement
and watched as Tallahassee became the number one city in
the state for violent crime. And when people hear that,
they go, no more than Miami, Yeah, more than Orlando? Uhuh,

(56:23):
more than Tampa. Yeah, you mean tallahaffe yes, for years.
Only in recent years is it changed because they started
funding Tallahassee police with more money. That will end because
here's what they'll do. If they get a three to

(56:45):
two swing and they get they get their socialists in
office here locally, they will fire the city manager that
is first, and they will hire somebody that sees the
world the way that they see it, and they will
not fund law enforcement. These elections yesterday, grand scheme of

(57:12):
things don't say much. I'm not hopeful that Republicans in
you know, whether it's the state of Florida or nationally,
will learn enough to finally get to messaging. You win
on issues, as doctor Bob McClure from the James Madison

(57:35):
Institute says all the time, good policy is good politics.
Get the policy right, and the politics will take care
of themselves, because when it's all said and done, if
you speak to people's hearts and minds and you're straight
up with them about what we're facing and what needs

(57:55):
to happen, they respond. So why Florida has been just
brilliantly governed by Rohn de Santis. He's brutally candid. He
sometimes has had to drag the legislature along with him,

(58:15):
we right now have a Speaker of the House that is,
in my opinion, a rhino at best. At best, he
is the opposition to conservatism and conservative values in this state.
That's just that is a fact. Anyway, Elections have consequences.

(58:38):
How many times have we heard that? Forty eight minutes
past the hour? Got some other things to talk about,
like no Way Jose, next building, the drama, the anticipation,

(59:07):
the pregnant pause extends because it's time for another edition
of No Way Ose.

Speaker 3 (59:18):
Buenos dis amigos and amigas that wait, wait, is that
what it?

Speaker 1 (59:23):
Amigas? I might be making it up. I'm not sure, man,
I rely on you. You're the Mexican Cuban around here.

Speaker 3 (59:31):
Well, I'm about to bring the drama, because if you
didn't catch the opening of the show for the first
time and how how many years pressing twenty three?

Speaker 1 (59:40):
He was wrong?

Speaker 3 (59:42):
That's right, he said Krispy Kremes are not real donuts.

Speaker 1 (59:45):
The email is telling me I'm on the money. Well,
they're wrong too, Sorry, I just call them fast food donuts,
Krispy Kreme's fast food donuts. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (59:55):
But but in the serious story, I missed this one
when it happened, because it happened in twenty three. A
elementary school teacher by the name Abby Zwerner, age twenty eight,
was shot by a student.

Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
Oh no, a six year old? What? Yeah she was what?

Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
Yeah, she anticipated the shot, put her hand out, and yeah,
the bullet went through her hand into her chest. You know,
she's fine, she testified. Recently asked why the story's back up,
But the bullet is still lodged in her chest because
the doctor says it's more dangerous.

Speaker 4 (01:00:30):
If they pull it out then they leave it in
so narrow way. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, wait, you better
believe it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
Where did this happen?

Speaker 3 (01:00:39):
This happened in Virginia in school in a in a Yeah,
in an elementary school a.

Speaker 1 (01:00:46):
Six year old pulled out a firearm at a Was
he playing or was he mad?

Speaker 4 (01:00:52):
Well, apparently he had behavioral issues.

Speaker 3 (01:00:55):
Wasn't the first time that he was?

Speaker 1 (01:00:57):
Parents are going to jail.

Speaker 4 (01:00:58):
Oh yeah, the mother's doing four years.

Speaker 3 (01:01:00):
She's also suing the vice president of vice excuse me,
vice principal, and yeah, the vice principal is looking. Uh,
she's facing eight felonies and five years in prison.

Speaker 1 (01:01:13):
The vice principals.

Speaker 4 (01:01:14):
Yeah, yeah, so yeah for child neglect.

Speaker 1 (01:01:20):
Yeah yeah, there you go, Yeah, for child neglect. How
is the vice principal facing charges for.

Speaker 3 (01:01:24):
Child Well, apparently there were signs that this was gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (01:01:29):
And she she ignored, all it's just a kid.

Speaker 8 (01:01:32):
Yeah, no, I would never do such a thing. That
is crazy, wild stuff. That is Satan's busy man. Do
we have to talk about that with j D Johnson?
What do you do if you're a teacher and that
a six year old pulls a firearm on you?

Speaker 1 (01:01:50):
That's ridiculous. I'm glad that's only one story because I'm
traumatized right now. I'm absolutely traumatized right now. Jadi Johnson
joins us next Personal Defense on the Morning Show at
Preston Scott and we're back for the third hour, final hour,

(01:02:34):
at least for today of the MORM Show. Yeah. It
might be celebratory for some of you when I hear
final hour. When I say final hour, you're going, oh, really,
thank Jesus. He's done now just for today, But we
do have one hour left and we are joined by
co founder co host of All Things Talon. He is
Jad Johnson. Hello, sir, how are you good morning, I'm good.

(01:02:56):
Appreciate you pinch hitting, especially under duress, and you're under duress. Never, yes,
you are. Man. You've had two youngins get married this year,
one getting that's duress. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:03:10):
Yeah, my bank account will never be the same again,
at least not for a minute. I'm excited my daughter
to get cord Saturday, Saturday evening, and we're excited about it, and.

Speaker 1 (01:03:20):
So do weddings involving j D. Johnson. Kids have a
twenty one gun salute. No no, no, no, no, okay,
you heard the story We ended the hour on a
teacher being shot by a six year old in the classroom. JD.

Speaker 4 (01:03:39):
You know, it's it's the times we live in, unfortunately,
and you got people that are, you know, sometimes busy,
maybe in lacksadaisical about where their firearms end up. And
we can all be guilty of that. You know, shouldn't be,
but we we, you know, get preoccupied with things. Yeah,
and just one fault. Yeah, you know, in my opinion,

(01:04:04):
there's a whole lot of the kids behavior in general
is sometimes the parent's.

Speaker 1 (01:04:07):
Fault, unless that six year old's dealing in the black
market fighting firearms, yeah, which I highly doubt. Yeah, Hey
tell me this. I wanted I want to tea you
up this topic for a couple of segments here because
I know you're you're a historian, you love this stuff,
and I think it's useful for people to just hear

(01:04:29):
different perspectives on topics that we cover on the show routinely,
and one of them is the reason why we have
a Second Amendment. I think a lot of people don't
fully understand the depth of the reason why we have it.
And it wasn't just for hunting.

Speaker 4 (01:04:49):
Zero to do with hunting, right, But that's what a
lot of people think.

Speaker 1 (01:04:53):
Well, they had it there. The left tries to paint
it as though they had to hunt. They had to
hunt for their food. That's why they had it.

Speaker 4 (01:05:01):
Now they were farmers. They didn't have to hunt for
their food. Farmers general generally speak and have livestock that
readily available to go harvest meat in the backyard or
in the in the pen. No, it's it's it's plain
and simple. You know, our founding fathers when they wrote
the Constitution, wrote the Bill of Rights, they were they
had been under tyrannical oppression for a long time. They'd

(01:05:24):
been under the King of England. And you know, sometimes
you have a benevolent, benevolent king and sometimes you don't.
So they wrote the Second Amendment and they put it
where it was, you know, and it's everybody jokes about it.
You can say whatever you want to say, as crazy
as it may be, but you need a gun. You

(01:05:45):
better have a gun to back it up. Uh. The
Second Amendment is in place to what was put in
place to allow the overthrow of government, essentially, the overthrow
if you ended up with a bad, tyrannical government, to
allow militias, which is the citizens. There's always been the citizens.

(01:06:06):
It's never been a national guard. It's always been the citizens.
What it was during the Revolutionary War to allow them
to form and create a new government that represented the people.
If you read some of the other papers and articles
that went into the forming of our Bill of Rights
and our Constitution, they were all marching in the same direction.

(01:06:30):
Is that we have to be able to have a
citizen army to defend our freedom, to defend our way
of life, to defend our republic, to prevent a tyrannical
government from happening.

Speaker 1 (01:06:46):
I want to pick up right there again. I think
it's helpful for you to hear from somebody else about
some of these issues, because, as I say all the time,
you've got to take ownership of it, folks, you have
got to take ownership of understanding the these issues because
they matter. Look at what happened in New York City.
Just this is where we're going. This stuff matters. Ten

(01:07:09):
past the hour, I say you are all essential workers.
Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott. We're back
with Jad Johnson of the Talent Training Group. Our personal

(01:07:31):
defense segment. We'll get into more specific personal defense related things,
but the hub of all, the foundation for all personal
defense discussions is the Second Amendment. Our founders, you know,
not only did they learn from the rule of England,
but they learned from the rule of the other countries
in Europe. They were looking at history and what was happening,

(01:07:51):
and they set us apart. For that reason. You mentioned
the militia. The actual militia today are people just like
I mean, yeah, former law enforcement, but they're people like you.

Speaker 4 (01:08:02):
And me, right yeah that that we're We're no different
than the you know, the the talk about the Continentals,
Continental Army, the soldiers, uh, they were farmers that lived
in the community. The guys that fought in at Lexington
and Concord didn't run up to uh, Massachusetts from Georgia.

(01:08:23):
They were just local guys.

Speaker 1 (01:08:24):
Yeah they were.

Speaker 4 (01:08:25):
They were barkeepers, they were beer makers, they were farmers,
they were the you know.

Speaker 1 (01:08:30):
And they were under threat.

Speaker 4 (01:08:31):
Yeah, they were cobblers, they were tinkers, they you know,
they were just guys, businessmen, community leaders, whatever else it said,
got together and said we're we're done with this. We're
done with the king housing soldiers in our homes, taking
our property from us, telling us what we can and
can't do with our lives. And they stood up and

(01:08:53):
fought it, you know, and died a lot of them
even to today.

Speaker 1 (01:08:58):
I went and looked up the gun law in Venezuela.
They changed dramatically in twenty thirteen. Look what's happened, right, socialism.
They've disarmed the people Nigeria. They disarmed the people. The
people that they want to have guns have guns. The
average person can't have a gun.

Speaker 4 (01:09:18):
That's that has happened throughout the world. If you look
back at some of the some of the greatest genocides
in countries, pole Pot being one of the worst Stalin.
You know, you look at all the Hitler. First thing
Hitler did disarmed the Jews. You know, went into the
completely disarmed the citizens of Germany except for the ones

(01:09:42):
that he didn't want disarmed that would follow him. Yeah, happens,
has happened throughout history over and over again. There's some
other countries out there right now that are super ripe
for this, Australia being one of them. Yes, it is
super ripe. It's just a matter of when's the strong
man going to show up? You know where they were
they and and they voluntarily allowed themselves to be disarmed.

(01:10:05):
England is on the precipice of of becoming a third
world socialist country. I have a really good friend that
lives in Hertfordshire, England, that I was visiting with. Spent
about three hours with him a week ago. He and
his wife are over visiting and he's a former S
a S fought in the Falkland Islands or he's he's
a he's a real he's a real dude.

Speaker 1 (01:10:26):
He sees it coming.

Speaker 4 (01:10:27):
Oh yeah, And they're they're actively getting ready to move
to Florida. They're they're they're in the process.

Speaker 1 (01:10:36):
Of because they're watching their nation transform.

Speaker 4 (01:10:38):
He knows exactly what he sees, exactly what's happened. He's
in and they recognize that they've got to get out.

Speaker 1 (01:10:43):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:10:44):
There's still hope anytime there's still patriots, there's always hope
that you will see something change. But they're essentially disarmed.

Speaker 1 (01:10:53):
Well, they're arresting people for stating anything that they don't like.

Speaker 4 (01:10:56):
Yeah, when you when you start putting people in jail
for disagreeing with the politics, you know, when you start
when you start putting people in jail for for saying
things or or having an opinion, let's just say, having
an opinion that they allow to be known. It's coming,
you know, it's something worse is next.

Speaker 1 (01:11:18):
And that's why the Second Amendment is so unique in
our nation and so important.

Speaker 4 (01:11:23):
Absolutely, those guys that wrote that stuff down, the all
the the guys you got up there on your Bible. Yeah, uh,
they recognized that every one of them, every one of
them recognized that they were so little, so little dissent
among them. You know, when when that document was formed,
the right to keep and bear keeping as in the

(01:11:47):
assumption was you got them. They believed that it was
a god given right. It wasn't a government given right,
it wasn't an entitlement. It was something that God, God
gave them that said, you need to have the ability.
We have the ability the necessity to defend ourselves. And

(01:12:07):
that's from from an individual perspective or from a national perspective,
and that's.

Speaker 1 (01:12:13):
What gave birth to these segments. The personal defense segments
will move on next on the Morning Show with President
Scott twenty one Past the Hour Back with J. D.

(01:12:34):
Johnson of the Talent Training Group, co host Talent Outdoors
with Charlie Strickland and co founder of the Talent the
growing Talent business profile. Open carry is now a thing.
I know that there will be efforts in the Republican

(01:12:54):
run legislature, sadly to water it down and make it
more difficult in the coming sit But that being said,
Florida is now in open carry state. Have you noticed anything? Nope,
me either.

Speaker 4 (01:13:07):
Kind of figured it'd be that way. You know, I
go to Georgia. I spent a lot of time in
Georgia and now Alabama having a child that goes to
school and goes to college there, and they've been open
carry for a long time. It's not just not just
a recent development. You know, occasionally I will see somebody.
We were up in Troy a couple of weeks ago
visiting our daughter for parents weekend, and uh went to

(01:13:30):
a restaurant up there and saw a guy carrying a
you know, openly carrying and they're eating supper with his family.
Nobody freaked out or whatever. I was like, hmm, all right,
you know I was carrying too. Nobody knew it. So,
you know, it's kind of one of those things where Okay,
bad guy comes in here, Who's gonna get shot first?
It probably ain't gonna be me because I'm sitting over

(01:13:52):
there in the corner, you know, eating my eating my spaghetti, and.

Speaker 1 (01:13:56):
Uh, I just I'm hoping that the time that goes
by between when the judge said now it's it's open
carry and the legislature meets, they'll have time to say
it's no big deal, yeah, because it isn't.

Speaker 4 (01:14:12):
It's really not. And hopefully you know, I'm I've heard
every argument you can possibly make for for open carry.
I'm not against it by any I'm against it personally, right,
but there's a big difference for me, for my life,
you know, not for it if I was, if I
was carrying openly in a you know, a level three

(01:14:33):
security holster. Okay, the biggest issue I have with it is,
you know, law enforcement carries openly. That hasn't That hasn't
just started, that's been going on for pretty much forever.
But the law enforcement officers in uniform on the street
that are carrying openly are doing so in a level
two or level three security holster, which means it takes

(01:14:56):
two or three sequences of operation to even get their
gun out. Now, they're good at getting it out because
they practice it a lot, yep, but uh, but it's
there to keep gun snatches, gun grabs, to keep the
bad guy from disarming number coming out behind them. A
lot of people that are open carrying don't think about that.
They don't even have a snap over there, you know,

(01:15:17):
on their holster. Which snaps are, you know, a strap
or a snap over your holsters? Not a uh, it's
it's very very little security, right, you know, It's easy
to defeat. So that's the biggest thing I caution people
about carrying openly. You better be paying attention and not
let don't let anybody get within arms reach of you
there because at that point, then there's potentially a discussion

(01:15:40):
over ownership of the firearm.

Speaker 1 (01:15:43):
Speaking of arms, reach, knives are becoming a growing problem.

Speaker 4 (01:15:48):
Yeah, uh, they they're there. It's it's always been a problem.

Speaker 1 (01:15:53):
But in part England has done their best to get
guns out of people's hands. So the weapon of choice
is a knife, yep, and people would being stabblished big
say of the place.

Speaker 4 (01:16:01):
Big cities as well, New York City's of the subway.

Speaker 1 (01:16:04):
But knife attacks, yeah, you mentioned New York City. Knife
attacks are growing in number. What are What are a
couple of things to think about if you're confronted with
somebody who draws a knife.

Speaker 4 (01:16:17):
Uh, the biggest thing to think about is seven yards
twenty one feet distance distance, even if you're carrying, If
you if somebody is within roughly twenty one feet from you,
if they're twenty one feet or less away from you,
and they already have a knife in your hand and
your gun is in your holster, you better be You

(01:16:41):
better consider them a deadly threat, and you better be
better than average a drawing You better be better than average.
And you need to be moving. You need to be
getting off the tracks on a direct charge. If they
just decide all of a sudden they want to close
that gap, close that distance. Very little chance that you're
gonna outdraw them and get a shot off before they're
cutting you. And getting cut with a knife is a

(01:17:05):
horrible thing in the right place, it is a very
quick and deadly situation.

Speaker 1 (01:17:11):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (01:17:12):
You know, depending on the size of the knife and
whether or not the person wielding it knows how to
use it.

Speaker 1 (01:17:18):
A retractable blade, someone's holding up something that appears to
be a knife, but the blade is not evident it
could be a retractable blade. Is that grounds to pull
your firearm ount not necessarily to discharge?

Speaker 4 (01:17:31):
Depends on the situation and the you know, if they're
just holding something in their hand, that's one thing. If
they're holding something in their hand and saying I'm fixing
to hurt you, I'm fixing to kill you, give me
your wallet, then yeah, it doesn't really matter. At that point,
they've they've announced their intentions. Okay, so that's a situation
by situation thing. If they're holding their cell phone and
you know it's their cell phone in their hand, different story.

(01:17:52):
But absolutely there's some knives that can be deployed in
a really quick, hurry, and it doesn't have to be
a retractable or an automatic paget knife. It can be
a flip style or just an easy open.

Speaker 6 (01:18:04):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:18:04):
There's guys that practice with knives. They practice with knives. Yeah,
like we might go to the range. They practice with
their knives, yeah, you know, and usually have it on
them all the time, so they're the you know, fidgeting
around with it so they know how it operates and
they can get that blade out and get it operation
want to hurry.

Speaker 1 (01:18:22):
But if there was one thing that you need people
to know about someone that might be an attacker with
a knife, it's distance, as your friend.

Speaker 4 (01:18:29):
Yep, clear, make you know, create distance, change direction. It's
you know, kind of like the old run from an
alligator running is exactly my serpentine serpentee, yeah exactly. It's
it takes time to change direction if somebody is running
at full speed.

Speaker 2 (01:18:48):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:18:49):
All right, when we come back, we're going to transition
to the holiday season and some dudes and don'ts about
holiday shopping for someone with a firearm in your mind
that you want to give or gift All different topics there.
Next on The Morning Show with Preston Scott with JD.
Johnson of the Talent Group. Good morning, and welcome to

(01:19:17):
the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Any listener of this
program that's been around knows I can't wait to talk
about Christmas shopping. I'm into it come July. But now
you get to November and you know you've got people
JD thinking about a j D. Johnson with me from
the Talent Training Group, And of course there are people

(01:19:41):
that want to let's start with the youngsters. They want
to get their their child that first BB gun.

Speaker 4 (01:19:48):
Some things to know, you know, the biggest the biggest
mistake I think I see with parents getting their kids
their first gun or you know, BB guns are one thing.
If it's a BB gun, there are pellet rifles, air
powered pellet rifles now that you can deer hunt with.
So it doesn't need to be that, okay, and you

(01:20:09):
need to start them out with the training them that
that is a real firearm. You tea treat it just
you treat a Daisy Red Rider because it'll put your
eye out.

Speaker 1 (01:20:21):
It will put your out.

Speaker 4 (01:20:23):
Uh, you know, you start them out with a Daisy
Red Rider, just like it's a real gun.

Speaker 7 (01:20:27):
You know, and.

Speaker 4 (01:20:29):
Even a toy gun that doesn't fire a projectile, you
need to start teaching them trigger discipline, muzzle discipline, all
of those things, and not to point it at somebody,
no matter what, no matter what. Yeah, you know, that's
that's the biggest thing. Not just here's your daisy red rider,
go go shoot to sign and you know, have fun.

(01:20:50):
And it just doesn't work that way, and things are
not the same. You and I talk about that all
the time. Is when we were kids. You know, I
grew up being able to go out in the back
door and having access to thousands of acres woods.

Speaker 1 (01:21:00):
And you had a rifle or a shotgun in the
back of your truck. Yeah, you know when you went
to school.

Speaker 4 (01:21:04):
Absolutely every day I went to school there, if it
was hunting season, there was a rifle or a shotgun
or both in the you know, in the back seat
of my truck or underneath the whatever, you know, in
the truck somewhere. And but times are different and you
can't do that anymore, right, But so if you're going
to get your kid a gun, you start them out
with firearms discipline and don't make it a mystery if

(01:21:26):
you have them in the house. So teach them, let
them learn, let them shoot. It's enjoyable. It's an enjoyable sport.
But that first shooting experience. We've talked about it, but
I want to remind everybody that first shooting experience is
crucial to get it right. Yeah, don't hand your kid
a single shot twelve gage shotgun and go here, try this,

(01:21:46):
you know, because that's a bad experience for a kid.
You know, something that's going to have a tremendous amount
of recoil and noise, and you know, protect their hearing.
I'm the prime example of not protect am I hearing
when I was a kid. I've been wearing hearing ads
since I was thirty five, so I'm going on twenty
something years of where it needing hearing aids. So eye protection,

(01:22:09):
air protection. Don't hand them a giant caliber to shoot
for the first time. Start them out with a twenty
two or a pellet rifle or something that doesn't have
a lot of noise, doesn't have a lot of recoil.
Ease them in, you know, don't just go here here,
here's Grandpa's thirty out six. Shoot that target there and
it recoils to the point where it.

Speaker 1 (01:22:26):
Because they may never pick up a firearm again.

Speaker 4 (01:22:28):
Absolutely, I see people that get absolutely ruined at a
young age, and that they still, even if they still
like to shoot, they don't shoot well because of the
flint reaction that they have. They still have that subconscious
thought back there in the back of their mind that
this thing hurts and its loud, and I don't like it,

(01:22:50):
even though I want to hunt with it or I
want to shoot it or whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:22:53):
So and if they've got if they make the decision
to go with a BB gun or an appropriate pellet gun,
they can train with that and teach their child that
at talent range.

Speaker 4 (01:23:04):
Absolutely choot the paper targets we've got. We've got paper
targets that are just fine for doing that. You have
to be careful with BB's because they're made out of steel,
and you don't shoot anything hard with it. It'll bounce
back and it'll hurt you. You know, come back at
you three hundred feet per second and it'll hurt you.
Put your eye out, joke, you know. So be sure
of your target and your backstop. That's some of the

(01:23:25):
cardinal rules of firearm safety that we've we've covered, you know,
we've covered right right here in this segment. You can't
you know, the finger off the trigger, muscle discipline, be
sure your target and your backstop. You know, all of
those things are important.

Speaker 1 (01:23:41):
We got more shopping tips, if you want to call
it that, dues and don'ts of holiday gift giving when
it comes to firearms. Here on the Morning Show with
Preston Scott. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott, and

(01:24:05):
we're back Jade Johnson of the Talent Trading Group with me.
All right, holiday shopping dos and don'ts tips. We now
transition from the youth to an adult. If you're thinking
about a firearm for a spouse, a son, a daughter,
et cetera.

Speaker 4 (01:24:20):
Get him a gift card. Don't don't go guys, don't
go by your wife a thirty eight special five shot
snubnose and go here, honey, I got you a gun.
Let them go to the range, rent something, go be.
Let them be part of the process. While while it
is an admirable thing, and I get it most of

(01:24:44):
the time, women, absolutely most anybody that are not gun people.
If you're not a gun guy, a snubnose revolver is
the hardest gun to shoot. It's the worst thing.

Speaker 1 (01:24:54):
It is.

Speaker 4 (01:24:55):
Yeah, it's the most unpleasant to shoot. Yes, it's the
you know. Yes, it is simplistic to operate. It doesn't
take a lot of effort to pull the trigger where
you do have some manipulation with a semi auto. But
what you give, what you get out of that is
you're giving up a lot of more pleasant experience if
you get the proper training right, you know. And I

(01:25:18):
see it all the time. Guys come in with their
wife and my wife can't ract a slide on this gun,
and usually within about twenty seconds and a little bit
of technique, I go, see she can do it. It's
just to matter doing it the right way.

Speaker 1 (01:25:33):
And there are semi automatics. The gun manufacturers are sensitive
to that criticism and are responding to it.

Speaker 4 (01:25:40):
There are there are some automatics that they have made
easier to operate. Several of the manufacturers Smith and Wesson, Ruger,
there's several of them that have made it easier to operate.
But even the ones that aren't that way, it's technique.
It is technique. It is not strength. Every now and
then it is strength. I see, you know, debilitating arthritis.

(01:26:01):
So it's one of the worst ones, and you have
somebody that just has absolutely debilitating rheumatoid arthritis and their
joints don't function properly and their hand strength is gone.
Regard yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 1 (01:26:14):
Person protection.

Speaker 4 (01:26:16):
Yeah yeah, yeah, rent a thug you know, you walk
around with you.

Speaker 1 (01:26:22):
Uh called Charlie's group and have them assigned somebody to you.

Speaker 4 (01:26:26):
But no, it's just I see that mistake a lot.
They go and buy the gun that they think their
wife wants or needs or whatever, and they go to
the range and she absolutely hates it.

Speaker 1 (01:26:34):
Would it be better before you even do the gift
card for a firearm, to get them a gift card
to go get some training.

Speaker 4 (01:26:41):
First, Preston, I probably turned down two or three gun
sales a week, people trying to buy the right gun
standing at the gun counter that have never shot any
of them. So yes, absolutely, a day at the range
with a gun rental or with with the fifty dollars
rent to the class in any of those things. The

(01:27:02):
class gets you the training and it gets you access
to all our rental guns at the end of the day.
So that's a well spent two hundred dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:27:10):
And you don't have to take the concealed carry permit
if someone doesn't want it. But what you're learning is invaluable, correct,
and you get exposed to the different firearms.

Speaker 4 (01:27:18):
Absolutely, and you know we we we've been doing this
a long time. You can come up there and rent
every gun we have out there, which there's lots of them,
for fifty bucks. Try all of them as long as
you're willing to buy the AMMO and keep feeding them,
and we'll keep handing them to you. Let's you try
them out till you find the one you like. Let
that person that you're getting that you want to buy

(01:27:39):
the gun for pick it out.

Speaker 1 (01:27:41):
So give them a three stage gift, the fifty bucks
after the training, and then the gift card for the firearm.

Speaker 4 (01:27:46):
Now you don't have to do the fifty bucks. If
you do the training, we give you that same we're
giving you the AMMO and letting you try the gun. Okay,
there you go for two hundred bucks. There you go training.
So yeah, that's we've tried to make this an a
four proposition for most people.

Speaker 1 (01:28:02):
Last question, is there something that is new on the
market or maybe that people don't really think about that
might be either a useful, practical or just playing cool
gift for somebody that enjoys firearms.

Speaker 4 (01:28:16):
Uh, there's not a lot new on the market. Honestly.
The biggest new thing that's been around for you know,
it's been a becoming very mainstream especially is the red
dot sites. That's that's that's an option that makes shooting easy,
shooting a handgun easy.

Speaker 1 (01:28:32):
And that's different than the laser.

Speaker 4 (01:28:35):
Yeah, that is not a laser. A laser projects a
beam out in the distance somewhere. The red dot is
a holographic site that where you're not having to focus
or worry about three different focal points. You're not you
don't have a rear sight, you don't. You can take
the sites off the gun. You've got one dot on there,
one one holographic dot and to using those properly. Your

(01:28:56):
focal attention is on the target binocular vision, both eyes open.
The dot superimposes on the target and let you know
where you're aiming. And that's a simpler process than the
old iron sights.

Speaker 1 (01:29:07):
And are they are are good dependable red dots in
kind of all price ranges.

Speaker 4 (01:29:14):
No, you expect to spend two hundred and fifty three
hundred dollars or more. Okay, there's a lot of cheap
ones on the market that just you're honestly, the one
hundred dollars ones, you're wasting your money.

Speaker 1 (01:29:26):
You're gonna literally get rates than you pay for.

Speaker 4 (01:29:29):
It's not gonna last. Those things are mounted on the
slide of a handgun, and that handgun slide is moving
every time, is violently coming to the rear and going forward,
you know, moving every time you pull the trigger. So
if they're not well made, they're.

Speaker 1 (01:29:41):
Not gonna last. Good stuff. Thanks for coming in, sir,
my pleasure. JD. Johnson with us from the Talent Training Group.
Remember that training he's talking about. It's as simple as
going to talent range dot com. What possesses a man

(01:30:09):
with three hundred Guinness World records to just go after
another one? And why would someone even think about catching
ice cream from a distance of fifty five feet five
inches to set a record using an ice cream cone?

(01:30:37):
He caught a scoop of ice cream from a distance
of fifty five feet five inches. He's a serial record breaker.
David Rush think he's from Idaho, teamed up with Josh
Van von Battenberg, member of the YouTuber Josh Horton's team

(01:30:59):
to take the time farthest ice cream throwing catch team
of two. The catch is measured from the front of
Josh's foot front foot on the throw to the front
of mine when the ice cream landed in the cone
and stayed there. I could break that record. I could

(01:31:22):
get my son and we could break that record. We could,
I mean twenty yards breaks it twenty yards. I would
maintain you need the right ice cream consistency. It's got

(01:31:43):
to be just a little melted to make it work.
We could do it. Brought to you by Barono Heating
and Air. It's the morning show on WFLA. But I'm
not gonna because I don't care. Started the program with
zech Or. I attend too. That's where we started the show.

(01:32:05):
Had a sit down in studio visit with the Lieutenant
Governor Jay Collins. I asked him, are you running for governor?
He said, I don't know, maybe, maybe not. We are
weighing and measuring. I will decide. Well now, okay, but
I asked, I absolutely asked. Had a good visit with

(01:32:28):
Jade Johnson. Of course. Personal defense segment talked about the
history of the Second Amendment, talked about open kerry, dealing
with people with knives, and then some really helpful intel
on shopping for the gun lever in the family. Big
Stories in the press box covered those on a couple occasions.
Women band from California Gold Gym. After confronting a man

(01:32:52):
in her locker room, she got kicked out out of
Gold Shym, her membership got terminated for it. Obama judge
helped the Deep State spy on the GOP. That could
be interesting. And of course Zorn Mamdani, an Islamic socialist
now the mayor of New York City. We'll be back tomorrow.

(01:33:18):
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