Ep. 5498: The Epstein Files Release Backfires on Democrats.

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Wednesday, November 19th.

Our guests today include:
- Seamus Bruner
- Romel Nicholas
-
-


Follow the show on Twitter @TMSPrestonScott. Check out Preston’s latest blog by going to wflafm.com/preston. 
Listen live to Preston from 6 – 9 a.m. ET and 5 – 8 a.m. CT!
WFLA Tallahassee Live stream: https://ihr.fm/3huZWYe
WFLA Panama City Live stream: https://ihr.fm/34oufeR Follow WFLA Tallahassee on Twitter @WFLAFM and WFLA Panama City @wflapanamacity and like us on Facebook at @wflafm and @WFLAPanamaCity.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:14):
It's Wednesday Morning show. Preston and do not. How are you?
He's Jose, I'm Preston, and welcome to show fifty four
ninety eight. You know what that means. That means on Friday,

(00:34):
it's show fifty five hundred. Wow, oh boy, that's special. Anyway,
welcome to the program. Friends, Good morning. I hope you
had a good night of rest. My poor wife had

(00:55):
a horrible night arrest. She just got nailed with a
massive headache. I think she got dehydrated, and she doesn't
like taking stuff like a tailand all or an advil
or whatever. I've always found tiland all it's the best
for a headache. Worked pretty quickly for me, but everybody's different,

(01:22):
and so, bless her heart. She was not doing well,
felt terrible leaving for work today. But she's a trooper.
She's doing better, and so I can now start the
show fairly clear minded, well as clear minded as I'm
ever going to be. I mean, you know, read all

(01:43):
this stuff all day long. I mean, you know you
mind gets a little frazzled. Nah, it doesn't. We're in
scripture here, and we went to Genesis three and we're
talking about this interaction between Satan, this serpent and more
crafty than any other beast and God's creation Adam and Eve.

(02:09):
But you notice first that in Genesis three, verse one,
he approaches the woman. Now this is just an opinion.
I think women are generally more discerning spiritually, what we
call women's intuition. Now it's the Holy Spirit. Whether they

(02:33):
credit the Holy Spirit or not is another story. That's
that's a personal issue of conviction for that person, whether
they are actually saying, well, the Holy Spirit's just kind
of let me know that something's not right. Women just
have this spiritual attunement. And I think that's one of
the reasons why God created man and woman a suitable

(02:55):
helper companion, someone who literally fills a unique and different role.
It's not one of superiority and inferiority. It's one of complimentary.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Roles.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
But Satan approaches Eve. Now, Eve had been told by Adam,
because God told Adam what to do. But listen to
what Satan does. In verse two, the woman said to
the serpent, we may eat of the fruit of the
trees in the garden. But God said you should not
eat of the fruit of the tree that is in
the midst of the garden, neither shall do you touch

(03:34):
it lest you die. So she's accurately quoting what she
was told. This is what my husband told me. Because
Satan tried to say, did God really say you can't
eat of any tree in the garden? She's like no.
So he first tries deception. Did God really say.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Really?

Speaker 1 (04:01):
And so she she comes back with no, that's not
what he said. He then goes the director ute. But
the serpent said to the woman, you will not surely die.
And isn't that what the world says today? Really, come on,

(04:28):
just do this. You're not gonna You're not gonna die,
you're not gonna get in trouble, you're not gonna get addicted,
you're not gonna fill in the blank. It's the same tactic.
But there's something else in here that I think is

(04:48):
worth mining from these verses, and it's it's subtle. Why
did God I'd not want Adam and Eve to eat
of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?
Was it the bite of some apple that contains some

(05:08):
weird amount of knowledge. No, that was a simple lesson
of obedience and disobedience. See the knowledge of good and evil.
God didn't want us to have a good life. He
wanted to have us a great life, an abundant life.
But disobedience was all of a sudden going to open

(05:30):
the door to the knowledge of good and evil. Now
you're going to be faced with it because you disobeyed.
We over emphasize that knowledge. God doesn't want you to
have knowledge. No, but it's about sin. That's what God

(05:50):
wanted to prevent us from having knowledge of. Is sin?
Eleven minutes past the hour, nothing's changed, same today The
Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
Whose traffic, weather, Sports, entertainment, and the Truth. The Morning
Show with Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point
seven WFLA.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
All right, let's take a look into the American Patriots
Almanac on this date, November the nineteenth. In fourteen ninety three,
Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico on his second voyage. How

(06:44):
about that, Hey, what shall we to call that?

Speaker 3 (06:50):
That?

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Puerto Rico? You know what that means? You know, Puerto
Rico means a good port or rich rich port bartou
port Rico, rich rich part day, richer part. Do we
call it the Puerto Rico? Okay? Whatever works, Chris eighteen

(07:17):
thirty one. James Garfield, the twentyth US President, born in
Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Eighteen sixty three, Abraham Lincoln delivers the
Gettysburg Address. Wow, wow to be there. I watched a

(07:39):
video the other day of a dude on was it
this is your life or something? Not this is your life?
It was maybe to tell the truth. I don't know,
one of the old panel shows black and white. He

(08:00):
witnessed Lincoln getting shot. The dude was on YouTube as
an old man talking about the day when he was
in the theater as a young child, and he watched
Lincoln get shot. Could you imagine being in the room

(08:21):
during an event like that? My goodness, gracious. Nineteen nineteen
the year my dad was born, so my dad would
have been on this date five months old. Senate rejects
the Treaty of Versailles and US participation in the League

(08:44):
of Nations. Boy, they got it right, at least on
the League of Nations stuff. And in nineteen sixty nine,
Apollo twelve astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean make the
second landing on the moon. Alan Bean, you don't know
the name? Not amazing painter. I mean, look it up.

(09:06):
Look up the man's work, amazing painter. Today also is
National Play Monopoly Day. When was the last time you
played Monopoly? Two years? It's been a while, hasn't it. Yeah,
it was horrible at it. What makes I don't know

(09:28):
what makes someone good at it? You have to get lucky.
You make bad decisions? Is that what it is?

Speaker 3 (09:33):
Oh? Yes, spend money incorrectly.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
As opposed to buying properties and collecting rent. I'm I'm
all about acquiring as many properties as I can acquire.
But I want to acquire the properties on that last
run on the board. I want park, Park Place, Park Avenue,
Park Avenue. Anyway, the last one is there because when

(09:58):
when someone hits that man, but I see I remember
playing Monopoly as a kid with my cousin who was
just such a cheater, my older cousin, and he took
advantage of being six years older than me. He changed
the rules every time for what you get when you
pass go or when you land on jail. There were

(10:20):
times that if you landed in jail, you collected the
money in the pot. It's like, what what are you doing?
It's not what we did last time? That is And
then the next time we played Jay, you'd get the
pot for passing go. It's like, what do you National
Carbonated Beverage with Caffeine Day, here's a few of those,

(10:46):
and National Education Support Professionals Day. Okay, sixteen almost seventeen
passed the hour come back Lotto games and.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
U f l A at w f l A fam
dot com on your phone with the iHeartRadio app and
on hundreds of devices like Alexa, Google Home, Xbox and
Sonos and Iheart's radio station.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
Think about this for a second. By the way, the
big stories in the press box, they are huge. They're
just huge. So I have to get out of this
on time quickly. We are behind. We had a really
slow day yesterday for Orphan Shade, Like a couple hundred
bucks came in and God bless you for those of

(11:52):
you who gave, Thank you very very much. But we're
starting to now I'm getting nervous, so and I know
that this will ebb and flow. That's the way it
always goes. Just putting that, keeping that in front of you.
Orphanshade dot com home number six. If you're from PC,

(12:12):
put the PC challenge in there with your donation. Let
us know and Marvin Goldstein offering for the first five
thousand dollars donation a concert to anyone in the Leon
County or adjoining county area. So just Orphanshade dot com
home number six and the dropdown menu build a home,
and in the comments home number six. We'll get it

(12:34):
done and we would greatly appreciate your help. Did you
know that TikTok, as it's known internationally and in this country,
is not available in China? Think about that. Just think
about that. I just to me that just speaks volumes. Anyway.

(13:05):
New Jersey couple about six months ago one the one
million dollar Ultimate Spectacular ticket in a scratch off game.
They live in Ocean County, New Jersey, and they have

(13:28):
this habit of they don't get out of the house
much because they've got kids. They got two kids and
a third on the way. So the beginning of the
month they get some scratch off tickets and when the
kids go to bed, they just scratch off a few
at a time. We make it, would like to make
it a bit of a competition who can win the most.
It seems we always just break even. That's kind of

(13:50):
the nature of it all. And if that's where you
leave it. That's awesome. If you get addicted and start
spending your bread money, that's not good. But if you
pick up a scratch off ticket now and then have
some fun with it, and then you know, I personally
don't have a problem with that. But to each their own. Well,

(14:11):
they went to the Fisher Bay Exxon station in Ocean
County and got themselves some scratch offs, and as a
husband was scratching something off, he realized, oh boy, now
remember six months ago they won a one million dollar
scratch off. He had that moment where he looked at

(14:35):
the ticket after he scratched it and he's going, is
this right? So he hands it off to his wife.
She said, I looked at it and held it to
my chest and screamed. Ten seconds later she's laughing. This
is perfect. The husband says, they won a three million

(14:55):
dollar scratch off price. So six months after winning a million,
they won three. The that's insane, that's that's crazy. But

(15:16):
somebody won the nine hundred and eighty Mega Million lottery
in Georgia. That winning ticket just happened this week. They
announced it on Saturday, winning numbers of one, eight, eleven, twelve,
fifty seven in the megaball was seven cash value four
hundred and fifty two point two million, sold at a

(15:37):
publics in Noonan, Georgia, forty miles southwest of Atlanta. What
have I said to you? How often are these winners
in these little suburbs and towns? Right? It's crazy. So
I'm just telling you, if you're doing these games, man,

(15:59):
when you're traveling around and you're around the area, you're
not in the big city, buy a ticket. I'm just
saying it, just it's crazy. Twenty seven past the hour.
I'm staying on time. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
Do not miss the big stories.

Speaker 4 (16:18):
Started counting shows at the beginning because we weren't sure
how long he'd last. Now we're just proving to everyone
that week in count This is the Morning Show with
Preston Scott's.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
All right, thirty five past the hour, And I told
you this is just a this is a serious set
of stories here, all right. First of all, and there's
an addendum to this story that I'll get to in
just a couple of minutes. But first, the Senate the
House have passed, all right. The Senate voted for twenty
to one for the Epstein files to be released. The

(17:04):
one is Representative Clay Higgins of Louisiana. I'm gonna get
to that in just a few minutes. The Senate voted
by unanimous consent, meaning they didn't I can't find a
roll call vote vote. I guess unanimous consent means it's
just gonna happen, all right, So now the president's going
to get the bill, I guess. So we'll see what happens.

(17:25):
I found it interesting to find that in this story
is a bunch of backstories. One of them is Representative
Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland, arguing from the House
floor that his former law school student and colleague, the

(17:48):
UH delegate Stacy Plaskett, that that she was actually he
said she was taking a call from her constituent. She
was actually back in twenty nineteen during during hearings, was
texting Jeffrey Epstein. That's just weird to me. Trump said,

(18:16):
release the files. I'll sign it. That's fine. I we're
going to get to this. Just hold on on this
story because there is something else to consider. But I'm
going to go back to my default position that if
there was something in here incriminating to Trump in any way,
shape or form in a bad way, other than he

(18:37):
had a photo with the guy whatever. How many people
had photos with the guy over the years and had
nothing to do with him. I would say that that
would have come out before this last election, dearborn Michigan.
The mayor Abdullah Hahmoud said, an issue? What's not an issue?

(19:02):
The five point thirty in the morning sirens to prayer?
Could you imagine? Let me tell you something, No way,
And here's what's happening as a result, he's he is

(19:23):
just closing his eyes and ears to the growing problem.
The city is being run as if it's being run
by Shariah law. And so now you have his anti
Islamic protests taking place. One guy who, oh, by the way,

(19:48):
was at January sixth, attempted to burn a Kuran. Counter
protesters knocked it from his hands. So then he he
took a slab of bacon and put it on the
open pages of the Quran. So a counter protester and

(20:09):
Islamis grabbed the book and ran off with it. Why
was that not theft? Why was that not theft? That's
his book? What would happen if people burned the Bible,
you think anyone would be upset. Yeah, we'd be going,
Oh whatever, I'll go buy another one. That's between you

(20:33):
and God. You want to burn that thing? Okay, fine,
but people burn Bibles all the time. But it's apparently
an offense in a Islamic community in America. But the
big question here is why wasn't the person who stole

(20:54):
the Qoran arrested? It doesn't it's his Kuran. If he
wants to put a slab of bacon on it, that's
up to him him. See, this is the this is
the collision between Islam and America. You can do things
like that. You can be gay in this country. In

(21:19):
Islamic nations, they throw you off of buildings. And that's
not a joke. Jose talked to me yesterday about a
story of these protests where transgenders are trying to march
with the Islamis, and the Islamis are like, get away

(21:41):
from us, we don't want anything to do with you.
You're sick, you're perverted, you're whatever, and they're like, they're
just distraught. We were on your side. How is it
possibly you don't understand they hate you. We hate your sin,

(22:02):
we love you. There's a difference. We don't throw you
off of buildings, we don't stone you to death. We
shake our head. And then this, I know I'm late.
I told you. Six Democrats have gone on a video

(22:26):
and have urged the military to refuse illegal orders. The
orders they say to refuse are any orders that dispatch
them in cities as the National Guard. They're telling them
to refuse those orders because they're illegal and unconstitutional, says you.
The judges are split on this. Personally, I think it's

(22:51):
one hundred percent legal. When a city is in defiance
of federal law, and that is immigration, the president has
the right to defend federal officers conducting federal business. That's
my opinion, and so far the courts are split. But
just think about this. Elected members of Congress who are

(23:14):
Democrats are telling the military to engage in treason, to
not follow orders. That's dangerous. Now that this isn't political partisanship,
that's dangerous. Forty two minutes past the hour, I told you,

(23:36):
I don't know how I'm gonna get through the rest
of the show. It's too big.

Speaker 4 (23:40):
Being told what to believe by the liberal media. Get
a refreshing dose of truth. It's the Morning Show with
Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point seven WFLA.

Speaker 5 (24:13):
H right.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
I want to circle back to that vote and that one.
It would be very easy and look, our friend Kat
Camick voted to release the files. But I want you
to at least listen to the reason why Clay Higgins
voted no. Here's his quote. I have been a principled

(24:39):
no on this bill from the beginning. What was wrong
with the bill three months ago is still wrong today.
It abandons two hundred and fifty years of criminal justice
procedure in America. As written, this bill reveals and injures
thousands of innocent people, witnesses, people who provided alibis, family members, etc.

(25:06):
If enacted in its current form, this type of broad
reveal of criminal investigative files released to a rabid media
will absolutely result in innocent people being hurt. Not by
my vote. The Oversight Committee is conducting a thorough investigation

(25:26):
that has already released well over sixty thousand pages of
documents from the Epstein case. That effort will continue in
a manner that provides all due protections for innocent Americans.
If the Senate amends the bill to properly address privacy
of victims and other Americans who are named but not
criminally implicated, then I will vote for that bill when

(25:46):
it comes back to the House. I don't disagree with him.
This is about a virtual lynch mob throwing victims to

(26:09):
the mob. When you think about what a lynch mob
is from its early inception, it's taking anybody suspected of
anything and throwing a rope over a branch and putting
a noose around the neck. Do process trial. Oh no,

(26:31):
Higgins concern is that you are just dumping these files
anything that's not classified. You're just dumping these files out,
and you're gonna let the media go to town. You're
gonna let people without the nuanced understanding that there's gonna
be thousands of people listed here that have committed no crimes.

(26:56):
So why is everyone doing this Because it's been turned
into a political tool. It's been turned into a Ah,
Trump's hiding something, huh or someone's hiding And I'm all
for uncovering the truth about whether elected officials, whether anybody
engaged in illegal actions. Let's find him. Did Prince Andrew

(27:23):
take advantage of underage girls prosecute him. All I'm saying
to you is that one vote has a point two
hundred and fifty years of how our criminal justice system

(27:44):
is supposed to work is going to get literally thrown
to the media. So I just think the holdout is notable,
and I wanted you to hear it and you can
decide for yourself. Forty eight minutes to the album. Did
I tell you this is going to be a show.

Speaker 4 (28:07):
Thought or story you want to share? Write them at
Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. Yes, he knows how to read. Well, actually,
his producer reads him. He doesn't know how to read.
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
We are having a debate around here, Jose trying to
channel his inner younger generation mindset ridiculing me is an
old man. We're talking about whether AI. First of all,
so many of you are getting duped because people are

(28:45):
blatantly ripping off mainline artists. They're saying, oh, check out
this song by Lady Gaga and Jelly Roll, and it's
neither of them, it's AI, but they they appropriate the
names and they're gonna get sued eventually. But I just
think that's wrong. That's just that is wrong on every level.

(29:10):
First of all, when you're taking other people's names, that's
that's a different level of wrong. Okay, the other level
of wrong to me is worth having a discussion about,
where it's just my opinion. But the first and I
get people emailing me, did you hear this song? I
think it's awesome. It's so and so and so and so. No,
that's clickbait. They're telling you it's eminem and and Forrest Frank.

(29:34):
It's not. They've sampled the music and they've created an
AI song, and it makes you think that they're working
together in a collab, a collaboration, and it's not. It
says right there under the YouTube clip, this is AI generated.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
There was one AI song that was Ai Drake and
it actually made better music than the not the actual
duh there absolutely, So there's that.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
I mean, the co opting popular singers names, Lauren Daegel
and so and so. It's like, no, no, and I
I comment on these things. This is wrong, this is
don't don't be saying that saying doing this, this is stealing.
It's wrong. But the debate that Jose and I are

(30:31):
having is it might be right now the number one
song on the Billboard Charts and country music is an
AI song. It's it's the person doesn't exist. Someone said,
Hank Williams didn't drink himself of death for this crap.
Another person said, well, doesn't have to breathe, no, no,

(30:55):
no pausing for breathing. But it's it's an a song
and it's incredible. It's number one and they don't exist.
Glenn Beck brought this thing up, and I think it
makes for a great topic. Are you okay with that?

(31:17):
Some would say, and I think fairly well? What's different
between that and sampling? Pop artists do it all the time?
They sample a sound, they sample the crowd. For ast
Frank does that. He samples the crowd, turns it into
a song. Right then and there. It's just the next step,
right taking computer technology. All right, when we come back,

(31:41):
let's talk about happier things. Thanksgiving is coming up, and
trust me, we will debate that another day. Thanksgiving is
coming up? Are you ready for Thanksgiving? We're gonna talk
about Thanksgiving, the money involved in it, the costs are
they up? Are they down? That and more coming up
next hour two of the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

(32:13):
I'll right, I'll be honest with you. Well, I'm always
honest with you unless I'm not. No, I sorry, he's
OSEI I'm Preston. It's the Morning Show Show fifty four
to ninety eight. Next hour on the program, we will

(32:35):
talk to Seamus Bruner with Gai. He is the director
of research works with Peter Schweitzer and the team at
the Government Accountability Institute. Also Romald Nicholas, Chair of the
National Flag Foundation. We'll talk about the Flag Sojourn two
fifty find out what that's all about. There's something going
on in the area, so we'll let you know about it.
See that's how we roll. But it's Thanksgiving and I

(32:57):
was just I was giggling because I'm an idiot, and
because there's some incredible content on my on my blog page,
for example, you know, I just posted this morning the
escape from Alcatraz? How did it happen? Mark Rober the

(33:21):
former NASA engineer turned YouTube star. And when I say
YouTube star, let me put some context on this. He
has over seventy one point eight million subscribers. Let me
say that again, seventy one point eight million subscribers. So

(33:48):
he did a feature on this, and you really you
need to check it out. It's on my blog page.
Also on my blog page Monday Message and Thanksgiving recipes.

(34:09):
My guy chef, David Gwynn handed me a bunch of
recipes years ago. I still use some of these. I
have a variety of recipes for those who have varying
tastes and want to try different things. But the Brian recipe.
Keep in mind, this comes from a master chef. This

(34:31):
is a classically trained master chef restauranteur, and I've got
the entire recipe, ingredients, how much, what to do everything for,
not just the turkey Brian, the aromatics, sweet potato hash,

(34:52):
poultry rub for dry Brian, cranberry, ginger, sauce and dewey apple,
chestnut dressing, turkey gravy, turkey stock, cranberry vinegarrette, oyster dressing,
a butternut squash, and sausage stuffed quail. If you want

(35:14):
to do something different, sweet potato pie, spiced spiked hot chocolate.
I mean, all these are they're right there on my
blog page. I know what you're waiting for. I got
it all for you right there. But Thanksgiving is right

(35:34):
around the corner. I love it. I love every part
of it, even though I am my wife and I
are exhausted. When it's done, my packers are going to
be on television playing Detroit. I get to watch the
Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade while I'm preparing the grill. I
now cook my turkey outdoors. I do the indirect method

(35:59):
of cooking it and my grill, and I love it
because it frees up my oven. My oven. Now I
got a double oven. I've got, I've got. I can
use that for anything. All the other dishes brilliant. But
Thanksgiving is to me, it's the It's the least commercialized

(36:26):
holiday we've got. Would that be fair? I think that's
a fair statement, because Thanksgiving revolves around being together with
family and friends, not giving presents, not stuff. I have

(36:49):
no problem with trading and giving and sharing gifts with
people that you care for and love. I still think
that's awesome. But you know what I mean, we've I
mean they start putting Christmas stuff up in July. Now,
if we did that, because we're celebrating Jesus all year round,

(37:12):
I count me in both. So it's this thing that
I'm in a tug of war with how we have
commercialized and Easter. Of course we've commercialized the worst. At
least with Christmas. Christ is in the middle of it.
You can't take his name out of it. It's Christmas.
Like the old saying, you can't spell Christmas without Christ.

(37:34):
Easter turned it into a bunch of rabbits and eggs. Anyway,
more to share on the costs of Thanksgiving. Got some
news here from lending Tree. They survey and do some
price checks each year at this time. That's next eleven

(37:56):
past the hour Thanksgiving Talking Turkey Thing Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 3 (38:06):
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the
world he didn't exist.

Speaker 4 (38:11):
On news Radio one point seven Double UFLA.

Speaker 1 (38:28):
Yeah, I'm I'm all about the the brining of the turkey.
It's created the most moist turkey I've ever had. I
would and you know what's so funny is I would
love to try a Cajun turkey sometime. I think that
just sounds so good, But I don't want to sacrifice

(38:51):
the traditional turkey. Plus, my wife is not a big
fan of the spicy stuff. If we ever get four
thousand grandchildren and they get old enough and I'm still kicking.
Maybe we'll do two turkeys one day, one Thanksgiving, and

(39:13):
we'll do a Cajun one. I know deep frying is great.
I know it creates an incredibly moist turkey. I just
don't like the mess that comes with deep frying. And
I just too many people don't know what they're doing.
Now I would not be one of those. My turkey
would be completely thawed. But let me remind you, you

(39:36):
make absolutely, positively one hundred percent certain that your turkey
is one hundred percent thawed before you drop that bad
boy in the deep fryer. That is how body scarring
accidents happen, So you'd be safe if you're doing the

(39:56):
deep frying stuff. But for me, the biggest key to
Thanksgiving turkey is letting the turkey sit for twenty twenty
five minutes. It's really big, up to a half hour.
First of all, you will be amazed at how hot

(40:19):
it is twenty minutes later, twenty five minutes later. Secondly,
that's the key to a moist turkey. For years, bless
my mother's heart, Mom would pull that turkey out. And
even though my brother was a master chef, he never

(40:39):
said anything to her, and he knew, so she'd carve
it and say the words eat it before it gets cold. Well,
it's getting cold because you're cutting it. You have to
let the juice assimilate back into the bird. It It

(41:00):
literally sucks it back in all of the juices that
are running around. It comes back into the bird. When
you cut it, it all flows out and you're in trouble.
Your bird's going to be dry, and it's not going
to be at all warm. It's going to turn cold
in minutes. Wait before you carve it. Even if you're

(41:23):
just cooking a chicken breast or a turkey breast weight,
you should do that with all meats. You should let
it rest a little bit. The exception would be a hamburger.
You know, a hamburger, you let it rest for a
minute or so. But the rest, no, you got to
let them sit right now. I this blew me away.

(41:44):
Thanksgiving hosts expect to spend an average of four hundred
and eighty seven dollars on food, drinks, and decor. What.
That's crazy. That's up thirteen percent. Sixty percent of Thanksgiving
celebrators say inflation is impacting their plans. Twenty eight percent

(42:08):
are couponting more or couponing Is it coupon or coupon?
I don't know. Eighteen percent are cutting guest lists, ten
percent are skipping hosting. Eighty one percent have a budget.
Thirty three percent feel financially strained due to increase in

(42:30):
holiday costs. Nineteen percent say they may reconsider doing so
next year. What come on now? And then? This one
is the one that really got me. Sixty three percent
of hosts expect guests to chip in. One in ten
wouldn't reinvite guests who show up empty handed. No, The

(42:50):
only way that's legit is if you are doing a
pot luck where everybody brings a dish, then absolutely, And
then you say, for me, let me give you an example.
You say to the college student that you're inviting in
that's away from home, does it you come? You don't
bring a thing but yourself, because you know they don't

(43:14):
have a big kitchen, they not have a bunch of resources.
You invite them to come. But if you're hosting a
Thanksgiving and it's anything but up a pot luck where
everyone brings a dish, man, if you are, if you are,
if you're like mad because someone didn't bring something, You
got the wrong heart. You have to fix yourself. It's

(43:36):
deep past the hour. It's Morning show with Preston Scott.
Happy Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
Us l a on your phone with the iHeart Radio
app and on hundreds of devices like Alexa, Google Home,
Xbox and Sonos and Iheart's Radio season.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
This is ice skating music. You can just kind of.

Speaker 3 (44:13):
Skaming skating skating.

Speaker 1 (44:19):
The memories, memories of skating on ponds, either in our
neighborhood or literally in one case, in our backyard. You
waited until it was frozen and man, you'd play hockey
out there. You of course, if you didn't do it right,
and guys were jerks, you'd launch that puck into the

(44:46):
snow and it's like, where in the world is it? Yeah,
that's always fun. So you figure out a way to
put some boards up to kind of keep the puck
in and you try to make sure that you only
your slap shot was down. You didn't you didn't elevate it.
But uh, anyway, great memories down the back hill we

(45:08):
used to are. We were at the bottom of a
hill in one of our homes any Dinah, and you
you could go to the top of the hill and
everyone no one had a fence backyard except us, and
so you could literally ski down everybody's backyard. You could
toboggan down everybody's backyard, and everybody understood it. It was never

(45:29):
an issue. You could you could take your sled, you
could toboggan, you could ski literally down the backyard. I
did create a little too much speed once and caught
my fence. Great great memories. Though. Hey I mentioned at
the start, we uh we have we have slowed down

(45:50):
quite a bit here Orphan shade. I want to thank
those of you who gave yesterday. We didn't bring in
a lot yesterday or the day before. So we're at
We're at just under nineteen thousand dollars, and I would
love to get us to Thanksgiving at as close to

(46:14):
halfway there as possible. Now halfway there is twenty seven
five hundred dollars. That's that's halfway there. So the only
way this happens. And I understand paydays and all that
and holiday shopping. I know, I know, I know, But

(46:35):
as I said a couple of days ago, maybe it
was even just yesterday. If there is a group of
people that you know when Jesus said, if you do
this for the least of these, you do it for me.
If there's a least of these that fall, I mean
could could a child that does not have a mother
or father that has been orphaned. It's not their fault

(46:55):
that their parents died, it's not their fault where they
were born. It's where they were born, and they were
born for a purpose, and Orphan Shade tries to create
more purpose and help eight girls at a time. So
this is home number six and we're going to try

(47:16):
to help them raise the money to build it. We're
just going to do the best we can. But we
cannot do it without you. And I mean that, I
mean five dollars, ten dollars, twenty dollars, whether it's one time, monthly, quarterly,
whatever you are willing to do, please do it. And

(47:36):
if it's not now, if you're just saying right, preston, stop,
I'm going to do it now. I can't stop because
I have to remind everybody that's tuning in, because we
have people tuning in that haven't tuned in a couple
of days that don't know where we are or haven't
heard we're doing it again. Operation Thanksgiving is underway. There's
a challenge for Panama City listeners. We can raise two

(47:59):
thousand dollars in the next few days from Panama City listeners.
We have another two thousand dollars waiting to be given,
so we would love for you to give. Just put
go to Orphanshade dot com donate build a house in
the drop down menu and in the comments number six
PC challenge. If you're out there and you're willing to

(48:19):
write a check for five thousand or more, your business
is done well. You've done well. We need some big
gifts to make this happen. I've been very upfront with
you about that. Marvin Goldstein offering a concert to the
Leon County or adjoining County area for the first five
thousand dollars donation five thousand or more that goes to

(48:40):
Orphan Shade. If you want that donation, let me know
and that would be great. We did have a significant donation.
I'm waiting to find out if they want the concert,
but we're still making the offer. So if you can

(49:00):
help Orphan Shade dot com Home number six in show
with Preston Scott, can you fly this plane and land it?
Surely you can't be serious. I am serious, and don't
call me surely.

Speaker 4 (49:19):
On news radio one hundred point seven double USLA.

Speaker 1 (49:30):
She's halfway through the program. How is that? You know
one of these days I'm gonna show up and then
just leave. It's gonna go that fast? Is that what
happens when you like get wayold? You just kind of
create this time warp? Oh, good morning, welcome to the show.

(49:56):
Have a good day. Uh what would you do if
you were in Dearborn, Michigan? Would you move? Absolutely? Would you?
We wouldn't fight for your city. Now I don't mean
literally fight yet, but would you surrender?

Speaker 3 (50:19):
That is a really good it.

Speaker 1 (50:20):
Is Yeah, yes, because look, towns this size, the size
of Dearborn, they are ripe for the picking. Get a
you get a fast talking, charismatic guy to get the
mayoral leadership. Wait, did we just have that happen in

(50:43):
New York? What happens if New York City starts ringing
with alarms the sirens at five point thirty in the
morning and called a prayer. He's not concerned, though, Mayor
Abdullah Mahammoud he said it's of no concern the calls

(51:12):
to prayer at five thirty in the morning are below
the decibel levels that the city ordinance allows. Bull crap.
Ain't no way, There is no way. I personally think

(51:32):
those sirens are among the most chilling sounds on the planet.
Those sounds, to me, are worse than gunfire there. They're horrifying.

(51:53):
And things are starting to get really spicy in Dearborn
because they're going the way of Sharia, and residents are
starting to say we've had enough. I am of the
belief that it is not possible for Islam to exist

(52:21):
in this country as it is expressed in the Quran.
It is not compatible. I don't believe Islama should serve
in government. I'm sorry, I don't because those beliefs are
not compatible with our laws. If they were, you wouldn't

(52:46):
see Sharia lah popping up in these cities. You wouldn't
see this stuff. Why is it that a protester who
decided he was going to burn a Koran and in
islamis wouldn't let that happen. That's not a surprise to me.
What is a surprise is that when he grabbed his

(53:09):
Kuran back and slapped a slab of bacon on it.
And you can say, what you will about that. That's
so mean spirited. Whatever, it's his book. He bought it,
he acquired it, it's his Why is there not a
theft charge on the guy who took it and ran
with it. That's not his Bible but his Quran. That's

(53:32):
the other guys. But he's going to blaspheme against it. Whatever,
it doesn't matter. This is America. See that's what I'm saying.
This goes head to head on what this country is about.
That is a that's not a big story. That is
a massive story in the press box. Six Democrats urging

(53:55):
military members to refuse the illegal orders in a viral video,
six Democrats telling members of the military to ignore orders
by the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of War pedex and
he's doing the will of the president because they say
it's unconstitutional for the military to be in these cities. Now,

(54:15):
they're going to protect federal workers doing federal work, which
the federal government has a jurisdiction to do, and that
is to apprehend illegal immigrants people in this country illegally,
and you're not supporting that work. Friends, This is a
very frightening development that you have members of a political

(54:36):
party telling them to defy military orders and then the
Epstein files. There is one principled no passed unanimously by
unanimous consent in the Senate. The House passed it. The
vote in the House was goodness, gracious, four twenty seven
to one. But that one. I want to talk about

(55:00):
that next forty two past the hour. I can't do
these segments on time. Too big today, the big stories.

Speaker 4 (55:08):
Listening to the Mad Radio Network, where you're challenged to
make a difference each and every day. Good morning, and
welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (55:27):
It is so easy. I've done it. I've looked at
one voting against the crowd and thought, really, I remember
a local commissioner saying, what good is it for me
to vote against something? It's six to one. I'm like, yeah,
be the one, be principled. But it would be easy

(55:52):
because there are people that I really respect, like Cat Camick.
Cat voted for the release of the Epstein files. Clay Higgins,
Representative Republican for Louisiana said no. He was the only
member of Congress in the House or the Senate to
say no. Listen, here's what he said. I've been a

(56:17):
principaled no on this bill from the beginning. What was
wrong with the bill three months ago is still wrong today.
It abandons two hundred and fifty years of criminal justice
procedure in America. As written, this bill reveals and injures
thousands of innocent people, witnesses, people who provided alibis, family members, etc.

(56:45):
If enacted in its current form, this type of broad
reveal of criminal investigative files released to a rabid media
will absolutely I want you to remember these words, will
absolutely result in innocent people being hurt. Not by my vote.

(57:06):
The Oversight Committee is conducting a thorough investigation that has
already released well over sixty thousand pages of documents from
the Epstein case. That effort will continue in a manner
that provides all due protections for innocent Americans. If the
Senate amends this bill to properly address privacy of victims
and other Americans who are not named, but who are

(57:29):
named but not criminally implicated, then I will vote for
that bill when it comes back to the House. Inside
this article that quotes Representative Higgins is this sentence. No
doubt Congress is going to screw this up. Someone is
going to shoot their mouth off, and defamation lawsuits are

(57:51):
going to pour down. So I'm just asking you because
it look we all could fall into this trap of
one guy. What a wing nut? Right, what a wing nut?
But does he have a very good point? Consider the

(58:18):
wave of pressure. I mean, I've brought it. Come on,
release those files you said you would. Does Higgins have
a point? I think he does. So let's just put
a bookmark on this. Let's let's fold the page right,

(58:39):
and let's see if he does have a point. Forty
six minutes after the down, come back with a no way, Jose,
I am there, I am good, I'm a happy example.
Glenn is on nine to noon. I am stronger every
day on WSLA. Fifty minutes past the hour and it's

(59:09):
time for another edition.

Speaker 3 (59:10):
Uh no way, Jose, Well, how do you amigos and amigos?

Speaker 1 (59:20):
I mix? I mix it this time.

Speaker 3 (59:23):
Uh so, Uh got a pretty wild story here. Uh
really blew my mind, just as it did you Preston
when you saw the headline on Fox News, Nicki minaj
and the U n.

Speaker 1 (59:40):
Those wait wait, wait, those two things don't belong in
the same sentence.

Speaker 3 (59:45):
Yeah, yeah, rapper Nicki minaje at the u N joins
Trump's UN ambassador Mike Waltz to spotlight persecution of Christians
in Nigeria. I Hey, welcome aboard, amen, come on. Yes,
So she condemns the violence, say condemns, condemns, yes, yes,

(01:00:09):
she she condemns the violence. And she says that it's
about uniting humanity, not politics. So I really hope that,
you know, she finds a christ in this journey, if
she hasn't already.

Speaker 1 (01:00:22):
She's saying that she's a Christian. It's just there's a
little fruit problem there. But right again, yeah, welcome a board,
right right right? Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:00:32):
So, so she's to speak directly to Barbs uh, stressing
that she's standing against injustice, not taking sides, which you
ought to take sides in this if you're gonna stand
up for Christianity.

Speaker 1 (01:00:46):
You think so? N the u N.

Speaker 3 (01:00:52):
Yeah, speaking, yep, she's calling the genocide wearing the mask.

Speaker 1 (01:00:59):
Of ca.

Speaker 3 (01:01:01):
Okay, or she calls the killings wearing the mask of chaos.
Worn warned of US military actions, well Trump, you know,
Trump threatened US military action stuff like that. And then
and then also we have in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus.

Speaker 6 (01:01:19):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:01:20):
They are reopening their Christmas festivities after two years, yeah,
because of what happened and yeah, yeah, so yeah, so
they're reopening that. The tree light lighting is going to
be in December sixth in Manger Square with messages of
peace and hope as are all throughout scripture. So that's

(01:01:45):
that's that's really nice. Yeah, thousands of pilgrims are expected
and in past years they they saw over millions of visitors,
so hopefully we can get back.

Speaker 1 (01:01:53):
To that number. That would be nice.

Speaker 3 (01:01:56):
And then also there was a mosaic discovered in Israel.
It was found in the world's old oldest Christian warship site. Uh.
The it's worship, yeah, worship a warship, warship, warship.

Speaker 1 (01:02:17):
We're not talking about the navy now worship. Yeah, but.

Speaker 3 (01:02:24):
Yeah, no pigky English sometime, you know, you get a
little mixed up.

Speaker 1 (01:02:29):
I heard worship and I think he met worship.

Speaker 3 (01:02:32):
Worship.

Speaker 1 (01:02:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:02:33):
So it's being exhibited in the Museum of the Bible
in Washington, d C.

Speaker 1 (01:02:38):
So that's pretty neat.

Speaker 6 (01:02:40):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:02:40):
And it affirms the Christian belief that Jesus is God,
so uh, sorry, Islam and other faith that don't.

Speaker 1 (01:02:48):
Give him his food. That uh, well, he's just a prophet,
you know, he's just you know, he's just another one
of the prophets. He's a very good man, though, God
is good. Hint hint, Wait, Jse, can you see ladies
and gentlemen? Hey, I don't know if you heard. Chick
fil A testing two new sandwiches in two cities, Chicken

(01:03:11):
and Waffles and the chicken and waffles breakfast sandwich. So
they're doing a chicken and waffle sandwich and a chicken
waffles breakfast sandwich. They're testing it in certain restaurants in Baltimore.
Why why Baltimore. That's just first of all, just saying

(01:03:34):
Baltimore makes me laugh. It's just one of those cities.
And then and then the city itself makes one laugh too.
All Right, we come back. We're gonna change gears. Back
again to the news of the day. Seamus Berner joins
US director of Research with the Government Accountability Institute. Next
on The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Right, Welcome to

(01:04:20):
the third hour of the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
It is November nineteenth. Great to be with you friends,
Show fifty four ninety eight. That is Jose in Studio
one A. I am here in Studio one B, and
I am thrilled to have back on the program. He
is the director of research for the Government Accountability Institute,

(01:04:42):
works with our good friend Peter Schweitzer, and what they're
doing is incredible work, important work. Seamus Berner, Welcome back
to the show, Seamus, how are you.

Speaker 5 (01:04:53):
Good morning, Preston, great to be with you.

Speaker 1 (01:04:55):
You do this, you find a way to take something
massive and condense it into sound bites, because I know
you do television and the last time I saw you,
you were on Fox. You were addressing the President of
the United States and you were talking about something that
you guys had I guess kind of created the title for,
and that's Riot Inc. Tell us about this, tell us

(01:05:18):
about the paid protest network that's operating in this country.

Speaker 5 (01:05:23):
Yeah. So, as you know, Peter Schweitzer, our team, we
follow the money. We followed it to the top of
the protest industrial complex. We call it Ryan Inc. President
Trump wanted to know who's behind these anti ice riots
all across the country, mostly in the blue cities like Chicago, Portland, Seattle,
Los Angeles, and we've been tracking it for a while

(01:05:46):
of course, yes, it is George Soros and his Open
Society network. It's also some lesser known big left wing
funding networks like the Tides network, the Arabella funding network, which,
by the way, news just broke yesterday. Arabella will be
shutting down or at least rebranding that. It's a tentative win.

(01:06:08):
We know they're going to pop up like a hydra
with more heads and more places. But nonetheless it's this
big ecosystem. And by the way, the thing that shocks
President Trump the most was that your tax payer money
finds its way into these riots. It goes from your
pockets to the federal government, which then distributes more than

(01:06:30):
one hundred million dollars we calculated to networks like Tides, Rockefeller,
even the Soros networks know USAID, but there's also other
agencies that fund these big left wing NGOs ostensibly for
some charitable purpose, but we know money is fungible, so
then those big networks funnel it back out to the

(01:06:52):
boots on the ground. And it's not just Antifa, It
is a whole host of dozens hundreds of the little
NGOs that organized provide the signs, provide the water bottles,
everything it's an industrial operation.

Speaker 1 (01:07:07):
When you say tides in Arabella, give our listeners a snapshot.
What are these organizations? Where do they come from, what
were they founded to do?

Speaker 5 (01:07:19):
Yes, great question. So they've been around even longer some
of them. Arabella's rather new two thousand and five. It's
network and it's got about seven subfunds. Arabella Advisors is
just the advising entity, but it's got the new Venture Fund,
the sixteen thirty Fund, the Windward Fund, more names than

(01:07:39):
people care to hear about. And so those are the
entities that actually do the funding. So Soros is actually
one of the biggest funders of Arabella. He was there
from the beginning one hundred million plus. There's actually a
fourign billionaire named Hans jorg VIIs from Switzerland. He's given
a couple hundred million over the years to the Arabella network.

(01:08:00):
Bill Gates puts in three hundred plus million in the
last five years or so. Also, big news in June
was that Bill Gates would be cutting his funding. That's
I believe directly tied to Arabella's demise because Bill Gates
cut the funding. He was one of the biggest funders
of that. TIDES has actually been around for much much

(01:08:21):
longer decades, and the Ford Foundation is also in this
whole ecosystem. The Ford Foundation goes back. I wrote a
book Control of Arcs that shows that the Rockefeller Foundation,
which keeps popping up time and time again, that was
really the prototype. I mean it goes back to nineteen
oh four. These big industrialist guys, they did not want

(01:08:44):
their money going to these things. But over the years,
these big foundations like Henry Ford and his now Ford Foundations,
it's all been taken over by leftists and their big endowments,
and that they've ballooned and grown in over a century.
But they really the Rockefeller's tides forward. They pioneered the
art of using tax dollars as a force multiplier for

(01:09:06):
their own agendas. They get grants to do theoretically ostensibly
good things. Yeah, they take those government grants, mix it
with private cash, and then it just becomes an ATM
machine for radical wrestling purposes.

Speaker 1 (01:09:20):
You gotta love that. Shamus stand by Seamus Berner with
us with Gai director of Research, author and most importantly
he's our guest right now in the morning Show with
Preston Scott.

Speaker 4 (01:09:36):
Get It off your Mind, Get it off your chest.

Speaker 1 (01:09:39):
You have a story.

Speaker 4 (01:09:40):
You want to share, write him at Preston at iHeartRadio
dot com. Welcome to the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
They don't make it easy to find it. If you
do a search on Google.

Speaker 1 (01:09:58):
What a shock Government Accountability Institute G hyphen a hypheni
dot org. G hyphen a hypheni dot org is how
you find them? Seamus Berner with US Seamus, what should
a taxpayer do? In response to this?

Speaker 5 (01:10:19):
Well, I think the exposure of these these formerly dark money,
I mean it's still dark money in the sense that
we cannot track it all the way, but we have
the nine nineties. That's the best you can do, is code.
We come through thousands and thousands of pages of IRS
Forum nine nineties of these big left wing NGOs shining

(01:10:41):
the sunlight as we've been doing, and many others, especially
on Arabella, and then people get upset about it, and
now they can't hide in the shadows anymore. So this
was big news yesterday that Arabella. I mean, it's it's
a rebrand. I don't you know. We're not taking victory
laps here, sure, but you know, when it gets exposed,
they have to recalculate they've lawyered up. There's been a

(01:11:03):
few articles since since that White House roundtable where we
talked about riot Inc. They are they are lawyering up,
they're taking steps to hide their trails, and you know
they're they're on the run. I'd say, now they're gonna
They're not going away, But we just got to keep
spreading the word, sharing the news. Thank you so much
for having me on talking about it and letting other

(01:11:25):
people know that their taxpayer dollars are funding and we
talked about riot Inc. We've actually got a big report
on Migration Inc. How your tax dollars have funded this
invasion and the resettlement going on. That is why I
believe these big NGOs are funding anti ice protests. It's
because it's the same people who funded the invasion. And

(01:11:46):
then why did they do that. It's because they fund
the get out the vote operations. It's the same players
funding the They know that they can get non citizens
onto the voter rules, either legally or illegally, and so
this industrial operation. The more we expose it, the more
the Trump administration goes after And you know, I, like
many people, wish there would be a lot more arrests

(01:12:10):
sooner than later. Yeah, if we don't fix this soon,
they're going to use it in twenty six and twenty eight.
And you know, we won an election last time, but
that does nothing's guaranteed.

Speaker 1 (01:12:22):
Here, Seamus. You you talk about, I'll call it a
kind of a hard rebrand that Arabella's going to be
in the in the midst of doing. Then there are
soft rebrands. I consider Bill Gates backing off of his
climate hysteria to be a very significant, important, but a
soft rebrand. What are we to make of Gates sort
of saying yeah, okay, maybe not so much. It's not

(01:12:45):
so bad.

Speaker 5 (01:12:47):
Yeah, I mean, I you know, I think it's pretty cynical.
He's he's he's got a lot of interest that the
administration can affect. That's why you saw all these tech
bros lining up to fund the inauguration. I think President
Trump is trying to keep his enemies closer with this.
I hope, you know, having them to dinner and all
of that. But I mean, the FCC, the FEC, anti DOJ's,

(01:13:11):
anti trust, these guys, Zuckerberg's Gates, they all could the
Trump administration could make big problems for them. So I
think it's he's doing it to you know, I don't
think he's a well, first of all, I don't think
he was a true believer ever. I mean, he's the
biggest user of energy with his He's got two private jets,
a couple of seaplanes and helicopters, yacht, a sixty six

(01:13:33):
thousand square foot mansion in Washington. The guy doesn't believe
in climate change. He uses that as a tool for
control and to actually increase his bottom line get investments
into his so called green tech energy ventures. But I
think I think it's good for us. I mean, at
the end of the day, it's good for us that
he has retreated. They were gaslating us about this the

(01:13:54):
whole time. Now we can hold that up and say,
wait a second, I thought you said it was going
to be a catastrophe. Now you say it's not gonna
be a catastrophe. Well, then we're not going to do
what you say with banning our gas stoves or banning
banning steaks and cows here, which is what he was
one of the guys pushing.

Speaker 1 (01:14:10):
Bring in condescen Bolb's back. That's where the campaign begins.
Sixteen minutes past we got another segment to go Seamus Berner,
director of Research with GAI, the Government Accountability Institute. My
guest is an author and UH point man in riot
Ink for GAI, explaining it to the peoples here on

(01:14:33):
the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (01:14:41):
La on your phone with the iHeart Radio app and
on hundreds of devices like Alexa, Google Home, Xbox and
Sonos soon yes and iHeart Radio station.

Speaker 1 (01:14:56):
Final segment here with Seamus Berner, director of Research with
g A, the Government Accountability Institute. He's an author and
our guest here this morning, Seamus, give me give me
your your take on the importance of getting more information out.
Regarding Jeffrey Epstein, I have mixed feelings given what I

(01:15:17):
read of Clay Higgins and his reason for voting against
the release. I feel like he's got a principled argument
here that there they're gonna be some innocent people dragged
through the mud that are in these files, and and
the media is just not going to know any restraint whatsoever.
But but Epstein's got some other entanglements and involvements. Do

(01:15:38):
you feel like there's more to come?

Speaker 5 (01:15:42):
You know? I this is one of those things that's
going to be like the jfk assassination or nine to eleven,
or no matter how much information people get, they're never
going to be satisfied. So that's unfortunate because you know,
you'd like to be able to close the case and
move on. But the problem is is that Jeffrey Epstein

(01:16:03):
and Glaine Maxwell, they were charged with trafficking minors to
nobody apparently, And so as long as I mean, if
there needs to beaches even one arrest of a guilty person, obviously,
and you see people like Larry Summers, and it's it's
going to it's going to hit the Democrats' hardist because

(01:16:23):
all of the people who are closest to them are
huge Democrat funders. I mean, yes, I mean it's a
small world, by the way, the billionaire class who have
places in both Palm Beach and New York. So when
Donald Trump is, you know, friends with so called friends
with Jeffrey Epstein, you're not talking about a huge group
of people. I mean the number of galas and dinner
parties and things of people who live both there, it's

(01:16:45):
actually really really small. So of course they were bound
to run into each other, you know, Jeffrey Epstein was
by all accounts, charismatic guy. And so yes, there are
innocent people who knew him, and people say, oh, you
must be guilty because you knew him, or even flying
on the jet. I mean, that's not and even attending
the island is not evidence of guilt. The problem is

(01:17:06):
that there are guilty people and until any anyone is
brought to justice, and and the statute of limitations on
crimes against miners is I don't believe there is one
in some cases, so they really do need to arrest.
And the thing, I've got many questions left, and so
I'm glad the files are coming out. You know, innocent
people I think will remain innocent. I don't think anybody's

(01:17:29):
gonna grab pitchforks and torches and and and you know,
lynch them. But you know, it's it's a tricky thing
because until somebody, you know, when you're talking about crimes
against miners, that's people get really upset about that, understandably,
and so you'd love.

Speaker 6 (01:17:44):
For I know, a couple.

Speaker 5 (01:17:46):
I mean, so, here's one thing I reported in the
book Control of Arts about Bill Gates's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein,
is it ran through the bank JP Morgan and there
was an executive at that bank. Uh And I've seen
the emails between that executive and Jeffrey Epstein and they
are horrific. I mean, you just search for JP Morgan

(01:18:08):
at Jeffrey Epstein. Disney characters the executives name. And he's,
by the way, been indicted on several other charges for
other things, so he's a he's not a good guy,
the JP Morgan executive. But Disney was referring, you know,
I was with Beauty there, I was with Bell last time,
or you know snow White last time. They're using code

(01:18:30):
names talking about his time at the island. Return your stomach,
don't don't read the emails, but but they're out there.
The New York Post reported them and others. So there
is enough smoke here and even some fire that people
really want some justice. I'm one of the people who
wants a guy who went to the island and committed
crimes against children brought to justice. So until that happens,

(01:18:52):
I think there's going to be a lot of anger
about it. And I'm glad that, you know, the Trump
administration kind of came around to it.

Speaker 1 (01:18:59):
Seamous, thanks for the time you've been generous with it
this morning. We're here for you anytime you want to
get some things out there to some folks. So we
may be a small pond, but we have a big splash.

Speaker 5 (01:19:11):
Yes, yes you do. Precid Well, thank you so much.

Speaker 6 (01:19:13):
Have a great morning.

Speaker 1 (01:19:14):
Thank you. Sir Seamus Berner with us from the Government
Accountability Institute. He's the director of research his book Controlled Garks.
We had him on when the book came out, and
again the meticulously researched gee I just doesn't mess around
with that stuff. That's why they're so respected because they

(01:19:38):
just where the evidence leads is where they go. And
if that's on the right side of the aisle, it's
on the right side of the outle. If it's on
the left, it's on the left. So my thanks to
him and all the work that they do with the
Government Accountability Institute. Twenty seven minutes past the Hour Audio

(01:19:58):
magazine A journey into what what ever is left of
journalism and always pointing out and correcting what is not.
The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Oh, good morning friends.
If you're just joining us, you've missed two and a

(01:20:19):
half hours of wonderful Yeah, it's been a good show today.
Great to have you with us, though no matter how
much time you can spend with us, we appreciate it.
And show fifty four to ninety eight, you know, we
started talking about the fact that the nation was going
to celebrate it's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary or birthday

(01:20:39):
next year and brainstorming, you know, ways that this nation
should be embracing that. Though we know that there are
there are always people that are kind of the you know,
the guys that stand in the corner at the party
that are always trying to ruin everything. We'll always have

(01:20:59):
that this country. But the fact of the matter is
it's worth celebrating. And joining us on the program right
now is Robald Nicholas. He's chair of the National Flag Foundation,
part of Flag Sojourn twoin fifty Now, before we get
into all of that, Ramill, welcome to the program. How
are you.

Speaker 6 (01:21:16):
I'm doing fine, good morning, and thank you for having me.

Speaker 1 (01:21:19):
Tell me about the National Flag Foundation. Give us a
little snapshot of what that's all.

Speaker 6 (01:21:23):
About for your listeners. The National Flag Foundation is a national, nonprofit,
non political foundation with a simple mission to honor the
American flag and those who serve to protect it, and
we've been quietly operating under the radar for decades and decades,

(01:21:44):
honored by multiple presidents, both hosts of Congress, et cetera,
but quietly just the last word on the American Flag.
It's a national board headquartered in Pennsylvania.

Speaker 1 (01:21:56):
Okay, So, did the National Flag found the nation kind
of play a role in the start of this American
Waves thing in this sojourn two fifty tell us about it?
It did.

Speaker 6 (01:22:09):
For many years, the National Flag Foundation has been asked
to buy various people that called and wrote in to
do something to bring the country together in these historically
divisive times.

Speaker 1 (01:22:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:22:23):
So we saw the two fiftieth the semi Quincentennials an
opportunity to do that and decided that we would honor
the country, honor the flag and our people by donating
one simple five y eight American flag to the country.
We did that on Flag Day June fourteenth, hosted by

(01:22:45):
the Vietnam Veterans of America to Vietnam Memorial, handed it
off to the American Battle Monuments Commission, and they have
since taken it to all twenty six military cemeteries overseas
in ten countries. Back to the United States. It'll touch
all territories and as of Veterans Day, it was handed

(01:23:06):
off in Washington, d C. At Arlington to the National
Sheriff's Association to take its state to state to state
around the country.

Speaker 1 (01:23:13):
How does that actually happen because that is not a
small undertaking.

Speaker 6 (01:23:19):
It isn't It's a wonderful grassroots effort ranging from the
American Battle Monuments Commission in Vietnam veterans to just about
every major veteran service organization in the country with a
sponsor from UPS to be our transportations corporate sponsor around
the country, and the cooperation of the National Sheriff's Association

(01:23:42):
to take it around and to touch the goals to
touch all Americans, including POW's, MIA's and active duty military overseas.
The flag was ceremonially accepted by Admiral Grady, recently retired
from the Joint chiefs of Staff at the Navy Notre
Dame Game on November eighth. So it's a grassroots effort

(01:24:05):
to get the country to touch all Americans dead and alive,
and at the end it's targeted. The fly over the
United States Capital on July fourth, twenty twenty six. Oh yeah,
touch Pittsburgh. You'll touch Pittsburgh right before it gets there,
and it's going to get a military escort into DC.

Speaker 1 (01:24:22):
Okay, Pittsburgh of course my birthplace. Ladies and gentlemen, if
you did not know that I was born in Pittsburgh.
We've got more to talk about. Ronald Nicholas with US
chair of the National Flag Foundation, and you're hearing about
flag Sojourn two fifty and I love how this is unfolding.
I want to dig a little deeper, find out a

(01:24:42):
little bit more. But could you imagine that what I
love is one singular flag going across the country, overseas
US territories. And I feel like as we start getting
into the spring in summer, prayerfully without incident, that it

(01:25:08):
will be like a wave of patriotism. And so when
that flag gets to the US capital to be flown,
that's going to be special. Forty minutes past the hour,
more to come with Ramel here on the Morning Show
with Preston Scott.

Speaker 4 (01:25:33):
Him as your uncle, Preston, the relative you actually enjoy
having around and not just at the holidays. This is
the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:25:51):
All Right, it occurs to me that I might have
violated one of my longest standing rules here and have
I been. But during your first name this entire time,
it's it's Preston.

Speaker 6 (01:26:05):
I get Rammel frequently it's Romel. But that's fine.

Speaker 1 (01:26:10):
No, it's not good. It's not fine. It's no more
fine than when people call me Scott Preston. That's terrible.
I'm ashamed of myself. Romel Nicholas is chair of the
National Flag Foundation. I want to understand a little bit
more about because I'm I I've got this image in
my mind when you say going state to state this flag,

(01:26:32):
how literally does it go state to state?

Speaker 6 (01:26:36):
Well, this initiative has been endorsed by the National Sheriff's
Association right their sheriffs around the country are on notice
and there are designated sheriffs in each state that the
flag will be delivered to by UPS, and each sheriff
will be making some effort to ceremonially, ceremonially receive the

(01:26:57):
flag and then pass it on. So it's say, it's
a logistical feat given upcoming weather and pattern for the flag.
But fortunately through the efforts of UPS and America two fifty,
which is one of our partners in this, we've been
able to plot out a very solid course for every
state and every territory.

Speaker 1 (01:27:19):
We're talking about just being in states, not each county jurisdiction.

Speaker 6 (01:27:23):
Correct, That's correct, And our belief is that, or at
least our initiatives based on the fact that by touching
the state, it touches those dead and alive within the state.
And it's a grassroots effort to take a simple American
flag around the country and you know, around the world,
so to speak, and a flag that anyone can purchase,

(01:27:46):
no gold fringe, no spectacular, movie stars or celebrities attendant
to it. Our position is that the flag is its
own celebrity.

Speaker 1 (01:27:58):
Absolutely. Am I to assume that your goal is to
get it to state capitals.

Speaker 6 (01:28:04):
That's the plan. There are some deviations on that, and
there are a few states where there aren't sheriffs. For instance,
in Alaska, we've had a request from the Alute Indian
nation to accept the flag on behalf of the state
of Alaska. A few other variations, but generally yes.

Speaker 1 (01:28:23):
So when does this flag or is this flag in Florida? Now?

Speaker 6 (01:28:29):
It is, and my understanding is that the appropriate sheriff
in the state of Florida has the flag and has
ceremonially received it and will soon be passing it on
to the next state. They were the first. They were
the first of the formal states. The flag touched down

(01:28:51):
at University of Notre Dame, passing from the Pacific to
the Atlantic, so to speak, and it was received there
I Admiral Grady. Then first state on the trajectory was
the state of Florida.

Speaker 1 (01:29:06):
Look at us, look at us on the east coast,
and you're going to just start making your way across
the country from there. That is awesome. Now, what is
planned for the flying of the flag at the US
capital on July fourth? Is? Is there anyone mapped out yet?

Speaker 6 (01:29:24):
Yeah, there's, as to an extent, a work in progress.
We have already been invited to have the flag fly
over the Capitol, and tentatively the plan now is that
the flag will leave Pittsburgh at six am the morning
of July to fourth. There'll be a two hundred and
fifty motorcycle brigade from the American Legion that will escort

(01:29:48):
the flag directly to the Capitol and it will fly
over the capital that day midday.

Speaker 1 (01:29:54):
That's wonderful. Ramel, thank you so much for the time
this morning, and I appreciate all the work you you
all are doing to bring attention to our flag and
to properly honor what it represents. Thanks so very much.

Speaker 6 (01:30:07):
And Preston, thank you, and I appreciate you getting the
word out because I agree with you. As time goes on,
people around the country will be hearing about it more
and more.

Speaker 1 (01:30:15):
Thank you, and let us know if we can help
spread the word any further on anything else that's going on.

Speaker 6 (01:30:21):
Thank you very much. Thank you for giving me the time.

Speaker 1 (01:30:23):
Absolutely. Ramel Nicholas with us, and he's chair of the
National Flag Foundation. What a wonderfully simplistic mission. I love it.
This is our focus. It's not left, it's not right,
it's the flag. Love it. It's just too bad for

(01:30:44):
a few people in this country it isn't representing what
it should to them. Forty seven minutes past the Hours
the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, you want

(01:31:08):
to follow the flag and learn more about the National
Flag Foundation might be something you want to get involved in.
Just go to National Flag Foundation dot org. Really good
website here and literally you can follow the flag you
click the little yellow icon and it pulls up a

(01:31:31):
page here where we can learn about the sojourn and
all the different little aspects of what's going on. And
then there's a drop down here with a map that
shows you where the flag is gone and where it's
going and kind of where it is at any given moment.

(01:31:54):
Pretty cool. National Flag Foundation dot Org. Hey, speaking of
hit in the web, Orphanshade dot com, we need you,
We really need you. We are falling a little behind now.
We had a great first week, but this second week
we've fallen behind. And I know paydays and things like
that factor in. I'm just I'm bringing it to your

(01:32:16):
attention if you want to give, I'm not going to
rehash a bunch of stuff now. We'll get you know,
we'll talk more about it over the coming days and weeks.
But orphanshade dot com donate button give what you can
and in the dropdown you're giving to build a house
and in the comments number six and if you want

(01:32:38):
to be part of the Panama City Challenge, put pc
challenge in there and we would greatly appreciate any support.
It's Orphanshade dot com brought to you by Barrono Heating
and Air. It's the Morning Show one on WFLA really
strong part two of a devotional We do it every day,

(01:33:00):
but I mean sometimes they connect a little bit. And
this is a part two. We'll do a part three
tomorrow from Genesis three. And so that's where we started
the program today. Big stories in the press box. I
don't know why my voice is all of a sudden
sounding a little, a little weak. I don't understand that, dearborn,

(01:33:25):
the Islamic presence in dearborn is troubling, and I'm sorry
if that offense, get over it. The Islamic faith expressed
in the Quran and lived by too many, meaning they

(01:33:46):
take the words of Muhammad and die with them literally.
That is incompatible with our with our way of life
in America. There are all kinds of countries whereas Lamis
can go and be involved in Sharia law, and that's

(01:34:08):
their thing. That's fine, that's up to them. It should
not be part of this culture because it runs in
direct opposition to our system of government. And our government
was founded on a Judeo Christian ethic and set of

(01:34:29):
values and biblical ideals, and that collision is just starting.
But it's happening in Dearborn, and you better buckle up, buttercups,
because it's not going to get better. That was one
big story. Six Democrats urging members of the military to

(01:34:49):
refuse orders that they think are illegal, meaning the six
Democrats dangerous times. House and Senate passed the bill to
release the Epstein files, expecting the President to sign it.
One holdout, Representative Clay Higgins. I think he has a point.
I just I'm not throwing him in the looney bin.

(01:35:11):
I think he has a point. I think it's principled,
and I'm not sure that he's wrong talked about. A
couple of lottery winners won a two time winner scratch
off ticket three million after winning a million on a
scratch off six months earlier. That's pretty cool for them. Tomorrow,
Steve Stewart, Anastasios kamats kamuts Us, the Commission of Education,

(01:35:32):
and Pause for Thought. Tips for buying a holiday pet,
have an awesome day,