Ep. 5508: Violence and Bias; A Portland Story.

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Monday, December 8th.

Our guests today include:
- Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas 
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
It's Monday, December the eighth Morning Show with MOI along
with Vu and Him at Jolly Old Elf over there
recovering stabbing victim Ose. Can you see in Studio one A.

(00:27):
I am here in Studio one B. Good morning friends.
Hope you had a nice weekend. It was wet, so
wet weekend, and I welcomed it. I am kind of
over it. I'm looking forward to seeing the sunshine starting tomorrow.
Maybe a glimpse of it here there today, but no,
we're going to get some clearer skies. But we needed

(00:47):
the rain, we really did, so that's good, of course
I am. I'm feeling bad for doctor Ed Moore because
once again the Bear lose to the Packers. It's tough
being a Bears fan, it is, But no, you Bears

(01:08):
are an improved football team, very improved, and Green Bay
will be fortunate to get out of the Windy City
in a couple weeks with another win. But I'll take
it undefeated. Best record in the NFC belongs to my
beloved Packers, and they got a tough road ahead of them.
But it's still fun. Although my cable was out most

(01:33):
of the day, that hardly has ever happened because it's
all underground. We don't have wires running overheads. So I
was without internet. I was without everything most of the day.
Yesterday I played havoc with me. But let's get to
some scripture here. Proverbs for twenty three. Simple piece of advice,

(01:56):
keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow
the springs of life. Keep your heart. What does that mean?
What does it mean to keep your heart? I mean,
immediately we know we're not talking about the physical heart.

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That's like, duh, gotta have that. Although story later on
in the program is gonna shake you a little bit
on that front. But keep your heart with all vigilance. Protect.

(02:39):
I mean, what is it that a heart, our heart
does again, the heart that's our soul. Well, it helps
us persevere, doesn't it. It helps us maintain confidence, It
helps us see the best, It helps us have hope.
It says keep your heart with all vigilance, so protect it.

(03:03):
That means protect what's going inside your ears and what
you're seeing with your eyes, and that will largely guard
what comes out of your mouth, which protects your heart
as well. By the way, eleven past the Hour on
news Radio one point seven dousla. I'm at least starting

(03:35):
to sleep a little bit. I'm still so remarkably sleep
deprived from my cough. I've just had a cold. I've
had a cold in the last ten days, and it's
just if But I'm getting there. I'm absolutely getting there.

(03:56):
I was able to sleep in my bed for the
last two nights. Prior to that. It was in bed
for about three or four hours and then I was
up and maybe would not back off on the couch,
but I just I can't stand just just coughing and
coughing and coughing, and my wife having to deal with
that just she would be like, no, don't believe. It's

(04:20):
like no, I cannot do this. And besides, just laying
flat was just But we're getting closer to feeling a
little bit more normal, which is wonderful, because being sick
in a break like a vacation time, it just blows.
It just does anyway. Inside the American Patriots Almanac, Decemmer,

(04:42):
the eighth American Federation of Labor organized in Columbus, Ohio,
eighteen eighty six. There was a time we needed labor unions.
We don't need them anymore. We don't we don't they
hinder wages? And oh, by the way, they take money
out of your page unnecessarily. But nineteen forty Chicago Bears

(05:05):
demolished the Washington Redskins seventy three to nothing in the
most lopsided NFL Championship game ever. D Bears nineteen forty
one day after Pearl Harbor, Congress declares war in Japan.
Nineteen eighty seven, in Washington, DC, President Ronald Reagan Soviet
leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a historic treaty to reduce the

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stockpiles of nuclear missiles, and in nineteen ninety two, US
marines land in Somalia, leading an international effort to restore
civil order and deliver food to starving refugees. Think about
that for just a second. Nineteen ninety two, and Somalia
is still a crap hole. So I do all want

(05:52):
to leave there and invade this country? Anyway? Let's see
it is it is National Crossword Solver's Day. You a
crossword puzzle guy? You ever gotten into those? No, sir,

(06:13):
I do situationally. If I'm like just bored and there's
one there, I'm like, okay, I'll pop in a few answers.
It is pretend to be a time traveler day. I
wonder what's involved in that encourages us to step from
our daily lives while wearing clothes from the past and

(06:44):
act appropriately and act confused by certain technology. That would
be almost funny to walk around and to stare at
things as if you've never been and wearing clothes from
a period of time. Like, let's just for fun, Let's
just say you're walking around in clothing from the seventeen hundreds, right.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
And perhaps you're putting on a bit of a and
you find yourself standing outside of McDonald's drive through dressed
cars honking their horns. Man, I help you, sir, is
what they say, and you go, I, I what is
this magic? A voice coming from a box? I've never

(07:34):
been here, sir. I would like to peruse the menu
and then walk walk down to the pickup at the
drive through. You could just freak people out, because there
are people that believe in time travelers.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
There are absolutely people that believe in that stuff. That
would be hilariously funny. What is that? Why it's it's
it's lit up from behind? How does that happen? Just

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be marveled at, just at everything? How is it that
you're you're sir, you're walking out with those goods the constable.
There was no exchange of cash. This man is a shoplifter.
What do you mean you produced a plastic card and
you paid for it? Kind of sorcery? Is that that

(08:38):
would be so much fun to walk around that way? Uh?
It is also hold on, I saved the best for last.
This National Brownie Day and the best brownies, whatever kind
you make, have to have walnuts. The best brownies have
to have nuts. Okay, I went a little long there.

(09:02):
It's all right, come back with more. It's the Morning
Show with Preston. Did you know that? Uh? European football

(09:27):
soccer first. The rules were first codified in England in
eighteen sixty three by the Football Association of England. It
was shortened by many to sock SCC and an error
was added to refer to those who play the game.

(09:49):
That's what That's what this book says. Personally, I think
that story is rubbish, but that's what it says. Get
out and see some Christmas lights this Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

(10:09):
For those of you that live in and around the
capital City. It is the thirty eighth annual Living Christmas Story.
Klar Methodist Church used to be Klaren United Methodist Church.
They split themselves away smartly, so well done. Kilarn Methodist

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Church has been doing this for years, nearly four decades.
And you just drive out into Kilarna, States and follow
the signs. It just says follow the start and as
you follow those signs, you will be taken through the
Living Christmas Story world. Down your windows and take it in.

(11:06):
It's pretty cool. It's free, and it is Friday, Saturday
and Sunday from six thirty to eight thirty, so it's
a two hour window each night to get out there
and enjoy it. Let me plant this seat as well.
This is not until January, but the fourth annual Pheasant

(11:29):
Tower Shoot FCA Outdoors is putting on this event. Registration
fee is twelve hundred dollars per bail. That is four
to six shooters per bail, so if you got six
buddies that want to go, two hundred bucks each, all
for a good cause. FCA purchase includes a low Country boil,

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fresh shucked oysters, rafflin' door, prizes and again presented by
FCA Outdoors. That's coming up on January tenth at Dogwood
Hunting Preserve. So I'm just I'm planting the seed. We'll
we'll have somebody from FCA Outdoors join me to talk
about that event, because it's a big broad event and

(12:20):
something a little different. Now, where are we with Orphan Shade.
We didn't quite get there over the weekend, but we're
another thousand and fifteen hundred dollars or so closer. Here's
where we are. Our goal is fifty five thousand dollars.

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We are at fifty three thousand, one and twenty nine.
We are eighteen hundred and seventy one dollars away. So
let me just ask this. Might there be one of
you that would want to just get us there. Perhaps

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you own a business, Perhaps you have done very well
this year, and you have an opportunity to maybe get
a little bit more tax help and do a great cause.
Most importantly, help with a great cause, helping young girls
who are orphaned, no mother, no father, and they will

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have a home. This is not an orphanage we're building.
We're building a home where eight orphaned girls will have
a family. If there's anybody that would like to give
eighteen hundred and seventy one dollars. That puts US at
fifty five thousand dollars in goal is met. Go to
orphanshade dot com, click the donate button and pick the

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amount you want to give and if you want to
give twenty dollars or five dollars, whatever you want to give,
be part of the blessing. Jump on in there. Build
a house in the drop down menu and then in
the comments House number six Christmas treet thirty six minutes

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after the hour Big Stories in the press box here
on the Morning Show. I'm Preston, He's ose. This is
a piece written by Sean Fleetwood at the Federalist House
Gopeers Surrender on Obamacare Fight. You remember what we just
went through with the shutdown. It was over Obamacare. We

(14:40):
stood strong, we meaning Republicans. I caucus with them today.
In Republicans Being Useless House, Gopiers surrender on Obamacare Fight,
he writes, by every measure, the GOP is more useless

(15:03):
than that raccoon that broke into the ABC store got
drunk and passed out on the bathroom floor. We told
that story last week in Animal Stories. After successfully holding
strong in the face of a Democrat led government shut down,
over Obamacare. The cabal of House Republicans now waving the
white flag. On Thursday, nearly three dozen Democrats and Republicans

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introduced a proposal to extend taxpayer funded Obamacare subsidies. They're
already subsidized. They want to add more back to it.

(15:48):
I got nothing. The reasoning varies from person to person.
Democrats are just beaming over this. They're calling it a
two part measure, two step process. The first vote that
they would take would extend the tax credits for a
year with some modifications, including the addition of a new

(16:11):
income limit. The second vote would implement what the group
describes as more significant reforms, including potentially eliminating zero dollar
premiums with exceptions for need based support. Again, everybody should
pay something. If you're working and you have taxpayers are

(16:45):
chipping in to help you with healthcare, you should pay
five dollars a month. You should pay something towards your
own health care. Everyone should have some skin in the game. Anyway,
we'll get more into this, and then the other story
we'll get more in depth on is this. Let me

(17:05):
just read the headline so you can just go. Wait,
what a Portland jury acquits a black male who stabbed
a white male because the white guy said the N
word after he was stabbed. This guy stabs another guy,

(17:35):
but because he said the N word after he was stabbed,
the jury let him off. Imagine if the roles were reversed,
just saying you think a jury might have said, I'm sorry,

(17:57):
but what someone says in reaction to being stabbed is
not really GERMANE guy probably isn't saying much of anything
if he doesn't have someone walk up to him and
stab him. And it's all on tape forty minutes past.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
The Covet and Joy, This is the Morning Show with
Preston Scott.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
If you just step back and consider how much waste
happens with our tax dollars, and I think it's important
that everybody does just that. And see, this is the

(18:56):
problem with having half the population RUH pay no income
tax because they don't feel the same sense of outrage
over wasted trillions of dollars because it's not their money.

(19:22):
They don't have any in it. I mean, to whatever
extent someone pays for taxes, and when they check out
at the store or buy gas, that's a consumption tax
that is relatively painless because everybody pays it, but not

(19:48):
everybody loses money out of their income. And so when
you don't, and you look at these programs of waste,
you're indifferent because it doesn't hit you. The SBA Small

(20:10):
Business Administration has ordered all eight A Business Development Program participants,
I'll explain in a moment to produce financial records. The
AA program seeks to help small business owners considered socially

(20:30):
and economically disadvantaged to develop and grow operations through training,
workshops and guidance. Program participants gain access to contracting opportunities
in the federal marketplace. The documents that the SBA wants
from more than forty three hundred participants bank statements, financial statements, ledgers,

(20:55):
payroll registers, contracting subcontracting agreements, employment records. Why. According to
the administrator Kelly Leffler, there is mounting evidence that the
ADA program, designed for socially and economically disadvantaged businesses, went
from being a targeted program to a pass through vehicle

(21:16):
for rampant abuse and fraud, especially during the Biden administration,
which aggressively prioritized DEI over merit. So they've got till
January fifth, these forty three hundred different programs to produce
records to support their receiving this money. What do you

(21:39):
think the odds are that fifty percent fail to either
produce the records or fail the audit. What do you
think the numbers higher than that? All of that is
your money. I can't personalize it enough. You know, maybe

(22:01):
you've got a hundred bucks stashed away to buy a
gift for somebody. Take that, Take those five twenties and
just burn them, Just burn them. That's what we're talking
about here, every single one of us just having money

(22:21):
burned because it does nothing but line the pockets of
other people who are cheating. Because our government's so large
it can't keep track of it all. Well, we have
a businessman in the White House, and he knows that

(22:43):
the only way to maintain a profitable business and government
isn't even meant to be profitable. It's meant to be
a break even proposition. You have to get rid of losses,
you have to you have to count, account for every dollar.
That's what Congress has been unwilling to do. That's why

(23:06):
kat Camick's USA Act is so important, and presidents haven't
been willing. Democrat and Republican alike until Trump. Trump is
an outsider. That's why they hate him. Everybody hates him.
They all hate him. Don't think for a second that
most of these guys and gals in Washington like him.
Most don't. Anyway, we come back the the horrors of

(23:39):
Obama fail. Oh I'm not Obamacare, Obama fail. We got
another story of Obama failure next here on the Morning
Show with Preston's gotten hep come on, get those brushes out,

(24:22):
all right? Fifty two fifty three minutes past the hour
Obama failed. I still remember the crap that Rush Limbaugh
took for saying I hope he fails at everything he does.
I loved it. I knew exactly what he meant when
he said it. I knew exactly what he meant. Little

(24:45):
did we know that he would be implementing his agenda
through Joe Biden. But I did a commentary back a
week or so ago on this and looking into comments
made by Michelle Steve she is. She's an expert on homelessness,

(25:11):
author of a book Answers Behind the Red Door, Battling
the Homeless Epidemic. She's also a Senior Fellow at the
Texas Public Policy Foundation, probably a group similar to JMI
James Madison Institute, And she points out very fairly that

(25:38):
the housing first model to attack homelessness was first introduced
by George W. Bush. But I think it's important to
note George W. Bush wanted to be seen as congenial
to the incoming Obama administration. You may recall he greased

(26:01):
up some pretty big funding measures that Obama wanted to
start his administration with, and so the reckless spending started
under George W. Bush. George W. Bush introduced housing first.

(26:21):
Housing first is exactly what the name implies. It is
as it relates to homelessness, housing period, and that's it.
What Obama did is he made that not just the thing,
but he killed everything else, meaning it was the federal

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government's one size fits all approach on steroids. Up until
about twelve years ago, maybe a little bit more, the
federal government funded shelters, transitional housing, mental health, drug and
alcohol treatment because they recognized there was a there was

(27:03):
an elixir required here, a combination of things. I've said
it time and again. You have to you have to
triage every single homeless person differently. You've got to look
at each one determine what's needed, and then maybe triage

(27:25):
initially wasn't the right term. You triage the case, and
then you prescribe everybody according to what's going on in
their life. Some people need mental health services, others need
drug and alcohol. Certainly, some need housing, and there have

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to be some changes in how we address it. But
let's just look at this. Homelessness is the highest in
this nation's history, and it's increased almost thirty five percent
since Obama said he was going to end the homelessness
within ten years. It didn't work. It's called Obama failed.

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Five minutes past second hour already, I'm at that stage
of my cold, by the way, where my ears are
playing really bad jokes on me, and so I am
I am having to kind of maneuver my headphones a
little bit because there's just enough congestion still where my

(28:52):
ears are popping when I speak a little bit. There's
still just a little bit of backup there. Anyway, I'm
sorry for the story I'm about to share. We've touched
on this topic before. This is a story that came

(29:17):
out of the weekend on Epic Times, and I'm just
gonna kind of unpack this and it might take us
into another segment. The good news came on Heather Knuckles's
wedding day. Her mother, bedridden with a failing liver and kidneys,
had an organ match Who's the happiest day of their lives?

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Recalling her mother smiling while picturing a new life in
front of her. Instead, what began was a nightmare. Her mother,
Mary Anne Hollis, underwent liver and kidney kidney transplants on
October t thirtieth, twenty twenty two. Five days after the surgery,

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the doctors told the family that the donor liver had
a previously unreported issue, a rare and deadly form of cancer.
Hollis soon had a second surgery to replace the liver,
the four hour procedure that left her fragile and in delirium.

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This is October thirtieth when she had the first transplant.
By Christmas Listen, she was on a feeding tube. Family
members crowded at her bedside to open gifts she was
too weak to open by herself. She died three weeks

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later Listen with a mass of cancer already developing in
her body. That cancer from the transplant had already jumped
into her body and it spread and killed her. The

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cancer is from the donor whose organs should have never
ever been eligible for a transplant in the first place.
The organ procurement organizations of the country are now in
the midst of federal hearings because that story, as we

(31:45):
have shared previously, is not an outlier. Do you remember
when we started to talk about we did an entire set,
took your phone calls on the conspiracy theory that you're

(32:07):
gonna go to your death, your your grave, believing one
hundred percent one of them we got to was this
story about transplants, and I since had done some digging

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and found out, for example, at one congressional hearing, whistleblowers
testified to having seen donor organs discarded, concerns of potential malpractice, silenced,

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and patients on the brink of having their organs removed
even though they showed clear signs of life. You remember
sharing that story, Someone was alive and they were about
to remove their organs. This isn't happening in some third
world country. This is happening in America. More to come

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ten past the hour, abright eleven minutes past the hour.

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Hospital in twenty twenty one received TJ. Hoover, who was
in cardiac arrest and remained unresponsive for days. He woke
up in the operating room just as doctors were assessing
whether his organs were healthy enough for a donation hold on,

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but instead of immediately halting the procedure, medical staff allegedly
sedated him to stop his movement, alarming some staffers who
called the actions inhumane and akin to human euthanasia. A

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federal probe, which we talked about here on this program
back in July, uncovered more than one hundred cases in
which organ procurement began while patients were still showing signs
of life. There are some organizations that have been decertified

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quote as a warning to others. Whistleblowers have told Jennifer Ericson,
senior fellow for organ donation policy at the Federation of
American Scientists, that they have been trained to target inexperienced physicians,
especially in rural areas, to worsen patients' conditions by over

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administering comfort medications such as fentanyl. In a congressional hearing,
Representative Don Bayer, Democrat from Virginia, said, isn't this essentially
trying to kill people? In order to get their organs.

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Jennifer Ericson replied under oath, I want to be absolutely
clear the things we are talking about are crimes that
is not just a danger to the people who live there.
It's a danger to any American who travels through any
of these states where whistleblowers have shared these practices happen.

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Charles Bearden, the United States longest serving transplant coordinator, who
passed away in the summer once, and I'm quoting, literally
covered a patient with his own body to stop dangerous
opos from harming patients who could otherwise survive. And we

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have heard that. We have heard of young surgeons jumping
in saying, my patient is still alive, what are you doing?
This is happening. The industry is plagued with corruption. I

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appreciate I'm an organ donor that is going to be
changed on my license. I know that's gonna hurt some
of you. Until these problems are systematically addressed and solved.

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I'm not prepared to have someone cut me open when
I can survive whatever it is that I'm dealing with. Now,
I'm getting at that age where first whatever, second, no
one wants my organs anyway, they got a lot of
miles on them. But could you imagine being the family

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of TJ. Hoover and finding out that he was alive
and that they sedated him to knock him out in
order to get there? The Organs? Why money, money? What's

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the Bible say about the love of money? The love
of money is the root of all evil. Sixteen minutes
past there Christmas.

Speaker 4 (38:30):
Christmas.

Speaker 1 (38:45):
The Commissioner of Education for Florida, Anastasios, Well, we'll join us.
He's a Leon County resident, and we'll talk about the
teacher union and how they are just creating a debacle.
They always do. You know, that's been a long standing

(39:07):
beef of mine, going back to the very beginning of
this program. Why because the teachers' unions are stupid? And
I don't understand why any of you teachers are members.
Why would you be part of an organization that intentionally

(39:28):
picks a fight with the people that in essence sign
your paycheck. Why would you not just say these are
the things that matter to teachers. We hope that the
governor lawmakers will help us achieve our goals. Blah blah

(39:49):
blah blah blah. But instead the teachers' union campaigns against people,
and oftentimes those peop people win. Now you've made enemies
and you're an organization that should not be political. Your teachers,

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you teach children, young people. Anyway, I can only offer
free advice, and you don't take it. I don't know
what to do other than to remind teachers that you
give up how much of your money every check to

(40:33):
make sure that a bunch of people are paid six
figures or more a bunch? And how much are you
getting how much you're making? Ask the FEA how many people,
I mean, if you're a union member, call the FBA
and say, hey, I pay union dues. I like to
know how many people on the payroll make more than
one hundred thousand dollars a year, and then prepare be

(40:57):
prepared to crap your pants. It's anyway, Orphan Shade. We
are really close. We are eighteen hundred and seventy one
dollars away from reaching our goal of fifty five thousand dollars.
I'm still just in awe of you at your generosity.

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I am not surprised by it. I'm just in awe
and I know that it's really nothing more than God
revealing himself through you and so many of you being
willing to share what God has blessed you with. But
if you can, if you're someone listening, and you can
stroke the check or make the payment for eighteen seventy

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one and get us eighty to the fifty five thousand
dollars goal, go for it. If you want to give
twenty dollars, awesome, If you want to give fifty dollars
a month for a year, great, whatever it is you
want to do to be part of this, because the
moment we get to fifty five thousand dollars, we're going
to shut it down. Goal will have been reached. So

(42:07):
it is it's as simple as going to Orphanshade dot
com and on that website you will you can learn
all there is to learn about orphan Shade, and once

(42:30):
you're there, you can kind of nose around the website
and then go to the donate button, and in the
donate button you'll have different levels of giving that you
can get involved with. You can do a one time gift,
you can do a monthly gift, you can do a
quarterly gift, and you can set that dollar figure wherever

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you want it to be. And then there's a drop
down menu and we are building how number six, So
you build a house and then in the comments you
can put house number six. That's it. It's as simple
as that. And again it's Orphanshade dot com. Click the

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donate button, pick the amount, drop down menu, build a house,
and then house number six in the comments. So we
are eighteen hundred and seventy one dollars away. If somebody
wants to give a gift of two grand and get
us over the hump boom, that'd be great. If you
want to do eighteen seventy one and get us there,
that'd be great. But let's get this done. Let's let's

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finish this project today and then just celebrate God's goodness
the rest of the week. And the fact that you're
going to be part of changing the lives for eight
little girls and whatever happens downstream from them. That's what
excites me as well, not just you know, I pray

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for agne In Eliza in in one of the homes
that's already been built. There are three homes that have
been built, four and five. Four is going up now,
five goes up next year, along with number six, the
one we're building or funding. But the fact that that
I get to pray for these two little girls, and

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then all of them. I pray for the families, the parents,
the churches that support them, but I get to pray
for these little girls, and I get to think and
imagine what they're what the what the family tree is
going to look like in a generation or two, and
the change that that could make. So do what you can.
Orphanshade dot Com decades of doing morning drive radio differently,

(44:47):
doing it his way like all Blue Eyes, except he's
not one of the great decomposers. You know, it's not
six feet under Hey the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Now,

(45:07):
this is a story that is criminally sad, and this
is woke America still showing itself in Portland. And I
have long said to those of you listening to this
program in Tallahassee, you are one vote away from this
city becoming Portland. Portland is a beautiful from a visual standpoint, community,

(45:37):
and it's full of some wonderful people, but it's also
full of anarchists, people that hate this country, socialist communists,
illegal immigrants, and the woke population is apparently dominating because

(45:58):
a Portland jury has acquitted a black male who stabbed
a white male. It's on videotape because the white guy
called him the N word after he was stabbed. This

(46:20):
is this is unbelievable. The Daily Mail in the UK
got called out because back black man of assault because

(46:40):
white man is stabbed said the N word. Garry Edwards
admitted the knife and the victim, but claimed it was
in self defense because the other man called him a
racial slur self defense. What they left out was that
the racial slur was offered after he had been There

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is zero evidence to support that he ever said a
thing to him prior to the guy walking up to
him and stabbing him. His defense attorneys said that he
was offering him the knife in exchange for a pack
of cigarettes. Right, that's what you do. You walk up

(47:23):
with a fixed blade knife open in your hand, your
hand held it, holding it like it's a fist, preparing
to stab somebody, to sell it to him or to
barter a trade. Now, let's set aside the obvious. You
don't get to stab somebody because they call you a
mean name. But this guy who on videotape stabbed this

(47:50):
man was acquitted because the jury didn't see any distinction
between the man calling him a bad name after he
was stabbed, not even remotely considering the fact that, well,
you know, just maybe if he's not stabbed, he doesn't
say anything bad. This happened people. A guy was acquitted

(48:19):
of stabbing. Here's the question I asked last hour. What
if you get stabbed by a white guy and you
happen to be black, and you blurred out the word
cracker after he stabbed you, and the guy's acquitted because

(48:45):
he claims that you saying the word cracker after he
stabbed you was an indication of a violent intent. What
do you realize how absurd that is? And there isn't
a jury on the planet outside of maybe some little

(49:11):
hell hole in the middle of who knows where that's
still clan haven, that would ever accept that that explanation.
The lawyer said, my client just knew the man he
was stabbing was a racist, and he proved it because

(49:33):
the man said what he said what and the jury
bought it. It's a big story in the press box
this morning show. Thanks for joining us.

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By the way, while we're on vacation. We start our
vacation on the eighteenth, a week from Thursday. The twelve
days of Preston begin on the eighteenth. With the month
of January, we're going to do a best of best

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of January Show one, February Show two. You get the idea,
twelve days, twelve months. Bo. There you go, and we
will keep you company even though we will be on
vacation and just getting some time at home. We will
keep you company until we're back with live shows on Monday,

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January fifth. So there you go. It's forty six minutes past.
Remember we are nearly at the finish line. Eighteen hundred
dollars and some change. I think it's eighteen twenty one
gets us to the finish line. Orphanshade dot com. If

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we're going to talk about some education related things with
the State Commissioner of Education Stasi Kimutsus in just a
little bit, Yeah, I can say that I didn't feel
it was appropriate to say Stasi right away, but I
can probably get away with that now. That's his preference
is for you to just call him Stasi and Astasios

(55:32):
kamuts Us. I just I don't know. I'm still feeling
like that's a little rushed now, might have to wait
another couple visits, Might have to get to that after
the first of the year, you know that might be
saw this story. Lead research assistant, send it my way.
I'd never heard of Adrian College, and it's probably like

(55:53):
any number of colleges across the country that we've never
heard of and do a wonderful job. But what this
this college is doing in Michigan has garnered the attention
of Congress. Now why would that be? Because they are
reforming college education by dramatically dropping the cost of it.

(56:21):
Have I got your attention? I think most all of
us would agree that college educations have gone outlandishly. I mean,
they're they're they're they're absurdly expensive and there have to
be some things done to to bring those costs down.

(56:44):
And they figured out one of the ways to do it,
and the president, Jeffrey Docking, explained how a growing number
of colleges are driving down costs. Talked about a for
profit company called rise Rize Education, which acts as a middleman.

(57:10):
It is a course sharing platform that allows colleges to
work together to offer online classes. Docking argued the rising
higher education costs are due to inefficiency and lack of
institutions working together. He said the idea he originated course
sharing to allow universities to share professors avoiding the cost

(57:31):
of hiring faculty, makes a lot of sense. If you're
teaching German and as in college, and there's ten other
colleges and universities within one hundred mile radius and they
all have a German professor, you have too many German
professors for the number of students that are majoring in German.
So why don't you just have one or two German
professors that share with the other schools and drive down

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that cost. It allows you to start new majors. We've
started thirty eight new academic programs and added one professor.
It started the company in twenty nineteen with two Harvard graduates.
This little town of Adrian, Michigan, is about an hour
away from Detroit. Listen to what's happened. Company has grown

(58:21):
to sixty five employees. Five years ago, there were seven
colleges using Rise. Now there are one hundred and forty.
Five years ago, we had forty kids taking classes through
the Shared environment and platform this year over ten thousand.

(58:43):
Since the platform had been so successful, he was invited
to testify before the House Education and Workforce Committee. Hearing
was titled the Future of College Harnessing innovation to improve
outcomes at lower costs. There you go now. Needless to say,

(59:05):
unions won't be happy about that, which is one of
the reasons why we're going to have our next guest
on the program. Teachers, you can do better. And I
think state laws need to change some things so that

(59:27):
that teachers that are not part of unions aren't swept
up by the collective bargaining agreements. They should be allowed
to negotiate outside of them. Fifty six minutes past the hour,
we will be back with the third and final hour
of the morning. And here we are the third and

(59:54):
final hour for the day of the Morning Show with
Preston Scott Show five, five and eight. But who's counting?
He's ose, I'm Preston, and this is Florida's Commissioner of
Education and Astasios Komutzis Stossi.

Speaker 4 (01:00:08):
How you doing, sir, Good morning, my friend, how are
you well?

Speaker 1 (01:00:12):
You know, I was just talking about a story that
Congress decided to ask some guy to visit with them
on lowering the cost of higher education, and he just
shared about some cost saving platforms that colleges are using
and starting to bring down the cost of things. But
of course the interference comes from unions, because finding efficiencies

(01:00:37):
maybe means that we don't need a professor of German
in five colleges within fifteen miles of each other, that
maybe we can do it with one. Unions are a
giant challenge. What are you proposing here in Florida that's
getting unions so upset?

Speaker 4 (01:00:55):
Well, it seems to be a repeated pattern every time
I come on this show. The latest issue that we're
dealing with when it comes to unions. I want to
talk about two lawsuits that are going on right now,
one that we are dealing with at the state level
and one at the local level. We passed the rule
at our recent State Board of Education meeting that strengthens
transparency and higher education by imagine this novel concept. It

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requires Florida State colleges to publish syllabi for all courses,
not just general education classes, prior to students registering for
that course. And this is simply common sense students deserve
the opportunity to review a full syllabus before enrolling in
a course. We're talking access to assignments, required readings, and

(01:01:41):
grading criteria. That kind of information is important to a
student to allow them to make an informed decision about
whether a course aligns with their academic needs and supports
their long term term goals. But the union's opposition to
this rule that we pass underscores their unwillingness to prioritize students,
and it's the latest effort to limit transparency that I

(01:02:02):
believe students and parents deserve. What boggles my mind and
frustrates me most about this frivolous lawsuit is that it
represents a waste of the dues of these hardworking teachers.

Speaker 1 (01:02:13):
But this is the.

Speaker 4 (01:02:14):
Kind of stuff that they're using their capital on.

Speaker 1 (01:02:17):
They are arguing that this somehow is infringing on their
academic freedom.

Speaker 4 (01:02:24):
How Yeah, we honestly here scratching our heads ourselves. I mean,
everybody knows that a syllabus is required by a professor
to provide to the student. Oftentimes, what happens is the
student registers for the class, shows up to the class,
and that's when they're provided with the orientation and the
syllabus in that first week. What we're just trying to

(01:02:45):
do is be more efficient when it comes to the
student registering for the courses and knowing all the information
prior to registering, so that you don't have that ad
drop period where students are often jumping around and changing
courses and trying to figure out where go next. We
want them to have the best information possible to make
the best decision possible for their education.

Speaker 1 (01:03:06):
So the argument cannot be that they don't have one
to present at that point, because they're going to present
one when the course begins. So the issue here is
just simply allowing students to know what to expect in
a course and decide if it measures up to what
they want to offer themselves in terms of I don't
want to do that, that course doesn't interest me the

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way it's laid out, and they're they're fighting this.

Speaker 4 (01:03:34):
Yeah, it boggles my mind. That is what the lawsuit
is over. And you know, we have a similar situation
down in Lee County, another frivolous lawsuit pivoting here a
little bit, going to the k tool sector. But you know,
the teachers Union sued and fought against pay incentives for
teachers for choosing to teach in low performing schools. Again,

(01:03:57):
how is it that the teachers' union, who represents teachers
as it relates to their pay increases, would be an
obstacle here? But Superintendent CARLN Down in Lee County stood
up to the unions and used the provision in BID
a law that allows districts to incentivize teacher pay to
improve outcomes for our lowest performing students. And the superintendent

(01:04:18):
she acted within the law to improve those outcomes for
the low performing students, and they won in court. A
judge just decided that districts can move forward with solutions
that puts students first. So I want to commend the
superintendent and all the school board members on that board
who stood firm in defending student centered policies against the
teachers union.

Speaker 1 (01:04:38):
All right, we got more, just one more segment to
talk with Anastasios kmutzas Commissioner of Education. Friends, this is
why I hate the teachers Union. I love teachers, I'm
married to one. I hate the union. My wife is
never part of the union. If you want representation legal,
there's an organization out there that doesn't get involved in

(01:04:58):
the politics. By the way, we'll provide the legal protection
if you feel like you need it for less money.
This is nonsense. This is rubbish. Why in the world
would they not want to disclose the syllabus ahead of
time and then turn around and call that intimidation academic
is infringing on our academic freedom. Why to release what

(01:05:19):
you've already written a few days earlier? Lost their minds.
I hate unions, in case you didn't know that, I
hate them. Ten minutes past the hour, another segment here
with the Commissioner of Education for the Sunshine State, Anastasio

(01:05:42):
Kimutza Stasi. Let's dig a little deeper into this ruling
in favor of Lee County. Why in the world is
there an opposition? I mean, what was the stated opposition
to trying to bring better education readers to underperforming schools

(01:06:03):
and helping those students get a better education by incentivizing pay.
What was the argument?

Speaker 4 (01:06:09):
The argument is that the teachers union wanted to negotiate
their salaries. They wanted to assert their relevance because they
understand that with these policies that actually prioritize our lowest
performing students by getting the highest quality teachers in there
sooner rather than later, it cuts them out of the process,
and they want to assert their relevance because they see

(01:06:30):
that here in the state of Florida, their dying breeds,
parents and teachers are waking up to their shenanigans and
they want no part of it. And so again I
appreciate the superintendent for taking that strong stance. As you see,
we still are dealing with here in Leon County, our
teachers have not received their pay increases. We talked about
this before. It's because the teachers union negotiation process takes forever,

(01:06:53):
and so that was the basis of the lawsuits. They
wanted to hold up the money and prevent those teachers
from immediately going over there and get it those pay
increases in the low performing schools by making it a
requirement that is subject to bargaining.

Speaker 1 (01:07:05):
You know, I remember years ago when Jeb Bush was
in office, the governor put out a basically a chart
that shows the steps that have to be followed to
get rid of a bad teacher. Most teachers, I think,
really are admirable in what they do and how they
do it and want to do a great job for
their kids. But when you have a bad one, It

(01:07:28):
just it sort of poisons the whole water hole for
everybody else. And it was ridiculous. Now we're seeing almost
an inversion of that, where you've got pay that's available
for teachers and it's being held up by unions. Is
it strictly a negotiating ploy by the unions? What is
a union going to gain out of this?

Speaker 4 (01:07:49):
Well, their idea is trying to get greater support. They
continue to spout this narrative that Florida, you know, according
to the Teachers' Union, is fiftieth rank and teacher paid.
But I want to talk facts here. Since twenty nineteen,
Governor DeSantis has dedicated more than five point nine billion
dollars specifically to increase teacher salaries. I hope folks understand

(01:08:14):
that investment did not exist before Governor DeSantis took over.
So that's in addition to the per student paying payments
that the districts are receiving that they're also supposed to
budget appropriately. This teacher salary increased is solely dedicated to
teacher pay, and the governor has committed that he will

(01:08:34):
continue to ask for more money for these teachers because
he fundamentally believed in the profession. He fundamentally believed in
the work that public educators are doing. So this narrative
that the teacher union continues to spout and spend that
we are not supporting the public school system, it's just
totally inappropriate. This governor has put his money where his
mouth is, and the reality is his actions speak for themselves.

Speaker 1 (01:08:58):
Well, it was a great change because while I love
a lot of things that the previous Governor Rick Scott did,
bonuses in education is not the same as salary increases,
as you well know, and so what Governor DeSantis has
done is life changing for a lot of teachers. Let
me just tag on another question that goes with this though,

(01:09:18):
Why do we still have circumstances where a teacher that
is not a part of the union is bound by
the collective bargaining agreement of the union.

Speaker 4 (01:09:28):
Well, look, it's funny you mentioned that because I know
there are quite a few legislators who have the same question,
and I think, you know, I'm hopeful there be an
appetite to address that this time around. But you're right,
I mean, why is it that we have a very
good bill that was passed and sent a bill two
fifty six that says you have to have sixty percent
of union membership to exist as a union, and then

(01:09:50):
you have to go through the recertification process if you
don't meet that threshold. But then you go to an
actual election. You have four thousand members that are part
of the bargaining union, but only one hundred and ninety
nine out of two hundred vote to keep the union.
Therefore they have a majority. And now this union stays
in existence because you have one hundred nine ninety nine

(01:10:11):
people speaking for the vast majority of the four thousand.
I think there are some things that need to be
readdressed in the law to address this loophole.

Speaker 1 (01:10:18):
Good stuff, as always, I appreciate your time. If we
don't talk before Christmas, have a great Christmas. Commissioner, thank you,
Preston having less one all right, he's the commissioner of
Education for Florida. These are things that matter. I'm telling you, teachers,
the union is hurting you. They're political and they don't

(01:10:40):
need to be. They pick fights they don't need to pick,
and they're never on the right side. When was the
last time the union backed an actual Republican Charlie Christ
And maybe I don't even know if they backed him.
They actively bankroll a crack candidate every year. Why it

(01:11:05):
just hurts you, teachers. Seventeen minutes past the hour Worfinshade

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to rearrange a couple of things here, and the story
I was going to share in that segment, I'll wait
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at the end of the show I was going to
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Thank you ruminators, ladies and gentlemen listeners of this program,
just thank you. You did it. You made it possible.
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by the end of this coming year, there were be
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I'm just you know, I remember saying something when when
Jay and I first talked, and without resetting the whole thing,
I just some pieces and parts of things had to
move around for us to be able to do this
this year. I thought we'd be able to mention it

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and then maybe help out next year. But things happened
in such a way that it was immistakably God saying
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talked to my wife and again, you know, my wife
and I've supported Orphan Shade for a few years now

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before even home number three, I just make a point
of never asking you to do something that I will
not do and do not in fact do. And I
remember saying to my wife, boy, I don't know, but
you know, let's just see what God will do and
if nothing else, will at least get him started. We'll

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at least put a chunk of cash in that account
and get them going. And you did it. We are
over fifty five thousand dollars. Now here's what I will
tell you without talking to Jay. If you want to
give to the project, they will always be able to

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use it, and they will use funds. If you want
to support the girls, they will welcome you to support
the girls. My wife and I support two girls at
another home, and we pray for them every day, Agnes
and Eliza every day because when I'm driving into work

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and praying for them, they're just getting their day started.
They're in the middle of their morning and I'm praying
for them they have a great day at school and
to be open to whatever God has for them, to
bless them and to protect them. So thank you, everybody,

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Thank you on behalf of all of us here on
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Justin Haskins will join us tomorrow, manly minute, and I
have audio of the single best Trump impersonator I have
ever heard in my life. And in fact, I reached
out to the guy on his ex page because I
posted a comment after I put the if you want

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to save it, don't go to our ex page. If
you want it, if you want to hear it, you
can go to our ex page. It's there. It's it
is so good. And so I reached out to the
guy and I said, hey, do you mind if I
put this on the air because I try to, you know,
respect people's intellectual property here. And he said, man, go

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for it. And then I had people write on my
comment you need to get him on your radio show.
So I wrote him back, I said, well, what do
you say? So I'm waiting to hear from him and
see if he's interested in coming on the show. But
that will be on tomorrow's program as well. And Justin Haskins,

(01:17:55):
if I didn't say that already, Justin will join us
from the Heartland Institute. So program may or may not
have Money Talk tomorrow, don't know. So yeah, busy Show
tomorrow is already in the books. Big stories in the
press box. Republicans are being useless again. We got a

(01:18:18):
group of Republicans now willing to extend the Obamacare subsidies
that were part of COVID. You you, this is this
is the game. Obamacare is already subsidized to roughly eighty percent.
Eighty percent is paid for by you. That's why things

(01:18:42):
like having a menu for what, Okay, what is it?
What does it cost to get this? To get your
your analysis done? What does it cost to get whatever
blood labs done? What is it when you're not paying
for it? You don't know. It's like the example we
gave from somebody who said, it's like ordering pizza, only
pizza paid for by other people. You just keep piling

(01:19:04):
on the ingredients. Oh heck, yeah, I want bacon, darn right.
I do meet Paul's of course, sausage both kinds normal
and spicy. Pepperoni both kinds normal and the kind the
cups up when you cook it when you're not paying
for it, Yeah, load it up deep dish. Huh, I'll

(01:19:27):
have one of those two. So we got Republicans now
waving the white flag. We held strong during the battle
on the government shutdown, and now they're fracturing because they're weak.
Fix healthcare. It's not going to happen in five years.

(01:19:48):
You have to systemically fix it, one step at a time,
and you do it first by dismantling Obamacare. Anyway, that's
one big story. Second big story a Portland jury. I'm
not making one word of this up. It is that
outrageous that you will think you're a liar. You kiss

(01:20:10):
your honey with the mouth that speaks those lies. No
lie here. Portland jury acquits black man who stabbed a
white man because the white guy said the N word
after he was stabbed. The jury acquitted him. They believe

(01:20:36):
the defense argument he knew he was a racist, and
because he was worried for his life because he knew
he was a racist, he stabbed him after first saying, well,
he was actually going to swap out, you know, ask
him to swap his an eye for his cigarettes. Whatever.

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Imagine if the roles were reversed, would that have gotten
a guy acquitted? Would that have gotten a white guy quitted?
Not a chance. Forty minutes after the hour, Covet en
Joy seven to eleven Oklahoma City fired a twenty five

(01:21:30):
year old employee. Let's tell you what happened here. She
Stephanie Dillard, has been working the eleven p to seven
a shift alone for more than two years that every

(01:21:51):
clerk will tell you is the most dangerous shift to work.
The graveyard shift working alone seven to eleven insists that
despite that, that employees use quote only store items to
defend themselves should there be a problem. She told Fox

(01:22:17):
twenty five. He threatened me. He said he was gonna
slice my head off, and that's when I tried to
call police. He started throwing things at me, came behind
the counter. I tried to run off, but he grabbed
my hands around my neck. He pushed me out of
the counter space and that's when I pulled out my
gun and I shot him. I had to choose between

(01:22:39):
my job and my life. I will always choose my
life because people depend on me. My kids need me here.
She survived with wounds to her neck and hands. Her attacker,
fifty nine year old Kenneth Thompson, already had outstanding felony
warrant for pearl violation. For his latest crimes, Prosecutors have

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charged them with assault and battery, threatening acts of violence,
attempting to pass a fake bill, etc. Unfortunately, while some
in the media and in many businesses can see that
passive behavior by store clerks might encourage more crime, they
still believe the passive behavior is still the safest course
of action. Seven to eleven fired, her passive behavior would

(01:23:32):
have gotten or killed. For women, the most dangerous form
of resistance is to fight with their fists, because doing
so triggers violent physical reactions from the attackers. The next
most dangerous is to run, Escaping as ideal when possible.

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Women generally run more slowly than men tackle can produce
serious injury. Other options, such as using a baseball bat
or a knife, are not a lot better because women
are a disadvantage when they come into physical contact with
a male attacker. The safest option for a woman confronted
by a criminal is to have a gun. Women who

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rely on passive behavior are two point five times more
likely to suffer serious injury than women who defend themselves
with a firearm. Murder rates fall when either men or
women carry concealed handguns. That is the lesson. Lesson number
two is maybe think twice before working at a seven

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to eleven or for businesses that are public facing businesses
and do not allow you to protect yourself. I shared
this story number one to encourage you women to get
trained and always have a state of readiness wherever you go.

(01:25:04):
Wherever you go, pay attention to the to the trends.
Jugging is a trend. People follow you from banks, from
shopping and they then will take violent action if needed
to get your stuff, and if that means you get
in the way, well they'll deal with that violently. But
the other thing I wanted to raise here is for

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you business owners, if you're not going to provide protection
for your employees, then you ought to allow them the
right to protect themselves. Forty six minutes past, when we
come back a funny little PostScript story here on the
Morning Show. In case you missed the news, we have

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that we did it, and praise me to God, right

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all right? This from not to be Harris Rigby writes,
I'm so glad adults are back in charge. Our nation's
health officials have decided to stop playing children's games and
pretending that boys could be girls. And you can see
it in the halls of the Department of Health and

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Human Services. NPR has the story. In the building, you
will find portraits of all of the people from past
years who have led the Public Health Corporation or corp
at the Federal Department of Health and Human Services. Only
one of those portraits is of a transgendered person. Admiral
Rachel Levine served for four years as President Biden's Assistant

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Secretary for Health. But they have now changed the portrait.
The name plate now says Richard previous name that NPR
will not even mention. NPR won't say the name because
they don't want to be accused of dead naming. It
is now Admiral Richard Levine, and he's dressed like a

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girl that's up to him, as is written here in
the story our formerly taxpayer funded news organization and thinks
it's some sort of great scandal that Trump the HHS
under him is recognizing that Admiral Rachel Levine was born

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as a man named Richard. The only thing that would
have made it better is if they'd have gone ahead
and shortened his name to Dick. Brought to you by
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That would have made it one hundred times better. It
would have. That's what Richard short for Richard is is
ask anybody named Richard. He oftentimes goes by Dick. There
you go. This would have been wonderful. Look back at

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the program one hundred and eighty seconds or less. Anastasios
Kimutz's Commissioner of Education, joined us for a while. Big
stories in the press box. Portland jury it quits black
man who stabbed a white man Because the white guy
said the N word after he was stabbed. They convinced

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the jury that he somehow knew this guy had to
be a racist, that the N word was lying deep
inside his soul. Of course, forget the fact that he
hadn't said a word until he was stabbed. House Republicans
being useless. A group of them are joining Democrats trying

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to keep the covid Era added subsidies on Obamacare in place.
They want to bring him back. They won, and this
group wants to wave the white flag and bring him back.
Michigan College president explains ways colleges can drive down costs.

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Organ donor transplant horror story, cancerous organs were transplanted into
a woman who then subsequently died. Talked about homelessness in America,
SBA dealing with some of the consumer fraud that's out there.
Businesses like you know, Somali owned businesses in Minnesota scamming

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the government, not just Minnesota government, but federal government. Tomorrow,
Justin Haskins joins us, we'll have a manly minute. We'll
have an audio of a Trump impersonator. You have to
hear to believe. Until then, my friends, you have yourself
a terrific day, and thank you again,